the committee favored john c freemont. well, let's see who we've got here. john c free n mont. total failure as a general. benjamin butler. a remarkably brilliant policies. he voted 27 times for davis as the 1860 candidate for democratic nomination for president becomes a radical republican during the war. brilliant a complete and competent on the battlefield when he managed to lumber into the field. which was not off tten and whatd these men have it common? partly it was politics partly that they embraced an emwarfare and battle. sweeping away obstacles and those that talked that line generally found favor with the committee. um, okay, i must say a word or two about what happened at fort pillow. you saw an african-american volunteer soldier. critics of the committee focused on the preoccupation and have tended to not look at it as a political entity which is what it was. and critics tend to omit or treat it as an afterthought the critics fierce human rights of african-americans and the destruction of safely wasn't a concern it was central to the the committee's forceful report

written "america's great debate" which is a fabulous read the moment when henry clay, steven douglas, john c calhoun, daniel webster are there debating the future of america. it could actually be called the apiecement of 1850. and that is what i say to this book that we just published and we kcan -- he is a journalist ad he writes for a number of newspapers including the "wall street journal." each though he reviewed my book on millard fillmoore, we are still friends. he gave me a wonderful review and i thank him for that publicly. i'm delighted to have fergus start this conference. >> good morning. first let me thank paul, lauren and the u.s. capitol society for making this possible. each one of which is several which i have attended have been fascinating in its own way. you are running a tadd late so i'm going to dive in and move quickly. i'm going to be talking about the joint committee on the conduct of the war that was a committee whose job which created itself to monitor the conduct of the war. and how did it come to be, who was on it and what effect did it have. it is a complicated su

is also sending the uss john c.r four months early to the persian gulf and could have three aircraft carrier battle groups there by the summer. back with the panel. start with iran. charles? >> well, it's only july, but george little can retire the charming lie of the year award. the idea that somehow this is not aimed at iran. of course it's aimed at iran. it isn't a coincidence. it isn't that all of a sudden we decided to test our cooperation with other countries. iran speaks about, threatens to close the strait of hormuz. we're showing them we not only can do it unilaterally, which we can, we'll have a lot of countries with us. little deserves, if you notice he couldn't help smile twice as he said that. as everybody understands it's political. >> bret: biggest news that wasn't covered this week the u.a.e. opened up the new pipeline from the oil fields. it's called the abu dhabi crude pipeline and it bypasses the strait of hormuz. carries 1.5 million-barrels a day and will expand to 1.8 million. this is a big deal

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when they raided the home of john c. long who helped a slave to escape they found a cigar box filled with letters from ohio from long's brother asking for a description of the slave so they could write a free pass which would allow alfred to -- the slave to travel to canada. another case louisville, and i like this case because it also involves sex. another case louisville involved rachel 20 and the only slave of a mr. weatherly who escaped to canada in 1856. assisted by george cope, a well known white grocer. the evidence suggests took in cray shell to cope. but cray rachel frequently visited cope's shop and home and according to some witnesses spent an inordment that amount of time in cope's room. cope would later admit that she had become his wife in heaven. they planned her escape with the understanding that once the anxiety caused by her escape he would join her in canada. when a month later, weatherly went to canada to persuade rachel to return she handed him cope's letters. they would be used by weatherly in his s

the committee favored john c fremo fremont. the path finder, total failure as a general. benjamin butler, a remarkably brilliant politician, a pre-war democrat and voted i think it's 27 times for jefferson davis as the 1860 democratic candidate for the -- candidate for democratic nomination for president becomes a radical republican during the war. brilliant politically, a complete incompetent on the battle field which he managed to lumber into the field, which was not often. and what do these men have in common? partly was politics, partly it was they all embraced an agresish war policy what has been termed a defensive style of warfare that appealed to the conception of battle. julian said what we need is action and defiant action, scourging faithless men from power, sweeping obstacles and those officers who could talk that line generally found favor with the committee. i must say a word or two about what happened at fort pillow, you saw in the previous image an african-american volunteer soldier. i think the critics of the committee basically are focused on this preoccu

was the nullification crisis in which the south carolina legislature encouraged by vice president john c. calhoun, south carolinian, declared it had the right to nullify a bill passed by congress. the president acted furiously and he moved troops in place to enforce the law outside south carolina while at the same time moving congress to a compromised position which would address some of south carolina's grievances. tocqueville described some of the process in democracy in america. tocqueville also coincided with another national policy that had a significant, regional effect and that was andrew jackson's indian removal policy, something he considered important. the five civilized tribes over what has become the trail of tears from the southeastern states to what is now oklahoma and tocqueville on his western travels witnessed some of the indians moving west in this movement and he wrote a chapter at the end of the first volume of "democracy in america" on the position of indians and blacks in america and what the problems that posed for the country. these issues foreshadow crises that c

