they were embedded in the service before mcclellan became commander. by the way, i would point out, winslow omer we must said -- once said these guys must be crazy. although he did some beautiful paintings that are at the , but it's a museum good supposition to say that mcclellan was on board with this. he was pretty flamboyant in his own way, but they were in service before. grand -- i don't know the answer, but one would assume that the soldiers who were marching south relentlessly in thatthe wilderness awful spring and summer of 1864 and were in the trenches before petersburg in early 1865, i would guess, by this time there were not many in the regiment. another question about the buttons. where they collected for bragging rights or for their market value? it's another really good question. i would say bragging rights in terms of intimidating enemy prisoners. not so much monetary value, but souvenir value. you know, in the same way that american soldiers of world war ii collected detritus, including enemy weapons, german and japanese weapons and sab

. >> they were embedded in the sfts before mcclellan became a commander. there would be zwabs at the battle. by the way, winslow homer once said these guys must be crazy in short. you know, to be out there. although he did some beautiful, beautiful paintings of cap light that are at the presidential museum. playing pitching whites and lounging around in camp. so they, they wore these, but no, one would, it's a good supposition to say that mcclellan was involved because he was pretty flamboyant in his own way. and grant, one would assume that the soldiers who were marching south relentlessly through the wilderness, cold harbor and in that awful spring and summer of 1864 and were in the trenches before petersburg in early 1865. i would guess there weren't many in the regiment. >> another question about souvenirs like the buttons. were they collected for bragging rights or for their market value? >> another really good question. i would say bragging rights in terms of humiliating enemy prisoners. not so much monetary value, but souvenir value. i was there. i

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mark mcclellan, former fda commissioner and director of the duke mar goala center for policy and andy slavid, former acting director for medicare and medicaid services. andy, let me begin with you. not just because you happen to be in my home state of minnesota. but we're going there anyway. between the briefing tonight and what we see in this axios interview, this is going to be a difficult day for all the people who are trying to take a public health approach to this crisis, right? >> well, you know, i think what's happening today is that increasingly he has been told by his staff that this is an untenable situation. the fact that they're producing charts and graphs with different ratios to try to put in front of america isn't exactly the kind of response we're hoping for. i think mark, i and others have been pushing for just some very specific tests, very specific steps, making sure we have enough testing, enough contact tracing. getting it down to the level where we have small amounts of case growth so we can start school, so we can go back to work. the country wants to get moving

mcclellan, seven governors have signed a deal with the rockefeller foundation to help develop their own testing strategy. have the states been left with no choice in the face of the federal government failing? >> well, i think there are more steps that states can take, not only to increase testing, but to get the right test for the right purposes, laura. much of the testing going on today is to help prevent the spread of outbreaks, not just by testing people who have symptoms and outbreaks of cases but in high-risk settings, like nursing homes or front line workers. we need more tests for those individuals. what the states are specifically pushing for here is more purchases of tests that can be used at the point of care, can get quick results out there. not just for people who have symptoms but to help go more on the offense of preventing the spread in situations where there is a high risk of outbreaks from people who are not showing any symptoms. >> and, of course, we want to think about being proactive, right? the idea of being so reactive, and reflexive, you're not going to get ahead

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this water dropping aircraft from wisconsin is now the cal fire base at mcclellan park. other out-of-state privately owned firefighting airplanes have also arrived at mcclellan, including the global supertanker. it is all part of the strategy to orange and air attack to gain some containment. ; received 60 fire engines from major he states from washington, arizona, new mexico. >> and we are proud to be partnering with the red cross in a virtual telethon for fire relief. we're running it all day today, starting right now. just call or text the numbers on your screen to help. you can go to kpix.com as well. stay with us for updates from the fire lines streaming 24/7. >>> along the coast, the czu complex has grown to 74,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo county. it is still 8% contained after burning 163 structures. one reporter is at the scene right now with the very latest and how is it looking now? >> we are at the base camp where there is going to be a press briefing at 6:00 and we will bring that to you. i just drove over here through this area. it is incredibly qui

mark mcclellan is joining us. doctor, thanks so much for joining us. and as you know, the president, he actually accused what he called the deep state over at the fda of interfering in the approval of convalescent plasma but then said he broke the log jam to get this emergency use authorization. you're the former fda commissioner. in your time at the fda, did you ever get political pressure from the white house to take a step like this? >> well, wolf, the issues that fda deals with are ones that really matter to people, especially ones like this, unmet medical needs in a pandemic. so there is always going to be pressure, but it's very important to remember that the agency has science at its heart and is doing a tremendous amount of work to make progress. just in the case of this pandemic, we've seen more than 25,000 people enroll in multiple vaccine large trials already. and this is just months after the pandemic began. that's a record pace and that's because of the actions of people at the fda. so we need to support them. >> but would anyone at the fd

