trump told during the campaign about american general john pershing's alleged slaughter of muslim soldiersn the philippines. >> what they did was, they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. and they took the bullets and they stood the 50 men up, and they shot each man. >> reporter: the president's quick response to the barcelona attack was a sharp contrast to the days it took him to condemn a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others. today, the president also bemoaned the removal of what he called "beautiful confederate history is "being ripped apart." in a statement, republican senator lindsey graham urged the president to stop. "you are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country," he said. "please fix this." but inciting racial tension can be politically useful, according to the president's chief strategist, steve bannon, who just days ago appeared on the verge of being fired. in a series of interviews, he dismissed the far right as "clowns," but s

general john pershing back in the philippine/american war, a legend has it and president trump has talked about this, he talked about it on the campaign trail, that pershing would dip bullets in pig's blood before murdering prisoners. that's been totally rebunked. the president likes to repeat the story and did so again today. anderson, not only has this been debunked, it's offensive to muslim-americans who don't like to be associated with terrorism. he said he likes to wait before making a comment and he's talking about something that's been debunked time and again. >> i want to correct something. the first tweet was from the president read by jim saying the united states condemns the terror attack in barcelona, spain. the other tweet jim referenced was in reference to charlottesville saying we all must be united. there's no place for this kind of violence in america. let's come together as one. joining us now is josh green, and steve israel and molly ball. you have nsenator corker coming out and talking about the stability of the president of the united states. is that surprising to you

general john pershing cracking down on unrest in the philippines a century ago, something that set off a firestorm when he first said it on the campaign trail. >> and he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood. you heard that, right? >> reporter: the islamic faith prohibits pork. as the president's reference to that inflammatory story becomes part of his quick response to an attack overseas. here at home his response to the domestic attack in charlottesville is still generating fallout as the president now laments the removal of confederate monuments. quote, sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart, adding, you can't change history, but you can learn from it. robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, who is next, washington, jefferson? so foolish. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> reporter: the country's only republican african-american senator interviewed by vice news about the president's performance this week. >> what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority and that moral authority

followed that up with an inflammatory comment reviving a debunt anti-violent myth about general john pershing cracking down in unrest in the philippines over 100 years ago. here is trump repeating that incendiary story on the campaign trail. >> he took 50 terrorists and took 50 men and dipped 50 bullets in pigs blood. >> the president said a domestic c controversy, sad to see the history of of the culture of our great country being ripped apart. some of the nation's leading magazines taking him to task. while members of his own party directly challenge him over his charlottesville response. >> i can't defend. i am here to be clear and concise and succinct. his comments on monday were strong. the comments on tuesday started erasing the comment that is were strong. what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. that moral authority is compromised when tuesday happens. there is no question about that. >> the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> the political fallo

trump told during the campaign about american general john pershing's alleged slaughter of muslim soldiers in the philippine. >> what they did was they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. and they took the bullets and they stood the 50 men up, and they shot each man. >> reporter: the president's quick response to the barcelona attack was a sharp contrast to the days it took him to condemn a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others. today, the president also bemoaned the removal of what he called "beautiful confederate stat use," and said american history is "being ripped apart. "n" a statement, republican senator lindsey graham urgedly the president to stop. "you are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country," he said. "please fix this." but inciting racial tension can be politically useful, according to the president's chief strategist, steve bannon, who just days ago appeared on the verge of being fired. in a series of interviews, he dismissed t

andrew carol writes about world war i from the perspective of general john pershing in the book, my fellow soldiers. as part of book tv in prime time. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with new some policy issues that impact too. coming up on wednesday morning, we start with the center for urban renewal and education fund, sarah parker president trumps reaction to what happened in charlottesville and actions by alt-right groups. then we talked about the historical parallels between the current nuclear standoff with north korea in the 1962 cuban missile crisis. i told him the clear discusses countering hate groups and shares his experience as a former organizer for the white resistance. watch "washington journal", live at 7:00 a.m. wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> we been on the road meeting winners of this year student can video documentary competition. at royal oak high school in royal oak michigan, first place winner won a prize of $3000 for his documentary on the rising cost of pharmaceutical drugs. the second place prize of $1500 went to classmate, mary sire for

discusses his book and during vietnam and andrew carol looks at world war i to the eyes of general john pershing the commander in europe and my fellow soldiers. book tv in prime time all this week at c-span2. >> this week and on book tv. saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern we are live at the mississippi book festival with featured offers including mark about it on his book. walter starr, author of standing, lincoln's war secretary and alvin on his book a man and his presidents. the political odyssey of william f buckley junior. sunday and i'm p.m. eastern, we have a guest on "after words". >> trolling is about sweeping

