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Good evening. Im harold, the chair of the lincoln forum. It is time now for our main event. I am proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people, not only as friends, but as colleagues in the civil war field. Gary gallagher and joan waugh. Individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophisticatio...

Actually in oakland, and we are now confirming it is in emeryville. Youre looking at video from earlier today. The flames erupting. Now the first call came in just before five clock this morning. At last report, were told the fire is contained. Multiple agencies responded to the fire, both Alameda County and oakland fire have been tweeting updates throughout the morning. The building was under construction and there was a fire in the same building were told in july. No reports of any injuries bu...

A fiveweek break if you can believe it. But they will probably get as much done while they are out of town as they did when they were in town, which was absolutely nothing. And president obama celebrating his 52nd birthday with a big round of golf and then a sleepover at camp david. Edward snowden is not a terrorist, he is a whistleblower and in response to what the nsa says is a real terrorist threat, 19 embassies have been shutdown around the world. Is this just an attempt to make the nsa look...

The suspect was later charged with armed Drug Trafficking and possession of cocaine with intent to sell. Every year three quarters of srts raids are drug warrants. It puts them on the frontline in the fight against the drug trade. Lieutenant calvin james doesnt see that about to change. Ive never heard of a shortage of crack, there being a shortage of cocaine, there being a shortage of marijuana or pills or anything that they want on the street, so that leads me to think that you know, the suppl...

Armed Services Committee joins me as well. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. In case you didnt notice, one heck of a fight going on now inside the Republican Party. Folks, the fight is looking more and more like a rivalry between a hammer and nail. A pair of retiring senators, bob corker, jeff flake, dramatically blasted their partys leader as a threat to our safety and democracy. If it was a call for fellow republic...

G. O. P. Plan will encourage companies to bring jobs back to america. I think the most important point is that most of the country thinks of themselves as middleclass. They people need a tax break. We need to reduce the rates on job creators. We have encouraged businesses to park their wealth and jobs overseas. We need to encourage them to keep factories, plants and jobs here in america. Jon chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live from capitol hill, we begin with White House Corre...

Done on tax reform. >> heather: life for us, thank you. >> jon: earlier on "happening now" we spoke with john coren of texas about the g.o.p. tax proposal. the senator explaining why he thinks these changes need to happen now. >> right now the tax code has become so complex and so full of deductions and credits on the like that are the product of people working through the lobbyist on capitol hill, we need to reduce rates for everybody, eliminate those deductions and subsidies as much as possibl...

im blogging about this on "abc news".com. decade of twisters, going back to la prayed da. and deadly tornado, of course, in 2002 and the university of college park in 2001. we have video and talking the storms, going back a decade right here on "abc news".com. >> it was one year ago today, people in the falseton area, were in the bulls-eye for a, a frightening tornado produced more than a million dollars of property damage. as abc 2 newsexplains, people who live there are still assessi...

It publicly. can this go on? its not affable behavior, not unknown in politics. all of us sort of saying this cant go on forever. is it tenable? eye rolling in private and sucking up in public? i dont know. maybe it is tenable for longer than they with. maybe for four years. seems hard to believe but im struck by their willingness to go along. and john coren endorsed ron moore today and was proud to, he said. >> follow his twitter feed, subtweets the president all the time. takes veiled shots at...