roosevelt -- or wheeler was on the roosevelt bandwagon very early, campaigned very aggressively for roosevelt in 1932, made speeches all over the western united states for the roosevelt ticket, played a very instrumental role at the democratic convention in 1932, probably most significantly wheel her a friendship with louisiana senator huee long. and wheeler convinced huey long to put his political leadership in the south behind roosevelt's candidacy. and as a result, the louisiana and mississippi and several other southern delegations fell in line behind roosevelt's candidacy. this gave wheeler, i think, a sense that he was going to have a real place at the table, be a key counselor to president roosevelt. and he really never became that for reasons that are a little complicated. i venture the observation that i don't think franklin roosevelt feared many people in politics, but he had a certain weariness about wheeler, maybe because he was aggressive, he was independent, he wasn't sort of dye in the wool democrat. he could be working across the political aisle with some regularity, and roose

he said this about theodore roosevelt -- he said that theodore roosevelt's brilliance was in differentiating that species of anarchism which we popularly termed bolshevism -- so isolating to visit or radicalism from that form of normal progress called liberalism. in modern terms, we would call this a liberal, not a radical. i'm not sure i am prepared to roosevelt a liberal, but i think you see the analogy. making less cleaner and safer and more organized, the appeal of radicals would be diminished. -- making life cleaner and safer and more organized, the appeal of radicals would be diminished. you can see the goal, right? the progressive era contains such a wide range of different movements it would be impossible to discuss even a portion of them. this is one of the most studied him as of american history because it is so complex and internally contradictory. when i want to do today is just offer you a couple of examples of what i would call economic and political progressivism, and i will emphasize the way political progressivism comes out of municipalities and states first -- what i want t

and roosevelt is not biting. so finally, roosevelt kind of breaks the silence, or breaks the stalemate by saying, well, i guess eisenhower is the man. and marshall says, ok, let's make that happen. so he never complained about it. he was disappointed, but he understood the main thing, the most important point was to defeat the germans. so eisenhower moved to london to start planning for overlord. and he wants to take british general harold alexander with him to be the ground commander and the invasion planner. churchill objects. if eisenhower is no longer the commander in the mediterranean, hey, why not put a british officer in charge down there? so they want to name alexander as the commander of all forces down there. however, just like in north africa, there is going to be a deputy commander for air and sea and ground, but this time there is going to be a fourth deputy commander. the deputy commander responsible for writing, implementing the final plan was general montgomery, who most people didn't get along wi

and donald trump donald teddy roosevelt was very critical of judge's rulings he insulted his opponents with nicknames he called new york and my . to choose to it's liberal shrilly unix back in the day. and on the other hand there are comparisons where you'd say that they were nothing alike cared enormously about the environment. he cared about alliances he cared enormously about truth and probity so i think that looking at this case and looking after today's prism there's a little bit for everyone but there's no question that it will resonate and look this is you know roosevelt and lincoln are considered the 2 greatest republicans of all time and it's a really it's a fascinating book it's called theodore roosevelt for the defense the courtroom battle to save his legacy it's out and it's available everywhere including for download dan thank you so much for your time today not your my pleasure more politicking after the break. it was only days ago we were told the u.s. was preparing to strike a run for nonspecific reasons to deter specific threats then the narrative simply disappeared an

roosevelt's mother built as a wedding present for franklin and eleanor roosevelt.oth families moved in in 1908. fdr occupied, and his wife and their children occupied the east side of the house. fdr's mother stayed in the west side of the house, and immediately opened the walls so that as eleanor said, my mother-in-law was on the outside of the house for the next 25 years, sometimes at the least expected moments. but this was fdr's political base, also the home at which he recovered from polio in 1921. fdr's mother wanted him to go to hyde park and sort of retire in luxury, or rustic luxury. eleanor insisted he stay here, where he could get his bearings in society, government, politics. the house had two elevators, which made fdr mobile once he got into a wheelchair. here he ran his campaigns for governor of new york, and here he conducted his campaign for the presidency in 1932. and most famously, this house was the transition headquarters between november 1932 and march 1933, the four month interregnum that separated elections and inaugurations. upstairs, in the

