lee and december of 1865, which is the first semester that robert e lee was here as president of what was then washington college and. i'm proud to say that i'm a k, so k a special place to me. for those of you who don't know, robert e lee is known as the spirit, all founder of the kappa alpha order. so is pledges ks are taught to emulate general lee's character, which i think is something everybody should do. the world will be a better if we all emulated general lee's. well, let me let me tell you. prompted me to write this on counsel robert e lee. it was in response to cancel culture, particularly when that, of all things passed, made its way here to lexington, virginia, to my alma mater washington. and lee, as i mentioned, lee devoted the last five years of his life to washington college. and as president, the school he saved it from insolvency, it was it was down to about three professors and 40 students. and in a very short period of time, lee turned the school around, saved it, and took the enrollment up to 400 students and, built it into one of the top schools in the south. but

lincoln did mobilization by proclamation, calling up 75,000 troops, and it is april 18, 1861 that robert e. leeomes into the story. nigel hamilton worked hard -- abraham lincoln offered robert e. lee the commander-in-chief position of the u.s. army and he declined it and because he lived in virginia and had interest there. is that the whole story? >> not really. first of all, lincoln didn't offer him command. lincoln, as we said, could have called him to the white house because the's appointment -- lee's appointment was in the west at the time and he happened to be in washington at the time. president lincoln could have asked him to come to the white house and pressured him -- appealed to him. lincoln was a very persuasive individual. could have encouraged him to stay loyal to the commander in chief. when phil scott. and to him as president. but lincoln did not do that. he asked -- not even a colleague, a friend, to interview lee and the story then gets very murky. lee never wrote his memoirs. he claimed after the war to various people that he had never actually agreed to remain loyal to the un

lee served as president from 1865 until 1870 in his book on cancel robert e lee. then at 10:00 p.m.tern on afterwards, democratic oregon senator author of it takes -- sharing his thoughts on having the tenacity to pursue progressive goals through hard work. watch the tv every sunday

in the category of history number one most watcher program un- canceled robert ee. lee. ys robert e lee unfairly canceled. and in true face came in number to jonon menendez a book she's a former chief of disguise at the cia. shere talks about her life and career overseas during the cold war and the sum of the disguises the cia used. in the category of culture the most watcher book was one called stolen pride by sociologist she talks about court counties in rural america that voted overwhelmingly for president trump. the second most watcher book when it comes to cultural books the secret history of bigfoot by journalist jont o'connor. we also look at some books in foreign policy. the number one most watcher book and booktv.org good luck archipelagoes 60 yearsla later s a retrospective alexandria seminole goo log archipelago which came out in 1973. the second most watcher book when it comes to foreign policy was a talker see inc. by the "new york times" columnist appelbaum the subtitle the dictators who want to run the world but several books came out in 2024 dealing with t

the number one most watched program was on canceled robert e lee. ib kerr, who says that robert e lee has been unfairly canceled. in true face came in number two. and this is jon mendez's book. she's the former chief of disguise at the cia. and she talked about her life and career overseas during the cold war and some of the disguises that the cia used. in the category of culture, the most watched book was one called stolen pride. this is by sociologist arlie hoek shield. she talks about some poor counties in rural america that voted overwhelmingly for president trump. the second most watched book when it comes to cultural books, the secret history of bigfoot by journalist john o'connor. we also looked at some books in foreign policy. the number one most watched book and booktv dot org was the gulag archipelago. go 50 years later. it's a retrospective of alexander solzhenitsyn's seminal gulag archipelago, which came out in 1973. the second most watched book when it comes to foreign policy was autocracy. it's by the new york times columnist anne apple

in the category of history, the number one most-watched program was un-cancel robert e. leert e. lee is unfairly canceled. in true face, number two, she is the former chiefth of discussedt the cia and she talked about her life and career overseas during the cold war and some of the disguises that the cia used. in the category of culture, the most-watched book was one called stolen pride. this is by a sociologist. she talks about some poor counties in rural america that voted overwhelmingly for president trump. the second most-watched book when it comes to cultural books, the secret history of bigfoot by journalist john o'connor. we also looked at some books in foreign policy. the number one most-watched book in booktv.org was the gulen archipelago, 50 years later it's a retrospective of the gulen archipelago which came out in 1933. the second most-watched book when it comes to foreign policy was autocracy, inc. it's by "new york times" columnist anne applebaum, subtitle, the dictators who want to run the world. several books came out in 2024 peter with the course in the judi

