secretary of war stanton will issue orders from the president. we do appreciate your opinion, general mcclellan. lincoln and secretary of war stanton also in that order specifying him as commander of the army of the potomac, and before any order took place, he would be ordered to leave 40,000 troops in defense of the washington area. well, what about his plan? with the withdrawal of joe johnston's forces from the northernmost part of virginia, the initial concept that he had, move down the chesapeake bay, bump off of fortress monroe, head up the rappahannock to urbana and move inland probably wasn't going to work as well as he'd hoped it would. because he wasn't going to catch the confederates napping up in northern virginia. so, as i pointed out here, he comes up with a plan two, if you will. they will start the action at fortress monroe and they'll maneuver north from fortress monroe up the peninsula of virginia between the york and the james river as opposed to between the york and the rappahannock. he was going to depend on the u.s. navy to m

stanton was a republican. mcclellan was a -- what was then called a war democrat, someone who was in favor of certainly restoring the union, but not much else. and so they had different political views, different personalities, and stanton did complain, mcclellan always wanted more men and he wanted them yesterday. and so that's why after the failure to take richmond in 1862, mcclellan was ordered to begin shipping his army back up to the washington area and was not reinforced for a second try in richmond. it wouldn't be until grant came in 1864 that richmond would hear cannons just outside its gates once again. >> john mountcastle thank you for taking time and spending with our viewers here on "american history tv." >> i appreciate it. and i appreciate the great questions. >> john mountcastle's nomination once again was george b. mcclellan. he's the fourth out of five historians who will nominate person of the year 1862 here at the library of virginia in richmond, and we will go back in just a moment to hear

it snowed heavily in bluxburg toward stanton, virginia, up to ten inches of snow. charlottesville got six inches. an inch and a half in the area. and the light blue, a dusting to an inch. the dark blue is where they got the heavy of the snow from yesterday. the temperatures are cold. near freezing throughout the region. past 6:00 in the morning, the cloud cover beginning to thin from west to east. as the morning progresses, we'll get increasing sunshine. sunrise at 6:54. breezes are blustery, too. that will settle down later. highs near 50 where there is no snow. lots of sun today. evening planner in ten minutes. danella? >>> good morning. right now it's all about the bridges. i'm checking them for you. they look really good. a live look at the sousa bridge. heading outbound or inbound this morning, volume very clear in this area. not seeing any problems for you. crossing over the 14th street bridge heading into the city, it is smooth sailing. if only every day at rush hour could look this way. what a nicer world we would live in. can't have it that way. the memori

>> reporter: stephanie stanton, nbc news, los angeles. >> his classic signoff.e'll be missed by so many people. >>> still to come at 5:00, a new job makes history in the east bay. we'll tell you about the notable promotion today. >>> plus a massive birth control recall. what you need to know about the potential real life side effects. >>> and is it the smart meter solution? after thousands of complaints, there's a new plan just approved for peopleit w h health concerns about those controversial smart meters. >>> starting tonight, paramedics in santa clara county will start doing something new to help heart attack patients not only survive but have much better recoveries. i'll have that story for you coming up. >>> good afternoon, i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. a little bit of sunshine after a few showers this morning. the system starting to pass off to the east. that's going to mean warming, not only for the south bay with wew 60s but also into the eastb. bolkl ut awe o'll lk aboutur o r fog coming up in just a few minutes. ♪ going to the b

but the other was his superior, edwin stanton. so perhaps i will leave it this way. the next day after i saw those documents from the war department, i sent a short note to secretary stanton which read, dear sir, public considerations of the high character constrain me to inform you that your resignation as secretary of war will be accepted. dear sir, public considerations of high character make me inform you i will not resign the office until congress comes back into session. knowing at the time he believed he was already protected by the ten-year office law. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. u'

