meeker and these individuals were killed. meeker's wife, their daughter, and another woman and her two daughters were spared but taken captive. amidst the chaos, the survivors of thornburg's ill-fated command, now under the next highest ranking officer, managed to send a career out with a poignant plea that help that simply read "thornburg killed. his men in peril. rush to their assistance." the message, miraculously, was found on the trail by captain francis dodge and his good soldiers and reliable men of ninth u.s.f the cavalry. riding hard for 70 miles, that is an incredible hard ride in a period.hreee day two fellow officers and 35 troopers appeared to witness the devastation. according to peter decker, "if not for the assistance of the buffalo soldiers, pain and his exhausted troops would have met the same fate as custer's troops little bighorn. " the black troops immediately took up positions within the barricade and displayed superb discipline and bravery as they held out for four days awaiting the arrival of an even l

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it's a big part of meeker's pre preng. i thought that's been striking. hillary clinton's going to speak in a couple of minutes. i think she will be a highlight through the prism of how technology companies are taking responsibility for the free flow of information and alternative facts, so to speak. lyclinton will talk about that d as carrie swisher said it's up to tech to take responsibility for what they brought. >> all right, carl, thanks a lot. carl quintanilla from the code conference. sticking with technology, alphabet shares flirting with the $1,000 level. ruth porat set to teenage the stage. red flags in the auto industry. are we back to our precrisis ways with subprime loans. the man on the frontline of that issue next. i joined the army in july of '98. i did active duty 11 years. and two in the reserves. our 18 year old was in an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. it actually helped to know that somebody else cared and wanted make sure that i was okay. that was really great

short of that, we'll continue to do our best on a committee level with meeker resources in both the intelligence committee and here, and this is i think an issue that begs for so much more. i might also say that i'm starting to hear from the republican side of the table about real concern about section 702 which senator lee, republican member of the committee and myself have been calling for reform on for several years. unfortunately, we didn't have the support from the other side of the table when we did. i hope that we can get it now when we talk about real reform of the 702 and protecting the rights of individuals in america. mice yates. let me ask you about this meeting on january the 26th with white house counsel done mcgann. you shared the justice department concerns about his communications with russia, his apparent dishonest about those communications and his vulnerability to blackmail, is that correct? >> that's right. >> was there anything else about the relationship of general flynn and the russians other than his representations that he had had no conversations that you warned don mc

on the list here, mary meeker at 12:01. she'll unveil her annual presentation of internet trends.o goes through a hundred charts in 25 minutes. hillary clinton, evan mcmullin, sherry red stone tonight. so we'll talk all about that all day long. later on this hour, we'll hear what ballmer said about whether microsoft was too slow in hard ware, investing in twitter and the puzzle he says that is putting together the modern nba team. guys, back to you. >> you know, carl, speaking of reads, there was another read on the state. we're speaking to reid hoffman who sold linkedin to microsoft. did he weigh in at all into that discussion in terms of robotics or ai or have a different viewpoint? he's interesting to listen to too. >> yeah. the focus last night, almost asymmetrically was from andreessen. definitely there's some -- there's some mea culpas in the past 18 hours about what microsoft did wrong in say the last decade and a half and how that's playing out big time today. >> i wonder if there's any mea culpas on politics. you know, this was a group that was in favor of hillary clinton