we are the country of andrew jackson, ulysses s grant and frederick douglass. we are the land of wild bill hickok and buffalo bill cody, we are the nation that gave rise to the wright brothers, the test kiki airman, harriet tubman, clara barton, jesse owens, george patton, general george patton, the great louis armstrong, alan shepard, elvis presley, mohammed ali, and only america could have produced them all, no other place. we are the culture that put up the hoover dam, laid down the highways, sculpted the skyline of manhattan, we are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream called las vegas in the nevada desert, who built up miami from the florida marsh and carved our heroes into the face of mount rushmore. americans harnessed electricity, split the atom and gave the world the telephone and the internet, we settled the wild west, won two world wars, landed american astronauts on the moon and one day very soon we will plant our flag on mars. we gave the world the poetry of walt whitman, the stories of mark twain, the songs of irving berlin, the voice of ell

ron: i'm doing ulysses s. grant.but you're right in the middle of this trying to live in these different centuries. how hard is it? ron: extremely hard because mornings and afternoons during the week, i'm in the civil war in reconstruction, so i'm in the 19th century. then nights and weekends with the show back in the 18th century. occasionally, when i come up for air, i'm in the early 21st century, but only occasionally, and i find usually because my books are very long and they are packed with information that when i finish a book, brian, usually, there's a delete button in my mind that just wipes out the whole book. it's like my mind is tired of having sustained all of these information, whereas i have not only had to keep the entire ulysses s. grant book suspended in my mind, but because of the show of hamilton and even washington, so sometimes, i feel like my brain is bursting with these books that my mind is crying for release. brian: when will you finish the grant book and when will it be released to the publi

mobs in the middle of the night, they tear down the statue like they did of ulysses s. grant of that time without any regard to what they did or didn't do or any sense of history. you have leaders like bill de blasio her just incompetent wanting to tear down statues of thomas jefferson in the city council chamber in new york or teddy roosevelt. so you're right, the way to do it is through proper channels, not mob rule in the middle of the night. >> julie: meantime president trump said, richard, that he will veto a more than $700 billion defense bill if it includes an amendment that would rename confederate named military bases. your thoughts. >> this is once again the problem with the leadership of the president. take one of the bases, formed bragg in north carolina, named after braxton bragg. a civil were federal. why would rename a military base that would present the best of america after someone who was a traitor to america and wanted american troops to die during the civil war? it sent that a call to where r is a country. >> julie: ten seconds, matt, final word. >> we sh

in fact, we see many of those officers actually have roles and occupied positions within ulysses s. grant's administration. we are looking at the american flag of the united states. this flag is from the american civil war. that this flagas actually hung in jefferson davis's cell to remind him on a daily basis of the crimes he had committed against his former federal government. the history of jefferson davis is a very complex one, and one that here at the casemate museum try to look at all aspects of. this cell is probably one of the most important are the facts from jefferson davis's incarceration here at fort monroe. it is from behind this very door that he would look out and realize that the american civil war was over and that the confederacy was no longer part of the historic narrative of the united states. we have taken you on a tour of the casemate museum all the way through the civil war, but there is so much more to see. in the early 20th century, fort monroe becomes a very important training ground for the military. it is here that almost every artillerist was trained. this fort

zero understanding of history when you take the statue of matthias baldwin and john whittier and ulysses s grant. there seems to be a lack of understanding and historical knowledge. remembering victims of all crimes against humanity. >>

of course, the statue of ulysses s. grant is something that one sees similar statues of throughout washington, all the circles in washington have been populated about the same time with civil war union generals. let's look first at some of the issues that had been arising not only in america but elsewhere about how we tell our history, what kind of history artists have made for us, monuments that speak to the world of identity, often national identity, and one of the biggest controversies that has erupted in recent years has to do with confederate monuments. this is silent sam, the confederate statue raised up on the pedestal at the entrance to the university of north carolina at chapel hill, erected in 1913. it has been there for many , many decades and it has been controversial since the 1960's or 1970's, but no big deal was made about it. however, in recent years, because of certain police and confederate activities, the monument has taken a new aspect. it is no longer simply a statue of a confederate soldier. it is a symb

