julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on isil and ask, if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's though containing them. is the goal to annihilate them? and also, you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think since air strikes are not going to do it, if action is needed in syria, can you expect the free syrian army po do what is needed on the ground to destroy isil, not just push them back? >> you can't contain an organization that is running rough shod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people. killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. and, you know -- if you look at what happened with al qaeda in the fattah, where their primary base was, you initially pushed them back. you systematically degrade their capabilities. you narr

julie davis. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil, and ask if -- if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to -- to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there is no containing them. so is the goal to ultimately annihilate them, and you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think -- since air strikes are not going to do it here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syria army to do what is needed on the ground to really destroy and not just push back isil? >> uh-huh. you can't contain an organization that is running rough shot through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocence, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them, and, you know, if you look at what happened with al-qaeda in the fattah where their primary base was, y

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president.i want to follow up on what you were saying about i.s.i.l. and ask if you think the objective is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing them, so is the goal to ultimately annihilate then? and also you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think air strikes are not going to do it here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syrian army to do what's needed on the ground and to destroy and not just push back i.s.i.l.? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them, and if you look at what happened with al quaida, in the fatah where their primary base was, you initially push them back, you systematic

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about i.s.i.l. and ask if you think the objective is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing them, so is the goal to ultimately annihilate then? and also you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think air strikes are not going to do it here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syrian army to do what's needed on the ground and to destroy and not just push back i.s.i.l.? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them, and if you look at what happened with al quaida, in the fatah where their primary base was, you initially push them back, you systemati

. >> julie davis. >> is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing that. >> one last question. colleen nelson of the wall street journal. >> how do the

july 12, davis asks lee his opinion. whold we fire johnston, and would you name? you know, general lee, who was lee's most trusted adviser, did not serve the president as well as davis had hoped. he, first of all, advised against firing johnston. and he had very tepid comments hood.general battlefield,n the careless off, if you remember that. then davis called his cabinet together. the meeting goes undated in the records. but by post-war letters and kind the whole sequence together, ladies and gentlemen, i think the cabinet meeting occurred on july 14. umd in the postbell were especially vehement in remembering that they argued that johnston had to go. johnston gave -- was given one last chance to save his job. on july 16 sent him a wire, i wish to hear from you as to your plan of operations so i can anticipate events. well, what did johnston wire back? call it the death wish reply. you wanna get fired? you don't tell the boss what he wants to hear. catch this. plan of operations must therefore depend upon that of enemy. militiagoing to let the hold the city that

july 8, 9. and johnston had to retreat across the river on the night of the 9th, 10th. after that, president davis spent a full week agonizing over whether to fire joe johnston, who had given up, as i say, 80 to 90 miles of georgia terrain. july 10, senator ben hill, confederate senator from georgia, arrives in richmond and gives president davis and the secretary a first-person account of his interview, which had been held ten days before. and ben hill told the president and secretary three times, i asked johnston, can you hold sherman north of the river? no, i cannot. you've got to send cavalry. and by that time, when hill is before the administration, july 10, davis holds up a telegram, look, your man has already crossed the chattahoochee. on the 11th, catch this. in terms of building confidence with your boss, you send a telegram asking, hey, maybe we ought to remove the federal prisoners from andersonville. on july 12, davis asks lee his opinion. should we fire johnston, and who would you name? you know, general lee, who was lee's most trusted adviser, did not serve the president as well as da

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. want to follow-up on what what you are saying and ask if you think the objective here is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately secretary kerry says there is no containing them, so is the goal to an aisle he at annihilate th? and do you thing since airstrikes are not going to do it here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, realistically expect the free syrian army to do what is needed on the ground to destroy, not just push back isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running through that much territory causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents and enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them, and if you look at what happened with al qaeda where the primary base was, you initially push them back, he systematically degrade their capabilities, you narrow their scope of action, you slowly shrink the space, the territory they may control. you take out their lea

julie davis? >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them. are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there was no containing them. so is it to anilate them? and you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think since airstrikes are not going to do it here, ultimately if action is needed in syria, can you expect the free syrian army to destroy, not just push back isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory causing that much havoc, displacing that many people. killing that many notices, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. if you look at what happened with al-qaeda in nafata where their primary base was, you initially push them back. you systematically degrade their capabilities. you narrow their scope of action. you slowly shri

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that the objective is to destroy and degrade them. are those the same things in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there is no containing them. is the goal ultimately to annihilate them? you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up the capacity on the ground. dear think, since airstrikes will not do it here, if action is needed in syria, can you expect a free syrian army to do what is needed on the ground to destroy, not just push back, isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. and if you look at what happened with al qaeda, where the primary base was, you initially pushed them back, you systematically degrade their capabilities, you narrow their scope of

