mcclellan's status also heard him. many soldiers thought it was inappropriate for a general, still with rank and pay to run against a commander in chief that he served. the democrats peace plank alienated many soldiers who saw their only ka pit tu lace the democratic platform expressed sympathy for the soldiers as if they had been duped. soldiers knew the democrats in one state after another had voted to deny them the right to vote in the absentee ballots. they were only temporary soldiers in the case, volunteers with their loyalty still firmly attached to the low caltys and states. what they did not know was weather it would be enough to overcome close home votes in pennsylvania and new york one reason they furloughed thousands of soldiers to go back home to vote. after months of campaigning, building on the years of constantly shifting sands of public opinion, the votes came in. maybe i can show the map i have. this is the election of 1864, i think it's amazing lincoln would win by a 411,000 margin over mcclellan. an

this, again, or mcclellan -- and mcclellan thought lincoln was a fool and treated him terribly rudely. lincoln is incredibly patient and he says mildly to mcclellan in one of these meetings before he fires them, he says, general, if you are not using your army, may i borrow it? [laughter] and mcclellan being of two self-important, he didn't get it here in -- get it. this is not the meeting in which lincoln fires mcclellan. it is where he is strong to find a what mcclellan is doing. i'm showing this picture because it is the beginning again a photojournalism. that camera was big. it was cumbersome. there was the process of taking a plate and developing it. gardner cannot manipulate the camera easily, but he was manipulative himself. he was taking himself out in getting the beginnings of photojournalism, which lincoln is participating in. and what lincoln is doing here, again, lincoln doesn't talk as much as we think he did. his speeches, probably because a quality is really high. is famous on occasions where there was a surname where he tells the crowd, i appreciated, but i am not goin

up pictures of him and mcclellan. there is this element of his ability that lincoln exploits. , again, know how lincoln was incredibly interested in technology. he was interested in the process of war and modernity. there is something about it that made it attractive to him. if you wanted to be malicious, you can say that lincoln was an egotist and light to look at himself. but i don't think that is the case. he wanted to be visible to the public and was using it -- this quickly before the next questions, if you imagine frederick douglass. he is an interesting side case, a parallel case to lincoln. probably justs because he lived longer, but was having his photograph taken because this is the other thing that photography allowed you to do. you could make people visible parent as it did with lincoln, but more dramatically with the case of the free people, particularly douglas, as he moves into his career as an anti-slavery and abolitionist. there is this element again of bearing witness, that here is an african-america

i so i zrnt a hard time explaining why we hate mcclellan that much. now, moving to my topic today, one of the things i was thinking about is this american iliad, does it half -- it has stories in it about grant at shilo. general petraeus during the darkest moments of the surge told his staff on several occasions about grant's remark on the evening of the first day of the battle of shilo where sherman comes up to him and says well, grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we? and grant's response is, yep, lick them tomorrow, though. anticipate general petraeus used that to buck up his staff and soldiers. that is an image that comes out of the american iliad. stonewall jackson at first manassas is also a tale of an american iliad. what kind of tales do we have that touch upon the things we've been discussing today -- reconstruction and the ugliness of it. these are stories that we don't want to look at in a mythic kind of way. the exception to this would be sherman's marches. people do know about sheridan in 1804. if people know anything the hard w

mcclellan represented a faction known as war democrats. war democrats were members of northern democratic party that favor the prosecution of war aggressively. they wanted to continue the war to preserve the union but always opposed emancipation. his running mate is george pendleton. a congressman from ohio. he represents a faction of the party called east democrats. the nickname was copperheads. they basically arrived at the conclusion the war is a failure and continuing the war was a tragic mistake. theseatic party will put two men together on the same ticket. , even earlier in the war he staked out his position with regard to abraham lincoln. warays i do not favor a with the subjugation of the people, the confiscation of forcefulperty or the interference with slavery. the democratic party is closely enough divided that there are a lot of democrats that are not happy mcclellan was the nominee. he's a war democrat. feelings, their party let them write the platform, which is bizarre. they are going to have a war democrat lead the party and

this is george mcclellan, the commander of the army of the potomac early in the war. gary prominent and famous union general. it represented a faction known as war democrats. war democrats or members of --thern credit party that northern democratic party that the report aggressively. they wanted to continue the war to preserve the union but always opposed emancipation. runningng man -- his mate is amending george pendleton. he was a congress and from ohio. he represents a faction of the party called p7 kratz -- peace democrats, or sometimes he recalled copperheads. peace democrats have arrived at the conclusion the war is a failure and continuing the war was a tragic mistake. the democratic party will put these two men together on the same ticket. peacemocrats and democrats. we talked about this before. earlier in the war he state that his position with regard abraham lincoln. although he favored a war to i amrve the union he said not looking for the subjugation of the people, the confiscation of their property, whether forcible abolition of slavery. absolutely repudi

