alexander hamilton a very contentious pamphlet finally is uncovered and published and he has to admit he's trying to undermine john adams reelection. so yes, being a president is complicated we don't want to say he didn't make crucial fundamental mistakes but to be put into context and you have to compare the presidency to other early presidents. none of them can be seen as perfect. >> but to believe they could be educated and rational as a more realistic psychological insights that people could be credulous or fearful. this seems like a contradiction but will this ever be an ideal or a cover story for the oligarchy? >> good question. yes. and this is another point i would like to make john adams helped to draft the first constitution of massachusetts. public support for public education. which did not make it into the virginia constitution he tried to get some boys to be educated and the elite shot it down so he did care about education and we needed public support and public funding for education. but those contradictions are they are. and with that instability of government you can

alexander hamilton who writes a contentious pamphlet, circulated secretly, finally gets uncovered and published and he has to admit he's trying to undermine john adams's reelection. being president is complicated and in no way do we want to say john adams didn't make some crucial fundamental mistakes but also has to be put into context and you have to compare his presidency to other early presidents because none of them can be seen as perfect and infallible. >> adams's belief that voters can be educated and irrational seems at odds with the more realistic psychological insight that people can be credulous, fearful, personality driven. so do you think it seems like a contradiction, indicative that democracy is only really ever going to be an ideal or something closer to what we have today like an oligarchy? >> good question. i think one of the things, another point i like to make. john adams helped to draft the first constitution of massachusetts. what was in the constitution? public support for public education which did not make it into the virginia constitution. jefferson tried a re

alexander hamilton their work out a bargain with james madison. they say all these other states will agree to assumption. make sure the federal government pays all of the debts through the revolutionary war if the federal capital is on the capital river. you have as a result the residence act. it's agreed that the capital will be somewhere between northern maryland and the river. george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location.>> slavery, why do you feel like you had an impact on the location? >> thought to make sure the capital is in the play. slavery is protected in the capital. philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there's a large population that was trying to get the constitution. >> how did that work out for the slave owners? is it as a predicted or was there obstacles the got in their way? >> they're able to work out deals where they sold the land to the federal government. they were able to rent to the people that were building the national capital. they were rented out to buil

. >>> 215 years after that duel with aaron burr ended badly with alexander hamilton comes out on top. >> it won't become a musical but a new jersey man can go by alexander hamilton in a school board race. a clerk had kicked him out because he didn't use his given first name, vernon. he argued he's gone by "alexander hamilton" since birth to differentiate him from his father, vernon, and a judge agreed there. >> all right. a win for alexander hamilton. >>> some officers in maine have come to the rescue of a skunk. >> oh. >> yep, the skunk's head was caught in an ice cream cup. >> officers in bridgeton quickly covered the skunk with a jacket. >> and then what did they do? >> look at the skunk's head moving under there. then they removed -- >> they are brave. >> they very brave. what do you think it smelled like under that jacket? >> the skunk probably didn't spray them because it said, i need to get this cup off my head. >> maybe. >> i actually had a run-in with a skunk as a kid. we thought it was a pet. we didn't get sprayed. dawn is for more than just dishes. with 3x more grease clean

so alexander hamilton, the treasury secretary and thomas jefferson, the secretary of the at work at a bargain with james madison and they essentially say, all these other state will agree to support assumptions, making sure the federal government pays all the state debts from the revolutionary war if the federal capital is placed on the potomac river. that deal is >>> in 1790, and you have as a result of the residence act and its agreed that the federal capital would be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence of anacostia and the potomac river along the potomac george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location . >> so again, slavery, why do you feel that had an impact on the look nation? >> the southern interest that are angling want to make sure they are in the slaves out and that slavery is protected in the national capital. they are particularly interested in that because the capital had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during cottonelle congress and littlefield was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because ther