news and co-author of the new book theodore roosevelt for the defense the courtroom battle to save his legacy dan joins me now from new york city dan welcome to the program out there so let's get to your fascinating book shortly right now we've got some crazy developments going on between the law and the trump administration so what's happening. this is an interesting case because here you've got the banks sort of stuck in the middle right saying we'll do whatever you tell us to do you subpoena the documents we'll give them to you oh wait a 2nd the trump folks are telling us we can't you guys figure it out and so now there is this battle between the trump folks and congress over whether he asked to allow in effect this material to be released and this 1st court district court level very fast decision basically saying there is really no legitimate argument against releasing this information in essence congress has the power to request this accounting information these financial documents etc so it's going to appeal what's what's their argument i mean the judge said i mean it seems prett

dan, a beloved former presiden teddy roosevelt, sued for libel.as america gripped by this trial? dan: first of all, the former president was on the wit stand for eight days. it is hard to believe that a president as iconic as theodor roosevelt was a defendant in a major case and testified for 8. daan his dicousin franklin roosevelt testified in his behalf.in it was an amtrial, and while it was a libel case -- e accused a republican party boss of being corrupt -- it feels more like a criminal cais, meaning it moves, ther excitement, there are twists and turns throughout the trial. what really got us hooked on this wass we finally got the transcript in our hands -- it wasn't easy, but once we had it, as we went through it, it was to some degree a page turr. that is what we try to bring t life with this book. laura: what was at stake for teddy roosevelt and his reputation? dan: part of the plaintiff's argument was that roosevelt was just as corrupt as the person h cusing of being corrupt. for roosevelt, that was the ultimate insult.s he took nesty, h

harold: we are very lucky at roosevelt house.n franklin roosevelt's mother died, he i think could not bring himself to return to this house. they were very, very close. fdr put the house up for sale. very close become tuesdao the students at hunter college. this house is part of hunter college, which is part of the city university system of new york. she hung out in the hunter library, brought hunter students here for lunch. so fdr put this house up for the staggering cost of $60,000. [laughter] eleanor prevailed upon hunter bid for theake a house. fdr lowered the price to $50,000, for a double townhouse on the upper eastside of manhattan. it opened as a multifaith, interreligious, multiracial place for the female students of hunter to study, socialize and join clubs. it was that for many years, until the house began to run down, inevitably, because it was not well-maintained. and under our hunter college president, money was raised to rehabilitate the house, and now it functions as a policy center for undergraduates and a center

for roosevelt, that was the ultimate insult.ok his honesty, his integrity incredibly seriously. for someone to allege that he was corrupt was sort of thefo ultimate insulroosevelt, in particular because he was eyeing the possibility of a presidential run down the road, maybe in 1920. and so he wanted to not just defend himself in this case, but i think he effecvely wanted to become the plaintiff to prove that his stement was true, that he is notng like them, and to defend his legacy. laura: what were the ict forences of the ve the former president? dan: i try not to give away the verdict completely, but i will say that whichever way this came out will be enormously important, meaning the plaintiff in this case also had majorca poliaspirations. after the six-week trial, headlines throughout the united states, throughout the case, that whoever won or lost, particularly whoever lost, was going to pay a price. there was a lot of fioter-pointing, there was a of allegations that went on in this case. the loser wadefinitely going pay a

theodore roosevelt for the defense.insulted journalists and slammed court rulings he didn't like. sounds familiar. he pushed the limit in immigration. he even had an attorney general who resigned because of his autocratic tendencies. there's a familiarity. >> there's no question there's similarities between theodore roosevelt and donald trump. and remember donald trump is also being sued in civil court. we may see as in roosevelt's case donald trump on the witness stand. roosevelt testified in a trial for eight days. he was the defendant. think about the former president of the united states on the stand for eight days. the country was watching. it was front page news everywhere. we have the full 3,000 page plus transcript of the trial. franklin roosevelt testified in his defense. somehow it's a footnote to history. i should say i talked about some of the similarities. there are also enormous differences between donald trump and theodore roosevelt in fact he was one of the great conservationists. he cared about alliance

