-- party leaders have praised adolf hitler. >> up next, the next installment in our series, "germany and the world." >> we focus on berlin's relations with washington. that and more up next. >> hello again. in the run-up to the general election, all this week, we have been looking at german foreign policy. today we focus on german-u.s. relations. >> there has been a long history between the countries, but in addition to trade, there's a strong sense of gratitude following world war ii and the cold war. >> let's take a closer look at what the next four years could hold. >> german-american relations are usually a routine of smiles, handshakes, and other friendly gestures. most german politicians are keen to praise their country's close ties with the united states. >> it's a partnership that we value. >> american presidents are always welcome here. >> it shows how important the u.s. is for europe and germany. >> only germany's (he fundamentally takes issue with the u.s., often accusing washington of war -- only germany's left party. often accusing washington of warmongering. the spy sca

he was one of the last people to bear witness to add off hitler's dying regime -- adolf hitler's dying regime. died today at the age of 96. he said working along hitler was the happiest time in his life. >> the battle for berlin in the dying days of world war ii as the allies close in, hitler takes refuge underground. among his bodyguards, rochus misch, his phone operator, a loyal servant. he was amaintained simple man, not a monster. was eventually captured and ransacked by soviet soldiers. rochus misch was inside when the propaganda chief poisoned their six children and he was there his hitler, after marrying mistress, killed himself. i watched as they wrapped hitler up. his legs were sticking out. someone shouted to me, hurry upstairs, they are burning the boss. i decided not to go. i was scared i would be killed for being one of the last witnesses. >> millions of others had already died, many in death camps. he claimed he knew concentration camps existed, but not the crimes committed there. >> when you see it now, when they say we did not know anything about it, that sort of thing

>> el secretario de estado, john kerry, catalogó a bashar al-assad en la lista de figutas como adolf hitler mexicanos que trabajaron por décadas en estados unidos, marcharán para pedir el pago de una deuda histórica, pidiéndole de nuevo al presidente barack obama y al congreso, que abran los archivos de ese programa temporal y que el gobierno mexicano deje de ignorar las demandas de los braseros radicados en estados unidos ♪. >>> rosa marta zárate le canta a la inmigración y los trabajadores temporales >>> el gobierno no les está pagando la deuda, les está dando un apoyo social, con este lenguaje mañoso le roba su fondo de ahorro. >>> un fondo de ahorro que ahora él pide su dinero. >>> ahora nos estamos cansando, y todavía no sabemos en dónde se encuentra ese porvenir, ese ahorro que tanta falta nos hace. p>>rpor eso ahora encabeza la caravana de los braseros desde varias ciudades de méxico y estados unidos . >>e> so necesitamos que estados unidos sepa que debe el 10% retenido, que más o menos son 5 billones de dólares, más los intereses generados. >>>l a caravana de los braseros tiene como

gop detractors to britains neville chamberlain in world war two, who argued for appeasement of adolf hitler let's appease them.' why? because it can't be done. we can't possibly stand against them.' and in america there were voices that listened to that mccain said that insulted americans who mccain said that insulted americans who fought. amongst them were my father and grandfather. i do not agree with that comparison. i think it's wrong and i think it is a disservice to those who stood up and shouted at the top of their lungs that we cannot appease. straight ahead... a gorilla who likes people... but not other primates. why "patrick" is such a loner... and how zoo workers are trying to change that. ((break 3)) an attitude readjustment for a sexist gorilla. the four- hundred pound male is headed to therapy. "patrick" has spent 18 years at the dallas zoo. his keepers call him beautiful, intelligent and outgoing -- towards humans. other primates? not so much -- especially females. john berman has more on a gorilla behaving badly. this is patrick. he's a bit of a loner. the 430-pound western

