it took fdr. you know, i've done we've now done a book on george washington did the first conspiracy about the secret plot to kill george washington. we did the lincoln conspiracy about the secret plot to kill abraham lincoln at the start of his presidency. and then, of course, we did this book, the nazi conspiracy. and as i looked now studying of our greatest presidents, what they have in common, what makes greatest presidents when we think of greatest presidents, is not the person who makes the speech. it's not the person who makes the best promises. it's the person who, when a disaster strikes x, they know how to pivot and deal with that disaster. it is. that's what makes george washington so incredible that's what makes, of course, abraham lincoln. so in the civil war and to me, what makes fdr so incredible, because fdr believes in one thing and one thing only more than just about anything else. his own ability to charm else. he literally like, i'm going to take care of stalin, churchill style

when he did get sworn in, though, he immediately took action fdr was inaugurated on march 4th. two days later on march 6th he declared for the first time a nationwide bank holiday to freeze the banking system in place, to finally put a national system -- a national response in place to shore up banking coast to coast to give americans everywhere assurance that they would not lose their money in the banks. and after that we would never again as a country wait that long for a new president to take over after he'd been elected in november when fdr sprang into action in march 1933, when he stopped the national banking crisis two days after he was sworn in, he also at the same time invented a whole new thing to communicate with the american people, to explain to them what he and his new administration were doing and how it was supposed to work to stop the national run on the banks. on march 12th he gave his first fireside chat, and it was about the bank crisis. >> my friends, i want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the united states about banking, to talk with the compar

inaugurated on the old date, i march, the final march inauguration was march 4th 1933 that was when fdrident franklin delano roosevelt go sworn in as president for th first time but that was also the last tim we as a country had to wai that four month period after the election before we let the new president takeover after we had that firs inauguration of march 1930 three of fdr, after that, actue united states constitution i order to make that change. and they call that amendment t the constitution, the 20th amendment, they call it th flame duck amendment because by moving th integration from march back to january, we were shortening th lame duck period we were trying to eliminate long lame duck period afte which the old present had been voted out, but before that i would start on the job i mean, the idea was sort of obvious, right it was to try to minimize th risk of crisis, minimize the risk of confusion in terms o who is running the country i case something hickey happened and that interregnum perio between the election and the start of the new president's term so, the last time we

the reason he was able to promise that today is also because of fdr . after he was sworn in and two days later took control of the crisis, then he gave his first fireside chat, which he explained the thinking crisis to the american people and told them what he was doing to get a hold of it . just a few weeks after that, fdr signed legislation that created the fdic. it does exactly what it says. if you make deposits of your own money and do, any federal bank insured by the fdic can guarantee you that the government will provide insurance for your deposit. no matter what stupidity your bank gets up to and no matter what happens to your stupid bank, the money deposit is insured and you will be able to get it back. fdr created fdic in 1933 and right after he was inaugurated. today, we are still benefiting. today, we are having another one of those thank you, fdr, kind of days. wednesday last week, a bank called silver gate was first to and this is in california that was tied up in the cryptocurrency. they went on wednesday. senator elizabeth warren who ende

fdr wrote back the next day in a letter addressed. my dear judge, because given a former judge, baseball must continue. the people will be working long hours. they would need a little time for rest and relaxation. they pointed out and he emphasized that you agree with me that players who are of eligible age should be fighting. inserting the country, so what you had it was a very unusual. in world war ii baseball were a lot of layers were either too young, or in high school, and the teammates before he came in or before, you had guys who were too old, guys who were half down, or maybe some people were missing limbs. one leg it. but sheppard, he was one like it, see of all these interesting layers. in two teams were always very bad. they had good teams because they were turned upside down, and felix brown is one of the pendant makers and the washington senators were already back by then. 1945. they were in the last pennant race. that was last in the season, so a very interesting time. by the way, fdr really hated him, so when he saw tho

