and august 21st, i believe, the soviet troops are about to move into czechoslovakia to crush the you know, anti-socialist elements. and i receive a cable from moscow saying they informed the ambassador -- at that time, for many years, 20 years or, so never became minister, because he was distressed with the united states -- so i come to ambassador to show him the cable that tomorrow the troops of the warsaw treaty will enter into czechoslovakia to crush the anti-soviet cia-sponsored revolt. well, that was really a moment. i have access to this information classified from all over the intelligence community of the united states. except j. edgar hoover kept the organization in good shape. but not in the fbi at that time. there was one attempt, but that was years before. so i give this cable to the ambassador, he reads it, look at me, i look at him. silence. and then for the first time in my life, i say fools, the embassador's response, idiots. that's how we became friends. can you imagine, the acting chief of station of the kgb calls them fools and idiots. that did not prevent me from

when the war ends, patton is actually in czechoslovakia. he is just bored. he misses the war. but he asked to come home on a war bonds tour. he goes back to what's called green meadows, massachusetts, where he and beatrice live and visit with his grandkids. he gets in a little bit of trouble, because he's speaking with wounded veterans on his left and his right and he says, people also praise those who died in war. well, these guys here are just as big of heroes as those who are dead. and a lot of people took offense to that. they said he was belittling the memory of the dead. in his mind, he was praising the wounded. he said two things. he said everything was odd when he flew over boston, when he arrived. because all the houses had roofs. all the bridges were complete. this looks nothing like europe. this is so odd. and then in the middle of his speech he was talking about something and said, you know, when i was younger i weighed a lot less. the whole audience laughed. so he definitely had fun talking in front of people. this is the last photograph patton ever took. after he

this to to run the country voluntarily like poland volunteered to have germany you know and like czechoslovakia paul volunteered to have germany well actually this is the british method of imperialism they would send people to help the poor indians they would send people in to missionize and help the kenyans you know this is the method of colonization that's one method it's you don't have to send in the tanks because it's it doesn't work in our twenty four hour news cycle tanks look bad to most people but accountants who are just there to help you with your taxes it's just all jolly good the story here is that there are no turning because this is a financial war and the credit default swap on the derivatives are the blitz. they destroyed greece with naked credit default swaps they've just greece's a four hundred billion dollar commie that they destroyed with nine hundred billion dollars worth of toxic derivatives hank paulson and lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs think they destroyed great another scarfing up and serving it up to the germans who are the local raj we're going to managing these po

well it happened before and we just got to look at what happened in czechoslovakia in what was the creation of the czech republic and slovakia you country code and so you support that they won't allow these countries to leave or not they will continue to if they will continue with more bailouts and wolfgang schauble german finance minister isn't talking about a second bailout he's already talking about a third bailout so this hundred fifty billion euro was nothing more than a sticking plaster over the big gaping economic you mention interesting word a little earlier revolution which you were referring to over the greek situation but we've seen of course those protests now in spain what do you make as a politician about the political ramifications and the way the politicians don't seem to be listening to people's concerns. well as i said at the top of this interview the political class almost live in a parallel universe the problems that you have in athens now will no doubt spread to madrid and lisbon and let's not forget the spanish economy is far bigger than the greek economy and its train

going to have to be constructed but it's happened before it's up many times after all we saw in czechoslovakia we saw that country split we saw the currencies split without any great difficulty at all i am not pretending that in the case of greece or portugal this can happen painlessly it won't be an easy thing to do but it's a damn sight better to take a tough decision and to give yourself a chance than to die the slow economic and social day that is currently going on with russia let's get back to that summit in time nigel farage their member the european parliament leader of the u.k. independence party talking to largo brussels always good to hear from you thank you . well it's also a second day of strikes across europe as we've just been talking about as walkouts paralyze transport from athens to rome as some of the biggest public demonstrations in recent history protesting against desperate government cuts to budgets designed to appease international paymasters but the measures are taking their toll and as our teams tom brown reports. sentiment is reverberating across europe. in belgium p

pushing other countries around its borders to not do nuclear including france and poland and czechoslovakia and saying you know we're on your border if you have an accident we get hurt by this i lived there were insurable right and he said no and you know it isn't just about fukushima it's fukushima plus chernobyl because the whole european landmass and i was living in england at the time and got. you know there were pockets very high pockets all over europe when i wrote the book and the northwest of england still had farms under quarantine from chernobyl so this left a strong impression i think particularly the germans. it's really quite remarkable and you know how how do. you know what was real to talk about this is going to play out i'm sure we'll be right back after the break more of tonight's conversations with great minds stephanie cutter. if you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i want to tell the truth. i confess and i am a total get of friends that i love rap and hip hop is a latin phrase. but it was kind of a big yesterday. i'm very proud of the role without

