The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Alan Dershowitz ｜ 1⧸20⧸21

00:00:00.000 Well, it's Inauguration Day, and we do the coverage of that here and bring you through all the events of the day.

00:00:06.460 Go back to looking at some of the history as far as inaugurations of the past go.

00:00:09.920 Some really interesting stories you probably don't know.

00:00:12.540 And the invasion of the vampire space bunnies, which I'm expecting at any time.

00:00:18.100 That does happen.

00:00:18.860 Any time.

00:00:19.760 And it's the logical next event.

00:00:21.840 It really is.

00:00:22.580 It is.

00:00:22.980 So you don't want to miss a second of today's show, including the interview with Alan Dershowitz, who talks specifically about the unconstitutional act of now taking and trying Donald Trump in the Senate.

00:00:39.420 He says it's not right.

00:00:42.400 It's unconstitutional.

00:00:44.280 We talked to him about that.

00:00:45.700 Also, the growing police state and what he thinks about it.

00:00:51.060 All of it today on the podcast.

00:00:59.640 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:07.280 Holy cow, do we have a lot to share with you today?

00:01:12.220 The left is calling for an army of citizen detectives.

00:01:15.700 To spy on Trump supporters and report anything.

00:01:19.220 The Democrats have pledged to fight the Trump rule that ensures that banks will allow service to Republicans.

00:01:31.260 They're going to fight that one.

00:01:34.920 And it's an exciting day.

00:01:36.700 It's an exciting day.

00:01:38.520 Because finally, finally, Donald Trump is gone.

00:01:43.820 You know what I'm saying?

00:01:44.560 And we now have a God replacing him.

00:01:49.020 I don't know if you I don't know if you saw any of the reports last night, but CNN with the lights on the reflecting pool and MSNBC talking about how just I mean, if I may quote Psalms, Biden's God.

00:02:06.880 That was kind of what they said last night.

00:02:10.340 We'll give that to you.

00:02:11.340 But first, I want to start with Donald Trump.

00:02:14.100 It is really sad that in his farewell address last night, he had to actually list his accomplishments because nobody in the media has.

00:02:23.720 So we wanted to play it because we think Americans should remember that he did a lot of good for this country.

00:02:31.940 Now, more than ever, we must unify around our shared values and rise above the partisan rancor and forge our common destiny.

00:02:41.200 Four years ago, I came to Washington as the only true outsider ever to win the presidency.

00:02:47.460 I had not spent my career as a politician, but as a builder looking at open skylines and imagining infinite possibilities.

00:02:56.500 I ran for president because I knew there were towering new summits for America just waiting to be scaled.

00:03:04.140 I knew the potential for our nation was boundless as long as we put America first.

00:03:10.920 So I left behind my former life and stepped into a very difficult arena, but an arena nevertheless with all sorts of potential if properly done.

00:03:22.380 America had given me so much and I wanted to give something back.

00:03:26.500 Together with millions of hardworking patriots across this land, we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country.

00:03:33.880 We also built the greatest economy in the history of the world.

00:03:38.920 It was about America first because we all wanted to make America great again.

00:03:44.440 We restored the principle that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

00:03:49.420 Our agenda was not about right or left.

00:03:52.320 It wasn't about Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation.

00:03:58.340 And that means the whole nation.

00:04:01.260 With the support and prayers of the American people, we achieved more than anyone thought possible.

00:04:07.840 Nobody thought we could even come close.

00:04:10.440 We passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.

00:04:15.080 We slashed more job-killing regulations than any administration had ever done before.

00:04:21.600 We fixed our broken trade deals, withdrew from the horrible Trans-Pacific Partnership and the impossible Paris Climate Accord, renegotiated the one-sided South Korea deal,

00:04:34.180 and we replaced NAFTA with the groundbreaking USMCA, that's Mexico and Canada, a deal that's worked out very, very well.

00:04:44.700 Also, and very importantly, we imposed historic and monumental tariffs on China, made a great new deal with China.

