sorely need after get that eats we supported china during the most difficult times of fighting the potomac now we also want to stand by the italian people although china still has a large demand for medical supplies we will step up our efforts to export urgently needed materials and equipment to eataly literally told us of protective clothing face masks gloves and all important lifesaving ventilators from china are expected to be in italy by the weekend meanwhile the e.u. nations can't decide what to do with italy with some fencing themselves off from their beleaguered neighbor if we focus what we don't want things to get out of proportion as you fly because it needs to be useful and because this is only the beginning of the epidemic and if we take disproportionate measures they will be unsustainable in the long run and there's counterproductive i sincerely believe that these out there decision european carbonation is much more efficient after that confinement postcodes are more efficient measures requiring patients to be responsible and stay home quarantine measures are much more efficient. a

the national government is disneyland on the potomac right now. it is not part of your life. thank you. that's number one. number two is, i have been to thousands of conferences about high school is no longer enough, captive two years. so we came up, and i see a number of the staff of cabinet members here, we came up with the chicago star scholarship. to get a b average and high school, college is free. [applause] first city to do it. thousand kids of done it. boston, denver, louisville, san francisco, oakland just to name a few and there's other cities replicating it. now we have 8000 kids in growing in chicago who have already used it and going on. do you think betsy devos was called? [laughter] you think betsy devos. chicago, forget all the mayors and their seven governors doing it. come out to washington on here about it. now i think that's horrible. i am not saying that free community college is the most important education policy, but my mother think it's in the top three done in the united states of america. if you do think three quarters post- high school. and seven c

politics at american university and adam goodman a republican media strategist and over in potomac maryland doug for now a democratic advisor and partner at s.k. dk a political strategy firm so glad you're all with us today i'd like to just start with amy for a minute just ask you the question is is there something sort of tin ear that something off about campaigning while the nation is struggling as it is with coronavirus today how do you bridge that the fact that we're in an election season but we also have one of the biggest challenges this nation has ever had i know they needed challenging you would think with 110000000 americans understand how mordor you have a captive audience that it's challenging the bottom line is is easy you have this environment where we used to be talking about the primary election the general election and then news other news things you know would come but this is just everybody's focus whether it's the health you know aspect to it the economic aspect to it i think the election kind of on behind that in campaigns are just conversations that go to us that this is one of the

senior international economist with the economic policy institute and he's joining us live now from north potomac a maryland thank you very much indeed for talking to us i'm just wondering about what your thoughts are about the size and the scope of this emergency package that has been passed by the senate now back in the house of representatives is it fits the purpose will it do the job in the short term. well this is certainly large is the largest spending bill that's ever been passed by the u.s. senate we expect to be to be passed by the house and signed by the president tomorrow. but he's just a down payment senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said this is just a relief bill it's not even a simulants so there is much more that's going to remain to be done to. repair the damage that's going to be done to the economy right as far as you're aware what we know about the bill savefile their job retention lenses loan forgiveness there are direct cash payments as well as on the expanded unemployment benefits what do you think might be missing to take a thinking about the case in the united kingdo

the clearing, up through the woods at the top of the map and off the map into an area that is now the potomac subdivision. it was fields at the time. there's almost a full moon. there had been a full moon a couple nights before. there's a lot of shadows. terrain is rolling. got woods around there. inexperienced troops. this recon patrol gets out into where the subdivision is. they look in the distance and they see a confederate camp. there's tents over there. let's go back and tell general stone there's a confederate camp there. they don't check it out. inexperience kicks in. they just say, okay, here is tents. what they see is what appears to be a line of the tops of tents. you have the a-frame tents and you got this jagged line, looks like the top of tents. it's a row of trees. you got the trunks of the trees, branchs hanging down in between. you get that same kind of appearance in the distance. they don't check it out. they say, confederate camp. tell the general. they go back. they report 10:00, 11:00 at night, there's a confederate camp over there. you know what? we didn't see any guards

