who was general custer? >> guest: well, custer was part of that generation that was touched by the fire of the civil war. he had a splendid, heroic career as a general in the civil war. and then afterwards, the time when he becomes very interesting to me, at the age of 25, he was one of 135 unemployed major generals. he had to redirect his life. for the first few years, it wasn't easy. and then he found a new career on the frontier. so he's a fascinating study. c-span: what was the battle of the little bighorn, and where is that located? >> guest: the little bighorn is located in southeastern montana in an area that was not yet part of the united states at the time that the battle was fought on june 25th, 1876. it was a territory that was occupied by various indian tribes, not really settled at the time, in fact, not even accurately mapped, which was one of the problems that custer encountered in fighting a battle there. c-span: what happened? >> guest: good question. people have been arguing about that for

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names like little big horn, where 24 of the men who stood with custer won the nation's highest award.ut wherever he fought, on the plains, among the buttes or in the timber, he got the job done. that job was simple enough to state. it was to establish security and stability across the vast middle reaches of the continent. from ocean to ocean, the union stretched, and the continental united states was changed from a goal to a fact. but full security had only just been established in the great western country within our borders when americans were called on to do battle outside our shores. in the spanish american war, america's desire to help the cubans to their independence from spain flamed into action when the battleship maine was blown in the harbor. roosevelt's charge made their famous charge up the slopes of san juan hill. 30 soldier of this war, won the nation's highest tribute. the first to win army medals of honor on foreign soil, 81 navy and marine corps fighting men were also awarded the medal. this first conflict by american ground forces outside our nation's borders was bri

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america's indian frontier had only recently been tamed and the stories of carson and custer were still fresh enough to excite the imagination of any boy. looking backward over the years, it's hard to find the precise reason why young george marshall decided to make the army his profession. but choose it he did and he began his soldiering at a soldier school. the virginia military institute trained many distinguished army men before george marshall arrived in september 1897. >> they once boasted stonewall jackson as a member of its faculty. the m.i. provided the kind of environment calculated to encourage a young man with army ambitions. he rose to cadet first captain. he was an honored graduate with a reputation for military skill and knowledge which was to follow him throughout his army career. he was a young man with a passion for facts. and the ability to apply them imaginatively. commissioned on infantry second lieutenant in 1901, marshall shortly found himself on troop duty in the philippines. assignments in oklahoma territories, texas massachusetts, and the ft. leavenworth staff

or custer for that matter. people who are interested can read the book, visit the site, decide for themselves. it is adopted as a sort of religion. the mythology builds up. the university of arizona wins the cliffhanger basketball game, i am sorry about last night. the coach may say like surprising the o.k. corral. part of our lexicon and lives. the challenge for writers to break through showing the facts are more fascinating than the mythology. as long as a look history, and learn from it, we have people taking sides and disagree and call each other names. we all take our best guess what happened to. >> 912 weigh in? >> i a agree with everything >> for those of us who like the story who are clear-cut clear-cut, your book will muddy the water because it will muddy the complexity it is not all clear-cut as we would like it to be. have been grown up with her lancaster now to find out it was not like at at all. i have to go into therapy -- their bff and abuse support everything in the film said tuesday version of

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. >> reporter: zirnstein and his fellow usda scientist, carl custer, both warned against using what the industry calls lean, finely textured beef. and is widely known now as pink slime. but their government bosses overruled them. why didn't you consider it beef? >> because it was a salvage product. leftover fat that had been heated, at low temperature, and the excess fat spun out. >> reporter: and it doesn't have to appear on the label. over objections from its own scientists, usda officials, with links to the beef industry labeled pink slime meat. >> the undersecretary said, it's pink, therefore it's meat. >> reporter: abc news has learned the woman who made the decision to okay the mix is former undersecretary of agriculture joann smith. a call that led to hundreds of millions of dollars for beef products inc., the makers of pink slime. when smith stepped down from usda, bpi's principal supplier appointed her to the board of directors, where she made at least $1.2 million over 17 years. she did not return our calls for comment. bpi said it had nothing to do with her appointment. and t