alexander hamilton at the time treasury secretary and thomas jefferson, secretary of state, washing out a bargain with james madison. they essentially say, look, all of the southern states will agree to support assumption. actually, making sure the federal government pays all of the state's debts from the revolution aary war if the fedel capital is placed on the poto c potomac. that deal is struck in 1890. you have the residents act and it's agreed the federal capital will be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence of the antcostia and potomac. george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location. >> again, slavery, why do you feel that had an impact on the location of the -- >> oh, well, the southern interests who are angling for a potomac capital want to make sure the capital is in the slave south and that slavery is protected in the national capital. they're particularly interested in that because the capital had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during the continental congress. and philadelphia was becoming increasingly hos

alexander hamilton of course was shot in a duel with aaron burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. whittington was mistaken for a bird. the other player in the drama, ranch owner and witness katherine arm strong. >> we were shooting a covey. the bird flushed, the vice president took aim at the bird and shot and unfortunately mr. whittington was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty well. >> cheney discussed why no one found out about the incident until ranch owner katherine armstrong went to a local paper the next day. >> katherine suggested and i agreed that she would make the announcement, that she put the story out. i thought that made good sense. she was the immediate past head of the texas wildlife and parks department. >> so she outranked you? is that how the government works? is the hierarchy basically president ex-head of the texas wildlife parks department, vice president? >> we miss you, john stewart. the man who dick cheney shot, for the record he ended up okay, he's alive and kicking, in his early 90s now. to this day i believe he still does have some

alexander hamilton was the secretary of the treasury. talk about low crimes. a woman comes over to him and seduces him. seduces him. she's a married woman. he's a married man. they have an affair, and then it turns out that it was all an extortion plot. the husband had sent the wife to seduce him. the husband then goes to alexander hamilton and says, "unless you pay me, and a -- "unless you pay me," and a fortune of money in those days was several thousand dollars, "i will expose you. " so hamilton pays him the money, then he comes back and he says, "unless you give me more money, i will say that the money came -- the money you paid came from treasury funds." a light goes off in hamilton's head. he wrote the federalist paper on impeachment, he knows what he's talking about. he says, oh my god, if they accused me of taking money from the treasury, that's a high crime, if they accused me merely of adultery, which was, by the way, a felony, a serious felony at common law. if they accused me just of adultery, that's a low crime, so he does something that was very

sometimes when i come out, that first moment when they say what's your name and i say alexander hamilton, all the lights shift to me and all the focus is on me. that sometimes is the moment. there's sometimes at the end of the show where everyone can look out, everyone's clapping and crying and i just realize what we just did. >> reporter: so each night, the bay areas austin scott takes a moment as the show booms around him. >> this is my stop. >> do you sit right here? >> i sit right here. >> reporter: and he breathes it all in. >> welcome to the dream, you are living the dream. >> thank you kindly. >> seriously, is that the exact story that you needed to hear tonight? what a wonderful story. boston scott is not sure how long he's going to play hamilton or what's next. but he says he's open to it all and excited about his journey and what a journey it is. you can hear more by listening to our bay area people podcast. to find all of our podcasts, look for bay area people in your podcast player. >>> new at 10:00, outside lands festival will be the first event in san francisco where adults

here on broadway he is simply known as alexander hamilton. >> it is so cool, and here we go ... know the cool thing is the skeleton of it never really changes. >> it has been an incredible ride but an unconventional one. >> i tell people off often i think i am kind of the worst musical theater person that there has ever been. i don't know a lot of shows. >> have there been moments where you have had to fake it till you make it? >> absolutely! >> i know that technique very well. >> we went backstage. >> my favorite is probably this black suede actually, to get to know the man behind hamilton. >> my i have got some fanart here. >> next to his dressing room mirror, a picture of the two people who have been there through it all. >> this is my dad austin and my mom, pat. we were in vegas, you know? living it up. >> reporter: scott beams when he talks about his parents. >> just crazy support. i'm so lucky. >> b star went to phoenicia high school but he will tell you he etball and improv, the theater. >> i only did one theater show the very last year. i don't think they would call me t