s. grant. >> stephen: okay, so he got the name ulysses s. grant wrong, but in all fairness, he does root for the other side. but trump finished strong. if by strong, you mean frail. because this is how he exited the stage after his speech. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now we know why he launched his 2016 campaign coming down an escalator. if it'd been a ramp, he'd still be coming down. but you can't blame the guy. any time he's around the military those damn bone spurs act up. and i know it sounds like we added that music to make the clip seem more comical, but i promise you we didn't. that's actually what the band played as trump hobbled down a gradual incline. if we'd picked the music, it would have been this: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now, trump's a senior citizen, so of course he walks slowly. and it would be pretty immature to waste time weighing in on this. which is why trump weighed in on this, tweeting, "the ramp that i descended after my west point commencement speech was very long and steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. the last thing i was g

i think that there was a conversation to be had about people like ulysses s. grant. an abolitionist and married into a family where he fought against their slave-owning. so i think that there is a great conversation to have, but to defund the cities at a time where the economy is in a deep recession, it is just off wrong move by leader mccarthy. >> harris: all right. two seconds left, jason. >> i think it's important that the government take control of what is going on. this is american history. we should learn the good, the bad, the ugly, and we shouldn't be allowing this cultural revolution to erase our history. >> dana: jason and ethan, nice to see you both. thanks everybody for watching this hour of "outnumbered overtime." "the daily briefing" starts right now. >> dana: here is a live look at the white house where press secretary kayleigh mcenany is set to begin any moment. hello, everyone, i am dana perino, and this is "the daily briefing." ♪ so, we will get to the briefing as soon as it starts, but let's start with this. new information on the beating of severa

we are the country of andrew jackson, ulysses s grant, and frederick douglass. the nation that gave rise to the wright brothers, the tuskegee airmen, harriet tubman, clara barton, jesse owens, general george patton. the great louis armstrong. alan shepard, elvis presley, and muhammad ali. and only america could have produced them all. no other place. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are the culture that put up the hoover dam, laid down the highways, sculpted the skyline of manhattan. we are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. it was called las vegas in the nevada desert. who built up miami from the florida marsh. who carved our heroes into the face of mount rushmore. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. we settled the wild west, won two world wars, landed american astronauts on the moon, and one day very soon we will plant our flag on mars. pres. trump: we gave the world the poetry of walt whitman, the stories of mark twain, the songs of irving berlin.

we are the country of andrew jackson, ulysses s grant, and frederick douglass. wright brothers, the tubman, airmen, harriet clara barton, jesse owens, general george patton. armstrong.ouis alan shepard, elvis presley, and muhammad ali. america could have produced them all. no other place. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are the culture that put up the hoover dam, laid sculpted theways, skyline of manhattan. we are the people who dreamed spectacular -- a spectacular dream. it was cold las vegas and then -- called las vegas in the nevada desert. who carved our heroes into the face of mount rushmore. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. we settled the wild west, won landed american astronauts on the moon, and one day very soon we will plant our flag on mars. [cheers and applause] gave the world the poetry of walt whitman, the stories of mark twain, the songs of irving berlin. fitzgerald, ella thestyle of frank sinatra, ofedy of bob hope, the power the saturn five

destructive behavior when you're pulling down the christopher columbus statue when you're pulling down ulysses s. grant for example in san francisco it's clear this is not about symbols of slavery so while i think the anger and the urgency is completely legitimate i do wish people would follow a process to have that conversation because otherwise not only doesn't it further the debate it's just a chaotic removal of history and almost by definition no one feels good about that and finally how you doing during the pandemic. we're doing well i have 6 kids and frankly the biggest challenge was navigating them through the school process only to find themselves in a summer with no camps or other things but. i feel really fortunate that we're all happy and healthy alex always great talking to you and thank you for your time thanks larry talks in. thank you audience for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politicking hash tag that's all for this edition of politicking. my youngins in my view

for those who may be watching a grant miniseries on the history channel, grantsode two, ulysses s watches an african-american labor take a gun and shoot it -- , a whiteonfederate soldier. you see in grant's eyes this is the way of the future. in fact grant did not think it was a great idea first, to welcome african americans into his army. his chief lieutenant, william sherman, did not like the idea. , who was notide taken as seriously as those two at that time, did not like the idea. and general mcclellan, police on a tent with lincoln, in october of 19 -- 1862, four months after the petition, tells lincoln, my folks are going to fight to restore the union but do not expect us to fight for black freedom. shows how long it had to atto get the racist military that point. douglas helps. and he is very much a art of our second object, recruitment broadside written by frederick douglass. what was this, the significance of this broadside? and where did it first appear? douglass has a monthly, which is always a little behind the times. he is admonishing lincoln in his september issue, september

