a superb essay about this with about joe johnson. so the relationship between the two men is very, very strange during the atlanta campaign, too. in the months prior to the advent of the campaign, march, april of 1864, jefferson davis repeatedly asked johnson on the maps if you look in the corner up there, it would be your upper left-hand corner, you can see the red lines on the map up here indicate the confederate positions taken during the campaign. the blue lines are the federal positions. during the first few months of 1864, the confederates are encamped around the town of dalton, in extreme northwest georgia and the army had been shattered to battle missionary ridge in november 1864 under the command of bragg. it had been a humiliating disastrous defeat for the army and johnston is brought in and johnston, in some ways like george mcclellan. he's a superb organizer and motivator of men. he boosts the morale of the soldiers and the confederate soldiers many the army of tennessee love joe johnson. and they respect him. they know he

will not find a cup ae with a brag picture on it maybe a rearview camera so you can back up to joe johnson in a parking space.erior we talk about confederate superior generalship, we're talking about the eastern theater. and, of course, richmond, it's as the east was everything. and, of course, richmond is a t target, notsy only had military value, but it had symbolic, political value. and it was a notion which by the way, would have been betrayed by anyone studying military history, if you capture the opponent's capital you want. we know that's not true, the american revolution shows that. if you capture richmond, the wa, will be over no matter what elsn might happen. logistically, virginia poses a o problem, of course, given the resources afforded by the shenandoah valley. richmond and its iron works. it's manpower. the confederacy augmented the military manpower it august sle meanted its enslaved population. people forget that the largest e export from the commonwealth of virginia were enslaved human beings. you're adding 400,000 people tog your workforce. a valuable one if you're wagin

. >> that's incredibly frightening, all of these people at the beeches, joe johnson, what a wonderful spot, outer banks, north carolina. i saw your shot with all of the umbrellas on the beach. people enjoying the sun and sand, but are they aware of what's coming? >> yeah, i think people are aware. people from around here live in the mid-atlantic region. they understand about hurricanes. they know from time to time a hurricane comes marching up the coast from florida, and you have to deal with it or you move away. chad is also very right about that issue of erosion. that's a big consider here. not just on the dunes, but also out on the roads. a lot of concern in this area about roads being watched out, and sand making those roads impassable. some 250,000 people expected in this area for the fourth of july. now the officials are scrambling trying to rejigger the schedules for things like fireworks so they can still occur on the holiday weekend but maybe not on friday when the storm is supposed to hit this area. otherwise a little concern i think about the economics of this part of north

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will not find a cup ae with a brag picture on it maybe a rearview camera so you can back up to joe johnson in a parking space.erior we talk about confederate superior generalship, we're talking about the eastern theater. and, of course, richmond, it's as the east was everything. and, of course, richmond is a t target, notsy only had military value, but it had symbolic, political value. and it was a notion which by the way, would have been betrayed by anyone studying military history, if you capture the opponent's capital you want. we know that's not true, the american revolution shows that. if you capture richmond, the wa, will be over no matter what elsn might happen. logistically, virginia poses a o problem, of course, given the resources afforded by the shenandoah valley. richmond and its iron works. it's manpower. the confederacy augmented the military manpower it august sle meanted its enslaved population. people forget that the largest e export from the commonwealth of virginia were enslaved human beings. you're adding 400,000 people tog your workforce. a valuable one if you're wagin

anyway, steve researched it, and there are no records -- not even rivals>>, not even his like joe johnsonor nathan bedford forrest -- these were afterho were his critics the war. they did not write about it. there were not routine quartermaster slips out, here is your supply. what steve did, he researched it. is anrst of all, laudanum extract. it is an opiate. it is some extract or some form of morphine or opium. steve, the early as he found any and laudanumhood was a book published in 1940, yule, was about general another confederate general, who had lost a leg. he is ridinghere how this general did not use any painkillers after the war, john bell hood might have. then somebody else writes a book a year or two later and says, hood might have used laudanum and cites this, the 1940 biography of another general. the next guy says hood uses laudanum. in my book, i have a whole chapter on it. it gets to the point where -- there are people who have written exactly how much of a dose he took and how often he took it. cite,at they do is, they you know, something that was written a couple years e

