tonight's analysts are james mcpherson and g. edward white. mcpherson is the george henry davis 86 professor emeritus of united states history at princeton university. he is a noted and award-winning civil war historian. his book was awarded the indisputable award in 1965 and his book received the pulitzer prize in 1988. he is twice received the lincoln prize. the first time in 1998 for his 2009.nd again in white is the david and mary hairston distinguished professor of law at the virginia law school. .e is the author of 16 books law and american history volume one from the colonial years to the civil war. or chief justice warren. we will have more time for discussion about justice holmes. professor snider, i turn the floor to you. thesem delighted to have historians here and i will try to get out of the way and let them be the stars of the show. isver wendell holmes fascination to lawyers and historians both on the stories of the civil war and court. was the huge impact of the civil war on his jurisprudence on his life, on his worldview. we a

tonight's analysts are james mcpherson and g. edward white. james mcpherson is the george henry davis professor emeritus of united states history at princeton university. he is a noted and award-winning civil war historian. his book was awarded the indisputable award in 1965 and his book received the pulitzer prize in 1988. he has twice received the lincoln prize. the first time in 1998 and again in 2009. professor white is the david and mary hairston distinguished professor of law at the virginia law school. he is the author of 16 books, including "law and american history volume one from the colonial years to the civil war." he served for chief justice warren. we will have more time for discussion about justice holmes. professor snyder, i turn the floor to you. >> i am delighted to have these historians here and i will try to get out of the way and let them be the stars of the show. oliver wendell holmes is a fascination to lawyers and historians both on the stories of the civil war and court. part of that was the huge impact of the civil wa

stephenie ann mcpherson joining us. ( -- rebecca stevenson joining us. what can we expect. >> the storms moving up. they'll taper down overnight and pick up with the day-time heating. overnight we are watching strong storms. these have been producing large hail and wind gusts. anywhere from 50 to 60 miles per hour. we have had reports come in from west virginia. these have been strong throughout the night. and keep in mind the hail is the little blue dots. quite a few reports getting progressively larger with time. the big problem is going to be the potential storms that create that risk of a tornado continuing into monday morning. the big story is about temperatures dropping fast, quickly. the cool air, from minneapolis to chicago, it is already having a top five coolest julys and here you go some of the coolest days. temperatures dropping down to around 60. the high temperature 73. and only 78. all that cool air settling into the parts of the east, while the heat is on for the west. we'll have temperatures well above normal prepare yourself. temperatur

including jim mcpherson. he was interested. he is a big reader of history. >> do you do pick up the phone and say, mr. president, come to my house? >> i got to know ronald reagan before he was president. he liked to get out. out of the bubble of the white house. george w. bush was interested in this. so i suggested it. barack obama hadn't been nominated yet. i called some of the staff and said, he is going to win. it would be nice, let me have a dinner, get some conservative columnists. try to rekindle something that was characteristic of older washington. you and i can read member, it was a more amicable -- exactly. i remember obama himself called me and said, i ought to win this first before accepting. >> what is the memory from that night? >> he was affable, he was also very confident. as he still is. i remember asking if he had a theory as to why there was a depression, the collapse of 1937, he knew it had happened which was a good sign. he did have a theory. roosevelt declared victory too soon. it indicated he was informed

. >> fair state right now, and if we go and see a little heat, so to speak, mcpherson square, it's been launch, but you know, as always, as you drill into the details, we'll find different information. >> you're comparing this monday to last monday and the monday before that, the silver line was going to be with full speed. >> a lot of data to analyze. the first step might be to take three periods. a simulation silver time, which was last monday, and then today, this morning, which is really official silver, which sterling silver, maybe, and compare them and see how they did. the numbers i'm seeing so far look like they are supporting what metro advertised. as far as the number of trains per hour. the average arrivals per hour and that kind of thing. as we drill into the details. i think we'll see averages, we may see a much longer delay, but they make the average work out over time. so to that one rider who is waiting 20 minutes on the platform, that might not be so nice. so far, it looks like the numbers show that it's gone smoothly. it's been a smooth launch and maybe a happy launch.

>> he's on another case, miss mcpherson. anything else can i help you with?zaria! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> you sit before the host. >> seth: i did in the first two weeks and a lot of people told me, you can't do that. >> you have to wait? >> seth: my dad said you can't sit down before -- that was the first week if you must know. >> really? >> seth: he's very good. most of them are right. >> i was on the phon with my mom before i came out here. and i was like, "mom i got to go." and she's like, "just one thing -- what's the difference between --" she's 86. "what's the difference between tweet and text?" "mom, i don't --" >> seth: i don't have time for this. [ laughter ] this "ray donovan" a bit of a departure for you. sort of a gritty drama, were you a fan of show? has it been fun to do this? >> that was probably the most, that clip -- was like, nothing happened in that clip. just chatting. how do you take your coffee? milk, please. [ laughter ] um, yes no, i didn't -- they offered me the role and i hadn't seen the show. it's like everybody does now. i bin

the first battle; there was two battles there of course, and i went up to princeton to meet james mcpherson, the great historian of the civil war who wrote the book 'battle cry of freedom. he was very engaging, and very accommodating to me in terms of how he saw it. >> charlie: but not world war ii, not world war i, not the war of 1812. it's civil war that speaks to you as an object of -- >> i took it on and i grew interested and more interested, and i went to a gentleman's house down south in atlanta, and he had every armament that was used in the civil war, and then he showed me the battle plans of sherman who burned atlanta. fantastic. >> charlie: burned atlanta. maybe finished the whole thing. >> charlie: famously saying "war is hell." >> yeah, destroyed all the rail tracks. >> charlie: i think he may have said, i'm not sure, "the people who hate war the most are those who fight it." >> of course and that's a fact. >> charlie: patton may have been the exception. remember he said "i love it!" >> how can you love war? >> charlie: i think it was probably the command he loved. napoleon prob

>> joining us to talk about that, rebecca mcpherson, the former faa assistant chief counsel for regulationsecca. nice to have you here. i guess that is the question, do you think they will be successful? >> well, i think they'll probably be successful in one way or the other. i'm not sure they're going to get an exemption request, but they may get an experimental certificate that lets them do the exact same thing that they requested. >> well, are we splitting hairs there, or -- i mean, eventually, are they going to be able to use drones to deliver products? >> well, i think eventually. the question of whether they'll be able to do that is whether it makes sense financially. there's already a very robust delivery system in this country. there are issues they're going to have to deal with with the drones. ultimately, we don't know what the faa's final regulations are going to look like and how expensive they're going to be. >> anybody else as excited about the possibility as i am, or am i getting carried away with a pr gimmick here? >> i just picture my, like, nephew, a high school kid with a