United states that will be much easier to finger point to have the finger pointed towards iran and i think there might be some 3rd parties involved in this issue there are some speculations on social media about the alleged involvement of peoples mujahedeen of iran and their organization that is banned in iran but have portrayed in the United States there are also some allegations of their ties with saudi arabia but all at this point all those allegations are on the verified and they will remain and verified unless there is some neutral International Investigation into the matter which has not been launched and i dont understand why because this is such a critical area for Global Maritime trade why do you think the International Community remains so lackluster about these attacks 6 attacks already happening in the space of 2 months on the one hand they want to pressure iran because iran has started to redo. And if they you mean the United States or they the International Community i wo
A country in the past why Nuclear Bombs do they really care about killing 150 people and then maybe they do because donald trump is a very unusual president you can be very critical about him but he has. I think he has his redeeming qualities at least and what i found very interesting is that he made this his decision as i said against the counsel of most of his security advisers and we are talking not about only john bolton who is always ready to you know bomb any country he sees but also you know his last hawkish advisers and one thing that i was kind of wondering about because its clearly not trying to sound that drone into the iranian air space do you think that it was just the routing mistake or do you think that there were some forces perhaps in the United States who wanted that drawn to be in that territory and to be shot down then the events to kind of spiral down from there i would say that you know about one year ahead of president ial election in the United States a war or a
Scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the forum. And also wellknown to the cspan audience. Then well get right into some questions that ill pose to the panelists and then well turn it open to the floor and have a round of q a from all of you as well. Let me just say this at the outset. I did a quick study of these figures. Frank williams, harold holzer, Jonathan White and Thomas Horrocks here. By my count, and you know, theres some margin of error here in my calculation. But youre looking at the equivalent of about 75 books. [laughter] authored edited coedited. Now, i know that number is skewed somewhat. [laughter] um. Lets just say, i mean, i have contributed two books. White and horrocks have done better than that. Ha but somewhere north of 60 accounts for the holzerwilliams combination. These two, apparently they have day jobs as well. Let me just say a few words. Frank williams is wellknown to everybody, the reti
Next, on the civil war, a panel of historians and authors talks about factors that impacted lincoln Election Campaign in 1864. They explore lincolns expansion of president ial war powers and his relationship with both democratic and Republican Newspapers. They also debate whether the gettysburg address was the beginning of lincolns reElection Campaign and the impact of the soldiers vote. This hourlong event was part of the Lincoln Forums annual symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Good morning. I welcome everybody. I am honored to be here and hosting this panel or moderating this panel on the election of 1864. We have a terrific group of scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the forum. And also wellknown to the cspan audience. Then well get right into some questions that ill pose to the panelists and then well turn it open to the floor and have a round of q a from all of you as well. Let me just say this at the out
COLUMBUS — A Phenix City, Ala., man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison — the statutory maximum prison sentence allowed under federal law