his most recent book, "cain of gettysburg" despite what the program says, it's "cain of gettysburg," and it's at the bookstore. he's established himself as a well-respected writer of non-fiction. his best known work in this genera, "looking for trouble: adventures in an unbroken world," establishes his vision of world affairs. he contributes to "usa today," the washington post," newsweek,," and the "wall street journal". as well as his given name, colonel peters has written under the name able jones. the able jones series of novels under the pseudonym of owen perry. his long experience celebrated graphs and assessed difficult situations established ralph peters as a leading voice on america's war on terror. we welcome colonel peters to norwich. [applause] >> i thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, i only have to make one correction, i did not graduate from penn state. i started unregulated and timely in the army, i did get something of an education. i'm going to be talking to you on the subject of myth of gettysburg, and it's the myths arise or that are addressed in the novel of

let's say he wins at gettysburg. what does he do? so what? he wins at gettysburg. he loses a third of his men in the process. he still has the logistical problem. he still has all of these sorts of issues. this is an argument against lee and one that should be considered and part of it relates to -- part of it relates to how plausible you think that gettysburg and that whether or not he really could are have won gettysburg. >> i think the problem is i personally don't think the strategy followed. it was fine in what was needed for the south to win, but i think the problem goes back to his positive trait was also another one of his weaknesses was aggressiveness because he became way too reckless with his men and when he saw the tide of certain battles starting to change he would throw more men into the battle and get mowed down and it would work to wear down the north. >> all right. >> i have issue with sort of the strategy going into gettysburg because the point of his campaign was obviously he wanted to win a big battle in the north as a moral victory and reduce t

gettysburg happened to be where the army ended up meeting. >> he doesn't intend to fight in gettysburg but somewhere in the north. >> if he's going after a transportation hub like harrisburg or an industrial center, so what? you make it and even if he wants to take over a hub or factory, so what. >> his goal is really to bring -- to force the federal army to a battle and to defeat it decisively and that by itself should crush the northern public opinion. all right. that's -- it's not completely -- let me throw this out. what happens in new york city around that time? >> the draft. >> the draft riots. the north is deeply, deeply divided in some respects about the war. so imagine draft riots, plus the prospect of -- but, you know, the reality is, though, this is alterably complicated. for example, you guys got the traditional explanation historians use why sherman's campaign is so important and lincoln, the capture. >> because it it turns public opinion in 1864 -- >> we have a famous letter where he says i'm going to lose this election, all right. who is lincoln's opponent? this is actua

but let's say he wins at gettysburg. so what? he wins at gettysburg. and he loses a third of the men in the process. he still has all sorts of issues. and this is an argument against lee. and one that should be considered. and part of it relates to how plausible you think that gettysburg and ready he could have done it. >> i don't think it's his fault. i think it's fine and what was needed for himself to win. but his positive trait was a weakness with his aggressiveness. he became way too reckless with his men. he would just throw more men into the battle, and they would just get mowed down. but it would work to weigh down the north. >> i have an issue with his strategy going into gettysburg. the point of his campaign was obviously he wanted to win a big battle in the north, but wasn't the military objective to get to harris burg? >> yeah, he does not intend to fight in gettysburg. >> yeah, if he's going after the hub like harris burg or the industrial center, so what. you make it. if he was to take over on the factories, so what? >> his goal is really

you see this at vicksburg, gettysburg and anti temp tam. later generation of parks createded in the 1930s, 1940s you can pinpoint to any degree of accuracy that you can at these earlier battlefields. this would the golden age of shiloh when these things, this battlefield was established. part of a larger movement but it's a key feature of our favorite battlefield here. now there are later preservation efforts at shiloh, course. we know about some of the major reconstruction that's done during the new deal, for instance, when the concrete roads go in, the visitor center we visit today goes up at that time, the book store that's there now goes up at that time. later on mission 66, park service term will create the bypass out there and do some additional things, add on to the visitor center and of course there are later acquisitions. really we get into more of the preservation story in the recent past. just recently we've talked about fallen timbers and the 490 some acres that the trust is working on now. originally the park in 1890s and early

