Huge day for america. Varney company starts right now. Charles dont worry. We will not forget the markets. Janet yellen is up on capitol hill. Market hasnt really budged since then. She is in tight spot to justify why they may want to hike rates. A lot of people think they should slow rates down. Oil is up, since yellen released text of her testimony. It is flat but it will be a huge volatile session. One of the things weighing on the market, theyre set to open lower. Huge boost, this star wars quarter was absolutely phenomenal, red flag for espn post ad decline in quarterly profits. All been about espn and those cord cutters. There are results from New Hampshire. Donald trump he winses big. John kasich make as strong second. Three through five, still somewhat up in the air. Combination, ted cruz, jeb bush, marco rubio, saying too close to call. Six through eight, christie, fiorina, ben carson have soulsearching to do this morning. Lets bring in the gopac chairman, david a vella. First
Has been called the most famous photograph in america. Its sort of the Michael Jordan of photographs. Its used in every textbook. When i ask my students what is the visual image you have of the Great Depression of the 1930s, they describe this photograph. Host where was that photograph taken . Guest it was actually taken in california, and its interesting because she was really the main california in the western u. S. During the 1930s depression. And it was taken among people working in a peapicking field. These were migrant farm workers who moved along from field to field, from one agricultural operation to another picking as the crops ripened. But this particular woman had been, and her family and many others, were stuck because there had been an unseasonal freeze. And there wasnt work. The pea crop was destroyed, and they were sitting there with no work and hoping that they would find work at their next stop. Host what year was that photograph taken . Guest that photograph was taken
I read men and women, children too. Rich and poor, the known and the unknown. Because of this emergent and diaries, letters, and other writings, i found a lot that surprised me. Its made clear to me that no matter how majestic and resplendent or the public ceremonies honoring lincoln this end of the war moment was not a time of unity and closure. In the cacophony that ensued people that is agreed about the meaning of the war talked past and over one another. The immediate aftermath of lincolns assassination, those hours, days and weeks, i soon realized where a key moment of intense strife that had been left out of the story. And a moment that resonates into the present day. With Union Victory and confederate defeat that first week of april, 1865, everything was at stake. Black freedom had been teased and deliver, but would it last . Peace would soon be declared but could it endure . How could confederate the brought back into the citizenry . Where and how would former slaves live and w
Up next to master and political commentator nick adams talk about travels across the state and explains why he thinks this country is exceptional. This is about 45 minutes. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you, diane and thank you, ladies and gentlemen of austin. Madam chairwoman, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and in the great state of texas. [applause] and its great to be here among so many teachers and friends and i want to give a special shout out to a couple of very special friends. The executive director of this deep branch of the nra. He counsels me, looks after mepy welcome. And kaye thurman, im surprised it took them her body. She is dynamic. She soon got the is durational and im so happy shes able to be here with me today and we reacquaint three years. Boy does she have a story. God bless you, kaye. [applause] my new friends, the kraft family hospitality has been flawless and their generosity abundant. And how about diane fulton . Isnt she something . Shes r
The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and chester made and sustained the bold claim that defeat u. S. Army africanamerican troops have dealt a death blow to all that army stood for, including favorite old. They insisted not only the union armies at jury emanated from superior virtue of the black troops in particular exemplified by virtue. Most important, africanamerican soldiers interpretations of the surrender of described the civil rights message into the mud animist terms of the sprecher, emphasizing the promise of appomattox, depicted