Transcripts For CSPAN2 Brian Kilmeade Andrew Jackson And The Miracle Of New Orleans 20171112

Mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. Of course those watching online are welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our program and welcoming our special guest is done genevieve wood. [applause] good afternoon everyone. Thank you for being here. I know that you are in for a treat. I was speaker today does not need a huge introduction because many of you recognize him. Brian is a man that has spent six hours a day on the airwaves. He has seen 3001 from 6 to 9 am on fox and friends. By the way that present tweeting out a nice comment saying that you are doing a great job [laughter] and his radio show is for three hours from 9 am until noon. The Brian Kilmeade show, you can catch him in the morning if you dont see him on tv. He is also a prolific author. The author of five books, the last three of which have all been on three of our most famous president s. George washington secret fix, and the first two books one on George Washington, when a Thomas Jefferson, both made the New York Times bestseller list. And i Andrew Jackson will find himself there as well. The book is filled with Great Stories about great folks and a great history. I want to read the dedication to him is of the front because i think it says a lot. He says his focus to the unsung men and women whose stable military service has kept the spring and made general jackson famous. Names and faces may not be known by the world but you will never be forgotten by me. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Brian Kilmeade. [applause] thank you very much. Genevieve, thank you very much. A true professional. We had a chance already last week i thought the heritage would be tired of me by now but thankfully you are not. You are allowing me to be here the first week that the book comes out and im an audiovisual presentation for no extra money. You definitely will get your moneys worth today. We will give a summary of what the book is about because fundamentally, i also want to give you an idea of what you will see and hopefully come to light. That is why we have a format summary before we get started. Also, i would first off urge you to think about the questions you want to ask and how much time i should leave. So we can talk about the book, chocolate history, the war on statues or we can also talk about was happening with the president and fusion gps. Because, why not . It is always been a hot topic with me. And with the next generation of kids. To give you an idea where i came from, i had a chance to join fox in 1996 and 97 i went fulltime. When the roads are going crazy lives not really place for sports and i was okay with that. I do news background and gradually things got more serious. 9 11 and done i got a chance to watch iraq, i had a front row seat of the most exciting impactful things that happened in the world and the country at the Number One News Network of all time. It was everyones expecting to not be successful and it has been successful most of the time. To the point that not only are we number one in news and all the cable but i think it is because the type of people that get hired there are everyday people who happen to be very fortunate to be in a position to be able to communicate with america. We are also very familiar with the fact that i have apologize for this, but the world does not revolve around washington, los angeles and new york. We have Great Respect for the people in the middle and that is what gives me great enjoyment during the book. For 20 years, i did two books, because i wanted to make sense of my sports career which was incredibly average. The people that play hard and do not get Great Results through college, i thought, in my 30s i realized someone was of the conversation with, some type of sporting event. I played basketball which i had played harder, i played tennis at germania, i wish i had lifted more. I could have been division i if i stuck with it. I realize everyone has a good sports story but no one asked about it. So i said what about people that credit their success to sports and guess what . Most of the time you can label it a failure. And i found out in talking with 73 people with games that do count and 92 is how you play the game. I found out that it is so important to have some type of failure for fall short of your goals early on. Because a you never picked a perfect game. You have to worry about what if i fail . I did that already. And that is the thing. I got my failure out of the way. So if this didnt go well he reminds me of my sports career its no problem and i found 72 people get a sense of humility because of that. But selling a sportsbook on fox news and exposing it kind of a reach. I took some time off and i watched mother great authors in great hosts right history books. And i said i love history, that is only read but im sure will not be a massive cellar and it was. Dennis and i got this idea to bill oreilly. I said in the backyard on long island, we have a spy ring. And without that we probably will not when the revolutionary war. So ive been studying really since 1998. When i saw National Treasure i saw nicholas cage when he got in a fictional story. So this really happen. We won the war with nameless people and baseless people and among those people was George Washington himself. They were loyal to him and he asked for dont ever give up our identities. And it was topsecret until 1930. I thought if i could bring more of this to the forefront and approaches is a story i would. And that is why i wrote George Washington. And it ended up being and doing extremely well. Much better than anyone thought because i think fundamentally there were people in the country like you guys, extremely patriotic that have a new facet to americas history. Where we seem to be leaving that out. And i do not want you to think you have to be a fan of history in order to read history. I ask people, do you like stories . Do you like true stories . You have stories about your country . If they check two of the three boxes, they are really going to like the book. And i tried to get that in a way to keep it moving, to keep it accurate but not to write towards a yale professor ps i have another passion. Another book they say you know what are you passionate about . Im always fascinated by the fact that every time i saw a war on