after the satellite countries like czechoslovakia, poland and east germany got their freedom you went to moscow to visit gorbachev. reagan made a speech to the law school there in moscow. they never heard about democracy or freedom. it was against the law. but he did it. he was cheered. that was his legacy he was a lot smarter than people gave him credit for. presidents have speechwriters to some extent. but reagan wrote to his own speeches. i have the book with his own handwriting. he kept a diary. which is extremely articulate. he wrote letters and i was fascinating -- fascinated by his mind. basically he was meat and potatoes type of guy. santa barbara. with the things he did. [laughter] the press would always go to big telescopic cameras across $10,000 for the lens and sit on the mountains trained on his ranch all day long just to see what would have been. he knows they are there. he falls down. [laughter] the reporters go crazy. they say the president has a heart attack. [laughter] he gets up and waves and smiles. i hate to reading things. let you read it. i do not need to read i

when the war ends, patton is actually in czechoslovakia. he is just bored. he misses the war. but he has to come home on a war bonds tour. so he goes back to what's called green meadows, massachusetts, where he and beatrice live and visits with his grandkids. gives a number of war bonds speeches, gets in a little bit of trouble because he's speaking with wounded veterans on his left and right. and he says people always praise those who died in war. well, these guys here are just as big a heroes as those who are dead. a lot of people took offense to that. he said he was belittling the memory of the dead. of course in patton's mind, he wasn't. he was praising the ones that were wounded. he said two things in his speech. he said everything was odd when he flew over boston when he arrived. all the houses had roofs. all the bridges were complete. you know, this looks nothing like europe. this is so odd. and then in the middle of his speech, he was talking about something. he says, you know, when i was younger, i weighed a lot less. and the whole audience laughs. what are you laughi

he actually, after the thing, after the satellite countries, czechoslovakia, poland, every, east germany, he went to visit moscow. he went to see gorbachev. reagan made a speech to the great law school there. and he talked to these guys. they had never heard anybody talk about democracy and freedom it was against the law, but he did it. and he was cheered. and so that was his legacy, i think, that the was a lot smarter than anybody give him credit for. one of the things that i found, the president is using speechwriters. they do to some extent. he did. but reagan rode his own speeches . and have the books with his own handwriting in them. he kept a diary. since james pope, but maybe somebody did. reagan kept a diary which was a stir inarticulate. and he wrote letters, and they're collected. i was just fascinated by the turn of this guy's mind. he was so clear and so smart. he was in a brilliant guy. he was basically a meat and potatoes guy, like to ride horses and had a big ranch and in california he love to get to weigh up in the mountains. santa monica, not santa monica, santa barbara.

and he actually after the satellite countries such as czechoslovakia and poland and hungary, east germanyad gotten their freedom, he went to visit moscow and seek gorbachev over there. arbatov was kind of happy about it. he made us each to the great law school in moscow. and talk to these guys. they've never heard anyone talk about democracy and freedom. it was against the low, but he did it. and he was cheered. so he loved. his legacy, i think, i think he was a lot smarter than anyone gave him credit for. one of the things i found the daily stuff up, presidential speechwriters. they do to some extent. but reagan wrote his own speeches. and i've got the book with his own handwriting. he kept a diary. i don't know if any president since james polk. but reagan kept a diary, which is extremely articulate and he wrote orders than they are collected in places. and i was just fascinated by the turn of this guy's mind. it was so clear and so smart. he was basically a meat and potatoes guy. had a big ranch in california. he got to go way up in the mountains on this site is tantamount to cut. not

right out of the gate in his presidency he backed off on the missile sites in poe land and in czechoslovakia>> with every one of our european allies behind doing that, you're exacting right. martha: we have to go. great to have you. bill: it's like a warm up for beckel. now he has to cool his jets for five hours -- six and a half. day two of the pressure cooker on the hill. waiting details from inside the courtroom. as soon as we get them you will hear them first here, only on "america's newsroom" and then there is -- martha: you think you had a bad day. look at this guy. this man needed a serious helping hand. do you believe this? >> we had to get enough people there in enough places to get our footwork so that we could drag him back. we were able to get him out with just brute man power and put him in a basket and get him up. he was breathing, and semikopbgs when w semiconscious when we got him up to the ambulance. ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup exte

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