founders and virginians patrick henry george mason and james madison were all totally clear on that and we all should be today today's second amendment is linked to our nation's disturbing history of slavery how in the beginning there were the militias in the south they were also called the slave patrols and they were well regulated by the states in georgia for example the generation before the american revolution laws were passed and seven hundred fifty five and fifty seven they required all plantation owners or their male white employees to be members of the georgia militia and for those armed militia members to make monthly inspections of the quarters of every slave in the state the law defined which counties had to have our militia and even required our militia members to keep a keen eye out for slaves who may be planning uprisings as dr karl t. bogus that's his real name rode for the university of california law review in one thousand nine hundred eight quote the georgia statutes required patrols under the direction of commissioned militia officers to examine every plantation each

the sidestreet patrick henry is a little slushy.streets that are not treated are coated with a little snow. use your winter driving tips. go slowly, increase your following distance, and brake sooner. this is the kind of snow that you can practically blow off your windshield, because it is very dry. this is not the slushy stuff that you can make a snowball with. just enough for the kids to get all speed on the hills. look at route 50 wet due to the pretreatment. but the frontage road is still snowy. the main roads are still a little slippery, but they are mainly wet because they were pretreated. we could get some more snowfall tomorrow with a possibly similar situation. updates later. back to you. >> thank you. you know the drill. anytime there's a little snow, it causes a tough rush-hour. i want to start in virginia. 66, the worst of it inside the beltway. bumper-to-bumper through falls church. it's dicey on route 7 in tysons and the beltway. there's a crash. and 123 the beltway, a crash. in springfield, northbound 95, pretty much

patrick henry drive at route 50 there's a light coating of snow on patrick henry. that is to be expected. sidestreets are slippery. route 50 is pretty wide open with plenty of salt on the road. it is enough chemicals to keep it just damp. this is not the best snowball type of snow. if you pack it as tight as you can, it falls apart. that's because temperatures have been so low. we still have snow falling in seven corners. around the metro area we have a little snow falling. most of it is far south of washington, where we have most of the steady snow and that's where accumulations will be the highest. 17 degrees right now at storm chaser 7. it will be in the 20 today, but it will feel like the teens. let's go back to scott. >> thank you. great job by all of our crew members. it's 5:14, 18 degrees. >> coming up on this thursday, how joe biden is >> welcome back. some information as far as closures and delays. federal agencies are open today, but there is the option for unscheduled telework and unscheduled leave. closings in maryland. charles county and st. mary's cou

patrick henry was addressing the oppression by the british crown. tonight i wish to speak to a different kind of repression, the injustice of being held hostage to large financial institutions considered too big to fail. to fail.

apprehended give twenty lashes to any slave plantation grounds that's just the beginning of it then patrick henry goes into the virginia ratifying convention weapons and. for obvious reasons because they were slaves a big competitor had goes into the maginot to radicalise into july and demand a second amendment the second amendment as he says if our country be invaded a state may go to war but cannot suppress slave insurrections under this new constitution without the second amendment if there is what if there should happen to be an insurrection of slaves the country cannot be said to be invaded they cannot therefore suppress it without the position of congress congress and congress alone and this constitution can call forth the militia in this state patrick henry said there are two it was to. two hundred thirty six thousand blacks and there are many in several other states but there are a few in the northern states may congress not say that every black man must fight did we not see this in the last war because people were liberated the last war we we were not so hard as to make emancipation gene

congress congress and congress alone and this constitution can call forth the militia in this state patrick henry said there are two if he was to. two hundred thirty six thousand blacks and there are many in several other states but there are a few in the northern states may congress not say that every black man must fight did we not see this in the last war because people were liberated the last war we we we were not so hard as to make emancipation general but acts of assembly passed that every slave who goes into the army should be free this was an opposition by the southern states the second amendment the militias were slave patrols in those states that's how slavery was in force in the police states of the south and that's what the second amendment was all about no absolutely not you got it completely wrong i think i'm the only person in the building that's taught constitutional law the fourteenth amendment was adopted and one of the measures that the supporters present it was they wanted to guarantee that the second amendment right applied to all the blacks the same way that it applied to al

