the fund recently honored the standing rock sioux tribe with the inaugural henry wallace award and a on-dollar investment in renewable energy projects, solar and wind, led by the tribe. the award is named after scott wallace's grandfather, henry wallace, who served as vice president under franklin delano roosevelt from 1941 to 1945. scott wallace recently wrote an op-ed piece in "the new york times" recalling his grandfather's piece back over 70 years ago. in 1944, henry wallace published an iconic "op-ed" in "the new york times" headlined "the danger of american fascism." henry wallace wrote, quote, "american fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact," unquote. i began by asking scott wallace about his grandfather's comments in 1944. scott wallace: he described a breed of self-interested megalomaniac who -- the notion of corporatism is what he described as a breed of fascism, which is the marriage of corporate power and government. and they pretend to be interested in democracy and the common people, but they are really only interested in pr

here henry wallace was franklin roosevelt second vice president. he was elected with him in 1940. he had impact in a couple of different ways. first was that roosevelt for the first time for presidential nominee insisted on henry wallace as his running mate when he was running on his third term in 1940, and he said he wouldn't run for a third term if he didn't get wallace as his running mate. that was significant to the institution of the vice presidency and the presidency because it established presidential nominees choosing a vice presidential nominee. never before had that occurred into 1940, and now that is, the precedent was set. so because of fdr, wallace can be included in terms of the institution as that was significant, because him as an individual or roosevelt was so adamant about this and he wasn't going to take someone that the party gave to him as a running mate. wallace also, in terms of significance, he's known but he is not that well known. there are people who know of you. he ran for president after he was vice president as an inde

first was that roosevelt for the first time for a presidential nominee insisted on henry wallace as his running mate for the third term in 1940, and he said he wouldn't run for a third term if he didn't get wallace as his running mate. that was significant to the institution of the vice presidency because it established presidential nominees choosing their vice presidential nominee. never before that that occurred until 1940 and the precedent was set. so, because of fdr, wallace can be included in terms of the institution as that was significant because it was because of him as an individual that roosevelt was so adamant about this and he wasn't going to take someone that the party gave to him as running mate. wallace also, in terms of significance -- he is known but not that well known. there are people that know of him. he ran for president after he was vice president on the -- as an independent. again, harry truman and he did herefully and known today more for that than anybody else. but wallace began the role of what i say the vice president as chief administrator. roosevelt put wal

s vice president henry wallace called american fascism a layout that argument with marc anthony and scott greer and it's from. democrats democrats have a lot working in their favor right now for starters the president is wildly unpopular and congressional democrats aren't exactly in good graces with the american people either based on those two facts alone democrats have a real chance to win back the senate maybe even the house and twenty eighteen so why does it feel like democrats are squandering their big opportunity joining me now is larry cohen or chair of our evolution board chair of the democracy initiative larry welcome back pleasure great having you with us so the story that prompted my latest what the hell are they doing is this. bloomberg story that the d triple c. is trying to recruit blue dogs and it's like. you know i get it that there are blue dog democrats in the democratic party and i'm not and in and perhaps in some places in the country that's the entirely right and appropriate thing i do. we could that could be argued and it's debatable but i really don't think that ame

if your students don't know who henry wallace is then we have to have a chat with the professor. franklin roosevelt-- >> think bernie sanders and you got it. >> think bernie sanders with a red star inside his coat jacket that you didn't know about. wallace was rather weird if you-- if the current administration ever decides to appoint people and some of you get tapped, they ask a lot of questions. maybe even your religion henry wallace was the secretary of agriculture at the franklin roosevelt. his religion was mystic. i mean, there are people that talk to plants, trees. his was mystic and i could see franklin roosevelt shaking his martini glass saying what the hell is that, but in any event he became a pretty good politician. roosevelt was pretty good at handling congress. he was good at handling republicans because his father had been agricultural secretary and roosevelt decides when james garner, by the way roosevelt first vice president james garner, former speaker of the house. you have your all democrat coalition between a northern liberal and southern conservative in his s