stephanie stanton, nbc news, graham, washington. >>> other news today the u.s. announced it is shutting down its embassy in syria amid the growing violence. the move puts pressure on syrian president bashar al assad to step aside. hundreds kill over the weekend bringing the total number of deaths 5,000 since the uprising began 11 months ago n an interview with nbc, president obama said assad has to go but he doesn't want to use force like they did in libya. >> i think it is very important for us to try to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention and i think that's possible. >> on the issue of iran, president obama says he does not believe israel will launch a missile strike on suspected nuclear sites answered does believe iranian leaders can be forced to back down through sanctions. coming up, nightly news will have more on the escalating crisis in syria, including the options and the risks for the u.s. >>> are they bowing down? still to come here at 5:00, two major bay area companies giving into pressure from india what is behind the move

but the other was his superior edwin stanton. perhaps i will leave it this way. the next day after i saw those documents from the war department, i sent a short note to secretary stanton which read dear, sir, public considerations of high character constrain me to inform you that your resignation as secretary of war will be accepted. may i tell you what he said in response? dear sir, public considerations of a high character constrain me to inform you that i will not resign the office until congress comes back into session. knowing at the time he believed he was already protected by the tenure of office law. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. you're welcome. all right. >> for more information about the andrew johnson national historic site, visit their website at nps.gov/anjo. and to learn more about tours with historian and author richard norton smith, go to presidents and patriots.com. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >>> brown university history professor gordon wood is the author of several books on america's founding fa

inches south of stanton, virginia, in augusta county.emperatures in the 20s. just near 30 in montgomery county. near freezing in prince george's, arlington, fairfax counties now above freezing. 37 at reagan national. and it's -- clearing out now to our west. the cloud cover is thinning out. still a few lingering flurries north and south of washington. but that's going to be moving quickly. sunrise at 6:54. we'll have sunshine by later this morning. and during the afternoon, should be a nice, sunny day. where there's no snow on the ground, ought to climb to around 50 degrees. where there is snow, only going to reach to 40 or so. that will be melting through the day. the winds gusting to 20 miles per hour will diminish overnight tonight. and by dawn on tuesday, we'll be down into the upper 20s and low 30s. a cold start tomorrow morning. and then we'll have clouds building by the afternoon. partly cloudy, highs around 50. milder weather on wednesday and thursday. around 60 both wednesday and thursday. morning lows in the 30s to near 40. the

stanton. he's a new hire today. this is pam kahanic.'s going to get you going on the machine and start showing you. you want to walk this way? >> thanks to his good behavior, stanton has just been approved for a job in the garment factory, one of the highest paid inmate positions in the prison. >> first thing you have to know is the right side of the fabric. >> they've changed this place around a lot. do a lot of lockdown around here now. kind of get you out of the cell a little bit. feel a little bit more normal. >> where we work, we're in close contact with them all every day. they're around you. you just can't avoid that. >> not too straight. >> that's all right. >> it's a different story for jerry weir. >> the last time we saw jerry he just finished a term in segregation and was lobbying to move back in with his former cellie. five days later he was back in segregation. >> his class one write-up was for dealing dangerous drugs, which came from him passing off his medication to another offender. >> weir traded his medications for a m

stephanie stanton has the latest. >> reporter: when police removed the bodies of josh and his two youngfrom the burned out home, investigators found a hatchet at the scene. preliminary autopsy results revealed powell and the boy s died from smoke inhalation. but the boys also suffered hatchet wounds to their head and neck. >> this was not a tragedy, it was a horrible murder of two little kids. >> reporter: powell used ten gallons of gasoline to soak the home. he also got rid of the boys toys. >> he had taken boxes of toys and books and donated them to the good will sometime over the weekend. this is a planned out event. >> reporter: neighbors left sfwlaurs and stuffed dois at the scene of the deadly fire. the boys grandparent who is had been locked in a bitter custody battle with josh powell said they feared josh may harm the children. >> i was concerned about how this first visitation would go, especially after he had lost custody for six months. >> reporter: it's been a two-year ordeal in the search for their daughter. police labeled josh a person of interest in susan's disappearance.