targeted security buildings and killed twenty seven people and injured over one hundred more stable custer's suggest the attacks were carried out by terrorists who detonated car bombs are middle east correspondent paula i was the details. eliminate reports suggest that vehicles packed with explosives were detonated targeting a security complex and hitting the police and intelligence buildings now the government is calling this the work of terrorists and state television is showing pictures of charred bodies tapir calls and blood stains to the streets these blasts come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month on figurative twenty eight people were killed and twenty last they hit the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december there have been three suicide bombings in damascus these glasses also come just two days after the one year anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad there is ongoing and spiraling violence in syria and we are also receiving reports that al qaida is now operating there calling for the opposition group

with custer and his battles t native americans. this is a period of time, 15, 16, we didn't know anything. i didn't know anything about my people's african-american history. they didn't teach it. it wasn't around. you know, growing up at age 15, 16, 17. point is, is that with that, those guys that day on that street corner, caused me to buy a book called facing my opinion. i took that book to work to me, out at kaiser space and electronics. in between checking engine frames i sit down at my desk and begin to read this book by this man. jomokinyata, got degrees, went back and was instrumental in organizing his people out from under the yoke of english colonialism. wow, that blew my mind. here i was, i get a's in math, c's in english, a's in math and all that stuff. i knew nothing about my african-american people's history whatsoever. and that's what caused me to begin to research and know my african-american people's history. next thing i know i'm digesting wb black reconstruction, works and publications by dr. herbert. one dealt wi

number of women running for the house from val demings, who is looking to run in orlando, to annie custer in new hampshire. these are women who are going to bring strong points of view and experiences that just aren't there right now. and that's what we need to do to change congress to get us back on track to a debate that is about the future of our country, the future of our children, instead of the debate we're having right now, which to me, and i think to americans across the country looks like a debate that we had in the '50s. and there is no place for that. it's 2012. it's time for us to look forward. >> john joins from albuquerque, new mexico. democratic caller. john, you're on with emily's list president stephanie schriock. go ahead. >> caller: hey, good morning. i'm enjoying the show and i wanted to just chime in because it seems the fundamental dishonest with the republicans. i've been saying it for years. it does no good to the past. but it seems like every election cycle, i've got an fcc complaint letter against rush limbaugh. just to go back to the last, he insulted the presid

thousand and eleven where poor design was short and based on the firm situation he may have dipped into custer. her money more times than this and just this was the time that they got caught so there is so much more that was going on and really these hearings the information we've gotten is really scratched the surface no one will call this that or fraud yet when you hear these things ok that the legal counsel wasn't. exactly and she's all what is wrong with this customer money is gone one billion dollars at one point six billion dollars but oh you know i don't know if you can call it that because i'm heavily lawyer up and i'm a lawyer and i can't say that or all be in jail you know so it's really difficult to get answers there sarnies are you scared to really take it on but you know i think it's interesting to the point you make that it's just scratching the surface this could have been going on every day and it's just the time that they got caught and i think that you spoke about this on your show earlier too this week and this trip to the head of our borders a great great package of you kno

process goldman and the trade association for wall street have watered this down so eir thattheir custers ca sign standardized documents that wave their right to good faith and fair dealing. the american people, really, this has been a catastrophe for the american people. they've had to bail these companies out. this kind of conduct leads to further systemic risk and unless the american public and most especially our prosecutors, the justice department get on top of these issues we're going to destroy our economy again. >> woodruff: do you see it as a catastrophemr. greenberger is dcring? >> well, we certainly have just been through a financial catastrophe but the real question is what do we do about it? wall street serves an essential economic purpose. it helps to allocate capital. when a company needs to raise money, to expand their business they go to the financial markets to get it from investors. when companies need risk management solutions, things like derivatives, they go to the financial markets to get them these are essential tools in our complex economy. so the real question is