i'm the director of the fdr library. i got to go. so no president, you know, you you still got you do have i guess you could make that argument if you looked at the next level down in the roosevelt white house. and there's admiral leahy. uh, there's a great biography of him. it's called the second most powerful man in the world. and he is sort of the national security advisor, the president, the chief of staff of the armed forces, you name it. and he's reading this stuff. he's the guy who's going to sit down and then he's going walk in and talk to the president and say, hey you know, this is going to happen next week. this is what what we're looking at. and then, of course, you've got a marshal who's, a very sorry liberal guy who reads and thinks and makes decisions on that basis. well, i think we could probably keep all evening. it's a fascinating topic. thank you. it is. there's so many different directions to go with it and there's so many current connections that we don't even have an opportunity to to get into. so, nick, i'd lik

and so he's super the big expansions of the tax system under fdr fdr actually the line on hoover's tax system in 3334 and then as of january 1st, 19 7036, he had this huge at the top from 63% to 79% and then tried to have withheld profits tax and morgenthau testified to congress the next year that we're not even coming close to the revenue projections here, the top. and it's because tax sheltering and really what our book is about in very great part is the extraordinary lengths that the top earners will go to to shelter legally their income from taxation when is sharp profit incentive to do so? when you when you lose $0.79 on your marginal dollar, the incentive and he just said i mean the ways they can up with to avoid legally are better than anything we could come up with. and he specifically said the tax bar which didn't exist before 1913 has grown to 45,000 lawyers in virtually all of them have had their training as young tax attorneys with the revenue bureau and he said, if we hire more agents, think of that, we're only going to exacerbate problem because the private sector hires o

will live our dreams. >> we need that economic bill of rights and the lives of abraham lincoln and fdrthe time of their death they were what would happen and president roosevelt asked american people what do you want? we want free healthcare and education for all andea they want these things that constitute the great unfinished y work when you have a guaranteed living wage what does that economic bill of rights mean? everyone who was to work should bepr about two. so the green new deal says with that extraordinary amount of work will be available when we initiate the season of repair a new beginning as we cut the cord that is represented by neoliberalism. there are millions of jobs created not just serving that economic bottom line but that humanitarian bottom line there are millions of jobs is exactly what the force of the extreme right wing don't want to like the idea of the government being involved in job creation that iss what fdr did and that is what will happen with the green new deal i remind you this is new hampshire and i felt the same way as a lot going on that they are not

well, harry truman took up fdr mantle when the nation's longest serving president died suddenly in april of 1945.

go back and look at what fdr said.the washington correspondents dinner, the white house correspondents dinner, where he sold lend lease, where he talked about freedom versus tyranny. and it's many of the same issues today. and back then lend lease was just what we're doing now, we give you the tools, you finish the job as fdr said. he needs to build a bipartisan commitment to selling this to the american people. you can't just do it at the elite level and hope a few committee chairs go along. >> but that is happening in congress. >> in congress it is. >> generally in congress, especially in the united states senate. and the vice president, she talked about this in munich. >> zelenskyy himself came and gave that speech. >> biden went to ukraine as well. >> i don't know that citing lend lease is going to help us. >> not with voters but it will help with joe biden, who put the largest portrait in the oval office is fdr. >> but the whole argument from people like trump is this is going to lead to world war 3, and i don't k

we had middle east since fdr. , which the abraham accords, which president trump should have won, the nobel peace prize for. but biden in and he's decided to undo that. he's decided a very pro—israel one focus and his pro iran focus fits in with china because china is the main backer of the regime , tehran, and also of the regime, tehran, and also biden decided to isolate saudi arabia because over the khashoggi and what that is it did was it left the door wide open for saudi arabia to abandon the us to reject all of our policies and to embrace beijing . gordon i've incredibly worried about what's going on. thank you for giving us a update. i hope waking up our listeners all of our viewers, i will have you back on again, please, before too. well someone who actually knows this subject and he's right and we should be worried now the website guido fawkes. it's a satirical often very informative westminster based website. and it made the point not long ago that the guardian had profoundly links to slavery, and they di

