after a 2-month siege, grant breaks the stalemate surrounding chattanooga, culminating in the battles! forward, march! on with god, men! [ all shouting ] >> those veterans of that debacle at chickamauga said, "we're going to take this fight to them," and instead of just trenches, they take the second line, and they take the third line and the confederates, remarkably, run. >> fall back! retreat! >> there's no force on earth that could stop those boys right now. they got something to fight for. >> this is when grant and sherman show their true mettle because they come over and they systematically dismantle the confederate army, and everybody just steps back in awe going, "you know what? these guys just saved the nation." >> after the victory at chattanooga, lincoln puts grant in charge of all union armies. with a competent commander, lincoln is now positioned to advance his vision for a new america. and the day after the battle of missionary ridge, president lincoln declares a federal holiday to give thanks and praise. >> amen. >> amen. >> oh, we have much to be thankful for, do we no

the rail lines through chattanooga through memphis. and then through atlanta and west point georgia. then the problem with this southern line. it was not complete. the rail lines came from montgomery. transported, was then back down to the rails. that was not ideal. when some of the northern areas fell it was not available. selma was primed for this. soma has deep river access. it has access to montgomery and the rail lines to the east. realize to the west. distanceso a short from the cahaba river valley coal and iron fields so we had an almost inexhaustible supply of coal and iron. we also had woodlands supplying timber for ships. we also had agricultural areas that was essentially part of the bread basket of the confederacy nearby so selma had many positives going for it so it was moved to selma and shortly after that an existing foundry in selma, able to secure contracts with the new government to produce heavy cannon, iron plating and munitions. and that foundry would later develop in 1863 into a joint navy-army venture and eventua

confederacy really had two avenues of east-west distribution and that was through the rail lines from chattanooga to memphis and then across the lower south through atlanta and west point, georgia, over into alabama to montgomery and westward into mississippi. now, the problem with this southern line, let's call it, was that is it was not complete. the rail lines came to montgomery but ended and then anything that was transported had to be put on steam ships, brought down to selma about 70 miles by river and then back on to the rails. so that was not ideal but when huntsville fell, when some of the northern areas fell, the northern route through the confederacy was not available so they began to look elsewhere. selma was prime for this. selma has deep river access to the port of mobile. selma has access by river to montgomery and the rail lines to the east, rail lines to the west. it also is a very short distance from the cahaba river valley coal and iron fields so we had an almost inexhaustible supply of coal and iron. we also had woodlands supplying timber for ships. we also had agricultural ar

donelson and shiloh, the victor at vicksburg, fresh off the victory we talked about on tuesday at chattanooga. he was summoned by abraham lincoln from the west to the east to come out and do -- essentially, win the war. earlier that spring, congress conferred upon him the rank of lieutenant general. it was a big deal. it had only been held once before in american military history, by george washington. winfield scott held it during the mexican wars, and honorific title. and only george washington, before ulysses grant, held that rank of lieutenant general. that was a signal of what people in the north, and what the republican congress thought about this guy. his arrival in the eastern theater prefaced a new tempo for the war. grant, better than any other union commander, understood that armyn the war you need an that you need armies. abandoned this quest for a single grand victory. grant understood that to win the war, the union armies had to physically, psychologically, and emotionally grind down the enemy. had to maintain constant pressure. they could not permit the rebels to take advantage

chattanooga also but their population is about 177,000. >> is there any chance of a lawsuit? >>speaker: i am sure there is many in a project like this, it's a big expensive capital project so those kinds of projects are fraught with risk. i think the most important thing if the public/private partnership is pursued the protections that are built into the project to ensure that the city doesn't end up with some unforeseen cost. there could be delay. the private partners could go bankrupt and not be able to complete the project and unforeseen expenses can pop up in any capital project. i am sure the attorneys working on the project swel as well as e project team would work through those issues. >>speaker: in your opinion, what other questions should i be asking? what are the details that i should be paying attention to? what have i missed? >>speaker: i think you have asked a lot of good questions and what has come up today are a lot of important topic. if this network is built, here is a risk, what if no one wanted to lease from it, i think that is highly unlikely personally, b

these three armies altogether under sherman's command, 100,000 union men, would drive out of chattanooga and aim towards the crucial rail hub of atlanta, and seek to wear down eggleston johnson's confederate army of tennessee. also in the west, nathaniel prentice banks, grant hoped, would march east out of his headquarters in portland toward mobile, alabama and capture mobile. then, ideally linkup somewhere in the hinterlands of georgia with william tecumseh sherman. in the east, ulysses s. grant called upon the services of the burly general benjamin franklin butler. the architect of the contraband of war policy. who would lead the army up the james which included the union armies only all-black division, about 40,000 men, the army that james would crawl up its namesake river in southeastern virginia two a place south of richmond. franz sigel would lead an army up the shenandoah valley, the bread basket of the confederacy. and then, with george croke, twist the railroads and the supply and communication lines of southwestern virginia. finally, and of course this is the most important pie

