we're taking a look at some pictures from, i believe, frederic fredericksburg, virginia, where protesters are blocking one of the highways there. i think there's an article from "the new york times" that i'd love to get your thoughts on. she wrote about the impact of covid-19 kind of adding what she described as its own accelerant to the mix. how might this look if we were not going through a pandemic? it seems like covid-19 exposed some of the issues and the inequalities that have also come up as a result of these protests. >> well, not only exposed a lot of the inequity we have in our country but i think it also forced us to slow down and have time to think. many of us are working from home. we're not distracted by other things. and now we're finally forced to deal with a lot of the problems, a lot of the systemic issues, the oppression, the things that have been slowly and for hundreds of years eating at the core of this country. but we don't have anywhere to run. we can't use work as a distraction. we can't use sports as a distraction. we can't use a lot of things as distractions that

lee fighting all of these battles in the fredericksburg area? the point is, ladies and gentlemen, he is trying to win the war. how do you win the war? according to robert e. lee, if you're going to win it through military means, you probably have to win a decisive battle on virginia soil or a victory on at least a victory on the northern soil. robert e. lee knows he can keep whipping the yankees time and here i use that word still in virginia, time and time again, but what does it solve? what does it accomplish? after the battle of chancellorsville in may of 1863, robert e. lee is going to get the opportunity, he has the initiative, and he is going to use that opportunity to invade the north. this map right here does not have a mountain ranges on it but basically he swings through the west and uses the mountain ranges as cover right here and it is a perfect conduit or avenue up into the north. once he gets into pennsylvania, he splits his forces up. the union army is starting to dovetail kind of behind him, if you will. but they are not exactly

we're looking at pictures now from fredericksburg, virginia, is that right? fredericksbu fredericksburg, virginia. protesters are blocking one. highways there. jamel, there's an article from "the new york times" that i'd love to get your thoughts on. she wrote about the impact of covid-19 kind of adding what she described as its own accelerant to the mix. how might this look, jamel, if we were not going through a pandemic? it seems like covid-19 exposed some of the issues and the inequalities that have come up as a result of these protests. >> it not only exposed a lot of the inequity that we have in our country, but i think it also forced us to slow down and have time to think. many of us are working from home. we're not distracted by other things. now we're finally forced to deal with a lot of the problems, a lot of the systemic issues, the oppression, the things that have been slowly and for hundreds of years eating at the core of this country. we don't have anywhere to run. we can't use work as a distraction or sports as a distraction, we can't use a lot

war department between edward stanton and joe hooker and asks suns are my 15,000 murdered at fredericksburg? joke from an of a outraged interruption. go tell your joke at springfield. democrats insinuated a critique of lincoln the joker into each and every one of their campaigning themes of 1864. none was more challenging then the charge of lincoln's shocking levity and the face of numbing military slaughter. lays the maker who nation across his knee and tickles her catastrophe with obscene jokes and little stories came a campaign staple. nothing gave this attacked greater power than the bogus accusation that when visiting the blood drenched antietam battlefield in october 1862, lincoln had shattered its sanctity by asking to hear a vulgar comic song while touring the field with bodies yet warm in their graves. mcclellan, by george lincoln drove over the field as heavy details of men were burying the dead. lincoln suddenly slapping marshall lemon upon the knee explained give us that song. george mcclellan has never heard it. the general protested, not now. i would prefer to hear it some oth

in that clip you just showed, we were in a barbershop in fredericksburg in the black community.lso went fwhinto the mor rural areas and met with people who reenact these wars, the civil war, every year or so. and they say that they are descending from great men who defended this great country. even in the name of defending slavery, they still find a way to valorize those people. and so we might be able to find some momentum to take down these statues. this -- the marble and the granite and the stone and concrete. but the hardest part will be to chip away at the monuments that are inside so many folks. there is a reason why racism has lasted so long in this country. it's bemde it's embedded. it's etched. in the fabric of who we are as a nation in this country. to your point, we're just hitting this tipping point where, now, people have cover. even if there were local politicians who wanted to see these monuments come down. now, they have cover, just by the sheer mass of protests. i mean, cross cultural, cross racial, across the country. now, there is this bubbling and everyone is

