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Very special event here at the Gerald R Ford president ial museum. Really proud to see all of you coming out to enjoy, i think, whats going be a very stimulating discussion about. Our home, we dont know enough about. Im gleaves. Im the executive director of the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. My this evening is jon lauck, whos a writer and researcher hes written many books. Ive got several of them here that he and i have worked on together on, the midwest. And were going to explore that. So im welcoming you, our Live Audience and our cspan viewers everywhere. So, john, i think we ought get right into it. Please tell us about your background and you have real midwestern roots. I mean, you come by all of this honestly raised on a midwestern you know, you went to big colleges, you know, both your ph. D. In history and ....
Good evening and welcome to this very special event here at the Gerald R Ford president ial museum. Really proud to see all of you coming out to enjoy, i think, whats going be a very stimulating discussion about. Our home, we dont know enough about. Im gleaves. Im the executive director of the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. My this evening is jon lauck, whos a writer and researcher hes written many books. Ive got several of them here that he and i have worked on together on, the midwest. And were going to explore that. So im welcoming you, our Live Audience and our cspan viewers everywhere. So, john, i think we ought get right into it. Please tell us about your background and you have real midwestern roots. I mean, you come by all of this honestly raised on a midwestern you know, you went to big colleges, you know, ....
With a series of hit and run attacks in the last 48 hours. And today isis is suspected of staging a bloody series of car bombs inside baghdad including one that nearly killed an iraqi minister. There are serious concerns about what will happen if isis does manage to breach the iraqi capital and whether iraqi fighters have the courage to drive them out. Megyn, nobody is quite sure how far isis fighters are from reaching the capital baghdad but the department of defense is acknowledging that isis could now be within five miles. That means the fight is approaching the baghdad suburbs. The clashes have killed hundreds of iraqi soldiers. Today rear admiral john kirby was asked if iraqi fighters could hold their ground. Listen to him. So i think were i cant predict anything one way or the other other than to tell you what i can predict is were going to continue to work with them in their defenses of it. But those in and around baghdad arent sure the air strikes will be enough. They point out ....