do you think donald trump is comparable to adolf hitler?what i said started about two and a half, maybe three years ago after one of his state of the unions. that i feel very strongly that this man has taken on a strong arm tactics and i feel very strongly that he is mussolini putin and hitler. i said that back then and i believe that. i believe very strongly this guy never had an idea about being want to peacefully transfer power. i don't think he plans to leave the white house. he doesn't plan to have fair election. i believe that he plans to install himself in some kind of emergency way to continue hold on to office and that is why the american people had better wake up. i know a little bit about history and i know how countries find their demise. it is when we trail to let democracy and the fundamentals of which is a fair unfair election and why he is trying to put a cloud over this election and floating the idea of postponing the elections. he does not -- i saw what -- within the last few hours. that is some of the worst stuff i've eve

if you are going to get one thing right, adolf hitler is the one to get right. [applause] if churchill had died in 1938 even 39, he would have gotten some notices, a british statesman who we said earlier tinged party three times, said he was wrong about gandhi in india and the gold standard, about the sydney street riots but when the crisis of the time came, he was right about world war ii. in my mind it is inarguable we live in a better and brighter world because this man rose to power when needed. he later wrote i felt as if i walked into destiny as a preparation for this hour, for this trial. no one else was sure he wasn't failed. when roosevelt learned of the time difference, friday afternoon in washington and fdr keeps the cabinets to work all week. the cabinet meetings were friday afternoon and he was handed a note if churchill had called to replace chamberlain. he looked up and said i suppose winston is the best man england has even if he is drunk half the time. [laughter] to which i quote our great commander-in-chief abraham lincoln if that's what it tak

and you dropped the name adolf hitler your surrogates in the media do it your party do it number three house has done it. nancy pelosi has done it. it is disgusting. very careful what about you say african-americans, to latinos, very careful what about you say to muslims but apparently, adolf hitler that's okay. as a jew it is not okay. you understand, he exterminated half of the jews on the face of the planet? that he gassed them? that he burned them in ovens mask raves all over european unmarked, this president, donald trump, this president, donald trump has done more for the state of israel than any president in american history. moderate american history. certainly more than you and obama. that voted against israel and u.n., that withheld we knows from israel when they were under attack by hezbollah and gaza strip undermine them every step of the way, of course, cut a deal with iran, which was an threat to state of israel all of which the president had the reverse. why don't you try getting out of your bunker, nose to nose debating, discussing the issues, what's beginning on in our

you drop the name adolf hitler. the number three democrat in the house has done it.cy pelosi has done it great it is disgusting. if you are careful about what you say to african-americans, to latinos but apparently adolf hitler, that's okay. as a person it's not okay. you understand he exterminated half of the on the face of the planet and they gassed them and in earned them in ovens that their mass graves all over it unmarked. president donald trump, this president donald trump has done more for the state of israel than any president in american history in modern american history certainly more than you and obama. they voted against israel and the u.n. and with help weapons attack by hezbollah in the gaza strip who undermined them every step of the way and then of course cut a deal with iran which was an existential threat to the state of israel all of which this president had to reverse. why don't you try getting out of your bunker, nose to nose debating, discussing the issues what's going on in our cities under democratic mayors. they are a disaster but what's goi

the defense over these questionable photos on his instagram page showing him in 2017 visiting adolf hitler's vacation house in germany. the site known as the eagle's nest is popular tourist site documenting the horrors of the nazi regime. in the caption he calls hitler the furor, leader. hawthorne wrote a visit had been on his bucket list for a while. "it did not disappoint, he wrote. strange to share so many laughs and share such a good time with my brother where only 79 years ago a supreme evil shared laugh with his compatriots." his democratic opponent is pouncing writing "hitler's vacation retreat is not on my bucket list" and stops just short of calling hawthorne a white nationalist. >> collectively, when you put all the pieces together, it patients a pretty good picture of someone who's at least comfortable in that environment. >> reporter: davis alleging the instagram photo is just one of many dog whistles he believes hawthorne is sending. >> the name of his company sbqr, a symbol associated with white nationalists. >> reporter: cawthorn shooting right back telling the "charlotte obse

