Memorial park. Ill be with you for lectures. And the topic today is going to be on general James Longstreet at couple of timappomattox. May 6, 1864. On october 7, he reports back to richmond and writes a letter to lee suggesting hes ready to come back for active duty but that at least with the army in northern major, lee might want a more vigorous person to take charge. Hell never recover the use of his right arm at this point because of the bullet exiting through his throat, he cant speak above a whisperer. He orders longstreet to return and resume command of the first corps of the army of northern virginia. And the confederate defenses north of the james river. So longstreet has everything from bermuda up through the north. By march 29th, it was going on since june 18th, 1864. And lees lines run about 37 miles. His last railing to the south, the southside railroad, is going to be controlled by Confederate Forces at five forks. On april 1st of 1965 union troops were captured at five f
That it is doing something, so i applaud every one of you for doing that i know how hard it can be. Im very lucky to have this house and this family, but its tough so i applaud you guys. Thank you for staying home lets flatten that curve we have a great show tonight Kerry Washington is on the show shes a good friend of our show and she has a new show called Little Fires Everywhere that her and Reese Witherspoon are starring in on hulu. And get those two together, im there. Ill watch that show anytime her charity is medshare. Org. And we thank kerry for coming on well be talking to her later in the show. Also, Andrew Rannells from the show black monday will be on the show, on showtime. Andrew, he was supposed to be our show friday before we left the studio his charity is meal train. Ive never heard of this this is a new charity to me, but its fascinating how theyre feeding people that are on the front line. It and i think kind of an unknown charity so thats a great thing to to broadcast
The nasdaq is on track for its best monthly gain since july of 2016 the s p 500 is at its biggest monthly gain since last february the s p and nasdaq have risen seven of the last eight trading days if you were waiting for things to slow down, you are still waiting. Triple digit gains for the dow already this morning overnight in asia there were gains this came after the strength yesterday with the dow up 200 points. The hang seng was up by 1 shanghai was up by 0. 1 . The nikkei did give back some ground in europe this morning, there are some green arrows across the board. Gains of a quarter percentage point for germany and the ftse in london. The cac in france is up by a third of a percentage point. If you want to look at treasury yields which have been picking up ground, you will see the treasury yield for the tenyear, sitting about the same, 2. 544 lawmakers in germany reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro rising. You need a government. Euro rising to new
Pictures like these are becoming more and more common as Climate Change alters the world we live in but leading governments are doing little or nothing about it the United States will withdraw from the paris climate accord. Donald trumps cabinet include several former Oil Executives who play down the Climate Change. There is no model that has yet been developed that scientists would say is all that good at predicting the future. But some lawyers in the us say big oil is lying prosecutors in new york of sued exxon mobil and other companies in a multibillion dollar case. Every fossil fuel company. Has a responsibility to be honest with his investors and. With the public the First Amendment ladies and gentlemen just not give you the right to commit fraud. Carol muffet has also been trying to get to the bottom of this law hes found documents that he says prove Oil Companies have been researching Climate Change for sixty years without informing the public of the results so the Oil Industry
Steal from Donald Trumps limelight . To theead straight markets desk. Julie hyman has the latest. Julie we had a record last week for the dow s p 500. Then on friday we saw a little change. The s p only up one half of a point. Little changed as well today. A little bit of a drift following the game last weekend following the records for the dow and the s p 500. We will see if things gain a little more direction as the day goes on. Take a look at the map, you will see what exactly is going on. Half green, half read on your screen. Energy shares and materials are the biggest drags on a major averages. Tech and utilities are gaining ground gaining ground. Energy shares, as i mentioned, the biggest drags through. Oil prices pulling back today and Energy Stocks are going along with them. Oil nearing 45 per barrel on the downside. Here are some of the Biggest Energy declines by percentage. Offshore and murphy oil all falling. We were talking about the big armed holdings deal. Softbank to acq