the most liberal president franklin delano roosevelt was a drug runner yes franklin delano roosevelt never made much money in his life he had public service jobs that were very lowly paid but he had yahtzee had summer homes he had mansions in new york city the kids went to private schools he inherited a fortune from war and then. and know his father who is the american opium king of china if you scratch anyone with the name forbes in their name john forbes kerry secretary of state john forbes kerry you'll find opium money his great grandfather was an opium dealer how big was opium money opium money build the first industrial city in the united states lol massachusetts it built the first five railroads in the united states opium money all over the east coast but it wasn't talked about it was called the china trade and if you go to various museums you can see teas and silks. exhibited and they keep quiet about all that big opium money. in the scramble to get opium money china was invaded and colonized by britain and the other imperial powers. far anomalies grab the whole swathes of chi

the most liberal president franklin delano roosevelt was a drug runner yes franklin delano roosevelt never made much money in his life he had public service jobs that were very lowly paid but he had yahtzee had summer homes he had mansions in new york city the kids went to private schools he inherited a fortune from warren dell. and though his father who is the american opium king of china if you scratch anyone with the name forbes in their name john forbes kerry secretary of state john forbes kerry you'll find opium money his great grandfather was an opium dealer how big was opium money opium money build the first industrial city in the united states lol massachusetts it built the first five railroads in the united states opium money all over the east coast but it wasn't talked about it was called the china trade and if you go to various museums you can see teas and silks. exhibited and they keep quiet about all that big opium money. in the scramble to get opium money china was invaded and colonized by britain and the other imperial powers. far anomalies grab the whole swathes of ch

the second cartoon i have brought out is about fdr, franklin delano roosevelt. a. block has not yet come to point where he is embracing democratic party yet. so what you are seeing is a cartoon that makes fun of roosevelt for being unable to add additional supreme court justices to therefore force congress to implement his plans to improve the economy. of course, we know that ultimately roosevelt prevailed. and the new deal passed. but block is making fun of him , when he coulde have been passing legislation by trying to implement the court plan to add six more justices to the court. here we have both candidates for president in 1948. truman and dewey, gesturing to a man who looks like a typical character that mr. block drew to show respectable southern gentlemen. he also represents congress. block is upset about the changes in the immigration plans implemented in the united states in the aftermath of world war ii. mr. block was very much in favor of letting displaced people immigrate to the united states. and so he is showing his disapproval of congress' new immig

president franklin delano roosevelt's greatest fear was that fascists, especially nazi, subversion inatin america would threaten the security of the united states. of 100 meetings of the joint planning commission of the u.s. state, navy and war departments in 1939 and '40, all but six had last p america at the top -- latin america at top of the agenda. this is, i'm guessing, little known. and one wonders why was franklin roosevelt so worried about fascists being powerful and posing a risk to the united states. one of the reasons is because the germans were very, very popular. park schism, indeed -- fascism, indeed, was popular in latin america. this is post-depression, and fascism was attractive. remember in italy, it made the trains run on time. you had countries in latin america that would love the trains to run on time. [laughter] some of them would love to have trains. and they admired, many people, the fascist organization, and they had their own fascist -- they didn't have to have nazis imported from germany, they had their own home-grown fascist groups. another reason aha roose

let's pick a year. 1933, first full year of franklin delano roosevelt administration. the good old days, eh? you want to take a trip from chicago to los angeles. how do you do it? tell me. train. thank you. tell me what those trains look like. i'm sorry? sorry? yes. steam. coal. dirt. hard to maintain, very good, very fast but we have a whole cadre of people that run them very well. labor-intensive. the railroad industry starts looking for something that might be a little easier to maintain, might be cheaper and guess where they look. to the diesel engine manufacturers. we're talking about the railroad industry that dominates the entire country. there are tracks and trains all over the place. we are talking about a $1 billion industry. lightbulb gone on yet? what happened to some of the company said, hey, i'm going to invest in this. winston diesel manufacturing in cleveland is the first to try, starts manufacturing diesels. and g.m. says we want to get into this. what do they do? they buy winton. so, it becomes g.m. diesel out of cleveland, ohio. they have a competito

