here's nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: clashes over symbols of the confederacyave brought white supremacist hate groups into the open that for years have operated in the shadows. the number of ku klux klan chapters is actually down, but neoconfederate and other groups are on the rise sometimes inspiring deadly attacks. >> we're seeing more and more people who are not necessarily affiliated with any group but who have become highly interested in the movement and motivated to carry out, in many cases, real criminal violence. >> reporter: noting that trend, a federal bulletin in may said the white supremacist extremist movement will likely continue to pose a threat of lethal violence. after the 2015 shooting at a black church in south carolina that killed nine, pictures surfaced of the gunman dylann roof with symbols of the confederacy, prompting calls to remove confederate symbols from public places. charlottesville's decision in april to take down a statue of robert e. lee sparked three protests. demonstrations in june in houston and just last weekend in san anto

our justice correspondent pete williams has details and what they were looking for. >> reporter: with absolutely no warning, fbi agents showed up before dawn to search the suburban washington, d.c. apartment of paul manafort, a donald trump confident ant who played a central role in his presidential campaign for six months. the search two weeks ago at this building in alexandria virginia came as a surprise. manafort's spokesman says he has, quote, consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did on this occasion as well. but a former federal prosecutor says the surprise search is a sign that robert mueller's investigators don't trust him. >> the execution of a search warrant means that there is a concern that the individual has documents that are harmful to him that he may not turn over cooperatively. >> reporter: while mueller's main task is investigating meddling by the russians in the election and whether anyone in the u.s. helped them do it, law enforcement officials say mueller has alternatives been looking intensely at manafort's foreign business

nbc's pete williams reports. >> reporter: when deputy ricardo cueva patrols king county, washington,side of seattle, he doesn't ask anyone if they're here illegally. he says that's critical to getting the community's cooperation. >> you build trust and when you have trust, then you have people calling in, reporting things. >> reporter: like dozens of other so-called sanctuary cities seattle has the same policy. the sheriff says it works. >> that's our goal, reducing crime and the fear of crime and we could care less if somebody is here legally or illegally, documented or undocumented. >> reporter: even people in jail, putting the city and the county at odds with the trump administration. in an exclusive nbc news interview, attorney general jeff sessions says he'll cut off federal anti-crime grants to cities and counties that fail to give the federal government 48 hours notice before illegal immigrants are released fro >> they should be removed from those communities. it will make them safer. i don't think you have any objection overall from the immigrant community to remove dangerous

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nbc's pete williams reports. >> reporter: when deputy kueva patrols, he doesn't ask anyone if he's here >> you build trust. when you have trust, then you have people calling in and reporting things. >> reporter: like dozens of other sanctuary cities, seattle has the same policy. >> that's our goal, reducing crime. we could care less if somebody is here legally or illegally. >> reporter: even people in jail, putting the city and county at odds with the trump administration. in an exclusive nbc news interview, attorney general jeff sessions says he'll cut off federal anti-crime grants to cities and counties that fail to give the federal government 48 hours notice before illegal immigrants are released from their jail sentences so they can be deported. >> they should be removed from those communities. it will make them safer. i don't think you have any objection overall from the immigrant community to remove dangerous criminals from america. >> reporter: he cites the case of juan sanchez, accused of killing a san francisco woman after he was released from a local jail and sergio martinez,

the "washington post" first reported that raid today. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williamsworking his sources and joins us with more details. what have you learned? >> everything you said is what we have heard. what they were specifically looking at we are told were documents and bit about his financial transactions, his business dealings overseas especially in ukraine and cypress. so the fact that this search was the day after he testified before congress probably didn't have anything to do with the timing of it. a couple of things here to think about when we think about this search. obviously, the fact that they have been looking at paul manafort for some time is unknown. his lawyer said he didn't do anything wrong and he will cooperate fully with the fbi and robert mueller's investigation and with congressional investigators but the fact that they did a search coming in in the basically middle of the night early morning before dawn while he is still in the house tells you two things. to get a search warrant the feds have to go to a judge and say that there is probably ca

i want to bring in nbc justice correspondent, pete williams, for us. pete, first tell us about what it means to have an investigation into civil rights violations. >> reporter: so there's a federal civil rights investigation that will parallel the investigation that the virginia authorities have already carried out that have already led to the second degree murder charges against james fields for which he appeared today in court. the government's criminal investigation will look solely at the car attack on saturday that resulted in one death. that's what the justice -- >> so the president says we're going to look at all these thugs, or he suggests this could be something broader, some people might take his statement that way. this is solely on this one thing. >> reporter: criminal investigation. so there are sort of two aspects to this, as i understand it, chris. and you have i think hit on it. so the justice department's criminal investigation, criminal civil rights investigation, will look at the car attack that led to the death. the attorney general

