a single guide. he went so far and said -- the guide that i'm not going any further. lee went on by himself, crossing the slava encrusted plane -- this lava encrusted plane to find a road that would not link them, allowing scott to win his big victory elsewhere in this campaign. at the end of that war, scott wrote in his after action report, this was the most brilliant young officer in the army. so, as he then at west point, the untouchable, iconic, robert e lee, so too in the mexican war was even and to watch. >> i guess what i like about grant at this period, john you could elaborate on this, is that he sees what we only came to see later, that it was an ill advised, nasty adventure in mexico. but, tell us about grant and his military, his reaction to that. >> grants reaction to the mexican war is completely negative. he believes it is absolutely a mistake. it is something the united states should not have done. the way it was handled, etc., etc., etc. keep in mind, grant is antislavery. his father is an anti-slavery and this mythology, i just got a phone call just two

would that make a difference? mr. lee: i have the same concerns. i believe local decision-making is generally the right direction so i'd be more open to local decision been a statewide decision on that. i would express real concern around the affect that it has on communities in our state and the opportunity it opens up for up organized crime. my inclination is to say that the decision that would be appropriate for local government to make. i would allow them to do that. long term we will end up doing this and you got to do it right. you can't underestimate the need for revenue. when i think about memphis and it is a great city, it has a great future. it is the most authentic place around, but they'll need additional revenue to do what they need to do in schools and with public safety and other issues. it's up to them to decide, not me. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching tonight tennessee governor debate. another reminder he can follow along on social media using the #tngovdebate. we'll be right back with more ques

a presidential election year. it looked like it might go better for democrats, right? lee zeldin in 2016 was definitely on the bubble as to whether or not he was going to be just a one-term congressman. but at the apex of that crucial race for him in 2016, congressman lee zeldin's campaign did something that was a little hinky, especially in retrospect it seems really hinky. but even at the time people could tell there was something wrong. at the height of that campaign in 2016, lee zeldin's campaign sent out a mailer that apparently targeted specific voters in his district, and that mailer told voters that they had to mail in their absentee ballots a day after the deadline when those ballots were due. oops. if voters in zeldin's district had actually followed the instructions on that mailer from their own congressman, their vote wouldn't have counted. he is telling them to send in their votes a day late. that's terrible, right? terrible. now, was that a mistake? the zeldin campaign said of course that was just a mistake. but you wonder, right? we see stuff like this. we s

my name is jane au, and i am a teacher here at the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. i am a former student who wholly supports this name change. i often say i graduated from the chinese education center. same yard, same building, same story. that year is special to me, since it was my only elementary school experience here in the u.s. although the experience was phenomenal, the name of the school misled me into thinking that i was enrolled in a center and not an actual school. even today, i fear residents and city residents and parents who misunderstand the mission of our school because of its old name. as witnessed today, we are just more than a language school. we strive to help our immigrant children and families adjust to their new home and to the unfamiliar cultures that come with it. just like the school has helped me when i was a student here. our new school name amplifies the impact by learning about mr. and mrs. lee's community aachievement -- achievements, our students will be inspired to do more for the community. therefore as aformer alumnus, i am honored t

a presidential election year. it looked like it might go better for democrats, right? lee zeldin in 2016 was definitely on the bubble as to whether or not he was going to be just a one-term congressman. but at the apex of that crucial race for him in 2016, congressman lee zeldin's campaign did something that was a little hinky, especially in retrospect it seems really hinky.

