this is why i refer to william johnson as -- i hate this term because i don't think there is any truth to it but people like to talk about "stealth" nominees. he was our first stealth nominee. allerton and jefferson thought they had put a jeffersonian cap among the federalist canaries. they were going to be greatly disappointed. johnson carved out a record during his tenure on the court all ofort for virtually the named positions embraced by john marshall. this was not because john marshall's legendary persuasive powers. it was because if you look at , thatt johnson's record indication was already there. now, a couple of other important things. first, johnson joined the court after mark berry. johnson joined the court after marbury. he was not part of that revolution. between marbury in 1810, there were few if any cases that came to the court which would arouse jefferson's ire. the single most important exception were the cases out of the burr conspiracy where johnson in fact did dissent but not on a constitutional basis. in 1810, fletcher versus peck presented the first opportunity fo

but into this peaceful habitat became william johnson. jefferson's first appointment to the court. one can only begin to speculate about how he was licking his chops at the opportunity to put someone on the court who was not a federalist. and in particular who was not john marshall, his distant cousin whom he frankly despised. the two was aween leitmotif from the 1790's on. in a strangely prophetic letter to james madison in 1790, he complained about marshall and said we need to find something better to do with him to get him out of the way. quote nothing could be better -- "nothing could be better done than to make him a judge." that was, became true much to jefferson's chagrin. the theory would be that william johnson would be an ardent supporter of the jeffersonian approach to things. one small problem, they selected him on the recommendation of the secretary of treasury, name sent to the senate, confirmed, james madison sent him a letter saying congratulations, would you accept? a strange pattern in those days. undertaken,ence was and they were unaware of the fact that johnson,

william seward proposed one. andrew johnson proposed one. stephen douglas proposed at least one. three governors chimed in. my book is built around these amendments because, as i learned, no one else had gathered them or analyze them. what do they mean? i mentioned that james buchanan 's had three subsets. crittenden's had six. was onen davis's paragraph. there were 15 different topics that are embodied in those 67 amendments. so one of the first things i had to do was categorize, create a chart listing the topics around the proposalsand down the left side. and if you have read extensively in the decade of the 1850's, the run-up to the war from 1850 to the civil war, these amendments tracked the difficulties this country was trying to deal with. the largest number of articles within these amendments dealt with slavery in the territories. not surprising, because that was the election around which the election of 1860 turned. what do we do with slavery in the territories? are southerners allowed to take their slaves there and have them there as long as they want? should the federal

william stewart proposed one. andrew johnson and stephen douglas both proposed at least one. three governors chimed in. they came from state legislators, congress, secession conventions and the washington post convention. my book is built around these amendments. as i learned, no one else had gathered them or analyzed them. what do they mean? i mentioned that james buchanan's had three subsets. clinton's had six. most had more than one. very few are more than one paragraph long. jefferson davis was one paragraph. most had subsets. when you add up those subsets, those articles, there are about 350 different topics that are embodied in those 67 amendments. one of the first things i had to do was to sort of categorize. create a charge listing the topics along the top and the proposal was then the left side. if you have read extensively in the decade of the 18 fifties. from the compromise of the 1850 to the civil war, these amendments tracked the difficulties that the country was trying to deal with. the largest -- largest number of articles dealt with slavery in the territories.

william steward proposed one. andrew johnson and stephen douglas both proposed at least one. three governors chimed in. they came from state legislatures, governors, congress, secession conventions and the washington peace convention. my book is built around the amendments. because as i learned, no one else had had gathered them or analyzed them. what do they mean? i mentioned that james buchanan had three subsets. crittenden had six. most had more than one. jefferson davis' was one paragraph. when you add up those subsets, those articles, there are about 350 different topics that are embodied in those 67 amendments. so one of the first things i had to do is categorize them. listing the topics at the top and the proposers down the left side. and if you have read extensively in the decade of the 1850s, in the runup to the war from the compromise of 1850 to the civil war, these amendments track the difficulties that the country was trying to deal with. the largest number of articles within these amendments dealt with slavery in the territories. not surprising because that was t

pm johnson: >> mr. speaker, i have a picture at home of myself and william haynes aboard the steam rail they. -- railway. i am proud to say, and i congratulate them on what they are doing to raise funds. i have no doubt they have a glorious future ahead with his support. >> go up to neil gray. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i have a number of cases where employers are refusing to furlough staff because they don't understand or are willing to follow the guidance. 17-year-old edgar found himself without a job or furlough support, and has been cast as ineligible for social security because of his age. employers are refusing to engage with my correspondence. for cases like this, with the prime minister consider an appeals process to assist employees and to ensure people are treated fairly, according to the guidance, to save unnecessary redundancy and hardship? >> i think you make an excellent point. i would be happy if you could send me details. we will be very happy to take up the case you described. >> we go

