good evening. everybody. president obama tonight battling on three fronts to defend himself and his administration in controversies tied absolutely directly to the white house. first the government's ebola response. defense secretary chuck hagel today approved a recommendation by joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey to quarantine all u.s. military personnel returning from west africa for 21 days, although secretary hagel refused to use the word quarantine. and incredibly, almost comically, has already ordered a review of his own decision. >> what i said in response this

morning was give me within 15 days the operational specifics of how that would work and then i believe we should review that policy within 45 days. >> president obama just hours later and for the second day in a row claimed that travel bans and quarantines will not help stop the spread of ebola. while appearing with health care workers who had been exposed to ebola and who are still within the 21-day monitoring period. >> we may continue to see individual cases in america in the weeks and months ahead, because that's the nature of today's world. we can't hermetically seal ourselves off and that's true whether or not you adopt a travel ban, whether or not you adopt a quarantine. the nature of diseases.

>> his statement comes after press secretary josh earnest instructed another statement of twisted and tortured logic to claim that the military quarantine reflects a scientific approach while a civilian quarantine in the minds of this administration would not. also tonight, american relations with israel could be strained beyond repair after the "atlantic" magazine quoted a white house official referring to prime minister benjamin netanyahu as chicken excrement while calling him a coward. frankly, he was hiding behind anonymity. the state department and the white house today claiming the "atlantic" report was inaccurate but would not elaborate on whether they know the identity of the leaker or would pursue some form of accountability. and the "washington post" reporting the white house

computer network has been breached by hackers working for the russian government. the white house tried to minimize the event and the threat, claiming these types of security breaches happen at 1600 pennsylvania avenue daily. that's reassuring, don't you think? we'll have a full report straight ahead here. only one patient still being treated for ebola inside the united states, a new york doctor who is coming under increasing scrutiny after reports that he lied to police about his travels after returning from west africa. dr. craig spencer reportedly told officials he had isolated himself in his new york apartment and he didn't admit he had ridden the subways, dined out, went bowling, until police looked at his metro card and credit cards. officials in maine still trying to figure out what to do about the nurse just back from west africa who doesn't have ebola

symptoms but has been ordered to self-quarantine in her home until the virus' 21-day incubation period is over. kaci hickox says if that policy is not changed by tomorrow, she will defy it. maine health commissioner mary mayhew moments ago said in a quote, lack of leadership at the federal level for keeping hickox quarantined. add californians to the list of what is 11 states that have enacted tighter quarantine policies than the obama administration. overseas, 42 soldiers are now quarantined in italy after returning from west africa. joining us now is congressman randy forbes, member of the house armed services and judiciary committees. congressman, your reaction, if you would, to the pentagon spokesman when asked yesterday if secretary hagel supported the

army quarantine policy issued by general odierno. take a listen, if you would. >> the secretary supports the decision that was made for general williams and his team. he's not going to oppose at this time the decision made by army leadership for all soldiers. >> that's a seemingly slap at the joint chiefs before implementing his recommendation, congressman. your reaction to it? >> well, as you know, i will criticize the secretary of defense when i think it's appropriate, but in this particular situation, i think he's doing the right thing to follow the recommendations of his military officers for a couple reasons. one, i think it's important that we listen to the military advice that he's been given, unlike what the president's been doing. but the second thing is i think the protection and safety of those troops has to be foremost for him and in front of every decision he makes. i also don't disapprove of him relooking this policy 45 days

down the road if the military officers come back and say they want to revise it but it just shows how very concerned these military leaders are about the ebola virus. >> they're concerned, but this also contrasts to the first iteration of that expression of concern. the military saying there will be a ten-day quarantine. i think you know on this broadcast i said very clearly, this is outrageous, when world health organization calls for a 42-day quarantine and physicians say 21, and the military's initial reaction or at the orders of the civilian leadership said ten days. this has point and as you said, as we have said here, why in the world would not the concern about the wellbeing of our troops always be foremost in the minds of both parties, the white house, the congress, the pentagon?

