this is a re-creation of the rampart wall. it is similar in terms of construction, although it is a little bit short. it would have been closer to eight the tall and the side facing the british would have been heavily sloped to allow cannonballs to deflect off of it more easily. eventually the british heard that this area of the rampart would be the weakest part of the defensive line, so they tried to flank the side and take out the artillery that was causing problems for the british. unfortunately for the british, jackson had been warned by pure lafitte -- pierre lafitte that he should extend the rampart and it gets extended into the swamp. instead of being the weakest part of the line, it becomes one of the strongest, and the british really are not prepared for how deep and difficult it is to move through swamp. they end up taking massive casualties there. the second line of defense by the british is near the levy side and the plan there was to take ladders and big bundles of sugarcane sticks from the nearby plantation -- th

he starts by having a rampart created along the rodriguez can out. the can out its dugout -- can now -- canal. this gets dugout and provides a long fortification that the men can stand behind. this is our regression of the rampart wall. it is similar in terms of construction, oh it is short. it would've been closer to a two tall. the side facing the british would have been heavily sloped to allow cannonballs to deflect off of them more easily. initially, the british said the swamp part of the rampart would be the weakest part of the defensive line so they hoped to flick around the side and take up the artillery that was causing so many casualties for the british. unfortunately for the british, jackson had been mourned by one of the pirates out there that he should extend the rampart. he extended it about 400 yards into the swamp. instead of it being this weakest portion of the entire place, it was one of the strongest. the british are not prepared for how deep and difficult it is to move the swamp. band of taking massive casualties there. the second

this is our re-creation of the rampart wall. it would have been closer to eight feet tall. the sides facing the british would have been heavily sloped, allowed cannonballs to reflect off of it more easily. around theto flank side and take out the artillery causing so many casualties for the british. unfortunately for the british, jackson had been warned by one of the local pirates that he should extend that rampart. he gets a the tallying of ofnessee -- a batallion tennessee sharpshooters. it becomes the strongest part of the line and the british take heavy casualties. andplan was to take ladders sticksdles of sugarcane -- they would have thrown those la acks into the canal and ladder over it so they could swarm into the canal causing so many casualties. however that day, they did not bring them. the third line of attack we cannot see from where we are standing now. looking on the west bank, jackson had a set of canaan -- a set of cannons. the british general fund if he could capture those, he could turn those on to the artillery. they do capture those. it comes about two h

to crisscross rampart street, so named because there was a fork here, thus rampart, and go to the world-famousrench quarter. >> we're starting to see that wrought iron, the architecture that typically comes to mind. .nd we are at bourbon street >> we're at the quieend bobon street? -- bourbon street. >> there's a quiet and? >> there certainly is. the commercial and of bourbon street is the first eight or so blocks. the rest is a residential neighborhood almost indistinguishable from the rest of the french quarter. >> what do you think people get wrong when they think about new orleans? when i initially think of bourbon street at the top of mind, are they missing out on something? i am inclined to see interpretations of new will is as being interpretations of .eoples personalities i see everybody in the city is having a head full of expectations, and i see that as all legitimate and interesting. one of my books is on the history of bourbon street. it took me a wild to make peace with what i just said, but piece i did make -- it took me a while to make peace with what i just i did make.ace i cam

. ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ through the perilous fight music back for the ramparts we thought gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave music bac to the ♪ the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ ♪ thank you very much everybody. appreciate it. i want to thank the united states marine band and army for that incredible performance. we love our country and respect the flag and proudly stand for the national income. it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the white house for this patriotic celebration. a beautiful day and beautiful celebration. i also want to thank our great vice president mike pence along with the secretary, representatives to hopefully will be the next senator from the great state of pennsylvania. it is a great state. representative mike kelly, great to see you. i want to take this opportunity to explain why young americans stand for the national income. maybe it's about time. we stand to honor our military an

whose broad stripes and whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the rampartse atched were so gallantly streaming and thcked gre the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled anner yet wave oer the land of the free, and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] president trump: thank you very much, everybody. appreciate it. i want to thank the united states marine band and the united states army chorus for that incredible performance. i'd love to have a voice like that. what a voice. we love our country, we respect our flag and we always proudly stand for the national anthem. we always will stand for the national anthem. [applause] it is my great pleasure to welcome everyone to the white house for this patriotic celebration. beautiful, beautiful day and a beautiful celebration. i also want to thank our great vice president, mike pence. thank you, mike, for joining us along with secretary steven mnuchin, secretary ryan zinke, representative lou barletta who hopefully lou barletta will be your next sen