they want to see this under control and joe johnson was out yesterday talking about how the followingp with folks in central america. beyond the politics i think it is something that is a crisis that needs to get figured out one way or the other. ,ost: david nakamura correspondent for "the washington post," thank you for being with us this morning. caller: thanks, see you. congressman ronald labrador appeared on nbc's "meet the press" to discuss immigration. let's listen to his comments. [video clip] >> americans are great people who are willing to deal with the 11 million people if we feel that there is going to be border security. the frustration that you see in marietta, across the united states, they feel that this administration is doing nothing about border security. if we can feel safe in our homes, if we can feel safe in our homeland, if we feel that we are actually going to be able to stem the flow of illegal immigrants -- of all, congressman, the frustration is not just with the administration. congress, house republicans blocked immigration reform. it is also the issue of t

they push back and say we sent joe biden to guatemala, j are eh johnson to the border, the fema director. they totally deny this allegation that they don't look like they are on top of the situation. they argue they are on top of the situation. the president being there isn't a big deal. as you and i know, sometimes politics is about pictures. pictures matter. george bush found out the hard way. >> when the president was walking with chris christie he made good pictures. >> good pictures. he went to that natural disaster. >> white house correspondent for nbc chuck todd. thank you, also, wayne slater. >>> coming up, an audio tape from are the old archives has hillary clinton laughing about a child rape case where she defended the accused. how will hillary's team respond? >>> yesterday, jason chaffetz thought mitt romney would run and would win. power hates as vacuum. will romney fill the void because jeb isn't running? >>> the pizza delivery man from north carolina who might help deliver a senate seat to the democrats. he could be the ralph nader of north carolina. that's definitely not h

let's bring in ivory johnson from delante wealth management and joe neroff from neroff economic advisersore people don't participate, how do we ever raise everything up? >> it's difficult because when workers have more money, businesses tend to have more customers. and what we're seeing now is as wages are stagnant for a lot of americans, not necessarily because they're lazy or they're not working hard or that business owners are greedy, it's just the function of creative destruction, where their skill sets is not so much in demand and that transfer happened in the blink of an eye. i think as people upgrade their skill sets, there will be a shortage of welders, we're spending $200 to $300 billion a year on energy infrastructure, not exactly good for the sociology major, but for the workers who have those skills, their wages will start to go up. the money they spend, which is two-thirds of our economy, will increase economic growth and i think that's how we get things moving again. >> joe, this all feeds into raising the minimum wage, but my question is, if the minimum wage goes up, there

johnson was doing at the stadium. he was taken into custody. >>> some fruit sold at trader joe's and costco is recalled tonight, peoples, plumbs, nectarines sold in boxes like these. some tests came back positive for listeria. the fruit was sold between june 1st and july 12th. throw them out and ask for a refund if you bout any. all the details are on -- bought any, all the details are on our website www.kpix5.com. >>> joe is on the embarcardero and this light show has quite a history, doesn't it? >> reporter: it does. check it out, there it is, san francisco's newest display of public art, this colorful sculpture straight from the plya, the desert of burning man. lain that to me, so at burning man it was flaming . stacy: oh of doing public walk by and wonder what exactly is that new sculpture on the embarcardero? it's called soma and those two squiggly metal pieces are neurons. >> so it's supposed to represent the cells that are in your brain. it's supposed to be a representation on a very large scale of the very, very tiny events that take place that create everything that humans experience. >> reporter: soma was fir

joe biden in guatamala. we had a meeting with secretary kerry. we received secretary johnson and the secretary for mexico. i think that this is important. we see those events one after another and they are common ideas. the first is very important. stop the immediate flow of children. of course, the most important parts is stopping the flow of children. it is a humanitarian measure to protect the children. this is important to understand. you are only trying to stop migration. that is not the case. we need to stop this as an essential manner -- matter. we are going to work with united states to top this -- stop this. the actions involved law enforcement. the other issue that is important is this idea to establish a pattern in the medium term and the long term. this is going to be put in the agenda at the meeting with president biden. these issues are going to be discussed with the administration and a branch of government. also, with congress. congress and the executive branch are going to make the decision to respond to the situation. our position is a position of cooperation. >> i see there are so many