>> well, lou, it should be. i think one of the things that you point up absolutely correctly is the absence of an overall strategy to deal with the ebola virus overall, just like we have seen an absence of strategy that this administration has had in dealing with foreign policy or other domestic concerns that we've had since they have been in office. >> and congressman, as we look at what is happening now with another thousand troops going to west africa, at a time when this administration is cutting, slashing our military and doing so with, it seems, almost glee, not reluctance and not forbearance, why in the world should the american people not be outraged at what is happening? >> well, lou, i don't know why they're not outraged because i'm outraged because as you and i have talked about before, the cuts this administration has

placed upon the military has put us in incredibly difficult situations in defending the country around the globe. yet every time there is something that needs to be done, this administration looks to the military and says do it. and i think what you're finding now is the american people, our allies across the globe, they don't have very much confidence in this administration either that they're tell them the truth, they're telling them what's accurate or that they have a strategy for dealing with these issues. whether it's isis or whether it's ebola or whether it's any of the other major things that the united states is confronting across the globe. >> 11 states now, most recently california, joining in with quarantine standards and protocols of their own far more stringent than that of the obama administration and the cdc. the pentagon having to assert itself and i want to just say out loud, my congratulations to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, martin dempsey, the

general, standing up and saying this is the way it's going to be, general odierno as well. i mean, this is a direct conflict between the pentagon and the civilian leadership, if not the president himself. how does it resolve? >> well, lou, i think a couple of things. first of all, i'm glad as you mentioned that the chairman is speaking up and that the military leadership is expressing their concern. but i have also called for congress, i think we should have been back in session. i think we can't wait on this. i think when you have an administration that fails to develop strategies like this, it falls on congress to do it. i'm just hoping we will come back in sooner rather than later so that we can help create the strategy. i'm not confident we're going to see it from the administration but i certainly am grateful that the military leadership is stepping up to the plate and saying they're going to protect their troops which is both of us agree, is the first fundamental obligation that they have. >> congressman, thank you so much, as always, for being with

us. appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. election day five days away and many of the president's biggest supporters don't want to see him, don't want to hear from him. and a former aide predicts midterm disaster for the democrats. the a-team is next. ♪

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make some phone calls. knock on some doors. >> joining me now, the a-team. former democratic presidential campaign advisor, fox news contributor, joe trivi, republican strategist karen hanratty. thanks for being with us. a "washington post" article is detailing 19 states where people can vote without having to use photo i.d. are they trying to tell illegal immigrants or somebody, something? karen, you first. >> it's a peculiar ploy by them. look, la razza i'm sure engages every election cycle in get out the votes effort. this is a rather peculiar one, especially in light of a recent study that came out with some preliminary results that indicate non-citizens have been voting, about up to 6% of

non-citizens voted in the 2008 election and about 2.5% of non-citizens voted in the 2010 election. so what they are doing i think is going to raise the eyebrows of a number of people who are prone to think there's a lot of election and voter fraud taking place anyway. i think they have some explaining to do. >> i'm sure it's just accidental. i can't imagine the democrats would be doing that intentionally. your thoughts on how they could remove that impression? >> i don't think it's accidental at all. i think they are going to go out of their way to encourage as many people as possible to vote and if that's the law, wherever the laws are, whatever laws are in each state, those are what the laws are, they are going to encourage everybody to vote that legally can vote. >> do you think that as a matter of ethics, morality, they are permitted to vote -- >> i don't think they are encouraging anybody to vote

illegally. look -- >> i thought you said if they could get away with it, they ought to vote. >> no. i'm saying that if you don't need to bring your i.d. to the polling place -- >> yeah. >> -- you should go vote. >> i got it. if you do have to bring your i.d., you shouldn't. is that right? >> exactly. >> so what i said was right. if you can get away with it, go vote. >> i'm sure there are a lot of conspiracy theorists in the world that believe that. >> no, no, no. the "washington post" a conspiracy theorist? >> there haven't been documented cases of this happening anywhere in the united states. you know, i understand this is the big conspiracy that obama stole ohio. okay. it didn't happen. but we can go there. >> you raised the question that i didn't. i'm not much focused on the rear view mirror. i'm more worried about what's going to happen tuesday and maybe 2016 as well.

