the standalone was general robert e lee. put robert e lee because of all the figures in my life and my youth he was the iconic leader. i went to washington lee high school i went to west point like robert e lee, i live about 70 feet from his boyhood home right now. for me he was the example or of military and battlefield quality and leadership. it's complex to write about robert e lee now. i have a complex lectureship with his memory. but i didn't think i could honestly write a book about leaders without addressing the one that i had probably spent the most time in my life thinking about. >> you said that you sort of reevaluated robert e lee and actually there's a portrait your wife gave a believe that you thrown out. why is that? >> my wife of 41 years in movement back and when i was a second lieutenant she spent $25 and bought me this painting of robert e lee. you get quite a painting for $25. framed. it really was just a print of a more famous painting and they painted clear acrylic to make it look like it was flaming. wh

in 1975, congress passed a law granting robert e. lee his citizenship retroactively to june 13, 1865. president gerald r. ford stated that general lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every american can take pride. these acts, captain wirz notwithstanding, seem quite lenient compared to other actions taken by the united states during the civil war and reconstruction. despite taking up arms against the south, most men who fought for the confederacy were shown great mercy. however, there are examples where mercy or perhaps justice was not shown in kind. during his presidency, lincoln used the constitutional power of the pardon often. lincoln was to some, a man of compassion and mercy, to others, especially military commanders in the field, a sentimental meddler who continually undermined military discipline and the sanctity of the court by pardoning what lincoln called his leg cases, those young soldiers who were deserters and captured. keeping in mind, d

keep robert e. lee, go to russell lee, or the third option was, name the school after the first african-american woman teacher, first african-american teacher period who is actually still alive and taught all three of my daughters in second grade. i thought, that was the obvious choice, right? but they wanted to cling to lee. it, what to cling to robert ely represented, but they wanted the name. you could not give up the name for a living african-american woman who spent 35 or 40 years teaching at that school and retired. i will say very quickly, the same thing happened with stonewall jackson school just this year. just up the street from smu? thing, they same had community meetings and yelled and screamed at each other. the teachers wanted to keep jackson, because it was a high-performing school as they like saying they taught at jackson. the parents, a lot of them are werety at smu, and they able to get the dallas independent school district to reading the whole thing mockingbird elementary school, be

keep robert e. lee, go to russell lee and keep the name, or name the school after the first african-american woman teacher -- african-american teacher period who was actually still alive and taught all 3 of my daughters in second grade. and i thought that was the obvious choice, right? but they wanted to cling to lee. they did not like what robert e. lee represented. they just wanted the name. they could not give the name for this living african-american woman who would spent 35 or 40 years teaching at that school and retired. and i will just say very quickly, the same thing happened with stonewall jackson school just this year in dallas, just up the street from smu. they did the same thing. they had a community meeting. they yelled and screamed at each other. the teachers wanted to keep jackson, right, because it was a high-performing school and they liked saying that they taught a -- taught at jackson. the parents, a lot of them were faculty at smu and others, they rebelled and were able to get the da

about him now. >> robert e lee was winning battle after battle after battle. n came home, he said i can't beat robert e lee. and he had all of these generals. they looked great. they were the top of their class at west point, they were the greatest people. but only one problem, they didn't know how to held the wind, they didn't know how to fight. they didn't know how. and one day it was looking really bad. and lincoln just said, you hardly knew his name, and they said don't take him. he's got a drinking problem. and lincoln said i don't care what problem he has, you guys aren't winning. and his name was grant, general grant. >> it's unbelievable, snts it. isn't it unbelievable? it's unbelievable. (applause) >> and he went in and he knocked the hell out of everyone. and you know the story, they said to lincoln you can't use him any more. he's an alcoholic. and lincoln said i don't care if he is an alcoholic, frankly, give me six or seven more just like him. grant really did he had a serious problem, a serious drinking problem. but man, was he a good general. and