lee served as president from 1865 until 1870 in his book on cancel robert e lee. then at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, democratic oregon senator author of it takes -- sharing his thoughts on having the tenacity to pursue progressive goals through hard work. watch the tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule or watch online anytime apple tv .org. virginia senator tim canas on the senate armed service committee. he spoke on the senate floor opposing president trump's defense secretary nomineefi pete hegseth and new allegations involving a sworn affidavit from a former sister-in-law of the defense secretary nominee. senator kaine's remarks are just under 25 minutes. positions. so i always begin with any president, democrat or republican, with a beginning standpoint. they should be able to assemble a team unless there are significant challenges with the nominee. second, i do want to say that as part of the work that i've done in examining this nominee, i did review his military record, and i express my respect for the military record. pete hegseth's service in the militar

two days ago, people arguing about once again about robert e lee. i come over to our token southerner to talk about robert lee and people saying, oh no, right, a certain presidential candidate spoke favorably of robert e lee and and surprisingly about it. but that's that's an argument about who belongs, who belongs within this kind of civil religion. all but there's another kind as the one that interests me lot more. there's another genre that or am i really mixing my metaphors here? another genre, the civil religion. and that is to take the vocal bureau of the church. i'm just for i'm going to just use christianity. there's nothing simple about christianity, but i'm just going to take historic christianity in all of its varieties, taking. identity. if lincoln, as he was by some, if he's called christ figure, right? that's taking from religion for the purposes of the state purposes of government purposes. the next election of the cause of political party. takes the of actual scripture and uses it for its purpose. we talked about this a few days ago

microsoft and openai investigate whether deep seek to on authorized output, were joined by robert lee tracking this, how significant is this? robert: the thing that surprised last week is disclosure that costs was as low as under 6 million u.s. dollars. that caused the upset. u.s. is the leader in global ai, does not want any country or company eating its lunch so there has been a great deal of scrutiny, as i've said we know there is no reason to question what they're doing. openai allows developers to use external apps to cut corners and boost performance. it is being taken seriously. tom: hearing that from the trump administration. the trump name checked deep seek , we've seen efforts to ban tiktok. are they safe? >> yeah, still early, they need to investigate the two weeks ago we saw dod blacklist tencent so it all looks to be resolved but the u.s. is the leader, china narrowed the gap but u.s. will not allow them to impinge and we could see some sort of restrictions. tom: indeed. still on technology bloomberg learned apple has been working with t-mobile to add support for starlink

when you look back in time, lincoln had an opportunity to interview colonel lee, as he was, robert e. lee, and persuade him to remain loyal to the united states, and he missed the opportunity. he sent this old man, a friend, to interview lee, and it did not work. and lee sort of slipped out. so tre was a terrible missed oppounity. winfield scott himself came from virginia, and remained loyal, but so many of the senior and most effective officers, trained officers, going back to west point but also particularly the mexican war, basically decamped, committed treason and joined the confederacy. peter: and we will talk about that in part two of our interview. you say robert anderson, commanding officer at fort sumter, was a southern sympathizer. nigel: i don't just say it, that was true, i do not think anyone contests that. he was desperately against any notion of civil war beginning. he really come in that sense, had his eyes closed. he was a religious man and he was just praying there were -- there would not be war because his sympathies were with the south. he and his wife had owned en

and the renaming of a clock from robert e lee to another, an inch. thank you. then he can't quite help himself and he couldn't case it says there's be a good people on both sides are very fine people on both sides. no question that the people who are the most extreme edges of american society heard what trumpet saying. what he was saying was to them is, i hear you, you're, you're part of my coalition. i, you know, i'm, i'm, i'm with you. and they never heard that from the american president before, not in modern times. anyway, it was a signal to, to the most radical parts of the, the american life that they were no longer on the fringes that they had an ear in the white house that was listening to them when mainstream politicians would ever main screen. politicians begin to tolerate can don't justify wink get, embrace violent power, military groups, democracies and trouble. donald trump legitimize these radical right militias gaining their loyalty and return. the events in charlottesville sparked a period of political k on send the us which compromised the alle

lincoln said, no, you, jefferson davis and/or commander-in-chief -- and your commander-in-chief, robert e. lee, have attacked the north, which is what they did in september of 1862, like pearl harbor. once you attacked the north, you changed the whe game. >> nigel hamilton with his book lincoln versus davis sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a.

