what andrew jackson was saying is he is a pure populist. he died penniless. he was part of the unforced migration of human beings to that point in history and it's probably a quarter million scots irish that come to the united states here is this class that returned the favor it is a perfect populist insurgency. >> tr is also on the cover of the book. how was he a populist? and what was the social turbulence going on at the time that helped him along? >> he became more populist as he got crazier. roosevelt definitely was a progressive band was and delete. as he starts outcom out, he's an accidental president, takes office but of course teddy roosevelt being the cockiest person that has ever lived to this mckinley conservatism, rips it up and throws it into his and he has ideas about everything. he has a plan for how the naval midshipman should do their anesthetics and every part of the government that is a technocratic progressive that is not a populist yet. what happens for him, he leaves william howard taft very explicit instructions about what they are sup

. >> take a look how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. we're going to go ahead and start. welcome to our latest lunch time lecture. i'm chief historian year at the u.s. capitol historical society. welcome. i'm really pleased today to introduce you, if you don't already now, jeanne and david heidler, they've been speakers here before for their book on george washington's circle and today we're really honored that we're one day in to the official existence of their latest book on andrew jackson. the rise of andrew jackson was just released officially yesterday so we're at the threshold of greatness here with the book and i hope you consider buying it. they're going to be able afterwards to sign it for anyone who is interested and i also want to point out that their previous book i said was here before, washington circle, we're selling discounted copies back there. i'm told the hard cover at that we're selling is five cents more than amazon's soft cover. so, that sounds like a win-win. anyway, i hope you'll have some great questions for jean

they take a look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. [inaudible conversations] >> we're going to go ahead and start stuff. excuse me. welcome. welcome to our latest lunchtime lecture. my name is chuck, i'm chief historian here at the u.s. capitol historical society. welcome. i'm really pleased today to introduce you, if you don't already know david and jeanne heidler, they've been speakers here before for their book on george washington's circle, and today we're really honored that we're one day in to the official existence of their latest book on andrew jackson, "the rise of andrew jackson" was just released officially yesterday. so we're at the threshold of greatness here with the book. and i hope you all consider buying it. they're going to be available afterwards to sign it for anyone who's interested, and i also want to point out that their previous book, i said they'd been here before, was "washington circle." we're also selling discounted copies back there. i'm told that the hard cover that we're selling is five cents more than a

andrew jackson never moved on. he was just had a will and a -- and marshal hoped he would not be reelected. his hope i believe was that if someone else won marshall would retire and then associate justice story would be promoted to be chief justice. and marshall even attends in that election cycle he attends the first political convention in american history which is the anti-masonic party. he is invited as an eminent person who will come to their convention. and i think he's probably vetting them to see how serious they are. he's thinking how can we beat this guy. could these people be the ones. and we hear about the anti-masonic party today and it seems like a crazy thing, but people were alarmed there was a group with secret ranks and secret oaths, and andrew jackson happened to belong to it. sort of a populist way of outflanking the populist president. jackson gets reelected of course, and as far as the cherokee decision goes, marshall just has to -- he has to live with it. jackson would not see the law was enf

today it seems crazy but people were alarmed there was this group with secret oaths and andrew jackson happen to belong to it but of course jackson is reelected and as far as the cherokee decision goes marshall just has to live with it because jackson would not see that the law was enforced and it wasn't pressed to the final stage. that would have been if samuel the imprisoned missionary to the cherokees brought a lawsuit he would have had to tell his attorneys the decision is not being followed they are not obeying the decision so the court must notify the president must execute the law. but at the same time an altercation crisis with south carolina over the tariffs come to a boil will georgia joined south carolina? so the missionary is leaned on and they say drop the lawsuit we don't want to split the country because of your problem so he did. so we never reach the point of the ultimate clash. so who side would he be on in the back and forth between trump and chief justice roberts or the obama judge that stayed i cannot imagine marshall tweeting. [laughter] or doing any public expres