adolf hitler controlled the largest army in the world in 1938 when the munich accord was signed, secondichest or third richest country in the world and had a plan to conquer all of europe, perhaps all of the world. assad runs one of the poorest countries in the world, miserable conditions, is desperately trying to stay in charge of his own little misbegotten country but more importantly, the mistake here is that there is a vast divergence developing between the rhetoric the president is using, john kerry is using, and what we're proposing. so if indeed this is like world war ii, if this is like munich, if this is all about stopping adolf hitler or something like that, what we're proposing is two days of cruise missile strikes as a symbolic gesture, as a shot across the bow. if the president is right and this is world war ii, we should be mobilizing the whole army and sending it into syria. you see what i mean? you're trying to wind people up for some monumental dramatic cause and then what you're proposing is a limited precise strike that's really designed to send a symbolic message. th

adolf hitler controlled the largest army in the world in 1938 when the munich accord was signed, secondhest or third richest country in the world and had a plan to conquer all of europe, perhaps all of the world. assad runs one of the poorest countries in the world, miserable conditions, is desperately trying to stay in charge of his own little misbegotten country but more importantly, the mistake here is that there is a vast divergence developing between the rhetoric the president is using, john kerry is using, and what we're proposing. so if indeed this is like world war ii, if this is like munich, if this is all about stopping adolf hitler or something like that, what we're proposing is two days of cruise missile strikes as a symbolic gesture, as a shot across the bow. if the president is right and this is world war ii, we should be mobilizing the whole army and sending it into syria. you see what i mean? you're trying to wind people up for some monumental dramatic cause and then what you're proposing is a limited precise strike that's really designed to send a symbolic message. this

secretary kerry is likening assad to saddam hussein and adolf hitler. you don't see a vital american interest despite those arguments? >> no, but i think they make an interesting and a valid point. if we're going to launch cruise missiles and it's not going to affect the outcome, basically what they're pushing for, and my interpretation of the current obama administration's policy, is they want to fight for stalemate, then they want to negotiate a settlement. they think that assad has the upper hand now. they want to balance it out. but what i've told them is i'm not sending my son, your son, or anybody else's son to fight for stalemate. you know, when we fight, we fight when we have to, but i see things in a very personal basis. you know, i see a young john kerry who went to war, and i wish he would remember more of how awful war is and that it shouldn't be a desired outcome. neither are chemical weapons, and they should absolutely be condemned, but i think the failure of the obama administration has been we haven't engaged the russians enough or the c

telling them to authorize force, because this was a munich moment, comparing bashar al-asaad to adolf hitler that just struck a deal with his counter part in russia, lavrov, to essentially -- you could even say appease asaad other chemical weapons. i was recently in the refugee camp, one week ago. it is the 4th largest population. second langer nest the world, home to 120,000 syrian refugees, living in absolutely misery, the worst scenes i have ever seen in my life. they are sleeping in tents in the open dessert, and this deal will do nothing to ease their plight. but max, the international community it appears had no stomach for getting involved in another entanglement in the u.s. what do you say to those people who are listening right now saying what did you expect secretary kerry and the quite to do? >> and barack obama really had no stomach to do this, if he had he would have done so a year and a half ago when there was a possibility for actually doing something in syria. it wasn't politically possible, he was heading for one of the worst political defeats in congress, and so he succeede

. >> adolf hitler's bodyguard who witnessed the leader's last hours died.he was the last survivor from hitler's bunk center berlin. he served as the german dictat dictator's bodyguard for life, he died on thursday after a short illness. >> more from europe a little bit later. >> thank you very much. we'll see you again later. at least 20 people have died in floods across niger. heavy rain has affected village as and farms and have been hit by an invasion of locusts because of the flood. >>> there is growing anger following the death os of a coup there in bangiu. >> this is where two of his friends were killed last month. she shows me how armed men made them lie down on the ground. then shot them at close range. >> i came out of the house after i heard the shots. i approached the bodies. one of the young men held a young men to my head and asked what do you want? i said nothing. the other young man said, don't do it, it's a woman. i went up to my child and called his name out. he responded twice, and then passed away. >> the people hearsay the men spoke arab