roosevelt was sued for libel. party corrupt. >> imagine that. >> the guy sued him for libel. he goes to court and it becomes a case where he has to defend theodore roosevelt. not just this libel case. it turns into an attack on theodore roosevelt, the former president, the person. roosevelt took his integrity and honesty seriously. typically when we see in history we read speeches, books, but this is theodore roosevelt going back and forth with a lawyer who wants to embarrass him on cross-examination. we've got every word from the transcript of this back and forth. franklin roosevelt testifies in his defense. >> right. >> it's this fascinating case that somehow became forgotten to history. we have taken the transcript and told the story in a case that was in the front pages everywhere for six weeks around the country. this is leading up to world war i. there was a lot of intersection with that as well. a lot of people want to know what roosevelt thinks about things that are happening in the world. yet there are th

he breaks with franklin roosevelt in 1936 over roosevelt's new deal policies to restimulated the american economy, to get the country back on its feet after the depression. hearst breaks with roosevelt, supports a republican, the governor of kansas, for the presidency. this was an ugly break. bursts newspaper, in effect, called roosevelt an agent of moscow because of his policies, because of his new deal. roosevelt's supporters punish hearst for his apostasy. one way they did this was to revive furnish the war, to dust off this old anecdote that first appeared in creelman's book in 1901, and invoke it as a way to damage hearst's reputation. it appears in a number of books and articles at that time, in the mid-1930's. it appears notably in this truculent, polemic biography of hearst. thin but hostile to hearst. this is one of the places where furnish the war is resurrected, and brought back into the public domain. what sealed this anecdote, what firmly planted it into the popular consciousness, was a 1941 motion picture loosely based on the times and life of william randolph hearst. this a

edith roosevelt. in terms of first lady responsibilities, you see something shifting at the turn-of-the-century. s had a different relationship. it was something that they treated each other much more like partners and equals when it came to things like politics, but also family. susan: women still cannot vote at that time. matthew: exactly. susan: this is a question for both of you when you look at the , history of the white house, which presidents were most influential in changing the building to what we know today? lindsay: the roosevelts, both of them, are huge. fdr was in the white house for a long time. he was going to have a huge impact. after him, truman oversaw a huge renovation. i also think jackson was a huge player, under jackson's presidency, the first time the east room is finished properly. that is a huge moment. then moving backwards, i would say the combination of madison and monroe, the white house burned in 1814 during the war of 1812. the rebuild and making sure it stayed in washin

having teddy roosevelt on the stand, and franklin roosevelt actually testified in his defense. so it is a fascinating read. i think it was so much fun and so interesting to work on because so few people knew about it. >> so from donald to teddy to dan, the third there, dan, has agreed to stay with us. coming up, we'll talk about dan's other line of work. it just happens to be something of an addiction for viewers across the country when they are not watching us at 11:00 eastern time on week nights. with moderate to severe ulceratiyour plans... crohn's, can change in minutes. your head wants to do one thing... but your gut says not today. if your current treatment isn't working... ask your doctor about entyvio®. entyvio® acts specifically in the gi tract, to prevent an excess of white blood cells from entering and causing damaging inflammation. entyvio® has helped many patients achieve long-term relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio® may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, p

why, dan abrams, and your co-writer, writing about teddy roosevelt? >> we found transcript of this case. and imagine this. the former president of the united states testifying for eight days, undergoing a vicious cross-examination from a lawyer who dislikes him and disagrees with him and is trying to mock him. this is one of the most iconic presidents the country has ever had. we don't imagine him this way. we think about our iconic presidents, we think about speeches they've made, or writings. this is unvarnished. this is theodore roosevelt, word for word from the transcript, defending himself and his legacy. and it is fascinating stuff. so what we did is we took this transcript and tell the story, surrounding that trial that at the time was huge news around the country. but somehow has back footnote to history. >> the part i got to last night. he casually tosses off the fact that he hired 40,000 people through patronage into the u.s. government. >> yep. >> and it is another line in testimony. >> and there were also, there was questions about all sor

