there is a historical debate about the mental competency of douglas macarthur at that point. t that do track -- detrac he was one of the great military commanders, but there were serious, compelling reasons that harry made the decision to relieve macarthur of his duties. he never moved troops into china, that he was very aggressive about what he wanted to do. he essentially wanted to start and moved u.s. troops into china. that would have been a cataclysmic disaster. host: you are perspective as a former naval intelligence officer? guest: it is the basic strategy here. what ourtical -- political objectives trying to achieve an are you surpassing them, doing more harm than good, by pursuing a nuclear war? we have to be humble when dealing with the use of force abroad. it does not mean we have to be weak. we can be strong. but we are strong because we know we are in the right and we are trying to defend our interests and values. that is when strength matters. i do not want to replay the unclery" card -- my parachuted behind north korean lines, lost all but one of his troop, and

this is douglas macarthur overlooking the bay at inchon. i arrived in korea 47 years ago, a little more than that now, as a young twentysomething peace corps volunteer. one of the first places i wanted to visit was incheon, to see where the famous landing had taken place in september of 1950. incheon was a much different place at that time than it is today, with huge container ships and thousands, maybe tens of thousands of hyudnai's and kia's ready to be shipped abroad. they cannot drive the 30 miles to seoul in a new automobile. it is home to one of the worlds most modern and up-to-date international airports. one thing that remains the same the statue of macarthur overlooking the bay. i was with some students at that time and i said, that is a really wonderful statue of general macarthur. there should also be one of harry truman. they said, no, truman was bad. it is because of truman that korea is divided. i said, isn't that the good news? if truman had not sent macarthur in the first place korea would , be united, but under the guys fro

there was still a sharp split in strategy between fdr's two principle commanders, general douglas macarthurnd chester minitz. >> they couldn't stand each other. macarthur was set to go back to the philippines and he dearly wanted the philippines back. >> jim is a former marine sergeant, an historian who has been to peleliu nine times. >> nimitz didn't to want go to pill pe philippines. he wanted to go to the coast of china. >> 2 1/2 years into the war, there was still a fight over strategy. this troubled the president so much, he decided to arrange a meeting with his pacific commanders in 1944. >> the pearl harbor war conferences are to be held. they review a crack army unit. >> this would be the only time during the war that these three leaders would meet. >> this meeting that was held in hawaii with the president, with nimitz and macarthur was to decide, where do we go next? what now? both nimitz and macarthur presented their ideas. both sound, strategic ideas. >> admiral nimitz was at guadalcanal and mariana. macarthur surrendered in the philippines. >> macarthur presented more of an emo

lee, great ones like general douglas macarthur and grant. they must be spinning in their graves when they see what happens like this. >> reporter: but across the nation, scenes like that these, confederate monuments coming down. in durham, north carolina, protesters tore down one statue. in the dead of night, construction crews hauled away others. and now in washington, a debate raging over the statues of leaders like jefferson davis. this is the president's words, sources close to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell describe him as very concerned and very upset. mcconnel but in tennessee, bob corker delivered a stinging rebuke to the president. >> he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the nature of this nation. >> reporter: corker calling for radical change in the white house, saying without it, the nation will go through great peril, telling the president to stop focussing on himself and think about the american people. >> i think the president needs to take stock of the role that he plays in our nation and move beyo

why douglas macarthur at number one? tom: macarthur was a blowhard.e manipulated journalism to bolster his standing politically. it made it difficult for presidents to deal with him, and he was insubordinate to three different presidents. because subordination of the military to political authority, to civilian authority, is key to how this country is run, and because he challenged it so often, i think he was the most dangerous general we ever had. host: here is some video from general tommy franks. after we listen to him a little bit, i will ask you why you put him on your list at number four. >> this is an incredibly precise military operation. i think you seen time and time again, military targets fall while the civilian infrastructure remains in place. it is the same with civilian lives. my experience is that the people of iraq will welcome their liberation. ellis march 30, 2003 -- that was march 30, 2003. france was a good soldier good soldier.a he was a battalion commander wearing general stars are you he was truly tactical. -- stars. he was tru