, i'm old enough to remember being in first grade in 1938 when lyndon baines johnson and franklin delano roosevelty through the rural electrification. they wanted me to read by electric light like the big kids could in cities. you better believe every day after that my dad was a yellow dog democrat. in other words, democrats used to show up for us in rural communities. they used to invest in people in communities, in our day-to-day lives. i think there are too many who are too beholden to the special interests right now. we've got to return to people. >> well said. let's go to andrew. first question. >> good evening, congressman. what i want to know from you is what do you think about celebrities who are talking about politics lately like how queen, taylor swift talked about how people should be voting and how she supported phil in tennessee? >> great thing about democracy, everyone gets to participate. everyone has a voice here. the challenge for us in texas is we rank 50th out of 50 states in voter turnout. not by accident, not by design. this is on purpose. this is some people being drawn out o

let's pick a year. 1933, first full year of franklin delano roosevelt administration. the good old days, eh? you want to take a trip from chicago to los angeles. how do you do it? tell me. train. thank you. tell me what those trains look like. i'm sorry? sorry? yes. steam. coal. dirt. hard to maintain, very good, very fast but we have a whole cadre of people that run them very well. labor-intensive. the railroad industry starts looking for something that might be a little easier to maintain, might be cheaper and guess where they look. to the diesel engine manufacturers. we're talking about the railroad industry that dominates the entire country. there are tracks and trains all over the place. we are talking about a $1 billion industry. gone on yet? what happened to some of the company said, hey, i'm going to invest in this. winston diesel manufacturing in cleveland is the first to try, starts manufacturing diesels. and g.m. says we want to get into this. what do they do? they buy winton. so, it becomes g.m. diesel out of cleveland, ohio. they have a competitor, a group

we have a long-term relationship going back to president franklin delano roosevelt. if that doesn't mean that we have to be compliant or acquiescent in a saudi. in this particular case under the aegis of the government itself, a murder was committed in a consulate in the sovereign territory of the country and a nato ally. we need to call that and speak with absolute moral clarity or else we are agreeing to a new diplomatic standard that says frankly this kind of brazen assassination and an embassy or consulate is now okay. we have to just accept that. we don't have to accept that. >> harris: i want to step in, you and the congressman are saying that some of the same things in terms of holding their feet to the fire so my question is does saudi arabia care what we think? i have to tell you what it looks like when you change her story i don't know how many times even count. first he wasn't dead another could not quite sure where he is and has remains of turned up now, some of them. what do you say to that country? to the care we think? >> i do think they ultimately wil

, there was -- most noted by man who stood alongside the tracks as his body, the body of franklin delano roosevelt was placed in a kaufman came on the train from warm springs to hyde park. the man in the casket came close to him on the train tracks. he began to weep uncontrollably. after the train had gone by the journalist went up to him and said, you must have known him. and he said, no. no. but he knew me. to me, that more than anything, is what this country doesn't have. i was hoping you would open up with the movie "to kill a mockingbird". it is in that scene which is so lacking in causing such concern were scout said you cannot know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. that were lack of that is what we have today and powerbrokers. they substitute their needs and wants for those of the people they are supposed to serve. treating them as though they are just objects almost on the people know that from both sides. i am most taken by the rhetoric they use to hold the position. that it doesn't corroborate for the common good. i don't mind ferocious debates, we will have it

franklin delano roosevelt and very carefully made his appointments. the court he inherited was striking down those policies. so he made an expressive political judgment as to who to appoint and, in fact, prior to getting those appointments roosevelt tried to pack the court, threatening the very ideal of judicial independence in an effort to overcome the resistance of the court to the new deal. and we get the same thing in the 1960s. we get the same thing in the 1970s. this is not new to americans. it's the more general atmosphere of severe partners and polarization that i think makes this situation different. >> well, let's talk about that. you said severe and it is. i mean, everybody around the world, their heads are spinning at what's happening. people believe that it's an unprecedented situation. i know you say it's not that new, maybe in the strict legal sense you're talking about, but people have not seen anything like this for a long, long time, and i think you have said that what's happened, it's a nation where citizens are not necessarily boun

