literally the global capital for allies running the war in that time. how could he lead in a critical point in deciding how to go forward, so it led so very interesting places as i hope you will agree. so some background, the beginning of 1943 saw the allies at a very important turning point. in three pivotal battles midway, they had beaten off the threat of defeat in 1942, now they were going on the offensive against and the big challenge for the americans and the british was how best to win in europe. they had different national circumstances and different goals for how the war should end and britain and the united states favored different strategies, a more basic problem was that they did not trust each other. the baggage of suspicion and resentment over years since world war i, made it hard for both countries to trust the other and that's a lesson for our time. damaging relationships cannot be restored it's like flipping a switch. even when both parties are facing existential threat. the british americans. >> struggling with their own internal divis

and what about the allies?e german attack on belgium and holland was the main thrust, according to a plan that swung their armies like a gate into belgium. but the attack on belgium and holland was only a feint. the main german attack was to be centered where the allies least expected it, through the ardennes forest. for this decisive blow, they had secretly assembled the mightiest striking force the world has ever seen, including 45,000 armored vehicles. ♪ >> at the same time that the nazi armies were plunging into holland and belgium, this column started to move. [engine noises] ♪ >> well-trained engineer battalions went first. they were met only with scattered allied patrols. they cleared pathways for the tanks to follow. [explosions] ♪ narrator: in three days, the german armored force reached the meuse river, two days faster than the french thought any troops could get through. by old rules, the germans should have paused here to bring out heavy artillery before attempting to cross the river. but the nazis

serve as ally commander.roosevelt, the focus of the hopes of each was quietly leaving down to go fishing. now, all of roosevelt's wartime trips out of the capital were secret. normally the white house would inform trusted reporters, get your heads around that idea, very generally the president was leaving town and why and it's okay, the young buck -- this time no, they didn't do that. they left without telling anyone. so by monday the world was so by monday at the world was saying franklin roosevelt was not in the white house and the rumor started an hour by hour account wilder and wilder, day by day. desperate to respond, the white house press secretary, steve early, pleaded by cable for permission to tell the public something. roosevelt wouldn't allow it. it too much fun. i'm receiving the latest batch of cables and rumors. tell his military aid and then want to, i guess we gave them good this time. last max although he had told churchill about the trip in rants, fdr could also give the prime minister the s

the allies were badly battered from the air.heavy losses, they withdrew from a hopeless situation. further to the north, they met with better success, inflicting heavy naval losses on the nazis. [explosions] ♪ narrator: they made landings and held the town for nearly two months. ♪ incidentally, they also took their first prisoners of the present war. s overwhelmingi' air superiority proved a deciding factor. and the allies were forced to withdraw under terrific air bombardment. >> [explosions] narrator: loyal norwegians were left with ruins, their dead. even though six months before, hitler said germany has no conflict with the norwegian state, and has none today. the norwegians will not forget. and hitler, hitler had another victory. he had hijacked two four countries. the world wondered and marveled at this man's efficiency. ♪ narrator: when a man throws away all regard for the laws of god and man -- society had a police force to deal with this gangster, but not with gangster hitler. he got what he wanted, bases for use agains

substances into other countries that were allied with the. parade to be related to the government in russia anyway the cold war was terrible for. everybody you know we need to thread the delicate needle of encouraging bad behavior while recognizing that there are a world power that needs to be respected for their capabilities and you know navigating through that is not simple well he would love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories start to get in touch by following us on social media join us again at the top of the alpha all the latest. because you know provision i might buy going to what it. has but i. owe. you for your height oh i lost his boss because i just got any of that but let me just go which was you know just like anybody on a month all of those in person but the best honestly i don't know if there's been any of them. so i'm not as you know but i was you know. you know just i mean most of what i'm already but it was sped up out of me just a lot of the media. i mean it was a lot because they don't. know if it up as well i must

