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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, sophistication, and style. As your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the liter...

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 but oakland fire was reporting earlier this morning. There are multiple fires that broke out at nearby...

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 good in and well find out what happens to arod today. Youll find out all about it right here next o...

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 supply is pretty good, and theyre getting in what they want to get in. But because our narcotics guys are...

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 republicans to take up arms against the president , well, then theyre alone, because no ones taken it. I thi...