terror, islamic xrays and, every six weeks they reference the first war against terror was really Thomas Jefferson. In a family stopped and researched the Jefferson Library was incredible. We started doing Thomas Jefferson. And we found out about islamic nations that were not only treating the people terribly, if that sounds familiar. They were also using our ships as an opportunity to overtake them, take them, enslave the crew in esperanza. And they were not just doing this to us they were doing to everybody. But it was america that stood up and eventually found out that we have to send message to the rest of the world. And jefferson, i blame him, he did so much in his life. Not many people focus on the wars. So that is an avenue that that we could explore. We did Thomas Jefferson and the tripoli pilots. It ended up being number one for a while. Because people like stories that they can feel and touch. When you go to monticello they are there to help you at the Jefferson Library there there to serve you. And that we are able to do something special. And i thought, i want to leave on a hike. So i distended for a while and if you hit a high note two thirds through, good night everybody thank you for coming. Im not going to risk that. And then they said the next thing you know what you passionate about . And i know this will not want you to make you want to hang out with me for birth the war of 1812, they said that is when they burned the white house to the ground. And is it what he talking about . You kept the archway . And they said yes, it keeps the burn marks. To remember what we went through. So how do we win . The battle of new orleans, you might want to look at Andrew Jackson. The more i looked the more researched and the more i thought that this is a perfect american success story. But it got better. The more i looked at it, the more i realize that not only was the battle necessary, it saved americas destiny. So before i get into detail about this book and how much fun i had researching it, im happy to say that there will be an hour special on fox news on this. It will be Andrew Jackson and as you know they want to get him off, take a study done in new orleans, Jackson Square and we will debate that. I know he is not perfect. But he did a lot right. And chuck the world and made a huge impact. So rather than me go to the whole book, i figured id show you what they ran on fox news. I do not have the play button but im told the password to roll, it will. Todays the day that Andrew Jackson the miracle of new orleans publishes. You can get it now. This is the book. I hope you enjoy it. I live researching it. This is a quick look at what builds up to the battle of new orleans, to give you context on what i believe the battle shaved americas destiny. [video] the war of 1812 americas second war of independence was going terrible for the united states. We were so weak, we got just the worst generals, the british, the worlds premier economic and military power thirsty for a second shot after losing the revolutionary war 23 years earlier. The most perilous and bleak time for the united states, the invasion and including the white house. But here at the hermitage, Andrew Jackson. And his country was losing the war badly. America needs a leader. Without a standing army, for president medicine come americas outer future hung in the balance. He found his leader in jackson. The biggest challenge stopping the British Forces from taking new orleans. If the british controlled the great city he was the entire Mississippi River and you lose all of our western frontier that we purchased. So we would not have been able to do western expansion. The plan, build a wall, dig a canal, fill it with water and wait for a british charge. This protection, this wall was built in a matter of weeks. Miles on to protect Andrew Jackson and the american troops. Over there, thousands of british troops. What they wanted . New orleans. What is at stake . The future of the country. This mix of troops that come in. They are not going to go out and engage the british projects and those that will be suicide. Any expert would say jackson army would need a miracle to stop the british from spending christmas on bourbon street and jackson knew just where to go to ask for it. While the outside a convent . What im trying to tell the battle of norms because this isnt just any this date back hundreds of years. Print projects in success and among the people to think that these nuns brought him a miraculous victory, Major General Andrew Jackson think so. It is a miracle. It is praying for a miracle. The Catholic Church and the battle of new orleans. It is where we know that there was divine intervention. Request that divine intervention would reveal itself in the final fight january 8, 1815. It was a bloodbath. It was the beginning of the end of britain and in many ways the birth of modern america. Jacksons forceful leadership would help record one of the most decisive and stunning victories and history. But Andrew Jackson left his estate before the war of 1812. When he was done winning the battle of new orleans he became a national store. Maybe the most famous person in america. But more important, this sent a message to the rest of the world that we would fight relentlessly and furiously for freedom. Jackson would write that fame for two terms in the white house and go down as one of the most consequential and influential americans and our history. The wall is still there yes. It is just, the more that you look, the more you understood what was happening. Just to give you an idea of the numbers, they actually have many historians have a much higher but it was 5000 is 9000 british. In terms of being killed, we lost 13 guys, they left 291. 1262 wounded. We had 39. 