possibility for reunification and if so what would it look like tony the man i know or to go to chattanooga his group or your house or you in goa tega in july or go tell you tell me in book waterman community to mow his lawn none soria tell you tony didn't you someone to. tell you tony to put a joke or tell you mean digital projector so your couldn't when you did amateur you thought to thunder or had no how capacity me that so take out the north korean issue tell me about what you think are some of the country's most pressing challenges. i mean would you have sunk in long chill. town like it they were there so you can mean that the tanakh can put a roof top in will top with that but do you feel that there still south koreans that are being left behind when it comes to be. thriving economic development that the rest of the world sees when it looks at south korea. demand kitschy or has imminent toyi. euro cook the meals or india turn and head waters and i know you go to town and don't talk to them and i send you to hell closer to man and you guru popcorn i saw turn as he gets or get sort o. y

attended the baylor school in chattanooga, tennessee. that high school has produced four current players on the pga tour, inc -- including harris english. 16. j.j. spaun. peter: short little sand wedge shot there. nice, right underneath the flag. a little under the hill. this whole playing -- hole playing 182 yards. bill: back at the 15th. blaum for birdie to get it to 16 under. yep. came in 143 in the fedexcup points standings. all these putts are big. 14. ian: oh, pounding an iron down over the bunkers. peter: 250 to the front. this is a 4-iron. ian: he didn't get over the bunker. nick: that looked plugged. ian: it just popped forwards, nick. nick: that rain this morning would have helped. ian: it is still pretty wet and firm on top. nick: that only needednick: to carry a kind of -- carry another couple of yards and it gets into the middle of the green. he knows by the reaction that it's not good, because no one would have been clapping or cheering down over the hill. now marc leishman with his third after the good shot out of the gras

he's also appearing at a store in chattanooga today. >> all right, he knows his crowds.e's mason performing at the grand ole opry. that's the top of the country music world. >> he was at coachella as well, proving he's not a sellout as yet. he's doing the walmart tour. wow. love to see him. >> he's still mason from the block. >> from sixth street. >>> and finally, since we didn't get enough of tom brady's met gala look, here it is again in all its glory. >> and we do mean glory. so tom doesn't even want to take credit for his fashion choice, by the way. he says he's giving all the props to his wife gisele. i don't know if that's supposed to be a compliment to gisele or an insult to gisele. some say the patriots are worried switching to ice skating. >> brian boitano would be proud of it. >> gisele tried to remind her instagram followers that her cutie knows fashion. apparently, he tried to deny it. >> check it out when brady and alex rodriguez ran into each other in the event. >> who wore the turtleneck better. you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare onl

idea we can't charge them enough money to pay for a real public internet system like the one and chattanooga, is silly. we can do this and we need to do it soon. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> think you chair cohen. my name is mike mccarthy. for the past years i've worked on project technology and expanding broadband internet -- broadband internet and san francisco. i'd like to talk briefly at s.f. city opening up, and my opinion, turning to a sales pitch with its board members. at&t and comcast. they are great companies and do a lot for the community. that is completely true. but and san francisco, they are like bud and bud light. those are our choices. it is important for us to be aware of that. for those of us who remember dsl way back when, and the late nineties, you can choose from ten or 12 different dsl providers. a whole long list of providers. that was an open access network. it was an open access network over at&t's copper wires. and 2,004, some telecom combat happened and that was cut off. what we are seeing here is the exact same thing. but instead of at&t's copper wire, t

possibility for reunification and if so what would it look like tanya to the manor now or to go to chattanooga his group or your house or you in goa tega in july or go tell you tell me look waterman community to mow his young nun soraya tell you told me you didn't you someone to. tell you tony reporter joe tell you mean digital projector so your couldn't when you did amateur you thought to thought the recall had now capacity to me that so take out the north korean issue tell me about what you think are some of the country's most pressing challenges joey. joey jaw. hasn't been an chill. town like it they were there so you can mean that he tom or can put a roof top in will talk with me. but do you feel that there still south koreans that are being left behind when it comes to be. thriving economic development that the rest of the world sees when it looks at south korea. demand kitschy or has imminent toyi. you're a cook the meals or indira kannan terrible designer you go through town and dope cocktail and ice and you go closer to man and you guru and i saw turner's hideous august sort o. ye ye.