00:04:53.740 But before the ink was even dry, we and the whole world got hit with the China virus.

00:05:01.900 Our trade relationship was rapidly changing.

00:05:05.780 Billions and billions of dollars were pouring into the US, but the virus forced us to go in a different direction.

00:05:14.020 The whole world suffered, but America outperformed other countries economically because of our incredible economy and the economy that we built.

00:05:26.000 Without the foundations and footings, it wouldn't have worked out this way.

00:05:31.180 We wouldn't have some of the best numbers we've ever had.

00:05:34.300 We also unlocked our energy resources and became the world's number one producer of oil and natural gas by far.

00:05:44.300 Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world.

00:05:49.040 We reignited America's job creation and achieved record low unemployment for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, women, almost everyone.

00:06:01.060 Income soared, wages boomed, the American dream was restored, and millions were lifted from poverty in just a few short years.

00:06:10.860 It was a miracle.

00:06:13.780 Stock markets set one record after another with 148 stock market highs during this short period of time

00:06:21.680 and boosted the retirements and pensions of hardworking citizens all across our nation.

00:06:28.540 401Ks are at a level they've never been at before.

00:06:34.200 We've never seen numbers like we've seen, and that's before the pandemic and after the pandemic.

00:06:41.640 We rebuilt the American manufacturing base, opened up thousands of new factories, and brought back the beautiful phrase, made in the USA.

00:06:51.220 To make life better for working families, we doubled the child tax credit, and signed the largest ever expansion of funding for child care and development.

00:07:02.400 We joined with the private sector to secure commitments to train more than 16 million American workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

00:07:11.040 When our nation was hit with the terrible pandemic, we produced not one, but two vaccines with record-breaking speed, and more will quickly follow.

00:07:21.900 They said it couldn't be done, but we did it.

00:07:25.020 They called it a medical miracle, and that's what they're calling it right now, a medical miracle.

00:07:31.940 Another administration would have taken three, four, five, maybe even up to 10 years to develop a vaccine.

00:07:40.420 We did it in nine months.

00:07:42.760 We grieve for every life lost, and we pledge in their memory to wipe out this horrible pandemic once and for all.

00:07:51.740 When the virus took its brutal toll on the world's economy, we launched the fastest economic recovery our country has ever seen.

00:08:00.100 We passed nearly $4 trillion in economic relief, saved or supported over 50 million jobs, and slashed the unemployment rate in half.

00:08:10.680 These are numbers that our country has never seen before.

00:08:14.460 We created choice and transparency in health care, stood up to Big Pharma in so many ways,

00:08:20.340 but especially in our effort to get favored nations' clauses added, which will give us the lowest prescription drug prices anywhere in the world.

00:08:31.180 We passed VA choice, VA accountability, right to try, and landmark criminal justice reform.

00:08:38.740 We confirmed three new justices of the United States Supreme Court.

00:08:42.920 We appointed nearly 300 federal judges to interpret our Constitution as written.

00:08:50.460 For years, the American people pleaded with Washington to finally secure the nation's borders.

00:08:57.160 I am pleased to say we answered that plea and achieved the most secure border in U.S. history.

00:09:02.700 We have given our brave border agents and heroic ICE officers the tools they need to do their jobs better than they have ever done before

00:09:12.900 and to enforce our laws and keep America safe.

00:09:17.040 We proudly leave the next administration with the strongest and most robust border security measures ever put into place.

00:09:24.680 This includes historic agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, along with more than 450 miles of powerful new wall.

00:09:36.240 We restored American strength at home and American leadership abroad.

00:09:42.080 The world respects us again.

00:09:44.760 Please don't lose that respect.

00:09:47.980 We reclaimed our sovereignty by standing up for America at the United Nations and withdrawing from the one-sided global deals that never served our interest.

00:09:59.120 And NATO countries are now paying hundreds of billions of dollars more than when I arrived just a few years ago.

00:10:07.500 It was very unfair.