showing him in 2017, visiting adolf hitler's vacation house.nown as a popular site documents the horrors of the regime. it had been on his bucket list for a while. it did not disappoint, he wrote. such a good time with my brother where, only 79 years ago, a supreme evil shared laughs and good times with his compatriots. tweeting hitler's vacationary retreat is not on my bucket list. and stops just short of calling cawthorn a white nationalist. >> i think collectively when you put all the pieces together, it paints a picture of someone comfortable in that environment. the name of his company. you know, a symbol that's associated with white nationalists. >> cawthorn shooting right back telling the charlotte observer newspaper that the name of his company comes from rome and we can't let extreme ikists hijack history. he has also disavowed racist groups. >> as of now, i completely and wholeheartedly denounce any kind of nationalism, any kind of nazism. >> emphasizing the eagle's nest is a place where the nazi regime plotted unspeakable acts of evi

adolf hitler knew that to win the war, he would need to invade britain.e decision to attack from the air, using the mighty german air force, the luftwaffe. the raf was outnumbered three to one. what followed in the skies above britain that summer has been described as this country's single most important military campaign ever fought. victory in the battle of britain was by no means certain, and depended on the skills and bravery of young raf pilots from britain and her allies. they were flying the latest generation of fighter planes — the legendary spitfires and hurricanes. a key feature of these fighters was the way they were armed. the new planes were initially designed to carry four machine—guns, but, in the run—up to war, all that would change. earlier this year, i was lucky enough to find out what it was like to fly in one of these iconic planes. there we go. it's a low floor! it's snug, isn't it? amazing! wow! engine roars. wow. wow! absolutely sensational! being up here, the speed, the agility, the way the plane just — the pilot says you're almost

they gave me a tour and we were walking around this museum and i see the paintings of adolf hitler in the military artists and i'm like why does the army have so much art in that they explained to me that since world war i they've had a painter on staff in charge of painting disasters as they happen whether it is the beaches, normandy, vietnam, 9/11 there is an artist on staff. i said you are telling me while everyone else is going in guns blazing someone is running in with nothing but pencils and paint brushes that is the craziest person, i want to meet them and they said no you need to meet her. i knew right there. a woman who can see things no one else sees. and the artist came to dinner with me in florida and he said after meeting you i'm glad we've worked together but now i know so much more about you. he rattled off a list of tape i have that i didn't realize. things like you see the world differently than i do. it's a great graphic designer we see a stop sign and he sees the representation that can be read in any language he sees it differently than we do. there is this woman.

about spending most of his radio commentary and his columns, warning about the rising threat of adolf hitler nazism. the thing is most people in england were ignoring or pooh-poohing. reagan spent his years doing radio commentary in russia warning about the rising threat of the soviet union so there is a lot of parallel between churchill's world looks years and reagan's world last year. it's serendipitous but it's also because he forced them to the floor. prop 13 in california, panama canal treaties, other issues you were covering i was involved with that came to the fore and helped produce his election in 1980. that's why wrote it doug brinkley who's a traffic story and said that the realm of rail reagan scholarship is just about to open up and i think that every time i sit down to think about ronald reagan i think about a new aspect of his life in his career and his times that has been under reported or hasn't been covered at all. >> so let's get to put you in friendly territory and talk about the elephant pun intended in the room which is donald trump. >> now >> now. now is the answer to

why did you visit the home of adolf hitler?that the nazi government had set up and it was called the eagle's nest. i don't know if you ever watched the hbo series band of brothers. it's something i grew up. on it's the conclusion of the band of brothers tour where the easy company celebrated the defeat over the evils of naziism. as a man in a wheelchair, as someone -- as someone targeted during the holocaust, that's something i detest. to act like something that i would support the ideology that would have had me killed is laughable. maria: of course. good to see you. we'll be watching your speech. thanks so much for joining us this morning. madison cawthorn there. stay with us. we'll be right back. motorcycle riders love the open road. and geico loves helping riders get to where they're going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. the gei

