johnston is written the next day. he says the feasibility of the proposition has been the subject of consideration with the president for some time. so far as advancing a column to the potomac with all the troops that can be made available. he concurs in your reviews as to the benefits to be obtained by taking the offensive and is very desirous of being able to carry into effect. one month later joseph e. johnston is wounded at the battle of fair oaks, late may, early june of 1862 and roernt e. lee is the one sprung to take command of the army of northern virginia three weeks after he takes command, as doug crenshaw is in the crowd, has written a book about the battle of seven days, lee strikes and attacks. look at where he does that. he knows his army for the most part, throughout the war, the confederacy is going to be outnumbered, lee knows one main thing -- first he's got to keep the initiative. but also in order for him to win decisive battles, he has to use a tactic used by napoleon. napoleon is often outnumbere

johnston is written the next day. he says "the feasibility of the proposition has been the subject of consideration with the president for some time. so far as advancing a kohl tloum the potomac with all the troops that can be made available. he concurs as to the benefits to be obtained by taking the offensive and is very desirous of being able to carry it into effect." one month later, joseph e. johnston is wounded at the battle of seven pines or fair oak, late may or june of early '62 and robert e. lee is the one who is sprung in to take command of the army of northern virginia and look what he does three weeks after he takes command. of course as you all know and as doug crenshaw who is somewhere out in the crowd has just written a book about the battle of the seven days, lee strikes, lee attacks but look at where lee does that. lee knows his army for the most part throughout the war, the confederacy is going to be outnumbered, lee knows one main thing. he has to keep the initiative but also in order for him to win

johnston came to bat and helped him to stay in place. knew at this time the president was his supporter. many people believe that davis supported bragg because they were personal friends. as steven woodworth has clearly pointed out. and is very evident from the primary material, that is not true. jefferson davis more than once clearly said in a letter why i support bragg, i admire his administrative talents. even though he may not be the best general on the battlefield, i don't know who else is better. and until somebody better comes along, he should stay where he is. that is the truth of the matter. in terms of that davis/bragg relationship. well, as i said, it went downhill from there. bragg's health worsened in 1863. his ability to personally deal with detractors in his command worsens also. bragg in some ways was losing it. i argue bragg's personality, he held himself to high standards. he was a perfectionist. you may say he was anal. that's probably true. people of that personality type tend to burn out. it wasn't helped by the fact

bragg, joseph johnston, our johnston, richard taylor, name them all none of them did better than bragg in commanding these forces in the western theater. the problems went way beyond personality or individual ability of any individual. i put it this way. it is true bragg's army, i call it that. he commanded it 20 months. much longer than anyone else did. whatever level of quality there was in that field army mostly comes from bragg's training. his stamp of approval. that army won only one battle, chickamauga. let's not look at battles. let's look at battlefield days. were there any days in the civil war that the army of tennessee did well? yes. ofre were at least four days brilliant tactical victories on the battlefield that the army of tennessee achieved. bragg was responsible for three of them. three of the four. the army of tennessee suffered dismal tactical defeat on 14 days of the civil war. bragg was responsible for only four of them. while commanding the army of tennessee for 20 months bragg was responsible for 75% of the tactical success days but only 20% of the tactical defeat

i think it's kind of ironic that johnston opened the first tu turnpike. and in the capitol, it has a lot of oklahoma symbolism in them. first of all, the big red figure in the middle represents the universal man or all oklahomans. and that means red man. so there's the red man. lower left-hand corner, you have the state wildflower, the indian blanket. right above that, kind of a purple area, that's our state tree. our state bird. and by his other hand, an astronaut. there have been more astronauts going into space from oklahoma than any other state in the union. we're coming into the senate chamber. oklahoma's legislature meets the first monday of february. it has to be finished by the last friday of may. so they are in session four months out of the year. we have 48 state senators elected for four years. the lieutenant governor is the president of the senate but not active in that role probably in 70 years now. so the president protem really is the leader. from 1907 to 2006, the democrats had the majority so the pro tem was a democrat. 2006, we had a tie