so as we said before sort of alluded to the fact that canadair is a country with plenty of allies and pretty much where light across the world so if we're talking allies it's kind of interesting to see the official u.s. statement on the saudi candidate dispute of cut and paste of it here from slate dot com this is where we found it in full at least very time language lots of comments about. you know sort of general statements encouraging saudi arabia to respect due process when it comes to human rights but the line of highlighted canada and saudi arabia are both close partners of the united states i refer you to the canadian and saudi ministries of foreign affairs for further information so matthew godin with us now senior fellow in the europe program at chatham house joining us on skype from london. i described that as time matthew it's almost just completely non-committal saying we don't really have a view on this go and talk to them about it is that what you'd expect from the united states or is that maybe what we expect from the united states under president trump. well thank you

we want key partners and allies.our partners went key partners and allies and the main partner for many of them around the world is the united states and we want to make sure we are meeting their national security objectives through our military just as we are meeting our own national security objectives. where does this lead ultimately? at the end of the day, this is a competitive market. there are four competitor countries, there are foreign companies, they are all looking to get a leg up, all looking to take market share from us companies but it is not about market share. they are looking to expand the global influence. so the race we are actually running as a race for global influence. for 50 years the united states has set the standard for the race for global influence. the question we have that we think by some of these reforms we see that are coming as part of the implication plan is who will make the rules for global influence for the next 50 years and as an industry, a country and the government, we feel the

where more than allies, where -- we are more than allies. we are friends. we think the same way and the -- and meet the threats that face us same way. these are crucial times that we live in. announcedentury has itself as a messy century full of different centers of gravity , big changes in what defines and national security. more than just about armies, navies, air forces, and marine corps, but also what defines us as a people in our economic strength and culture and the rule of law. and in those several things working together hopefully will lead toward a peaceful world. in europe, our friends in europe are challenged by a russia that is increasingly disruptive in what it seeks to do. that has had the effect of revitalizing ally to defense -- revitalizing allied defense spending, military modernization and readiness. what is still the most important alliance in the world and that is the north atlantic treaty organization. the nato summit that recently concluded, despite the headlines, was in fact a very good summit that delivered quite a few important con

it was a huge allied action. i have read accou nts huge allied action.ccounts from people who were from the prairies of canada, they are serving in the trenches and this is the first time this battle many feel they are part of something very special. they realise at the time hang on, we are advancing further, taking less casualty, taking prisoners and you see this in letter, there is a sense of the people at the front line that something is changing and the plates, the first world war might be shifting. the difference for those who were involved in the fighting, they had had four years of trench wa rfa re they had had four years of trench warfare of stalemate, of moving very small amounts of, taking small amounts of ground, in one day they take, what, seven miles? perhaps up to eight. it is the largest advance by the british and the commonwealth allies to this point. it, because what they managed to do is marry, there have been, they have been learning, but this was the time it was all put together. one australian commander compared it to an orchestra al

left with a denial to a friend or ally -- without denial to friend or ally. consequence is as follows. the u.s. loses market share that and inly not recaptured some cases may never be recaptured. the u.s. loses control of the capability. the u.s. loses the opportunity to train, influence, and maintain a military relationship with foreign forces, who now are introducing into their inventory a chinese, korean, israeli, etc. capability. and finally, with the introduction of a chinese or russian this dumb into the military inventory of that friend or ally, we now have a far more complicated future of arms transfer decision process aat is now compounded by prior u.s. denial, and in some cases, we complicate the potential for expanded diplomatic relations. i mean here.n what let's take india as an example. i have worked very closely with india in many years for dr. carter. years ago, we denied asa radar for the fighter and the french clinched the deal. i like the french, don't get me wrong, but i like american industry better. now, several years later, and i worked

we want key partners and allies. our partners also want key partners and allies. that means partner for many is the u.s. we want to make sure we are meeting their objectives through our foreign military system just , like we are meeting our own objectives. where does all of this lead ultimately? at the end of the day, this is a very competitive market. there are foreign competitor countries, foreign companies, they are all looking to get a leg up. they are all looking to take market share from u.s. companies. but it is not necessarily about market share. they are looking to expand global influence. so the race we are running is a race for global influence. for 50 years, the u.s. set the standard for global influence. the question we have and that we think, by some of these reforms that we see are coming as part of the national implication plan, is who is going to make the rules for global influence over the next 50 years? as an industry, country, and the government, the u.s. is poised to set the standard and make the rules for the next 50 years. that is why we are