donaldson or vicksburg or chattanooga or gettysburg or antietam. any of those national cemeteries, logically the soldiers are buried in close proximity to where they were originally failed. where they fell. so it's going to be on the battlefield itself. so in kind of a roundabout way, although they were not doing it in terms of preservation, they were actually preserving part of the battlefield when they reburied those dead at shiloh national cemetery. and you see that all around, even though the national cemetery at chattanooga, we're talking about tennessee here, was not most of the dead, a lot of the dead who come from chickamauga, of course, but it is actually on a part of the battle of chattanooga when union forces were attacking, one of the generals talks about how he could see the union line going up and over the small crest where the cemetery would eventually be. so the national cemetery first preservation movement, although it was not intended specifically for preservation, it was more memorial features than preservation, but it did, in pa

dropping him into gettysburg isn't legitimate. having said that i would have no doubt he would have gone up east cemetery hill and that would have been the end of the battle of gettysburg. could you have dropped him there, which you couldn't have, but that's a good question. >> we have a couple more quick calls before the program resumes at the library of virginia. let's hear from carol in ann arbor, michigan. go ahead. >> and good morning, sir. i wanted to tell you how fascinating this is. i am in ann arbor, michigan. the program is so very interesting for those of us who aren't in your region. we did live in michigan or we lived in richmond for a couple years and went to all these battlefields and studied and learned about it. and i wanted to let you know there are still re-enactments up here and people who are very interested in michigan in the civil war in studying it. so thank you for airing this nationally. and for bringing such fascinating speakers. >> well, i should admit that i lived in michigan for a few years. i was ver

i know you're right there in gettysburg with breaking news. if you hear anything, call. we'll be seeing you as the news conference in less than an hour. >>> president obama turning up the heat in florida today as he continues it push for the so-called buffett rule. the president is targeting rivals for their budget and tax plans. republicans are not holding back either. here's what paul ryan said a little more of paul ryan on "morning joe." you know, we're kind of used to these verbal tantrums from the president, unfortunately -- >> that was a verbal tantrum? >> i would think so. look at it this way, we propose to increase annual federal spending from $3.6 million a year to $4.9 instead of the president's $5.5 trillion. that makes us social darwinists. >> joining me now gene sperling, a man never known for verbal tantrums. gene, great to see you. your response to pixie dust and verbal tantrums? >> look, the president's proposing the buffett rule as part of an overall agenda he has for growth, jobs and long-term deficit reduction. what's very important about the buffett r

that's gettysburg, pennsylvania. it

it is just like going to gettysburg, but you don't go to gettysburg with a shovel.on't grow to pearl harbor and take belt buckles off the arizona, so i am actually very supportive of visitation but the zab marines bmarins are landing on the deck and doing that and they should not and because it will become an underwater museum in the future and we actually should take steps to do conservation preservation. i have actually applied for a permit to do conservation and preservation of the ship in the next couple of years and i hope they will get me do it. >> i am sitting here feeling a bit guilty. they were host to the -- >> -- the -- >> -- know about, you know keeping the room at a chilly temperature to give you a feeling of what it might have been like to be on the deck. should i feel guilty about going to see that? >> yes. >> that is a short answer -- >> -- public executions used to be very popular in england as well. no. i just think that -- to take it out of context. you know if you were to bring things from gettysburg, you were to go in there and dig stuff up at g

ron mott starting us off tonight from gettysburg, tonight.on, thanks. >>> with that, we go to the moderator of "meet the press" david gregory. david, i know you've been on the phone this afternoon to one of the few remaining candidates still technically in this race. >> well, right, we're down to a few now. newt gingrich is still the prominent one there. he's still in the race. i spoke to him this afternoon, he's going to stay in it. at this point, primarily to define the party platform, the issues going-forward. bottom line is, he thinks he can have influence, he still thinks there are questions about whether romney is a trusted conservative. but this general election contest is moving on without him. even if he stays in the race, there was a conversation between romney and santorum today. romney wants his support, the endorsement. the santorum team saying they're going to need a couple days before they get all that together. romney is not wasting any time, speaking out and speaking very positively about the campaign that santorum ran. he sp

