Individually and as a team, they are interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and their engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, great sophistication and great style. As your biographical pacts enumerate, they have individually and together enriched and enlived the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is the john now the third Professor Emeritus in the professor of civil war at the university of virginia and youre all familiar, i know with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. Hes also like me and many others in this room, an oh fish gnaw doe, but more an expert on civil war themed films but his passion has inspired a terrific 2008 book causes won lost and forgotten. How hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. Hes the coed or the of with liz who just published new perspectives on the union war. Joan waug
Weather world looks back at some of the most significant meteorological events of the year the duke of edinburgh has left hospital where he was being treated for what officials describe as a pre existing the duke walked out of the king edward vii hospital in central london, and got into a car before being driven away. He travelled to the hospital on friday as a precautionary measure. Buckingham palace say his four night stay was for observation and treatment. The duke is now back at sandringham where he is expected to spend christmas with the queen. In a moment we will be speaking to our correspondent, Charlotte Gallagher, who is at sandringham. But first, lets go tojohn mcmanus who is in central london, outside the hospital where Prince Philip was receiving treatment. Do we know why Prince Philip was in hospitalfor do we know why Prince Philip was in hospital for the last few days . Very good to see him walk out himself. We dont know why he was brought here on friday to king edward se
Also hitting the market, s p global just dropped the scale that measures environmental, social and governance factors when assessing a companys credit policy. No longer important and we are seeing it ripple across the board. Sandra. Sandra all really interesting stuff. Thank you so much on all of that for us. As we hit a new hour, President Biden is set to deliver remarks shortly on what else his climate agenda and while hes taking a victory lap out west, back home in washington brandnew evidence released in the biden family investigation. Trace we start hour two of america reports. Im Trace Gallagher in for john roberts, great to be with you. Sandra im sandra smith, good to have you here, trace. Trace House Republicans released bank records that appeared to show millions of dollars were sent to bidens and their Business Associates from foreign sources. President biden has not spoken to americans about this or congressional testimony from his sons exbusiness partner. Sandra also over a
Hillary clinton operative Christopher Steele 1 million if he could prove his allegations that biden stomach Davante Adams included. And he pressed on the lack of cooperation justifying the visor pfizer warning, you and your colleagues took the information and put it in the corner page pfizer application and you didnt have cooperation from databases, Intelligence Community or Christopher Steele and still went into a fisa application. Correct. David spunt outside of the courthouse, david. Brian was on the stand for a day and a half and also we just heard from Carl Stolen A Democratic Public Relations operative and according to john durham and durham is doing a lot of questioning specifically in this case to show how invested he is, Charles Dolan admitted he saw some information on television news, gave that information for gossip as durham may want to call it to igor danchenko. Igor danchenko then put it in the steele dossier saying it was from a republican or a trump operative. Igor dan
Host of the Brian Kilmeade radio show and host of one nation. President biden facing backlash for what critics call lack of disrespect for walking out during a distinguished honor of medal of honor award ceremony. The Retired Army Captain was awarded for bravery during vietnam war. It is captain flew over 2000 missions and taylor risked his life to save four members of Reconnaissance Team surrounded by enemy forces. Taylor was able to land for 10 seconds and the men clung on and were flown to safety. The army said what taylor did that noot had never been attempted. After all the heroism, this is what occurred during the distinguished ceremony. [cheering] [applause] harris where is he going . You see President Biden leaving the stage and exiting the ceremony before it was over. He walked off the stage after putting the medal of honor around his neck. The president hoofed out heading for the door. Many reacted with fury, some speculated the president was trying to give the soldier the sp