the ebola crisis. karen, secretary hagel basically siding with his generals but if dempsey, general dempsey and general odierno don't step up, our guys over in ebola-stricken nations in west africa wouldn't be having a quarantine. >> yeah. you know, the real problem here is that there are so many mixed messages coming out of so many different governmental agencies, whether it's the military, the cdc, the governors of new york and new jersey. no one is on the same page. and they've had a number of weeks i think to get their act together. i understand that we don't know everything there is to know about ebola and how it might be evolving, but we do know a few things about how it's transmitted and it seems reasonable that a 21-day quarantine for people coming into the united states from

areas of africa that are particularly infected seems reasonable. but when you have the military disagreeing with the cdc and you can't get anyone from the administration on the same page -- >> and the white house. >> and the white house can't seem to pull people together into the same room and tell them simply let's all get on the same page for the confidence of the american people, i think this is the real danger. >> joe, your thoughts. is this a big deal that's going to last? is this a long-lasting rupture between the civilian leadership and the military leadership? >> no. i just don't think this is going to be, over time, this will amount to disagreement that didn't matter. a lot of the fears that people have are irrational in regards to ebola. it would be much different if this were airborne or something else. look, there's nothing -- the president of the united states

cannot order governors to do things. >> we just did. he just did. >> he didn't order -- he can't order, if christie wants to do a 21-day thing, he can. >> he steered away andrew cuomo from his position. christie backed off. 11 states now telling the president that we're still a constitutional republic and we still have a federalist system of government with states' rights. >> right. >> joe, aren't you concerned at all? you say that the concerns, the fears are irrational. maybe they're irrational but i don't think it's irrational to say why is it that a nurse in the united states, in a u.s. hospital, contracts ebola but a nurse practicing and helping people surrounded with ebola in west africa who we would assume is not in the same kind of conditions as the u.s. nurse,

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threat from the islamic state, contrast if you will, this. >> isil extremism radicalism, terrorism is a threat to every state, to every society. unfortunately, i see these things continuing to stay out there, jim. i think we're in for a longer term challenge here than maybe any of us would hope. >> as you know, general, i shudder when i hear folks talking about a longer battle than we anticipate. your thoughts about what the secretary said? >> yeah. well, fundamental to the plan is we do not want to put brigade combat teams on the ground. i would agree with that judgment as well. but if that's what you want to avoid, then you, depending on indigenous forces, local forces in iraq and syria, and if that's the case, why are we not all in helping them? helping them with arms, equipment, advisors,air ground the answer.

i think we're kicking this down to the next administration, it seems to me. i hate to be that cynical but nothing makes any sense. we should be all in helping those local forces and we're not. we just have teams that are out with 12 brigades and they can't go forward with the lead battalions when they get in a fight. makes no sense. >> and the generals right now in the pentagon, earlier in this broadcast i gave general dempsey great credit for saying those troops coming back from west africa are going to get 21 days, not ten, and they will not be -- anyway, secretary of defense hagel made it pretty clear he felt that was a little unfair to be that straightforward about a policy in defense of the troops. your thoughts? >> oh, i absolutely agree. this is about protecting the soldiers' families, protecting their fellow teammates who are back at those bases they are returning to. it is absolutely a must to do something like that. i think it should be

realistically a national policy, not just the military's policy, for the health care professionals that are returning as well. >> and millions of americans, just about 70% of americans say they are with you on that. russia. nato reporting unusual, unusual tests, if you will, a spike in russian flights that they have been forced to scramble jet fighters to meet. what's behind that, in your judgment? >> i think this is going to continue. this is putin aggravating nato. i absolutely believe that at some point, he will test nato's resolve with one of the countries that borders russia, most likely astonia that has some russian population where he can create phony civil unrest like he did in ukraine and begin to aid that civil unrest. we've got to have a presence there to stop that from happening. >> at this point, your feeling about where we stand

geopolitically with iran, with china and russia moving to act in concert if not to build an outright alliance against european and american interests. >> well, those three countries, russia, iran, china, all see i believe geopolitical opportunity which what they believe fundamentally, just watching actions, not listening to rhetoric, they are too practical for that, and they see the united states disengaging from the world. also they see the united states absolutely slicing and gutting its military capability, taking ground forces back to pre-world war ii air power back to 1950, makes no sense to anybody. but they see that happening, they see this as opportunity. therefore, they are more aggressive, they are more assertive and they are going to continue to move in that direction, aggravate the united states. >> general, thanks for being here. >> always good being here, lou. most millenials have had a belly full of the man they once

helped send to the white house not once but twice. the architect of george w. bush's two presidential campaign victories, karl rove, on the shifting electoral forces and the likely outcome.

