he's talking to robert e lee. he's writing to robert e lee back in petersburg. and he says, i proceeded. i decided proceed to according to your instructions, and proceed north to washington. and if i find a chance to take it, you will early is telling us not after the war, not in his memoirs, not in a cover your -- report. what exactly he is trying to do go north, threaten washington and if possible, take it. can he hold washington? probably not. but if he takes washington even for a day, what is that going to look like to the lincoln administration? how many of you would vote for a guy that confederates walk into the city? they rob the treasury. they throw the confederate flag above the capitol building. you feel really confident in that guy, right? and so early wants to see what he can do. in the summer of 1864. so he begins to make his way down the valley heading towards harpers ferry. his original intent was to get to harpers ferry. and as you probably all know, right, the confluence of the rivers there, the shenandoah and the potomac rivers, if he can get t

long street actually told them to go up the hill and robert e. leewhat they want." although, to be fair to former president donald trump, he does have a lot on his mind right now. >> now to breaking news, the first-ever criminal trial involving a former president will soon get underway. >> jon: oh, my god, donald, don't run up that hill, me boy! stay down! stay down the hill, me boy! [cheers and applause] stay down! but yes, after years of anticipation, the first criminal trial of a former president has begun and by all accounts, it is absolutely riveting. >> 40 minutes ago, you wrote an observation that -- i was very surprised: trump appears to be sleeping, his head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack. tell us about that. >> well, jake, he appeared to be asleep. [laughter and applause] >> jon: hey, jake. what part of head down, eyes closed, drool coming out of his mouth, do you not [bleep] get over here? he's snoring. he's doing the honk shoo, he's doing the "mimimi." there's a piece of paper going up and down and up and down in his mouth.

i talking about robert e lee. that robert e the one whose claim to fame to have led the military insurrection objective. it was to literally destroy the united states of america. the robert e lee, whose military genius was immense and yet was not able succeed at that most important of his military goals, and yet he failed. but he didn't. he failed only after having taken the lives of quarters of a million people in the civil. and as robert robert lee, like many other high members of the confederate states of america, he disowned his citizenship in the united when he sided with the confederacy. and then after lee surrenders to ulysses grant the battlefield in appomattox virginia, the country which he had pledged his allegiance was no longer exists, leaving stateless. and lee is a prominent example. but there were others in the confederacy who had sided with the confederacy, who also can no longer claim u.s. can, no longer claim citizenship in that country. then the country that they wished still existed. and so andr

robert e. lee said "never fight uphill, me boys!"?? was he a leprechaun?ou can have that, guillermo. >> guillermo: all right. >> jimmy: "never fight uphill, me boys." and do buy a mepillow!" that was something special get that man on drunk history. and by the way, schnecksville? where he was speaking? is two and a half hours away from gettysburg! he wasn't even at gettysburg. but don't tell schnecky greene he wasn't there. he is all over the place. thirteen minutes after his trial started today, he posted not one, not two, but three separate videos boasting about winning his golf tournament at his country club. unhappy gilmore did not qualify for the masters this weekend, he was cheated out of that too! which is a shame, because i think he got a shout-out from jim nantz >> got away with a poor swing there. >> he knows it. he also knows there is a ticklish little pitch coming up. >> jimmy: i'm pretty sure jim was saying "pitch," but maybe not! that's the kind of talk that could get me to start watching golf. and then we have maybe the biggest story of the y

man one robert e lee right. so these attacks begin in the early 1870s, they're made by men who are very open about. their disapproval of longstreet's politics and they, they, they keep going, you know, for decades and decades and decades. and when he moves back to georgia, longstreet really turns his attention to trying defend his military record. and this book is is 99% of it is about the civil war and about his his effort to do to just that. and that means he has to relitigate things like gettysburg it means he does controversial things like comparing lee and grant saying. you know, lee was off his game at gettysburg big emotions had gotten the best of him he lost his balance or equipoise as compared to grant who had a level head lee comes the poorer for the comparison this is heretical talk you know for which one doesn't get forgiven by certain certain people so you know he continues to court controversy at the same time there is a turn in this last phase of his life towards reconcile creation at the end of h

