towards washington. meanwhile, you have the other squadron underneath captain james gordon, sailing up the potomac. and still other ships moving up the chesapeake bay to threaten baltimore. they had this three pronged operation. the main attack is accompanied by 4000 troops. admirable -- admiral cockburn and the marines. by water, andntly succeeded by traveling -- in trapping barney. he scuttled the flotilla, and escapes with his neck. this isresult of all of int american commanders washington were utterly paralyzed as to what they should be doing. they had one squadron coming up the potomac, a force they ,eren't quite sure how large with forces that have been landed. there was a lot of hope they were just after barney, and that after destroying arteries flotilla, they would reboard their ships and move back into the bay. one of the results of all of this in decision was that the general commanders, william winder, doesn't do a very effective job of doing setting up terms of defenses around washington, i

we need people to get to the barricades of washington. so that was the situation in washington. now back down in richmond, grant, when he learned what was happening here, did not want to send troops outside of richmond and petersburg, this was his grand plan to win the war. you can read the telegrams that went back and forth between washington and outside of richmond. you can read the memoirs of people on his staff. you can read the letters that they wrote. grant would not send troops, and finally he gave in at the last minute and he sent two regiments of the 6th corps, woke them up in the middle of the night, marched out to city port, got on these steamers, went down the james river, out into the chesapeake bay, up into baltimore harbor, they got off the ships, they marched to the railroad station, camden station, now camden yards where the baseball stadium is, and they arrived here at the monacacy junction at 1:00 in the morning on july 9th, 1864. union intelligence was not very good, but one man figured out through the intelligence and more or less what was happening, and tha

washington agreed to fortify and reinforce fort washington, the last bastion on the island. on howe overran the fort november 17, resulting in american soldiers being 2800 captured. many died in prison. the next day fort lee fell to a , british force. these were some of the worst disasters of the war suffered by americans. at this point, lee confidence in washington as commander-in-chief. e had not not -- le been a part of the battle of long island. he recommended no reinforcements be sent to fort washington. washington was not yet the mythical figure he is today. lee appears to have made the decision he deserved to replace washington as commander-in-chief of the british army. after the fall of fort lee, a english column led by general cornwallis began to chase the remnants of washington's army out of new jersey. outnumbered, washington differently needed help. he left lee commanding 7000 troops in white plains, new york, to protect new england. he asked but did not order lee to march his forces to join him across the delaware weber -- delaware river in pennsylvania. during

by 1864 washington, of course, is much more than that. it is the fortress of washington. a fortified mr. lincoln city. 60 odd, or more, forts, 93 unarmed batteries, miles of military roads, entrenchments, infrastructure for logistics, hospitals as well as the political capital of the nation, the united states. had it not been for 1814 and the battle of bladensberg, there would not have been the attention paid by 1864 in part to protecting the city. indeed, through the intervening years there had been constructed in the area of the most possible threat to the capital, that is to say the river approach, fort washington. by 1861 it was completely neglected and of no use whatsoever in a brothers war of -- a civil war, especially where, in fact, maryland, a southern slave holding state was five miles away from us right here surrounding the capital of the union or the old united states. by 1864, as i said, there's a ring of fortifications around the city which happily today are park lapped. they're preserved. we have something we can point to from the civil war and suggest that

to washington. ross is persuaded largely by the fact that he has met very little resistance as he moves from benedict to upper marlboro. they have had look on sector all with american forces at all. no defenses were set up along the way, no ambushes. there were many positions where the americans could have slowed down the british advance. he was astonished that nothing of the sort had been done. this encourages him. he is almost suspicious of being lured into an ambush because of the lack of american resistance. general winder is moving his forces back and forth. he moves them from washington into maryland and at a point where he can position himself between the attacking force in the capital. but then he loses his nerve, marches back to washington. his force gradually is getting larger. it had only been about 2100 when the british land that benedict. between for five days, enough forces had been together that they now outnumber the british force. through a series of faints -- feints, ross continues

goes right into washington. a little further we have the national pike which goes right to baltimore. then we have the railroad line straight down here from baltimore. you have a north/south, east low pressure west suburb. there was pan nick the streets in baltimore and washington. the rumors started flying. early gained troops, had about 14,000 on july 9th. the rumor was that he had 35,000 troops. the command structure was fragmented. there were a lot of generals in washington, d.c. in fact general hallic said we have plenty of generals. we need privates here. we need people to fight to get to the barricades of washington. so that was the situation in washington. now back down in richmond, grant, hen he learned what was happening here, did not want to sends troops outside of richmond and petersburg. you can read the telegrams that went back and forth. you can real the memoirs of the people who were on his staff. you can read the letters that they wrote. grant would not send -- finally he gave in at the last min