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roosevelt was different. roosevelt never made protcgcs of young congressmen. he just had a role. he didn't help. i started to realize there was one exception to this. it was lyndon johnson. johnson would have breakfast with him. i said to a man named james rowe who was a friend of johnson. i said what made this different for franklin roosevelt he said, roosevelt was a political genius. almost no one understood what he was talking about. lyndon johnson understood at all from the first minute and roosevelt saw that. it was just two geniuses. and roosevelt once said to dickies, he said if i had gone to west texas, i might have turned out like that too. yes sir. >> when you're doing interviews, people are aware they're talking about history and they care how they look. how do you decide what to believe? >> i never believe anything that shows told to me in an interview once. you interview people over and over again. i think i had 22 interviews. several hundred pages of typed notes. then you go to other people involved in the story. and you ask them the same questions. then you go back

"theodore roosevelt for the defense."books that have been written about teddy roosevelt? >> so this is a book about a for gotten trial. this is a trial where theodore roosevelt, the former president of the united states was on trial accused of libel. he testifies for eight days in his own defense. franklin roosevelt testifies in his defense. that come up in this case, and it's about political corruption, that are relevant today. everything from corporate money influencing politics to party political bosses, et cetera. but in the end this is -- we have a transcript of the trial, 3,000 pages and we tell the story around this trial that at the time was on the front pages of every single newspaper in america that somehow became a footnote to history and now we're trying to sort of bring it back and say to people, this trial mattered enormously to theodore roosevelt at the time. as you can imagine when you're sued and you end up testifying and you're cross-examined by a lawyer who does not like you politically or personally, i

you got a new book about "teddy roosevelt," elizabeth warren was here.ning mate. >> your dream running mate if you can pick a person who could run with you, teddy roosevelt. >> a republican. >> yes. >> about a lawsuit. he was defended. he was the president of the united states, eight days of the witness stand and we had the full full transcript of the trial. he sued for liable. the trial goes for six-week, it wasdp front page news everywher in the country in 1915. >> was it on cable news? >> there was no beat back then. it was prebeat times. it was everywhere. >> what does it tell us about america? >> it tells us we are facing the roosevelt was accusedyg# being ina$ the pocket of corporate interests and etcetera, the same issues we talk about today except the idea of the president of the united states being on the stand and cross examined by a lawyer who disliked him and disagreed with him politically. usually we see in pictures and writing. this is roosevelt going back and forth with a tough lawyer, non lawyers are going to love it because it is a thril

roosevelt look at alternatives. a place more secure and safe. there was a place that was a little more tropical and remote. think what had been, had president roosevelt followed through and move the presidential retreat from shangri-la to guantanamo bay. [laughter] holly: mike, you were the commanding officer at the end of president clinton's term and the start of the bush term. you got to run the place. tell us about what that entailed and tell us about the place itself. what is there? what is camp david like? michael: thank you for this honor. 200 acres. catoctin mountain park. we worked with the national park service. it is a rustic retreat. single-story cabins, cedar roofs. oak plank siding. just enough amenities and security, but very pleasant, simple place to go where many presidents up -- where many presidents have found the respite that they were looking for. holly: talk about your role and the staff. michael: it's run by the navy. it is been that way since it started. roosevelt took the sailors from the yachts and have them guarded. the

it's called "theodore roosevelt for the defense." welcome back. this is fascinating.lled the trial of the century. >> at the time, yeah, it was covered everywhere. this is the former president of the united states testifying for eight days in his own defense and we have the full transcript of the trial and franklin roosevelt testified for him in the case. so it's this fascinating trial where roosevelt is really defending his legacy and he's being cross-examined by a lawyer who, a, doesn't like him personally, and, b, disagrees with him politically and makes for fascinating reading. so, basically he had accused a political boss of being corrupt. he had said this guy is corrupt and he's in cahoots with the democrats and the republicans working together, et cetera. and the guy sues him. he says you called me corrupt. that's libellous and the case goes to trial. and as you can imagine, not just the former president of the united states but someone as you pointed out as iconic as teddy roosevelt and as outspoken every newspaper in america was there covering the case and so

