Emphasis on a decentralized government. Prof. Martinez good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for the semester. About to talk today Economic Policy and social events tied to the economy. I titled this feeding the confederacy. We will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure your soldiers and civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me, that historians of the confederacy point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. Of the unionrity and confederacy live on farms. We are dealing with a population overwhelmingly living on farms. Yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. This is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big ironing is secession documents before they founded the confederacy said we want
Also tonight, the pentagon now says the u. S. Has intercepted a drone attack believed to be targeting american troops in iraq. It comes just hours after launching u. S. Airstrikes on iranianbacked forces in syria. Martha raddatz and what shes learned. Here in the u. S. , the News Conference just moments ago in this manhunt after the Mass Shooting in lewiston, maine. Divers in the water and that note serviced by army robert card remains at large and communities in lockdown. And one of the critically wounded victims just taken off the ventilator and what his first words were. In New York City, the judge now ordering former President Trumps daughter ivanka to testify in the Civil Fraud Case. Why she argued she shouldnt have to. The remarkable rescue tonight off the u. S. Coast. The man surviving 13 days adrift and alone on a life raft. He was emotional as rescuers pulled him to safety. The storms this weekend, snow and Flood Threats and the record heat in the northeast. And march of the p
Stories coming live from the bbc newsroom. There are a number to focus on across the hour. Of course well talk about the royal engagement. These are some of the latest pictures from indonesia where thousands of people are being told to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano and barley. Weve also got this special report to play, its about Lake Victoria and pollution damaging the lives of fishermen. Hope frances is in myanmar and thats going to be a delicate diplomatic trip because of theissue delicate diplomatic trip because of the issue of the Rohingya Muslims. We will talk about that in detail as well. Theres no doubt what the most popular story has been at bbc all day. The american actress and campaign Meghan Markle is engaged to prince harry. Here they are making their first appearance since the announcement. Harry has taken the royalfamily announcement. Harry has taken the royal family somewhere new. Announcement. Ha
Where are we today . We are at the iowa state fair. What is the goal of the booth at the state fair . To know how active Iowa Democrats are. This year is an unbelievable year. It will stop by the booth and cs us. All of our candidates are represented. Have you had any of the president ial candidates come through . , not yet, but all of them will stop by next week. Abc will lead us to a big debate. I wrote to the white house coverage of the president ial candidates continues live from the iowa state fair on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org as the candidates walk the fairgrounds and speak at the Des Moines Register candidate s soapbox. Starting monday, it is scott walker followed by Carly Fiorina and lindsey graham. On tuesday, marco rubio and john kasich. On wednesday, republican rick perry was begun at 11 00. On friday afternoon at 2 30, it is senator ted cruz. On saturday, republican governors Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00. Join the twitter conversation a hashtag.
The next army secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to the committee is chaired by her son senator john mccain. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of mark espers to be secretary of the army or robert l. Wilkie to be undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness Joseph D Kernan to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and roberts were Nuclear Chemical and biological defense weapons. I would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concer