because we're at gettysburg after all. chancellorsville shapes the gettysburg campaign to live. the army of the potomac under joe hooker had many good qualities as well as bad ones but the army comes across the river to fight. outnumbers lee by about two to one. if you count all the ash and trash as a say in today's military, it's almost 30 to one but it was up or just up, some regiments were being dispensed but anyway when they come into confrontation across a few dozen miles on this broad front from chancellorsville to fredericksburg, hooker has the odds. he has more of everything. he manages to fail. will talk about why. but importance to gettysburg is, that again, the victory against such odds, against poker, initially getting the drop on lee is so astonishing that lee begins to feel his army can't be defeated, that the north just can't beat them. when you start thinking you can't be defeated, you're on the road to defeat. but even more critical and practical aspects of it was lee is literally fighting for his country and his armies life as chancellorsville. it's a near run

is there something at gettysburg you know needs to be fixed right now as opposed to a general overall all the infrastructure needs to be -- >> guest: we are trying to adjust the issue systemwide.se the park service has a list they want to address issues park by park but what we would like to see is a solution that provides dedicated funding to the park service so they are not just reliance, and there is bipartisan legislation in the house and senate that would provide dedicated funding for the parks. >> host: what can be done and what should be done to make sure national parks are in the future? if you would like to join this conversation we will open our phone lines by region this morning. if you are in the eastern and central time so we want to hear from you at 748-8000. we want to hear from you 202-748-8001. a special line, we especially want to hear from you. tell us what needs to be done.. that line for people who visit a national park in the last year will be 202-748-8002. and on social media, c-span wj and on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. how much money is needed to bring our

he lost in gettysburg in ways that did not cling to him, but grant is coming to be. yes. >> just make it a short question. >> why is north carolina, i mean, why doesn't sherman cross from the west to the east? by the time he gets so close to lee's army in north carolina. why isn't that now part of the eastern theater? >> ole, well, of course -- he's geographically it is the eastern theater, but it is the western armies operating there. that's civil war terminology. north carolina, poor north carolina, doesn't really get to be in the theater. it's down there. it's never really in eastern theater, and only when the western armies get there, you follow the armies where they go. they end up in durham station. i'd say north carolina is kind of in a never never land. but it is certainly not the eastern theater, although it is an eastern states, no doubt about it. >> can you make the argument that the con fefederacy lost th war? losing the mississippi river was really important and then my question would be, okay, the war goes on two more years after they lose the mississip

the battle of gettysburg. other elements of the war in the east. they have shaped popular american understanding of the world. i'm the first to say. many people know this. i have no patience with people who think gettysburg was a turning point of the civil war. this simply was not. that upsets all the people. they just went by the mailbox everyday hoping that a new 500 page book on the first 15 minutes arrives. the 300 page we have just does not know. he leaves two volumes and remains the standard treatment. complained of what he called the virginia pattern of interpretation. early in the 1870s and continued in the 20th century. that pattern helped explain why the history of the civil war is for many americans synonymous with the benefit of virginia. he reminded readers in the 1983 book of the north one. it remains a splendid one volume treatment of the world. that is the best place to go. 700 pages. it is a good place to go. you had to read them. i think you actually did. that is a very important point. he presided over the first period of union s

, and all they want to talk about is gettysburg. if you look at the monuments going on, those first -- that first real push of monuments is at gettysburg and all those army of the potomac veterans talking about what great work they do. so it's not surprising and it's not ironic there's a very clear reason that the war department decides that chattanooga will be the first military park in part because all the western veterans are tired of hearing about gettysburg and they consciously organized groups to come together. they also pick a victory to bring together in former confederate territory as part of that n so the reconciliation goes both within union veterans and between union and confederate veterans there. >> and i'll amplify that. your question. by saying that there was a very distinctive western memory not among all westerners but among some veterans. i had the great pleasure to direct a dissertation that turned into a book that won the wily silver prize for the first best first book on the civil war by matthew stanley and his

