battle a little bighorn was cheney, 1876. they've been building for days, weeks and none and the climactic factions of the battle for a few hours that afternoon. leading up to it was a struggle over land as most of these indian wars have land at the base. in this case, 1868 treaty of fort laramie between the united states government and lakota nation had recognized the lakota lan claim to most of western south dakota and additional lands in montana and wyoming. that was fine in 1868, but a few years later, gold was discovered in the black hills in the united states government decided it wanted to renegotiate the treaty by force if necessary. that's what the army without your doing, trying to come out to come into the agency to renegotiate the treaty to conceive morland. custer's attack came from the east here are over into the valley of the little bighorn, had a long ride that day. he was trying to be sure to catch the indians are they bound him, discovered him and he was afraid they would disperse if they did see him first,

. >> now visit the battlefield that little bighorn. book tv spoke with local author on the recent visit to montana with the help of our cable partner charter communications. >> i have found this battle to be one of the most remembered in american history. it seems to have one of a handful of battles that even gets to fund history in high school can remember and get right and us something about. even if what they know is incorrect. they know something about it. and even nationally in traveling to other countries, people say montana, all, that is where custer rose from. that is the beginning of a conversation a lot of times. a surprising conversation. this is a battle with international significance. d. little big horn was june 205th 1976. building four days, weeks and months. and the climactic actions of the battle were a few hours that afternoon. leading up to it was a struggle over land, as most of these indian wars, a land at the base of it. in this case 1868 treaty at fort laramie between the united states government and the lakota

well, what they are creating is the same thing general custer saw at little bighorn. i ask my full statement be made part of the record and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: madam president, this has been an interesting discussion for the last 37 minutes. it lacks a little bit of preamble. the reason that we're in the situation that we're in now is because congress didn't do the spending bills when they were supposed to do the spending bills. we have 12 spending bills. there's no reason that we didn't spend 12 weeks doing each -- one week doing each of those for a period of 12 weeks. it's the second-most important job that we have. i think the most important job we have is national defense. but budgeting, spending is the next biggest thing. and if we would have done one bill each week for the 12 weeks that we needed to and had open amendments on it, there wouldn't have needed to be any of this discussion. most of the things would have been resolved by now. they would have either won or they wou

there is an endless supply of books about little bighorn. it is funny to think that this event that was a reasonably short in duration and happened along time ago. you would think everything had been unearthed, but it does not bend. there is always new ground to plow. montana is sort of this -- its

. >> it was little bighorn. we've been saying gettysburg. we have that wrong. it was little bighorn. then he went home to eat a ham sandwich while his troops got slaughterered. watching reruns of "guiding light" while the troops were getting killed. >> yesterday was an extraordinary day because we had basically the republicans going over to surrender on the debt ceiling saying okay you win on that. they long since surrendered on obama care. then the poll came out. and so i think, you know, at this point it's a matter of finding kind of -- capitulation without humiliation, some sort of formula to back down on the shut down and perhaps get some kind of negotiations out of that on budget issues which could be a good thing for the country, actually. and as for senator ted cruz, you know, he wasn't a popular guy among his peers and colleagues and i don't know how he shows his face around on the floor of the senate or even at the capitol. >> mike lee, he's a guy who was really popular in utah, replaced bob bennett. >>

>> little bighorn didn't turn out that well, maria. >> not at all.e like demint, saying there was no way to negotiate with the debt ceiling if they didn't have obama care. now saying go ahead and we'll negotiate because we can't win on obama care. you now have ted cruz standing alone in the republican party and again, that's rich for his opportunity to hold the mantle of leadership within the party. but it's lonely when you don't have any friends in washington within the senate or outside of the senate. >> dana milbank maria teresa kumar, thank you for your time. have a great weekend. >>> coming up, the rising star inside the right wing bubble says obama care is the worst thing since slavery. next. >>> we've talked about the trend of the right to use slavery for talking points. some are even comparing obama care to slavery. it happened today. meet the newest fox news contributor. he's dr. ben carson, a world renowned surgeon. he's been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and received a medal of freedom from president bush. this is a man we should b

