of the shelter that hitler lifted. wolf had a story that was part true apart lies and said i've been meeting with them. he figured the germans had figured that out but he said it wasn't to surrender it was to cut a good deal for us a peace deal between germany and the united states. he claimed that he had the ear of roosevelt and could communicate directly with him. hitler calm down and thought that was a good idea. in the latter months of the war that was hitler's main home for how the war would end. that the americans and soviets would have a falling out. he was never convinced the communists and the capitalist we get along for long. so he sends wolf back to italy, wolf said he was just happy to get home with his head on his shoulders. and begin negotiations. the talks dragged on for several weeks and there's all sorts of misadventures and false starts but they finally agreed that are surrender of german forces which took place in may 2 and to tell us was fired up about that. he had to achieve quite a fee. a lot of t

hitler wanted to marry -- hitler was a racist. hitler was an anti-semite and he made this anti-semitism and bigotry a central part of national socialism. mussolini was not a racist. mussolini ultimately will represent pure fascism and mussolini came to power in the 1920s. hitler came to power in 1933. hitler revered mussolini. hitler said mussolini is the last of the seas are so if you look for fascism at the beginning at its point of origin you have to look at mussolini. let's go you are saying that fascism is a left-wing political cause. >> guest: fascism was recognized to be left-wing not only by the fascist but the idea of fascism and this is all at the time. later there was a revision as the cayman in which progressive writers and historians redefine fascism and tried to move it into the right-wing column but mussolini was the most famous marxist and italy. was the leader of the italian socialist party. he was the editor of his magazine and is fascism grew out of socialism. essentially mussolini said the prophecies of marks a

stalin and hitler. they are very alike and they are both totalitarians. hitler is about 50. stalin is 61. they had a similar career. i think you read in the warlords stalin admires hitler's because of liquidation to his enemy. they both tend to admire people like mussolini. they both have a very cynical view of one another. they both think that there will ultimately be a war between them and one or the other will start it. for now, the cedar is advantages -- they see there is advantages by having peace. what do we mean by that? fought an inconclusive war with japan in 1939, it does not want troops on its western -- it does not want all of its troops here facing germany, then having to fight japan. nonaggression pact seems like a gift from heaven. is ready to turn on his access partner, japan, russia will take advantage of it. it could move some troops over from japan. japan it is not going to be outdone. remember among thieves there is no honor. japan, in turn, will have a nonaggression pact in april, 1941 with russia. that will allow russia to take its troops back again. no

when hitler. ondecember 8, -- woke up december 8, he had no idea japan was going to attack pearl harbor. he was not in a two front war. number of britain and america were in two front wars. he was convinced, they have a two front war and the japanese have a great navy, i don't have to worry about a navy now. everything is great, let's declare war. december 7, there are about 30 miles outside of moscow. it was all optimism. you absolutely right, had tojo and mussolini and hitler's had the relationship of churchill and roosevelt and stalin, that would have been frightening. strengths, the japanese navy, the german military on land. even italy had a very sophisticated navy and air force had it been given a sphere of operations. italy, germans said please don't go into greece, don't go into the balkans. don't go into any of that. your sphere of influence is, you concentrate on libya and tying the british down and maybe take malta. the japanese, you attack russia from one side, we attack if we are goin

when hitler decided the time was right, germany went to war.y declaring war but by a carefully prepared sneak attack. once again, hitler needed hans to do his dirty work. hans was an expert at brutality. and hitler decided to use hans and his brutality against other people. the czechs, the poles, the russians. in the crucial test of war hitler's race theories didn't pay off. his pure-blooded supermen were defeated by the mon grelgrel army they disespised. the british. by the russians. at stalingrad. then on d-day by american soldiers of every color and religion, who smashed onto normandy beaches and drove through to the heart of germany. for the misguided germans who had swallowed the nazi bait, the game did not pay off. the continent of europe was strewn with millions of german bodies, pure aryan bodies. carl the farmer was left in the snow outside of moscow. heinrich stayed in italy at salerno. hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of normandy that he could call his own. >> you must never let that happen to us or our