social media over the toppling of these slave owning idols it's apparently the removal of the ulysses s. grant statue was just a line too far for some people ignoring the fact that grant despite helping the when the civil war didn't fact own slaves and presided over a particularly horrific chapter of physical and cultural genocide against native americans a leftist hero he is not. and while the toppling racist flags do make for great corporate news and social media spectacles they represent just a fraction or dare i say an easy distraction from the real work that still needs to be done to destroy the institutional racism and economic injustices that gripped the united states of america real work like the kind the black labs matter activists and deep on the police proponents are doing right now just outside city hall in new york city the occupy city hall protesters have taken over the city hall park with the new york times noting that what started on a patch of lawn in a few square feet has now taken over most of the park and drawn extensive attention across social media they have one goal and

the battle of shiloh probably should have been a confederate route that ended the career of ulysses s grant before it really matured. there was a surprise attack from which the union was unprepared. and a total route. somehow the union rallied and held back a total route on that first day and lived to fight another day. grant famously turned to the shore meant and said let's get them tomorrow. and they did. to maintain the secrecy of battlefield instructions, but don't ensure they are the right instructions. it is still left to the human brain and technical and strategic skills to win a battle. he no doubt has hit own codes and his good vision. monitorhe wreck of the ever recovered? if so, where is it displayed? >> there's a little of that. the ship was followed by many monitors, but the original was pretty famous. it was never tremendously seaworthy. it stayed very close to shore. instead it was dispatched to a famous graveyard for naval vessels. and new year's day 1862. just nine months after it became the most famous ship in the union navy. it saint off of cape hatteras. years,t remained

protesters knocked on the statue of former president and civil war general ulysses s. grant. man climbs onto the pedestal of the statue and dumps a bucket of red paint on the head of christopher columbus. the other man's repeats the word before his feet. >> tucker: it's all of this is happening. the war on our history and all of it is supposedly justified by the concern over black lives. is it real? well we can measure that actually. it has been enormously and unusually destructive to black lives. in the city of chicago there have been at least 9 90 murdersn the past month and that's an annual pace of more than a thousand. shootings in new york have doubled compared to this time a year ago. kansas city is on pace to crush its all-time murder record. how many black lives have been lost? no one keeps track. you don't expect to see a blm march demanding justice for these lies because we can't leave their lives don't matter to black lives matter. political analyst brit hume has been following and we are happy to have him tonight. look at these numbers, each one an american dead a

leaning on the tree on the right-hand side, is, a little bit, he looks a little too much like ulysses s grant. [laughter] if you look at his field cap, it is too much of a coincidence. so maybe shell put that in as a little joke, and inside joke. here they are, and by the way, when jefferson davis heard about this, he was furious. why would my people become for that wonderful plantation, and the life i provided for them, or where they could labor seven days a week for no pay? an astonishing moment in the history of the civil war. [laughter] valerie: grant, actually. on top of the petition. harold: with the hat, right. grant, he was an informal fellow. and, jefferson davis, who is not an informal fellow, but has abandoned his plantation for "public service," to function as the president of the confederacy. he believed the slaves had no legal right to their freedom. thexpected still that confederacy would win independence and he would petition for ownership. but that is not what happens. a few days after that incident in the drawing, maybe we can look next at the newspaper. valerie: at the -- y

many of those officers actually have roles and occupied positions within your leasees s grant's ulysses s administration. this flag is from the american civil war. this flag was outside his cell on a daily basis to remind him of the crimes he had committed .gainst his government it is behind this very door that he would look out and realize that the american civil war was over and that the confederacy was no longer part of the historic narrative of the united states. tour all the way through the civil war but there is so much more to see. in the early 20th century, fort monroe becomes an important training ground for the military. it is here that a most every artillerist was trained. it would become a defensive position for the chesapeake bay, showing some of the most modern weapons of our time. later, fort monroe would become the center of training and command for the united states army. the rest of the history talks about not only the military history but the social aspects of port comfort here at fort monroe. sociallearn how the aspects of virginia merged with the military aspects of

