american soldiers and i had so selected as the battalion commander to make that assault, not alexander hamilton, but instead another frenchman in american uniform. his name colonial jima, but alexander wanted that command more than any one. if you know his nature, that is his habit. so he did what we call in military circles. he went over my head and went to washington and begged and pleaded that he might have the honor and privilege of the attack. and of course, i don't think washington could deny hamilton anything at all. so under cover of darkness, unloaded muskets, making the men their trust in the bayonet. alexander stormed redoubt ten, and took it with such great dash and fire in the end, how could i be mad at him for? it accomplished the goal that washington had laid at our feet and did the surrender would come shortly thereafter, on 19 october 17 and 81. so when i think of alexander, i think he was not my friend, but one of my best friends. wonderful. i've been wondering, did you know benjamin franklin and what was relationship like with him? dr. franklin? indeed. i know you americans h

i am the executive director of the alexander hamilton society. i know we are running a little bit behind schedule but hopefully, you had some drinks and i spent some time trying to negotiate if we could get in but that did not go so well so although some of you -- it is actually a pretty neat trick. probably a little bit on the nose that we are doing this at the spy museum hit i swear it is a beautiful location with a lot to learn in the sea but nothing more than that. i want to tell you a little bit about the alexander hamilton society. our mission -- we are a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization and our mission is to launch young men and women into the foreign policy national security world imbued with what we call hamiltonian values and i could >> philosophically, academically, politically. but fundamentally, it means a deep police in american exceptionalism, that we have a special role to play in the world command american leadership, support for american defense and free societies around the world is a core part and makes us safer, freer

>> alexander hamilton. look around, look around. lutionary music, groundbreaking storytelling and a legacy that changed a nation. the award winning broadway sensation hamilton is back in the bay area. the story follows the rise of founding father alexander hamilton as he fights for honor, love and legacy. i'm so excited to welcome to the night lucas hines babcock, who play the dual roles of john laurens, an american revolutionary soldier, and philip hamilton alexander hamilton's son. congratulations. thanks for being here. you are the pride of san francisco, graduated from sacred heart prep. and look at you now. yeah. >> thank you for having me. >> how incredible. this is a dream role for you. it is. you were working at a coffee shop when you got the call about hamilton. take me through that story. >> i was i was in brooklyn. i had just moved to new york, maybe like four months before, and i got my phone was buzzing, so i stepped outside. i was like, hey, boss, i take this phone call. i think it's my mom, right? but it was my agent a

croix, the childhood home of alexander hamilton, thank you for schooling us on that. lucas. so legacy media now in the hot seat for dodging questions about biden's mental acuity. now some are shifting their tone as we approach a second trump term. let's bring in fox news contributor joe concha. joe, i hope you had a merry christmas. good to see you. >> you, as well. you are looking very christmasy, still, anita. >> anita: i still feel the christmas spirit. i want to ask you, a popular "new york times" columnist, ezra klein, has a popular podcast called "the ezra klein show," he is saying he is no longer going to push back so hard on president-elect trump at his second term, let's listen to what he has to say. >> ezra klein is wise to take this route, anita, because emulating "the view" or the lincoln project x feed and continuing perpetual trump resistance is not compelling because it is predictable and therefore boring. may be some on the left, especially in the media, instead of reflexively opposing every trump policy, should consider, for example, point shows that

>> alexander hamilton and generate revenue. through paris and it is negotiated. and it will change the quality and fairness historically for trade deal. and they talk about a function of that trade agreement. it is one way to remedy that. the economics background. interaction and calculus i don't think -- the conservative agenda, they do have is that i think it is part of the calculus of all the tools in the toolkit. for the next administration. >> all will and with the chinese, a lot of these systems in excess reserves the level of access tilting the trade agreement is not the level of the currency press subsidies, there's something close reserves. and you are accumulating these, you're moving out of treasury. >> right now is a product other states. >> we are not thinking about it, i think it is again when you are running massive deficits in the world, there is real all three, three and a half%. that is optimal over the long-term and we have keep coming back to china. we think about the chinese currency and my firm shows the chinese currency on the model is now

so some of the politicians initially who were not in favor of the bill of rights, notably, alexander hamilton and james madison started hearing the will of the people and it was madison who was very careful, who was attentive, he assembled a list. the list was more than 200 in length and then they took that list and started saying, all right, we're going to have to whittle it down. if we're going to have a kind of negotiated settlement to this whole thing, what list would make sense t got down to about 20 then it became 12, the 12 were sent out to the states for ratification and the 12 came back with 10. so, three through 12 were adopted and on december 15th, 1791, the state of virginia became the last to-- that was needed for ratification and the bill of rights became the first 10 amendments of the united states constitution. >> now then according to this year's amburg constitution only 17 respondents to name the rights guaranteed under the first amendment and numbers couldn't name any and a when asked to name the rights guaranteed b the first endment, 74% new it included freedom of spch and