how can we beat this guy, and it seems, there are people with secret ranks and andrew jackson happened to belong. sort of a populist way of flanking the populist president but jackson gets reelected and as far as the cherokee decision goes marshall just has to live with it. jackson would not see that the law was enforced, it wasn't press to the final stage. the final stage would have been if samuel wore stir, the imprisoned missionary to the cherokees bringing the lawsuit. he would have had to tell his attorneys that the decision is not being followed, georgia is not obeying the decision and therefore the report must notify the president that he must execute the laws but at the same time this is happening with south carolina over the tariffs coming to a boil. will georgia join south carolina? so the missionary is weaned out by new england religious employers who dropped this lawsuit and split the country because of your problem so he did. he never reached the point of the ultimate clash. the question of the hour everyone is wondering, whose side would marshall be on in the back and for

would you like to give your condolences to andrew jackson's family? >> absolutely, yes. >> would you like to pour one out for andrew jackson? >> rest in peace, andrew jackson. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: andrew, you will be missed. by all. all right, it's time now for one of our most cherished moments of the year. we have a team of four brave suls. we call them tv watchers because they spend all day every day watching tv and scouring the web specifically to find clips that might amuse you. these sad and unhealthy individuals are laser focused on their jobs. tonight they wait breathlessly in hopes one of the outtakes they found will be named clip of the year for 2018. [ cheers and applause ] and our nominees are -- mary j-walking. >> last august when it was found that neil and yvette hartley had been growing almost 90 cannabis plants, little did their neighbors know that in this quiet corner, this pretty little corner in the kent countryside, at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis. >> the little fur maid. >>

-- enemy of andrew jackson, and didn't get shot for it. i don't know how jackson let him off the hook. sam houston, the governor of texas. a kentuckynden was politician, considered the protege of henry clay. we're looking for a compromise? we're looking for a way to meet in the middle? crittenden's your man. yes,he group included, other northern former whigs, not to decided about the slavery issue. everett had been a professor, a and aat, a u.s. senator, few years after this, he would become one of those great historical trivia questions. they were dedicating this veterans cemetery in gettysburg. and they invited the man they considered the great orator of the era. he knew his latin, he knew his cicero, he knew his great romans and all this. and he gave a two-hour speech to hail the dedication of the veterans cemetery of gettysburg. and then somebody else got he is the one we remember. wrote to lincoln after this that if i could capture everything you captured in two minutes, i would have done a good job. both are in their mid-to-late 60's.

he goes to the second term of andrew jackson then in the middle there is an 11 year period 1812 to 23 where there are no personal changes on the supreme court. we've had only one such ever again. so he's only there for one thing to exercise his geniality and intellect but the one we were most talked about was marbury versus madison and established the principle of the judicial review. alexander hamilton had written about it in the papers. it's a long opinion, 9,00 9,000s are a scolding of the jefferson administration telling him he was entitled in the district of columbia jefferson and the administration had delivered the commission to him they ought to have done it. he can't get it because of the means of redress is something the court cannot do that most of this is shaking the finger at the administration the ones where the court asserts its supremacy over state courts and there was a series of the senate dartmouth and collins and nicole versus maryland. but the case i want to talk about this morning because of its economic assistance had to do with a land deal in georgia in the 179

andrew jackson actually wasn't even the president during the final, horrific journey of the trail of tears. again, it became a huge national policy. it was epic in scope. it involved half of the states of the union in removal routes, involved west of the mississippi. it was expensive. it was budgeted for 500,000. some scholars estimate it would be something like $100 million total in today's dollars. it was something that not only affected the south but created economic wealth in new england. cotton was the most important commodity on the planet. it created wealth in the united kingdom as well. we are looking at how massive a project this was. visitors who may think it is only about a terrible thing that happened to some american indians, orchestrated by bad president, it was a national policy carried out. it was epic, it was brutal, it was visionary. it was all of those things at once. by the end of the decade, the wealthiest americans in the country had zip codes in mississippi and alabama. the cotton kingdom explosion wasn't due to removal. removal moved the last barrier from have

