in communist east germany the party to an authoritarian methods to enforce its interpretation of the marxist legacy in which the freedom of dissent had no place. even the renaming of cannot says karl marx on may tenth one nine hundred fifty three was an important acknowledgment of the revolutionary tradition in the city and the contribution made by its working class to our workers and present state is . professor left terrible has already created many statues of the greatest sons of our people in time and again he has sought to fulfill lennon's legacy to immortalize the creator of revolutionary. i'm in a state by drawing upon the art of monumental propaganda station purely because while working on his designs campbell read the works of marx he seeks to express the content of revolutionary marxist thought individual form this was the irrepressible power of the passionate nature of the revolutionary and the scientist . of this. this is a karl marx memorial designed by professor levy of him of a terrible will bear witness to the shared struggle of the working class men and laborers of t

experience communism first hand when you grew up in east germany until the wall came down so what was communism like well when you lived in eastern europe you experienced all the flaws of communism communism means that you have no right to own property let's say you own land or a company or even a little tiny corner shop the government took it away from you and of you as a no no as a neighbor spoke up against against this redistribution you were called a counter-revolutionary and you could end up in prison all the companies belong to the government and everybody was supposed to be equal so everybody got pretty much equal pay even if you were lazy you got as much as someone who was hard working let's say you had a brilliant idea which helped the company a great deal all you got was a pat on the shoulder on maybe. bonus at the end of the year so that was it and meanwhile we germans saw how west germany was benefiting from all of its liberties democracy the right to own property all of their cars were better than our cars which you see here in the background for instance the hobby lobby

was not recognized. >> my father told, "you have to recognize east germany as a state."americans answered, "no, we don't -- don't recognize you as a state." in berlin, he told, "i will kick you out of berlin." >> the standoff ultimately led to the construction of the berlin wall. >> the epical scientific achievement by soviet russia in beating the united states of america in the race to launch the first man-made moon has all humanity staring heavenward. >> in 1957, when the soviets launched sputnik, a 23-inch polished metal sphere that orbited the earth, it created a panic. >> i can remember the weekends that we spent here in gettysburg under the starlit skies and looking for the sputnik. >> sputnik prompted eisenhower to create nasa. the space race was underway. and it helped fuel the arms race. >> my father, he understood soviet economy three times smaller than american economy. so he tried to threaten americans that, "we have more missiles than you," or, "we can build them like sausages." and i told, "what are you talking about all these things? we have only six missi

if you grew up before there was just germany meaning east germany and west germany.s germany now that is such a close ally to the united states is quite remarkable. you can see that in our lifetime only in korea. a unified korea could be in the future and that begins with what happened last night, perhaps in singapore. i don't want to put too much out there, we have to be skeptical what we have seen through the kim regime in north korea, but last night could be the first step, and impressive diplomatic roadside. todd: to the middle east, what is the thinking into ron this morning? >> i am sure they are unsettled, what the west and the power of the west could mean not just for that region and in particular around the globe. stabilizing activities from the regime in tehran for so long but keep this also in mind, people will be heard in that part of the world, only a matter of time before we learn what they have to say. todd: we appreciate it. we have live footage of three detainees, back on american soil, if an outside shot, you are not convinced inside, such a situati

democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the sherman authorities have said in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside the u.s.s.r. the weakening of kremlin control had different consequences. in ukraine a nationalistic political organization. or people's movement emerged in one nine hundred eighty nine due to this mild openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukrainian nazis. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them japanee book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. if you just. heard jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa center top ten anti-semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one thousand nine hundred four. in april two thousand and th

beyond understatement marx's ideas were truly at the root of the ideological division between east and west germany post world war two but that's not stopping his place of birth tree in the south west from hosting

integration east germany a country that the days still desperately run wrestling to reconcile itself with its past and decide whether it wants to be a no an open country or a closed country. yes that's you put it very well but the point is we are already in a country but the point is that the politicians including by the way chancellor haven't read i've you know have been sending mixed messages. as good as her speech was i remember a couple of years ago she said multiculturalism is favored totally so so what right i mean where is she and this is really the problem. politicians not totally on on message there's a constant. you know the other day the free democratic leaders said when you're in the queue at the baker's you want to know the person with the dark skin in front of you is actually legally here why would i want to know that why wouldn't i want to know the person with the wide skin in front of me isn't the nuance see you this is the kind of talk that goes on and we had a press i mean we had a president couple of years ago who was at that islam is a part of germany and and that

