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Putting the brakes on investment bankers. Makers. Market and Erik Schatzker. Stephanie ruhle is on assignment. The top stories at this time. Stocks selling off around the world. T started in china the shanghai composite suffered its biggest oneday drop since 2009. Index lost 5 after chinese regulators took steps to limit access. Loss in 27 years. In the u. S. , stocks opened down. They are still down about. 7 . A change at the top of Abercrombie Fitch. The retailers ceo and founder of Mike Jeffr...

Africanamerican voters and also africanamerican candidates . Let me share with you, jesse holland, this is from a democrat, he worked for president bill clinton as a speechwriter and he says to t Voting Rights nationwide on heading on inattention by the American People, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court case limiting the reach of the Voting Rights act, they have worked weeklyo cut voting samed is not a paradox because often the africanamerican voters are those who cast their ballots early a...

Vote vote the presiding officer any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change a vote . If not, on this vote the yeas are 59, the nays are 41. The 60vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. The clerk nominations, the judiciary, Leslie Joyce Abrams of georgia. The presiding officer the sergeant at arms will restore order. Order in the ...

An interesting historical note is that one of the properties that has become four circles parts. We will begin to study the near and long term needs for pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capital. We will develop a new vision for this iconic street, which is home to so Many National treasures, including this bui building, the National Archives. I want to extend a special thanks to the National Park service which is the steward for four circle parks and especially peter may. He i...

Kind of oversaw the fortifications during most of the war, as they redid and reconstructed some of these forts, he decided new guns would go in and help cover this which it wasnt doing before. So your plans for the fortifications, the system of fortifications did change over the four years of the war. Coming back, i told you we would stop and i would show you what some of the 360degree angle guns look like. See, the carriage is a little bit different, but this shows you, and you notice the botto...

Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated ...

President will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. So while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4 00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. And they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40odd men of the Union Soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. Lincoln wi...

Surviving forts with dale floyd from the National Park service. Right now were in the museum which has a variety of different artifacts. One of the nice things is we have a map of the fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. Fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. And today we are also going to go to fort foot which is down here. And all the way up to fort stephens which is up there. The reason that the forts were built was basically...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this...

Wood of passed a bill with the minority of the republican caucus. This really point out the difference between how house election work. House collections work district by district. Republican majority is builton white congressional districts. On a National Election the chosen by a statewide, so coming out of 2012 the speaker of the house was quite worried about the prison obama won 39 of white ith voters. Voters not need white because he won 80 of minority voters. And for the leader of the Repub...