nobody knows henry wallace anymore. he is an extraordinary man. in 1941, use of the 20th century must be the american century. he gave a famous speech and said the 20 century must be the century of the common man. calls for worldwide people's revolution in the tradition of the american revolution the french revolution, and the russian revolution. have to wipe out monopolies and cartels. he says we have to and colonialism and imperialism, and u.s. and the soviets have to collaborate to refashion the world at the end of the world. that was the vision he had. the party bosses hated him as to the wall street people. wall street comes first. he was the exemplar of everything good at the democratic party's ever seen. >> peter kuznick and oliver stone, they have written the book, "untold history of the united states." i also want to ask about president reagan. in your book, oliver stone, give a chapter titled "death squads for democracy." this is ronald reagan giving an address in central america. >> strategic importance of central america, bordering as

oliver stone, your inspiration for the soul series was about henry wallace. why? talk about his significance. >> i would say the inspiration was the bomb, the atomic bomb. i grew up right in that period. the bomb shaped all of our lives. we lived in fear of it as we were in school. we came near the cuban missile crisis. it haunts our policy. we were in a cold war up until my teen 89 with the soviets. it continues on. there was no peace dividend. i am wondering what happened in the 1989-1991 period. this goes into the war on terror, the war on drugs. i talked to peter. he knows a lot about the bomb. did the bomb have to start all this/ the bomb leads you to wallace because wallace was the key fake your -- figure. it is an inside deal. it is really ugly. it is a frank capra movie. in one particular night, it comes down to a moment in time like nine seconds one wallace almost makes it, he almost squeezes in. the crowd is cheering. the bosses convened the convention that night and overnight they turned favors and money and bribes. wallace does not end up as vice presi

mine is a little bit left of who knows who -- >> henry wallace? [laughter] what does that say? that you can find friendship aside from politics. an idea we've lost in america. >> i hope not. politics comes down to people. it's people. and we need -- [inaudible] to do things that make us better than we are. and that's why we need good leadership. i'm an angry democrat. i believe -- >> angry democrat. >> i believe in the democratic philosophy. i have respect for the republican philosophy. i believe that they understand that from their point of view that business should be paramount, that government should be out of business, that individuals should get along on their own and make it on their own. i believe in the social contract. i believe that people in business have several constituencies not only to stockholders, but the other people whom they deal with. i believe that in small management groups, we had a very, very small staff at loral, we traveled everywhere. we used to go to the divisions for our reviews rather than going to new york because walking the halls, going into th

chris wallace is live in washington. ed henry is live in washington but they don't speak so they're on different cameras. ed, the president cheered sebelius and the healthcare law, saying we got all these numbers up. she did a good job. it's working. >> certainly. you saw the secretary struggling to literally turn the pain, but metaphor include they saw this as a chance to say the leadershipping changing, over seven million signups and maybe their getting some momentum behind the law and secretary sebelius talked about all the hard work that went into fixing the miscures and now they're making up ground. >> critics and supporters alike are benefiting from this law. my professional work as a legislator, an insurance commissioner and a governor, have been tremendously helpful in navigating the policy and politics of this historic change. >> the politics kill continue. a secretary again but the fight remains. talked about the potential confirmation battle ahead. what senator mcconnell and others are saying they have some leverage in