and flores at texas a&m mark warner at george mason university. wisconsin representative and 2012 vice presidential candidate paul ryan gave the 2013 commencement address at benedictine college in kansas. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. president, alex, where are you, alex? thank you for rekindling that

[applause] mark warner was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony at george mason university in fairfax, virginia. the governor talked to the class of 2013 for 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. members of the board of visitors, mason faculty, staff, family, graduates, good morning. let me be the first to say congratulations for a job well done. you are a proud recipient of the mason medal. congratulations to the class of 2013. you did it. [applause] i have watched this university grow for over 30 years. , when george mason became independent, it was a lot of questioning about what would happen with this little enclave in northern virginia. while there is a lot of success and a lot of people i want to recognize, to a vehement -- i want to recognize two of the original members who help make this possible. job well done, gentlemen. [applause] had a opportunity while i was governor to work closely with president merton. i'm proud of the fact that 80 million of those dollars went to new construction right here at george mason, which means you have not only the fastest- growing

and flores at texas a&m mark warner at george mason university. wisconsin representative and 2012 vice presidential candidate paul ryan gave the 2013 commencement address at benedictine college in kansas. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. president, alex, where are you, alex? thank you for rekindling that feeling i had at the republican national convention after i followed condoleezza rice. thanks a lot. i appreciate that. [laughter] the four i want to get into the commencement, i have heard so many good things about benedictine college. my friend,, who spoke last year, yup and told me about this gold -- called me up and told me about the school. he said you are a tightknit and broad-minded, small sized and bighearted. i have spent a little bit of time here. p90x this morning. i got to do dinner with the archbishop. i got to check out the river. 90%i got to find out that of the senior class had a problem when they were freshmen. that is how many people stood up and complained. [laughter] .ou made me feel at home this is

democratic senator mark warner was the commencement speaker at george mason university in fairfax, virginia. the former virginia governor talk to the class of 2013 for about 15 minutes. >> thank you. president cabrera, members of the board of visitors, mason faculty and staff, family, and most importantly graduates, good morning. let me be the first to also say congratulations to ernst for a job well done. you are truly a proud recipient of the mason metal. , but me also say congratulations to the class of 2013 -- let me

[applause] mark warner was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony at george mason university in fairfax, virginia. the governor talked to the class of 2013 for 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. members of the board of visitors, mason faculty, staff, family, graduates, good morning.

senator elizabeth warman -- warren at framingham, and mark warner at george mason university. senator elizabeth warren delivered the commencement address at framingham state university in minnesota -- massachusetts. her remarks are about 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much, thank you senator for that very kind introduction. thank you, president flanigan, board of trustees, the , andngham board congratulations to the class of 2013. fabulous. [applause] , from one state school grad to another, you have done a good thing. you can do a lot more. i'm really happy for you. i want to say to the class of 2013, as you are are going out into the new world, as with any journey, it can be scary. with edith.htime no more ice cream from mad willy's. and hardest of all, no more e- mails from the dean. [laughter] it is true. , as you head out, i know that some of you are very worried about graduating into a tough economy. some of you are concerned about finding a job. and some of you are working hard to persuade yourself that moving in with mom and d

senator mark warner will give that address. >>> the first lady is in national today.he will deliver the commencement address at martin luther king jr. academic magnet high school for health sciences and engineering. it's her second ceremony in as many days. yesterday she was right here in our area giving new graduates a proper sendoff at bowie state university. mrs. obama reminded the new grads about bowie's place in history and about their importance in their new degrees. >> i'm thinking about all the people who took the extra job and toiled and bled and prayed so we could have something better. >> president obama heads to georgia today. he will deliver the commence m address at mohr house college in atlanta. >>> plenty of people are talking about personal experiences the president shared yesterday. during an economic trip to baltimore, he opened up about his own experience growing up without his father around. >> i grew up without a father. i always tell people that as great and heroic a job as moms do, particularly for a family of boys, that's a hard situation. >>

