Tracy the card on the table. The president vowing to go his own way with or without congress. John boehner warned that is a risky strategy. Finding Common Ground will be hard work but it will be harder if the president is not willing to work with us. Yesterday we may heard him say he may double down on go it alone approach. I believe the president continues to act on his own he will continue to poison the well. When you play with matches, you take the risk of burning your settle he is going to burn himself. Tracy lets bring in todays panel. Fox businesss charlie gasparino. Dan shaffer from shaffer Asset Management and marshall aurback, institute of new economic thinking. Hi, charlie. What do you think . You know, listen, Mitch Mcconnell probably summed it up best yesterday. I dont need to hear anything more. One person that matters for compromise and that is president obama. You know, you know this sort of stuff, well be hearing a lot of this alleged bipartisanship coming from republic
Nevertheless, while other Union Commanders were failing, grant had climbed steadily up the military ladder with resounding victories, stretching from fort henry in 1862, through vicksburg to Missionary Ridge in 1863. He was clearly the norths man of the hour. When lincoln ordered an east early in 1864 to take command of all federal forces. The somewhere near 500,000 combat ready soldiers grant would have authority over the largest post any american officer had ever led. The new Lieutenant General wasted little time in making his strategic intentions known. In the past, grant asserted, union armies had quote, acted independently and without concept like a bulky team of mules, no two pulling to the. And this allowed confederates to shift men from one sector to the other to meet the most pressing danger. Union generals seemed content to maneuver. But that was not the road to victory, grant announced. The north had far superior numbers, and materiel. It was time to switch games. To stop pl
Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and theres brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he cant break through there so grant maneuvers again. He pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse and send the finger
But i dont know if it was coincidence or not. Ever since the apple watch was introduced, they brought out everything else. As soon as the watch came out, the stock started to fall. Last i saw it was down about 1 probably off the lows right now. Everybody was waiting for the watch. They got a bunch of other things. They got this research kit which is very interesting. On health. An accumulation of information that crowd sourcing of medical information that people can share. This one app that is going to be on the Apple Technology the operating system. And then the new mac which got your attention. Because it was gold. You know how i feel about gold devices. People noticed who were watching this tick by tick moves of the stock that thats when it hit the high for the day and then came back lower. Once they actually started to talking about what the event was about to begin with the apple watch, we got pricing, the 18hour battery life. A lot of details from apple and well keep you apprised
He has been a permanent ranger and historian and Richmond National Battlefield Park since 2003. One thing he is well known for his his website, civil war richmond. I tell my students there are so much junk and garbage online in terms of civil war sources, this is one of the best websites relating to the civil war i have ever seen. I got a lot of good stuff from mike ross website. Deftly go see mikes website. Definitely go see that. He served as a Technical Advisor on the set of lincoln. And is serving as an advisor for free state jones, which is coming out with matthew mcconaughey. I yesterday got the magazine of virginia history and they are graffiti. There biography. The new issue is on lincolns visit to richmond at the end of the war. There is an excellent article. The talk this evening is on photo forensics. Richmond, 1865. Please welcome him. Michael gorman i am miced up. Can anybody hear me . I hate podiums. First things first. Was anybody here for the last time i spoke in 2010 .