think of -- robert e lee. think about our portraits of robert e and what we think of him. being this angry toward one of his commanders. but he didn't like pickett and is mutual. but the war is now over. what does it mean for george pickett? what does it mean for lasalle? one thing i did not mention is that pickett is married in the worst of his worst time during the war. september of 1863, after gettysburg when he is still so bitter and angry, still him,ssing what happened to he and lasalle are married. lasalle says there is a big wedding and everybody who is anybody shows up. that.s no evidence of there is a small mention of their wedding in a newspaper. that's all you got. but she is going to tell you that it was the social event of the season and everybody turned out. they were married. they now face life together. george pickett never really owned slaves. his family had been slaveowners that at -- but as a military officer, i never found evidence that he owned slaves. but slavery had an impact on him. after the war, emancipation, the fight for equality, pickett feels

meeting wanted to keep the name washington-lee, named after george wasn and confederate general robert e. lee. >> i'm sorry i'm anti eal wreck because i am very i support and would do anything for my school. >> robert e. lee a is honorable man. tons of peoplet say tha he's an honorable man. >> reporter: but not everyone in hereonays he'sable. they say the school should not be a monument to slavery or oppression. >> the name change is lon overdue. i believe the names proposed will do a lot of uni arlington. >> reporter: some students, parentsnd alumni recommended washington loving hig school, named after mildred and richard loving, the couple who successfully challenged virginia's ban on interraci b marriage in the end, the board agreed on washington liberty. >> that motion pses 5-0 is in in arlington, shomari stone, news 4. >> surveillance vid captured somebody abusing a dog in d.c., and tonight aiv shelter g us an update on the animal's condition. >>> only on news 4 tonight, ubilation turning to humiliation. muslim family members say a local hospital discriminated against them during a joyou

and robert e. lee, who was a confederate general, he was a very careful reader of the northern press. he was really kind of steeped in northern sentiment, and he knew that the northern belief in the war was flagging at this point. if they could score a victory on northern soil, what might likely happen during the midterm elections was lincoln's party was the republican party. lincoln was the president. congress was republican. that maybe the democrats would sweep in. the out party would sweep in, and what they might do is they might be willing -- they might be hobble lincoln's war agenda, might also be willing to negotiate with the south, and maybe negotiate an end to the war. that's only one idea that the confederate had in this kind of devious scheme. the other thing they were thinking about was the great european powers were standing by. the union was in the midst of a terrible losing streak. these european powers concluded one more union loss, and they were going to step in and divide these warring

he also talks about the cases of former confederate president jefferson davis and general robert e lee, both of whom avoided prosecution, as well as that of henry wirz, the andersonville prison commander who was executed. this program from the annual lincoln forum symposium is about 45 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. i am harold holzer, cochair of the lincoln forum, sitting in this morning for the long lost, unaccounted for joe fornieri. [laughter] i am sure he will make a dramatic entrance at some point this morning. but i get to introduce the next speaker. you all know him.

including clear regular regulator, ryan riellerights but the life of robert e. lee's father. the age of surveillance capitalism, a look at how corporations are trying to use digital surveillance to predict and control our behavior, and a bound woman is a dangerous thing, crop kell of the lives of african-american women in social and political movements. from harriet tubman to today. also being released this week, larry loftus reconsistents the exploits of world war 2 lazy most highly decorated spy. none of the above by robinson and simonton explores the history of discrimination in public schools and in the pros apart prosperity paradox, thoughts on why investments in economic development don't always lead to prosperity. look for these titles in book stores this coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on c-span2. i. >> book of the attend the press club back anywhere washington, dc to speak with nonfunction authors including michael sock co love about -- sock co love. >> a contributing right for the "new york times" magazine. the author of

e vote later tonight. this could change the name here. washington-lee high school, the name honors george washington and confederate general robert e. lee. and the debate about changing the name has been going on for some time. tonight, during a meeting, the school boas expected to take that final vote so we could see th name officially changed -- or the decision tonight. the committee gathered input from thecommunity. they have recommended the name washington-loving high school. it wouor h mildred and richard loving, the interracial couple challged a law i virginia outlawing interracial marriage and the supreme court struck down that law. the vote on the name change could happen during the public meing at 7: tonight. should mention that the school superintendent hasecommended approval of the name change. back to you. >> all right. thank you, megan. >>> lawmakers in our area rang in the new year by banging the gavel. and general assemblies are under way in maryland and virginia. >>oth haveong to-do lists in 2019. in maryland, it goes to education funding and raising the minimum wage. larry hogan say he wants maryland to be a model fo