it's almost a prequel to "gods and generals" which was a prequel to "gettysburg." jefferson davis is leading the charge in congress. but in the final twist it's at brown's hanging, one of the guards is john wilkes booth, who later writes about being quite inspired by brown or talks to his sister about it. she writes about it. she calls him the great man of the century. here's a man that took an act that changed the course of american history, and that's ultimately what john wilkes booth then does in assassinating lincoln. >> chill bumps. i got 'em. i hope you all do, too. when you read this book, you're going to get more, because i'm going to tell you something that you do so remarkably well, and that is these names, they're names on history book pages for most people. you actually open up their hearts, their lives, their thoughts and fears to us. there are stories in here that are just astonishingly powerful, one of which is the story of african-american dangerfield newby, who was a freed black man who had his wife and six children? >> five or six. >> five or six

we begin our coverage tonight with nbc's ron mott on the trail in gettysburg. ron, good evening. >> brian, good evening to you. after waving off repeated questions over the past couple weeks over whether he should get out of this race. rick santorum made it official. making leave iing his announcem. though he's far from done. his momentum fading. one day after his sailing 3-year-old daughter bella returned home from the hospital, rick santorum bowed out. >> this presidential race is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today. we are not done fighting. >> reporter: santorum pitted his grassroots, every man blue collar roots against romney's upper crest image with unexpected success. >> against all odds we won 11 states. millions of voters. millions of vote votes. we won more counties than all the other people in this race combined. >> reporter: his exit spares the senator the prospect of another embarrassing defeat in his home state. santorum's support was mostly rooted in a core of republican strong holds, where his unapologetic push for cons

gettysburg where a parade and now forgotten ceremonies introduced a never to be forgotten address. the camera brings us ford theater and the presidential box where the tragedy struck. it brings us to the actress laura keen. the last person on home the unhelping presidents rested. it even preserved for us the 21-year-old dr. leo who emerged to attend the dying lincoln. and an era ended. the first, but not the last to be seen through the magic eye of the camera. the pages of our history with new pages yet to be added. all our yesterdays preserved for generations to come. for this a cheerment, a major share of our gratitude must rest with the fore say the made possible. he lived to within four years of our own century. the pioneer, matthew brady. >> clara barton is famous in history today as the founder of the american red cross. to the wounded soldiers, both the blue and the gray, she was remembered as the angel of mercy whoa fed them and treated their wounds. she had no official standard. she received no money for her services. yet this dedicated woman devoted her life to the cause

yes, peace came, but only after battlefields like gettysburg had immortalized in blood the courage of brother ranged against brother. gettysburg where a parade and now forgotten ceremonies introduced a never-to-be forgotten address by the war-weary lincoln. within two years the president dedicated the binding of the nation's wounds was shot down by the assassin john wilkes booth. the camera brings us to ford's theater, the final scene of the presidential box where the tragedy struck. it brings us to the actress laura keene, the last person on whom the unsuspecting president's gaze rested. it has even preserved for us the 21-year-old horror-stricken crowd to attend the dying lincoln. an era had ended, the first but not the last to be seen through the magic eye of the camera. the pages of our history with new pages yesterday to be added. all our yesterdays are preserved for generations to come. for this achievement, a major share of our gratitude must rest with the man whose foresight made it possible. earliest of american combat photographers, he lived to within four years of our own c

