meant in the centrality of union during the war from films? take any films. matt: i don't think so. we talked about spielberg's most recent union -- most recent movie, but the takeaway is about african american soldiers. that's a movie that also is about union. i don't think there is a comparable -- gangs of new york is a movie that is only set there during the civil war very but it really happens in the 1840's. john: you get a very confederate version of the union in gangs of new york because of the wonderful shot in new york where the immigrants are coming off the boat and they are being hustled over and put in uniform and put back on a boat from which they are taking union soldier coffins. it's a very lost cause. matt: those are literally soldiers you don't know what they are fighting for over there going. joan: i think once reconciliation became the dominant way of interpreting civil war from the earliest 20th century through maybe the 1960's, the union cause was demolished, diminished vanquished. it really is not cinematic as well. lincoln

trades with the european union, it is one-on-one. but if the european union, it is one on 28. there 28 sets of separate bilateral agreements the u.s. has to work out with the countries. and access to one market of 506 million people and a u.s. corporation doing business in any one of those 28 countries has access to the entire market. if this breaks down or splinters in some fashion, it adds that much more level of complication in terms of dealing with these entities. >> with regard to what prime minister cameron has before him, what do you assess he will try to renegotiate with regard to britain's commitment to the eu? >> i can take it. what he has -- it is unclear precisely what he's asking for at this moment from the eu authorities, but what he has mentioned is he would like to have britain exempt from something called the working time directive which is a european regulation that says you cannot work more than 48 hours a week. excuse me. and then there are other specific types of eu regulation or eu law that he would like the uk to be exempt from. he may seek to be exempt f

the teachers union is what? you... ..it's the quality of the teachers, is that the problem. >> the problem with the teachers unions is they keep in place unqualified teachers. they fight to keep the unqualified teachers in place, even they they give kids a worse education. in new york there's rubber rooms they keep the unqualified teachers, they cannot fire them and there's more unqualified teachers in the classrooms that's a reason why harlem's success dismiss, a charter school in new york has done better, why kids start physics in kunder garden and store -- kindergarten and score at the top of tests. >> and many charter schools take money away from public schools, making it difficult for public school students in the city of new york. >> nevada put in a policy where tax many follows the child. the parents decides where the child goes to school and the governor signed a bill to say the tax many minus 10% -- money, minus 10% follows the child - whether it's public private, charter, religious and secular. that's t

it's because of the customs union. >> gulya's comment about the customs union refers to a new economic grouping led by russia. russia, the regional power, wanted to boost its economic ties with the former soviet republics. vladimir putin, at the time, russia's prime minister, spearheaded a new customs union. it began in 2010 with three countries, russia, belarus, and is as act stan. -- kazakhstan. the agreement removes customs duties and various restrictions between members. the idea is to promote trade through free movement of goods. on the other hand, imports from countries outside the agreement are subject to weight limits and high tariffs. for kyrgyzstan, the agreement was like a massive wall blocking it off from the silk road. the dordoi bazaar is dependent on transit trade. if goods cannot move freely, that's a massive blow. the number of foreign merchants here has dropped to a quarter of what it once was. can the bazaar keep going? the mood has been gloomy. >> some have already had enough. they have closed up shop and left the bazaar. >> one person is especially concerned about

should the supreme court stop these mandatory union dues? she reminds me of the friend in college that refuses to pay for the pitcher of beer when it comes their turn. people shouldn't be p -- >> john you know some of these dues though, go to lobbying. we have 90% of union dues that went towards democratic campaigns over the years. what do you think? should the supreme court overturn this rule? will it benefit all workers? >> i think so. the right to freely associate is a fairly basic one, and to be coerced into something that you are not interested in is a bad idea. you make the essential point that a lot of these unions are heavily politicized. you're forced to basically pay for the political activities of major groups. the one thing i would point out, though is i do think we're talking about symptoms rather than a major problem. if government weren't so large nationally and locally, there wouldn't be as much of an incentive to organize workers in this way. we've got to fix that problem first, and then unions won't be such a big issue. >> w

