as we began our trip to bohemia in the main railway station of dresden in eastern germany. up until the end of the 19th century the station was called burma siobhan hall for bohemian station and the line was the saxon bohemian state railway. today the electrified mainline between dresden and it seemed put moakley in the czech republic is called the elba valley rail. way. industrialization and burgeoning tourism saw the amount of traffic increase so rapidly that an expansion of the railway station became essential. in 898 the bohemian railway station was renamed to dressed and hauptbahnhof or central station which remains to this day. the local railway service taking passengers to the border with the czech republic runs about every 15 minutes and connects dressed in with the saxon and bohemian switzerland regions. it's a popular railway route not just due to the charmingly diverse natural landscape by the river elbe. its frequent and fast connection to the sandstone mountains make it a truly convenient alternative to the car. the 1st stage of our journey took us from dresden

the dresden technology center for daimler. he is always two steps ahead of me in finding new technology and new leaders, and you know, i don't think we can count daimler out of the game, and tesla's trading basically strip off consumer financing. >> but craig, speak to what phil just said which is automobile makers including daimler over the years have come out and said we have a car coming we have a car coming and i'm still looking around >> yep >> yeah, it's disappointing and that's why this thing has a $200 billion valuation it's definitely disappointing. i don't think it's going to be disappointing forever. i think there's going to be a period of fairly rapid catchup given that tesla's taken hundreds of thousands of units out of the hides of these very sophisticated, well-established oems >> phil -- >> andrew, in terms of -- >> i'm going to slightly push back against craig me and him have gone at this and discussed this separately.

the steamer was launched in dresden on may the 21800 pound for the uplands in northwestern germany. on that trip there were also tourists on board enjoying the scenery. stoking the boiler was a back breaking job back then and it still is. where we shovel a 150 kilos and now of what used to be called 300 weight. whether we're travelling or standing still we have to fight all the. because their real home has been plying the waters for more than a century 1st on the river bays are and now on the elbow. and in the ships a volunteer crew has anything to say about it it will continue to do so for many years to come. i made it after 80 kilometers in 2 days i've reached my destination my last stop on the elba cycle route is lends a. good lens and is one of the oldest towns in north western brandenburg and has a castle tower with the wonderful view of the beautiful surroundings. following the course of b.l. the river for it was a lot of fun but also extremely exhausting at times this trip and especially the wind pushed me to my limit which is why i am so proud to have filing waited. i have.

the level of destruction axiscted on allies and powers, particularly germany, the firebombing of dresden, the bombing of population centers in germany and japan, the firebombing of tokyo. more people died in the firebombing of tokyo than in hiroshima. the scale of violence, the horror inflicted across the atomicto be honest, the bomb was not a massive escalation of what was already going on. it was simply a more powerful weapon that was just part of this horrific world that had descended into chaos. problem in understanding what the perspective was for the people who lost family members, the soldiers in invasion, a million americans might die. probably 10 million japanese would have died in the invasion. was there a plan? the plan was all out war and they were going to use whatever weapons were available. >> world war ii really built toward a crescendo of of violence and horror at the end, and the atomic bombings and away is just a commendation of what was already happening. we have a couple of questions on facebook and i will personally field the first one and then open it to you for co

paul: i would just say that eisenhower approved the firebombing of dresden. if he had moral qualms against the wanton murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians -- again, this was total war. i think many people after the bombs were dropped and the war ended, in hindsight said this was a horrific bomb and we should've found another way. at the time, there was not another way other than the invasion of mainland japan, which would have resulted in many more casualties on both sides. edward: gus on facebook who is age 11, asks how did they choose the targets? clifton: with the help of the interim committee, gus. they selected targets they believed to be new or military targets, primarily military targets. they knew there were civilians there. for example, hiroshima had ports, some military headquarters and some assets i think for the second army, and certainly the military police headquarters. and they had the port. they were training soldiers and shipping them to china from hiroshima. they had a port. nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, you have the m

become bothersome noise or even noise pollution that's what research is at the technical university of dresden in germany want to find out. that john outen soy has created a set up that mimics the experience of traveling by automobile. he's investigating how we hear and perceive different sounds. the acoustics lab is completely soundproofed even the floor is insulated against noise the research is have to walk on a net that keeps the reflection of sound waves in this room to an absolute minimum so sounds can be measured with great precision the researches know that certain sound qualities bother us more than others. higher frequencies always draw our attention and that makes the more problematic temporal variations are also an issue we tend to be very sensitive to sounds that aren't constant but very. so if a sound or source of noise is highly variable like the sound of a train that passes every 15 minutes that tends to bother us much more than a continuous noise. sound is measured as the sound pressure level expressed in decibel the higher the pressure caused by a sound wave the louder the so

