union army took over their property. the structure was a field hospital where hundreds of wounded soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. us, daniel vermilya to discuss his new book. i will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including "the battle of "james a. mountainand garfield and the civil war." he previously worked as a park field,at the antietam and he currently works at the historicr national site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. before i handed over to dan, c-span is here today. we will have a question and and their -- answer section. please wait for a member of c-span to ask the question. we will also have a book signing. a copy of dan's book. if you have a copy, he will sign it there. all right. here is dan. [applause] mr. vermilya: thank you very much. thank you, rachel. thinks to be c-span folks for coming up and being your today. it's really a treat for me to be here with all of you. as r

itself because the union is undergoing pretty huge sure. changes and i think that some things that he mentioned in this interview hall for a total revision of the whole approach to european union rights for example one thing that i think is very important is that that is that there was a huge change in the u.s. and the u.s. was a country which basically provided security for you've been the european union russia no this country is now changing mr trump not. other term this is 4 years of this change that will be applied and everybody will feel the consequences now this calls for reform of the of the position of the european union in the world right now you have on your borders countries like russia you have chinese or some somebody there is terry k. 30 war in syria this is war ready close your door maybe we should think about already organisation a security system and if we do this what kind of position the western balkans country should be. going to understand well what i think if it was not only about the western balkans per se i mean he w

union of iupat. d ally trades, i can tell you the benefits that happened for my family and the people i work with's family, of having good union supporting wages and good union-supporting benefits and why that matters so much. the problem we have right now in this country is the organized effort going after working people by going after their ability to have a voice in their workplaces by having unions. we have patched -- we have watched attacks across the country, where states have gone to right to work law. what that's often referred to is a right to work for less law. when you get these laws people lose about 3% in pay in states that do. this federally under the trump administration we have watched laws that make it harder for working people who win the legal right to form a union through a union election run into all kinds of stumbling blocks and all too often there's no legal recourse against an employer who violates the rules or stacks the deck against people and doesn't allow that vote to actu

." >> how many union members or former union members? five, six, seven >> reporter: at our roundtable with democratic primary voters >> i couldn't get into a union. i couldn't get health care >> reporter: a clear desire for the return of union strength. >> just take a look at this what are we going to do to make unions stronger in this country? because they need to be stronger. when the unions were strong, the middle class was strong >> what goes through your mind? >> that they're right, that they get it >> reporter: we talked with senator amy klobuchar at home. to her, unions are a family matter. >> i literally am here as the granddaughter of a union member, an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher, a union member the daughter of newspaper man and a union member >> reporter: how americans view unions has changed dramatically in the last ten years nearly two-thirds of view unions favorably. >> we have things that have gone awry it is no surprise at all that you're going to see an increase in union organizing and an increase in intere

because we are all equal members of the european union our interest is to make due european union united and strong again the question is how to get there there are 2 basic approaches one approach. should make brussels strong and in the meantime the member states this concept called like a concept of the united states of europe which we told the lead reject and oppose our concept is different because if think that the e.u. can only be strong again if the member states are getting stronger and stronger so for us a strong european union must be based on strong member states member states are proud of their national identity and. religious historic and cultural heritage i think this debate this question is particularly evident when it comes to the issue of migration and what strikes me is that i think much of that debate is really of not only in attitudes towards the present policies but also in the past the e.u. was set up as a project that is specifically aimed at avoiding a certain kind of past germany's past 1st and foremost don't you think that it's perhaps institutionally set up to ig

the union artillery will lose one iron gun. and by the end of the day, one of those two brothers on the top right will be dead and buried in the road somewhere near water country, usa, today. the brothers are stephen and mosys william from the hampton legion. stephen is killed. he is 22 years old. his body will remain there until 1866 when it is picked up and brought back to south carolina. that night, a peculiar thing happens. the whole union army is stacked up on both of these roads, and hancock's brigade itself will sleep within snoring distance of the confederate earthworks. they comment about walking into and out of each other's fires that night as they try to stay warm against the impending rain. the mcgruder regiment who knew had been on the peninsula and helped dig the earthworks, who knew the terrain is pulled out, and sent west toward richmond. longstreet's division, who didn't know much about terrain here, is a division sent into this line of 14 earthworks to help stall the union army for the following day. then it b

are members of the european union for sure so for our interest is to make european union strong again but i really do believe that if you want to make european union stronger that needs a good cooperation with the united states so i rather instead of making fantasies about whom to choose i love to concentrate on the successful negotiations between the u.s. and the european union now we talked about the ears and evelyn's about smaller countries dealing with china but the top administration is far more hawkish when it comes to corporation of the beijing and they are reframing it from an economic issue into a security issue and as a member of nato how much room for maneuver do you think hungry has in dealing with china you know in this regard i'm always very honest with my american friends and counterparts as well i myself supervise intelligence as well as foreign minister of foreign affairs minister and so far. i have not received information as we. would have. obstacles on the way of our economy. of the american intelligence i'm sure the you're american. no. evidence is. like trying to