general douglas macarthur defied orders of the president of the united states. these statues should remain to remind us of war, the participants of history and whether they are on the wrong side or not. we should not forget about them. of date their plaques to show the new perception of what they did. remove their names from highways. anybody go down jefferson davis highway every day? i do. what comes to the statues, leave them there. christopher columbus slaughtered tens of thousands of natives. what a man. and how many days -- we celebrate christopher columbus backward thinking communities. others are looking forward to having indigenous people day. host: one of the causes behind whitelly was a protest of supremacist groups against the removal of the robert e. lee statue in charlottesville. headlining in the new york times, white nationalist protest leads to deadly violence. the authors of that article this morning on the ground in charlottesville. good morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. host: what can you tell us about the city's mood lately nig

served in the army for two decades and was deployed all over the world, he received the general douglas macarthurleadership award for outstanding leadership throughout his army career and honor that distinguished him for more than 35,000 officers. rob will be joined on stage tonight with gunnar, his lovable black lab service dog. ladies and gentlemen, please stand and welcome two patriots and gunnar, to the richard nixon presidential library. [applause] ♪ ♪ i was born free ♪ i was born free ♪ i was born free ♪ ♪ >> thank you. that is awesome. there we go. the army guy needed a navy guy to do it. i am going to give you a break. >> they introduced us to a song by senator kid rock. >> may be. [applause] >> what a crowd. >> you look really good. a different wardrobe. >> i'm not going to say anything because we are in the presidential library. great to see so many wonderful friendly faces. those that are friendlier welcome to stand in the back. great to have you with us. we will jump in. you have been patient in waiting. the one question everybody wants to know is how the guy from montana end up in th

he received the general douglas macarthur leadership award from expounding leadership throughout his for more than 35,000 officers. rob will be joined on stage tonight with gunnar his lovable black lab service dog. ladies and gentlemen, please stand and welcome to the richard nixon presidential library. [applause] [applause] [applause] ♪ >> thank you. >> we needed a navy guy to do it. come here. [laughter] >> wasn't that interesting they introduced us by a song by senator kidd rock. [laughter] [applause] >> what a crowd. >> you look really good. who picked out the wardrobe? [laughter] great to see so many wonderful friendly faces. those that are not friendly are able to stand in the back. [laughter] know it's great to have you with us. we are going to jump in. the one question everybody wants to know, how did a guy from butte montana and up in the navy, much less having a career like you? >> that's funny. that is interesting because i am a big believer that life is what happens around you while you are making a plan. 95% of the stuff you worry about never happens anyway. i joined the

come from tennessee, i grew up on a civil war battlefield, missionary ridge which is where douglas macarthur'sher won his medal of honor when he was 17. i remember standing on that ridge watching riots in chattanooga in 1980 after an all-white jury acquitted a klansman in a drive-by shooting of an african-american woman. i remember my grandfather saying as he watched the smoke rising from the city that the jury didn't let the facts get in the way of their bigotry and that was a damn shame. so this is tragically a recurring feature in the american story. what we have hoped for in the past and what we've often had in the past are presidents who address our better angels, who let us hear the whisper of those wings. sometimes it's just a whisper, but we are, in fact, inspired by those who encourage us to hope as opposed to letting us fear. and right now the 45th president of the united states is encouraging a climate of fear. >> clarence, where do you think your country and your presidency stands after the weekend we've just witnessed? >> well, it is a test for all of us, i think, brian. you know,

i was wondering what your perspective on douglas macarthur .as >> i served in macarthur's headquarters during the korean war. that is really the only thing i can talk about there. i heard in the pacific that the marines in the navy hated him. the army, some of them liked him, some of them did not, but during the korean war, he was not liked at all by anybody, i don't think. i certainly never met anybody except people that have been with him in the philippines, and he still had a lot of his people that were still with him from world war ii at that time. mr. hydeck: are you looking to weigh in on this as well? only that he was talking about the philippines, which as he indicated, japan declared war on the united states on december 8, 1941, but that same day, they started bombing the philippines. few days later, a major army invaded,se soldiers and at that time, there was about 75,000 u.s. army troops, and they were with about 30,000 filipinos. within several days, the goticans and philippines pushed back into sort of a peninsula sticking out into the pacific ocean. after the ninth of apr