00:10:09.780 We were paying the cost for the world.

00:10:12.500 Now the world is helping us.

00:10:14.600 And perhaps most importantly of all, with nearly $3 trillion, we fully rebuilt the American military, all made in the USA. 0.86

00:10:25.480 We launched the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces in 75 years, the Space Force.

00:10:32.020 And last spring, I stood at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and watched as American astronauts return to space on American rockets for the first time in many, many years.

00:10:44.600 We revitalized our alliances and rallied the nations of the world to stand up to China like never before. 0.93

00:10:51.740 We obliterated the ISIS caliphate and ended the wretched life of its founder and leader, al-Baghdadi. 0.54

00:10:58.060 We stood up to the oppressive Iranian regime and killed the world's top terrorist, Iranian butcher, Qasem Soleimani. 0.92

00:11:06.940 We recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

00:11:14.060 As a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism, we achieved a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East.

00:11:22.040 Nobody believed it could happen.

00:11:25.100 The Abraham Accords opened the doors to a future of peace and harmony, not violence and bloodshed.

00:11:31.960 It is the dawn of a new Middle East, and we are bringing our soldiers home. 1.00

00:11:37.480 I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.

00:11:43.660 Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America, the government answers to the people.

00:11:52.420 It is it's an amazing list of accomplishments that most people, I would dare say, have not heard.

00:12:00.700 It is a list that most people would listen to if you're on the left and say not true.

00:12:08.040 Those things didn't happen.

00:12:09.820 Those things aren't true.

00:12:10.820 They they know things like the border security is true.

00:12:15.760 And I think it's interesting that he brought that up as we have Honduras and Hondurans, thousands of them on the way to the border, ready to claim their amnesty, which Joe Biden says he will give 11 million people amnesty in his first week.

00:12:34.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:13:51.220 The host of the Dershow, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, probably the most famous attorney of our generation.

00:14:01.660 It's Alan Dershowitz.

00:14:03.020 Welcome to the program.

00:14:04.060 Alan, how are you?

00:14:05.540 Well, thanks.

00:14:06.780 I love doing the Dershow.

00:14:08.040 All that's missing from my name is the wits and the wits are provided by my callers and my viewers who ask me the hardest questions.

00:14:14.600 So it's, you know, it's like a law school seminar yesterday.

00:14:17.860 We, you know, dealt with the issue of impeachment, what we're dealing with today on your show.

00:14:21.340 Yeah.

00:14:21.820 And whether the president was responsible.

00:14:23.640 So all of the issues of the day we discuss.

00:14:26.220 You can get it on any of the platforms, Rumble, YouTube, anything else.

00:14:30.320 So please subscribe.

00:14:32.360 Great.

00:14:33.080 So, Alan, go over what you went over yesterday on the Dershow.

00:14:38.080 Is this even constitutional to go after a president after he's been removed?

00:14:44.520 Of course not.

00:14:45.540 It's never happened in our history.

00:14:46.900 When Richard Nixon was removed, he resigned and the pressure he would have been impeached.

00:14:52.040 But as soon as he resigned, they let him alone.

00:14:54.400 They didn't go after him.

00:14:55.900 The Constitution says the purpose of impeachment is to remove somebody.

00:14:59.680 He's out of office.

00:15:00.960 There's nothing left to do.

00:15:02.500 It doesn't say you can impeach him to disqualify him for the future.

00:15:06.500 It says if you remove him, you can then add disqualification.

00:15:11.320 But you can't just impeach somebody to disqualify him.

00:15:14.940 If they could, they could impeach you and me.

00:15:17.800 Because we can run.

00:15:18.980 I'm over 35.

00:15:19.900 I don't know about you.

00:15:20.940 But I can run for president.

00:15:22.820 Right.

00:15:23.160 And if the Republicans were to come up with a strong candidate for the next election,

00:15:28.380 all they do is say, oh, let's impeach him.

00:15:30.040 Let's find something and impeach him.

00:15:32.160 The Senate can't try ordinary citizens.