. >>> want to go now to pete williams in our washington bureau. pete, a couple questions now this morning. you heard tom reference one and i want to also ask about the attorney general's civil rights investigation into this. can you walk us through the doj role and just defining this as an act of domestic terrorism. what do we know? >> yes, the justice department will conduct a civil rights investigation. it seems that the focus of the investigation, at least the way they described it on sunday, was that they would look specifically at the act that resulted in the death on saturday. the vehicular death and also the subject of the charges in virginia. this morning the attorney general also said the justice department will be looking at whether things could have been done better there and suggest they would look at the overall situation the way the police responded. so, we're waiting to get a little better definition from the justice department on exactly what they'll do. as tom pointed out, these will work in parallel. the way this normally works wh

let's bring in pete williams live in d.c. what have we learned about robert mueller's investigation of paul manafort specifically? for me, a predawn raid that sounds major. maybe i'm crazy. >> i think the president was right when he said it was a strong move. we're not sure exactly when, we haven't been told exactly when the agents knocked on his door. it may have been at 6:00 a.m. and if it was, then it's in the normal rules what the federal government specifies for when you can serve a search warrant. the federal rules say it can plain vanilla search warrant between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. if they arrived before 6:00 and went up there at 6:00, it would be within normal rules. the investigation of manafort is covering a number of bases. the work he did for ukrainian officials and work he did in cyprus, investments overseas and from overseas people into real estate holdings here and much of this was already under way before robert mueller became the special counsel. it started with the fbi in new york and so manafort has bee

nbc's pete williams reports. >> reporter: when deputy ricardo cueva patrols king county, washington,de of seattle -- >> we're going to need two tows. >> reporter: like dozens of other so-called sanctuary cities, policies that work. >> we could care less if someone is here legally or illegally, documented or undocumented. >> in an exclusive nbc news interview, attorney general jeff sessions says he'll cut off federal crime grants for cities that fail to give immigration 48 hours before they release them from jail. >> reporter: he crites the case of juan san francisco sanchez. a sessions praises miami for enforcing its immigration policies. >>> still ahead tonight, a side effect of the solar eclipse no one is talking about. also a side effect of a city 60,000 feet below the sea. >>> all eyes will be on the skies for tomorrow's epic eclipse, but if you look and listen closely, there may be a show going on around you as well as nature's creatures react. nbc's kerry sanders reports from carbondale, illinois. you and your friends may be ready for the total eclipse, but when day turns to tw

and pete williams is monitoring the doj investigation from our washington news room. kelly, what sort of pressure was the president facing internally that forced him to come out today and make a third attempt at trying to condemn this violence and condemn this racism. >> historicallhistorically, augs and presidential vacations have an opportunity for the unexpected event to cause more damage to a presidency than those around the president immediately see. there is the katrina of days of old and other examples of this. for president trump who had an opportunity on saturday said some of the necessary words, conveyed some of the national sense of sorrow and mourning, but didn't say the specific names of these white supremacists or white nationalist groups that have shown support to him politically. it left a gaping hole that democrats and republicans and others not directly in the political arena think he failed to stay more. when you have the first ladies office, the first daughter, the top officials on the sunday shows saying more. the vice president traveling in south

. >>> still ahead, nbc pete williams takes a closer look at the rise of right wing extremism media isying. that's on nightly news right after this broadcast. >>> five people in are in custody in connection with a violent home invasion. the suspects rage in age from 16 to 26. police say they knocked on the door of an apartment earlier this month and they went inside saying they were there to do inspections. once they got inside the victims were tied up and beaten. one was stabbed the suspects drove a victim to check cashing business where she works to try and get money from her. >> maryland's attorney general is reviewing is whether the governor is qualified to run. the candidate entered the race last week, but voter registration records show she was registered in maryland and also registered and voted in 2014 in the district of columbia. maryland law requires the candidate for governor to live in the state and to be registered there for five years. the maryland state board of elections asked for the review she insist that she's legally eligible to run. >>> a quicker commute, but it co

