lee at antietam. it's my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pawlak. [ applause ] >> well, good morning, everyone! thank you to chris for that very humbling introduction, and thank you all for being here at my bachelor party. i think we might set virginia's state record for the largest bachelor party in all of history, so we'll see what we can do. it's about to get crazy in here, if you will, talking about robert e. lee at the battle of antietam. even before last year's symposium, when an e-mail was sent out to all the members of emerging civil war asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war, there was a little bit of a caveat left in the e-mail that allowed us to "think outside of the box." and the topic that i proposed is the one that i'm proposing or presenting to you right now, robert e. lee at antietam. and i thought to myself that that was going to be a very straightforward presentation about a great defense of the civil war. and the more and

lee. this hour-long talk was part of a day-long seminar on civil war leadership hosted by long wood university in farmville, virginia and appomattox courthouse national historical park. >>> thank you, patrick. our last speaker of the morning here and he'll also be speaking in the afternoon is william c. jack davis. and mr. davis is from independence, missouri. has a bachelor, masters gree from sa notice ma state university. and many of you may know him as long-time editor of civil war times illustrated back in i guess the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. its heyday. it still is, obviously. put he's the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u.s. history. think about that for a minute. 60 books. among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, fort years after it was written. i think it's one of t

strikes, lee attacks but look at where lee does that. lee knows his army for the most part throughout the war, the confederacy is going to be outnumbered, lee knows one main thing. he has to keep the initiative but also in order for him to win decisive battles he has to do a tactic used by napoleon. napoleon was often outnumbered as well. mass your troops in one point. put more of your troops at the point of the spear than what the enemy can put. where does lee choose to attack at the battle of the seven days? george mcclellan and the union army are divided, split by the river. lee masses his troops north of the river where mcclellan has less men and that is where lee strikes. again, massing his troop, putting more troops at the tip of the spear than what the union army can do. wlee will constantly look to get around the enemy's right flank. turn it, drive it out of position or maybe even worse or even better in lee's mind, try and destroy it. this quote you see here on the right comes from lee's after action report of the seven days. "u

lee strikes. and lee attacks. but look at where lee does that. lee knows that his army, for the most part, throughout the war the confederacy is going to be out numbered. lee knows one main thing. he's got to keep the initiative. but also in order to win decisive battles, he has to use the tactic by napoleon. mask your troops in one point. put more of your troops at the point of the spear than what the enemy can put. so where does lee choose to attack, george mcclellan and the union army are divided, plit by the river. lee masses his troops north of the river where mcclellan has less men and that is where lee strikes. again, amassing his troops, putting more troops at the tip of the spear. lee can constantly look, turn it, drive it out of position and maybe even worse or even bet in lee's mind, try and destroy it. this quote here you see on the right comes from his report after seven days. under ordinary circumstances the federal army should have been destroyed. lee a student of napoleon is looking for that napoleonic victory. always, until the e

lee at antietam. it's my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollock. >> good morning, everyone, thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my bachelor party. i think we might set virginia state record for the largest bachelor party in all of state history. it's about to get a little crazy in here. talking about robert e. lee at the battle of antietam. even before last year's symposium when a letter was sent out asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war there was a caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote think outside of the box. and the topic that i propose is the one that i'm proposing or presenting to you now, robert e. lee at antietam and i thought to myself that was going to be a very straightforward presentation about a great defense of the civil war. and the more i started looking into it. i realized that there's a bit more to robert e. lee's defense at antietam than what we had always t

lee. robert e. lee on the front lines of battle. let us welcome barton myers. [applause] mr. myers: i want to thank dr. carmichael for letting me speak about one of the greatest battlefield commanders and one of her most controversial american historical figures, robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when

