he went there to recuperate predict so robert ely takes over and we all know that robert ely hodges rings jackson down from valley launches his attack and drives mcclellan down to the river and into his campaign. whole other story for another day. leather johnston didn't get wanted. what if he did not what would've happened well we don't know. it is plausible to think a few things might've happened and what is he made his big attack and did not succeed. in the next place that he can depend is the other side of richmond and michael and is bringing its heavy hands up and is not to attack richmond, to drive the confederates out with his heavy artillery. he gets close enough of this right appear and he can do that so he pulls back and richmond is lost and consider the consequences. some people say that is possible that he could pull in the the kind of kept fighting and verified losing everywhere, is not going well pretty and if you lose richmond coming makes half of your canon said all of the shells and you lose all kinds of weapons in production and uniform production and then the railroads

george custer or robert ely. i looked inside i don't want to do custer. [laughter] i said i will give me a try. retrospect, again i'm not going to speak for the book, the book is what it is. you either buy it or not. you may agree with me on some things. when i rear realized my years in public radio helped me, radio writing teaches you concision. in radio i've only got your here for the length of a sentence. i can't go on for 12 more sentences to say it. i got to say it right away with you or you won't get it. the fact that this was limited to 200 pages, freeman's introductions probably longer than that. [laughter] but it forced me to boil water alive and get down to the critical things. i came across some things i'm guessing freeman but maybe he didn't emphasize them enough ways in which we took risks in odd places, a few days after the battle, lee called his officers together and indicated he was ready to go again. he wanted to cross back to the river and fight him again. his officers were gentlemen, proper but probably gave him back gentle sovereign ap

now let me turn to robert ely. mary chest first met robert edward just before the work at the white springs in western virginia where he brought his wife who was plagued by rheumatoid arthritis. they came to the springs archly to benefit from the hot springs there, few things i could give a release from the study much about terrible disease. mary chest that, one of the most famous diary keepers of the confederacy, a man riding a beautiful horse joined us wearing a hat somehow a military look to it she said he sat his horse gracefully and he was so distinguished at all points that i very much regret not catching a name mary chest was intrigued by this man. who was he? where did he come from? it was explained to her he was robert edward lee. everything about him was so fine looking at the war which came to her mind was perfection. she said there was no thought to be found even a few hundred for one and get, mary chest was not entirely enchanted robert e lee or at least not nearly as much as some others work. she wrot

i may write a book one day saying robert ely was not wrong. and then to have a reason for doing it. that may not have worked. that may not have been successful maybe not the best choice. that he had a reason but he didn't just do because he felt like at that because it made sense and i think that is something we read a lot sometimes it is just a simple explanation that i thought that word work i teach at kennesaw why did sherman attack there? because if you punch your way through you can and the campaign quicker and by the way with grant and his boss and friends bogged down in virginia he punches his way through it looks like he is successful when the other guy is not. isn't that fine when you can rather than their face and say i got this done? what you still doing up there? i heard on tv the other day rather the radio and joan said when so much calvary came, porch joe stoneman can't catch a break. [laughter] so much calvary. no. that is not the original says. somebody asked me at the sesquicentennial meant i had to tell them who george stoner was. that was fun. but the train is the

elie, back to you. robert ray saying that biden is in the best position to is a good turn of phrase. the privilege runs with the office, not the person. he is the only person in a position to exercise the privilege. another assumes is being made here. that meadows or bannon can refuse to do something on the basis of a privilege that's not theirs to exercise. what do you believe the legalities here are guiding what can and cannot be done? >> it's not just bob ray that says that the current president is in the best position. the supreme court said it in 1977, in the other nixon case. they said it in passing. i think we agree with that. donald trump and his acolytes have blown the doors off of executive privilege. let's look at steve bannon. how is he going to possibly argue that his conversations are covered by executive privilege that he had with rudy giuliani, with bernard kerik, with john eastman? none were members of the executive granch on january 5th. he gets convicted on his defiance of those commu