abraham lincoln in a speech to the illinois republican state convention on june 16th, 1858. three years later, president lincoln was the commander in chief in the war that killed more americans than any other. our civil war. our house has been divided since then over issues like women s right to vote, civil rights, the vietnam war, the iraq war but through all of that, our house has never been divided against itself to the point that the new york times and the new yorker are running headlines saying is a civil war ahead? are we really facing a second civil war over articles written by the most distinguished journalists and thinkers and tonight we ll begin a series on this program called a house divided to offer a range of thoughtful and educated guesses in response to the question is a civil war ahead?
storytelling with one of the very best storytellers around, our friend ken burns. it comes from right in here, this heart and soul that we all have. you can dance to it. you can make love to it. you can play it at a funeral. it has something in it for everybody. let s say something here. when a final accounting is made of the age we re living in now, there will hopefully be a large section devoted to the thanks of a graeflt but distracted nation, thanks to those who have contributed to our culture like writers and composers and soldiers and astronauts like country music musicians and like the filmmaker ken burns. he has given us so much, reflecting ourselves back to us, our civil war, our vietnam war, our national parks, our national pastime, and now our highly decorated national filmmaker gives us country music, 16 hours
time for our country s political life. but we begin this hour of storytelling with one of the very best storytellers around, our friend ken burns. it comes from right in here, this heart and soul that we all have. you can dance to it. you can make love to it. you can play it at a funeral. it has something in it for everybody. let s say something here. when a final accounting is made of the age we re living in now, there will hopefully be a large section devoted to the thanks of a grateful but distracted nation, thanks to those who have contributed to our culture like writers and composers and soldiers and astronauts like country music musicians and like the filmmaker ken burns. he has given us so much, reflecting ourselves back to us, our civil war, our vietnam war, our national parks, our national pastime, and now our highly decorated national filmmaker gives us country music, 16 hours
option no, i m saying the ultimate option meaning go in, war. i m not talking about that ultimate option, no. you saw the man standing with the president today. and as we mentioned, trump chose today to introduce his fourth national security adviser, robert o brien, a californian, a lawyer by trade. he has been the state department s chief hostage negotiator. he will replace john bolton, who left the administration a week ago. he did a tremendous job on hostage negotiation, really tremendous, like unparalleled. i think we have a very good chemistry together, and i think we re going to have a great relationship. o brien worked with bolton. he s been known to hold similar views, especially with regard to iran, russia, and china. new york times has an in-depth look at o brien. they write together, quote, his friends all cite an affable, ingratiating personality that has earned him allies throughout the trump administration,
we were blessed that there were no americans killed in this attack, but any time you have an act of war of this nature, there s always risk that could happen. so he tossed out the phrase act of war. today the saudi government revealed what they said were the remains of iranian cruise missiles and drones used in the attack while u.s. intel reportedly indicates the strike originated from iran, they deny all responsibility. the possibility of military action against iran came up as the president continued his fund-raising swing through california. he remembers the one who said the u.s. is locked and loaded. and he took a different line from his secretary of state today. are you looking at a military strike? we ll see what happens. there are many options as you know, phil. there are many options. there s the ultimate option, and there are options that are a lot less than that. and we ll see. we re in a very powerful position. right now we re in a very, very powerful position. when