19 risen, 484 missing on their side. Some were just blown apart. We did a great job killing their offices and about the british that loves borders and if they dont get them their loss. Three generals dead, seven kernels that, 75 officers dead. We took out their offices. We let them know we are playing for keeps. They did not adjust tactics. Jackson did. We had nowhere to go. As you see a lot of times and what did they could go home. A lot of them were not convicted for this battle anyway. But this was a route, it would terrorizing the atlantic coast. Northern states, enabling the states wanted nothing to do with the worker that brought enough a letter of succession. They wanted out. We had a white house brunt of five foot four inch james madison, a great mind, not a great leader. Sitting on a horse by himself. We think that 2017 is challenging for our country because the guy got elected he thought the woman would get elected, that is nothing compared to what we have been through in the past. So, with that keep in mind, the force that we took on was wellingtons invincible speed wellingtons invincible had just beat this guy, napoleon. A pretty good guy. A pretty great leader. They were wiped out napoleon vanished. Then they come to finish us off even though the numbers are strong. Indicates he would think im overstating the fact that our future was in the balance, they certainly would have probably held onto the area for another 50 years and visit hong kong were 100. Here is with the foreign secretary said. I expect at this moment, most of the seaport towns in america are laid to ashes. That we are in position new orleans, not true. And as command of the Mississippi Valley and lakes and the americans are now little better than prisoners in their own country. Not only did they want revenge, this whole thing that we did call democracy and freedom, and having elections, not good if youre a dictator or a king or queen. Especially if it is done. We are a magnet. They know, they are on the clock if this works. And when washington gave up power and we showed the work and then we continued to expand, they wanted to stop us at 18 states. They did not look at the Louisiana Purchase for real. They thought they had no reason to in fact, louisiana just became a state a few weeks before. D. C. What was in the balance for this country . And we took on the world superpower because they were not showing us respect. Again, like the bully on the playground, until you confront him, it will not respect you and i was stunned to find out again the same thing jefferson concluded, hardly known as a great war fighter, morbid intellect that until we show the world they were going to stand up for ourselves, we were not going to get the respect. When word got out, we would never be invaded again and that record holds until this day. I give to this book and i will break it down by title. A lot when its this. Andrew jackson. Why is he special . Stunningly, he is an orphan at 13. It was his older brother in the revolutionary war, he and his other brother were taken prisoner. The older brother had died because of ones suffered after being captured. Jackson and his mom are left. Jacksons mom goes to help and next thing you know she dies. How does he know . Because a trunk arrived at his house with her stuff in it. So at 13 years old, Andrew Jackson is raised by his country. If you want a guy patriotic, use over the country did for him. He saw what everyone did so he could be successful and he wanted revenge on the british and payback for the country. He bled red white and blue. So what did he become . Instead of using that as an excuse to be a rebel, and a criminal, he became an attorne general of tennessee , became elected to the house represented, then in the senate served as a judge from 98 until 1804 and in 1802 became a Major General and let me add the last thing to the resume because he did not included, twoterm president of the united states. That to me, i think it will resonate and i hope it does because this is the american dream. Dont tell me what you have, dont tell me where you start, i will you know where im going to finish. Because america gives you the opportunity to pursue happiness and success. We do not guarantee anything. And that is what he is. Ive gotten calls, emails, he was an indian fighter, had slaves, i cannot defend that. I cannot defend his whole life. But to think that this life should be on a pedestal and examined, i think is really a reach. I think it shows the arrogance of our generation that we need to consider taking his that you dont care let alone some the other stenches. Confederate is another issue. But we talk about columbus, we took about jackson. To me, it stands. Not because he is perfect because of what he accomplished. I will give you an idea of what he did. In terms of the trades that he displayed and the model that he had, if you build the battle he says this, the british had run over washington. Every time they have had success. They ran in new orleans and he says this, it is true the enemy is on our coast and threatens invasion. But is equally true with union energy and approval we will beat him in every point. Since we fight tonight. So they attacked the british with axes, knives and guns. Inflicted in about 90 minutes from start, 500 casualties. We lost by five guys and came back. And they said, who is this guy . How does a guy suffering from dysentery at six feet one inches 140 pounds, is by a bunch of americans to go attacked the british when he many thought new orleans wasnt going to be loyal to america. Another reason why i fell in love with the story is look at the american army. They werent the marines of South Carolina. For new york. They were choctaw indians, they were tennessee and kentucky, sharpshooters, the british knew that ian wrote about it. To get all of the account, they are all available. Then there were men of color, and pirates. Together they make an armed force that knew they were outnumbered. And he said, you get paid the same, you eat the same, your under the same. And he told people back in 1815, that you treat people of all colors, persuasion. Says i do not care pure white or other you are treated the same way. And a lot of people back then said we cannot give them guns and he said we certainly are. If they want to fight that will fight. And that is how they were treated. So to me the symbolism of a purely American Forces also something. Which lets me conclude a couple of things. That americas strength is its diversity. Because we put Everything Else behind. We meld together. Even though odds say we are supposed to lose, we find a way to win. America does not always start doing the right thing, we certainly dont always have the right war tactics but we adjust. We had just, we adjust, we adjust until we went. If we mirror the loser general that went into canada for the washtub officers that led troops to protect baltimore or to protect washington, we would have lost. We finally called a Major General Andrew Jackson who was begging to be put in the game