now, i forget just where -- chamberlain, oh, the other part of chamberlain. when lee and grant were finished with what they had to do with each other, both rode off; lee to go back to richmond and pick up the pieces of his life and so forth, and grant to go back to washington and sort of begin a tremendous demobilization. the man left to accept the confederate surrender was joshua chamberlain. and he wrote wonderfully about what happened, but he a little bit sort of downplayed his own part because his men were lined up to receive his surrender. and across this stream came the remnants of the army of northern virginia. and this is chamberlain's detail. some of their regiments were so decimated that their flags were sewn together, it looked like a column of flags coming toward them. anyway, so here comes, and a man named john b. gordon who was a confederate example and another man who'd been a mining engineer. so he was leading up the remnants of the army of northern virginia, and chamberlain on his horse was waiting up on his horse comes john w. gordon. and go

now, i forget just where -- chamberlain, the other part of chamberlain.when lee and grant were finished with what they had to do with each other at appomattox, both wrote off, lee to go back to richmond to pick up the pieces of his life and so forth, and grant to go back to washington and sort of became a tremendous demobilization. the man left to accept confederate surrender was joshua chamberlain. and he rode just wonderfully eloquently about what happened. little bit so downplays his own part, because his men were lined up to receive the surrender. and across the stream came the remnants of the army of northern virginia. and this is chamberlain's detail. some of the regiments were so

i feel very strongly joshua chamberlain was a professor from bowdoin college in maine before the war and at a choice or to join united states army and was a terrific example of a complete amateur we just had a tremendous military gift. and he was the outfit i have mixed feelings a great grandfather the second canvas calgary had three house is stage forces shot underneath him to spend the last year of his life in a prison camp and do have a warm and sympathetic study of robert d. the but on the other hand, the historical society in at the reunion 20 years later but this is a very serious group of men but then reincarnation but the confederacy naturally wanted to have their union with the grand army and the republic and chamberlain, the other part and what to do with each other and then to go back to washington have the me and left to except confederate surrender was chamberlain. but of little split days of the bid to downplay his men were lined up to receive the surrender and across the stream came the remnants of the army of northern virginia but some of the regiments were so decimat

and apparently chamberlain turns and says to his buglers, you know, just start a salute. everybody is going, everybody of the thousands of union troops are going to put up their arms -- sorry, sorry. present arms. and once gordon down there got it and his men got it, they all straightened out. they marched up very, very smartly, and anything called a thing called a marching salute. it was their form of walking present arms. and they turned and this wonderful stuff that chamberlain wrote. he was a terrific writer. and he said gazing into each other's eyes from 12 feet away, 24 feet away, whatever, you know, and just, and he said there was a bond between them like no other bond. you know, between the main. they understood what they both have been through. he said there were guys crying on both sides. it was just a remarkable thing that has been said since, a grandson, if only we could have kept that spirit we could have all been cured within a year or so. so that's a great question and he's a great figure, and i'm very, very glad you mentioned him. he went on to be governor

anyway, joshua chamberlain mayfield is a strong part of my background.joshua chamberlain was a professor of classics at houghton college in maine before the war. any other choice a choice as the war broke out. he was due for a sabbatical from which a classics professor with him there or join the united states army. he was a terrific example of the complete amateur who just had a chum in this military gift. his great moment -- there were several cave moments, the two that i want to isolate for you. they are at his 20th name was the outfit was that aboveground top at gettysburg. then they stood just absolutely firm. and that is something else. i have mixed feelings. i had a great grandfather who has been second kansas congaree had three horses shot out from under him, was in the trans-mississippi wars it was called. spent the last year of his life in a prison camp in texas. so you know, and i wrote a war and sympathetic of robert e. lee. on the other hand, i want to tell you up in maine you go of those historical societies and see these men from the 10th m

as you said earlier, neville chamberlain has declared this a strange war.ar because really, there has been almost no combat. on the other hand, france does lie safe behind the line so we can be confident the defenses will put the germans off from attack. >> there is, of course, a unique relationship between those of us here in america and those of you on the home front in london. what will this christmas be like with the threat of air raids and food rations and of course, the expanded con description rule for british men? what kind of holiday are our british brothers facing? >> well, i think most british people are hoping to get all the holiday cheer they can out of this christmas because it may well be the last one they will enjoy for some time. as you said, rationing, butter and bacon are both going to be rationed from january 1st. con description, all men between the ages of 18 and 41 are going to be conscripted. already hundreds of thousands of british men have been called up. yep. absolutely. so everyone between 18 and 41 not in a protected occupation