gettysburg, when a parade and now forgotten ceremonies introduced inevitably forgotten address by the war weary lincoln. within two years, the president dedicated the binding to nation's wounds was shot down by john wilkes booth. camera brings the final scene. of the presidential box where the tragedy struck. it brings us to the actress laura keen. the last person on whom the unsuspecting president's gaze rested. it is even preserved for us the 21-year-old dr. leal who emerged from the crowd to attend the dying lincoln. an era had ended. the first, but not the last to be seen through the magic eye of the camera. the pages of our history with new pages yet to be added. all our yesterdays are preserved for generations to come. for this achievement, a major share of our gratitude must rest with the man whose foresight made it possible. earliest of american combat photographers, he lived to within four years of our own sanctuary. the pioneer, matthew brady. >> clara barton is famous in history today as the founder of the american red cross. to the wounded soldiers of the civil war, both t

i want to go back to gettysburg, pennsylvania. we are getting word that rick santorum is expected to announce the suspension of his bid for the republican presidential nomination. his daughter, bella, unfortunately dealing with a very serious genetic disorder. again, we are getting word that rick santorum's announcement will be that he will suspend his nomination for the republican presidential bid. nbc news is confirming that. when mr. santorum moves out, we will bring you that live. >>> all right. let us go back now to the trillion dollar question. will spain's pain take away our gain? let us bring in chief investment officer of guggenheim partners. he joins us now onset. good to see you as well. i'll be hustling back to the desk in just a second. your take on spain. is the risk there enough to bring down the u.s. economy, to bring down the u.s. stock market? >> well, brian, the bottom line is no. spain is obviously a serious economic mess in europe. a much different story than what we saw with greece or ireland or portugal give

and as we're so dedicated to this historic swath from g gettysburg to monticello, would like to open it to about your insight and thoughts about this landscape and how it inspires us. >> i thought you were going to ask something different, which is why i didn't write this book while i lived in waterford. as the crow flies, are we 15 miles from harper's ferry? i had to move to massachusetts before i got -- great book in my backyard, in my former backyard. yeah, i mean, well speaking to this subject at least, first of all, i wrote confederates in the attic because of what happened 15 yards from here when reenactors sum belled into my front yard in waterford because they were reenacting for a movie here because it's such a great historic landscape. but with this book i think part of what -- drew me to write about it is that harper's ferry is still so intact, really. it's this incredible mix of natural beauty and historical hauntedness, really, but even more specifically the sites associated with brown with still there. so you can go to the kennedy farm where brown and his gur ril la ban

and we owned one of the five original copies of the gettysburg address, written in lincoln's hand and that was in the room and our guests, who would come stay in the lincoln bedroom, would look at that copy of the gettysburg address and read it and weep. it was very moving to see. and so i worked with the white house historical association with the furniture curators and historians part of the advisory board, and we had little -- a little remnant of the wallpaper that had been on the wall of his room, we had photographs of the lincoln bed with the gold corona, with purple and gold drapes that hung down from the corona. we knew from white house records that the corona had been sent away from the white house in 1927, so we reproduced all those things. so it's not a real reproduction, neither it's an office or a bedroom, but instead both. we went back to the same mill in england that had run the carpet for him on the 27-inch loom. >> wow. >> and we knew from the records that the carpet was "g" and "o," which the curators think meant green and oak, which is green and brown. we went back t

johnson presidential library, the eisenhowers recall ike's presidency and later retirement in gettysburg, pennsylvania, the relationship between ike and his vice president and the reasons that propelled richard nixon to make another run at the presidency after his close loss to john f. kennedy in 1960. this program is 1 hour and 15 minutes. >> well, good evening, and welcome to our program tonight. i'm don carlton, and i have to get my glasses out or i won't be able to see what i'm talking about. and i'm the director of the university's briscoe center for american history. the briscoe center is delighted to join with the lbj library to co-sponsor the program featuring david and julie eisenhower's fascinating book "going home to glory, a memoir of life with dwight d. eisenhower, from 1961 to 1969." it's a fabulous book. when lbj director mark updegrove asked me to xo sponsor the program, i jumped at the chance. we always enjoy partnering with our partners at the lbj library, but our topic tonight president dwight eisenhower is an added attraction for us. the briscoe center's divisions inc