nbc's justice correspondent pete williams has more on that. pete, what exactly are we calling all of this? domestic hate crimes? domestic terrorism? what was this? >> it's certainly being investigated by federal authorities as hate crime. he faces murder charges in virginia and we of so've seen t pattern before here where you have local authorities pursuing their own charges and the federal government doing a civil rights investigation. so you'll have two parallel investigations going on here. the feds will look, of course, at motive although for the virginia authorities the motive isn't as important as the fact of what happened. that's what led to the second-degree murder charges that we'll he'll face. in an hour he'll appear by video conference in a local virginia courtroom in just a little while, be, the federal authorities will do their civil rights investigation. fields is 20 years old. he was born in kentucky. he moved with his mother to maumee, ohio, a suburb of toledo, earlier last year, and then he moved out of his mother's house about

i would defer to our colleague, pete williams, on that. but i was struck when pete was telling us about how there are some limitations in the code that may not sufficiently respond to this. that puts then pressure on congress to reevaluate where are the laws with respect to these sorts of acts that appear to be mimicking isis tactics using a vehicle, weaponizing a vehicle in a domestic setting. so i was struck by the fact that the president did say the words, but i wondered if he didn't do enough to say their mere existence, these groups, is it itself the problem. andrea? >> and gabe gutierrez in charlottesville, the governor was very explicit he had talked to the president. he didn't say so, but he certainly implied that he had communicated to the president that they needed to hear more from him. people there, as they heal and try to deal with this tragedy, they clearly want to see some signals -- some more signals from the justice department. >> reporter: yes, certainly, andrea. yeah, as governor terry mcauliffe yesterday, speaking at tho

was even with some clouds here in d.c., we went out on our front lawn at nbc and there we are, pete williamso would know. i love that picture. hadn't seen that before. are you the only person in america who didn't go out to see the eclipse? >> it's just a giant shadow. i don't really understand it. >> sam to stein! >> it's just a big shadow. what's the big deal? >> it was amazing is what it was. it was a very big deal. and i was in shock and awe and it was the break that i needed. that america needed. >> we'll leave it there. sam stein, shame, shame. more ahead. we'll be right back. aved money e insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. edible arrangements for summer. order in store or online. >>> message sam stein at mitchell reports. take it away, craig melvin. >> sam stein, who hates an eclipse? >> not your mom. >> no. good to see you. good tuesday afternoon to you. craig melvin at msnb

. >>> turning to pete williams who has more on the response to this violence in charlottesville. pete, good morning. we know the suspect here is facing state charges. second-degree murder among them. what will the federal government charges be? >> they are looking at just the that's the focus of the question of civil rights investigation. did that violate civil rights nows that interfered with a federally protected activity. if they bring that charge, it could bring the death penalty, savannah. >> what happened in charlottesville will outline the showed. what are they saying about the groups. are they growing? are more people following them in the streets or online? what can you tell us? >> there's two factors of work. something of a surge in hate group numbers in response to the nationwide efforts to remove or rename the symbols of the con f confederacy. many did this after dylan roof with the killing nine people in north carolina. some of these groups feel emboldened to come out of the shadows, believing their message is no longer taboo. >> how is it that the federal enforcement

. >> pete williams, thanks for that perspective. i want to go back to texas.rnor there greg abbott has said the undocumented immigrants should sook shelter. border patrol agents will not -- mariana. tell us what you've heard. >> reporter: i've spoken to half a dozen undocumented immigrants making their way into the shelter this morning. it is perhaps not a coincidence that they are seeking help five or six days after the storm hit after many other people as you've been featuring on the show are heading home upon realizing the waters aren't receding i need supplies and food for my family. even though they are aware the mayor has said nobody seeking help will get into legal trouble for not having the proper paperwork, there is this fear in the undocumented community here in houston that they may be put on some sort of database or may be raids happening in the shelters or they may be turned down. i just spoke to a woman by the name of patrice ya, she is aund many years. this is what she said. let's listen. >> we heard by the mayor of houston that not to be afraid

. >> i believe we have our own justice correspondent, pete williams on the phone right now to give us more information. about this. what do we know about when this happened and why? >> well, the white house hasn't said yet what the thinking was behind it, but the president himself laid it out pretty clearly, chris. of course, the president as pointed out, the president has the total constitutional authority to pardon anybody he likes. president can pardon people at any point. after they've been charged with a crime. while the trial's going on, after they've been convicted. the normal pattern though is for presidents to pardon people after the justice department makes a recommendation to a president typically the justice department won't recommend anyone for a pardon unless they've served at least five years of a sentence and have perhaps more significantly, expressed some remorse and of course, there's none of that here. he has insisted he never did anything wrong. he was convicted of criminal contempt after he was found in civil contempt for disobeying court orders to have his deputi