00:15:35.120 Once you're an ordinary citizen, you get tried only in the courts, not in the Senate.

00:15:39.980 So it's clearly unconstitutional.

00:15:41.920 So it's never been done, even with non-presidents in the past.

00:15:46.240 One case back in 1876, and they had a divided vote.

00:15:52.580 It was the former secretary of war who resigned on the eve of his impeachment.

00:15:57.500 And they had a close vote.

00:15:58.820 And they said, yes, they did have jurisdiction.

00:16:00.260 And then they voted to acquit him on the ground that they didn't have jurisdiction.

00:16:03.560 So it's not really a precedent either way.

00:16:07.260 But even if there were a precedent, it would just be wrong.

00:16:09.740 The Constitution doesn't permit it.

00:16:11.080 So does the president, switching topics to the Capitol break-in,

00:16:16.120 does the president have any legal responsibility for this?

00:16:21.580 Let me tell you why not.

00:16:23.220 So there were thousands and thousands of people listening to his speech.

00:16:26.720 From that group, only a relatively small number went to the Capitol.

00:16:30.920 They all went legally initially, protesting in front of the Capitol is perfectly legitimate.

00:16:35.600 From the group that was there legally, an even smaller group went inside.

00:16:40.020 They committed a crime.

00:16:41.720 Among those people, an even smaller group destroyed property.

00:16:44.660 And an even smaller group engaged in violence against people.

00:16:48.800 So to say that the president directly caused what went on inside just ignores the facts.

00:16:57.460 Ignores the facts.

00:16:59.180 I have been.

00:17:00.580 I started warning when Donald.

00:17:02.660 I mean, sorry.

00:17:03.320 When George W. Bush was in office, be very careful about domestic terror and the and the Patriot Act and how it can be used by one side or another to claim its enemies are domestic terrorists.

00:17:17.540 It's happening now, Alan.

00:17:21.380 Oh, yeah.

00:17:23.240 Is anything going to stop this madness?

00:17:26.500 Well, let me tell you, I got a call from a friend of mine in Israel who was so insulted that people used the word terrorism to describe what happened in the Capitol.

00:17:34.580 My friend in Israel says, we know what terrorism is.

00:17:37.620 It's going to a school in Malot and murdering 34 children in cold blood.

00:17:42.260 It's blowing up an airplane.

00:17:43.580 It's blowing up a bus. 0.99

00:17:45.240 It's designed just to kill civilians. 0.95

00:17:48.000 That's what terrorism is.

00:17:49.540 This was not terrorism.

00:17:51.080 This was not insubordination.

00:17:52.680 This was not a resolution.

00:17:53.860 This was not an insurrection.

00:17:55.440 This was a violent riot.

00:17:58.380 And the people who did it should be punished.

00:17:59.880 But let's not elevate it above what it actually was.

00:18:03.340 It was a terrible, terrible thing.

00:18:05.200 The Department of not an insurrection or a revolution.

00:18:07.560 The guy who was testifying yesterday to be confirmed by the Senate for Department of Homeland Security said his number one issue is going to be to root out domestic terrorism.

00:18:19.920 And he's not talking about ISIS.

00:18:22.440 He's talking about.

00:18:23.820 No, of course.

00:18:24.680 The right.

00:18:26.120 Yeah.

00:18:26.600 Well, there's some on the left, too.

00:18:28.580 I mean, I think Antifa is the terrorist.

00:18:30.680 I agree with you.

00:18:31.960 I agree.

00:18:32.560 They would like to basically never allow anybody else to speak.

00:18:36.440 They come and they protest when I speak and they threaten violence and, you know, they're they're disorganized, but they're anarchists.

00:18:44.500 So, you know, there's extremism on both sides.

00:18:46.800 But terrorism has a particular meaning.

00:18:49.180 It's designed to kill civilians, to target civilians in order to bring about a change in government policies.

00:18:56.840 And this just was not that nobody set out to kill civilians.