cooks alexander hamilton believed in harris for two reasons. when he was setting up the treasury so tariffs, up until world war one for the main source of revenue. enter protect u.s. industry. i would add a third reason for tariffs and is negotiating. i think given donald trump's credibility that the threat of tariffs we change the quality and the fairness of historically portrayed deals. president trump are very focused on the trade deficit may talk about a function of bad trade agreement. tariffs are willing to remedy that. with any within economics background from the budget deficit. from the level of the currency. in the calculus in a conservative tariffs to have a place. as part of a calculus of all the tools in the toolkit. cooks you might be among and how to think about them. cooks the accord the maloof accord up and down. talk a little bit about that. whether or not you see of large-scale currency intervention as an important tool for the next presidential ministration. cooks it'll think it has to be a large-scale currency intervention.

i think god sent alexander hamilton to this country.e same giving us elon musk and ramaswamy. people we need to advance our country to make it great. not keep pushing it in the marshes like the democrats have been doing with all of their sexual deviant season -- sexual deviancy and ruining our children and all of the other bad things they do. we need to be civilized and we should honor people no matter what rankings we have in this country, whether it is the president or an immigrant. as far as i'm concerned, most of these immigrants coming in i see them on tv. they are sitting on the streets collecting food and shelter from us. there is no place for them to have jobs. when i see the pictures of new york, i never want to go to new york. the thought of going to new york makes me want to vomit. that's how bad i think it is. if you can't run this as a good civilization for all the people who are citizens here, you shouldn't be running it at all, which was biden. thank you for listening to me. host: david in massachusetts on the line for in

i think god sent alexander hamilton to this country.e same giving us elon musk and ramaswamy. people we need to advance our country to make it great. not keep pushing it in the marshes like the democrats have been doing with all of their sexual deviant season -- sexual deviancy and ruining our children and all of the other bad things they do. we need to be civilized and we should honor people no matter what rankings we have in this country, whether it is the president or an immigrant. as far as i'm concerned, most of these immigrants coming in i see them on tv. they are sitting on the streets collecting food and shelter from us. there is no place for them to have jobs. when i see the pictures of new york, i never want to go to new york. the thought of going to new york makes me want to vomit. that's how bad i think it is. if you can't run this as a good civilization for all the people who are citizens here, you shouldn't be running it at all, which was biden. thank you for listening to me. host: david in massachusetts on the line for in

croix native, alexander hamilton, helped organize the constitutional convention alongside james madison of course. president biden will be ushering in the new year in his home in wilmington. a lot about these reports that biden thinks he should have stayed in the presidential race and he would have won if he did. not everybody in the white house shares that view, according to "the wall street journal," which says that "the belief that biden could have won is not widely shared in the white house. the more common view is that the party would have suffered a larger electoral defeat and lost even more congressional seats had biden remained the nominee." ." biden departing st. croix after five days. waking up on the island, giving what many call that disastrous debate performance in june. some wonder how he could have stayed in the race. the debate had shades of gerald ford's debate blunder -- "no soviet domination in eastern europe." both of them dealt with hostage crisises of course, a reminder that americans are still being held captive in gaza today. recalling the days following his deba

the nation of immigrants and even the founding fathers came here from other countries, like alexander hamiltonintroduced from the musical bringing debates about immigrants, patriotism and money that can still resonate a lot these days. from off-broadway to the obama white house to some of the largest stages and streaming platforms in the world. he is our guest tonight making his debut. we welcome lin-manuel miranda. i will tell you something i was wrong about. who am i? just a lawyer and journalist and just depression a person. people start coming up to me for whatever reason, because they know me a bit and are saying, and i think the public theater where you open and i live in new york. ari, you are a lawyer and you love rap. there is a hip-hop music opera but the founding fathers pretty got to see it but i thought, that sounds really wack. i was imagining pbs info telethon. it became a thing that you had to see in the got to see it, which was a broadway miracle nowadays if you tell someone that. it was so astounding and different from the pitch i had heard. >> a bad elevator pitch. >> the ma