claims he wants the truth to come out yet william barr's department of justice has gone to the supreme court to avoid turning over mueller as grand jury records to congress. to their dishonesty you can add hypocrisy. >> the supreme court is obviously going to seriously consider this. i know the solicitor general well, i praise him in my book and one of the things i do know is this controversial matter, trying to make it look as least controversial as it can. i expect they will take it in june and we won't in this case argued until the fall and ultimately will be decided in the next term. >> i think you're right about that and if the president is reelected that will be a very important decision about those documents. the book is out today, good luck, great to have you. the civil unrest continuing in michigan, barbers shutdown by the governor's stay home order offering free haircuts on the capital on in lansing as the president threatens to hold up funding over mail in voting plans. jackie heinrich can explain for us tonight. good evening. >> donald trump's crusade against mail in voting

when he was a young law student studying at william mitchell college of law, he was in this smokers club and they would take turn arguing famous cases. the cases he was in charge of arguing where the impeachment of andrew johnson and the trial of andrew burr. chief justice burger said to me "i wrote that opinion 40 years ago." he was a great artist and a sculptor, he painted that picture when he was in law school because those cases were so important to him. he said it was a very easy matter, because those cases stood for the proposition that no person, not even the president, is above the law. this is a good reminder that just because burger was a republican appointed by nixon, but you cannot assume that justices on the supreme court are going to vote on the basis of political affiliation, something that the public often believes. they have their own individual commitments to the constitution principleswn sets of quite apart from any political affiliation. that was one instance where chief justice burger exercised that. obviously, the white house tapes were damming. they contained the s

williams. >> and i see this light on the beach. and i thought, "now, what can that be?" i'd dropped my cell phone and it had landed face-up. and the panel was lighting up and i walked over to it and i picked it up and it was ken clark, detective clark calling to tell me that they had arrested harvey. it was a real great sense of relief. it was almost indescribable. >> reporter: which is perhaps where the movie version of this story would end. but real life is not quite like that. for all the suspicion of steven's friends, the murder case against harvey morrow was rather weak. no evidence sufficient to prove that harvey shot steven then dumped his body in the ocean. >> we were looking for steven's dna on the boat. knowing that his death was caused by a gunshot wound it was pretty obvious that there should be something that said this is where it was. >> reporter: but there wasn't. no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed, couldn't find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught

a lot of indication that this is the way the johnson government is moving the former police officer and policing expert peter williams told me that knocked down rebels are already trying to use dummy cummings behavior to float the rules. i'm not sure what the damage will be when it's been when it's looked at retrospective legal it certainly hasn't done it any so use whatsoever. i've said previously in our conversation with bill all artsy u.k. the most. powerful tool that the police have insurance or enforce this very difficult legislation is the cooperation of the public and as you know in the wire the concepts of policing generally policed by consent and of course what the public will have witnessed over the past few days will have dual absolutely no focus what's sold to rank and file offices today that are out there trying to enforce all applied for pleas which the college of policing of suggested that will be the best practice to do with this legislation and of course that is suing casey corage explained on the final stage of that as you know bill is still in force. and i would like

at a bar nearby and another part of the lincoln murder conspiracy went into go kill william seward, the secretary of state and seward was in his bed and stabs him repeatedly so seward almost died. what happens if there's no secretary of state to make the president pro tem the acting president and call a special election? shockingly the constitution is very clear about this, the assistant secretary of state has the ability to do this. the assistant secretary frederick seward, the son of william seward, nearly. and to death by the handle of a gun and a knife on the way to william seward's bedroom. at the lincoln murder conspiracy had fruition, you could had a situation with no president, no vice president and no secretary of state or assistant secretary of state with constitutional authority to make the president pro tem the acting president or call a special election. not a wild conspiracy theory, that almost happened. the most interesting close calls before we go to questions and answers, a woman in her purse and how she saves the new deal. fdr is president-elect, arrives in miami a

he is a full 30 points below andrew johnson. all of these people -- all of them are below william henry harrison who was only an office for one month. they were the net negative presidencies. let's look at how modern presidencies fared. ronald reagan was the only one that made it into the top 10. lou cannon, the terrific biographer is the chapter that he did. he had a lot to say about reagan's command of storytelling while he was in office. george h.w. bush in 20th place. it will be interesting to see now that he has passed and records are available. there is a bit of a halo effect when presidents leave office. he is also book ended by the two adams presidents. bill clinton came in at 15. david marinus'seminal biography, he writes about bill clinton's duality. he could be both good and bad at the same time and it impacted everything that happened throughout his public career. how about george w? just out of the bottom 10, his highest score was pursuing equal justice for all. that is his first entry, so it will be interesting to

