Mike pompei or he was on a phone call the u. S. Secretary of state he was on a phone call with the Prime Minister of iraq are all of the mahdi he said. Of the mahdi told him that the security situation in iraq was back to normal and he. Offered iraq a support however it theres been very Little International reaction the u. N. Have spoken theyve condemned the deaths of the protesters so a lover of the Russian Foreign minister was here but he didnt mention the protests we went into all instead he talked about an arms deal for iraq so theres been very Little International reaction we are expecting more protests to come in the coming hours and the scene does seem to be set there is a normal enormous amount of security out in the streets of baghdad. A series of global protests has seen 250 people arrested at the organizes extension rebellion say the protests will span 60 cities this audit in australia where at least 30 people were arrested in sydney for blocking traffic on a main road centr
Survived a fall from an aircraft plus a year in the wilderness. And meet the teacher who went above and beyond the call to include all of his students on a class hiking trip. Early today starts right now good thursday morning. Im phillip mena good to be with you im Frances Rivera an explosive new phasee impeachment inquiry into President Trump gets underway this morning nbc news learned overnight the whistleblower complaint that set all of this in motion is now declassified and is expected to go public this morning with minimal redactions and in just hours, the acting director of National Intelligence, Joseph Mcguire, will appear before congress. He will testify at an open hearing before the House Intel Committee at 9 00 a. M. Eastern and then speak to the senate Intel Committee behind closed doors this afternoon well have more on what to expect from capitol hill in a few minutes. But first, nbcs susan mcinhe is has new details on the call between the president and ukraines leader repo
Theater at the National Archives. I am chief of the archives. And that is just a fancy way that we run a lot of the public spaces on the other side of the building. He sends his regrets that he could not be here but his presence was needed at another one of the facilities. I will gladly steal his signature line and say welcome to my house. Im pleased you could join us whether you are here in this room today were here to listen to christian be keller. The Great Partnership Stonewall Jackson and the fate of the confederacy. He became the director of the military history program. With the american civil war. In the germans nativism ethnicity and civil war memory. In the inter induction to the book. They relate clearly and concisely several things including the value of this book the four doors with the text itself. As an archivist. With the interpretive value. And the reliability of source material particularly confederate related sources. Versus poorest postwar sources. This military his
His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
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