union addresses were actually delivered in written form, but in 1862, abraham lincoln is going to send this message to congress just a month before he will issue the emancipation proclamation, the formal version of it january 1 of 1863. in his speech, we often highlighted because at the end of the written document, lincoln will call the assembled members of congress to basically support and sustain what he calls the nation of the last best hope of earth. >> how our presidents -- how did presidents use the state of the union address during moments of national crises? >> two examples, george w. bush in 2002 as i mentioned, he is speaking to the congress four months after 9/11. the last time they were gathered in this chamber was just nine days after september 11. and he will utilize this moment to both celebrate what he will call u.s. victory in afghanistan after the fall of the taliban but also charting a course for what he is going to call this war on terror and basically sketching this vision that he has of the united states' role in the world to protect and defend democracy. we see i

so other people that you said they answer call to defy expectations this guy abraham lincoln what did he do to stand up to the challenge? >> starts right when he goes to be sworn into office. raisings right hangsd and basically says we're not enemies we should be friends a time when no one in south voted for him and department put him on ballot and he knows that half of the country hates him. the country is divided everyone hates everyone and sound familiar to you but he instead gets up there and says let's defer to better angel of our nation and unites us and most important proclamation and ends of slavery no question that is a -- nothing he can say when he's starting but, of course, talk about rising to the occasion best of the best of us. brian: lightning rod in your book reason why i found something no one knew how we're prepared for a biological attack are we ready ?a what did you find? >> yeah. so government has about a dozen secret warehouses hidden all across the country. to deal with bioterror attacks whether it is smallpox anything else and it means whether there's an attack

i will just close with the words of our greatest president in 1862, abraham lincoln. he told to congress that the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the storming present. the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. we must think a new and active new. -- think anew and act anew. then we shall save our country. [applause] >> thank you, mona. that was perfect. now we have cathy young. cathy: thank you for having me here. i was at the principal summit two years ago just before the world shut down. it is great to be here as one of the speakers. as mona said, it is great at a moment when the world is in crisis to be among like-minded individuals. again, the topic that we are talking about could not be more timely. looking forward, threats to liberalism from the left and the right. in the past several years, there has been talk about the array of the left and right converging and i think we are seeing that right now with some of the extreme voices from both the cause i communist left and the right really bucketing the general, massi

i will just close with the words of our greatest president in 1862, abraham lincoln. he told to congress that the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the storming present. the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. we must think a new and active new. -- think anew and act anew. then we shall save our country. [applause] >> thank you, mona. that was perfect. now we have cathy young. cathy: thank you for having me here. i was at the principal summit two years ago just before the world shut down. it is great to be here as one of the speakers. as mona said, it is great at a moment when the world is in crisis to be among like-minded individuals. again, the topic that we are talking about could not be more timely. looking forward, threats to liberalism from the left and the right. in the past several years, there has been talk about the array of the left and right converging and i think we are seeing that right now with some of the extreme voices from both the cause i communist left and the right really bucketing the general, massi

lincoln franklin roosevelt lyndon johnson and richard nixon. we talk a little bit about what was happening in the 1920s and 30s as white evangelicals were growing in power and prominence and all try to be careful with my language. i'll probably use the terms fundamentalist and evangelical interchangeably. i tend to use the terms that they use for themselves. so in the 20s and 30s, they called themselves fundamentalists in the 1940s to today. they tend to call themselves eventuals, but it's the same group same people many of them are exactly the same if you trace them from the 1930s to the 1950s. but what they believed is the the way they were reading their bibles. they thought that you could see signs that the bible had laid out, especially in the old testament, but also in the new testament. a series of events that would tell us when we were living near the rise of the antichrist in this great apocalypse. and some of them were kind of hard to track things like loosening morals the rise of darwinian evolution. they were worried about women's su