mueller traveled to russia with uranium samples that were supposedly from the heist in theft and east germanyt was he doing on that trip? what was that visit all about in 2009? why did it take wikileaks to reveal it? these deep state operatives again have ties that i think are shocking. shocking to see the extent to which larry clinton barack obama and now down to the operatives of robert mueller have all been working together on various projects. >> is there any plus side to the notion of a deep state? no single president or administration could do that much to drastically change or hurt the country? >> emily go back to it john kennedy said. break up the cia into a thousand pieces and replaced -- as head. the mistake you made was not to do it that day. if you have a rogue apparatus of the cia justice, it's no surprise that tea party activists cannot get their 5o1c3 for applications approved. no surprise that all of the politicalization of the department of justice was aimed at the detriment of law-enforcement. joe pyo being part. and opposed set of rules that had to do with antidiscriminatio

wants to live and work in a surveilled society we don't have that debate but imposed on us like in east germanyuff we're with talking about -- is unlawful. in germany -- in germany. really -- keep saying in east germany as an example. it's unlawful over there. >> okay i think it is time the law -- >> do you agree to have a debate and our representatives not the cops who are hired by our representatives but we should decide on this. >> polices and law have to catch up with technology. >> yes. on the moment way outfront. absolutely moving so fast you can't keep it. >> absolutely extraordinary. i mean they can catch you at metlife stadium and they'll have your financial records. >> yes. yes. like that. your face is in the crowd zero in on varney what did he earn this week they don't have a ledger bug fluff to put that back -- [laughter] see you later thank you, judge. i have to get this in. a victory for right to try legislation. it passed congress -- yesterday details. >> sailed through the house after it passed senate nine months ago so now if you live in those ten states where you cannot get ac

mueller on the trip, the head of the fbi, traveled to russia with some samples that supposedly from east germany what was he doing on that trip, what was that visit to russia all about in 2009? and why does it take wikileaks to reveal it from the state department cables that they gott a hold of and these deep state operatives again have ties that iin my book are shocking to the extent which hillary clinton, barack obama and including now to the operatives robert mueller etc. had been working together on various projects. >> host: is there a plus side to the notion that the united states that no single president or administration could do that much drastically to change or to hurt the country. >> guest: going back to what john kennedy set to break up the cia into a thousand pieces and replace as the head of the cia, the mistake mistake that he mads integrated in -- wasn't to do it that day. it's no surprise that they couldn't get their applications approved through lois lerner. it's no surprise that all of the politicization was aimed to the law-enforcement being pardoned. tom perez went after fa

trip had robert mueller traveled to russia with some uranium samples that were from a theft in east germanythe point was, what was mueller doing on the trip? what was that visit to russia about by russia in 2009? why did it take wikileaks to reveal it from state department cables that wikileaks got a hold of. these deep state operatives have ties that i think are shocking. it's shocking to see the extent to which hillary clinton, barack obama and robert mueller have been working together over the years of various projects. >> is there any plus side to the notion of a deep state? no single president of any administration could do that much to drastically change or the country? >> john kennedy said he should break up the cia into a thousand pieces and he replaced -- as the head of the cia. the mistake john kennedy made was to not to it that day. if you have a rogue apparatus in the cia, it is no surprise that tea party activists cannot get their 5o1c3 and for operations approved. it's no surprise that the politicalization of the department of justice was aimed at the detriment of law-enforcem

muell mueller, head of the fbi travel to russia with samples that were supposedly from effect in east germanyt the point was what was he doing on that trip and why does it take wikileaks to reveal it from the state department cables that they got a hold of? they have tires that are shocking to the extent which barack obama and including down to the operatives have all been working together over the years on various projects. >> host: is there a plus to the notion of the deep state and by that i mean is no single president or administrator democrat republican or otherwise could do that much drastically to change or hurt the country? >> guest: i'm going to go back to what john kennedy said that he should break up the ci cia io a thousand pieces and replaced allen as the head of the cia. the mistake was not to do it that day. and if you have got a rogue apparatus and the cia, justice, it's no surprise the tea party activists couldn't get their applications approved through louis lerner. it's no surprise that all of the politicalization in the department of justice was aimed i believe to detrimen

