. >> steve fogle was our guest talking about the war of 1812. he is a national reporter with "the washington post" and has also written a book called the pentagon a history. 20,258,538,890 for those in the east and west time soon. to discuss the war fet 125-85-3891 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zone. steve fogle, what are the six weeks that you concentrate on through the perilous fight? >> this is a period in august and september of 1814 when the british army troops arrive from europe. they've been sent as reinforcements to the british royal navy squadron which has been doing quite a bit of damage in the chesapeake bay for the better part of the year but the reinforcements arrived in over the course of the next six weeks in committee would land to maryland and capture the capitol of the united states and then launch an attack on baltimore which at the time as the third largest city of the nation and as a very precarious moment in american history where the united states future would look like. >> how did they get in the white hous