. >> in this book you take to task, i think we don't talk about this enough, franklin delano rooseveltat get to the top of the top ten list of great presidents abused the power during war time in detaining japanese-americans, hundreds and thousands of american citizens. so the abuse is not just with those we think are nefarious. >> even with the japanese and woodrow wilson passed something calledhe is espionage act. donald trump is using that very act right now. >> has there been a -- i mean, we keep on calling donald trump unprecedented, but is he? has there been another equivalent to him? is it andrew jackson? i tend to think. is there another president like this? >> superficial similarities but i think this is a president who is in a category of his own. first president in history with no military experience, no experience in government. in 2016 the nation gave the sacred control of our nuclear weapons and the questions of war and peace, the prospect of a war that could kill upwards of 16 million people and incinerate the northern hemisphere, that is the kind of power that is in the

roosevelt institute? guest: it is a think tank attached to the franklin delano rosen of presidential library. like a lot of think tanks out there, presidential libraries out there, there is a think tank attached to it that does work to promote the legacy of president roosevelt. there is a george bush think tank, a ronald reagan think tank , and we are the fdr think tank. host: is it funded through the same streams as a library? guest: it's a project of the national archives, semi-governmental, but also funded by foundations. host: did you take a position on whether nafta, renegotiated in the first place here? guest: we were not around when nafta was originally signed and we have not taken a formal position on the trade agreement. host: what are your thoughts on the usmca, what do you like about it, don't like? chuck grassley, one of the president's major allies in congress sort of said yesterday it is about 95% the same as the north american free trade agreement, the original 1993 packed. of ank that's a bit exaggeration, certainly takes a lot of aspects, but also updates it with things that b

roosevelt institute? guest: it is a think tank attached to the franklin delano rosen of presidential library. lot of think tanks out there, presidential libraries out there, there is a think tank attached to it that does work to promote the legacy of president roosevelt.

[laughter] speaking of which, when sarah delano roosevelt died, frank lip put the house on the market -- franklin put the house on the market, it was acquired by hunter college which was a favorite for eleanor. she spent a lot of time with students and the library, for all of $50,000. that's how much this double townhouse sold for, and it's not on the market, so no ideas. [laughter] and 75 years ago next month eleanor cut the ribbon outside on the street and turned the house formally over to hunter college. and we're going to celebrate that anniversary soon as well as eleanor's birthday on october 11th and the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights which she championed. so it's a very historic place and a historic time of recollection and appreciation. but back to tonight's program. david kaplan worked at "newsweek" for 20 years. his cover stories included profiles of justices william brennan and clarence thomas, not to mention george steinbrenner who's not on the court, but he did get a cover story. george lucas, mayor giuliani. and he interviewed a majority of the supreme

roosevelt institute? guest: it is a think tank attached to the franklin delano rosen of presidential library. ke a lot of think tanks out there, presidential libraries out there, there is a think tank attached to it that does work to promote the legacy of president roosevelt. there is a george bush think tank, a ronald reagan think tank , and we are the fdr think tank. host: is it funded through the same streams as a library? guest: it's a project of the national archives, semi-governmental, but also funded by foundations. host: did you take a position on whether nafta, renegotiated in the first place here? guest: we were not around when nafta was originally signed and we have not taken a formal position on the trade agreement. host: what are your thoughts on the usmca, what do you like about it, don't like? chuck grassley, one of the president's major allies in congress sort of said yesterday it is about 95% the same as the north american free trade agreement, the original 1993 packed. of ank that's a bit exaggeration, certainly takes a lot of aspects, but also updates it with things that bar