we were talking about andrew jackson briefly the other day on our call. if you look at the jackson administration, it is funny that the great statesman of the day like john quincy adams, their heads almost exploded at the thought of andrew jackson becoming president. they said democracy as we know is going to come to an end. as it turned out, andrew jackson turned out to be a pretty good president. a little contentious, but none the less a good president. among other things, he founded the democratic party. david: i covered george w. bush and i remember i went to see him after he was out of office. we talked about a book that a colleague of mine wrote which was a great book about the bush-cheney years. i said this is good, you should read it. he said let me tell you, you could not write a memoir of my time in office, as you were there. so we need more time. doris: that is great. >> my question is for doris. why didn't you include harry truman among your presidents? the korean war which is similar to other wars, and he was a president of change and certain

perhaps something andrew jackson did or abraham lincoln did. one thing truman said was not our readers will be leaders, but he said every leader has to be a reader, because, this is my language, not his, but why would you, if you were president or all of us as citizens and voters, why ever would you want to deny yourself the collected wisdom of billions of people who have walked the earth and find out what mistakes they made and what successes they had, particularly previous presidents and generations of americans. what the founders wanted was the country to be very different from england and in one way particularly. in england, there wasn't much history because documents weren't released and what was written basically said the king was perfect and everything was wonderful. they wanted us to do the opposite. they wanted us to absolutely scrutinize what earlier presidents and earlier generations of citizens had done, and learn the lessons as quickly as possible, and that's one reason why the founders felt very strongly that we should keep very e

the star-spangled banner, don't give up the ship, andrew jackson's new orleans. this was remembered as a glorious moment in american history and one remember in that most of all, in 1840. a fine guy except he was a slaveholder, liar, scoundrel and bully. other than that he was fine. pole, partly because he wanted the glory of being a war president, because he remembered madison in 1812, orchestrated an incident at the texas border, mexicans attacked a small skirmish and said we need a major war against mexico all the way to mexico city which they agreed to. he lied to congress, lied to the secretary of state, he had a diary, lying to all these people, i put one over on them. in a bad way he did a good thing. he added 1,000,000 mi. to america so we could become a continental nation all the way to the pacific but the problem was this was maybe 60 years after the constitution, the founders wanted us to be a shining city on the hill. they did not want presidents to lie to congress to get us involved in an unnecessary war based on a fake incident that never happened.

andrew jackson there.his breaking news coming from goldman sachs, being sued by investors in a class-action related to the 1mdb scandal in malaysia. this is a story we will flesh out for you a little bit more. let's look at what is moving market wise. david: also breaking, china has , leading some reviews to a massive reversal and shares of tencent. , coming way off lows of the day on the hang seng index, 3.5% up on tencent. the is a report out of agency moving tencent, moving the index higher. details on that later on. the international group plunging 20% at one point. samsonite down today. on that at thes moment, but there we go. david: commodity markets, oil and gold, copper. there we go. not a big story. we are moving off the lows when it comes to cold, -- oil. you step fact, collapsing in expectations because of what is happening in oil prices. you have the euro, sterling, aussie dollar, you go to the bond markets, where the aussie has been trending in the trending down, unchanged. rishaad: it is that

someone tries to assassinate andrew jackson, president jackson, french is watching. look what just happened there. john quincy adams has a stroke in the house. french is not long after holding his hand. lincoln's assassination, french is at the bedside. it is amazing. at the gettysburg address, this is great. i get to brag about some of the photos i found. there are a couple of photos in the book that when you are writing a book, you think this took me two months but no one will ever know that. there is one image in the book of a congressman named john dawson from louisiana. he is scary. he is a fighting man. he is the bowie knife guy. i like the fact that you're acting it out for me. i feel very encouraged. [laughter] prof. freeman: thank you. and the shirt too. he is scary. when you see the portrait, he looks like a disturbed individual. i wanted to show what he looked like. he is a pretty obscure guy. i tracked down -- thank you very much. there he is. i tracked down the one portrait of him. there is one portrait of him. it was sold years ago at an auction house i