forces and allied forces.and then a third priority and then under those contracting actions that is an opportunity potentially for the administration to look out what congress is supporting for sms contracting with that process that will take community support but that is just one little example over two decades how did that get done? instead of continuing to talk about it he met quickly i want to say one thing, what has changed? it is a great question so the global security environment has changed. u.s. government colleagues see it in bilateral discussions and industry members it. in the media of how great powers are emerging. how certain countries are moving to align themselves. the global security environment is changing in this dynamic. it is not fixed. there has been a recognition by the administration by our friends and industries and the global security environment and we need to make key reforms that we are meeting the challenges of the next 50 years of that environment has changed and after 15 plus ye

we are indeed stronger with allies. mr. secretary, we welcome you to the atlantic council and the floor is yours. >> thank you. [applause] >> well, it's an enormous privilege to be here today. i must begin by thanking the atlantic council for hosting this event. i'm always told that washington in august is not a way at its best so you must be hardened inhabitants of its great city. the reputation of the atlantic council preseeds it. -- precedes it. the list of famous alumni is a who's who of the great and good of washington. colin powell, a list that goes all the way back to the formation in 1961. in fact, you couldn't have formed a more timely moment. one year before the cuban missile crisis, history doesn't record what role the atlantic council played at that time but i have no doubt that the wise council of some of your members. judging by the outcome, it was clearly good advice. today the insights of your experts are just as important as we seek to navigate a rapidly changing world. as we seek to adapt and harness c

we can also bring -- bring in allies other than the u.s. as , such asas required art nine nation joint expeditionary force which can muster up to 10,000 personnel to respond to any type of operation. from humanitarian assistance through too high and -- andy moore. -- end war. greatbodiment of our britain. more than 14,000 personnel employed on operations around the globe. 19,000 preparing to deploy. currently they are in the north atlantic, commanding and direct doing anti-submarine warfare operations. keeping an eye on the undersea cables that underpin our systems. they are on the eastern fringes of europe, supporting nato's deterrence against a resurgent russia, policing the black sea, the baltic and, soon, icelandic skies. presence innato's estonia. in march, i visited our troops and estonia, close to the russian border. not surprisedbut by how many locals still saw britain as a liberator and protector, willing to stand up for their freedom as we have so often done in the past. our people are not just in estonia, they are in poland to, p

allies u.s. allies exactly exactly yell and i had been investigating a plane the departed from reactor airport five days earlier she believes carried weapons to the middle east. fight where there are the words that this plane took several times and you can see places such as our. our ryan got exactly and also has flights number mark which is very specific for the planes that are actually transporting military goods. this is footage of the plane yellow not tracked it has been loaded with crates at least twenty u.s. military flights have left this airport in the past six months. and when we arrive at the airport we to see a plane. bag this is one of the busiest airports when it comes to players such as this one. is from the same airline yelena had been investigating various really is pretty nuts it's just in the middle of a traffic junction. there are. there are weapons there there probably. there is this huge fights that are happening in surrounding it all they need was there the. flight data prov

to use rights to bring it into line as a dispute between the nato allies. supporters a day after donald trump double tariffs and the lira. also on the grid a site we should never have to see how save the children is describing an image it's tweeted of graves dug for the young victims of. the. promise to investigate how it happened but will contain outrage around the world. a chemical giant is ordered to pay almost two hundred ninety million dollars. for failing to warn him. many more people potentially line up to file similar claims over its makers and so. on the government. and everything else that's trending online. streaming online to facebook live and al-jazeera dot com the turkish president. saying his country's partnership with the u.s. is in jeopardy and he may start looking for new allies as relations sink to their lowest points in decades of the warning in an opinion piece published by the new york times. well turkey remains out loggerheads with the u.s. over the long running detention of an american pastor as well as a host of other issues none of