and they ignored him because he was not from virginia. He was not part of the in crowd. But when they need someone to fight, they certainly call them him. When they had the worst secretary of war, they got a new one, james monroe. Pretty effective. When roasted im getting jackson. And i will do this thing called letting him fight. Rules of engagement, let it happen. When it is time to deliberate part of the call in jackson again in 1818. Great americans at the time they needed the most. They earn for washington bent them. They put it in print and the best they got was jackson who worshiped washington, learn from washington but unlike washington, this dad taught himself how to this guy taught himself how to be a leader. He implemented his own tactics. So again, a homegrown guy that came through. In terms of a philosophy, i thought one was pretty cool in terms of what drove him his entire life. He says he always remember this, his mother told him make friends by being honest. Keep them by being steadfast, never tell a lie nor take what is not your own. Settle the cases yourself and by the way he did. He did not fight, he never took a backward step. Which reminds me of another person occupying the white house. The similarities between them is not in this book. But it is evident. And it has been pointed out also by President Trump himself and other people. The president is somebody that took his case to the people. He got huge crowds and got everyone noticed. He was also sidelined and diminished reason im going to run for president. Believe it or not so was jackson. He was not accepted by the washington establishment, neither was the president. In fact he is still not. He also was obsessed with the media. I have a picture that will be posted tomorrow on fox and friends. Im taking a tour of the hermitage and i asked the tour guide, i said by the way, what are those binders . He said those are the newspapers. As a what you mean . He said he got 16 newspapers a month. He will go look at every single article and make notes. Not true, never happens. Contact the reporter. Then he would put them into binders and keep them. So you could reference when he exits other reporters. And literally there is this, it still exist today. I wish i could also if i had open them they would turn to dust because they did not do anything to preserve them. And then he also hired a recruiter that he liked to write the Washington News as he saw it. [laughter] good job if you want the news i might want to hire a good reporter to do it the way you think is right . Also the similarities, another one obvious, the hair, distinctive. [laughter] in the end, they felt most comfortable with the family around them. His wife died right before going into office, there was Heart Failure over the controversy that came up over the run for office. Then when it came to him coming to office he wanted his niece and nephews around him. He wanted that his whole entire life. Just like the President Trump. And when it came to implement a strategy, they tried to diminish Andrew Jackson by his greatest strength and that is war fighting. And they do that with donald trump his strength his business. In the big picture theres a lot of positives but they love to hurt him where they think it hurt him most. But again, both to controversial things, but have a lot of enemies but in the end they are supremely confident theyre doing the right thing. When this book came to fruition, i had an opportunity to do it i stopped after he won the battle. He came back as a great leader, the most famous person in the country. And then he left as one of the most and a lot of you said that is brian talking about a book he is too close to. Abraham lincoln had to refer to one president during a time record for the civil war, he looked back at Andrew Jackson is and how did he handle it when South Carolina was going to secede and he used force . Donald trump said, a bandit jackson was present during the civil war we probably would not have had one. There is a good case for that. And doug said he was not going to put up with anything that was going to break up the union. A lot to do with what i just told you about his background. Number three, another leader was Teddy Roosevelt. He wrote the book, there are pictures of Teddy Roosevelt just staring in the distance. When world war ii was about to start, fdr went to the hermitage and they said listen, we have come up and see the enzyme he said i need to walk in. He needed to feel the boundaries of the Democratic Party he wanted to understand where he channeled the leadership from because he knew he was in for a heck of a fight. When Ronald Reagan and when harry truman to so we had a figurine of jackson on his desk. Basically similar to the same people. Even truman i believe was captain in world war i. He came from nowhere, everyone thought he was that worthy ended up being a great president. Finally in modern times i want to do one of my standups for a special. In front of the statue of jackson at the white house. And a president ial historian came down and did a recent book on the bushes. He said you know where we are standing . And i said that this would be a good backdrop. He needs another square Ronald Reagan demanded to have his photo done for time magazine. He wanted in front of jacksons statue. So you may not like jackson, you may think im overstating the book but some pretty great men thought that he was the exact prototype they should build off of. That is pretty much where he ended up on the 20 and i am thrilled to talk about the battle that no one thought we could win and we did win. Lastly, the one thing i did discover is not only did we have to fight the battle, jackson is port it is and we had to fight the battle. He said the british were budgetary of the treaty and they were going to keep it. We found paperwork in britain, did the hard work. A huge help to me, it shows that they had every intention of getting and flipping this maybe back to spanish but wanted to make sure we were going to go back to the mississippi because they knew they were going to get bigger, better and more of an economic powerhouse. Britain did not want it. After that they realized they cannot stop it. We expand less it is game on. We do not win that work, we do not control the mississippi. We do not become the america we are today. So that is Andrew Jackson, the miracle of new orleans. I do believe it