democratic senator mark warner was the commencement speaker at george mason university in fairfax, virginia. the former virginia governor talk to the class of 2013 for about 15 minutes. >> thank you. president cabrera, members of the board of visitors, mason faculty and staff, family, and most importantly graduates, good morning. let me be the first to also say congratulations to ernst for a job well done. you are truly a proud recipient of the mason metal. , but me also say congratulations to the class of ,013 -- let me also say congratulations to the class of 2013, you didn'd it! i have watched this university grow for over 30 years. when george mason first became independent, there was a lot of question about what would happen with this little enclave here in northern virginia. while there is a lot of success and a lot of people i want recognize, two of the original leaders of george mason who helped make this possible, former president dortch johnson and former president alan murphy. job well done, gentlemen. [applause] i had the opportunity while i was governor to work very closely wit

you are personal friends with senator mark warner and i have heard people whisper in my ear about jack markel potentially for president. can you give me a thought on any or all of those? >> i very much hope to have the opportunity to cast my ballot in 2016 for a delawaren for president, he just happens to be joe biden. >> could it be jack markel? >> i think obviously secretary clinton, senator warner, there are lots of good candidates. people like governor o'malley looking ate, but i look forward to casting that ballot for vice president biden. >> want to make sure, you're a biden guy. >> i'm a biden guy. no doubt about it. >> thank you, governor. next, why wait until 2014 for some good political fights? i never do. we're off to the races in this off year. it's not just christie's sure thing. the big apple circus has officially come to town and there's new nastiness in the old dominion. plus, why these races matter for hillary clinton's potential white house run. plus, a look ahead at today's political planner. the best thing on there is the scrips howard national spelling bee. those k

i think that former governor now senator mark warner was it was the kind of issue that our republican colleagues on this committee are interested in, but it requires, as you know, different performance reviews. i wonder if you could just tell us if you see this particular approach as a useful tool in measuring performance. and what should be the role of omb in implementation? >> it is an incredibly valuable tool, because one of the things that i think is very important when we think about performance in the government is setting director burwell has said on numerous occasions that if we tried everything that worked, we would work it well. having a framework to set goals and priorities, using that as a way to actually drive real accountability and cultural change within the agencies, that has got to be our objective. as you said, the framework allows us to do that. i think that one of the things that is important about that is the link between goal setting and accountability. so, i think that for example when i go on the website and pull up a goal and see the picture of the person at t

followed by [ inaudible ] and mark warner all register 1% or less. >> mark warner is a contender? as she does against the rest of the field. but the early guessing, john is that she is going to. >> wait until ted cruz gets into the race baby and then you will see things gotten shaken up. and she will be one of the oldest people elected president. >> stephanie: remember ann romney saying it is our turn. and i think legitimately a lot of people feel like it's her turn. she had earned it. >> i got to say how great will it be as americans who had a war to get away from inherited power if we see a bush versus clinton -- >> stephanie: i agree with barbara, that we have bush fatigue. >> i'm sill holding that that elizabeth warren run. >> she might need a little bit more experience. >> right like obama. >> stephanie: that's the joke that obama made about ted cruz. >> and ted cruz can run -- >> i know orly taitz will be consistent. i know she will be all over that. >> hopefully he can get a kenyan running mate just for the irony. >> stephanie: exactly. as we were saying michael thomasky wh

mark warner. elizabeth warren. she's showing up. martin o'malley. all in low, very low single digits. we're going to look at general election matchups later in the hour. that's going to be fun to see how the republicans do against hillary, i guess. we'll be right back. >>> people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> oh, okay. the "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> is that within the realm of possibilities? i would say yes. i'm not willing to take that off the table. >> if you had watergate and iran/contra together and multiply it times maybe ten or so, you're going to get in the zone of what benghazi is. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> welcome back to "hardball." as you saw in that clip of republicans there, they're having a fiesta with all the issues facing the obama administration. some have even become punch lines for comedians like jon stewart. and if you tally up the trio of controversies facing the team obama, gop leaders have called for resignations, firings, jail time. there's even some nasty talk of impeachment out there. we

mark warner. elizabeth warren. she's showing up. martin o'malley. all in low, very low single digits. we're going to look at general election matchups later in the hour. that's going to be fun to see how the republicans do against hillary, i guess. we'll be right back. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. [ male announcer ] book ahead and save up to 20 percent at doubletree.com, so you can sit back, relax and enjoy. doubletree by hilton. where the little things mean everything. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ >>> people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> oh, okay. the "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> is that within the realm of possibilities? i would

