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

Genevieve . [applause] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you offering your i know you are in for a treat. Our speaker today doesnt need huge introduction because many of you recognize him. Brian is meant who spent six hours a day on the airwaves to get pricing 3000 morning from six to 90 on fox and friends. The president without a night a nice shout out. He said youre doing a great job. The Brian Kilmeade show, hes also become a prolific author because piggies offered out of five books, the last three of which have been on three uppermost famous president s. So George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the triple pirates and now Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans. The first two books one of George Washington, the one on Thomas Jefferson both made the New York Times bestseller list. These president s are still popular today and i will not doubt and rejects will find itself there as well. Its a a book if you havent rd it, get outside today, a book filled with Great Stories about great folks and about great history. I want to read to you the dedication brian makes at the very foot because it says a lot about not just the people in the book but about him as well. He says this book is to be unsung men and women whose staple military service has kept as free and a general jackson famous. Your 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, guinevere, thank you very much, true professional. We had a chance to do an interview last week. About the heritage would be tired of me by now but thankfully you are not. You are allowed me to be here the first week the book comes out and have an audiovisual presentation for no extra money so you will get your moneys worth today. To give you some of what the book is about because fundamentally i also want to give you an idea what youre going to see and hopefully come to life and thats why we have like a fourminute summary but before we get started. Also id like to first off urge you to think about questions would ask and how much time i should leave pick you can talk about the book, talk about history, the war on statues, or we can also talk about whats happening with fox, the president and fusion gps. Because why not . Its always been hot topic with me. And with the next generation of kids. To give you an idea working from, i had a chance to join fox i can make and 96 the income 97 i went fulltime. Mostly sports and then when the world started going crazy there was not really a place for sports and i was fine with that. I had a big news background and graduate as things get more serious from 9 11 undecorated chance to really watch the tanks roll in from iraq have a chance to, basically had a front row seat on the most exciting impactful things that happened in the world and the country at the Number One News Network of alltime. Everyone expected not to be successful and it has been for both of the time. To the point where not only are we number one in news, and one in all of cable and a think its because the type of people who get hired there are everyday people who happen to be very fortunate to be in a position to be able to community with america and we were familiar h the fact that i apologize for this but the world doesnt revolve around washington, los angeles and new york. We have Great Respect for people in the middle and that what gave me enjoyment doing this book. For 20 years i did two books, i wanted to make sense of my sports grill which was and probably average a thought for people who play really hard and dont have Great Results through college, i thought to myself i wasted a lot of time. The further i i got in my 30s i realized everyone would start the conversation with some type of sporting event. I played basketball. I wish i played harder. I play tennis. I wished i worked harder a football player. I shouldve lifted more. I realize i do and has a great sports story but no one asks them about it. I felt whatever people that are noteworthy that breakthrough to credit their success to sports and guess what . Most of the time you can label it failure. I found out and talking to 73 people, 92 with hydrolytic game, i find that its important some type of failure or fall short articles or me on. Then you are never teaching a perfectly. I got my failure out of the way. If this didnt go well and reminds me of my sports career. Its no problem. I found 72 people who got a sense of humility because of that. Selling a sports book on fox news and exposing it is kind of a reach. I took some time off and i watched some other great authors and great post by some history books and i thought i love history, thats all i read and that your be a massive seller and it was. That i said i get this idea to bill oreilly and they said in our backyard on long island, this spy ring. Without spy ring we probably dont when the revolution were. He said i heard something about it. I have been studying it since 1998. When i saw national treasure, i saw the interest nicolas cage got in a fictional story. I got this really happened if we win the war without these nameless, faceless people, we dont win the war. Among the people who thought that was George Washington himself. They were loyal to him. He asked one thing in return. Dont ever give up our identities. It was top secret until 1930. I thought if i could bring new information to the forefront, approach it like a story, i would do it. Thats why i wrote George Washington secret six. It ended up being, doing extremely well, much than anybody thought because i think fundamentally there are people in this country like you guys extremely patriotic who would love to know a new facet to america city were received be leaving. I dont think you have to be a fan of history in order to read history. I ask people do you like stories . Do you like to stories . Do like stories about your country . If they check two of the three boxes, they really like the book. I tried to gut it in a way to keep it moving, keep it accurate but not to write towards that your professor. I have another passion they have enough books, the right for each other. I have another book, im fascinated by the fact every time you saw a war on terror, islamic extremism, the only reference