but the money forty seven thousand dollars since two thousand and ten never made it back to the chattanooga based fire and police pension fund wells has been serving as a trustee since two thousand and five but bank officials say they no longer have records from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten during that time period so it's unclear if the rebates were due to the pension fund during that period. time we have used the term food do sherri here on the program many times and what that means is that there is a responsibility to do what is in the best by natural interest of the quiet as the pension funds trustees wells fargo had the responsibility to serve as a fiduciary and they did not do so in this instance while well says the improper action was due to a quote unquote system set up error the board of the pension fund says they have lost confidence in wells due to the answers provided has fired the bank and has filed a whistleblower complaints against wells fargo with the u.s. securities and exchange commission and the commodity futures trading commission some would say this rais

divided the confederacy along the mississippi river, and when union forces prevail at the battle of chattanooga his future as a man who lincoln could count upon to lead union armies to victory. [ indistinct conversations, laughter ] >> believing that grant is the man who can beat robert e. lee... >> well, and here's the general grant himself! >> ...lincoln puts him in command of all union armies and brings him to washington. >> i'm sorry to spoil your party, mr. president. these gatherings just aren't my cup of tea. >> you can't blame the people for wanting an audience with their new lieutenant general... and perhaps their next president. >> even though he had found his man to win the war and end slavery, he also wanted to make sure that ulysses s. grant did not harbor political ambitions of his own. >> you know as well as i do the talk of you running against me is growing louder every day. >> no offense, mr. president, i wouldn't trade jobs with you for anything in the world. >> that's all i needed to hear. >> the key to the lincoln-grant relationship is in grant's ability to understand lincol

chattanooga, and greg. caller: how are you doing? i find this a great subject.i have got a friend whose child came down with autism. another friend of mine, she is a teacher of an autistic child. at schools, they had to add on to a lot of the schools. the connection to the autism and the stomach disorders, and the fact that here we are, we have this big platform to speak to the whole nation and basically, the whole world. the numbers are like, 20 years ago it was one in 20,000 and now it is one in 68. i think it is more like one in 40. the schedule, it is the schedule of the shots. host: we will let you go and get one more call from catonsville, maryland. go ahead. caller: thank you for c-span. i just have two quick comments. one is about the environmental impact. i know you said the science is settled, but i have to disagree with that. i have researched articles where they think there is an environmental impact, not necessarily with vaccines. i think the science is settled with that. we are having a great increase in rates. there is a biological link to cancer

chattanooga. tokyo. that's on just one page. >>> dining here is an experience. if you're in a rush, don't bother. >> i'm in sales. i have a stressful job. i come in here to unwind. some people go to the bar. i come to alsinia's. you don't need alcohol here. she feeds you. you walk out happy. >> incredible. because when she opened the restaurant 20 years ago she knew nothing about cooking, zero. she was constantly asking her mother, alsenia, for help. >> i had to come and show her how to cook and walk her through it on the telephone. >> hang on. hang on. did anybody ever tap you on the shoulder and say, this is not a great idea? >> well, you know what, i don't take no for an answer. so, they could have tapped, but that's all they would have been doing was tapping. >> she has since learned a thing or two. back in the kitchen she taught me how to make hot water corn bread. >> put it in here, sugar. >> you call me shugar -- >> i call you sugar, sugar. >> she wanted to heal her heart after the untimely death of her son. since then her guests have come to count on her

there, but it would really be owned by all of us, and so you'd have jacksonville, chicago, atlanta, chattanoogapark. i need the infrastructure that we have, the human resources, the accounting, everything we spent the last 3 years building. allison: mm-hmm. lemonis: i'm not willing to do this without you guys. allison: you know, we don't have any experience in the restaurant industry, so that's a little intimidating, like, making sure that if we're going to take this on, we're going to figure that out. to work well next to a sweet pete's, we have to modernize it a little bit, make it a little cleaner. what do you think? pete: i mean, we're kind of in a place where do need to grow. you know, that would help us, as well. i'm open to try, absolutely. lemonis: so we want to do it? pete: let's do it. allison: let's do it. lemonis: oh, my gosh. allison: [ laughs ] lemonis: what are we doing? do i have to hand you a check now again? i think we got one last shot, and let's see what happens. all right? we're on? allison: yeah. we're on. pete: let's do it. lemonis: let's try it. ♪ water expenses are huge

