the fact that the bolsheviks took over. up to thatto lead us and explain after this assassination of rasputin, when did the next step in this process take place? simon: it was in december of 1916. the monarchy literally lasted two months afterwards. the arnie was this was not a revolution led by lenin and stalin and trotsky. they were all in exile in siberia. they said, the revolution would here it came.but it was totally unexpected yet easily predictable because people started to protest about food shortages in the capital and it quickly spread. the troops who were in the city started to fraternize with the rabble. and nicholas was far away at the front. brian: where was he? simon: he was right at the front at the headquarters. it took him a log of time to get back. he was foolish to try to get a rush. his train got sidelined, supposedly stopped by workers and he found himself totally alone in eight well waystation in the middle of nowhere and he had to ask his general what to do and the general said, abdicate. suddenly he

in the end, when the bolsheviks took power, lenin, stalin, a turn ofy, it was in events. they were in danger of their lives. it was unthinkable that the children could be in danger of their lives. lenin and trotsky were ruthless and they could take their chances. it is clear, when you look at all,rders to kill them they came from the top. lenin. he was very aware of history. them, toame to kill kill all of them, these for gorgeous daughters, the innocent son, as well as the parents and the family doctor and the entourage, never has a murderer ever been so bungled or a crime more appalling or atrocious, they did it by sheer incompetence. >> said the same. -- set the scene. >> they were at the house. there come all the windows were painted white. the family was kept in isolation. for members of the entourage were taken away and then shot in the woods. gradually, they realize that something terrible was going to happen. was approaching and they could hear the guns at night. moscow thatme from if they got to near, they could wipe out the whole family. so the job was done. the

based system once that excess it is important for russia a to have won a loss in 1918 with the bolsheviks dispersing the constituent assembly to create a real constitution not the one created in the wake of the destruction of the russian parliament in 1993 to suit the power requirements of yeltsin but under those circumstances with the understanding that part of the russian federation that wished to detach themselves be given the right to do so the conditions to exist for russia to transform itself into a democratic country and must be pointed out as a result of post-communist history russia has acquired an educated sophisticated middle-class of which this regime is absolutely inappropriate in the process will continue as globalization continues and people take a vantage of the exposure of free information that was denied under the soviet regime. >> we thank you both for being here we will have a number of questions coming from those who cannot be here for the second panel we will try to have those then by the close of business by thursday if you to respond fairly quickly we know you don'

who knows what it would've been on the eastern front during world war i or during the bolshevik revolution or the russian civil war let alone under communism and not susan --nazism in east europe. he was the father of sons that won medals. my mother's story is more heralding. she came to america alone at the age of 13 in september of 1938 from out to germany. after her parents and little brother jointure. they were the lucky ones. they had american relatives who signed papers for them, high-level political connections, sufficient funds in a transatlantic network to get them into this country. the story that really shakes me is a very different one. after arriving safely in america in 1939, my maternal grandfather worked tirelessly to bring others out of not to germany germany. he even tried to save others from poland. except for his own family, he totally failed. the friends he saw to save her all slaughtered. money and political connections were not enough. indifference and even hostility within the american jewish community, the german jews sealed the fate of those macs saw to say. every

the peter and paul fortress was overrun by the bolsheviks during the revolution.> in three years. >> so i smell with the disparity gap in the society, very rich and very poor, that someone might bring up the masses back to the winter palace and storm it again, like 100 years, nothing changed. >> every day at noon without fail this d-30 122-millimeter howitzer is fired to commemorate the revolution. >> ready to load. loaded. very solemn moment. moment of truth, tony, for you. ♪ [ chiming bell ] >> come up. attention. one, two. four. >> sweet. >> enemy is destructed. congratulations, you are the hero of russia now. >> sweet. >> you can't take it on the plane, though. they won't understand. >> not even carry-on? >> since the filming of this show a number of things have happened. putin's sochi olympics, a blatant exercise of political muscle and a financial boondoggle of a size unheard of in history, went off as planned. russia won many gold medals, the most of any country in competition, which was really all that mattered. a few journalists complained about the bathr