you can do that at gettysburg as well as anyplace i've ever taken people. you can also do that in petersburg. you can point to the monument at petersburg that went up right after "glory" came out and talk about how culture spills over into how we view historical figures. if you take the killer angels and ken burns, and ron maxwell's translation to sinema out, joshua chamberlain isn't what he is now. that's a perfect example of how popular culture and memory and history are combined and work off of one another, and sometimes work against one another. i'd like to talk about david ireland and juxtapose them against joshua lawrence tamerlan in the 20th main. by any standard, the one 37th new york did at least as well, and i think better at spacing an entire brigade of federalists, who climbed up and down round top in the afternoon. but david ireland didn't live forever, didn't survive the war, didn't write his memoirs, didn't become governor of maine, all the things he didn't do. i admire joshua chamberlain. he's an academic who function in the real world. just

if you look at the monumentation going on, that first real push of monumentation is at gettysburg and all those armies potomac veterans talking about what great work they do. there is a reason that the war department decided that chattanooga would be the first military part because those western veterans are tired of hearing about gettysburg and they very consciously organized groups to come together. they picked a-the reconciliation goes within union veterans and between union and confederate veterans there. >> i will amplify your question by saying that there was a very distinctive where memory not mopping all werners but some veterans. i had a great pleasure to direct a dissertation that turned into a book that won the wylie silver price by matthew stanley and the book is called simply the loyal west. it is a quote from the western veterans, some of ham i earned in my vignette who were resent will of emancipation being drafted on to the war narrative and they refused to accept that as part of the victory narrative. they were trying to argue, and they were very sensitive about it is

bloody victory on january 22nd at stone's river near stone's river is in some ways the reverse gettysburg. it's become more fornt us than it was at the time that gary argue. if you read the political newspape newspapers. it was a much needed victory even if it wasn't decisive as some of the later ones under grant. he also captured the important railway hub was the whole point of the campaign which he would tell you many times after the war. he was a brilliant engineer, devote christian and a vocal critic of slavery and treason. he was not without his flaws as i am the first to admit as his future biographer he was very easy to hate. he had a bad temper, smoke incessantly. he was arrogant and unforgiving to those who failed him. he was incapable of getting along with many of his superiors. these trait and the enemies he wracked up undermine his once promising career. we see that. the story of his rise and fall during the civil war is a fitting one considering he served in all three mayjor theaters of the war that dr. gallagher mentioned earlier. he was born september 6. his father was a ve

we are also talking about battlefield like gettysburg, lakeshore, cape cod national shore. national emissaries, national recreation areas though their taking care of a lot of sites out there and they are very diverse. >> what are the type of repairs you're talking about needing to be done? are we talking about fencing, benches, campsites? what exactly, what are the type of repairs that you think need to be done to the national parks. >> and mark. >> parks are similar to cities and towns in the infrastructure that they're taking care of. we often think of these scenic vistas and wildlife which currently is in our parks but people don't realize that our national parks are managing over 5000 miles of paved roads, 28,000 buildings, things like visitor centers, employee housing,historic structures . we're talking about water systems, water lines that provide drinking water or visitors. sewage systems to take care of restrooms that visitors certainly want in their parks and many of this infrastructure is over 50 to 60 years old at this point. u >> are there any areas that are foc

they have been at harpers ferry, antietam, and here at gettysburg. we thank c-span for covering this for our national audience. without further ado, dr. susanna ural. [applause] hey, everybody. thank you for coming out. it has been a wonderful week here in pennsylvania. i moved to the south about 20 years ago. i think east texas is still considered south. mississippi about 10 years ago erie i spent my first decade or in pennsylvania. it is good to be home. it is been a truly wonderful week. we don't necessarily all come to the same conclusions, but we are dedicated to a tremendous amount of learning. it has been a good week. thank you for having me back here. this is just an outstanding museum. don't become members of museums if we are not in the area. reminder thatful you can still support museums that are doing wonderful work. we got to have a behind the scenes tour. the collections here are just incredible. when you have brought together to tell the full story of the civil war as a historian, researcher, writer is invaluable. all on whatmmit you y

the discussion was part of a conference by gettysburg college's civil war institute. >> hello, and welcome to the second roundtable this afternoon. teachian shane, and i civil war and early republic at ohio university. the subject of this panel is sort of asking us to step up and think from what the civil war might have looked like from 5000 feet. we're going to be internationalizing this conflict that we like to selfishly think is america's domestic civil war. we will be thinking about how some broader international developments shaped the civil war, and hopefully get a sense of what's going on outside, in the rest of the world. in some ways, this is not a new thing. people have been writing diplomatic histories of the civil war really sends the -- since the years after the conflict andy. but the combination of the sesquicentennial, a new rethinking of 19th-century globalization, and really the current context in which americans are sort of rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world, in a post-cold war richhas generated a lot of scholarship that situates the u.s. civil war in a

