and this is give me liberty or give me the death, patrick henry. so on one hand, they are full of shocking truth about your own hypocrisy. i will say there's loads of hypocrisy to go around. there are huge slabs of general how for example who really is, was this terrible things about the black soldiers but there again, clinton absolutely is devoted to them. differences on both sides. so i do not want to replace on seen lee american with equal the unseemly british self congratulations and i think that point was taken on most of the british press. there is good -- the sense of awareness, which swings between anxiety and terror and how does one put this, in jefferson's case sort of all of schizophrenia what he believes intellectually and what he does social. jefferson is the man who has a paragraph and the declaration draft declaration which attacks slavery and yet is the man who believes utterly and unequivocally that blacks are racially inferior to whites. you can't possibly read his own account of the races without believing that. but the most shoc

: craybill said she refuses to take back the bullet box remark and said she was merely quoting patrick henry who helped call for the american revolution. >> i think there is a threat of violence. i think you can push a free people so far before they say enough is enough. >> reporter: but craybill's opponent is not buying it. >> in my mind, it's irresponsible. >> virginia democratic delegate albert pollard said craybill's remarks stoked by own extremists and said paint an outdated picture of virginia voters. >> i come from rural virginia but that doesn't mean we're awe a bump of knuckle crackers. i think that is important for people in virginia to hear. >> whatever her nam is. >> reporter: ever since the world heard george allen's comment on youtube, politicians have lost the ability to escape their own words. that can't happen anymore. anyone with a cell phone camera is able to capture a macacaw statement or extremist statement or anything else like that. >> reporter: catherine craybill herself told us today since the remarks hit the web, she's received death threats and hate mail but told u

in 1774, silas deane wrote the following to elizabeth dean about patrick henry. mr. henry is also a lawyer and the completist speaker on a bird. if his future speeches are equal to the small samples they will be worth preserving. but in a letter i can give you no idea of the music and his voice or the high rot yet natural elegance of the style and manner. john nicholas doesn't sound like much of a fan of thomas jefferson when he wrote the following to george washington in 1798. i do now know him to be one of the most artful, intriguing industrious and double faced politicians in all of america. in 1789, martha washington gives a glimpse into the earliest fishbowl experience of the first lady in this letter she wrote to fannie washington. i live a very dull life and know nothing that passes in the town. i never go to the public place. indeed, i think im or a state prisoner than anything else. there are certain bound set for me i must not depart from and as i cannot do what i like i am of dustin in and stay home a great deal. [laughter] i thought i would close with a s

washington was not a magnificent or later like patrick henry. nor was he a brilliant general like napoleon. but he was a leader. men would follow him, they would follow him through hell. one of the reasons they were willing to follow him which is hard for present-day readers to understand, is because he was known as the richest man in america, which he was not. he was -- he wasn't even -- couldn't be included in the top-10. he was very wealthy because of his wife, marla's wealth in land, primarily. but in that time, in that crisis point, men said to themselves, if this man, with all that he has to lose, all of his wealth, his position, his power, his place in society, is something that he is willing to they on the line for this cause, who are we to hold back? i think one of the most affecting moments i know can be told very quickly about a man named billy tutor. billy tutor was a lawyer in boston who had clerked with john adams. he became washington's adjutant general at a very young age. billy tutor had fallen in love with a young woman named a

the virginia ratifying convention, james madison responding to patrick henry's complaint is from ourhe new constitution gave too much power over the militia to congress stated there never was a government without force. what is the meaning of government in institution to make people do their duty. a government leaving it to man to do his duty or not as he pleases would be a new species of government, or rather, no government at all. i'm not saying that there wasn't -- ma madison didn't say conciliatory things but as he drafted that amendment, those were the things that were involved and i think the way that he did that and the way that he talks about -- we talked about universal militia service, is that everybody could participate. so that the federal government couldn't usurp that function, and the real -- look, the real threat at that time was not the federal government bein being tyrannical. the state militia said, well, you could just take -- usurp all our guys and take them into the federal army. they didn't want that to happen and i think saul cornell has made a really cogent a

