host: dan friedman? guest: the president proposed an aid package that is pretty much the same as the one the senate passed, with some amendments. i think the president and congress are the ones spending the money. funds.s appropriate ss can criticize or praise them together for this package. we will see if the house does pick it up in the next few days. host: next up is mary lou on the line for independents. caller: i watched the special program they had with the rock stars about two weeks ago. i did give money for it. i have never heard how much they made. they must have made a lot of money. it was on from 8:00 until midnight or something. i have not heard a word about it since then. they should have made a few million dollars anyway. do you know what happened to that? that is my question. host: when you are watching a concert, who was your favorite art? caller: bruce springsteen. mick jagger is certainly a character. host: do efforts like that concert, does that increase the need -- does it show there

host: dan friedman? guest: the president proposed an aid package that is pretty much the same as the one the senate passed, with some amendments. i think the president and congress are the ones spending the money. congress appropriates funds. we can criticize or praise them together for this package. we will see if the house does pick it up in the next few days. host: next up is mary lou on the line for independents. caller: i watched the special program they had with the rock stars about two weeks ago. i did give money for it. i have never heard how much they made. they must have made a lot of money. it was on from 8:00 until midnight or something. i have not heard a word about it since then. they should have made a few million dollars anyway. do you know what happened to that? that is my question. host: when you are watching a concert, who was your favorite art? caller: bruce springsteen. mick jagger is certainly a character. host: do efforts like that concert, does it show there is an increased need f

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we are tied by new york daily news correspondent dan friedman.ive at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> there really started to get worried in the summer and fall of 1774. the british admiral and generals and diplomats were reporting to the crown that the colonists are sending ships everywhere to try to get ammunition and muskets and cannon. this was after the british sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so- called course of axe -- coersive acts. maybe they did not intend to use it. that was a big debate. a council on october 1774 basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies and thus it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this -- unless it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. colonists patriot militia took over the forts and took the ammunition they could get. everybody knew it was coming in the winter of 1774. >> in his latest, kevin phillips suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of both the revolutionary war and american independence. sunday