and here's putsy who is playing harvard marching songs for hitler and hitler is saying, wow, those are great, they have a great beat. we should use them at rallies. and in fact, putsy composes some marches for hitler. it's the kind of thing if you thought about it, a kind of -- in a novel or a movie script, you would say that's too crazy to imagine. but nothing was too absurd in this situation. >> what was the relationship between hitler and helen, putsy 's wife? >> helen was an attractive woman who very quickly became very friendly with hitler as well. hitler was coming over to their house in the early 1920's, when he was still a local figure, not a national figure. and he was clearly attracted to helen. now i won't say what the nature of this attraction was, it's hard to say. helen believed that he was in awe of her for many ways. the subject of hitler's sexual ownertation -- i don't think there was nothing sex between them, but he liked being in her company. and most significantly, in 1923, there is the beer hall push. hitler tries to seize power in munich. and the nazis are fired u

without hitler -- hitler may or may not have committed suicide. the people who watched him closely -- he was a master psychologist in the way he worked the crowd. the nazis probably would have never won power. germany might have gone into a military dictatorship. we would not have had the third reich or the holocaust or something on that dimension. when an extremist movement makes threats that seem observed and suicidal and out of your rational frame of reference, that does not mean that is enough reason to disregard them. the big mistake so many people made was that, it would be suicidal for hitler to act on all of his threats. >> quickly, there are a number of things that you wrote about that have been written about four years. the night of the long knives in 1934. what was it? >> hitler sends out his troops to do away with many of the people he perceives as his enemies, including people who are storm troopers, who are seen as getting out of hand. the more elite unit resented them. he had several of the murders. he had previous rivals within the

. >> hitler is dead. the thired reich which lasted 12 years, was human butch erie, surpassed anything this earth has seen is now but a painful memory. how did it happen that a cultured people steeped in christianity, preeminent in modern technology, who gave us luther, bach and beethoven, einstein, collapsed into barbarism in the 20th century. to seek the answers,we must follow the germans in the rise of their strange leader through the years of 1920 and 1945. >> what was he writing about hitler and the germans when he was there? >> well, first of all, he was speaking his thoughts which you can see from his diaries are very clear. other people are wondering is hitler for real. the big question for many people is not whether hitler was he essentially a demagogue or not, but does he mean this stuff. could he really believe these things that he is writing about jews and others and taking over the soviet union and conquering the slavic lands. and scheirer takes it seriously and he gets that into his writing a

written by hitler though. only roosevelt didn't lose that year he won thus proving godwin's law is wrong and roosevelt won because he was bold enough to call out republicans for what they were doing which was using hitler's most powerful propaganda technique to sway voters or is the question what is that incredibly powerful propaganda technique well pretty simple tell a big fat lie over and over and over again. remember a number of years ago if. mine have written by clinton though the technique was a sham. and it was copied by the records of italy and japan according to that pick me you should never be a small fraction. is a big deal on. the roads and very bad past to make sure. would make it more credible if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again and in that same speech roosevelt went on to rattle off a few of those big lies that the republicans were trying to sell it to america that year back in one thousand nine hundred four take a look. we have been going to do it not a republican right bu

they felt hitler was a danger and we have to stand up for hitler and if we didn't stand up for hitlerthere was going to be bad news. as a each side was working intensely and at last our and the vote -- i will read you how the vote went because it was amazing how we start off with arizona, arkansas high california, colorado, and at that point he was ahead 38 to 40. then connecticut, delaware and florida voted and wilkie got a head. in alabama georgia, idaho and illinois voted and taft was ahead. then indiana, iowa kansas kentucky and louisiana, and at that point, wilkie was ahead by one vote and that close. then arthur vandenberg decided to pull out and go back to washington. he told the head of his delegation i want you to vote for our people try friend bob taft whose fellow senator so vandenberg went back to washington thinking about what was going to happen but the head of the delegation zero it a favor to the man so he said now is the time to deliver so the chairman said well okay, we will vote for wilkie if he will promise that he won't let those volunteers control the judgeships

