chose to pull veteran sports announcer robert levy from the university of virginia's home opener in september yes spokesperson told the washington post quote we collectively made that this. with robert to switch games as the tragic events in charlotte or unfolding simply because of the coincidence of his name so now both right and left me out floods and corporate and independent outlets are calling for apology is making mediums and feigning abject horror at the act while reveling in the clicks that their own reporting of the outrage honors them with because context doesn't matter when it's possible to take a shot across the bow of the current administration mainstream media headlines this morning were practically is all over it and over it is that the navy was second vice admiral joseph acquired the commander of the seventh fleet over recent accidents as they said quote due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command what the navy and the media failed to make clear was that the vice admiral just acquired was set to retire in less than two weeks that the navy just began a full fleet wide

executives have decided that play by play announcer robert levy will not be in the broadcast booth for next saturday's college football season opener because of the similarity between his name and the famed confederate icon. this is a perfect example of what kind of a lunacy our country is going through connally's rice said it beautifully these are my these this is our history right and what the left is engaging is a storable revisionism this is the reality for better or for worse of what the us was in its most of our founding fathers were slave owners right they were participating in the evil of slavery so it's i mean we have tear them down so we take washington off the one dollar bill it's a teachable moment when you walk in with your kids through south and you see your my of the jefferson davis or whoever it might be it's a moment to sit with your child reflect a remote rise and how we move from it i think we're heading to a very dark place and it scares me quite a bit. ok let's throw up off today's headlines from where you can of course get more on the ball stories on our web site.

executives have decided that play by play announcer robert levy will not be in the broadcast booth for next saturday's college football season opener because of the similarity between his name and the same confederate icon. this is a perfect example of what kind of a lunacy our country is going through connally's rice said it beautifully these are my these this is our history right and what the left is engaging is a storable revisionism this is the reality for better or for worse of what the us it was in its most of our founding fathers were slave owners right they were participating in the evil of slavery so exactly we have tear them down so we take washington off the one dollar bill it's a teachable moment when you walk in with your kids to the south and you see a mine at the jefferson davis or whoever it might be it's a moment to sit with your child to reflect on what was and how we moved from it i think we're heading to a very dark place and it scares me quite a bit. people in pakistan have been denouncing double trump all three q.'s the country of harboring terrorists crowds took

robert e. lee should be charged with treason. he leviedhe united states more than any other man in the land and thereby has been especially guilty of the crime of treason has defined in the constitution of the united states. the times wanted to say whether general lee should be hung or not is a minor question. three days later, robert e. lee was in fact indicted for treason. his opponent in the civil war fellow west point graduate ulysses s. grant interceded with johnson to drop the treason case against lee. president johnson was very much in favor of prosecuting lee for treason but general grant who was much more popular with the public told the president that he would resign from the army and in a public protest after traeon prosecution of robert e. lee. so president john son backed down and got federal prosecutors to drop the case. robert e. lee ahad a close. he could have been the chander of the army in the civil war or commander of the confederate army. he made the wrong choice. 40% of virginia officers in the u.s. military remained i

levi's stadium. our pregame show begins at 6:30. >>> raiders receiver seth roberts he has a knack for doing his talking on the field and not in the locker room. in fact, at one point former teammate charles woodson was doing the interviews for him. >> seth roberts, what did you do today? >> just put the team on my back. >> today roberts was rewarded for that with a $12 million three-year contract extension. 70 career catches, 10 as touchdowns. he was going to make $600,000 this year. >>> baseball news. the astros have been playing this week series against the rangers in st. petersburg, florida, because of the flooding in houston. today the team announced that they will return to houston saturday to play the mets. their president reed ryan tweeted this picture of a flood-free minutemaid park. >>> video from the stands of the nationals game in washington, dc. she solves the rubiks cube in between pitches and does it in about 10 seconds. perhaps dusty baker should hire her to solve his bullpen situation. it's funny, in the newsroom looking for a rubiks cube that you could try and solve during the sportsca

robert e. lee stands ironically in a park called emancipation park actually and i say that ironically because as you and many others know levy was the confederate general who led the south to failure in the american civil war and it's possible if he had been victorious the emancipation proclamation issued by president abraham lincoln in one thousand nine hundred sixty three may have never been a law here in the american south in fact i may be standing in a completely different country altogether today if that had been the case and yet it's twenty seventeen and the american woman has been killed at this event and all our political establishment seems capable of doing is pointing the finger at political opponents actually the point of today's show is going to be to turn that finger in on us as as americans and question what role white supremacy has played historically in this country but also ask a key question which it which you likely won't hear brought up anywhere else after a week of such bellicose rhetoric coming out of washington we're hearing threats of a war on north korea threats of military action in venezuela from o

robert e. lee's example of defeat forced and grudging. and one point that is good to remember when discussing the confederacy, article 3 of the u.s. constitution defines treesen as levyingn the united states and that of course is exactly what the confederates did. >> very necessary explanation. thank you so much for that, stephanie. military analyst retired four star general barry mccalfry joining us now. your thoughts on -- the comparison of robert e. lee and george washington. it's been going around for a long time. if you're against lee, you've got to be against washington. i think stephanie laid out clearly that they're very different situations. >> look, this san opportunity to be seized. and by the way, i'm sure the pentagon leadership would rather have smallpox than get drug into this debate. but we have ten military posts named after confederate generals. largest post of in the world is foeft brag named after brakton brag, a confederate general. ft. gordon in georgia named after a confederate general who later on became the head of the ku klux klan in the state. we need to change this in the next three, four, five years. probably ought to rename them after medal