War blog. Its an hour. Our next speaker will be speaking on the battle of Wilsons Creek. Shes a native of missouri and specializes in the trans mississippi west. Kristen received her master of arts from Webster University in Nonprofit Leadership in may of 2018. Previously she has worked for the Missouri Civil War Museum in st. Louis and the Gettysburg College special collections. Kristen is working on her first book as part of the emerging civil war series. Please join me in welcoming kristen pollack. [ applause ] all right. First of all, thank you to everyone here. Thank you to emerging civil war for having me out this evening. This is an honor to be able to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought on august the 10 sou of missouri, which is my native state. Tonights presentation is actually entitled this means war, the forgotten battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to start off kind of setting the stage and also talking a little bit about what we mean by this mea
Well get to your calls momentarily. Again, there may be more from members. But this is it for hearings this week in the House Intelligence Committee. The house itself and the senate as well, both on break now for the thanksgiving recess. The house not back in session for legislative work for votes until december 3rd. Part of the scene where the hearings have been held. Well wait to see if there are comments from other members. We have not heard from democratic members yet from the committee. In the meantime, we take your calls. Start in marysville, california. This is the democratic line. Hi. I have been watching this impeachment inquiry. Im disturbed for the simple fact we moved away from the constitution. I dont feel that theyre really thinking about the wellbeing of the people of the united states. We know the president has done some things that are unlawful. So, therefore, the democrats are trying to get to the bottom of the situation and theyre unable to do this. This is going to
Twitter send us a tweet at cspan wj and facebook or facebook. Com cspan. Couple of the polls that have come out since thursday since the last of this weeks hearings and let you know about some of our political coverage starting with the intersection of the debate and the impeachment hearings. Jerry simon writing impeachment invades the democratic primary. For the good portion of the campaign, it sounds like it feels like an intrasquad basketball game. The same side scrimmaging against one another. Outside forces began to muscle into the president ial primary primary contest. The first force was president taught President Trump, not of his own accord. The biggest was hearings on the possible impeachment that paid out played out in the house of representatives, in particular a hearing on wednesday dominated the news and stole much of the spotlight that otherwise would have gone to the democrats president ial debate. Not surprisingly, the first question was directed towards Elizabeth Warr
Hill, a former National Security Council Director for russian theirs, and david holmes, u. S. Political Affairs Counselor of ukraine at 10 35 eastern. And next, republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner holder town hall meeting with two meeting members of his state legislature. That was held in germantown, wisconsin. [indiscernible chattering] i would like to call this town meeting to order. I would like to thank you all for coming and one to thank the village of germantown for its cooperation in setting up this meeting and local Law Enforcement for their assistance this afternoon. Is comingased which up live, so this is on worldwide television. When i call on you to ask questions, just stand up where boomre as cspan has a microphone to put in front of you so the world will be able to hear your questions. Our twoant to introduce state legislators who represent the germantown and ridgefield area. Senator alberta and representative joelle branch and they will be here to listen to your com
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