in closing i want to share the words of one more illinoisan, a rather famous one of abraham lincoln. >> president lincoln addressed the 166th ohio regimen, he said to the soldier, quote, i happen temporarily to occupy this big white house. i am living witness that one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. judge jackson, we are all just temporary occupants of the senate, the house and even with a lifetime appointment to the highest court of the land. you are one of mr. jackson's living witnesses, willing to risk change and confident of the basic good of our citizens and you're living witness to the fact that an america all is possible. i now recognize my colleagues and friends. >> judge jackson, congratulations. welcome to you and your family. i thank you for taking time to visit with me in my office after the president nominated you. sin president biden announced his nominee for the supreme court, i've been encouraging my colleagues to schedule meetings with you, judge jackson. and in addition, i've continually emphasized the need for a thorough, respectful

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lincoln elementary. >> as the only african-american to be on the council. and as one of the black leaders in the region is so egregious. >> and promised to pass a resolution against racism. >> cordoba jeannie nguyen, fox 40 news. >> still ahead, we will continue our ukrainian coverage by speaking to some international students who are stuck in ukraine. and we'll hear from the bay area group that's working to get them out of the war torn country. plus, the search efforts continuing in the east bay today for alexa's game where things now stand after a second weekend of searching. >> welcome back, everyone. so a new pizza vending machine is we're going to take on the challenge of making fresh pies on demand just in time for pi day you a waitress to for a fresh pizza from a vending machine. i know pizzas really bad pizza. even bad peta. still good pizza anywhere. rich demuro goes on a taste test. he has the story in tonight's tech smart. >> pizza is a fan favorite. everybody wants pizza. you can eat peace at any time during the day and night. now a new way to g

it's always true, as abraham lincoln said, you can full some of the people all of the time. in russia the effort is to fool all people all the time. it would be an impediment to any hope we might have that the russian people would rise up. i think that's been a long shot, and remains a long shot indeed. >> that's right. and yesterday president zelenskyy in his continued appeal for global support maintained that the might of all the globe is bigger than putin's might. he kept emphasizing i need more help, begging for support. your thoughts on the reaction of the surrounding countries. we know nato has rejected the no-fly zone. what easy occurring in the world of support? will that be enough? is there an inevitability to this one way or another? >> western nations and nato countries will continue to push supplies and weaponry into ukraine. they can certainly use air support, but that has been ruled out. i think sensibly so. one thing that general keane has mentioned, which i think is potentially very important, is the possibility of u.s. covert operations. we've been doing the

who would have thought abraham lincoln a one term congressman with only four terms in the state legislature could meet the moment of the civil war. we might not have heard about churchill and we're finding about biden. there's something about the to meet a moment and then when they connect to the people, the people respond. in london after churchill walked the streets at night staying in the capitol refusing to leave and there was a story about a shop owner whose windows were shattered with a big sign, come in. more open than usual. i loved it. that means that resilience the leader shows is translated into a thousand different people, hundreds of thousands and that's what we've been seeing day after day on cnn, resilience and hope people in ukraine are providing and give it back to the leader. that's the two-way leadership we're seeing. >> i almost forgot we're on tv for a moment. i thought i was sitting on my couch talking to you. thank you. appreciate it. have a great weekend. we love having you on again. appreciate it. thanks. >> thank you for having me with you. >> absolutely. >>> khark

my own country, president abraham lincoln, voiced the opposing spirit to save our union in the midst of a civil war. he said let us have faith that right makes might, right makes might. today let us have that faith again. let us resolve to put the strength of democracies into action to thwart the designs of auto autocracy. let us remember the test of this moment is the test of all time. a criminal wants to portray nato enlargement as an imperial project aimed at destabilizing russia. nothing is further from the truth. nato is a defense alliance. it has never sought the demise of russia. in the lead-up to the current crisis, the united states and nato worked for months to engage russia to avert war. i met with a person, talked to him many on time on the phone, time and again we offered real diplomacy and concrete proposals to strengthen european security, enhance transparency, build confidence on all sides, but putin and russia met each of the proposals with disinterest in any negotiation, with lies and ultimatums. russia was bent on violence from the start. i know not all of you beli

