School, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you waive your arm . Thank you. [applause] mark in uniform at the back of the room. This lecture series, which is about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president so if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which as you know needs saving. Say, thealways like to command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favorites and is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield and with extraordinary teaching and technology, to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. It is also a school for our allies and partners, and the future military leaders from around the world, a place where th
About the prisoner trade of bowe bergdahl. House majority leader erik canter is stepping down right now. House republicans try to figure out who will be their new leader. Cantors stunning defeat. A professor from Central Virginia Mike Viqueira joins us from capitol hill. Mike, this is an unprecedented loss. Everyone is telling me, including David Shuster to my left what it means Going Forward for the Republican Party. Reporter this was truly a bolt from the blue in an age where there are so few genuine surprises. No one saw it coming. What it means with this riff between te tea party establishment. Not so. The first time in the history of this republican the majority leader has been unseated in a primary by a member of his own party. What is even more shocking is that erik donter was in line to become the next speaker of the house, the conventional wisdom some insiders will tell you close to john boehner that this was going to be his last hoorah, and eric cantor could have been speaker
House majority leader eric cantor announced an hour and a half ago that hes stepping down from his majority post. A stunning defeat at the hands of a tea party backed economic professor. Thethe republicans will choose his successor next week. I said it three or four times now, an unprecedented loss. We heard from cantor about 90 minutes or so ago. What did he have to say . Reporter first of all he thanked his constituents for their support for his term of service for the past 13 and a half years. He was elected in 2001. He refused to speculate as to the reasons of his defeat. He said he would leave that up to the analysis. He would resign his post effective july 31st. None of the analysts saw this coming. It was a shock. Here is a seventerm congressman with a wellfunded war chest, 5 million. He goes down in defeat to an unknown College Professor who spent 120,000 to win the primary election. The first time in history that sit a sitting majority leader of any party has gone down in defe
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