His father was a rigid evolutionist preacher. Abolitionist preacher. He grew up in a very religious environment. Shortly after college, he was a teacher and became a lawyer. He was involved in a very important case, the decentralization of new york city streetcars. Desegregation of new york city streetcars. Theas a quartermaster in union army during the civil war in new york city. A opportunities for learning his own pockets, which he did not do as many others did. That he became involved in the machine politics of that era. In particular, he became very close to the flamboyant new york boss. He is an extremely interesting character. Brian the years he served as president . Scott he served as president from 1881, when garfield was shot and eventually died, until the end of his term in 1885. Brian who was president before and after him . Scott garfield before. Grover cleveland was president after. Brian why did you want to write a book about Chester A Arthur . Scott every president has
Sadler said in a white house meeting, quote, it doesnt matter, hes dying anyway. Well, this morning only after this has become public, sadler is apologizing. The administration is trying to clean up this mess, while not denying the comments were made or even apologizing with a white house statement. Abby philip joins us outside the white house with more. No official apology from the white house, but condemnation from both sides of the aisle this morning in congress and among the American Public. Reporter thats right. Kelly sadler, a white house aide, is under fire this morning from both parties for her comments in a communications this week about john mccain. She was referring to mccains opposition to President Trumps cia nominee, gina haspel, in which sadler said that mccains comments basically dont matter because hes dying anyway. The white house in response to these reports didnt deny sadler said that in this meeting but did issue this statement in response saying we respect senator
Mccains service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time. Now, we know that this is causing quite a bit of blowback here to the administration. There are many members of congress including senator lindsey graham, very close with senator mccain who said there is no one on capitol hill who is laughing about these comments. And we know that sadler herself did reach out to Meghan Mccain, the daughter of john mccain, to apologize for her comments and try to mend the fences. But at this point, the mccain family is still very upset over this. Let me read for you the tweet put out by cindy mccain directed at kelly sadler. I remind you my husband has a family, seven children and five grandchildren. John mccain is still recovering from that brain tumor and the subsequent treatment as a result of it. Lindsey graham said yesterday that he visited with mccain recently and that he is improving, hes continuing to fight and he still hopes to be back in the sena
Rob driving in this morning, all the good people, all the costumes, 3 00 in the morning. Jillian i didnt see anything. Halloween night in new york city. Fox and friends first, rob schmidt. Jillian lets begin with this. Immigration taking center stage less then a week before the midterms, 15,000 troops headed to the southern border as donald trump double down on key policies. Rob pulling no punches down the stretch with 5 days to go. Reporter what began as a deployment of 5000 troops to the southern border has tripled. Donald trump about to send 15,000 troops for operation faithful patriot, it is intended to help manage the caravan of Central American migrants still hundreds of miles away from us soil. We have to have a wall of people, terrific dedicated patriots is what they are. A deployment of around 7000 troops to california, arizona and texas, and their primary role will be a support one. They are known to work with 2100 National Guardsmen already in place. Mexico meanwhile is push