every six weeks, the first war against terror was really Thomas Jefferson. I stopped, research, the Jefferson Library was incredible and we started doing Thomas Jefferson the pirates and we found out about these islamic nations that were not only treating their people terrible, they were also using our ships as an opportunity to overtake them, take them, enslave the crew and ask for ransom. They just were not doing it to us, they were doing it to everybody. Was america stood up and found out here to send a message the rest of what we be patsies. Jefferson and i blame him, he did so much in his life, not many people focus on the barbary wars. We did Thomas Jefferson and the triple e aaa pirates. When you go to monticello they were there to help you, Jefferson Library is there to serve you. And in that were able to do something special. I thought i want to leap on i because i did stand a while and if you had a high note, twothirds through. That anybody, thanks a coming. [laughing] im not going to risk this time. They said the next in order, believe it or not i know this will not make you want to hang out with me. I cant get enough of a of thek 1812. So underappreciated. I took a tour of the white house and they said see this archway . Thats when you burn the white house to the ground. What are you talking about . You get the archway . These two archways, they kept the burn marks just a member what we went through. We take on the worlds number one power, how to win . The battle of new orleans was great but we didnt have to fight the war. You might want to look at Andrew Jackson. The more i look, the more research, the more i thought this would be the perfect american Success Story but it got better. The boy looked at it, the more i realize that natalie was the battle of new orleans necessary, it saved americas destiny. Before i get into detail about this book and how much fun i had researching it, i have to say it will be one hour special on fox news on this and is going to be Andrew Jackson, two under fire. They want to take a statute that in new orleans at Jackson Square and well debate that if the questions of that because i know hes not perfect but man, he did a lot right. Rather nico to the whole book, i thought i can grab the future i just ran on fox news and show it to you. You guys want to see it . I dont have the play button but im told of a passport to roll it will. You can get it now. This is the book. I hope you enjoy. I love researching it. Heres a quick look at what buildup to the battle of new orleans bikinis in context on why billy the battle shaped americas destiny. Look at the graphic. The war of 1812 americas secular independents was going terribly for the united states. We were so weak. We got the worst generals, no plan. The british thirsted for second shot at restoring america after losing the revolution war 23 years earlier. The invasion and burning washington including the white house. But major Andrew Jackson and his country losing this war badly. America needed a leader. Without a standing army, for president madison americas future hung in the balance. He found his leader in jackson took his greatest challenge, stopping the British Forces from taking new orleans. He lost new orleans and if the british controlled the great city, you lose the entire Mississippi River angeles all of our western frontier that we acquired it to the purchase. So we would not have been able to do western expansion. The plan, build a wall, dick a canal, it with water and wait for a british charge. This protection was built in a matter of weeks. Milestone to protect and to jackson and the american troops. Over there were thousands of british troops. What they wanted, that was new orleans. Whats at stake . The future of the country. These truths it come in, they are not going to go out and engage the british. Jackson knows that would be suicidal. In expert will tell you his ragtag army would need a miracle to stop the british. Jackson knew just where to go to ask for it. Im trying to tell the battle of new orleans because this isnt just any confident this is all of the ursuline nuns that dates back hundreds of years. They prayed for jackson success. No the people think these nuns brought in a a miraculous vict, Major General Andrew Jackson himself. Its a miracle for its praying for a miracle if the church and the battle of new orleans. That is where we know that there was divine intervention. That divine intervention would reveal itself in the final fight january 8, 1850. This becomes a bloodbath now we look at green grass pickles beginning of the end of britain anyway the birth of modern america. Jacksons forceful leadership would be one of most stunning upset victories in military history. But Andrew Jackson left his estate before the war of 1812, is done when the battle, he became a national start, maybe most famous person in america. His win sent a message the rest of the world that we would fight relentlessly and furiously for freedom. Ask for jackson he would ride to terms and white us included one of the most consequential and financial americans in our history. His wall is still there. We can kill it now. The more you look, the more he understood what was happening. Just to give an idea of the numbers, the numbers, minister would have much higher but it was 5000 against 9000 british. In terms of being killed we lost 13 guys, they lost 291. They had 1262 would get with 39. 