halsey assigns him to the and he recovery force, has 15 days seniority over norman scott. callahan takes command of the force. scott will ride second fiddle into what follows. that hees a cruiser wants to captain, the uss san francisco, as his flagship. he had a practice of eating with , asmen and resumes it now the admiral uses him in the war room to break down the barriers between ranks and race and accelerates the growth of his men in a hands-on, managerial way as good leaders do. in the course of my work on neptune's inferno, i met a sailor who was an african-american man that served in san francisco as the captains cook. on-duty, eugene found he could listen in on the talks in the next compartment and he told me, they talk about what forces they are going up against, when they inspected -- expected contracts with the enemy how to deploy the fleet. this is some valuable intelligence. but he was taking it in and keeping his own counsel. on the night of october 12, eugene was able to hear that a japanese fleet was coming down again from the north, and he heard callahan re

scott israel. these were things already known at the time. they just allowed him to skate. they ran defense for him. jedediah: referenced this a bit earlier. normantes parkland parents. i agree with you, i don't think they were aiming to advance the conversation at all. i always wanted to ask you this, when you accepted this offer to go there were you expecting them to give you a fair shake? >> i thought it would be fairer. i knew it wasn't going to entirely be a fair shake. the town hall happened on wednesday. i found out i was going on a tuesday. i found out i would be asked questions wednesday. i didn't know i was going to be on stage until i got there. membership blowing up phones at headquarters there was concern for lack of defense for law-abiding gun owners across the country, why i was asked to go. i knew it was going to be tough. i knew it wasn't so much, about a debate, that is hopefully we would have some conversation. but the way that the network organized it was purposefully to avoid any real conversation. i think it was too soon after the tragedy. the way that it was set up to exploit pain for maximum emotional impact, that's, that'