imagine a world leader saying he or she admires adolf hitler. would be worldwide outrage, right? yet the russian leader putin openly admires joseph stalin who committed murder on the level that hitler did. putin is outsmarting president obama. >> the chutzpah of admiring that invade georgia, detach two of its provinces and declare them independent. and who, for the last decade, has been supplying assad, whom we are essentially calling a war criminal. with huge amounts of weaponry, including the elements of poison gas. this, what we are seeing here is putin so confident of himself after obama had to acquiesce to this face-saving negotiation that he could actually engage in this. it's an index of how sort obama has been played and continues to be right now in geneva. >> bill: joining us now from washington to react dr. michael waller. author of the book secret empire the kgb in russia today. first all, a general question, how does putin get away with it. you know, we know he is a tyrant. everybody knows, i mean, the guy now he is denying gay right

facetiously what would the attitude have been of libertarians in the early 30s and throughout as adolf hitler to power? >> we didn't know about the concentration camps. there ace big difference. many libertarians would have said we have to intervene because hitler was knocking over who countries. >> i think now it's chemical weapons. >> so we're going to say if you want to kill your people you've got to use conventional weapons? what's the point there? and we had clear friends, france, england that, were being attacked and we wanted to defend. >> interesting. john stossel, thank you. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime, 12 years, 12 years. remember the day our lives we wewere in park. i remember all those cars just parked. [ woman ] my doctor wanted me to get one of those emergency pendants. the ones that let you call for help. and i said, "that's not for me! that's for some old person!" but we finally talked my mom into calling adt. then, one day, i slipped and broke my hip. the pain was terrible, and i couldn't get to the phone. i needed an ambulance, so i pushed the button. it's okay, mrs. a

resolute enough to do something about someone who the secretary of state described as worst than adolf hitler or saddam hussein. can we really rely on the united states? >> what do the people of israel say? i was curious, what are the headlines in the newspapers there? do they reflect a feeling or an emotion of the people in israel about where the united states stands under president obama and of its support of israel? >> i would say that the headlines in israel's newspaper today are pretty mixed. some of them do express disappointment and a big frustration after the expectation that the u.s. would indeed follow all of the talk with some action. the main headline in israel's largest newspaper today shows two pictures of president obama. one saying, yes, i decided to attack. and the other one says, but i am going to congress. showing in the op-ads these 10 see and weakness which i think are very dangerous. in this region at the end of the day a lot is about perception. this is the middle east. this is not the midwest. the perception is indeed one of great worry. you know, there has been all of

the last two people who used these things were adolf hitler and saddam hussein. >> you were for that war? >> no, we went in and did something about this. >> if president obama has a message tomorrow, will anybody be listening? he's gone from a forceful leader to a tree in the forest. as he falls, no one's even hearing it anymore. >> directly ahead, what will syria do if the united states attacks? here's bashar assad's response today. >> everything expect. expect everything. >> tell me what you mean by "expect everything." >> expect every action. >> that and much more from the syrian despot when "the five" returns. stay with us. ♪ into the great wide open ♪ under the skies a blue >>> welcome back, everybody. syrian president assad spoke today. we got a glimpse into the mind of many believe to be a monster of epic proportions. charlie rose asked him what will happen in the u.s. attacks. take a listen. >> you expect everything. expect everything. not necessarily through the government. the governments are not the only player in this region. you have different parties. you have different

not just by the use of gas, which links bashar al-assad to adolf hitler, but by all that happened in '30s as the u.s. particularly watched, drawn by isolationism, the fascists moved forward, and finally at a late hour, thank god, decisively. this is a real threat. and if we turn away from it, our allies are going to be shaking. the enemies will be bolder. and inevitably, we'll be drawn into a larger conflict that will later cost us more lives and treasure. that is what happens when you don't stop a bully, a thug, when he murders his own people, particularly. and with gas. >> all right, paul wolfowitz, this is the problem i have with it. it seems to be clear evidence this time, assad or people acting on his behalf have unleashed these chemical weapons on their own people. that would seem to be the general consensus of the people. and yet, the consensus of dealing with it, it is terrible. but we can't deal with it, and america, who is supposed to be this great global power, says we're not doing that anymore. you're on your own. is that the sensible way for america to go? >> frankly, i

