lee. so joe hooker will command seven infantry corps and one cavalry corps. a corps is simply a little army. you will have infantry with artillery as well as sometimes cavalry with it. but what's booker is going to do is take all of that cavalry and put it into one wing of about 12,000 men strong under brigadier general george stoneman. then he will have his seventh infantry corps. first court is under john reynolds, the overrated john reynolds who seems to fall asleep at key moments. you will have couch who will be the second command of the army of the potomac at chancellorsville. at the height of the crisis he turns fairly callow. sickles, i think dances is a very interesting character. i describe him to most people on tories as if ted kennedy and bill clinton had a child, it would be him. then we have george mead, who's the finest combat officer in the army of the potomac at this point. he is one of the junior most leading core commanders. john sedgewick, who is a carry over of the mccl

at sydney lee's alma mater washington and lee university. this is a book that only a true southern and a true historian could have written and with that. let's get started ty again. congratulations on a great book. you're a historian, but you chose to write a book that is much memoir as it is history. soldiers usually right memoirs historians write history you wrote both. a memoir that describes the long-term effects of the civil war but also history of american racism what led you to use your own story as the vehicle for describing describing these effects and history. sir, thank you so much for for leading this discussion and thank dana for for participating in the grant monument association. it's my honor to be here on the 199th birthday of grants amazing. so i wrote this book because i was chair of the memorialization committee at west point and we wanted to honor the hundred plus graduates who've been killed in the wars and iraq and afghanistan. we had no one single place to do this. so we came up with an idea to create a new memorial r

lee and jeb st. three of the most audacious officers to fight in the american civil war he is not exactly bringing what i would call an a team to to bat. he does have men who are experienced in their respective roles. some aren't inexperienced in their respective roles like oliver, otis howard and dan sickles george meade. he has a little bit of experience from antietam john sedgwick. this is his first time commanding a core and then he's going to be given a wing of the army about 60,000 men. so we have a lot of new guys coming in to take on a veteran army that is commanded by robert e lee. lee at this time is 55 years old. he's a west point graduate of the class of 1829. he came in second in that class only behind a guy named charles mason who serves in the army for one year and leaves so there's some more you're useless trivia for you who was better than lee at west point a guy named charles, mason from new york robert lee though is going to be a solid army officer for the next 34 odd years. of his

so lee comes over. and all day long lee center reinforcements and by the night he has 20,000 veterans of the army of northern virginia there. he decides he has to take this fort back. if you think about it a minute, it's obvious. why. if the yankees keep a fortification there they have a strong position for which the threat enrichment. lee will have to leave significant reinforcements on that side of the river eventually you'll leave the whole first core over there. this weakens him and petersburg and gets rid of any opportunity for launching significant offensive threat. he has to take this back. so it comes above the plan for the next day. he has troops at fort johnson. he's going to send two brigades down towards the fort. he also has troops under robert hooke. a whole division to the west if you'll remember i told you the west there was a hill there. and there is and they're down in a valley and they can't even be seen they're completely safe. now in the meantime the yankees have fortified fort harr

opal lee. yes, ms. opal lee was there and all of those democrats who supported this but so was john cornyn of texas and maybe that will help. but you know, there is at least one republican state legislature candidate in virginia who is already proclaimed that this weekend he will hold a juneteenth community shooting day. a gun rally, a community shooting for juneteenth. the good folks at fox news prepared last night for the signing of this new law commemorating the end of slavery by running an interview by one of the prime time hosts all about how black people just have lower iqs than white people, and that explains why black people do get paid less for their work, and why they should get paid less because of the biological inferiority of the black race. that aws wasn't 1939 at that -- that wasn't 1939 at that mob attack on east annie street in ft. worth. that interview on the fox news streaming channel conducted by one of the prime time hosts, that was last night. we have a new national holiday commemo

lee: thank you very much. now, administrator power, if you could summarize your oral statement in less than five minutes. i want to make sure we have enough time to get to our questions. your full statement will, of course, be included in the record. i will be calling on members based on seniority of the members that were present when the hearing was called to order, alternating between the majority and minority members. i will then recognize any remaining numbers in order of their appearance at this committee meeting this morning. each member is asked to keep their questions to within five minutes per round. administer your power, please proceed, and thank you again for being here. ms. power: thank you. let me start by expressing deep gratitude for the continued bipartisan support for the work we do at usaid. this support for development and mentoring assistance has saved and improved millions of lives, and it is correctly important for advancing u.s. interests around the world. you have long recognized that