hitler called himself a national socialism. he we wanted to marry nationalism with socialism. key difference is that hitler was a racist, he was antisemite and he made antisymmetry and bigotry part of socialism. mussolini came to power in 1920's. he's the last of the cesars, you're looking for fascism at the beginning of point of origin, you to look at mussolini. >> and you're saying that fascism is a left-wing political cause? >> fascism was recognized to be left wick not only by the fascists but by the antifascists and this is all at the time. later there was the revisionism that came in which progressive writers and historians redefined fascism and mussolini was the most famous marxist in italy. his fascism grew out of socialism. the prophesies are not coming through, why and out of that exploration, fascism grew out of marxism. this is actually undisputed history. dozens of official fascists in germany, in italy, in spain, in england, all of them came from the left. they consider from the labor party in england, the socialist party in france, the communist party, one of mu

never identified with hitler national socialism. the main difference is that fashion is a doctrine of the state, powerful centralized state running the economy in your life, that's fascism. nazi's and ms. fascism placenta semitism. fascism in butte with a deep vein, that's a distinguishing feature. >> host: were taking your calls as we discuss this book and recent events of the past couple of days your with us for the next 35 minutes. you can call in will start with robert on the phone from clearwater, florida. good morning. >> good morning, i'm retired military. i'm just appalled because i've watched you many times and fox all the time. infer you to say on the left, i'm a wounded warrior, for him to send the left dispute hatred, serve 24 years, i didn't see that many americans in the military may 23 years. but for him to get on television and continue to make money off the backs of all of the lives, especially this honorable, dignified man called barack obama, and continue to support this lawyer and chief we have an office who buil

he became convinced that he was in fact a son of hitler. most say he had no children in this claim is not true. what is important for my book is that he saw himself the son of hitler and what affected that have on him. answer, pretty bad. >> he is talking in french,. >> that's a big selling case of that case felipe looks a lot like hitler, one of the things i say is, any number of french women could have told their son that the german soldier, father was hitler. any number of french girls and women. why did this one son had to look so much like hitler. it's a little uncanny. he did have to go that kind of mustache, that's me embracing this believed identity. it's creepy,. >> did he have any characteristics? >> i'm not sure. i think he was a fairly normal man until he came obsessed with the question. it's a question that i think would make anybody a little bit nuts. i tried to be somewhat sympathetic. say, one fine day you have never known your father, you knew he was a german soldier and all of your light your been called a bad phrase for a

and on that very day, hitler did launch in europe. this book is the story of how all of that came to be and how winston churchill and that's where he did. i would like to talk a little bit about how i got the idea for the book. it grew out of research that my husband who is sitting over there and i did on two previous books both of them touching on england in the spring and summer of 1940. that's when he took power and when fans and the rest of your file and germany launched the battle of britain. that story is without question i don't think anybody would disagree. as we researched that the period it seemed to me behind the scenes story of how churchill came to power involved the tory rebels defying the party and the prime minister was in its way just as significant and fascinating as the story of churchill himself. because if it hadn't been for them and further parliamentary colleagues that joined them in against the norway debate, churchill probably would never have come to power and britain might well have negotiated for peace with

hitler's race theories did not pay off.looded supermen were defeated by the mongol armies he despised. by the british at el alamein. ♪ by the russians at stalingrad. by americand-day soldiers by every color and religion who smashed across normandy beaches and drove on through to the heart of germany. for the misguided germans who had swallowed the nazi bait, the game did not pay off. the continent of europe was strewn with millions of german bodies. pure aryan bodies. karl the farmer was left inside the snow outside of moscow. heinrich stayed in italy. and hanz, who is going to rule the world, only a little patch of normandy that he could call his own. we must never let that happen to us or to our country. we must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion. because in this country we all belong to minority groups. i was born in hungary. you are a mason. these are minorities. you belong to other minority groups too. you may farmer, you go to the methodist church. you are right to belong to these minorities.

