Today well focus on the Continental Army and this is were situating this very much in the broad history of war and the military, and the Continental Army in a lot of ways is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one that is very much based on ideals and certainly the concept and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So what is the kont minutal army . Where is it, first of all . America. America, okay. So the Continental Army is based in america and it will become the first United States army, but before it was the u. S. Army, it is the army of america, yes. Certainly part of the American Revolution specifically and the united colonies. So when the Continental Army begins its not necessarily the start of the revolution and well begin the story in the beginning of the war. A couple of classes ago we were talking about the french and indian war, and the french and indian war was a war thats fundamentally altered several different nations that
What motivated the shooters . Who were their targets . Can a nation so divided find a way to stop this senseless, shocking violence, and what will the president do in the wake of these Mass Shootings on his watch . Well take these questions to acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney here in a sunday exclusive. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Its difficult to find the words to describe this moment in time. I can rattle off the sickening statistics about gun violence in america. Over the last five years we have endured five of the ten deadliest Mass Shootings in modern American History. I can list the cities and towns now synonymous with tragedy. Weve heard all of that before after newtown and Sutherland Springs and parkland, charleston, orlando, pittsburgh, after aurora, Virginia Tech and columbine, pearl and paducah, the condemnation, the calls to action, the thoughts and pr
The president has arrived in japan for the g20 summit, just as he stepped off air force one the news broke that china has established its negotiating position in the trade talks. Remove restrictions on huawei, remove all tariffs. Thats a hard line. Trump meets xi on saturday. Im going to call it a flat to slightly higher market. Any loss for the dow is accounted for by boeing, which is down sharply because of new problems with the max jet and look at that nasdaq go, up half a percentage point. Big tech doing well this morning. Theres a story on bitcoin. It hit 14,000 overnight but the Coin Base Exchange crashed. When that happened, bitcoin fell sharply, currently is down to 11,700. Just look at how amazon has changed the world. Their prime days dominate the summer selling season. Now we are seeing target, ebay, walmart and others join the club, jumping on amazons band wagon with a ton of special deals of their own. Thursday, june 27th. Varney company is about to begin. Who here would a
The cricket world cup that chases on for new zealand but they are making a meal of against south africa. Also coming up in the programme, it was a brilliant Clay Court Season but it is another k0 for konta in birmingham. And just is another k0 for konta in birmingham. Andjust bumps is another k0 for konta in birmingham. And just bumps and bruises, thankfully Geraint Thomas says he will be able to defend his Tour De France title next month. Good evening. Tomorrow night well know who plays who in the last 16 at the womens world cup. England are there no matter how they get on againstjapan tonight. Well head live to nice injust a moment. But for scotland, its win or bust against argentina in paris. Jane dougall is at the parc de princes. Such a crucial match tonight here at the parc des princes. A loss or draw will not do, scotland need to beat argentina. That will not be an easy thing to do because argentina despite being ranked 37 in the world have had a great world cup so far. They had
Would sort of show the others that she is not pushing this german candidate that she sort of gives them you know gives them leave to make up their own minds and saying ok can we live with her would be like her in that job so it was probably a clever political move like everything she has done since yesterday sort of getting her into the mix and sort of pushing her very very noticeably she was sort of more and more mentioned more and more throughout the day in the ended up as the frontrunner so i think shes shes had a good political day in brussels today ok well the haggling is over for now and now its up to the European Parliament as you said barbara remind us again especially for people who are looking at this from beyond brussels why these jobs are really so important. These jobs are important because they determine the way you are go for the next 5 years questions like will the next you Commission President because that is the person who is responsible for the day to day workings an