does he think robert e. lee was a pirate?rrgh, never fight uphill, me boys, or you'll walk the plank straight into davy jones' plantation. now grab your cutlass and load the cannons, for we have to defeat the union scallywags and their leader: captain pegleg lincoln!" arrgh! we're about 100 days out from the summer olympics in paris, okay, just in time. [cheers] don't get too excited because it's not on cbs. for some fresh controversy, because olympians are criticizing nike for its new skimpy track and field women's uniforms. okay, let's take a look. okay, that is a high cut. explains nike's new slogan: "just ow! front wedgie!" multiple female athletes have complained about the bikini-esque bottoms, with one long jumper commenting, "wait. my hoo-ha is gonna be out." it's true. so, this year, you could literally win by a hair. [laughter] wow. i didn't design them. here's something, folks. you know i'm hesitant because i'm a company man. but today, i come to you with a heavy heart because a shocking scandal has hit cbs. last ni

[laughter] >> donald trump speech was so embarrassing the statue of robert e. lee surrendered again. but look, age is the only thing we have in common. my vice president actually endorses me. [cheers and applause] i had a great -- since the state of the union. donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it, stormy weather. what the -- donald trump is so desperate he started reading the bible's he is selling. he got to the first commandment, you shall have no other god before me -- that is when he put it down and said, this book is not for me. look, here is a reminder. folks think what is going on in congress is political theater. it is not true. if congress was theater they would have thrown out -- a long time ago. to all of my friends in the press, and fox news -- somebody complained that i don't take enough of your questions. no comment. of course, the new york times issued a statement lasting me for "actively avoiding independent journalist." if that is what it takes to have the new are times call me active and effective, i'm all for it. it is ok. [ap

they hold up certain icon like robert e lee as as a great general. but how could the great general of the confederacy be, beaten by someone like ulysses s grant? and so they have to kind of tear down grant as they lift lee up in order to to explain away the fact that lee could possibly be beaten by guy by the mid 1880s. reconciliation in north and south is actually going really well. there a lot of good feelings between north and south. the shared experience of these men on the battlefield does a lot to bring them together. it also them to brush a lot of things under the rug such as the centrality of slavery to the civil war. but after grant died, is this lost cause mythology? he's able to kind of take on this greater and greater responsibility or a greater, greater influence. and it's sort of a eclipses. some of those positives that grant would have been able to defend. that's one of the reasons he takes the presidency, is that he can defend what they won on the battlefield. so the rise of the lost cause does a lot to diminish. grant's both as a gen

it is the anniversary of robert e lee surrendered to general ulysses s. grant. this law was passed before that event took place. think about that. think about how long ago this was. this is not even originalist. this is like big bang legal theory at this point. >> allie, do down ballot republicans want abortion to be this high-profile of an issue? >> no, and when reed makes the point about what republicans are saying right now, if republicans like this, they would be talking about it. instead, in congress today, i heard a lot of republicans in front-line districts, for example, saying that this was not a good ruling and that it was in some ways dangerous for women, and that he preferred the 15 week ban. for a lot of these lawmakers, this is a problem for them, especially in a swing state like arizona. we all know lawmakers. if they liked it, they would be talking about it aggressively. they don't. they're trying to put distance between themselves and this. i also think that someone who covered trump back in 2015 and 16, i was there when he said women should be p

trump's speech was so embarrassing, the statute of robert e lee surrendered again.ce president actually endorses me. donnell has had a few - - donald has had tough days lately, you might call it stormy weather.>> those are the kind of things we expect to hear at the white house correspondent's dinner, but president joe biden has been doing more and more of that out on the campaign trail. he describes the dobbs decision as america. maybe it's that bible he's trying to sell. i almost wanted to buy one to see what the 's in it. you know with covid, he said just inject a little bleach in your veins. he missed at all went to his hair. >> joining me as someone who has worked alongside resident biden for decades, my old boss, white house chief of staff, ron klain. he could tell he was having a good time with it, those were funny, they landed well in the room. he's been doing that out on the campaign trail as well. there's this question of what is the right strategy of going after trump. are you angry? are you bold? are you funny? he has been needling him. what do you think

