Transcripts For CSPAN2 Brian Kilmeade Andrew Jackson And The Miracle Of New Orleans 20171123

Web site for those in the house sent courtesy that the mobile devices have been silent those watching on line and hosting the program for girl serving as a Senior Communications advisor. [applause] bin afternoon you are in for a treat. Our speaker does not need a huge introduction six hours a day on the airwaves three hours in the morning on fox and friends of president treated a nice show about doing a great job. And then nine thru noon with the Brian Kilmeade show was also a prolific author of five books the last five of which have been on three of the most famous president s washington and Thomas Jefferson now Andrew Jackson. The first to read the New York Times bestseller list and will not doubt that jackson will find itself there as well as a book filled with Great Stories and great history. It says a lot about the people of the book with the unsung men and women. With the generals like jackson made famous. Your names and faces may not be no by the world but youre never forgotten by me. Brian kilmeade. [applause] thank you very much. As a true professional we did it interview last week but up the heritage wouldbe tired of me banal but with the audiovisual presentation with no extra money. And then to give you the idea and then when you found when you got started for girl so how much time i should be. With the war on statues. And hugh sinn gps. Just to give you an idea where i came from. Back in 1996 and mostly sports. There wasnt a place for sports. And then when things got serious watching the tanks roll in from iraq to get different row seat at the Number One News Network of all time in never not expected to not be successful and it has been to the point not only number one in news but i think it is becoming is the type of people that get hired who happen to be very fortunate to communicate with america and i apologize but the world does not revolve around washington or losses angeles and new york and we have respect for the people in the middle. The games to account. But the fourth career was incredibly average for girl and then they get wasted a lot of time in college but with that sporting event. I played basketball ive played tennis. I wish i worked harder as a football player. And betty has a great sports story. What about those that our noteworthy . Most of the time it can be labeled failure. Talking to 73 people and 92 how to play the game. To have some type of failure to fall short of your goals like that my failure of the way some sports career is no problem. And it is a breach sorry took some time off. To say i love history and that is all i read. And then i got this the arabia with oreilly there is a spy ring and without that we go live in the revolutionary war so i have been studying since 1998. When i saw a National Treasure nicolas cage i thought this really happened the with the board. And among those that thought that was washington himself. And then bringing to the forefront and i would do it that is why i wrote to George Washingtons secret sex it did extremely well much better than anybody thought. And extremely patriotic. And then to be a fan of history. And if you like stories. And if they check to of the three boxes they dont like the book. End with that profs to have another passion in their right for each other and another book what are you passionate about . Every time you see a war on terror that we reference every six weeks really it was Thomas Jefferson that i finally stopped research to do the tripoli pirates finding of a rope these nations there were also using our ships as an opportunity to enslave the croats and ask for ransom. But america stood up to find out to send a message to the rest of the world. To do so much of his life. That is an avenue of thought we could explore. It was never one for a while because people like stories they can feel and touch with the Jefferson Library and to do something special. They did stand up for a while he hit the high now your twothirds through. [laughter]. What they wanted was new orleans was a mishmash of troops and not supposed to go out that would be suicide. Annette would need a miracle to stop christmas and just knew where to go. So with the battle of the womens . To date back hundreds of years and among those people majorgeneral Andrew Jackson himself with the Catholic Church with the battle of the war ruins of. With that divine intervention revealing 1850s. This could become a blood bath. With the birth of modern america. That would be one of the most stunning upset victories. Jackson and left the estate when he was done with the battle of new orleans he became a National Star may be the most famous america to fight for freedom with the two terms in the white house as one of the most consequential in our history. His wall is still there. [laughter] the more you look the more youll understand what is happening and this is the numbers that the hermitage was 5,000 against 9,000 british. In terms of being killed they had 1262 wounded some were blown apart. We did a great job killing their officers. Three generals dead seven colonels said 75 officers. So we took out the officers and were playing for keeps we had nowhere to go as you can see a lot of times. But this was a route to terrorizing the of intercos. They had drawn up a letter of secession. If you think 2017 is challenging that is nothing to a we have been to on the past. Wellingtons and vegetables it is on the tip of my tongue of napoleon. A good guy. Then they come finish us off even though the numbers are strong. When this book and then break it down by the title role interjects and why is he special . Endorphin