that many muslims find inflammatory general john pershing cracking down on unrest in the philippines century ago, something that set off a firestorm when he first said it on the campaign trail. >> and he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood. you heard that, right? >> reporter: the islamic faith prohibits pork as the president's reference to that inflammatory story becomes part of his quick response to an attack overseas. here at home his response to the domestic attack in charlottesville is still generating fallout as the president now laments the removal of confederate monuments. quote, sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart, adding, you can't change history, but you can learn from it. robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, who is next, washington, jefferson? so foolish. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> reporter: the country's only republican african-american senator interviewed by vice news about the president's performance this week. >> what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral

president is recycling a largely debunked story which he made popular in the campaign about general john pershinglet's watch him in action. >> early in the century, last century, general pershing, did you ever hear? a rough guy. and they had a terrorism problem. he took 50 bullets and he dipped them pig's blood and he lined up the 50 people and they shot 49 of those people, and the 50th person, he said, you go back to your people and you tell them what happened. and for 25 years, there wasn't a problem. >> what do you make of that? was that the genius that we just heard? >> it has been debunked. >> it didn't happen. >> it is unfortunate he mentions it now. the messages we need now are solidarity, work with the spanish. >> you don't want to tell the islamic people who have a dietary rules to make fun of their religion so you will what? make they will be on our side? >> that's part of it. we have a counter terrorism approach that doesn't rely on those kinds of means. i mean whether or not we adhere to the laws of war. and this is a signal we don't. and we certainly do. we have to work the european

of course, the commander of the american expeditionary forces was general john j pershing. during his earlier career, especially in the west, did command african-american troops. we will step over and look at his headquarters flag. he was from a little town in missouri. national worlde war i museum and memorial. this was his headquarters flag. in 1918, wellesley college awarded him a special honor of making him an honorary member. this was very important because his wife, frankie, was a member of that society. she and his three daughters died in a fire at the presidio in san francisco three years before that. he had not gotten over mourning the loss of his wife and daughters. when the society made him an honorary member, he was so touched that he sent them this flag so they would have that as a remembrance of frankie. a few years ago, one of the trustees of wellesley college got it donated from the college to the museum and it has held a place of pride ever since. one of the tools that general pershing had at his disposal was one of the first tanks. the operative -- that we

there is no evidence backing up president trump's claim that in the early 1900s, general john pershingim uprising by dipping 50 bullets in pig's blood which is offensive to muslims and shooting 49 muslim insurgents and telling the fifth to tell even what he say. there is zero evidence to that. none. not true. there is evidence that a different military leader in the philippines may have buried dead insurgents with a dead pig, but none that pershing did it, or even approved of it. and most important, there is no evidence that burying dead insurgents with a pig did anything to stop the violence. so, just to be clear, what happened today in the face of a horrific terrorist attack, where people are still finding out that loved ones have been killed or injured, president trump just told the world to study a story that is not true. a lie. about an american general dipping bullets in pig's blood and killing insurgents. a story that by the way, does nothing to help keep our soldiers and the american people traveling the world safer. at times of crisis, the nation turns to it's president for re

general john pershing, commander in chief of the american expeditionary forces called on the expertise of women telephone operators. more than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the with the army. the services are documented in their personnel files now in the national archives at st. louis. a collection of archival personnel civilian records. after the war they were not deemed eligible for military benefits. it took until the 1970s for the hello girls to finally receive the benefits due them as the first female army veterans. in both the military and civilian personnel records center we preserve records of millions of men and women who have served our country. throughout the centennial observance, the national archives is showcasing its unparalleled war holdings and the stories contained in them, including those of pershing hello girls to find out more about hello girls and their place in world war i we turn to elizabeth cobbs. dr. cobbs is a historian, novelist and documentary filmmaker. she holds the melbern glasscock chair in history at texas a&m and is a research fellow at

army general, john pershing, having bullets dipped in pig's blood before using them to execute muslim prisoners in the philippines 100 years ago. it is a complete lie. the trump story about that has been told repeatedly by donald trump and it is a lie. even as new white house chief of staff, former general john kelly, cannot stop the president from telling a lie about a u.s. army general 100 years ago, let's watch how matter of factually the white house press secretary accepts that the president is a liar and there's nothing anyone in the white house can do about that. >> about a week ago on august 17th, the president again referenced a fictitious story about general pershing committing a mass execution in the philippines. a couple questions on that. does the president know that the story is false? and if so, why does he keep repeating it? and why does the white house think it's appropriate for the president to perpetuate this false story, if he hasn't been informed that it's -- >> i haven't had a chance to ask him about that, so i can't speak -- >> then on the broader point, so the p

he was talking about general john pershing. we can show you this tweet. "study what general pershing of the united states did to terrorists when caught. there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years." just a quick history lesson for folks, anderson. this was during the philippine american war during the turn of the 20th century. legend has it, and president trump has talked about this. he talked about it on the campaign that pershing would dip bullets in pigs blood before shooting muslim prisoners. that has been totally debunked. the president likes to repeat the story and do so in reference to terror attacks. he did so again today. anderson, not only has this been debunked, it's offensive to muslim-americans who don't like to be associated with terrorism. and so the president who likes to say this, he said this a couple days ago, he likes to wait before all the facts come in before he makes a comment about something is obviously once again talking about something that has been debunked time and again and did so again. >> i want to correct somethi