and france controlled west germany and the soviet union the east the east german government directive the wall in 1901 to stop an exodus of millions of people to the west in 1909 revolutions in european states inspired many east germans to demand greater freedom on of them by 9 that year days after half a 1000000 people protested in east berlin the berlin wall came down but that led to germany's formal reunification on the 3rd of october 1990. well let's now get the thoughts of our guest joining us from. from berlin heading man he's managing director of social europe publishing and consulting that's a public policy and business consultancy in moscow victor levitch lead expert at the center for actual politics that's a think tank and in london elizabeth broad senior research fellow of the modern deterrence project at russi and author of god spies the stars these cold war espionage campaign inside the church a warm welcome to you all heading my let me start with you if i may there in berlin because you were there where it all happened 30 years ago what do you think the berlin wall came

the european union has a different role. many european member states who are also members of nato. europeans, we do not need nato, but the european union is called upon. we are building up the european union defense within three years, knowing that it will be complementary to nato. this will leave the european union with a huge toolbox we and from development diplomacy to servicemen and women so that we are able to act when called upon. >> we just heard from president longer line. what does that mean versus the u.s. and china? >> to promote what we have going for ourselves already. in the business-to-business environment, you find a lot of technology. you find an impressive start up environment. and the willingness to balance all the possibilities and to play the downsides. have heard many times from u.s. companies that the reason you are so focused on taxation is because we have not seen any real innovation in europe. is that fair? >> that is absolutely not fair. what is fair is to say to the many businesses that pay their

we are also seeing our industries unionizing. the workers here in philadelphia won their you know about two nights ago 70-1. not nearly as many as in a uaw plant, but it is a sign that eveven sort of whihite-collar workers are e understanding that unionizing is a way they have power on the job and can fight back against all sorts of things going on in this industry. amy: finally, sarah jaffe, you just got back from london where labour party organizing is at a peak right now. you have jeremy corbyn, the labour party leader, announcing he is challenging boris johnson for the prime ministers ship. the significance of this? significance is related because the labour party, somewhat like that chicago teachers union and other unionos that have reformed, decided when this leadership got into power to invest in organizing departmentnt. this is sosomething the ctu did and others did and now something that a major political party, the biggest social democratic party in europe, has put money into. i wrote a big feature e this susummer about

not a rugby union one though.gue next year for the newly promoted toronto wolfpack. a big coup to get one of global rugby's biggest stars to leave union behind and finish his career in the code that he started with. adam wild has more. the sporting journey of sonny bill williams has been as spectacular as it has been unusual. the path less travelled certain to break more new crown. just days after waving farewell at the rugby union world cup, hisjourney farewell at the rugby union world cup, his journey continues farewell at the rugby union world cup, hisjourney continues much more back to the sport where first began. he made his name helping them to the nrl title, a switch of coats followed rugby union in france and then in canterbury crusaders. his first return to rugby league came with another nrl title following. so too did another return to the rugby union. it is his performance at the international level that made him a global sporting icon. twice a rugby union world cup winner who also played in a rugby lea

now, what happens with the union cavalry raid? they will threaten railroads and tie up confederate troops and want to destroy vital supplies. this is almost a microcosm of grant's strategy, happening on a very small scale. they will be targeting places like saltville, where salt is produced, where lead is mined, and the and tennessee railroad, that vital link. it starts off on may 2, george crook leaves and takes the second infantry division with him. he sends averill to a separate starting location. crook will have a skirmish at calligan station, and averill will leave the courthouse on may 5, moving on separate roads. the map is coming up next. it is. now, i had intentions to make this easier to see, but due to some technical difficulties, we will have to work with a modern roadmap here. [laughter] sarah: let's try to give you a little bit of perspective where we are. this will be down here, and one -- saltville is off in the maybe as in this area, little further south, so it is this area that will be a lot of where we are talki

already we have two out of three backing union -- banking union up and running.resolution concentrating to finalize the work which is european deposit insurance scheme. so indeed banking union is going be one of the commission's priorities. >> we have minister schultz of germany out with a proposal on that very subject. is that something you can work with? >> exactly. this is welcome opening, because deposit insurance scheme has been moving quite e.u.y in discussions among members states and germany had certain reservations, so from german finance minister is a welcome opening hopes that it will facility discussions and agreement on european deposit insurance scheme. ♪[music] >> this is "bloomberg best." let's resume our roundup of the week's top news in business, finance and politics with a sudden rush of activity in m&a. billion.han $16 the french luxury goods giant $135 a share. it will raise the jewelry profile and give the company access to the u.s. consumer. $16 billion is quite a figure. afford it? >> they definitely can. $200pretty impressive, billion plu