was a miracle in i do believe his life is a Great American success story. Even though it is not perfect. What i would like to do as i examine the crowd, very curious. I thought i would speak for a little while. But leave some time for questions. Even take some questions if you want to talk about that is why i brought the extra water. Any questions . You mentioned the background and are you aware of anything where he was elected on what drove him he was very driven individual and was that part of it . Was that the difficult operating to use my pop psychologist. Your two choices when you have no supervision. And you dont get a president without childhood and he doesnt remember getting a single christmas president or perfect president. You could say yourself i dont matter or im determined to matter and he spent his life, according to the people who do the best, making sure people knew he mattered. An indian fighter and the creek indians who massacred settlers and there were other fights that people said were unnecessary but what he did was always say to himself ive got to do what is necessary for the country and i do think, also to show the dichotomy is that he adopted an indian child. That died at 18 sadly and he couldnt have kids of his own and no one knew why and didnt but always wanted family around him because he never had to be around him. He kept moving, a little bit of a handful and got a lot of fights and kept moving thats part of the reason that drove him. I hope people read this book and instead of saying that happened so long ago there was a i have no excuse. Parents might be alcoholics or divorced and my older brother might be getting all the attention and whatever your challenges, why dont you make yourself the next success story. Or have great satisfaction knowing you did everything to try to make it happen. Get in the game. That is what he felt. Matter, get in the game. A lot of these jobs for volunteers and what he did with a lot of his legal cases no one had money so he would say give me land. Said he would take land. Ever go to hermitage . It is huge. And its been said that he sold half of it. He basically has his own country and state and yet, he started with absolutely nothing. He ended up being extremely productive. Yes sorry, i thought you wer hello. Two questions. One has to do with what you think motivated the ragtag army of divers folks to join him in the first place and second, how on earth did you find the time to write this book . I did it in sections for two and half years and i would do it in bursts and we had a strategy now of find the topic, write a summary, decide because this is a tough war and you could end up in michigan in and voting wrong and you could end up in canada and theres a lot of this in this book that were harder to do than put in this book so then you read the chapters and summaries and you see if it makes the cut and little by little we blow up the chapters and then we try to weave them together. Then we get the pictures, meet the people and get the oral history that bring something new to the story. We just didnt want to go wait a second, do this book and theres people who want to know about history we try to find something new to the story. I think we can operate in the big picture it looks a lot of work but in the small picture in the course of two years doing in bursts into small chunks makes it digestible for me. Your first question . [inaudible] couple of things. The british were so brutal and they were so horrible on the east coast they didnt want to suffer the same fate. Number two was the actually wanted to be american. Number three is, we understand it, he had that special thing we see in sports with coaches. He was feared and feared. People do not want to let him down and they were looking for a savior and they wanted someone to rally around and he saw how he treated everyone equally and that they had the same objective and they said we will do it. People just like he didnt want to deal with the pirates because they were criminals but he said listen, theyve got flint and he got ammo and they know where the interest points are coming in to land and they know where the swab is in the land and he said okay, do it and in return we want freedom from all the charges and there are a lot and sure enough, he got the okay through madison and monroe and they got their freedom and they went back to being partners if i understand it but they got their freedom. [inaudible] theres a movie on the pirates and im way off track. Back to the story. The one trapper i wrestled with more than the most help for was the history of new orleans. It is mindnumbing to the french, cajuns, french words, im confused. Doing a book on tape and reading it out loud is worse. You are writing up we are not reading. Then you sit there and say how the hell do i say that . That took longer but this time i made a conscious effort to talk slower so that hopefully august let hate mail of banks but can you slow down. I didnt want at this time. Yes. Given the countries in new orleans and the fact that the war of 1812 has been going for a while and that this army came out of nowhere did those other countries have any involvement with this army . Or did they, in any way, take sides in what happened in new orleans. Question. The french were just defeated and the spanish were barely holding on to spain and we gave them 24 hours to get out in the left. In 1880 they were out entirely so its a oneonone situation in terms of the global and colonialism but i would add thie and no one likes and thats what were experiencing for the last three or 30 years and britain had a way of being arrogant and acting like thugs. When it came to alexander, by the way, i was fascinated to find out when they got to alexander they asked how much it would cost them not to destroy us and they basically came up with the money and pay him not to destroy the town. Thats where they were. That helped galvanize but i was fascinated to find out he his army together in two weeks. He had melissa with them but he double the size. One and a half size and put it together in three weeks. It was also fascinating is here he was in a rush and doesnt know what the british will do in the land on the 23rd and a fight to the death on the eighth and he doesnt know when theyre coming but he knows this. He has a military parade with his brandnew army. They dont even have the same uniforms but