other is, so he winds up commanding things like conscription of the draft in georgia and the other is john c. breckenridge who turns out to be a decent division commander but not given too much responsibility until he's already demonstrated himself. the confederacy doesn't have as many of these enclaves to please, though there are still plenty of them and virtually every tole politician in the confederacy thought he ought to be a general. lincoln is in this culture to hold this coalition together has no choice but to make generals out of people who have no business being generals. >> before we go back to the generals i want to spend a few minutes talking about the common soldier, because you've both written so many important things about each of these commanders' relationships with the common soldier, which was important, and i'd like you each to address how they related to the troops and specifically the culture of visiting the front, which jack, you've written about, both presidents doing, and ironically i guess davis visited the front more often, lincoln is more famous for visiting the fr

john c. stennis i think that we have a photo of it there as we're looking at it now so that's a lot making its way over there i mean what message could that be said during that where we have this making its way over there right now i mean i mean what message is that sending over to the area i think the message is most clearly directed at iran and the kind of rising tensions that we've seen you know announcements of these the mining operations threats to close the strait but also in relation to syria sort of sending a signal not to get involved in any any further or to be sending in any kind of increased support to the syrian regime and to put that physical presence there as a threat ragged and so amid all this do you think at this point that a diplomatic solution the. possible but i think it is i think essentially this point events on the ground are sort of overtaking the political conversation at the u.n. and in washington and things may be moving much quicker and especially with the kind of

this is john c. coming to live from moscow the headline. fierce fighting in syria as regime troops try to push rebels out of the country's come out of the city of aleppo. while children intelligence find evidence on my days behind some nine to terror attacks in syria and a war correspondent suggests rebels have been crossing the own victims on faster thomas he's on the rashid in. the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia called as a leader come down on the protesters but the words to stay inside the. complex sound financial experts max keiser states but discuss how financial decision makers good nor in reality in favor of theoretical economics. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report you remember the boys from brazil the cloning apocalypse where not wearing clothes well you know that sounded awfully bad but actually there's something much worse much much worse stacey max they've created the perfect bank stare remember a few weeks ago you said bob diamond the rat face. yes well apparently they have jamie diamond jellyfis

the pentagon announced this morning it would send the john c. stennis to the region four months ahead of schedule. >> bret: i understand there was a hard line taken against iran from secretary clin top after she ended a nine-day tour in israel meeting with egypt and the muslim brotherhood spokesperson. what can you tell us about that? >> it was third on secretary clinton agenda. she spoke about egypt new president and concerns about iran. clinton described the nuclear proposals as the nonstarters and said the u.s. and israel are on the same page right now. >> iran's leaders still have the opportunity to make the right decision. the choice is ultimately iran. our own choice is clear. we will use all elements of american power to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> in egypt, protest resulted in tomatoes and shoes thrown at clin top's convoy protes protesters. >> bret: thank you. the law of the sea treaty may be going under permanently. republican senators rob portman and kelly aiot will oppose it to give opponents enough vote to stop

. >> not only is the pentagon deploying the uss john c.g it's moving to three-carrier policy this summer, it's also deploying an ex-banned radar site and sad antimissile defense shield to the gulf to monitor iranian ballistic missiles, a

john c. on four months ahead of schedule and it should arrive late this summer. >> the united states is leading the decision to order the john stennis to the gulf and we have supporting assets in the gulf. we will continue to maintain those supporting assets and work closely with the united states and others. >> reporter: the u.s. is also sending the u.s.s. uponce which has been refigured to be a float flotilla for demining ships and for demining divers. it's heading toward the strait of hormuz as we speak. >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jen, thanks. >>> the battle over defense spending in congress. house lawmakers today passed a measure that aims to force the white house to detail how it plans to cut half a trillion dollars from next year's defense budget. the spending cuts are required, but remember that super committee failed to reach an agreement on deficit reduction? house lawmakers are calling for the senate to take up the by partlbi-partisan bill as well. as the politics of defens

