talkst, brian howard about the preservation of a nearly 200-year-old carriage used by general lafayette during that tour. the studebaker national museum hosted this program. it is about one hour. >> our feature presenter today has been a friend of the iseum's for 25 years when first came to the museum in 1999, there was a report on my the first drawn vehicle -- the horse-drawn vehicle collection. companyrian howard's that undertook the conservation of our national treasures under the grant in 2005. you see his work in eight vehicles with our presidential carriages collection, most notable the lincoln carriage. he is here tonight to talk about another american history figure. .arquis de lafayette he has worked on everything from presidential carriages to military cannons to a strange hybrid horse-drawn motorcar that was going to service and alaska lodging establishment. keep that in mind in cases presentation goes over an hour. without further do, i would like to welcome mr. brian howard to the stage to talk about marquis de lafayette. brian: this concludes my program. we will see you la

. >> i am brian from howard county, maryland. something was mentioned on the panel about civil war armies being indestructible, that meade realized the army of northern virginia, if i heard correctly, was indestructible. i have heard that the typical civil war battle is when both armies come together, bang the heck out of each other, don't actually destroy each other, and live to fight another day. my question is, if civil war armies could not destroy each other, why is that? or what did it mean to destroy the enemy in the civil war context? >> i heard the same thing you heard. as soon as i heard civil war armies were indestructible, i started thinking of vicksburg, fort donaldson, locations where armies were destroyed. they surrendered. civil war armies could be defeated and captured. lee's army in northern virginia was defeated. johnson's army of tennessee was defeated and surrendered. they could. i think really what we meant up here was that because of the abilities -- what is the difference between waterloo and gettysburg? th

howard mcgill unplayed. who was the and and brian stokes mitchell was. the revolutionary yeah and it was great over the missing amazing that oh yeah and he's continued he did dracula is a guy from the big overall and i asked is there you've is to give had this misapplying you know where you're going. did you have a career inspiration someone you looked up too many i probably the first time that i was wept or was brought to tears as meaning lena horne because i had i mean not only a beauty and a talent but her strength and her struggle and not having to big able to go in the front door and having to come through the kitchen and those those are the stories that i look and say that they paved the road for me to be able to come into the front door and have the all those opportunities and freedoms be given to me as as an actress and as a woman of color frank sinatra took lena horne to the store club once and they were a little embarrassed because they didn't serve blacks. so the maitre d. said to sinatra. mr sinatra we don't seem to have made a reservation si

. >> melissa: let's start with joe trippi, former campaign manager for howard dean and a fox news contributor, we also have brianuire, chief of staff for senator mitch mcconnell. thank you so much for joining me. brian, let me start with you. jeff sessions has never been so popular. he should write a book or run for something or start a go fund me account. he's never had so many people clamoring to come to cameras and say what a great guy he is, what you make of it? >> senator sessions was of the senate for 20 years. he enjoys broad respect from his colleagues on the republican side, certainly, and when these tweets went out yesterday, the reaction i saw from his republican -- former republican colleagues ranged from this would be unimaginable to this would be catastrophic. i think this is something that would quickly become a huge issue and a huge distraction for the president and it would risk alienating a lot of republican senators that we certainly need for things like health care and tax reform in the future. >> melissa: joe, he even has democrats coming to his aid as you saw in that clip that we played com

which is surging brian wieser >> dow, s&p, and nasdaq amid the slew of earnings howard lutnick here this morning. >> we're talking about fang in this case, but it could have been copper, it could have been oil, it could have been industrials, manufacturing, what is not working now and what does it mean? >> well, look, you have such -- you have a slow-growing economy, low interest rates, drives people to make investments and that's what you're doing you're seeing people really have a risk on policy what else can they do? you can't buy bonds. sure, i'll buy ten year treasuries, maybe make 2%. come on, get throughout and do things and the fed continues to say, we're sort of bumping along, bumping along you've got to love real estate you've got love real estate again, these kind of assets that do really well in a long-term low interest rate environment, it's going to do great >> we started the year talking about the trump trade and policy bets and what could we get this year what could we get by the first quarter of next year is the market unat the timered from all of that now >> no, i think

talkst, brian howard about the preservation of a nearly 200-year-old carriage used by general lafayette during that tour. the studebaker national museum hosted this program. it is about one hour. >> our feature presenter today has been a friend of the iseum's for 25 years when first came to the museum in 1999, there was a report on my the first drawn vehicle -- the horse-drawn vehicle collection. companyrian howard's that undertook the conservation of our national treasures