i don't think it's fair to say mcclellan was a saboteur. what happened is he was a conservative democrat. he didn't believe emancipation should be at all a goal in the war. he was very upset with lincoln enters the emancipation proclamation. he thought would make the war longer. lincolnshire seen earlier than he did, he was great at organizing the troops. he could discipline them and we have no army to begin with so we needed to do that. he created a great engine but it was a stationary engine. he some i didn't have whatever it took to take his troops into work. some people argued he loved it so much did want to take them in developing some people argued he was going slow because you want the were to continue without hurting the south. whatever it was he turned out not to get the come the question. lincoln took too long to ask was resignation. in 1864 in the summer it look like the fortunes of the world what at a low and even though it is forgiven what in vicksburg had been one for the north lincoln was a sure who's going to win another ele

what celebrate my father, the first black man to own white banks in america, and guess what, it was mcclellan and eastland and those guys who helped put biden where he is today, who went after him because he was a black man who owned banks in texas and was trying to help. >> laura: all right, a lot to digest there, but boy, we are going to have a time to do all of that. cynthia, dinesh, horace, thank you so much. and have locked down loving blue stakes handled covid as well as freedom loving red states? my "angle" on that, stay there. bottom line is, mom's love that land o' frost premium sliced meats have no by-products. (his voice) "baloney!" (automated voice) has joined the call. (voice from phone) hey, baloney here. i thought this was a no by-products call? land o' frost premium. fresh look. same great taste. ♪ >> laura: and now, blue states versus red states, it covid report card. that's the focus of tonight "angle." last week, we show you economic and health data proving that while the covid pandemic was one of the worst events in american history, the response to it by president trump

with james oliver eastland disgusts me to this day because that is the man that led -- that was with mcclellan, who destroyed my father's banking empire, who black people are so proud of, my dad -- there is a film "the banker" that celebrates my father, the first black man to own white banks in america, and guess what, it was mcclellan and eastland and those guys who helped put biden where he is today, who went after him because he was a black man who owned banks in texas and was trying to help. >> laura: all right, a lot to digest there, but, boy, we are going to have a time to do all of that. cynthia, dinesh, horace thank you so much. and have lockdown-loving blue states handled covid as well as freedom-loving red states? my "angle" on that, stay there. are you sick and tired of looking and feeling heavy? probioslim promotes healthy digestion and helps you lose weight. patented probiotics ease constipation, gas, and bloating, while powerful egcg burns fat and calories. unleash your potential with probioslim, the #1 probiotic fat burner at walmart. ♪ >> laura: and now blue states versus red

this water dropping aircraft is now at the cal fire base at mcclellan park. other out-of-state privately owned firefighting airplanes have also arrived, including the global supertanker. it as part of a strategy to launch an air attack to try to gain containment of millions of acres earning. >> we have already received 60 fire engines from neighboring states, from arizona, washington, oregon, new mexico. >> and we are proud to be partnering with the red cross in a virtual telethon for fire relief. we are running it all day today starting right now. just call or text the numbers on your screen or you can go to kpix.com and stay with us for updates from the fire lines streaming 24 seven. >>> now to the campaign trail, president donald trump will officially accept the republican presidential nomination at the white house this week. the 2020 republican national convention gets underway today in charlotte and washington, d.c. we have a preview of the four day event. >> delegates from around the country have converged on charlotte. the republican national conventio

cigar before the battle of antihem, they were discovered, decoded and it didn't help mcclell mcclell mcclellan do enough. he should have known everything about the battle plan, but it was not sufficient. but yeah, codes were broken, and so again, you know, you just move the bar, as they say. >> back to, was he wrong about anderson in fort sumpter, was there any hope of the union army relieving him if he held out? >> that's a really good question. so anderson was told by the lincoln administration that his fort would not be reinforced, it would be resupplied. he was running out of ammunition. he had no way to defend himself for much longer and the supply ships were turned back by the shellings, so he didn't get mortar. there's a great story about anderson, you know, he was allowed to leave. there were casualties because an area of the fort blew up during the flag lowering ceremony, so not during the shelling. he took the flag with him. he went on a boat, and went all the way back to new york. center of the universe even then, and he admitted that when he was on the ship to new york, he did not