morgan's mcclellan. i said the jobs report looks solid. i'm going to play the role labor market trucer. unemployment rate up 9.8%. the participation rate increased. that's tells me there's still a lot of flak. is that your picture? >> what is positive is the view they can try to go out and look for jobs. are depressed typically not looking. decreasedinto this confidence. now people feeling confident about the labor market. i think what's more important, mentioned, is pick up in wage growth. oil prices kind of picked up for first part of the year, inve seen in decline discretionary spending. people feel more confident to economy.ey in this >> labor report is very much yellen's view of the economy. no major surprises. treasury market reacteding ad -- hasn't more? >> the treasury market is in step with the fed hikes.'s not pricing in how is it in lock step with the ?eds reques >> the fed say we're looking at the markets. market is saying, okay janet, we understand what you're saying, we're dependent on the central bank. to show you a number o

you know, if they're in mcclellan's bar, they'll be able to order bar food, whatever they want. >> and that's all done in a separate kitchen? >> yes, which is up one floor. it's right off the lobby. there's tdl restaurant and mcclellan's bar. >> chef andre, in the 12 years that you've been doing this dinner, has anything ever gone wrong or awry that you can tell us about? >> we've actually had a lot go wrong. you know, part of my job and my assistant's job is kind of look into the future, what possibilities are there for something to go wrong? so we actually take the menu and we think backwards. okay, what happens if we break 50 plates? what happens if we forget to light a hot box? so we kind of backtrack through the whole menu to make sure that we try to minimize those. now, we have had things like all of a sudden an oven got tired. >> got tired? >> yeah. it's a nice way of putting it. you know, we put a french onion soup in the oven, and all of a sudden, the oven wasn't working. and that's when you have to use the resources in the kitchens, all the kitchens, to be able to produce the

he didn't strategically -- he did in the strategically bite going away from mcclellan, mcclellan certain fleeing the instantly and attacking. -- lee started attacking. the end of one day, and by the end of two days, lead you from reports by jeb stuart that this was the case. reports by jebm stuart that this was the case. he took 20,000 casualties in this campaign to mcclellan's 16,000. they were soft areas they included missing. casualties, all killed and wounded. not a good start, not auspicious beginning because the south could not afford a fight in the war in that way. one may -- one man you may not have heard of was in the offensive and took very heavy losses in the back. and then gettysburg, on days two did nothing but assault strong federal positions on high ground against long 'sreets of ice -- long street advice. he took a severe beating. again and again during the war, the record is replete with strategic and tactical aggressive behavior by lee which was inappropriate for the south because of the fact that north had the burden of winning the war and the south was so badly outnum

grant was no closer this summer than george mcclellan had been two years earlier. while northern republicans made excuses, northern democrats again searching for an 1864 presidential candidates. in midsummer, president lincoln admitted publicly that he expended -- expected to lose. offensen davis's of-defense of strategy was working. the union army was held back at every corner. if the two southern armies could hold their own until the november elections, northern public opinion would and the civil war and the confederate dream would be accomplished. high water mark of the war. , the timethree months it took for northern military might to effect a complete turnaround. headlinesot the first . a change of commanders in the confederate army in atlanta proved disastrous. soundly defeated in each engagements. grant, put a stranglehold on leave. grant kept widening the length of his lines. 'sis in turn stretched lee smaller defenses. grant'sortantly, strategy took away from the only effective weapon the southern journal had, mobility. as long as lee could maneuver, if he

and he also used people on became the project of commanders and very much dumped anybody, not mcclellanbut others were going downhill politically. he also say that race was for him up essential to his views, as they work. but kind of political views, his attitude toward abolition and also what he did in the reconstruction. >> this is a fascinating story eliminated for me by document i found was people only search. clearly the day after the march at the end of the american he was deported to texas almost became occupation duty of the only major confederate state that not been talking by the indian army. because of that slavery had grown stronger. slaveholders had sent the human property taxes. african-americans became a larger portion of the state. so he enters the state with no sense of having been conquered and with a very large population of african-american english slavery was still being pursued a practical level even though legally it had been abolished. he found the case of a nine -year-old girl who had left the plantation where she was being held across 23 miles of countryside fi

in 2005, i was asked to go on behalf of scott mcclellan with president bush. we started in the intensive careef unit are they brief thet patient president on the way into the hospital about the first patient we would see. he was a young marine who was injured in his humvee when it was hit by a bomb. after he was injured he was flown to germany.ed his parents, wife and five-year-old son were at his bedside. what's his prognosis? we don't know because he has not opened his eyes since he arrived. we haven't been able to communicate with him. we had to wear masks because of the risk of infection to the patient. i watch carefully to see how thee family would react to president bush and i was worried that they might be mad at him and blame him for their loved ones situation. i was wrong. the family was so excited the president had come.ov g they gave him big hugs and thing to him over and over.. then they to get a photo, so we gathered them all and the photographer asked, is everybody smiling, which is pretty funny since we were all wearing masks. the soldier was in