we are the country of andrew jackson, ulysses s grant, and frederick douglass. we are the land of while bill hickok and -- while bill hook hickock andbill buffalo bill cody. we are the nation that gave rise to the wright brothers, the tuskegee airmen, harriet tubman, clara barton, jesse owens, george patton, general george patton. the great louis armstrong, alan shepard, elvis presley, and muhammad ali. and only america could have produced them all. no other place. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are the culture that put up the hoover dam, laid down the highways, sculpted the skyline of manhattan. we are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. it was called las vegas in the nevada desert. who built up miami from the florida marsh and who carved our heroes into the face of mount rushmore. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. we settled the wild west, won two world wars, landed american astronauts on the moon, and one day very soon we will plant our flag on

zero understanding of history when you take the statue of matthias baldwin and john whittier and ulysses s grant. there seems to be a lack of understanding and historical knowledge. remembering victims of all crimes against humanity. >> good afternoon, everyone. the subcommittee will come to order. this is a bittersweet moment to me. it is my last subcommittee, markup of the state. going to get emotional. i will start again. good afternoon, everyone. the subcommittee will come to order. this is a bittersweet moment for me, as it is my last subcommittee markup of the state bill,reign operations contemplate my retirement at the i ask you toear indulge me in a few reflections. first. the important work of this committee. since world war ii come up aid has been a key component of the united states foreign policy. allocate to the state department, the u.s. agency for international development, and other federal agencies tasked with carrying out american interests and promoting freedom and democracy throughout the world account for only roughly 1% of our federal budget. yet we have made the world heal

ulysses s. grant in san francisco. abraham lincoln at the national mall in washington d.c.rican soldier tribute in boston. abolitionist mathias baldwin in philadelphia. union admiral david fair gut, and the -- farragut, and the list dose -- the list goes on. the street right now is attacking, and in those instances ignorantly so, symbols of the people doing the right thing, working in the midst of great historic, you know, turmoil to do the right thing and succeeding. and they changed history. particularly for african-americans in this country. how could there be a victory in the street given what is right now filling the street, and that is hate? >> well, first of all, you forgot also, there's one you're missing, frederick douglass' statue was defaced as well. lou: right. i'm sure i'm missing a lot of them. >> it's just a matter of time before they'll go after dr. king. remember the 1619 new york times, they did not include dr. king's name, nor frederick douglass' because they believe -- that's why this is not about racial injustice. this is a fight against the integrity a

the confederacy and the confederate flag versus having a conversation about keeping statues to ulysses s grant or frederick douglass statue was attacked, that has no place in what should be going on right now but donald trump is on the side of slavery, on the side of the confederacy, the confederate flag which is a racist symbol and he goes after nascar and bubba wallace, look at the president's twitter feed and what he said about nascar's decision and bubba wallace, lindsey graham had to say nascar made the right call, they are trying to expand their fan base and if you want us to believe trump supporters and americans on the whole are not racist and don't support things like having the confederate flag flying and -- >> hold on a second. >> i watched it, he talks about our heritage which is racist. >> user the president's for slavery, that is something jenna will probably want to answer. >> you have no proof for that and for the president to stand up for our heritage at his mount rushmore speech, to say that our founders were imperfect, they had a perfect vision for a more perfect union and h

never forget the destruction of statues and monuments to george washington, abraham lincoln, ulysses s. grantany others. the violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias and education, journalism and other cultural institutions. >> now the president's appeal went far beyond statues. he characterized the entire social justice movement as essentially a tool to silence dissent going after culture in that speech. as you can see from some of those images people were not socially distancing at that event. they were given masks. they were voluntary to wear and people certainly not staying six feet apart throughout the evening, fred. >> so that is very similar to his tulsa rally, where in that case there were people on his advanced team that pested positive and now a positive covid test for someone who is even closer in the inner circle of the president's sphere. >> reporter: that's right, fred. hitting home for the trumps. kimberly guilfoyle the girlfriend of the president's