in that clip you just showed, we were in a barbershop in fredericksburg in the black community. but i also went into the more rural areas and met with people who reenact these wars, the civil war, every year or so. and they say that they are descending from great men who defended this great country. even in the name of defending slavery, they still find a way to valorize those people. and so we might be able to find some momentum to take down these statues. this -- the marble and the granite and the stone and concrete. but the hardest part will be to chip away at the monuments that are inside so many folks. there is a reason why racism has lasted so long in this country. it's embedded. it's etched. in the fabric of who we are as a nation in this country. to your point, we're just hitting this tipping point where, now, people have cover. even if there were local politicians who wanted to see these monuments come down. now, they have cover, just by the sheer mass of protests. i mean, cross cultural, cross racial, across the country. now, there is this bubbling and everyone is inte

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garnet, near fredericksburg, virginia. berlin noted that garnet starved them and they were working for this former owner without compensation. eaton sent correspondence to fredericksburg stating, "i would respectfully recommend this statement as made by the colored woman be offered to the officer in charge of the district for investigation for the correction of any abuses." while the treatment of former slaves remained unchanged, the assistant commissioner's willingness to intervene and prioritize testimony of black women demonstrates freed women initiated a transformation of the relationship between themselves and the government. in order for liberty to translate in the lives of freed women, they had to articulate their preferred terms of labor for themselves and their family. they were engaged in both personal and political processes of self-making. the black women who sent letters to eaton applied gender norms in their appeals to the federal government. for them, liberty implied the obligations of the federal government

i'm going to take a call, richard, from sherry who was watching us in fredericksburg, virginia. hi sherry, you're on. hi, how are you? >> great, you're question, please. >> i had understood that elizabeth monroe suffered from poor health. and i don't know exactly if it's true or what she had but i was wondering how that would have affected her ability to be so public and so social when that was so much a part of the politics versus dolley madison? is there any information that's been obtained about how she was able to function socially with poor health? >> that's a great question because it does go to the heart of why she was an almost invisible first lady during a lot of those eight years. she had serious health problems. dan probably knows this more than i do. i know she had excruciating headaches. it was thought, she suffered from rheumatism, arthritis, and there are a number of people who believe that she may have had late-onset epilepsy which was known as the falling disease at that point and that's something that would've certainly been kept a secret from the public. >> on

the first tape is from a small town, fredericksburg virginia. 911 call recorded earlier this month. a woman took her young daughter on aaron's downtown. as the two tried to drive home, a mob surrounded their vehicle and blocked it from moving. terrified, called 911 and here is the response she got. >> they are on my car. they are on my car right now. >> i would suggest you slowly drive through the area. >> i cannot get out of here. >> be patient, i will let the officers know, okay? >> are you serious? >> we can't do anything, ma'am. the state told us this is a o sanctioned event. >> this ishi my car. i've got a kid here. >> we would suggest he called up city hall let them know your frustrations. >> get off the road! this is scary! they are on my car! i have a little girl in the car crying, are you kidding me? >> tucker: they are on my car, they are on my car. ma'am, comes the reply, we would suggest you call up city hall tt let them know about your frustrations. those are verbatim quotes. it's hard to listen to that tape without feeling emotiona

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the father of michael brown, from fredericksburg, missouri,, will you stand?f these families came to stand with this family because they know better than anyone else the pain they will suffer from the loss that they have gone through. i also want to thank all of those that helped to make this as easy as they could for the family. certainly we think again those in the financial and entertainment world that immediately jumped up and said to the family that they wanted to help, and to make sure that they didn't have to worry about expense. tyler perry and robert smith an champion floyd mayweather. and others that have come, it means a lot because it shows th world the weight of this. brother jamie foxx is with us today. stand up, jamie. so let me get into it. terrel owens, everybody is sending me notes. i want you to turn briefly to the book of ephesians. sixth chapter.ephesians, the si. because i think that we need to understand what we are dealing with here. ephesians, six chapter tells th story of why i think we need to really look at the situation differently