. >> the system with joe burlinger only on al jazeera america >> it has been exactly 50 years since president lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act into law. it made it illegal to discriminate based on sex, race, religion. >> today eleanor norton is a long time member of congress representing washington, d.c. but half a century ago she was a civil rights activist helping to organize the march on washington and registered black voters in mississippi, bushing for equality. then came the signing of the civil rights act in 1964. >> this was a monumental year. >> how much of a difference did the civil rights act make? >> oh, boy, it made a profound difference. to see us move from an extraordinary hostility to having for now the first african-american president in office. that is a period of great change. >> reporter: as barriers came down black americans made progress. in 1964 about a quarter of blacks over age 25 had graduated from high school. now it's 85%. college completion rose from 4% to 21%. and median family income jumped by 63%. still by any measure a quality gap remains. americans have higher grad

police say johnson was also wanted in san mateo county for vandalism and resisting arrest. >>> a california company is recalling stone fruit sold at trader joe's and several warehouse stores because they might be contaminated with l lister listeria. it includes peaches, plums, nectar reens. they had a package date between june 1st and july the 12th. it was sold at trader joe's costco and sam's club. listeria is a deadly bacteria that can affect older adults, children and people with weakened immune systems. >>> we're seeing new and disturbing video on what happened in a chinese plant that shipped expired meat to mcdonald's and kfc. they are throwing processed meat onto the conveyor belts. some of the meat was moldy and green and had been expired for seven months. the company would mix the expired meat with fresh products. china shut down the factory. mcdonald's and kfc stopped using the meat and are conducting their own investigations. >>> a 28-year-old veteran received the nation's highest military honor today for risking his life to save fellow troops in afghanistan. president obama presented former army staff sergeant ryan pitts with the me

joe biden in quanah mullah. -- guatamala. we had a meeting with secretary kerry. we received secretary johnson and the secretary for mexico. i think that this is important. we see those events one after another and they are common ideas. the first is very important. stop the immediate flow of children. of course, the most important parts is stopping the flow of children. it is a humanitarian measure to protect the children. this is important to understand. you are only trying to stop migration. that is not the case. we need to stop this as an essential manner -- matter. we are going to work with united states to top this -- stop this. the actions involved law enforcement. the other issue that is important is this idea to establish a pattern in the medium term and the long term. this is going to be put in the agenda at the meeting with president biden. these issues are going to be discussed with the administration and a branch of government. also, with congress. congress and the executive branch are going to make the decision to respond to the situation. our position is a position of cooperation. >> i see there are so many

johnson. you were talking about the president's worked hard on all of these issues. bit.sn't helped us a i want to say something. i listened to "morning joe" this came on.efore you they were talking to a .ommentator he was on univision. after -- he made a statement. he goes, i don't know what republicans want. this president has deported more anybody.an but you guys don't tell the facts. more because he's the first president in this country that if they're stopped at the border, he calls it deported. we haven't got any help. i wish these kids would be sent to the hamptons. let's send them to cape cod. go spend the president's family atith his martha's vineyard. send them to new york, all of these different northeast countries and you would see things that change overnight. we have been stuck with it. we pay for about 8,000, 10,000 babies. will the federal government doesn't give us back a dime in arizona. we put them in school, pay for their babies, to have more babies, more babies, more babies. can't leavey america because these are american babies. how could these mothers, if this american mother she would be thrown in jail sending her