19 missing. They have 484 missing. Some were just blown apart. We did a great job killing their officers and one thing about the british it looks reporters. If you dont get in their loss. Three generals data, seven criminals dead, 75 officers did. We took after out their officed let them know were playing for keeps. They did not adjust their tactics. Jackson did. We did this thing, we had nowhere to go. A lot of times in force today, they can go home. A lot of them were not convicted for now anyway but this was a rout. They were terrorizing the atlantic coast. Our northern states, doing on states wanted nothing to do with the war. They had drawn up a lot of secession. The hartford conviction wanted out. We had a white house burned, r 54 James Madison great my, not a great leader with secrecy unhorsed by himself. If you think when he 17 is challenging for our country because the guy got elected you thought the will get elected, that is nothing compared to what weve been through in the past. With those numbers, keep in mind the force we took on was wellington invincible. Wellingtons invisibles had just beat this guy named napoleon. Pretty good guy. Pretty great leader. They were wiped out and the common finish us off the with adult enough to thought and win. In case you think im overstating the fact our future was in the balance, they wouldve probably held onto the area for another 50 years like they did hong kong or 100. Heres what the foreign secretary said. I expect at this moment most of the largest seaport towns america are late to ashes, kind of true, that were in possession of new orleans, not true, and have commanded Mississippi Valley and lakes and the americans are now little more full better than prisoners in their own country. Not only that they want revenge, this whole thing we did call democracy and freedom and having elections, not great if your dictator or a king or queen. Especially if its worked and its fun. We are a magnet. They know they are on the clock if this works. When washington gave up our and we showed it worked, and we continue to expand, they want to stop us in 18 states befitted looked to the Louisiana Purchase for real. They thought france had no reason to flip it to us. In fact, louisiana just became a state a few weeks before. If you see what was in a balance for this country to get we had the audacity to take on the world superpower because there were not showing us respect. I didnt like the bully on the playground, until you confront him they will not respect you and i was stunned to find out again, the same thing jefferson concluded party known as a great were war fighter, till we showed the world we would stand up for sales we would not get the respect. When word got out we repelled the worlds number one army we would never be invaded again and the record still holds to this day. I give to you this book, break it down by the title. Andrew jackson, why is he special . Stunningly hes an orphan at 13. He and his other brother were taken prisoner. The older brother had come oneyearold at 14, dies because of his wounds suffered after his capture. Jackson and a smile or laugh. Jacksons bomb kosovo and after the next thing you know she dies. A trump arrives at his house with her stuff in it. At 13 years old Andrew Jackson is raised by his count, his cow to come his country. If you want a guy is patriotic, he saw for the country did for him. He saw what everyone did what he could be successful and you want revenge on the british and payback is country. He bled red, white and blue. What does he become . Instead of using that as an excuse to be a rebel and a criminal, he became an attorney general of tennessee in 1791. He became elected used to the house of representatives in 1796. In 1797 to the senate, served as a as a judge from 9818 metaphor. Teaching them to became a Major General and let me at the last thing to do is make because he didnt include a come to terms president to the tray. That will resonate and hope it does because this is the american dream. Dont tell me what you have. Dont tell me where you start. Ill let you know where im going to finish because america gives you the opportunity to pursue happiness and success. We dont guarantee anything. Thats what he is. Ive gotten calls, emails, hes an indian fighter, he had slaves. I cant defend that. I cant defend his whole life but man, to think 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 even consider taking statue down load some of the other standard confederate is is another issue. When you talk about columbus, talk about jackson, to me it stands. Not because hes perfect but because what he accomplished to help us as a country in every way. Ill give you an idea of what he did. In terms of the traits he displayed and the motto he had. Before the battle he says this, the british had run over washington. Every time except baltimore the that success. They land in new orleans and he says this, it is true the enemy is on our coast and threatens the nation, but it is equally true with union energy and approval, we will beat him at every point. Says we fight tonight. So they attacked the british axis, with knives and guns. Inflicted in about 90 minutes when darkness it, 500 casualties. We lost like five guys. They said who is this guy . How did a guy suffering from dysentery at 61140 pounds inspire a bunch of bunch of americans to go attack the british when he landed in new orleans as many people thought new orleans wasnt going to be loyal to america, the ultimate international city. Another reason why this, i fell in love with this story is look at the american army. They were not the marines of South Carolina or new york. They were choctaw indians. They were tennessee and kentucky militiamen, sharpshooters. The british knew that if the road about it. You can get all the accounts. They are all available. Then there were freemen of color. Then there were pirates. Together they make an armed force they knew they were outnumbered and he said you get paid the same, you eat the same. You are armed the same. He told people back in 1815 that you treat people of all colors and persuasions, he said i dont care if youre white or pink, youre treated same way. A lot of people back then said africanamericans we cant give them guns. He said we certainly are. If you want to fight their party. Thats how they were treated. So to me the symbolism of a purely American Force is also something. Which lets me conclude a couple things. That americas strength, this is diversity because we put Everything Else behind and we meld together. Even though id say were supposed to lose, if you believe in yourself and your cause is true, we find a way to win. Number three, america doesnt always start off doing the right things. We dont always have the right war tactics but we adjust. We adjust, adjust until we win. If we mirrored those losing generals went to candida or the wash of officers that led troops to protect baltimore, excuse me, to protect washington, we wouldve lost. We finally called on Major General Andrew Jackson who is begging to be put in the game, and they ignored him because he wasnt from virginia. He