i think that was said by alexander hamilton. [laughter] "sun's out, guns out"-- that one's gone too, so, there are no pains without gains. c mer lghomnc you brought the jokes and the money. good job. $2,000. fourth question is worth 3. >> awesome. >> which of these is not an actual army rank created by combining the names of two other official ranks? >> well, i've definitely heard sergeant major, lieutenant colonel, and major general.so, , >> the one that doesn't exist, that's right! takes us up to $3,000. this one will get us to that first threshold of $5,000. here's the question. >> awesome. >> which of these was a broadway musical about a broadway musical? >> musical theater-- you found my kryptonite. >> [laughs] >> i'm gonna have to go ahead and ask the audience on this one. >> okay, final? >> yes, final. >> all right, that's what those lifelines are there for, to get past these blind spots. so, audience, if you would, pick up those keypads. enter your votes now. [percussive music] ♪ all right, kieran, hopefully they can g

and he is known as alexander hamilton. >> no. what i know -- [ laughter ] [ noises ] and here we go. no, really, it never changes. >> reporter: it was an unconventional one. an >> i tell people i think i am the worst musical theater person that has ever been. i don't know a lot of shows. >> reporter: so there were moments like, yeah, totally, i got that. >> oh, sure. thank you very much. >> reporter: so we went back stage. >> my favorite is probably the black suede. >> reporter: we went to know the man behind hamilton. >> my girlfriend, and i have some fan art here. >> reporter: next to his dressing room mirror, a picture of the two who have been true through it all. >> my mom, and my mom in las vegas. i am so lucky. >> reporter: he will tell you in high school he was known more for basketball and improv. >> i don't think they would call me a theater kid but i was the dude that did everything. i was weird and funny and kind of tried to make friends with everybody. >> reporter: but pictures and home videos show you the boy who alw

i am about to do something that is really counterintuitive and wherever alexander hamilton is, forgive me.ll i'm hamilton scholar, but i am about to describe the man who killed him, aaron burr. his politics were sometimes equivocal. he was something of an adventurer. he killed hamilton. he was tried and acquitted. but he was apparently a very , and hee president understood the profound significance of congress. with the end of his vice presidency, he said the following -- and i think it's so the essenceaptures of congress that i want to close with the words of ehrenberg. this house is a sanctuary, a sza dell of law and liberty. if the constitution be destined ever to parish by the sacrilegious hand of the demagogue or the usurper, it's its expiringies -- agonies will be witnessed. thank you. [applause] >> one of the things these society is privileged -- come here, mr. chairman, i need you. this is don carlson, the chairman of the board. one of the things -- we have ofble from the renovation the capitol rig we use that to create products. when someone honors us with their speech, we pro

the champions of the two competing visions of america were thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton invision in american cities with busy harbors and smokestacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent landowners. he did not want america to be like europe where people work for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jeffersons ideological descendents include andrew jackson and james k polk the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk new that for large amounts of urgent land were needed. there is no quit since that jefferson, jackson polk together haddad 2.1 square miles to the united states. jefferson took office in 1801, the u. s. land area was 891,000 square miles. and polk left office in 1849 it covered nearly 3 million square miles, it became the 48 continuous states. since vincent 700,000 square miles have been added most of its alaska. >> i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking land from mixico. mixico was the first but by no means the last. it began on a questionable pretense. we have seen it happen since

morris, a new yorker and a man of questionable virtue good friends and drinking buddies of alexander hamilton, and morris was boasting that he could treat washington just like he could treat any other of his best friends and morris and hamilton made a wager. hamilton will send said if he could treat washington like any other friend in public, then hamilton would buy dinner and wine for morris and 12 of his friend. on the night in question, a public event, george washington as we know will become the president of the constitutional convention. he was hosting an event and gov. morris comes in. it was a public event and immediately reaches out his hand to shake george's hand. a gentleman would do that but when he shook hands morris took the secondhand and began patting george on the shoulder and saying general washington, my dear friend, it is so good to see you looking so well. what had happened, that familiarity, washington pulled his hand back. he took three steps back and just glared at morris with this evil, angry stare and the people who were there froze. they simply stood and was