lee's exalted status had resulted in him becoming a national hero, not just a sectional hero. so by the early mid 20th century, lee in popular culture is seen as the greatest general of the civil war, his stature eclipsing that of ulysses s grant, who has we know and we've talked about, is the key architect to northern victory. lee's reputation is exalted alongside that of lincoln and lee's reputation is particularly solidified by the pulitzer-winning for volume biography written by douglas freeman entitled re lee a biography. it's not until the 1970s that we start to see academic historians engage in this dismantling of this myth and aspects of this myth. much of what has been written about civil war memory emphasizes this idea of reconciliation. north and south, coming together, driven by economic interest that we talked about, the new south ideology, popular literature, joint reunions of blue and gray veterans, these were not all that numerous, most civil war veterans or unions involved only confederate or union soldiers but there were a few highly publicized incidents where

a winning point to make. you simply had to accept robert e lee as a role model. i cannot help but make the off-the-cuff comment that what you heard last night from the distinguished historian from virginia tech really fits the way eisenhower felt about robert e. lee, right? i do not think that is even in dispute. sparking discord in this country over lee and slavery and racial questions, for that matter, that was not on eisenhower's agenda in 1957. lincoln's task as president was to thwart the slave power and to save the union and he did. eisenhower's job as president was to keep the union safe and prosperous in light of the threat from international communism. that was job one, international communism. and part of his admiration is publicly expressed for robert e lee, i would argue, has to do with his desire to get americans to close ranks, not to think in sectional terms, but to feel that as a unity, as a nation with certain values, overcome a threat from godless communism abroad. talking about white supremacy, talking about slavery was not going to serve the pu

lee? wow. this is a man who got 17 million by the federal government and not only that, fund are ms that i public/private partnership, we get results. that we e students serve under communities and schools graduate. many of those students would a graduation rate of about 10%, so i've proven that i can sleeves, take on big problems and get results, while you have conned everyone you in contact with. >> mr. tarkanian, follow-up question for you. school choice in your initial answer. how much money are you willing the program? >> i got to respond to her, she will lie to the public like she ads.n there was no bail-out from the federal government. to should know that, you had write the correction in your article. it was insurance companies, my defrauded from a developer and banker. is ine defrauded, the con her. the only other nonprofit, 5 county from the city and this match program. she does well running nonprofits, when the government her profit and includes all of the salaries she pays to her ceo.yees and

a reason i want to fight. what is digging trenches going to do? but lee was a smart guy. he went to west point, it was largely an engineering school and he recognizes we are outnumbered by the army and we will increase our chances of being successful if we fortify, if we dig trenches and create fortification to allow us to hold defensive line with a fewer number of men then we would have to use otherwise. and the reason he does this is because he has ambitions to attack. what he realizes what johnson realized. i can't just hang out, i can't sit on my thumb and wait to see what he does because if i do, he will bring his guns and in capture richmond. so he decided the only chance we have is to find a weakness in the union army and exploited. the only way we will do that is if we attack. he orders his troops to dig trenches so he can hold the defenses of richmond with a handful of troops and use a greater number of his armory to launch what he hopes was a powerful counterattack against mcclellan's forces. the trick is, where to attack. we know what johnston did. the river wa

a bomb on a. lee here palomino hardily of food out of a photo held of sun down and be. done in a while the most who are fairly who are judged done or could barely be. sore and you know it was very very useful then to that to to have the opportunity to discuss these issues also directly with arafat and and we were then sort of also able to communicate that and to do this well off these meetings with our part. last one you went back to jerusalem to the whole israeli team i'm told this for at least everything arafa pop star. and even a letter written by hall just said look you know i looked for a letter i think eleven pages for a minute from the meeting giving the letter on the minutes word by word. of arafat's opinions where he thought he can help something or lose something all this was given to describe this it was more sort of a judgment on where the palestinians. in particular where on. sort of the whole idea reaching in agreement on the organ holes was a very mush of writing and he all of us who wrote singh said he wrote almost everything himself i mean working for h

a question for you, mr. lee. before i do that, i invite the audience to remain silent so we can get as many questions as we can and withhold your applause. let us talk about water. right here in memphis. the memphis sand aquifer, mr. lee, might be our greatest natural resource. there is no state or regional authority, no entity whatsoever monitoring or managing the aquifer. as governor, what would you do to help protect the aquifer from contamination and overconsumption? you know, it is really important that we protect the natural resources of this state. generations,future but also for health and safety. it is part of the reason i have engaged in and been supporting groups like 10 green that acquire properties. i have supported the cumberland river compact, which is meant to make certain we have clean water in the cumberland river and throughout middle tennessee. water systemis here is critically important, as well. i think we have to work with the epa. with theo work department of environment and conservation i