andrew jackson, where did his idea of how to relate to the press come from? because he ended up inviting reporters to what? to be advisers? >> his basic idea of how to deal with the press came from the nra -- oh, wait, that's actually good. so, you know, he did what every president wants to do. he did not like the democratic paper that was in -- at work when he came to washington in 1829. so he founded a new one. "the washington globe" was his newspaper. imagine if every president could just start their own thing -- we may be getting there. jackson was ahead of his time. people would bring him editorials, he would edit them. it was a partisan act. it was how he communicated with the country. it's beyond our kin now, but as one of the great architects of democrat culture, that understanding that you had to be in more or less constant communication with a democratic populace foreshadowed the modern world. i think he would have used twitter. you use the means of your day. and it's no mistake that our greatest presidents, our most effective presidents, have been

think everyone knows something was bad -- summing that was done to indians, and we know andrew jackson was part of that story. what we found is intended to be seen as a shape of moment in history. we hope to show how it was a much larger event. we operated from what people already think and people already know. so at the concluding section of the exhibit we look at trail of tears in national memory over time. what interesting is the trail of was never forgotten by american indians. but in national memory it faded away pretty quickly. in the late 19th century, into the first half of the 20th century, it's rarely in textbooks as a major event involving indians. and it's often completely omitted from discussions of the jackson administration area there are many books -- there aren't many books written that touched upon it. is the first thing people think of when they think of president jackson. people are really familiar with that phrase. section we show how that didn't just happen by accident. it was contrary of young indian women in early at the 20th century-- earliest 20th that launche

much know it is something about indians, something bad that was done the indians and we know andrew , jackson was part of that story. but what we found is it tends to be seen as a shameful moment in history but a small event. it was done to indians. we hope to show how it was a much larger event. we operated from what people already think and people already know. the concluding section of the exhibit we look at trail of tears in national memory over time. what is really interesting is the trail of tears was never forgotten by american indians. but in national memory it faded away pretty quickly. when you look at what historians were riding in the late 19th century, into the of the 20th first half century, it's rarely in textbooks as a major event involving indians. and it's often completely omitted from discussions of the jackson administration. there were many books written that barely touched on it or ignored it all together. it's interesting to hear the 21st century it is the first thing people think of when they think of president jackson. and that people really around the world are famil

a book right now by andrew jackson. members were caned on the floor of the house.the press were always difficult for politicians. i have always been surprised -- for me, politics changes but the basics do not change. like the rest of life, everyone's life has become faster. argument that it has become too fast. how do you change that? you cannot take people's cell phones away or internet away. everyone has to learn to struggle with that. i find it interesting to watch the ads on tv. find ways to turn off the internet at dinner. i thought it would be easier to just tell the kids to put down their phones. but the concept is right. people struggling with ways to do that. struggling -- politics is struggling with the same thing. ways to spendd more personal time together. now.ave to work at it it is not like in the good old days when at 5:00, there was no facetime or cell phone and you did not have to raise a bazillion dollars to run tv ads. i don't know if those were better days but i know they aren't coming back so we have to struggle with the problems we face today

previous chairs, andrew jackson and jefferson davis. >> senator james inhofe, republican of oklahoma, will begin the first full year as senate armed services chairman. you spent most of 2018 as acting chairman and chairman following the death of senator john mccain. what is the difference about the job now that you are starting it on day one of the new congress? sen. inhofe: when john mccain was having problems and had to go back to arizona, we still had voices from another director there. we never knew if it was going to be staff or from john mccain. he was failing at that time. after he died i became the , chairman. that was different because he put together our people. and before that we did not have our people. he's the staff director and he is the one that built his own staff. we can put together a program the way we want it. questionnot be in the as to is this what somebody else wants. acting director is not a lot of fun. we know what is wrong with the military. between the staff he has and i spent 8 years on the house armed services committee and 20 years on the senate armed se