use of defensive fortifications such as were erected around petersburg or federick spur or -- fredericksburg or vicksburg, they could have inflicted far more casualties on the prussians and perhaps have actually won the war that they lost. is a mind, in intellect -- an intellect in this era. he graduated 40th out of 43 cadets at west point in his graduating class, so he was kind of bottom of the barrel academically, but nevertheless, one of the few who shined. there are a host of individuals like this historically who did not perform particularly well at the military academies but demonstrated through the course of their career that they were far more cerebral and more capable than the class rosters suggested. of 40-45ison, a class officers was the extent of a graduating class at the military academy in the late 19th century. today, the numbers are somewhere in the realm of 900 cadets graduating from west point on an annual basis. so you have some sense of the enlargement, dramatic enlargement of the american military in the modern age in contrast to what was in the 19th century. let's turn

and in that letter collection, as the 48th pennsylvania was sitting in camp by fredericksburg in december of 1862 just prior to the battle, they received a shipment from home, and included in that shipment was scrapple. and the soldiers just devoured it. and he even notes, you might have thought us monsters for devouring this scrapple. but they loved it. sure, other soldiers probably ate it, too. kyle: just imagining the orcs from lord of the rings when they eat that guy and pieces are flying everywhere. jake: another reason for you guys to hate me, i have never seen or read lord of the rings. kyle: really? that seems like a deliberate choice, like you are taking pride in avoiding something because it's popular. jake: wow, i feel like you called me out. [laughter] kyle: i didn't think scrapple was that old, actually, not being a pennsylvania. i didn't realize it was not a modern invention. jake: i just saw a comment, scrapple equals crapple. it is a love or hate thing. scrapple, you can trace it back to other mid-atlantic states who also have it. scrapple culture? that's a weird thing to

candice is in fredericksburg, virginia. welcome. >> thank you. i'm enjoying the show very much. have a question regarding the broken first engagement and then they got back together, about a year and a half later and got married. number one, why do you think they broke up? and number two, why did they get back together and do you think lincoln loved her throughout their marriage? thank you. >> thank you so much. i'm going to hold that question because as this program progresses we'll go back in time to how abraham and mary got together and we'll answer candice's question, i promise. let's take another one from chad in baltimore. you're on, chad. >> caller: my question is about elizabeth keckly. i think she served both mary lincoln and vernon davis, the first lady of the confederacy, i'm shnot sure. >> she made dresses for a variety including jefferson daf davis's wife and she was very popular with her own shop. she did not live in the white house. she had her own residence, a place where she rented. and she was very popular among the congressional wives who then recommended her

candace is in fredericksburg, virginia. hi, candace, welcome. >> thank you.m enjoying the show very much. i have a question regarding the broken first engagement - then they got back together, of course, what, about a year-and-a-half later and got married. number one, why do you think they broke up? and, number two, why'd they get back together? and do you think lincoln loved her throughout their marriage? thank you. >> thank you so much. i'm going to hold that question because, as this program progresses, we will go back in time to how abraham and mary got together, and we will answer candace's question, i promise. >> let's take another one from chad in baltimore. you're on, chad. >> my question is about elizabeth keckley. i think she served both mary lincoln and varina davis, the first lady of the confederacy, i'm not sure. >> she made dresses for a variety of people, including jefferson davis'wife, general mcclellan's wife. she was very popular. she had her own shop. she did not live in the white house. she had her own residence that - a place where she re

we'll get back to your phone alls, lewisa joining us from fredericksburg, virginia.hank for you joining us. caller: i want to talk about how we keep referring to the past and i think the democrats deliberately love to talk about the past because it ignores the problems of today. black people are on the streets because there's problems today, not because there's problems yesterday. and democrats control all these cities. hey build housing that's a crime. democrats are behind a law of absolute destruction of this country and i don't see why people don't see that. they have no ideas, no ideas for anything. they repeat the same slogans over and over, decade after decade and we never get anywhere. until the people wake up and see in their own neighborhood who runs your neighborhood and votes them out of office, it's not going to change. but then of course the voting is all rigged, you have to vote two or three times a year. we can't live politics. that's what we -- they've forced us into living politics. just ignore today and let's focus on the past and that's what they k