literally a nation of immigrants, even the founding fathers came here from other countries like alexander hamiltonntroduced to many through the hit musical by linn manuel miranda bringing talife debates about immigrants, patriotism, money, and race that can kill resonate a lot these days. his political poetry made it to some of the biggest stages and platforms in the world. he's our guest right now tonight well coming his beat debut, we welcome in lin manuel miranda. i'm just a lawyer, a journalist, just a person, right? people started coming up to me for whatever reasons because they know me a little bit and saying, ari -- this is early days. i think you were at the public theater where you opened and i live in new york. ari, you're a lawyer, you love rap, there's a hip hop musical opera about the founding fathers, you got to see it. i thought that sounds really wack. like i was imagining like a pbs like telethon, and it then became a thing you had to see, and then i got to see it when you were still performing it, right, which is kind of a broadway miracle nowadays if you tell someone that. and

that is where young alexander hamilton clerked as a young man before running that incredible essay whichause people to pass the hat around sending to the counties the rest in history. i digress a little bit. there's been a lot of talk about president biden trump proofing his agenda. i should mention off the top that took a hit when the judge in texas said the by administration should not be auctioning off or selling off parts of the unused border wall. president elect trump taking to social media after that ruling taking a bit of a victory lap saying quote, and the major crucial win for america and our national security federal judge in texas, based on papers we found a few days ago prohibit divide menstruation from selling any materials designate for the border wall. present electronic incoming borders or had this to say earl. >> right now i think we've got it stopped. what is insulting they wait for years, just before to control to sell a main piece to secure the border. >> texas attorney general ken paxton weighing in. we have successfully blocked by administration from disposing of a

croix yesterday, the childhood home of alexander hamilton, ashley, arguably one of our greatest foundingl and connie neville. the white house hasn't confirmed that, but i it is the the home what he's stayed the past two christmas vacations here in st. croix. he's also taking heat for vetoing a bill that would have had 66 new federal judgeships in a sign he wants to deny the incoming trump white house from making those judicial appointments. he's going to be huddling with his national security team after that friendly fire incident early sunday in the red sea when a u.s. guided missile cruiser shot down an f-18 super hornet. thankfully, the pilot and the backseat weapons system officer ejected safely and recovered. but it's notable, ashley, there have not been any more strikes against the houthi rebels in yemen since that incident. ash? ashley: all right. lucas, thank you very much for that very thorough report. >>> now this, the state department's global engagement center which was accused of censoring u.s. citizens has shut its doors because of lack of money. elon musk had deemed the ge

my hero that you mentioned, alexander hamilton, started the whole thing.e're hear asking this is -- or federal income tax. we're hearing that will be inflationary, but it's static scoring so when you take into account that we may see tax cuts, that there may not be taxes on social security and tips or overtime, this creates a whole new dynamic if oil prices come down, there's a environment where inflation can remain in check. we saw that in the first administration and i think some is rhetoric and we contested expect to see 100% tariffs. larry: i should have put it up on the full screen, but joe, the chinese tar tariffs and 300 biln plus on tariffs and u.s. imports from china fell. they came down. now they went up and -- when covid recovered and then came back down again and it's very interesting, john, going on tariffs and i think the world trading system is broken and i think the reciprocity going to have raising taxes and going for them and it's perfectly acceptable. >> world trade organization was set up to be originally a capitalist organization. it h

i mean, i think that this is a government where if you ask george washington and alexander hamilton,n then john jay and thomas jefferson is this federal government recognizable to the republic. they set into motion. i think they would tell you this is unrecognizable that it's a technocracy disguised as a democracy. and i think if we restore a federal government to a size that would make our founders proud. then yes, i believe that our best days as a country are still going to be ahead of us. if we fail to do it, then i can't make you that promise. but i think that if we restore a federal government back to size, that would make the signers of the declaration of independence and the framers of the constitutional convention proud then i am rock solid confident that america's best days still lie ahead. >> now, we're looking forward to bringing you into the conversation. >> great, thanks vk and thanks mike. i'm going to turn it over to our executive director an emanuel for the question, please. >> thank you so much for coming. great presentation. thank you. i'm 100% with you on the low h

literally a nation of immigrants, even the founding fathers came here from other countries like alexander hamiltonthe hit musical by lin-manuel miranda bringing to life debates about immigrants, patriotism, money and race that can still resonate a lot these days. his political poetry made its way from off broadway to the obama white house to some of the largest stages in streaming platforms in the world. he is our guest tonight, making his "beat" debut. we welcome lin-manuel miranda. >> i'm going to tell you a little bit about something i was wrong about. >> oh. >> okay. who am i? i am just a lawyer and a journalist, just a person, right? >> with your own show. >> people started coming up to me for whatever reasons because they know me a little bit and saying, ari -- this is early days. >> yes. >> i think you were at the public theater where you opened and i live in new york. >> sure. >> ari, you are a lawyer, you love rap. there's a hip-hop musical opera about the founding fathers, you got to see it. i thought, that sounds really whack. i was imagining like a pbs, line info telethon. it then beca

