abraham lincoln is begging general mcclellan to move the army and to pursue the rebels, pursue robert ely and bring the end to this horrible war. and time and time again general mcclellan would have a series of excuses for the president on why he couldn't lead his soldiers to deliver a knockout blow to the confederate forces. in this letter written october 20 seventh 1862, you get a sense of mister lincoln -- he is losing his patience with his general. he writes general mcclellan, yours of yesterday received. most certainly i intend no injustice to any and if i have done any i deeply regret it but to be told after more than four weeks total in action of the army and during which period we have sent to the army every fresh horse we possibly could amounting in the whole two koran leaves a blank space, that the calvary horses -- cavalry horses were too fatigues to move presents a cheerless, almost hopeless prospect for the future and it may have something of impatience into my dispatches. if not recruited and rested then, when could they ever be? mister lincoln is writing in response to a re

robert mueller. he said he refused to do that, and considered that a point of no return. transcripts of his closed-door testimony released by house democrats today. elieto see you. don mcgahn said he felt perturbed and trapped by the request for him to fire robert mueller mid-investigation. this is obstruction 101, no? >> yeah. perturbed and trapped are understatements. this is the single most flagrant instance of obstruction of justice. donald trump instructed don mcgahn to fire robert mueller. he kept coming back, saying get it done. eventually trump said, i need you to lie about it and make a false document about it. i don't care how strongly you want to defend donald trump, no president has to power to instruct someone to create a false document. >> mcgahn says that trump told him, you had better deny this. what does that mean? he's telling him to say something that is false, he's instructing his counsel? >> yeah. it's the coverup. donald trump is telling his white house counsel, i need to you make up a fake story. that's why i'm looking down the street at the justice department. it's taken congress two years to get mcgahn's testimony. it's a lot

elys ford. they will get in behind robert elise forces, so i have lee pin between a force near fredericksburg and we'll have lee with men coming into a crossroads known as chancellorsville. chancellorsville is really not a town which answers will is is if there was a rail line that ran through here there wasn't one. you called a whistle stop chancellorsville is a one house town where where it once served as a post office and in they had a farrier there who could reshod your horses. it is a prominent house on the way from fredericksburg down the orange turnpike on the way to call pepper or corn orange courthouse. so this is going to be out in an area we call the wilderness a dense second and third growth forest 70 square miles in in mass and joe hooker is going to march his army right into the middle of this large mass and then march out of it east. from west to east towards fredericksburg he's gonna march along a three-prong route. he's gonna march towards the confederate rear and a three-prong route. he'll follow in the top of the map if road called the river road modern day route 610. he's gonn