he goes and he sees ellsworth. and when he comes back out, he says to the honor guard, i'd like your permission for to bring colonel ellsworth the white house, where we can have a funeral ceremony before he goes back to his parents mechanicsville, new york. so they bring ellsworth to the white house, where he's laid out in the east room. and about three politicians and high ranking military officials gather there a funeral ceremony. and mary todd lincoln comments, he looks natural. he looks like his only sleeping. now, think about this until this moment in time. a wound like this, a shotgun wound to the chest would have made ellsworth. he would have been rendered unviable to decomposition. probably within a day. and here he is in the white house, looking natural, like he's only sleeping. it was as if holmes had worked magic. he had stood death on his head. almost. okay by war's end. thomas holmes had been bombed. 4028 soldiers. but it was this death of ellsworth that essentially gave this cadre of the green light t

an asset that's close to one of our national security bases such as we have in south dakota with ellsworthe have the chance to reject that and not let it move forward. listen, ellsworth air force base in south dakota is going to be the home to the b-21s, the next generation bomber that will protect this country far into the future. it's important that south dakotaens and the country take seriously our responsibility to make sure china can't set up shop next door and conduct surveillance on us. >> bret: obviously heard from the governor of montana and officials in alaska. your take on the shootdown of what we have seen so far four of these things? we don't know three of them. >> no, we don't. and that is what is such a disgrace from this white house. in fact, we just had updates from the white house earlier in the last 24 hours yes, we have shot down some items. we don't know what they're. we don't know what they have on them as far as capabilities and there could be thousands more. that's the extent of the clarity the governors have gotten from the white house and from the department of de

ellsworth will be the home of the b21s, the next generation of bombers to protect the united states of america for many years to come. china would love to set up shop next door and conduct surveillance on that platform. we won't allow it. we'll make sure that our land stays under the united states control and that we won't allow enemies that hate us to come in and purchase our assets. i've been in foot security policy for many years, over 20 years. i've seen china buy up fertilizer company, chemical companies, processing systems, now they're buying our land. and they're doing it to destroy us. it's time we get a that wises up, loves this country, defends us, and stops acting like a dim wit in front of the whole world. >> sean: i think that sums it up, governor. i want to ask you about the issues with the balloon. i don't know which part is worse for me. the fact that they allowed the communist chinese to have the spy balloon go from alaska to idaho montana and all over the country before they shot it down off of the coast of the carolinas, or joe biden going out there today saying he h

alsowe also are the home of ellsworth air force base. ellsworth is goingth air f to be the home of the b 20 oncehome o the next generation bombers that will protect the united states of america for many,ears many years to come. and china would love to set up next next door and conduct surveillance on that platform. and we won't allow it. we'll make sure that our land stays under the united states control and that we enn't allod thatw enemies that e us to come in and to purchaseo e our assets. i've been in the food security policy for many, many years.in over 20 years. i've seen china buy upilizer c our fertilizer companies, our chemical companies. they've bought up our processing systems. now they're buyinge buying our land and they're doing it to destroye us . and it's timete we a get as president that wises up, loves this country, defends us andd ai stops acting like a in front of the whole world. >> i think that pretty much sums it up. no, i want to ask you aboutlloo. the issues with the balloon. >> and i don't know which part is wors

michelle ellsworth if a&e.ellsworth if i may, i think it is worth mentioning that half of the trusts, the nhs providers that were balloted didn't meet the threshold for strike. so there clearly are plenty of masses out there that we got. my sense of it for strike, but the threshold wasn't . it was petrol up in it for strike, but the threshold wasn't. it was petrol up in hull . it wasn't that. yeah. so there are plenty of nurses though who, who are clearly uncomfortable because there are half of trust that aren't going to be striking because that threshold wasn't met. i think i think probably the area that our and i would definitely agree on you definitely agree on is that you do need a fair pay deal for nurses. you know, they are under pressure, doubt about pressure, there's no doubt about that. i that. and certainly i would argue similar me i can't argue similar to give me i can't remember a of us said remember which a few of us said this, but for those nurses on the lower pay bands, absolutely we should looki

of the jewels from his collection it's famously lincoln's famous letter to the parents of elmer ellsworth. my god give you the consolation which is beyond awe of the power. i don't know where he got it from. i couldn't trace it, but mr. seward published one lists that were printed and distributed to dealers collectors and other descendants. for a while he was chasing down beadle's letter, their whiskers, letters, little girl who wrote to lincoln, asking him to to grow whiskers. he contacted church rex or down she was mrs. billingham, living in philadelphia, but she refused to part with it. so some to some some things got away. so now this is just kind of curious pieces of the puzzle. so this is another andrew from the lambeth sale and, this item assassination of abraham lincoln, documentsigned with documents signed by w.h. seward inserted somebody paid $20 for this. this is the same piece in the huntington catalog from jed stuart collection. so we it is possible. i mean, it's not the judge stewart was the one who published who bought the scrapbook. and then it came the huntington now with

no more ellsworth. yes almost like a son to him.o that was striking to me that the war real from that moment, right? it was not notional. it was it was it was genuine. so i know that i would think of him. i certainly don't think of him as any more distant or calculating than anybody else. i've missed most of the people i've encountered and in my work. i think there was i like the kind the fact of the kindliness for a second i think there was gentleness to him that manifested itself with his family, with his boys. with the cats. remember the kittens? he found it at the front in richmond. it was there. so there was a there was a sweetness there that particularly during the war, makes all the sense in the world to me, because you would be in midst of that carnage. you would be desperate. it seems to me, to find the reason you were doing this, and it was the reason to do it was to preserve the possibility of love and kindness in and liberty. you signed over 20,000 military commissions alone, sending young men after young men off to be p