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another point, we're just learning from officials here at the pentagon that the uss john c.is, an aircraft carrier group, is enroute to the persian gulf and will be arriving four months ahead of schedule. right now there are two aircraft carrier groups in the persian gulf. the stennis now, we're told, will be heading to the region and will be arriving four months early. this does not mean that the u.s. navy is going up to a three-carrier group position, but we're told from pentagon officials that, essentially, they want the stennis in place so that there is not a gap where there's only one aircraft carrier in that very tense region off the coast of iran. jenna: very important story for us today and an important time as you're mentioning, jen. back to you at the pentagon anytime this hour as we get more news on this situation. thank you very much. jon: remember, it was a small boat like that -- jenna: absolutely, the cole, that's right. jon: yeah. the navy has been on high alert ever since then for those small boat attacks. >>> the democrats are threatening now to spark what

john c. stinis will be heading to the persian gulf four months early we are told this week. it will be arriving later this summer. megyn: thank you. continuing coverage of the showdown now with iran, and new reports as well are available to you on our website, foxnews.com. there you can get updates on the united states beefing up its presence in the persian gulf. again foxnews.com. check it out especially during the upcoming break. in the meantime the mother of a missing iowa girl is now pleading for help, saying her daughter and the girl opens cousin were likely kidnapped. a former f.b.i. investigator joins us shortly on the increasingly desperate search and why some now have serious questions about how someone could have got even these two girls from the location in which their bicycles were found. and big news in the battle against obesity, we'll show you the new pill that some doctors are calling the most effective option out of a slew of diet drugs. and president obama was not the first leading democrat to remark on how small business owners need to credit the governmen

aircraft carrier group the john c.nis four months ahead of schedule, to arrive late this summer. navy officials have said they have not been able to locate the craft, the small phrets yo pleasure craft that was fired upon. they are looking for that as part of their investigation. they have not identified that country which approached our vessel was from. megyn: the fifth fleet is based in bahrain and is responsible for america's naval forces in the persian gulf and the surrounding region. it deploys the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. enterprise and the u.s.s.ee ow u.s.s. io skwraoepl ma. in ten minutes former ambassador john bolton and what you need to know about today's events. he contacted us and said, this is what we need to talk about. we will hear from limb in momentshim in moments. fox news alert the president has begun speaking at a campaign event in cincinnati, ohio. we are told that he is planning to renew his attacks on governor romney's business records. the remarks are streaming live if you care to watch them

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. >>> a worker that caused the hepatitis c outbreak worked with johns hopkins hospital. contaminated syringes were then used on patient that have since been diagnosed with hepatitis. quite at c kwiatkowski worked at johns hopkins in 2009 and a spokesman said he also worked at three other hospitals but those locations haven't been named. >>> the time is 6:14. ahead the decision some olympic athlete are making this week. [ male announcer ] want the most enjoyment from your home entertainment? here's the perfect solution. switch to a verizon fios triple play and upgrade your entertainment equipment with our 100% fiberoptic network and whole home solution, including a high-speed wireless router, plus a new multi room dvr and new hd set top box free for 12 months. hurry. switching has never been easier with the fios whole home solution. upgrade your home with one easy package. call 1.888.get.fios. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. welcome to life on fios. >>> home day care providers across fairfax county are upset with a change i

b, john mccain was also the guy who had that problem of not being able to return how many houses he had, which probably the romney campaign doesn't want to remind anybody about. more importantly, c, john mccain seriously considered mitt romney to be his vice president. vice presidency, and this is a strange thing about our politics, it's a really important job that in effect is chosen mostly by one person. there isn't an election to see who becomes the vice presidential nominee. you're just hoping the presidential nominee individually, personally picks you. in that contest in the last election, mitt romney was up against sarah palin for vice president. and mitt romney lost to sarah palin. john mccain denouncing today what he called a stupid question about that today. saying the reason he decided not to pick mr. romney for vice president after he vetted him for the job was because, quote, we thought sarah palin was the better candidate. he meant this as a sign of support for mr. romney, but it did not come out that way. the main reason mitt romney cannot defend his decision this year to not release his tax returns based on what john mccain did last time around is because when mit

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c, is it understated? >> john, i think it's right on the mark but it's not simply the drones. look at where we are. winston and gule '89 1984, what were they, the telescreens of big brother were all over the place. look at where these cameras are. liquor stores, bars, hotels, everywhere you go. individuals have these phones now, and they can take pictures of you. look what happened to the senator from virginia. and so i think it really is an overmonitorred society, and drones would add something to the, but only marginally, but i do think rand paul is exactly right. if you are going to get the cops to put these drones over somebody's house they ought to have a warrant to do it. >> i think it's a little over the top, a little survivalist mentality. >> on his part. >> on his part. he doesn't want anybody checking to see how many cans of food he's got stacked in his basement. but i tend to be live and let live on this subject. i think we have surrendered so much of our privacy between all the cameras that pat is talking about, facebook. you can google anybody and find out a lot a