in fact, this water dropping aircraft from wisconsin is what the cow fireplace in mcclellan park. other out-of-state, privately owned firefighting airplanes have arrived, including the global s of a strategy to launch an air attack to try to gain attainment of millions of acres burning. >> we have received 60 fire engine from neighboring states, from arizona, washington, regon, new mexico. ngton, >>> we are proud to be partnering with the red cross in a virtual telethon. it will be running all day tomorrow, starting at 4:30 am. remember to stay with and one for continuing coverage of the fires and a list of evacuations go to our website. be sure to join our morning team for the latest on the fires. will also be in and will have the latest on possible lightning storms. >>> she was one of the presidents longest serving advisors. coming up why kellyanne conway is now leading her job at the white house. >>> a controversial covid-19 treatment just got approved by the trump administration. >>> states along the coast to coast our reporting for a one- two punch from a pair ♪ (vo) my nam

only 21 from mcclellan. i should have said that when we showed the board. to showdid not begin his stripes until inauguration day when he turned up drunk for his swearing-in. realized he had made perhaps the worst mistake of his presidency. didrie: one final question, appomattox officially end the war? if not, what did? did jefferson davis conceived? caught a fewe was weeks later in georgia wearing his wife's raincoat or a hoop what, depending on cartoonist divide the scene. what really ended the war if you don't count the entrance of the union army to officially end the war, what probably ended it was the following month in may after appomattox when the forces led twicejohnson surrendered to william sherman. generous.were too the department of war countermanded them and sherman never spoke to the secretary of war again. sloppily.d that is probably why we remember this gentlemanly magnanimous stacking of arms at appomattox is the final act. it would be an epilogue and it would be messy. valerie: i lied. one more question. it is a good one. do you think edwi

chief political editor macculloch of new she's been following the meeting force good evening to you mcclellan we knew going into this meeting today that the number of new infections is getting worse was the message after the meeting that there is still time to stop this from becoming. yes and most of all the message was that now is the time to not ignore the corona threat but to actually take action and quite clearly here we see a shift where the government no longer wants to rely solely on the responsibility of individuals which it has done fairly successfully in the past it now once some checks in place to check on those people travelling back from high risk zones to actually take tests and to stay in quarantine until they have the all clear they already took required to do that right now but clearly the government wants to clamp down and stop what is actually corona creep as one can see have just cycled back here into the office people out in the park much closer than the 1.5 meters required distance we've been seeing that quite some time now here in germany gabble because for the 1st time

mcclellan who was called the little napoleon because he also favored a uniform. general grant dressed in a field uniform. he chomped on cigars. once the country found out that he liked cigars, he was bombarded with cigars and he never had to buy another one. this became his cachet. kind of a reverse glory that he didn't care about himself, he was unpretentious. it added to his celebrity. himunpretentious helped live down to negatives. -- two negatives. one was rumors about his excessive drinking which was true. he did binge drink and was a bad drinker. apparently, a bad drunk. when he was unoccupied, he drank. he -- for not getting a bottle. then, he was living down an active overt act of anti-semitism that any military commander had promulgated in american history to that point. that is issue an order to clear his entire command in the west of the old juice. because he was. anointed by jewish traders who had begun to trade in his camp. of pretension helped him get through that. catapulted torst national attention in february, 1860 two, by capturing fort henry an

he -- it did not help mcclellan. he should've known everything about the battle plans, and this was not sufficient. but codes were broken. again, you just move the bar, as some say. back to our man chisholm. was he wrong about anderson and fort sumter? were there any help of the union army relieving him, or he held out? >> anderson was told by the lincoln administration his forte -- told by the lincoln administration his fort would not be reinforced, it would be resupplied. it was running out of ammunition. he had no way to defend himself for much longer. the supply ships returned back -- were turned back from the shelling. there is a great story about anderson, he was allowed to leave. there were casualties. an area of the fort blew up. he took the flag with him, went on a boat, and went all the way back to new york, center of the universe, even then. he admitted when he was on the ship to new york, he didn't know whether he would be given a court-martial or a parade. guess what? he was given a parade. his flag was

but right now i know how president lincoln felt when general mcclellan wouldn't attack in the civil war. he asked him, "if you're not going to use your army, may i borrow it?" [laughter] and so i say, george bush, if you won't use your power to help america, step aside, i will. [cheers] [chants of "we want bill"] govenor clinton: our country is falling behind. the president is caught in the grip of a failed economic theory. we have gone from first to thirteenth in the world in wages since reagan and bush have been in office. four years ago, candidate bush said america is a special place, not just another pleasant country somewhere on the u.n. roll call between albania and zimbabwe. now, under president bush, america has an unpleasant economy stuck somewhere between germany and sri lanka. [applause] and for most americans, mr. president, life is a loss less kind and a lot less gentle than it was before your administration took office. [cheers] our country has fallen so far, so fast, that just a few months ago the japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the united state