the champions of the two competing visions of america were thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton envisioned in america, cities with busy harbors and smoke stacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent landowners. he did not want america to become like europe. where people worked for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jefferson's ideological descendants, included andrew jackson and james k polk. the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk new for jefferson's so-called yoman farmers to flourish, large amounts of virgin land were needed. they added 2.1 million square miles to the united states. when jefferson took office in 1801, u.s. was 1,891,000 square miles. when polk left office in 1849. it covered 3 million square miles but became the 48th contiguous state. since then, just 700,000 square miles have been added. most of it alaska. i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking hand from mexico. and the mexican war was the first but by no means the last american war. it began on a questionable pretext. we hav

i'm about to do something that is counterintuitive, and wherever alexander hamilton is in heaven, i hope you will forgive me. i am a hamilton scholar. i will discuss the man who killed him, aaron burr. you will see why. aaron burr was a controversial figure during his lifetime and forever after. he is having a moment now because of the plate. his politics were sometimes equivocal. he was something of an adventurer. he killed hamilton. it was tried four treason and acquitted, sending himself into exile in europe for a good many years. he was a good vice president. he was fair-minded. he was attentive to procedure in presiding over the senate. he understood the profound significance of the institution of congress in the making or breaking of the american nation. along those lines, toward the end of his vice presidency, he said the following during his formal farewell to the senate, and i think it is so profoundly captured in the significance of congress that it was a close with the words of aaron burr. burr said, this house is a sanctuary, a citadel of law and liberty. here, if anywhere, w

if you read what the founders said, what alexander hamilton said the idea was to elect a college of electors who would use their own independent judgment to pick who they thought would be the best person in the country to become president so only because of the rise of mass democracy we have this idea that you would elect electors who bound themselves to vote for one candidate or the other. the constitution doesn't allow states to appoint electors and controllable removal recall them just the way states which pick the centers couldn't pick senators. once federal officials they can do what they want free of state law so you could theoretically have electors who could exercise their own judgment but that is why states will start putting state politicians from each party in the position of electors so they can be counted on to keep their promise. shannon: i think and don't know is it that elected officials can't be electors to the college? i don't know, we will double check that. in the meantime congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez showing a rural area in the planes this is what the electoral

my favorite quote among many is something that alexander hamilton said in 1789, he said we think in english. by that he meant, not just the language although the language is very precious in fact the richest in the world. in terms of vocabulary. he encapsulated in that sentence everything that ties the united states of its values to great britain, our enlightenment values, our magna carta, democracy, due process, individual rights, this was what was at stake. in world war ii. without that there is nothing. the soul is gone. so i would put fdr first then george washington, thank you george i was very glad he was president and not john adams or jefferson. he was fantastic. lincoln, believe it or not in high school, i was absent the week they did civil war soil not [laughter] >> how did that turn out? >> rank fdr as a wartime presidency of a smaller group to compare with here. how do you rank him as a war president? the short answer is number two after lincoln. >> two things are really important i feel. one is we are really lucky that he was assistant secretary of the navy under wilson not bec

the champions of the two competing visions are thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton envisioned an america with cities with busy harbors and smokestacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent land owners. he did not want america to become like europe where people worked for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jefferson's ideological descendants included andrew jackson and james k. polk, the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk knew that to flourish large amounts of virgin land were needed. so there's no coincidence that jefferson, jackson and polk together added 2.1 million square miles to the united states. although jackson invaded florida before he was president. when jefferson took office, it was 846 skwasquare miles. it became the contiguous 48 states. since then 700,000 square miles have been added and most of it in alaska. i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking land from mexico. the mexican war was the first, but by no means the last american war begun on a questionable pretext, and

alexander hamilton is, i hope he will forgive me. i am about to discuss the man who killed him, aaron burke. figure. controversial he is having something of a moment now because of that play. his politics were sometimes equivocal. he was something of an adventure. he told hamilton. he was tried for treason and acquitted. he was apparently a very good vice president. he was fair-minded, he was attentive to procedure, and he understood the profound significance of the institution of congress in the making or breaking of the american nation. along those lines, towards the end of his vice presidency, he said the following during his formal farewell to the senate, profoundly it is so -- it so profoundly captures the significance of congress, that i want to close with the words of aaron burr. burr said, "this house is a law andy, a citadel of liberty. will be anywhere, resistance made to the storms of political frenzy and the silent arts of corruption. and if the constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hand of the demag

