here is john hancock, expecting his good friends john adams and samuel adams -- after all, he and samuel adams escape the british on that day in 1775. he was quite sure samuel adams would put his name in nomination to command the army. well, john adams gets there first and suggests it should be george washington who leads the army. hancock's face, the records show his jaw truly dropped. samuel adams seconds the nomination. it was unanimous quickly. hancock and adams never got along well after that. it was a fracture they never got over. it is part of the idea that ambition and ego, all those things that play a part in politics and life today, were just as true of the founding fathers. they all had ambition, ego, agendas. that is the story i love to find and tell. when we get to yorktown, 1775, washington goes to cambridge in july, taking with him a young gentleman named billy lee, who did not wear a uniform. he was wearing the servant's livery. he was a slave that stayed with washington every day of the revolution, through the disappointments and disasters and defeats. valley forge, he s

formally on ceremony as when he went to congress with an entourage or when he assisted governor john hancock come meet him first when he visited massachusetts on the first official presidential journey to new england. he was establishing the executive as a co-week will branch within the government in terms of congress and the federal government as preeminent and certain of its relations with the state in terms of his relations with john hancock. like washington, james madison was a nationalist for the same reasons. by thebeen exasperated actions of the states during the american revolution. he had seen this play out politically as a member of the continental congress during its most sclerotic days. and he and other nationalists within the congress, alexander hamilton among them, determined to do something about it or it and of worse greeted the movement that led to the constitutional convention. at this stage, madison, his nationalism was a match or hamilton wrote, and he believed this new government should even have a veto over state actions, and ideas that took shape in what became known a

will see that mount vernon was a cross roads, that he was communicating with ham -- hamiltons and john hancock all these people were visiting him, spending time in mount vernon planning for a nation, planning for a unified country and weren't was writing the letters. when you live in the south wherever you want to travel you seem to go to atlanta, mount vernon was at will -- was the at will >> we often here that james madison was the architect of the constitution. he would spend months in the time in the time leading up living in mount vernon. you can see the room where he was staying, talking with washington, plotting out what this new government had to have. you can see him writing letters to john jay. john jay, to henry knox, head of the military forces which was a confederation congress and to james madison asking him if we go to philadelphia, what sort of government would we trade. you can lock -- look back at the letters and said, we need to have government, it has to have the power of taxation, military force, it has to progressively open the frontier, we need to open the west. we have

" came by to photograph something 200 years old, the only thing we could come up with like the john hancock. these attention-getting images were the signatures of william clark for this book. this guy looked at me and said, is this the signature of the william clark? and i spoke truthfully. well, i don't know. [laughter] it had concerned people who were not members of the parish, because they were non-catholic. he said, well if it is the signature of the william clark, you missed a big story. [laughter] i thought, well, maybe i did. i don't know. so the next thing i did was get to a library, the university of missouri library in st. louis. i looked and looked. this was long before that was a biography of clark. a littlei could do was information i could find about the lewis and clark expedition, both of which said nothing about what william clark was doing in 1798-1801. finally i came upon a reference to a journal in columbia, missouri. william clark's original journal, the william clark before he went on the expedition with lewis. five years before that, in the year 1798, that william clar

hamilton and john hancock and the morrises of pennsylvania and the pinckneys in south carolina.spending time in mount vernon, planning for and nation. planning for unified country. washington was writing these letters, when you live in the south where every try to travel you have to go through atlanta airport. during this period, atlanta airport of the nationalist movement. in months leading up to the constitutional convention, we often hear james madison was the architect of the constitution and written the ids, where was he doing it? not at home but at mount vernon. he spent months at a time in the time leading up to the constitution, living in mount vernon. you can see the room where he was staying, talking with washington, plotting out what this new government had to have. you can see washington writing letters to john j. after the constitutional convention was beginning to take shape, henry knox who was the head of military forces for what was the continental congress, confederation congress and james madison asking if we go to philadelphia, what sort of government can we c

the billionaire businessman gave his john hancock to give his loyalty and skip a third party bid if heme on the republican ticket. the signature everybody was waiting for today brian. >> thank you. >>> a false report sent dozens of officers searching through a cornfield in illinois, a woman called 911 late last night claiming two men tried to get in her car, and that prompted a five hour search with helicopters hoping to fine the men that killed lieutenant gliniewicz. she said she made the whole story up to get attention from her boss. >>> a piece of debris that was found in the indian ocean was definitely from malaysia flight 370, his government came to the same conclusion, the debris washed up in july and the flight disappeared in march of 2013. >>> now a look at today's closing numbers, a mixed bag and signs of some stability in an otherwise unstable market place, the s&p up marginally 2.25 points on the day. adam joseph says this is officially now the hottest day of the year so far. i bet he is happy he is in side right now. >> it feels refreshing when i was standing on city avenue

. >>> when donald trump put his john hancock on an oath to run republican, and to support whoever is the nominee, you my think he would escape controversy for at least 12 hours? no, not quite. lashing out at yet another member of the media, hugh hewitt, acausing the host of -- let's get to dana bash. now some of trump's rivals are saying he stumbled in his answers, and this raises questions about his preparedness to be commander in chief. >> there are a lot of republicans running on their records, particularly on foreign policy. they tripped over themselves to get a chance to argue that the reality tv star topping the polls is not ready for primetime. when you're the front-runner, you can expect tough questions. a conservative radio host wanted to know if he's ready to be commander in cheep. to know who zawahiri and al baghdadi, do you know the players yet? >> no, to be honest, by the time we'll get to office, they'll all by changed, all gone. >> reporter: that after trump seemed to confuse an ethnic group, the iraqi kurds with an iranian qods force, an emeet force set to target the

the only thing more valuable to other republican wannabes might be trump's john hancock on a campaigns. it was a reversal for trump, who was loudly booed at the first republican debate last month when he said he couldn't promise not to run a third party campaign. >> i cannot say. >> reporter: all 17 republican candidates were asked to sign the pledge. so far, jeb bush, john kasich, ben carson and marco rubio have done so but trump made it clear who he thinks will represent the gop in the november 2016 election. a man named donald trump. >> after i announced, we went up like a rocket ship. >> reporter: trump took pot shots at democrat hillary clinton and gop rivals like chris christie and jeb bush. he seemed especially irked by bush, who speaks spanish at campaign events and whose wife is mexican-american. >> we're a nation that speaks english. nation, we should be speaking >> reporter: and donald trump became almost gleeful when i asked him what would happen to attacking him. >> one of the things that i'm most honored about is that so far, everybody that's attacked me has gone down the

so we have the john hancock.onica, what does trump do today. >> i'm opposed to this kind of stunt. loyalty oath? what is this, the soviet union? but this is clearly an anti-trump play. they are trying to box donald trump who is clearly the leader, they are trying to box him in and make him give away whatever leverage he thinks he has on the republican party. i never thought trump would win win -- would run as a third party candidate because third party county cannot win. i think it's side and insulting. i don't blame the candidate for signing it but i think it's clearly an anti-trump move. bill: are they trying to box trump in? >> i think they are. in prebus is going to meet with mr. trump in new york. i would be surprised if the chairman of the republican national committee was going to be rebuffed. but my best guess is trump will sign which i think is the right move for him to make for political reasons, thousand would agree with monica's longic as somebody who believes we do better when we expand the pool rath

. >>> when donald trump put his john hancock on an oatho