of course, as you all know, lee strikes and lee attacks. but look at where lee does that. lee knows that his army, for the most part, throughout the war the confederacy is going to be out numbered. lee knows one main thing. he's got to keep the initiative. but also in order to win decisive battles, he has to use a tactic used by napoleon. mass your troops in one point. put more of your troops at the point of the spear than what the enemy can put. so where does lee choose to attack in the battle of seven days? george mcclellan and the union army are divided, split by the river. lee masses his troops north of the river where mcclellan has less men and that is where lee strikes. again, amassing his troops, putting more troops at the tip of the spear than what the union army can do. lee will constantly look to get around the enemy's right flank, turn it, drive it out of position and maybe even worse -- or even better in lee's mind -- try and destroy it. this quote here you see on the right comes from his report after seven days. under ordinary circumstances the federal army sh

lee is buried in the lee chapel museum. so he's become a cottage industry over the last few years for folks and i've dealt with a lot of issues with lee and the historical memory over the last few years. before i started my career in the academy, i was a national parks ranger and lived on the battlefield. so i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. i want to talk about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when robert e. lee was in greatest personal danger on the battlefield. general robert e. lee had been the commander of the northern army of virginia6, 1865, he gra staph of a worn confederate battle flag to rally the fleeing remnants of his army. at the battle of sailors creek lee was for the final time personally placing himself in line of battle to lead his soldiers. reaching the crossing of the river road overlooking sailors creek, the disasters which had overtaken our army was in full view and the scene beggars description remember a battle tested veteran whose troops provide the rear guard for

lee's order for an attack was riding high. it took a combination of the aggressive jackson and the even handed longstreet to cool lee's desire to switch from a defensive posture to an offensive action. but the fighting at manassas was not over. plans would begin to develop on both sides for the following day. pope wanted to attack yet again. but for lee, longstreet and jackson, sthout that no attack would come from pope on august 30th. just in case that no attack came, lee was beginning to prepare for other options. by 3:00, on august 30th, however, that attack did come. fitsjohn porter's assault against jackson' center and right sending 10,000 troops into position against this terrain. it would be the final main federal assault on jackson's position. that attack would take place as deep cut and others along this unfinished railroad line. and like so many other occasions on august 30th, the federal attack would break jackson's position. yet again, confederate reinforcements arrived on the scene just in the nick of time. by mid

lee was never worldly. he had no interest to speak of in the affairs of the rest of the world or really even went what on beyond the confines of virginia, because that had been his world. when the war was over, i'm sure most of you know, of course, grant becomes president. when he leaves the white house, he will take off on a two-year-long tour of the world in which he nearly bankrupted himself. and he loved every moment of it. so that we have photos of him in egypt, in china, in japan. he'll be the first jimmy carter of a sort because as an ex-president he will broker a peace between japan and china over a local dispute. believe it or not there is still today just outside, in kyoto a monument to u.s. grant that was put up in the 1890s for the peace he made. it's still there today. he loved the world. lee never got over that sort of fixation on localism. they both have their prejudices, but they kind of reflect their childhoods and their experiences. grant pretty much loves everybody. he was indifferent to

lee in his tent, confined to his camp, was not lee in the field. moste is taking only the vital dispatches, but he cannot get up. he eventually is confined to his cot, trapped in his tent, nearly delirious. with this -- we must strike them a blow. we must not let them escape. he has no one to depend on, no one to turn to the spring the trap. grant realizes what is going on in the orders the men to get into defensive positions, save yourselves. he has stumbled into this and now he must save his own army. warren finds no one in front of him and he is told to hunker down as well. ninth corps troops will try to circumvent by hooking this way in a very -- and a very drunken james levy will try the line against orders. and his five regiments, including dependent regulars, will all be in the midst of a thunderstorm with lightning flashing around them in a very dramatic, but ultimately futile effort. hope tolee can do is strike a blow that can never happen. grant will hunker down, his calvary will finally return and enable colby outmaneuvered -- pull the o

lee did. if he disappears from the map and goes back west across the potomac river into virginia, this will open up lafayette to a bad situation. copy to in the union army of the potomac with nowhere to go behind him because the union garrison at harpers ferry is still in existence and has not surrendered yet. what he will decide on the morning of september 15 is the temporarily, he will make a stand behind antietam creek on the high ground overlooking the creek at a place called sharpsburg. he is only standing there against, momentarily, to save lafayette macaws -- to save robert e.and towards lee. when he arrives on the east bank he is greeted with something he does not expect and certainly something he likes very much. it is this. it is a great view today. anyone who wants to go up to the house and see this view you can get it. wasn't exactly where this was when he had this view on september 15 and that you would have been even better. far less trees. robert e. lee would've had a great view