in my native region i grew up in chattanooga, tennessee within the lave time of everyone here almost. if you wanted to register to vote and you're ann american you would show they usually open office for one hour a week. wednesdays from 4-5 something like that. and the registrar put borax on the desk and say you can register to vote if you can tell me how many flakes of soap are are in this box. go read lyndon johnson the great speech of march 15th. in 1965 we shall overcome speech he describes the various difficult tests that registrars in the south african-americans were put through. lifetime -- lifetime of everyone here. functional apartheid marriage equality is not yet three years old and you know there's -- glib talking point about no one has ever seen such rapid progress on sexual identity rights you know what it's usually a heterosexual thing that is moving really fast kind of interesting i don't see a lot of -- you know, gay folks saying you know we're really pleased that we've been accepted so quickly. [laughter] don't really hear that. women have not voted for quite a centur

chattanooga,is in tennessee. independent.orning.ood i was calling to make a comment on several things. congress needs to change the name of the investigation to the people's investigation of the united states and stood up for mueller. because there is about 66 million people in the united states who would like to know the truth. as i said before donald trump has already made it known in many ways that he wants to be the last president of the united states and the first dictator of the united states. that's all i have to say. host: how has he made that known. caller: from the time i heard him speak, many things he said on the campaign trail. as a citizen of the united states as he goes -- he is indicating that he would prefer to have a dictatorship more so than a democracy. and that's the way i see it. host: bill is in palm springs on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: listening earlier to representative mo brooks the is beyond-- disingenuous. the benghazi witchhunt went on for four years. withe only have one year somet

in chattanooga, tennessee, six elementary school students died in a 2016 bus crash.river received jail time after prosecutors said, he was speeding and talking on his cell phone when he lost control. n-t-s-b investigators said today, seat belts could have saved lives. and the n-t-s-b board chair robert sumwalt ... wants to ensure change moving forward. "go out and meet the families who have suffered losses of their children, this is a tragedy and we've got to make sure something like this doesn't happen again." (pam) the n-t-s-b board says, new school buses should have seatbelts .. it also voted to recommend that federal regulators require manufacturers to equip new buses with safety technology such as electronic stability control. if adopted by federal regulators, the new requirements would likely end up as a significant cost increase to the school districts. (ken) time now for a look at the top stories we're working on tonight.(pam) in santa cruz...video from the body cameras of two sheriffs deputies shows parts of last week's officer involved shooting. the video c

veronique davenport is a single mother from chattanooga tennessee. she got pregnant her senior year of college and says childcare programs were crucial to finishing school and getting a job. , single mother: "i'm advocating for the young mothers who are trying to finish school and get over that hump." davenport is joining parents from all 50 states this week to lobby congress about the importance of programs aimed at children up to three years old. myra jones-taylor, zero to three "when children dont get what they need, when their brains dont get what they need face higher risks of challenges later on." myra jones-taylor with the to three says their focus is three fold. they want to increase investment in early education, boost access to child care, and create a national paid family leave program for new parents. drew petrimoulx,: "parents and advocates saw they appreciate the work congress has done to improve the situation for babies and young families but they say there is much more to do." a noon rally at the capitol showed bipartisan support. dem

this is what he said in the meeting of the chattanooga bar association. [ indiscernible >> nobody caresator said and president will not deal with it discussing those comments now, former pennsylvania governor, pro-chair of the fix the debt campaign, governor, welcome. he's right, right? i mean, this is clearly -- write call the scare articles you want, but it's not really moving the voting base, is it >> no, no, no, nobody does care, in fact, great respect for senator corker, but if he was so concerned about the debt, why didn't he vote for the tax reform package added 1.5 trillion dollars to the debt >> he's been a pain to trump because he keeps, you know, trying to couple -- ook, he's leaving, he's going to be done, he's trying to throw the hands up, i got in the senate to focus on this, tried a few times to push back over the past year, nothing happened, became kind of the person, and he's done. >> well, he is done, but he could have made a stand and would have taken people with him. he was always our best deficit hawk in the senate, but he took a pass on the tax reform bill, totally

bob corker in somebody as mayor of chattanooga, definitely a senator, demonstrated that he was a personridge the gap and bring together both sides. tennessee is not alabama. tennessee acts more like georgia and virginia, where they prefer moderate more centrist kind of leadership. blackburn had to run to the right the get the nomination. in the general election she will have to pay attention to different kind of voters. >> sandra: what's at stake for the party? what will the outcome of the race say about the republican party and president trump? >> you have the big four, four seats, north dakota, west virginia, missouri, indiana where republicans feel like they'll pick them up. what matters for the republicans, though, is they have arizona, nevada, tennessee where -- maybe, maybe, maybe texas. they have at least three seats they're playing defense. if they can shut out the democrats there they're guaranteed to expand their majority in the senate and that would be a very good thing if you were mitch mcconnell and president and had an agenda you wanted to put through before 2020. >> sandr