. >> that was attorney general jeff sessions speaking exclusively with nbc news and pete williams.es against james fields jr. who is accused of killing heater heyer. we expect a memorial service to start any moment. we are watching it on the ground. >> reporter: we're expecting a huge turn out here. the theater itself has a capacity of about 1100. it's expected to be packed. people began lining up outside the theater several hours before this is set to begin. because of this huge turnout they are live streaming the event people who wanted to see it and honor heather. her family and her friends people who did not know her are expected to come here to this theater. one of the requests from the family is that they wanted mourners to wear purple in honor of heather. it was her favorite color. we've seen a number of people doing that here today. >> thank you very much. very quick final thoughts from jonathan and catherine >> watching the footage in charlottesville i remember the president's last answer. he was asked if he would visit charlottesville. his response was not about a visit o

pete williams good perspective this morning. thank you. >> thank you, pete. >>> there's a lot more to get to this morning, including breaking news overnight, in the north korea crisis, after reviewing his military's plans to attack the u.s. territory of guam, kim jong-un now says he'll wait and watch, before deciding to launch. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more on this. andrea, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. i've been talking to officials overnight. and they are discounting those reports. that kim jong-un has blinked, if you will, after a government statement promising to back off his threat to guam if the u.s. pulse back its military forces. u.s. officials say that is a false hope of a speedy diplomatic way out of this crisis. kim jong-un, north korea says, reviewing plans from his generals for a missile launch toward the u.s. territory of guam. a smiling kim saying he will make a decision about his threat to guam, if the yankees persist. and repeating his demand that is a

. >> former vice president dick cheney and nbc's pete williams, home of the thunderbirds different eclipsest different lengths of time because the moon travels at the same speed but its shadow does not. so depending on where you are in the country, the eclipse could be longer or shorter this is the nasa live camera nasa has three jets in the air they've got 50 balloons, high-altitude balloons to take pictures the jets have telescopes on the noses to take pictures, what they call a corona graph photo, the graph lenses. >> it's not the beer. >> no. andrew made that joke on "squawk box. the only time you can do certain kinds of science examinations of the corona of the moon -- of the sun are during these eclipses. you can put a disk in front of a telescope and get some effect and study the corona that way but truly if you want to do science on certain parts of the corona, it's only now during eclipses >> beautiful we'll see more here. drew thank you for joining us. >>> it wouldn't be a true american eclipse without the animal spirits of capitalism coming out of the dark a number of businesses

this is video taken moments after 39-year-old charles williams was shot. he's known as peteppears he was targeted. police say this isn't the first time. williams survived another shooting in january and his fans are hoping that he will survive this one, too. >> it's a lot of hate going. i don't see why richmond. it's a lot of hate. we need to come together, we need to doer. >> and police aren't releasing any information about the suspect, but they are asking the community and they want them to know that there are no threats to the public. >>> and happening today we're expecting to find out how b.a.r.t. extensions into the south bay is coming along. santa clara valley transportation authorities will be giving an update. this is happening at the milpitas b.a.r.t. station which is under construction. b.a.r.t. recently completed the warm springs station in fremont which is up and running. >> also today the public invited to check out the environmental impact report on the proposed livermore b.a.r.t. station. the new station is planned for east livermore isabel avenue and 580. it

williams with kat timpf and pete hegseth. this is "the fox news specialists" ." are finally receding in houston but now harvey's wrath is consuming the areas around port arthur and beaumont, texas. the region lies 100 miles east of houston and is being inundated by flash flooding. sending residents fleeing for their lives and sparking frantic search and rescue efforts by volunteers and government officials. today's developments showing the worst is far from over for all too many americans along the gold coast. let's start with the three of us yesterday, speculation around when relief would come. what