: crabill says she refuses to take back the bullet box remarks and says she was merely quoting patrick henry who helped call for the american revolution. >> i think there is a threat of violence. i think you can push a free people so far before they say enough is enough. >> reporter: but crabill's opponent isn't buying it. >> in my mind this is irresponsible. >> reporter: virginia democratic delegate albert pollard says crabill's remarks spoke extremists. >> i come from rural virginia but that doesn't mean we're a bunch of knuckle draggers. i think that's an important message for people in northern virginia to hear. >> reporter: ever since the world heard george allen's macaca comment on youtube, american university's leonard steinhorn says politicians have lost the ability to escape their own words. >> that can't happen anymore. anyone with a cell phone camera is able to capture a macaca statement or extremist statent anything else like that. >> reporter: catherine krabill says since her remarks were posted on the web, she's received hate bill and death threats. we tried to contact the repu

everybody in virginia knew patrick henry. not so much because of his liberty or death speech, biobase he was the governor and running the place for a long time. they knew jefferson not nationally. they knew him because he was its governor of virginia and all these local figures. you know, it wasn't a really unified story at that moment. the unified story is what we have, you know, successive filtrations have created. yeah. >> this is really fascinating and i applaud your attempt to open the inquiry. i think we all grow up basically studying the history of great men, and great -- great an men, and i'm interested in your strategy of these seven characters. and i think that's one way to choose seven different people, but i'm -- this is sort of a literary question in some ways. are there other things that you do in your book that get beyond the history of people who manage to become famous, and dig down into the history of lots of people who are just ordinary, and like everybody else, which i think is a very important part of his

form a new country and warned angry about the taxes so much but were real rebels were probably patrick henry in virginia and samuel adams in massachusetts. samuel adams plan the boston tea party. the bostonians were having a big meeting in a hall and talking about what to do about the tax on tea. samuel adams said this meeting can do more to solve this problem and that was the signal to some men in the back of the building who were dressed as american indians, they were really american indians but they were using it as a custom, to go to the boston harbor in dump the tea in the harbors said he planned the boston tea party. he named the boston massacre, which was really a street fight between british soldiers and bostonians but he was a propagandist the my kala today. he made what he could have out of the events. he said mr. revere, pop revere who did drawings and was a silver worker, why don't you make a drawing of this street fight and call it the boston massacre, which he did. he was the one who recruited-- samuel adams was the one who recruited john adams and john hancock to join the revo

everybody knew patrick henry.not so much because of his liberty cordes beach but because he was the governor. they knew jefferson and not nationally. they knew him because he was the governor of virginia and all these local figures. it wasn't a unified story at that moment. the unified story is what we have successfully created. >> this is really fascinating and i applaud your attempt to open the inquiry. i think we all grow up basically studying the history of great men, and great and men, and i am interested in your strategy of these seven characters and i think that is one way to choose seven different people, but this is a literary question in some ways. are there other things you do in your book that get beyond the history of people who manage to become famous and take down into the history of lots of people who were just ordinary and like everybody else which i think is an important part of history as well. can you talk about the little bit of that as well? >> several people in my book were totally unknown a

and manages to be the david who slays patrick henry, the goliath, in the virginia ratification >> henry has been giving madison a hard time throughout the 1780's, blocking the madison-jefferson legislation for religious freedom. separation of church and state. and i think that it's probably fair to say, sean can correct me if he disagrees, but hen have i probably the -- henry is probably the second most powerful figure after washington. henry is like the or tore of the revolution. -- the orator of the revolution. the governor of virginia during this time. and jefferson and madison both hate him. jefferson is over in paris and when madison writes him and says i'm going to have to debate henry, and jefferson says, we must fervently pray for his imminent death. [laughter] and then you got henry, the orator and evangel tal -- evan cal -- evangelical style, the reason jefferson hated him, jefferson would write out the words, this is perfect, lyrical, logical pros and henry would sweep it away with liz emotion. -- with his emotion. but madison, this diminutive guy, would stand still,

henry. >>> relief in gaffney, south carolina, after a man suspected of killing five people dies in a shootout with police. investigators say 41-year-old patrick burris was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in north carolina, 30 miles from where the killing spree started. police say burris was a career criminal. >> well, look at this, this is like a page 25 pages. at some point the criminal justice suspect has to explain why this victim was out on the street. we owe that to the victims in this case, we owe that to the citizens who lived in terror for days, and we owe that going forward. somebody is going to have to explain why this individual who should have been away behind bars was out on the street. >> two people who were with burris were also taken into custody, but we do not know right now if they will face charges. >>> paying tribute to the king of pop. millions of fans get ready to say good-bye. more coverage from the staples center in los angeles. it's fidelity's guidance -- it shows you ways to spend in retirement that can help your money last, whatever your plans. like, if we wanted to travel? hus