patton -- the imagination of a george patton. so just before the campaign in north africa in which patton will play a very serious part, the president invites him to the white house. patton is an old cavalryman, and the president says to patton, george, are you going to slap tank -- excuse me, he said, are you going to slap a saddle on that tank of yours and go in with your saber raised? he just finds patton a fascinating character. they have a very cozy chat, and afterward the president writes a memo longhand describing this meeting, and he wants this memo deposited here at hyde park among his papers. and he ends it saying george patton is a joy. not long afterward, patton gets in hot water. it's during the siciliano campaign. he goes -- siciliano campaign. he goes into two military hospitals in sicily, and he slaps two shell-shocked g.i.s. when this story is revealed, there is a huge cry back in the united states for patton's scalp. the president nevertheless sticks with george patton. and when he is asked by a reporter about t

george patton was played by george scott. and general patton was in the field, and he was watching rammel bring his tanks into a trap. and general patton put the glasses on and said rammel, you bastard! i read your book! our guy reads a lot too. he's got these folks right where they deserve to be. all of the obstruction they have come up with, all of the attacks that darrell issa has played on american workers, all of the efforts they have done to stall job growth in this country is all coming home to roost. and now they're going to do anything they possibly can to stop obamacare, because this is a huge ideological shift in favor of the progressive movement in this country. think about that. we are going to make sure that millions of americans get health care, and this crowd wants to stop it, because they're heartless and they're all about power. so they're desperate. they don't know what to do or how to do it at this point. so all they want to do now is, well, we're going to take this bill, and we're going to defund obamacar

this wasn't george patton, but i don't think that works at the u.n., charles. and you've been around long enough to know that threatening the u.n. or threatening this or threatening arms, it never works there. >> to get the -- he backed the u.n. into a corner. >> yeah. >> he's challenging the u.n. he's thrown down the gauntlet. i predict he will pick up the gauntlet. the u.n. isn't going to do a damn thing. >> you can't threaten these people pause that doesnbecause work. >> he just threatened them three weeks ago. he said we're going to do an air strike. >> no, i meant the u.n., not syria. i meant the u.n. >> but the u.n. doesn't exist. it's a fiction. it's a meeting ram. there's nothing there. >> so you would not have gone if you were the president, you would not have even shown up over there and tried to once again to compel them to do anything? you wouldn't even have bothered? >> of course not because the reason you go there is to give a speech that everybody will cover. you don't go there expecting that the u.n., which hasn't lifted a finger on any struggle

this wasn't george patton, but i don't think that works at the u.n., charles. and you've been around long enough to know that threatening the u.n. or threatening this or threatening arms, it never works there. >> to get the -- he backed the u.n. into a corner. >> yeah. >> he's challenging the u.n. he's thrown down the gauntlet. i predict he will pick up the gauntlet. the u.n. isn't going to do a damn thing. >> you can't threaten these people pause that doesnbecause work. >> he just threatened them three weeks ago. he said we're going to do an air strike. >> no, i meant the u.n., not syria. i meant the u.n. >> but the u.n. doesn't exist. it's a fiction. it's a meeting ram. there's nothing there. >> so you would not have gone if you were the president, you would not have even shown up over there and tried to once again to compel them to do anything? you wouldn't even have bothered? >> of course not because the reason you go there is to give a speech that everybody will cover. you don't go there expecting that the u.n., which hasn't lifted a finger on any struggle

i remember george patton and his response wasn't unbelievably small. kerry is all over on this. >> the one similarity between hitler and assad is public opinion was deeply divided before world war ii. you were alive. you remember. and we didn't think genocide was happening. if we did public opinion polls would be in german now. >> it might have had something to do with what happened at pearl harbor, for heaven's sakes. >> it might have had to do with the genocide occurring as well. >> we didn't declare on hitler. he declared war on us on december 11, 1941. what are you talking about? >> i know you're an isolationist. you thought the first gulf war would be the next vietnam. it didn't occur that way. history didn't -- >> mark, let me help you out here. >> sure. >> you try to take cheap shots at pat but you are not dealing with the main focus here. >> i want to point -- >> let me finish. re lax. >> go ahead. >> your buddy john kerry said it would be unbelievably small. days not weeks, no boots on the ground. they said it will be short in duration. you've

would have made george s. patton look like a wuss. in october of 1862 meade chased down a private with a great bundle of corn leaves on his back, which the soldier had pilfered from a nearby farm. meade demanded to know where the corn had come from and talked himself into such a rage, that he struck him a side of the head and almost knocked him over. unabashed, the private picked himself up and nearly returned the favor. but stopped and said, if it weren't for them shoulder stripes of yorn i would give you the darnedested thrashing you ever had in your life. meade was just as hard on his subordinates and his superiors. i am tired of this playing war without risks meade declared angrily. we must encorner risks if we fight and we can not win the war without fighting. the fiery temper but ironically the same aivers to taking risks that he complained about in other generals. once in command of the army of potomac, he saw his task as purely defensive. shadow, lee's army as it moved in its great swift arc into pennsylvania but keep between

and they are on may 15th, eisenhower, patton, omar bradley, winston churchill, king george the sixth and several dozen of the most senior commanders have gathered to review for it last time the plan called overlord, which is the invasion of france, which is to take place in three weeks. they met in an auditorium at st. paul's called the model room and the general said that girls were bundled up in their overcoats because even that was the middle of night, it was cold as a meat locker and they sat on hold with benches normally reserved for schoolboys. the poet john milton among other english luminaries had gone to st. paul. on the florida cop put it this auditorium was an enormous paris relief map of the normandy coast, where the rivers and teeth into the atlantic and a british brigadier and no skid stotts shuffled around on this hop is a discussed the individual locales and what would be coming in three weeks, the most famous battlefield in the world. the beaches, for example. utah, on a hot, gold, juno, sword and towns no one had heard of it soon would become infamous. towns like sa

. >> like watching a baby patton. >> luke is pretty bad, too. we had a period a couple months ago where he would not sleep in one fight for continuously. he would wake up every two hours and say he was having nightmares. like he was a newborn all over again. >> nikki and lila, they drop off. nikki is a big problem. he wakes up about 5:00 a.m. even on the weekends. he's up. oh, you are killing me. >> i woke up this morning. i felt in the middle of the night like i was on the edge of the bed. you probably had this, i opened my eyes, there was george. in the bed, between me and christina. there was this weird guy with curly hair, face-to-face. that was my son. >> until you get him out. not having another kid. >> that is birth control right there. >> yep. all right, al, let's get control of the weather. >> tomorrow, here in the east coast, saturday, you've got wet weather making its way to the southwest. the rockies again, where they've had flooding along the west coast, sunny, hot. on sunday, sunday, more mild weather, cooler conditions, northeast