wasnt from massachusetts. He was a part of the in crowd. But when they you need someoneo fight, they called on them. When they had the worst sector for a got a new one. James monroe. Very effective. He says im getting jackson of going to do this thing called letting him fight, rules of engagement, let it happen. When its time to liberate florida they call jackson again 1818 and he would do it again. Great american rise of the time they need most. The best they got was jackson who worst of washington, learn from washington but unlike washington this guy taught himself how to be a leader, how to be aware expert and how, and tactics turkey picky came up w. By watching how the indians fought him, by seeing what the british did and have limiting his own tactics. So again a homegrown guy who came through. In terms of philosophy, i thought one was pretty cool in terms of what drove him his entire life. He says he always remembered this, his mom told him, make friends by being honest. Keep them by being steadfast, never tell a lie nor take what is not your own. Nor sue for slander, settle the cases yourself. By the way he did. He didnt fight, he shot, killed somebody a few duels sticking up for people. He never took a backward step which reminds me of another person that occupying the white house. The similarities between them is not in this book but its evident, and its been pointed out also by President Trump himself and of the people. The president is somebody that took his case to the people and got huge crowds and cut everyone noticed. He was also sidelined and the Ministry Said im going to run for president. Believe it or not so was jackson. He wasnt accepted by the establishment. Jackson was in, neither was President Trump. In fact, hes still not. He also was obsessed with the media. I the picture it will be posted tomorrow on fox and friends. These binders undertaken to her of the hermitage and as the tour guide, i said by the way, its howard, what are those binders . He said those are the newspapers. What he . He got 16 newspapers a month. He would go look every single article make notes on them. Not true. Never happened. Contact the reporter. Then he would put them into bite and keep them so its something to reference when he saw the reporters. Its literally theres three files this i do still exist today. I wish i couldve opened the bite he assured me they wouldve turned to dust. They wanted they just hijack selected. Jackson did Something Else at that was extraordinary. He hired a a reporter he liked to write the Washington News as he saw it. Good job. If you want the news done right why not hire good reporters to do with what you think is right . Also be somewhere is another one obvious, the hera, distinctive. [laughing] in the end they felt most comfortable with her family around them. His wife died right before going into office. A lot, his Heart Failure of the controversy picking up during the run for office, number one. Number two is when it came to him come into office he wanted his nieces and nephews surrender. Thats just like President Trump. And also when it came to implementing strategy they tried to diminish Andrew Jackson buys greater strength, and that is war fighting your they tried to diminish donald trump buys greater strength, thats business. He had bankruptcy. We all know in business its about risk. He had 1 million. He ended up with 1 billion. Thats like giving us ten bucks and we become millionaires. Theres a lot of positives to look to hurting where the think it hurting most. Both controversial things, both a lot of enemies and in the end they are extremely confident theyre doing the right thing. When this book came to fruition either opportunity do it, i stopped at the battle. I stopped after he won that battle. He came back as a great leader, the most famous person in the country and then he left is one of the most lauded person in the country. A lot of you say thats brian talking about a book he is too close to. Abraham lincoln had to refer to one president during his time right before the civil war. He looked back and said how did he handle it when South Carolina was going to see . To use force. What donald trump said, if Andrew Jackson was present during the civil with hardwood not a bad one. Theres a great case for that. Doug rita still be the same thing as doug briefly. He was talking to put up with anything that would break up the union. Number three, another leader was teddy roosevelt. So enchanted with see that i wrote a book about them. When world war ii is about to start, fdr went to the hermitage and the said lesson we have a rant for you to come up to see the inside. He said i have to walk in. He wanted to fuel the founder of the democratic party. He won to understand where he channeled the leadership from because he knew he was in for a heckuva fight and he wasnt kidding. Absolutely true. When Ronald Reagan, when harry truman takes over he had a figurine of jackson on his desk similar to the same people even truman was captain of world war i and he came from nowhere to add what anyone thought he was a worthy and end up in a great president finally in modern times a month to one of my standups for the special in front of the statue of jackson front of the white house. Doug came down, very respected president ial story added that a recent book book on the bushes and he said you know why we stand here . This is where Ronald Reagan demanded to have his photo done i believe for harpers or for time magazine. He wanted it in front of jacksons statue you may not like jackson. You may think im overstating the book with some pretty great men, i was exact prototype they should build off of and osprey much what i ended up on the 20 and thats why im to talk about the battle that no one thought we could win the we did win. And lastly the one thing i did discover is that all you have to fight that battle, jacksons quote is a web to fight the battle, he said the bridge which are the treaty of get and keep it. We found paperwork in britain, a decorated marine, huge up to me that showed they had every intention getting and holding and maybe flipping it back to the spanish but want to make sure we were not going to go past the mississippi because they knew we would get bigger, better, more economic powerhouse