he reprises everyone spirit and playing music and getting spirits up and says i have an idea lets build a wall and did a most and so the whole town comes out in a dilemma. Then you got to get got on her side so lets get the nuns praying for us and convert that to the hospital. The composer he had under pressure is something very rare. Im reading ron turnouts book and grant and he had the same thing. The crazier things got the call for he got. I think jackson thrived under that pressure and people fed off of it. My opinion is also the reason why there are statues and people are in all is because the contemporaries knew this guy and there are very few people like him and you want to please him and you dont want to let him down. You also know hes capable of breaking in half and he is also this and i looked at him as the players coach because he understood what they were going through and he also didnt feel like an elitist where he would walk to the infantry and he would stay on his horse and they had to go back and everyone was exhausted and they started having some type of [inaudible] breaking through the men so he gave up his horse and carriage and to all his guys and he walked. I think people appreciate that and all the gentlemen combined alone with the sense that jackson gave that they could win and they said by the way you dont want to fight with me dont thank you will stay in new orleans because im going to burn this place down rather than give it to the british. That would motivate me, too. [laughter] yes. What top three Leadership Qualities did you find in Andrew Jackson in restructuring your book and how can these Leadership Qualities be applied here in 2017 . Be demanding but understanding. Be a feared yet revered. There has got to be some type of fear and number three is stay calm under pressure. Whatever happens, when the world speeds up you got to be joe montana and slow down. You got to want that moment. You cant fear that moment. The other thing i found the washington and jackson both possessed is that they dont think they will get killed. Weird things happen and they dont. Washington had bullets caught in his uniform, jackson was a pointblank in that first when he said he will not sleep and one night rest of sleep on our soil. He goes in there and basically on a white horse and gunfire whipping around his head and they are saying get the hell out of here and he just felt like he wasnt going to die. That is impervious feeling that maybe catapulted him to success. Those are three of the top of my head. I think theres a lot of character six to be written on leadership between jefferson, washington in jackson. These questions are too good and im afraid for the next group. [laughter] it seems as though nowadays we focus on all the bad things. We focus on what jackson did wrong and we focus on we have people calling to remove statues of pretty much everyone. How do we change the tide and get people to Start Talking about the more positive things . I have an idea. Maybe more of a finesse way the president time does it with who is lincoln and washington and yes, they are. You have to have leadership. How about this columbus day is jackson days in jefferson days and washing todays you guys stay. They are not Perfect People but people in these times felt they were worthy of a statue. I think it is different and it deserves another look. If you look at basically to break the country in half and i dont want to beat the the civil war but im of one mind. Africanamericans who are offended and they have trouble expanding to their kids white robert e lee is an essential square and didnt he fight to keep slavery i understand that, should it be ignored for short note. Was he a hero and did and did he go to the north absolutely so there be a Confederate Museum where you learn . Yes. Do i appreciate the need for us to make history again as a country and do what lincoln wanted to do and grant was determined to do and make sure there is no revenge . No revenge, you got amnesty, promise not to pick up guns against us. That was important. We go back and start destroying their in the north starts destroying their graves and farms and busting up their history we never would come together as a country. Having recognize that now it is 2017 and if you want to revisit, i get it. But if you want to revisit columbus, jefferson we heard about lincoln lately and grant has a statue and grant has a tomb. He one. He never had a slave and he had one anti semitic remark that he apologized for his entire life. Fine. If you have to be perfect then all we have is pedestals. Be a leader, get behind a microphone in a position of power and im in illinois and lincoln states. Im in virginia and washington states. Not because he is perfect but if you dont want that then elect someone else because as far as i am in power that will happen. I see this mayor of new orleans wants to take the statue down of jackson. That was the guy who wants to run for president trying to get attention in trying to get ink. Thankfully the people in that area you see on television are rallying around it. Not because he is perfect for because he is an american of impact that helps shape the country. That would be my answer. Have a leader stand up and show courage in stopping this arrogant generation that thanks they are perfect and can judge everyone that lived hundreds of years ago. Im embarrassed by some of these conversations. The first whistleblower suit was filed was one of our first horse and whistleblowing has been something that i dont know if you studied it in any of them that have been all along and its become so difficult in our country to be a whistleblower and to get the truth out of what is going on with Many American americans to have a specific incident in mind . I do. I have a suit is filed 43 federal justice and im starting a book on it and i have been looking for justice and i was illegally jailed and tortured and held in solitary confinement for 14 days in the city of alexandria. Our press ignores what is going on people who dont have money and the hierarchy and it is just coming up. It started back then. Whistleblowers started speaking up and talking up back then and we are just disenfranchised but our government did of those people attorneys and they did empower them wear today we are jailed. To have an attorney . Cant afford them anymore. I spent hundreds of dollars. They dont give you