there was still some looming concerns that the soviets were our allies. even truman distanced himself. he was clapping on the stage, the newsreel, he said i didn't see a copy of the speech beforehand. i didn't know he was going to say all that. by a year later, truman and the rest of the world have fallen in line and begun to follow some of the outlined provision for the special relationship, but strengthen nato and a policy of deterrence which outlined the policies of the cold war in the remainder of the 20th century. i can argue in some ways that the cold war began in earnest in a gymnasium at westminster college in fulton, missouri, on march 5 with the president of the united states and the former prime minister of great britain, both of whom were honorary degree recipients that day, westminster's most proud alumni, i might add. it did set into motion a number of things in this country and throughout the world that still have rippling effects today. so thank you for allowing me to do some archeology of the iron curtain speech and share it with you toda

and europe and other allies are going to have to look at this and decide how to respond in order to protect their own control and yet mr blank you suggested before that in the event of trump's pull out your of will likely side with the united states even if it blames the current administration for ruining this deal and if it does i think the european leaders will essentially have to accept that their level of credibility is the same as tribes that they are moral equals and i personally don't think there's much trouble on that side of as far as the u.k. is concerned but when it comes to germany when it comes to france. do you think they can afford it from a moral point of view do you think chancellor merkel for one can bring herself to be seen as standing shoulder to shoulder with trump and that well first of all i think that's a little bit unfair trump is the trump is the actor he is the decision maker in this terrible decision the european leaders are now stuck with a series of very uncomfortable dilemmas that they will need to resolve but but they're not the ones who created this

its european allies welcome on the international arena. leaders around the world including from our closest allies have condemned this decision and the very fact that europe has now shifted from negotiating with the united states to negotiating with iran is a strong rebuke to the decision that president trump made i would i describe president obama's leadership on sanctions with iran with russia with other countries a little bit differently from what you did i don't think it's a question about germany making a moral stand or a value judgment what i would say is that we were able to convince countries around the world that on a variety of problems we had a plan and a way forward. and that if countries are willing to suffer a certain amount of economic dislocation in the short term we can solve real problems and so in the iran case we were able to convince the government of russia china india as well as our closest allies to stick with us and we got to the. un some of russia's policies we were able to convince as you say germany and other eu

it is interesting that our middle eastern allies were very much not pleased with it. they saw in monetary and military terms how there was an opening for iran to become more aggressive. i think our focus at this point is working with all of our allies to build a comprehensive international framework. what i have seen in our interactions with the europeans both pre-and post, there is a fair and wide consensus between ourselves and european allies on analysis of the iranian threat. much more so than there was before we started this process. our european interlocutors acknowledged the need to deal effectively with ballistic missile perforation and bringing revolutionary guard into syria. president mccrone had a four- point formula that is similar to the u.s. approach. >> you are talking about nonnuclear activity. i submit that we can continue to work with europeans on the nuclear activity. let's get the playing field straight today. the europeans are not interested in re-imposing new nuclear sanctions on iran. they are interested in trying to hold together this set of ec

has also warned against other nato allies having similar ideas you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq will with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase s. four hundred seven would trigger katz's action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world well the russian made s. four hundred missile system is capable of hitting multiple high speed or real targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars the first systems will be delivered next europe has been looking to bolster its defenses since the u.s. withdrew its patriot missiles from the syrian border region back in twenty fifteen but russia has long time military trade partners from all across the world as the head of the state arms exporter explains. this

senses into other countries that were allied with the. period to be related to the gulf many russia anyway the cold war was terrible for everybody you know we need to read the delicate needle of not encouraging bad behavior while recognizing that there are a world power that needs to be respected for their capabilities and you know navigating through that is not a simple. videos of most of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest of the images soon spread online and certainly divided public opinion i should warn you this it's pretty you know it does contain some scenes of violence. if you i was. right i was i was sure. was my new year's was. was russian police say they responded to a disturbance involving a youth fighting and in attempting to get the girl under control a male officer struck the teenager in the face and they claim that was in response to her trying to grab a taser and police radio at the girl and a fifty two year old woman arrested on suspicion of assault and two officers had to receive m