senior afghan military official in june prince called for an approach similar to that of general douglas macarthur his leadership of post-war japan for afghanistan he wrote authorities should be consolidated to one person a quote american viceroy who would lead all u.s. government and coalition efforts in an op ed piece for the wall street journal prince and the article by noting afghanistan is home to an estimated one trillion dollars worth of mineral resources and says we should quote focus on pounding the taliban and other terrorists so hard that they plead for negotiation erik prince founded the private military contractor now known as academy in one thousand nine hundred seven he profited to the tune of over one billion dollars in no bid contracts from the bush administration during the iraq war artie's it jacqueline vogel explains how military contractors are still thriving. meet erik prince the founder of blackwater a private military company with a controversial reputation with its legacy you might expect princes career to be over but this cannot be farther from the truth there's no backla

this young lieutenant is a macarthur,e, arthur who 75 years in the future, i heard a cheer, thank you for that. it was ripped real fast, a future, 75 years in the his son, douglas will marry a murphy's word -- a murphy's burger girl. she had relatives fighting's, they weren't literally shooting at him, but their units were shooting at arthur macarthur in 1862. douglas will refer to himself as the reunion of blue and gray personified, this is one of the things he was talking about. but i digress. 10:00 in the morning of the jackknife is almost closed and as the confederates slam into russo here and they repeatedly slam against the hinge, it gets real tough in the cedars. after about an hour through the fighting, russo orders his men to retire. one of the brigades determined -- that howell has in fact frozen over very best hell has in fact frozen over. there's a half a mile or open field between the cedars and the rosencrantzsso and realized the place to make the stand is the road itself. that's where stones river national cemetery is today. you put artillery on the hill, infantry in the road, and where does that sound familiar? it's a familiar playbook you see a

macarthur who 75 years in the future -- i heard a cheer, thank you for that. a little postscript real fast, a little sidebar, 75 years in the future in 1937 his son douglas will marry a murfreesboro girl jean faircloth, she had relatives fighting -- they weren't literally shooting at him but their units were shooting at arthur macarthur in 1862 and when douglas later refers himself as the reunion of blue and gray personified, this is one of the things he's talking about but i digress. so the jackknife is almost half closed and as the confederates slam into rousseau here and they repeatedly slam against the hinge it gets tough in the cedars and after an hour's worth of fighting rousseau orders his men to retire and as one of the brigade commanders says "we have determined that hell has indeed frozen over and we decided to retire." from the cedars, it's important to note from the cedars to this point to the nashville pike is a half mile and there's an open field between the cedars and the pike and rousseau and rosecrans have realized the place to make their final stand is the road itself, which is capped by a noe knoll. you know that's where stones river nationa

relatives, not little rally shooting at him, but their units were shooting at arthur li macarthur in 1862. and when douglas will refer to himself as the reunion of blue e and gray personified, this is one of the things he's talking about. i digress. t thehe jackknife is about half closed. as they slam into russo and abou repeatedly slamt against the fg hinge, it gets real tough. after about an hour's worth of fighting russo orders his men to retire. we have now determined that heln has indeed frozen over and we decided to retire. from the seed ars, it's important to note, from the rdars is a half-mile and there's an open field between the cedars and the pike, and russo and rosecrans have realized that the place to makes the final stand is the r road tr itself, you know that's where l, stone's river national cemetery is today. so you put that artillery on t hill, the infantry in the road.b where does that sound familiar? ae familiar playbook you see a lot in the civil war.le behin use the slightly sunken road as a makeshift earth work with the hill behind it studded with hin. artillery. the confederates beg