a couple of moments when we saw that the capsules you were in was shaking you have a lee signal was there was a disruption in the signal was this the exactly the time when you realized that the or was it something nominal at that stage. when everything goes according to plan when the first stage of. detached there's always this kind of vibration that you can see on video images is that normal but after the first stage detached it we felt that there was vibrations continue and then immediately there was that the emergency signal going off and we realized that this was this was an emergency so when that system went off and when you saw the lies blinking and. indicating there was a failure. it was your second flight what was the first thought that came to your minds you know you've trained for ten years. you've been prepared for it but what was your first the first thing that came to your mind. when there was this bit of him with us on what was the first idea signals of well once we had the. emergency signal we realize that this flight will have to be aborted and that will have to go down by

lee was a great general, and abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn't beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy. i don't know if you know this story. but robert e. lee was winning battle after battle after battle, and one day it was looking really bad. and lincoln just said, you hardly knew his name. and they said, don't take him. he's got a drinking problem. and lincoln said, i don't care what problem he has. you guys aren't winning. and his name was grant, general grant. [ cheers and applause ] and he went in, and he knocked the hell out of everyone. he really did. he had a serious problem, a serious drinking problem. but, man, was he good a general. and he's finally being recognized as a great general.

now you. >> a commissioner tan. >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> a president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president caminong. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> that is approved. the next is the report from the executive director. >> good evening, president bleiman and good evening, commissioners. i have a very brief update this evening. our holiday party is being planned. we are really excited about it for monday, december 10, so leftdy mark your calendars. that is going -- so definitely mark your calendar. that is going to be a special meeting of the entertainment commission essentially since that is not one of our normally regularly scheduled meetings. august hall has generously offered their venue as a space, so i call upon all of you to please reach out to all of your friends, family, constituents, anybody that you work with to please come. we will be pushing that save the date out very soon with the help of commissioner perez. thank you very much. i'm hopeful that i will have an update for you at the next

. >> a commissioner lee. >> here. >> a commissioner fallson. >> here. >> commissioner bleiman. >> here. >> commissioner perez. >> here. >> commissioner laura thomas is absent at the moment. >> all right. the first item today is general public comment, so if there's any members of the public who would like to speak to items not on the agenda, please do, and you will have three minutes to do so. seeing none, general comment is closed. and is the approval of minutes for the october 2, 2018 meeting. once you have taken a look at them, if somebody has a motion to approve the meetings of the october 2, 2018 minutes. >> i move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> a commissioner tan. >> aye. >> a commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> i think we should probably do public comment first. >> you're right. >> is there any other public comment on the minutes from october 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. are there any police comments? seeing none, police comments are closed. all right. now you. >> a commissioner tan. >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissione

this renaming of a celebration of the lee family, of their legacy. today is also a celebration of us. looking around, we see leaders from our district, our government, we see representatives and leaders from chinatown, from our c.b.o.s, our business partners, and our friends. we see some founding c.e.c. staff members, retired district staff and family, the edwin and anita lee newcomers school is alive and thriving in helping newcomer students and families not just because of me, not just because of our team of teachers and staff, but also because of the support and the work from each one of you. one difference between a regular school and an outstanding school is the school community. what you bring to our school makes this place so much more than just a bunch of classrooms. this celebration is a celebration of you and of us. today, we celebrate collaboration. today, we celebrate the power of collaboration in this community. we celebrate the power in our c.e.c./edwin and anita lee newcomer school community. we celebrate the power in our chinatown comm