the ramparts of mons in. the shells around the church the abbey buildings and the village like a medieval fortress they were built during the hundred years war to keep out the arch enemy the english. unperturbed by the changing fortunes of the mt in flowered valarie and then other plants grow out of the cracks in the stone their blossoms give the stern aspect of the fortified buildings an air of peacefulness. in the middle ages most in the shell was a popular stage for the countless pilgrims travelling along paradise way on their journey to santiago de compostela. when they saw the mount appearing on the horizon the pilgrims were overcome with holy are. changing their religious songs they climbed up the rocks to the church here in a fervor of devout enthusiasm they became lost in wonder at the miracles of st michael. the miracles were meticulously recorded by the monks in their chronicles not always without skepticism but gladly nonetheless. the pilgrims bought relics and holy water to take away with them. so

in times of danger the people could withdraw to faults behind ramparts ditches and palace saying it's. the king gave the past. since land and weapons he also had grain stored so that his subjects could withstand longer sieges. half. half. the ramparts of that saxon fort are still visible today but back then they were not enough to prevent the my gallant's from invading the kingdom. because all to move from place to place some of his subjects would have seen him and spoken to him. one of his school. where this week. and scott from out of the book equal my. father you learn english young we've had a lit up a very long to be don't go but not even angus male or the new one will be. free for the young more. really we haven't begun mean. invoke winning theocratic gun gun he got his nom. yeah i. mean. how do we know what language the people spoke back then. were the tribes in autos kingdom able to understand each other. the east. the monastic library of design gallon in switzerland contains many treasures from the early middle ages manuscripts provide insight into how the germans communicate

we are going toross rampart street, so named because there was a fort here, and head into the quieter, more residential end of the french quarter. >> are starting to see that wrought iron. professor campanella: iconic, right. >> we are at bourbon street. professor campanella: we are the quiet end of bourbon street. >> there is a quiet end. professor campanella: the commercial famous infamous bourbon street is really only about the first eight or so blocks. the rest is a quiet residential neighborhood almost indistinguishable from the lowest rates of the french quarter. >> what do people get wrong about new orleans? when they think of bourbon street top of mind, are they missing out? professor campanella: i'm the type who sees all impressions of new orleans as being interesting indicators of people's impressions. i see every person exploring or living in this city as having a head full of impressions and expectations. i see that as all legitimate and interesting. one of my books is on the history of bourbon street. it took me a while to make these with what i just -- make peace with wh

was a progressive government invested in the idea of kind of pulling donald trump back from the rampartsetting him to engage. i get that. it's also a progressive government as with any government in south korea who understands that the bedrock of that country's militarytrength is its relationship with the united states. i can imagine the sleepless night. mentioned he had a sleepless ni that moon ja in had. as the president said war games. this is a big problem for the south koreans and is the guy whose got to get serious and fix this. usually when you've had 3,000 years dealing with someone you get a sense of their patterns. i think the south koreans have liked this distant alliance that we have. we're pretty good ally partner. we're not looking for territory. we're pretty good partner to have. we've helped make south korea have one of the most capable militaries in the world. not to speak of their economy. the problem now is going to getting back to some kind of work plan and again, i would just trashhat thing that was signed. as someone who worked on the six party statement, worked eve

congresswoman, you're at the ramparts as we used to say in the '60s. got handcuffed -- >> no handcuffs. >> what was your protest about. what did it involve and why did you do it? >> 2500 women from all over the country came to really show their moral outrage at the president and his policy, zero tolerance, zero humanity putting kids in cages, putting parents who are seeking asylum into prisons so they were there to say we're putting ourselves on the line. i went to speak to them but i was so moved by how passionate they were and the stories we were telling so i sat down with them and got arrested. i believe civil disobedience is an important tactic to push an issue the forefront. >> it's participatory democracy as we called in the the '60s but he's about to pick a decisive member of the supreme court. someone he thinks thereby for 45 years perhaps sitting on the bench. >> this is a horrible, horrible thing. i do think if we can make it clear to the american people what's at stake that this will help us to get a wave across the country, make sure we int

the two des went quickly to the ramparts today, with mid- term elections just over five months away. >> i'm ready to fight, are you ready to fight? >> woodruff: outside the supreme court this morning, democratic senators warned the stes could not be higher in the fight to replace justice anthony kennedy >> women's access to safe legal abortion is on the line, marriage equality on the line, voting rights on the line, >> the menacing trveh is that we o face a reality coming at us where we might lose some of the precious ideals of our country. and i stand here to say, "this will not happen without a fight." >> woodruff: president trump promised quick action ally last night in north dakota, hours after kenn'sy announced etiring.re >> i'm very hothat he chose to do it during my term in office because hfelt confident for me to make the right choice and carry on his greatacy. >> woodruff: over the years, kennedy joined court conservatives in rolling back campaign finance curbs and voting rights provisions. this week, he joined 5 to 4 majorities upholding president trump's travel ban, and ag