we now know the man accused of spreading hepatitis-c at johns hopkins hospital and a hospital in new also worked at a hospital north of new york city. city.david kwiatkowski worked at ápoughkeepsie's saint francis hospitalá from 20-07 to 20-08. he's accused of stealing drugs from a hospital...injecting himself and contaminating syringes that were later used on patients. 30 patients have been diagnosed with hepatitis-c since may. kwiatkowski denies all the charges against him. a man has been sentenced to 30-years in prison for his role in a slaying during a robbery at an anne arundel county pizzeria. charles butler was sentenced friday for the november 20-10 shooting at a ámr wings and pizza in glen burnie.á the two other suspects will be sentenced in the coming days. a fourth suspect is expected to enter a plea in the fall. former presidential candidate michelle bachman is leading five republicans in what some are calling a new red scare. they are... claiming... that an aide ... to... secretary of state... hillary clinton... is... a secret agent... for... the muslim brot. brotherhood

plus, a lab technician for johns hopkins is charged with creating a hepatitis c outbreak. >> we got so much rain -- we have enough now. >> still a chance for some rain tonight. tomorrow, we're going to drop the down to 30%. don't cancel anything. probably just a couple of raindrops'. i temperatures near 104, 105. >> we were in the 70's today. >> it was lovely. >> thank you for joining us. nbc nightly news is next. nbc nightly news is next.

c. walsh, dexter. johnamm, madmen, and damian lewis, homeland. >> for outstanding miniseries or movie, the nominees are, american horror story. game changer, hatfields and mccoys. hemingway and dale warned. luther. and sherlock, a scandal in belgrade, masterpiece. >> the nominees for lead actress in a miniseries or movie are, connie britton, american horror story. ashley judd, missing. nicole kidman, hemingway and california. julianne moore, being change. and emma thompson, the song of lunch, masterpiece . >> the nominees for lead actor in a miniseries or movie are, kevin costner hatfields and mccoys. benedick cumber batch, sherlock, masterpiece. luther. woody harrelson, came change. clive owen, hemingway and california. and bill paxon, hatfield and mccord. >> the nominees for outstanding host for a reality or reality competition program are, tom bergeron, dancing with the stars. cat daily, so you think to condense?. phil cogan, the amazing race. ryan seacrest, american idol. and betty white, betty white's

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i would like to point out, john madden, he has really had a lot of achievements since he's been here and i'm just glad to see this day happen. >> get dressed.çn, john will now walk out a free man. >> take care. >> take care of yourself. >> all right. >> he carries with him the hopes of all those who have witnessed his transformation. >> make yourself proud, john. >> but john madden has hopes of his own. >> six months, i want you to see a successful young man. i want you to see somebody that went out and did what he was talking about. i want you all to see something good.

. -- steve by me, michael c hall, dexter, john hamm mad men and damian lewis, homeland. >> for outstanding series or movie the nominees are: american horror story. game change. hatfields and mccoys. hemingway and gilhorn. luther and sherlock a scandal masterpiece. >> nominees for lead actress in mini series or movie are: connie brit continue, american horror story. ashley judd, missing. nicole kidman, hemingway. julian moore, game change and emma thompson, the song of lunch, masterpiece theater, just masterpiece. >> the nominees for lead actor in a mini series or move you are: kevin costner, hatfields and mccoys, sherlock a scandal, masterpiece. idris elba, luther. woody harrelson, game change. clive owen, hemmingway. bill paxton, hatfields and mccoys. >> the nominees for outstanding host for a reality or reality competition program are: tomberg ron dancing with the stars. kat deely, so you thing you can dance. phil hogan amazing race, ryan seacrest, "american idol" and betty white, betty white's off their rockers. >> only old people get up this early i guess. [ laughing ] >> nominees for

ç north dakota, like john mentioned, so, so close. a race republicans hope to pick up.really good candida candidate. now they are going race by race, starting to see how are we going to do this. democrats want desperately to hold on to each and every one of the races. republicans in a better position, because there are more democratic seats up for contest. so democrats, a little bit back on their heels, a few favorable developments, money is i huge part of that. >> nine out of ten i think in 2010, in terms of congress members, they raised the most, nine out of ten actually won with the largest amount raised in those races. an important consideration. patrici patricia, john, thank you, have a great sunday. >> thank you. >>> more now on the cleanup following a weekend of vicious weather. residents assessing the damage and cleaning up toppled trees and debris. mike seidel live in washington, d.c. it was a hot one yesterday, mike. >>ist a hot one right now, richard. cleanup under way. another day from the midwest to the mid-atlantic. still over 2.5 million customers without

over on c-span 2 at 8:00 eastern, coverage from the associated builders and contractors conference. speak ors includes house speaker john boehner and rob portman. on c-span 3, politico talks with the mayor of cities democratic and republican national conventions. coming up in 45 minutes on "washington journal," congressman tim murphy republican in pennsylvania, support for a bill repealing the 2010 healthcare law. at 8:30 eastern, more about the repeal bill, congressman

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