it was a showdown between the anti-federalists led in richmond by patrick henry who was components of the new constitution opponents of the new constitution patrick henry who was considered the greatest living or reader of the town and george mason who was considered the brains of the intellectual heft of the at the federalists and james madison who was the leader of the federalists and who had was the principal drafts person of the constitution and was the heir to it to argue for ratification. henry and mason raised many many arguments against ratification but one of them was this they said james. they said in philadelphia you deprived you say that you deprived the federal government of authority to abolish slavery and there is a there is a kind of there's a slave compromise and the constitution doesn't mention slavery but it's really this comparable yeah. there's actually several yes there's a there's as the several provisions it was agreed that the federal government did not have express authority to to abolish slavery they had a they had authority after a period of time to abolish

and that we needed the inspiration of god and the bible in our politics itch think patrick henry is a good example of a very religious founding father. and that was one of the positions of the founding era. there were founding fathers who were not christian. they were unitarians. some who were deists who believed religion was a good way to control the masses. they didn't particularly care much for church but thought it was nice thing, and they perhaps -- george washington and john adams fall into that category -- they expressed a lot of religious doubts in their own writing but did not try to slow it down in the public sphere. then there's jefferson and madison, who went to a very lengthy debate in virginia about the religious freedom act in virginia, and who really saw -- jefferson was a deist, or unitarian and would not have been considered a christian. madison, i have no idea. i know what he thought about religious liberty. i have no idea what he thought personally. but it was believed that religion -- best for religion and best for the civil society if religion were considered som

patrick henry fahim attlee opposed the jeffersonian and madisonian position on religion. but it did trevail in virginia. i would argue that it prevailed in the first amendment and that it has led to america being a very religiously dynamic country. >> host: let's use this as a good example of the founders phenomenon. how has the right-wing authors and political figures that you talk about in your book, how is the treated with the founding fathers had to say about religion? what do they think the founder said and what is it mean for our debate today? >> guest: the keynesian david barton who wrote a book called original intent which is about a 500 page collection of citations. >> host: tell us would prove tests are for the nonliterary scholars. >> guest: that's a biblical interpretation largely. our contextualize paragraphs or sentences that proves something. they are almost always given in context so people say that thomas jefferson deist, but here is a quotation from thomas jefferson which he talks about jesus christ. thus we see that this is true in what people say is a

i think patrick henry is a good example of a very religious founding father, and that was one of the positions of the founding era. there were founding fathers who were not christian, so they were unitarians. there were some who weren't unitarians to believe that religion was a sort of good way to control the masses. it was a nice -- they didn't particularly care much, they thought that it was nice. perhaps george washington and john adams fall into that category that they expressed a lot of religious doubt but didn't really try to slow it down, and then there's jefferson and madison who went through a very lengthy debate in virginia about the religious freedom act of virginia and who really saw jefferson was a day story unitarian and wouldn't have been considered a christian, madison i had no idea because i know what he thought about religious liberties. i have no idea what he felt personally but both of them believed that religion was best for religion and the best for the civil society if religion were considered something prior to the social contract and therefore not covered by

as they were in the founding generation, patrick henry vehemently oppose the jeffersonian madisonianposition on religious liberty. they did prevail in virginia. i would argue that prevailed in the first amendment and that it has led to america being a religiously dynamic country. >> host: that sees this as an example of the founder psion phenomenon. how have the right wing authors and political figures in your book, how have they treated with the founding fathers had to say about religion? what do they think the founders said what does that mean for debates today? >> guest: david gardner datebook called original intent, which is about a 500 page collection of citations. >> host: tulsa proof texts are. >> guest: that comes to biblical interpretation largely. i contextualize paragraphs are sending his supposedly prove something. they're almost always given without context. so people say thomas jefferson was a deist, but here's this quotation in which he talks about jesus christ. thus we see this is true and what people is alive and the founders wrote an enormous amount. george washingt

i'm going to close by returning to patrick henry, times and sister.e noted ethical, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope. we're apt to shut our eyes against the painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, so she transforms, end of quote. well today we labor under the song of dodd-frank and the recent run up in the pricing of bank stocks and credit, intelligent illusion of hope to this come -- complex legislation will into big to fail and write to the banking system. we shut our eyes that too big to fail represents an ongoing danger, not just to financial stability, not just to fair competition, but the american way. the dallas federal reserve bank offers a modest, but we believe far more effective fix to dodd-frank. the plan is not without cost. it is less costly than all the alternative that we've seen put forward, and it seriously reduces the likelihood of another horrendous and costly financial crisis. this need not be a time of awful moment. it should instead be a time of promise. treating the pathology of too big to fail a