at 30 and this is his older brother the revolutionary war, neither brother taken prisoner older brother 14 dies because of the wound suffered after he is captured his mom goes to help her sister then she dies because they trump arrives at his house with her stuff. At 13 years old he is raised by his country. Guest the guy who is patriotic he saw what everyone did he could be successful he wanted to pay back the country he bled red white and blue. So instead of us an excuse he became the attorney general in 1791 in tennessee than the house of representatives, bin to the senate served as a judge and then a Major General and the last thing to his resume may to return president of the united states. That will resonate and i hope it does because this is the american dream. Dont tell me what you have for where you start to where i finish because giving you the opportunity to pursue happiness we dont guarantee anything. I have gotten calls and emails i cannot give that his whole life but to think that this life should not be on a pedestal i think is a reach it is the arrogance of regeneration to consider taking down his statue of but if you talk about columbus and jackson not because hes perfect but i will give you an idea in the traits that he displayed with the model that he had the british had run over washington that they have had success he said it is true the enemy threatens invasion but it is deeply true with approval we will be to read every point so they attack the british with acts and i as handguns in 90 minutes with 500 read casualtys and said who is this guy . With dysentery can fire a bunch of americans to attack the british they thought it would in even be relevant to american on the International Scene another reason why a fellow love with this story they were not the marines of South Carolina or new york but indians and militiamen and sharpshooters that did not miss the british rock about that you can get those accounts then free men of color and pirates together they are forces that do they remembered we get paid the same you eat the same your arm to the same. They told people in 1815 that you treat people of all colors and persuasions. A lot of people back then said if you want to fight they are fighting. That is how they were treated. It is the symbolism which makes me conclude a couple of things that americas strength of diversity because to put Everything Else behind under the belief if you believe in yourself finding a way to win in america does and we start off doing the right thing with the war tactics but we just until we win with those lizard generals that led the troops to protect washington and refine the col day Major General Andrew Jackson begging to be put in the game because he was not from virginia he was from massachusetts are part of the in crowd the when they need someone to fight with the worse secretary of for they got a new one. Monroe said i am getting jackson and i will let him fight. Rules of engagement lead it happen. Great americans rise at this time they need it most they put it in print but unlike washington he taught himself how to be a leader and he came up with us to see what the british did to implement his own Tactics Program guy whod came through but in terms of philosophy one that was cool that drove him his entire life feel is remembered his mom told him they friends by being honest keep them by being steadfast and never take july settled cases yourself. He did but he did not fight for go he killed somebody 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 has been pointed out by President Trump himself the president is somebody took his case to the people of and also sidelined running for president believe were not it was jackson. Neither was President Trump and is still not. Also obsessed with the media. I have a pitcher posted tomorrow on fox and friends for caretaking in taking a. [inaudible] of the hermitage he said those are the newspapers. He would look at them to make notes not true. Never happened. Contact to the reporter. [laughter] putting into binders to keep them believe there are three piles of sure if i did it would turn to dust and then what is extraordinary to look at it as he saw it. Good job for pope you wanted done right then hire a good reporter the way you think is right and obviously the hair which is distinctive and in the event comfortable with the family around them. So Heart Failure over the controversy that came up with a run for office. And so to diminish Andrew Jackson. And then to have bankruptcys. That is like giving as 10 and then we become billionaires. But then those controversial things. And there is a plainly confident they are doing the right thing. I stopped at the battle of coming back as the great leader as one of the most lauded in the country so Abraham Lincoln said how did he handle it with South Carolina . He used force. Donald trump said that he was president during the civil war rekindle that. And then said he will not put up with anyone breaking up the union. Number three another leader was Teddy Roosevelt did in world war ii was about to start fdr went to a the hermitage and said comeuppance see the outside he said i have to walk it he wanted to feel the founder of the Democratic Party to understand each channel that leadership absolutely true. When Ronald Reagan in treatment takes over he had a figure read on his desk as a captain of world war i and then he ended at being a great president but then with modern times to do is stand up in front of the statue as a very respected president ial historian in said it you know, why were standing here . Because Ronald Reagan demanded to have his photogenic for Time Magazine in front of jacksons statue. You