because she said eventually eleanor roosevelt they were able to have their band. she used the gi bill to get her ph.d.. she taught at howard, she was a senior fellow at howard. she's the author of four books. just an extraordinary woman, and i can see her. she's passed away now, but i can see her after we had dedicated the programs, walking up from the metro, and i would always say, let me come get you. no, i can walk she said. walking up to be part of the ceremony at the women's memorial. >> i know i made a contribution to the women's army corps, but it was a short one in a long run. i always realize that i learned a lot. it was a tremendous learning experience. and i probably would not have served if they had not allowed my service. >> family members can register a family member or friends online, click on register. doesn't cost you anything, but we're always very happy for donations. or we have forms that can be sent or downloaded for people to register. the register itself it is for security and privacy reasons, at least until today, we have chosen not to put

the roosevelt room is filling up with people. the farmers are there. event. he's going to announce $16 billion in aid. i want to give you a quick question on iran. is this a build-up, a show of force or just ratcheting tensions? the middle east? >> there was reporting from the new york sometime that the pentagon was liking at a 120,000 troop build-up plans to confront the iranians in the middle east. we always have plans ready to go at the department of defense. that quickly came and went. the president made clear he was not preparing for any kind of invasion or occupation or anything like that. 10,000 troops, the way the senators that have been briefed on this on the republican side are describing it is that this is a show of force, a deterrent, used to flex our power here. we know what we're doing. we're aware and going to be present there. we're watching carefully everything that you're doing suggestively and doesn't mean that we're engaged in a military conflict or have plans to do so. that kind of deterrent message is critical. the iranians, despi

he is a canal, the cumberland road, all those kinds of things. 100 years later, teddy roosevelt instituted his infrastructure initiative, the national park service. the green initiative -- the infrastructure initiative in america. so i said we want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country. while there are those in our family who think -- why would you work with him? you know, and basically he is saying why would i work with you if you are investigating, but the fact is something happened there, so i pray for him and i pray for the united states of america. really he walked away. if he ever intended to honor what he said before remains to be seen, but democrats believe in building infrastructure of our country -- mass transit, roads, bridges, broadband into rural america, into underserved areas in our cities, wastewater, clean water infrastructure, the satellite so we can have precision farming -- there are so many needs and we thought we had some level of agreement, but you never know with this president of the united states, so that is what happened

i do think of franklin roosevelt.e would have the whole white house press corps into his office once a week. he knew how not to answer. when you spend that much face time with the president it's a very effective in getting them to pull their budgets. >> this is one where i will be very curious to see how our current president is. and the current president has made this a signature issue. it would be very interesting how that works out. i'm hoping johnson bumps up a little bit. >> david, you touched on some of the things some more surprises. and grant who went up 11 points. >> just a couple and i'm picking on them. i don't mean to but some relatively current president's who just seem to me higher than i would've expected. one is john kennedy. he was president for two and half years he did do a great job. and wanted to mention eisenhower number five again it's hard to point to have some massively wonderful thing that happened. it seems a surprise to me. >> with the things that had have didn't happen. eisenhower faced th

yet remained during the roosevelt administration.o, i would love to hear a little reflection of the role of women during in a time especially women social reformers. and the ilo. >> and i want to ask a similar question, did she have any work- life balance? >> well the first one -- the second yes is easier, she had no work/life balance. she lived to work and famously she spent a lot of time at a convent outside catonsville she was late at night working on drafting new laws that could be passed. early morning hours prayed or them. >> and she was a mother so she was busy. but yeah, there was a this wonderful human female chain that lead to francis perkins. and not just in the united states. you know sort of the whole house model first started in england. it starts at twinby hall taking people out, taking people with who had a lot of life opportunities to places where people have fewer life opportunities. and letting them see if dewpoint for themselves is huge and living answer semi communal arrangement where people live together while t