previous chairs of the committee, andrew jackson and jefferson davis. >> senator james inhofe republican of oklahoma will begin his first full term as senate armed services committee chairman in the 116th congress. you spent most of 2018 as acting chairman and then chairman following the death of senator john mccain. so what is the difference about the job now that you're going to be starting it on day one of a new congress? sen. inhofe: well, when john mccain was having problems, had to go back to arizona, we still had voices from another director there. we never knew whether it was going to be from staff or actually john mccain and he was failing at that time. so after he died, he became the chairman, that was different because we put together our people. before that we didn't have our people. john bonso who is in here right now. he's staff director and he is the one who built his own staff. so it's different. we can put together our program the way we want it and there can't be any question as to is this what somebody else wants? acting director is not a lot of fun. but now we know --

yet, andrew jackson mostly did some dirty things to keep him out of office. some would say liquid, kept out by russian information were for in 2016 among other things. i go through all of those methods and reconcile them, where does that leave us? what options do we have four different presidents? >> in all of your research, do you have a favorite story? >> there are so many. we have had a lot of bad presidents. the funny thing for me, was owning that in the 1800s, we had a lot of presidents, all of them male, all of them white males, most of them with facial hair. we don't remember all of the names of them. i released why. a lot of them were bad. they were very good at their jobs. one example is john tyler. he became president in 1841 when the incumbent president, wendling william died. he becomes president and he did such a bad job managing his own adopted party that he becomes the first president to have several things happen to him. it happened because henry clay, had a national bank built that he wanted past. it was according to the party. tyler himself

andrew jackson, hermes investment management, head of fixed income, joins us now from hong kong. th us. this dtv chart on the bloomberg showing exactly what i said. ,he three-year to five-year gap the first one to turn negative since 2007. -- really nott the one spread you look at closely, but what could this signal for the markets? andrew: i think what we are seeing is a continuation of the trend we have been watching for some time. is not the focus for most people. most people look at 2-10. -5 getting inverted is a sign that we are getting towards the end of cycle euro where people start to feel more cautious. but i think we have been and they have0's, been through certain resistance points a couple of times already. we are cautious about reading too much into this. we think the fed has done a good job of signaling what they are going to be doing. clearly, some of the comments from last week are having impacts on markets, but we think the market is reacting in a rational manner, and we do not think it is time to start panicking yet. shery: the fed has been good at signaling. whe

george hw bush came in 20th on the list ahead of ulysses s grant and john quincy adams and behind andrew jackson and john adams, highest marks on crisis management and international relations. is that where he was at his best. >> he was a person whose history, preparedness for international affairs, and the most interest in domestic policy that captured his imagination. but foreign-policy was, he was very good at it. he was known to be good and able at the time. as the years of unfolded, we see how impressive he was. from the period of postwar period began, up until the end of the 1980s, if you said the soviet union would disappear from the face of the earth and that would happen without a shot being fired or cataclysm, that would have shocked people in the way george hw bush helped manage that it was very tricky, the reunification of germany, it is very skittish about, george w. bush felt it should. he had the ability to pull that off. there was the gulf war which was one of the great successes, getting iraq out of kuwait in 1990, the coalition he put together, nafta, which he expanded to inclu

grant and john quincy adams and the kind andrew jackson and john adams. he earned his highest marks on crisis management and international relations. as that's where he was at his best? >> guest: is where he was at his best and most comfortable. his history prepared him for affairs. the director of the cia that is the area he had most interesting. domestic policy didn't really captured his imagination that foreign policy was and he was very good at it. i think he was known to be good and able and competent at the time i think as the years have unfolded as we have seen just how impressive he was. from the period in the late 1940s if you had said o that the soviet unionvi would disappear from the face of the earth and that would have shocked people and the way that he helped manage that and not just that but there was the reunification of germany. they are very skittish about whether they were going to be unified and george h. w. bush felt like it should and he had the ability to pull that off. there was the gulf war which was one of the great successes in