french quarter makes it attractive to many other folks for cultural, historical reasons, we will cross ramparteet here and into the quieter more residential end of the french quarter. >> we are starting to see a lot of architecture. and we are at bourbon street. there is the quiet end. >> it is 14 blocks long, near adjacent neighborhoods. it is think of new orleans? are they missing out? >> i am the type who sees all sections of new orleans as being interesting indicators, i see every person living in the city as having a head full of impressions and expectations and i see that as all legitimate and interesting. one of my books, the history of bourbon street, took a while to make peace with what i just said. >> what changed for you? >> and setting the phenomena and of bourbon street today i came to realize tourism and visitation and everything that goes on in bourbon street has deep historic precedent. in and of itself is legitimate cultural expression. also 200 years ago there was an economy catering to escapism and hedonism and drinking and bourbon street is the modern-day manifestation, the

because i haven't consistently raised awareness -- because i have consistently raised awareness of rampart fraud and abus of this program, i don't need to tell you about the ex-wife of china's third most government official who pled guilty to committing eb-5 fraud by submitting false documents as part of a scheme to escape to the u.s. with stolen funds. i don't need to tell you how homeland security investigations discovered a group of iranian operatives attempting to infiltrate the united states and facility trifment through a procurement network back in 2013. i don't need to detail the concerns with exporting sensitive technology, investment fraud and other criminal activity. i will only mention some of the moster grejouse and recent cases. some of the most egregious and recent cases. a group of 120 chinese nationals sued in idaho real estate development company and claimed they were coerced and investing over $60 million. the real estate company in question allegedly promised there was zero risks to invest in their specific eb-5 project, a claim that clearly vie lates the program's requ

often said, we have in at a trade war forever, the difference is, now our troops are coming to the rampart. >> i want you to hear me, apples and cherries are getting hurt. people who are farmers and small , individual businesses, who fight every day to get access to asian markets, to india, to canada to mexico, they believe in a trade policy that keeps moving forward. why? because they gain access and there is a growing middle class. they get that we can grow things and the competitive that growing things even if there are more value added products. american agriculture can still win. what they cannot win at is if you push them off a's shelf base and they go out of business, they are not coming back. once you get whatever you get later, that person does not refinance their company and come back. they might be out of business forever. i do not think you are empathetic enough with the plight of agriculture. now seafood is on short margin and will be in the same spot. these people might go out of business while you are creating this trade war. mr. secretary,y trade wars are not good, they are

the difference is that now our troops are coming to the ramparts. >> no, mr. sec tarik i want you to hear me. apples and cherries are getting hurt. people who are farmers, who are small businesses, small business, individual businesses, who fight every day to get access to asian markets, to india. to canada. to mexico. they believe in a trade policy that keeps moving forward. why? because they gain access and there's a growing middle class around the globe. they get that we can grow things and be competitive at growing things, even if they're more value added products. american agricultural can still win. but what they can't win at is if you push them off a shell space and they go out of business, they're not coming back. once you get whatever you think you're going get later, that person doesn't refinance the company and just come back. they might be out of business forever. so i just, i don't think you're effort thetic enough to the plight of now seafood, is going to be in the same spot. and these people might go out of business while you're creating this tr

last gleaming ♪ ♪ who's broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the rampartsght that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ♪ [cheers and applause] ainsley: that is your shot of the morning. isn't that beautiful? that flag is 30 by 50 flag representing patriotism out our plaza. our army band is performing "the star-spangled banner" in honor of flag day. todd: that giant flag from annon, making flags in the u.s. since 184. brian: it is anniversary of the flag. it is held by some of our veterans, wounded warriors, first-responders and members of the sons of the revolution. singing was emily jurgens. she has been on before. i don't need to tell you before, what a voice. ainsley: bring in steve doocy who is live down in d.c. at nationals park ahead of tonight's congressional baseball game. it has been one year since the attack on steve scalise and other lawmakers. steve: with ron desantis, congressman from florida and running for governor. everyone of the republican player

last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the rampartsgallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave ♪. [applause] >> thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, ralph reed. ♪ >> good morning. wow! wasn't stacy great? incredible talent. you know, we've already heard from the speaker of the house and senator ted cruz and senator marco rubio and the chairman of the house ways and means committee, and the chairman of the senate finance committee, and i could go on and on. i think half the leadership in the senate and the house, second ranking republican in the u.s. senate, john cornyn and we're just getting going. we've got two more days. and i am so deeply honored to recommend back our next speaker, he's been here before. he and i became good friends when he was attorney