a doctrine historian robert o'connell calls hard war, soft peace. it is no wonder that such distinguished generals such as patton and norman schwarzkopf would revere and emulate sherman. schwarzkopf even kept on his desk a quote from sherman during the first iraq war. "war is the remedy our enemies have chosen. i say, let us give them all they want." like his hero, norman destroyed his foe and offered lenient terms of surrender. sherman has been demonized for waging war against noncombatants, but his hard hand of war established a model of how america would win future conflicts. robert o'connell described sherman's army as the first truly archetypal american ground force. lieber's code is still used today by the armed forces of the united states, and continues to govern how we fight. as world war ii and vietnam demonstrated, americans have no problem wreaking destruction on their enemies when the existence of the nation is at stake. douglas macarthur's admission to congress was lifted out of sherman's playbook. when war is forced upon us there is no

robert zimmerman and republican strategist ford o'connell, starting with you, we know isis is taking advantage of the migrants crisis but hillary clinton wants to bring in 65,000 syrian refugees into the united states of america. how do you reconcile that with what the cia is saying? >> they will try to bury it, use misdirection and generic language and hope nothing bad happens but director brendan's testimony pointed out barack obama is emotionally committed to defeating radical islamic terror and by extension neither is hillary clinton. >> now we know why donald trump is polling with 70% negative approval rating, republicans like the speaker of the house, paul ryan or mitch mcconnell walk away from donald trump's rhetoric, because when we pulled together as a country in a crisis and that is what we have to do. you see all of the sudden leading republican conservatives like mike mc call, chairman of homeland security say donald trump's strategy would be recruiting tool for isis. the former deputy secretary of state for george w. bush announced today he is supporting hillary clinton.