Revolution to the civil war. Her masterful biography, southern lady, yankee spy, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy is published by hartford press. Peoples choice award. Today she will speak to us about her new book, armys of deliverance a new history of the civil war published by oxford. Some guy named Harold Holzer called the book, quote, highly original and sweeping new study. I had the good fortune to hear liz speak on this subject a few weeks ago in hampton rhodes, virginia, and im so glad to have her here at the forum to speak to us. Please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon. [ applause ] all right. Can everyone hear me . Yes . Good. All right. In his first wartime message to congress, delivered on july 4th, 1861, Abraham Lincoln casts succession as a duped and cowed the south into submission. After drugging the public mind for 30 years ago lincoln put it, seccessionists had relied on conversion to bring good men to take up arms against the government. Theres much re
The american soldier accused of posting bomb making instructions online and discussing potential attacks on a Major News Network and a candidate for president. An inside look at the undercover fbi sting that landed him behind bars. All that plus travel nightmare. Chaos, as you can see, no one knows whats going on. The frantic race to bring home tens of thousands of tourists stranded after the collapse of a major travel firm. Arrest outrage. No 6yearold child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them. New fallout for the Police Officer who arrested two Elementary Students in a single day. And meghans message, the royals heartfelt speech to begin her tour of africa. I am here as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of color, and as your sister. As she and prince harry kick off day two at the beach. Today tuesday, september 24th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, wel
Facebook, amazon, alphabet and apple. The risks hanging over them and the tech trade. Goldman taking a big bite out of apple, slashing its price target on the stock by 25 . Its our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Your Investment Committee today and im told one of forbes top 100 financial advisers. Thats good. Also the chief Investment Officer at boston private wealth. So here is your setup. The dow now looking at its longest winning streak since may of 2018. If went up on the dow today higher, it will be eight straight day. I know no professionals watch the dow. I get it. We can hear that all the time. It is a thing. Its something that appears on general news, the usa today or nightly news. It will pop up when we hit the numbers. Does a record high make any difference from a market psychology or investable perspective . I think its important. I think there is some element that record high means something. I think the other thi
Robert mueller repeated his assertion from the morning hearing that russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the oval office. Direct dur the instructor, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimate intent to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump . Donald trump reporter afterwards, the president reacted. This was a bad day for the democrats so Robert Mueller did a poor job. Reporter robin miller did tell lawmakers he wanted make a correction to something he said this morning, saying he did not charge the president because the office of Legal Counsel would not permit it. Rather, he could not determine if the president committed a crimhill, lauren blanchard, foxnews. Date abuse political analyst, brian sobel is here now. Brian, at the end of the day, what, if anything was gained by having Robert Mueller testify . I think it was a reminder to the American People that there are nation states that dont care for our democracy and will undermine if they can pick we are t
The freeway there. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt. They want to keep that from happening again. 17 is narrow and windy so it is good to take care of the trouble right now. They got an intense amount of rape. Theyre going to get dumped on up there. Were going to talk about the rain. Quickly ill mention that sal and mike have the day off. Im glad to have you up here for the 9. Glad to be here. Yesterday at this time, the widow of the orlando nightclub shooter will be back in an oakland courtroom for the second day in a row now. Noor salman is accused of helping her husband pull off the deadliest mass shooting on american soil. Allie rasmus is live at the courthouse where the hearing is just minutes away. Reporter she was supposed to be arraigned yesterday. It was postponed to today. Thats why everyone is back in court today. Salman is expected to enter a plea to the charges against her. They include obstruction of justice for allegedly lying and misleading investigators after the o