petersburg after the abdication of these are into install a revolutionary bolshevik instead.ow those two events ever crocheted through and shaped the modern history. shaped world history, really. that is the next. it will be shorter than next one, i promise. brian: moving on to the next war, the korean war, this is a video that a lot of people have already seen. it is harry truman relieving macarthur of his duties. we will come back and you can explain how that happened. clip] video harry truman: i have thought long and hard about this question about extending the war in asia. i have discussed it many times. i believe with all my heart that the course we are following is the best course. a number of events have made it evident that john macarthur did -- general macarthur did not agree with the policy. i have therefore considered it a essential to relieve general macarthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the purpose of our policy. it is of the deepest personal regret that i found myself compelled to take this action. general macarthur is one of our greatest

they're having the menshevik bolshevik split the communist party had in the 1900s.tic party -- >> you know -- >> let me finish. >> go ahead. >> it allows donald trum top stay on message and attack hillary clinton -- >> it would be nice if he stayed on message. his message is all over the map. >> you'll figure it out when he's president. >> there will be a coming together of the party. it happens every couple of years ksh. >> you've already said that. let's talk about your candidate. 180 days. the woman has not had a press conference. >> i believe when you run for a public office you should appear in public. i think she should have -- >> she has like a rope -- >> we're agreeing on lotsar -- >> i'm not going to defend that. i think you should take all comers, take all questions. >> so why isn't she? >> i don't know. >> i'll tell you why. >> she doesn't want to be asked about benghazi and most of all she does not want to be asked about the e-mail scandal. >> anything she says can and will be used against her. >> she goes on the morning shows they ask her about the beng

you will have a sign around your neck -- liberal, unpatriotic, bolshevik.there are no excuses by way of explanation. we lost our guts in many ways. you know the question needs to be asked, but this train is rolling and we are going to war. every journalists do it. it was palpable but nobody wanted to talk about it. a certain amount of cowardice. if you question us too much, if you don't get on board this invasion train, you are going to wind up metaphorically, like in south africa when the worst of the south african civil war was underway, they would put a earning tire around people's net. metaphorically, if not that sign marking you as an unpatriotic person, you are going to have this burning tire put around you. this is not by way of excuse. it is by way of explanation with the press, noting there were some exceptions said the president of the united states says it's about stopping possible nuclear war or chemical warfare. there was talk about being tied into al qaeda which was also untrue. but having said if we lost our guts or if you like the spine meta

there was a report prepared in the red scare, after the bolshevik revolution, trying to locate the dangerous, radical, and socialist elements of our culture. if you see at the bottom, where a lot of the lines go, those lines are going to the women's international league of peace and freedom. which jane adams was the president of for many years. it's still an organization that works with the u.n. on women's issues. adams received the nobel peace prize in 1931 for her piecework. adams than dewey's commitment to social issues can be inserted by the long list of progressive social reforms that they worked with, women's suffrage, the american civil liberties union, the naacp, which they were also founders of. dewey worked on the american committee for the defense of leon trotsky, adams was deeply involved in international and national suffrage and peace movements. they won time made a list that adams was involved in, it took two pages to make a list of all the things she was board of director of. how did she do all that? adams and do we really believed in democracy. it was a poor idea they return

they genuinely believe they .hought this was not good chaos this is the kind of thing that leads to bolshevik revolution and brings down government and destroys society. people were not going to church. the force. women were openly talking about war since. -- about abortions. people know that they were simply abortions. there are was a lot of discussion about this kind of thing. all these things that happened, challenges to the established order. that societyt shouldld move slowly and gradually. this was a horror show. was that in part 1965, 1966, rachel carson wrote "silent spring." inticides not only killing out-- insects but thinnining and shall so that the birds were not hatching. the planes are spraying ddt over our house. wether or not ddt is toxic, and there is some indication it is toxic, it is definitely toxic to birds and bees in one day we are going to wake up and the spring is going to be silent and that is the beginning of the death of the earth. you had the whole industry under intact from an environmental movement. and that, did yoyou seriously fix ande the gas tank decided not

petersburg after the abdication of these are into install a revolutionary bolshevik instead.nts ever -- those two events have ricocheted and shaped the modern history. shaped world history, really. that is the next. it will be shorter than next one, i promise. brian: moving on to the next war, the korean war, this is a video that a lot of people have already seen. it is harry truman relieving macarthur of his duties. we will come back and you can explain how that happened. [begin video clip] harry truman: i have thought long and hard about this question about extending the war in asia. i have discussed it many times. i believe with all my heart that the course we are following is the best course. a number of events have made it evident that general macarthur did not agree with the policy. i have therefore considered it a essential to relieve general macarthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the purpose of our policy. it is of the deepest personal regret that i found myself compelled to take this action. general macarthur is one of our greatest military comm