asconfederae of immigrants on both sides of the war discussion was part of a conference hosted by gettysburg college civil war institute. hello, and welcome to the second roundtable of the afternoon. . am brian schoen the subject of this panel is going to be asking us to step up and think from what the civil war might look like from 5000 feet. they are going to be internationalizing this conflict that we like to selfishly think is america's domestic war. we going to be thinking about how it is in some of the broader international developments shaped the civil war and get a sense of

michael b.: welcome to gettysburg college. everything he said is true, and it is a great place to spend five days talking history and everything else. i hope you take full advantage of the opportunities on campus and in town. i am michael birkner. i have taught here for a little over 30 years. i am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. i think it is appropriate that we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850's as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. history is fundamentally about people and events in a temporal setting. you do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. that takes place in the 1850's. it was compounded by two weak presidents' bad decision-making. the political crisis of the 1850's is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. in fact, the mentor to both rachel sheldon and me. i think i was his first phd students,

. >> welcome to gettysburg college. everything he said is true, and it is a great place to spend five days talking history and everything else. i hope you take full advantage of the opportunities on campus and in town. i am a michael burke and her, i have taught here

michael b.: welcome to gettysburg college. everything he said is true, and it is a great place to spend five days talking history and everything else. i hope you take full advantage of the opportunities on campus and in town. i am michael birkner. i have taught here for a little over 30 years. i am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. i think it is appropriate that we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850's as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. history is fundamental

asconfederae of immigrants on both sides of the war discussion was part of a conference hosted by gettysburg college civil war institute. hello, and welcome to the second roundtable of the afternoon. . am brian schoen the subject of this panel is going to be asking us to step up and think from what the civil war might look like from 5000 feet. they are going to be internationalizing this conflict that we like to selfishly think is america's domestic war. we going to be thinking about how it is in some of the broader international developments shaped the civil war and get a sense of what is going on outside the rest the world. in some ways, this is not a new thing. people have been brining -- people up and writing histories years civil war since after the conflict ended. a combination of the sesquicentennial from new rethinking's on what 19th-century globalization is, and our current context where -- americans are rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world in a post-cold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so that situates the u.s. civil war in a b

trump: at shiloh, antietam and gettysburg, our soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion for theion. and the freedom of all americans. in the trenches of world war i, and are resurgent named alvin york faced an inferno of enemy fire and refused to retreat. he said, i will not leave or stop. he shot his rifle 18 times, killing 18 of the enemy. one a fixed bayonets and charged, he killed seven more. the entire sherman -- german machine gun battalion surrender because of alvin york. a generation later, the army returned to europe and embarked withthe great crusade knives and rifles in hand. they scaled the cliffs of normandy, the 101st airborne like into the danger from above. all enemy flares, explosions and burning aircraft. they threw back to not see and -- nazinot see empire empire. the darkness of the battle of on every, with nazis side, one soldiers reported to have said, they've got us surrounded again the poor investors. -- poor bastards. warriorsed, american fought through the bunkers of pork chop hill and how the line of civilization in korea. in vietnam, the first cavalry

in many ways, it could be considered the 1944 equivalent of the gettysburg address. eisenhower saying we have a fight to continue, it is a horrible fight, but it must go on because the consequences of not doing so or losing it are almost too horrific to take into contention. much like how slavery needed to be destroyed, fascism in the form of slavery that came with it was also something that needed to be defeated. so, his men took this message to heart. eisenhower developed a really strong esprit de corps with american soldiers. he cared about them and he knew it. that was one reason why they fought so hard and so diligently on his behalf. of course, the harder they fight the war, the sooner the war will be over. another element i would like to show you is a weapon that we have over here. this is an 81 millimeter mortar. i mentioned this a little bit in some of our talks prior to all of this. my good friends mike and andy are going to tell us a little bit about that. >>> hello, everybody, i am here to talk to you about the 81 millimeter mortar. this was actually desi