do that and be in a position to do that and should be pursued. >> so that the no. >> that's a no. >> mr. lee. >> i don't think we should legalize marijuana. we worked a lot with incarcerated men through a reentry program for many years and i do believe we ought to look there is a way to be tough on crime and smart on crime the way we enter folks and how we use alternative sentencing for low-level drug offenses and drug courts and mental health courts and those should be utilized and we should not be criminalized. >> thank you, gentlemen for being here but let's talk road funny. we know about potholes and last year tennessee increased the gas tax for the first time in over 20 years in order to bring in enough money for construction and road repair. as you know the gas tax is the only revenue source going toward building new roads and improving roads and clearly it was not enough. if the road fund is depleted again would you consider raising the gas tax again to keep roads repaired? >> i certainly supported the governor on the impact which resulted in higher taxes at the pump and its board bec

richmond are so deeply divided by just how are you glad to see you martha rawlins is also a cousin of robert e. lee you know you look like a really do i do yeah i'm a little bit of a horse and it was really no regrets. martha helps run the richmond chapter of an organization name coming to the table. it was set up to help realize one of the dreams of dr martin luther king jr that the children of former slaves and slave owners would one day sit down together at the same table just the action of bringing two people together they don't go to the same chairs they don't shop in the same places live in the same neighborhood and don't look alike i say that when we even go out in public we have the marching pair here we've been on every civil rights and woman's march there is even just seeing to gather models what is possible that in itself some people say that's really small but i think it's huge coming to his high level which is to heal the lines of. the legacy of things like martin you know he's now our point visiting our purpose first rack is uncovering and and teaching truth in history. in your movie

weoul tell what the son thinks about a lee junior. >>> the trump administratio considers changing the definition of gender. how it could change life for transgender americans. >>> a lot of great minds go into that technology and i would love to be part of that. >> and driverless cars coming to a street near yo we're going to take a look at how d.c.lans to m pak barbara comstock might as well be barbara trumpstock. donald trump is against expanding medicaid in virginia. against protections for pre-existing conditions. and he sabotaged the healthcare market, hiking insurance rates up to 64 percent in virginia. barbara trumpstock agrees. voting with trump 98 percent of the time. jennifer wexton believes healthcare is a right ... and successfully fought to expand medicaid in virginia. "i'm jennifer wexton and i approved this message... because change is coming." david trone likes to say it comes docompassion. things: for children placed in cages, and people with addiction treated as criminals. competence. from building a business from one store to hundreds. and getting things done in ever

it's a nightmare. lee ann is taking one of four routes through the congested areas going from san francisco to berkeley. in fact we have the map. it's 12 or so miles this commute. we're starting at going into downtown berkeley bart station. two of the worst areas right there in the red. 101 into 80 eastbound. that's a nightmare. and then 80 going westbound in the east bay. any time of day it's difficult to get through. we'll monitor everything that's going on with the four participants. they'll be live tweeting. we'll show you lee ann is getting in her car. and going across the bay bridge. leonard is one of the four participants. he's taking ac transit. one side of the way to the other. i invite you go it or home page. we have set up a page to follow all of the colleagues on ac transit, bart, casual car pool and driving. who can make it faster. and we'll keep updating you through the 5:00 news. with who is where and when. we'll have the next update coming up in about six minutes. >> i think bart. maybe the

if we see it's a lee being downgraded, the ecb will have to play a part in that as well.ere is a misstep in italy problem,end up with a the ecb will have to play a part in that. >> the ecb would eventually be dragged into it, but do not expect any comments on italy on thursday. they will be asked questions, but they will not comment on it. they will simply say that the budget rules are there for everyone to follow. they don't see any contagion. but they cannot be seen as initiating the process. that is between european financers and italy. you are right, the ecb will be dragged and eventually. vonnie: are they becoming less confident? >> the european central bank? it did appear that more members of the council were concerned about downside risks out there, not just italy, but also trade wars more generally. there will be more concerns voiced at this next ecb conference. at what point does europe need some good news? i'm not sure what that needs. some kind of exit breakthrough, some trade breakthrough with the u.s. -- what kind of good news does your neutrino? -- right now

