ross mcclellan wasn't the only person working the first weekend of august, 1942. gerhardt richter learned about the rumors of mass killings to the east and the deportation of jews. he learned that there was a purpose, a not to plan to exterminate and murder the jews of europe. this seems really obvious to us now. it's hard to look act at the holocaust and not look back at it with a lot of hindsight, but back then they son oprah said to this. jews had been subjected to pogroms before and they noted that they eventually ended. but a plan was different. he tried to send his news to the u.s. through the consulate in switzerland, which had a secure channel to the united states. once the message got to america, state department officials blocked it from being received. it seemed to fantastic, one person wrote. another person thought that it was just a rumor, they couldn't figure out why it would be put in a telegram. the news of the knots extermination plan eventually made it through and the press reported the story in november of 1942. at that point ross mcclellan had

mcclellan has never heard it. with a shudder, the general protested not now, i would prefer to hear it some other place and time. the story has seen various forms. a popular african-american banjo song often performed by blackface minstrel's, picayune butler coming to town, concerned his pervasive appetite. democrats hammered message in music and graphic satire. described by the national campaign songster, aid make crack this bloody jokes but the smoke from men that die like butchered cattle. the guns grow cold, make crack his stories. your name is greater and linked with our brightest glories. 1864 campaign gave this political cartoonist unbridled opportunity to explore lincoln's compulsive jesting. columbia demands her children -- go back one. too much. there you go. columbia demands her children, and angry columbia points to a discomforted president and says, give me back my 50,000 sons, which elicits a feeble diversionary response. the fact is, by the way, that reminds me of the story. another cartoon running

in the end, lincoln won a resounding victory in 1864, 212 electoral college votes to mcclellan's 21.at this critical juncture of the war, lincoln had not only maintained his coalition, he extended it, winning a greater electoral mandate in 18 succeed for than 1860. calling lincoln's victory at the ballot box the great deliverance, reverend cornelius edgar of eastern pennsylvania marveled at how lincoln had in his conduct of the war "magnetized, blended, harmonized and unified the discordant elements of northern public opinion." the fall of the last rebel stronghold to the federal army in spring 1864 brought deliverance full-circle. after the union army entered richmond, the secretary of war edwin stanton gave an impromptu address to a rejoicing throng at the war department in washington, declaring "in this great hour of triumph, my heart as well as yours is penetrated with gratitude to almighty god for his deliverance of the nation. he will teach us how to be just in the hour of victory." surrendernient to terms at appomattox were intended precisely to ease ting confederate submissio

by that point, ross mcclellan had escaped from southern france and switzerland and the americans whoere left behind were arrested and interned in germany. year afteran a november 1942, as more information trickled out of europe, the state department publico quell any pressure for our rescue action. full-pageplaced newspaper ads condemning roosevelt, the state department, calling on the u.s. to do something. in october, 19 43, hundreds of orthodox bribery -- orthodox rabbis marched on the capital. more could have been done. at this point in the story, a group of treasury department lawyers, most of them in their 30's inter-. the most unlikely heroes. they had spent the fall of 1943 frustrated with delays approving aid money that was to go to jews in france and romania. while they were riding of this report for all the excuses of delays, the state department was actively trying to prevent information about the holocaust reachg the united states. to stop the public pressure. if americans know about it, there not going to put pressure on the u.s. to do anything. fdr passed via secretary

you also caught up with the german foreign minister in munich he said mcclellan's comments could prompt europe to take a critical look at its role within the transatlantic alliance as a vivid. the invitation to the strategic dialogue we believe that we 1st need to decide within europe how to meet the increased demands in the future we will have to do more for our security but i think it would be a mistake to put europe against the u.s. . as it were in a security alliance that works nato but it needs reform and we're discussing that now we want to bolster the european side of nato and to do that we 1st need to reach consensus in europe that dialogue that the manuel mccrone has proposed can play a significant role in this that's why we will take part. germany's foreign minister is also working to secure a lasting cease fire in libya a fresh peacemaking process was initiated in berlin last month a follow up meeting is set to take place on the sidelines of the munich security conference today hoping to build on the momentum towards peace for libya it's. education is just one of the casualti