called out republicans saying they were using the most one of hitler's most powerful profit began the techniques to win over voters so what was that technique i'll tell you in today's daily take. it goes to the rest of the news wiki leaks founder julian assange has been in the ecuadorian embassy in london for two months now and it's been six days since the government of ecuador officially granted him diplomatic asylum status and throughout all this time the british government continues to refuse a songe safe passage out of the ecuadorian embassy in london now many are that being up to speak out on his behalf on sunday the former british ambassador to pakistan and former whistleblower himself greg murray attacked his own government and made this statement on why assad and others like him are more important now than ever. this isn't right because if you don't need to be. with me in mind. i'm only going to fool with. you need. a way around what is. coming. to new york and civil liberties around me we need. more. money. and today in the pages of the new york times filmmakers michael moore

hitler and his cronies a few things at the 1936 munich games. exactly happy to see. show offparticularly, since their version of the new social order. and what they call racial supremacy. and jack, jesse spike threa shrd forever the myth of a masser race. outstanding athlete. >> andrea: 76 years ago, jesse humiliated adolf hitler with his medals. this week we will look to great american moments in american history. tonight we begin with jesse owens. greg, sometimes the olympics are bigger than athletes competing with athletes. there are geopolitical issues. this was a poignant moment. >> greg: i wish we could talk like that. kimberly, tell me what is going on in politics today. i like how they talked back then. this depresses me, because nazi germany at the olympics. while we are focusing on jesse's 100-meter race, hitler focused o on the master race. we missed the big story and millions died. a great moment, but what happens after this, wasn't pretty. >> andrea: he shattered the issue. and hitler snubbed him. he wasn't going to shake the hands

hitler, hitler still had to be defeated first and i think that is absolutely true because if hitlerd won in the soviet union, the deaths, the hunger plan alone, 30,000 russians dying up salvation and would have even dwarf the holocaust. again and take question of figures. c-span: this is after the war. >> guest: this is after the war obviously especially during the cultural revolution and so forth. it was the madness of the most terrifying form but you know how does one calculate the sorts of figures o deaths through famine or disease as a result of malnutrition and? you know it's very hard to start sort of defining these figures. c-span: i'm trying to find the quote and of course i can but it was a "in here that people might be surprised about and them that would be where you quote teddy white who was such a prominent figure in this country in the 60's when he wrote about the elections. as opposed to chiang kai-shek is being a better deal. >> guest: i think that certainly more and more historians now are accepting that in fact chiang kai-shek has had rather a bad deal in history. h

so she doesn't wait until hitler attacks. she is out of their astonishing things that it doesn't draw any attention in some ways so, you know, the soviet union has already made a commitment -- or commitments clearly not of the soviet union. it is to be anti-fascist cause. once the u.s. is geared towards the attacks -- she's ready to get out of there. it is a mystery. there are explanations -- we don't know what they are. we can only guess at them. that's what seems to make sense. >> okay. >> you could guess with arthur schlesinger in the 60s. presumably in orting on come he was one of the people specifically denouncing democratic action [inaudible question] >> yes, yes. it comes out after this develops in this period. she's not one of the chief annunciators. people who denounce. certainly one of them. that is one of the curious things about hellman in the 1960s. she has gone through this tremendous anti-communist period in the mid-1950s. by the 1960s, she is willing to let bygones be bygones. that part of politics are over. i

hitler had vowed to destroy london, and break the city's resolve. a big target early on was the east end, the factories, warehouses and docks vital to the war effort. but hitler picked the wrong people. the east end was packed with poor but proud immigrants. their labor built the place, and this wasn't about to stop them. >> the battle of london is still on. never before has any city with stood such a sustained attack from the air. each day sees more damage done. >> after that first couple of nights of total shock there was defiance. he wasn't going to get his way, they were going to stand up to him. >> dee wood was a teenager back then. >> i used to go out in the morning, i didn't know if my parents would be there when i came back or not. same as thousands of other people. >> everyone volunteered for something. ron mitchell served as a bike messenger riding through blacked out, bombed out street to deliver messages. >> i remember cycling while the air raid was on. shrapnel coming down from the bursting anti-aircraft shells. >> german bombs hit parl

hitler. (laughter and applause) that's true, you don't see that because it's in black and white most of the time. i mean, where is the patriotism? sure, after the race 400 meter gold medalist sonia richard roth ran around with the flag over her shoulders but if she really loved america she would have carried it during the race! (laughter) and, yes, bronze medalist d.b. trotter had red, white, and blue glitter on her face, but that washes off. it should be something permanent like a face tat of reagan's