the last surviving witness to adolf hitler's final days is dead. rochus misch passed away thursday at his home in berlin. misch was in hitler's berlin bunker, working as his s.s. bodyguard as the battle for berlin raged in april 1945. he said he did not hear the gunshot when hitler committed suicide. rochus misch was 96 years old. there are signs the u.s. birth rate may be stabilizing after falling sharply four straight years during the recent recession. the centers for disease control and prevention reported today that nearly four million babies were born in 2012. that was only a few hundred short of the year before. at the same time, the birth rate among women in their early 30s was up for the first time since 2007. wall street finished out the week on a disappointing note. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 15 points to close at 14,922. the nasdaq rose one point to close at 3,660. for the week, the dow gained less than 1%; the nasdaq rose 2%. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and we turn to toda

so, if all of a sudden at this moment, the third instance -- it was used by adolf hitler.t was used by saddam hussein. now it has been used by bashar al-assad. three people in all of history. if the united states, knowing it and knowing that we have drawn the line that the world has drawn with us, is unable to stand up and confront that, it is an absolute certainty that gas will proliferate. we've had a sarin gas in the tokyo subway. -- i don't know how we could live with that. is there a difference between gas and nuclear weapons? i suppose it would depend on the scale. it would depend on the scale. the world decided that chemical, biological and nuclear are prohibited in warfare. we as a nation and as a global community have struggled to try to enforce that through the years. it is hard for me to imagine that the united states would not stand with world against that. is it going to be effective? i am convinced that what we can do will reduce the possibilities of more use of gas and degrade his capacity to use this weapon. i think it is imperative for us to take that step

since world war i, american troops, even with adolf hitler, vietnam, persian gulf, we've never been exposedo chemical weapons because dictators and disparates know we're deadly serious about these chemical weapons never being utilized. >> the read in the house from you arey colleagues is you had to handicap it right now. what do you think? >> i'm going to put it probably 50/50, maybe less. the president of the united states is not making the sales calls. secretary kerry did a great job of laying american interest out but president obama, it's like his heart is not fully in it. it's the right thing to do but he's out there not selling this to the people. he's got to get 100% onboard and telled the american people why this is in our interest. maybe andreas from -- address fm the oval house. >> neil: thank you very much. what have we embarked with and with the boast and noble intentions have we started. aaron cohen says his often proves good intentions can go awry. i was thinking about getting senator mccain's vote after he was backing away from this resolution saying it wasn't forceful enough

. >> bashar al assad now joins a list of adolf hitler and saddam hussein who have used these weapons in time of war. >> reporter: what happens next remains unclear. >> i will say if congress overrulingses a decision by the president of the united states, that could set a catastrophic precedent in the future. >> reporter: the president's decision to seek congressional support marked a dramatic shift. from the start, president obama and his national security team seemed convinced the u.s. must act. but all along, senior administration officials say the president debated involving congress. so what swayed him? >> the nt. >> reporter: aides insist it was largely last thursday's no vote in the british parliament leaving the u.s. on its own. the president shared i ed his v friday. then that night delivered the message in a two-hour oval office meeting. where stunned advisers expressed their disagreement. >> now, stay with news 4 throughout the day for developments on the crisis in syria. our web teams will keep you up to speed on nbcwashington.com. and alerts to your smart phone with the n

adolf hitler was a christian.extreme. >> reporter: you don't think the united states targets civilians on purpose. >> it will increase terrorism. >> reporter: if americans with drew al qaeda would throw down arms? >> it's lonl call. >> reporter: do you think the muslim community in the united states needs to protest more against jihadists? >> we are against terrorism. >> muslims are peace makers. we let them do their thing because if we fight back then we are at their level. >> reporter: do you think obama is a war criminal? >> he and most of the u.s. government could be war criminals. >> reporter: quick interview? >> no, thanks. >> reporter: you're out? what do you think the president should do? >> peace in the middle east. >> reporter: president obama -- >> he's a good guy. >> reporter: do you like bush, too? >> oh, yes. why not? >> reporter: why not? do you ever watch bill o'reilly on fox news channel? >> i haven't. >> reporter: you have never seen the factor? >> no. >> if bill stands up for americans we should