on ally is giving financial aid do you think don't trump should be anxious about alienating the u.s. from its friends with these strict policies. yes i think we have to work on trump talks about putting america first he requires his allies also to put america first even head of their own interests and this is beginning i think to decouple some of the allies for america most obviously turkey qatar is in an awkward position because it is blockaded economically by saudi arabia and the other emirates in the gulf and it gets support from turkey turkey flies in foodstuffs which the qatari can't import from saudi anymore and also has sent troops to provide a kind of reinsurance to qatar so categories whole host of main american base but it's also a daggers drawn with the main u.s. ally thirty arabia and so it looks to turkey for help turkey is in a desperate economic condition for a variety of reasons not helped by the u.s. sanctions so it looks to a country like qatar that has cash reserves to try and help at least bail it out we've or it already seen trump impose sanctions on some other o

if you did not back up your allies, does that mean you might not back up your nato allies? kennedy realized as he came to understand the dangerousness of the eisenhower cold war strategy. he came to realize that his treaty partners in southeast asia treaty organization thought as little of the eisenhower strategy in the developing world as he did. both the french and the british as the situation started to crumble in laos, as the local force began to take more and more territory. the french and british made noises that they actually had no intention of living up to the military obligations of nato. -- of seta. o. the french felt the united states should we leave well enough alone in laos, and hope the beach would be neutralized. the british signaled that if the united states wish to intervene, unilaterally, go ahead. but that great britain had absolutely no interest in a military engagement in laos. i was awakened at 4:00 in the morning prime minister harold mcmillan reported to queen elizabeth ii, to be shown an emergency telegram from president kennedy. it was saturday, m

or between allies u.s. and turkey are so strange that anyway. and washington thank you. all right let's get the view now from turkey correspondent doreen jones reporting for us in istanbul dorian turkey's foreign minister has said further pressure will only hurt bilateral ties he's about retaliation but how much worse can relations get while the potential is to get a lot worse currently u.s. forces are working with a syrian kurdish militia just across turkey's border turkey considers that militia a terrorist organization and if they so wish they could put a lot of pressure on those u.s. forces and the kurdish militia they're working with that would ratchet up tensions further on top of that washington is looking for ancora to enforce its new sanctions against iran has refused to do so given the current climate is unlikely to change that stance that again puts the two nato allies on a collision course attention is for a lot more difficult times ahead. turkish currency tanking for months now but investors see

and budding allies like india. secretary perry and the president and secretary pompeo and secretary mattis who are involved in this and a lot of members both republican and democrats in the congress recognized this too. >> in terms of your work with the u.s. indian caucus is anything you can tell us about the outlook for initiatives for that particular work they see the caucus taking? >> i just think there is going to be good momentum coming out of this ndaa with legislation. it was a real bipartisan effort and there is now stories that this other defense technology agreement the acronym, cause the that the u.s. and india than talking about for a long time, several years might be looking for opportunities there. the one thing that i always think is really important to recognize with regard to the u.s. india relationship is shared interests, shared values, building trust which can take years. we know that. the other thing that in many ways is so important is the growing importance of prominent influence of the india

is controlled by an allied power , american, british, russian. economically she retreated as a whole. the victors had agreed when they met to decide the future of germany. a world war had to trust one another or begin another war. for berlin it was in each part of the sector. but a city open to all the powers until berlin could assume her role as the capital of a new german state. berlin late hundred miles deep in the soviet occupation said but was not part of it. access to the city was agreed over certain roads, railways and three air corridors. makeshift perhaps but then it was never meant to be permanent work in berlin they set up the headquarters of an allied commander where day by day officers of the four occupying powers would work right joined agreement as to what was to be done and how. frankly, what was to be done and starting again from scratch. amid the ruins and deprivation slowly a start was made. start on the physical reconstruction but the political rebirth of the city. it would appear the soviets agreed to join up you can patient