may think i am overstating the book but that exact prototype is what we ended up on the 2011 so thrilled to talk about a battle that nobody thought we could win and leslie not only did we have to fight the battle he was quoted to say or the british would tear of the treaty and keeping it. Doing the of hard work to show they have every intention to make sure reword not going to go past the mississippi with that economic powerhouse after that they realize we cannot stop it. Game over we dont control the mississippi or become the america we are today. That is Andrew Jackson the miracle of new orleans with a Great American Success Story. As i examined the crowd high intellect or curious . And even take some questions thats why i brought the extra zero bader. I love researching it. And i. M. Throw that mecham does that and then as well as general the crystal. To be accurate end keith removing and thankfully they did that. [applause] you mentioned a the early background are you aware or have you reflected what drove him . He was very driven individual. With that difficulty of bringing . You have two choices. Even remember getting a thing called Christmas Present your birthday present . You can say i dont matter or i am determined to matter. To make sure people knew that he battered. The indian fighter the creek indians, and there were other fights that were unnecessary and said i have to do what is necessary. And to adopt the indian child. So he could not have kids on his own. And kept moving and kept moving and that is why and why it happened so long ago to say i have no excuse. End to get the attention whatever your challenges make yourself the next Success Story to have great satisfaction to try to make it happen. Get in the game a lot of these were volunteers. With these legal cases. I have two questions if i could. One has to do with what do you think motivated this army of diverse folks to join him in the first place and then how did you find time to write this . I did it in sections and i would do it in bursts. We had a strategy now of find the topic, write the summary. You could end up in michigan for way too long and canada. Theres a lot of things not in this book that are harder to do and then you write the chapters and the summaries and little by little we blow up the chapters. Then try to get a history that brings something new to the story. We tried 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. But in the course of two years, doing it in bursts i think it is more chunks makes it more digestible for me. [inaudible] they were so brutal and horrible on the east coast, they didnt want to suffer the same fate. Number two, they wanted to be american. Number three, he has that special thing we see with coaches, feared and revered. People didnt want to let him down, they wanted someone to rally around and saw how we treat everyone equally if we had the same objective and they said we will do it. He was like no they are criminals. Listen, theyve got flint and ammo, they know where it is so basic in return you know what we want, we want freedom from all the charges. He got the okay from madison and they look back to being pirates the way i understand it. How much do we put . Well, im way off track. Back to the story. The one chapter i wrestle with more than anything else is the history of new orleans. Its mindnumbing between the french and then doing the book out loud is worse. You sit there and say how do you say that. By this time i made a conscious effort to talk slower so hopefully i will get less hate mail [inaudible] france and spain and new orleans and the fact eight team 12 had been going for a while and the 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 . The spanish were barely holding on to spain when we confronted and gave them 24 hours to get out and they left. So it was a oneonone situation in terms of globalism and colonialism but i would add no one likes the strongest guy on the block and that is what we have been experiencing. In way of being arrogant and acting like thugs. And it was fascinating to find out when they go to alexander they know how much would it cost not to destroy us and they said well here and they came up with the money not to destroy it so thats where they were. It was fascinating to find out they put it together in three weeks, but they doubled the size. One and a half in three weeks. What is also fascinating is he doesnt know. They land on the 23rd and they fight for ththefight for the dee eighth and he doesnt know when they are coming but he knows this. He has a military parade with his new army and they start drilling and playing music and getting their spirits up and he says i have an idea. Lets build a wall and build a moat. We have to get god on our side. Lets convert that to a hospital. The composure he had under pressure in some very rare. Im reading a book on grant it seemed they had a good thing so i think jackson thrived under that pressure. My opinion is also the reason people are in all is because the contemporaries knew very few people like him. You want to please him you dont want to let him down and you also know hes capable of breaking even half and hes also in my sports analogy i look at him as a players coach because he understood what they are going through and didnt feel like an elitist where he would walk with the infantry. They had to go back and everyone was exhausted and they started having some type of flu so he gave up and they walked so i think people appreciated that and all of the elements combined along with the same by the way if you dont want to fight with me dont think you have to stay in new orleans because im going to burn this place down, that would motivate