well in a sense it was sort of like mcclellan actually agreeing with what the united states has said you're it needs to do that europe needs to strike out more on its own that it needs to be able to defend itself and here the french president is saying yeah let's do that and secretary pompei was saying we didn't mean it all by yourself we'll still be there for you will always be there for you were on the same team so this was really not as not so much of a losing but a reversal of of roles so it was quite interesting i have to say ok i'm going to tell our viewers that in the top right hand of our screen they can see mark zuckerberg the c.e.o. of facebook is just sitting down with the and we're going to listen in to their discussion as it unfolds down. one of the new issues. you know in addition to rockets and and tanks and military issues where if the new questions for us is. concerned do we need to be about meddling in our elections about many palatial. of democratic process seats. that would and have in fact in various countries led to a fall in confidence for the voters for the fo

live at mcclellan i am jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >>> thank you. joining me now is our chief meteorologist. normally our fire season starts late summer and goes in the fall and we've had these drastic fire seasons recently but with the fact we've been so dry do you anticipate fire season perhaps starting earlier in the summer? >> we could see it start possibly by the end of next month into april. >> wow. that's early. >> that is if we don't get rainfall in march and april. we still have the possibility of getting it but looking that far out we just don't know right now. if it doesn't come through in march and april it is going to be knocking on our door step. >> the other thing that is always a huge factor is the wind. we've had these isolated wind events even when we're not in fire season recently. how does that pile on? >> that is a great point and those recent wind events, we've had about three. when we get those winds 40 to 70 miles per hour it pulls a lot of the moisture off of the grass and be the trees. everything is dry right now but the gr

. >> we'll go to mcclellan airfield in sacramento for an inside look at the $20 million chopper. jodi? >> reporter: cal fire currently has 61 firefighting aircraft in the fleet but nothing like what it is about to launch. at $24 million a pop the hawk is about to take flight. >> it is a huge game changer. >> reporter: that's how cal fire describes the fleet of new helicopters about to join the state's fire fight. the first of 12 choppers called cal fire hawks is already at cal fire's aviation headquarters getting prepped for battle. >> these are the first brand new aircraft we've ever had. >> reporter: the chopper can fly 12le

but you have to remember, this is not joseph hooker, george mcclellan or someone like that. this is ulysses s. grant. this is the grant of belmont that, when things go sideways, he doesn't give up, he takes over and takes care of the situation. this is the grant of fort donaldson, when things went sideways, he counterattacks, takes over, wins the victory. this is the grant at shiloh, things go sideways, what does he do? counterattacks, takes control, wins the victory. grant is not easily ruffled. and he is going to take care of this situation as well. in fact by the time you reach , the battle of champion hill here, there are three roads coming in from the east. the map is pointing north. three roads coming in from the east, two roads leaving the battlefield on the west. and the two of those meat at the famous crossroads just south of champion hill. grant has a handle on the situation. his men are at all three of those major roads entering the battlefield. he has all three major avenues covered. his men are well rested, they had gone into camp early. they had had short march

role as a divorce lawyer and marriage story i presume and brad pitt won his 1st acting all scott mcclellan his supporting role as a laidback stunt man in question terran tino's once upon a time in hollywood. and the oscars wouldn't be there. without some political jiving it told me i only have 45 seconds up here which is 45 seconds more than senate gave john bolton this week. i'm thinking maybe quinn does a movie about it in the end they don't do the right thing. but there was also some good old fashioned fun. and plenty of entertainment. music legend elton john performing his oscar winning of original song from the bio pic rocket man. getting what he would in the mood for the infamous because off to parties. well the movie correspondent scott joins us now for more all they all scores a start i know that when the oscar nominations were announced you were very excited about parasite what in your opinion makes this an oscar worthy film. yeah terry. there's that was my favorite film of the year i saw it last year in cannes where it won the palme d'or and i think it's amazing actually that the