hitler's party was national socialist party. hitler emphasized socialism in national socialism but the today the left taken it out because it's a whitewashing operation. >> host: san diego, california, elizabeth, line for democrats. good morning. >> watch theories of this "washington journal segment on line at c-span.org. we leave you to take it live to the national press club, where boston college center for retirement research is hosting a conference on retirement there. congressional budget office director keith hall is the speaker. introductions are underway. live coverage on c-span2. >> running the cbo require as great many skills which include leading a diverse team of analysts, insuring their output meets rigorous research standards and delivering unvarnished options to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. fortunately keith hill -- hall is ideally suited to such a role. he is one of the most experienced government economists and public servants

i don't think hitler would do that. >> greg: do you think hitler would do that?> juan: [laughs] what a question. >> greg: hitler never open the casino. >> juan: according to what people say about how trump treated workers at the casino, hitler never told them to get the black folks off the floor when the rollers were coming in. that's in books. i am struck by that i data, i think black lives matter is a very important movement in this country. when you say that, i think it invites everyone's duration and people ignored. when she went through the list and said racism and after charlottesville and white supremacists, when she goes through things like homophobia and you think about what's going on with the trump edict on transgender people. >> greg: he was for gay marriage before obama was. he has jewish grandchildren. >> juan: i guess people like us treasury secretary who was speaking to them now in a harsh tones, rex tiller's and say you speak for yourself on this. if >> greg: you're saying he is hitler. you're validating everything he said. those aren't real fact

many people think that hitler invented this concept of the big lie and it's a description of hitler propaganda when hitler used the term big lies he wasn't returned to himself. his plan was that the jews are the ones perpetrating the big lie. he said the jews are evil and wicked and trying to take over the world. what he's doing is taking the stuff that he actually did and blaming it on the juice. so this is freud's term. you take your own since the project them on to others. that's what the left is here. the left has a long secret history of complicity. fdr, progressive fate icon hero. some members of his -- to rome in the 30s to study fascism. he sought is more progressive than the new deal. he wanted to bring the ideas here. mussolini was a huge fan of fdr. he reviews the book and says this guys a fascists. so here's my point. it's indisputable in the record but not in the textbooks because the textbooks are read by progressives. >> the big line they are talking about today, slapping coordinated on some level by who explain how this process. >> were not talking about a conspiracy at all. we

hitler rarely called himself a fascist. quintessential fascist never identified with socialism.tional fascism is the doctrine of a centralized state, a powerful centralized state running the economy and your life. nazism is fascism plus anti-semitism. fascism with a deep vein of racism and anti-semitism. host: we are taking your calls as we discussed this book and recent events. dinesh d'souza with us for the next 35 minutes. phone lines are open. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 clearwater, florida, robert on the line for democrats. caller: i am retired military. i am appalled at this gentleman. i watched him many times on his fox one channel, american news all the time. for him to say that the left yearshatred, i served 24 i did not see that many in the military. for him to get on television and continue to make money off of acks of the lies that he spews, especially on the honorable man barack obama, and continue to support this liar in chief we have in office that put

trump is mussolini, vladimir putin literally hitler.-founder is going all the way. she says trump has a plan to exterminate people. we will share with you what she said coming up. plus, we will give you every update good and bad, human and deer related from the city of houston. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ whoooo. i enjoy the fresher things in life. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest... ...prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll want to check tripadvisor. we now instantly compare prices... ...from over 200 booking sites... ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. go on, try something fresh. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. >> tucker: comparison between president trump and adolf hitler are lame and absurd keep making them. there is a whole cable channel for it one of the three co-founders of black lives matter apparently because she lacks better rhetorical points she says president trump is just like hitler right down seeking to exterminate millions of pe