kennedy: well, brian, you are the author of many books, one of them being andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans. it is currently top five on "the new york times"' paperback list. it is a fantastic book. you are a veracious consumer of history. so tell me as we pause and survey the life of the 41st president, how will history guide us, and what will his legacy be? >> well, i thought it was historic today. just for us now to have president trump and president bush, i found out they met for the first time today face to face. george w. bush and president trump have never met face to face. we -- we knew they were both at the inaugural together, but they didn't have a chance to talk. and we know they've been critical of each other, more president trump on the bushes, the iraq war, 9/11, jeb bush, we know about the interaction there. president trump made an offhand remark about thousand points of light, but they seem to have put it aside. kennedy, i have a feeling this is burying the hatchet, because president trump has done all the right things, the bushes have done all the right thing

bush blamed on the bank and goes back to andrew jackson. there's a long tradition of tension, in fact, in this relationship. i would say that the president, i think he's exactly right to be critical of the fed. i agree with my friend steve moore. i think the fed erred badly. if anything, deflation, complete lack of inflation seems to be the risk globally right now but i think president trump who i greatly support made a mistake by publicly calling him out. he effectively put him verbally in a corner and dared him to raise rates. in that situation, powell has to try to defend the institutional integrity of the fed and much encourage quiet conversations rather than public ones on twitter when it comes to persuade the fed to slow down. >> as a supporter of the president, as a supporter of his or somebody who agrees with his frustration with the fed, do you think powell should potentially be fired? >> not at this point. but listen, this is a president who likes to fire people. who's very demanding of his subordinates and i think it's okay to pu

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andrew jackson the model and inspiration for one donald trump.ght. now flags at half staff throughout america here, right outside our offices here, governor cuomo has ordered that they all be flown at half staff in honor of the 41st president of the united states, george h.w. bush. if you went to bed a little early last night and you're just hearing this, the 41st president of the united states passed away late last night. funeral services are being planned, formally for wednesday, that will be recognized on the part of the present occupant of the white house, donald trump, as a national day of mourning. he and his wife melania will attend that funeral. the bush family invited them. and they have accepted that invite. carla hill, a u.s. trade representative under the former president. she joins us now. ambassador, thank you for taking the time. >> it's a pleasure to join you. >> you know, it's interesting, we think of these overtures and these big trade deals, many of which which are reworked under this administration, but it started under presid

they said, well, andrew jackson was using the lithograph.ald john quincy adams won't be elected if you use lithographs. and then they were against william henry harrison because he used music. now they're against donald trump because he's branding, and he's counterpunching, and it's all evil. anything new is bad, the media just can't talk it. lou: they can't take it because they are living on borrowed time, let's be very, very serious here. >> and they're part of the establishment you were talking about. [laughter] masters who have other interests than those that are so, well, seemingly obvious to audiences. >> it's all about money. lou: well, not all about money. a little bit about power. [laughter] >> yes. lou: doug wead, it's always good ♪ >> this president donald j. trump they respect him and they fear him if anybody can get a deal it is it going to be donald j. trump with with ambassador ronald lighthizer trump trying to reensure investors to get a trade agreement request china. >> adding to investor confusion dow down and now negative

russell meade under your tutelage where he -- where meade talks about jacksonian tradition, this is andrew jackson're isolationists but if you come after us we have a big stick, we will beat you up and retreat back home. >> it's a narrow conception of american views in the world. he was also saying if you don't come after us directly and go after others, have at it, boys. it's such a narrow view of the potential of the world to have adverse affects on the united states and it almost undermines his own philosophy. if you believe in making america great again it's not obvious to me how that can happen in a world that's unraveling. mr. trump seems unable to see that connection. >> let's talk about the specifics. the syria decision. i have never thought the u.s. has had a very solid strategy in syria, we basically -- we don't have a team to back. the russians, the iranians, they have a team to back, they have assad, this he back him, he's got real power and with some legitimacy in the region, a brutal dictator. we don't. we are looking around so we keep playing the game with some hope. will it matter