they genuinely believe they .hought this was not good chaos this is the kind of thing that leads to bolshevikolution and brings down government and destroys society. people were not going to church. the force. women were openly talking about war since. -- about abortions. people know that they were simply abortions. there are was a lot of discussion about this kind of thing. all these things that happened, challenges to the established order. that societyt shouldld move slowly and gradually. this was a horror show. was that in part 1965, 1966, rachel carson wrote "silent spring." inticides not only killing out-- insects but thinnining and shall so that the birds were not hatching. the planes are spraying ddt over our house. wether or not ddt is toxic, and there is some indication it is toxic, it is definitely toxic to birds and bees in one day we are going to wake up and the spring is going to be silent and that is the beginning of the death of the earth. you had the whole industry under intact from an environmental movement. and that, did yoyou seriously fix ande the gas tank decided not to

in the end, when the bolsheviks took power in october, 1917, lenin, stalin, tchaikovsky, it was in aurn of events. suddenly they were in danger of their lives. it was unthinkable that the children could be in danger of their lives. lenin and trotsky were ruthless operatives and they could take no chances. it's clear when you look at it that the orders to kill them all, including the children, came from the top, came from lenin even though lenin was far too clever of leaving the rich. but when it came to kill them, to kill all of them, these four gorgeous young daughters, the innocent son as well as the parents as well as the family doctor and the entourage that was left never has a murder been so bungled, never has a crime been more -- it was possible to make it more appalling or more atrocious they did it by sheer incompetence. brian: where were they? set the scene where they were. simon rrp they are in a house. the house of special purpose. named for the house. and they were kept there. all the windows were painted white. the family was kept in total isolation. different members of

want, you seemed to indicate that in order for us to determine what the appropriate governmental bolshevik, that one approach would be a commission to i think that's what senator warner's bill is, to create a commission to enable us to figure out what government's role should be, along with input from a lot of other folks like you. so would you say that is the best way for us? because you have said that the role of government is one that we haven't quite figured out. >> i don't know what the best way is but just know that it has to be an effort undertaken by the government and the private sector in a very thoughtful man that looks at the various dimensions of the problem and is going to come forward with a number of options, recommendations about how to optimize what we're trying to do other national security, privacy, civil liberties front cover text of this country and not cede this environment to the terrorists and those who want to do us harm. i do believe that with the tremendous technological advances like encryption and other things, they are taking advantage of the liberties that w

which is why so many of those peoples became bolsheviks and revolutionaries and terrorists. they did it, it was a completely absurd concept. they regarded the jews, nicholas he second regarded the english and the jews were the same. they believe that they were involved in all the things that were wrong with the modern world. newspapers, the stock exchange, democracy, everything that nicholas the second hated. he regularly talked about, someone said to him, what is a newspaper? he said that a newspaper is a bunch of jews trying to go to war with each other. it is a great thing when he goes to stage with his cousins and enter the seventh was incredibly pro-jewish. he had one of these big jewish tycoons staying there, the wealthiest man in europe at the time. he deliberately asked him to try and introduce into nicholas the second to make a more pro-jewish. nicholas the second was horrified. he wrote to his mother, they have a lot of jewish horsedealer staying here. i'm so horrified that i think i'm going to not say whole word the whole weekend. brian: i want to put a list of yo

psychological and ethical basis exists, it's important for russia to have what it lost in 1918, when the bo bolsheviks created a real constitution, not the one created in the wake of the destruction of the russian parliament in 1993 in order to suit the power requirements of yeltsin. under those circumstances, and with the understanding that those parts of the russian federation, including the caucuses, that wished to detach themselves and have an international existence, be given the right to do so. the conditions will then exist for russia to transform itself into a democratic country. it must be pointed out that as a result of 25 years of post-communist history, that russia has acquired an educated, sophisticated, worldly middle class for which this type of regime is absolutely inappropriate. and that process is going to continue, as globalization continues, and as people take advantage of the exposure to free information, which was denied them under the soviet regime. >> we thank you both for being here. we will have a number of questions, i know, coming from people who weren't able to be here for

and ethical basis exists it is important to have russia what it lost in 1918, when it lost to the bolsheviks in order to create a real constitution, not the constitution that was created in the wake of the destruction of the russian parliament in 1993 in order to suit the to suit the power requirements of yell sin. under the circumstances and those parts of russian federation including the