Our first speaker this morning comes to us from the macarthur memorial in a norfolk, virginia. When i was there visiting this spring. It was my first opportunity to get it down and visit. He said the only thing that is equitable for the type of thing he is overseeing would be a president ial library. That stunned me a little bit. That is a significant thing. If you think about what Douglas Macarthur did during world war ii, afterwards in korea, he really shaped the face of the pacific in a way that no one else has. That repository of documents and memorabilia and artifacts is really a significant component of the 20thcentury. Chris kolakowski is the caretaker of that. It was really quite a remarkable shift for me, as i understood what chris is up to down there. But thats his day job. By night, he is still in love with the american civil war. He got started in fredericksburg in spotsylvania. He has since gone on to perryville, where he was in charge of the battlefield out there. He has
Richmond. Robert e lees army, safety 5000 men, holding the siege line 65,000 men, holding the seas lines. Siege lines. They face the army of the potomac, and an army level headquarters of the shenandoah under philip sheridan. Years, hasor four had a target on its back. It has been a primary or a secondary objective of u. S. Forces in the Eastern Theater since the wars beginning in 1861. It has had more military resources devoted to its capture than any objective the American Forces have her try to capture up to this point in history of the country. The largest army the u. S. Has ever fielded, the army of the potomac, has its objective at richmond. The people of richmond know they have been living with a target on the back. Richmond also is a simple. Is a symbol. I want to talk about that more as we get going. Confederacy,f the also one of the most important industrial cities in the confederacy. Begins, the battle of five forks outside of petersburg, virginia from the Confederate White
A better place to run its business than the United States of america is burger king. The company is in talks to buy canadas donut chain, tim hortons. Back to our top stories, roche has agreed to buy a u. S. Biotech firm and wit will get 8 billion itcash it will get billion dollars in cash. A record year for m a. Olivia sterns joins us live more. Welcome. Good monday morning. So nice to see you. Why intermune . Big bet on a drug that treats a rare long disease. The fda has already designated the breakthrough category. It has got a lot of pricing power. It is a disease that kills about 40,000 americans per year. The other reason is this is gets roche further. The asthmao build jokes a section of the business. The third reason is this is exactly the kind of old on acquisition we knew that roche and a lot of other players in the industry are looking to do instead of paying a billion dollars without any guarantee, they want to buy up their pipelines and buy jugs in late stage development. T
Campaign finance institute. We have sandy from nebraska. Good morning. Caller i dont watch politicians commercials, i dont have a computer, and i dont recognize the door or the phone if i dont recognize them. Thank you. Caller you are in my realm because you are the toughest voter to get and your vote is important. When i sit down with a candidate i say the voter that is running away from you, doesnt care about you and wants to live their life and doesnt want you in their life but they know it is their civic duty to vote. We will put a blitz on you. We will try to email you and put ads get a message to you from my candidate. Host who have are bundlers . Guest theyre donors who know other donors. Sometimes they go to a who is one of their recurring voters. They will say let me introduce you to my friends who would like to donate to you. Host lets go to jules in atlanta, georgia. One more time for jules in atlanta. Were going to have to go on. Cathy in new castle, delaware. Caller i had
From al quaeda in syria was the fact that they wanted to conduct westernstyle operations. Al quaeda wanted them to focus on syria. It was all about direction, control of those individuals. What they were saying at the time was we have a lot of people who have passports that could go to europe and then to the United States without a visa waiver meaning they wouldnt have to apply for a visa. The only way we would know is by looking at who was riding on their airplanes. Even the rhetoric is were still going to conduct a westernstyle attack. Remember, al quaeda wants to put points on the board and isis has said that they want to be the terrorist organization that tracks. Comments to mike rogers on nbcs meet the press over the weekend. From inside the wall street journal, obama pressed to act in syria. President who has ruled out putting boots on the ground remains reluctant to get too involved in a conflict that could become a quagmire. Islamic state was probably the most prominent risk we