hamilton says and impeachable offense can be an abuse of power. in that particular sense that is not a narrow definition and that's not a legalistic definition that really does have abuse of power significance that is not technical difference and the interesting thing about we talk about the past to make a point clinton was impeached on a narrow perjury. he perjured himself. no one would deny that. but acquitted because of a broader interpretation which is to say whatever he did to not interfere with the way he conducted affairs of state. >> well, yeah, no pun intended. thank you. >> this is a biography in the book is not a biography although andrew johnson is very central to which and his entire life and career but it does have it's a very broad cast of characters with a very helpful little, you know, summaries but look, what about andrew johnson? as you said he's not exactly a household name. >> but now he will be. [laughter] >> his reputation, i guess, like many figures of our history has gone up and down over the years and the original on reco

hamilton is up in heaven, i hope he will forgive me because i'm a hamilton scholar, but i'm about to discuss the man who killed him, aaron burr. you'll see why. burr obviously was a controversial figure during his lifetime and forever after, although he's having something of a moment now because of that play. his politics were sometimes e kw equivocal, he was something of an adventurer, he killed hamilton, he was tried for treezen and acquitted sending himself into exile for many years. he was fair minded. he was attentive to procedure in presiding over the senate, and he understood the profound significance of the institution of congress in the making or breaking of the american nation. along those lines towards the end of his vice presidency, he said the following during his formal farewell to the senate, and i think it's so profoundly captures the significance of congress that i want to close with the words of aaron burr. burr said, this house is a sanctuary, a citadel of law and of liberty. here, if anywhere, will be resistance made to the storms of political frenzy and the silen

interviews claudine wong went to new york city and got on stage with a young man playing alexander hamilton in the megahit musical, "hamilton." claudia speaks with austin scott of the nation to hear about the journey that led him to the spotlight, tonight on the 10:00 news. if you would like to get a little preview, you can listen to claudine's conversation with the star of "hamilton" in our bay area people podcast right now. just search for bay area people in podcasts." >>> president trump shrugged off another one from kim jong- un following a fourth missile test in korea of in two weeks. that is my story, coming up. >>> coming up at six clock out -- walgreens is closing. the store closings just announced. >>> hundreds of crabs seen in a neighborhood in florida. what may have caused the crab invasion. >>> north korea said today the two short-range ballistic missiles it launched yesterday were meant as a warning to the united states and south korea over there joint military exercises. fox report, greg falcon has more from london big >> reporter: another missile launched from north korea, a

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we will not rest the striving entrepreneurial mobile people rather like alexander hamilton. in the argument was just that. it was not about just the institution. the argument they had in the federal which were newspaper columns to rebut the anti- federalist. the argument was about what kind of people will be b. where hamiltonian's. >> this is just me indulging some of my curiosities here. in a large book about conservatism, the term neoconservatism appears nowhere that i can find. maybe i missed it but is not in the index. what was it? i'm curious. >> the pedigree of that term is on. i think it was first used for some disillusioned democrats. [inaudible conversation] who associated with a small but enormously influential quarterly now deceased, called the public interest. these were people who were having second thoughts in kayaking in terms about the ability of a central government to manage the complexities of a creatively free society. then came iraq. then came the unipolar world as it briefly existed after the collapse of the soviet union. in neoconservatism was a term t

if you read what the founders said, what alexander hamilton said, the idea was it to elect a college of electors who would actually use their own independent judgment to pick who they thought would be the best person in the country to become president. only because of the rise of mass democracy that we had this idea, you would elect electors who bound themselves to vote for one candidate or the other. i agree with bradley, the constitution doesn't allow states to appoint electors and then suddenly control them or even remove them, just the way states couldn't recall senators. once they are federal officials, they can do what they want free of state law. i get the idea. you could theoretically have electors who could exercise their own judgment but that is why i bet states are going to start putting state politicians from each party in the position of electors so they can be counted on to keep their promises. >> shannon: i think, and i don't know, is it that elected officials can't be electors? i don't know, we will double checked that and i will tweak it out. in the meantime, we show

