Much, indeed, senator faucet. In the 58 days since President Trump was inaugurated, the Turnbull Government has been swift to engage with key figures in the administration. As we know, the Prime Minister has spokessen with the president. Spoken with the president. The president s honoring an agreement with america to accept refugees, an important outcome for australia. Already three nsclevel ministers have had face to face meetings with their counterparts and other officials. Last month the secretary of state and the defense minister, also last month [inaudible] this morning i returned from the United States after a visit to washington and new york in which i had meeting with attorney general jeff sessions, the new director of the cia, mike pompeo, the director to have fbi, james comey, the white House Homeland Security adviser and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, senator burr. While in new york, i met with the undersecretary general of the United Nations for Politica
We catch up with pentatonix, the first a Cappella Group to hit number one on the billboard charts. We do the flashy type of thing, but at the end of the day were just twentysomethings singing choir music, you know what i mean, and we just made it a different thing. Ifill all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the house of representatives ratified some highlevel dealmaking this evening. The vote was 266 to 167 on a package aimed at heading off a Government Shutdown, and default on the nations debt
We catch up with pentatonix, the first a Cappella Group to hit number one on the billboard charts. We do the flashy type of thing, but at the end of the day were just twentysomethings singing choir music, you know what i mean, and we just made it a different thing. Ifill all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the house of representatives ratified some highlevel dealmaking this evening. The vote was 266 to 167 on a package aimed at heading off a Government Shutdown, and default on the nations debt
Screeria nigeria. The tenhour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. According to your program, what were supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. Two things ill do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. Spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to Franklin Pike that night. Essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. Hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. In fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. They failed to do two things. They could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. They did not do that. There was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think the generals had contem
Im David Carroll from chicago. Hi, david. Hi. In the last year published in the journal of the Abraham Lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lards drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. Penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. Do you have insight on this recent scholarship . Im sorry. I cant comment on that. My recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i dont have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. I would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. The lincolns were besoted by their children. They were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. Indeed the idea of having two younger sons and r