Good afternoon. I am richard lui in for yasmin. The christmas dozens of Flights Canceled due to weather in the mid let leaving airline scrambling to get Travelers Home for the holidays. A live report on the situation just a moment. And, a brandnew falling by Donald Trumps legal team on the issue of president ial immunity, essentially their clients commute completely immune from prosecution. This sets up a showdown of what the Special Counsel and the hearing set for early january. Breaking news for you as well, the Israeli Military revealing the fate of five hostages whose bodies were found in the tunnels of gaza. We will get the details with that just into. Us with record breaking numbers of migrant the board of this week, some negotiators working the phone lines through the congressional recess to find a deal on immigration. Well also look back at the Culture War Bottles of 2023 when america appeared to be a war with itself. That is coming up, later this hour. We are going to start th
This there will never be a wedding march, sunday, on rtr. So, biden said that humanity needs a new world order, he believes that only americans can build it, those rules, i quote biden, that happened. After world war ii it no longer works. The kremlin commented on the words of the american president , noting that it is not possible to transfer the reins of government to washington, but the new world order according to biden, like the old world order according to biden, is still a proamerican world order, so we are not satisfied. We absolutely agree with mr. Biden, this is a rare case when we absolutely agree with. By what he said, indeed, the world needs a new world order, based on completely different principles, free from attempts to concentrate all mechanisms of Global Governance in the hands of one state, free from attempts to impose your will, your decisions on other countries, and so on and so forth and vice versa, a world order that relies on international law, and not on rules
Vaccines and therapeuticing so they can delay them until after the election. The president reupping attacks on mailin voting, suggesting against without evidence, not only fraud but that ballot drop boxes are a health risk, saying in part, they are not covid sanitized. Twitter actually slapped a label on this tweet for being misleading. Top clear, the president wants you to think that ballot drop boxes will get you sick, yet when it comes to having supporters pile in a room close together to hear him speak, theres no problems . Over the next four days the Republican Party and the president will have to contract what we heard repeatedly in the Democratic Convention. The president s sister, a respected former federal judge slamming him in a secret recording. Its the lack of preparation, 9 lying, the holy [ bleep ]. More on this recording in just a moment, but jeremy, first were getting new details about this announcement from the president. Fill us in. Reporter thats right. Two sources f
Horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at Virginia Tech before that. She earned her phd at unc chapel hill. Shes working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. And by the way, she g
Im director of the Virginia Center for civil war studies. It was my job one of my jobs to split these nine talks into three different sessions one for each week and the theme the kind of sub theme i came up with for this week is manpower and horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she work