hamilton in the mag it hit musical, "hamilton. is quote he is austin scott of been a shot. you will hear about the journey that led to the spotlight coming up tonight on the 10:00 news. before that, you can listen to claudine's conversation with the star of hamilton in our bay area people podcast available right now. just search for bay area people were of you get your podcasts. reaching out to your number one neighbor. have you done this yet? we will tell you about the new viral trend sweeping the country and bringing a whole lot of people together. >>> the latest viral trend has people texting strangers with similar phone numbers to them. here is how it works. you text your phone number but change the last digit by 1. either up or down. whoever gets the text is your number neighbor. to have the full number neighbor experience, users are encouraged to take a screenshot of the conversation that ensues and posted to social media. there have been some good ones out there so far. the stars of beverly hills 90210 are back on fox for t

they had asked me to sing something from "in the heights," and i had 16 bars on alexander hamilton. this was in the white house. this was in the white house. they were doing an evening of poetry and spoken word and they invited me. is it a good idea to test material at the white house? it worked out okay for me. [ laughing ] it worked out okay. it worked out pretty well. but it was really scary and i also -- i remember thinking, "well, if it doesn't work in this room, i'll just throw it out and i'll try something else." oh, my god. 'cause it was the most mad libs -- you don't understand. the day started with me splitting a van with james earl jones. [ laughs ] that's a weird start to your day. yeah, right. you and darth vader in a van. me and darth vader in a van to the white house, and i remember looking around the room and it was like a mad libs. i mean, it was like spike lee and zach braff and george stephanopoulos. yeah, those three hang out. they're tight. oh, that's a group? they're on a group text. [ laughs ] wow. and -- i just remember thinking, like, if it doesn't play here

alexander hamilton who was washington's eight is going to famously joke that he is not shocked that gates actually did this but that a man of gates is age was physically capable of riding so far. >> that is the end of horatio gates. who was put in charge instead is general nathanael greene and he is from rhode island. he is what we call a fighting quaker. he is a quaker and they are usually pacifists against war but he is very much in favor of a resistance and fighting this defensive war. he achieved general in the southern campaign. the south is very much dictated by partisan fighting and that i mean loyalist first patriot. not necessarily traditional continental army or british regular army, they are different bands of loyal. this is where you have mel gibson and the patriot or if you go to older movies, fighting in these guerrilla styles and it makes it very difficult often times to know who is who and it also leads to heightened degrees of atrocity for you have brutal fights between loyalists and patriots. in one case you have a commander, rutherford who is in the carolina frontier ar

alexander hamilton, among others did not want normal people choosing president. he was very clear about this. he wanted, quote, a small number of persons to do it. but the whole idea of the electoral college as a body that would pick somebody, it collapsed quickly. we never really had that system. it has been outdated since basically the third election the country had. and the other thing you hear all the time, and this is what dan crenshaw says is that what they do is they look at this map. trump says this too. they look at how this map, and they say to you, how else can we get presidents to listen to these vast swaths of the country. right? you see this map? you've seen this map before? is this is a map that donald trump loves. it is in fact a map that is up at the white house. no, seriously, it's the first thing they put up. okay? but here is the thing. this is a map of land, not of human beings. [ applause ] and it is true, here's the weirdest part. it is true that in the united states constitution, thanks to the senate and the electoral college, land gets to

the history of this, this is alexander hamilton, the process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of president will never fall to the lot of any plan who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. was that your motivation? >> absolutely. donald trump is a denialist and in this time and day we can't have someone like that as our president. >> and you know that the national popular vote initiative has taken hold in a number of states, i can put on the screen, those which have bought on so far. including by the way colorado. it occurs to me, and i think the secretary of state of colorado sees it the same way, that the success you had in the tenth circuit could jeopardize the national popular vote, because if colorado says we're going to go along with the popular vote, and then there's a michael baca, who is an elector, you could overturn that desire, by colorado residents. >> so had we been successful if we did in in 2000, we would have overturned the election to al gore. i mean electors can do this. this is not, this is not new, just because it