he would really like to follow the example of george mcclellan and sit down for a month or so and recover from the battle of gettysburg. he writes to his wife that the president ought to be satisfied with getting lee out of maryland. and you ought to leave this army alone until we can replace our losses. i can appoint new generals, get ourselves reorganized, and we have a reasonable chance of going out and fighting another battle and winning the victory. of course, general meade knows that is not in the cards. after his failure to attack lee at williamsport, whether that was the good decision or wrong decision, he is in trouble with the administration. lincoln has expressed his dissatisfaction. that really stuck in meade's craw. he got the army three days before the battle, he did not want the army, he tried to decline the command. he was told he could not. now he fights and wins this great big battle. he has conducted this difficult pursuit. he has done everything anybody could be asked to do. now the president is dissatisfied. as far as meade is concerned, that is a censure. that is say

peter paul said as long as there's a rest over an incident said brought down a key ally of president mcclellan. russia's foreign minister accuses the us of both really creating conditions to deploy seoul to medium range missiles in europe and asia. an advisor to the u.k. government resigns after a backlash over his extreme views on brains that and eugenics. townspeople in the african nation of ghana are dying of cancer and other horrific diseases as the west uses it as a dumping ground for the electronic waste.

mcclellan is just golden for people such as we because he is an exhaustively bountiful source of asides that everyone gets. i wonder why. aaron: i mean, what occurs to me as we are talking, the focus, , the pictures are static, so seeing in them what people are talking about requires a tool that i try to remind my students is an essential part of what historians do and what i think most people do not understand, which is imagination. i mean, it is sort of a dirty word where people think the only thing we do is sort of like an archaeologist, sort of dust off facts, and then line them up on the table, and then that is the thing. and in fact you know, as i said there is a million facts. , sort of chronicling a day would take all of us a lifetime, and we would not make any sense out of it. and so it requires the ability to look at this and see one of the things that came up at almost every comment, which is transformation. right, that a church and steve cushman's still evocative language when he talks about the ground log wood, and he talks about the house of the lord becomes the house of c

but how would that work in practice french president in mind when mcclellan dreams of a european army under french german leadership could such a european army fill the power vacuum that would result if the us pulled out of nato. at the moment the e.u. is politically and militarily a small entity on u.s. life support. if europe start to go along it will divide europe from or from article. but it is also the wild europe so too golo is not good for not good states is not good for europe to roll wars to cold war fought to get started somehow photos that we need to stand together if coming up on a sleigh i can't imagine europe being able to guarantee its own security in the foreseeable future because we need the us but when i look around the world i can't see any power that is as close to us culturally and economically as the united states. that's why i think it's good for us to hold on to it but the fact that we sometimes wrangle with the americans that we sometimes have different points of view means that the europeans have to get more involved and make a more effective contribution onl

we all believe he was right when he told mcclellan he should pursue the enemy after antietam. horribly upset he was. at the same time, we celebrate his essential humanity. his ability to appreciate and empathize with the humans suffering that was the american civil war. he seems to have been able to do both things at once. to be a man of empathy and of hard action. a president who could order meant to their deaths yet genuinely rude the dying. it is this quality of lincoln that we don't often appreciate. we don't often remark upon it. his ability to balance things. he was able in so many aspects of his life to find a proper balance point between extremes. whether it be the intellectual realm, his balancing the constitution's pragmatism with the declarations idealism or the political realm, his ability to steer the course between the radical and conservative aspects of his party. or the personal realm with his lifelong balancing of humor and sadness, fatalism and idealism. abraham lincoln was many things but he was a man of his group -- exquisite balance oriented how did he do