about spending most of his radio commentary and his columns warning about the rising threat of adolf hitler and nazism, something that most people in england at the time we're ignoring. reagan spent his wilderness years writing, doing radio commentary, warning about the rising threat of the soviet union. there is a lot of parallels between churchill's wilderness years and reagan's wilderness years. of course, there are many, many issues we could get into later, it's serendipitous but it's also because he forced them to the four. issues like prop 13 in california, the panama canal treaties, other issues. you recovering, i was involved with, they come to the four that helped produce his election in 1980. and that is why i wrote it. douglas brinkley, terrific historian who edited the reagan diary said the realm of reagan scholarship is beginning to open up and i think every time i sit down to think about ronald reagan, i think about a new aspect of his life and his career and his times that has been either either under reported or hasn't been covered it all. >> let's get to friendly territory

did and god for bid adolf hitler had a monopoly in the most, first true weapon of mass destruction.o about a month after the explosion, he comes to the white house and sit down with truman and he's just wracked with second thoughts and he says mr. president, i have these terrible regrets, i feel i have blood on my hand. truman says don't worry about it, i gave the order, i've got the blood on my hands. she finished the conversation, she leaves instruments says to his staff, and never will to see that some of us -- in my office again. >> it was such a moment. you also tell stories i had not heard before and i want you to tell the whole story, it's with respect to the new york times and the opportunity he had in this project and how that turned out. >> again, you have good days and bad days, this was a good day. william leonard lawrence was a science reporter for the new york times and he won a pulitzer prize with a group of other people and 37 for writing an article on a scientific project and gross, this military man but he also thinks to himself, this is going to be, it all works o

concerned, the nazis were going to get the atomic weapon before the same acted and god forbid adolf hitlerad the monopoly on the first true weapon of mass distraction. in any case, about a month after the explosion oppenheimer comes to the white house and sits down with truman and by this point he's just wracked with second thoughts. he says, mr. president, i have these terrible regrets, i feel that i have blood on my hands and truman says, don't worry about it, i gave the order, i've got the blood on my hands. they finish the conversation, oppenheimer leaves and truman says to his staff, ever want to see that some of the bitterness office ever again. >> you also tell a story in the book i've never heard before. i want you to tell the whole story come in with regards to the pulitzer. this fellow lawrence of the new york times. the opportunity that he had in this project and how all that turned out. >> the joy come you talk about good day bad days, this was a very good day. william leonard lawrence was a science reporter and very distinguished science reporter for the new york times. he had

the use of the word "storm trooper" or "gestapo" to paint trump as adolf hitler.ng the same language in this. trump's personal militia. again, i think to your point, these are people doing their jobs and are enforcing the law. you can disban d.h.s., but these different divisions of it are still going to be there. >> harris: what is life going to be like potentially without d.h.s., josh? if that were to happen. >> josh: well, you know, hopefully we'll never have to find out. look, their problem, the aclu's problem is not with d.h.s., it's with law enforcement. it's with local police. it's with as gillion talked about, it with i.c.e. and federal law enforcement. i found it fascinating in the letter they said the one thing to learn from portland and then they go on to criticize d.h.s. the one thing we have learn is the federal law enforcement? no. after burning the city to the studs, the problem is not law enforcement. i assure you. >> harris: marie are you concerned how we talk about these things and the labels we put on each other at this point, you know, "gestapo"

called the jews termites and praised adolf hitler. god teaches me that the white man is the skunk of planet earth. he has incited violence against white people at other times. joining me now, press communications for trump 2020, aaron perini is with us, fox news contributor emily compagno is with us. all right, let's get your take on this and where you see this race. i guess hiding is a good strategy because actually, going against the strategy dealing with real significant issues. worst pandemic for 1980, getting the economy back on track, so i guess that it's been a strategy but he has come out the last two weeks and what we've heard is the most radical, i think i'm a candidate that's ever been nominated. >> that's absolutely right, hannity. i think their campaign has made no secret of the fact that the committees make all the major decisions and certainly, not biden himself. a senior aide said no one in biden land is emboldened to make those decisions. least of all biden himself. in the next upcoming weeks, this is his chance to we