and of course, another was alexander hamilton, who, though he was dead by a at the end of jefferson's first term, as in the presidency of the time, jefferson was leaving office. and what. should 1809 he he he knew that his own past rule vision of an america of farmers small big farmers people close to the earth who were by that very fact moral is superior to people who were not close to the earth, who lived in cities. and so he knew that hamilton washington's of a of a commercial america of america was a big bank and lots of banks and scripts and and stock market and and and and all of those things that come from the soil that for. monticello was the exact opposite of he also wasn't happy because of later on andrew jackson was on the rise and and some years before jefferson's death he was still paying attention. it seemed likely that andrew jackson would soon become president of the united states he detested. jackson and he still was an idealist to think that american ship of state that was sailing through turbulent waters would come out into a calmer sea, it still unnerved him consid

alexander hamilton comes to the future, i guess. or something as a musical.sometime down in the future. so he's your pop icon now? who have if you think of he and john laurens and others who were advocating the abolition of slavery and so forth, so much, you know, the manumission vibe and that sort of thing. okay, now my question to all of you gentlemen, the historians, how do we we're living in the state. we're kind of in the backyard. this is my front yard. i grew up fairfield of benedict arnold, the culper spy ring and the certain conference hartford in 1781 no september 1780. and of course know what i'm talking about. and that is the marquis de lafayette general george washington and others going to to meet with the french leadership. and then we know what comes next. spoiler alert benedict arnold about to give up west point. so i it would be interesting to hear what each of you have thoughts about intelligence, counterintelligence and a very close call for my key2 lafayette along with alexander hamilton and george washington. as far as what might have be

i didn't like it that alexander hamilton put this, put this in the constitution. but here it is and anybody who thinks that this is somehow breaking norms or shattering some sort of expectation for what the next president is going to do, has been living in bizarro world. donald trump was always going to do what he was going to do. we know that because one of his family members, whom he pardoned, is on his way to being ambassador to france as we speak. and so look, we can't have two standards where the media goes nuts and wall to wall coverage about joe biden pardoning hunter and then saying oh, but you know what? all those pardons that donald trump that donald trump did in the first term, all the pardons that he said he's going to do with people who literally stormed our capitol and caused an insurrection that he promised to do as soon as he becomes president again. you know, that's just trump being trump. and let's not worry about that. this is the kind of double standard that has gotten us into this mess. and i say that again, as somebody who hates and loathes a

i mean, if you look at the federalist papers, alexander hamilton wrote about this in federalist 76. he said the senate is supposed to be a check on the president because otherwise presidents are human. they're going to, you know, propose people for high office that are just favors to their friends and family. we're literally seeing that right now. as you just reported, there's family members all over the place in his nominations, not to mention a whole bunch of people that have no business running the agencies that they've been proposed to run. so senators are supposed to be independent checks on this. and the amount of pressure coming from their own party for them to just snap to attention is really not how this system works. >> shermichael matt just dropped the federalist papers here. thom tillis, republican from north carolina, dropped just raw politics and said, you know what i mean? trump may get get what he wants here now, but long term he may live to regret it. listen to what tillis said. >> i just think that, you know, it's a short term win, but a long term loss if you're no

in a letter to lafayette alexander hamilton, who is one of his closest friends during the war, writes that he feared that offering lafayette safe haven would strike up further tension with france. and it was really in america's best interest to stay out of the issue and to quote him the letter read, i have never been able to believe that france can make a republic, and i have believed that the attempt will it continue, can only produce misfortunes. i give you this on the faith of our former friendship. this is a very mean letter. despite his harsh words, hamilton's letter closed with a sentiment that would define lafayette's legacy for decades to come. that despite constant infighting, quote, the only thing in which our parties agree is to love you. hamilton was correct, although i don't think he really knew the power of what he was writing or really what he was saying. but early american politics were bitterly torn apart by federalists and democratic republicans and by remaining outside of the fray, lafayette was never forced to choose a side, and so he remained. this politically neu