was surprised but he had to depend on james longstreet, a paid spy to inform him. lee was a clearinghouse in his head. he got information, newspapers and reports. he basically did the intelligence work in his head. he was a one-man intelligent staff and really good at it. if you know anything about his time in mexico when he worked for winfield scott doing reconnaissance missions, he knew how to do this and had a mind for it. it in the end, he did not have a clue, really about the union army. it stymied him a lot trying to figure out who was where and what was where. who is this. lee was probably the best they had but no organization like the bmi that served grant. >> you mentioned the pinkerton earlier. what role and how large a role that they play in getting information during this time? >> the question was, allan pinkerton. if you believe in what he did, his contributions -- if you believed him a lot. -- him, a lack. at the beginning of the war he was hired by george mcclellan when he became the are -- commander of the army of the potomac. mcclellan is an intelligen

a lot of people say don't — don'tjudge a book by its cover. for years, leeth a thriving carpet business, lee and his young family lived a comfortable life in suburban australia. until one day in 2015 when he was arrested a gang crime squad. he was told his visa was cancelled and he was thrown into a maximum security prison without any charges. so i went through the system and finally got processed, as they say. and, yeah, ended up in a back unit in lockdown. you know, it's pretty hard to take in, you know? lee's visa had been cancelled because he was a member of the rebels motorcycle club, which the western australian state government had declared a criminal gang. outraged at his incarceration on no charges, lee took his case to australia's highest court. and that's the full high court — seven high court judges. and we proved to the government and australia that what he'd done was invalid and unconstitutional and we won oui’ court case. but lee's freedom was short—lived. even though the deportation order was ruled invalid, the home affairs minister peter dut

care for their children to a top priority for me is to give school choice passed the release of every child matter what economics can go to the school best for them. >> ms. leewhat programs would you vote for to ensure children in poverty have the same educational opportunity as everyone else? >> i have a strong career here in nevada working with the most impoverished students, helping them have the opportunity to be successful in school. the past six years i've been the board president of communities in schools, part of the dropout prevention program and under my leadership, we've grown sixfold and today we serve 64,000 students getting in graduation rate of 87%. this is an example of the smart public-private partnership that utilizes each principle is the decision to use part of their money that they get for helping impoverished students which is title i funding. and we go in and help students with basic needs. food, clothing, health care etc.. it's a smart program and it gets great results and that is a program that i fight for to make sure that all students have that. and with respect to choice, i'm not asking taxpayers to pay for my choice to send my ki

a lot of people say don't — don'tjudge a book by its cover. for years, leesiness, lee and his young family lived a comfortable life in suburban australia. until one day in 2015 when he was arrested a gang crime squad. he was told his visa was cancelled and he was thrown into a maximum security prison without any charges. so i went through the system and finally got processed, as they say. and, yeah, ended up in a back unit in lockdown. you know, it's pretty hard to take in, you know? lee's visa had been cancelled because he was a member of the rebels motorcycle club, which the western australian state government had declared a criminal gang. outraged at his incarceration on no charges, lee took his case to australia's highest court. and that is the full high court — seven high court judges. and we proved to the government and australia that what he'd done was invalid and unconstitutional and we won oui’ court case. but lee's freedom was short—lived. even though the deportation order was ruled invalid, the home affairs minister peter dutton used his extraordi

another let light have desolate has or have a lee's it -- leading role. uster, a lot of talk. by the end of the day, we are back to where we were. it does help the u.s. a little bit but basically it is similar. we focus a lot on trade and that is an important issue but there are geopolitics involved. this issue of taiwan is the south china sea. we hear general mattis, the secretary of defense recently and he wanted to say we were not trying to contain china the way we did the soviet union. this is what he had to say. >> we are not out to contain china. we are taking a different stance had that been considered. how important is it to debates china we're not trying to contain them the way to we try to contain the soviet union? max: i do not know -- >> i do not know whether the chinese trusted. there are different signals. trade war up to $500 billion in tariffs. labor more active u.s. removals of the south china sea. they do not know whether the united states ought to were not because a strong sense in china. president trump wants to move beyond a level play

