. >> let's go to john porter. john, you kind of tracked all angles of this storm for us. what is it that made this one cause so much damage and disruption, really? >> well, good morning. it is the, really the fact that the significant and devastating rainfall occurred over such a broad area, over an extended period of time, and that has really led to catastrophic flooding in houston and all of the, many of the communities in eastern texas and up into portions of western louisiana. and we think this really is going to be a national disaster, in terms of the magnitude of this, in terms of the number of lives that are affected. we're very concerned the death toll is going to be increasing, potentially substantially, as more and more first responders get into some of the hardest hit areas, and beyond the tremendous human impact, we're also concerned about the impact to the economy as well. our analysis shows that we may be talking about an impact of more than $190 billion to the economy from the storm, so quite significant. this is not like anything we've seen before in terms

the immense pressure was part of fits john porter's assault on jackson's position. over the course of the last 30 minutes as men from new york, michigan, pennsylvania and massachusetts assailed the confederate defenders, the cartridge boxes of the confederate defenders had run dry. numerous confederates left the fight in droves, scouring the dead and dying in search of ammunition, but with little success. the stout resistance along the railroad embankment was physically quieting as the guns slowly silenced. according to an article in the philadelphia weekly times written in december 1881 at this moment an irishman named o'keefe yelled above the battle, boys, give them rocks. all along the line, stafford and johnson's regimen began to hurl large boulders as well as grabbed smaller sized rocks and throw them like fast balls over the pitching mound. >> a soldierier whose unit was on the front line recalled, quote, huge stones began to fall about us and one of them would happen to strike one or another of us with a very unpleasant. some soldiers be ga know to return the

first, john porter mcallen's division will hit the center right where the knoll is, right where the visitor center is today at the park as one of the artillery men said the confederates came on like demons, both sides sensed that this was the final shot. as one of the confederate brigade commanders said, as we came out of the woods, the federal artillery fire was so intense that it was cutting bark and branches off the trees and we got into the field and we were in the field ten to 12 minutes and it was determined that no troops could live under that fire and so mcallen's guys after six hours of fighting and marching fall back and the center is now safe. but the left -- excuse me, the federal right is not because to the north van cleave has been able to take position short of the nashville pike. and van cleave encounters the confederate division under patrick clayburn, and these are the guys that are marching and fighting since about midnight and the ones that have afforded stone's river and have been doing this in about three hours of sleep, but they sense victory is nigh. they hit van cle

pope then ordered major general john porter whose fifth corps was at bris tow station to march to centerville and then to the battlefield. pope believed he had jackson boxed in. as pope prepares his orders and his men to go into the assault, what was the final position that jackson had taken in the area? what exactly did it entail and how were his men laid out? during the predawn hours of august 29th, jackson's position would be firmed up as his divisions deployed to the rear of the unfinished railroad line. major general ambrose hill's division held the left with six brigades in two lines of battle upon stoney ridge. left flank rested near sudly mill, not far from sudly church pictured here. brigadier general maxie a rocky wooden knoll about 60 yards behind the railroad cut on the left flank of ap hill's division and 1,000 yards southwest of where this photograph was taken. colonel samuel mcgowen recalled left jackson's line that day, he said "this position was slightly an advance of the general line and was considered important because of the sudly road forward which it commanded. our line

fitz john porter's massive assault against jackson's center and right spending 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. like so many 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 afternoon jackson needed help. his line was bruised, battered and broken. it had been cracked many times. federal soldiers had gotten into his line to take absolutely everything he had left to rebuild that defensive position. it was finally time for general longstreet and his wing to enter the fight. as we examined whether or not jackson's defense that we heard about today was a great defense or not, we have to ask several questions. was jackson outnumbered at any point in time during the battle? what was the numerical reality on the field? was the myth of a mighty federal army attacking some lone small isolated confederate body of

years later, florida's captain john maffitt reported in a conversation with admiral dixon porter. porter admitted to giving the order to sink the ship which he called the rebel craft. in short, hamten roads was the famous resting place. one union and one confederate. it didn't take long for questions to arise about their preservation. after the battle of hampton roads, the federal government experienced interest in raising the sunken remains of "uss cumberland." ownership of the wreck was never in dispute during the war. the territorial clause of the u.s. constitution made it clear that all u.s. naval wrecks remained property of the navy. didn't matter if that wreck was on the bottom of the trench or had run aground at cape may. if it once belonged to the navy, it always belonged to the navy. immediately after the battle of hampton roads, the navy expressed interest in bringing up cumberland and seeing if it could be reused. in may, 1862, secretary of the navy gideon welles hired loreven baits to conduct a preliminary survey of the wreck. and his report, which was the earliest acc