to skate their way along maybe the last person he really govern perhaps it was lincoln and perhaps fdrepublicans save the economy from fdr at that point at the end of the war we really got a dynamic where the reason why the country is collapsing is not leprechauns are to democrats unisys kind of example about why the woke ideology and consumes everything. trey: it's amazing, my follow-up question was going to be exactly what you just said it is so clear they are not interested in policy and government in outcomes in the real world it is all for show it is ideology signaling, all of it and shallow and superficial. >> the last democrat interested in governing was bill clinton if he could he kept his pants on. he would had a great presidency. in all honesty this was a man distracted by the simplest of instincts but he liked governing and he was in many ways a centrist, hillary was the ideologue who was vicious, bill clinton, what a shame that is the last democrat that really knew what he was doing. >> is absolutely right, very well said we start with silicon valley banking california is a

we had middle east since fdr. which the abraham accords, which president trump should have won, the nobel peace prize for. but biden in and he's decided to undo that. he's decided a very pro—israel one focus and his pro iran focus fits in with china because china is the main backer of the regime , tehran, and also of the regime, tehran, and also biden decided to isolate saudi arabia because over the khashoggi and what that is it did was it left the door wide open for saudi arabia to abandon the us to reject all of our policies and to embrace beijing . gordon i've incredibly worried about what's going on. thank you for giving us a update. i hope waking up our listeners all of our viewers, i will have you back on again, please, before too. well someone who actually knows this subject and he's right and we should be worried now the website guido fawkes. it's a satirical often very informative westminster based website. and it made the point not long ago that the guardian had profoundly links to slavery, and they did

this point in skate their way alonge the be the last person whon govern perhaps ipet was lincoln and fdrlican saved academy from fdr at that point at the end of the war so we have a dynamic where there's a reason why the country is collapsing its not leprechauns as the democrats in this this example about why the woke ideology consumes everything like the blob. >> exactly it's amazing myw-up follow-up question will bebe exactly what e you said they're not interested in policy,poli governance in the outcomes it is all for show is so shallow and i superficial. >> the last democrat interested in governing was bill clinton if he could hnte keptd hisinto pane would had a great presidency. in all honesty this is and be undistracted by the simplest of instincts he likes governing and he was in many ways a centrist, billhi clinton what a shame thay was that was the last democrat that he knew what he was doing. >> absolutely right very well said if you start was silicon valley bank in california after the big point is the point when it comes to democrats. >> we will see you later on theh show you

maybe go back to the real icon fdr. i remember a few years ago bear bryant had past away for quite some time and alabama was struggling in the football program. there were bumper strips all over alabama that would say get the bear, dig him up. i'm thinking that democrats new slogan will be fdr, dig him up. that is where they are going. they are going to the past, not the future. it may be the only shot they've got. >> exit question for both of you . does gavin newsom want to get i and will he get in? >> he wants to get in, will not get in. joe biden is about to be coordinated. >> governor? >> he wants to get in, will get in and will be cremated. [ laughter] >> i cannot top that. i think i am with governor huckabee. he wants to get in and will fin a way in. thank you both. straight ahead tonight, we will show you highlights from president trump's see pack speech and my exclusive interview with him straight ahead. you don't want to miss it. through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax r

i have alws called myself an fdr democrat.icare for all, free public college, universal childcare, a livable wage. those are not policies that are just just but will lead to economic growth and will lead to innovation. every time we talk about childcare and $10 a day the republicans say, what about stalin, lenin? that is a rhetorical fact that does not solve people's problems. i have tried to frame progressive principles as consistent with the free enterprise system of united states, as hamilton and fdr did. that is why i voted that way. but i understand people also voted a different way and i respect that vote. amy: i want to turn to tiktok. on thursday, the tiktok ceo was grilled by house lawmakers for over five hours on the app's ties to the chinese government, data practices, its effects on children's mental health. the hearing took place just days after the biden administration demanded the chinese owned tiktok be sold or else face a national ban in the united states. during his opening statement, the tiktok ceo shou zi c