george mcclellan would have found a way for lee to get away. lee would have found a way to away from him. or a number of other generals. but that very fast pursuit, and that opportunistic pursuit, that leads to victory at sailors creek in three days before the surrender that was grant's , thinking. kind of the process was never fully complete. he never had everybody in the army of the potomac thinking his way but he did switch them over to a large degree in thinking his kind of way. it was not easy. the incident that stands out most with grant demanding his subordinates think in different ways and where he stated his case most plainly, although he was always putting it across in the orders that he gave we are , going to do it that way, we are going to do it this way. we are not going to wait and have everything just so. we are going to be opportunistic, we are going to take our opportunities quickly and capitalizing on them quickly. where he states that the most plainly was the evening of the second day of the battle of the wilderness, the conf

or mcclellan and another compromise with the devil by which man is degraded and brought a little near to the devil and everything. if lincoln is elected today, the war with johnny reb is but child's play, for they will see that there is a spirit in the freemen of the north that will not be defeated, a spirit that is bound to win." his words would suggest that he had become a diehard republican and supporter of abe lincoln. that reasonable to assume in casting his ballot for abe, he came to support the hard work policies of the republican, including emancipation. many historians would point to him and suggest that he became a republican even after the war. i know a little about his life after the war, -- i know little about his life after the war except that he continued to struggle with alcoholism. i can tell you that after his boat for lincoln, he still emancipation and the employment of black troops was not the best course of action. the person who reminds us to look at the soldier in 1864 was caution is none other than jonathan white. point that a democratic soldier who voted for b

. >> how they perform, within the prototype test regime, it goes through, lta or general mcclellan i have as we want to use them early and often, is a mechanism is really really good for american business. because it reduces that time to getting something on order and improves their cash flow positions. it is the speed of business. so for sit philosophically we are energized behind it. watching it very closely because it is changing the way we do business in our army acquisition. so if a close eye on all of it. but we definitely put the latitude place for doctor jenny, to utilize this is much as possible. >> you been talking about this army acquisition. sometimes is been criticized. how will the army how are they working to avoid these acquisition layers. >> a lot of that, that's what a lot of them from osb. the requirements leadership were not at the table. the war fighters. what do you want, when you're trying to achieve with this weapon system. we are blessed with an amazing engineering organization and we have great people in industry but it's a leap, it really does come down to

, i may lose this election, so help me with this scheme, some legal definition of freedom before mcclellan and the democrats engineering negotiated peace or whatever they are going to do. reverse emancipation. imagine this. i don't know exactly what douglas thought, of course, but i know it's reaction was something like, sure. supposed to- how my do this? warlincoln had was, the department will help you. he goes back to rochester, only about 10 days, and he starts firing off letters to agents, friends, we are going to do this, i think. then comes the fall of atlanta, may be the biggest turning point in the war in terms of morale. farragut had just taken mobile bay and the largest naval batter of the war. he writes a plan, a long plan to lincoln about these plans. he is going to hire uniformed african-american bounty hunters. he has been asked to enact john brown's so-called --e iranian passageway subterranean passageway, by lincoln. edna: douglass is really criticizing lincoln in this period, so is lincoln not sort of bringing him in to give him something to do other than criticize him. he

i am actually waiting for instructions on whether president mcclellan is standing behind us. does anybody see em. throwing daggers at me out here we can have when we take one more question a question from china. yes to have them ok yeah yeah. thank you ok from china was written. you mention is that the united states is time to seek to confront them with china you state the united states. secret to cooperate of is china to give us some examples where united states the duty we need to work together with 10 that thank you. you know i think there are a number of areas you can look at the economic growth where we cooperate in the diplomatic space we cooperated together for many years with regard to counter power sea off the african coast i think there's much more we can do in terms of disaster relief and humanitarian affairs but at the same time we're working together united states closely with many of its close partners to make sure that china respects the scenes in the fishing zones and the other territory territorial claims that are clearly within the bounds of international la