rules benefits washington. even if it doesn't benefit the american people. adherence to the washington rules delivers profits to the military industrial complex and adherence to the washington rule is useful for the institutions comprising the national security state. helping them to justify their prerogatives, to justify their pledges. adherence to the washington rules allows ambitious senior military officers or ambitious civilian officials to imagine that somehow they are occupying the cockpit of history and doing god's work. i think adherence to the washington rules is something that even mainstream journalism has embraced. nobody gets more excited about the prospect of american soldiers being sent into harm's way than do reporters for the mainstream press. for all of those reasons, washington, which is deeply invested in the existing national security consensus, will be reluctant to permit any departure from that consensus. but, there's a second reason, i think. one that gets a little bit more closer to ho

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

he should have burned washington. he got in trouble for not burning washington. one final thing. i am sure there are loads of people -- admiral cockburn was exceptionally greedy. not only did he open to get a --hope to get a ransom washington would've been humiliated by being surrendered. there was ransom in lieu of burning the public building. in other words, we should've gotten the money. [inaudible] >> thank you. question? right up here. >> i have a question for peter snow. you do a lot of tactical analysis of battlefields. we talk about american militia and that failure of the militia, but it is more a failure of the american command. i am particularly looking at the final stages, where winder orders the withdrawal of the third line, without a rallying point. then we have barney continuing to hold artillery against infantry, which is usually a massacre. if we had not had the left flank breaking, would this not necessarily have been such a defeat that it was? >> i would say two things about that. first, winder, to be fair to winder, it was monroe, the future president of the u

it goes right into washington. a little ways up the river it goes straight to baltimore then we have the railroad line that comes straight down here from baltimore and the spur and then two roads that went right to baltimore. there was panic in the streets in baltimore and washington when they heard and, of course, the rumors started nyingful early had gained troops, had about 14,000 troops on july 9th. the rumors were that he had 15, 20, 30, 35,000 troops. washington's -- the command structure was fragmented. there were a lot of generals in washington, d.c.. in fact, general halleck, army chief of staff at one point said we have plenty here. that was the situation in washington. now, backs down here in richmond, grant when he learned what was happening here did not want to send troops outside of richmond. this is his grand plan to end the war. you can read the telegrams that go back and forth outside of richmond. you can read his memoirs of people who were on his staff and read the letters that they wrote. grant w

a lot of development in washington. the good news is that the high point of population in washington was after the term of franklin delano roosevelt, who grew the federal government massively, and washington grew along with it. then the population of thisngton declined until last census. it's the first time the population again grew. threats that has come to buildings. explained it is 12 chapters. there is a brief narrative in each chapter, and then you go to the site that illustrates the narrative. we are also fortunate because there were so many buildings that were almost torn down that were at risk, whether it was the eisenhower executive office building, the patent office was , andt torn down fortunately, many of them were saved, but not all of them. -- i think it was yesterday, we have an example of the old post office, which was a very ungainly building. most of washington government architecture is this kind of -- i'm going to blank on it -- classic style. here you have the old post office pavilion, which is roma

blowen jarba in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture according to a report put out by the republican controlled house permanent select committee on intelligence there is zero evidence that the obama administration is guilty of any wrongdoing in the benghazi attacks so why do summers have republicans want to continue the big bengazi which wastes taxpayers money in the process that and more in tonight's lone liberal rumble also new estimates in nato suggest that as many as twenty thousand russian soldiers have amassed at the ukraine border as the crisis in ukraine continues to unfold the real causes of all the unrest in the region and just when you thought you only had to worry about the n.s.a. snooping on your internet activities google has decided to place share what are they doing to anything be done to stop the war on that and i'd still take.

