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this is in the hudson valley. open until november 21st. so, go see some cool artsy spooky things. >> greg: a "the five" field trip. i will participate. >> dana: yeah. we will be there and/or like we're taping the show wait gutfeld is not here. >> greg: yes. i love field trips and then i call in sick. >> katie: by the pool. >> greg: that's it for us. "special report" is up next. hey, bret. >> bret: i had a field trip to greg's show and i survived. [laughter] yes, i did. happy birthday to harold ford's mom: good evening. i'm bret baier. live tonight from the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. we begin tonight with three issues that president reagan himself wrestled with during his 8 years in the white house. issues that are now confounding the current occupant, immigration and border security. >> the simple truth is that we have lost control of our own borders. and no nation can do that and

he had grown up in the hudson valley and his family was a slave owners. slavery was more or less eradicated from new york and white people would have to pay the price for emancipation but he doesn't abolish slavery over the course of his lifetime. when you look at 1822 is really 19 and 1820 the excesses of slavery. the projections of it in united states is at all america's equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. they were so apparent that they believed the united states -- because of the low-lying fruit for jared -- james talmage. compared to place like virginia and in the places where you had slavery in virginia he believed missouri was a place where the united states could slip make slavery no longer able to expand in missouri or anywhere in the united states after 1819 in 1820. the hope there is a could no longer expand. somehow or another we had to do something about slavery. it may happen next year they are after that but he can force southern states to do something about slavery. as far as talmage is concerned in white no

still another 2 to 4 inches is possible from new york city to the poconos, binghamton and hudson valleyght and continues all day tomorrow. 9 million at risk. high risk of winds from boston to dourch the coast. some will be strong enough to have power outages. it's going to feel leak a hurricane on cape cod later tonight and all day tomorrow, winds gusts 50, 60, 70 miles an hour. you'll notice that boston could have some wind damage, too, with wind gusts up to 60. not so bad in new york city. the timing of all this mess, it's going to be a rough morning around new york, and later tonight and tomorrow, those winds will knock out power to thousands in southern new england, jonathan. so if this is -- it's not a snow nor'easter. it's an all-rain effect. it will have significant impact. i wouldn't doubt if we get a couple hundred thousand of people without power come this time tomorrow morning. >> it's truly dreadful out there. stay safe, everyone. bill caron, thank you for this and the kind words. >>> still ahead, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers and more hit the streets in

so if think about's coming up to hudson valley, make sure you stop here and visit it. so let's talk about fdr's court-packing scheme. so, john, we'll start, what were the circumstances that head fdr so frustrated with the court? and talk about why did he try are, what did he try to do to change it? >> well, i think you have to go back a little bit before his presidency and remember that we're in the great depression. the stock market crash in the tall of 1929. concern in the fall of 1929. and coincidentally, during that term president herbert hoover had three supreme court appointment opportunities. and he made great appointments. no denying that. and it's the luck of the draw whether a president gets vacancies and the chance -- president trump got three, president hoover had three. franklin roosevelt elected in 1932, inaugurated in '33. during that first four-year term got zero, as you mentioned, paul. he had a supermajority in both the house and the senate, and there was an attack of legislation on the problems of the depression. the volunteerism of the hoover area w

and a tireless representative for the people of the hudson valley. i was followed i should try to be like ben. to try to fill the shoes of this giant and carry on his great tradition of public service and delivering results. ben was nothing less than an american patriot. he was born in 1922 and served in the army corps in world war ii. he flew 35 combat missions over japan and earned the distinguished flying cross. after the war, he graduated from the wharton school and from new york law school. he went on to be an assistant new york attorney general in the 1950's, a lawyer in private practice, and then found a calling in public service as a new york assemblyman from 1966 to 1972 and, of course, became my community's representative in congress for the next 30 years after that. he was often called gentle ben. because of his remarkable humility and because he elevated constituents service to an art form, ben was beloved throughout my district. never missing a pancake breakfast with farmers or firefighters. he was known on the world stage and deeply rep