00:19:01.620 Tragically, they died, along with police officers.

00:19:04.780 But it was not an act of deliberate domestic terrorism.

00:19:09.520 There may have been among the group some domestic terrorists, some people who are part of a terrorist organization.

00:19:16.520 That we'll find out through investigation.

00:19:18.920 But remember, the president used two words peacefully, patriotically.

00:19:23.640 That was his message.

00:19:25.440 Do it peacefully and patriotically.

00:19:27.360 When he says that, he obviously was appalled when the people committed the crimes they committed and they ought to be punished for that.

00:19:36.600 One one last thing, Alan, because I know you have to run.

00:19:38.920 But I'm very concerned.

00:19:42.700 The Democrats have now pledged to fight the rule, ensuring that banks will continue to serve conservatives.

00:19:52.520 That is so disturbing.

00:19:54.600 And they're talking now about the fairness doctrine to get rid of people like me, who they say are inciting violence and domestic terrorism.

00:20:04.440 Couldn't be further from the truth.

00:20:06.440 And we are already seeing companies and everything else starting to back away, saying it's just too dangerous of a situation.

00:20:14.720 Can't be by your side.

00:20:16.540 Well, it's just like McCarthyism.

00:20:18.020 That's what happened in McCarthyism.

00:20:19.420 But the people in power said to private citizens, don't have any association with anybody who's red, pink, anybody who we accuse and think is not a core American.

00:20:32.360 And they did it.

00:20:33.280 They established television restrictions, movie restrictions, blacklists.

00:20:39.700 And we're repeating it.

00:20:41.500 We're seeing it now on university campuses where they're trying to rescind the degrees of students who they don't like because they were associated with the Trump administration.

00:20:52.300 They're trying to rescind my emeritus professorship, which I earned for 50 years of teaching because I defended the president on the floor of the Senate, which was a great privilege for me to do as a constitutional lawyer.

00:21:05.300 And there's no stopping them unless we stop them now, because they're our future leaders.

00:21:12.320 So how do we do that?

00:21:15.960 How do we do that?

00:21:16.920 I use the word fight back.

00:21:19.220 People will say, well, he must be asserting violence.

00:21:22.500 Fight back is a metaphor.

00:21:23.580 It just means that we have to resist and we have to answer in the marketplace of ideas.

00:21:30.640 I fight back by writing articles and by viewing our shows like this and expressing my points of view.

00:21:36.060 But we can't just take it sitting down.

00:21:37.860 We can't just accept a new McCarthyism and a new form of censorship.

00:21:42.140 That would be wrong for America, wrong for the First Amendment, wrong for our Constitution.

00:21:46.560 And we have an obligation to to to be better than they are.

00:21:51.680 Is it is is is this what America felt like in the early 50s and 60s?

00:22:00.960 Do you even remember that?

00:22:02.260 Well, I do, of course.

00:22:03.780 I'm 82 years old.

00:22:05.040 I was a student body president at Brooklyn College during McCarthyism.

00:22:09.500 Although I was a fervent anti-communist, I defended the right of teachers and speakers to speak out.

00:22:17.020 And I was attacked for it.

00:22:19.660 People said, oh, you're a fellow traveler.

00:22:21.780 No, no, I wasn't.

00:22:22.800 I just believed in the First Amendment.

00:22:24.600 So it is very much like the 50s, not the 60s.

00:22:26.960 The 60s were different.

00:22:28.300 But the middle 50s was very much like this when McCarthy was still having the power and control that he had.

00:22:36.120 Alan Dershowitz, thank you very much.

00:22:38.240 Appreciate it.

00:22:38.820 My pleasure.

00:22:39.300 And you can follow him and watch his podcast, The Dershow.

00:22:42.900 His website is Alan Dershowitz dot com or follow him on Twitter at Alan Dershowitz.

00:22:54.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:22:56.980 Joe Biden is about to become number 46.

00:23:15.720 He's about to be sworn in today in the in the Capitol.