johnston opened oerk oak's first turnpike. the pain painting in the archway beyond the centennial by carlos te'o. very different in style from all the rest of the artwork in the capitol. it has a lot of oklahoma symbolism. the red figure represents the universal man. oklahoma is two chawktaw words. you have a redbud tree, our state tree our state bird. and by his other hand, an astronaut. there have been more astronauts going into space from oklahoma than any other state in the union. >> the legislature has to be finished by the last friday of may. they're in session four months out of the year we have 48 state senators elected for four years, the lieutenant governor is the president of the senate, but not active in that role, probably in 70 years now. the president protem really is the leader. the democrats had the majority, so the protem was a democrat. the election of democrats and a republican, they alternated days as to who was conducted the business of the senate i thought if the lieutenant governor was going to be invol

mcclellan, the union joe johnston. i mean if the war had been up to johnston and mcclellan, they would still be retreating from each other today until they sort of bumped into each other from behind somewhere near taiwan. in the end, they are completely human. neither grant nor lee ever could or would, that the other was his preeminent adversary. thank you all for listening. [ applause ] >> we got time for a couple of questions and we'll break for lunch if you want to take a microphone, your name and your question. >> yeah i have a brief question. >> i have a long answer. >> you have a long answer. my name is david kinsle, i teach up in prince william county. grant always gets that -- that slur against him that he's a butcher. even though if you looked at robert e. lee overall in casualties. he sustained more casualties from the beginning of the war to the end of the war. and he couldn't afford to sustain those casualties. and they were both aggressive in their own way. but i mean, i wonder if, i don't want to say that

johnston is wounded at the battle of seven pines or fair oaks and of course robert e. lee is the one who is sprung to take into command of the army of virginia. and look what he does just three weeks after he takes command. of course, as you all know, lee strikes and lee attacks. but look at where lee does that. lee knows that his army, for the most part, throughout the war the confederacy is going to be out numbered. lee knows one main thing. he's got to keep the initiative. but also in order to win decisive battles, he has to use a tactic used by napoleon. mass your troops in one point. put more of your troops at the point of the spear than what the enemy can put. so where does lee choose to attack in the battle of seven days? george mcclellan and the union army are divided, split by the river. lee masses his troops north of the river where mcclellan has less men and that is where lee strikes. again, amassing his troops, putting more troops at the tip of the spear than what the union army can do. lee will constantly look to get around the enemy's right flank, turn it

mcclellan has put them in a no-win situation as johnston says. robert e. lee's reaction to this letter is written the next day. theays "the feasibility of proposition has been the subject of consideration with the president for some time. so far as advancing a column to the potomac with all the troops that can be made available. " he concurs of the benefits and is very desirous of being able to carry it into effect. one month later joseph johnston is wounded at the battle of seven pines at fair oaks in 1862 and robert e. lee is the one who takes command of the army of northern virginia. look what he does three weeks after he takes command. crenshaw, know, doug who is somewhere in the crowd, has just written a book. he strikes. he attacks. look at where he does it. army for the most part, throughout the war the confederacy will be outnumbered. he knows one thing. he has to keep the initiative but also in order for him to win decisive battles he has to take his cues from napoleon. napoleon was often outnumbered as well. at thee of your troops point of the sp

this is the big one, st johnstone. 10096 the premier league.10096 record for them, and hibernian as well, excellent win against rangers. if you take a look at the season. but only two game gone. interesting to have a team of loan celtic and rangers at the top of the scottish premier league. so an exciting day of football, but this evening, all eyes will be on the london stadium, where two legends of the sport are bowing out — over to olly foster at the world athletics championships. good evening. and what an evening gets going to be on the ninth day of these world athletics championships, on the penultimate evening. two figureheads of atheltics will be leaving the sport tonight. 29 world championship and olympic golds between them. 19305 1930s aimed by, 12. mo farah. a countdown clock flashes up on the screen. about 30 minutes to go before the men‘s 5000 metre final. sirmo farah has before the men‘s 5000 metre final. sir mo farah has won another 10,000 metres battle here. the only medal in the locker for great britain, going for another double.