. >> whether it's mark warner in virginia. >> right. sort of reforming.be against getting rid of the filibuster, but take it back to where it used to be. where if somebody wants to filibuster, let's see how big your bladder is. you know, let's see how much -- how hard and determined you are about this. you know, get rid of the hold. that used to be professional courtesy. now it's a political tactic. >> there's some revamping of the rules. maybe some revamping of the election process. >> and some soul searching by voters. >> we will end there. we will end on the bladder comment. as always, charlie cook, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> and we've got a special feature on our website today. daily run down's list of the top ten senate races most likely to flip control in 2014. check it out. rundown.msnbc.com. it's such a tease, we're going to make you go to the website to read it. much more still to come with our gaggle. first white house soup of the day -- yes, by the way, i taped that with charlie yesterday. white chicken chili. we'll be right back. [ fema

so i asked mark warner to work with bob corcoran too big to fail. asked jack reid to work with judd greg of new hampshire on the derivative section. chuck schumer was working with mike currento on governance issues, dick shelby on the consumer protection stuff. i got people involved. and people made significant contributions. now they didn't vote forth bill many of them in the end but they made significant substantive contribution contributions-- contributions which are part of the bill. the shell bee dodd amendment is too big to fail that is richard shell beau's work, helping put that together on the floor of the senate. >> it did not stop him and other republicans, however, from demonizing it. >> rose: from the get-go. >> there was a difference. because i-- the republicans in the house were weren't going cooperate. so i did have a lot of obviously working with the members. and you know, i was once asked if i was worried because opposed nancy pelosi on something and she is going to be mad at me. i said no i'm a chairman of the committee. i said i'm

then, senator mark warner at george mason university. -- senator elizabeth warren delivered the commencementdress at framing ham state university. her remarks are about 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you for that very kind introduction. thank you, president flanigan, board of trustees, the framing ham, and congratulations to the class of 2013. [applause] from onet to say, state schoolyou can do a lot mo. i'm really happy for you. i want to say to the class of 2013, as you are are going out into the new world, as with any journey, it can be scary. no more lunchtime with edith. no more ice cream from mad willy's. and hardest of all, no more e- mails from the dean. [laughter] it is true. but seriously, as you head out, i know that some of you are very worried about graduating into a tough economy. some of you are concerned about finding a job. and some of you are working hard to persuade yourself that moving in with mom and dad is almost as good as having your own apartment. i know it is hard out there. what i have high hopes for everyone o

responders, fire, police, emergency personnel, law enforcement, various charities, entities, mayors, mark warner not come under tremendous job everyone has been doing is moving along very well. it is a big project and are certainly as a lot of issues that need to be dealt with that we are making some progress and i drove an earlier this morning to the very site, i could see were clear enough similar public areas. the debris and being able to open the roads in areas that people can get through and begin the process of recovery in a very big disaster area we have. i want to mention this is still a very act of recovery and many people have talked about a 35 and also public roads in this area. just to ask the public was not about his recovery efforts to clean up are in the area that if you could, it would be helpful for the suggestion were experiencing on our highways and asked the public to be patient with us as soon as this equipment would have to get along the highways of the road to get this done. also, the individuals effect it by the storm, but still wants you to make contact with this date an

also the part of the poll, there was a 1% split vote between senators mark warner of virginia, the dinnereval patrick of massachusetts, and governor martin o'malley, democrat from maryland. i want to take you to another poll that came out. this is a farley dickinson poll on the republican field showing marco rubio at 18%, jeb bush 16%, chris christie at 14%, and in the other category, about 21%. that poll was released april 30. back to the phones. we want to get your take as the speculation heats up this week. just over 100 days into president obama second term good we want to go to our independent line in north carolina, the morning, adam. caller: i was just going to comment on a few of the things that were said first. i do believe, first and hasmost, at the tea party been clearly paid for by americans for cross -- for prosperity, which is funded by the coke brothers -- koch brothers. in any case, i feel at this point getting back to the premise of what we are discussing, an independent andidate would really shine, new pervasive individual who is out there showing some directionality. ho

