that was struck a secret deal controversial evidence that was happening but what happened was george norris got a hold of the scandal found out about the secret meeting and blasted all over the media. once it became a public scandal, coolidge backed off ford by then said he wouldn't run for president so ford took himself out of the running prematurely he never got the project but also did not get to be president he would then have president unlike any we have ever had an autocrat and unable to deal effectively with groups like congress or the press and just would've wanted his own way would benefit very interesting four years but it didn't happen for didn't really want to be president he knew he was lucky to have the job that he had as the world's richest one-man band enormously profitable company he could tell anybody what he wanted and didn't have to make nice. he wasn't built to be a politician and he knew it and especially his wife his wife was dead set against henry ford being a president and she was a powerful figure. and she told him she didn't want him to be president that had an ef

-- however that one man george norris and his friend. there's a good chance he would have gotten what he wanted even without being president and as the presidential election heated up after harding's death and ford considered running the calculus was that if you got into the white house he could make his dream happen on the tennessee river and make his utopian city happen. he's would get the votes they needed to and he came close anyway. he would have the levers to pull tom: it happen. i think he would have been president if he had run seriously. i think the reason he didn't run was yet made a deal withth calvn coolidge a backroom deal and i show the evidence in the book. henry ford and calvin coolidge president of the united states got together at the white house and patched to deal and henry ford agreed not to run for president and that meant that calvin coolidge could run and in exchange calvin coolidge was going to push for ford's control of this project and that was the deal that was struck. it was controversial and there's evidence

everybody should know the name of george norris and old senator from a nowhere state in nebraska and no offense to the people and the press -- the fresca but he is a heroic figure easy maverick never let anyone tell him what to think called lies and falsehoods where he saw them. didn't matter which political party you were in and it didn't matter how powerful you were. if he thought you were lying he would tell you and he led the opposition to ford. however if he hadn't been there and his friends if they hadn't been there there's a chance for it would have gotten what he wanted. and the presidential election -- after harding death. ford considered running. ford' calculus was if he gone to the white house he could make his name on the tennessee river and make his utopian city happen. he could circumvent the congress to the extent that he needed to get the votes they needed. if he was president he would have the leverage to pull to make it happen so i think that you would have the president if he had run seriously and the reason he didn't run was because he made a deal with calvin cool

i got my information on a talk show called coast with george norrie.e years ago and fbi agent was discussing this. this is not hyperbole. colleen raleigh and kenneth williams were the ones who got through to the white house and were totally nor. nothing was -- totally ignored. nothing was ever done and i think it ought to be investigated. guest: that is definitely part of the overall 9/11 story. that the fbi and cia were definitely onto a few individuals and reports were made. unfortunately this is a story of how bureaucracy works, including the bureaucracy of law enforcement. that there were suspicions that were raised particularly through the zachariah case that we talked about earlier. the guy who just wanted to know how to fly but not land. he was apprehended. that is where the suspicions were raised and reports were generated. that there was something very dangerous in the wind. i think you are absolutely right from the evidence that those reports were ignored. it did not register with the higher ups of the agents who wrote the original reports. t

norris had no such troubles, claiming the top spot ahead of ferrari's carlos sainz and fellow briton georgeatic and legal standoff between the united states, china and canada has come to an abrupt conclusion. the huawei executive meng wanzhou is flying back to china after being released from home detention in canada, following the temporary resolution of a us legal case against her. apparently, in return, china has released two canadians it had imprisoned on espionage charges. david willis reports. leaving her home in vancouver for the last time after nearly three years of house arrest, meng wanzhou, a key figure in one of china's biggest companies, was facing extradition on charges of helping to evade us economic sanctions on iran. she was freed suddenly after striking a deal with us prosecutors, which saw her admit in a virtual appearance before a new york courtroom to lying to banks on huawei's behalf. in return, the usjustice department dropped its extradition request. over the past three years, my life has been turned upside down. it was a disruptive time for me as a mother, a wife, an