jon: let's bring in angela mcclellan, fox news political analyst and keisha jackson, radio talk showsibutor. welcome to both of you. this is going to befun. >> thanks for having us . jon: angela, which, i most said ted cruz. which donald trump are we going to be seeing from here on out? >> i think you're going to see the same old donald trump. he's doing something over and over again and expecting a result, strategy is enhancing what you already have. and donald trump, no question is the front-runner and the things he's been saying people have been loving. apparently having said that though, he does need to tone it down for the general election and now he's running as our candidate, as our nominee. jon: you know something about presidential politics, your father did very well when he ran. what do you think about the trump approach? >> i think angela would appreciate this being a southerner. you've got to dance with the one who brought you. it has worked and you know what question mark let's be very clear. there is no graceful way to fight for your political life. politics is about pow

stronger world basically if the uk stays within the eu and one of the questions we will talk with casey mcclellanour is what does this mean for us if the uk were to leave the eu, what does it mean for our national security and the us economy. jon: but look what happened within the eu. the universal passport essentially that you get if you are admitted to one european union country, say greece. you can travel freely around the other european union's without a visa. and as tens and thousands of syrian refugees have swarmed into europe, there are concerns especially in britain about whether all those people have arrived with the best intentions. we know at least one of the paris attackers was somebody who arrived as a so-called refugee. heather: that is a huge security concern there as it's a security concern we share here with our visa waiver program so expect that folks there following this closely will continue to explore that angle and figure out what they want for the future of their country you want to we are expecting david cameron, the prime minister and the president toemerge . we would hop

remember capitals general manager brian mcclellan, he once said he believed this group had a two-yearw to win the stanley cup. alex ovechkin's play has not gone down but the championship window for him is closing and that's why the sense of urgency surrounding this group is so great even in the city. tomorrowp been declared rock the red day in d.c. the capitals with their eyes firmly on the philadelphia flyers. they host that game tomorrow night. the nhl playoffs officially begin tonight. and for a team who has been waiting for this moment for what feels like months, it may be hard to cool their excitement since it is only one more sleep until playoffs. that is if they sleep at all. >> this is the time of year that's fun. this is the time of year we look forward to and if you're not going to be sleeping, it's going to be because you're so excited. >> you're thinking let's get it started by the black eyed peas in your head? >> no, a country song. >> for me it's i get home and finish up what i need to do and water some plants and, you know, i'm baching it for a while. i have to take car

army chemical school and center at fort mcclellan, alabama. youindebted and grateful to for your recent thoughtful made me readch over and over again u.s. history, and its declaration of independence. again, i found your speech is the spirit of liberty which made america strong and free. i'm confident with the generous aid and anguish of your road nation, we shall finally emerge the torilla's in the struggle for freedom and independence. i have tried to write in english for the first time. i'm am taking the liberty to bring to your attention as a token of my appreciation. i sincerely hope that it may express to you are burning desire to fight for freedom, that it may serve as a self explanation of a humble but grateful people who truthfully show this weakness to a true friend, in order to be helped more effectively. inh my very best wishes respect to you, the leader of the free world, and to your honorable family. may i congratulate you, mr. president, on the occasion of your independence day. thank you. >> when patrick nugent and i met , the

so whether it's room service ala cart or the people that like to watch, terry mcclellan's bar, they'llod. whatever they want. >> and that's all done in a spray kitchen? >> yes, which is -- excuse many, up one floor. it's right off the lobby. there's a t.d.l. restaurant and mcclellan's bar. >> in the 12 years that you've been doing this dinner, has anything ever gone wrong or awry that you can tell us about? >> we've actually had a lot go wrong. you know, part of my job and my assistant's job is to -- is kind of look into the future what possibilities are there for something to go wrong? so we actually take the menu and we rethink backwards. ok. what happens if we break 50 plates? what happens if we forget to light a hot box? so we kind of backtrack through the whole menu to make sure we try to minimize those. now, we have had things like -- all of a sudden an oven got tired. >> got tired? >> it's a nice way of putting it. we put a french onion soup in the oven and all of a sudden the oven wasn't working. and that's when you have to use the resources in the kitchens, all the kitchens to

george mcclellan went from a man failing in command of the army of the potomac to a presidential nominee in 1864. he failed at that as well. there was some like burnside and lawrence chamberlain made successful career and then there were those like dance circles and kilpatrick and benjamin franklin butler who were embarrassing in american politics, writing their wartime reputations any highly negatively. but for change political parties i think, no, nathaniel banks who changed parties seven times. is age showed how flexible he was in dealing with politics. then five of these men who were officers become president of the united states, five of them. two of them are assassinated. you and i know a whole lot about kennedy and lincoln but i suspect we know very little about garfield and mckinley. indeed, bill mckinley, william mckinley was probably the most popular president of his day of any later effect in the white house. everybody loves a big bill mckinley. he was a loving father, a wonderful husband. his wife suffered from epilepsy, and at state dinners he had her sitting next to them so