a few years ago, i got a call from the spartanburg county library system and they had picked my novel glory land for the reads program. and so they invited me to spartanburg, south carolina, and they took me to my great grandfather's home that i had never been to, that i had no idea where it was, where my father was raised. and i found out that my great grandfather ran a school for the blind in the late 1800s outside of spartanburg, south carolina. and, of course, south carolina was the first state to secede from the union. i had no idea of this history. and then i realized that most is forgotten. most history is lost. and that's profound and of itself that, most of us right here and everyone that we know that in terms of the historic record will be lost. and that is the reason why i've spent so much time and effort and sweat equity bringing this history of buffalo soldiers and yosemite back because they built the first trails at the top of mount whitney, the highest mount the united states. they built the usable wagon road into sequoias, giant forest, the most famous grove of giant s

youhave two days to over 50 miles for jackson's command .and take care of the uniongarrison at spartanburg. he was a tall order for me to expect them to be carried out what they couldn't know when they were planning this operation was with the garrisons try to run for it ? th>> .. time for one last question. two but they are really quick. they followed up on the lease measure, how much do you think is extremely cautious impacting his decision on the campaign as opposed to the retreat? i didn't hear anything shrinking of the army in virginia relating to soldiers, i have read that. >> i found almost no evidence among onent regiment and walkers division someone in a history of the unit after the war said there was some men who didn't sign up for doing this, didn't defense the confederacy so we didn't want to go in there. i did find some evidence or rumors they threw shoes away, long street command issued an order the amendment was excused and the rumor was through their shoes away. i know sometimes we are so attached, that could never happened like really? you don't eat food and your merging

because also today, i met the nato secretary general spartanburg german defense minister and after wards of the american message was that countries who would be ready to deliver these parts should stop the preparations. so official decision will take time, but they who come in, nephew, and what about germany itself? well, of course it is a german decision. well, the foolish play officially has now deliver it to germany. and i hope in the course of coming nearer stays. they will look it through and i think also the public approach well in the western community, which is to encourage germany to do it immediately. i think it's i hope that the decision will be positive and also we will see in the future not some symbolic come out of thank hundreds which will make calls on the back and ground. a difference is that those are the sort of numbers that are required. do you think? oh yes, because we should not forget that already. last year of essentially eastern european countries delivered to ukraine, who soon bye bye. thanks. and these are the amount of hundreds. and now, well, ukraine processe

we are investing heavily in our plant in spartanburg to transform that plant into an electric.invest $1.7 billion into that plant for this type of transformation. ira, we would ask what kind of investment you would have to do to make that? ed: he is there with his turtleneck and his suit and his german swagger, but actually there was a really serious element which is that automakers at ces got more realistic. they started announcing things that aren't 5-10 years away but they could come in the next couple of years. shery: we have big tech players making an appearance. who have you spoken to? ed: it's interesting because apple doesn't come to ces but samsung does. they go big. it's interesting that they focused on a new $200 galaxy budget handset. right now there is pain in the consumer electronics market. the other name i spoke to his panasonic. in north america they announced a lot to do with automotive tech on the consumer entertainment side. also fancy new cameras. their biggest business is ev battery sales and tesla their biggest customer. i ask ceo of panasonic north ameri

host: let's talk to sarah who was calling from spartanburg, south carolina on the democrat line.arah, good morning. caller: good morning. hello? can you hear me? host: we can hear you sarah. caller: listen, i have been wondering as far as the gas prices that went out right after the democrats took control of everything. is this still a free enterprise country? guest: the rising gas prices had a lot to do with the war in ukraine and other factors as well. that created these huge shocks around the world not just in the united states that lifted the price of gas. we have seen gas prices come down from the summer's high of five dollars a gallon and now we are about $3.29 depending on where you are in the country. host: can we expect them to see them go up or down in 2023 or do we even know what they are going to do? guest: we don't know. there are so many unanswered questions not only in the united states but around the world in terms of geopolitics. what is happening in china, the war ukraine, what's happening throughout europe and their economy. we don't know. we do know that gas p

host: let's talk to sarah who was calling from spartanburg, south carolina on the democrat line.arah, good morning. caller: good morning. hello? can you hear me? host: we can hear you sarah. caller: listen, i have been wondering as far as the gas prices that went out right after the democrats took control of everything. is this still a free enterprise country? guest: the rising gas prices had a lot to do with the war in ukraine and other factors as well. that created these huge shocks around the world not just in the united states that lifted the price of gas. we have seen gas prices come down from the summer's high of five dollars a gallon and now we are about $3.29 depending on where you are in the country. host: can we expect them to see them go up or down in 2023 or do we even know what they are going to do? guest: we don't know. there are so many unanswered questions not only in the united states but around the world in terms of geopolitics. what is happening in china, the war ukraine, what's happening throughout europe and their economy. we don't know. we do know that gas p