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and hitler makes that argument increasingly tricky. right?nd the more people know about this the more people have to say, there's nothing of value. no american values at stake in this war, and that argument becomes -- you have to end up saying that there are no moral values that matter. which is essentially what happened to lindbergh in america first and then roosevelt does some nasty things to lindbergh. >> following up on your theme of exclusion and inclusion and disenfranchisement, my understanding is that the right to vote had been confined not only just to white males but to white male property owners, real property owners. >> certainly in the constitution, yes, sir. >> did roosevelt take any active role in expanding the right to vote? >> no. because by the time -- by 19 -- roosevelt reside -- roosevelt's administration, the last group to get the legal right to vote is of course african-americans who get no policies under him. american indians get the right to vote following world war i. and the argue. is very similar for american indian

greg on the five. >> you can go higher to stalin and hitler to the left -- >> hitler was not part of the 30s, because they wanted to not step on each other's toes when they were carving up poland, but other than that totalaryism -- >> that was him trying to divorce the right from the right-wing extremism. >> stephanie: just like mou and hitler. >> yeah. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] . >> if president gets his way the special voting rights of some of america's fine les be eliminated. members of the military will have less chance to cast their votes. ♪ you are a lying sack of crap ♪ >> stephanie: okay. for those of you who just watched fox news. here is what the truth is. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: the republican legislature is trying to curve early voting and the white house is willing to let everybody vote early like they always have in the past. >> right. >> that is taking away early voting rights for the military according to shannon. >> stephanie: why does mitt romney want to restrict voting rights for more than 900,000 veterans? because if you are retired you are no

dung and now obama now we know this isn't the first time we've heard a comparison between obama and hitler and unfortunately it likely won't be the last time but on the bright side at least congressman steve king kept his mouth shut over the weekend that is very very ugly. i. for president obama was sworn in back in january of two thousand and nine the stock market was below eight thousand points and banks around the nation were teetering on collapse today three and a half years since his first term started the stock market has responded very well to president obama's policies it's now over thirteen thousand points more than sixty percent increase from before president obama took office executives on wall street are now making more money than they've ever made before and president obama has not raised their taxes by one penny in fact signed into law an extension of the bush tax cuts for these guys at the end of two thousand and ten there's good reasons why many progressives including myself are disappointed by the president's first term the term in which wall street is profited immensely w

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hitler never congratulated any of the african-american winners. 76 years ago today. that's it for "the fox report" on this friday, the third of august, 2012. i'm bill hemmer. shep is back on monday. the factor begins now. >> juan: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight? >> >> we support this company because it takes a lot of courage to be christian in this world. >> juan: the controversy over chick-fil-a continues as gay activists plan a kiss. in tonight we will talk to governor mike huckabee. >> the man who led for the chick-fil-a appreciation day. >> 23 million americans out of work or stopped looking for work or way under employed. this is an extraordinary record of failure. >> we haven't had to come back from economic crisis this painful since the 1930s. >> juan: new report out today shows even though the economy added more jobs, the unemployment rate went up. we will tell you what this means for you and for the presidential election. >> i want to be very clear to the gangs and members of those gangs. you will not find shelter in the city of chica

propaganda film and then when you go and meet the guy no you hitler's actually short it was not very impressive do something jamie diamond the scene be saying this is all powerful all of you need a maze like the short compared to these women on this olympic jaymes like this little short guy with a very minuscule sized. well so you know one of the things that we wanted to talk about for jamie dimon why we've invited him on here just so you understand that these derivatives we established as warren buffett said in two thousand and three they're weapons of mass financial destruction and i want to point to one of the reasons why jamie dimon might not want to come on to the kaiser report in this is that if you go to google patent search you'll see max kaiser's patent for the computer implemented securities trading system with a virtual specialist function and if you scroll down you'll see that j.p. morgan chase has twenty three patents that reference yours and it's mostly to do with their derivatives market making function so method and system for determining the company's probability of