questions he was grappling with about the direction of the civil war and the thought that went into the gettysburgddress, also understanding what to do with emancipation. a lot of that thinking he did at his summerhouse. could getbecause he away from the 19th century equivalent of social media, which was the open white house and the people that were bothering you at all times. he needed space to be alone with himself. we all needthat, space away to deal with our own thoughts so we can have a creative insights and build the moral courage so we can figure out what we want to do. i think he is a great example. simulate a lot of that much more simply by just doing something, anything during your day without your phone. host: such as? prof. newport: say you are walking your dog, do it without your phone. what's important about solitude is not isolation. this is a colloquial use of solitude. isolation is not that important for solitude. the definition i took of solitude came from a book that by judge raymond catholic. the definition is that it's freedom from input from other minds. that is what we need

grappling with about the direction of the civil war as well as a love the thought that went into the gettysburgaddress, also his struggle on understanding what to do with emancipation, a lot about thinking he did at his summer house. he did it because he could get away from the 19th century equivalent of social media, which was the open white house and office seekers and petitioners bothering you at all times. he needed space to grapple with what's important. we all need that. we all need a little space alone from our own thoughts so that we can have the creative insight so we can build the moral courage and figure out what we are about and what we want to do. i think he is a great example. you can simulate it much more simply, by just doing something, anything during the day, without your phone. host: such as question mark -- such as? if you have to walk your dog, do it without your phone. when you think about physical isolation -- isolation is not actually that important for solitude. the definition i took of wherede came from a book the definition is freedom from input from other minds. that

.- waved antietam and gettysburg, our soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion for the true unityreedom of all americans. in the trenches of world war i, an army sergeant named alvin york faced an inferno of enemy fire and refused to retreat. i won't i won't leave, stop. he shot his rifle 18 times, killing 18 of the enemy. when they fixed they and its and charged, he killed -- fixed bayonets and charged, he killed seven more. the germans surrendered because of alvin york. a generation later, the army returned to europe and embarked crusade with knives and rifles in hand. the rangers scaled the cliffs of normandy, the 101st airborne danger fromhe above, illuminated only by enemy flares, explosion and burning aircraft, they drew back the nazi empire with lightning of their own from the turrets of sherman tanks and the barrels of m-1 rifle. in the darkness of the battle of on every, with nazis side, one soldier is reported to have said, they've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. [laughter] [applause] pres. trump: outnumbered, americans thought through poor porkchop hill. the

the normandy barrier, a vehicle barrier, kind of like a metal, steel version of what you see at gettysburg along the fields there. so it is a lot easier to put up, but certainly, the army corps is taking forever to get anything done. the trump administration has a 2020 to keep, right? host: what does that promise practically entail in terms of policy? what does the administration want to get done by 2020? guest: the army corps top officials said we are going to have 450 miles of border fence done by the 2020 election. host: new fencing? guest: total fencing. there is 50 right now, so they are 1/9 of the way. you heard that earlier this spring, he was saying that. now, you are not hearing that so much. the white house contacted me after my story went up and pushed back very hard. customs and border protection and all of the border patrol regions tweeting, posting on instagram saying "we have put up that," but the truth is there is not a single mile offense in a new area. i think they are realizing that we are not getting construction done as fast, so it is something they have not been messa

moment of it is when general meade failed to follow up with general lee's army after the victory at gettysburg despite telegrams telling him he must get lee's army, lincoln was so upset and wrote a long, angry letter to him saying you didn't do what i asked you to do. had you done so, the war might have come to an earlier end. now it's going to go on month after month and he would put the letter aside. he would call these letters hot letters when he was angry and he would put it down hoping he would cool down psychologically. by the time he cooled down, he knew it would paralyze the general if it reached him in the field. he never sent it. it was not even seen until the 20th century aurunderneath was notation never sent and never signed. there were dozens of these letters. >> you point out roosevelt had these. i think of roosevelt with a remarkable temperament but he too got mad. >> especially in the late '30s, mad at isolationist congressmen. it would take him five or six drafts for the fire side chats. he could start naming the congressman, calling him a traitor, saying what is he doing to t