be a problemng to for robert e lee. he is also not going to be pleased with his behavior and there seems to be some connection between the fact that there is some restrictions on officers, a general as high as pickett was leaving his command riding the train, he is a man with a mission and he doesn't seem to be well trusted. this is starting to seep up to the highest echelon of the confederate army. that was the spring of 1863. we all knowmmer and what's coming. by the time we get to gettysburg, there are a few things happening that aren't even in my book. time of this battle of hasysburg, george pickett had an astonishing speed moved through the ranks to the point of commanding a division. but what had he done to prove himself? really not much. fineecond day he had some -- some fighting. he hasn't done anything really that spectacular, but he complained a lot. he complains that he complains .hat he is missing out when he is in the middle of things and it goes wrong, it's all other people's fault. the war is going a rea

the board voted to remove robert e. lee's name from the school tt following thek in charlottesville. >>> three brothers will be in prison for their partoln a r that left a police officer dead. elijah and malik ford recorded their brother, michael, opening fire on prince george's county police. michael called it an attempt of suicide by cop. yesterda a he receive 195-year sentence. his brothers received 20 and 12 years. detective colson was shot and killed by taylor krauss. krauss mistook colson for the suspect. the colsons allege that the police chief and ther for state attorney protected krauss charges.minal brooks is the county executive. she released a statement saying, timately a grand jury of 23 prince georgians reviewed the indictment and brought in officer krauss. krauss is employed by the police department, which would not comment on colson's accusations. >>> after 4:00, a shockin development out of wisconsin this morning. >> a teen that went missing has been found alive.jayme oss was found. look for updates in the nb

colonel robert e. lee mcgee their commanding officer. >> we don't get an opportunity to expose them to that here and now, they'll struggle with it for real. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel rashini works at ft. irwin preparing various scenarios to train the troops. if we were making a movie, they'd be hired to be the civilians? >> yes. yes, ma'am. we script major events, but the individual actions between the soldiers and the civilians, that's not scripted. we can't get that specific. >> reporter: at ft. irwin, there are a dozen mock villages. across the country there are over 200 such sites on 100 military bases. >> our role players will be here trying to sell their goods. >> reporter: the largest in the world here in the mojave has more than 500 buildings, complete with two mosques. so is that you causing that smoke over there? >> reporter: from hilltop control center they pump smoke and audio into the dwellings. >> wow. look at this. >> so can you imagine trying to clear a building with all this smoke? >

it's named after confederate general robert e. lee. many wt it changed to washington loving high school. it would honor mildred andch d loving, the interracial couple that challenged a law in virgia and more than 20 other made marriage between races a crime. theuc u.s. supreme court s down the state's law banning inteacial marriage. tomorrow night's public hearing will begin at 7:00. >>> next at 11:00, a potentially lifesaving appw cell phones could give addicts a second chance. >>> and the phrase "fake news" is evywhere, butt turns out one group is more pne to spreroad >>> more than 100 people die every day from opioid overdos in the u.s. now an experimental app could change that. >> yeah, university of washington researchers are testing software that can detect ing problems after drug use. the second chance app uses sound waves to measure t breathing,n calls for help if there's an issue. 19 out of 20 times that app correctly identified shallow breathing, but there is a catch, it doesn't work from insideyof ur pocket. raising the ques

mayor of new orleans many people talk to him how painful that is to walk past that statute of robert e-lee celebrations of the confederacy. there is a whole wilson aspect of this as well that princeton and they made some changes but to disclose international and public affairs and that they made some other changes. and in new york city a project with the natural american museum of natural history. and there is a statue outside of central park west and there is a native american walking on one side. that like an african figure on the other side. and roosevelt thought whether by treaty or annihilation we will settle the west. that is harsher than anything wilson ever said. a lot of people who would write that one - - you would like the statue to come down. it is landmarked in new york state so that is the argument so far. i think that could change. but but that is a good approach may be the right approach for everything. that's a good way to think about solving this problem. >> thank you very much. [applause] . >> why did wilson run for president in 1912? what was his motivation? after he sp