00:23:20.940 And it's a strange day, 20,000 troops for for Donald Trump's inauguration.

00:23:30.380 We had 5000 troops that were deployed in Washington, D.C.

00:23:36.140 Now, 20,000 troops.

00:23:38.380 It is a very strange scene, but it's also complicated by the coronavirus where everybody is social distancing six feet apart, but they're all hugging each other, shaking hands and when wearing masks anyway.

00:23:51.020 So I don't and they're outside.

00:23:52.160 So I don't know what that does.

00:23:53.860 The inauguration of the president has changed an awful lot.

00:23:58.580 It was not that big of a deal.

00:24:01.660 It didn't have all this pomp and ceremony that it that it does now.

00:24:08.680 In fact, the vice president was was was sworn in inside in the Senate chamber beforehand.

00:24:17.900 And the vice president at the second inaugural of Lincoln was drunk. 0.98

00:24:23.580 Johnson, horrible, horrible guy. 0.98

00:24:26.220 And he was just another thing. 0.96

00:24:33.240 And Lincoln actually had to say to him, go home, get into your carriage and go home.

00:24:40.920 Lincoln was really upset.

00:24:42.900 And when Lincoln gave his second inaugural address, which is less time to, you know, buying the wounds of this nation and and care for the wounded and care for the widow with malice toward none charity toward all.

00:25:00.200 John Wilkes Booth was just probably about 30 yards behind him.

00:25:05.980 And it drove him crazy because John Wilkes Booth hated him and wanted wanted the South to rise up again.

00:25:16.880 And the South had just surrendered.

00:25:19.040 And he's like, we can't surrender.

00:25:21.040 And he was convinced that if the president were killed, it would it would get the South to rise up and start the war again and fight on.

00:25:33.160 But on the inauguration day of his his second inauguration, John Wilkes Booth, who was a very famous actor, kind of our Leonardo DiCaprio of the time, very famous actor that had been in performing plays in New York and Boston and Washington, some of the biggest cities.

00:25:53.440 He was there on the Capitol behind.

00:25:57.360 And in fact, we have this picture.

00:25:59.220 This is the only picture in existence of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth in the same photograph.

00:26:08.680 And it's it's hard to see.

00:26:11.500 But I'll point it out if you're if you're if you're watching us on Blaze TV, I'll try to point this out.

00:26:17.720 John Wilkes Booth is up here in the corner on the balcony.

00:26:20.540 And if you if you can really get close to it, which you can, if you come to our American Journey Museum, you can actually see his face.

00:26:29.340 You make out his face.

00:26:30.920 And have you ever seen this up close to?

00:26:32.800 I don't think I have.

00:26:33.620 So this picture right here is John Wilkes Booth.

00:26:36.660 OK, this is Abraham Lincoln.

00:26:38.740 Notice that the crowd can't hear Abraham Lincoln.

00:26:41.380 They're not even listening.

00:26:42.320 They're standing around, milling around talking.

00:26:44.540 Oh, yeah.

00:26:45.120 Right.

00:26:45.480 There's a kind of like walking by.

00:26:46.640 It looks like walking by.

00:26:47.300 They're not paying any attention to what the president is because you couldn't hear him.

00:26:51.020 So there's the president.

00:26:52.480 That's him standing there right in the right in the corner, right in the corner up above.

00:26:56.240 He's one of the higher heads.

00:26:57.560 Yeah.

00:26:57.740 Yeah.

00:26:58.100 OK, you see him.

00:26:59.200 So he was up in the corner.

00:27:01.260 And after he finished with Malice toward none and charity for all, it was the first attempt on his life. 0.78

00:27:08.640 Wilkes was so enraged he couldn't control it and he was going to kill him with his bare hands and he came around that that little gate there at the top and came down the stairs as Lincoln was finishing up and he's almost running and he's trying to intercept Lincoln as he leaves. 0.52

00:27:31.940 And he was going to really kill him with his own hands there in the crowd.

