pickett. a request for omb would have to come from -- >> mr. starr, i'm not going to accept that. i'm going to continue to fight this because i think you're wasting taxpayers' money. i think you have a perfectly fine facility that be utilized without wasting taxpayers' money like the state department has done time and time again. >> i do not ever want to waste taxpayer money, sir. we have to build 90% of the facilities that we would have to build -- would have to be built in georgia as well as fort pickett pickett. georgia does not have the facilities that we need. >> they have shown they can do that at a lower cost. >> no, sir they have not. i think the outcoming gao report will show that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i yield the remay understandinder of my time. >> thank you, mr. chair and to the committee that's speaking here today. ambassador hays, according to the 2014 report egis billed the government without required documentation and with inadequate invoices. what steps has the state de

this would give us the site at fort pickett. most importantly, it allows us to train with our partners such as the marine battalion in quantico. we can meet jointly together. they will have a difficult time getting down to georgia to do those types of training exercises. flex he does not currently on their space, they cannot handle the type of weapons we use. they are looking at getting another military facility 30 or 60 miles away that we would also have to go to in order to use the weapons. >> so would not be worth doing it if it saves a couple hundred million dollars for the taxpayer? mr. starr: i suggest looking at the study. >> right now what is the cost that the state department has provided? it has fluctuated a great deal. what would be the cost to the taxpayer for four pickett? $413 million. that has gone -- how long is that been the estimate? >> independent estimates conducted by gsa our building contractor has broadened in ad 400 $13 million. >> we will be conducting oversight. there were several billion dollars from t

mace bro or 33-year-old -- mayci breaux or jillian johnson after the westboro church threatened to pickett the service. the suspect supported the group. >> every time this happens it seems like the person has a history of mental illness. we need to make sure the systems we have in place actually work. >> investigators are sxining houser's online postings and articles left behind in his messy hotel room. police meanwhile went back inside the still closed movie theaters where it happened. it was strewn with popcorn purses and blood. >>> investigators are rezinning cold cases after a serial killer went after a woman. she is alive he is dead. he could be connected to murders in illinois, nevada and ohio. >> heather who doesn't want to give her last name says minutes after she opened the door to her charleston home, neal falls began choking her. he held a gun in one hand and by the throat in the other. heather quickly grabbed a rake in self defense. >> he put the gun down to get the rake out of my hands. i grabbed it and shot behind me. >> it hit falls in the head, killing him. heather ran out

>> reporter: scout troop 210 out of springfield, illinois, carried its own flag as it reenacted pickett's charge at gettysburg battlefield. but the battle flag the confederate army carried 250 years ago is not hard to find here. in a gettysburg shop, you can even find it on a bikini. with calls to ban the flag in some parts to have the country here only little protest and modest change. katie lawhon is manager of the park. there is still a role for the confederate flag? >> we feel strongly there will always be a role for the confederate flag at gettysburg on museum exhibits and monuments. >> reporter: there have been changes on what's for sale inside the park. the confederate flags are gone, only leaving stars and stripes and you can buy a t-shirt or mug with the rebel flag but only if it also displays the american flag. the confederate flag is still widely displayed in the museum and battlefield itself. >> we've always told both sides to have the story at gettysburg military park. it's our passion to tell the whole history. >> to me it's history. >> reporter: lee houser wears the uniform

i think that's what i try to deal with when talking about's the high watermark, pickett's charge, the meaning of gettysburg. there clearly was a high watermark for the confederacy. that's still an important part of understanding the battle. especially as military dimensions. in a deeper sense, it was lincoln who defined the real meaning of gettysburg. the new birth of freedom. peter: i'm going to take that new birth of freedom and lead into my final question. to criticism of your work by a historian. to southern historian has dabbled in civil war history. this is from a piece about the civil war. but even i served. he's afraid to ken burns as well as mcpherson. anti-slavery, progress, war and national identity intertwined at the same time of the civil war so that each element became inseparable from the others. the story has become common sense to americans. emancipation, war, nation and progress. all seem part of one story. the same story. i would add to that, this is the new birth of freedom. how do you feel about that as a criticism of your work? james: it's a description of my wor

the great heroes of this union were pickett's charge. not broke americans -- heroic americans in central pennsylvania. the new york age tried the central reunion to the current situation of african-americans jim crow and disenfranchisement. their view was about the national syndicate. they were talking about newspapers and business. they wanted business between the sections. that is why they wanted reunion. they were the ones for african-americans actions being there and the african-american veterans say a lot of the white veterans were not pleased with things like the rebel yell and the way confederates behaved. they were at the reunion, but they really weren't on board with the idea that it was a lovefest. really, they were very -- they gave a totally different story. you would get none of this if you had read, as i read, "the washington post." "the new york age" had a different take. prof. varon: as powerful as the reconciliationist narrative was and lost cause narrative was there is a counter argument present and we shouldn't imagine

have this, aiding us culminating --this culminating massive assault of 13,000 men that we know as pickett's charge. a mile-long formation of confederate soldiers trying to punch a hole through the union defensive. in this climatic moment as some confederate soldiers of breakthrough the union hold stone wall as some of the fiercest hand to hand combat. men shooting into each other's faces. men are clubbing each other with the butts of their rifles and stabbing each other with the bayonet. they can see the faces of their enemies as they try to take their lives. when war is extremely up close and personal and grisly. and even for the townspeople inside of the community had an idea of the scale of this large combat going on. sarah broadhead wrote in her diary that it sounded like heaven and their earth were crashing together so loud was the volume of cannon and gunfire during this moment. at this time, the confederates are repulsed. they began to retreat and a fall back from where they had just charged. and it becomes the first time that robert e. lee is soundly defeated by the union forces his

if they fit or maybe one piece is so big that it literally gives you three quarters of an entire pickettat's the ultimate piece you're looking for. often that's something that happens. >> what is the priority as this investigation is happening. the shooter is deceased four marines have been killed. what's the priority? >> that there's not another assailant out there. the dead suspect is the middle of the bull's-eye. that's priority number 1, 2 and 3, to be honest. honestly because the assailant is dead the investigation will be who did he know? who was he working with? what were the reasons? getting to motive. that's why we're being careful what we are calling this because we just don't know anything right now. >> identifying the shooter is key. once you have the shooter identified you can work from there. we can go through his apartment, his computer did any of his friends know anything was there any indication? did somebody keep quiet? these are some of the questions we'll have to happen. >> i imagine it's a mad scramble. i want to go back to the scene where one of the shootings happen