in britain. They didnt want to. After that they realize we cant stop it. We expand west, came on. We dont win the war, we dont control the mississippi. We dont control new orleans. We dont become the america we are today. So thats after jackson Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans. I do believe his life is a Great American Success Story even though its not perfect. What id like to do as i examine this graph one thing about it is high intellect, very curious. I thought i would speak for a little while but its in time for questions. Even take some questions if you wanted to just talk about fox. Thats why i brought the extra water. Thats my book. I hope you guys like it. I loved researching it and i welcome any questions about it and i was thrilled john and doug, jane hampton also endorse the book. I had to read it first as well as general mcchrystal because i wanted them to know i was out of my way to be accurate, keep them moving and some new reporting to it and thankfully they did that as well as brian. So thank you very much. [applause]. You have two choice where is you have no supervision and you dont get a present in the entire childhood. He doesnt remember getting a single birthday present. You can say to yourself, i dont matter or i am determined to matter and he spent his life according to people that knew him best making sure he mattered. And an indian fighter, the creek indians who massacred settlers, there were other fight that is people say were unnecessary but what he did was always say to himself, i have to do whats necessary for the country and i do think also to shoe the dichotomy is that he adopted an indian child that died at 18 sadly. So he couldnt have kids exactly of his own, didnt, but always wanted family around him because he never had family around him, he kept moving, he was a little bit of a handful, you can imagine, got in a lot of fights, kept moving and i think thats part of the reason that drove him and i hope people read this book instead of saying, well, that happened so long ago, theyll say, i have no excuse, parents might be alcoholics, they might be divorced. My older brother might be getting all the attention, whatever your challenge is, why dont you make yourself the next Success Story. Or have great satisfaction knowing that you did everything to try to make it happen. But get in the game. Thats what he always felt. Get in the game. Matter. A lot of the jobs were volunteers, what he did with a lot of his legal cases, no one had any money, he was like, all right, just give me land, its huge. They sold half of it off. He has this huge this huge i dont know what you call it. Its basically his own country, his own state and yet he started with absolutely nothing. He ended up extremely productive. Yes. Oh, i thought you okay. Hi, i have two questions, if i could. What motivated the rag tag army of diverse folks to join him in the first place and second was, how on earth did you find the time to write this . [laughter] what i did was i did it in section for two and a half years and we would have a strategy now of find the topic, write the summary, decide because this is a tough war, you could end up in michigan for way too long and end up in canada, i have to put that in, theres a lot of things in the book, not in this book that were harder to put in the book and you write the chapters and summaries and you see if they make the cut and little by little you blow up the chapters and weed them together and then get the pictures, meet the people and then try to get the history that brings something new to the story. We didnt wanting to, wait a second, lets just do this book. Theres a lot of fox people that want to know about history. We try to do something new to the story and i think we found some of that. In the big picture it looks like a lot of work, in the course of two years, doing it in bursts, its small chunks make it digestible for me. What was your first question . [inaudible] okay. A couple of things, the british were so brutal, there were so horrible on the east coast, they didnt want to suffer the same fate, number two they actually wanted to be american, number three is the way i understand it he has the special thing we see in sports a lot that we see with coaches, feared and revered. People didnt want to let him down, they wanted somebody to rally around and he saw how he treated everyone equally if they had the same objective and they said well do do it. He didnt want to deal with the pirates, they are criminals. They got flint and amo and they know where the points are coming into land. They said in return, you know what we want, we want freedom and theres a lot and sure enough he got he got the okay from madison and monroe and they got the freedom and they kind of went back to being pirates, the way i understand it, thats a decision. Movie in of the pirates, im way off track, enough for the pirates, back to the story. The one chapter i wrestled more than anything else, needed the most help for was the history of new orleans. Man, its mind numbing between the french, the cajuns, im confused. Reading it out loud, its worse, you write it but youre not reading it all of a sudden you read it and say, how the hell do you say that, that took longer and this time unlike the other two times i made a conscious effort to talk slower so hopefullily get less hate mail. Thanks but can you slow down. I didnt want that this time. Yes. Given the involvement of france, spain and other countries in new orleans and the fact that the war of 1812 had 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 at new orleans . Great question. In 1818 that he would be out entirely. 