some explanation of the site's history, which, of course, is that it was the mansion owned by robert e lee, the civil war general for the confederacy. and that's really how arlington national cemetery came to be. is that the union army reclaimed robert e lee's plantation and turned it into a burial ground for union soldiers. and that is its inception as the union's most hallowed ground. it's a fitting backstory for a president elect to learn from, as he takes over the helm of a nation that is deeply divided. >> what what is it like as a veteran to go to arlington national cemetery and see the dignity, the respect, the tradition that is embodied there for its goodness? we're coming on almost 200 years in another couple of decades of its existence. >> well, it it frames the great and incalculable. sacrifice that our veterans and service members have given so that we can live in the greatest nation in the history of the world, and from the war of independence, through the civil war, through world war two, this nation has been defined by its victories in consequential wars, and they have cost

lincoln said, no, you, jefferson davis and/or commander-in-chief -- and your commander-in-chief, robert e. lee, have attacked the north, which is what they did in september of 1862, like pearl harbor. once you attacked the north, you changed the whe game. >> nigel hamilton with his book lincoln versus davis sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q&a and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. .org. host: bart jansen joins us now. i would like to start on the january 6. at this point, is there anyone convicted of some crime related to january 6 that has not had their sentence pardoned or commuted by president trump? guest: i think that is right, the work of the pardon was very broad, basically pardoning anyone with any actions on january 6 at the capital, with the exception of the 14 commutations, and he said he may review those and come back and pardon them. host: what is the difference? guest: pardon his full release from the charges and any punishment stemmed from them, commutation is shortening a sentence. all the people in prison are in the midst of be

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from the moment lincoln said no, you, jefferson davis and your commander-in-chief robert e. lee, have attacked the north, which is what they did in september of 1862. it is the equivalent of pearl harbor for them. once you attack the north, you change the whole game. >> nigel hamilton with his book "lincoln versus davis" sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. listen to our podcasts on the free c-span now app. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. funded by these television companies and more including mediacom. >> nearly 30 years ago mediacom was founded on a powerful idea. bring cutting edge broadband underserved communities from coast-to-coast we connected 850,000 miles of fiber, broke speed barriers, delivered 1 gig speeds as it led the way to a 10g platform and is offering the fastest most reliable network on the go. mediacom, tickets of dedication, delivery. decades ahead. >> mediacom supports c-span along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy.

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but from the moment lincoln said no, you, jefferson davis, and your commander in chief, robert e. leehave attacked the north, which is what they did in september of 1862, the equivalent of pearl harbor, if you'd like. once you attacked the north, you changed the whole game. >> nigel hamilton with his book "lincoln versus davis." sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "q&a." listen to our podcasts on our free c-span app. >> democracy, it isn't just an idea, it's a process, a process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. it's where debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. democracy in real time. this is your government at work. this is c-span. giving you your democracy, unfiltered. >> next, former television news anchor kari lake who ran for elected office in 2024 and in 2022 speaks at

a little closer to home than robert e lee's invading confederate invading confederate army comes into pennsylvania in of 1863 captures hundreds of african there's i don't know 50, 100 200. the numbers are soft. but nonetheless, he captures african-american and takes them south. we don't know what happens to them. so the question is, does that fit the definition of atrocious atrocity? it was a flawed economic reason. i a black guy instead of horse or is it a political process is is it to create terror just like to hear your perspectives? yes. and both. certainly there's a need for labor in virginia certainly if you do microphones there, there's certainly so there's a need for labor in virginia. it's also sending a political message. i think it's of those things. and yes, i think i would call that an atrocity. and he would have said it's contraband. right. this is as an army or that they're a runaway slaves and this is what we're just doing, what we've done for last 15 years and catching the runaway slaves. good. okay. well we've got pete needs to make up. can you tolerate one more? if