and this puts him at odds with franken roosevelt, the man who appointed him ambassador -- franklin roosevelt, the man who appointed him ambassador. and it has also left them, down through the ages, with the -- left him, down through the ages, with the reputation as an appeaser, a follower of appeasement of hitler's and mussolini, particularly with what happened with the holocaust and the concentration camps and what happened with jews in europe. this is one of the major black marks against him. and it is said that part of the reason his two eldest sons went war and volunteered for dangerous duty, one of them in in aviation -- in navy aviation who was lost, and john kennedy in pt boats in the south pacific, who went through an ordeal when his boat was rammed by a japanese destroyer, one of the things that were trying to do was remove the stain of appeasement from the kennedy name. back when healen, was writing this book in the 1960's, was obviously looking at exactly what was kennedy's position on appeasement and the fate of european jews under hitler's. here is a folder, file number 24, of j

theodore roosevelt in the survey that is common not only for hours but others as well. you won't be surprised to learn the next one in line as franklin roosevelt whenever one, two or three. those features ... doris kearns goodwin. it is a terrific one. whethe one on theodore roosevels doug brinkley's book willingness warriors and it's about his role as a conservation president. for george washington, we chose rob chernow's biography. he won the pulitzer prize for it. george washington came in second place in 868 points out of a possible 1,000 is score is 13th, and the pursuit of equal justice for all. we were at mount vernon on the publication day an into the evet of a terrific job for those in the mount vernon and the people worked their way through the museum. they seem to be number one in every t survey is abraham linco. he received 907 points out of a possible 1,000 he ranked in almost every single one of them the lowest score is fourth place and that is on relations with congress. our future biographer is howard holzer that's within 52 books that he's done, 53 book

mcgreevy: he is kind of mad at roosevelt. he wants to see less government programs. it works against what he was doing as a pretty liberal democrat governor of new york state. there is a little bit of a sour end i would say to his career in the 30's. what we remember him for his becoming governor of new york. he became quite successful. implementing all kinds of social welfare programs. that made him an icon for a lot of american catholics. >> why were catholics scorned? why did they face racism? prof. mcgreevy: the tension in the 19th century was very much i will obey the american government or the pope in rome? it seems odd to us now. that was a powerful fear in the united states in the 19th century. not just the united states. it was a powerful fear in europe, australia, canada. it was a great issue of the 19th century. by the 1920's, some of that fear has persisted, especially in the south. that was mixed up with smith as an immigrant, someone who did not support prohibition, and smith as a catholic. those three things kind of combined to make smith seem like a d

frankland eleanor roosevelt would -- franklin delano roosevelt would say this. those who sample should fix up close hated it. they were not friends of lenin. if you want to undermine the bolshevik government, kill it with kindness. engagement is what we recall this. here is the third unpleasant surprise. when the americans leave, those russians, particularly the ones who worked with the americans in their offices, where suspect. they were vulnerable. the american protectors were seen asand they were having sided with the americans against the soviets. in the great terror of the 1930's and the great trials, the purge trials, that we have documented, several victims of forterror who had worked --this was used against them. they must be spies of some kind. , initiallyet side rally actually celebrated the american relief and tried to be nice about it, tried to be civil about it as long as the americans were there, within a few years, you can see the soviet history books rewriting the history. it really gets completely -- completed under stalin so that the american r

aaron, eun, back to you. >> nicole jacobs on roosevelt island. thank you. >>> we are following breaking news in prince george's county. right now police are investigating a homicide in oxon hill. officers say just after midnight they found a man whoad been shot lying on a sidewalk on kenmont road. he later died at the hospital. so far the victim has not been identified. >>> today metro board chair jack evans could face disciplinary action. >> board members are excted to meet behind closed doors to discuss his future. evans told our partners at wtop 'sat he was not told the nature of executive session. the board's ethics committee has been looking intoevan ths' actions. he was reprimanded earlier for violations of code of conduct. he's said to have used personal e-mail toby lob those who work for the district. >>> the montgomery county council is set to tackle the issues of veofficer-inv shootings and the safety of your child's drinking water. last year the d schoolscovered that the water -- the school system discovered that the water coming from