. >> senator ron johnson, member of the foreign relations committee, joins us now from capitol hill with reaction. good morning, senator. >> good morning, joethanks. senator we just heard, i heard of secretary kerry and i think, you know, a lot of words. but i got to say, you know, some of your comments, prisonero fiddling, he's got to do something, talking about president obama, like both sides there's a lot of words and a lot of rhetoric, i don't know, really, whether we want -- what you say the president hasn't done anything, what definitively do you think the u.s. should do in terms of punishing putin? >> what we need to do is match strength against strength and what vladimir putin is doing is obviously using his resources to continue to blackmail europe. we need to certainly undermine his monopoly on energy and we've got to bolster european's and nato's defenses. we certainly need to show our full support with president poroshenko rather than just study the military situation there, we should have had that assessment within a couple weeks and started in a very overt, a very straightforward fashion start re-arming, resupplying, the ukra

joe." people across the country today are marking the 50th anniversary of one of the most pieces of legislation ever passed in the country. today in 1964, president lyndon johnsonned a landmark civil rights act into law. it wiz illegal to discriminate because of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. president johnson carried on president john f. kennedy's push for the act after he was assassinated. eugene robinson, what are your thoughts this morning? >> you know, the civil rights act of 1964 changed my life. it changed the life of this country. you know, it's useful to remember. people think this is ancient history. it wasn't that long ago and remember the context of the civil rights act. the momentum of the passage really happened after the horrific murder of the freedom writers in mississippi. and it's just incredible to recall that things like that happened with some regularity in this country in my lifetime. so, you know, we have come an enormous distance. it was one of the landmark achievements, i think, in the history of this nation. >> jon meacham, we have come an enormous distance on one hand, that landmark legislation changed america. we chan

johnson. we want to work with the administration and democrats and republicans to find a practical solution to a humanitarian crisis that we have that has homeland security implications. >> joe to all americans, but especially our conservative brothers and sisters who even got upset at glenn beck for taking relief down there, the scale of the humanitarian crisis on america's borders and how anybody that has seen what is going on down there would want us to do something for those children? >> yeah, joe, since 2011, this -- the number of children coming across has exploded and it's primarily because the cartels, these transnational criminal organizations that are in the business of making money with drugs, people, weapons, you name it, they have cracked the code and they figured out this gap in this 2008 law which allows children basically be released to family members in the united states and be served with a notice to appear. it won't surprise you that most of them don't show back up so it actually works. what henry and i is trying to do is fix that gap because, so far, from 2011, the number doubled to 2012, it doubled again from 2012 to 2013. so far there have been about 57

johnson. you were talking about the president's worked hard on all of these issues. bit.sn't helped us a i want to say something. i listened to "morning joe" this came on.efore you they were talking to a .ommentator he was on univision. after -- he made a statement. he goes, i don't know what republicans want. this president has deported more anybody.an but you guys don't tell the facts. more because he's the first president in this country that if they're stopped at the border, he calls it deported. we haven't got any help. i wish these kids would be sent to the hamptons. let's send them to cape cod. go spend the president's family atith his martha's vineyard. send them to new york, all of these different northeast countries and you would see things that change overnight. we have been stuck with it. we pay for about 8,000, 10,000 babies. will the federal government doesn't give us back a dime in arizona. we put them in school, pay for their babies, to have more babies, more babies, more babies. can't leavey america because these are american babies. how could these mothers, if this american mother she would be thrown in jail sending her

and lyndon johnson signed it and grabbed all the glory for it after he had kennedy killed so he could become president. >> host: i'm going to stop you on that point. we're going to ohio and joe. welcome to the conversation. >> caller: good morning. i think there's a war on white men in this country from liberal women who claim there's a war on women. no country has created a better thing for white people. where else would people in america or color or any other race want to live other than america? it's time for white men to start standing up because there's all kinds of groups of other races and it's time for white pride. we have built this country. irish, italians, germans, irish, wherever they have come from, from europe. no country in the world has produced what the white man has produced for every culture and race in america. >> host: on the republican line, terry is joining us from canton, north carolina. good morning, terry. >> caller: good morning. it's so bad to listen to people calling in about dixie krats. i think it was the supreme court's justice, mr. thomas, had said that he's experienced more racism in this country from northern, liberal elites, than he has fr

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