we gaared the border between east, west germany and czechoslovakia. 100 feet into czechoslovakia there an apple tree. i was there picking apples. i was walking back. i heard movement behind me. it was an eight-man czech army patrol. all they did was they smiled and they waved. in the morning, we would give them hot coffee. they would give us hot soup. we got along very well with the soldiers of the czech army. >> one of the results of the invasion of czechoslovakia is that the czech army which had been a very capable one up until that time was not allowed to resist. and that led to a widespread demoralization in the army and subsequently there was a major purge in the army as well. because it had been affect bd the reformist of the prague spring. so all of those people were removed and the czech army over the next 20 years or so was pretty ineffective. >> and these are some of the images from that period in 1968. are they still visible today in the czech republic? >> i think the czech republic looks completely different today. it's this beautiful past ral place. if you talk to people o

we guarded the border between east and west germany and czechoslovakia. couple of hundred feet in czechoslovakia there was an apple free. i was there picking apples. i was walking back been i heard movement behind me. it was an eight-man czech army patrol. all they did was smiled and waved. in the morning we could give them cot coffee, they would give us hot soup. we got along very well with the soldiers in the czech army. guest: one of the results of invasion of czechoslovakia was that the czechoslovakia army which has been a very capable one, up until that time, was not allowed to resist. that led to a widespread demoralization in the army and subsequently there was a major purge in the army as well. they too have been affected by the reformist sentiment of the prague spring. all of those people were removed in the czechoslovakia army over the next 20 years. it was pretty ineffective force. host: these are some images from that period from 1968. are they still visible today in the czech republic? guest: they the czech republic is different today. what y

success that reagan was able to achieve with the soviet union and dissolving of that, opening up east germanyyou think about "take down this wall, mr. gorbachev." there was so much packed into the eight years that helped our country internationally, that helped our country domestically with the economy. i guess could we be in store for another great time in american history? here with a closer look at the significance what we're all witnessing right here and now, presidential historian, the author of, the iran crisis," doug wead. good to see you. thanks for being here. this is a big deal what's happening. i realize there is lots of other things going on. we can say stormy daniels perhaps another time in the show but let's focus on the significance of what is going on with these detainees from north korea coming back to the u.s., with us getting out of the iran deal. what does it signal to you? >> it's wonderful. it's, it shows american strength, and it shows how, how easily it could have been turned around. we were paralyzed with self-doubt and weakness. carter himself in one of his speeches

some remember the oppression of east germany when it was a satellite state of russia.auea volcano erupted and brought on the largest earthquake on the island. reporter: it released gases. and those gases are dangerous. sulfur dioxide. the action on the eastern edge of the big island, the waves are coming onshore from the sea. the gas will be pushed further inland and along the coast. the winds will be moving from off the coast on to the shore. this is something locals will be want to go pay attention to. but as these continue to look higher in the atmosphere, something that typically happen with the most of locations, it's not uncommon to see the winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere go in different directions. this our satellite and you are seeing the upper-level winds pushing them off towards the east. as the gases continue to rise, they will be driven out over the ocean. the big story has been rain along the southeast in time for the kentucky derby. this was the wettest derby in derby history. if you are in the desert southwest, the heat very extreme. we have

. ♪ ♪ >>> when i was a kid, there were two countries, east germany and west germany. point they realized the wall was dumb, tore it down and they are one. the great wall of china was built to keep out western civilization. how is that working out? point is, walls suck. on this episode of "united shades of america," we're talking about the u.s., mexico border. we'll talk to people that live on this side of the wall and that side of the wall. who wants

. ♪ ♪ >>> when i was a kid, there were two countries, east germany and west germany.y were divided by a wall and at some point they realized the wall was dumb, tore it down and they are one. the great wall of china was built to keep out western civilization. how is that working out? point is, walls suck. on this episode of "united shades of america," we're talking about the u.s., mexico border. we'll talk to people that live on this side of the wall and that side of the wall. who wants to talk? we should probably book people the way we normally do. this isn't going to work. >> my name is w bell. as a comedian, i made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand and i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience cultures i believe. >> let's get some things straight, there are things that are real and there are things that are imaginary, things that are real are observable, quantity fieble and predictable like gravity, climate change, that he man was better than joe and the national anthem doesn't mean you hate th