johnston says to lee we are engaged in a species of warfare at which we can never win. it is plain that general mclelen will adhere to the system adopted by him last summer and to pend for success upon artillary and engineering. we can compete with him in neither. we must therefore change our course, take the offensive, collect all the troops we have in the east and cross the potomac with them. our troops have always wished for the offensive and so does the country. please submit this suggestion to the president. we can have no success while mcclellan is allowed as he is by our defensive to choose his mode of warfare. what mcclellan is doing is putting the confederate army in a no-win situation. mcclellan is using it at york town to fix the confederate army of northern virginia in one spot and pummel it. the confederate army can neither attack mcclellan's works. they cannot stay there much longer because they will be pummelled. mcclellan has put them in a no-win situation. and this letter is written the next day. he says the feasibility of the proposition has been the s

johnston, it's great to have you back. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> you saw my opening remarks there about the window that we have had in the past into the president's finances. special counsel robert mueller is reportedly looking into the president's business transactions, his financial transactions. you know -- you know more about donald trump's financial past than almost anybody else on earth who is not named trump. given what you know and gin what we now understand about the mueller investigation, it doesn't strike you as strange that the president doesn't appear to be like red teaming his finances vrks a legal team and forensic accountants go through husbais stuff to build records over whatever mueller might find. >> well, any normal person, you would expect -- let me begin by making a very important point. most people who are in business are fundamentally honest. they may do some things here and there and cut edges, but overall they conduct themselves with honor. donald trump has no h

johnston. something useful, though he had limited confidence in the man's command ability. he put up with, as everyone did, the imperious behavior of pt beauregard in 1864 when grant would have had both of those men relieved of their commands, if not shot. there are some failures of personal management. personnel management. grant failed with thomas. lee failed with longstreet. both subordinates were slow, plodding, resistant and guardedly insubordinate. but their positive attributes and their wide popularity made them worth the frustration that came with them. neither grant nor lee operates in a political vacuum, especially lee, who is often criticized for being virginia centric in his thinking. he is certainly to appoint, but lee is always aware with happening elsewhere in the confederacy. he may not seek to influence it, but he's interested in how it might influence what is happening in virginia. they both understood the value of popular morale, of civilian will and keeping the people behind the army. grant had cold harbor. lee had july 3rd at gettysburg. they both had m

johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you. david johnston, thank you for helping us get through this hour. stay with us live because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues into "the 11th hour with brian williams." >>> the breaking news we're covering tonight. donald trump lets it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to cartsville, he launches a huge new attack on media, some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people in our country. he also said there weren't as.protesters outside as promised. when he heads back to washington, there's a problem. "the new york times" reporting the president and his majority leader aren't talking and for now there's no trump legislation moving. il

he felt colonel albert sidney johnston was the best. if you look down that officer a pretty good officer list. the captains and the commander some of the best guys you will see during the war. you have a kernel and lieutenant colonel, there are different perspectives on this, and jefferson davis set that unit up. opinion. differing that does not answer the question, but i hope it gives you my thoughts on it. on lee'su comment relation with some of his subordinates after the war? mr. meyers: it is not uniform. you see the bitterness of a guy like pickett after the war, his conversations with people. i read john singleton mosby's correspondence and interaction with pickett, those kinds of comments. but very quickly after lee's death in 1870, you see less and lessopportunity, less and moments for criticism, and more and more perspective on lee's value and eventually you see the creation of the infallible lee, the image of lee, the man and the myth begin to separate and it becomes difficult to people after that point. you see people coming

johnston, it's great to have you back. you very much for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> so you saw my opening remarks there about the window that we have had in the past into the president's finances. the special counsel robert mueller is reportedly looking into the president's business transactions, his financial transactions. you know -- you know more about donald trump's financial past than almost anybody else on earth who is not named trump. given what you know and given what we now understand about the mueller investigation, does it strike you as strange that the president doesn't appear to be like red-teaming his finances, having a legal team and forensic accountants go through his stuff to try to build up a defense for those records against whatever mueller might find? >> well, any normal person, you would expect that of them. and let me begin by making a very important point. most people who are in business are fundamentally honest. they may do some things here and there and cut edges, but overall