so he dumps henry wallace in the middle of the world war, imagine this. we all nominated president, wepicked them and wait around to see what name will fall from the lips of the vice president . and these bosses have the power to tell him that. roosevelt dies and truman is now president. wallace begins to criticize truman's world policy and truman fires him. and he runs for, here's the beginning of buckley who's watching all this at yale and wallace runs as a grassroots candidate for president. buckley knows that wallace is not going to be president but he's terrified that, maybe wallace can get one or two percent of the vote but what he's terrified of his 60 to 70 percent of that one or two percent of the vote was going to be artists, writers at yale. ideas matter. ideas have consequences. wallace thought might be important that his father was going to be around for a long time and i'm going to down a movement and push the kind of politics i want. so even though he's technically doing as a member of the yale republican club and all that stuff, in various

before roosevelt died we can talk about what would have happened in one nine hundred forty five if henry wallace had become president as he should've instead of harry truman but perhaps the best example is the cuban missile crisis or what happened in the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis khrushchev on october thirtieth writes a letter to kennedy a remarkable letter and he said from evil some good must come our people have felt the flames of thermo nuclear warfare but we have to do now is eliminate every crisis every conflict that could possibly cause war between our two countries and he started to enumerate them and for the last year of the kennedy presidency kennedy and khrushchev were moving toward that kind of resolution to ending the vietnam war ending the space for doing a lot of things that would have changed the world and fortune that didn't happen but we can begin doing that again that in many ways we're closer now than we were at that point well. yes and no i think we're much further. away in another instance i mean the irony of it of course it is peter is that that was a cold war w

his sitting vice president was henry wallace, a very liberal figure within the democratic party. and there were members of the party who were more conservative who really did not want wallace in that position. they were looking for a more conservative vice president, and as often happens in politics, in the end, there is a compromise. the conservatives and the liberals agreed on a candidate for vice president. and that man you see is harry truman. this photograph we are looking at is actually at the 1945 inaugural. if you look closely at it, fdr is really not in good health at this point. in fact, he dies three months after this photograph is taken in 1945 and is succeeded by harry truman who is standing to his left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 7000 mile journey to yalta, which was the final of the great conferences he attended with the big three, stalin churchill, and roosevelt. , after that, fdr returns to the united states and appears before congress in march of 1945, to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conferen

his current vice president was henry wallace, a very liberal figure in the democratic party. there were members of the party that were more conservative that did not want wallace in that position. they wanted a more conservative vice president. in the end, there is a compromise. they agree on a candidate for vice president and that man you can see at the far end of that photograph, harry truman. this road graph was after the 1945 inaugural. fdr is not in good health. in fact, he dies three months after this photograph was taken in april of 1945. he is succeeded by harry truman who is standing to his left in the photograph. fdrtly after the inaugural, departed on a 7000 mile tourney to yalta in the crimea which was the final great conference he attended with the big three, stalin, churchill, and roosevelt. after that conference, fdr returns to the united states and he appears before congress in march of 1945 to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conference. what is extraordinary about this beach to a joint session of congress is that he delivered the

his sitting vice president was henry wallace, a liberal figure within the democratic party, and the remainders of the party who were more conservative who did not want wallace in that position. they were looking for a more conservative vice president. as often happens, there's a compromise. the conservatives and liberals agree on a candidate for vice president, and that man is harry truman. this photograph we are looking at is at the 1945 inaugural. it, fdr is not in good health, and in fact he dies three months after this photograph is taken in april of 1945, and he is succeeded by harry truman them who is standing to his left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 7000 mile journey lta,ou all the -- to ya which is the final of the great comforts as he attends with the big three, stalin, churchill, roosevelt. after the conference, fdr returned the united, and he appears before congress in march of 1945 to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conference. what is extremely about this speech to a joint session is roosevelt delivered a speech fr

we are joined by chris wallace, chris stirewalt, ed henry, james rosen, and john roberts. those are the all-stars right there. john roberts, let me start with you. set the table for us. what do we expect there? >> we expect sarah huckabee sanders and anthony scaramucci to come out here in the next couple minutes. how would you rate the ship? that's why it scaramucci is being brought in. the ship is listing badly, particularly in communications, and he has been brought into put it back up right and a set it back on course again. it's a big task for him, but it's one that he says he's up for the job to do. we will see. >> melissa: chris wallace, let me get your take real quick. what you expect to hear it now? >> it will be interesting because on the one hand, scaramucci is going to want to give an indication that there is a new sheriff in town when it comes to communication strategy. on the other hand, he's going to be surrounded by some of the older ones and he can't sit there and disrespect what he's been saying. he's got to answer john's question, he may get the first que

wallace is here. fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. ed henry. washington correspondent, james rosen. they are all standing by.