. >> do you really think donald trump is comparable to adolf hitler? >> two and a half maybe three years ago. the state of the union. i felt very strongly that this man has taken on a strong-arm tactic. i feel very strongly that he is mussolini, putin is hitler. i believe very strongly, the idea about this, the peaceful transfer of power. i believe that he plans to install himself in some kind of emergency way to continue to hold on to office. between nancy and i'll adjust, fascist analogies. what you heard is delusional but it's the current favorite hoax of the radical left. the same cast of democratic extremists, the same lying mob in the media that brought you the failed russia conspiracy theory hoax an and the failed ukraine hoax. they now want you to believe that donald trump is going to refuse to leave office and become a dictator. fake news cnn april ryan even openly fantasizing about the president getting pulled out of the oval office by armed forces. take a look. >> there's going to be a split screen on january 20th, 2021. if joe biden is goin

she was actually born well after adolf hitler died.ne of the interesting things that we do see at demos like this where people follow some of these extreme conspiracy theories is that in the past you would see a lot of russian flags at a demo like that, but now and now you do see more and more american flags and more and more people who say that they're followers of president trump, pamela. >> what a fascinating look there in germany. thanks so much, fred. >>> turning now to our money lead. the three largest airlines in the united states are getting rid of change fees as a way of encouraging travelers to returning to the skies during the coronavirus pandemic. american airlines and delta joined united in allowing passengers to change their flight plans without paying any extra costs. previously that change could cost up to $200 per person per flight. industry experts expect most smaller airlines will now follow suit. the tsa says airline passenger traffic was down 75% from last july to this summer. our coverage on cnn continues right no

and adolf hitler had made it clear after june the 6th when allied forces landed in normandy that paris was going to be held and it was not going to be surrendered to the germans. well, on august the 7th. the same day that eisenhower was setting up his headquarters shell burst, this man was named as the commanding general of paris. great good luck or horrible luck, depending on how you might look at it. he had experience in the war including overseeing occupied cities. he was known as a tough guy in the german army and he was hitler's hand-picked choice to oversee paris and ensure that it remained out of allied hands. from that day on august the 7th, he began organizing the 20,000 or so german forces under his demand to ensure that hitler's decree was going to be carried out. and of course the french had been thinking about paris. always thinking about paris. paris to the french was more than just the political capital. it was more than the economic capital. it was more than the cultural center of france. paris was the spiritle center of france. it's where the french soul resided. even

democrats in chicago were talking about the fact that we were facing a world possibly dominated by adolf hitlerl japanese. what could we do? there's that kind of apocalyptic talk, and if it was dark this week, that was the reason. and the reason was the world that donald trump has in a way created. >> and with that vote coming up, the president has tried his best to diminish mail-in voting. remind the folks watching the deep roots in our history that the post office has, the deep affection that american generations have had for the post office. this is not a partisan issue. >> no, it's not, and it's a big part of american lore. who was the first postmaster general of the united states? benjamin franklin, 1775. abraham lincoln was the postmaster of new salem, illinois. i'm sure you've been from and seen his restored post office. you can walk in now if you go to visit. 1960, the first fully automated post office in the united states, providence, rhode island. the founders had an almost reverent and sentimental view of what the post office could do for this country, so much so that they put it in

adolf hitler's chief propagandist used to say it is easier to get the public to believe a big lie than small one. what he meant was, if you create such an all-encompassing completely dominating picture of ththe world that t bears nono resemblancnce to r reality, peoe mimight think that it is inconceivable e that could be false, right? that is exactly what we have seen this week in the republican convention. that this is happening while basically a young man who amounts to a terrorist, a person can committing political acts of violence believed to be inspired by the acts and wishes of a leader, has happened is something that you cannot separate from what we saw on our screens. impassionedan is an police supporter. he goes to trump rallies. he goes online and presents beeo, believing himself to an armed vigilante, protecting the nation against these dark and frightening hordes. he comes to kenosha and everyry terrorisist believes s or claimo belilieve that they are protectg someone, their protecting order. this young gentleman goes around policee support of the who had him water from the