after the war that the charset the use union soldiers made was worse than what they had to do at gettysburg and incredibly open expanse of ground where they were under fire the entire time they were retreating. this matches some of the wounds. some things we can learn about the surgeon. we can tell this was a skilled surgeon. during the civil war you had a range, some people with some training and some didn't get training until the war. we can tell the way these were performed that the surgeon knew what they were doing. you don't see a false start. you can probably guess what that is. you are starting to amputate and there is lot a lot of movement. you would see the traces of the teeth of the saw on the phone as it would cut through. we didn't see a lot of that. it indicates a couple things, the surgeon was skilled and in all likelihood the whole term of biting the bullet, the vast majority of amputations done were done under some sort of anesthesia. these soldiers were probably not moving around too much or you would see more of those false starts and you can see with this thing right here

i was also on the committee for ross perot, when we went into our national convention in gettysburg. we are tired of the democratic party not standing up and sticking up for what we truly stand for, the democracy of so much and thank you for taking my call. host: thank you. we will go to morgan in reading, pennsylvania, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. everyone knows that the attack on the four congresswoman was racist and bigoted. wh he is still a racist ore-monger. the united states senate will not stand up for what is right. that is all i have to say. exposed -- trump has exposed the republicans for the immoral garbage they are in the christian church for the immoral garbage they are, not standing up for this man. thank you very much. host: we will go to a next in lancaster, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to say, first of all, i did not vote for president trump, but whether he reads the bible or not, god put authority,rs of whether it is president trump or his squad, to carry out his plan, and until they finis

traffic is just a mess on gettysburg way. it's obviously quite the scene down there. but they're trying to escort the people from the park to las animas elementary and setting up a reunification center at gavilan junior college out there kind of outside of downtown gilroy. >> if you're just joining us now, we're following up on witness accounts of multiple people down after a shooting in gilroy. this is snapchat video of paramedics arriving to the scene. we had earlier video of people leaving and running in droves after hearing shots of gunfire. we have bob on the phone right now. his daughter was at the gilroy garlic festival and has been taken to a safer location. your wife is waiting to get another call from her to get further updates. is that correct? >> that's correct. when she first called in, maybe from viewers tuning in again, so we can get more information out to our other viewers, what exactly did she tell you? thank you for repeating it over and over. >> first was the text, there was active shooting going on at the garlic festival. and she was very scared a

he wrote how lincoln brought us back through his words at gettysburg and the declaration and the fourth of july. not to the constitution, but to the conversation we had as a country about democracy, and all men are created equal, the very values of our country. it was not about defeating the brits, but was about declaring our values on the fourth of july. that's what we did in philadelphia. what do tanks have to do with it? >> nothing. this is nauseating, chris. this is not just obnoxious tackiness, this is actually dangerous. it's fundamentally unamerican. it politicizes a nonpartisan celebration of we the people of our declaration of independence, and it also misunderstands the fundamental nature of our military might. our military is not strong because of the weight of our armor or because of the speed of our fighter jets. it's because of the professionalism and skill of our service members who sacrifice everything for our freedom. that's what we should be honoring on july 4th. not displace of military might. >> you see all this on -- you're in greece. your in poland, in angola. you'

. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] i see what you did there what'd you think about abraham lincoln's gettysburgss? >> it wasn't one of his better speeches he got no standing ovations. [ audience ohs ] >> seth: i know you're currently married to your third wife, melania, but how old do you think your nexwife is right now? >> 4 or 5.ug [ laer ] >> seth: chuck schumer andto nancy pelosi seem e working together a lot lately. what's going on with those two >> i'll tell you, they mightsce wing [ laughter ] >> seth: how much skin do you have on your body? >> 216 acres [ laughter ] >> seth: what are your nicknames for your sons, don jr. and eric? >> oil and gas [ laughter ] >> seth: what do you say to your staff after you eat a bunch of mcdonald's >> you don't want to be in this room very long, because you wo t last [ laughter ] >> seth: what did you do when the white house chef prepared kale salad with quinoa >> i fired his ass so fast [ laughter ] >> seth: we're almost out of time, so i'd like to finish with the question i always ask, how's your penis >> getting worse and worse every year [ lahter an

