mr. costello is a senior historian at the white house historical association. this 25 minute talk was part of a conference highlighting the work of william thornton, who is known as the capitol's first architect. william: i hope you are all sugared up. although, i don't know if you will need it.

mr. costello is a senior historian at the white house historical association. this 25 minute talk was part of a conference highlighting the work of william thornton, who is known as the capitol's first architect. william: i hope you are all sugared up. although, i don't know if you will need it. the next half of the morning's program is highly visual, particularly the last session. that is another thing we can use to focus our attention which is a wonderful thing to have. thank you to octagon house for making it possible. the third speaker, matthew costello, has been a stalwart friend of the u.s. capital historical society. he is my counterpart, the senior historical at the white house historical association around the corner. he agreed to share his expertise on our first president in discussing washington's cap et al., and thorton's cap a tall. matthew, think you for joining us today. [applause] matthew: thank you for that introduction. it is a real privilege to be here today. to be able to enjoy and celebrate this day, commemorating william thornton's legacy.

mr. costello what might have been had he lived. i think stephen decatur, knowing he had a very outsized role in society, and recognized -- very few were at that time -- off and down the east coast, national figure. eyesnk he may have had his on some sites beyond being a retired naval officer, as wonderful as that is. [laughter] admiral harvey: and there could be nothing better than that, but he may have had his eyes on something. this was a convenient place to do it at he had the wherewithal to make it happen. ann: he and susan decatur built in in 19?in 18, moved it was still the early days. president.ends were a couple of days before his death, he went to a wonderful dinner for the president's , mariar, who was engaged monroe. this was a guy who had taken that sea experience, the leadership and adventurism that he enjoyed, and turned it into a very, very potent presence in this city. admiral, could you talk a little bit about how he returned to this house? what those last days of his life, which cut short a really brilliant career

mr. costello, 117,000 people said that they could see themselves supporting bernie sanders over donald trumpthat could have been a real game changer for the republicans. >> i knew some of them. it was a combination of your blue dog democrats that liked trump's jobs message, and also, let's not forget, the anti-establishment -- trump was anti-establishment. bernie was anti-establishment. i shouldn't say this, but blow up the system, start from scratch with something that both of them kind of manifested in their primary. >> what does that look like today? >> see, here's the thing. i have a fundamental pushback on this, this idea that democrats need to be chasing trump voters. if you look at what trump did in the midwest compared to, say, what obama did and back to back majorities, trump has not a a majority, but a polarity in most of these battle ground states. if you take what he got in 2016 and compared it to what we did in 2012, it's a losing coalition. as opposed to chasing trump voters, obama got 1.1 million more votes in michigan, pennsylvania, ohio and wisconsin. how about trying to bro

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mr. trump as well as a review of confidential white house documents reveal numerous unreported episodes in a two-year drama. joining us now, former republican congressman ryan kos de -- costelloour take on this. we just heard from mr. quinn who was in the clinton years. there you are. you moved. he said this is an impeachable offense. i wonder, what do you think? >> i think it's too early -- we have to sift through this and figure out -- you know, reports are just reports. it's very difficult for me to imagine that any attempt to unrecuse oneself from an investigation really was met with any degree of seriousness. again, breaking news, so it's very difficult -- >> well, it wasn't. whitaker actually, who is clearly an ally of president trump's, rebuffs this effort. and he essentially says that this cannot be done because there seems to be an understanding of what that would mean. so it isn't met with seriousness from his acting attorney general. but with the president's desire to do this, what do you think? >> it would be better if he didn't have that desire if, in fact, he had that desire. to jack's point earlier, the president of the united states, as any, frankly, official