john kelly controlling that? >> anything that's an actual news story he is looking at is going to go through the process of going to the staff secretary, a man named rob porter review, vetting, then to kelly for approval and then gets to the president's desk. what john kelly can't control is his remote control and his personal cell phone. he can get onto that cell phone when he goes to the residence and call whomever and have something read to him. he has a way, as we know, there have been jokes about how it's like watching somebody doing an e-mail forward. he will pick up filaments of information and put them back out and they're not always entirely clear. this is not going to be a completely perfect system, but it is going to be, i think, as good a system as one can get. if you were john kelly and frankly reince priebus or any of these people, you have to accept who you're dealing with. you're not going to change him. all you can do is control things to the extent you can. >> family access to the president is a big deal, but so is -- additional comments that come out like this morning in the "financial times." tops commission adviser gary cohn who has had

porters -- reporters, editors. times," "the chicago a lot of border state activity. francis -- francis scott key's grandson in baltimore, you see john mars like -- they closed down the missouri newspaper. he said he was bringing back the printing press. he was very excited about it. how is this defensible? lincoln's defense was very simple and elemental, he believed the constitution gave him the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and maintain order in cases of rebellion. he said, i now declare this to be called the war power. guess who has got it? i do, and i can closed on these newspapers. similes, you great patient -- kill a this is sort of a very poignant thing to do in the civil war when amputations were so rampant -- you would never kill a patient to save a leg, but you would kill a leg to save patient. he was taking the leg of freedom of expression and redefining the thin line between dissent and treason. that was his argument. he was willing to live and died by it. people always turn to andrew jackson. asturned to andrew jackson in example. he closed down newspapers in new orleans, and then reopen them. you may th

john kukla will real life -- talk about the life of patrick henry. thursday at busboys and poets in washington where former radio personality paul porter's reflections on his 40 years in the music industry. saturday in baltimore, photographer devon allen shares images from the 2015 baltimore uprising following the death of freddie gray. that is a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week's. many are open to the public. look for them to wear in the future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i love history and just finished a book called 6 months in 1945 which told about the great historic events the took place in the first few months and conferences between the big three, the death of president roosevelt, dropping the atomic bomb, the defeat of winston churchill, a lot of things happened in the first we 6 months. i read a humorous book called a downhill lie, humor writer who talked about giving up golf when he was 23, picking up 30 years later. also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david

john quarters arrived to general jackson's rear. pope would not yield to the notion long street and lee had arrived and now occupied the very front porter was supposed to push through to get to jackson. despite pope's delusional miscalculation regarding porter and jackson's right, these further assaults tested how strong jackson's defensive line really was. as midday approached, pope ordered the divisions of isaac stevens and joseph hooker to move forward to replace scherzer's battered units to the confederate left. as scherzer pulled out his hard-fought gains and pieces of the ground along the railroad were occupied by edward thomas' georgian and he made a tactical mistake and left a 120 yard gap between the line and not only would jackson's line be tested again with even larger federal assaults it would teter on the verge of collapse due to thomas' mistake. shortly before 3:00 p.m. grover's brigade of hooker's division moved out as part of the renewed attack against jackson, expecting an order for his brigade to attack, grover rode ahead and examined the terrain of the confederate position to where he was to assault. quote, after risi

john kukla will real life -- talk about the life of patrick henry. thursday at busboys and poets in washington where former radio personality paul porter's reflections on his 40 years in the music industry. saturday in baltimore, photographer devon allen shares images from the 2015 baltimore uprising following the death of freddie gray. that is a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week's. many are open to the public. look for them to wear in the future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i love history and just finished a book called 6 months in 1945 which told about the great historic events the took place in the first few months and conferences between the big three, the death of president roosevelt, dropping the atomic bomb, the defeat of winston churchill, a lot of things happened in the first we 6 months. i read a humorous book called a downhill lie, humor writer who talked about giving up golf when he was 23, picking up 30 years later. also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david

john kelly. he's gone in there and already made a name for himself. this is coming into fox news. he's brought along two lieutenants now, a deputy national security advisor and white house staff secretary rob portert or, you know, on his desk is vetted before he sees it because in the e-mail they say they compare it to an era, as you mentioned clayton earlier, it was easy for people to not only drop unannounced into the oval office but sometimes get bad or dubious information in front of the president. >> sometimes conspiracy theorys that didn't have any facts behind them, drop these stories on his desk and the president might jump on twitter and tweet about it. so we have heard now these stories general kelly wants that to stop. if that information hits the president's desk, it better be spot on. it goes through the proper channels. >> a lot of the ire of some of those tweets you saw from the president were about not just what was happening inside the oval office be what was happening across the mall in congress with senate republicans unable and unwilling to pass a repeal and replace of obama care which they said they are going to do. we are getting reports now about senate majority leader mcco