targeting ulysses s. grant led the union army but said to own a slave, and francis scott key who wrote the lyrics to "the star spangled banner" but also a slave owner. >> the american museum of natural history in new york city says it will remove a statue of president theodore roosevelt from its front steps, featuring him on the horse with a native american man and african-american man standing on either side of him. >> trevor: ooh wee, there is not a good time to be a statue because at first it felt like only the confederate statues were coming down, but now seems like this is tearing down anything that doesn't move. when i'm waiting to cross the street, i keep moving so no one comes in and tries to rip off my head. i will be honest, the museum saying they are going to take town the teddy roosevelt makes sense because as someone who lives in new york i walked past that statue so many times and every time i thought that is an amazing statue that is also very problematic. show i bet in the '30s, it was considere

it is written in the context of tearing down statues of ulysses s grant and abolitionists and africanmerican veterans of the civil war. that was torn down as well. >> calling into question those mistakes in american history that have been made would be fine, no injection to that. what you see today in american colleges and universities, using federal taxpayer money and hard-earned money paid in the form of tuition to these colleges and universities you see people systematically discriminating against conservative viewpoints against religious viewpoints, any viewpoint that doesn't toe the line of the orthodoxy they have been nurturing for decades and been presenting as irrefutable and non-debatable. universities are supposed to be environment where exchange of ideas can occur, not propaganda. in part using federal funds to do that. shannon: it is a good place to have a debate to challenge your own ideas and the ideas of others and have tough conversations to see what stands up and was doesn't. thanks for being with us, good to see you. he is 24. some say he could be the new face of the

instead of saying let's have confederate fat statues, they start tearing down the union, and ulysses s. grantey are going after "the star-spangled banner," and what's next? mom and apple pie? they alienate themselves from the american majority. >> bret: politically it's tough, susan, for someone like joe biden to wade through all of this hasn't happened in front of us, right? >> i do not hear a serious debate about replacing "the star-spangled banner," and maybe i'm out of touch here but i think it's a fair point about how far do you go when you are looking at generals who took a positive lead to founders. >> in the words of charles krauthammer, i celebrate that that op-ed came out and have such a diversity. i also disagree with it absolutely and that is what we are missing right now, brett. i think the constitution is still fine, it's still the first amendment but our framers potentially never imagined that our institutions including our media would begin to self censor. and that is what is wrong right now. we need to remember what charles krauthammer says, we need to embrace each other's id

i didn't know it have to defend ulysses s grant.idn't think it have to tell you history of the statue and why was so important that african-americans faced up to real african-americans who got this freedom away from lincoln, beginning to rise was so important. i didn't think it have to tell you that george washington was indispensable to our future. i didn't think i'd have to find out why he shouldn't have his hands prayed red in washington part in new york. now i'm scrambling to tell people in the past what really happened and why this doesn't belong in the news and we should be proud of who he was. the only person left would be john adams and alexander hamilton and there in the north and those in the south were born into a system that was dependent on slavery. not good until he looked around and that's what they had. but it doesn't mean you tear apart america as part of our story. they used to say here comes americans with their chest out thinking the american revolves around them. we overcompensated to the point where we walked a

protesters knocked down the statue of former president and civil war general ulysses s. grant a statue of junipero serra. a man climbs on the pedestal. the man spray paints the word genocide. >> tucker: all of this is happening, the war on history, all of it is supposedly justified by the concern over black lives. is it real? we can measure it. the past month has in fact been enormously and unusually destructive to black lives. in the city of chicago has been at t least 90 murders in the pat month. it's an annual pace of more than a thousand. shootings in new york have doubled compared to this time a year ago. kansas city is on pace to crush its all-time murder record. how many black lives have been lost? no one keeps track. you don't expect to see a blm merge demanding justice for these lives because apparently their lives don't matter to black lives matter. what should we make of it? fox senior political annualize t brit hume has been following it. you look at these numbers, each one and american dad, each one a family bereaved and crushed. what does it make you think about

never forget the destruction of statues and monuments to george washington, abraham lincoln, ulysses s. grantolitionists and many others. the violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism and other cultural institutions. >> the president is at the white house for what's expected to be a quieter day today. he gives remarks later this evening and watches the fireworks near d.c. from the white house balcony. we should note even though this public celebration of independence day is something that the president encouraged, city officials did not want this to happen because of the risk of spreading the virus, fred. >> except the governor was all for it. sarah, there was no social distancing at mt. rushmore. while there may have been a handing out of masks, there was no encouragement to really do so. how is it y is , why is it that white house doesn't think this is filled with risks? >> there are inherent risks to the event we saw take place last nigh