our homes in family or extended family, many aunts and uncles, a single of jefferson davis or robert e lee, and it took me many years starting at a very young age, to figure out why was. mm hmm. yeah. so your family were republicans from reconstruction down to nixon, if i'm not mistaken? yeah. what does it mean? be a republican in the old and not a democrat. well, in. in alabama to be from winston county meant that up. 1953, when i would visit my grandmother grandfather's farm, we went on dirt roads, western county in the village where my grandpa aunts live did not get telephone until i was a freshman in college. so this i saw a what one alabama historian called maroon frontier. they were systematically discriminated against in paving and education expenditures of supporting the union in the civil war. even those those events had been virtually written out of alabama history. but but the punitive attitude toward unionism persisted even into lifetime. and i think the incident edward in his wonderful book life of a klansman says to write a life story from scattered or thin sources like makin

the statue of robert e lee surrendered again but last night was the jokes, but that's actually kind of the strategy here. they want to get under donald trump skipped oh biden always uses these dinners to do that. >> you know, he knows anytime and it's a roomful of reporters. he does the same with these other washington dinners, and obviously he is joking. it's not surprising he would take shots at trump, but he is certainly going after him in a way that he thinks is effective, especially when the age issue where he was tackling that saying age is going to be an issue. i'm a grown man and i'm running it against a six-year-old that is kinda how they're trying to frame it. and i should note trump's. some people from trump's campaign were in the room as these comments are being. i didn't see them laughing but i do think it speaks to what this dynamic is going to look like and how biden is choosing to go after trump, the story, daniel's comment was interesting to me. yes, it's a joke, but the biden campaign has taken a basically a vow of silence on the trump trial that is underway right now

in january, the state celebrated confederate general robert e lee's birthday june alabama will have another tribute to the confederacy. this is a celebration of jefferson davis's birthday. he was the president of the confederate states well, there's a bill making its way through the state legislature to make juneteenth the state holiday. okay. june 19, the commemorate the end of slavery but but to pass the bill some house members required a compromise state employees would have to pick you, take off juneteenth or jefferson davis's birthday freedom or the confederacy joining me now to discuss is wanted linda van an alabama state representative and sponsor of the juneteenth bill, representative gov. >> and thank you for being with me and we were talking a little bit during the break. this is not the way you want it to be but there is no other federal paid holiday that is not an alabama state paid holiday. why does juneteenth get this treatment in alabama? >> well first of all, again, thank you, victor off for having me. i'm excited to be here, but very disheartened in a way. this is sweet hom

doing $27 million so far in similar of reparations because they were after all jefferson davis, robert e lee episcopalians right now, baptist. so know. and so i think i want i want to say is like it's a broader question then i think just as we often think of of church and state as you know, just this kind of establishment of a church or but i think it's a much it's seeped the dna of christianity in ways i think we all all of us claim that tradition have got some real soul searching to do. yeah. so i. am. oh, there we go. so i'm going to ask for a policy a policy prescription kind of tag. on to the last question is there would you recommend we oppose as in like from the left could we actually basically some of the tax breaks that some of these churches enjoy when when they're getting too deep into politics? is there an opportunity that is it wise or is there an opportunity to perhaps manipulate? can we manipulate it to get more a larger child tax break or something like that? so any policy prescriptions that way that the left could use, i would just say something that might be surprising or c

[laughter] trump speech was so embarrassing the statute of robert e lee surrendered again.only thing we have in common. my vice president actually endorses me. [laughter] [cheering] i had a great stress since the state of the union. donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy weath weather. what the hell? compass best buy he started reading the bible he's selling. [laughter] he got to the first amendment. you shall have no other gods before me. that's when he put it down and said this book is not for me. being here is a reminder, what's going on in congress is political theater. going out lauren boebert a long time ago. [laughter] to all my friends in the press and fox news -- [laughter] some of you complain that i don't take enough of your questions. no comment. of course new york times issued a statement blocking me for quote active and effectively of 20 independent journalists. if that's what it takes to get the new york times not to be effective, i'm full. it's okay. [applause] i have higher standards. i do interviews with strong independent journal