nbc news consultants duane stanton, retired homicide detective from washington, d.c., investigated chandra levy's murder. and yolanda mcclairy, crime scene investigator in las vegas and a model for the character on the hit series "csi." >> so we're heading out of the marriott -- >> reporter: our team retraced the couple's route starting at the marriott where gary and robyn stayed on beautiful palm beach. and then they drove south on the island toward baby beach, the area where robyn was last seen. driving past mile after mile of beautiful beaches, our investigators wondered why robyn and gary, who only planned to be in aruba for three full days, would drive all this distance to go to a beach. >> that sure seemed like a long time to get here. >> more than 18 miles and it took approximately an hour. >> reporter: next stop? rum reef, that beachside bar where robyn and gary had lunch and the last place robyn was seen alive. our team had watched the security video showing the couple arriving the afternoon of august 2nd at 3:07 p.m. then, almost an hour later, gary going out to the rental car, p

stephanie stanton reports. >> reporter: when police removed the bodies of josh and his two young sons from the burned out home. investigators found a hatchet at the scene. preliminary autopsy results revealed that powell and the boys died from smoke inhalation. the boys also suffered hatchet wounds to the head and neck. >> this was something evil, let's not refer to this, please, in public as a tragedy. this was not a tragedy, this was a horrible murder of two little kids. >> reporter: a carefully planned murder, police say in which powell used ten gallons of gasoline to soak the home. he also got rid of the boys toys. >> he had taken boxes of toys and books and donated them to the goodwill sometime over the weekend. this is a deliberate, planned out event. >> reporter: neighbors left flowers and stuffed stois at the scene of a deadly fire. the boys grandparents who had been locked in a bitter custody battle with josh powell said they feared josh may harm the children. >> i was concerned how this first visitation would go. >> reporter: it's been a two-year ordeal in the search for the

clinton stanton was found there with multiple gun wounds in the stomach.anyone with information is asked to call police. >>> good news for frequent fliers. traveling through vwi getting through security may be a lot faster thanks to a new program that the airport will take part in later on this year. derek valcourt explains how works and who's eligible, derek. >> reporter: tsa officials really call this a good year. essentially they say if you sign up and give them information about yourself ahead of time in return, you get to go through a sort of security express lane. there's no way around airport security. >> it's a pain in the neck. >> reporter: but the tsa wants to make that pain a little more bearable. frequent fliers will be able to sign up ahead of time for a prescreening background check. those who pass won't have to wait in those long tsa lines and won't have to take off their shoes, jackets and belts when they go through security. >> so this is all voluntary. if you are a frequent flier, you fly 200,000 miles a year, you want to be considered fo

as stephanie stanton reports, it appears it was a suicide. ♪ soul train, soul train >> reporter: it washe first tv dance show to prominently feature african-americans and played a critical role in bringing soul and r & b music to mainstream america. >> and to this day, they are still going as strong as ever. >> reporter: "soul train" creator don cornelius died of an apparent suicide early this morning. police responded to reports of gunfire around 4 a.m. at his mulholland drive home. when they arrived, they found the 75-year-old with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. he was pronounced dead about an hour later at a los angeles area hospital. "soul train" was won one of the longest running syndicated shows in television history. cornelius hosted from 1971 to 1993 and was instrumental in offering wider exposure to black musicians like james brown, aretha franklin and michael jackson. >> he brought so much. he brought a different light to television. he brought, you know, just a different aspect to generation. he has changed generation. he changed the marketing of how we view tv now. >> r

as stephanie stanton reports, like his show, cornelius was legendary. ♪ soul train, soul train ♪ ♪ >> it was the first tv dance show to prominently feature african-americans and played a critical role in bringing soul and r & b music to mainstream america. >> and to this day, they are still going as strong as ever. >> reporter: "soul train" creator don cornelius divide an apparent suicide early this morning. police responded to reports of gunfire around 4 a.m. at his mulholland drive home. when they arrived, they found the 75-year-old with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. he was pronounced dead about an hour later at a los angeles area hospital. "soul train" was wong one of the longest running syndicated shows in television history. cornelius hosted from 1971 to 1993 and was instrumental in offering wider exposure to black musicians like james brown, aretha franklin and michael jackson. >> i was very happy that "soul train" came on. >> "soul train" was a scene, man. you got the dancers. you have these celebrities, these artists that would come out, too and it was a big party. >> re

