mcclellan has this order. to take the next step, if i may, while he was head of several people from the city of frederick discussing the up patience. he was handed this dispatch. he liked it. supposedly he threw up its hands and said now i know what to do. in any case he was obviously very much excited biologists and dismissed all of this. one of them turned out to be a confederate sympathizer. i think he was a confederate spy. paid to be on this meeting. stir ran off. it finally made its way to the general lee. announcement. but the question is, how much did generally know and when he knew it. and as far as i can determine the only thing he learned from this was the something was going on. general mcclellan was excited about something rather. i'll leave the story there. maybe jim can pick it up. >> the big question, i suppose, and the great debate that continues is whether this was, as he put his command at think you're pretty decisive on the subject, whether it was coming back to my sloppy career in the stat

>> mcclellan was convinced convinced, he was afraid to win was essentially it. there is a letter that he wrote, i made a copy of it, to his wife, one day after the battle, september 18. 8:00 a.m. if they had a terrible battle and lee is still there and has not left the battlefield they are expecting the battle to be renewed. and says we fought yesterday a terrible flap day's battle and it continued 14 hours. the fighting on both sides was superb. the general result was in our favor to say we gained a great deal of ground. it was a success or a decided victory depends on what occurs today. i hope god has given us a great success because we're all in contempt to the bid and has the interesting sentence, those in whose judgment i rely tell me i thought the battle splendidly and it was a masterpiece of art. this is the most revealing letter i think mclellan ever wrote to and obviously will not follow up what he accomplished from the day before and thinks he has done a wonderful thing largely because he has prevented the superior force , they had even gained ground.

mark mcclellan ran medicare under president george w. bush and says its rate of growth is just not sustainable. >> our health care costs are growing at a rate much more rapidly than our overall economy, and that means that any real effort to address the federal deficit must address spending on the medicare entitlement. >> reporter: the deficit talks in washington change minute by minute, but federal health care spending might come in for cuts of around $350 billion over the next ten years. advocates for medicare say the president's health care reform act already targeted half a trillion dollars in medicare cuts. max richtman at the committee to preserve social security and medicare says that's enough. >> slashing medicare, which is what is being considered now by some, without it also addressing overall health care costs and health care inflation across the board, will not solve anything. it will just squeeze medicare beneficiaries. >> reporter: democrats have pushed for medicare savings by forcing providers to change the way they delive

sure who testified in court as a key witness a guilty verdict for all four mcclellan's islamic relatives the same day a new counterterrorism strategy was touted the new group for worst sentenced to twenty five years in prison a tearful and angered crowd of supporters gathered outside manhattan's federal courthouse who was a government accountable trying on your own american citizens people as born right here on american soil this is a day of shame. a miscarriage of justice and we will keep fighting back the government should not be allowed to travel snake plains and see the full force of the. quake and do to the victims and soon twenty five. f.b.i. informants have reportedly been used in dozens of so-called for oil plots since nine eleven critics say hundreds of americans are languishing behind bars for fake terror attacks planted and grown by the u.s. government our tax dollars are being used to incentivize criminals to you for sure terror plots like that they catch other people up in i can't see how that in any way benefits the country music can pick anybody off in new york city or cou

the aircraft took off from mcclellan air force base this morning and mexican authorities are leading the search but rescuers and mexican authorities are hoping they can find survivors. live at the coast island in alameda, nick smith, "abc 7 news." >>> jaycee dugard is breaking her silence on television since she was freed. she gave diane sawyer an exclusive interview ahead the release of her book. she says she wears a pine cone around her neck because that is the last thing she remembers after losing consciousness. she says she can't believe she can now jump into a car and just go to her beach with her girls. the exclusive interview will air on a special two hour edition of prime time from 9:00 to 11:00 this sunday right here. diane will give us a preview on "good morning america." >> right now in orlando, florida a sentencing hearing for casey anthony is just getting started. live pictures from orlando, florida, they found her not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter back in 2008. she still faces misdemeanor charges of lying to investigators but she may go free today. she spe

senator stennis and mcclellan, two democratic senators. reason they pulled the plug is they said, roger, they don't know they are being duped thp they don't realize that this is a white house-run operation. and the damage that could be done if they find out is too much for us to bear. so they tried to recruit the dem krts under a false cover. >> that's awesome. that's awesome. that's fox news 101. they dupe democrats that could be on there when they don't realize it is republican tv. they are like, what? i didn't know that. right? so i mean he has an -- you got to give him credit. not just in, coming up with strategy which is in a lot of ways brilliant. but let me give one thing from your own report which is amazing. you talk about how carefully they manipulated the media pl ails writes a memo about, hey, let's pick up this kid during tree lighting. hole him up and push the button together so you have equal credit. it is amazing. we found the old tape of nixon doing that. let's show you. >> so you put your hand right on here and i will, an

the lead coach is cornell mcclellan who is the first family's personal trainer.ic sport you are talking about is jumping rope. >> yes. ♪ >> go ahead and do that. i'll get out of your way. that usually helps. all right. looking good. >> even in the olympics we did about 20 minutes of jump roping a day, every morning to warm up. so i want kids and families to get involved. the great way is you don't need a jump rope. you can envision that you have a jump rope and just hold your hands in the position. >> i'm amazed that she can jump rope and talk and make sense. >> and not even sound out of breath. >> would you like a piece of gum while you're at it? dominique dawes, thanks so much. >>> coming up next -- staying cool with style in the summer heat. maybe not doing jumping rope. that's not going to be so cool. after these messages. you did great! looking good. yes. our "name your price" tool shows you a range of options. you pick a price that works for you. perfect. only one thing could make this better. both: '80s montage! ♪ progressive '80s montage ♪ he drops some b