colleagues actually try to avoid me in the hallways now because they fear they're going to get a mark warner harangue on the debt and deficit. i also know that the only way we're going to get this issue resolved is if both sides are willing to meet each other in the middle. this is a problem that cannot be solved by continuing to cut back on discretionary spending. it will require, yes, more revenues and it will require entitlement reform. those are issues where unfortunately in many ways our parties have not found agreement. we all have agreed as well at least that while we don't have to solve this whole problem overnight, we do need at least $4 trillion in debt reduction over the next 10 years. the good thing is, while we have lurched from budget crisis to budget crisis, we have gotten over half the way there on our goal. the good news as well is that this year, both the senate and the house adopte adopted budget resolutions. as i said on the floor in march, i believe the senate budget was a solid first chapter towards producing a balanced fiscal plan for our country. my vote for the senat

saturday at 8:30, congressman paul ryan, nancy pelosi, peter king, bill flores and senator mark warner>> washington today the head of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration released this year's hurricane forecast. she said her agency is expecting a, quote, possibly extreme hurricane season. >> for the six-month hurricane season which will start june 1 above norm and and an possibly extremely active season with 13 named storms with top winds of at least 39 miles an how. of those we predict seven will become hurricanes with top winds of at least 74 miles an hour and of those hurricanes we predict three to six will become major hurricanes ranking category one, two, three, four, and five with winds of 100 miles or greater. these are well above the seasonal averages. the range for named storms is slightly larger than in the past. that is simply because there is uncertainty about whether the activity that will occur the -- in the coming season will be a smaller number of larger-lived storms or a larger number of smaller-lived storms. these predictions of a highly include a rs co

30, conk paul ryan, nancy pelosi, and peter king, senator elizabeth warren, flores, and senator mark warner. president obama's nominee for commerce secretary testified thursday before the senate commerce committee. a long time fund raiser for the president chairman of the credit bureau and heir to the hyatt hotel fortune. for two years, he served on the president's economic recovery advisory board. the hearing is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. because we are confronted here by two incredibly important and busy senators facing us, it would never occur to us to do what we ought to do which is to give our statements first and make you wait. what we're going to do, if it's all right with you, ask each of you to give your statements; then we'll give our statement, and then we'll move on. senator durbin. >> chairman rockefeller and senator thune, thank you, as well as other members of the committee for allowing senat

and also there was once upon a time we co-authored an op-ed with senator mark warner on defense issues. so again, it's been an honor and a pleasure. congressman thornberry has a list of accomplishments and activities that is longer than my arm, and we take all morning to go through them. i think if you're here today, you're interested in the subject, you pretty much know who years. so without any further delay please join me in welcoming congressman mac thornberry. [applause] >> thank you, andy. and the work of cs ba has been a tremendous help to me since i've been in congress. in fact, i would say i have relied more on the work product of this organization than any other in my years on the armed services committee. so when they come out with a study on special operations, which is a subject very important to me and very important to the country, then obviously i'm going to pay attention. and having read the report, i do believe that this study is an important contribution to the thinking that we all need to do about the future of special operations forces are in summary i think there

democratic senators mark warner and tim kaine, republican house majority leader eric cantor all spoke on her behalf. here is what house majority leader kantor said -- "-- cantor said" i differ with a lot of matters with the obama administration on the health care policy, but if there is anyone i trust to help negotiate these challenges, it is marilyn tavenner." three weeks ago, the committee approved ms. tavenner's nomination with a unanimous vote. she has earned the confidence of many of us because of her demonstrated abilities. she started as a nurse, quickly rose up through the ranks to become a hospital administrator, served four years as virginia's secretary of health and human resources before joining c.m.s. in 2010. she has served as acting administrator for the past year and a half. i am confident we'll get a strong vote on this nomination because marilyn tavenner has a reputation of being a pragmatist and a person who doesn't give up. one story i'd like to share here. this is important, mr. president. marilyn was working a night shift at an intensive care unit at johnston-wil

