And can you get a sense of who handled it better . We can, had very limited military experience versus Jefferson Davis and then they dont have any military experience and it seems to make the job. What do you think . I think that most people would not do this in tennessee. Most would think that lincoln was a better commander in chief than davis. Of course, he had virtually no military experience and davis had a great deal of military experience. Whether that was the reason is another matter. And lincoln got rid of other commanders pretty quickly and davis was a little bit more luck than and lincoln seems to have done all right, he won the war it and i dont want to go there. Okay, no no. Im glad to sign your books. [applause] [inaudible conversations] former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee died this week at the age of 93. Tomorrow we will show you his 1995 appearance on the notes when he talked about his book, a good life. You can watch that tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. Eastern o
Country. Our team is also hearing from sources about tonights closer, former president barack obama and his message to the country in that much anticipated live speech as the Democratic Party makes it official, officially nominating joe biden for president of the United States. This morning, night twos big speakers back on the air making the case for his presidency by arguing hes the right leader for our country in crisis. The message was that joe is going to heal this country just like he is healed our family. Who do you trust to put the Country First . Who do you trust to live up to our values and who do you trust to tell us the truth . Im Hallie Jackson in washington. Kicking off this hour with Nbcs Kristen Welker and mike memoli in wilmington, delaware, and Shannon Pettypiece at the white house. Kristen, let me start with you. Talk to me about what youre hearing from your sources. I know youre working them, how it will go down tonight with Barack Obamas speech. This say historymaki
A community in shock as two brothers are lost to gun violen. Gun violence. The violence continues with Police Responding responding to a shooting on Martin Luther king jr. Way. A violent sideshow taking over san San Franciscos streets near a busy intersection. A angel spotted landing in oakland tonight, the blue kind. We begin in oakland were two brothers lost their lives in a shooting. Two others were wounded after a house party at a a rental property ended in gunfire. The shooting happened near the border, the two homicide victims were students at berkeley and they were broth. Were brothers. One was 17 and the other 15. Betty has details on the party that led up to the. The shooting. Reporter 17yearold jays he was a junior at Berkeley High high school. A gofundme described him as the quieter of the two brothers. He assumed the the role of protector. Angel was was 15, a sophomore at Berkeley High school. They were to of 6 children and live behind a single mother. Neighbors say 2040 te
To the deaths of the people you can watch the full program and other programs of that u. S. President s on our website. Cspan. Org slash history. Were gonna start with our discussion of native americans this is one of two different discussions were having. Clear that we are not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture. Thats going to be in a couple of weeks. We are going to use that as a way to link kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to, and including, the spanish american war. So, our focus is kind of around that. We are thinking more kind of legal policy and issues, 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 we are picking up on is, what does it mean to be an american . All right, who cannot claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of take us through the end of o
South by southwest since last week. They, particularly interested in this whole idea of food tech. Food tech and food science. It seems that soil and green exist lisa. But Charton Heston should not be afraid. And were learning more about food tech and food science. Speaking about innovation. We talked about 3d food being printed. And on facebook. And that might be a question were asking in ten years. What would you print . I would print out a briani shaped in a triangle, and a nom printed out, and eat it. Wow. Our team checked out the interaction portion of the south by southwest conference. Check out how some imagine the future of food. I think foods will be quick, easy, throw it in there, knock it out. Its a going to move towards that. Faster, easier, cheaper, as the population increases we have to figure something out. I want the very best spices from everywhere in the world. I would want to have like personal vegetable garden in the backyard that i do not need to Pay Attention to g