this question is about gettysburg in 1863. i hope it's appropriate. when stonewall jackson had died, had he not died, who do you think he would have sided with at gettysburg, general lee or longstreet? >> i think he would have sided with lee. like lee, jackson always wanted to seize and hold the initiative and take the offensive. he was more of an offensive commander than a defensive commander in contrast to longstreet. so i'm fairly confident he would have sided with lee on those decisions. >> james mcpherson, we appreciate you joining us this afternoon. we'll wait with all of the rest of our viewers to see if your choice, admiral david farragut is picked as person of the year 1862 and remind our viewers that we have covered a number of events with james mcpherson in the past of his many books and you can find many of those in our video library. thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you for having me. >> we are going to stay live. we'll go back live momentarily to richmond. we'll hear from john mountcastle. he is the next historian to spe

pennsylvania, the country and to rick santorum, and there you see the podium in gettysburg where hisuspension. we expect mr. santorum to say based on his assessment of the campaign trail, an easter weekend that included his 3-year-old daughter bella in the hospital for her chromosomal disorder which is sometimes fatal, he is going to suspend his campaign. we've talked now to people on capitol hill who have been made aware that preparations are underway for him to ramp down his candidacy, and there are those who have been involved within the campaign as well as organizers and supporters throughout pennsylvania and a host of conference calls this morning, and in a matter of moments rick santorum, trailing mitt romney in the delegate count, trailing in the polls but still in a virtual tie in pennsylvania, the state he represented in the u.s. senate for two terms, about to come forth and say this will be it. his was a very unlikely candidacy. for months he toiled in relative obscurity in iowa, a campaign that was doing it on the cheap, a grassroots type of campaign with very, very little

gettysburg is another good example of that. for a lot of people who talk about gettysburg, want to know why to lee lose. get lee make a mistake here, get lee make a mistake there? someone once asked george pickett of pickett's charge of what he thought happened. did longstreet make a mistake? was over, was it over there? there? did pick it respond that he always thought the yankees have something to do with it. which i think it hits the nail right on it, what did you think of picket. lee did make some mistakes, but george me did some things right, too. lee becomes first a regional hero, been a sexual here and eventually got in the 20 century he is being treated by people like woodrow wilson as a national hero, being the very best of a defeated section, the best update lost way of life, and conveniently forget to mention that this way of life was pushing slavery. until you get to the point where people really don't even, they don't even no lee as a human being. and no lee as the legend they know him as the indefensible commend.

he joins us from gettysburg tonight. chip. >> reporter: good evening, scott. it was just this morning that rick santorum's campaign announced he was coming here to gettysburg for a campaign rally. so it came as a major surprise when word started to spread that he was coming here to end his campaign. >> this presidential race for us is over. for me. we will suspend our campaign effective today. >> reporter: rick santorum did not say exactly why he's ending his campaign. but he hinted that it had a lot to do with his three-year-old daughter bella who suffers from a rare, often fatal, genetic disorder and who spent this past weekend in the hospital. >> it did cause us to think. the role that we have as parents. >> reporter: he said a family discussion around the kitchen table led to a decision to pull out of a race that almost no one expected would take santorum this far. >> against all odds, we won 11 states. >> reporter: in early debates with his support in single digits he complained about being ignored. >> as i told you when i traveled around iowa, you would

and they were adding an event as they described it here in gettysburg. when we walked into the room this morning, we could tell this was not going to be a traditional rally. this room is far too intimate for that kind of thing. the campaign later clarified this would be a press conference and of course, that set the press corps abuzz about what the topic would be. we did ask one campaign official in fact what senator santorum would speak about. that was met with just a shrug. so of course, all day people have been talking about him suspending his campaign here. over the past couple weeks and especially since his [ laughter ] tuesday in wisconsin, a lot of folks are saying this was the time for him to drop out. that he would not want to wage a battle here against mitt romney. when voters go to the polls only to lose. at love folks will remember his resounding defeat for his senate re-election bid that he lost to bob casey by 17 points. a lot of folks are saying that rick santorum would lose all that he has risked on this campaign that has been run on a sh