you know, congresswoman barbara lee said it best earlier. we're not afraid to do the right thing anymore. when this became apparent this is part of our history and frankly embarrassing it was time to move forward and provide some consideration for people we had driven out of our community for a long time. they are not the only group driven out. african americans weren't welcomed here in its history. so this was the right thing to do. last year's black lives matter movement, the result of the death of george floyd, frankly unleashed a lot of us to stand up and do the right thing and stop worrying about other people's discomfort with race, class, identity, and whatever else. >> congresswoman lee, a lot of people who feel left out with all of this that's happening, i specifically talk about white americans who are not racist but they feel like they don't have a voice anymore. i suppose it is easy to say the tables have turned. what is your response to maybe even your constituents? this is for the congresswoman. >> well, white americans have a v

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jackson lee. you know, i rushed to the floor to be a part of absolutely indicating my support for this important legislation. the juneteenth national independence day. i'm so pleased that we take this step today to honor the day and the month that the information of the signing of the emancipation proclamation reached enslaved people in texas. it took more than two years before the news reached them. juneteenth is a state holiday in the state of texas. it was authored by my friend, al edwards, who is since deceased. i wish he was alive today to witness this debate that is taking place on the floor of the congress of the united states. that will lead to the passage of the legislation that will make juneteenth a national holiday. i was a little bit concerned when i heard some of the members be opposed to the way that the bill is titled. they didn't like the word independence that's in there because these are patriots. and they want to protect independence day and not have it mistaken in any way. but

thank you to our wonderful colleague, congresswoman lee jackson, for -- jackson lee, for this amazing, >> i kwleeled two minutes to my friend from kentucky, mr. massie. >> the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i fully support creating a day to celebrate the abolition of slavery, a dark portion of our nation's history. however, naming this day as national independence day will create confusion and force americans to pick one of those days as their independence day based on their racial identity. why can't we name it emancipation day and come together to celebrate, all co-lorks all ethnicity,, and then come together on independence day which celebrates the creation of our country, throwing off an oppressive government, come together as black and white and all races and celebrate that day too. why ask americans to pick one of the two independence days to celebrate? i think it's wrong to do that. i think this day is misnamed. i do support creating a holiday and recognizing that wonderful day, that wonderful time when we got rid of slavery in this country

jackson lee: it was an unthinkable moment. it was almost an unspeakable moment, to be in that room and to hear the president say that of all the things that he may do in his tenure as president, he may be known for signing the historic juneteenth independence day federal holiday. 12 years of work, 12 years of pressing forward and to be able to see both a bipartisan, unanimous consent in the senate and a vote in the house of representatives, 415-14, a day we never thought would come, so many people from all over the country said they never thought in their lifetime they would see the acknowledgment of slavery in america, a brutal period, i a federal holiday. 38 years -- by a federal holiday, 38 years after the last holiday, that was martin luther king. >> i grew up in your district. what does this holiday mean to the people of that region? this has been a holiday celebrated for years if not decades in the area. what does it mean now? what are the narrative histories that are now a national holiday? rep. jackson lee: it means th

lee surrendered effectively ending the civil war.n additional two months after the civil war was effectively over. for me when i think of juneteenth, part of what i think about is both -- it is this moment in which we mourn the fact freedom was kept for hundreds of thousands of enslaved people for years and months after it had been attained by them and at the same time, celebrating the end of one of the most egregious things this country is ever done. i think what we are experiencing right now is the sort of mayor thought ocognitive dissidents in a way that is reflective of the black excretes as a whole because we are in a moment where we had the first new federal holiday in over 40 years at a moment that is important to celebrate juneteenth and celebrate the end of slavery and have it recognize as a national holiday. the same time that is happening, we have estate section effort across the country that is attempting to prevent teachers from teaching the very thing that helps young people understand the context in which juneteenth em

lee: thank you, mr. chairman. the president stated his support for the bill saying that the 2002 aumf will not impact current military operations, but repeal can prevent our country from entering another protracted engagement under this outdated authority. we can't afford to leave this in place indefinitely. for two decades it's been in place. this is our opportunity to restore our constitutional role. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas. mr. mccaul: thank you, madam speaker. i would like to comment that to me it's very interesting the timing of the gentlelady from california's repeal. it happened after president trump had an air strike to take out sol mainy in iraq -- sole meany in iraq. exactly the same time. he had authority to do so under the 2002 aumf and article 2 under the constitution. what's interesting about now, the other side of the aisle was upset when president biden struck the shiia proxies in syria and that's when we saw this bill resurrect

