Palestine with his dying breath says hes ready. Security and the gunners him all. This is joe biden, but just more billions of dollars from the usa to israel to carry out the genocide, one journalist who drives to hold us to account inside our cab, Washington Bureau chief for our codes newspaper. He joins me now from washington, dc. Thank you so much site for coming on the show, millions demonstrating as i said, all around the world today. I against this war in palestine and tell us what its like to be in that state Department Briefing room. People can watch that on the, on the answer that your questioning of buttons representatives. I mean youre, youre asking questions of representatives of alleged Co Conspirators in genocide. Whats it like as well . Thank you for having me. Yes. And im honored to be with you on this program at 1st of all, i mean i, i do i go there every day basically, cuz i need to my job. That is my job. The state department has always been my be i used to go to the
Confederate army of about 12,000 troops under the command of general jubil early nearly invaded washington, d. C. , next, historian and journalist mark leapson takes us on a tour of battlefields in maryland and washington, d. C. , to tell the story of the battle of monocacy where they had the battle of fort stephens where they had the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. Consider what could have happened with an entire corps of troops let loose in washington, d. C, lean and hungry confederate troops. The treasury was there for the looting. The treasury department. They could have burned the capital. You know, the Navy Department which lincoln did not know had a ship provisioned for him in the potomac to take him out of town and think about what could have happened to the union cause had there been confederates running loose in the streets of washington, d. C. . Dont forget, lincoln was fighting for his political life at this time. This was the president ial election of
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D. C. Next, marc leepson takes us on a tour of battlefields to tell the story of the battle of monocacy, where the confederates were delayed by union forces in their approach to the capital, and the battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. After will list wilderness, you had petersburg surrounded. His idea, his plan was to choke robert e lee and force them to come out and fight what he thought would be the battle that would end the war. We knew this as well. Lee came up with a plan of his own witches he took an entire core of troops and he took them outside the defenses of washington on a bold plan, a fourpart plan that he hoped would mess up general grants grand plan to end the war. The first plan with the kick the forces out of the shenandoah valley. Lees biggest problem was supplied, including food and most of the food came from the shenandoah valley. These forces under general hunter had taken over j
And first of all, i wanted to thank mercy housing for the housing our residents theyve been a great partner with the city if you look at across the street they are housing seniors and today, of course, were giving a special tour on 1184 th street that will be new homes to our residents. Thats why were here for our citys homes e homeless families and individuals. Theres no doubt our city has changed many lives around the years weve be focusing on the future to insure we remain a city for the one hundred percent thats why ive been working hard to make sure we attract investment and create jobs and investment no our city when our residents have access to good paying jobs theyre to succeed and with the low employment rate weaving were going to make sure that happens and our focus on housing well help all our residents. Ive set a goal for rehabilitating thirty thousand homes before i 2020 with at least a third of fooshtd affordability to low income families. With our commitment to the rapid