this was to be the way to force the western allies to quit berlin.hus 2 million people were isolated. to be faced with the prospect of hunger, cold, unemployment, and misery. no way in, no way out. the only element still open, the air above. it started as a trickle as a temporary measure. plane after plane. destination? the air fields of west berlin. the vital necessities, food, raw materials, even coal, brought in by air until the united states, great britain, and france were embarked upon the biggest air transport operation history has ever seen. around the clock, plane after plane. even flying boats to set down on west berlin's lakes. in the beleaguered city, power shortages forced transport shortages, and there was a food shortage. -- shortages. rather short measure than surrender. as each night fell the roar of air engines increased. dependence on power from the eastern sector, west berlin was plunged each night into a blackout. while west berliners felt their way through the gloom, still the air lift continued through the hours of darkness. whe

to demand allies use particularly weapons systems other than others. actually kind of the is the problem with this is not really interoperability i mean obviously that's a question but there are many countries that procured military equipment from a number of different sources i think what's what's going on here released with respect to turkey is that because we have an estrangement relations with them that we are going to deliver any threats that we think are appropriate that will put pressure on mr everyone i think a lot of this revolves around syria and the fact that turkey is getting closer to russia and iran and hopefully wrapping up the syrian war but there are many things i think going on and under the table as well. that seems to be the case one thing that i've noticed lately is that the u.s. seems to be sanction happy if that makes any sense so why is the u.s. threatening sanctions in this case are there not better ways to negotiate with allies on such issues. but i don't think we're looking at this is negotiating with an ally or this is more

its european allies welcome on the international arena. leaders around the world including from our closest allies have condemned this decision and the very fact that europe has now shifted from negotiating with the united states to negotiating with iran is a strong rebuke to the decision that president trump made i would i describe president obama's leadership on sanctions with iran with russia with other countries a little bit differently from what you did i don't think it's a question about germany making a moral stand or a value judgment what i would say is that we were able to convince countries around the world that on a variety of problems we had a plan and a way forward and that if countries were willing to suffer a certain amount of economic dislocation in the short term we can solve real problems and so in the iran case we were able to convince the government of russia china india as well as our closest allies to stick with us and we got to the g.c. . and some of russia's policies we were able to convince as you say germany and o

and later allies came to refer to it by the same way. it's an incredible reliability, rate of fire, stopping power. it was a wonder weapon of the day. that scene haunts me, blasting away with the mg-42. you see the barrel smoking. and the germans are trying to surrender, and the americans are not sure exactly how they want to proceed, whether to accept the surrender or to send the germans to the hereafter. the uniform and kit appear to be good for 1944 insofar as i can judge that. i will tell you this. if it's not, that's something that the bucks will always pick up on and tear you apart over if you're wrong. the buckles, boots, exact rank and insignia of medals, you've got to get that right if you want credibility with the buff community. when i say buff, i mean non-classroom teachers. as a professor, i like my space. i wrote books. i read the german primary sources. but i had to be aware when i wrote a book on world war ii, there were going to be people who read it who don't give a darn about my ph.d. they know a lot about it, too. bec

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how do we fix this disaster, ally?h we could all exist in an alternate realitwhere hillary won. and we're not dealing with daily human rights violations. and i wouldn't be so upset all e e time. [ cheers and appla >> cool. a happy ally? huh, i want to live in that alterne reality, too. >> seth: yeah. but how do we make that happen? >> the magical unicorn paul. he'll grant our wish. [ laughter ]sh >> your s granted. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ [ laughter ♪ >> seth: next topic. [ lahter ] which are better, cookies or brownies, ally? >> brownies are better than cookies. and anyone whoisagrees is a monster. >> cookies are my favorite. >> then you are a monster. >> seth: ally, i thought when hillary won, you'd be less upset about everything. [ laughter ] >> have you met me? [ laughter ] laughter ] >> it'so funny. >> seth: this has been another great "point/counterpoint."ht we'll be rack, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ uhp. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?