lee's order for an attack was riding high. it took a combination of the aggressive jackson and the even handed longstreet to cooley's desire to switch from a defensive posture to an offensive action. but the fighting at manassas was not over. plans would begin to develop on both sides for the following day. pope wanted to attack yet again. but for lee, longstreet and jackson, sthout that no attack would come from pope on august 30th. just in case that no attack came, lee was beginning to prepare for other options. by 3:00, on august 30th, however, that attack did come. fitsjohn porter's assault against jackson' center and right sending 10,000 troops into position against this terrain. it would be the final main federal assault on jackson's position. that attack would take place as deep cut and others along this unfinished railroad line. and like so many other occasions on august 30th, the federal attack would break jackson's position. yet again, confederate reinforcements arrived on the scene just in the nick of time. by mid a

what was lee's as well as of those two words within davis' strategy, however, davis as well as lee much preferred the offensive. this can be evidenced by the use of the offensive on both the strategic and tactical levels from fort sumpter summer of 1861 to the most recent battles around richmond. for davis, although there were situation that's dictated a defensive posture, he believed that was the use of the strategic and tactical offense that was the key to gain confederate war aims. thus davis' belief in the offensive strategy and the tactical application is best expressed when he wrote in march of 1862 "the advantage of selecting the time and place of attack was too apparent to have been overlooked." lee wholeheartedly concurred, particularly once he took the field, following general johnson's wounding. the only way to relieve richmond and restore control of virginia was to go on the strategic offensive. during this immediate post-malvern hill time period, lee could little focus on anything else other than general mcclellan's 100,000 man army still on the peninsula, including john po

but as further intelligence continues to flood into lee's headquarters, lee begins to feel that mcclellan is less of a credible threat on the virginia peninsula. and i'll content that the reason why he sends an offensive maneuver is because of pope's advance towards the the confederate capital. if lee does not go on the offensive to stop pope from moving any further southward against the confederate line of supply, against confederate line of communication, towards the confederate capital, it squeezes lee from two directions. and so, that aggressive movement by pope moving southward towards that confederate supply line forces, in my opinion, lee to go on the offensive, to stop pope from moving any further towards that supply line, towards the route of the capital and towards placing him in a classic pincer movement. if he sends jackson there defensively and pope continues to move forward it gives lee a whole lot less room to maneuver out of a possible pincer movement. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you. >> american history tv on c-span3 focuses on the civil war all week. at 8:00 p.m. e

surely the number one concern for lee in the month of july is mcclellan, despite everything that lee has done, mcclellan is still on the virginia peninsula and his army is massive, over 100,000 men are still in the virginia peninsula. lee does become aware of the army under pope that is assembling and moving, but even at that point in time lee has no strategic plans of an offensive nature or defensive nature. towards pope. he still all eyes on mcclellan. as further intelligence continues to flood in to lee's headquarters, lee begins to feel that mcclellan is less of a credible threat on the virginia peninsula. and i'll contend that the reason why he sends jackson in an offensive maneuver is because of pope's advance. towards the confederate capital. if lee does not go on the offensive to stop pope from moving further south against the confederate line of supply, but against confederate line of communication towards the confederate capital it squeezes lee from two directions. so the aggressive movement by pope moving south forces lee to go on the offensive. to stop pope from moving fu

lee. a man so misunderstood. when we make them perfect heroes, when we take away their humanity, we do a great disservice to them. it's that they've over come they're human limitations that make them so admiral in the end. robert e. lee we picture him as this perfect gentleman -- his father died in shame trying to return from his exile. he grows up in not so genteel poverty with his mother and the rest of the family in a small house in virginia. he's the poor cousin that's not really tolerated in the summer get-togethers. and he feels it. he's taking care of his mother, too. robert e. lee goes to west point because it's a free education. and lee, we talk about the american self-made man, there is no better example in the truest sense, a self-made man than robert e. lee. in a sense that he literally makes himself over. he makes himself into the person he wants to be. and it really starts at westpoint where he works out his diction. his speech is not rapid. he doesn't gush. it's called contr