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bush and received the alexander hamilton award in recognition for service. prior to his work in the treasury, he served as a staff director of the senate banking committee under senator phil gramm who was one of the authors of the gramm leach bliley act. here in a masters degree down down the street at the international studies school of advanced international studies at johns hopkins. speaking second is the professor oprofessorof law at george washn university who joined the faculty in 1986 after 11 years of private law practice including as a partner at jones and is the author of more than 40 law review articles and book chapters in the banking law and american constitutional history and is the coeditor of the book on the financial crisis of 2008. in 2005 the college of consumer financial service lawyers awarded a prize for the best review article. i could go on and on, but i won't. you can read about it online. he testified before congress many times it is a consultant to the financial inquiry commission that looked into the financial crisis. he has a ba

alexander hamilton and jefferson had very different understandings. they were both revolutionaries, but they had very different understandings about what that revolution was about, what it was supposed to achieve, and they -- the 1790s were brutal because of that as they were trying to work that out. what was the revolution for? what should be the direction of the country, and again, once you get rid of a king that 1/4, the person who's king and parliament for britain when they got to that point, and it's the people, they're going to hash these things out, and you're going to have these moments of extremism going from one position to another. >> have we ever in history had this kind of extremely partisan behavior by both parties? i mean this is really as partisan as i've ever seen it in my lifetime. have we seen that before? >> not in our lifetime, but obviously in american history it's been a lot worse. i mean, you know, in the 1850s, for example, people in congress would just insult you, they could cane each other, beat them. and then of course the

she sat down and walked around with a young man who plays alexander hamilton in hamilton. the young man is often thought of a says venician and the journey that led him to the spotlight tonight on the 10:00 news. even before, that you can use lip to her conversation with the star of hamilton. search for bay area people wherever you get your pod cast. >> you let claudine go there and go on statement with austin. >> about-from-beindonesia to broadway. i give him, from bene cia to broadway. >> how's the commute looking, salin. >> thing are improving a bit. >> okay. >> not a lot. first of all, if you're waiting, i'm sorry, if you're working to get to san rafael, seems like traffic is backed up for a bit. once you get to oakland, and you're driving this way, getting into san francisco via the bay bridge is typical. most of the lanes are slow but the carpool lane. we have traffic on 880 northbound and driving okay past the colsee upium. we have a look. the bridge has been busy and there are no problems on the dun barton bridge but it's slow across. we have a new active support i

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because you have alexander hamilton on one hand who was advocating for this global banking, merchant heavy, respectable english based system with strong military power and strong presidency. and then you had thomas jefferson who thought of those things in smaller doses but had a different vision of what they should look like and they duked it out in the cabinet to the point where thomas jefferson described the cabinet meetings as a cockfight. there is no better way to describe that. if you think of a bloody, violent spectacle where you are fighting to the death. they did me in a room that was 15 by 20 feet. filled with furniture, it was five very large men by the standards of the day. and they met for hours at a time. they met up to five times per week in the summer of 1793. we know that summer was very hot and humid because there was bad yellow fever outbreaks that fall. they didn't have air conditioning, it was philadelphia and very humid. they hated each other by that point and they were locked in these battles that were in some ways small details of things but in some way a large

. >> alexander hamilton didn't think we should have political parties. neither did john addams. they felt it led to divisiveness. >> "the manchurian candidate" couldn't destroy us faster than barack obama. >> critics now claim the administration is actually pressuring certain disabled veterans to, quote, hurry up and die. >> what you saw in the media universe in the 2000s was the splintering of the audience. and in news, it splintered largely along political lines. >> you're watching fox news, real journalism, fair and balanced. >> roger ailes had the brilliant idea of creating a network for conservatives, thus fox news. >> the controversy over john kerry and his vietnam war medals has just gotten worse. >> msnbc kind of stumbled into the idea of a liberal counterpart. >> people watch fox news thinking there's news in it. conspiracy theorists, racists, loans and pinheads. >> there was no longer a shared, factual basis for our political views. we didn't all go home and watch walter cronkite. >> "crossfire." on the left, james carville and paul begala. on the right, robert novak a