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow-up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same things in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing them. is the goal annihilate them and you talk and the importance of expertise on the ground and building up the capacity on the ground. do you think since air strikes are not going to do here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syrian army to do what's needed on the ground to really destroy not just push back isil? >> uh-huh. you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many incidents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them, and if you look at what happened with al qaeda, in the fat fatah where their primary base was, you initially push them back. you systematically d

. >> julie davis. >> is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing that. >> one last question. colleen nelson of the wall street journal. >> how do the concerns of other democrats influence your thinking. >> notice anything? those were the four questions to the president at his formal press conference today in the uk, all four of them from women journalists. i don't actually think it was on purpose. i think it just sort of worked out that way. that's cool. and while we're on the subject, quiz time. all right. who was the first moderator of "meet the press"? "meet the press," the longest running broadcast series in the history of television. debuted in 1947 on nbc. before that it had been a radio show for a couple years. that's basically your hint to this quiz. the person who hosted "meet the press" as a radio show before it was ever on tv also was the first moderator of "meet the press" when it became a tv show. they brought that person over from radio to tv. who was the first moderator? the first moderator of "meet the press" was martha rountree. it was a wo

. >> julie davis. >> is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing that. >>estion. colleen. colleen nelson of "wall street

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them. are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing them. is the goal to ultimately annihilate them, and also, you talked about the importance of expertise an the grond and building up capacity on the ground. do you think since air strikes are not going to do it here if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syrian army to do what is needed on the ground to really destroy, not just push back isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. and if you look at what happened with al qaeda in the fatah, where their primary base was, you initially push them back. you system

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that the objective here is to destroy and degrade them, are those the same thing in your mind? is the goal to ultimately -- secretary kerry said there's no containing them. so is the goal to ultimately annihilate them and also you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think that since air strikes are not going to do it here, if ultimately action is needed in syria, can you realistically expect the free syrian army to do what's needed on the ground to really destroy, not just push back, isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory. causing that much havoc. displacing that many people. killing that many innocents. enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. and, you know, if you look at what happened with al qaeda, in the fatah, where their primary base was, you initially push

julie davis. >> thank you. i want to follow up on what you were saying about isil and ask if you think that they -- the objective is to destroying and degrading them. are those the same things in your mind? secretary kerry there is no containing them. is the goal ultimately to annihilate them? you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up the capacity on the ground. since airstrikes will not do it here, if action is needed in syria, can you expect a free syrian army to do what is needed on the ground to destroy, not just push back, isil? >> you can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. and if you look at what happened with al qaeda, you initially pushed them back, you systematically degrade their capabilities, you narrow their scope of action, you slowly shrink the territory that they may contro

julie davis. >> thank you, mr. president.hem. is the goal to annihilate them? also, you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground. do you think airstrikes are not going to do it here? if action is needed in syria can you expect the free syrian army to do what's needed on the ground to destroy and not just push back isil? >> you can't contain an organization running rough shod through that much territory, displacing that many people, causing that much havoc, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. if you look at what happened with al qaeda in the fattah where their primary base was, you initially push them back you systematically degrade their capabilities, narrow their scope of action. you slowly shrink the space, the territory that they may control. you take out their leadership. and over time, they are not able to conduct the same kinds of terrorist attacks as they once could. as i said, i think in my last press confere

on july 17, 1860 four, jefferson davis makes the extremely controversial decision -- it was controversial in the summer of 1864, it's still controversial today, of relieving joe johnson of command. and replacing him with one of his corps commanders, john bell hood, an officer probably all of you know had gained a reputation in 1862 in 1863 as one of lee's s for data and division commanders. he had a -- best brigade and division commanders. he had a reputation of being a very bold commander. in a message that relieved joe johnson, the secretary of war set as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of atlanta far in the interior of georgia and expressed no confidence that you can defeat or repel him you are hereby relieved. so, he is relieved of minute dash of command and he has a very clear mandate that he has to fight -- so, he is relieved of command and he has a very clear mandate that he has to fight for the city of atlanta. he doesn't have a lot of room to maneuver. and there is evidence that hood had been angling for this command for some time before getting

but this past july, those republicans retaliated against brownback by joining 100 fellow republicans in endorsing the democratic opponent, state legislator paul davis. davis has seized on brownback's experiment label. is this a state that isn't particularly fond of experiments in politics? >> well, i would say yes. it is definitely a state that is not particularly fond of experiments. they don't want a governor who's going to turn their state into a science laboratory. >> people, i don't think they don't like change. i don't think they trust change. so i came out here and said, "look we haven't been growing. we've got to get our tax rates down so we can grow." >> reporter: and about that experiment word? >> yeah, i shouldn't have used that word. but the good news is it's working well. we're growing. we've got record employment in kansas. >> reporter: then, after a brief discussion with an aide... >> reporter: the things we're doing are not anything new. going to... getting your incomes taxes down, we got nine states without an income tax. that's not new. so nothing we're doing is new. now it's new that we're doing it but nothing that we're doing is