we need more power in the hands of workers and that means making it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate. [applause] sen. warren: unions built america's middle class and will rebuild america's middle class. we've just got to do this together. [applause] sen. warren: so i'm going to stop talking. that's really hard for someone like me to do, because they raise just so much i want to tell you about, but why don't i stop and we will take as many questions as we have got time for tonight and i'll do my best to give short answers. it will never work. >> we have two mic runners here and one mic, so this will be interesting. we will try to get through with the difficulties we have, so i will call on members and the runner will come to you. i will try to point out the second person so that there will always be one in que to move things along as we can. stand up, state your name, where you work, and keep your questions concise, to the point, and we will try to get through as many people as we can tonight. i will take the liberty of the first question. last week, you

leaving the european union and that she would always be a remainer. now max before we dig into some of those issues that you just mentioned one thing i did notice was that there seem to be quite a few empty seats there in the e.u. parliament in this morning any idea as to why. you know that's often the case here in stroudsburg the. members of the european parliament usually show up when they have to vote they don't always show up for the different speeches and it was about fondling and doesn't really have support throughout all the different political groups for example not from the very far right or the very far left so that explains part of it but it appears that those who intend to vote for her later in the day were present. a message was so silly and attempted being a unifying one let's get to what was her message but we know you know how come most of the process is associated with the european union can be do you think that the e.u. parliament will now get behind what appears to be a very ambitious plan. it's going to be different from the past b

that union was different not only from the union britain was fighting the war to uphold, but from how british writers understood the relationship between britain and its colonies since the revolution of 1688/'89. should yielding on colonial taxation not produce the desired results, the commissioners were empowered to allow americans to retain the federal system of government that congress had worked out under the articles of confederation and in fact to incorporate the articles into britain's written -- i'm sorry, unwritten imperial constitution. although the goal here was to restore the king's authority in america, carlisle's terms overturned nearly a century of constitutional precedent and were in their own way quite revolutionary. henceforth, the british government would meet the costs of colonial governance and defense not through parliamentary taxes but with voluntary requisitions on each colony. this course was the system that had been in place in america before 1762. that part is not really new. those requisitions could take the form of cash payments or the raising of independe

that means making it easier to join a union and gives unions more power when they negotiate. [applause] unions built america's middle class and unions will rebuild america's middle class. we have to do this together. i'm going to stop talking, that is really hard for someone like me to do. there is so much i want to tell you about. why don't i stop and i will take as many questions as i has time for here tonight. two microphone monitors and one microphone. we will try to get through this as best as we can. members, i will try to point out a second person so they will both be one and queue. please stand up, state your name keep yourwork, questions concise, to the point, and we will try to get to as many people as we can. i will take the liberty of taking the first question. you published an op-ed on senate bill 148, a bipartisan bill that would support the rights for us to be in worksites and engaged nonunion members. governor sununu vetoed that bill. what will your administration due to counteract that? sen. warren: let me do two halves. give me a democratic majority in the s

[applause] unions built america's middle class and unions will rebuild america's middle class. we've just got to do this together. [applause] so i'm going to stop talking, that is really hard for someone like me to do. because there is just so much i want to tell you about. but why don't i stop and we will take as many questions as we got time for tonight. i will do my best to try to give short answers. mic runners and one microphone. we are going to try to get through this the best we can with the difficulties that we have. i'm going to call on members and the macron will come to you. i will try to point out a second person so that there will always be one to try to move things along as fast as we can. please stand up, state your name, where you work, and tried to keep your questions concise, to the point, and we will try to get to as many people as we can tonight. i'm going to take the liberty of taking the first question. last week you published an op-ed on senate bill 148 which was a bipartisan bill that would support the rights for us to be in worksites and engage nonunion

have at least 3 union different unions that want to gain membership more membership and want to increase their member base that are competing against those members they all want to strike deals with the last times our management in collective bargaining agreements and this one stuff union in particular you mention it ufo is its name which in the past has been particularly uncompromising but it also has to be said those long disputes. had with the unions for so many years have left a lot of bruises to both sides really need to learn how to respect each other again now conrad what impact could a protracted dispute in this case have all moved on them. well of course in terms of p.r. terms of customer satisfaction there is relatively high risk as of course the customers get to feel the effect of the strikes immediately but i have to say from an investor's point of view here in the financial world among investors confidence in the company has returned significantly this year lufthansa shares has been one of the strong performing shares of the german dax index so obviously investors are not to