. >> yeah, from east germany. >> jimmy: you know, americans have a perception of germans as being serious, no, i completely agree with you. [ laughter ] they are -- they are colder. and i think it's a really -- i think, though, it comes more from like -- they're more genuine, maybe. you know, like if you go to a party or something, they won't pretend to like you until they actually do. >> jimmy: until they actually do like you. >> which i think the american way is more of like a feigning, like oh my god, jimmy! >> jimmy: right. >> we've never met before! >> jimmy: are you telling me these people at the parties don't really like me? [ laughter ] >> it's taken you this long to figure that out. >> jimmy: oh my god, no wonder i don't get invited out. so okay, that's interesting. is there -- on the other side, do germans have a preconception about americans in the same way that we have? >> yeah. >> jimmy: and what -- >> i mean, i think there's always a standard thing of like, oh, mcdonald's. oh, you like starbucks. whatever. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> then also the fact that we are very -- that we'r

you trained inhe mide east in germany -- in journalism. would you say you are facing that rising animosity? antje: yes, i think they are squeezed between two worlds of animosity. one is the animosity of governments as long as they should do their job as they should do it, and on the other hand, mistrust by the people who do not share their ideas. journalists who write things which are not in agreement with their own opinion are biased, so they have this double problem. on one hand, the authorities which are against them, and a rise in mistrust from the people for whom they work in the in and. melinda: thank you very much. a phenomenon we have seen in the u.s. with the rise of polarization. w'll come back to that in a moment. lookou, shi ming, when you especially at china, would you say you see this active hostility toward journalism? is very i think it complex. onhe one hand, the mistrust is increasing, but not just against journasts, b against the media in general. although the media are under control of the state and the blames everythin

our mission was we guard the border between east and west germany and czechoslovakia. and a couple of hundred feet into czechoslovakia there was an apple tree and i was there picking apples, i was walking back and i heard movement behind me and it was a patrol and they smiled and they waved. in the morning we would give them hot coffee and they would give us hot soup and we got along very well with the soldiers of the czech army. >> one of the results of the invasion of czechoslovakia was that the army, which had been a very capable one up until that time was not allowed to resist and that led to a demoralization in the army and subsequently there was a major purge in the army as well because they've been affected by the reformist sentiment and so all those people were removed and the army over the next 20 years or so was pretty ineffective. >> and these are some images from that period in 1968. are they still visible today in the czech republic?>> i think the czech republic looks completely different today. is a beautiful, pastoral place with music on every street cor

on august 20, armies of the soviet union, poland, hungary, bulgaria, east germany invaded czechoslovakiaseizing control of the country in a few hours. soviet embassy lights burned late that hot and muggy evening in washington, in as russian tanks reveled in the proud -- -- prague. -- croc the memorandum which said that soviet bloc forces had acted at zech leadersof c sounded hollow indeed. of 1968om the summer and the courtesy of the johnson library and the johnson white house, back to your phone calls as we look back 50 years, 1968, american turmoil. deborah in richmond, virginia. go ahead. caller: good morning, happy mother's day. it's always a bit unusual for me to think about how all the devastation that we have done and making itorld into something heroic. i never could understand that. america -- american bombs the rest of the world. , weoesn't make any sense try to european eyes everything in its host: wrong. elizabeth cobbs. guest: i completely understand what you're saying and i know that that is the common belief and there's a lot of evidence for it. but what we tend to not rem

on august 20, armies of the soviet union, poland, hungary, bulgaria, east germany invaded czechoslovakiaseizing control of the country in a few hours. soviet embassy lights burned late that hot and muggy evening in washington, in as russian tanks reveled in the proud -- -- prague. -- croc the memorandum which said that soviet bloc forces had acted at zech leadersof c sounded hollow indeed. of 1968om the summer and the courtesy of the johnson library and the johnson white house, back to your phone calls as we look back 50 years, 1968, american turmoil. deborah in richmond, virginia. go ahead. caller: good morning, happy mother's day. it's always a bit unusual for me to think about how all the devastation that we have done and making itorld into something heroic. i never could understand that. america -- american bombs the rest of the world. , weoesn't make any sense try to european eyes everything in its host: wrong. elizabeth cobbs. guest: i completely understand what you're saying and i know that that is the common belief and there's a lot of evidence for it. but what we tend to not rem

