The vast number of confederate sailors, most of those guys that crew those three iron clads are from virginia and are based in and around richmond on the rivers. So they are actually not that cut poch one of the best things that helped sailor morale is right up until the end the navy eats better than the normally does. The amy has a far better ration system than the army does. But the one of the things too that sustains the sailors particularly the ones on the ironclads and particularly the ones, you know, on the rivers, is that they are defending home. They are making a visible contribution and these ironclads still remain a psychological advantage for the con fed rates. Were in an ironclad. In a new ship. The yanks will have trouble with us no matter what, and we will cause trouble for them. That helped sustain morale more than anything. Before wre wrap up, chris is the author of books. Something that is usually overlooked in light of the flashier gediesburg and vicksburg kind of thi
Fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws. Despite the title of todays hearing, there were no widespread election alike he irregularities that affected the final outcome, these claims are false. I think continued assault on democracy and the outcome of this election only serves to undermine confidence in the process. Im not too keen on lectures about how missourians and others who voted for President Trump now have some concerns about fraud, integrity and compliance with the law should be compliant and they are not patriotic if they raise these questions. Speed to things getting personal between Committee Chair ron johnson and democrat gary peters on the issue of russian disinformation, take a look. I just have to talk about russian disinformation because people peddling and are not on my side of the aisle. Senior democrat leaders, including Ranking Member peters accused senator grassley and myself of accepting and disseminating russian disinformation. I had nothing to do with thi
Including one covering, quote, incitement of insurrection. The plan is to introduce them on monday, leading to a vote later next week. Twitter, today, permanently suspended the president s account. Raising the question, will a social media platform bring more accountability to this president than any sanction provided for in the constitution . That would be, well, something. Late today, Lisa Murkowski became the first republican senator to call on the president to resign after wednesdays insurrection. Many are now trying to sweep this all down the memory hole. People, like House Minority leader kevin mccarthy, who tweeted today, impeaching the president with just 12 days left will only divide our country more. Or lindsey graham. He tweeted as President Donald Trump stated last night, it is time to heal and move on. Adding it is up to president elect biden to step in, and allow the nation to heal. Late today, the White House Deputy press secretary weighed in quoting from his statement n
Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Would trump dump ryan . Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in california where ill speak at the institute for public policy. Did donald trump say ill fight every man in the house for a dollar . Not yet but hes ready to fight the speaker of the house and not worried about party unity. Does the party have to be together . Im different perhaps than anybody thats run for office. I dont think so. I have to stay true to my principles, also and im a conservative but dont forget, there are conservative parties. Republican leaders whether to
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If we did the shutdown. He makes it sound like it was a different era where he was predicting 60,000 deaths. It was two weeks ago. April 19th he thought there would be 60,000 deaths. Were already at 67,000 deaths. The daily count of new deaths is stubbornly high. Its worth noting that this is without even knowing whether there will be any effects from the states around the country that decided to reopen. This is not a one size fits all pandemic. About onethird of the states are seeing a rise in cases. Thats in pink right there. Onethird are experiencing a drop in cases. Thats in the sort of green there. The other third in yellow. Flat. As we watch all of that, theres so much talk about the reopening around the country coinciding in many areas with gorgeous weekend weather. Parks and beaches in places like new york, texas, georgia and florida. Seeing plenty of visitors out and about. A packed weekend. In florida, today, much of the state will reopen. By the end of the week, more than 40