republican from georgia, said this is the most dangerous summon to the west since adolf hitler met with chamberlainn 1938. >> that is what i'm talking about. >> in this week's "new yorker" it is written been good and which has compare themselves to lincoln, ronald reagan. tebow.s no tim >> house republicans did not want to carry that baggage. >> let's look the last debate before iowa. >> it is laughable but someone who campaigned with ronald reagan and jack kemp and has a 30-year record of conservatism is not a conservative? >> the evidence says that speaker gingrich took $1.6 million. if you do not need to be under the technical definition of being a lobbyist to the influence peddling. >> i know what it takes to get this economy going. qwikster you have a sample of the debate on -- >> there you have an example of the debate on fox. >> newt gingrich look a little petulant. you could feel though weathervane shift a little bit. >> it is interesting. mitt romney did not have the target on his back. gingrich had the target on his back, and mitt romney benefit. should mitt romney get the nomination, a h

run all of europe and now they're clearly in that position david cameron's position is like lord chamberlain back in world war two he seems to be appeasing the germans he seems to be unable to really articulate anything strong enough to say we don't why in this position anymore and germany is laughing they're saying yeah well we know the story but i think the this time they have dreams of getting it right when bigger picture what about the rest of the world i mean right now speaking at banks there's a report that central banks are loading up on gold in the third quarter of the financial times as saying it's because gold prices were so low in september i'm curious why you think there's a gold rush. well central banks know that the figure out currency era is coming to a close the euro is going to break up the dollar's looking weak the average lifespan of a currency is forty seven years and gold is always been the defacto go to reserve currency in times of trouble and central banks know that we're going to go back to a gold standard robert zoellick spent hinting at it a lot of near putin's been

balloon devil with his happy talk to his constituency similar to remember i believe it was lord chamberlain who made the same mistake leading up to world war two so to follow down this path of currency wars replacing shoot 'em up wars with tanks and missiles it's all being replaced with derivatives and through and money attacks you see the same patterns emerging we saw fifty sixty seventy years ago yes and there's black propaganda great propaganda white propaganda is how it goes and this prison somewhere there france vehemently denied reports that so cozy had agreed with angela merkel to equip the european commission with new supranational powers this is a statement from at least a palace the president has a no way aim of giving super national powers to the european commission we want to discuss the ways of creating more intrusive powers for brussels to monitor countries such as greece so in the same exact sentence they contradict themselves. because he is lying. sarkozy is now occupied by the munchen p.p.p. please return to the obviously the at least a palace is trying to assure people tha

in my eyes as an american not as a journalist but you know i don't think we need another neville chamberlain with iran you know so he wants to be friends with brown it's well. i it's a bill o'reilly might not like it but is paul's foreign policy exactly what makes him popular with young voters a generation that doesn't think that constant and never ending war is the way for america to move forward joining me to discuss this is david sirota talk radio host and author of back to our future they thanks so much for joining us tonight let me first go back to that whole little rant that i just made that there in terms of the media's coverage i guess you could say lack of coverage when it's ron paul that's in the number one spot versus newt gingrich or bachmann or herman cain do you see that tail. absolutely and i think it's not just the fact that his foreign policies are out of step with washington's foreign policies and the trans partisan establishment foreign policies i think it's that ron paul also is talking about civil liberties ron paul is talking about ending the drug war these are third ra

chamberlain was a very independent individual.e was not comfortable with blaine's brand of politics. i think there was ample evidence they did not get along that well. there were not close compatriots in the party. chamberlain did not go for their politics after the governorship. he became president of the college. later on, he became collector of the port of portland. >> we had a callar that mention the towns that were named for james. we did a little bit of research. we found a number of cities and towns -- rather counties and towns named for james blaine -- mostly after the time around his death. can you talk a little bit more about honoring people -- especially james g. blaine in the communities around the country? >> one thing i heard what i've learned about that -- i thought about the fact that several of them are out west. i thought about his whole push for the western part in the 1880 hoping to build that with the chinese exclusion. i thought maybe he really did win some favors out west. i do not know if there is any conne

