Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
By 0. 1 . In the last 24 hours, the president of the United States is heading to israel. Tom per is no other story today. There is no other story today. He is basically traveling to a war zone. Jonathan he wants to present prevent the conflict from enveloping the whole region but how to develop a plan to get aid into gaza. Lisa thats one of the key components with the talks with tony blinken. I find it interesting that President Biden will be going to israel and going to jordan right after, entering the zone with Security Issues and Strategic Issues and have the u. S. Will influence this. Tom im reading on the turkish war in world war i and its amazing the parallels to right now. We are out front on diplomacy. Someone asked the secretary of state where hes been and he said he can remember. They have parallels to 1914 as they try to avoid war. The daily mail in london today talks about the tunnel structure of hamas, 40 feet underground and maybe as many as 300 tunnels. Thats the reality
Plus, debunking bidenomics. The administrations latest lies but, first, dont believe them. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura now, this is the lovely caravan. Doesnt it sound fun . Making its way through mexico to our southern border. Thousands more to add to the millions biden and mayorkas have already waive waved into the und states. I thought about that today. Thats just what our public schools. Just what our hospitals, just what our homeless shelters, just what our schools and our efl programs already overflowing need, more people with more problems. If you hadnt noticed, look around you, were all full up with problems. But, of course, you have noticed because americans are upset and enraged about what this white house has done to our country by opening up our borders to everyone, including the most hardened known criminals. Now, from the beginning, whenever the biden folks were pressed about the border, they immediately started lying and, of course, blameshifting. Now, first
To magazine authors articles on the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. He book a season of slaughter he and i authored on the battle of spotsylvania courthouse and those are available through the emerging civil war website. Chris and i have known each other for 11 years. As i told you last night, we are like john and paul, we fight a little bit, we get along, but we are best friends. I was at his wedding, his reception right here and he met his wife where the projector is set up. Thats the gods honest truth. What one of our friends described as the Rupert Murdoch civil war publishing because hes now becoming a very prolific author. He is going to talk about the battle for the spotsylvania courthouse, particularly the mule shoes and bloody angle. Its my pleasure to introduce to you my friend and coauthor, chris michalski. [applause] firstave to say the symposium i spoke at here, i was whereng and jennifer is Matt Atkinson is, no offense, you are a step down. [laughter] hes really good.
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne