To start with our discussion of native americans. This is one of two different discussions. Were having i want to make clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of
Stop and think about this for a second. Clearly they werent going to make the mistake of allowing a special counsel like mueller to decide again and disappoint them again after three years. Not after the impeachment announcement, the transcript ha. This is after what they said he would impeachment over they didnt know what was in it. No quid pro quo, no discussion of usa, no misconduct at all whatsoever. Zero, zip, nada, nothing. According to reports the socalled whistleblowers of partisan hack whose claims are politically motivated, total b. S. , whos actually represented by a law firm they put up like billboards and they pay officials who leak dirt, illegal in some cases, against donald trump. Or as the wall street journals current Kimberley Strassel put it, and other internal attempted to go to president on the basis of another nonsmoking gun. This is where i get serious. We have in this country deep state operatives alive and well and here is how bad things have gotten in this coun