washington, d.c. is based on democratic principles and how it has come to its greatest fulfillments when it has sought to fulfill and realize those democratic principles. we had a new country and the founding fathers wanted a new capital for the country. they couldn't agree where it would be. and the disagreement over this decision became so extreme that there was some concern that it would break the young country apart. they wanted the capitol to be somewhere near the center of the united states, but then they couldn't agree on what was the center of the united states, for the southerners, they wanted it near the geographic center. for the northerners, they wanted it nearer, that would have placed the capitol closer to philadelphia and new york. >> just when things were getting really heated. thomas jefferson invited alexander hamilton and james madison to dinner. alexander hamilton was then secretary of the treasury, and he was a new yorker, and the northern states wanted the federal assumption of t

halfway between washington d.c. and fort washington. here is fort stanton. some of the earth works. this is the view in p2003 when started getting involved in the park servie i services on some . this is not part of the fort circle parts or civil war defenses of washington but nobody can go up to fort stanton and not drop by and see the douglas national park. fort ricketts. behind in the trees are defenses there. here is fort davis. this is the only part of the fort drive that was ever constructed. it was done during the ccc area in 1935. here is a picture of it being built. you can still go there and see what the defenses like like. here is fort dupont which is the second largest park in d.c. it has problems with exotic vegetation so our hope is -- i'm not the kind of person what can tell you what to do about exotic vegetation so something should be done. here in the hills all over in the area east, these beautiful plants, native plants, endangered species that are up there. the ranger told me people drive all the way up there to see the mountain loral in the spring and you can wal

honeyman knew the colonel and was a spy for washington and was able to to washington that the colonel was a strong prussian character who had no respect for the american soldier whatsoever. to the point that he refused to build fortifications around trenton. his famous quote is the americans are foolish enough to attack we will repel them with our bayonets. he also drank a little bit, which might've been one of the reasons washington chose the particular time to attack that he did. not that the troops were drunk because they were although sometimes you will hear that they were. so washington was able to have a great victory at a really cool time because he truly understood the enemy and understood the weakness of the enemy. same thing is true at princeton as well thanks to some crucial debriefing of deserters and knowledge of the troops who are at princeton, and the fact that a spy, a young gentleman, was able to tell him the defensive positions around princeton and the one unguarded area that the british had not put up a defense in. okay, so washington was unable to take princeton, a

and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we crossed in francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neo conservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more of a real break from the george w. bush policies he has he has adopted them he has avoided perhaps some of the more extreme problems but in many ways he has not challenge them in any fundamental way so why is that why well it's a good question and he he i think he basically is trying to a

fort washington. that is right. by captaincommanded samuel dyson, a young man, and he held a conference with some and they said, i think we had better surrender. we had better leave the fort, so without a shot being fired, the word read -- they retreated from the fort. the british could not believe their good luck. they just could not understand this, and they thought it must've been a trick, but they destroyed the fort, naturally, and at the moment when the flags should have been flying, it was furled up in the darkness, as the judge advocate general later said in a court-martial. was convicted and kicked out of the military. they did not want anybody of that caliber. he said, what is the point of flying the flag of we're going to be overtaken anyway? he was the worst kind of commander that you want at a time like that, and so the british to the fort, and then there was nothing between them and alexandria and virginia, so and theyed upstream, laid siege to alexandria. now, just about everybody from alexandria had b

i believe washington is seeking integrity of iraq. they do not want disintegration because they know if there is disintegration pin and syria were iraq and then the region would be vulnerable to further disintegration. it is very clear. >> okay. um hmm three in a row. >> first, i have noticed you have not offered a word of gratitude to president bush for having taken care of iraq and saddam hussein for iran. maybe he deserves a bit more memory. i do wonder whether he may exaggerate a bit the intentions of the u.s. to plan of the region which i have not seen signals of a wholesale yet. let's focus on the region itself. must be a blow to the iranian sense of importance that for all of the convulsions of the arabs during and the rise of would be islamists democratic movements nobody looks to the islamic republic of iran as a constitutional model for anybody in the arab world, even islamist democracy which then raises the kutcher -- question what are iranian purchases in the broader region? what kind of influence does it really exert on a

if you can picture washington, d.c. as shaped like a diamond, we are right at the very top of the diamond, in the northwest portion of washington, d.c. early about noontime was out of the gates of fort stevens right out here. he had the capitol dome in his sight at noontime, and what did he see? he saw this very impressive series of forts. he saw this fort and it was connected to several other forts around here. it looks impregnable and he saw troops here. early did not know these were 100 days men and the call went out for civilians to come out and help man the barricades, so you had clerks from the state department, men from the quarter master corps, people who have never fired a weapon in their life. the word motley comes up more than once, but early did not know this. his men were strung out way along back on the georgetown pike. sorry, not the georgetown pike, the 7th street pike, they cut off the georgetown pike in what is now wheaton, maryland, and cut out to the 7th street pike, georgia avenue, so early, unchara