the so-called millenials turning on the democratic party in a new harvard institute of politics poll, astounding numbers, really. 51% of 18 to 29 year olds now prefer a republican-led congress. 47% in favor of a democratic congress. that is a massive shift in favor of republicans since 2010, when 55% of millenials preferred a democratically led congress. only 43% favored republicans. here now to give us his insight into these midterms now only

five days away and their likely results, former deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, karl rove, fox news contributor. karl, good to have you with us. even worse for democrats in this harvard poll, for the first time ever, more millenials are identifying with conservatives instead of liberals. it's not much, it's 35% to 33% but an astounding shift. does this suggest disaster for democrats next tuesday? >> well, first of all, the number that you cited at the beginning is among those who say they are definitely going to vote. now, the number is better for democrats among all millenials and so we really don't know, you know, there are going to be people who show up next tuesday who didn't have any plan to vote and there are going to be people who today say i'm definitely going to get to vote who are going to find themselves not showing up. but look, this is bad news for democrats. look inside the poll. the president's job approval on

handling the economy, is in the 30s. his disapproval is 60%. his disapproval on handling health care is 59%. on handling the deficit, 65%. disapproval on foreign policy, 60%. on immigration, 61%. in fact, if you look inside the poll, hispanic millenials are really turned off on the president because they see failed promises on getting immigration reform handled in a timely fashion. so there's an unenthusiastic youthful base for the democratic party. the question is how much are they going to be able to generate turnout among some of the millenials by either targeted appeals on the basis of race, for example, the young blacks, or how much are they going to be able to get a turnout by mechanical means, namely a superior ground game organization. we don't know that. but this is another headache for the democrats they don't need as they approach the midterms. >> and as they approach the midterms, everyone now wanting to know who's going to win this thing. karl rove, you are here to tell us exactly who wins where and by

how much. >> well, look, let's divide them between democrat-held seats and republican-held seats. there are ten democratic held seats today that are up for grabs. three of them are settled. the republicans are going to win montana, south dakota and west virginia. they lead in the real clear politics average by double digits. we will take those three seats. there are three other seats where the republicans lead by outside the margin of error. arkansas, five points. louisiana, 4.5. and colorado right on the edge of the margin of error at 3.3. i think we take the first two that will take until december to settle louisiana because of their runoff provision. i feel pretty good about keeping cory gardner. that would give the republicans six seats and control of the senate. there are two other races that they lead in. alaska, 2.2 and iowa, 2.1%. if they took those, it would give them eight seats. there are two seats where republicans are trailing but with momentum.

north carolina, trailing by one point. there are now polls showing him ahead. and new hampshire where scott brown has cut jean shaheen's lead down to 5.2 and has a lot of momentum going into the election. >> and the lead in another poll. >> yeah. leads in the new england college poll. the republicans are defending three seats, kentucky, where mitch mcconnell appears on his way to re-election. kansas, where senator pat roberts is trailing but i think is going to win. and georgia, where the last four polls now have david perdue ahead although again, it's likely to go to a runoff. there's a libertarian candidate and that state requires 50% plus one other vote. we are likely to have a january 6 runoff in georgia. election night, i think the republicans are poised to take 51, 52 or 53 seats. >> all right. karl rove, as always, insightful. thanks for giving us some guidance through all of this. we appreciate it. good to see you. good luck next tuesday. >> good to see you. going to be a late night and

it's going to be close but everybody ought to tune in and watch. >> it will be a hoot. all right. thanks a lot. as we say in texas. up next, familiar families. they want to get elected. we will show you what's going on with that return to old days.

a few comments now on the election that's a week away and the presidential election two years away. first, the polls. the republicans are doing far better than many imagined possible a year ago, including me. today's nbc/"wall street journal" poll has republicans 11 points ahead of the democrats on the question of which party do you want controlling congress. that's almost a doubling of the republican advantage over the past week in that poll. and second, the ground game. oh, yes. the ground game. republican leaders say they have one and a great one, but i remember them saying exactly the same thing in 2012. they didn't.