an senator mark warner delivering george mason university's commencement speech. >> i begin with integrity because it is so intentional -- essential to who and what he will ultimately become. many of you have a career path in mind. many of you have no idea where you one that. -- where you will end up. a few of you may be surprised to where life takes you. in the end, it is not only what we do but how we do it. >> you know i have to start by tweeting this, so give me a second. when i wrote up -- when i got up this morning and started thinking about my speech, i thought about my freshman year here. the football team was number one in the nation priest is in -- nation pre-season. our first game without wisconsin. we went up there and we lost, 20 1-14. it was crushing disappointment afterwards. i would like to think -- like you to think of that as a metaphor for your next 20 minutes with me. >> next weekend, more stories and advice for graduates with administration and state and local officials, including the fbi director and florida governor rick scott. saturday at 830, a business leader, inc

senator elizabeth warren, congressman bill flores and senator mark warner. >> a look at a security agreementetween the u.s., mexico, and central american countries to help combat drug trafficing and related crimes. this house foreign affairs subcommittee hearing is an hour nd 50 minutes. >> this committee is now called to order. good morning. and welcome to the first of two-pardon series on security cooperation with mexico and central america. the framework, as you all know, violence at the hands of drug cartels our southern border affects our own security. as well as cross-border commerce. our communities are threatened by organized criminals who traffic drugs, money, weapons, and human beings across our border. just as they continue to threaten security and governance in mexico and the rest of the region. mexico is our third largest trading partner. and we are mexico's largest trading partner. by the way, mexico is arizona, my home state's number one trading partner. so it's very clearly in-in-both countries' national interest that we cooperate to defeat these destabilizing and ruthless dr

i think that former governor now senator mark warner was involved.t was kind of issued at our republican colleagues on this committee and it requires, as you know, different performance reviews. i wonder if you could just tell us if you see this particular tool in as a useful measuring performance. and what should be the role of omb in implementation? >> it is an incredibly valuable tool, because one of the things that i think is very important when we think about performance in the government is setting priorities. said on burrell has numerous occasions that if we tried everything that worked, we would work it well. having a framework to set goals and priorities, using that as a way to actually drive real accountability and cultural change within the agency's, that has got to be our objective. as you said, the framework allows us to do that. think that one of the things that is important about that is the link between goal setting and accountability. so, i think that for example when i go on the website and pull up a goal and see the picture of the

and tammy baldwin. ,aturday at 8:030, peter king paul ryan, nancy pelosi, elizabeth moran, and mark warnerwant you to take good care of the furniture in the house and not let them get lost or broken. i want to find everything just as it is now when we come back for years from today. >> they returned to the white house winning the election. we continue our series on first ladies live monday night at 9:00 eastern, on c-span, c- span3, c-span radio, and www.c- span.org. wednesday jack lew defended his handling of the irs conservative groups saying he is prepared to hold officials cap accountable as other agencies learn more. he testified before the house financial services committee. this is just shy of three hours. the committee will come to order. the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee in a time. the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. this morning we welcome treasury secretary jack lew for his first appearance before the financial services committee. today he is here to present according to statute the third annual report of the financi

then the paul ryan, nancy pelosi, peter king, elizabeth warren, and mark warner. 's " washington reussl" will include fleming on life in the military. then a conversation with .ilitary.com randy plunkett theirss has finished legislative work and are often now for the work. . house leaving, the changed how loan rates are calculated, tying them to the 10-year treasury note rate. the senate spent the week on the farm bill setting ardor culture and food stamp programs. they will work with the measures when they were come >> when they return on june 3. president obama traveled to annapolis to speak at the u.s. naval academy commencement ceremony. you can see his complete rocks at -- his complete remarks at www.c-span.org. >> our military remains the most trusted institution in america. when others have shirked their responsibilities, our more armed forces have met every mission they have been given. when others have been distracted by petty arguments, our men and women come together as one american team. and yet we must acknowledge that even here, in our military have

warner reports on the pentagon's moves to deal with the growing outrage over sexual assaults in the military-- a problem the secretary of defense said today he will do everything necessary to fix. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. plus, a special report with our own macneil and lehrer on covering the watergate hri