the union didn't have a good answer for that in september of 1861. but it created -- i think it underscored the need for some kind of moral purpose to the war, and it's the beginning at least, of this reconsideration on the union side of what it was that they were fighting for. now, at the end of the book, i'm -- >> i'm going to leap ahead -- at the end of the book you tell a wonderful story about garibaldi at the moment when it appears that the european power maize recognize the confederacy. we know that's the key thing the confederacy is fighting for. if they get recognition from the european powers, then they can exist as a separate nation, and those powers would break the union blockade. and it would be the end of the united states as we knew it. so that is what everybody was playing for on the battlefields here and on the diplomatic battlefields. but garibaldi -- you have done a fantastic work of scholarshipship and weaving together what happened at this very moment involving garibaldi. >> the usual story we have is that the major powers of europ

>> look what the unions have done to airlines steel, the textiles automakers. that's why unions are shrinking in almost every element of the economy except for government. there are 6% of the private economy. almost 40% of the public sector and it's inherently corrupt. fdr warned against public sector unions decades and decades ago because, of course they're paid by taxes. that's guaranteed. they're able to vote and lobby for the politicians that actually keep them employed. you've never seen job security like in the public sector eric. you have a 99.96% chance of keeping your job. that's why public sector unions need to be reigned in asap. >> weigh in on this. >> i think jonathan is absolutely right. it's the public sector where the unions -- where the fdic and those kind of people are -- we've got five cities in the state of california for example, that have filed for bankruptcy primary primarily because the pensions are out of line. we have just seen what happened in greece with pennings. it's going to happen here, and if you keep increasing this the taxpayer

by the afternoon of july 1 1863, union soldiers are losing the field. they are outnumbered and they cannot hold on much longer. and on this ridgeline and behind that house, union soldiers are going to retreat and start to fall back. we now have the retreating union soldiers running through the farm yards, including that of the sheads family. in this homestead was a young teenage girl by the name of carrie sheads. this is also one of the female academies i was talking about. and in the ensuing chaos of union soldiers falling back, one is an officer trying to maintain his men as best as he can and keep them calm. this was lieutenant colonel charles waylock, he led the 97th infantry. by this point, about 75 men taking shelter in the sheads homestead. the confederate soldiers started to go through them looking for soldiers and among all of this they wanted to take colonel sheads' sword. a sword is a symbol of honor. to lose it is one of the greatest embarrassments an officer could suffer. a confederate sergeant who comes into the yard, he brandishes a pistol

when the union army and ulysses s. grant received the surrender of 30,000 confederate troops the confederacy has just lost the entire mississippi river. it is now in the hands of the federals all the way up north to wisconsin and minnesota and so forth all the way down to the gulf of mexico. it is in union control. they can move people and arms and food up and down all the way from the gulf with impunity. the confederacy loses texas, arkansas, most of louisiana and that's important because men, food, supplies, all of that is cut off. those people were on their own now. it divided the confederacy and that's a big deal. that was an easy second choice. the third choice was always going to be this book, fateful lightning. it was always going to be sherman marching from atlanta to the end of the war. i realized if i jumped from vicksburg to atlanta, i skipped a whole bunch of history. i had to go back to new york and convince random house to allow me to do a four-book trilogy. [laughter] they said yes. i cannot just skip ove

when the soviet union,'s moscow is that capital of the stage of war. russian education, and seeing the demolition of the greatness of the country the heritage, social, cultural, scientific areas it is very painful, a lot of things that happened throughout history. also a huge positive influence toward world culture and today it is almost throw away. we can only hope one day, our country will stop building its future on positives rather than negatives. >> host: hasn't vladimir putin restored quite a bit of russian pride? >> the back to the 30s, adolf hitler restore the greatness of germany restoration means creating a foundation without prosecution, limiting the freedom of speech general freedom, vladimir putin's stability, when people say vladimir putin is popular it is like a dictator is very popular. what do you expect? you call people and ask what you think of vladimir putin? anonymous calls? my reaction, i am surprised 20% or 25% of russians braved been a to tell a and anonymous caller they didn't like vladimir putin. one western town, can you call