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have to pay the government more than $8 billion a year, but they get up to $40 -- 40 million new custerhes like jack and jill, who by law must get insurance or pay a penalty. lizzy o'leary, cnn. >>> a very creative take and answered a lot of questions. >>> next on "outfront," we go to france and outside the bullet riddled apartment who killed people. and a u.s. soldier officially accused of killing 17 afghan civilians. we'll talk about the punishment. t in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ hi, i just switched jobs, and i want to roll over my old 401(k) into a fidelity ira. man: okay, no problem. it's easy to get started; i can help you with the paperwork. um...this green line just appeared on my floor. yeah, that's fidelity helping you reach your financial g

have to pay the government more than $8 billion a year, but they get up to $40 -- 40 million new custer thes like jack and jill, who by law must get insurance or pay a penalty. lizzy o'leary, cnn. >>> a very creative take and answered a lot of questions. >>> next on "outfront," we go to france and outside the bullet riddled apartment who killed people. and a u.s. soldier officially accused of killing 17 afghan civilians. we'll talk about the punishment. people really love snapshot from progressive, but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. i was worried it would be hard to install. but it's really easy. the better i drive, the more i save. i wish our company had something this cool. yeah. you're not... filming this, are you? aw! camera shy. snapshot from progressive. plug into the savings you deserve with snapshot from progressive. >>> we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting and do the "outfront" five. first, president o

teachers linda pfeiffer and chad custer say that's designed to reinforce the idea that going to school is an actual job. students also have simulated outside jobs. they learn how to total up their income, deduct taxes and monthly expenses, and figure out what they can afford to do with what's left over. >> you need to decide, can you afford to go to the movies this friday night? can you get popcorn if you can afford to go to the movies? >> reporter: and some students find out the consequences of not being prepared to work. >> we're going to unemploy you. we're going to let you go from >> again? >> again. so you are now fired from this job. so good luck to you. this boy, great kid, but came to class unprepared and not ready to work, and he has this behavior quite often. when that type of behavior happens, we let them go from their job, knowing that if you don't come to work and ready to work, chances are you're not gonna keep that job. >> reporter: pfeiffer also handed out what she called 'good, bad, and ugly" cards-- real-life curve balls like unexpected car repairs.. >> oh, no... >> r

. >> reporter: zernstein and his fellow usda scientist carl custer both warned against using what theinely textured beef and is widely known now as pink slime. but their government bosses overruled them. >> why didn't you consider it beef? >> because it was a salvage product. >> leftovers -- >> fat that had. heated at low temperature and the excess fat spun out. >> reporter: and it doesn't have to appear on the label because over objections of its own scientists usda officials with links to the beef industry labeled pink slime meat. >> the undersecretary says it's pink, therefore it's meat. >> reporter: abc news has learned the woman who made the decision to okay the mix is former undersecretary of agriculture joanne smith. a call that led to hundreds of millions of dollars for beef products, inc., the makers of pink slime. when smith stepped down from usda, bpi's principal supplier appointed her to the board of directors, where she made at least $1.2 million over 17 years. she did not return our calls for comment. bpi says it had nothing to do with her appointment, and the usda says

gerald zenstein and carl custer telling abc news the trimmings were once only used in dog food and cookingil but now he says they -- they say, rather, they're found in 70 percent of the ground beef that we buy at our local supermarkets. it's basically a way for beef sellers to boost their profits by using a lesser quality filler that's cheaper than pure ground beef. the whistleblowers say it's not even actual beef, it's what is salvaged after the animals are slaughtered, then treated with aknowna to kill bacteria to make it safe enough to eat, though you won't find any of that listed on the label ingredients, something else the scientists fought for and were denied. we reached out to the fda and they tell fox news the usda has strengthened food safety standards in recent years and allows only products into commerce and especially into schools that we, the usda, have confidence are safe. but this only refers to beef that the government purchases for the national school lunch program. the whistleblowers we referred to say the fillers are used, as we said, in 70 percent of all ground beef fou

and in those chaotic final days of the $1.6 billion in custer money went missing. at a time when americans already lack confidence to financial markets, mf global provides another devastating example of how multi-million dollars security fronts consider the impact middle-class americans. like many members of this committee i've had constituents effected by this event, and that is who i am here to speak for. we owe it to customers who lost money to discover exactly what happened at mf global. what these hearings are also designed to do is to provide insight into our financial markets and the regulatory regimes designed to protect them. the american people expect us to hold the wrongdoers accountable and to protect those who play by the rules. so here we are dumb as members of the house of representatives we're here to stand in place of millions americans would represent. we are here to find answers for them. i commend the hundreds of hours that subcommittee staff has spent devoted to digging deep into this matter. i look forward to the test one of today's witnesses