to black enlistment in the union army during the civil war. the national civil war museum hosted this hour and 45 minute event. good morning. i d like to thank the national for hostingseum this. i d like to give a special forks to the commissioner making this possible, sponsoring this program, allowing me to share this american story not only with the good folk of harrisburg, but thanks to c-span and the good folks of the country. now, today s lecture, the first entitled,tures is recruiting the freedom fighters in the war of the rebellion. losta lost stories stories series. we are telling a story that often does not get told. a history that was in many ways, intentionally suppressed. we are going to dig into a story that will challenge what many people have been told happened in the civil war. since the stern necessities of this struggle have laid there the naked issue of freedom on one side and slavery on the have in theom shall future of this conflict if necessary, my b
two lectures is entitled, recruiting the freedom fighters in the war of the rebellion. this is a lost stories lost stories series. we are telling a story that often does not get told. a history that was in many ways, intentionally suppressed. we are going to dig into a story that will challenge what many people have been told happened in the civil war. since the stern necessities of this struggle have laid there the naked issue of freedom on one side and slavery on the other, freedom shall have in the future of this conflict if necessary, my blood. these are the words of captain hezekiah fort douglas. douglas in 1851, no relation to frederick douglass, had once opposed the agenda of the american society of free persons of color who argued that in league with the constitution, they could end the tyranny of slavery. once the civil war indeed became a war, within the tyranny of slavery, he made it very clear that he was willing to fight in the league with that constitution and
if evidence emerges that russia was involved, that would obviously be extremely concerning. are their preliminary idea that it was in fact a surface to air missile? you said are there preliminary ideas? findings, evidence? not at this time. this is just beginning. it s hard to tell. there you confident that u.s. will be able to figure out what happened? i hope international regimes can get in there to get the black box and really be able to look at what might have happened. it appears, just to somebody who was ant this and that it in air explosion. the debris field is so widely spread. do you believe there were 23 americans on board? i have heard what you have heard. it is my understanding the manifest is not yet available. there were some americans on board? do i believe everyone everything i hear from the press? what do you believe the cause of the explosion is? i do not believe at this stage. i m a wait to find out. what would be the appropriate u
so the strange thing is when you talk about legal opinion and i appreciate the former solicitor general and how well he s held in regard, but what you are saying is you pick an opinion and the opinion could be wrong, but your opinion is you don t ball under us. in fact, our oversight is irrelevant, that you don t have to answer questions. you don t have to produce documents that you can withhold care that has been a consist pattern in this administration. yesterday the president of the united states asserted it for a new bright, inherent right not to deliver a political appointee who serves that interfaces with the dnc and the dccc on the democratic national committee and the democratic congresscongress ional committee works directly with those had to plan the president s targeting of races to support democrats for their reelection on a partisan basis and we are not even not hear from the person because there is an inherent right not to produce out. so when you say here that
mr. bruce swartz, you are not going to be of very good witness if you want to answer questions based upon your knowledge in this area has supplied to us by the department of justice. well, senator, as i said at the outset, i can speak to the criminal aspect here and the impetus for many of these children to live fully. whether the basis for their asylum is sufficient will have to be determined in the proceedings themselves. just a range. i am not prepared at this stage i will tell you this, it does not give me a lot of faith in the public officials who are dealing with this issue if they do not have some kind of gut instinct as to the number of people who are coming into this country that might actually really need asylum. that does not give me a very good sense of you having a handle on the situation. senator, i will talk with my colleagues in the executive office of immigration review to give their review their view on that particular question. i can speak t