in that memoir he quotes washington from that evening, and washington says, i cannot come to all of you, but if you could come to me and shake my hand. and this is a stoic man, this is the father of our country, and there claims to be tears on that evening. so that happened here in this long room at fraunces tavern, which you can visit today. and it's set up as it would have been back in the colonial times. if you were to rent a room at fraunces tavern for a private event, we have some tallies of what was served at those private events. so if you had a party of 10, there would be about 10 bottles of rum, certain number of bottles of beer, and you would pay for your candlesticks, and obviously the playing cards. so also what they would serve here would have been oysters, they claimed in the hudson river at the time the oysters were a foot long. so these are roast beef sized oysters. you would use pewter ware, some china. if you came to fraunces tavern, not everybody -- there was no public education, so not everybody could read or could count with numbers. so they would use playing cards

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

he came to washington, and washington declined. before you can see from the beginning iranians have been seeking for a type of regional cooperation. and reliably was the foreign minister in 1991, 92, 95. he paid a visit to all countries. that time i was in foreign ministry. and he raised the unwillingness to establish such a corporation. but gcc was not in position to agree because of u.s. position, opposition. to really to believe iran is going to have a dominant role in the region. the conventional understanding here, iran is preparing more regional cooperation with the neighbors, including saudi arabia and. when i said about the u.s. departure from the region, i never mean immediate. gradually with the intent of 15 years, it is my understanding that the u.s. is going to tear the gradually decrease its role in, investment in the region which could take five, ten, 15 years. it is not going to happen in one year. >> i have time for three more questions. one for my colleague. i will go one. the woman in the address. and. >> thank yo

traffic will be bard here in washington -- bad here in washington. >> when you're the capital of the free world says randy sanders, spokesman for ddot, it comes with the territory. plan ahead. >> if you expect to move downtown, you should plan for more time. i would use metro instead of driving. >> the areas most heavily impacted will be downtown especially around the white house and world bank. foggy bottom, and southwest washington with participants coming and going from the mandarin oriental hotel. yes, even on baseball game days. these district residents normally take the bus from foggy bottom to fort totten. while metro trains won't be impacted many metro buses will be shut down or delayed. >> the option to telecommute, but she's an unlucky employee who is considered essential. >> i'm going to do the best i can and hopefully get to my parking garage and call it a day. >> so that commuter normally has an hour and a half drive each way every day from stafford. next week shipwrights it will take several -- she predicts it will take servile hours to get into work -- several hours to

at this point, lee lost washington -- confidence in washington as commander-in-chief. he recommended no reinforcements be sent to fort washington. washington was not yet the mythical figure he is today. lee appears to have made the decision he deserved to replace washington as commander-in-chief of the british army. after the fall of fort lee, general cornwallis began to chase the remnants of washington's army out of new jersey. outnumbered, washington differently needed help. he left lee commanding 7000 troops in white plains, new york, to protect new england. he asked but did not order lee to join him. during what was probably the most dangerous time for washington's army, lee delayed. while he was too smart to leave a paper trail, it appears he wanted to maintain an independent command as long as possible. that is the way to glory, to have an independent command. if washington's army was crushed by cornwallis, lee might go to the top command of the continental army. here is a map of the new jersey terror. -- theater. in white plains, crossed kings ferry, and took hi

washington. she worked for the committee where she handled historic preservation legislation. and do you remembering the clinton administration, she also directed the american heritage river's initiative. today, ms. newman will discuss the post-war impact on the forts, the surrounding neighborhoods and evolution into parks chl and kim elder. ms. ed ser the national parks services program manager for civil war defenses of washington. she is responsible for the management and oversight program development for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries owned and operated by the national park service. today, ms. elder will provide us with a preview of this weekend's activities. let me begin now with dr. cooling. >> good afternoon, folks. you don't want to hear about that today. i'll mention the national archives in just a second. in a dincht context. to say that for four days now, i have listened to the national park service now, having been privy to the developer with a couple of blooks, i fear that i