101 situation in terms of globalism and colonialism. I would add this, new orleans is like britain, no one likes the strongest guy in the block and thats what we have been experiencing and britain had a way of being arrogant and acting like thugs. You know, when it came to alexander, it was fascinating to find out, when they got to alexander, how much would it cost for you not to destroy us, they said, well, here, they basically came up with the money and paid them not to destroy the town. Thats what they were, that held galvanize but i was fascinated to find out hi put the army together in three weeks, he doubled the size. One and a half size, put it together in three weeks, it was also fascinating is here he is in a rush, he doesnt know they land on the 23rd and they fight to the death on the eighth and he doesnt know when theyre coming but he knows this, i have to lift morale, brandnew army. They dont even have the same uniforms, he lifted everybodys spirits. They are playing music and getting their spirits up and they said, i have an idea, lets build a wall and dig, the whole town comes out, we have to get god on our side, the nuns, lets get them praying for us. Im reading book, the crazier things got, the calmer he got. I think jackson thrived under that pressure and i think people people fed off it. My opinion, my opinion is also the reason why there are statutes and people are in awe because contemporaries knew, theres very few people like him. You want to please him, you dont want to let him down and hes capable of breaking in half and hes also this, and it was making in my sports analogy, i looked at him as players coach, he wasnt going to walk with the infantry, he was going to stay in the horse, when he had to send militia home, they had to have some some kind of flu was breaking through the men, so he gave up his horses, gave up his carriage and he walked. So i think people appreciated that. I think all these elements combined along with the sense that jackson gave that they can win, by the way, if you dont want to fight with me, dont think youre going to stay in new orleans, i will give it to the british, that would motivate me too. [laughter] what top three Leadership Qualities did you find in Andrew Jackson and how can the Leadership Qualities be applied here in 2017 . Okay. Be demanding but understanding, be feared yet revered. There has to be some type of fear and number three is cool and calm under pressure, whatever happens when the world speeds up you have been to joe montana and slow it down and got to want that moment, you cant fear the moment. Whatever i found out that washington and jackson both processed, they dont think they are going to get killed and they dont. Jackson was pointblank in that we will have one night restless sleep on our soil, he goes in there, basically on a white horse and gunfires whipping around his head where his men were like, with we get the hell out of here and he felt that he wasnt going to die and so this is three off of the top of my head, but i would think theres a lot of characters, a book on leadership between jefferson, washington and jackson. The questions are too good, im afraid for the next group. [laughter] it seems as though nowadays we focus on all the bad things, i mean, we focus on what jackson did wrong, we have people call to go remove statutes of pretty much everyone. Everyone. How to we change the tide, get people to Start Talking about some of the more positive things . How about this . I have an idea, maybe more about a faness, he has to have leadership, how about this, columbus day, washington days, these guys stay because they are not Perfect People but people in those times thought they were worthy of a statute. I think confederate is different, that deserves another look. They were basically looking to break the country in half not only debate the civil war but one mind if African Americans were offended and if they have trouble explaining to me their kids why Robert Lee Square is in essential square and didnt he fight to keep slavery i understand that. Should they be ignored, no, was robert lee a hero prior to that, recruited, absolutely, should there be Confederate Museum to learn, back, 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 theres no revenge, no revenge, you have amnesty, promise not to take up guns against us, so that was important. So if we go back there and start destroying the north starts destroying and dancing on graves and wiping out history we never would have come together as a country. Having recognized that, now its 2017, do you want to revisit, i get it. But if you want to revisit columbus, jefferson, washington, we heard about lincoln lately, you know, grant has a statute. He won, okay, he never had slaves, he had meat one antisematic remark which he apologized for his entire life, okay, fine. If you have to be perfect, all we are going to have pedestals. Be a leader, get here behind the microphone, get in a position of power, oh, yeah, im in maryland and this statute stays, im in virginia and washington stays, not because hes perfect, if you dont want that, elect somebody else because as far as im in power thats whats going to happen. I see this mayor of new orleans wants to take the statute down of jackson, the guy who wants to run for president , trying to get attention and trying to get ink and thankfully the people in the area, you will see in Television Special are rallying around it. Not because hes perfect but american of impact that helped shape the country. Thatll be my answer. Have a leader stand up and show courage and stop being arrogant generation that thinks they are perfect and can judge everybody else that lived 100 of years ago. Im embarrassed by some of the conversations. The first whistleblower was fought in wars and whistleblower, i dont know if you have studied them but its become so difficult in our country to be a whistle blower and to get the truth out of whats going on with many americans. You have a specific incident in mind . I do. I have a suit i just filed, 43 federal judges sued and im starting a book on it. Ive been looking for justice. I was illegally jailed and tortured and held in confinement in the city of alexandria, our press ignores whats going on with people who dont have money and who the hierarchy is covering up but it started back then, i mean, they whistleblowers started speaking up back then but our government did give those people attorneys and they did empower them where today we are jailed. You didnt get an attorney . I cant afford one anymore. