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
Iraqs leader vows again to hold on to power, as america wonders just how many u. S. Personnel will be back there. And bombs in baghdad spread fear that the country is coming apart. Back at home, more protests in ferguson, missouri, and theres another incident of police gunfire. Well talk to naacp president cornell brooks about the unfolding investigations. Plus, with the primary behind him and before any 2016 talk really gets going, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker could have a tough road to reelection ahead of him. Good morning from washington, its wednesday, august 13th, 2014. And this is the daily rundown. Im Chris Cillizza in for chuck todd. We begin this morning with the u. S. Wading deeper into the crisis in iraq and putting more americans in harms way. A new contingent of 130 American Military advisers has been sent to help rescue thousands of refugees still trapped in the northern mountains. That raises the total number of u. S. Troops in the country to more than 900. But defens
Four dozen hostages released by isis, all of them turkish, no ransom was paid and no conditions were accepted in return for their release. Were going to talk about that. Plus, the president s plan to arm and train moderate islamic rebels in syria. Passed the big test in congress this week in a vote that scrambled party lines and created bipartisan alliances like you have never seen before. We begin this morning with nfl commissioner Roger Goodell breaking his silence with the First Press Conference Surveillance Video punching his wife in an elevator surfaced last week. Adrian peterson was indicted after beating his son with a switch and goodells first appearance, these were the very first public words since all of these controversies erupted. I said this before, back in august 28th and say it again now, i got it wrong in the handle of the ray rice matter. Im sorry for that. I got it wrong on a number of levels, from the process that i led, to the decision that i reached. But now, i wil
Particularly friendly to us is a good thing. Again, it comes back to whatever the communication is comes back into the government and shared caa cross the government so its its not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines to any government. Meantime thats not what James Clapper the form of director of National Intelligence had to say. Listen. Its certainly arouses your concern about whats going on given, you know, russia at least for my money is our primary adversary. They are not our friends. They are in to to do us in. I want to turn to cnns rhine know vales. Sunday is a workday at the white house. What activity have you been seeing there . From what we noel the president has been in the white house today. A focused on his agenda moving forward and that means huddling with some advisors to not only talk about what he plans to do on the domestic front but also how they plan to defend the president against these attacks that are coming this way in the light of these investigati
Great guests as well. [inaudible] ainsley senator tim scott. Who else, brian . Brian Stuart Varney is going to be here. We booked him. A lot of times he shows up late. We have to see and many more. Pete hegseth and dana perino. You know its a good show if dana perino got up 8 hours early to be with us. Geraldo is going to be here. We have great guests. We also have the guy who is in charge of the president s campaign, brad par school will be here as well. Brian he is significantly taller than me. He is like 69. Ainsley he is taller than steve. Brian he was with the president last night. Flying out with him 9 00 in the morning. Pumped up with a few things happening. Including democrats coming the president s way. Steve we will see about that. Ainsley nancy pelosi does say she wants a comprehensive bipartisan deal when it comes to immigration. We will see. Brian and i believe it. Steve she also said yesterday after the president unveiled his new immigration plan, which is merit based als