. >> consumer after consumer told me the owner, carly johnston took thousands but never finished the basements. >> are you telling me you will finish them now? >> if they ask me i will. >> the update the state of new jersey won a default judgment against johnston and his businesses he must now pay back half a million in restitution to customers and pay a $11 million fine and neither johnston more his businesses may operate in the garden state again. see how the troubleshooters respond and get results in a prime time special here on 6 abc. >>> looking forward to that. meanwhile, it was a high flying feet of spectacle above the shore line in atlantic city today. the 15 and annual air show has captivated people on the sand and surf and there is a good reason they call it thunder over the boardwalk. they came for the thunder. >> the power of the military. the awesomeness of the jets and the sound of the jets. and the maneuvers. >> the reeds are here from boston celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and say you can't beat the free price tag and patriotism on display. >> it shows the

many johnston, it's great to have you back. very much fund-raiser being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> so you saw my opening remarks there about the window that we've had in the past into the president's finances, the special counsel robert mueller is reportedly looking into the president's business transactions, his financial transactions. you know more about donald trump's financial past than anybody else on earth who's not named trump. given what you know and given what we now understand about the mueller investigation, does it strike you as strange that the president doesn't appear to be red teaming his financing, having a legal team and forensic accounts go through his stuff to build up a defense for those records against whatever mueller might find? >> well, any normal person you would expect that of him. let me begin by making a very important point. most people who are in business are fundamentally honest. they may do things here and there and cut edges, but overall they conduct themselves with honor. donald

i unite with joe johnston's force in north carolina. the mast doesn't work.nited with the army of northern virginia, the most they could have done was hold sherman at bay until grant got there. lee is a really smart guy. he's an engineer. he knows the math, and he knows it's lost. now, again, we can differ -- and again, i admire robert e. lee up until that point. so i'm not trying to trash eye southern icon. the north had far graver failures than the south did as far as generals go. my only point is that human beings are inherently flawed. only dpod is perfect. and so you can admire robert e. lee up until the end. i think he made a mistake, but i think he was a prisoner of a psychological need. having grown up as a poor relation, the young officer whose fiancee's father did not want him to marry that degenerate spawn of the lee family. i think he was imprisoned by that need to fight to the bitter end. and god knows, god knows we are all incredibly flawed, complex human beings. i think on the whole obviously robert e. lee is incredibly admirable. one more ques

johnston, this report says that the president was yelling, swearing at the senate majority leader, for not controlling the senate investigations of donald trump's campaign and his involvement with russia. >> well, that may, as was pointed out, may well be a criminal offense because it may have been, depending on the exact words, an effort to interfere with an investigation by congress. but i think that event and what we just saw are all connected. trump knows he is in deep trouble. he knows he is highly highly vulnerable in the investigation of russia. and he signalled that to us without a question bp so holding a campaign rally for 2020 is part of an effort to make sure if things go badly for him, he will have people out there in the streets who will be acting on his behalf and who will be disrupting our democracy. central thing about donald trump is donald is about donald. he is about himself and nothing else. >> there is a politics story at the heart of this new york times story. that is donald trump attacking incumbent republican senators like jeff flake trying to knock them off in

was attempting to get to the railroad depots further west and go south and join up with joseph johnston'srmy in north carolina. do you really think that that was a pipe dream, it was impossible? or if that lower wooden bridge had been destroyed properly, could he have done it? >> he still couldn't have -- if you look at where southern most union corps were, he couldn't have made it to joe johnston, i don't think. my problem is the soldiers in the army of northern virginia on that retreat they were no longer fighting for the confederacy. they hadn't fought for jeff davis in a long time. they were fighting for robert e. lee. they loved him. they loved him. and lee knew by the time, you know, same thing as high bridge, he has subordinate officers generally coming to him saying, sir, it's not fair, we've lost. you got to surrender. he threatened some with court-martials right here in farmville. and i'm sorry i'm blanking out on the name of the brigade commander who goes to lee and while lee is washing up in the morning, he reads lee the riot act. and lee's response is, gently, he says, you kn

