Im really glad to have you with us at todays lecture. I am here in the History Department at Virginia Tech where i teach history and i also run the virginia civil war studies sponsoring tonights lecture. Many of you will know regular attendees, we host these kinds of events throughout the academic year. We had a really good run this year despite the pandemic and offering a great series of lectures. Are other activities include organizing academic conferences. We give out grants and scholarships to researchers to come and visit and special collections at Virginia Tech. We also do outreach projects, local museums local elementary schools and that type of thing i encourage you to check out our website. And you can also find us on Facebook And Twitter and youtube this is the last event of the academic year the last in a series of lectures we have been hosting this year called the new perspective on the civil War Era Speaker series. It has been a wonderful series i have enjoyed hearing thes
Today is National Manufacturing day, did you know that . The white house issued a proclamation marking the occasion and it mentioned correctly that American Manufacturing is essential to our economy. It employs over 12 million americans directly, and many more indirectly, and it noted how many manufacturing jobs were upended during the pandemic, 578,000. If the proclamation also points out that these losses and other factors adversely affected our supply chain. Supply chains disruption left our nation short of lifesaving protective equipment, ventilators, and other essential Health Equipment at a time when we needed it most. Well, theres the rub. When we import so much of what we need and use from steel to pharmaceuticals, plastics, computer chips, we leave ourselves susceptible to huge economic headwinds and during covid, it ended up being a matter of life and death. Now, biden talks a good game about helping rebuild our Supply Chains and supporting american jobs and manufacturing him
governor, josh shapiro joins us this sunday, just days before the most consequential midterm election in years, the vicious attack on a pelosi s husband are raising fears of political violence. in her first statement since her husband was attacked in their home a hammer, attempted to tie him up. and said that they would wait until, quote, nancy got home. to be clear they hope it s a final winning message for democrats. joining me now, in an exclusive interview, white house press secretary something that all of us need to say. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we need to end this. this is about the president has said multiple times. he has talked about it in his speeches and other remarks. the thing that is probably most haunting about when we hear of the reports of this assailant, this attacker, that you were speaking of. he was yelling out the things we heard during january six. which is, where is nancy? again, we need to end this type
Decide their future, democrats have steadily reminded us what exactly is at stake in the ballot box. democracy as we know it. on thursday, i sat down for an exclusive interview with pennsylvania tierney general undemocratic candidate for governor josh shapiro, who talked abortion, crime, into the dangerous rhetoric of the gop. attorney general shapiro, thank you for coming to the sunday show. good to be with, your thanks for having me. so you are a local political leader. do you have any desire to be in the examination room with a woman and her physician and her family? now, listen. i will always defended women s right to choose, free of political interference. that is an issue that is central to this campaign for governor in kent pennsylvania.
They think money grows on trees. their answer to everything is to borrow and print more money, raise taxes, and regulate industries into the dust. we had a booming economy less than two years ago. we had record low unemployment. we had no inflation and china was back on its heels. but none of those good outcomes brought us closer to the progressive political goals of discrediting capitalism, demonizing wealth creators, and encouraging americans to become ever more dependent on the government. biden had some decent instincts on the value of made in america when he visited that mack trucks plant in kent pennsylvania. president biden: in recent years, buy america has become a hollow promise. my administration is going to make buy american a reality. we will be expanding to help them get a better deal when they