williams with kat timpf and pete hegseth. this is "the fox news specialists" ." the floodwaters are finally receding in houston but now harvey's wrath is consuming the areas around port arthur and beaumont, texas. the region lies 100 miles east of houston and is being inundated by flash flooding. sending residents fleeing for their lives and sparking frantic search and rescue efforts by volunteers and government officials. today's developments showing the worst is far from over for all too many americans along the gold coast. let's start with the three of us yesterday, speculation around when relief would come. what we know is, not yet. >> kat: not yet come and it's still raining. rescue centers are now being flooded. imagine leaving your home, you go to a rescue center and now that's flooded. i can't even imagine. >> pete: houston is the fourth largest city in america, sprawling urban area. you go just east of it and you've got to come up port arthur is a town of 55,000 people. beaumont, texas, 111,000 people. they don't have the same resources. imagine you have

pete mackanin and fellows trying to avoid a four-game losing streak. rookie nick williams to impress going opposite fold back to the wall it goes, here comes aaron altherr and a fightins trail by one, next up, maikel franco, good hitting, opposite field, williams going to score, carlos gonzales boots it out. franco reaches third and in the sixth the phils and rockies a tied at two. a nice send-off for the upper providence 12 and under little league team. won the pennsylvania state championship last weekend and now they're heading to connecticut to play in a midatlantic regional. if they do well, the next stop is williams port for the little league world series, good luck. >> thank you so much, did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for

pete mackanin and fellows trying to avoid a four-game losing streak. rookie nick williamsontinues to impress going opposite fold back to the wall it goes, here comes aaron altherr and a fightins trail by one, next up, maikel franco, good hitting, opposite field, williams going to score, carlos gonzales boots it out. franco reaches third and in the sixth the phils and rockies a tied at two. a nice send-off for the upper providence 12 and under little league team. won the pennsylvania state championship last weekend and now they're heading to connecticut to play in a midatlantic regional. if they do well, the next stop is williams port for the little league world series, good luck. >> thank you so much, we appreciate that. >> price of . >>> did you know that beach tag tors avalon and stone harbor are reciprocal? they can be used for both beaches, let's head back to jessica and tori one more time. great job and you've exposed us to so much fun today during summerfest >> we have and tori and i were just saying we're going to shut this place down, last call, everybody packet up

. >> kat: hello everyone, i'm kat timpf along with pete had he gone stealth and lisa boothe who is in for eboni k williams. this is the "the fox news specialists." . >> kat: from the double down to the triple down. president trump dishing out a new round of threats at north korea. earlier today president trump tweeted out saying that million it tear ri solutions are, quote, locked and loaded today deal with the rogue state. he responded to questions about what he meant a short time a. >> president trump: i think it's pretty obvious. we're looking at that very carefully. i hope that they are going to fully understand the gravity of what i said. what i said is what i mean. >> kat: president trump is also issuing a new direct warning to kim jong-un. >> president trump: this man will not get away with what he's doing. believe me. if he utters one threat in the form of an overt threat, which by the way he has been uttering for years and his family has been uttering for years or if he does anything with respect to guam or anyplace else that's an american territory, or an american ally, he will truly regret it.

. >> kat: hello everyone, i'm kat timpf along with pete had he gone stealth and lisa boothe who is in for eboni k williamss the "the fox news specialists." . >> kat: from the double down to the triple down. president trump dishing out a new round of threats at north korea. earlier today president trump tweeted out saying that million it tear ri solutions are, quote, locked and loaded today deal with the rogue state. he responded to questions about what he meant a short time a. >> president trump: i think it's pretty obvious. we're looking at that very carefully. i hope that they are going to fully understand the gravity of what i said. what i said is what i mean. >> kat: president trump is also issuing a new

. >> pete: e-mail from william unless you live in hawaii and look 35 years old or look like tom selickcause that's more important. how do you feel about-- >> pete: men wearing tank tops as a fashion statement. >> clayton: the poll is up right now. we've got about 45 minutes left. a huge drop of illegals at the border because of the president 's tough talk, so what still needs to be done to secure the border, our next guest used to protect the border and ways weighs in on that. &%c1 &%f0 >> we believe strongly that a nation must defend and protect its borders. we want to control our borders and lift our people from welfare to work and in order to stop the drugs, gangs, and traffickers, we are building a wall on the southern border. >> [applause] >> pete: well the president ran on immigration and continues to emphasize it. president trump's tough talking credited for nearly 60% drop 58% right there in illegals, crossing the border. >> abby: and the president of the national board patrol council says what president trump has done in such a short time as pertains to border security is noth