not every union member is invited on these junk ets. often it's the big wigs and the union. what do you think about what carrie just said? >> let me clarify something. they already get a refund of the politicking dues. the question is whether they get a refund of the dues that went to getting that fabulous pension, and that is a free loading situation. it's got nothing to do with free speech and it is just like saying i don't want to pay my property taxes because i don't agree with everything that's going on at city hall. it ain't fair. >> what do you think, mike? >> i always am presencive about disagreeing with bill because as my former editor, he taught me so much. i don't buy his free loading argument here because really what you are then saying is there's no pushback at all allowed on unions. the politicians are behind it because they're getting kickbacks from the unions and if you can't fight it with your union dues what other opings do you have if you still want to be a teacher? >> bruce, it's a lot of money for teachers. right? teachers don't get paid a lot already. wh

house hearing on the european union and its future. and then challenges for the international space station after three unsuccessful attempts to deliver supplies the last year. layer, a review of the recent supreme court term that included major decisions on the health care law redistricting and same-sex marriage. and a conversation with congressman paul ryan chair of the house and means committee, the tax writing panel in the house of representatives. members of congress are reacting to the nuclear deal reached between iran, the u.s., and five other powers. congress has 60 days to review the report and vote to accept or reject it or do nothing. the president can veto any disapproval. in making the announcement today, president obama spoke to capitol hill lawmakers. >> a robust debate on congress on this issue. and i welcome scrutiny of the details on this agreement. but i will remind congress that you don't make deals like this with your friends. we negotiated arms control with the soviet union when that nation was committed to our des

civic and how the construction of union station helped the economy. >> the union pacific was one of the premier railroad companies of america founded in 1862. it combines several railroad companies to make union pacific. they were charged with building the transcontinental railroad. they started here, was moving west and central pacific started on the west coast moving east and they met in utah. that is what propels us even further. we become that point of moving west. >>

they let for the abundance of the union. others turned toward home. i would argue this flight is differ from traditional desertion during the war. it seems to be more political recognition by the soldiers the war was over and the obligation to remain in the army. luther mills admitted as much to his brother. mills state in the ranks and told his brother the men things desertion no crime and is never shoot a deserter when he goes over. mills require that men going out and night carry 10 cartridges and said they always shoot but never hit. nine months of trench warfare with the doing to link supplies reduced soldiers to deprivation. rancid pork and poor health. the living conditions in the trenches around petersburg. this experience, these 10 months in trench warfare in the virginia mud and increasingly severe deprivations rations, the soldiers from their lives and loved ones they left behind. on april 2, grant ordered an attack along the petersburg line hoping to trap lee. the confederates fought well but petersburg's loss was the fall of richmond. the

some of the adherence wish to see them leave the european union, many seek reform of the european union. in conclusion, i would argue that the successes of the eu far outweigh its failures that the governments of the member states will continue to work hard in the interests of european integration and that the eu will weather the current storms and emerge bruised but wiser. thank you very much, again, for the opportunity to speak to you. >> thank you, dr. mccormick. >> mr. chairman ranking member meeks and members of the committee, it's an honor to speak with you today at this uncertain moment in european history. and given europe's importance to the united states, trying to anticipate its future path is a critical task. it's hard to be optimistic however, about the eu's prospects. it has been a positive force in world politics for many years. but it suffers from growing tensions and self-inflicted wounds. it's likely to experience repeated crises and growing divisions and we cannot rule out a gradual decline. because a prosperous and tranquil europe is in our interest, this is not good

the european union is cutting back funds. that has been given to the mission. the peace process is expected to pick up in the president's speech. yesterday, together with leaders from east africa, he met the mediators and parties in sudan. now there is a new deadline, august 17, in which if the parties do not sign an agreement, there will be more sanctions on them. >> for now, thank you very. of course, we'll be crossing back to mohamed later on as president obama addresses the african union. >>> a natural gas pipeline which stretches between turkey and iran has been attacked. it affects parts of the pipeline that lays inside turkey's border. a fire broke out which shut it down. the energy minister says it's been brought under control. >>> still to come here at al-jazeera. >> i'm at one of new york's leading robotics lab where the octopus is inspiring a new generation of surgical technology. >> hello again, you are with al jazeera. these are our top stories. the u.s. and turkey agreed to create a buffer zone inside syria. turk