so was larry bird, kareem, bill russell, wilt chamberlain. >> very important people that said you were player. the key thing, physically imposing, dominant. there's never been a player like you. lebron james, the most dominating force to ever play the game. >> my parents always taught me to make people remember your name and be different. i'm not the most skilled guy, i'm not the best shooter, but i wanted people to remember me. so i just used to impose my will, impose my force and that camera guy right there used to be under the basket. >> really? >> yeah, that man right there. >> we have all the best quality people here, shaq. >> that's right. >> what i wonder about you is do you ever go out and people pick a fight with you? >> no. >> i couldn't imagine it ever happening although some kind of weird suicide mission. >> that's because people know that i'm very likable and i'm a funny guy. i can take a joke. >> more to do with the fact that you're seven foot tall and could pummel them to pieces? >> a little bit. people seeing me on tv and from seeing me on tout, they know i'm a funny, l

we spoke to the utah division of wildlife resources spokesman, lynn chamberlain. he and his son shot this video. >> the storm and the low clouds do funny things with the light that comes through them from the city. such as cedar city. so they probably were confused over that. came down a little bit lower. came through the clouds, and saw this smooth parking lot that's well lit up, covered with two or three or four inches of snow at the time. looks for all the world like a body of water. a lake or a pond to those birds. and so, that's what they're after to try to land. and a confused state. they may have tried to land on that. and of course, when they hit the pavement instead of the water, obviously it was very rude awakening. >> these are marine birds, they have to have water to take off and to land. so thousands and thousands of these birds crash-landed over 1500 of them died on impact. >> these birds are small, they're only 12 to 14 inches long. but by far, the largest part of them is their body. and they have little short wings and they just tumble. and so when

about -- he sounded like -- he sounded like -- who was that guy, the prime minister in england, chamberlaineace in our time. don't worry about the iranians with the atomic bombs. that's okay. we have to live and everyone should have their own. i think he was the big loser. bachmann surprised me. she's been consistent. she's a lot better than a lot of people think. and she's from iowa. i don't know if she has the ground game or the money. but she did a lot better than i thought. but i think gingrich, it's his to lose at this point. >> look, let me say this. i want to say, i was so glad to see them talk about the foreign policy because i have been doing polling on a gigantic issue and nobody one in washington seems tong it matters. it matters a great deal. people feel very strongly, especially about islamic terrorists and iran. i want to say, this is a race down to two people. it is about newt gingrich and romney. i thought they both had good debates. gingrich had a tough moment on the freddie mac. and it's hurting -- you know, this question is simple -- by the way, if we are going to discuss

. >> like wilt chamberlain. >> yeah. >> free throw. >> underhanded free throw? >> yeah. >> come on. >> rick barry too. >> rick barry. >> yes. >> he was a 90% shooter. >> curly neal said rick barry shooting underhanded shot 90%. i think we got to start shooting underhanded. >> whatever works. >> we got to roll on. >> we will tell you more when the morning edition rolls on. , ♪ jif to go goes here, goes there ♪ ♪ jif to go goes anywhere ♪ jif to go goes here, goes there ♪ ♪ jif to go goes everywhere ♪ goes here, goes there ♪ jif to go, wherever you go >>> hi,happy holidays, wjz. >> thanks for joining us. good morning, howard county. 36 degrees now with 75% humidity, calm winds barometer at 30.41. now 11 degrees warmer than at this time yesterday. the mid-30s essentially, well, heck, cumberland, oakland, haggerstown, elkton, easton, mid-30s, 33 ocean city, 40 dc and pax river. let's call it 36 appolice and kent island, 38 rock hall, 36 columbia and west minister, 34 degrees belaire, the slug of moisture will head south and east. we will not get rain but it has give

thinking when he used a term like that against president obama who would have nothing to do with chamberlain and appeasing hitler. >> this has everything to do with throwing red meat to the base. the base clearly loves it when republicans take the fight to the president when they call him a socialist and when they call him a foreigner basically and question his legitimacy to sit in the oval office. they like these things. they don't dive deep into what the words mean. they sound good and they know they are negative and against a person they want to defeat. the problem is there a bunch of other people who are willing to hold their felt to the fire and you showed the clip earlier the president responding to two comments like that. the response was pitch perfect. >> it was robust and should remind viewers that it wasn't just mitt romney who targeted that term at the president. it was also newt gingrich. thanks as ever. next, the clock is ticking. will republicans really let the tax break expire? humbug indeed. >> this is not about me. they shouldn't extend the payroll tax cut for me. they shoul

