we have a president who members of his own team believe is unfit to be president. that s a constitutional crisis. there is a corruption crisis here, too, because the author of this piece says, hey, we left him in place because we like tax cut, military spending and deregulation. if the republican party is complicit in an amoral and unfit president because they are getting goodies for their donors, that is just corruption. and there is a chaos crisis. you have people in the president s administration running around undoing his decisions, not following his orders, ignoring what he says. that s chaotic. donald trump tweeted treason. the answer is no. we have not had a treason case in america since world war ii because, as i ve said before in this program, the united states supreme court has interpreted
ulysses s. grant interceded with johnson to drop the treason case against lee. president johnson was very much in favor of prosecuting lee for treason but general grant who was much more popular with the public told the president that he would resign from the army and in a public protest after traeon prosecution of robert e. lee. so president john son backed down and got federal prosecutors to drop the case. robert e. lee ahad a close. he could have been the chander of the army in the civil war or commander of the confederate army. he made the wrong choice. 40% of virginia officers in the u.s. military remained in service to the united states army and fought in the civil war on the union side against their home state of virginia. 40% of them. members of robert e. lee s own family sited with the north over virginia and the south. his sister, chose the north.
sell a mother to one buyer and the children to other buyers. there is no shadow of a legal doubt that lee was guilty of treason p. an editorial insisted that robert e. lee should be charged with treason. he levied war against the united states more than any other man in the land and thereby has been especially guilty of the crime of treason has defined in the constitution of the united states. the times wanted to say whether general lee should be hung or not is a minor question. three days later, robert e. lee was in fact indicted for treason. his opponent in the civil war fellow west point graduate ulysses s. grant interceded with johnson to drop the treason case against lee.
gadan and i think we have talked about him on this broadcast repeatedly over the years, how important were they. gaddan was the first american charged with treason and it carried the death penalty and it is a charge very rarely invoked. there is no evidence that he was he was planning operations against the united states but he was a leading spokesperson for al qaeda and u.s. prosecutors must have felt there was a good case to advance the treason case against him. and farouk we hear he is an american but what we know about him is not a very great deal. he s he s head of this new al qaeda affiliate, the south asian affiliate and they have had a number of leaders killed in the last several months and has positioned itself in a way of competing with isis which is
the 70-year-old was a no she for the treason case. and bone- chilling cold in much of the u.s. watches and warnings for millions in the midwest to new england. we have molly live in boston where the snow is piling up. hi, molly. reporter: hi, we have a couple of inches on the ground and by the evening commute, plenty of traffic heading in and out of boston. we have seen a lot of plo ws. and the snow is expected to pick up and there is a tremendous concern about coastal flooding heading in midnight tonight and noon tomorrow. and seeing the water come up and smashing in the roads. that is always a concern in the big storms in the coastal areas. this is expected to hit