famous one named abraham lincoln. in august 1864, the height of the civil war, president lincoln addressed the 166th ohio regimen. said to the soldiers, and i quote, i happen to temporarily occupy this big white house. i am living witness that one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. judge jackson, we are all just temporary occupants of the senate, the house, even with the lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. you, judge jackson, are one of mr. lincoln's living witnesses of an america that is unafraid of challenge, willing to risk change, confident of the basic goodness of our citizens, and you're a living witness to the fact that in america, all is possible. and recognize my colleague and friend, ranking member senator grassley. >> judge jackson, congratulations. welcome to you and your family. i thank you for taking time to visit with me in my office after the president nominated you. since president biden announced his nominee for the supreme court, i've been encouraging

so we did "i am amelia earhart" and "i am abraham lincoln. our newest ones are "i am muhammad ali" and "i am malala." and what happened was, is i saw muslims being picked on and targeted even more so than they have been throughout history and i was like, "i'm gonna do muhammad ali, i'm gonna do malala, and i'm gonna make sure people learn and show them how to fight back. right? and that was vital to do those >> seth: and they're really -- i should stress, you know, they're beautifully written books. they don't shy away from issues, but they're also incredibly palatable. and i find it a great way to introduce ideas to my kids that way. and some of them were taken off bookshelves for a brief period >> they were it's great i mean, they literally banned our books, "i am rosa parks" and "i am martin luther king jr. i got a call from fox news, from cnn, from msnbc. they all wanted to have me on. they were like, "this is a travesty." when fox news and cnn and msnbc agree, you know you screwed up >> seth: yeah, yeah. >> right you know you went too fa

my own country, a former president named abraham lincoln voiced the opposing spirit to save our union in the midst of a civil war, he said let us have faith that right makes might. today, let us have that faith again. let us resolve with the strength of democracies in action to thwart the designs of autocracy. let us remember that the test at this moment is the test of all time. the kremlin wants to portray nato enlargement as a empirical project. nothing is furtherfrom enlargement as a empirical project. nothing is further from the truth. they know it is a defensive alliance, it has never sought the demise of russia. the lead up to the current crisis, the united states and nato worked through months to engage russia to avert war stop i met with him personally, talk to him many times on the phone. time and again, we offered real diplomacy and concrete proposals to strengthen european security, enhanced transparency, build confidence on all sides, transparency, build confidence on allsides, but transparency, build confidence on all sides, but putin and russia met each of the proposals

abraham lincoln in 1864, july, the confederacy was invading washington, and lincoln went to fort stevens and stood up as they were confederate bullets flying. and someone yelled at him, get down, you fool! and then, lincoln turned around, and said so sorry, mister president. that's usually the way it happens. james madison did during the war of 1812. but usually, president stay away. it's very courageous for president biden to go almost to the front, in poland, near the ukrainian border, and say, we, americans, stand beside you. >> today, president biden invoked the words of john paul the second, take a listen at what he talked about on the other side. >> let the words of pope john paul byrne heavy today, never ever give up hope. never doubt, never tire, never become discourage. be not afraid! [applause] a dictator rebuilding empire will never erase people's love for liberty. it will never grind out -- ukraine will never be a victory for a russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness in darkness. >> i mean, michael, so much to unpack there. let's start with the signi

my own country, a former president, abraham lincoln voiced the opposing spirit to save our union in the midst of the civil war. he said let us have faith that right makes might. right makes might. today, let us have that faith again. let us resolve to put the strength of democracies into action, to thwart the designs of autocracy. let us remember that the test of this moment is the test of all time. the kremlin wants to portray nato enlargement as an imperial project aimed at destabilizing russia. nothing is further from the truth. nato is a defensive alliance. it has never sought the demise of russia. in the lead up to the current crisis, the united states and nato worked for months to engage russia to avert war. i met with him in person, talked to him many times on the phone, time and again, we offered real diplomacy, and concrete proposal to strengthen european security, enhanced transparency, build confidence on all sides. putin and russia meant each of the proposals was disinterested in any negotiation, with lies and ultimatums. russia was bent on violence from the start. i know no