confederates do this in gettysburg. they give people vouchers and get paid in confederate money. t in the european army seriously do this by the way. people get compensated for this stuff. by late in the war the federals are not doing that anymore. you're not being terribly respective if you're paying them in currency they don't see as legitimate. but they're not bothering with that. and what happens to it? it's deliberately destroyed. by the way, widely, i want to give you a sense here, widely is -- the consensus view in the h his historigraphy, yes, this is not a sugar coated thing. generally civilians are not killed. the incidents of rape and sexual assault is very low, especially when compared to other conflicts. at least with white civilians. african-americans it becomes a different issue. even then, relatively low. measures are made. we don't have a lot of evidence of mass starvation during the civil war. there sunt much evidence of that. people have to flee for their lives and their livelihoods are destroyed. they eventually find a place to get food. we have evidence that

reagan goes to gettysburg right after ike wins the governorship. and in 1968, reagan did make his first effort to get the republican nomination. ike was there at the launching of reagan's presidential campaign. chris: ike is about to get a big comeback in history. let's talk about what is tricky and perhaps menacing. in 1968 during the height of the terrible vietnam war, johnson said i'm not running again. and just before the election of 1968 with humphrey running against nixon, he was negotiating with the north and south and at the last minute, south said we aren't going to do it. johnson found out nixon had a hand in the deal. >> that's right. the north and south were tapped and knew nixon was working behind the scenes to undercut the negotiations. he challenges him and nixon backs off. chris: 1966? >> 1968. five years later in 1973, nixon is paranoid about the senate investigation into wear gate and goes to johnson who has a month to live and back your friends in the senate or i'm go to go release the fact that you were bugging me. and he said i

we're in gettysburg, pennsylvania.own that senator santorum himself has said holds some significance for him, not only because of the civil war lore of this town, but this is pennsylvania and he's done pretty well in this part of the state over his political career. a couple of weeks ago, senator santorum held an event inside this very hotel in a ballroom across the hall way from where we're standing where it was a very different message. the fight goes on. he was going after mitt romney, taking him on thosish smus such as health care reform. we're not seeing that side of the santorum campaign head into this event. all that could change in 15 to 20 minutes from now when all of thf gets going. >> the pennsylvania primary is two weeks away. where you are right now, he has got to win this state. and what are the indications so far. how h s he doing there? does she have a tough fight ahead the next two weeks? to try to lock this in? >> eiffel like we're in a flash back to mitt romney. everybody was talking about michigan b

the announcement came late this afternoon in gettysburg, pennsylvania.xit from the race leaves mitt romney as the likely nominee. but newt gingrich is still in the race. >>> a mystery over who hit the mega millions in maryland is over today. three baltimore public school workers who wish to remain anonymous claimed their share of the $656 million prize. each will take home about $35 million after taxes. despite their winnings, all plan on keeping their day jobs. >>> any minute now, there'll be a news conference in the trayvon martin case. earlier today, george zimmerman's attorney confirmed a defense fund website setup is for real. zimmerman shot and killed the florida teen in february. he's not been charged yet with any crime. >>> more concerns today about europe's debt woes sparked a huge selloff for stocks up on wall street. the dow sliding about 213 points to close at 12,715. the nasdaq down about 55. and the s&p 500 is off 23 points on the day, closing at 1358. >>> there is a brand-new way for you to fight seal ewe lite if you're a woman. some docto