the sea islands had been captured by the union navy in 1861. the planters fled inland.the navy found thousands of x-rays and x ex-slaves and tens of thousands of acres of cotton. the wartime experiment around the data did not yield what planters wanted. the government retained control of the land and it is important in january of 1865 as william sherman's army reaches savanna. he presents to lincoln the city of savannah. sherman turns to the problem of the thousands of enslaved people who he moved across georgia alleges army and want to basically moving to south carolina without taking this mobile refugee camp with him. he meets with local black leaders in savanna to assess what should be happening. in particular, he wants to understand their attitudes toward emancipation. it is a very revealing interview. these men who attended were prepared. sherman asked the leader's spokesperson how he understood the freedom granted by the emancipation proclamation. fraser's response "the proclamation is taking us from under the yoke of bondage and placing is where we can reap the b

it is in the soviet union. the continuing race for the moon with the united states of america, the soviet union launched two new cosmonauts. the launchings of june put the soviet union ahead in a race that was not forecast to be over until the end of the decade. ♪ the history of man in space is short. but the conquests are many. the free press of the world was invited to photograph the launches of the united states. in 1961, the soviet union launched [indiscernible] into an provided this motion picture of the liftoff. the united states launched over shepherd. next in space was gus grissom, photographed by hundreds of international photographers. then the soviet union announced the launch of [indiscernible] and released this film. in 1962, john glenn went into orbit launched from an annapolis atlas booster at cape canaveral. followed three months later in the mercury capsule. in august of 1962, [indiscernible] orbited simultaneously launched by two separate boosters from the soviet union. one launched within 24 h

we think the unions will survive, unions are here to stay but unions ought to be accountable to the frontachers who are paying for the unions. >> now rebecca, you know the unions come back at you and say well that's a fine statement for rebecca, she's benefited and gotten good pay increases and good security and benefits and the like as a result of the union protections that she's given. you say what? >> i say the unions never asked me if i wanted them to represent me nor did many of my friends. they are the ones -- >>> you had no choice. >> no choice. and they are the ones that went to the supreme court and asked for these laws to give them the right to negotiate on behalf of everyone and i would also say that their economic benefits quite frankly are not worth the moral costs for myself and many of my friends. when they go and they negotiate with politicians and they bring these cadillac pension plans for myself and my friends at the expense of our nation's economy and our community -- >> understood. you don't want that. >> terry i want to get a response to you from a -- the california

gannon: the blue union boys were all heroes. people said things like there were not any african-americans there and there was a tale of what the 1913 reunion was like. the newspaper covers it that way. they're all american heroes. they were all americans because that is the way americans are. they are heroes. they were trying to merge the confederates and u.s. military tradition together to prove that we are all americans, all heroes, and sort of embrace it. they were americans. that is the way we are. that was the thought process. they had this reunion. there is sort of this party line . i read a lot of newspapers that covered it. 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 reu

the states then rejoined the union. president lincoln then proposed a 13th amenent legally ending slery. that amendment mr. speaker ssed this congress on january 31 1865. finally it was ratified by georgia on december 6, 1865. and during the period of ratification, president lincoln was assassined. for the next 50 years,0-plus years, every black person living in the south faced the possibility of lynching. more than 4,000 blacks were lynched between 1890 a 1950. 136 black people were lynched in soutcarolina. but there are some now who want to continue to honor slavery and hon your bigotry -- honor bigtry. this house must not be complicit. the shooting in sth carolina was an example of a 21st century lynching. the man festo left by the charleston killer stated, quote, i have no choice. im not in the position to go to alone go into the ghetto and fight. i chose charleston because is the most historic cy in my state and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to whites in the country. he was right. 57%. . we have no ski