00:27:36.920 The problem is he was running down the stairs and he slipped and tripped and fell and he fell kind of just beyond Lincoln.

00:27:47.580 So kind of grabbed Lincoln from behind, but missed him and he was down on the ground.

00:27:53.720 Police officer lifts him up because the police officer was in between Lincoln now and Booth.

00:27:59.480 He picks him up and he's like, hey, and the police officer at the time, I think, knew this was an attempt to get the president.

00:28:08.200 But as soon as he saw John Wilkes Booth's face, the police officer knew him, knew he was famous and knew that a famous actor would never do something like that to the president.

00:28:20.780 And so he said, oh, my gosh, Mr. Booth, are you OK?

00:28:24.520 He's like, yes, yes, I just I tripped.

00:28:26.640 I'm sorry.

00:28:27.300 I hope the president is fine.

00:28:29.020 The president had already moved on.

00:28:31.180 But that was the first attempt on the life of Abraham Lincoln.

00:28:35.840 I'm sorry.

00:28:36.140 It wasn't the first attempt.

00:28:37.060 It was the first attempt by John Wilkes Booth on the life of Abraham Lincoln.

00:28:42.920 And if Booth would have killed him that day, I think even his vice president Johnson, who was drunk now in his carriage going home.

00:28:51.540 I don't think he would have minded.

00:28:55.820 Because he was in a different the entire country was in a different mindset.

00:29:01.660 Then malice toward none, charity for all.

00:29:05.940 Everybody wanted blood.

00:29:07.640 But Abraham Lincoln, when he called for unity.

00:29:12.320 He meant it.

00:29:14.060 He meant it.

00:29:15.240 When when when the South surrendered.

00:29:21.400 The the surrender happened and the the white flag actually was a white and red checked dishcloth.

00:29:30.840 And we actually at our Mercury Museum have a piece of that surrender flag again at just just a dishcloth that you probably have one like it at your house.

00:29:41.460 And they said, we have them.

00:29:44.920 We have them.

00:29:46.040 They sent a telegram.

00:29:47.820 We have them.

00:29:50.200 We we have their surrender.

00:29:53.860 What do you want us to do?

00:29:55.780 And Lincoln, and I'm paraphrasing, said, take your foot off their neck, help them up, remind them that we're friends, send them home.

00:30:10.520 We're we're all Americans when we believe.

00:30:16.360 In forgiveness, when we believe in redemption and when we believe in the same things, John Wilkes Booth.

00:30:25.780 Did not believe in the same thing.

00:30:29.840 He he believed in slavery.

00:30:33.260 He believed in violence.

00:30:38.800 It killed Lincoln.

00:30:40.500 I mean, literally, but figuratively, the man was dying.

00:30:45.060 This was such a horrible experience for him.

00:30:49.380 He didn't know what to do.

00:30:50.720 Everybody asks today, how much more of this are we going to take?

00:30:57.400 Lincoln was asking the exact opposite.

00:31:00.960 Please don't do this, please.

00:31:03.880 We don't want a separation.

00:31:06.120 We don't want a war.

00:31:07.860 Please don't do this.

00:31:09.500 The righteous.

00:31:13.020 I believe, no.

00:31:15.760 What.

00:31:17.240 Violence begets.

00:31:21.000 And they plead.

00:31:23.460 Don't.

00:31:24.120 Don't do this.

00:31:25.140 Don't do this.

00:31:25.920 Don't do this.

00:31:26.620 Please don't do this.

00:31:27.840 The South did it. 0.70

00:31:29.980 But the South was also rooted in in evil in many ways, with the slavery thing being the issue.

00:31:44.520 At very at the very first, it was about secession.

00:31:47.840 A state didn't have a right to secede.

00:31:49.640 The North thought Lincoln thought he was just trying to bring the union back together so we could solve things and work together.

00:31:58.360 But it was about slavery.

00:32:00.200 By the end of it, it was absolutely about slavery.

00:32:02.920 And it was about slavery at the very beginning in many ways.

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