nic there show me paintings of adolf hitler prayed there showing me these paintings file these amazing military artistry i said why does the government what is the army of some chart? explain to me that since world war i, the u.s. army has had a painter, actual painter on staff who was in charge of painting disasters as they happen. whether storming the norton engine beaches in normandy, with his going on vietnam, whether a 911, that currently exist there is a painter, a war artist they called the artist in residence at still on staff or is it you're telling me, everyone else's racing with guns blazing, you are telling me that someone is running in with nothing but pencils and paintbrushes in their pockets? that's the craziest person in the whole world i've got to meet him and they said no, no. you need to meet her. her. i was like oh it's a woman. of course it's a woman. she's amazing, right? and i knew right there without even meeting her i knew nola. that was it and instantly i got her. it's a woman who can go out there and see things that no one else can see said brad after meeting

then he announced, he made this big announcement on the anniversary of charlottesville, invoking adolf hitler and the ku klux klan. then handed off to kamala harris 2k mountain very eloquently delivered a speech talking about the biden family, how compassionate, empathetic they are and their relationship to the late son, beau biden, and talked about her biography and how she was raised to be a fighter for the people and a fighter for justice. then connor framed the race is about competence. there was the ebola crisis joe biden handled with two deaths. she said donald trump has mishandled the coronavirus pandemic and now we have over 160,000 deaths in the united states. obviously framing this race about race, about the economic hit we've taken, and about the coronavirus. dana perino, what are your thoughts on this as we also await donald trump's news conference and a little bit? >> dana: i think the president will probably give that a little bit of breathing room so everybody can take it in and move on to the news of the day that he would provide and probably a response. one of the things we s

is got a picture of neville chamberlain, it's got a picture of ronald reagan, got a picture of adolf hitlernd a picture of miguel gorbachev. it says, appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as it was in 1938. help defeat the reagan-gorbachev inf treaty. if a conservative calls you neville chamberlain, that's as low as it gets. that's the biggest in so you be given is that you are called neville chamberlain. they are going to sell out the world to hitler. this comparison of reagan to neville chamberlain is quite profound. senate conservatives propose hole back modifications to torpedo the inf treaty. they are's unsuccessful part of that was strategy. they were trying to show the president we might not be able to defeat you this time, but you better not go for any more reductions. we will adamantly oppose them. with the exception of george bush, every gop presidential hopeful oppose the treaty, many of them running to the right in 1988 of reagan. and jack, camper good friend or a left exhibit there with the football. blasted it labeling ratings treaty and nuclear munich. harsh rhetoric. here are som

should've done this, or that, they should have known that there was a young german corporal called adolf hitler coming along who was going to seize on the treaty of versailles and use that to help him in his nazi party get into power. of course they didn't know that, but we always have to remember when you rewrite history when is what people actually had to work on at the time. what concerns did they have? what obstacles they face? what is it that they were actually dealing with? . i think we need to look at the paris peace conference and the conference which came at the end of a great catastrophe and try to understand just with the circumstances of that conference were. what i would like to do is make a few general points about wars because ending wars is never easy. especially if those wars have been great and the level of destruction of been very high. apart from anything else, the greater the war, the rate of the expectation, and the greater the desire that someone or something should pay for what happened. and this was certainly the case at the end of the first world war. the war had shock

you take a look at, it of neville chamberlain, got a picture of ronald reagan, at a picture of adolf hitlernd a picture of my cale gorbachev. it says, appeasement is a as unwise in 1988 as it was in 1938. help us defeat the reagan gorbachev imf treaty. is a conservative called neville children that is the biggest until it'll be given is that you are neville chamberlain. that you sell out you're going to sell out the world to hitler. this comparison of reagan to neville chamberlain is quite profound. senate conservatives pores propose hole back modifications and modifications to torpedo the imf treaty. they are unsuccessful part of the strategy. they they were trying to show the president we might not be able to defeat this time the matter not golfer anymore reductions. with the exception vice president george bush, every gop presidential hopeful opposed the treaty, many of them running to the right in 1988 of reagan. and jack camp, our good friend over there on the left with the football former quarterback, blasted the speech labeling regions treaty a nuclear munich. pretty harsh rhetoric.