the day. but here you have a representative of southern unionism, the phenomenon of southern unionism in which some scholars, especially bill freeling, who makes the case of the number of men from slave states that wore blue uniforms gave a decisive edge to the union in the end. he finds 450 thousand men from slave states wore union blue. this is a new framework for thinking about the war. let's talk a little bit about men in the ranks and give some examples to the audience of some of these troops and their stories. prof. gannon: well i mean, i think -- there are so many. one of the things people have no idea is how many medal of honor winners there were among colored troops, there were 14 in one battle. christian fleetwood was one of those medal of honor winners. robert penn, there are so many others. there were also the african americans in the navy who were also awarded the medal of honor. they were so much more. so many stories. it's incredible about their sacrifice. most people don't realize the men who fought at port hudson were officers, black officers among them. the 54th massachusetts

the union army is in chaos. they have run scrambling retreating from the field, back to their stronghold of chattanooga, tennessee, across the border. it is a mess. it is bad. all the confederate generals realize this is an opportunity. think about what just happened that summer, gettysburg, vicksburg. the morale in the north is sky high, the morale in the south is in the pits. all of a sudden, at chickamauga it turns around. we have defeated a major union army. all of the generals go to their commanders, and say, we've got them, let's go. follow us up. bragg doesn't believe it. he doesn't believe the army has been that successful. he is cautious. so he delays, he has people underneath him who are going crazy that he has delayed. instead of what bragg, he kind of goes and looks, sees the union army there and chattanooga. if you know the lay of the land there, it is really interesting. you have high mountains on two sides, and the tennessee river is right there and then chattanooga is right there. bragg looks down

the issue of union and the issue of freedom. my view is that we have to keep talking about it. those of us who believe in union have to keep talking about it. we have to believe the words of martin luther king that the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards freedom. this american franchise has opened up over the years. there by five million blacks were made citizens by the amendment under the constitution. like males were given the right -- black males were given the right to vote. in 1920, women get the right to vote finally. that is another step in the right direction. in 1965 after the selma, montgomery match, we get the 1965 voting rights act. those of us who started moving in selma -- -- saw the mvoie ovie "selma" -- i will say this about president lyndon johnson. when lyndon johnson introduced the 1965 voting rights act, what he said to his fellow brethren -- he was a texan. he said to his people in the south, if you don't want us to send federal registrars in the south to register these people to vote, then you register them. you register them. if you don

the race. he gained prominence by taking on government labor unions. he also became the first governor in u.s. history to defeat a recall election. hillary clinton is making a picture democrats. in a speech in new york, she outlined the themes of her economic agenda. she emphasized the need for policies that would increase the incomes of the middle class. >> every time they have a chance to try that approach, it explodes the national debt, concentrates wealth even more, and does practically nothing to help hard-working americans. mark: she says the minimum wage should be changed and the minimum wage should be raised. -- overtime rules should be changed. on october 15, a yield on the benchmark 10-year plan for zooming upwards on what appeared to be little news. a government report says speed traders a big role and that banks reduced their market making for a period of time. betty: there is more consolidation in the auto parts industry. remywarner will buy international. there is a takeover in the consumer goods business. jardin has agreed to buy waddingt

was just referred to as the union flag so, again, in canton you will recognize the british union and then the stripes. this is from an early 1776 north carolina dollar bill. this is a flag that is known to have flown from ships, from fort, and perhaps even carried by troops in the field. it can be a little confusing and it was confusing for people through the 19th and much of the 20th century because when they would encounter a flag that had a british union in the upper canton, often times the assumption was well, this must be a british flag because people didn't remember that before the declaration of independence the goal of most of the people that we think of as founding fathers was not independence from britain but rather a restoration or recognition of their rights as englishmen. so early flags dating to 1774, 1775 1776 nothing inconsistent , about having that iconography in the canton of the flag. this is the case with a number of surviving flags. now this is an interesting flag. this is located about a 5 -- about a 15-minute drive from here. the delaware historical society pur