we'll see whether they learned anything from the experience. now, as to that election two years away, i suspect you wouldn't be surprised to learn that familiar families want to put forward candidates for 2016. it's like the old saying about growing up to be president. in america, anyone can do it but it's a lot easier if you happen to be related to the bushes or the clintons. >> is your dad going to run for president? >> i think he's still assessing it. >> do you think it's more than 50%, less than 50%? >> i think it's more than likely that he's giving this a serious thought. >> that he will run? >> that he will run. if you had asked me a few years back, i would have said less likely. >> so the family will be behind him 100%? >> the family will be behind him 100% if he decides to do it. >> you got to be excited. 100%. you got to be excited when you hear that even more bushes will be supporting another bush, huh? perhaps even more excited by

george preston bush's remarks about his father which makes him the fourth bush family member to endorse jeb as a candidate. already up to four family members. now, that's impressive, you have to agree. honestly, i'm every bit as excited about the prospect of another bush presidency as i am about the possibility of another clinton presidency. jeb's got a lot of work to do like figuring out where he really stands on amnesty for illegal immigrants, taxes and how to sell -- to folks. hillary clinton has even more work to do. >> don't let anybody, don't let anybody tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. >> we came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. we had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the

resources for mortgages for houses, for chelsea's education. it was not easy. >> well, god bless america, they made it through. 315 million americans and two families think it makes sense for their dna to be in perpetual possession of the white house, right? but democracy versus dynasty is a tough, sometimes bitter battle. the whole point if you'll recall of the founding of this country was to assure that our government wasn't run like a family business, that royal family deal, led then by a fellow called george, george iii and by my count, g.p., the son of jeb, would be george iii if he were to make it to the white house himself. well, he would be the fourth bush but the third george. but look what's happening in georgia. whoops, there's that name again. georgia. democrats there are trying to put not one, but two members of elite political families into

higher office. the grandson of former president jimmy carter running for governor and the daughter of long-time senator sam nunn wants to fill what was once her fathay even have his name on it, right? isn't that great? it's great. we may actually double the pool of dna from which future presidents might be drawn. ain't america grand? coming up here next, the ebola battle shaking up the nation's military. it's the commander in chief versus the pentagon on how to treat our service members when they return from ebola-stricken nations. we take it up here next. hey! searching for a great used car?

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other soldiers quarantined in italy after returning from west africa. joining us today, former nato supreme allied commander, dean of the fletcher school at tufts university, admiral james stavridas. admiral, first of all, thanks for being here. but turning to the first question, i would like to get your reaction to this white house response to the quarantine issue. >> the department of defense has not issued a policy related to their workers that have spent time in west africa. i know there was this decision made by one commanding officer in the department of defense but it does not reflect a department-wide policy that i understand is still under development. >> why is there no uniform policy, even the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, has said 21 days and here we are sending our military into an ebola hot zone.

>> lou, i'm for 21 days. i think it's prudent. i think it's conservative. i think it makes a great deal of sense. we ought to implement that quickly. these are soldiers, sailors, folks who are used to long deployments. i did 185 days straight on a ship once at sea. i don't think any of them will be particularly bothered by 21 da days, if it's the prudent things and protects their shipmates and fellow soldiers. >> what kind of friction is there between the pentagon and this white house that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff can make a statement like this and a press secretary runs off at the mouth as if they were talking -- and a major general, as if they were bystanders to the entire process? >> i think we have a long tradition in the u.s. military of our commanders making the right decisions about the care, the feeding and the sanitation

and health of our troops. on this one, i'm firmly on the side of the uniform military. i think they are making the right call, lou. >> admiral, let's turn to other difficult calls and let's begin with the islamic state which now, it appears, that the air strike campaign is making a difference. we have seen the islamic state have to fall back from several towns now. how do you judge the progress and is this, do you believe, a sustainable direction? >> i think the air strikes, lou, are only the beginning. we've got to get turkey into the game. they've got the second largest standing army in nato. this is on their border. they need ultimately to be involved against the islamic state. we need to get nato itself involved because the u.s. shouldn't have to carry this by ourselves. number three, we've got to get arms in the hands of the peshmerga, those troops in the north in the kurdish part of

iraq. they are the best fighters on the field on our side and we have to continue to revitalize the iraqi security forces. that will take time. we can do all those things but it is encouraging, we are seeing some results in effect from this air campaign. but we can't bank on this. we're not going to win this thing from the air. we're going to need troops on the ground. >> and just as progress seems to be at hand in the fight against the islamic state, now reports that they are using surface-to-air missiles against our apache attack helicopters. how much peril and how effective are their countermeasures likely to be? >> i'm worried about it, lou. at the moment, we only have about a half dozen u.s. helicopters involved in this fight, but i think over time, that's going to be an area where we can put force to real effect on the battlefield. the fact that we're seeing the islamic state with these hand-held missiles, very concerning. again, it speaks to the need for