duty searching some of hernandez' old addresses spotted him in a car at castro valley boulevard and stanton avenue. police say he surrendered without incident. neighbors say they are released for himself and ex-girlfriend. >> thank god they caught him. thank god but the lady is not here. and i hope she get it is news that she's already caught. it makes a relief for this neighborhood. >>> police say at this hour hernandez is being held in the hayward city jail on $110,000 warrant that was issued. robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> police in the last hour released a time line of the events last saturday night. they say at 8:45, peter suco reported a trespasser on her property. at 9:02, officers received a call of an attack in progress. police say officers were dispatched within one minute. >> we would like to avoid this from obviously from ever happening again. we will look at everything and see if there's anything we need to do. >> reporter: 23-year-old daniel dewitt is under arrest for that killing. >>> stocks are inching their way back to the top. take a look at what happened today. th

. >> this how to video is created by trip crosby and tyler stanton from don't be that guy films. >> ifersized nfl jersey, don't. the guy who really wants you to know he played high school football and tivo at inappropriate times and conversation with the small talk guy. >> damn busy. oh, yeah. >> you see they say if you get roped into the small talk conversation guy and they show us, but they don't tell us what to do. >> how to behave. >> where is the help? >> how do you get out of that? >> we all know that. >> the etiquette on how to get out of those conversations. >> let's come up with a solution then. >> i think you can get out of that by maybe picking up a cocktail and saying hot, hot, hot and run away. >> you fake the phone ringing thing. it's on vibrate. you are, like, oh, wait. i got to take it. >> you know what, my nose is bleeding, i got to run to the bathroom. >> i need to make sure that there's enough dip. >> ask a lot of questions. >> hey. >> are you doing a best -- >> i had an ex-girlfriend that i can say that yellow line was on the field. >> like two guys rolled it out li

look at stanton, virginia, 60 degrees, 58, fredericksburg. most areas will see temperatures rise by five to ten degrees by midnight tonight. they will rise another ten degrees by this time tomorrow afternoon. we will talk about your complete forecast, a bumpy one, have it for you coming up in a minute. >>> now to the severe weather in the midwest, at least nine people are dead after a series of storms ripped across parts of the midwest overnight there are reports of at least 16 tornado sightings from nebraska and kansas to missouri, illinois and kentucky. taking a look at our super screen now, this is one of the funnel clouds spotted in central kansas. storms tore through the central and eastern part of the state injuring a dozen people. half of the homes were damaged or destroyed in the town of harveyville that town right now has no gas service. >>> another suspected tornado pounded southern missouri, hitting the country music resort city of branson. more than two dozen people were injured there the storm also damaged some of the city's musi

conservatives can't stanton barack obama, but when will they learn to stand romney prom? even after the white house handed them that huge contraceptives issue, republican voters stayed home in the three primary states this week. turn out was way down from 2008. but conservatives are the big prize. there are many more than before. they have gone from 29% of total voters in 2000 to 34% in 2004 and 2008. look at this. they now represent 39% of the people in the polls. the bad news for mitt romney, he is getting only 17% of conservatives, one in six. at the meeting in washington this week -- >> i am convinced if we do our job, if we lead with conviction and integrity, that history will record the obama presidency as the last gasp of liberalism's great failure. >> john, this losing 3-3, saying he might lose one, then he might lose two, strike out, all three. then you see all these discussions about cultural issues where he seems out to lunch. what does he know about bishops and these social issues? he wants to talk about equity and money. >> coming out of florida, that was sup

stephanie stanton reports from graham, washington. >> reporter: firefighters sift through the rubble of the home where police say josh powell set off an explosion that killed himself and his two young sons. >> it was definitely a gas boom. >> reporter: the house went up in flames sunday moments after the boys arrived with a social worker for their scheduled visit. police say powell opened the front door, let the children in, but blocked the social worker from entering. moments later the smell of gas then fire raged through the home. >> we believe he intentionally started a fire because there was a scheduled visitation. >> reporter: moments before the blast josh sent his lawyer a three-word e-mail saying "i'm sorry, good-bye." it is the latest twist in the two-year saga in the search for susan cox powell, josh's wife who disappeared in december of 2009. police labeled him a person of interest in her disappearance but he was never charged. josh had been locked in a bitter custody battle with susan's parents who were given custody of the boys last september after josh's father steven wa

