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Painstaking renovations are happening outside the church in a cemetery protected by an original wall that dates back to 1836, a time when parishioners themselves often had to defend their church in the infamous five points slum of new york city. >> who holds sway over the five points? us natives born right wise to this fine land, or the foreign hoards defiling it? >> you had men with muskets with holes through the wall protecting this church from nativists. >> why did they have to protect the church? >> because they were burning down catholic churches. >> inside, another notable national treas...

You. thank you for joining us on "the fox report" tonight. >> good evening. thank you for having me. >> all right. i want to start with why i invited you on and it has too do with what you wrote and you tweeted about it and you talked about the electoral process and the electoral that you note and there is only one republican, i believe from texas, who has gone public with plans to break from donald trump. there hasn't been an election in which more than one elector has jumped ship for reasons other than death of a candidate since 1836. so if there is a defection, more than one among the repub...

You. thank you for joining us on "the fox report" tonight. >> good evening. thank you for having me. >> all right. i want to start with why i invited you on and it has too do with what you wrote and you tweeted about it and you talked about the electoral process and the electoral that you note and there is only one republican, i believe from texas, who has gone public with plans to break from donald trump. there hasn't been an election in which more than one elector has jumped ship for reasons other than death of a candidate since 1836. so if there is a defection, more than one among the repub...

I don't need beyonce to sing and get you excited. let's talk about the future of the country. >> yeah. and he says it shows weakness on her part. one other thing i think we'd better remember also, that is that in american history it is very hard for one political party to hold onto the white house three terms in a row. >> yeah. >> eisenhower tried to give the white house to nixon in '60, didn't work. clinton tried to do the same thing with al gore in 2000, didn't work either. so in a way, you know, that sort of thing reminded people of what they had seen. >> before reagan passed it off to bush...

History and go back through 200 years, it's extremely rare that one political party controls the white house for three terms in a row. 1836, jackson was able to pass the white house on to his vice president, martin van buren. the next time that happened, you have to go all the way up to 1988, when ronald reagan was able to do that for george h.w. bush. even, for instance, in 1960 when dwight eisenhower, a very popular president, tried to leave the presidency to richard nixon. couldn't do it. bill clinton, whose popularity had rerebounded by 2000, tried to do it for al gore. couldn't do it to s...