unfit to protect the government of the people by the people for the people as elucidated in the gettysburgand is impeached for high misdemeanors that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the senate. article of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives of the united states, in the name of itself, of the people of the united states against donald -- >> we have been listening to the house floor live where two things just happened. one, the house formally voted to rebuke president trump for, quote, racist remarks. and then two, directly after that, congressman green came to the floor to push his resolution for impeaching the president of the united states. not a normal day here in the house floor, not a normal day for america. i want to give special thanks to all of the people who joined our coverage tonight, a discussion of civil rights, of equality, of what the president is doing, as well as our coverage of the justice department announcing today no charges in that civil rights case regarding the killing of eric garner by the nypd. as always, thank you for joining

his capture after gettysburg and ends up in prisoned. he is tasked with taking a register of all of the deaths at the camp. ultimately he is going to be keeping this list for the confederates and he is told by them -- dsh by the overseers of the camp that that list ultimately at the end of the kplskt would be turned over to union authorities. he didn't trust them. and so he keeps another list that he will ultimately take with him when he leaves andersonville. he ends up in an owe annapolis, maryland, in camp parole. gets connected with barton. in fact, that list is going to really be the inspiration for why barton goes to andersonville in august of 1865. that's how they get connected can be -- how barton gets connectwood the andersonville story. and ultimately that list will provide the almost 13,000 names that barton will be able to inform the families. but another -- just another point on that, when i said that barton went out on a lecture tour, dorance at water came with her. dorance at water was her opening act. dorance at water talk

is unfit to protect government of the people by the people for the ople, as is in the geties -- gettysburg address, and is impeachable for high miss demeansers. that the following article of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives of the united states in the name of it self, of the people of the united states against donald john trump, president of the united states. and in sfor of its impeachment against him for high miss demeaners created as president constituting harm to american society, to the manifest injury of the people of the united states. article i, the house of representatives on july 16, 2019, strongly condemn president donald trump's racest comments that have legitimatized an increased fear and hatred of new americans and people of color by saying that our fellow americans who are immigrants and those who may look to the president like immigrants should go back to other countries. by referring to immigrants and asylum seekers as invaders, and by saying that members of congress who are immigrants or those of our colleagues who are wrongly assumed to be ingrants d

. >> i get into this like it's a novel, and i have been there at the -- during the third day of gettysburg. the first thing after pickett's said, you need a sister, i will be your sister. i will punch that guy in the nose. prof. brands: interesting. i am not sure i can do justice to that. the essence of the statement was she reads history because she likes to get involved, she likes to get in the middle of the story. i will tell you, as a professional historian i try to avoid that, but i don't always succeed. i try to keep my distance. i make a real point and they do succeed in this and not passing judgment on my characters. inill tell you, the readers my book on franklin roosevelt, i will tell him was that she was a great president, but great in the sense of having a great effect on the world around him. i will not tell you if i think he was a good president or a bad president. i lay out what it was. i lay out the reactions, the justifications, but i leave it .o the readers i think not all historians do it this way. i would say the most successful don't do it this way. i once asked david

if you blocked pornography you cannot see a discussion of lincoln's address at gettysburg.videos about history if you blocked important if you're a parent, you block pornography. we asked him why. they hate us. they don't want people to see our videos. >> in george orwell's famous book, quote 1984" the way big brother controlled it is power. they control information. we've always been at war with with i chaired a hearing with facebook and twitter, censorship engaged in political bias, i'm chairing a hearing with google. google is monopoly. google may be the most powerful company on the face of the planet. they have a monopoly on information what you know and what i know. google owns youtube the second most popular website on the face of the planet. the problem they use monopoly powers to silence voices they don't like. dennis prager is a brilliant thinker but nobody with any sense would describe dennis prager as some sort of dangerous voice that must be muzzled. but if you're a leftist, he is a very dangerous voice because he responds with facts and reason. the left is terr

[cheers and applause] and gettysburg, our soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion for the truethe trenches of world war i, an army sergeant named alvin york faced an inferno of enemy fire and refused to retreat. he said "i won't leave. i won't stop." he shot his rifle 18 times, killing 18 of the enemy. when they fixed bayonets and charged, he killed seven more. the entire german machine gun battalion surrender because of one man, alvin york. a generation later, the army returned to europe and embarked upon a great crusade with knives and rifles in hand, the rangers scaled the cliffs of normandy, the 101st airborne leapt into the danger from above, illuminated only by enemy flares, explosions, and burning aircraft, they threw back the nazi empire with lightning of their own from the turrets of sherman tanks and of the barrels of the m1 rifle. in the darkness of the battle of the bulge, with nazis on every side, one soldier is reported to have said "they've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." outnumbered, american warriors fought through the bunkers pork chop hill and he