that is just to the south of stanton, virginia. they got ten inches. meanwhile charlottesville got six inches of snow and then over towards the fredericksburg they got one to two inches there and dusting to about an inch in the light blue zone. about an inch of snow fell in charles county. half-inch fell around mt. vernon and at reagan national, they had a trace of snow there last night. but areas to the north, just a few flurries. right now we are climbing into the upper 30s to near 40. 41 now at reagan national. later today it will continue to climb and as we look at the view from space over the last 12 hours, those clouds from that storm have quickly exited to the east and as a result we've got a blue sky with bright sunshine for the rest of the afternoon. temperatures climbing into the 40s to around 50 degrees. still a bit of a blustery wind out of the north and west. details on the rest of the week and weekend in just a couple of minutes. >> doesn't feel like the middle of february, does it? >> it won't in a couple of days either. >> thanks a lot,

hagerstown, no, south through charles county across 95 and back into the i- 81, i-64 corridor around stanton and charlottesville and roanoke. so that looks to be the bull's eye right now, just south of town. we'll see some snow in the metro area, but we won't be in the bull's eye. here's the deal. here's the moisture. it's kind of disorganized now, but it will eventually consolidate and become a pretty well formed organized low pressure in the gulf of mexico as we get into saturday. then it begins to north northeastward into alabama and off the coast of north carolina by sunday night. right now we have clear skies, clear skies tonight, early tomorrow. then some of these high clouds will come in saturday afternoon, but it's still going to be a very nice day saturday. 45 bethesda, 43 college park and beltsville, 47 springfield and reston, 46 sterling and herndon and 45 in leesburg. so it's just chilly outside, but that's not bad for february. more like a march storm and i say that because it's going to be warm before and after the storm. it's not going to last long. grab a coat tonight, still

mcclellan then sent a telegram up to edwin stanton at the war department saying that he has absolutely no information in detail of the country to our front and we are trying to simply grope our way. please send ten topographical engineers to my headquarters right away. and my nominee as man of the year has been criticized for not moving faster up the peninsula. i want you to take just a second. take a look at this. he wasn't getting much help from the local population. union officers were already writing home about the confederate soldiers are not too much of a problem. the confederate women are hard. they're difficult to deal with. they threw stones at us as we marched through williamsburg. think about this. no adequate roads. poor maps. awful weather. how could he have moved much faster? and yet despite all these challenges, by the end of may, they're just outside richmond. you've all heard the anecdote about being so close when the wind is coming from the west they could hear the church bells chiming the time in richmond. not altogether certain that's right. but they were pretty clo

and covers hagertown, martinsburg, winchester back towards stanton. wide radar, these are all tornado watch boxes and all this is heading our way. so again it's going to get worse before it gets better. we'll give you the time frame and let you know if that will affect how march comes in, like a lamb or lion? >>> reaction is starting to pour in on our facebook page tonight to a story we told you about at 5:00. this is the ad posted inside the clarendon metro station that's getting all the uproar. it reads barack obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control america's entire medical system. go to hell, barack. we are told it's an advertisement for a documentary film on healthcare, but tonight congressman jim moran wants it taken down. sent an e-mail earlier calling the ad offensive and disrespectful. metro said its advertising is a public forum protected by the first amendment. in the last hour we received a second e-mail from congressman moran who is disappointed with metro's response. he writes the ad should be removed because it's not political