pete muntean, wusa9. >> it is a cautionary tale. >>> there could soon be a meeting between former kkk member -- or a former kkk member and two of his victims. father william atchison admitted to burning a cross in a couple's front yard decades ago and the victims want him to cough up names. michael quander explains it may be tough to find and charge everyone involved. >> you don't talk to ku klux klan. >> reporter: the butlers were shocked after learning the man who burned a cross in their front yard back in the 70s is now a priest and living just

pete muntean, wusa9. >> it is a cautionary tale. >>> there could soon be a meeting between former kkk member -- or a former kkk member and two of his victims. father william atchison admitted to burning a cross in a couple's front yard decades ago and the victims want him to cough up names. michael quander explains it may be tough to find and charge everyone involved. >> you don't talk to ku klux klan. >> reporter: the butlers were shocked after learning the man who burned a cross in their front yard back in the 70s is now a priest and living just after 40 years, father william akerson came forward about his dark past with the kkk. he said he was sorry and willing to make -- and wanted to make things right but the victims want hum to do so much more and release the names of the people who helped him commit his crime. father akerson said in a statement that he would cooperate with police but we quickly found out it would likely be a struggle if the case were to reopen. we ran into issues today trying to find documentation or even where evidence was being stored. prince george's county prosecutors say it can be difficult to pull documents that old and even

pete suratos for "today in the bay." >>> the search continues for the gunman who shot a popular bay area rapper. this is video taken moments after 39-year-old williams shot. police say that it appears he was targeted. and this isn't the first time. police say he survived an oakland shooting in january and his fans hope he'll survive this one, too. >> i don't see why richmond. we need to do better. >> they say that they want the community to know that there is no threat to the public. >>> new this morning president trump has signed a bill to help speed up da analysis in criminal cases. the rapid dna act was sponsored congressman spralwell and dianne feinstein, using new technology that can process dna samples in 90 minutes or less. testing can happen at the time of a suspect's arrest. lawmakers believe this could help with the rape kit backlog as well. >>> not in our backyard, that's what many san jose residents are saying about tiny homes for the homeless. the community meeting was held in south san jose, many voicing their displeasure for the proposed tiny homes plan which would be used as transitional housing. they're planning to fill an empty fie

william f buckley's relationship with presidential administrations in his book. and then it is catherine smith on her book the gatekeeper. and later, -- share stories from her time working in the white house. petehis book "obama" and remarks from pat buchanan. he reflects on his time working for the 37th president in his book "nixon's white house wars." all this week in prime tandem on c-span2. primetime on c-span2. all week we are highlighting c-span's original series -- landmark cases. a look tonight at youngstown sheet and tube company versus sawyer in which the supreme court eliminated the power of the president to seize private property. american history tv in primetime on c-span3. >>

william sherman's march to the sea and union prisoners that escaped. we'll start with union general george meade, this is part of the civil war institute conference at gettysburg college. >> good morning, everyone. i'm pete car mikele and the director of the civil war institute. i welcome all of you to our panel on georgia gordon meade. i'm going to quickly go through this morning as line up. on my far right you to your left, we have john hennessey, and historian. he is also a -- the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. to his left, scott hartwig. he is a long time friend and supporters of cwi and also a historian. retired historian from gettysburg national park. he is also written a book on the battle of antietam. it is a two volume study and the second voelume will be out in a few years. excellent. good. to the left of scott is jennifer murray. jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the gettysburg national park. and she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. and many of you met ken know. he was your adviser at auburn where she completed her dissertation. and last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. you do need intr

pete was going to be the great white hope for baseball. and they hooked the other way. remember, baseball was dominated by willie mays, hank aaron, billy william, ernie banks, all of these great african-american and hispanic players. so baseball needed the white hope. and they decide hey we can't have this investigation come public, and they just destroyed all of the evidence. and i really hope baseball accountable for letting this thing fester for all these many years. >> so what are your thoughts then? we played the sounds from your radio show, when this moment happened, that everyone is talking about now. as the host, when you heard him say though words, what was your ring? >> like somebody punch me right in the stomach, right in the stomach. because i had a nice relationship with pete. we had a very tomorrow you will too us one, we didn't talk for 15 years after he was suspend from the baseball. but we bridged a gap. we mended fences. but it was just devastating. i mean, when they come out with that, when dowd came out with that pronouncement, saying, wow, what's going on here, and i'm saying why? and then of course the defamation of chara

william sherman's march to the sea and union prisoners that escaped. we'll start with union general george meade, this is part of the civil war institute conference at gettysburg college. >> good morning, everyone. i'm pete ca