my name is ellie meyerson, and i'm a student at abraham lincoln high school. i would like to point out that although there are many other core subjects or world languages that could have been cut, japanese is the only subject listed for cut. this cannot help but make us and many other japanese american people in the community feel targeted. we shouldn't be repeating history with this kind of exclusion and cultural erasure, especially as we approach the 80 anniversary of executive order 9066, imprisoning many japanese families during world war ii. it would be truly saddening to see such an opportunity taken away from such dedicated learners. i strongly urge you to reconsider cutting japanese language classes. thank you for your time. >> clerk: emily murase? >> yes, good evening, commissioners, and superintendent matthews. i'm emily murase, former commissioner of the board of education. i take great exception to commissioner collins' comment earlier tonight of japanese as a language of privilege. in 1973, parents of children who were japanese imprisonees saw an

lincoln franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan because it makes the academic case because they freed or save many many people and that was criteria for greatness was does a president actually affect the outcome for the betterment of many many people and i think you know his criteria is pretty good. and so fdr, although he failed with the great depression unemployment in 1939 was the same as it was in 1933, but at least he gave american people. hope he gave the american people hope and that was very very important. you know, he was trying he was he was capitalist, but he wasn't committed socialist or something like that, but he was willing to try whatever worked, you know, the wpa or the conservative the conservation corps or other new deal programs, but where he was really really masterful was as a war leader because he didn't interfere. he did what reagan reagan i think reagan. i i haven't research enough but reagan believed, you know way to assemble the governance you surround yourself with good people and then you let them do their jobs. fdr had that same approach toward the war and

this really goes back to abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln, during the american civil war called upon a legal scholar to put together a code. this was before the geneva convention, so it was based on pre-existing customary law. the union army ultimately adopted the code as it sought to regulate its conduct. this has been a very important part of military training. host: paul, you are on. caller: i was hoping you could categorize how you would determine that this is a war crime. what is going on has nine do not hear about it much in the mainstream yet, but it is nothing more than a giant concentration camp. i'm wondering, how they determined that war crimes have been committed in palestine? guest: one of the advantages a is that technology. it would depend on where we are prosecuting. something else i could have mentioned is that there is domestic reinforcement of work crimes. spain and germany have begun investigations because under international law, anything has the right to try an individual for war crimes. it will be deter

between abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. now in our next presenter's book, he tells the little known story of how two american heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship and how that process changes the entire course of history. i am pleased talking to the stage new york times the best-selling author and fox news host mr. brian kilmeade. as much as as much as i enjoy the standing ovation when you start with a standing ovation, you'd only go backwards. so that's what i worry. so i appreciate everybody being here tonight. i've never been invited to a book festival. so to be invited was great to have a book

this really goes back to abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln, during the american civil war called upon a legal scholar to put together a code. this was before the geneva convention, so it was based on pre-existing customary law. the union army ultimately adopted the code as it sought to regulate its conduct. this has been a very important part of military training. host: paul, you are on. caller: i was hoping you could categorize how you would determine that this is a war crime. what is going on has nine do not hear about it much in the mainstream yet, but it is nothing more than a giant concentration camp. i'm wondering, how they determined that war crimes have been committed in palestine? guest: one of the advantages a is that technology. it would depend on where we are prosecuting. something else i could have mentioned is that there is domestic reinforcement of work crimes. spain and germany have begun investigations because under international law, anything has the right to try an individual for war crimes. it will be deter