opal lee. [applause] who just received a very special recognition from the president of the united states. and i see members of congress, members of the congressional black caucus, members of the united states senate who passed this bill unanimously. [applause] and all of whom, collectively, were responsible for delivering this bill to the president's desk. and i thank you all. we thank you all. your nation thanks you all. and you know, when we establish national holidays, it makes an important statement. national holidays are something important. these are days when we as a nation have decide to stop and take stock and often to acknowledge our history. and so as we establish juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let's be clear about what happened on june 19, 1865. the day we call juneteenth. because you see, that day was not the end of slavery in america. yes, on that day, the enslaved people of galveston, texas, learned that they were free. but in fact, 2 1/2 years earlier, the emancipat

lee name, but it doesn't expunge his history. >> it's not just about lee. stories to honor the people who made this a national treasure. >> i get emotional talking about it. it's a very powerful opportunity to bring people together and try to make a difference in a better world. >> reporter: is it fair to say you dreamed of this moment? >> absolutely. i have been looking forward to this for years. >> wow. >> well, the park service site as we mentioned reopens today. and those conversations between the families as you can imagine continue. at the end of the day, details matter. >> yes. >> and knowing your history matters but more importantly, they were able to tell the stories of people who had a great contribution there that really weren't told in this way before. >> yeah, facts matter even when the facts are very uncomfortable. it's very interesting to see the lee family, robert e. lee v say it's time. >> i love they took the bookstore and restored to the slave quarters for people to see the structure and how they lived. >> a powerful piece, thank you. >>>

i also want to thank again my good friend congresswoman sheila jackson lee. she has been advocating for juneteenth to be a federal holiday for over 12 years. this bill would not be possible without her steadfast support and hard work. it is now our responsibility to swiftly pass this bill and finally enshrined this important celebration in national law. as we strive toward a more perfect union, it is critical that we acknowledge the national significance of juneteenth. this day not only honors the past and celebrates the present but offers us an opportunity to reflect upon ways to create an even more just society. i encourage all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this vitally important bill. i reserve the balance of my time. >> juneteenth is an important day in celebrating african-americans in the united states is certainly worthy. all americans should celebrate our fight for freedom. it is a fitting tribute first celebrated in the state of texas to commemorate the day in 1865 when president abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation was recognized i

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[applause] >> afterwards congresswoman sheila jackson lee a jackson sent this tweet with opal lee andafter signing the historic juneteenth holiday legislation, and congressman sheila jackson lee joins me now. what do you want people to reflect on during their time off for this brand new federal holiday? >> well i think it is very important for us to find an opportunity to be somber, to seek knowledge and to have a jubilee and a joyful time. but i'm so excited about is for those who have never heard of juneteenth now have a moment of reflection. we have seemingly had an opposition to be able to discuss slavery, we've talked all around it, even as we discuss hr4 the permission to study hr4, for some reason some people think we should not talk about that period of her life. one thing the president said, a nation shows its greatness when it can also talk about its errors. it's tragedies, it's brutality. in the instance of slavery, it was brutal. i hope that this will be a unified, a unifying day. it will begin tomorrow, no matter who you are, if someone looks up at you, your daughter, you

senator lee. >> sure. >> mr.d, how would you respond to critics who might say in response to your point that a company like facebook can end up starting to resemble a rival government? how would you respond to those who would say, yeah, but facebook can't, unlike the government, it can't force you to do something at the point of a gun? >> right, there's no coercion. there are no thumb screws applied at any point. but it becomes a matter of every aspect of life being ordered by a handful of firms. as you know, these firms are now, their market caps are in the trillions and at some point, the concept of government, i think, has to be extended beyond these halls to entities that have such far-reaching control and sort of penetration into our lives. >> you might say that that's a sort of response you'd expect in a stockholm syndrome sort of situation. [laughter] >> is that your point? that it's the fact that they're not behaving as a government, the fact they're not literally requiring you to do it at the point of a

jackson lee: mr. speaker, we have no further speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. speaker. this is a sensible improvement to the administration of justice in my home state. i urge my colleagues to support the bill and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: this is a good day on the floor of the house. s. 1340 will improve the administration of justice in the federal courts of north carolina. this is not only a bipartisan, bicameral effort but it is also evidence of republicans and democrats working together for the uplifting of justice. i appreciate the leadership of representative ross in bringing this bill forward and hope all my colleagues will enthusiastically support this bill. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. all remaining time is e