trump's speech was so embarrassing, the statue of robert e lee surrendered again. thing we have in common. my vice president actually endorses me. i had a great stretch, since the state of the union. donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy weather. what the hell ? trump is so desperate he started reading those bibles he is selling. then he got to the first commandment, you should have no other gods before me. that's when he put it down and said this book is not for me. look, being here is a reminder folks think what is going on in congress is political theater. that is not true. if congress were theater, they would have thrown out lauren probert a long time ago. to all my friends in the press, and foxnews, some of you complain that i don't take co enough of your questions. no comment. of course, the "new york times" issued a statement, blasting me for quote, active and effectively avoiding independent journalists. hey, if that is what it takes to get "the new york times" to say i am active and effective i am for it. it is okay. i have highe

the statement of robert e. lee, who is no longer in favor.e you noticed that, no longer in favor. never fight uphill, me boys. they were fighting uphill. he said, wow, that was a big mistake. he lost his great general. they were fighting. never fight uphill, me boys, but it was too late. >> um, that was former president trump on the campaign trail in pennsylvania on saturday. i'm thinking, jon meacham, is there anything to say about what he said? maybe we should just move on. >> i don't think shelby foot put it exactly that way. i think that's a fair way to put it. >> you know, trump delivered that history lesson just outside allentown, where, at times, he sort of stumbled along with his speech. >> just this week, it was reported that an illegal -- and you just look at this, what's happening. >> so, in just hours, jury selection is set to begin in donald trump's hush money criminal trial in new york city. it is the first time in u.s. history that a former president will be on trial for criminal charges. two sources with direct knowledge of th

[laughter] >> donald trump speech was so embarrassing the statue of robert e. lee again. but look, age is the only thing we have in common. my vice president actually endorses me. [cheers and applause] i had a great -- since the state of the union. donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it, stormy weather. what the -- donald trump is so desperate he started reading the bible's he is selling. he got to the first commandment, you shall have no other god before me -- that is when he put it down and said, this book is not for me. look, here is a reminder. folks think what is going on in congress is political theater. it is not true. if congress was theater they would have thrown out -- a long time ago. to all of my friends in the press, and fox news -- somebody complained that i don't take enough of your questions. no comment. of course, the new york times issued a statement lasting me for "actively avoiding independent journalist." if that is what it takes to have the new are times call me active and effective, i'm all for it. it is ok. [applause] i ha

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trump's speech was so embarrassing that the statue of robert e. lee surrendered again. age is the only thing we have in common. i vice president actually endorses me. you might call it stormy weather. trump is so desperate he started reading those bibles he is selling. then he got to the first amendment. you should have no other gods before me. donald put it down and said, this book is not for me. look, being here is a reminder that people think what is going on in congress is political theater, but that is not true. [laughter] host: we have about 20 minutes left in this portion of the program. we will go next to richard. caller: good morning. i'm going to be in the camp of 100 four cents support of the students. i do not believe the students are for hamas or terrorists. i'not for annihilating the jews. i think the gist of what they are trying to put across is all th--ll the innocence, the worst part of it is that our country, the u.s., we are sanctioning this and paying for. that, i think is the bulk of the problem, that lot of these students are trying to illustrate a

trump's speech was so embarrassing that the statue of robert e. lee surrendered again. age is the only thing we have in common. i vice president actually endorses me. you might call it stormy weather. trump is so desperate he started reading those bibles he is selling. then he got to the first amendment. you should have no other gods before me. donald put it down and said, this book is not for me. look, being here is a reminder that people think what is going on in congress is political theater, but that is not true. [laughter] host: we have about 20 minutes left in this portion of the program. we will go next to richard. caller: good morning. i'm going to be in the camp of 100 four cents support of the students. i do not believe the students are for hamas or terrorists. i'm not for annihilating the jews. i think t gist of what they are trying to put across is all the -- all the innocence, the worst part of it is that our country, the u.s we are sanctioning this and paying for. th, i think is the bulk of the problem, that a lot of these students are trying to illustrate