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Family prepare to say their final goodbye to a legendary comeed yen. Good morning, welcome to al Jazeera America. Live from new york city, im morgan radford. Immigration reform is on hole. President obama saying hes delaying executive action until after the november election. He blames the border crisis for the delay, pointing to a surge of immigrant children entering the United States. The decision contradicting a promise he made in june to go at it alone in implementing a complete immigration ...

Performance. Now live to the house floor. In the prayer will be offered today by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We pause now in your presence and acknowledge our dependence on you. We ask your blessing upon the men and women of this, the peoples house, keep them aware of that presence as they face the tasks of this day that no burden be too heavy, no duty oo difficult and no work too wearisome. Help them and in...

Quality of life of the citizens of this country. We begin in iraq, where the u. S. Has carried out a new round of air strikes against fighters from the Islamic State. U. S. And iraqi forces bombed sites near haditha in western ambar province, where the iraqi forces and sunni tribe are trying to protect the dam. Its the first time the u. S. Targets the sunni dominated area of anbar. If you want a remedy for this council, there must be help from the global system. If there is help from the america...

From the getgo learning to Work Together and this at this event show their constituents and the American People that they can literally Work Together, recent together at a higher level on all the issues that americans are concerned about and get the best decisions by reasoning together instead of it being based on power, money and votes. We win and you lose. Im calling to say thank you for the debates. I just watched the vermont governors debate and im embarrassed to admit that when i first saw ...

Iraq war, an inside look at google and much more. For more information on this weekends 48hour Television Schedule can, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next on booktv, s. C. Gwynne recounts the life and military career of confederate general thomas stonewall jack soften. This program, from the atlanta history certain, is just under an hour. [applause] our speaker tonight, s. C. Gwynne, lived in austin, texas. He is a prolific writer. He has written for Time Magazine for 12 years where he won ...

Bladensburg. Now i think one of the reasons youre so happy to discuss the battle of bladensburg is because you feel it sort of led on, sort of inexorablely to the triumph of baltimore. Again, i wont stir you up. I dont think baltimore can be described as a victory. I think it is an outrageous thing to say. Im sorry, but in factual terms, the lifting of the siege of baltimore are was a huge victory for the americans. It was certainly a rebuff, a failure, reverse for the british but i think to cal...

Then part of the land making up the district of columbia. This was a very wealthy port on the potomac. And they also could pose a threat to other targets in washington that hadnt been taken by the british army. Though they dont know this at this point. Georgetown had been left alone by the british and theres an important foundry that makes weapons for the u. S. Navy that is still sitting untouched. In any event, they were proceeding up river when theyre hit by the huge storm. The remarkable stor...

In the war of 1812, obviously. So its my pleasure to welcome colonel eshelman to the podium. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. Thank you. That was a kind introduction. I have never been called colonel when im been introduced. Thank you very much. I want to add to the accolades expressed about the wonderful job the partners and all the individuals have done to put this symposium together. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you have as well. We still have an afternoon to go as well. Itis not ...

And u. S. Capitol building. Historians recently discussed the battle in bladensburg, maryland. They are introduce d by Rushern Baker. I want to welcome everyone to this roundtable discussion on the war of 1812. Were certainly happy to have you in bladensburg, maryland, in the county of Prince Georges County. You know, i am the county executive of Prince Georges County Rushern Baker and i get the pleasure of doing something i love to do and thats talking about history and the role the state and c...

Hes been quite fearful that georgetown will be attacked. A a few days later, it is from this home that he would launch the mission to try to gain 8p maryland who had been taken prisoner by the british, a and this would ultimately lead to his eyewitnessing of the bombardment of ft. Mchenry and ultimately to thev f writing e national antent them. A big rainstorm hit the city that night after the n÷ britisd gone back to their camp, and extinguishes some of the flames including at the treasury. An...