me, too what top three Leadership Qualities did you find and how can those Leadership Qualities be applied here in 2017 . Be demanding that understanding. Theres got to be some kind of fear and number three is cool and calm under pressure. Whatever happens when the world speeds up youve got to slow it down, and youve got to want that moment. You cant fear that moment. The other thing i found they both possessed is that they dont think they are going to get killed. And weird things happen, they dont. They will have one nice restful sleep on the soil and gunfire is whipping around his head and he just felt like he wasnt going to die and that feeling may be catapulted him to success but i would think theres a lot of characters to write a book on leadership between jackson and jepson. I am afraid for the next group. It seems as though we focus on all the bad things and what jackson did wrong. May be more in a finesse weight and president of trump, the answer is yes. How about columbus stays, jackson stays, you know why, because people in these times thoughtimesthought they were woa statute. I think that deserves another look. If they are offended and have trouble explaining to their kids why robert e. Lee is in the Central Square and didnt he fight to keep slavery, i understand that. Was he recruited to go to the north, absolutely. Now, do we appreciate the need to make history again as the country and dacountry and do whn wanted to do and make sure there is no revenge with amnesty. If we go back and start destroying their stuff and the farms and wiping out their history, we never would have come together as a country. If you want to revisit columbus, jefferson, washington, we heard about lincoln lately. If you have to be perfect all youre going to have his pedestals. Go here behind a microphone and say i am in maryland, and the statute stays. As far as im in power, thats going to happen. I see this mayor of new orleans wants to take the statue down of jackson. Trying to get some attention and thankfully, the people in that area and you will see on television they are rallying around it. Not because hes perfect, but they helped shape the country. So that would be my answer. Stop being this arrogant generation that thinks they are perfect and can judge everybody else lived hundreds of years ago. I am embarrassed by some of these conversations. Whistleblowing has been something that i dont know if you studied it in any of them that has been all along and its become so difficult in our country to be a whistleblower and get the truth out of what is going on with many americans. Do you have a specific incident in mind . I am starting a book on it. Have been looking for justice, was illegally jailed and tortured in the city of alexandria. It started back then they started speaking up and talking back then and we were just as disenfranchised, but they did empower them, whereas today we are jailed. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys i cant afford one. They dont give you one . No. We need to expose our judges because they are the issue right now. They are hiding in their chambers, and lawyers are empowering them because they do not expose the corruption. We are starting to think about the whole whistleblower thing to fruition. Could they have done that a better way and been coming forward in situations like that sorry to hear that you go through that. Im going to play a little bit of devils advocate. I appreciate the conservative idea of bringing the leaders to mind and forefront. One of the spots in history for example im sure you talked about this trail of tears which i think the idea is not to ignore parts of history and highlight things that for some reason as was mentioned we decide to forget we like to look at the negatives and not the positives though for some reason we are undoubtedly very split and i dont know why people think we are not, that the u. S. Is a very split nation at this point and then instead of coming together we decided to continue to find a reason in our history and in the forefront how do you think that this book as well as your appearance is formally, how do you handle that without getting so personal . We are actually at the beginning, so a lot of people are ready saying things because now the statute debate is here when i put out the love all of the sudden we invaded libya and when i started the book we were talking about libya again. So i am not here to defend the trail of tears and what i intentionally didnt do if i have not made myself the premier jackson historian to be honest when you read jon meachams book if you close it and think i can do it better im not sure you are being honest with your self. I decide decide to focus on onet but if you give me this and let me know what he did in 1783 i can do that so im not going to run from it. The ones that survived thats where they ended up and they dont even want to carry 20. So did you think they want to go and say you are wrong plaques no but i think theres a lot more good than bad, and i think that in life if you try to make a difference you are going to have people that think youre crazy. Remember truman has a 28 Approval Rating and he was on everybodys list. Reading the book on lincoln they tried to impeach him so youve got to look back and understand somebodys not perfect and also understand when you try to do great things people will get in your way and there is nothing great about the trail of tears, i get it. I will not be blindly defending anybody that i will blindly buty defend that battle on leadership and his confidence and patriotism. He always had americas best interests iinterest in mind. In fact if you dont mind me reading this, it is his