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the american line, which is a book about the life of andrew jackson particularly during the time of his whites days by jon meacham. tom ricks, i guess i could say he is my favorite author who wrote fiasco. his new book, entitled the gamble, which is general petraeus efforts in iraq between 2006 and 2008, and several others here. clocks-- fox this desert, three victories and a defeat is the rise and fall of the first british empire, the defeat of course being the american revolution. an...

eating double rations and yet double ragsz are against the law in the german army, punishes, infractions very severely and how was the field cook convinced to give them double rations? i asked that question -- not a single person out of hundreds and hundreds of the best readers and finally i gave it as an open book and they still couldnt answer it and well, they got double rations because the other unit was going to eat there had been wiped out to a man, and when the cook denied them t...

pñ3ñlñkñsñdñ a few exceptions, you know, by and large, dr. howards efforts in mississippi are simply not part of the commonly understood narrative of civil rights. and yet he was very much at the center of a movement before the movement that we remember. how would you explain howards invisibility given his importance? >> i can try to take a crack at that. he was a renaissance man. so howard -- howard had excelled as a civil rights leader but then he moved on to other things. he w...

languid. she called them the bulwarks of slavery. because the churches -- the institutional churches were proslavery. nonetheless, she was extremely religious and she knew the bible inside and out. and that was really her guide. that was how she determined her discipleship. and as i say in my book, she basically espoused a kind of christian communism which she got from the new testament. the idea that worldly goods are not important. the significance of communal living, the importance ...

The pressure is off me now that i got rid of comey. and it was reported out of that meeting that he had revealed some sensitive classified information from another countrys intelligence service. >> right. >> that was the first time that mcmaster really -- he took to the white house driveway. he defended his boss and that was the first time that long-time military reporters, folks like tom ricks and others felt like mcmaster had crossed an ethical line. >> it was actually also the first instance ...

Too, that tom ricks brings up, something like you have to go in there and loving and smiling and hugging and whatever, and be prepared to kill everybody in the room. theres some of them that i cant quote. there are some that are so tough and salty i cant quote. >> let it be said he sounds like a marine. on pompeo, the cia nominee, i met him for the first time a week ago and i met him and was introduced to him by congressman mike rogers, who everybody regards as a sensitive gop conservative kind ...

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Republican party. jon: tom ricks, thanks for joining us today. >> youre welcome. >> lots you may be on the computer to find that perfect deal. but do you wonder who could be looking over your shoulder. what about the government? new concerns about your privacy online. well talk about that today. growing protests as the backlash against egypts president and his power grab appears to be escalating. what this could mean for the stability. region just ahead.