john: the union did not have enough power to stop wisconsin to be the 25th state with there right tok economist steve morse says good but i concede the point it is unfair because some people will say if i don't have to pay the dues i get the benefits without any money spirit the first amendment says you have the right of association with any group that you want to. but it also means you should have the right to not to. >> i was forced to join a union. >> my first job in chicago, illinois were you grew up the unions to get the money out of my paycheck that is right developed some of this hostility because shittah and i choose if i want this union to represent your not? i don't want money taken out of my paycheck to pay for the big parties and conferences shouldn't that be the right of every individual worker? john: but then how could there be a union? bin mckewon said get together with 20 or 30 workers. john: with a bargaining unit to say we want $20 an hour and bargain on behalf of those even if the union gets of raised then those rules stop job growth. >> let's say we work next to e

a lot of the black and mexican workers did not go out on strike when the union went on strike. that made it a racial issue. the klan jumped in on the side of the labor union and began to plan events supporting the strike. particularly in kansas city. that was one of the strongest chapters in the state. this is when henry allen really got involved in fighting with the klan. we like to have official governments from governor fallin document in these things. in reality, sometimes the only way to document a speech that was given is to look at the newspaper account. someone would sit there and try to record the speech if they were getting it. they would be quoted in the paper the next day. here, this particular issue what's very heavily about governor alan's speech that he gave down and coffeyville about kkk territory. saying that he is going to drive the ku klux klan from the state. often following the events in the newspapers give you a better idea from day-to-day helpings are unfolding when an event like this is happening. these are all just coverage of his first steps to fighting

president to address the african union. a short tour of the region is in focus on security and human rights. he is now in the ethiopian capital. we have seen those images in the last half-hour of the main african union building there making a speech to the unit. he has already praised many in the fight against terror. expressing real concern about democratic and human rights. one of the issues obama has been addressing is the civil war and south sudan. tens of thousands have been killed in the conflict area it is hoped the two sides will agree to a peace deal by mid-august, but the rebel leader has told france 24 there are some issues to be resolved. our correspondent has this report. >> calling for a breakthrough in the peace efforts, barack obama underlined the urgency of the situation in south sudan. speaking in addis ababa, he thanked the african union and the radio -- and the mediation force. president obama: the situation is deteriorating. the humanitarian situation is worsening. the possibility of renewed conflict in

what is the position that you have to meet and confer with the unions. >> yeah. so under state law i'm an expert i'll try to get the broad outlines the state laws from the employer changed the conditions there's a requirement to meet and confer with the united about the changed in policy. >> but what's the change. >> the change would be exactly what wear talking about instead of having the forms 7 hundred and hard copies to officers having the 7 hundred posted on the website that's the change as we've discussed we've got some closer of the personal information those things are not changed but the question how to access the information going forward. >> that's what we want to discuss. >> from the department added with whatever union it was that is covering its employees that we won't put them obama regardless of what we say that will be fine correct. >> i think that is just i mean, we certainly don't know what's going to happen but have a good discussion a

greece was one of the poorest countries in the european union, the economy was developing in the 1990swas a time of greater confidence certainly about the development of the economy and international investment and the greeks worked hard to convince the european union that they should be a member of the eurozone. the story deteriorated after that, with all the problems resulting in the last 10 years, with inability to collect taxes, inability to stick to reform programs inability to impose a coherent economic policy and the results is massive debts, 240 billion euro owed to the e.u. and a kallam attous situation where the greek government harks unfortunately, i think, miscalculated in handling its creditors, including angela merkel, and the e.u. >> was the decision to include greece as much political as it was economic to show europe that the euro was not just a club for wealthy northern countries, but like the e.u. itself, the euro was going to embrace north and south and east and west. >> i think that was a big part of the european project as it was developed in the 1990s. certainly

it was the second station built by union pacific. e architect, gilbert stanley underwood, wanted to make a statement about what the railroad was. to him, it was strength, masculine, impermanence. that is what he wanted this building to embody. omaha really started out as a frontier town, typical frontier town. actually, the citizens from council bluffs decided they wanted to found a city on this side of the river. everybody knew that there was going to be a transcontinental railroad area they just did not know where. they came through and said, we have a better chance of having this railroad if we have a city on the other side of the railroad if we already have this built. delta bluffs did not think that omaha would get bigger -- then council bluffs. that was the founding city. union pacific is one of the premier railroad companies of america. it was founded in 1862 with the pacific railroad act signed by abraham lincoln. it permitted several railroad companies to make union pacific and they were charged to build the railroad. they st