farewell. I think ought my wife has been spent in a land of liberty and have given me a hard to love my country and a son to his country and father to the people. He had a series of illnesses and yet he felt fortunate. Anybody else . My wife and i enjoyed watching you for about a week or so and then you left. I did the 10 00 show because my family wanted me to do Something Else. Laura will be taking the show over on monday. Im so glad i dont want to have a lohavea lot of sleep im worrt them being too sharp. That was pretty fun for two weeks i was supposed to be tuesday and friday that they were rehearsing. They had no more people, so washington will now have the show so it is going to be as well as on the weekend almost as active if not in new york so things are always changing. The only sacrifice is to be in the book tour and then find out youre missing your daughters playoff game and they one in the last four minutes. Monday im going to be around for the quarter. I love the job and to communicate with people. Theres so many other jobs in my business to our fraction as fun and interesting but the problem is im a path 2 30, ive put in six hours before they wake up, im able to pick them up at Grammar School when thethegrammt at like 3 00 they didnt know how sleep deprived i was. When they say fill in for tucker where we are going to need you for two weeks im like great. Now its the bad part. I dont even call home when im working between three and seven. So then i feel terrible. But she doeshe does an incredib. Her dedication it turns out she likes all of my kids, too. It stresses her out and she is the real hero of this whole thing. What are the most important lessons youve learned that have led you to the influence and leadership i joined the yankees when they were the highlanders and thbeing up winning 24 championships. Weve got to get this pitcher outfielder. I walked into this team no one recognized him outside and then i had a chance to get there, very appreciative number one. To have the opportunity when president bush asked me to do the last tball game every day i would say to myself you have to be fortunate, never arrogant. But there is Something Else i did that helps me i always keep negative stuff around in a folder i keep them close because i want to know how easy it is to fall off a cliff with great highs and lows. Jimmy kimmel calls you out on National Television i know by the time i wake up next 2 30, everyone has let me know so that is a great feeling. Every time jimmy kimmel does that or Keith Olbermann calls me the worst person in the world, i keep that in my office. I am not a person who thinks everybody likes me, because they dont. We put in ten years, and i can hear some nice guy. Very unique. I dont know if you noticed. Thats the question that i get asked a lot now. Generation to generation now you speak of your children so it sounds to me under the leadership you are using the personal stories you are trying to bring it to the forefront of what can we do now and where can we take this in the future for our children and make a difference and we need some people to stand up like this man. If everybody were perfectly but be in church. It sounds to me like you want to bring this to the next format. You are thinking about your kids and the next generation. They are absorbing everything and ims and then comment. Hes outraged. His economic professor decided to segue. I didnt even know he would do anything like that. My kids have a different view of President Trump and a chance to see him in the real world and they take it personal because they have a different view. You watch him with kids they are attracted to him and that they feel a warmth around him and also i would say its a different from what youre saying. He actually grades off the charts before he ran for president. I watched the way he treats people. They pick them up in a car and the waiters that you need with, thanks for being here, hope you vote for me. Hes real i did this one stand of two days before he announced i do this thing called a stroll. I will get willie robertson, walked dowwalk down the street w people react to him, the buck dynasty guy. We prepare your food rather than you shoot it so he has fun with that whole thing. The whole thing. The second one i ever did was President Trump. People have said hello to him or not the peoplwere not the people tiffany building. She was filling up the usa today paper box. The taxicab driver it was like a commercial but he couldnt set it up because this was traffic in new york city on fifth avenue. Rich people dont even like him. I know the everyday people should have no relationship to him because he was born relatively welloff and is a millionaire, billionaire with a tower named after him, she relates more to them than he does the people on wall street anand that he read so there is n authenticity. I watch him and thats where he really impressed me the most. Joe manchin, Lindsey Graham cane you get to know them personally, you hope for them to have success and what i am trying to do is tell a story with a little bit of a sports talk because in my mind you have a million things to do and im giving up a lot of spells in the air and color of the leaves to get to the point and that is where i think it is sixpoint also want to be accurate. I want you to say yes it is true buthat if you want to go more indepth theres a lot of other stuff out there. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. [applause] would you like the president to tweet us for the buck . Brian is going to stay here and hes always great about finding. He will be standing here so if you have a book come on up. Thank you, everybody, for comi coming