lee's army. the downside to that movement is that you are crossing than the james river a little bit further or, as you're moving away from the confederates, lee might take his army south and be able to destroy been butler while -- ben butler while grant is on the move. ultimately he is going to decide on the second of those two strategies. element of this movement is on june 7, he's going to dispatch sheridan anna calvo read to destroy the virginia central railroad north of richmond and continue into the shenandoah to influence events there. variedid, although with degrees of success to put it perhaps the best way for the union, at least does is exceed in drawing -- does succeed and drawing off the confederate calvary. preventing lee from having that same type of intelligence that stuart have provided where he pretty much outlined the entire union position and movement. s. he has his options. he has chosen to try and move to the james river via longbridge and jones bridge. both of those bridges, those are crossing places. neither breach is there -- bridge is there. going to have to build the bri

representative lee also taking a stand for the hospitality industry... weeks-long strikes for better pay and benefits.barbara lee/congressw oman- "we can insure that hotel workers are paid fairly and protected from sexual harrassment -- we can do that." ahmad mahmuod/student- "(philippe) did you walk away inspired? (ahmad) yes, i did. cause, you know what, there's a growing movement in this country -- and, you know what, i'm so excited to see the way it comes out." and, of course the main point that senator congresswoman lee wanted to drive home to the large audience... was the importance of getting out the vote. the election is on novemeber 6th. in berkeley, philippe djegal, kron four news. as we head to break, here's a live look outside... san francisco embarcadero. that's a mini-wheat. delicious. but it's more than that. 10 layers of crunchy wheat to fill you up on big days. whether your day involves steam, mountains, or woah- fire... ...we've got your breakfast right here. is your breakfast built for big days? california's public schools rank 44th in

trying to surrounding himself with people who go along with his believes his administration is a real part of lee sagan a seventy two percent cut to the budget of department of energy programs related to renewable energy the e.p.a. is a scandal plagued former administrators prude may be gone but his agenda undoing environmental regulations is basically continuing on dragging administrators andrew wheeler according to the new times. all financial correspondent so if she runs the old wall street new york thank you very much. i would he is in the hot seat with german prosecutors probing with a premium segment subsidiary falsifying documents on calls intended for export to south korea reports from german media say that employees at the also suspected of having modified pollution a fuel consumption test results those were alleged to have changed the shaft the numbers of the affected engines to throw for a good eight if proven that would mean the fortunately obtained authorization to be able to sell its cars in south korea prosecutors in the southern german city of munich say the investigation has been

businessman's of people committed to taking action have to be given tools to carry out their work as a question lee as possible with this if it's in the living. specialists from all over the world recently gathered in germany for torture violence three day global media forum this year's theme global inequalities and how best to combat them. digital technology is important for fighting global inequalities because it is perhaps digital and all the technology is with it up perhaps the most important innovation of this time that goes from apps to resources it relevant content in relevant languages to the different groups this is absolutely fundamental. in nigeria some bullies homeland kenya apps have already helped to tackle some local issues a few years ago a telecoms company introduced a digital payment system enabling people without bank accounts to conduct transactions this out and spied other similar projects such as a little cap a taxi service not unlike in berlin us female customers can explicitly request a woman at the wheel which hasn't turned also help to boost the number of female drivers. i

richmond are so deeply divided by just how are you glad to see you martha rawlins is also a cousin of robert e. lee you know you look like a really do actually yeah i'm a little bit of a horse and it was really no. martha helps run the richmond chapter of an organization name coming to the table. it was set up to help realize one of the dreams of dr martin luther king jr that the children of former slaves and slave owners would one day sit down together at the same table just the action of bringing two people together don't go to the same. shop in the same places live in the same neighborhood and don't look alike i say that when we even go out in public we are the marching pair here we've been on every civil rights and woman's march there is even just seeing us to gather models what is possible that in itself some people say that's really small but i think it's huge coming here is how evil which is to heal. the legacy of things like martin you know he is now. visiting our purpose first rack is uncovering and and teaching truth in history. and you will be a lot of homework even if. this is monument