maybe you could include franklin roosevelt in there, too.ou look at presidents who faced existential challenges. if what they were doing didn't work out, there would go to the republic. the founders faced that existential challenge, and i think it ingrained themselves in our national story, because of their overcoming the challenges they faced. lincoln faced that, and i think you could say franklin roosevelt id, too. so i guessed the last century being the 20th century, maybe roosevelt in terms of the challenges that he faced and overcame. >> from casper, wyoming. mrs. cheney: oh, wow, that's my home. >> heading back there tomorrow. jan gray. rs. cheney, lynne, about is height, he was only 5'4". he was our shortest president, and i want to know when your research did you find that he had any troubles because of that, and especially with regard to his relationships with women? as you know, he didn't get married until he was a lot older, and dolly was 17 years younger than he was. mr. vice president, were to ask you about bald presidents. [lau

roosevelt had to defend himself, his legacy, franklin roosevelt testified in his defense. it's a legal thriller that is a libel base. >> i read it and enjoyed it. and it does read like a novel, congrats and thank you. >> thanks. >>> i want to know what you think, answer the survey question, does president trump actually want to be impeached. i'll give you the results at the end of the hour. what's come in, kathryn, from social media. from facebook, i don't believe he's smart enough to play games with pelosi. you're overthinking it by trying to only liz his behavior. he's a reactor and that was his reaction. kathryn, that's one of the four possibilities, to use w's word that there's no strategiery involved here. >>> as the case against robert kraft has unraveled some may look at his wealth and privilege, now brace yourself, for other reaction. should we yet be appreciative that someone of his forces were able to fight off a case of police overreach? >>> and the question, what percentage of public high school students have special needs that entire extra time to take the tes

president, theodore roosevelt, he come to africa on a hunting expedition on behalf of the smithsonian and what would become the museum of natural history in new york city. members of the party called thousands of specimens, roosevelt himself trapped more than 500 animals including 17 lions, 11 elephants and 20 rhinoceros i many of those animals you can still see today when you visit new york museum of natural history. >> so, the railway is a global story but, nowhere was its impact, economically, culturally and politically more profound in the united states expect to the case of the american railroad , but not to the transcontinental railroad. to the east and midwest the possibility of the railroad are most dramatically so the story , as i imagine you know probably begins in the early national period with debates over the propriety of federal support for internal improvement , initially for turnpikes leader for canals and eventually for railroads. all of these were seen as a central means not only to bind together the territories of the young nation but also to support economic growth

the flipside was that franklin roosevelt needed somebody after the stock market crash to head up thery commission called the securities and exchange commission so he had the brilliant idea of taking a fox and putting a fox among the foxes. he selected joseph kennedy had much of our security regulation today is based on the work that kennedy did setting up securities and exchange commission back then. he was also an ambassador to great britain. if i'm correct the first catholic and deftly the first irish catholic ambassador to great britain. there's a famous scene in his wife's memoir where having arrived there from these two irish catholic families in boston and invited to windsor castle and going up to see this amazing bedroom while they were waiting, changing into clothes to go down and meet the king and queen and he turns to his wife and smiles and said, it's a long way from east boston, isn't it rosie? which captures the spirit of him, he was sort of a bit of a pirate, very proud and a driven man. also someone who was renowned for his extramarital affairs. in hollywood in particu

theodore roosevelt in fourth place in this survey. and that'sac fairly common throughout not only ours, but also other surveys that are done. you won't be surprised to though that the next one in line is franklin roosevelt who's frequently number one, two or three. the fdr biography that we chose tor highlight in our book is doris kerns goodwin's "no ordinaryy times." anybody read that? that's a terrific one. the one on theodore roosevelt's douglas brinkley's book, and it's about his role as the conservation president. for george washington, we chose ron chernow's biography, he won the pulitzer prize for it. and george washington came in second place in ours, 868 points out of a possible 1,000. his lowest score -- and i referenced this before -- is 13th place among the presidents for pursued equal justice for all. we were down at mount vernon on our publication date, and i'm sure many of you have been down to mount vernon, and they've been doing a terrific job over the past couple of decades of telling the whole story of the slaves wh