one . No, no. We need to somehow expose our judges because our judges are our issue right now and they are hiding in their chambers and lawyers are empowering them because they are not exposing their corruption. I appreciate that and thats the whole whistleblower thing and could he have done a better way besides giving up our nations secrets and going to hong kong and then to russia and is there a pathway for whistleblowers to come forward in situations like that and its generally worth visiting. Sorry to hear that you went through that. Yes. How do you think so much . Im going to play devils advocate but id like to you to talk about it. What i appreciate its a conservative idea of bringing leaders to mine in forefront. Obviously one of jacksons black spots in history and im sure you are talking about this with the trail of tears which i think the idea is not to ignore parts of history but to highlight things that for some reason we decide to forget and look at the negative and positive. In a world where for some reason we are undoubtedly split i dont know why people think we but the us is very split nation at this point when it shouldnt be and instead of coming together to decide to continue to find it reason and issues in our history and in the forefront. How do you think that this book as well as your appearances formally and how do you handle that without getting, so to speak, personal and conservatives are its a great question but we are at the beginning. Its only been at it a couple days so you a lot of people already saying things. People said things about jefferson but more about jackson because the statute is here and we put out when i put out the jefferson book all of a sudden we invaded libya and we were not even [inaudible]. I am not here to defend the trail of tears and when i intentionally did not do is i havent made myself the premier jackson historian, to be honest. When you read the book and you think i could do it better im not sure youre being honest with yourself. I decide to focus on one element and i cant do jeffersons life but if you give me this 18054 and let me know he did in the 1783 when he starts combining with this i can do that. I am not going to run from it. I would notice. People tell me that the trail of tears is a lot to it in the bottom line is if you talk to anyone in oklahoma that is where all the indians that went to survive ended up and they didnt even want to carry a 20. Senator link with anyone even carry a 20 in the apartment. To think i will go there and say you are wrong . No. I will not do that. But i think that youre wrong to want to erase history. I think theres a lot more good than bad and i think to try to make a difference you are going to wrangle people. There will be people think youre crazy. Truman had a 28 Approval Rating and when i was in school he was great on everyone was. Im reading this book on lincoln called sandbergs and they tried to impeach him. Lincoln. They thought he was you have to look back and understand someone is not perfect and when you do great things people get in your way and that has nothing great about the trail of tears. I get it. I will take it on but im not going to be blindly defending anyone but i will blindly defend that war and the battle in the leadership and his confidence in his patriotism. He always had americas best interest in mind. Matter of fact, if you dont mind me reading this this is his farewell. I thank god that my life is spent in the land of liberty and that he has given me a heart to love my country and the affection of the sun and a son to his country and a father to the people. That is a guy that felt good when he passed away that and felt pretty fortunate despite the hardships that he fell. He spent his whole life in a bullet in his long time had dysentery, had a series of illnesses that would have destroyed the average person. Neardeath a couple times and yet he felt fortunate. Anyone else . The wife and i were enjoying watching you for about a week or so and then you left and is box rotating people on that for two weeks i did the 10 0. My family wanted me to do Something Else. It was fun to do a show for an hour but laura will be taking the show over on monday. The thing is i love my job in the morning and im worried about being too sharp because i dont need a lot of sleep. [laughter] i love the job in the morning because you go do your own thing and night live, its pretty cool. That was pretty fun for two weeks and i think i filled in on tuesday and thursday and friday but they are rehearsing lauras show and they actually could not let me do the show tonight or last night from washington. They had no more people. Washington will now have lauras show, shannon show, tuckers show, bret show and, as well as on the weekends, too. It will deftly be almost as active if not more than new york. Things are always changing. I will fill in for tucker once in a while. The only sacrifice to be in the book tour and find out youre missing your daughters play a game and they won onenothing in last four minutes. You happy they won but monday i will be around to the quarterfinals so that will be good. What tears me is that i love this job and love this to communicate to people about history and there are so many other jobs in my business that are fraction as fun is this an interesting but the problem is not being home for the great thing about doing the morning show is that you can be a parent because im up at 230 and i at work by 345 tarmac and they put in six hours for the week up when im done with radio at noon i was able to pick them up at their Grammar School when they get out at 3 00 oclock. They did no sleep deprived i was. I do been a much better parent had i been conscience but at least i was there. And i was able to go to do things that the ninefive cant do. But when they would say we would need you for two weeks i was like great but that was the best part. I dont even call home when im working between threeseven because im here. Im dropping off katie and i got the johnsons picking up kirsten and brians coming up in school and so im like now i feel terrible and im slowing my wife down. She doesnt cut it up. Her dedication because it turns out she likes all my kids, to and it really stresses her out. Shes the real hero of this whole thing. What are the most important lessons you have learned that led you to the position of influence and leadership that you