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You re changing history. you re changing culture. and you have people and i m not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. but crow had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists okay, and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning historian. he s a professor of history at columbia university. professor, it just made me wonder today where would we be if robert e. lee had been convicted of treason. we don t have any stutes in this country to anyone who has been convicted of treason. one of the reasons grant did mott want him tried is it would have made him a martyr in the south, which in a sense he became any way. people in the north were not that interested in treason trials after the civil war. they were interested in what was going to happen to the 4 million emancipated slaves, including the slaves of robert e. lee. ....
And you this titan tick battle of reconstruction which ended up granting civil rights to the african-americans. robert e. lee opposed that vehemently. but i think, you know, treason trials were really not a major factor in the agenda of the post civil war period. it probably wouldn t have made a heck of a lot of difference. maybe you would have had fewer statues of robert e. lee. but there were hundreds of statues like him of confederate generals all over the south. and the history of those is more likecentury. wasn t it sort of a nostalgic looking back? these statues don t have much to do with the confederacy. but the confederacy is a symbol, an emblem of white supremacy. ....
At some point, he was co opted by vladimir putin. and that means he bought into and embraced the dictatorial ideology that was done by a spy master of the kgb. ten years ago, 20 years ago, there would be treason trials. i would like to bring one point up. why? because long ago there was a guy, a kgb officer, and he wrote, this is who the kgb targeted, eagle centric people who are too greedy or suffer from exaggerated self importance. these are the people kgb wants and finds easiest to recruit. vladimir putin went to the school of intelligence, he learned how to manipulate people, and at some point, we need to find out when did donald trump s ideology shift from western capitalism to russian authoritarianism. this is an important question. and let me go to you first on that. we know that donald trump s family has courted business in russia, done business in russia. they sell a lot of condos to ....
Read this book on grant and i had not so i decided to get up on it. and your great grandfather had no treason trials after the civil war. what other things are you proud of that he is someone you are related to directly? guest: that part of it, really, is one of the thing i am most proud. he was about reconciliation, into forgiveness and the confederates were americans and he wanted the country back today. he did not just want to beat them which is what a last the north wanted to do. he wanted to bring them back in and i am proud of that. do you see major parallels suffering law an economic crisis right now and questions of leadership, what can we learn from him? guest: maybe we can learn to be more forgiving of our presidents because they get stuck in difficult situations and it is not always to dig out. he got the didn t at a time that never before or since has the ....
And give a speech and people talk to me and wrote say did you read this book on grant and i had not so i decided to get up on it. and your great grandfather had no treason trials after the civil war. what other things are you proud of that he is someone you are related to directly? guest: that part of it, really, is one of the thing i am most proud. he was about reconciliation, into forgiveness and the confederates were americans and he wanted the country back today. he did not just want to beat them which is what a last the north wanted to do. he wanted to bring them back in and i am proud of that. do you see major parallels suffering law an economic crisis right now and questions of leadership, what can we learn from him? guest: maybe we can learn to be more forgiving of our presidents because they get stuck in difficult situations and it is not always to dig out. ....