leaving the european union and that she would always be a remainer. now max before we dig into some of those issues that you just mentioned one thing i did notice was that there seem to be quite a few empty seats there in the e.u. parliament instead of this morning any idea as to why. you know that's often the case here in stroudsburg the. members of the european parliament usually show up when they have to vote they don't always show up for the different speeches and it was about fondling and doesn't really have support throughout all the different political groups for example not from the very far right or the very far left so that explains part of it but it appears that those who intend to vote for her later in the day were present. a message was so silly and attempted being a unifying one let's get to what was her message but we know you know how come most of the process is associated with the european union can be do you think that the e.u. parliament will now get behind what appears to be a very ambitious plan. it's going to be different from th

political turmoil in the european union smallest nation as multis government is caught up in a murder probe suspicions are growing top a high level cover up a senior figures result. u.s. president donald trump tells her reelection rally in florida that the in teach men to inquiry has been going well for him in the swing state is a battleground for talks and sure german chancellor angela merkel tells lawmakers her government is pushing the defense budget tops in line with nato targets for spending. i'm sumi so much gonda it's good to have you with us european lawmakers are casting their votes at this hour on the new team of commissioners taking over at the executive arm of the european union with their approval germany's was the last one to line is poised to formally take charge of the european commission the sunday she set out our plans for the presidency in strasbourg this morning saying she would focus on equality the environment and digitalization let's listen in to her vision for the future of the e.u. . it is not only about parties and politics rules or regulations markets all cu

worldview at that time was the fact that it seemed to him that the soviet union gave up its. predominant role in eastern europe and other regions allowed european states to move into the western a fear it allowed some former soviet republics to also move into the western sphere and the soviet union itself collapsed into 15 states as i said before and what the what did moscow get for it from the west in his world view and in the view of millions of russians. the rush russia got nothing for it then became a much weaker state that washington and its allies no longer took as seriously as they did when it was one of the 2 superpowers and so what. at that point understood or thought and thinks that in order for western powers and other world powers to. take into account russia's interests and the russia's positions on various international topics russia has to be strong russia has to be assertive and at times russia. has to be proactive in. stating its goals and promoting them on the international stage and that's one of the reasons that the russians moscow's foreign policy. since

i'm afraid was much more basic and much more realistic it was the decision as i say of the soviet union no longer to support. those regimes and once the support of moscow had been withdrawn they collapsed so it was not the triumph of people in the streets of prague or berlin the whatever it was instead of the jew political decision taken by moscow which had the inevitable consequences that we know about ok now you only lighted communism fell yeah ok i did as i say i just notice that harold was disagreeing with you go ahead harold in washington you know i really do think it has much deeper roots it has roots that go back into the 1950 s. and 1960 s. but for me that really transformational story was the papacy of john paul the 2nd and the mobilization you saw the demonstration of millions of poles yet. people really united against against the regime and from that moment on the regime lacked any legitimacy in addition to their systematic economic failure and it's not that gorbachev is dealing with that that gorbachev has to respond to the basic sentiment is there in the streets of was or i

but at the end of the day, the union was -- once you got the constitution in place, the union was going to win out. but you know, i think that we make a mistake if we assume that is the whole story. the presence of this british alternative has a huge impact on what goes on in these western territories well into the 19th century. there is also one over here. and there is a question back there. >> when you talk about a commonwealth-style, obviously what comes to mind today is a commonwealth of nations, but i don't want to be anachronisticly putting that back. is that the term they are using? how does that not anticipate the later developments? dr. gould: that is a good question. historians have used it. so, it shows up in historical literature, and so i'm emboldened to use it because of other people's anachronisms. nothing like blaming someone else for your own anachronisms. there is a lot -- you know, i have to go and look. i want to look at galloway, but it is not just galloway. i would want to look at some of the irish writers. gratin had things to say about this. one of the really int