sheila jackson lee, five minutes. ms. jackson lee: thank you, mr. chairman. it is extremely important to hold this hearing. thank you to all the witnesses. i'm glad that throughout the testimony that has been given in the question and answer time the record has been established that there is a concern, mr. griffith, for the mom and pop owners, the retired persons, and the respect for property. i don't think any of us have negated that. i work with a lot of real estate persons who themselves own property, small businesses, an we have the greatest respect for their economic engine as well. but let me try to emphasize what this bill does. you said it over and over again and i think it has been carefully crafted and as it is marked up, your concern should be readily addressed. but it is to deal with self-help evictions during national emergencies. that is a confined, refined area and it's only -- it only represents or acts as a civil rights buffer to the disastrous response that poor people have been able to unfortunately been the victims thereof. so let me under

lam hung lee has an appointment monday with immigration and customs enforcement or ice.e's afraid it could lead to deportation to vietnam country. he fled as a boy. i live in america for 42 years and now tried the already put me back to vietnam. i don't know nobody six when people were silent, dozens of supporters rallied at the state capitol thursday, asking governor gavin newsom to grantley a full pardon. lee who is not an american citizens served 32 years in prison for a murder he committed while in the street gang since his parole in 2019. he's been working at a homeless shelter in san francisco. he even helped save this man from dying from a fentanyl overdose recently by administering narcan and cpr. oh man, i'm thankful for him very thankful that he was their least supervisor at the shelter, says lee is reliable and compassionate, not only a great worker, but he communicates. on a deeper live up to each of these guests, but lee could have a difficult fight to stay in the u. s it is dire because he's facing potentially and ice arrest and detention. the asian law cau

and i thank senate lee and his staff for -- senator lee and his staff for working with our staff to plan this hearing. the competition policy subcommittee has been examining the problems that arise when a handful of companies become powerful enough to distort competition in the marketplace. so far we've seen that excessive market power benefits the few companies able to wield it at the expense of consumers, businesses and workers. our current antitrust laws have not been effective. as a result, we see competition problems in industry after industry across our economy. today we'll examine an emerging industry that could fall prey to the same dynamic, connected home technology. finish millions of americans already have connected devices in their homes including speakers, smart televisions, systems to control lighting or temperature within the home. i just, senator lee, used my on remote vacuum cleaner yesterday to scare my daughter as she was watching tv. it wasn't a big deal. [laughter] and we are just at the beginning. these technologies will continue to develop for things like connected

that starts with mayor lee. me one of his most important legacies was how he brought affordable housing into the main stream of san francisco and made it critical for the city to do and he reintroduced that concept to us and this mayor mayor breed has passed it and now she's incorporating affordable housing into the capital plan make interesting part of the infrastructure which brings us to our next and most amazing champion speaker nancy pelosi also shepherding the infrastructure act in congress that will also incorporate affordable housing into the infrastructure of the nation. i wanted to say it started here in san francisco, mayor breed, your work is resinating throughout the country and speaker pelosi is going to bring us home along with president biden. so thank you for that. all right. now my written remarks. this is where it gets boring. so, first of all, i just want to say thank you to anita for coming up here and being with us. it means more than we can express to you. you know, i just want to say this

jackson lee: i thank the speaker. it's my privilege to now yield to a gentleman with a storied history, layered history, entrenched in one of the states that suffered the extension of slavery, and faces its challenges today, of which this gentleman has been in the mix, in the gap, of fighting for justice. we're excited about his presence here. this is his first, i am so honored and privileged that he has chosen, with all the work he has to do, to -- because he was elected in a special election, choose this moment in history to present his first speech on the floor of the house. and that is the honorable troy carter from the state of louisiana. delighted to yield to you. mr. carter: congresswoman, thank you so very much for incredible leadership in this issue and so many others. we appreciate all that you do. we appreciate your sfed fast and steady hand of guidance and leadership for the people of america. madam speaker, thank you for the opportunity to address this body. on freedom's eve, january 1, 1863, enslaved and

