In the house today work on two veterans bills and recommendations for modernizing congress. You are watching live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend erin keys, capitol hill presbyterian, washington dis. The chaplain let us pray, god, we ask you blessing upon all those gathered here today and upon our nation as we along with countries all over the world face the anxiety and fear currently surrounding the coronavirus. Though much about how the situation will continue to unfold is unknown to us. We trust that it is known to you. From the beginning of time, your spirit has hovered over the chaos of our world bringing order and life so we pray that your spirit continues to do so now. We pray for the safety of all people and we pray for the wisdom of our leaders as they guide us through this time. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and anno
jesse: no. you were booked. bret: thank you. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. we are come to you tonight live from bedford, new hampshire where citizens here and throughout the state have been voting all day long in the first of the nation primary election of the 2024 presidential cycle. former president donald trump had coming in to this day a commanding lead in the polls while on the democratic side president biden is not even on the ballot here. we will go over what we re learning from our fox news voter analysis, the early version in just a few minutes. but we have fox team coverage. bryan llenas in concord, new hampshire is following the nikki haley campaign. correspondent alexis mcadams starts us off from nashville with team trump. gogood evening, alexis. we did have a chance to catch up with the president here on the ground in new hampshire. he feels good going into primary night and feels like he has a lot of support here in the granite state. i asked him
alert iran targeting us the those of the tour on hate america blame for the increasing number of attacks against our troops in the middle east. our brave men and women now being injured. that, after iranian ballistic missiles and rockets hit the airbase in iraq. proxy groups backed by around blame for this but central command says a number of the u.s. personnel now being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries. it was w one of the largest attacks they say on our troops since he is really hamas were began. some are calling for president biden to do what ronald reagan did, take the action against the iranians directly as payback. hello welcome to fox news live i am eric shawn, hi arthel. arthel: hi eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. now there have been at least 142 attacks on u.s. forces in iraq and syria over the last three months but u.s. central command says damage assessment on that base in iraq are ongoing but most of the missiles were intercepted. space bar fox ne
First lets start with Franklin Buchanan, since he was on one of our ironclads here in Hampton Roads. Franklin buchanan was born on september 17, 1800 in baltimore, maryland. His father the was founder of the Maryland Medical Society and his grandfather was a signer of the declaration of independence. So he comes from a wellheeled family. He will become a midshipment at age 15 in 1815 and will serve with distinction by 1844. He will be promoted to captain, and he will be named the first superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in annapolis. He is the founder in many ways of that school. In 1847 he will resign from that post so he can serve actively in the mexican war, which again he does with distinction, gaining the attention of flag officer matthew galbreith perry. Perry will assign buchanan as flag captain and commander of perrys flagship when he takes his fleet to open japan. It is said buchanan was the first naval officer to step foot in japan. Let me tell you about buchan
My mom always talked about wanting to write a book and she had a lot of memories about concord but she would share frequently her family has been there three generations. She was the third and with an ongoing interest a matter where we lived so i have done a book similar to this previously on franklin and the publisher created new company and they contacted me to do another book. And i could choose the area if it was not chosen so i asked of concord was available because i knew when lot my mom would love to do that and we could collaborate together. We looked at the progression of concords ability to move forward and looking back it was like deja vu it was a city that seem to be very embracing i lived in several areas so i got to know many of the neighborhoods they are cordial and want to help this is what it was like in concord means peace and that says it all because there were peaceful things going . If you hear stories that surprised you or that she never told you before . More inf