davis did speak to the media about having attended that party. you will hear from him during the rest of sports with some giant highlights too. that's the sporting life for right now. julie, ken. >> mark, thank you. >>> and ktvu viewers have been discussing the 49ers latest legal problems on our facebook page. log on and join the conversation on our ktvu facebook page. >>> rescuers are hoping to find a missing swimmer before dark today. at the point rays national seashore. the man disappeared during a holiday outing yesterday. after a group of four people went for a hike along the water. they walked from drake's bay beach 6 miles to lementour beach. when they returned they had to swim across drake's because the tide had come in. >> down to a channel that's maybe only .8 of a mile wide. so it actually picks up speed and it's very difficult because they had to swim across it at that point in time. it's very difficult to fight that and very exhausting. >> reporter: one person made it to shore alone. a surfer rescues the other two. rescue teams say if they don't find that fourth person tonight. the search effort may turn into a recovery operation. >>> governor brown asked pr

july. a microsoft spokesperson says that the trip was planned before the investigation began. they are committed to comply with laws and addressing the questions and concerns. i started by asking daviserious this is for microsoft. >> for microsoft it is pretty serious when you have one of the chinese anti-monopoly agencies launching a significant investigation like this. certainly it is something that if i were running microsoft i would take very seriously indeed. >> what, exactly, is the chinese government so upset about? >> it is not clear. one of the difficulties with the investigations taking place in china is that it is not clear, at least, in the early stages of the investigation what, exactly, the allegations are. in the case of microsoft, there are various claims flying around concerning windows and internet explorer, which is a very old claim, about microsoft being very aggressive in terms of how it deals with anti-piracy issues in china. but the full array of claims, i don't think we entirely know at this point in time. >> how much good can a visit from satya nadella do? we know that ceos like tim cook go to china every year. >> tim cook, as chief executive, has been makin

july, he hands in his resignati resignation. lincoln is going to take great courage because he has a revolt in a radical wing of the republican party, which is passed the wade davisral lee has detached too early with the second corps, and they have dealt with general hunter and lynchburg. early in his 15 to 16,000 men are now sweeping down the shenandoah valley. they well remember the valley of humiliation, the shenen do away valley from what happened there in 1862 and it had been the route that the confederate hs followed to their defeat in gettysburg in '63. it looks like a repeat as his men march through lexington on the 26th day of june. on the 1st day of july they march through winchester, virginia, and on the 5th day of july they will cross the potomac river. is it going to be another repetition of what had happened in '62 and '63? general grant seemed to not be overly concerned about the threat to washington by the general's men. the president of the railroad is telling him it's a real threat and grant is going to move rather slowly. as the confederates will now move toward isolating the union troops, which evacuated harpers ferry on maryland heights and c

july 2016. there'll be a $238 million shortfall. how do you address that if you cut -- if not will you raise taxes? >> when i came into office the prior administration that paul davishad voted for and helped $876 and as of one pointicit $5 billion over the next 16 to 18 months. year withhis fiscal $444 million cash on hand. we are growing and hitting our budget numbers. we are going to put those budgets together and be in great shape. my opponent has said the sky is falling. our budget is in a catastrophe. we are going to continue to perform and perform well in having a good solid budget and investing in k-12 education record amounts of money likely have to and. >> governor brownback is sticking his head in the sand on this issue. 870 six dollar number has been disproved over and over again. you need to stop saying that. there were over $230 million in the bank when you took office. we are in a situation of debt. 1.3 billion dollars over the next five years. is jeopardizing the quality of education for an entire generation of kansas kids. going to stand for it. we have to do something about it. >> paul davis has proposed to do something about it. taxes.o raise inco

july. >>> 8:15. there is a new study on autism that indicates symptoms may be able to be eliminated in some cases if therapy starts very early. u.s. davisearchers provided directive therapies to babies between the ages of 6 and 9 months old. the babies are identified as having early signs of autism including not being able to make eye contact. by the time the children turned 3 years old, five of them showed no signs of autism. other researchers say this is not a cure but it does merit more study with larger groups of babies. >>> the list of the top universities in the u.s. just came out. two bay area schools are among the top 20. princeton claimed the top spot on the u.s. news and world report list. harvard was sakd followed by -- second followed by yale. sanford tied with klum bia and the university of -- columbia and the university of chicago and uc berkeley came in 20th. the list is based on graduation rates and test scores. campus crimes and loan defaums were also taken into consideration. another new study says people are saving more money for college than ever. but it's still barely enough to cover even one year at a public univer