and we will hear from the ceo of union pacific. of the railroad are down after the company reported drops in revenue and profit. it has been one painful month for investors seeking to profit from companies in distress. more than 7 billion of the distressed debt market has been wiped out amid the worst commodities slumped in 13 years. distressed bonds have lost 8% this month as oil and coal prices slip, bringing this year's loss to 12%. laura keller covers distressed debt, and she joins me in studio. who is feeling the pain of most right now? laura: these are a lot of freshman buyers. they have other credit businesses. blackstone group has a large one capital.o fortress buys a lot of distress debt, as well. mark: tell us how this has been shaking out over the past couple of months. lot fromis is coming a commodities. there are a lot of sectors in distress right now that are not helping investors who primarily due investments in this area. but we are seeing iron ore, coal, and oil prices keep falling as we go -- keep falling, and all

the voice of the unions should not be heard over the voice of our veterans. we need to continue to push for the same change we pushed for last year. now is not the time to change our belief in the need for greater accountability within the v.a. our veterans still expect us to continue to advocate for them as more and more of v.a.'s missteps are brought to light every single day. whether they are on the front page of the paper or not. we cannot continue to put the needs of employees whose performance or misconduct would not be tolerated in the private sector ahead of our nation's veterans because we are scared of change or because we don't want to upset the unions. ladies and gentlemen if we do not at least try to give the secretary the tools that he or she needs to hold v.a. accountable, then we as you a congress are just as culpable for any future v.a. failures as the antiquated civil service laws that foster those failures now. there is not a doubt in my mind that all of my colleagues here today care for our nation's veterans, but today we can decide to sta

with of military capability of of balance between the united states and soviet union? >> what a great question. [laughter] if. >> host. >> guest: is here tonight with the notion of that assessment, he would go back to the last of the truman administration recall the special evaluation the game was to assess a groupon the national security council what damage the soviet nuclear attack would inflict on united states. and when that was continued by president eisenhower on the subcommittee he kept looking at the problem of the damage the soviets conflicted on the united states he continued to explore that in various ways to manage the damage in the '60s with robert mcnamara because he had that systems analysis but he didn't think he needed any help to decide what things to buy. from the national security council so within one year the people involved began to raise the possibility to suggest they had to reconstitute that capability with the defense department. the concern there was fundamentally i think was by the early '70s the soviets worst to outspend their estates in te

the u.n. african union the european union and the united states. international donors have pulled some of their aid of funding to burundi that's pretty bad news that receives 42% of its income from foreign aid. 80% of the population lives in poverty. patricia daily is author of "agenda and genocide in burundi." >> it's obvious that violence will escalate. there are reports that the government is really searching out for armed opposition. particularly. the hope that the president will actually listen to the international community and enter into dialogue with the opposition parties, and really with the wider burundi for the good of the country. i thigh people have suffered long enough, and i think there is still time for more effective democratic solution to the problems in burundi. >> let's go to ecuador where more than a million and a half people are expected to turn out for an mass led by the head of the roman catholic church. pope francis has is on a week-long tour of his home continent. >>> we go to writer and journalist profession at the inter

we need also to get the different unions to disbanned the police union. because the police union is one that is used to escape accountability. they use this union to pressure the state to be further oppressive to people. also i wanted to say that the sf labor council was harassed by the police union for just considering the resolution to shutdown the port on may day on solidarity for the black lives matter movement. this is a level of intimidation that is beyond reform. with all this during pride last year, abolitionist were attacked by the san francisco police department who were at the same time claiming to the lgbtqa accountable to those people and inclusive. what we really need is direction actions with the union and intersectional coalition like the new jail coalition to block the development of the jail because i don't believe that we are, that this system is meant to listen to us. we as a community need to organize autonomously to stop this jail from reconstructing. body cameras can be turned off with no accountability and a tool for surveillance an