lee and ulysses s. grant. next, historian eric buckland on the leadership qualities and military exploits of

lee, it made it difficult to have that relationship that lee develops over 1040 days that lee commands the army of northern virginia. there is a close bond there. you see this happen through history, not just washington, but napoleon as well, that relationship where there is almost like another gear that whenever a desperate moment arrives that they can feel they can take it to that next level thatthe army and trust will be there, and the consistently did that -- and lee consistently did that. was he judge that gear going to be the one he has to go to, and it is a strange car metaphor for robert e. lee's decision-making process, but i think he could almost feel when the army was in greatest danger, and i think these moments are wise decisions on his part where he assessed it well. so, he knows c has to be a personal presence on the front line. these other moments are an assessment that he is making very, very quickly. thank you. my name is jim. i am from virginia. mr. meyers: close to where i grew up. >> good company. my question is this, you are a lee man could i'm not saying that in

surely the number one concern for lee in the month of july is mcclellan, despite everything lee's done, mcclellan is still on the virginia peninsula and his army is massive, over 100,000 men are still in the virginia peninsula. lee does become aware of this new army of virginia under pope that is assembling and moving but even at that point in time, lee has no strategic plans of an offensive nature or defensive nature towards pope. still all eyes on mcclellan. as further intelligence continues to flood into lee's headquarters, lee begins to feel mcclellan is less of a credible threat on the virginia peninsula and i'll contend the reason why he sends jackson in an offensive maneuver is because of pope's advance towards the confederate capital. if lee does not go on the offensive to stop pope from moving any further southward against the confederate line of comply and communication towards the confet federal rit capital it squeezes lee from two directions so that aggressive movement by pope moving southward towards that confederate supply line forces, in my opinion, lee to go on the offe

lee. this hour long talk was part of a day long seminar hosted by farmville, virginia and courthouse national historic park. >>> thank you, patrick. our last speaker of the morning here and he'll be speaking in the afternoon is william c. jack davis and mr. davis is from independence, missouri. has a bachelor in sonoma state university and many of you know him as long time editor of civil war tmes illustrated back in i guess the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. it's heyday the best years that it was in existence, still is obviously. he's the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily the civil war but also 19th century u.s. southern u.s. history. think about that for a minute, 60 books. he among those just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history 40 years after it was written. i think it's one of the best small battle history's that have ever been written on a civ

lee, stonewall jackson. he looks at the impact of their personalities, background and families on their leadership. this talk was hosted by longwood university in virginia and the national historical park. it's just over an hour. >> our next speaker is lieutenant ralph peters. and mr. peters is author of a series of civil war lobbies, with some for sale out in the lobby. prior to writing that series understand a pen name, owen perry, wrote six books covering the war. he's wrinl numerous works on strategy and security, more recent military topics. he's a highly regarded journalist. he's currently with the fox news strategic analyst, a member of the hoover institutions military history working group at stanford university. and he currently lives in warringten. and his title today is the human side of civil war leadership. please welcome colonel peters. [ applause ] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. you know, you really all should be outside on this beautiful day. this is amazing february weather. but i'm

lee. stone jackton is coming down. is it george washington next week and thomas jefferson the week after? ♪ ♪ >> nbc news is reporting that senior white house official says president trump wasn't supposed to answer any questions today. his staff went in through that event with the press with the understanding the president would discuss infrastructure evenly and take no questions. but once in front of the reporters the president quote went rogue, that's the trays the official used, the white house official said members of the team are stunned this evening by the president's actions. but when you see the video it certainly looked like premeditated decision by the president to publicly defend comments he made on saturday that were greeted with sharp criticism from dell kramocrats more importantly from the president from republicans. the president just happened to have a company ecopy of his sat statement in his pocket today. >> so i dent waon't want to go y and just make a statement for