and general mcclellan, who we saw in a tent with lincoln in october of '62, so four months after that petition, basically told lincoln, my soldiers are going to fight to restore the union, but don't expect us to fight for black freedom because that's not going to happen. the racist military, they were pretty racist too to that point. >> yeah, absolutely. >> as you said, frederick douglass helps. >> yeah, and here -- and he is very much a part of our second object, a recruitment broad side written by douglass. can we see the image of that, please? so, what was this significance of this broad side? and where did it first appear? >> so, douglass at this point worked for a newspaper. it's always a little bit behind the times. he's admonishing lincoln in his september issue, september '62, even as lincoln issues the preliminary proclamation. so, it's hard to have a monthly paper. i used to edit a weekly paper. it was hard to keep up on a weekly basis. monthly is really tough. so, he runs an editorial around the same time that the petition appeared. time for african-american troops to be re

looked sort of ridiculous, feathered triefen hat and then by george mcclellan, called the little napoleon, because he also favored more ornate uniforms. grant by contrast dressed in a field uniform which was usually dusty. he chomped on cigars. once the country found out after he became famous that he liked cigars, he was bombarded with cigars. he never had to buy another cigar. but this became his cache, kind of reverse glory that he didn't care about himself, that he was unpore pretentious and it just added to his celebrity. his unper tensous we should add helped him live down two negatives, two really cripple negatives. one were rumors about his excessive drinking, which were true to a degree. he did binge drink and was a bad drinker be apparently a bad drunk. when he was unoccupied, he drank. and he had an aide to camp that just watched out for his not getting ahold of a bottle of any gift that was sent to him. he was also at this point in washington living down an act of kind of the most overt act of anti-semitism that any military commander had promulgated in american history to tha

i didn't mention that he got 212 electoral votes to only 21 for mcclellan. i should have said that when we showed the little board. but no, johnson didn't begin to show his stripes until inauguration day when he turned up drunk for his swearing in. and lincoln may then have realized that he had made perhaps the worst mistake of his presidency. >> one final question. did appomattox officially end the war? if not, what did? did jefferson davis ever officially concede? >> jefferson davis was caught a few weeks later in georgia wearing either his wife's raincoat or hoop skirts depending on what cartoonist vivified the scene. what really ended the war in its finality, if you don't count juneteenth and the entrance of the union army into galveston to officially end the war, what probably ended it was the following month in may, after appomattox, when the forces led by general joe johnston surrendered not once but twice to william t. sherman. interestingly, sherman's terms were too generous and the department of war encountered a little bit of a glitch, and sherman

mcclellan?d or janea sandra bland, ok. i must warn you. i usually have a hard time, but i will read it. the whole book is a hard time. it was a hard time reading it -- writing at. it was a hard time editing it -- it was a hard time writing it. it was a hard time editing it. the ancestors are pleased. the book went through three printings before it was released so the ancestors are pleased. thank you so much for purchasing the book. .t is in its fourth printing over 8500 copies are in the circulation right now and it is a poetry book. 500 inlly get about circulation, so thank you. of choral refrain. let me take some water. it could have been me. three degrees creased into the front seats, bits of the constitution in my veins like braille, the declarations to to do inside my eyelids. times did sally hemmens have to affirm the tiny ego of tom before he bears himself to his others, collecting their postings, forgiving his debts? it could have been me like saint it could have been me. like sandy, i would have missed them dashes in the road. the

he thought he was likely going to lose, george mcclellan was running against him, and he allowed the soldiers to vote in the field, thinking many would vote anti-lincoln. fdr in 1944, in the middle of world war ii, we are in a presidential election, during the pandemic, we've been talking so much about 1918 we ran our midterm election, in 1968 we had a pandemic, we ran it, we do elections every four years, our country is about free and fair elections, and donald trump is acting like lyndon larouche right now or some kind of strange anti-american figure filled with a crank -- with blown up with conspiracy theories when he talks about postponing the election, and now banning journalists from covering the gop convention. >> yeah, it's really unthinkable to think about both of those developments, i suspect it's going to change. journalists will be covering, i predict, the republican national convention. whoever made this ridiculous idea is going to have to back out of it very soon. this is the united states of america, where we have a free press, and reporters are allowed. the news media

just the opposite of lincoln who knowledged and shouldered responsibility for the subordinates, mcclellan was opposite, always blaming somebody else for what he did. >> once a month we spend three hours with a distinguished author, this month is stores, another 45 minutes kamala harris california. >> good morning i'm calling from california, you're such a wonderful compassion for writing history, any time in the future and about the civil rights. >> i don't know what i'm going to do next, that is a good idea, one of the difficulties as you get so caught up in what you're doing that is hard to imagine leaving lincoln right now but in some way civil rights movements would be the logical outbreak, the fact that after lincoln left the presidency, is still needed the civil rights movement in the 1950s, 1960s to complete the emancipation and the true beginning a breakdown of segregation and equality for black americans, it might be a nice sequel, the hard thing, even when i had to move from roosevelt to lincoln and move all of my roosevelt books out of my study i felt like somehow i was betrayi