johnston was grievously injured in the shoulder and chest at seven pines may 31, 1862. earlier that april 1862, the confederacy's highest ranking commander in the western theater and lee's own former commanding officer fell medicortly wounded shiloh. on the evening of may 2, 1863, the difficult terrain of the wilderness of spotsylvania county, virginia, the commander of the second corps, stonewall jackson fell mortally wounded when he was accidentally opened fire on him and his staff while he was engaging in a dangerous nighttime reconnaissance at the battle of chancellorsville. and on may 6, 1864, after initiating a successful flank attack at the battle of wi wilderns, james longstreet would be wounded in a confusing incident nearly choking to death on his own blood. not dissimilar from the same friendly fire incident that mortally wounded stonewall jackson in those same wounds that same wilderness nearly a year before. the army's of the confederacy has sustained grievous losses due to the personal leadership of their commanders on the battlefield. and lee's own moment

johnston who voud to be indid he funfatigued. after the civil war one of the more interesting stories that took place here deals with john roy lynch. he was a former slave who earned his freedom during the civil war and rose dramatically throughout the ranks, becoming a member of the mississippi house of represent he was and eventually becoming the first black speaker of the house of representatives. one of the biggest ration to riches story is john roy lynch who we like to talk about. this room has seen a dramatic change in looks throughout the years. from the beginnings in 1839 through the end of the civil war in room would have been dominated by white men serving as representatives for mississippi. after the civil war and during reconstruction african-americans had the opportunity to take part in the political process and did that for the next 10, 15 years. unfortunately mississippi went through the redemption process where the white democratic party regained control through violence and economic intimidation. to the next 100

nicholas johnston joins us with a major warning for wall street. you think it's likely? view the possibility of a debt limit showdown like this the same as i do as being hit by a steroi an asteroid. usually currency markets would ignore those kind of thing eisen a small headline out of a meeting that republicans were having, a back bencher comes out and tells us what's happening with the negotiations and the dollar moved that put the fear of god into me this could be a nuclear event. >> treasuries are barely moving on this. in fact when debt got downgraded by s&p back in 2011, treasuries rallied. people bought more of it because it was in the middle of the european debt crisis they saw the u.s. government bonds as safety. >> that's what they always are it's the largest liquid safest market u.s. government debt. that chart about t bills perfect chart. those are the warning signs people are looking at this date in october when this might go wrong and starting to price in that fear. when we did this last time in 2013, it was that 30 year money that we were watching and that

joining me from dallas, jeremiah johnston who barely made it out of houston, with five kids, and that includes triplets. sir, first and foremost, god bless you and thank you for joining us at this time of stress on your family. you're in a hotel now, i was reading your story earlier in my office, it is just stunning, you were told to stay put, then you were told to get out fast, look at that beautiful family there, you're told to get out fast, and we can show, we had some security footage of your wife and your kids. just tell me when you realized you were not safe in your home and you had to go. >> things escalated sunday night so quickly after being told to shelter in place, our family, like so many others, we live in pecan grove, and just to put it in context for the audience, that's in ft. bend county in the houston area, we live in the pecan grove levy, two miles from the brazos river. just when we thought things were going to be okay, they said they were predicting an 800-year high, and this is a mandatory evacuation. we had our pajamas on, and i had stayed up in the 5:00 in the

there was fort holmes, fort johnston. you had ft. anderson, three miles up river. numerous batteries all over the area. that was meant to keep the union fleet. they literally ran into the mouth of everything and sailed right past the defensive positions. >> when ft. fisher was first constructed or started, it was april 1861, there was not a lot of organizational capacity to this nobody thought about what was supposed to be the basis. five different gun in placements. they were not interconnected, they were not interlocking. they were just sort of poundses of dirt with artillery pieces on them. in july 4th, 1862, a new commander came to the fort. what he decided to do was to take these series of batteries and connect them through. he took what was already existing here, make sure he had enough soldiers to literally start their job if they weren't working the guns or learning how to be a soldier, their job was to shovel and move sand to build the fort that's behind me. that for ttification -- literal this was supposed to be very impr impregnable. you would normally t

johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you. david johnston, thank you for helping us get through this hour. stay with us live because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues into "the 11th hour with brian williams." >>> the breaking news we're covering tonight. donald trump lets it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to cartsville, he launches a huge new attack on media, some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people in our country. he also said there weren't as.protesters outside as promised. when he heads back to washington, there's a problem. "the new york times" reporting the president and his majority leader aren't talking and for now there's no trump legislation moving. we will cover it all as "the 11th hour" gets under way. busy night here good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 215 of the trump administration. and it wraps up with a campaign rally in phoenix, arizona. for those of you joining us live, 11:00 p.m. eastern time, it is still going o