andrew jackson mayor of atlanta, john lewis, stanford bishop and others. great time getting their pictures taken. finally did leave with the staff urging him to get on to new orleans, as his staff left, he pressed something into my hand, saying the vice president wants you to have these. those were the cufflinks. i was very pleased. obvious that he had enjoyed himself. i was very pleased we had successful program. melissa: yeah. i understand you traveled with sub-saharan africa. i understand you visited him two days ago. what was that like? >> i visited his home in thursday on houston. because i had gone out to visit him. i had been scheduled to go out a month earlier but he wasn't doing well. as of monday last week, checking with his chief of staff, they felt thursday would be a good time. unfortunately by the time i arrived on thursday he wasn't doing well. but i did visit with him for a little bit more than an hour. his son neil was there, neil's wife and his grandson pierce that was there. and jim baker and susan baker were both there and it was obviou

they said, well, andrew jackson was using the lithograph., hey, but short, fat, bald john quincy adams won't be elected if you use lithographs. and then they were against william henry harrison because he used music. now they're against donald trump because he's branding, and he's counterpunching, and it's all evil. anything new is bad, the media just can't talk it. lou: they can't take it because they are living on borrowed time, let's be very, very serious here. >> and they're part of the establishment you were talking about. [laughter] lou: absolutely. and also each and every one with their corporate masters who have other interests than those that are so, well, seemingly obvious to audiences. >> it's all about money. lou: well, not all about money. a little bit about power. [laughter] >> yes. lou: doug wead, it's always good to see you. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. have a good evening and good night from new york. mug. ♪ ♪ night from new york. trish: we have details pouring in after special counsel robert muelle

and yet andrew jackson mostly get some pretty dirty things. to keep him out of office, somewhat say hillary rodham clinton russian information warfare in the 2016 among otherthings . so i go through all those methods. and track and stack them and try to decide where does that leave us and what options do we have four different kinds of bad presidents. >> in all your research, do you have a favorite story of presidential malfeasance? >> there are so many. >> we've had a lot of bad presidents and the funny thing for me was learning that in the hundreds in particular we had a lot of presidents, all of them male, all of them white males, most of them with facial hair, which we don't remember all the names of and i realized why. because a lot of them were just bad. they weren't very good at their job . one example is john tyler. he became president in 1841 when the incumbent president william henryharrison died area becomes president . and he does such a bad job managing his own adopted party that he becomes the first president to have several thin

i believe since andrew jackson. so we tried to get himself in on the colonial thing.randfather in indonesia had died fighting dutch soldiers in the struggle for independence. in fact, it turned out that his stepgrandfather died when he fell off a chair while changing the drapes. that is not a joke. that is actually true. that is how his stepgrandfather died. and then you have hillary clinton who is running as a feminist icon and is only the candidate because she is the wife of the previous guy. and was given a senate seat for standing by him when his interns dress wound up in the crime lab. so in such a world, you cannot blame elizabeth warren for saying if hillary can be a feminist icon, why can't i be the first native american president? she was harvard law school's first woman ofpr color. that's why it is not a family law thing, she actually was promoted as harvard law school's first woman of color, why should she not be america's first native american president? >> tucker: [laughs] >> none of this identity politics, joe biden should run as the first transgender wo

on elitism in america in ship of fools, portlandly brian kill meade's look at the war of 1812, andrew jackson and me miracle of new orleans. after that, jonathan haith a discussion of the societal trends weakingenning the diversity of viewpoints on college campuses and a look at the best selling nonfiction books according to the conservative book club is, trump's america, forminger speaker of the house, newt gingrich, on the impact of the trump administration's policies at home and abroads. all of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> good evening. one quick logistical notes. as you c