tour of the base and where walking around this army museum and i see the show me paintings that adolf hitler did, they're showing me these paintings all these amazing militaryartists and i said why does the army have so much art ? and they explained to me since world war i us army have had a painter, an actual painter on staff who is in charge of painting disasters as they happen whether it's storming the beaches at normandy and whether it's vietnam or 9/11, they were there at 911 to read there's an artist and they call him the wall artist in residence that's on staff and i said you're telling me while everyone else is racing in with guns blazing your telling me someone is running in with nothing but pencils and paintbrushes? that's the craziest person in the world. i want to meet him and he said no, you need to meet her . oh, a woman. of course it's a woman, she's amazing read and i knew right there, i knew nola. that was it, i knew it and instantly i was sitting there going i got her. this is it. a woman who can go out there and see things no one else sees. when i was working on the justic

take a look at it, a picture of neville chamberlain, a picture of ronald reagan, a picture of adolf hitler, and a picture of mikhail gorbachev, and it says, appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as it was in 1938. help us defeat the reagan/gorbachev inf treaty. if a conservative called you neville chamberlain, that's as low as it gets, the biggest insult you could possibly be given that you're neville chamberlain, that you're going to sell out, you know, sell out the world to hitler. this comparison of reagan to neville chamberlain i think is quite profound. senate conservatives propose hold-back amendments to torpedo the inf treaty, and part of that was strategy. they were trying to show the president, we might not be able to sort of defeat you this time, but you better not go for any more reductions because we'll adamantly oppose them. with the exception of vice president george bush, every gop presidential hopeful opposed the treaty, many running to the right in 1988 of reagan. and jack kemp, right, our good friend on the left with the football, because he's a former quarterback, blasts the

upon his return in april of 1940, one adolf hitler returns him with the nights cross of the iron cross. by july of 1940, juan hitler has invaded the soviet union. bera is on the front lines with his air force unit. it is a couple of months later that he is transferred back to germany. his squadron gets brand-new fighters. so they are testing these things out in new holland. on october 25th 1941, very takes off in his brandon fighter. he is going to get tested out over the atlantic. for whatever reason, the engine seizes up. and he has to crash land into the atlantic. and he is killed. he was a german, right? but after all of that, it's kind of a sad story. so he dies, but his body is never recovered. a great book all about their is exploits is called the one that got away. it was written in 1957. and there was even a movie that was created in 2002 by the same name. >> we have had confidence and charm, and now we have longevity. henry truro was a french soldier and he was one of the few that served in both world war i and world war ii. is the only one i could find. i am sure there are m

upon his return in germany of april '41, adolf hitler awards him some pretty nice awards, the knights cross of the iron cross. by july 1941 hitler has invaded the soviet union. werra is on the front lines with his air force unit. it's a couple months later that he's transferred back. his squadron gets brand-new fighters. october 25th, 1941, werra takes off in his brand-new fighter jet and going to test it off over the atlantic. for whatever reason his engine seizes up and he's got to crash land into the atlantic and he's killed. he's a german, right, but after all of that it's kind of a sad story. so he dies but his body is never recovered. but a great book all about his exploits is called "the one that got away." it was written in 1957 and there was a movie created in 2002 by the same name. >> well, we've had confidence and we've had charm and now we've got longevity. so henry giraud was a french soldier. he was one of the few that served in both world war i and world war ii, he was the only one that i could find that escaped from both world war i and world war ii encampment. and he