it's not funny to them because every single day -- >> dana: i have a statement from robert johnson, who founded bet, if i could read that. he goes to what you're talking about. he wrote "vice president biden's statement today represents the arrogance and out of touch attitude of a paternalistic white candidate who has the audacity to tell black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are not black and less they vote for him. this proves unequivocally that the democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without question, even though we as black people know it's exactly the opposite. he should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every black person he meets." dan bongino, let's get your take on this. there's been some comments. there was a video put out echoing the comment that robert johnson just put out. >> dan: i am tired of having to take this fictitious high road. if we as conservatives, libertarians, if we come out and say we know joe biden is not a racist and that's not a racist comment and it was just a gaffe, that that somehow the woke left is g

about their family, i will go that far, but it is fantastic if you have never listened to the johnson tapes. >> highly entertaining at times. >> yes. >> go ahead. >> how did you decide where to rank william henri harrison? was he not in office about 30 days? what criteria? >> it's hard on the presidents below him. >> how do you rank things like relations with congress and foreign affairs? he was in bed. >> that is a question that must remained unanswered. i have no idea why these hundred people would put him where he put him. it's probably because of their dislike for the once below him. >> fair enough. >> it's a good question though because there are a lot of other questions they could be asked and not answered if you study the survey closely. >> it was a lot easier to think through the top five and bottom five, at least to me, then to try to figure out who ranked 37th or 38. the middle one's really required some research and thinking to figure out who would go with whom with someone like william henry harrison, he has no track record at all. you know a little bit about his wife and

another conspiracy went to kill william seward who is secretary of state. he was in his meeting and stops him repeatedly so he almost die dies. so what happens there is no secretary of state? shockingly the president on - - the constitution is clear because then it is the assistant secretary that is the son of william seward who was nearly bludgeoned to death by the handle of the gun and the knife on the assassins way into his bedroom to stab him. so had the conspiracy come to fruition and with that assistant secretary of state with the constitutional authority to make the acting president. and those two interesting close calls. and then in the first of the new deal or as president-elect and in that private yacht the first as president-elect in miami and sitting on the dock of a buick to delivers a speech and the italian immigrant fires five shots and 15 seconds they would have had fdr but a 100-pound woman was standing right next to the assailant saw him pull out the 32 caliber moved her purse from one arm to another and messed his gun with enough force so

william byron is very good at darlington, and of course jimmie johnson, he is tipping off the 2020 season a really strong start for him and denny hamlin is another guy that is really good at darlington and it'll be interesting to see how those toyotas run they were a little sluggish after the big win at the daytona 500 but i think they are up for the task at darlington. jedediah: michael nascar fans are the most amazing sports fan ever and i wonder if you have a message for fans obviously they can't be there for this race on the track but do you have a message for them? >> i have a couple of messages one for fox because we've been bringingi-racing virtual racing to the fans on fox every sunday afternoon and its been really entertaining and over 1 million people tune into watch us race race cars and now, the fans are just itching. i'm always in touch with them on twitter and instagram and they are itching to see live nascar racing but i'm telling you these drivers they are itching to put on a show for our fans. it's going to be weird not see ing them up in the grandstand s but we know they

all of them are below william harry harrison who was in office for a month. so let's just take a quick look at how the modern presidents fared. ronald reagan was the only one that made it into the top ten. lou cannon who covered him as a journalist in california is the chapter that we did. he had a lot to say about reagan's command of storytelling as he was in the office. next, george h.w. bush, in 20th place. interesting to see what happens to him now that he's passed, now that more records are available and there's a bit of a halo effect once they leave office. interestingly he's book ended by the two adams' presidents. bill clinton came in at 15. we had david maraniss, really the biography of the chapter. "the washington post" reporter, you're familiar with his work, he writes about bill clinton's duality. he could be both good and bad at the same time and that kind of impacted everything that happened throughout his public career. okay. how about george w.? just out of the bottom ten i have to tell you. he has -- his highest score was actually -- he pursu

you did a reading today that featured a fellow named william johnson, not a lot of contemporary american students of history know much about him, but he was a very interesting figure in the 18th century. an irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in 1740, and became very friendly with mohawk indians, who were his neighbors. ultimately, grained a great deal of influence among them and was appointed by the british crown to serve as the agent to the iroquois nation. this painter in the early 20th century wanted to depict one of these treaties that johnson convened with native americans. think about the reading you did for today. it is providing you with a mental image of that. it was at johnson hall, which was this georgian mansion he built on the mohawk frontier that still stands today. if you are in upstate new york between albany and syracuse, new york, you can visit this site and visit another one of his homes that predated this both of which are preserved as historic sites in new york. a really interesting story about how europeans and native americans came