general john pershing, commander in chief of the american expeditionary forces called on the expertisef women telephone operators. more than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the

general john pershing did to muslim terrorists in the philippines - reviving a story he told on the campaignident trump:"he took 50 bullets and he dipped them in pig's blood, and they shot 49 of those people and for for 25 years there wasn't a problem."the problem? historians have said repeatedly said this never happened.this latest falsehood -- coming as president trump's support base continues to crack over his defense of white supremacists -- president trump:"you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know -- i don't know if you know, they had a permit."the son of fox ceo rupert murdoch, one of president trump's closest informal advisers -- denouncing the president in a scathing email, writing ... graphic:"what we watched this last week in charlottesville and the reaction to it by the president of the united states concern all of us as americans and free people". the president's behavior also wearing thin with a growing list of his republican allies who are calling him out by name.sen. bob corker:"the president has not

pershing of the united states did to terrorists when caught. there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years!: trump was referencing a debunked myth that u.s. general john j. pershing executed muslim rebels in the philippines in the early 1900's by shooting them with bullets dipped in pigs blood. trump made reference to the same made up story last year on the campaign trail. mr. trump: he took 50 bullets and he dipped them in pigs blood. and he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people and they shot 49 of those people. and the 50th person he said, you go back to your people and you tell them what happened. for 25 years, there wasn't a problem, ok? 25 years there wasn't a problem. historians say no evidence exists that this ever happened. while trump condemned the terror attack in spain, soon after it occurred he has still refused to describe two recent events in the united states as domestic terrorism -- the bombing of minnesota's largest mosque and saturday's white supremacist rally in charlottesville where a neo-nazi drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters , killing one and injuring 19 people. this all comes as president t

as you heard from the president, the contention is that while general john blackjack pershing was a military governor in the philippines during the early 1900s. he supposedly used bullets dipped in pig's blood or hard to execute fighters, the idea being pork is forbidden in islam so it would passcy fi them through terror. but the president -- is simply not true. one historian who literally wrote the book on the time period said it is a made up story. so how do we know that? well, pershing arrived in the philippines in 1899. according to historians he studied the koran and fought specific tribes but reportedly left others alone. he's also reported to have allowed enemy forces to escape. now, there were stories of fighters being buried in pig-skin in the campaign against muslim philippine knows but it is credited to other officers. historians say pershing may have sprinkled fighters with pig's blood, a far cry from execution and cite a well documented incident where a marine unit killed 11 of the porters os s od if pershing had ordered, more evidence than chain e-mails. it's been debunked by a

and confederate war memorials but the president responded by telling people to study general john j. pershingcan military icon but critibs say he's wrong to recommend people study a specific story and allen lichtman joins me, a professor at american university and the author of the case more impeachment. and explain why the president using the general pershing story would make a historian or anyone that knows the reality of that story flinch. >> yes. you know, in opposing the taking down of the monuments, president trump said we need to learn from history. but in telling this general pershing story, he has in fact not learned from hisory, but fabricated lift -- history. he claimed that he executed muslims using bullets soaked in pigs blood and the result was -- whoever he tells it, sometimes 25 or 35 years of peace that followed. doesn't matter because the story is simply made up. it has been debunked time and again by historians. donald trump doesn't care. he keeps repeating it because he thinks this serves his politics. and there are deeper problems with this made-up history. the philippine

. >> reporter: that's general john pershing who served a century ago in the philippines. >> he took 50lets in pig's blood. >> reporter: offensive, donald trump said, to muslim terrorists whose faith prohibits pork. >> this is something in the history books. >> reporter: the reason, it didn't happen. pants on fire politicfact put it. trump returns to other realities, after a work vacation that didn't provide much rest. his poll numbers, dipping. magazines ripping him with kkk imagery. and support slipping, even from fellow republicans. >> the president has not been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence. he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. >> reporter: the president's response to charlottesville. >> i think there's blame on both side ss. i have no doubt about it. >> reporter: rebuked by his military chiefs. who didn't mention the president by name. but acting cia director, john brennan said, writing, mr. trump's words and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace. the only african-american republican sena

he brought up a story about general john j. pershing. in pig's blood to execute islamic terrorists in the philippines whose religion, of course forbids contact with the animals. the story has been. he has been criticized for bringing that up and urging his millions of followers to go and learn about that story. what was your reaction to all of that? >> well, i'm just convinced that no matter what donald trump says, no matter what he does, the critics are going to line up and pile up. if he says something -- that if he says god bless you, they will beat him up for using the term "god." donald trump is an impulsive person who says things that come to him at the moment. >> that's what his twitter account is about. people can either accept that as the mind of a guy who is being incredibly transparent, maybe sometimes uncomfortably so or they can just use it as one more way to show their absolute irrational hatred for all things donald trump. and i think we are seeing that more than anything. and especially in the criticisms after charlottesv