opal lee, when i saw her today, miss opal lee, i told her this is all because of you. she said, we can't stop here, and i agree with her. we can't stop there. >> she's right. happy juneteenth. thank you, congressman. i appreciate it. >> absolutely. happy juneteenth. >> now i want to bring in charlie dent, a former republican congressman, and jim messina, former deputy white house chief of staff. gentlemen, good evening to you. let me say happy juneteenth to both of you as well. jim, a big win at the white house today with that signing ceremony. but, you know, we've got a battle ahead on voting rights. joe manchin is trying to get support for his compromise proposal. on the democratic side, stacey abrams came out and said she supports it. but of course mcconnell is already trashing it. if the gop won't support manchin's compromise and manchin won't ditch the filibuster, is that it for voting rights? >> no, i don't think so. i think this is going to be the moment where you see the democratic party have to reckon with, you know, what we're going to do here. don, we just h

henry lee ktvu fox studios.ah, just like the gentleman said in your piece there if he did that to a police officer, just imagine what he could have done to a average citizen. henry in your story. you mentioned the staffing shortage that that was the reason she was working alone. because of what happened. are there any changes being made? not that i know if i know that staffing shortages and staffing levels are constantly in flux, but we don't know if that was a specific ship the day or usually again, they pair up day or night. all right. henry lee reporting live for us tonight, henry. thank you. the interfaith center at the presidio held its annual memorial day service at the san francisco national cemetery. the service has taken place every memorial day for more than 155 years. there were speeches, a bell ringing and also a wreath laying ceremony. you know, abraham lincoln said the same thing in the gettysburg address. but he said it people who have who have died of #### of the ground. it's for the survivors to

opal lee. as my mother would say, god love her. ago. she told me she loved me, and i believed it. i want to believe it. you're incredible. a daughter of texas. grandmother of the movement to make junteenth a federal holiday. junteenth 1939, when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home, but such hate never stopped her anymore than it stopped the vast majority of you i'm looking at from this podium. over the course of decades she's made it her mission to see that this day came. it was almost a sipping lar mission. she's walked for miles and miles, literally and figuratively to bring attention to junteenth, to make this day possible. i ask once again we all stand again and give her a warm welcome. >> afterward, congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas sent this tweet. with opal lea and president biden after signing the historic juneteenth federal holiday. she joins me now. what do you want people to reflect on during their time off for this brand new holiday? >> well, i think it's very important for us to find an op

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ian lee, cbs news, england. >> the trip will end with a bang. big meeting in switzerland with vladimir putin on wednesday. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is officially been ousted. parliament officially approved a new government today ending his 12 year reign. and it all came down to one vote. the new leader naftali bennett exchanged a brief handshake with netanyahu before being sworn in as prime minister. this is a watershed moment for politics in israel where 71- year-old netanyahu served as prime minister for a total of 15 years. bennett leads an eight party alliance that agrees on little. but the desire to oust netanyahu. and is now vowing to smooth over the country's political gridlock. >>> well, we're all on board with the big warm-up due later this week. darren peck has the latest and the slightest chance that that atmospheric river gets accidentally bumped? >> we're on board? >> and moves about 300 miles east. >> kind of bored with 104. >> i know, we're so tantalizingly close to weather so dramatically different than the h

commissioner lee. >> vice-chair lee: thank you madam chair. i just want to emphasize, when i say public outreach and engagement, i don't mean us talking to other folks. i appreciate what the chair said. it is basically listening because without understanding where people are, we really should not just tell people, these are our plans, what do you think. it needs to be the other way first. and secondly, i wanted to raise a very successful federal program. the federal government is so huge. any time you have something not one department can get the message across. so many initiatives we try to push through, we put together interagency working groups. every department, you have somebody assigned to work on ethics whatever. so when ethics commission has something happening, you meet with the 20 people every month. how can we work together on the whistleblower program, what works and doesn't work for you. i do think that given the fact that we only have -- yes, we have new staff but you're right. with the four additional staff, it is impossible for

that starts with mayor lee.y people look at mayor lee, but to me one of his most important legacies was how he brought affordable housing into the main stream of san francisco and made it critical for the city to do and he reintroduced that concept to us and this mayor mayor breed has passed it and now she's incorporating affordable housing into the capital plan make interesting part of the infrastructure which brings us to our next and most amazing champion speaker nancy pelosi also shepherding the infrastructure act in congress that will also incorporate affordable housing into the infrastructure of the nation. i wanted to say it started here in san francisco, mayor breed, your work is resinating throughout the country and speaker pelosi is going to bring us home along with president biden. so thank you for that. all right. now my written remarks. this is where it gets boring. so, first of all, i just want to say thank you to anita for coming up here and being with us. it means more than we can express to you.