this is going to be coming in toward virginia, down towards stanton and charlottesville here over the next 60 to 90 minutes. temperatures have dipped into the 30s in many areas. we're holding on to 40 right now with winchester and culpeper 39. it's 32 in cumberland. they might see some sleet for a few minutes but this is going to be a rain event. we have temperatures of 39 in sterling and 39 in springfield. columbia is down to 36. upper marlboro down to 35. and outside on our michael & son weather camera, no problems yet but skies are mostly cloudy with a temperature of 40 with a light wind out of the southeast at 3. but this is a big, big storm in the middle of the country. there's another big storm on the west coast but we're going to focus on this one because while we've got the snow to the north, we've got the moderate rain, batch one here. you see the second line coming through missouri into the tornado -- missouri with a tornado watch this morning. this clears us maybe by 10:00 tonight so that tomorrow it's going to be a breezy and warm day. we'll struggle to get into the mid-50

appeared on television and i never knew until one day on an airplane i was sitting next to frank stanton of cbs and he told me that they had it, great pressure from the white house and state department, to hold up until they had a chance to confer with the russians and tell them what we were going to do. >> the next picture please, jason? tanya, you were in another part of the house at the time of the debate, right? you were in the model house. >> the house was split in two, so they didn't come through it they stood at the front of it. >> we cut it in half, 20 and 20 feet. >> what strike me here, this is a little bit of an aside, hope you give me the moment to say this, normally if you have an american or let's say anybody's home, in the sense we had invited khrushchev to come to our house, we worked very hard to put this together, and it's quite unusual when you have say a guest, a head of state come, to then turn darned and barrage you with every accusation you don't have this, this is not true, he was really pretty gauche, you saw it here, and i often thought why he would do this, it

quarter of its value their share and its financial system is doomed this stands up with a survey by stanton and poor saying the troubled year is i will climb out of the crisis the wealthy although of the best seller extreme money such. as what he thinks of the findings well i think the best way to describe the s. and p. report is whatever they're smoking i'd like to have some as far as the sex a bank report goes i think they are believers in the mayan calendar which believes that the world will indeed do palace trouble but i think the major thing is that when you look at the situation there is no way that europe is going to have a small recession it's going to have a long recession because the government spending will have to be cut and that has been the major stimulus which could be as economies grow the second thing is the banking system in most of these countries is not creating any credit will not be able to create this technically if you are honest about it they are marginally solvent good bets and we still have not result in the debt issue and the real question is what will happen to

down toward charlottesville, stanton, virginia, that area had four to ten inches of snow. but it's all ending now. just a few lingering flurries north and west. we still have a mostly cloudy sky. but here's your day planner. we'll have increasing sunshine. sun breaking out by mid morning. we'll have these gusty winds, too, coming in out of the north and west, gusting to around, oh, 25 to 28 miles per hour. then we'll have highs reaching the upper 40s to near 50 where there's no snow. and where there is snow, only around 40 for a high. overnight, clear, chilly, down into the upper 30s by midnight. a look at the week and weekend in ten minutes. how's traffic? >>> still looking really good in our area. happy president's day to you. traveling along i-95, we'll take a look now. very good. ing in but green making your way from dale city and head toward the beltway. a live look now at prince william parkway, no issues here as you travel northbound. i'll give you a travel speed. making your way, actually -- this is 395, making your way from the beltway to the 14th street bridge, y

hagerstown, 29, winchester at 27, stanton, virginia, 26. a cold start there as well as in the mountains, upper 20s to near 30 degrees. over the last 12 hours, we've had a mostly clear night. we have some clouds on the increase coming in. we're not going to see much sun. a little sun this morning. our sunrise is at 7:06. here's your day planner for this friday. we'll have increasing clouds through the morning hours, going partly to mostly cloudy by noontime. all cloudy during the afternoon. and it's going to be chilly. afternoon highs in the upper 40s to near 50 degrees. then it does look like tonight some precipitation begins to move in. we'll look at your friday evening planner, and that will be coming up in ten minutes. danella, how's traffic? >>> looking really good in our area. good morning, happy friday to you. if you're taking 66 westbound at nutley, construction's on the left side of the roadway. got to stick to the right to get by. it will last until 6:00 a.m. this morning. traveling i-270, no issues there. in fact, germantown, 65 m