troops on the ground and it's not just the helicopters. ultimately these are very dangerous for transport aircraft as they are moving troops around the field. so we've got to be concerned about this. we ought to look for the sources of those weapons, try and cut them off, and we ought to be thinking coherently about how we can get boots on the ground, not only peshmerga, not only iraqi security forces but i think u.s. special forces can help knock down that hand-held surface-to-air missile threat. >> as we wrap up here, admiral, the u.s. marines have pulled out of afghanistan, camp leatherneck is no more for our leathernecks and at the same time, another conflict between our uniform military and civilian leadership. the military saying the afghans are nowhere near ready. >> my view is we've got a shot. we know what failure looks like and that's called iraq, where

the u.s. military presence was withdrawn completely. we did not fulfill our plan to keep 15,000 advisors, mentors in country and now we see the results of that. i think if we can keep the plan is about 12,000 to 15,000 u.s. and nato advisors and mentors in country, i think we have a better than even chance of avoiding the kind of debacle that's unfolding now in iraq. if we simply pull out like we did in iraq, we are going to see the whole thing collapse. so let's hope we can keep a sufficient number of troops there, not set any artificial timelines for withdrawal. again, this is only about 12,000 troops from a high of 150,000. i think we've got a reasonable chance but it will be a near run thing. >> taking note that the admiral said, he used the hypothetical with the word "if" and added the

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already. >> it's unbelievable, right? the flag that the firefighters raised on 9/11 at ground zero is missing. the wright brothers' patent for the original airplane, gone. even james bond's famous aston martin that sean connery drove in "goldfinger" stolen. on each episode, we tell you the story of the item, we tell you where it was last seen, who the suspects are and then say america, we need your help. you help us find it, we will give you a $10,000 reward. our hope is to reclaim our lost history. >> how about for the car, $10,000? >> we should bump it just because the car is worth at least $5 million. we know that. >> we got to bump that up. >> the amazing story is these aren't small things. like the car comes out, it's stolen from an airport in florida, 100 feet out of the airport you can see the tracks of the wheels and after that, the wheel tracks stop. know what that means? means someone airlifted it out of there. this is a sophisticated robbery. this isn't like taking it from

the mall. >> how about one of the big cranes and put it on a boat? >> listen, or james bond's rocket thing. whatever it is. but the point is, no one even knows these things are gone. when you hear these stories, you just go you know what, we heard at one point the bill of rights was hanging on some rich guy's wall. you know what, lou, history doesn't belong to some rich guy. history doesn't belong to some drug dealer who is trying to launder his money through lost and stolen artifacts. history belongs to all of us. of the greatest items on there, do i think we are going to find jackie kennedy's pillbox hat? i would love to find those things. >> who had it? >> that's the thing. the actual suit, the pink suit she wore is in the national archives right now. the hat is not. things like the 9/11 flag. i was just talking to rudy giuliani about it. we all know the flag and it goes up, it's famously raised, then comes down and this greek couple steps forward and they say that's our flag. they don't want it back. they want to keep it and put it in a museum. but when they unfurl it they say

our flag is a three by five flag. the firefighters who raise it say that was a three by five flag. this isn't our flag. rudy giuliani said true story, you got to write, he said that flag that went everywhere wasn't the right flag. >> of all the things right now you are going to reveal to us, parts of our lost history, what is the most curious to you? >> the most curious one is jfk's brain. let me say that again. jfk's brain is missing. we all know his body went after he was assassinated, went to arlington national cemetery. his brain was separated. they never did forensic testing on it. god knows what it could show us about trajectory or how many shots were fired. the amazing part is i don't expect anyone to bring back the brain but at one point in time, someone had to have put it in a container and was walking around washington, d.c. with this. i want to know who took it and where did it go. the person they suspect it to be is a family member and someone who is trying to protect their own family.

>> i was afraid that -- >> listen -- >> the show airs? >> we start on halloween night at 10:00 eastern time and every friday after that on h-2. >> america's lost history. good night. [ dynamic music continues ] [ dynamic music continues ] [ dynamic music continues ]