pandemic what do you think now any predictions on where we might be in all of this and when it might be over. actually think predictions are extremely unhelpful at this moment potomac is evolving rapidly all over the world. there is no accurate way to predict. the future in the coming weeks we have to deal with what we see now and we have to plan for the situation deteriorating in a number of countries in which it already has in many many countries or not in that situation many countries have a low number of cases and they need to to work as hard as they can to contain this fire so that they don't progress into the situation that other countries find themselves in now where do things stand right now when it comes to potential vaccines and treatments vaccines are. a long way out at this point and you know clear with and honest with everyone it's going to take at least a year to bring vaccines into the fight against this white house there are these 30 candidates actually is currently being developed are already under under under trials in fact trials are started last week in the united states and further trials will be starting in china and other countries in the com

so the army of the potomac's strength basically stays the same. lee's army is down. now he's outnumbered by almost 35,000. so the odds have shifted very badly against him except for this. all meade can seecy've lost two of my seven corps and i still have to send 7,000 men to guard the railroad and i don't want to go down this railroad blind anyway, and therefore, i'm no longer capable of offensive action. it turns out that stanton was right, that meade wasn't going to take advantage of these circumstances. in fact, he still has it in his head that lee's army is as big as his own. so 1-1 odds, he's not going to go over to the offensive. robert e. lee is of a different mindset. when he learns they have disappeared, he goes over to the offensive and on october 9th of 1863, he swings his troops out of orange county, into madison county, trying to get around the flank of the union army and come down on it from the west and hit it in culpeper. the federals pick up hints of the confederates moving from their signal stations, but it's not definitive enough and there's a possibil

although free blacks now outnumbered slaves in the capital investors in human flesh had merely to cross the potomac river to the markets of alexandria to shop the 3100 enslaved men women and children who were still inextricably woven into the fabric of washington life holding doors driving carriages cleaning the mud from boots hawking oysters tending tables, suckling white babies waiting on tables touting trunks reminded whites at every turn that the institution that was for sharing the nation was alive and thriving in its capital. there was this tentative only semi urban quality to much. that ended the national really just a field where sheep and crowds grazed rose the ugly stop of the aborted washington monument like a finger lopped off the first joint banded for lack of financing. little had changed since 1849 with the visiting charles dickens sarcastically described its nondescriptive dwellings into wide streets that petered out in empty fields as the city of magnificent distances. nothing more aptly epitomize the unfinished city than the capital itself surrounded by à Ãstrewn around the buildi

he gives two of french's divisions to warren, who now has six infantry divisions, almost 26,000 men. warren has two-thirds of the army of the potomac's infantry to launch this massive attack at dawn on november 30th of 1863. and an hour after warren hits, sedgwick's going to hit a double envelopment. and if this attack had been launched, it would have been the single largest attack ever made by the army of the potomac, throwing the most troops in across the widest front. its entire history, grant has never even come close to pulling off something like this. overnight, of course, the confederates have shifted in front of warren. lee has settled troops south. and once again, the confederates pull off their magic and they dig in like beavers. and the next morning when the federal troops wake up and they're cold and they're hungry, meade had left his supply wagons north of the river to speed everything up, carried eight days' rations. most of that's been eaten up. no camp fires because that will give away our position to the rebels. so even though the temperatures are freezing, nobody's got coffee, nobody's got hot food. everybody's gett

now it all makes sense. he is waiting for these reinforcements and he will go back over. this is the moral dominance that robert e lee has over the army of the potomac's general. he might resume the offensive. cut the potomac -- army of the potomac off from washington dc. disaster will ensue. meade is not 100% certain that this will happen. the western end of the shenandoah valley seems to indicate that a rebel offensive is a real possibility. meade stalls until he can really figure out what is going on. when he figures that out 35 hours later, it is already too late. you don't give lee 35 hours. lee is sending most of his army to chester's gap. at the same time, meade belatedly is trying to shove his forces through manessa's gap with the idea of taking this area and cutting off the confederate retreat. lee believes that other cores are still in the valley. he could potentially destroy 2/4 3rds of the army of northern virginia. meade intelligence is all messed up. it is actually hill and long street who are already going through chester's gap. meade tries to cut it off by sending the third corps backed up by the second and fifth. this leads to the fir

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