still washington forts are yet another of washington's many monuments that have transitioned you purpose. they want recognition from all of us, appreciation. for commemoration for with a they did there an probably both sides lost thousands of people on both sides. so just what they have become and what the soldiers did there 150 years ago certainly warrant our gratitude, our recognition and some consideration in the pantheon of heroes in the confederacy including officers and personnel. the veterans like louis white did after the war, worked in the pension bureau. the most immediate great entitlement program, built a house and preserved what he is going to el ytell yo tell you a now. [ applause ] >> thank you frank. everything i'm going to show you -- i'm the picture girl. i've learned from you and a few others like him but mainly from frank. especially for the civil war defenses of washington, there's a bible. wally owens his coauthor wrote mr. lincoln's forts. if you really care about these issues, that's the book to read. i encourage you to get that book. so what i'm going to do is go

of washington. this is one of the best preserved of the various forts that were in the defenses of washington. these parts of it are fairly well taken care of, but once we get to the northwest bastion, you will see what the fort would have looked like at the time of the civil war. but these are all parts of the fort that we're actually in. it was a large one, so you have a large area. there is also signage that we will see as we walk through explaining what each resource we run into was. such as a sign here which is pointing out that there was a bombproof right here which collapsed in. but a bombproof basically was for men to go in when the fort was being shelled and it would protect them. depending, it would at least be made out of earth. sometimes they had a basement from something they used or bricks or whatever they used in it, but it had dirt over top with grass growing on it, and if you got inside the bombproof, you were pretty well safe. that's what's underneath here. we are coming to the nor

now to washington, dc. elizabeth, the administration is vowing to make a move with the senate or not. >> we get indications from the white house advisor who says the president will make a decision on how to use his authority to address the surge of young undocumented migrants blaming congress, specifically house republicans, for are failing to provide funding to deal with the children crossing the border. >> the republicans last week took a vote to deport all of those people back to countries that most never remember. that speaks to the challenge the president has. we need to address the situation on the border and broad immigration. >> for a time line, he said that he expects action by the president in september after he learns of recommendations from attorney general holder and the department of homeland security secretary johnson. >> elizabeth, republicans, lawmakers, say they have a better proposal? >> they do. open friday the house lawmakers passed $694 million bill calling for expedited deporting whic

it's disheartening to see african leaders flocking in to washington to think that washington was so. african issues i want to see one day that african leaders are going all the continents to discuss we africans all the continent about the needs rather than them coming to washington to try to figure out what it can get us taxpayers' money yeah well said and i think a lot of this funding with also. with military aid is given to the worst human rights offenders across africa and you know captain rick chief of the u.s. africa command center recently told a roomful of military contractors hey the u.s. has been at war with africa for the last eighteen months how does the military industrial complex plan of the u.s. desire to kind of get more involved in the continent seeing evil we will something new book the american drones flying over nigeria even over the congo this has been a plan that's been actually written way early in the two thousand by the heritage foundation discussing the need of having a u.s. military presence on the continent africa needs many things but the last thing they n

the capital skyline hotel in southwest washington hosted sink or swim 2014. the washington project for the arts organized the contest which supplied creativity and enthusiasm. really enthused about some of the competitors there, she was on hand as one of the judges. got to love the outfits. beautiful weather for that. >> cold that we could have had the other day trying to get outdoor swimming in. some of us maybe never have been in some cases. >> exactly but it's still warm enough afmente lot of weather we're able to have this week. >> looks like this and looks like a stormy week. we will have rain every day. rain chances but that doesn't mean it rains every day. i think most likely it doesn't but next likely is as soon as tomorrow night. with that one though we're talking off and on scattered showers. maybe light rain here therein, you get something but nothing on the order the past week, this past tuesday. live look at the nation's capital and see clouds in the distance. the leading edge of the next system that starts to arise. 88 in washington and temperat

it will also be about holding washington accountable. this november, americans can reject complacency and the incompetence and begin to restore a government that works for us, not against us. we are all in this together, and if we pull together, we can set our nation on a hopeful but prosperous course. with that, i thank you for listening. >> next, speeches by the candidates running for the u.s. senate seat in kentucky. than a conversation with the founder of architects and engineers for 9/11 troops. that, a discussion about conspiracy theories and their impact on national security. >> american artifacts on american history tv. the weekend, or visit national security archives at george washington university reveals the classified documents about the gulf of tonkin in vietnam. 50 years ago this week, congress passed the gulf of tonkin resolution, giving president johnson broad powers to wage war in southeast asia. american artifacts, sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern watch more next week and while congress is in recess, american histo