hitler reference hour one. >> stephanie: exactly. peggy noonan. >> i think it's big, it's bold.s this election going to get series? it just got serious. it's very big. >> stephanie: yes, it is big. >> bold. >> stephanie: big, bold. >> not chris christie big. >> stephanie: risky! exciting. couldn't you use those words with every disastrous decision you have ever made in your life. >> oh, that was bold. jumping out of an airplane without a parachute that was bold. >> dating that person was -- >> stephanie: oh, yes. [ screaming ] >> stephanie: bold choice on my part. okay. rush limbaugh >> folks i have got to say something. i have been trying to think honestly objectively think the whole weekend, and i'm going to ask you. maybe i'm forgetting something. i don't recall a vice presidential pick which had so energized the party. i don't -- i don't remember a vice presidential pick that has so energized a campaign -- >> dan quayle. >> stephanie: sarah palin. >> as this choice. >> stephanie: sarah palin another big, big risky choice. >> although when sarah palin was named, they got a lo

not since hitler, not since stalin have we seen so much evil delivered by one man.a cause that we cannot go unanswered. >> so that's hint one. that's what he says is his relevant foreign policy experience for being a heart beat away from the presidency. here's hint number two. that's his top staffer on the campaign, who you may remember as the george w. bush's administration iraq war spokesman. hint number three is the person speaking before paul ryan is introduced that night at the convention, jeb bush. so his relevant foreign policy experience is voting for the iraq war. they put his big speech on the night of george w. bush brother's big speech. so who's introducing paul ryan? condoleezza rice. that is how they are rolling out paul ryan. they are rolling him out as if they're rolling him out as paul wolfowitz. they're not going to say beep about our existing war in afghanistan for the whole convention, but they're talking about the iraq war instead. tap... pinch... and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry. we haven't f

fast and furious because he is hitler. >> because hitler was so found of black people. >> stephanie:r mittens. two polls show no payoff on ryan pick. i betemit is disappointed in himself. paul ryan vp risk, big risk no pay off in polling. [♪ somber music ♪] >> stephanie: many openly dissenting on tv ahead on ending problems dealing with the many record on extremist motions of paul ryan. who apparently seems unable to explain his own plan even to fox news. [♪ somber music ♪] >> one of the things he would like to cut is road repair. >> stephanie: yes. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: we'll ask karl frisch about this. this is fairly stunning. obama leads romney 47 to 44%. last week obama had a 1-point lead. so paul ryan is helping, just not mitt romney. [ applause ] >> stephanie: ryan looking back at past campaigns found a gain of 4 points in after viking a running mate. nicely done mittens. let's talk to karl about it. >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com. ♪ so exciting to me ♪ ♪ frisch ♪ >> stephanie: good morning karl frisch. >> good morning. i have a hey g

the hitler salute. >> no, sir. >> i guess i have one major question here.hat is your input on other races joining your community? >> we will discriminate against no one. regardless of race, gender, sex, yesterday, nationality, origin or of their religion. we won't discriminate from that. >> if you had a minority in a leadership role? >> no we haven't. >> if that opportunity arose would that be allowed? >> yes, it would. >> mr. hendricks, do you have any more yes sfs. >> not today. >> marcus, do you have any questions for us? >> no, i don't. >> thank you very much. >> a final decision could still be weeks off but the wait is over for leonard mcquay. prison officials have denied his request to be moved back to general population. >> he seems like he has everything in the world going for him. but when you really sit down and you really listen, off the unit, when he thinks that you can't hear him talking, some of the things that he talks about, negative towards staff, staff persons when a staff person was assaulted by another offender in another cell house, he