. >> i mean, bank failure is why fdr felt compelled to come u with the fireside chat his first fireside shot was 90 years ago yesterday, to explai what was going on with the ban run. this calls for the best in presidential communication skills and presidentia communication innovation so, i imagine no one is gettin that thing >> needless to say, i love the fdr portion of your thin tonight. and, rachel i'll be coming ove probably about 11:30 or so sunday morning -- >> donald trump is blaming the gu who the trump mob said they want to. hang on trump's blaming him fo the mob who wanted to heim him on january 6th well, donald trump said abou mike pence today, we'll be exhibit a at donald trump' trial if he's charged with crimes about january 6th according to our first guest tonight. -- donald trump was respondin today to comments made by mike pence on saturday night in washington at the most informa event that occurs in washingto and has been - occurring in washingto annually for 138 years the gridiron dinner. it's one of those ultra cozy events hosted by prominent members of the washington

then you got to understand what we deal this in the book, way back in 1944, fdr franklin delano roosevelt said in a speech that didn't get a lot of attention because it was the middle of world war two, he said, you know, we should be proud as americans that we have strong political rights. you have the freedom, religion, freedom of speech, freedom of dissent, all that stuff. that's great. we're all of that. but he also said that we have got to move toward economic rights, being human rights. and i believe that in this great and wealthy nation, we are entitled people to jobs that pay us a living wage to health care is a human to education. as a human right to affordable housing. now, that may sound utopian. it is not. that gets us back to whether not we continue a system in which billionaires pay an effective tax rate, lower the nurses and truck drivers. in your book you write that individual freedom is not possible without freedom. that's what i believe. i mean, i believe, you know. let's talk about it. you work 50 or 60 hours a week trying to earn enough to take care of your family. you'

fdr was elected in 32 in response obviously to famine in to poverty in america in response to the great depression and the stock market crash. fdr begins a game of volley and ping pong by using religious language steeped in we call social christianity. walter watson, bush and other social gospel theologians call social christianity popular that vilified corporate america with language against. the great depression, the money changers have now fled the temple, and of course love thy neighbor. it's our duty to take care of one another. sounds great on, the campaign stump. but in actuality he began again a vicious game of. ping pong. next slide, please. you progressive all within trumana fairly insignificant presidency in terms of religious affairs, in terms of the intersection of chuh and state, if you will. but during the truman administration, a commd the invasion there was general dwight david eisenhower. everything was about to change because he believed in a manifest destiny. he believed that the hand of god was on america and america was god's chosen nation, just like the children o

. >> and bank failure is why fdr felt compelled to come up with the fireside chat. his first fireside chat was 90 years ago yesterday, to explai what's going on with the bank. this calls for the bes presidential communication skills, presidential communication innovation so yeah, i imagine that was -- >> needless to, say i love the fdr portion of your top. i will be coming over probably about 11:30 or so, sunda morning. don't, worry i will bring th vehicles because you know what we are doing at 12 noon >> no. >> that is why i have to com over you end, i 12, noon sunday, we are watching the first jen psaki show on msnbc >> oh, yes >> very exciting >> that's what we are doing at 12 noon. >> everything with a scallions and cream cheese >> i know your order, don' worry, i have got you. see, later rachel. thank you. tonight, donald trump is a blaming -- mike pence for the final sto in the capitol on january 6th. yes. donald trump is blaming the gu who the trump law said the wanted to hang donald trump is blaming him. for the mob who wanted to hang him! on january 6th wha

not thrilled at the beginning when joe biden's aides were going around saying, he's going to be like fdr, and that guy obama, that stimulus he did was small potatoes. we are going bigger. that did not sit well with barack obama. >> didn't barack obama also say there's no situation joe biden has looked at and not gotten wrong? something about that? >> i think it is true but that was bob yates who said that -- bob gates, who said that. the former secretary who said biden has been wrong about everything. we don't have time to get into that but i could give him a pretty good argument. >> the fight of his life is the name of the book inside joe biden's white house.

