john huston it is the fascinating look at hollywood and rolled for to to document what went on to motivate people. with the brilliant artist to literally went to war. with of a tax law of the of violent with the film the classic documentary about the b-17 and he lost his hearing because of his service. it is a fascinating portrait

with a degree of reality of the war. not only a fascinating history but with a significant to inequality of wealth to deal with some of the issues in the role of cooperation but the interesting thing is the contrast. we respected each other immensely. but different temperaments it plays out there a significant contribution not just the intellect but the temperament. to fascinating characters.

but they're both fascinating figures >>? you do for a living? why are you writing books about security? >> when the us stock market collapsed my clients were losing money and i want to understand why source started to dig into it and i found financial terrorism for those that connected to the pentagon and the fbi said was a contractor doing research who found a pint of a complete financial

terrorism as part of the stock market. >> says part of your first book. >> what is the thesis of the book? >> basically waived we're doing all kinds of crazy things with the housing bubble animes radical is long and elements of rush judges our vulnerability economically and started to use george soros style techniques to target at lehman brothers cut ag, a citibank, goldman sachs and started to use manipulative techniques and the markets to attack the stock market. is sounds like the conspiracy theory but hank paulson informers treasury secretary tim about in said in his memoirs the russians approached the tidies if we tambov holdings of american dead now we can krater the economy.

and they did and the chinese did not and there were some dour economic situation substantially. >>host: you have a follow-up. game plan. with. >> as a part of my research i got into the chinese stock during that is called the restricted warfare from the people's liberation army of china. this was written in 1999 closing low man-made stock market crash wask/ cyberattacks on the infrastructure or to run the currency per ryan looked at donnelly 2008 but what could happen. the next step before we will face is not done sanded tanks and shooting but seifert -- cybereconomic.

they said if we will press the economy that is a vladimir putin said just recently when he invaded the ukraine and recently vulgate sanctions on you he said you don't want to do that because i can grosz -- crasher stock market and dumps the dollar. what i wrote about in 2008 and covered with game plan. button that says if that isn't the intent to do what would you as an individual merit can protect yourself? reviews say for invest? do you buy gold a.m. sulfur? that's is the book. >>host: as a money manager today are you in the stock market? >> i am. it performs pretty well in the currency collapse. the zimbabwe currency i carry that with me.

in 1998 was producing $100 bills to exchange for that $20 united states. flip it over that is what they were producing 2,008 with those were one-hundred trillion dollar bills not worth 1 penny. but despite that the stock market did well in the best performing stock market in 2008. i cover this said the collapse happens you don't want to avoid it stocks. you want to bonds. so what type of economic attack are refacing and how should you respond? looked at the offense to say we will pass then pass defense. the cover all types of economic attacks and investments with how you respond.

>>host: what type of defense do we have up against such did economic attack? >> we have nothing at the national level. outgoing head of the nsa said recently in fact, he was on "60 minutes" that basically our enemies know how to creature the financial system and nothing we can do to stop it at this point. we cannot stop packers from hacking target or employs from stealing secrets from the and a say. iran had asked the navy web site. we cannot prevent this. but that is why putin was so confident so there is very little we can do at the federal level. we are improving for those that try to figure out solutions but in general game plan imagine living in

honolulu and somebody said if the japanese are bombing this is what you should do. of russia since the iranians decide-- started to attack the cave plan. >> what is one piece of the advice? >> everyone in the financial system said they will give you $50 for electronic statements but don't do what or print them out. in 2001 when the trade towers were hit i have a line of credit in one of the companies that was housed in the towers and access to pay payroll because all the money dried up. i had to go with my papers statement to convince a few mortgage days at the time to let the have access to that line of credit when all the

records were down. if by design have the paper statements i could not have done that. keep copies of this stock rose -- brokerage system of the whole system is down how to do you pay your mortgage or your bills? >> one solid piece of advice. keep more than two days of food in your pantry and more than water if the electric grid or have to make a week or 10 days or longer if it were serious attack. and we live in a just-in-time society but the elimination of a dozen have access to food and water beyond the day or two. and to save less and less

crazy but with the weaker or 10 days of food supply on a regular basis because of something went down you have to eat you need 1 gallon per person per day and this could happen with hurricane sandy. or hurricane to treat now or a flood, fire, or a terrorist events were a natural solar flares to wipe out bust's electrical grid. so practical device numbers do is keep of low bid of food and little bit of water >>host: new say this is a coming cybereconomic attack. when? >> i don't know bow with the most pleasure to percent certainty it will. 10 million at hacking it jumps per day. full-size will tell you we

will have a cyberpearl harbor at some point. al qaeda has recruited some of the best actors in the overall path the iranians and in the west. and did 2013 had to the associated press twitter feed cent of paul s. white house treats that the new year stock exchange picked up on an immediate drop 1%. totally fake. with they did that in conjunction with the terrorist attack? debbie 10 percent in some way. we will face a terror attack it is inevitable and we need to prepare for it.

>>host: his most recent book brandt new about greco game plan for about this is booktv on c-span2. >> the soviet system in eastern europe had the seeds of its own destruction we see the problems at the very beginning. with the attempt to control all institutions and all parts of the economy but when you do that and tried to control everything you create opposition everywhere. to tell all artists and one artist's death says no. you have just made him into a political dissident.

off if you tell a boy scout troops they cannot be boys scouts but young pioneers. and one group decides they don't like that. so they formed the underground group and a very happened and those underground as scout groups were popular in poland now there is also other political opponents. >> i am going back through a series i have read before centering on our presidents i get started on reading the book on truman.

and how they solved problem santa friesen we're doing it is because our nation faces a variety of problems is the action based leadership to put solutions on the table. >> so today get something on margaret thatcher i every day on her. and doing some genealogy online with some research to works her ancestry.com to do some additional research. as a

graphic edition in 2014. > host: amity shlaes,ho i >>host: who is the forgotten man? >> it is thus seen in my book but president roosevelt talked about the forgotten man at the the bottom of the economic pyramid meanings them homeless and the president roosevelt spokehey about this in the 1930's the world where of converting

aboutys this other forgotten man and that was the man who pays for the government project. even some of its raw that wants to help but what is problem? what if it is not a good project? with william pram that you have the wrong forgotten man the poor man. no. the taxpayer. that is a question today. >>host: is in your book air of a new history of the great depression you write to about america and

depression not the war ended but why it lasted from 1929 through 1940 from hoover through roosevelt government intervention helps to make the depression estimate thator is the work of that book. thank you for quoting the a introduction i wrote this about the 1930's because long story short we all learn to something in school that it was not always perfectro but we are glad we had in the right spirit therefore let's loved it. but economically speaking this is the bipartisan progressive movement because they hurt people.

what is the worst measure if people are hurt or not is employment and it did not come down in the thirties. the second measure we sit here today is the stock market in the 1930's did not come back. by those measures than new t deal, hoover failed that is the evidence of a forgotten: man. >>host: in your book with each chapter you list the unemployment rate at the beginning ofch that year. 27, 3.3%, 1931, was 17 .4%. 1937 coming down at 13.5%. but then 1938 is 17 .4%.>> g what happened?

grimaces the depression within the depression. why the great depression? we had others but this was the duration and this a very get even as it seemed everything started to get better there was a crash again. the depression in the depression that was captured.co it is interesting that you raise thatnt because that is adr controversial set of numbers. and since i grow a forgotten man many have said we think we know why. the answer was the government labory policy the of the wagnerabo act or the fair labor standards act or the nationalrati recovery b administration and.