school in aington county will be known as washington-liberty high school.h board voted to remove robert e. lee's name from the school following the attack in charlotteslle. >>> three brothers will be in f prison their part in a role that left a police officer dead. this isideo of the shoot-out released in court just yesterday. elijah and malik ford recorded their brother, michaelopening fire on prince george's county police. michael called it an attempt of suicide by cop. yesterday, he received a 195-year sentence. his brothers received 20 and 12 years. detective jacai colson was shot and killed by taylor krauss. krauss mistook colson for the suspect. the colsons allege that the police chief and the former state attorney protected krauss from criminal charges. brooks is the county executive. she released a statement sayingi tely a grand jury of 23 prince georgians reviewed the indictment and brought in officer krauss. krauss is employed by the police department, which would not comment on colsons accusations. >>> ten minutes after6:00 and a shocking development out of wisconsin this morning. >>

the board voted tore ve confederate general robert e. lee's tame fro school following the deadly attack in charlottesville. >>> three brothers will be in prison for their part in a role that left a lice officer dead. this is video of the shoot-out just released yesterday. elijah and malik ford recorded their brother, michael, opening fire on prince george's county poce. michael called it an attempt of suicide by cop. yesterday, he received a 195-year stence. his brothers received 20 and 12 years. detective jacai colson was shot and killed by taylor krauss. krauss mistook colson for the suspec colsons are suing krauss and the police department. the colsons allege that the police chief and the former state attorney proteed krauss from criminal charges. brooks is the county executive. she released a statement saying, ultimately a grand jury of 23 prince georgians reviewed the id ce and declined to indict ss officer kr i can never begin to understand what they feel as grieving parents. krauss is employed by the police department, which would not c

it i named after george washinon and confederate robert e. lee.he committee recommending naming it washington loving high school. in the 1960s the interracial couples challenged laws that banned interracial marriage and their work led to the suptme co striking down those laws. >>> the explosive, seri surviving r. kelly, is putting the spotlight back on sexual assault allegations against the singer and sparking protests with the hashtag mute r kelly. this was the seen last night outside his studio. it detls sexual abuse allegations going back decades. kelly has long denied the allegations. and now because of this series, former fans of the musician are itining the protest. >> i have sang this man, took photos with this man. shame on me for taking this long to be awake, but i am awake. >> lady gaga also speaking out entonight. shet on twitter today for apologizing for featuring kelly in one of her songs years ago. gaga sayg she made the song at ark time in her life and now regrets it. >> an area county isoi g to new heights. in the name of public sa

washington lee high school, the name honor george washington and robert e. lee, the debate to change the namas been going on for quite a while and tonight, the school board is expected to vote to change the name, removinglee. now the naming committee did a lot of research, they got input from the community and they are recommending washington loving high school as the replacement. the new ne wou honor mildred and richard tloving, interracial couple challenged a lawoutlaug interracial marriage. we spoke to people on both sides of the name change issue including a man who says, the world needs more loving now. >> i'm loving it just as well as the name loving. i tnk it's a great change. it's time for a change. >> i believe that's ourd histor very single time they keep taking and making these changes, it's changing america in the wrong way. >> the need for acknowledgement of our past in that we can mov forward from that. >> i do believe that general lee was as honorable person and his name should still be not revered but at leastept as a sem bell of someone who live

happened with lincoln's other generals is they would attack into virginia and fight somebody, usually robert e lee, and get defeated and in they would turn tail and go back to washington. grant does not do that. he keeps moving forward. some people say he is nothing but a butcher. but consider the number of people who died under grant and the number of people who died under lee. and look at the proportion of both. you will see grant is hardly a butcher. he is using his facilities, what he has. and he is a great man when it comes to finding supplies for his army, which is something we don't talk about. craig: they did not always agree, however. i'm going to put up another picture here of a character. john a. mclfriend ernan who was a war democrat. lincoln needed war democrats in his coalition to keep the country together. clernan comes to lincoln and asks permission to raise an army on his own and take the army down the mississippi river and capture vicksburg. he was from illinois, like lincoln. this would open the markets to new orleans and so on so there are economic as well as strategic reasons.