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to cross-talk washington spinning of containment i'm joined by my guest stephen cohen in new york he is a professor emeritus of russian studies and politics at new york university and princeton university and author of the recent book soviet fates in lost alternatives and in chicago we cross to john mearsheimer he is a professor in the political science department at the university of chicago who has written extensively on international security his latest book is the tragedy of great power politics all right gentlemen cross talk rules and that means you can jump in anytime on steven cohen if i go to you first i read your article in the nation the cold war again whose responsibility subtitle in the name of democracy the west has unrelentingly moved its military political in the economic power ever closer to a post soviet russia i will not ask a very broad ended question here what a future historians are going to think about this time period right now what if there are any future historians left because this could easily lead to nuclear war but we can go to that later i think that the

because washington was in captivity. and so that's why the residents of brookville described their village as the capital of america for one day. but they never caught him, they never caught his wife, dolly, who was also roaming around, unknown to a lot of americans. they did come back. the british arrived at sunset on wednesday. they retreated on thursday night. madison came back on saturday morning after he had been told that the british had left. and it took him five hours to ride from brookville to washington, about 25 miles, and then he didn't leave any written commentary of what he felt like. that distressed me, i wanted to know what this person thought. there are descriptions of melancholy. that is a description that appears time and again. and shame and embarrassment and graffiti, and it went on and on. but not from madison. he kept his peace. dolly came back on sunday, the day after, and she was disguised in the clothing of another person. she had lost eight of her bodyguards, who decided to get drunk rather tha

"good morning washington" at 5:00 a.m. begins now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- live from the abc7 broadcast center, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington, happy friday. i'm jummy olabanji and i'm at at. >> you made it -- and i'm autria godfrey. >> you made it to the best day of the week. jacqui jeras, everybody has to be smiling today. >> absolutely, yesterday was gorgeous and today will be a near carbon copy of that, but we'll see less fog and cloud cover this morning compared to yesterday morning. 70 degrees is our current temperature at reagan national. our dew point down in the 50's so our area is a little bit drier and it feels a little more comfortable. you get outside the beltway and temperatures are on the cool side. 61 at dulles as well as in gait, 57 in manassas and the temperature in annapolis is 69 degrees. a good one. mostly sunny, 74 at 9:00. by noon we'll get up to 82 degrees with partly-cloudy skies. 86 and partly sunny. that means more clouds

and how would slaves get in courts in washington? a slave would be brought here from a slave state to washington, d.c., which had maryland laws, by the way, back then, and maryland had a law that if a slave was brought here but lived for a year, they could be free, and who did they go to? they went to frank t -- frank key, and he represented. he had a mixed record. the other thing is his brother-in-law was roger b. tawny, who later issued the infamous dred scott decision, which said that african-americans had no rights whatsoever. you cannot get away from this, but you also cannot get away from the fact that is one night, when the bombs were bursting in the air, this challenged poet came up with the words that have become etched into the fabric of our nation to this date, 2014. so thank you very much. [applause] >> we do have some time for questions, and we would like you to go to the microphones on either side so that we can be recorded. we are at the national archives. we are being archived here for posterity. no pressure. >> my qu

. >>> now officials from the national park service and washington, d.c. commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. the battle took place july 11th and 12th in 1864 when confederate forces probed washington, d.c.'s defenses before turning back. speakers discuss the battle's significance and contributions by african-american troops. this is just over an hour. >> good morning, and welcome to fort stevens. my name is kim elder and i'm the program manager for the national park service for the civil war defenses of washington. i'd like to welcome and thank each of you all for joining us this morning for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of colors and the singing of the national anthem by anita frasier. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly stre

you covered the white house and washington for many years. is a president ever really away from his job? >> never, never really. they certainly try, and i have since the first president, george washington, broke off from his desk in philadelphia, and when the coach and four horses went home to mount vernon. they haven't. president kennedy's speech counsel said cial -- well, many presidents have said tchash a president's office is forever the president may be, because unlike congress or the supreme court, the presidency never adjourns. >> what role does politics play in presidential vacations, presidential getaways? >> i'm not sure what. i think the need to get away is probably predominant, as we have seen in recent presidencies. if you have your own home, you tend to go to it. otherwise like president obama, you go to a plate that interests you, and you robably, because of security concerns, have to get a rented property. >> does the public understand that the president needs to get away from the pressures of the job, or is it just the press