let me share with you what roll call's john stanton writes, once again it appears speaker john boehner may have overestimated his willingness to support one of his legislative packages and finding himself forced to scrap plans for a grand transportation and energy bill. now, this legislation which now will be broken into those three smaller parts we talked about a moment ago done so in hopes of salvaging the energy portion of the bill at least and i'm getting a lot of contention and debate on capitol hill even from conservative republicans, meanwhile, senator harry reid also critical of the process on the other side of the chamber, he spoke to reporters earlier -- actually he spoke on the senate floor earlier in the day about the house approach to this legislation. >> the house of representatives led by the republican caucus which is overwhelmingly tea party, they decided they were going to do some legislation. now, that is a dandy. their legislation is so bad that the congressional budget office said it would bankrupt the trust fund. we're trying to replenish the trust fund, they're b

edwin stanton did not want these people to be made martyrs of. confederacy had just fallen. d.c. was a southern city and so close to virginia. he was worried if the bodies were returned to their families they would become martyrs and the graves would become these sites of tribute. he did not want that to happen. he wanted this to be over. he wanted an example to be made of them. and he wanted the country to move on. so that sort of wraps up this level. and, of course, mary surratt was the first woman to ever be executed by the federal government. and to this day, there's a lot of controversy over how guilty or innocent she was. so after the assassination of abraham lincoln, mary had a long and difficult journey before she finally made it to springfield, illinois, where she lived with her sister until her death. initially she stayed in the white house, actually longer than she should have. she just wasn't ready to move. and andrew johnson was very understanding and forgiving of this and just waited until she was ready to move out of the white house. she was very worried about not

edward stanton did not want these people to be made martyrs of. confederacy had just been fallen and he was worried that if they were returned that they would become matters and these grave sites would become tributes. he did not want this to happen. he wanted this to be over, an example made of them and the country to move on, so that sort of wraps up this level. and, of course, mary surratt was the first woman to ever be executed by the federal government and to this day lot of controversy over how guilty or insoenlt she was. after that mary had a long and difficult journey before she finally made it to springfield, illinois, where she lived with her sister until her death. inish will she stayed in the white house actually longer than she should have. she just wasn't ready to move. and andrew johnson was very understanding and forgiving of this and just waited until she was ready to move out of the white house. she was very worried about not having enough money to live on and so she tried to sell some of her dresses which led to a lot of publis

judge advocate general who had been responsible for the trial, but the other was his superior, edwin stanton. so perhaps i will leave it this way. the next day after i saw those documents from the war department, i sent a short note to secretary

bill stanton's here at the break. >>> and capitol hill grill.neral goes before congress to answer questions about a botched gun-walking program that armed dangerous criminals. >> have you, to your knowledge, disciplined anyone from wide receiver? >> no, i have not. um -- >> have you dispalinned anyone from fast and furious? >> no, i've not as yet. as yet. megyn: little baby lisa irwin missing now since october, and now her parents are speaking out again in an interview that is scheduled to air tomorrow on the dr. phil show. here's a promo. >> an all-new dr. phil. missing since october -- >> i want to know why baby lisa hasn't been found. >> the parents under suspicion. >> you thought they did it. >> yes. >> now, the exclusive interview. >> her parents have not spoken out in three months. >> to answer all the accusations. >> you think they jumped to conclusions about you -- >> there was just people making outright lies. >> were you told that you failed a lie detector test? >> i was told that. >> what happened that night? >> you did not mention th

bill stanton who works for the benefactor.e says that one of the big pieces of news to come out in the interview is that the irwin family attorney says police told him that debra did not fail a lie detector test. that that was not true. whether they told her that or not. they say she never failed a lie detector test. is that your information as well? >> that's a classic police interrogation technique. we see it in the cases we defend on a day-to-day basis and that's my understanding of what happened here. megyn: the other thing that's coming up in the dr. phil interview, she said the story was a total exaggeration. their report that when jeremy came home, he had been working late at night. debra says she was asleep. he comes home and sees the lights on in the house and the baby was gone. now she is saying that was a total exaggeration. what does that mean? >> it's not unlike any kind of fender-bender where there is a little bum and run and you ask three people what happened and you get three different answers. in my business i