lee is a confederate generals, one of the statues being protested was of robert e. lee. so clearly one has to ask is he really trying to get african american voters or is he using them as a backboard to score with those that are to the far right and are intensive or are outright hostile to african american voters' interests? >> i don't think donald trump realizes exactly what he's saying. history will tell you upon talking about the issue of confederate statues that general lee wasn't in support of it during his time. so i think the other commentator is right. he's talking to his base, who are upset about these initiatives to remove these confederate statues that are images of a terrible time in our history and to try to honor a general who was treasonous during that time, who was fighting against the united states on behalf of the south in order to protect and maintain the southern way of life, which would include slavely. but to be honest i don't think president trump is thinking african american voters are taking him seriously. but he got about 8% of the african americ

you're playing a character you've never played before. >> no, lee israel is a main character.s a difficult, prickly, challenging writer who suddenly was told she's obsolete and was no longer allowed to write, kind of got backed into a corner and started forging and impersonating literary letters of greats, of dorothy parker, duke howard and then was caught by the f.b.i. so it's the first time with her. but i likely kind of loved her. >> trevor: that's an interesting idea because, when you watch this character and when you watch this movie, the whole movie i was waiting to like her. and you have this woman who is described by many people as prickly or, you know, hard or -- but when you see, like, a lot of male characters play the same thing, people are, like, driven -- >> he won't back down, his convictioned. >> trevor: right. >> and he's like, oh, she's unbearable. i think that happens all the time it's almost cliche, it's, like, so many people still kind of make that reference of, why would you want to play someone unlikable? i'm, like, because we're all unlikable at times. a

lee was a great general. abraham lincoln developed a phobia. he couldn't beat robert e. lee. he was going crazy -- i don't know if you know this story, but robert e. lee was winning battle after battle, and abraham lincoln came home and said i can't beat robert e. lee? >> really? i don't recall that in any of, say, doris kearns' books. >> it seems like in many of the president gives there are these comments that in another time we would have called them dog whistles or winking tore our racist -- and suddenly they're much more overt. we saw it during his comments about charlottesville. he's willing to step up to the line and praise esome from the civil war, and i think he evidently sees a political benefit in it. >>> your final comment? >> i think once again it's president trump playing to that base, and i think that will always be questionable. but also i think it shows that president trump is talking so much these days, you wonder, is he running out of things to talk about that he has to talk about robert e. lee, so many interviews and so many rally speeches. it seems like h

a. so robert e. lee was a great general but it turns out that n.b.c. misrepresented the comment the general the trunk called incredible was actually ulysses s. grant the general of the union army now grant was anything but a racist in fact after he became president he even sent troops to fight the ku klux klan years after the civil war was over and b.c. had to run a retraction and show the full sound by a general. who was incredible he drank a little bit too much. and his name was green general greg. anti drum faction smelled blood and went into overdrive they ran all kinds of headlines about trump praising the confederate general even said he was a big fan of general lee they even quoted distant descendants of lee denouncing the president and yet again our president is lying and showing us his true colors he is showing us that he supports an idol of white supremacy and hatred robert the least for the continued. black bodies but the pro trump crowd was watching a completely different movie the news in right field was that trump was innocent victimized

a mere taste of what was to come. the folly of -- the virginia crossroads where robert e. lee and stonewall jackson literally outflanked another new union commander, joseph hooker. the horrors of gettysburg were on the afternoon of july 2 on the southern end of the battle, they formed up behind a low stone fence on the southern fringe of a wheat field. there, they held a read then line and risked human cost. and then, the ghastly horrors of the over land campaign. commenced at cold harbor. i think it is safe to say that even a battle tested, battle hardened veteran like john west haley, who had seen fredericksburg, who had seen chancellorsville, who had seen gettysburg, was completely unprepared for what awaited him between the rapid and and james rivers the rapid and river and james river. the luminous diary permits us as historians, access to, albeit in a limited way, some of the human realities of the over land campaign. has diary not only makes clear the superhuman physical and emotional endurance of this campaign dished that this campaign demanded -- endurance that this c

