Good morning, everyone. Take your seats. All right. If we could get seated, please. Let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audiences. I am peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. I am a member of the History Department here. Welcome myeasure to good friend, Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. I have a feway rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have to read. Brings berry always incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. It is what i think many of us like so much. That is a good thing because his tok is so good that you want come to jealousy but you cannot because stephen is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher. I have sent many students to work with him over the years. At the university of georgia he has he is not only a prolific scholar he has written or edited six books. My favorite was his dissertation, done sometime ago at th
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[applause] gov. Holcomb good afternoon. Good afternoon. This is the day the lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. I saw more smiles and hugs coming in today than i have seen in some time, and i understand why. President pistol, distinguished trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, and all members of the extended Anderson University family gather here to celebrate this prestigious 2019 graduating class. It is an honor for me, as governor of the great state of indiana, to be here with you all, and to play a role in the celebration. Soon, you will be turning your tassels. Indeed, that is a real source of pride for many of us your professors, your friends, your family. Maybe the most proud, your parents, but we all realize you did not get here alone. Yes, today is a day that we shall, as already alluded to, never forget. You may forget what i say to you, but i guarantee you will never forget this day. So at the very outset, let me thank the president for your generosity in inviting m
Weekend on cspan2. Joining us on booktv is ambassador Samantha Power, her new book, education of an idealist, comes out in september. We want to do a short preview of that book. How did you get to the states . My mother, rambunctious irish doctor, athlete, humanist, decided to get on a plane and run away with a man she loved who wasnt my father and they moved to pennsylvania in 1979, there was no divorce in ireland so the terms under which she came here, raised a good irish catholic, continue to learn irish and go back for all our holidays and stayed but i would not have known, she would not have known we were immigrating to this country but that is what it turned out to be. Host it wasnt all that simple. Guest nothing is as simple as you wish it were but it wasnt simple. The big rupture in my life, her life, my fathers life. When i was a kid and moved to pittsburgh the year the Pittsburgh Pirates win the world series, everything was big and loud and there was an abundance of sugared c
Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. U. S. Officials now believe russia has assembled about 70 of the military force it needs to launch a fullscale invasion of ukraine. The latest Satellite Images show Russian Forces gathering strength in belarus. Some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraines northern border. In neighboring poland, senior u. S. Military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. This as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. French president Emmanuel Macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and prorussian separatists in eastern ukraine. Russias Chief Negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. Translator we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. As much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost zero. Cnns Melissa Bell