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys, i cant afford one anymore. They dont give you one . No, no. So we need to somehow expose our judges because our judges are are issue right now, they are hiding in their chambers and lawyers are empowering them because theyre not exposing corruption. Okay, i appreciate. I definitely can do that and edward snowden, could he have done it in a better way besides giving up our nations secret and going to hong kong and then to russia and is there a pathway for whistleblowers to come forward in a situation, i think thats definitely worth visiting. Im sorry to hear that you went through that, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Thanks so much. Im going to pay a little of devils advocate, what i appreciate as conservative is bringing lead toaster mind and forefront. Obviously jackson black thoughts in history, i think the idea is not to ignore parts of history, is to highlights things for system reason as was mentioned we decide to forget that we like to look at the negative and not the positive, so in a world where for some reason where we are undoubtedly very split, i dont know why people think we are not, the u. S. Is very split nation at this point when it shouldnt be and instead of coming together we decide to continue to find reasons and issues in our history and in the forefront, how do you think that this book as well as your appearances formally, how do you handle that without getting so personal . I know. Logical and not very emotional its a great question. But we are actually at the beginning. You have a lot of people already saying things. A lot of people say things about jefferson and more about jackson because now the statute debate is here. When i put out the jefferson book all of a sudden we invaded libya and we werent eyeing gadhafi. So i am not here to defend the trail of tears and what i intentionally didnt do is i havent made myself the premier jackson historian, to be honest. When you read johns book, you close and say i can do it bitter, im not sure that youre not being honest with yourself. I cant do jeffersons life but if you give me this 1805 war, youll let me know what he did in 1780, you know, 1783 when he starts confronted with this, i can do that. I am not going to run from it, i do know this, a lot of people tell me that trail of tears, theres a lot of to it, bottom line is if you talk to anybody in oklahoma, thats where all the indians who survived ended up, they dont want to carry a 20, they wouldnt carry a 20 in their pocket, so do you think im going to go there and say, youre wrong, no, im not going to do that. But i think that youre wrong to erase history. Theres a lot more good than bad. In life if you try to make a difference, you are going to rankle people, theres going to people think that youre crazy. Trueman had a 28 approval. When i was in school he was on everybodys list. They tried to im reading this book on lincoln, they tried to impeach him, lincoln. They thought he was you have to look back and understand somebody is not perfect and when you try to do great things, people are going to get in your way. Theres nothing great about the trail of tears, i get it. Ly take it on, but im not going to be blindly defending anybody, but i will defend that war that battle, his leadership and his confidence and his patriotism. He always had americas best interest in mind. In fact, if you dont mind me reading this, this is his farewell, i thank god that my life has been spent in a land of liberty and has given me that its given me a heart to love my country and the affection of a son and son to his country and a father to the people. I mean, thats a guy that felt pretty good when he passed away that he and felt pretty fortunate despite the hardship that is he felt. He had a bullet in his lung, he had a series of illnesses that would have maybe destroyed the average person, he was near death a couple of times and yet he felt really fortunate. Anybody else . Yeah. My wife and i were in enjoyed watching you for about a week or so and then you left, is fox rotating people for two weeks i did the 10 00 oclock show because my family didnt want me around. Laura will be taking the show over on monday. So they asked me to do two weeks. The thing is, if your job, i love my job in the morning, i dont want to have a lot of sleep and worried about being too sharp, i love the job in the morning, to go through own thing at night live is pretty cool, so that was pretty fun for two weeks. I filled in on tuesday and i was supposed to do thursday and friday but laura and shannon, could not let me do the show tonight or last night from washington, they had no more people. So washington will now have lauras show, shannons show, tucker show and brets show as well as on the weekends too, its definitely going to be almost as active if not more than new york. Things are always changing. I will be filling for tucker once in a while. The only sacrifice is like to be in the book tour and find out you missed your daughters playoff game, they won 10 in the last four minutes. So, youre happy they won, right . [laughter] monday im going to be around for the quarter finals, so thatll be good. So my whole my thing tears me as it would you, i love this job, i love to communicate people about history, theres so many other jobs in my business that are a fraction as fun as this and interesting but the problem is not being home. But the great thing about doing the morning show is that you can be a parent because im up at 2 30, i work by 3 45, i put in six hours before they wake up, when im done with the radio at noon i was able to pick them up at Grammar School when they get out at 3 00 oclock. They didnt know how sleep deprived i was and dont tell them. [laughter] i would have been a much better parent had i been conscious but at least i was there and coach things at night but when they say, fill in for tucker, we will need you for two weeks, im like great, ah. That was the bad part. And its always great, i dont even call home when im working between 3 00 and 7 00 because im here, im dropping off katie, i got the johnsons keeping up kristin and now i feel terrible and im slowing my life down, so but she does an incredible job, her dedication, because it turns out she likes all my kids too [laughter] it really stresses her out. Hes like the real hero of this whole thing. What are the most important lessons youve learned that led you to the position of influence and leadership that you have now . I am very lucky, i joined the yankees when they were high landers and the people go, yeah, i have to go in the Expansion