easy to look at the past and said they should have known that there was a young corporal called adolf hitler that would seize on the treaty of versailles to use his nazis to come to power. when we think about history is what people actually had to deal with at the time. how much power did they have? what constraints did they have? what obstacles did they face? what is it that they were actually dealing with? >> and i think we need to look at the paris peace conference as a conference which came at the end of a great catastrophe and try and understand just what the circumstances of that conference were what i'd like to do is ending wars because it is never easy because the level of destruction has been very high. apart from anything else, the greater the war, the greater the expectations and the greater desire that someone or something should pay for what happened and this was certainly the case at the end of the first world war. the world had shocked europe and indeed it shocked most of the world partly because the 19th century had been such a very good century for europe. europe has known t

balancing in the end that he was the allied leader that won world war ii, ended the threat of adolf hitler the greatest threat to civilization and even when i write these books sometimes my kids say they used to come in and hear me frankly, just be nicer to eleanor, she really loves you. eleanor, forget that affair that happened so long ago. and similarly with theater roosevelt while i have such respect for his domestic policy and just his persona and his views on war i have no respect for him and he would say the victories of war were greater than the victories of peace at any moment. he had that romanticized nation of war. i have a son who graduated from harvard college in june of 01 it was going to go to law school but september 11 happened and he volunteered for the army the next day and he was up but saloon later in baghdad and later got a bronze star and later went back to afghanistan but importantly for this discussion he wrote his honored thesis on theodore roosevelt and loved him but after hearing back from combat he said he could never understand having been in combat how anyone

americans and yet balancing in and he was allied leader that won world war ii and ended the threat of adolf hitler, the greatest threat to western civilization and even when i'm writing these books my kid said they used to hear me and franklin, just be nicer to eleanor area she really loves you. eleanor, forget that affair that happened so long ago and similarly with theodore roosevelt , while i have respect for his domestic policy and his persona, his views on war i have no respect for. he would say the victories of war or greater than the victories of peace at any moment and he had that romantic relation of war and i have a son who graduated from harvard college in june 2001 and was going to take a lost school, he volunteered for the army the next day and he was a platoon leader in baghdad and later got a bronze star and went back to afghanistan but importantly for this discussion he had written about his pieces on peter roosevelt and after he came back from combat he said he could never understand having been in combat anybody could romanticize combat so there were times when you just want to s

and, lord, you know, god forbid that a adolf hutler had a monopoly -- hitler had a monopoly on the firste weapon of mass destruction. in any case, about a month after the explosion, oppenheimer comes to the white house x he sits down with truman. and by this point he's just wracked with second thoughts. and he says, mr. president, i, you know, i have these the terrible regrets. i feel that i have blood on my hands x. truman says don't worry about it, i gave the order, i've got the blood on my hands. and they finish the conversation. open heymer leaves -- open humor leaves, and truman says to husband taffe, i never want to see that son of a bitch again. >> such a moment. you also tell a story in the book that i had not heard before x i want you to tell the whole story of the part about the pulitzer, and it's with respect to this fellow, william lawrence with "the new york times," and how all that turned out. >> well, again, this is one, the you. you know, you talk about good draws and bad a days, right. this was a very good day. william leonard lawrence was a science reporter, a very dist

incarcerate the japanese americans but yet balancing he is the allied leader ending the threat of adolf hitler even writing these books my kids say they would hear me and say franklin just be nicer to eleanor. eleanor forget that affair. and similarly with roosevelt i have respect for his domestic policy and persona but his views on war i have no respect. the victories of war are greater than piece. iversen who graduated from harvard but then september 11th have bend and volunteered for the army the next day later got a bronze star be he wrote his thesis on roosevelt and loved him after he came back and said he could never understand how anybody could romanticize combat. there are times you want to say stop but that is part of the glory of being a biographer to look at their strengths and weaknesses but it's up to us not forget about that part but at the same time i could never choose somebody ultimately that i don't want to live with i could never write about hitler or stalin so luckily i write people i feel affection for because then you feel like you know them or that you could change them