and hitler makes that argument increasingly tricky, right, and the more people know about this the more people have to say there's nothing of value. there's no american value at stake in this war. and that argument just becomes absurd after a while because you have to end up saying that there are no moral values that matter, which is essential what happened. and then roosevelt does the nasty things. >> following up on your theme of exclusion and inclusion and disenfranchisement. my understanding is that the right to vote had been confined not just to white males, but to white male property owners, real property owners. >> that's sorely from the constitution. >> did roosevelt take any active role in expanding the right to vote? >> now. because by the time, roosevelt's administration, the last group to get the legal right to vote is of course african-americans who get no policies under him. american indians get the right to vote following world war i, and the argument is very similar for american indians as it becomes for african-americans later. they shed blood in the war for the nation.

they have the right to praise hitler, calling for the murder of minority communities, and so forth.ssarily mean that someone's going to step over the line into violence. he had a minor criminal record. there was no way to say to someone, we predict this person is going to do something heinous like what happened outside of milwaukee. >> heidi, thank you very much. we appreciate your taking the time. >>> next, as you just heard, the police officer who put his life on the line and almost died to save others' lives is, as you heard from his colleague, doing all right tonight. the surgeon that saved his life and is trying to save two other sikhs who are in critical care tonight is "outfront" after this. it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. >>> our fifth story "outfront," gun violence. i visited the hospital today

hitler. (laughter and applause) that's true, you don't see that because it's in black and white most of the time. i mean, where is the patriotism? sure, after the race 400 meter gold medalist sonia richard roth ran around with the flag over her shoulders but if she really loved america she would have carried it during the race! (laughter) and, yes, bronze medalist d.b. trotter had red, white, and blue glitter on her face, but that washes off. it should be something permanent like a face tat of reagan's face. (laughter) in the midst of all this soft anti-american feeling one athlete's patriotism was rock hard. >> u.s. rowing medalist henrick rommel seen here sporting his gold and two bronze. (laughter) folks, that is how you salute the flag. (cheers and applause) cool that down a little bit. i mean, what's wrong with these other rowers? the national anthem is playing and you're at half mast! i mean, who died? of course, humble in victory rum mel took to the red dits and wrote "i swear it's not

i do not think tomorrow we will have the same thing as a hitler or mussolini. but we do have to worry about fascism, expansion of what we already have which is already corporatism. the buddy system between big corporations, big banks with the government, that is the reason that we have to be on the side of saying yes. if you are big in made your money because you the special benefits and bailouts and protection from the government, that is wrong. but if you are big because use all the good product to us and you got rich, you have a right to be rich for doing that. >> republican presidential candidate ron paul speaking on sunday here in in made your money because you the special benefits and bailouts and protection from tampa. after the rally ended, we spoke with the author of the new book "ron paul's revolution." he talked about the role that he will have at the republican convention. >> tampa and the buildup to the rnc has been the ron paul forces, the official campaign and the grass roots champs, the finding where they move from here, and the manner in which

so they ended up attacking wilhelm's, hitler's u-boat. was the second time that u.s. bombers have attacked there. a u.s. attack during the day. the british believed in nighttime bombing. what they called area bombing. we believed in daylight bombing it we called it strategic bombing, precision bombing. this is very early in the war now. there were no fighter escorts. after 100 miles, the british spitfires we turned around, returned to the bases, and these guys would fly completely exposed over the north sea. absolutely remarkable stuff. so the whole idea behind the writing 60 night is that they were going to go in constant missions. let me give you just a little flavor of what their training was like. >> and it also will give you some sense of just how brilliant provider homer bigart was. >> we didn't realize until the top was in the eighth clearly that would have to attempt guy go for a week. were going to go on a bomber battle we're told we better know how to shoot a gun in case we got in trouble. at bullington, instructional days, the entourage was instructed on ox