in wanda if we can get in chattanooga, tennessee. democrat. thinking when you were speaking on one man standing alone trying to confirm that over time certain laws can cause people to become enslaved in the mind. it sounds like this man was born before his time. words will be looked at 10 to 20 years later as him being a messenger. be careful, people. you could be headed to the ultimate loss which will be freedom of the mind. do you concur? partly thesort of spirit of my book to say that sometimes people say things -- that's not a comment on mr. west in particular. people say things that are not heard in their time but that become very interesting much later on. they look prophetic. i tried to pick people who in many ways did that. weresaid things that ignored in her own tape -- day. host: go ahead. was curious to how the constitutional right to roe v. wade is not important now in or white has been fought or why the government is not caring about that right now. is an interesting example of some of the things i'm talking about. it says there i

you a sense of the scope of this, kimberly phillips was in a parking lot, a shell gas station in chattanooga, tennessee, when her ex-husband found her, shot her, and then killed himself afterwards. a murder-suicide, one of the thousands of domestic violence partner-on-partner incidents that happen in this country. one of her coworkers at the senior living community where she lives said today i love one of the most caring people i had on my team. she loved the residents and took their care very seriously. she was 48 years old. the day before that, sherelle wheatley was walking home from feeding one of her neighbor's dogs in dayton, ohio. her neighbor said she did this all the time. she'd cook a lot and take all the scraps and bring it to feed the neighbors' dog. she was walking home, and she was shot. a bystander in a drive-by shooting. she was a mom, a grand mom, an aunt, an active member in her community, a volunteer at the local elementary school, a pillar of kindness. her son who is a quadriplegic, who is a quadriplegic, who relied on her care, said that was my mom helping people, even at

caller: a lot of times we would take a field trip to chattanooga, tennessee. armistice to it as day. and we did that a lot of years on memorial day. much easier for me to transition -- it is hard. it is hard. host: we want to hear from veterans come here from family thatrs of veterans about transition, what was hard, what helps, what did not post up what federal programs were there for you. danny is in north carolina. go ahead. kenny. this is is when i went into the military, they spent millions of dollars training me. i got injured in the military. when it come time to get out of the military, they drop you like hot butter. they train you to brainwash you getttack and then as you out, they just turn you loose. there is no deprogramming of any sort for the military. the veterans administration at this time have come up with some kind of rules regarding even the medical system as they took all meds from them, all of our pain medicines, nerve medicines, completely away. now if you complain, they start flagging your file was some red flag or some different colors

speaking in chattanooga, telling an audience with weariness in his voice that few americans care aboutdent trump to deal with this matter. >> it's not going to happen. the most disappointing. you know, it's just -- the american people today are not interested in it. if you did a poll today for who in our country cares about fiscal issues. a president who's certainly not going to deal with it. >> i mean, he's just being honest, joe. >> yes, but you know -- something i've noticed, i've written three books, they've all said the same exact thing over about ten years. >> this is true. >> and it's that. people don't care about the national debt. that said -- >> joe, you've succeeded in moving the discussion on this. three book, same topic, no progress. >> he drove it home every time and nobody gets it. >> it's maiamazing. i went back and just glanced at it for the first time in a decade, like, my god, i wrote the seame book three times. it's all about how republicans don't care about balancing budgets or the federal debt. even though they should. i got to say, there's a difference between me

you'll appreciate this, joe, there was a police commissioner in chattanooga when i was growing up when he was indicted and tried and found innocent and he ran for re-election on the platform that he had been found innocent by a court of law and no one else had a declaration of his innocence and i think he won. >> he's smarter than you and you put together. >> all of us. >> i know it. >> and more accomplished any way. >> jon should be knighted. >> i have not been knighted. i'm available to be knighted. >> you are the soul of america, jon meacham. >> the soul of america. >> lord meachum of swanny. that means something. >> harvard of the south, right? >> i thought alabama was the harvard of the south. >> ole miss people will be upset. >>> let's get to our top story this morning and stop talking about how smart rudy is. might get to his head. he's smarter than you, though. >> here he comes. >>> president trump says he's working hard to save jobs. >> told you he would. >> yeah. well those jobs are in china. >> what? >> the president tweeted that president xi and i are working together to gi

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