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he became robert e lee, second in command. he was the one who was leading the troops. the last the army of the northern virginia. the last battle before lee surrendered to grant. and they were there at appomattox court house. mrs. gordon being there to help her husband. now, granted, we're not saying she out there on the battlefield with him when he was fighting, when the fighting was about to start, sent her to the rear to get her out of harm's way. but there were time and time again where he would be wounded and she went to care him. in fact, after one battle, it took him over seven months to recover. and she's the one who stayed by his caring for him. in fact, one of his wounds had become so serious infected that the doctors told her that the only way he was going to survive is that he would have to have paint the wound with iodine and stayed by his side painting that wound over and over and, over again. save the limb, saved his life. now we'll briefly about some women who were left. anybody besides the local people know who this person is. okay. there's got to be i

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. >> laura: at least they got rid of robert e. lee of lee circle because that kept everybody safe from being offended. as always, thank you for great reporting. >> laura: remember, fox stands united with loved ones of louisiana in support of the victims and families impacted by new year's day terrorist attack. here is how can you donate go to or scan the qr code you seed on your screen now. thank you. coming up, what is china prepping for? a disturbing report about how deeply they penetrated into our most critical infrastructure. what does it mean? we'll tell you, next. ♪ aaaaaaaaaaaaa. - headache? - better now. mucinex kickstart gives all-in-one and done relief with a morning jolt of instant cooling sensation. it's comeback season. ♪ ♪ three little birds ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: tonight, disturbing new details about how the communist chidges through a group of cyber hackers have penetrated deeply into critical american infrastructure. from our water system to sensitive government communications, to our electrical grid and, yeah, eve

but from the moment that lincoln said no, you, jefferson davis, and your commander in chief robert e. leehave attacked the north which is what they did in september of 1862. the equivalent of pearl harbor if you like. once you attacked the north, you changed the whole game. >> nigel hamilton with his book "lincoln vs. davis" sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." listen to "q&a" and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. >> be up-to-date with the latest in publishing with pwaofplt tv's podcast with books. with none fiction book releases and best serl list, and industry news and trends through insider interviews. you can find about books on c-span now, our free mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. >> democracy, it isn't just an idea, it's a process. a process shaped by leaders, elected to the highest offices, and entrusted to a select few regarding its -- guarding its basic principles. it's where debates unfold, decisions made, and the nation's course is charted. democracy in real time. this is your government at work. this is c-span. giving you your democracy

and then gib kerr argues that robert e. lee has been unfairly canceled in u.s. history.10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, the democratic oregon senator ron wyden author of "it takes chutzpah" talks about tenacity through hard work and for -- and focus. watch booktv every day on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch any time at booktv.org. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us now to discuss the trump administration and cryptocurrency industry including potential regulation is brady dale, a crypto reporter of the axios crypto's newsletter. thank you for joining us. let us start by just talking about and clarifying for those who might be unclear or not sure what it is, explain what cryptocurrency is. guest: sure. it is a lot of things. the technology has been around for 15 years. it started with bitcoin and it was the first way that people could control and own value themselves on the internet without recourse to a third party. right now, if you want to store dollars electronically in some way, there is no way for you to do that yoursel

gib kerr argues robert e. lee has been unfairly canceled at america. in his book. at 10:00 p.m.or ron wyden shares his thoughts on having the tenacity to pursue progressive goals through strong alliances and focus. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online at t.v..org. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us now to discuss the trump administration and cryptocurrency industry including potential regulation is brady dale, a crypto reporter and author of the axios crypto's newsletter. thank you for joining us. let us start by just talking about and clarifying for those who might be unclear or not sure what it is, explain what cryptocurrency is. guest: sure. it is a lot of things. the technology has been around for 15 years. it started with bitcoin and it was the first way that people could control and own value themselves on the internet without recourse to a third party. right now, if you want to store dollars electronically in some way, there is no way for you to do that yourself and on your own. you have to hav