in time of war, the only people who have used them are adolf hitler and saddam hussein until bashar alad. >> back home, some members of congress are letting president obama know they do not intend, at this point, to support the president's efforts to launch a military strike against syria. arkansas democratic senator, mark pryor put out a statement saying before military action in syria is taken, the administration must prover an interest. build a true coalition of ally that is actively participate in action we take. based on the information presented to me and the evidence i have gathered, i do not believe these criteria have been met and i cannot support military action against syria at this time. the president will do a round of tv news interviews on syria monday and make his case directly to the american people on tuesday night when he addresses the nation. heather? >> thank you molly. as molly just mentioned, president obama will tape interviews at the white house with three network news anchors including with chris wallace. that will air monday at 6:00 p.m. eastern during a speci

the last two people who used these things were adolf hitler and saddam hussein. >> you were for that war? >> no, we went in and did something about this. >> if president obama has a message tomorrow, will anybody be listening? he's gone from a forceful leader to a tree in the forest. as he falls, no one's even hearing it anymore. >> directly ahead, what will syria do if the united states attacks? here's bashar assad's response today. >> everything expect. expect everything. >> tell me what you mean by "expect everything." >> expect every action. >> that and much more from the syrian despot when "the five" returns. stay with us. of getting something "new." and now, there's a plan that lets you experience that "new" phone thrill again and again. and again. can you close your new phone box? we're picking up some feedback. introducing verizon edge. the plan that lets you upgrade to a new verizon 4glte phone when you want to. having what you want on the network you rely on. that's powerful. verizon. upgrade to the new moto x by motorola with zero down payment. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] for

of upholding the international standard of behavior in place since 1925 after world war i, only adolf hitlernd saddam hussein have reached out in a time of war. ipg to come template the united states would turn its back on israel, jordan, turkey, turn its back on the innocent syrian people that have been slaughtered by this gas and those who what whey be subject to an attack, if we don't stand up to this, i can't contemplate that the president would turn its back and the fact we would have granted impunity to a ruthless dictator who continues to gas his people. those are the stakes. i don't believe the congress will do that. >> mr. secretary, you make it sound as if this is the plan. you made a powerful call for quick action. you seem to be leading the cause up the hill. >> i never mention ee eed word, quick. i made the case why we needed to take action. the president announced his decision yesterday. well, chris, it will happen with the consent on the congress of the united states and be much more powerful and allow us to do more coordinating with her friends and allies, do more planning an

there was an uninvited guest in his name was adolf hitler. the question on everyone's minds is whether fdr wanted the party nomination again in 1940. and he refused to give a clear answer. mr. president, would you tell us that if you accept the third term one reporter asked him point-blank. put on a dunce cap and go stand in the corner fdr replied with a laugh. not even the members of his own family knew what his real intentions were. of course one question was whether fdr deserved another four years in the white house. his attorney general, robert jackson was convinced that war and war alone compelled fdr to brands for an unprecedented third term. jackson believed that the suicide's domestic policy was to, the president had already pulled everything out of his new deal bag of tricks. only the foreign crisis justified a possible third term. of course fdr's own ambition and also played role. some democrats had accused them of torpedoing all the other potential candidates here but in fact, the whalley presidents had had done the opposite. he en

secretary kerry said we are dealing with adolf hitler and our response will be unbelievably small. >>pinprick. >> i was a kid during world war ii. i remember george patton and his response wasn't unbelievably small. kerry is all over on this. >> the one similarity between hitler and assad is public opinion was deeply divided before world war ii. you were alive. you remember. and we didn't think genocide was happening. if we did public opinion polls would be in german now. >> it might have had something to do with what happened at pearl harbor, for heaven's sakes. >> it might have had to do with the genocide occurring as well. >> we didn't declare on hitler. he declared war on us on december 11, 1941. what are you talking about? >> i know you're an isolationist. you thought the first gulf war would be the next vietnam. it didn't occur that way. history didn't -- >> mark, let me help you out here. >> sure. >> you try to take cheap shots at pat but you are not dealing with the main focus here. >> i want to point -- >> let me finish. re lax. >> go ahead. >> your buddy john kerry said it w