and our allies.so says china's air force quote - has been reassigned a nuclear mission. this comes amid heightened tensions between both countries over trade. now the director of the margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation, wait to see you, let's get to it. what to make of this latest report on china's military focus? >> well, i would say this really is a wake-up call, actually. this is a very detailed assessment of the overall military threat that china poses and without a doubt, china is emerging as a major threat to the united states and its allies. they are ramping up the military, basically practicing for long-range military strikes in the pacific we are dealing here with a rising superpower. it has ambitions to match the united states. in terms of overall military capability by the middle of the century. it is already investing hundred $90 billion a year in defense spending. that will increase the next decade or so to about 250 billion. but the ultimate goal of course, f

there was still some looming concerns that the soviets were our allies. even truman himself -- even truman distanced himself, even though he is clapping on stage. i did not see a copy of the speech beforehand. he said i did not know he was going to say all of that. a year later, truman and the rest of the world has fallen in line. they have begun to follow some of the provisions for the special relationship, but a strengthened nato, and a policy which outlined the policies of the cold war and remain through the 20th century. i can argue that the cold war began in earnest in a gymnasium in missouri on march 5, with the president of the united states and the former prime minister of great britain, both of whom were honorary degree recipients that finest ofinster's alumni and it did set into motion a number of things in this country and throughout the world that still had it rippling effects today. thank you for allowing me to do some archaeology of the iron curtain speech and we will take questions after the panel. thank you. [applause] >> that was outstand

allies u.s. allies exactly exactly yeah and i had been investigating a plane they departed from reactor airport five days earlier which she believes carried weapons to the middle east. you can see tongue fight for there are the words that this plane took several time and you can see places such as r r ion gotta exactly and also has flights number mark which is very specific for the planes that are actually transporting military goods. this is footage of the plane yellow not tracked it has been loaded with crates at least twenty u.s. military flights have left this airport in the past six months. and when we arrived at the airport we to see a plane hole. this is one of the busiest airports when it comes to players such as this one. is from the same airline yelena had been investigating boeing is really is pretty nuts it's just in the middle of a traffic junction. they are about to take off.

they are analyze -- they are allies. they are more or less democracies. and thek at germany iners, it was obvious roosevelt's view that it was a against democracies by the audit processes -- by the atop tocracies.the au nicholas the second of russia, how can you enter a war for democracy when one of your allies is the most renowned tyrant on the face of the earth? russia was famous in american minds for being dysfunctional, corrupt, unjust, and to radical. russia thed prisonhouse of nations. i think a lot of americans felt the same way about it. the americans thought of worst type of government can have, russia is what came to mind in those days. americans were particularly offended and outraged by the anti-semitism which was so prevalent in russia in those days. in 1917, the ground central of anti-semitism was not germany. it was russia. the war had not gone well for of russians, partly because incompetence, mismanagement, and corruption. by 1917, by the early months of that year, there were food shortages in the capital petrograd's. this is a food line

he talks about the allied cause.son is putting forth to congress a request, and they basically give it to him a couple days later, and america is now entered into the war. with that, i'd like to take you around the corner here to demonstrate something in relation to the zimmerman telegram but also to the larger context of the war. the zimmerman telegram was basically arthur zimmerman, who worked for the german foreign embassy, had issued this secret telegram to the mexican government saying that if they helped us out, if they helped germany out in the war, they would get back lands they had lost in the mexican-american war like, you know, arizona, california, elsewhere. what's ironic is actually the british had intercepted this message months earlier and only gave it to the americans later, so not only -- so they clearly didn't think it was a -- for the british to sit on it for that long indicates that perhaps they did not think it was as vital a correspondence as possible but was useful in terms of kind of acknowled

we want to be very closely synchronized with our allies and partners around the world. this team is committed to a strong global effort to change the iranian regime's behavior. on the second question -- >> do you have any specific names you can offer us? >> not yet. for now, we have a team that's assembled and in time, we will be happy to talk about it. he's got two more questions i have to answer. number two, no connection. number three, pure coincidence. >> do you believe that the u.s. should be talking to iran right now? is it the time? is that going to be part of your brief to try to get some negotiation going and some direct talks with tehran? >> well, if the iranian regime demonstrates a commitment to make fundamental changes in its behavior, then the president is prepared to engage in dialogue in order to find solutions. but the sanctions relief, the reestablishment of full diplomatic and commercial relations with the united states, and economic cooperation with the united states can only begin after we see that the iranian regime is serious about changing its be