during his time in dresden, the kgb was easy smuggling new technology into the soviet union in defiance companies and fake contracts so they could sidestep the western embargo and get these assets and technology across the wall. many years later, these were skills that would prove useful but in the meantime, the communist bloc was crumbling — crumbling and parts of the kgb we re crumbling and parts of the kgb were actively preparing for the colla pse were actively preparing for the collapse of the soviet union. they were preparing the move to the market but they also realised they needed to start shifting assets, so they could preserve their intelligence networks even after a collapse of the communist regime. when boris —— boris yeltsin thought of the attack of hardliners, it look like an attack had been broken but even after the collapse of the soviet union, russians thought the promise of western freedoms collapse and disappear in the midst of economic cuts. they president with ailing, sometimes drunk in public. behind the scenes, a handful of oligarchs, he made billions out of the ch

on connecticut avenue and helen smith lived in the dresden and i got to know helen very well. we took over grandmother's apartment during the summer when she is all right thinking people did left town, helen would explain my graciousness i experienced for mrs. nixon was not unique to me. she was, in fact, gracious to every person she ever met in every capacity, young and small. she traveled the world relentlessly beginning in 1953 as the second lady, setting a pattern for the second lady which was unique and when she became first lady she was the first lady to visit africa as first lady but the first lady the first time to go to china and the ussr. every step she always insisted on seeing people, children, schools, orphanages because she wanted to get out of the diplomatic protocol and talk to people and it was there that she, again, exhibited on behalf of america the same kind of kindness i experienced firsthand. [ applause ] >> wasn't she an amazing first lady in so many ways. i want to start with patty matson, i covered when i arrived at the white house in the ford administ

and helen smith lived in the dresden. and so i got to know helen very well because we took over grandmother's apartment during the summers when she, as all right-thinking people did, left town. helen would explain to me that my graciousness that i had experienced from mrs. nixon was not unique to me. she was, in fact, gracious to every single person that she ever met, in every capacity, young and small. she traveled the world q+q+q+q+9 pattern for the second lady, which was unique. and when she became first lady, she was the first first lady to visit not only africa, not only south america as first lady, but as the first lady, first time to go to china and to the ussr. and at every step, she always insisted on seeing people, children, schools, orphanages, because she wanted to get out of the diplomatic protocol and to talk to people. and it was there that she again exhibited on behalf of america the same kind of kindness that i experienced firsthand. [ applause ] >> well, wasn't she an amazing first lady in so many ways?

my wife's grandmother was working in the dresden. helen smith was working there, so i got to know her very well, we took over her grandmother's in the summers. how and would explain to me that the graciousness i've experience with mrs. nixon was not unique to me, she was gracious to every single person she had ever met. in every capacity, young and small. she traveled the world relentlessly 1953 as the second lady. she set the pattern for the second lady, which was unique. when she was the first lady, she was the first lady to visit not only africa and south america, it was the first she went to china and the ussr. and every step she always insisted on seeing people, children, schools, orphanages. she wanted to get out of the diplomatic protocol and talk to people. it was there that she exhibited on behalf of america, the same kind of kindness that i experienced firsthand. [applause] >> wasn't sheet amazing first lady in so many ways? i want to start with pat nixon, who i covered when i arrived at the beginning of the ford administra

ever since he was a kgb agent in dresden and watched the berlin wall fall, he was concerned about thisiance between america and germany. the whole cold world was a microcosm of what happened in east and west berlin. russia doesn't feel safe when there is a union between america and germany because they always feel threatened by germany. this has been a goal of the russians for 500 years and vladimir putin has pulled it off because he has a lackey in the american president. >> wendy sherman and rick stengel, thank you both for joining our discussion tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >>> and when we come back, together for the first time, joy reid and mary trump. that happened earlier tonight at 7:00 p.m. on joy reid's show when she interviewed donald trump's niece mary trump, who explained donald trump's strange and enduring attraction to vladimir putin. we'll show you some of that interview next. and joy reid will join us. workplace, safely, companies will need the right tools. that's why salesforce created work.com it's an all-new suite of apps, expertise, and services. to manage this

i would like to state a quote by dresden james -- when the masses have been fed a web of lies over generationsthe truth seems utterly preposterous and the speaker a raging lunatic. this is to all the democrats out there. complainseverybody president trump -- oh, he's not a businessman. he filed bankruptcies. you know what? he did it according to the system. he did not get bailed out like generous motors and the big banks. just saying, thank you. eight of the craziest moments from mary trump's new book, "too much and never enough." it will be released by simon & schuster on tuesday. this from claire in louisiana -- the president's niece is a victim suffering from the wounds of abuse of a child of an alcoholic. until she is healed, her anger and hurt will be misdirected. however, healing comes in the telling of the story. she probably feels relief from the release of having told her story. it is unfortunate that her weretive family issues publicly exposed. addiction is a family disease. david joining us next, good morning. good morning, thanks for having me. i wanted to comment, it seems everyon