. >> the third instance was used by adolf hitler to gas millions of jews. it was used by saddam hussein in order to gas iraqis and his own -- iranians and his own people. and now it's been used by bahar al assad. >> white house officials proclaimed they had momentum, winning support from the top two house republicans. hours later, obama's team was facing tough questions. would president obama order a strike against syria even if congress says no? >> well, i can't tell you what the president is going to do because he hasn't told me. >> there was chiding for two years of mixed messages and inaction when others have calling forearming vetted rebel groups. >> instead, the choice was made to lead from behind. >> there were seemingly mixed messages about this mission. >> have we taken into account what the implications could be of an assad that could weather a limited strike and what that could mean for the long-term prospects? >> he will weather it. >> the goal of removing assad from the office is still the policy of this administration. >> and what of the presi

and only two dictators until now have used weapons, adolf hitler using these weapons against millions of jews and others, and saddam hussein using the weapons against kurds, his own people, and then against iranians in the iraq-iran war. when you think about it, it's pretty amazing. with all the barbarity that's happened since 1925, this has generally stuck with the exception of adolf hitler and saddam hussein until now. and the beneficiaries of this policy have been civilians, but they have also been american service men and women. the service men and women who fought in world war i were gassed from this country, but the americans who fought in world war ii, in europe, in north africa and the pacific, who fought in korea, who fought in vietnam, who fought in afghanistan, who fought in iraq, who fought in other minor military involvements, have never had to worry about facing chemical weapons, no matter how bad the opponent was, american troops haven't had to worry about it, and the troops of other nations haven't had to worry about it either. this is a very important principle, and i

and bashar al assad joins with adolf hitler and saddam hussein as being somebody who has crossed that line. we are trying to enforce the international norm against that behavior, and that's all that this military strike seeks to do. >> in terms of the longer tragedy, though, you invoked hitler and saddam hussein before. i think there's confusion about how can this be a case if this is a munich moment, dealing with someone like that and there's a democratic -- if this is a murderous thug criminal, what possible negotiated settlement can there be with him? >> the russians that are supported him, iranians and others have suggested that you could have an agreed upon settlement whereby you have a transition government, because it's in everybody's interest to preserve the state of syria and to have stability restored to the region with a peaceful transition. now, how do you achieve that if the parties, themselves, are unwilling to come to the table? you know, in the case of -- i don't want to go to other cases. let me just say that very simply, the president is not asking congress to author

international standard of behavior that has been in place since 1925 after world war i, that only adolf hitler and saddam hussein breached that in times of war. now assad joins them. i think to contemplate the congress of the united states would turn its back on israel, jordan, turkey, our allies in the region, turn its back on the innocent syrian people slaughtered by this gas, and those who yet may be subject to an attack. if we don't stand up to this, i can't condetemplate that congre would turn its back on that responsibility and the fact that we would have, in fact, granted impunity to a ruthless dictator to continue to gas his people. those are the stakes. >> mister -- >> i don't believe the congress will do that. >> mr. secretary, you make it sound like this was the plan. on friday when you made your speech, you made a powerful call for quick action. you seemed to be leading the charge up the hill. >> chris, i made a powerful call for action. i never mentioned the word "quick." i made the case for why we needed to take action. >> you talked about making a decision now. if i may, sir --

there's no adolf hitler like germany but there will be bad act pors who will obtain weapons like chemical weapons and in the case of iran nuclear weapons and we'll begin to a more dangerous world. thinking about it historically, americans have gone through this cycle before. after world war i they decided that was a terrible mistake, they never wanted to do it again they went into a very isolationist today in the '20s and '30s and the consequence, because america was the strongest power in the world then, too, was a complete breakdown of an international order which eventually came back to bite the united states. and that's the argument the american people need to be hearing now. that this will ultimately affect them even if they don't see in the an immediate sense. >> rose: why do you think the president had been unable to make that argue some that it resonates? >> well, again, he's a little bit turning on a dime here. he really has been spending much of the last few years saying we got too involved, we're too involved in the middle east, too many conflicts and we have to redial into the