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you're looking at video from the active scene last night just off of roosevelt island. d.c. fire officials say a witness called to report seeing that suv go intothe water. >> received a call for report of a vehicle in the without here at roosevelt island at the parking lot. law enforcement has interviewed a credible witness who indicated they did see a vehicle go into the water. they described it in some detail. also indication ofo sme tire tracks. >> the u.s. coast guard is trying g in this sear to figure out where that suv might be right now. news4's cory smith will have a live report with theom latest f officials coming up at 5:00. >>> this morning, one american ismong the41 people killed in a superjet crash in russia. the back end. the passenger plane as you see l was al of fire as that plane nded yesterday at a moscow airport. take a lookmo at the video closely here. thick, black smoke filled the sky as fire destroyed thep lane. 37 passengers were able to escape. russian media reports the plane's flight data recorder and a voice records recorder have -- voice rcorder ha

effort on the part of a civil rights activist as well as the support of the first lady, eleanor roosevelt to assure that african- americans were able to be part of the military. martha putney was one of them. the story she told about what she adored and the women endured, they were segregated. they ate in a separate dining room, at least initially. when they used the pool, it was cleaned. they could only use it once a week. it was cleaned after they had their swim. german pows were permitted to go to the club but african-american officers were not. they formed a band, the african- american women. the army decided they did not want the band. i think martha probably reached out to the folks that helped her so much because she said eventually, eleanor roosevelt intervened and they were able to have the band. martha used the g.i. bill. there was a senior fellow at howard as well as various schools on the east coast. she is author of four books. just an extraordinary woman. she is passed away now. after we had dedicated and had programs here, walking up from the metro. i would always see dr. p

>> as you can see there's a huge rescue operati going on here at roosevelt island and first responders are trying to find the suv that went into the water right there behinde about an hour ago. take a look.n you ca see some boats, the u.s. coast guard is here. there's also divers underwater. several witnees say they saw the suv go in about an hour ago but first responders say they have not yet been able to find the suv. it is apparently completely under water. the potomac river is obviously a hu body of water so a lot of cover.ory to it doesn't help that it isy extremelark out here but lots of first responders out here doing everything they can to locate that suv. we have seen the boats going ck and forth. op seems very methodically there's a helicter above. more helicopters getting ready to go in. also boats and life jackets ready to be deployed.o they als have medics standing by waiting to help if they're able to find anybody in that car. it's pretty chill out her so you can only imagine how cold it is in that water as the search for t u suvnder water continues. >> all right, thank y

the flipside of of that was that franklin roosevelt needed somebody, after the stock market crash, to head up the new regulatory commission called the securities and exchange commission. and so he had the brilliant idea of taking a fox, putting a fox among the foxes, , so he selectd joseph kennedy, and much of our securities regulation debate is based on the work that kennedy did that at the securities and exchange commission back then. and you also ambassador to great britain, first, if i'm not incorrect, the first catholic and definitely the first irish catholic ambassador to great britain. there's a famous scene in his wife's memoir where, having arrived there from these two two irish catholic family in boston and then invited to windsor castle and got up to see this amazing bedroom while their waiting, change into close go down to meet the king and queen, and he turns to his wife and he smiles and says, it's a long way from these -- from east boston, isn't it rosy? which captures the spirit of them. he was sort of a bit of a pirate, very proud and the driven man. and also someone

a hundred years later teddy roosevelt did his big infrastructure, the establishment of the national parks, the green infrastructure of america. we had hopes we could give this president an opportunity to have a signature infrastructure initiative to create jobs, to to improve the quality of life and do so much for our country on the ongoing -- not only the jobs created by building but the commerce it would promote. and that included, roads, bridges and mass transit and broadband into rural america and other underserved areas, clean water, waste water, all of the things that have -- the american society of civil engineers said is in the trillions, the deficit we have. couple talking about a billion dollars. for some reason and maybe it was lack of confidence on his part that he really couldn't match the greatness of the challenge that we have, wasn't really respectful of the congress and the white house working together. just took a path. and it just makes me wonder why he did that. in in any event, i pray for the president of the united states and i pray for the united states of america.