lee. they're white trash. his father should have been a jailbird. but mary cusstis sticks to her guns. they get married. and later on when old man cusstis dies he leaves bad debts. lee builds himself up to be the perfect officer, the perfect gentleman. he has never remotely faithless to his wife but he loves to flirt. he's a handsohandsome. he loves to flirt, he loves to dance. but at the end of the day he goes home with mary. she gives him a fair amount of leash at the parties because she knows he's going to behave. but the war comes. robert e. lee, who's built himself up. he's made himself this man he is and he's idolized because he starts winning. he gives the southeast great victories. by the way, to use another modern team, by the time he's lea marching on the road to gettysburg, he's drunk his own kool-aid. by the end of the war because of his personal pride, he cannot quit. he is a brilliant tactician and a good operator. his misfortune is to face an officer ultimately who's not a v

lee, stonewall jackson. he looks at the impact of their personalities, background and families on their leadership. >> our next speaker is lieutenant ralph peters. and mr. peters is author of a series of civil war novels, with some for sale out in the lobby. prior to writing that series understand a pen name, owen perry, wrote six books covering the war. he's written numerous works on strategy and security, more recent military topics. he's a highly regarded journalist. he's currently the fox news strategic analyst, a member of the hoover institutions military history working group at stanford university. and he currently lives in warringten. and his title today is the human side of civil war leadership. please welcome colonel peters. [ applause ] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. you know, you really all should be outside on this beautiful day. this is amazing february weather. but i'm glad you're here. first i've got to get a commercial in. not for my books but for one of the most important institutio

lee. a young play-by-play announcer for espn. he was slated to work next weekend's game against the university of virginia and william and merit. >> given the national conversation spurred charlottesville -- the network gave lee the option of working a different game announcer from becoming the bud of jokes. lee accepted that offer and the thing has a lot of people talking tonight. we wanted to know how you feel. >> here's hour question. did robert lee do the right thing by opting out of working that game. log onto wusa9.com/vote or use our app to let us know what you think. that brings us to this part of the story. it seems like it would be tough to share the general's name. >> we found a game who shares -- mike is the voice of reason in this whole story. here's mike valero. >> i'm robert e. lee named after his grandfather. >> not the general, but he's a robert e. lee in virginia. we worried how many people share his famous name. within 30 miles of the con federal homes -- what is it robe

lee and stonewall jackson. the takedowns happening sooner than many planned, just about one day after baltimore's city council voted to remove the monuments. >> to actually see it in real life, like, wow, this is finally coming down, this was surreal. there's no other way to say it over than this is surreal. >> reporter: at this memorial near johns hopkins, a statue of the supreme court justice, roger tawny now gone as well. monuments regarded as symbols of strength seen by others as something hurtful. >> anybody that thinks these things are innocuous historical symbols, i think you need to ask yourself why is it then that neo-nazis find them so important. >> reporter: many who have been showing up to the site say their hearts go out to those in charlottesville and they did not want happened there to happen here in mopme monuments, they will be stored until it's decided what to do with them. >> this has become one of the most read stories on the nbc washington app this week. if you'd like to read it and other s

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of course meade forced lee back. you see meade launch an assault that succeeds on a very limited level but doesn't change the course of the war. and then you see meade launch a campaign that ends in up -- and suddenly all these things are somewhat acceptable to meade. now, true admittedly i think he's also deeply affected by the fact there aren't a lot of other choices for him to make for the army of potomac. he was not inclined -- one of the most important impacts of john pope's presence in virginia in 1862 was that it discouraged if not eliminated any possibility that lincoln would bring in a a westerner to command the remembery of the potomac itself. that had not gone well. in fact the army of the potomac to a remarkable degree is a closed shot, namely the western based or train commander that has a significant impact on the army of potomac. there's only two or three the entire war. it's a closed shot. but in any event, i think this coming into alignment with policy is an important thing we see. it happened afteri

some people in today's crowd cheered as lee was vail -- there's a good chance you've seen robert lee crossing your social media feed. >> not the confederate general though whose statutes are under extra scrutiny later, we're talking about another man. scott here on the left. robert lee. a young play-by-play announcer for espn. he was slated to work next weekend's game against the university of virginia and william and merit. >> given the national conversation spurred charlottesville -- the network gave lee the option of working a different game announcer from becoming the bud of jokes. lee accepted that offer and the thing has a lot of people talking tonight. we wanted to know how you feel. >> here's hour question.