new orleans, gettysburg, normandy, iwo jima, vietnam and the middle east. thank you for those who marched in places like selma and montgomery. seeking to perfect our union. now, lord, bless this the people's house of which it is said here served the people govern. bless, o lord, this body, leadership on both sides of the aisle whose composition mirrors the apples orchard the washington state, to the citrus groves of florida to the sun kissed beaches of california and to the beloved bayous of louisiana. remember our staff, constituents back home as they function as servant leaders with the vision to see what is right and the power and strength to do what is right. remember the master's words, that the greatest among you is your servant and dr. king's admonition that everyone can be great because everyone can serve. hear bers of this house the words of the prophet micah when he says you require us to love justice and do mercy and walk humbly with our god. amen, amen, amen, and amen. the speaker: thank you, reverend. the chaychay -- the chair has examined the

pennsylvania is also the site of several historic battles, including the war of valley forge and gettysburg. it's where betsy ross hand crafted the first american flag and where colonel drake built the first commercial oil well in 1859. from our steel mills and coal mines to our farm lands and forests, this great state's many contributions to our nation are a strong testament -- indust rse struss industrious commonwealth. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today on behalf of my constituents, bob and kathy, who shared their story recently with me at a roundtable discussion in manchester. . pappas: his wife kathy was a match for his kidney transplant. today, 15 years after bob's successful surgery, he must continue to take anti-rejection drugs. this prescription has always been covered by kathy's private in

i was also on the committee for ross perot, when we went into our national convention in gettysburg.are tired of the democratic party not standing up and sticking up for what we truly stand for, the democracy of so much and thank you for taking my call. host: thank you. we will go to morgan in reading, pennsylvania, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. everyone knows that the attack on the four congresswoman was racist and bigoted. wh he is still a racist ore-monger. the united states senate will not stand up for what is right. that is all i have to say. exposed -- trump has exposed the republicans for the immoral garbage they are in the christian church for the immoral garbage they are, not standing up for this man. thank you very much. host: we will go to a next in lancaster, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to say, first of all, i did not vote for president trump, but whether he reads the bible or not, god put authority,rs of whether it is president trump or his squad, to carry out his plan, and until they finish th

the normandy barrier, a vehicle barrier, kind of like a metal, steel version of what you see at gettysburgng the fields there. so it is a lot easier to put up, but certainly, the army corps is taking forever to get anything done. the trump administration has a 2020 to keep, right? host: what does that promise practically entail in terms of policy? what does the administration want to get done by 2020? guest: the army corps top officials said we are going to have 450 miles of border fence done by the 2020 election. host: new fencing? guest: total fencing. there is 50 right now, so they are 1/9 of the way. you heard that earlier this spring, he was saying that. now, you are not hearing that so much. the white house contacted me after my story went up and pushed back very hard. customs and border protection and all of the border patrol regions tweeting, posting on instagram saying "we have put up that," but the truth is there is not a single mile offense in a new area. i think they are realizing that we are not getting construction done as fast, so it is something they have not been messaging

what douglas did is the same thing lincoln did in the gettysburg address, he said we have principlesqual and they are endowed with liberty but america is making rapid progress so the whole tone of the speech is very positive and very uplifting. >> is the real lesson that we adhere to our principles, we have big problems, we are not always perfect but we are striving to do better? >> that is exactly the message, we are striving for those principles and that is what douglas made very very clear. he was very pro-america, he did love the country, saw where it had shortcomings and wanted to overcome those shortcomings. >> i wrote a book about jackie robinson and late in his life he talked about not standing for the anthem, and some say he would support colin kaepernick today. i think what robinson was doing was expressing frustration that civil rights was not moving quick enough for him and he was about to die. it was late in his short life but wasn't necessarily attacking america. he loved this country and he served in the u.s. army, something colin kaepernick didn't. >> exactly right. i

released his more recent volume called the battle hymn cycle and he had released his very first book gettysburg. i believe we've had you hear every year since then. we are thrilled to have such an esteemed author here with us. he is a best-selling, prize-winning high-volume battle