shield the country from possible attacks from coming from neighboring syria political analyst patrick henry some delays there or tyrian motives at work. patriot missiles that they're deploying right now in turkey. have nothing to do with any threat from syria i believe that these missile batteries are being parked in turkish territory to prepare for the possibility of a nato airstrike further down the timeline so as soon as we anyone with any military knowledge or any geopolitical. knowledge knows that syria is absolutely zero military threat to turkey and they have no motivation to attack them until all depends on what's matter of strategy the west shoes right now option one has failed they tried to do a libyan style regime change by getting some foreign fighters and paying people then having no fly zone no fly zone is not going to happen it's sending a message to the government syria that nato is making plans whether they push the button or not is another matter but what i think that the western states can't go in on a legitimate basis to what the one of their second option is to gen up a

i'm going to close by returning to patrick henry, john's ancestor. he noted in my code is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. we shut a race against the painful truth and listened to the song of that siren till she transforms us, and of quote. while today we labor under the siren song of dodd-frank and the recent run-up in the pricing of exotic syncretic a mental accumulation of hope that this conflicts legislation will end train to and write the banking system. we shut our eyes that too big to fail represents an ongoing danger, not just financial stability, not just their competition, but the american way. the dallas federal reserve inc. offers a modest, but we believe far more effect six and dodd-frank. to put a not without cost, but is less costly than all the alternatives we've seen put forward and seriously reduces the likelihood of another horrendous and costly financial crisis. this need not be a time of awful moment. it should instead be a time of promise. turning treating pathology is too big to fail now would be a big step f

it started in the 1760s when he was a college opportunity and he was listening to patrick henry and jeffersond henry seemed to speak as homer wrote and he appreciated that because he himself was not a very good speaker. did he master the means of his day. he was a terrific writer, obviously. he was quick and he always wanted the assignment of summarizing what the committee had done or what the bill said because that gave him a certain level of control. >> gavin: when you say prolific writer, and we'll get to that in a moment, 22,000-plus letters saved. it's fascinating to learn he didn't give any speeches in his two terms as president except the two inaugural speeches. >> it seems he was a poor orator so he canceled the state of the union and sent it out in writing. and there is something to that. there is also the part that he believed the formal state of the union, the executive coming of the legislature and speaking and receiving the address and responding to it was too much like britain. his determination in his eight years was to try to undo what he thought of as the federalist excesses

i am going to close by returning to patrick hence -- to patrick henry. "it is natural man to indulge -- it is natural for man to indulge in the illusion of hope." today we labor under the song of dodd-frank and the recent run-up of bank stocks and credit, indulging the deletion of hope that this complex legislation will and too big to fail and write the banking system. we shut our eyes to the painful truth that too big to fail represent an ongoing danger. not just affect stability, not just unfair competition, but to the american way. the dallas federal reserve bank offers a modest but far more effective fix to dodd-frank. it is less costly than the it -- is less costly than the alternative tweets seen before. it reduces the likelihood of another horrendous and cosset financial crisis this need not be a time of -- it should be a time of promise. trading the pathology of the two big to fail would be a big step forward for the economic system. one that relies on the fundamental principles of capitalism off rather than on regulatory complexity and increasin

i want to close by returning to patrick henry, john's ancestor. he noted and i quote it's natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. shutter is against a painful truth that must then to the song of the siren till she transforms us, end of quote. today we labor under the thoughts on the dodd-frank and the run up in the pricing of tanks stocks and credit, indulgent illusion of hope that this complex legislation will end too big to fail and write the banking system. we shut our eyes to the truth they too big to fail represents an ongoing nature not to financial stability, not fair competition, but the american way. the dallas federal reserve offers a modest but far more effect to fix to dodd-frank. the plan is not without cost and with less cost than alternatives for forward and reduces likelihood of another horrendous and cost a financial crisis. this may not be a time. they should instead be a time of promise. treating the pathology now would be a big step forward to say my stable financial and prosperous economic system call whenever thiessen fu

he began as a man in williamsburg, listened to patrick henry, he spoke as homer wrote and loved that partly because he couldn't do it. always a good sign of a politician and a leader when they recognize qualities in others they don't possess. that kind of humility, however relative that term is in talking about the species called politicians is a virtue. he learned how to master the ways and means of politics, because of that disaster of governorship he was faster to react in louisiana when the purchase became open and possibility that you will remember basically napoleon is going to sell this to us, one of the great real estate deals ever and jefferson immediately begins to think we are going to have to amend the constitution to do it because he was a strict constructionist. he had presidential powers, at the third week of august of 1803, the fourth of july, by the third week of august gets a letter from france saying napoleon is having second thoughts so jefferson said we have the power, no problem there and it is done. franklin roosevelt, when he was taking the critical steps prep