Team in 1923, i think it was, a guy named babe ruth, the only pitcher outfielder, i walked into a great team that no one recognized besides bill oreilly and then i just had a chance to get there, very appreciative number one, i mean, to have the opportunity when george bush, president bush asked me and tim to do his last tball game, a bunch of 3yearolds playing tat white house, every day i say to myself, you have to be fortunate. Never arrogant, i dont think thats possible. In fact, Something Else i did that helps me, is i always keep negative stuff around like all my rejection letters i keep in a folder and i keep them close,i want to know how easy it is to fall off the cliff because in our job theres great highs and great lows, right, you dont do anything in secret. You have a bad show, everybody knows. Jimmy kimmel calls you out on national television, i know by the time i wake up at 2 30, everyone is letting me know. So every time john city stewart or jimmy kimmel, every time i keep that in my office. If youre kind enough to say im a person of influence, thank you, but im not the person that thinks that everybody likes me because they dont. The president likes us most of the time, he likes to watch the show, we put in ten years of talking with him, taking him out for christmas lunch, i like him, hes a nice guy. Hes a very unique guy, i dont know if youve noticed but i like him as a person and if he looks at our show is something of influence, im honored and thats the question i get that a lot now. What is it like the president watching your show . Great. You know, you like to make an impact. [inaudible] series of books in a personal story format, so youre trying to bridge from that generation to a generation now absolutely. And a generation rising, i hear you speak of your children. Sounds to me under this leadership, youre using personal stories and youre making it real and trying to bringing it to the forefront of what can we do now and where can we take this to the future to our children and make a difference and we need some people to stand up like this man and we are not all perfect right. If everybody was perfect, nobody would be in church, right . [laughter] sounds to me like you want to bring this to the next generation in a personal story format and if im hearing you right, youre thinking about your kids in the next generation . Absolutely. Todays history lesson, they are absorbing everything. Im seeing them comment on how certain coaches and teachers are getting them ticked off because they have certain views. They are at school and donald trump wins and my son is getting emails, if you need somebody to talk to, we are here. [laughter] hes outraged. His economics professor decides to segue what george bush is. He went and saw the dean. I didnt know he would do anything like that. Dont want to tell you where he goes because i dont want to make things worse. [laughter] i didnt ask him to do that and my kids have a different view of donald trump. Had a chance to see him in the real world and they take it personal when they attack him personally because they have you adifferent view on him. You want to judge a character, judge him with kids, they are attracted to him, they feel warmth around him and also i would say this about, its a little bit different than what youre saying about donald trump, you can judge people about how they treat people they need nothing from, donald trump judges he actually gaidz off the charts before you run for president. I watch the way he treats makeup people, in the apprentice, people that pick him up in the car, the waiters that you eat with. Hes not one of the one of the politicians, thanks for being here, i hope you vote for me. He asks him questions. I just want to slice into their lives. Hes got the long beard, duck dynasty guy. What is it like to not have to eat a squirrel every day. We prepare your food rather than shoot it. One of the second one i ever did was was President Trump. People that said hello to him were not people in the tiffany building, people that said hello to them, usa today newspaper box, the tampa taxi cab driv. It was almost like a commercial. The rich people dont even like him. They think hes too flamboyant, i know the everyday people should have no relationship to them because he was born relatively well off and ended up a billionaire and he has a tower named after him, in fact, he has a lot of them. Why doesnt the everyday people relate to them, because he actually relates more to them than those people on wall street and elites. Theres authenticity there. I watch for people that he doesnt need anything from. He really impressed me the most. I dont think he should be tweeting either but [laughter] i get it. I know the same thing that gives you knots in your neck, gives me knots in my head. I love joe manchin, lindsey graham. Marco rubio. You get to learn them personally, you pull for them and have success. What im trying to do tell you a story in a quickmoving way because in my mind you have a million things to do, you dont im giving up a lot of the smells in the air and the color of the leaves to get to the point and thats what where it is equal success but i also want to be accurate. I dont want parttime to go, oh, yeah, the book, good not true. I want you to say, yeah, its true and if you wanting to more indepth, man, theres a lot of other stuff out there, are we okay . Thank you very much, i appreciate it. I will sign your book outside. Actually, i will sign it here. [applause] brian, thank you very much, would you like the president oh to tweet out a support of the book . Thatll be interesting. I know many of you didnt bring a copy, right outside we have the table set up. Brian is going to stay here and always so great about signing books. He will be standing here. If you have a book comen up. If you need to get one go outside the doors, thank you, everybody, for coming. [inaudible conversations] thank you. Every weekend book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. If youre going to use them for social media, youre welcome to keep them on. Also during our q a we have microphones just the one this time so if you could step up to that mic, that would be great because we have cspan here filming and also making an audio recording of this event