lee. two hundred times that number, more than 1,000 people, turned out in opposition to the klan. arrested when they refused police orders to disperse. charlottesville mayor, michael signer, talk to me about the leadership challenges presented nice to talk with you. i was surprised to read that your reaction is that you want to keep the statues. often o protest er statues, the city mayor will say let's take the why was this your position sir? mayor signer: there was a protest that kicked this off statues one to robert e. lee. my instinct at the very was that we needed to cast the problem more broadly and talk about race in our public spaces. we created a blue ribbon wi changing the narrative by telling the full story of race in charlottesville through our incredibly difficult thing to do. we've got dozens of l that touch on race in one way or another including things we needed to do that that we ha there were 17 public hearings held by this 9 member commission which at the outset was major

lee. a man so incredibly misunderstood because when we myth ol jiez these men and when we make them perfect heroes, when we take away their humanity we do a great disservice to them. it's that they have overcome their human limitations that robert e. lee we picture him as this perfect gentleman -- his father died in shame trying to return from his exile. he grows up in not so genteel poverty with his mother and the rest of the family in a small house in virginia. he's the poor cousin that's not really tolerated in the summer get-togethers. and he feels it. he's taking care of his mother, too. robert e. lee goes to west point because it's a free education. and lee, we talk about the american self-made man, there is no better example in the truest sense, a self-made man than robert e. lee. in a sense that he literally makes himself over. he makes himself into the person he wants to be. and it really starts at westpoint where he works out his diction. his speech is not rapid. he doesn't gush.

lee. two hundred times that number, more than 1,000 people, turned out in opposition to the klan. arrested when they refused police orders to disperse. charlottesville mayor, michael signer, talk to me about the leadership challenges presented nice to talk with you. i was surprised to read that your reaction is that you want to keep the statues. often o protest over statues, the city mayor will say let's take the why was this your position sir? mayor signer: there was a protest that kicked this off statues one to robert e. lee. my instinct at the very was that we needed to cast the problem more broadly and talk about race in our public spaces. we created a blue ribbon wi changing the narrative by telling the full story of race in charlottesville through our incredibly difficult thing to do. we've got dozens of l that touch on race in one way or another including things we needed to do that that we ha there were 17 public hearings held by this 9 member commission which at the outset was maj

pushed lee back across. lee forced meade back during the bristow campaign. you see meade launch an assault that succeeds on a limited level but does not change the course of the war. then you see meade launch a campaign that ends in nothing. and suddenly all of these things are acceptable, somewhat acceptable to meade. now, true, admittedly, i think he is also deeply affected by the fact that there are not a lot of other choices to make for the army of the potomac. one of the most important impacts of john pope's presence in virginia in 1862 was that it discouraged if not eliminated any possibility that lincoln would bring in a westerner to command the army of the potomac itself. that had not gone well. the army of the potomac to a remarkable degree is a closed shop, namely the western based or trained commanders that has significant impact on the army of the potomac. there are only two or three, the entire war. it's a closed shop. but, in any event, i think this coming into alignment of policy with the expectations of military campaigns is an important thin

lee is guilty of perjury. there has been a number of different lines that have come through in terms of transferring assets illegally, but this is the latest line coming through in terms of samsung. jay y. lee is guilty of perjury. anna: the first worship -- version of the word guilt this warning. the role of succession planning here, the court said earlier they found no evidence samsung soft favor from park, but then embezzled say lee had , the funding for the agency was a bribe and he is of course a friend of park, the former leader of south korea. and going on to talk about this guilty verdict around perjury and more details. manus: the top line is that jay y. lee is guilty of embezzlement and bribery on a sportscenter front. if you want to understand what is at risk for jay y. lee here, the prosecutors have demanded a prison term of 12 years. they have accused him, in line of the charges for embezzlement and bribery and hiding assets overseas. they see those could deserve anything up to 12 years. the top l