over the last eight games averaging more than 122 yards a game and that could bode well for patrick willis, henry field more in that situation. you talk about the strong, it may not matter. patrick willis in that week one win, well, even though he played a limited amount of time, he's still tied for second in tackles on the 49ers. in santa clara, mindy bock for nbc bay area. >>> this just in, a short time ago raiders linebacker orlando mcclain was arrested in decatur, b alabama, for a window tint violation and a misdemeanor charge of giving a false name to a law enforcement officer. he later bonded out of jail. it's his second run-in with the law in just over a year. over to the ice now where fans are still waiting to view the 2013 nhl schedule. reportedly the league is targeting january 19th for its opening day. training camps are tentatively slated to begin this weekend. sharks forward ryan clough was on "chronicle live" and he's eager to win for the sharks fans. >> i know the fans will be the loudest they ever were. they missed out on a l of hockey. the most we could do is play hard on the ice

>> patrick henry once said, and in a very important time of our history are, he said the war is inevitableny of my colleagues saying gosh darn it. we have to move quickly. because we can't wait two years. i still hear any colleagues this weekend certain colleagues say you know when we get a new president we'll do something about it. i don't know if we can wait three months. i'm serve we can't wait four years. and my particular concern about the timing and waiting to have that battle. again, if we are going to pass through the house and assume the senate could agree to it, raising the debt ceiling for an unspecified amount, sometimes where in the future we're going have battle over that. that has is yet to be determined what exactly that looks like and i did hear an answer to that question. i asked privately over the last few days. >> i'm an eternal optimist, so i actually think it's fine to resequence what we doing right now. as long as we get the promise from leadership that they are going stick to the principles and to the goals that we have set forth. and my message to leadership has be

so i don't know if he also is implaying that patrick henry also thinks i am a c word.arks. >> stephanie: let's go to nole. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i want to dividend a somehow out to lawrence o'donnell because last night my boy peeled gail trotter like a rotten banana. >> stephanie: i liked the looks on the other two guy's faces whoing didn't really get to talk. >> caller: that's right. but the representative from connecticut said that the senator were being very cautious. thank goodness we have lauren o'donnell who is not cautious. if these people want to come on tv and spew their vomit he is going to be there to be the filibuster buster. >> stephanie: yeah this is the woman that testified yesterday, what -- gail trotter. >> caller: yes. >> stephanie: he could not get her to answer the questions. they do not have one case where anyone has protected their home with a military-style assault rifle. >> exactly. what they are arguing has nothing to do with what the issue was about. and she has nothing to respond with. >> stephanie: yeah, exactly. >> caller:

>> patrick henry once said in a very important time of our history, he said the war is inevitable, let it come. there is a battle. i talked about the downgrade and can we afford to wait three months? i'm concerned about that. and concerned about the timing and how long we can wait. i spent the first two years, i think, like many of my colleagues saying gosh darn it, we better move quickly because we can't wait two years. i still do hear my colleagues this weekend, certain colleagues, saying, you know what, when we get a new president we're going to really do something about it. i don't know if we can wait three months, i'm certain we cant wait four years. my particular concern about the timing and waiting to have that battle, again if we are going to pass through the house and assume the senate would agree to it a raising the debt ceiling for an unspecified amount to somewhere in the future we'll have a battle over that, that's yet to be determined what exactly that looks like and i didn't hear any answer to that question. i asked privately over the last few days. >> now i'm an eternal

patrick willis, justin smith, alex mill. we don't want you to keep talking about -- no disrespect. they was the team back in the day. >> reporter: john henry, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. we are only eight days away from super bowl xlvii. when you want a story covered the right way, count on nbc bay area and comcast sportsnet bay area to deliver. live super bowl reports from new orleans begin tomorrow. we have the latest on the 49ers and the ravens. believe me, you don't want to miss it. >>> over to the ice with the avs and sharks. the big hit on gabriel land landisgog. he would leave but returned later. then going after stewart, he would receive a game misconduct for instigating. on the power play, patrick marlo, seven go ahead goal of the season. he wasn't down. look at mr. marlo. two minutes later, count it. four straight two-goal games. thomas grise netted his first nhl shutout. sharks win. >> the way we played after, i thought, the first seven or eight minutes, the two penalty kills changed the momentum in our favor. and i'm sure you're going ask me about the hit. i thought that changed the momentum. they took things into their ow