and wants to be like edward r. murrow and if they could be like edward r. murrow we would be a much better country today but that's hard to do. that's why he is held up with the kind of esteem he is and deservedly so. he set an extraordinary example of courage, of professionalism, of decency, of fearlessness, if he had to say something he knew was going to offend a senator or even a president, he said it it -- because it was true, believed to its be true. when murrow left cbs and went to be the head of usia invited me to join him to be his specialist on communist affairs. i was obviously flattered but i had to say no to him and it broke my heart. i didn't -- how could i say no to murrow. that was ridiculous. ... and who we want to be. yours is a life well lived rich and full and you always seem to be looking ahead. give us your thoughts as you look back and you look around and you look ahead in april of 2021. >> let me tried to look at that for a moment. i am a very proud grandfather and i have a grandson at 15 named aaron and a granddaughter named eloise at

to be like edward r murrow. and if they can all be like edward, we would be a much better country today. but that's a hard thing to be . that's why he is held up in the kind of esteem that he is and deservedly so. he set an extraordinary example of courage, of professionalism, of decency. of fearlessness, if he had to say something he knew was going to offend a senator or even a president, he said it because it was true. he believed it to be true. when morrow after he left cvs and went to be the head of usia, invited me to join him to be his specialist on communist affairs, i was obviously flattered. but i had to say no to him and it broke my heart. how could i say no tomorrow, it was ridiculous. the only thing i could say to him as i wanted, i want to do in moscow you did for your entire career. what i wanted to be like you understood. >> the understood and applauded your decision. last question, the pandemic of the past year has prompted so many of us to look back at our lives, look around us and awareness of

r murrow, right? so people would i'm sorry edward r murrow. and people would hear his reports from london where he's like actually standing on the rooftops. while the nazi bombers are coming in and that had a huge effect on making americans much more empathetic with the victims of fascism. so by 1939 certainly by 1940 radio is becoming a medium that from promotes interventionism, but that's not true in the mid 1930s. thank you. full time you get hi. thank you for this. conference. i'm sorry for my english because it's not my first language. i want to know. you you your book for who? do you want to make a warning about to be criticism criticist about media or social media? well citizen well the us citizen or i think that came later i the book really emerged out of the archives and on my work on conspiracy theory, so i wrote a book on american conspiracy theories from world war one to 9/11 and one of the chapters is on pearl harbor. and so i spent a lot of time chasing documents and archives all over the country. it's like how the pearl harbor c

has correspondence in europe and the key example here would be a break so people, i'm sorry, edward r murrow. people would hear his reports from london where he's actually standing on the rooftops while the nazi bombers are coming in and that had a huge effect on making americans much more empathetic with victims of fascism. so by 1939, certainly by 1940 radio was becoming a medium that promotes interventionism . that's not true in the mid-1930s. >> thank you for this speech and i'm sorry for my english because it's not myfirst english . i want to know you wrote your book for who? do you want to make your warning about to be a critic about media or social media for citizens, us citizens? >> i think that came later. that book really emerged out of the archive and my work on conspiracy theories so i wrote a book on conspiracy theories from 9/11 and one of the chapters is on pearl harbor. i spent a lot of time chasing documents andarchives around the country on how the pearl harbor conspiracy theory emerged and i discovered to my surprise at the time when i started out was a right-wing theory w

along over the decades were everywhere today you will bumpws into a journalist who knows about edward r murrowbe like him if so we'd be a much better country today but that's a hard thing to be that's why he has the esteemed that he has and deservedly so in setting an extraordinary example of courage and professionalism professionalism, decency, fearls if he said something that would offend a senator or president he said it because it was true and he believed it to be true after he left cbs to goit to usia he invited me to join him toff be his specialist on communist affairs. i was flattered that i had to say no and it broke my heart. how could i say no to him? the only thing i could say is that i want to do in moscow that you did for your entire career. and he understood. >> and he applauded your decision. >> last question the pandemic in the last year has prompted so many to look back at our lives and must around us with how fragile it is and look ahead how we went to conduct yourselves and who we want to be as the fog begins to lift your life is rich and full and you always seem to be looki

i chronicled it and i joked with one critic back 50 years ago that i wanted to be the edward r. murrowaine to crack, then the aids epidemic and using dirty needles and the implication being you have the fatal disease, incurable. to the pills and now the synthetics. you go from a junkie in the ghetto to a kid in the suburbs using the internet to get door-to-door delivery of xanax he thinks and it is laced with fentanyl and he dies in his mother's basement. this is a serious problem. i totally understand and support the prosecutors who are trying to use things like death by distribution statutes to stop it. but it is very, very difficult. we have to get the word out. whatever you think you are taking, it is probably fentanyl and it could very well kill you. >> bill: one pill can kill. the doping of america is on fox nation now. nice to see you, geraldo. we'll check it out. important viewing. thank you. >> julie: isis 2.0, that's the terror group exploiting a u.s.-funded camp to train its next generation of fighters. plus out of control covid fraud. more than half a trillion dollars repor