navy ship gettysburg retrieved the passengers. nine months after, crew members ferried customers to other cruise ship. no one was seriously injured. after those incidents, laws were put the in place to require lifeboats. in 2004, a cigarette butt started a fire. that fire killed several people. >> we could hear all the lifeboats, i think there were 22 lifeboats on board, they had those out and ready to put in the open ocean. >> reporter: after the fire the ship's owner princess cruise line replaced the plastic furniture with nonflammable materials. since 2010, regulations prohibit combustible material on cruise ships. >> reporter: terror from the sea an enormous wave at least 26 feet high washes across the deck of the louis cruise line ship with almost 2,000 aboard. the moment of impact triggered chaos and fear as passengers ran for their lives. in all three towerrering waves hit the ship. killing two people and injured 14 others. >> we felt it when the wind drawing through the belt. by crying everybody, we didn't know exactly wha

but to hear that long speech in this room here in gettysburg and to not hear the words i'm not getting behind mitt romney or i'll do whatever i can to see mitt romney elected president of the united states, you can't really emphasize that enough. that is a pretty big predicament for the romney campaign. they want santorum in their worner. they need rick santorum, maybe more than santorum needs romney at this point. >> i just got off the phone as i said with the national campaign spokesman who said it is not an inevitability that this endorsement is going to happen. we're scheduling meetings. we have to have meetings and we're not scheduling it just yet. it's in progress. but it's not an inevitability. as we're waiting to dip into the president for a moment, we just had a reaction from ron paul, a statement about rick santorum getting out of the race. congratulations on santorum running such a spirited campaign. dr. paul is now the last and real conservative alternative to romney. we plan on continuing to run hard, secure delegates and press the fight for limited constitutional governme

ruling republican presidential warfare ends with a surrender near the historic battleground of gettysburg. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening >> good evening. i'm bret baier. at times what appeared to be a fight to go to the convention in tampa in august, ended instead on an april afternoon in a pennsylvania town famous for war and reconciliation. three-and-a-half hours ago, rick santorum suspended his presidential campaign. effectively removing the biggest hurdle for his bitter rival mitt romney to clinch the nomination. chief political correspondent carl cameron shows us how it ended. >> reporter: after an easter weekend of reflection, rick santorum surrounded by his family suspended his presidential campaign in pennsylvania. the state he represented in the u.s. senate for two terms. >> we made the decision to get in the race at our kitchen table, against the odds. and we made a decision over the weekend, that while this presidential race for us is over, for me, we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting. >> reporter: he was underfunded, outorgani

and applause ] yep, gettysburg was a great choice because, you know, he should have dropped out four and seven years ago. [ laughter ] man, this is exciting for new york. the mets have started the season with four straight wins. [ cheers and applause ] i don't want to say it's surprising, but today the mets tested themselves for steroids. [ laughter ] something must be going on. this is -- >> i love you, jimmy. >> jimmy: hey, i love you, too. [ laughter ] tonight on the show, we have jane goodall, the world's top expert -- [ cheers and applause ] i love jane goodall. jane goodall is the world's top expert on chimpanzees which is why i'm hoping she can tell us what to expect on season six of "jersey shore." [ laughter ] i just hope -- she must know something. i don't know what's going to happen. [ applause ] [ laughter ] [ clapping rhythmically ] did you guys see this? police in chicago arrested a man for robbing a radio shack by tracking him with the gps device that he stole. [ laughter ] radio shack couldn't believe it. they're like, "something we sell actually works? this is -- wha

lincoln's gettysburg address. that is one of the nice things about "constitution cafe" gathering. a lot of things we assume are in this aren't but we can go back and check them learn about it and she said it was in the gettysburg address and lincoln told 15,000 people who came to hear him speak at the union victory ceremony that the civil war hadn't been thought just to preserve the union but to launch a new birth of freedom. lincoln claimed with the civil war won a, quote, of the people, by the people and for the people would at last be created and shall not perish from the earth. there has never been such a government in the united states. there never will be unless the framers of the constitution themselves are democratically elected. it is not enough for the first word of the preamble to be we the people because this doesn't gloss over the fact that our constitution was created by 55 wall of white males who met behind closed doors. they created an article for how this constitution would be ratified that virtually guaranteed it would become the law of the land. article 7 requir