and the difference -- maria: that's a big victory. leey for the president -- victory for the president. the last time you saw a split like this was the early '80s. the house has to look at itself and try to figure out why they're having such an issue. there's 99 seats right now at play in the house. the last time in 2016 there were only 39 seats at play. in 2014, there were only 44 seats at play. this is a lot of seats at play. i think the house has to take a look at itself and figure out why is it that they are really being disrupted right now, why is it that things are so different for them. maria: the democrats only have to flip 23 seats or so to actually get a majority. let's not forget, they have to defend their current seats. it's not just the 23 seats. >> think about how many congress men and women decided not to run again. maria: there's more than 40 resignations. lee: the thing that will make it hard to predict is voter volatility and how they're going to vote, it's something that we haven't seen in a long time. even though we ha

lee being unable to land assistance elsewhere as a confederacy is carved from the bottom up. eventually by 1865, grant can stop focusing on how he is going to prevent lee from impacting events elsewhere. now he's going to turn his mind to the destruction of lee's army in april of 1865. thank you. [applause] >> questions for edward? coming up here towards the front. as i make my move, i'm going to ooh and ahh over edwards maps. edward's maps. he is a self-taught photographer. it is absolutely gorgeous. that is from richmond. >> from richmond. i know you are involved in preservation. are you aware of any efforts to secure the property where grant's pontoon bridge went from one side to the other? i think i understand you really cannot get to it today. it is on private property. do you have any knowledge of efforts to get that? mr. alexander: there is a solar plant being proposed near the forge site there south of the james river. the plant construction will not impact the earthworks itself, but it's possible that as kind of a compromise for that development that hopefully fort pa

and grant personally intervenes because a general officer comes to grant in a panic during this attack. general grant, i know lee's methods well. he will seek to throw himself between us and the river. we must retreat. a general officer says that. i want you to think about that. a general officer. think about what that says about the mentality of that individual and the organization to this point, the fact that a general officer is acting that way is an indictment of that officer. he's never named. i still don't know who it is. mercifully. grant stands up, takes a cigar out of his mouth. this is i guess about number 20 of the 22 he'll smoke that day. i am heartily tired of hearing what general lee is going to do. what is the matter with you people? let us not be concerned with what general lee is going to do to us but let us be concerned with what we are going to do to general lee. and guess what, nobody's ever heard that before in the eastern army. that begins to change the culture of the army of the potomac but it is not without cost for grant because at the end of the day he finds out, may or may not be aware o

a small american. war jamie lee curtis first played the part of laurie strode in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight here she's going home from school with my friends is the beginning of a night of terror and what will become a never ending nightmare. john carpenter shot the original film and even composed the famous soundtrack unself he's a consultant and producer on the latest movie. began as a an idea for a low budget horror movie called the babysitter murders and the distributor asked me can you make this for two hundred thousand books and i said yeah sure i can just what creative control in my name above the credits. the paltry budget was compensated for by simple but effective ideas the camera work showing the callous perspective made john carpenter and the distributor a few million dollars richer. color when became the template that inspired the makers of subsequent franchises like friday the thirteenth the nightmare on elm street the common thread teenagers alone at home and unexpected visitors. what mak

a two for one ratio. like you think you did that, saying lee suffered more casualties? set don't recall what grant about the casualty ratios. i will talk about the 1870's. jubal early and adam bedeau engaged in a war of words. a flag ofe to have truce after cold harbor, most people see that as two prideful, stubborn men prancing in front of each other at a cost of people between the lines. grant does not mention other things either. fromrder expelling jews his command at the end of 1862. there is no discussion about that. it is one of the few charges he did respond to in 1868. it will be how he is going to story.e or -- tell that war story. it doesn't reflect on the fact that robert e. lee in 1864 sanction the use of african-american p.o.w.'s working on the frontline st. petersburg. grant had to retaliate by putting confederate troops to work, prisoners to work on union fortifications under confederate -- to respect the fact it was the color of the skin accounted. we are also talking about a man during the second volume is dying of cancer. asking for a level of literary