the saint johnstone boss has players, both out of players.ked wonders at the perth club and is highly thought of. that is peter houston who was assistant manager to create levine here and both at dundee united. he is the boss at falkirk. will it be another left field appointment made by the board? it may be the director of football who has the main one former player says his position should now come under scrutiny? i do not think him being there is positive in trying to attract somebody of a high calibre. i think he is detrimental, we still do not know what it is that he does. the club will announce on wednesday who will take charge of the team for the first league match this saturday. or a more experienced manager, a more realistic prospect for the long—term. he's been described as the finest racing driver of his generation. the polish driver robert kubica was amongst the fastest in formula one until one horrific accident in 2011 looked certain to end his career. his arm was severely injured but he's fought back and tomorrow takes part in wh

having secured the surrender of johnston, the union proclaimed the march a success. the campaign had fulfilled its too public and interrelated goals. to break the will of confederates and to destroy the material and human resources supporting the rebel military. today's talk is designed in part to get us to rethink the connection between these two goals. between the breaking of the will of confederates and the destruction of resources. rather than focus on the material world, my examination focuses on the personal reactions of southern women to the invasion. throughout the campaign, sherman's troops marched through the heart of the lower south, purposefully cutting through the farms and plantations of the confederate home front. this chosen path of destruction which commanders designed to target the families and households of the lower south's wealthiest slave holders and political leaders led to a myriad of interactions between northern soldiers and elite southern women. throughout the campaign, the actions of union men generally conformed to a mode of worker specif

joining me is nicholas johnston, an editor at axios who got the scoop about bannon's return.ee you. how do you play this? i mean, bannon leaves the white house. breitbart tweets out #war. and bannon gives an interview in which he says the trump presidency is effectively over and now you have those praising the move, wow, he'll shore us up on the outside. >> and my good friend scooped that steve bannon was going to leave the white house, i asked him where was he going? he was back at breitbart and what does he mean about going to war? there was a great line about what swan is going to be doing when he's out of the white house. bannon the barbarian. when he talks about the presidency being over it was the part focused z on the issues that bannon was most interested in. a member of the nationalist -- the tension we have been talking about and now he gets to hammer away at breitbart. >> but donald trump, regardless of who you most influenced him on whether or not donald trump is his own guy or he's playing from steve bannon's song book, he used the language of the nationalists un

johnston, pulitzer prize winning journalist, and back with us, mieke eoyang. david, the "national enquirer" obviously for years now has been very, very friendly to donald trump. i've already said in the show that this article today strikes me as the equivalent of a trump tweet. what do you make of it? >> well, there's two aspects to this relationship. this case is dirtying up paul manafort. trump knows about this raid, and he is now taking steps to solidify with his base. he can't believe anything about paul manafort. he's a terrible person. he's having an affair with a woman younger than his daughter. the other side of this is the "national enquirer" has hushed up stories for trump, including making a settlement with a former playmate of the year to make sure she said nothing about her alleged affair with donald trump a year after his marriage to now first lady melania. and she agreed not to write columns for them, which we never saw, and she also agrees forever to never speak of any relationship she had with any married men. "the wall street journal" dug thi

she's an associate professor of political science , rashad robins robinson, and david cay johnston. david has been covering donald trump for decades now. christina, this is now what some people are calling the turning point, the new moment. this is, i don't know, turning point number 35 in the last year and a half. but is there a different feel this time for you about where we are? >> it does feel different. it feels a little november 9th to me honestly. but unfortunately we keep saying that this is the nadir, right? he has been so disappointing, and he's been so selfish because he's not a public servant, right? but there is no bottom to this president, and that's the scariest piece. so, yes, it does feel a little different because we've never had a modern-day president really support white supremacists and nazis in front of a jewish-american and asian-american and just have a press conference like that. now we see why he hasn't had press conferences. it feels different, but unfortunately i think that there's more of the abyss with this individual. >> rashad and christina, i want to