they have the right to praise hitler, calling for the murder of minority communities, and so forth.doesn't necessarily mean that someone's going to step over the line into violence. he had a minor criminal record. there was no way to say to someone, we predict this person is going to do something heinous like what happened outside of milwaukee. >> heidi, thank you very much. we appreciate your taking the time. >>> next, as you just heard, the police officer who put his life on the line and almost died to save others' lives is, as you heard from his colleague, doing all right tonight. the surgeon that saved his life and is trying to save two other sikhs who are in critical care tonight is "outfront" after this. and everyone, but her... likes 50% more cash. but, i have an idea. do you want a princess dress? yes how about some cupcakes? yes lollipop? yes! do you want an etch a sketch? yes! do you want 50% more cash? no you got talent. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card. with a 50% annual cash bonus it's the card for people who like more cash. what's in your wallet? i

they all spout this hatred, this love of hitler, this neo-nazi worship that they do.y meet at these festivals around the country. and this guy was very much a musical part of those festivals. >> drew griffin, thank you very much for that. very hard to listen to that report. a lot of this is protected by some of the values we hold most dear in this country, referring to free speech. it's a difficult question for a lot of people tonight. the southern poverty law center is a nonprofit group that makes a business of studying hate crimes in extremist groups. since the year 2000, they have been tracking wade michael page. heidi byrick is "outfront" tonight. heidi, you've been tracking this guy for 12 years. why? what was the first thing that made you say, this person is doing or could do something wrong? >> well, the first thing that we found on him or ran across him was him trying to purchase some materials from a neo-nazi group called the national alliance. that group was a very, very serious concern for us all through the '90s and early 2000s. it's leader penned the book

how much do you think that individual horrors such as hitler or an individual person who's often the president of a country or something like that actually helps in this that process of flipping the frame one to the other, or -- >> so you're asking the role of leaders? >> yeah. how do they relate, do you think? >> i think they matter a lot. see, there's different -- kill the messenger, the idea was to kill the paradigm that is destructive, right? and that sometimes and often the paradigm that is destructive is led by a malignant, narcissistic leader, and it was in rwanda. it wasn't a free media, it was a media that was operated by a particularly ideological group. it was privately held. it wasn't government, so we can't say government media bad. and in some cases government media can actually do good things. the bbc is mostly great. not so great in the norb ireland case -- northern northern ireland case and a lot of ore ways. but when it flips, and i didn't mean to imply that rwanda it did flip. it didn't flip. it gradually went there. and it was the same thing in nazi germany. the f

(laughter) hitler is on the march. will your country soon be quaking under the 100's iron heel?ow which country he's invading! well answer right back. >> jon: welcome back, my guest tonight has a new film out called "total recall" >> i have been look for you every wrment. suddenly you show up. >> you're married? >> safe to say we're separated. >> here, you drive. >> that's totally how i drive. please welcome jessica biehl. >> stephen: . >> jon: thank you for joining us. >> thanks are for having me. >> jon: very cool. >> supercool hover cars, here is what disturbed me when i was watching the clip and halfway through i changed my mind it seemed to me that in the future the wheel was on the british side. which led me to believe that america in a dystopian future -- >> gone. >> jon: gone. >> out. >> jon: because that is the mark of an empire. is your ability to dictate what side of the road people are going to be driving on. >> that's true but if you notice. >> jon: this is what i am about to say. you switched the [bleep] wheel. >> we swapped it, it can slide. >> jon: in the future

likened the president to, get this, hitler. >>> and finally, in an interview tonight on "entertainment tonight," president obama calls george clooney a, quote, wonderful guy. the president jokes that staffers come to his office with urgent memos when clooney is around. his wife, michelle, thinks there's a conspiracy because every time clooney's in washington, she's out traveling. i got you, michelle. i got you. that's your morning dish of "scramble politics." >>> now, here's your "first look" at how wall street will take off the day. the dow gained 25 points yesterday. the s&p 500 was up, too. the nasdaq rose 14. looking at overseas trading. the nikkei added 8 points. but in hong kong, the hang seng lost 11. >>> we'll see if the markets continue to go higher. the rebounding housing market will be one item on investors' agenda this week. a number of big names report this week, including best buy, lowe's, hewlett-packard and american eagle. >>> aetna has agreed to buy coventry health care. >>> overseas, oil prices rose for a fifth-straight day, as the consumer confidence report pointed t