religious fear of death but then they also loved a good mystery in part because it no case not little bighorn its will everyone agree on exactly what happened. the we return again and again to the battlefield to and the union opposed on the tennessee banks of the mississippi north of memphis. on april 12th the third university of the commencement of the civil war confederate calvary under the command overran a union garrison composed of equal portion of white tennessee unionist in escapes glaves if the results of this collision was the most notorious atrocity of the civil war to the imagination of the northern radicals who broadcast the details of hundreds of soldiers after they were murdered and burned a van buried alive of black men lynched the south in turn responded to factory and fantasy like the brickbats by hunkering down tuesday night and accused the victims. going through the waters consecrated been bloodied by calvary has not been easy in my account is not likely to please anybody you come off particularly well be there this seifert nor the icon of the propaganda. they could not hav

there is an endless supply of books about little bighorn. it is funny to think that this event that was a reasonably short in duration and happened along time ago. you would think everything had been unearthed, but it does not bend. there is always new ground to plow. montana is sort of this -- its own self-contained universe, you know. people here really do like to read about where they live and their history. there is a real connection among people who grew up here, especially the ones who are several generations on. the relationship to the land, you know. .. it's great to be with you this afternoon. i hope you are doing well. >> guest: thank you, debbie. i hope you are, too triet >> host: ibm. i enjoyed reading the book in the last week. do and a member of the people in the book you wrote about but i wonder why did you write this book now? >> guest: well, it's clearly something i couldn't have written while i was still actively employed by general motors because some people either within general motors or other companies might have taken

i mean, you know, these are the generals who lead people into the battle of little bighorn and then go and have lunch and leave the troops out there. where are they? where are the generals? what's their strategy to get abolition of obama care? >> was there a strategy? was there an end game here, congressman? >> when we talk about strategy, ted cruz is not running the republican party. we have a republican party with many different ideas. and really all we've been asking about from the beginning is this. delay the fine on americans. now think about this for a second. what the president and this administration is saying is that you have to go sign up for obama care to a website that does not function which you cannot sign up for. and if you don't, if you don't do that, you're going to get fined. all we're asking for is delay the fine on americans. and let's keep in mind the president has already delayed that fine for big business. and again, i almost sound like a liberal talking point when i say that president obama is giving big business and big corporations a break but not you, the har

i mean, you know, these are the generals, it's the battle of little bighorn and then go home and haveout there? where are they? where are the generals? what is their strategy for the abolition of obama care? >> i heard it yesterday. it happened on thursday, are we watching sort the? i know a lot of conservatives have been privately quietly without their names attached it to saying nasty things ability ted cruz, they don't like him. they haven't felt safe to say it. are we seeing a turning point where there is a marginalization of ted cruz on the right? >> i think the concerns of what folks like ted cruz is doing to the party and the party's image, those concerns have always been there. it's obviously a tricky position for ted cruz's colleagues to come out and say we think he is doing is not good. you look at someone like marco rubio clearly eyeing 2016, he can't come out and be seen as someone not an allie of ted cruz, especially after all of the immigration debates. he, you foe, obviously suffered with the tea party grass roots movement. i think that, you know, it's been interesting

bighorn,e at little custer's final battle. how did this happen? why did it happen?olks, it's really a culminating in march nearly 400 years of cultural animosity, cultural friction, cultural disdain between euro americans and native americans, in the fight was always over the same thing. land. land. who would occupy it? how would it be used? who would be allowed to traverse across it? the guys you see when euro americans come out west, they see huge expanses of territory and they see grass and water and timber and minerals in the ground, particularly that yellow metal that makes a white man go crazy. >> our travel to billings, montana. part of booktv. be sure to ruin us all weekend. -- the short to watch as all weekend. -- be sure to watch is all weekend. we welcome stewart patrick. the headline from the washington consolidating its chemical arsenal compliance. can we trust syria and how do we verify it? guest: this is good. syria is consolidating these weapons. there has been a major risk that some of these could fall into the hands of either rebel forces diverted