[laughter] >> he was in east germany when the berlin wall fell and says he understands why it had to happened, and expected something to rise in its place and nothing was proposed. the soviets simply dropped everything and went away. he argued that a lot of problems could have been avoided had they not made such a hasty exit. putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness. that's writing in 2000. 18 years ago. so tell us how that story is played out and tell us how we should best deal with the person you described as so cold as to be almost reptilian. >> well, first of all, president putin, i first met putin before that when he was kind of acting president at an apec meeting in new zealand and at that stage putin was trying to be very ingratiating and trying to make new friends. he was still cold and reptilian. the issue about him is he is very smart and in these meetings, he did not have talking points and he took notes himself. he also is somebody, i have to describe this because they actually did kind of a jazz concert for president cl

the fbi, travel to russia with some uranium samples that supposedly were from a heist, theft in east germany, but the point was, what was mueller doing on that trip? what was that little uranium visit to russia all about by muler in 2009? for hillary clinton. why did it take wikileaks to release it. it's shocking to see the extent to which soros, hillary clinton, barack obama,, including robert mueller, et cetera, have been work together over the years on various projects. >> host: is there any -- the notion that no single president or administration, democratic, republic or otherwise could do that much to drastically change or hurt the country. >> guest: going back to what john kennedy said. should break up the cia into a thousand pieces and he replaced allen dulles as the head of the cia. the mistake he made was not to do it that day and if you have a rouge apparatus in the cia, justice, irs, it's no surprise that tea party activists couldn't get their 501(c)(3) and l applications through lois lerner. no surprise that all of the politicalization of the department of justice was aimed, i be

how long did it take for east germany to get fully integrated with west germany after the fall of the berlin wall? a long time. now you are not talking about something in the heart of europe. you are talking here about east asia and all of the problems that that presents as well and the time of hermit kingdom that has been run there for so many decades. i will take probably, it would be measured in terms of decades before they start talking about reunification. >> harris: quickly before i know i have to let you go. zte, the phone corporation, the president asked about that period the end. he had some tough words. he was talking about $1 billion fine. i didn't miss it. i'm sure people didn't. he said america discovered what was going on with that country. i just want your last reporting on that. >> john: the president clearly wants to keep zte alive. that is clearly throwing a bone to xi jinping. xi jinping took a look at this. one of china major telecom companies and exports smart phones and other things. i have one of the little mobile hot spots that is made by zte. >> harris: you ar

released those findings today he says the legacy of germany's division during the cold war also plays a role. yeah but they are more germans in the east of germany which has had a lot of cultural connections with the soviet union the ex soviet union and so the ok for russia in the eastern part of germany is considerably higher than it is in the west and that's why the ok for russia is higher than for the us and the women in germany seem to distrust the us maybe the euro as president even more than the rest of the population. all right the day is nearly done now but as ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can write directly to me brett goff t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody. will. research his having a close encounter with sox in the a.t.l. sixty. knots marine credits his could soon die as he. aquaculture and in time ends of the news in scalped terms of the problems but the exact cools remains unclear. go ahead to africa next. there's a new super food in the fight aga

first is deputy chief in the soviet east germany division. and then the afghan adventure that the soviets had. and then sitting in the chief's job as the soviet union disappeared. 1985 when i was deputy chief was the year of the spy. we were wrapped up with a realization that the cia could be used in every agency in washington, it would be pen straited. we saw the -- penetrated. we saw the evidence of this as we watched one after another of our assets in moscow being taken down into the basement and shot in the back of the head. when edward lee howard who we had dismissed because of suitability issues, as we said, turned up defecting to the soviet union, we thought we found our answer. indeed we had not because still alive and well. and the betrayals went on. i did move then at bill casey's request into pakistan to take over the soviet adventure in afghanistan from 1986 to '89. and at that moment, general borrus of the iron man in a very theatrical meeting with his young son maximum. friendship bring. he majority offed out of afghanistan as t