because neville chamberlain was believed to have appeased -- arranged an appeasement with hitler. now, the reason that the president, when he spoke at that press conference today, was so aggressive in his response, and you'll remember, at the press conference he said ask osama bin laden if he thinks i'm an appeaser. the reason he did that was because that was a disgraceful use of a term that is loaded with the most appalling history. but mitt romney is so desperate that that's where he's going now. he's going to be using terms and slurs like that against the president to attract attention because in this fight it's the lowest common denominator that wins. >> martin bashir, mike papantonio, great to have you gentlemen with us tonight. thanks so much. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter why'd @edshow. newt gingrich is still pounding away at his idea to put poor kids to work by throwing out child labor laws. i'm not going to let him get away with it. i'll talk to michael eric dyson about that. republicans in the senate

five of the six used the rhetoric of appeasement a reference to neville chamberlain.s is the 70th anniversary of pearl harbor. have policy differences. you can have stylistic differences. you can have substantive differences but raising that specter on this particular date that seems to be in bad taste, at least. >> i think the interesting thing with newt, and i've pointed this out to many people, many leaders and some are on the sidelines, i think wisely, being very pragmatic, keeping their powder dry. the one concern that some of them have expressed and i think is there they're projecting upon newt gingrich their hopes that he'll be a champion. i think some of his behavior in the last 15 years has shown otherwise. i think newt has a lot to still convince people he is an authentic conservative and i think, you know, he and mitt, especially mitt, have a lot of ground to make up with the tea party movement. >> but is it done as john avalon is saying, less than 30 day as way at this point. >> i don't think it's done. i think things move very fast. and the points that ne

five of the six used the rhetoric of appeasement a reference to neville chamberlain.niversary of pearl harbor. have policy differences. you can have stylistic differences. you can have substantive differences but raising that specter on this particular date that seems to be in bad taste, at least. >> i think the interesting thing with newt, and i've pointed this out to many people, many leaders and some are on the sidelines, i think wisely, being very pragmatic, keeping their powder dry. the one concern that some of them have expressed and i think is there they're projecting upon newt gingrich their hopes that he'll be a champion. i think some of his behavior in the last 15 years has shown otherwise. i think newt has a lot to still convince people he is an authentic conservative and i think, you know, he and mitt, especially mitt, have a lot of ground to make up with the tea party movement. >> but is it done as john avalon is saying, less than 30 day as way at this point. >> i don't think it's done. i think things move very fast. and the points that ned makes, i mean

experience in his family, to just come out and take a shot at him like that, and call him neville chamberlain with his umbrella, giving away europe to hitler. i don't know, do you think that mitt romney knew what he was saying? >> i don't know. that's the kind of thing this didn't used to happen, chris. there used to be an understanding that we have one foreign policy, and you may agree or disagree with what the president's doing, but you don't come out with what he's doing. but the fact is, as president obama said, he's not an appeaser, just if you look at the record, he's more of an assassin, actually, if you want to talk about the way he sees terrorism. he has gone out to kill the al qaeda leaders. and i don't see how you can call that appeasing anybody. >> let me go to ron on that. go ahead, ron. >> factually, it doesn't hold water because of what he did with osama bin laden and, you know, even the drone flights over iran, you could argue is, you know, an example of being tough on rogue states and things like that. but it's the response of the republicans to things like that that become a

he's caused anyone, even if he gets his dry cleaning late, he calls the person in charge neville chamberlain. he's all about excessive rhetoric, guised in this historical analogies that aunt don't hold water, but it sounds good. so anyone out there really looking to take it to obama, he doesn't feel their pain, he feels their anger and he gives it right back to them. and that's what they're loving right now. >> okay. looks like we have got a contract with the devil replacing the contract with america. today in new hampshire, mitt romney was asked about the idea that people like newt gingrich because he is a rhetorical bomb thrower. let's listen to mitt romney. >> i know that among some folks, just saying outrageous or incendiary thinks will get you a lot of kudos and drive your numbers up. but it's not going to win us the white house and it's not going to win us the respect of people on the other side of the aisle, that we have to bring together to overcome the extraordinary challenges that we have. look, i think this president's been an extraordinary failure. i think this president has take