if you don't like it, blame alexander hamilton, who wrote it into the constitution in the first place. so you know whether it's saber rattling from president trump about potentially pardoning hunter biden, he had the power to do that. and may very well have done so. i don't know, but i do wonder how republicans will react to the charles kushner pardon from over the weekend in nominating him to be serve as ambassador to france, even though he pleaded guilty to all these charges back in 2005. really only getting the job because of ties, given the fact that his son in law's father and donald trump, of course, pardoned him, which got overshadowed by everything else that happened at the end of charles kushner put in jail by chris christie. >> yes the prosecutor just real quick, jill biden, the first lady of the united states, was just asked about this. she said she, of course supports her husband pardoning their son you know, i was thinking as i was looking at the pictures of them over the weekend in nantucket they had just come from this annual pilgrimage to a place that is very special t

measure but how well we are doing as a country is how thomas jefferson, george washington, alexander hamiltonon jay, jon adams, how would they feel if there walking around washington d.c. today? these are men who deeply disagree with a lot of questions and the founding of our public but they agree on one thing that at the very least the lawmakers and policymakers we elected should actually be the ones making public policy in this country. so, against that backdrop i'm here to announce how we will revive the promise of the constitutionalti republic with three branches of government rather than four. that's the purpose of our meeting today we are going to get into a level of detail that is, to disappoint in the last half-century which is unprecedented will spawn nothing short of non- incremental reform but a revolution for a revival of the ideals of the american revolution and how we actually restore the constitutional republic. first, it will be a plan that reduces the size of the federal employee headcount by over 75% if i'm next president by the end of my first term. 50% of which is implemen

. >> you know, the the pardon power and blame alexander hamilton for writing this into the constitution i'm for pardons. >> yeah. for the power. >> yeah but why are we saying he's lying when the context has changed he did lie. this is a this is this is a new context. >> hold on, hold on hold on. i don't i don't understand president trump so what? >> second, what do you mean? >> so what he's already convicted president trump, president occurred. >> president trump has nothing to do with it multiple times. and let me get something in convicted. >> in fact insurrectionist wants to destroy the fbi. >> president trump go ahead. >> that's the new context story but has nothing to do what we're talking about just today, the special prosecutor in hunter biden's case came out and refuted the allegations in president biden, saying that it's a political witch hunt. he said there's no evidence whatsoever of that of a political witch hunt. this is the special prosecutor in hunter biden's case. he came out and said that today in my opinion, like i said, i'm a father. i understand why he did it, but he

should measure how well we're doing as a country is how thomas jefferson george washington, alexander hamilton john jay, john adams how would they feel if they were walking around washington, d.c. today men by the way who -- deeply disagreed with a lot of, a lot of questions. relating to the founding of our republic but they agree on one thing that as very least the lawmakers and policy policymakee elected should be the ones making public policy in this country. so against that back drop, today i'm here to announce how we will revive the promise of that constitutional republic with three branches of government rather than four. [applause] that is a purpose of our meeting today. and we're going to get into a level of detail that is to this point in the last half century unprecedented i believe will spawn not incremental reform but a revolution a revival of the ideals of the american revolution -- in how we actually restore that constitutional republic. first, it will be a plan that reduces the size of the federal employee head count by over 75% of on the next president by the end of the first t

so some of the politicians initially who were not in favor of the bill of rights, notably alexander hamilton and james madison, started hearing the will of the people. it was madison who was very careful. he was attentive. he assembled a list. it was more than 200 in length. then they took that list and started saying all right, we're going to have to boil it down. if we're going to have a kind of negotiated settlement of this whole thing, what list would make sense? it got down to about 20. then it became 12. the 12 were sent out to the states for ratification and the 12 came back with ten. so three through 12 were adopted and on december 15th, 1791, the state of virginia became the last that was needed for ratification and the bill of rights became the first ten amendments of the united states constitution. >> now then, according to this year's civic study, only 7% of respondents could name all five rights guaranteed just under the first and some couldn't name any. when ked to name the rights guaranteed by the first amendment, 74% new included freedom of speech. 39% knew it included freedo

stability, consistency, and critic ability, what alexander hamilton called steady administration, forms the executive's distinct and crucial contribution to the unity of american society. stability is essential to social peace. as madison argues, precarious changeable administration makes it impossible for people to feel secure, to make plans, to take risks, to engage with each other across lines of distance. an unsteadiness in government makes it hard for anyone to be a faithful law-abiding citizen. these arguments do not apply exclusively to the executive. they are crucial in respect to congress too. but it is the president who bears the greatest responsibility to act with steadiness, to avoid sharp changes in direction or reversals of course, even the course of his predecessors. and to keep our government stable and secure. stability is not stasis. the president is expected to give steady direction to our policies. even to some extent to congress's work to set general priorities, to propose some legislative measures, to veto once he disapproves of. but in doing all that, the presiden