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Thank you for that introduction. I feel like going to door number one or door number two. Thank you for coming. I am the pitching machine, he is the slugger tonight. The immediate peg for this evening is the ratification of the 13th amendment. Lets begin by backing up a bit. April 18, 65. Richmond falls and the army of Northern Virginia surrenders. The civil war is over. What do the victors, what are the unions plans for the south for the freed men . , i dont think there was any single fixed pla...

[inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. So delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. My names lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose. On behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and coowner, brad graham, we really are excited to have all of you here. I do want to just mention a couple of things for those of you who dont know. We are also now running book operations in three of the six ...

Them harder. I think we would welcome legislation to reform that area. But if we come in a blunt instrument, suddenly recreating the fda authorities or mandating things on the fda or looking for the department of health and Human Services to do things that theyre not equipped to do and then, of course, we dont fund them to do it, i think we have to be cautious about some of the legislation that may be proposed. More than anything we want government to be there to work collaboratively but we stil...

Problem, our objective is clear, we will degrade and destroy isil through a conk henceive and comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. We shall see. This much we know that president who swore off foreign entanglement is now embarking on a new war against terror, that he will most certainly pass along to his successor, the stakes are enormous, we make sure we got you covered. With fourstar general anthony zeny. Former new york governor George Pataki on why this 9 11 anniversary so m...

Forecast. A live look outside, just a few clouds. Heres a closer look at temperatures as you get ready to head out. 68 in philadelphia, mid60s pottstown, 69 in poconos. Low 60s at the Atlantic City airport. Heading into the rest of your wednesday, mostly cloudy skies, temperatures range between 77 and 80 degrees. By tomorrow well get pretty close to 90, plus im tracking the return of storms. Ill go over all the details coming up in my first alert sevenday forecast, but first, jillian has a check...

Disney. U. S. G to expand in the over in hong kong, Police Used Tear Gas and pepper spray on demonstrators. Protesters angry over jenna but his plan for the hong kong 2017 leadership election all coming to a head now. Report that pimco for 10 billion in assets. More on the fallout of pimco, Erik Schatzkern with an interesting take on what bill grosss departure means. First, mary, tell us about the 10 million. That is relatively small compared to what they manage. That is true. The 10 billion is ...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. As white house officials confirm the death of an aid worker, president obama has vowed to bring those responsible to justice. The United Arab Emirates has rejoined the campaign against isis. This comes as the syrian president said he is receiving information about airstrikes. Joining me is cole bunzel, a doctoral student and one of the leading experts on isis. Welcome. Thank you. Tell me, what is the status on the ground today . Are airstr...

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Cspan pauline maier, author of american scripture, where did you get that title . Guest it began, actually, as sacred scripture. I was interested in how what was a workaday condocument of the Second Continental Congress became a sacred document for americans. And i was told sacred scripture wasnt going to work because it would get classified as a religious book. So in the course of negotiations, we retitled the book. Cspan and whats this book about . Guest its about the declaration of independen...

Representatives of disease groups know more about the diseases than anybody else. They have worked so hard to try to understand whats at stake. Pressing the government to be as flexible as possible. I think its important for the infrastructure for the 21st century cures. I want to say i would be a little cautious about thinking we can solve big problems with legislation with all the unforeseen consequences that can sit inn at a panel here ten years from now and bemoan. I guess thats not a questi...