1st one is of course the digital age making europe fit for the digital age as you know the european union lags behind in the digital economy all the big companies the digital giants are in the united states or in china so that you have some catching up to do there that's one priority the other priority is an economy that works for the people that's their wording not mine so getting the social and the economy together that's another executive vice presidency but most important of all probably is the green deal for europe so everything that is environmental protection combat in climate change that is the top priority for this commission at least that's what. i said and that's apparently also what the european citizens want there's a new study out just today that says that 40 percent of citizens that answered in this poll said climate change combat in climate change is the top priority and they want the commission to work on that we're just taking a look at the moment live picture of s.f. on the line being introduced meeting and greeting people there in parliament before she takes to the sta

i can't be outside of the country i'm used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot i'm looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship of the coup. lebanon's former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next prime minister mohammad saffi said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet all those are the headlines more news here after inside story do stay with us on al-jazeera. inhumane and dangerous our rights groups describe conditions in a positive migrant camp bosnia struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing born policy taking the new balkan route to europe so who should be tackling this crisis and how this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan no running water or electricity portable toilets that are rotting flimsy leaking tents and rubbish everywhere built on an old landfill site next to a mine field migrants and refugees at the jack camp say that it's a nightmare conditions are appalling and are about to g

to get back into the european union and the western balkans for them just a transit area and the idea of some of the european union to try to trap people that leave greece and he needed them from reaching. germany is bound to fail and it's bound to fail with mess if humanitarian suffering associated the idea that bosnia which already today accommodates more migrants then e.u. member states like hungary or bulgaria or croatia is going to be able to absorb a larger and larger number of people is a fantasy and so what we see now the search for accommodation the search for better better hosting of people better provision of services it's all necessary but it will fail to address the problem unless there is a strategy that reduces the number of people that arrive in greece or that leave from greece through the balkans to get to croatia. so jill to what extent is the e.u. responsible for finding a solution to this crisis and he says that it can only help and not make decisions for the responsible authorities in bosnia itself where i think the e.u. is very much responsible because what we ar

and an employer can broker between a union and an employercan in this broker between a union and an in this case the royal mail but because she has a partisan interest in the conservative party during an election of stoking of fears about strike actions she says the timing of this threat will be a taste of things to come ifjeremy corbyn were to be elected. nevertheless, it is extreme the serious for there to be the potential of strike action, i did not know mention here in the telegraph the postal workers regularly get a bonus after a general election time because of the volume of campaign literature which parties poor through people's letterboxes and that's now caught up in part of an ongoing dispute with the royal mail over terms and conditions. i do hope this can be resolved and i think it's much harder when you don't have a business secretary willing to help hold people's hands through negotiation. is there any evidence that postal voters tend to favour one party or another? as the telegraph reported their story it's more like the older people will vote via postal ballot because

gm sues fiat chrysler for racketeering — accusing its rival of bribing unions.iat calls the lawsuit astonishing. plus — pulling a sickie. more than half of young british workers say they would fake illness to avoid going to work. is it a sign of bigger problems with today's workplace? and on the markets, global shares stumble on renewed us china tensions — as the us congress passes a bill in support of the hong kong protestors — drawing condemnation from beijing. we start in the us where general motors has launched a legal onslaught against rival car giant fiat chrysler. gm is suing fiat for racketeering, alleging it bribed officials at the united auto workers union for years — and seeking substantial damages' fiat says it's astonished at the lawsuit — which comes as it tries to seal a merger with france's peugeot group. from new york — samira hussain has more. general motors says fiat chrysler spent millions bribing during the years of 2011 and 2015. gm asserts the union made concessions to fiat chrysler that were not afforded to general motors. such as hiring

in the state of oregon, maps credit union, we actually only serve the state of oregon as a credit union. we're limited to a geographic charter. so we actually are not dealing outside of the state lines of the state of oregon. >> all right. ms. sherwood? >> we have the same situation, chairman, so we're only local within the state of colorado. we would not deal with outside entities. >> mr. van meter, mr. lord, are you aware of situations where there is banking across state lines, or would be, if we were to engage in this legislation? >> currently, no, sir. there would be, of course, an excellent opportunity to do so should regulations permit. >> there are now a large number of dispensary chains that are multistate operators. i imagine that just by virtue of operating in multiple states that they would be transferring money between states. >> all right. let me move on to another question. mr. van meter, you raised a number of concerns about the abuse and impacts of the abuse of marijuana that could occur if we have -- i guess what you're saying, essentially an unregulated system. so, are

not only in eastern europe but the soviet union. we will be discussing rapid change in eastern europe. we have been talking about that before you wall came in here. we have been talking about the gorbachev meeting. we are determined that we will discuss. today, aing us distinct us panel to talk about that day in washington, beginning with that gentleman you spotted at the end of the video standing against the wall behind secretary baker as president bush talks. --tin fitzwater, right here [applause] he served ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, one of the most beloved press secretaries of our country. he knew how to handle the press. books abouten four his experiences in the white house. " bush and reagan." reporters on that who went down to the white house press room with six presidents, and was there full-time for three of them, ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, and bill clinton. reporting from the reuters group. peter, was with mutual radio and went on to a 20 year career with cbs news. peter has covered every president