zero tolerance policy. >> warner: julian barnes, "wall street journal," thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks, syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so, gentlemen, it's only been one week but three giant headaches for the obama administration, for the president. david david, let's take them one by one. the i.r.s., this hearing today. two completely different points of view on what happened. whom are we to believe? >> well, i think we just don't know. one of the things we don't know is who +*eupbs dated this. was there lobbying from capitol hill on instigating this? second, who knew it when? the treasury department did they know it? did anybody in the white house know it? how up in the i.r.s. did they know it? did they give maybe not completely false testimony but non-forthcoming testimony. and then the final thing-- which we may know a little bit more about after today and after the report-- is what it political thuggery or obliviousness. i think the evidence on the latter issue is probably it was a little more toward oblivious. you had a group of technocrats who had become so a

warner cable. i south carolina's most populated city and state capital, area has a rich history during the civil war. columbia was decided the succession convention in 1860, marking a departure diversity from the union in 1865 the capital was captured by general william t. sherman and 30% of the city was destroyed. >> mary chestnut was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. she was an author. she was the wife of a u.s. senator who resigned his senate seat when abraham lincoln was elect it and came home and became an aide to confederate president, jefferson davis. throughout the war, she kept a diary and if some of the most famous accounts of the civil war. there are about 70,000 books written about the civil war and hers is probably one of the three most port, not only for his own literary value, but because she was fair. and source materials reference to every historian spoke about the civil war. the book i wrote about mary chestnut is a two volume book, which for the first time reunites 200 photographs she collected with her diary. which were certain i would. tension along. but she gave them these photographs than they were last. there last summer in

mark shields is off today. and whether they're watching us on television or their laptop or their smarthone, we're gl yore here. >> or stone tablets. (laughter) >> warner:. >> woodruff: so the president's big speech on national security, he said we need to redefine as a country our approach to the war on terror. you said if we don't -- he said if we don't define it, it will define us. david? >> i think "redefine" is a little strong. i think we're fine. we had a period of intense expansion of the national security state in the early bush years. by the middle of the bush years we'd begun to try to normalize things and they tried to figu out how to scale things back and get out of guantanamo bay and things have been slowly returning to some sort of permanent normalcy since and i think with the speech the president gave this week was a very mature speech and serious speech and moved us another step in the direction. rhetorically it was big, substantively it was uncertain and small but a step in the right direction. so things like making at least a nod to the drone policy getting it to the department where it belongs, trying to find a way to get it are of g

marks the second anniversaryf thraid that killed osama bin laden. tonight, we bring you the previously unknown story of the sisterhood of c.i.a. analysts who chased the al qaeda leader. margaret warner reports. >> warner: it was the news most americans had waited nearly a decade to hear >> today, at my direction, the after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> warner: but for many of the people who'd helped find osama bin laden, their work had started nearly two decades earlier, long beforthe st- wanted man on earth had ened his infamy. their story of the c.i.a. analysts and officers who'd tracked down the al qaeda chief is told in the documentary hbo film "manhunt", debuting tonight. it's based on the book by cnn's peter bergen. >> in 1997 osama bin laden had declared war on the united states and no one was paying attention. >> there was just warning after warning. we knew something huge was going to happen. >> warner: but long before that september day, their chase began in a near-total information vacuum. >> well we certainly didn't know that al qaeda existed. we didn know there was a terrorist organization. we knew there was a very wealthy >>

warner cable. in south carolina's most populated city and state capital, the area has had a rich history, particularly, during the civil war. columbia was decided the succession convention in 1860 marking the departure of the first state from the union, and in 1865, the capital was captured by general william t. sherman, and 30% of the city was destroyed. >> mary chestnut was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. he was an author. she was the wife of a u.s. senator who resigned his senate seat when abraham lincoln was elected, and he came home to south carolina and became an aid to camp of confederate president jefferson davis, and throughout the war, she kept a diary, and it's one of the most famous accounts of the civil war. there are about 70,000 books written about the civil war, and hers is probably one of the three most important. not only for its own literary value, but because she was there. it's -- it's source material. it's referenced in almost every his tore -- his tore yap's book about the civil war. the book i wrote about mary chestnut is a two-volume book, which for the first times reunites 200 of the photographs that she collected with her diary, we're certai