>>other out of state privately owned firefighting airplanes have also right to mcclellan. >>including the global supertanker. >>all part of the massive air attack to train game can team on the millions of acres burning. >>we've already received a 60 fire engines from neighboring from arizona washington. oregon, new mexico on the ground cal fire spokesperson, daniel berlant says fire engines are also arriving from out of state. >>and being deployed right to the fire lines or in the local fire stations to help with everyday calls for service, 96% of the cal fire fire engines that we have assigned here in california which is over 350. >>are committed to fires. so you can see just how committed we are just how busy we are and so getting the state resources is critical. >>it all out attack on the massive california wildfires every firefighting resource in california is tool kit is already in use and then we have about 2 dozen more fire engines from from other states that are currently en route now more help is on the way. all right time to go ahead and get a check of the foreca

he came to antietam to talk strategy with general mcclellan, but his thoughts were long and deep. now is the time. he spoke with his cabinet. stanton was against it. no, no. secretary seward, all of them doubted. -- all of them doubtful. and in single resolution and in loneliness, lincoln made the decision. but on the first day of january, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated a part of the state, the people thereof shall then be in rebellion against the united then, shall be thenceforth and forever free. ,i further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed services of the united states. and if we must have a beginning, perhaps it is here. sale, this man. he is a soldier, bound to his status and his job. . here.s it began for men who dared to fight and there'd dream -- and it dared to dream, and now, for the first time, we really saw their faces. ♪ the proclamation of emancipated no slaves. lincoln had known it would not. such a decree, he once said it, surely could not be more binding than the consti

is the most important election since 1864 where american voters decided between lincoln and george mcclellan, decided whether we would remain a union or the union into a state on the southern border. here we are in this election, no hope of recovery and renewal unless and until donald trump is gone and over the long-term the repudiation of ill liberal return holding the country captive. nobody that's ever bet against america has ever won money. we need to be clear, the greatness of the country isn't necessarily something that exists into the future, we shouldn't rest on the achievements of past generations, this country is a mess. we have a generation of failed leadership that's unprecedented in the history of the country. we are in decline. trump has put this country into a nosedive. we are in a national tailspin, have been for 3 1/2 years. we are pitied around the world, american weakness impossible to have conceived even if you have a most skeptical view of a trump presidency from the last day of barack obama's presidency, point of weakness impossible to wrap your head around as this coun

anytime he runs into the enemy he blows up the numbers mcclellan is always inflating the numbers and sherman carries that and he is afraid and even after shiloh then there is the moment where the old ghost come back and anyone who has mental issues my father had similar issues the notion that it happens a couple of times he is human he is not a marble statue what he accomplishes is magnificent. >>host: jeff shaara is our guest donald from new york city go ahead. >>caller: good afternoon. i would like to know if foreign peace reflects on karen roberts in march 1917 and to be published in november with the russian revolution. so that is similar to yours. and if you are familiar with the red wheel. >>host: we appreciate the call. >> i am not familiar with that but it does sound fascinating. war and peace talking about people who write historical fiction it surprises people to hear there is a bunch of people who do what i do but i don't read them and there is a reason why i am scared to death of plagiarism i don't read novels if i pick up your novel in a particular line of dialogue or so

i don't think it is fair to say mcclellan was a senator. what happened is he was a conservative democrat, did not believe emancipation should be a goal in the war and as a result he was very upset when lincoln introduced the emancipation proclamation. he thought it would give more resistance to the south was the trouble with him as a general which lincoln should have seen earlier than he did was he was great at organizing the troops, we had no army to begin with, we needed to do that but he created a great engine as lincoln later said but it was a stationary engine. he somehow didn't have whatever it took to take his troops into war. some argued he loved them so much he didn't want to take them into battle, some argued he really was going slow because he wanted to come to a end without hurting the south but whatever it was he turned out not to be a very good general and lincoln took too long to ask for his resignation. in 1864, summer of 1864 it looked like the fortunes of war were at a low end even though gettysburg had been won in vicksbu