the bargain in our country been fdr, investors and shareholders lose. the depositors are protected. let's talk about who these depositors are. they're not just the payroll companies. these are climate startups, these are startups that are helping cure cancer. >> yeah. >> these are companies in the wine industry. these are companies that are dealing with a.i. and defense to keep us ahead. there's 50,000 of them and employing americans across the the country. they didn't take risks. they just had their money in the sfwhoonk the president apparently spoke with the governor of california last night. do you think the president understand the gravity of what you're laying out here if you don't think the treasury is addressing this? >> they need to take decisive action. >> time is ticking. >> by monday morning. i would just urge chairman powell to look at what he said in his speech in 2013 and the question i'd ask chair powell is, if it was good enough for the bank of new england and you understooing en aegional run, don't think this i se ic ris re's wha going

fdr wrote back the next day in a letter addressed.dear judge, because given a former judge, baseball must continue. the people will be working long hours. they would need a little time for rest and relaxation. they pointed out and he emphasized that you agree with me that players who are of eligible age should be fighting. inserting the country, so what you had it was a very unusual. in world war ii baseball were a lot of layers were either too young, or in high school, and the teammates before he came in or before, you had guys who were too old, guys who were half down, or maybe some people were missing limbs. one leg it. but sheppard, he was one like it, see of all these interesting layers. in two teams were always very bad. they had good teams because they were turned upside down, and felix brown is one of the pendant makers and the washington senators were already back by then. 1945. they were in the last pennant race. that was last in the season, so a very interesting time. by the way, fdr really hated him, so when he saw those l

fdr wrote back the next day in a letter addressed.dear judge, because given a former judge, baseball must continue. the people will be working long hours. they would need a little time for rest and relaxation. they pointed out and he emphasized that you agree with me that players who are of eligible age should be fighting. inserting the country, so what you had it was a very unusual. in world war ii baseball were a lot of layers were either too young, or in high school, and the teammates before he came in or before, you had guys who were too old, guys who were half down, or maybe some people were missing limbs. one leg it. but sheppard, he was one like it, see of all these interesting layers. in two teams were always very bad. they had good teams because they were turned upside down, and felix brown is one of the pendant makers and the washington senators were already back by then. 1945. they were in the last pennant race. that was last in the season, so a very interesting time. by the way, fdr really hated him, so when he saw those l

some of you may recall that in franklin delano roosevelt, in fdr's second inaugural address in 9037, after he had won a second term in office, he famously said ic one third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, and ill nourished. i am not here this evening to tell you that the state of the american economy today is as bad as it was during the great depression. it certainly is not. thank god. as the incoming chair of the house education labor and pensions committee, when i look out across this country in their 2023, let me tell you what i see. i see a nation where 63% of workers live paycheck-to-paycheck. paycheck-to-paycheck, and i know something about that because i grew up in a family that grew up that way. what does that mean? living paycheck-to-paycheck? it means that every day you are living under incredible stress. you are a mom, you are a dad. you're scared that if your car breaks down, if you can't get sick, if your landlord raises the right, if you get divorced or separated, if you become pregnant, if for whatever reason you measure job, when you are living paycheck-to-paycheck,

it's like in the fdr era. it was new deal. and to the extent republicans were able to win is because eisenhower effectively declared peace on the new deal. then we had, a reagan era, the neo liberal era. what era do you think that we're living in now? there doesn't seem to be one that orients. are we in a realignment rebirth period of that and what do you think it's going to look like? yeah, it hasn't consolidated. we've actually gone a really long time without de facto one party rule. i've heard many people try to up with names for it. the consolidation est era. i don't think that one's very good. i don't i don't really do campaign ads, so i'll let somebody else come up with the name. but certainly i think it be a a revival of the where we actually have an article coming out in the next issue of american affairs looking at kind of walter lippmann old work from drift to mastery. and if sort of neo liberalism all about emancipation. the new era in certain ways is about self-mastery on one hand on the cultural level, but also th

he liked the fdr style. right. and there's some be said for that. right now, i'll just jump in here to say that. first of all, with reagan and talk about executive power in that. and you certainly listed the right presidents to talk about the rise of that. but we can't forget foreign policy that reagan was had a very expansionist view of the president's roles in that realm, if not domestically. but the other thing would say that's so interesting to me is i always try to bring it back to presidents as writers and wilson and teddy roosevelt, two presidents, he probably did more anybody to start this kind of modern call it activist presidency, call it executive power, however you want to frame it. what's so fascinating is you can see this in the writing because they both wrote to really good books. it was their first books. and so let's use teddy roosevelt as an example. his first book was about the naval war of 1812, and he actually wrote it when he was an undergraduate or at least started it. and in that, you will not find a more ambivalent view of h