washington-lee hhool, the name honors george washington and confederate general robert e. lee. and the debate about changing the name has been going on for quite a while. t tonigh school board is expected to vote to change that name. the naming cmittee gathers input from the community, and recommended the name washington-loving high school. the new name would honor mildred and richard loving, the interracial couple that challenged a law in virginia ou.awing interracial marria the supreme court struck down that law. the vote on the name change will happen during a publring tonight. that will get under way at 7:00. should mention that the school superintendent is recommending approval of the name. back to you. >> megan, thank u. >>> new this morning, one loc youth hockey team is getting a lot of attention on social media. >> the maple leafs are rallying against racism. earlier this month, a member of the team faced some racial taunts during a game against a people from pennsylvania. his teammates weren't having it. they started to yell at the other team a eventually broke out int

in confessions of a rogue including clear regular regulator, ryan riellerights but the life of robert e. lee's father. the age of surveillance capitalism, a look at how corporations are trying to use digital surveillance to predict and control our behavior, and a bound woman is a dangerous thing, crop kell of the lives of african-american women in social and political movements. from harriet tubman to today. also being released this week, larry loftus reconsistents the exploits of world war 2 lazy most highly decorated spy. none of the above by robinson and simonton explores the history of discrimination in public schools and in the pros apart prosperity paradox, thoughts

because i grew up in virginia and in virginia we had lee jackson king day where we celebrated robert e lee, stormont jackson, and martin luther king jr. on the same day. big. theoharis: -- gary: day. you should make that a week. that lasted until the year 2000. lee jackson king day until 2000. this goes to what gary was just speaking about. how can you do that echo how can you lump martin was the king stonewallt e. lee and jackson? you rob him of his actual legacy. you rob him of the words he spoke and wrote in the fight teeth out during his lifetime and you can do whatever you want with him. but martin luther king is not alone in this, right? we'd depoliticize everyone. we depoliticize american history. arrogant country is as as the united states, to claim your the greatest nation on the face of the earth in history, you need a narrative of a street to match that claim. everything becomes depoliticized and everything becomes a symbol of american exceptionalism. this is what you can have people on the right and left praising both fdr and ronald reagan and not see the inconsistencies of tha

the board decided to remove g confederateral robert e. lee from the name. check with melissa molly for your first 4 traffic. >> coming out of frederick soub 0 after buc key's pass, not much of a delay, but a slowdown. >>> inneroop and outer loop, nice lightvolume. myers ville eastbound i- >>> we are getting you ready for the free nbc4 telemun 44 health and fitness expo. it's tomorrow and sunday at the washington convention center. >>> our doreen gentzler anchors our team coverage fromthere. we're tracking some snow but don't let thatoup you. >> yr weather forecast is next. >>> good morning. 's sunny and cold outside this morning. temperatures in the 20s. windchills in the teens with the sun coming up. high temperatures only in the mid 30s. breezy and cold all day long. still the likelihood for accumulating snow coming tomorrow. potentially one to three for everybody tomorrow and an adtional couple of inches possible, especially for the southern half of the area coming up on sunday. needless to ay, you can always stay ahead of the weather by using our nbc wa

so how do we debate whether or not if there should be a statute one - - a statue of robert e-lee if we cannot agree on the virtues? so it's impossible to have these conversations but racial inequity in the current moment we don't have a shared equity in the historical moment how do you have a debate of reparations for housing redlining when most don't understand what that is? so there is a massive educational component that has to happen because there is an ignorance among us broadly about our history and that allows us to continue to have these disagreements. it is remarkable in this space that i work in how i hear from leaders and very often white readers that are my regulars they are mad at me. why do you say this? don't you see this or know about that? without a doubt shooting five or shooting six you were wrong but every single one i saw the video they shot to kill now this reader says they deserved that so now it's a race video so now we even saw this last year now there was the up spring of these videos of black people that white people call the police and the readers say that w

lee high school ewill now noun as washington liberty high school. the school board picked the name last night. last summer the board voted to remove general robert e. name from the school following the deadly attackn charlotte. several students opposed to the name change filed a lawsuit. the jud tossed that out. but the students are considering new legal action. >>> we now know that president trump as former lawyer and fixer rochael cohen will publicly testify in of the house oversight and reformecan. it's scheduled for february 7th. last month cohen was sentenced in three years in prison. s crimes include making payments to two women who claim they had affairs with president trump and lie being the tmp organization's business dealings with russia. cohen says his blind loyalty compelled him to cover up his dirty deed >>> three brothers will spend decades in prison for their roles in a police department ambush that left a police officer dead. this is video of theambush. the brothers recorded each othen g fire. michael called it attempt at suicide by cop. yesterday he received a 195 year sentence. his brothers received 20 and 12 years. thective was