abraham lincoln. in august, 1860 four at the height of the civil war, president lincoln addressed 166 ohio bridgman, lincoln said to the soldiers " by having temporarily to occupy this white house, i am living a witness that one of your children may come here as my father's child has". judge jackson, we are all just temporary occupants of the highest court in the land. you are one of mr. lincoln's living history. you're a living witness to the fact that in america all is possible. i recognize my colleague and friends and ranking members. >> judge jackson, congratulations. welcome to you and your family. i think you for taking time to visit with me in my office after the president nominated you. since president biden announced his nominee for the supreme court, i have been encouraging my colleagues to schedule meetings with you, judge jackson, they have all come out. in addition, i have continually emphasized the need for a thorough process by the committee. now i want to talk a bit about what everyone

why many americans hated thomas jefferson abraham lincoln franklin roosevelt lyndon johnson and richard nixon. we talked a little bit about what was happening in the 1920s and 30s as white evangelicals were growing in power and prominence and all try to be careful with my language. i'll probably use the terms fundamentalist in evangelical interchangeably. i tend to use the terms that they use for themselves. so in the 20s and 30s, they called themselves fundamentalists in the 1940s to today. they tend to call themselves evangelicals, but it's the same group same people many of them are exactly the same if you trace them from the 1930s to the 1950s. but what they believed is the the way they were reading their bibles. they thought that you could see signs that the bible had laid out, especially in the old testament, but in the new testament a series of events that would tell us when we were living near the rise of the antichrist in this great apocalypse. and some of them were kind of hard to track things like loosening morals the rise of darwinian evolution. they were worried about women

this attack might not have happened had isis been struck earlier, is what president abraham lincoln once called the, quote-unquote, awful arithmetic of war. our service members take military actions to save the lives of others. today we're going to hear from experts, at least from our side, about the importance of maintaining counterterrorism tools of drone strikes. i have received a number of materials from veterans, experts this law of conflict and scholars on the importance of maintaining these carefully planned strikes. and without objection, mr. chairman, i'll submit those for the record. drone strikes may become even more necessary after president biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. members of his own administration have testified that a stronger isis or al qaeda could launch external attacks from afghanistan as soon as april of this year. with the loss of intelligence on the ground, strikes and terrorists may be necessary, but i fear that they will also be less efficient. drones can certainly be very dangerous. they even present a real threat here in the united states.

such additions have included the statue of abraham lincoln, commissioned by congress in 1866. the portrait monument to lucritaa motte and susan b. anthony in 1920 and the statue of rosa parks which was unveiled in 2013. it is among these giants that today we consider the addition of the first two women confirmed to serve on the supreme court of united states -- of the united states. it took nearly 200 years after the creation of the supreme court for the first woman to sit on america's highest bench. appointed by president reagan and confirmed by the senate in 1981, with a vote of 99-0, a record for the most votes in support of a supreme court justice that stands to this day, associate justice sandra day o'connor blazed a trail that has forever changed the court for the better. in the years that have followed, the senate has confirmed associate justices ruth bader ginsburg, whom this bill also honor, sonia society moyer, -- sotomayor, elena kagan and most recently justice amy coney barrett. i have no doubt that the legacy of the women on the court will continue. the art collec

in closing, i want to share the words, if you will bear with me, of a man named abraham lincoln. in august 1864, at the height of the civil war, president lincoln addressed the 166 ohio regimen. and i quote, i have been temporarily to occupy this white house, i am living witness, judge jackson, you are a temporary occupant of the seventh, the house, even with a lifetime appointment to the highest court. you are one of mr. lincoln's living witnesses of an america that is unafraid of challenge, willing to risk change, confident in our citizens, and you are a living witness to the fact that in america, all is possible. as i recognize my colleague and friend, the ranking member, senator grassley. judge jackson's record and views. we won't try to turn this into a spectacle based upon alleged faults. good news on that front, we are off to a very good start. unlike the start to the cavanaugh hearings, we did not have repeated interruptions of chairman durbin during his opening statements, as democrats interrupted me for more than an hour of my opening statement of the kavanaugh hearings