have now . I got very lucky. I joined the yankees when they were the highlanders and they ended up winning 24 championships and those people said i have to go on that Expansion Team in 1923, i was and we have to get this guy named babe ruth and this the only picture in the outfielder and i walk into this great team that no one recognized him outside bill oreilly had notoriety and then i just had a chance to get there. Very appreciative number one. To have the opportunity when george bush, president bush asked me and tim mccarver to do with left tball game, but a three yearold plane at the white house and every day i said to myself you are fortunate. Never arrogant. There was Something Else i did that helps me is i always keep negative stuff around. All my rejection letters i keep in a folder and i keep a close, not to be arrogant but its so easy to fall off the cliff. In our job there are great highs and great lows. You do not do anything in secret. Give a bad show, everyone knows. Jimmy kimmel close you out on National Television and i know by the time i wake up at 2 30 that everyone is letting me know. Thats not a great feeling. Every time john stewart uses an expletive with my name involved or every time jimmy kimmel does that and every time keith called the door to the world i keep that in my office so if youre kind enough to say im a person of influence, thank you but im not a person thanks everyone like sleep is they do not. [laughter] if the president likes us most of the time he likes to watch the show and we put in ten years of talking with him and taking up the christmas lunch and i like it. The nice guy. Hes a very unique guy and i dont know if you noticed. [laughter] but i like him as a person and if he was to do something and i am honored. What is it like to the president watch a show respect its great. You like to make an impact. [inaudible] in a personal story format so you are trying to bridge from that generation to generation now in a generation and i hear you speak of your children so it sounds to me under this leadership youre using personal stories and making a real youre trying to be in front of what can we do now and where can we take this in the future for our children with a difference and we need people to stand up like this man and we are not all perfect. If everyone was imperfect no one would be in church . Sounds to me like you want to bring us to the next generation in a personal story format and upon hearing you right you are thinking about your kids in the next generation. Absolutely. I dont think that today is the History Lesson and im seen them comment on how certain coaches are teachers or getting them to there certainly is not the key to myself well, i like that. They are at school and donald trump wins and my son is getting emails if you need someone to talk to, we are here. [laughter] he is outraged and his economics professor decided to segue into what a numbskull george bushes and hes outraged and i said thats not why took the class and he went and saw the dean. I didnt know he would do Something Like that and i dont want to tell you where he goes because i dont want to make things worse but i didnt ask him to do that and my kids have a different view of President Trump and they have a chance to see him in the real world and they take it personal when they attack them because they were a total different view on him. If you want to judge someones character judge how they are with kids. Watch it with kids. They are attracted to him and they feel overworked around him and also i would say this about him. Its different from what youre saying but about President Trump. That axiom and i dont know a lot of them but you can judge people about how they treat people they need nothing from. Donald trump judges and actually grades off the charts before he iran for president. I watch the way he treats make a people and audio people on the apprentice and i see the fact that they picked them up in a car in drive with and the waiters that you be with and hes not one of these politicians, thanks youre here, both me. He asked his questions about their life and i did this once in todays preannounced and i did this thing called [inaudible]. What i will do is get Willie Robertson and walked on the street and see how people react. To get the long beard, duck dynasty guy and i want to know what he likes and what is it like not to eat a squirrel everyday. As you prepare your food rather than you shoot it and so he has fun with that whole thing so one of the second one i ever did was President Trump and people that said hello to him were not the people in the to the building and the people that said hello to him was because the guy filling up the usa today newspaper box and a taxicab driver and was almost like a commercial but he couldnt set up because this was traffic in new york city on fifth avenue. I like the rich people dont even like it. They think hes too flamboyant and whatever they think i wouldnt know but i know the everyday people they should have no relation to him because he was born relatively well off and ended up a billionaire and he has a tower named after him and has a lot of them but yet why is that the average everyday people relates to him because he relates more to them that he does those people on wall street and the elite. Theres an authenticity there. I watch it with people he doesnt need anything from any is looking for both and thats i think he really impressed me the most. I dont thank you should be treating either but i get it and i know the same thing that got you not not in your neck gives me the knot in your neck. Love joe mansion, lindsey graham, great people, marco rubio and you get to know them personally it doesnt matter what party they are. You pull for them to have success. What im trying to do is tell you a story in a the way with a little bit of the sport still because in my mind you got a million things to do in giving up a lot of the smells and the air and the color of the leaves to get to the point. That is what is equal success but i also want to be accurate and i dont want people to go good, not true. Funny to say yeah, it is true and if you want to go more in depth theres a lot of stuff out there but are we okay contract thank you very much. I proceeded. Assign your books outside or sorry, right here. [applause] connect thank you very much. Would you like the president to support out of the book