abraham lincoln. in august, 1860 four at the height of the civil war, president lincoln addressed 166 ohio bridgman, lincoln said to the soldiers " by having temporarily to occupy this white house, i am living a witness that one of your children may come here as my father's child has". judge jackson, we are all just temporary occupants of the highest court in the land. you are one of mr. lincoln's living history. you're a living witness to the fact that in america all is possible. i recognize my colleague and friends and ranking members. >> judge jackson, congratulations. welcome to you and your family. i think you for taking time to visit with me in my office after the president nominated you. since president biden announced his nominee for the supreme court, i have been encouraging my colleagues to schedule meetings with you, judge jackson, they have all come out. in addition, i have continually emphasized the need for a thorough process by the committee. now i want to talk a bit about what everyone

in closing, i want to share the words, if you will bear with me, of a man named abraham lincoln. in august 1864, at the height of the civil war, president lincoln addressed the 166 ohio regimen. lincoln said to the soldiers and i quote, i have been temporarily to occupy this big white house i , am living witness that one of your children may look to me as your father has. judge jackson, you are a temporary occupant of the seventh, the house, even with a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. you are one of mr. lincoln's living witnesses of an america that is unafraid of challenge, willing to risk change, confident of the basic goodness of our citizens and you are a , living witness to the fact that in america, all is possible. i now recognize my colleague and friend the ranking member, , senator grassley. sen. grassley: judge jackson, congratulations, welcome to you and your family. i thank you for taking time to visit with me in my office after the president nominated you. since president biden nominated you to the supreme court, i have been encouraging my collea

lincoln and his secretary of treasury had been talking for weeks about the so damaging flood of forged currency that made up the entire or two-thirds of the economy at the time and this was really harmful to fledgling united states trying to get back. and recover after the civil war they had been talking about it at a meeting interestingly enough the day that lincoln. link hours later lincoln was shot and killed. they'd had a treasury meeting and a cabinet meeting to discuss. how can we control this flood of forgeries and fraudulent dollars bills? his secretary of treasury preceded with the idea after lincoln was killed and months later created this little unit of kind of rough and tumble dastardly agents almost like revenuers if you will for the bootleggers era and what they did was what they found people. gangs like mobster gangs who had these fake plates and they broke up these plate making operations. they tried to arrest the guys engaged and then they burned the currency that was their big job. wow, so it sounds like there was no formal presidential protection agency for a long ti

i urge our colleagues to support it to fulfill abraham lincoln's promise to care for him and her who have borne the burden. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentlewoman from iowa. mrs. miller-meeks: the concerns the minority that we have was laid out. we did not see the revised text until it was produced by the rules committee. the minority staff were willing to work through these concerns with your staff line by line but this was rebuffed. the minority staff was told any proposed changes to the scope of the bill would not be accepted. it is clear that the majority was not willing to address our concerns with this bill. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. takano: i yield one minute to my friend who serves on the education and labor committee and subcommittee chair on the foreign affairs committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. castro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. crow: i represent -- mr. castro: i represent veterans in san antonio ant, whose lives hav

need abraham in ramallah thanks me. and harry force it in west jerusalem wraps up the rest of secretary lincoln's visit. i got a couple issues 1st on not for the 1st time, a you a secretary of state and an israeli prime minister, side by side affirming their alliance with the smiles was strained. and even personal praise for the u. s. ambassador to israel was met with what sounded like sarcasm is deeply committed to the relationship between stacy either if it was a difficult meeting, the cause was clear. israel's opposition to reviving the iran nuclear deal, which it says, who make it easier for iran to attain a nuclear weapon. oh, israel also oppose is one of the moves. the u. s. is reportedly ready to make to get the deal done. removing aaron's revelation regard core from its list of foreign terror organizations. their proxy, the hoodies just this week, and carried out a rhythmic attack on saudi arabia. i hope the united states will hear the concerned voices from the region, israel's, and others on this very important