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>> what hitler did his first he change everybody's ideology. he did that, he only limited to certain edm outlets thatll he himself allowed people to learn from. that's exactly what we see trump try to do. to make it so people don't trust the media, what they don't trust the media, he's makingat it his own trump television so he can put out all of his rhetoric and the people who are following him are going to believe him. those of the kind of people that hitler used to take over. >> tucker: i assume is an article of faith with you and with manyrs others in black livs matter that trump is atr bigot. if you found out that trump or any of his supporters had a meeting or a party and excluded people who were not white from that event, what would you say about that? >> i would say for trump it's probably part of the course i would not be surprised if he already had several meetings in which he excludes people who are not of color.ab you can look at pictures of his roundtable. he pretty much has already done that. w >> tucker: there's no evidence said,

the german government was hitler and whoever he wanted to help him. so you know, in a cabinet you could count heads and say, these were for and against it and undecided. in this case you just look at one man's mind. and i think the indications are that in the end he would have come down and done it. audience member: did he have enough paratroopers to make a serious landing? norman: yes. we tend to underestimate the difficulties. we think of it as d-day four years in advance. it wasn't. there was no such thing as amphibious warfare then. there were simply no landing craft for example. he would have had to seize a port in order to get tanks and artillery ashore. certainly the british thinking was in june, july, august, he could have done it. but each side was tending to overrate the strength of the other side. which is just as well. audience member: as a follow-up on the last question, wasn't there in existence in britain a fifth column supposedly that could have come into action on behalf of the germans at that time? norman: no. there were a lot of peo

once again hitler needed hans to do his dirty work. he was an expert by and hitler had decided to use his brutality against other people. but in the crucial test of war, hitler's race theory didn't pay off. his pure blooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel parties, by the british, by the russians , then on d day by american solders of every color and religi religion. who drove through to the heart of germany. for the misguided germans who had swallowed the nazi bait, it did not pay off. the area was strewn with nazi bodies. karl was left outside the snow of moscow. heinrich stayed in italy. and hans got only a little patch of normandy that he could call his own. >> you must never let that happen to us or our country. we must never be divided by race or color or religion. i was born in hungry, you are a mason and these are minorities. you are a farmer, you go to the methodist church. y your right to belong is a precious thing. you have a right to be what you are and say what you think because here we have personal freedom, liberty

to suggest hitler was right wing, no, hitler was left wing. mussolini was left wing.ecognized that. he sent members of his brain trust to fascist italy to bring those ideas here. he saw them as more advanced than the new deal. liz: big infrastructure spending under both mussolini and hitler. i wish we had more time with you, but this vote coming in confirming christopher ray as our new fbi director and overwhelming vote. here's the final tally. 92 said "yes," five said "no." all that was needed was a simple majority vote and now christopher ray is skegged comey. he was fired by president trump over the russia probe. but first, before we let you go, i was on "varney & company." the marxist economist richard wolf came on, and he essentially said -- he equated the people being killed in venezuela, he said you know what? that's like breaking a few eggs. it's just breaking a few eggs on the way to socialism. what are your thoughts about that -- wait, by the way, i think we have a sound byte. let's show you what this marxist economist -- >> they have tried, and i'm sure the

claimed so hitler calms down and thought maybe that was they could idea? then to take place on may 2nd but then the entire german army in europe surrendered parco but still but then he was selling his are weak -- artwork to a the factories hit their head at after the war was a station chief in than keeping them from participating in the operational government but tried to get germany back on their feast the billet so don't spend a lot of tied assige room off of my intention when and to be sure what they were after would hold of some brave was a share in the analysts given day, nobody had a car right after the war. but eventually he left germany in the fall of 45 and return to to his law practice in new york and pretty much still living in the past other lawyers say he remains fixated daub of your id will richmond -- tremendous. that concludes my prepared remarks but you need to make your grey hadn't a microphone. >> what happened to mary bancroft?. >> five lead the boston because i have a slide. [laughter] and she was sitting with the wife of months but sh

what plans by timothy snyder is in extraordinary book about the terror of stalin and hitler with the tens of millions of people that have succumbed to the policies. they actually imposed a famine in the 1930s it was devastating millions of people and it kind of wanted to a welcoming when hitler invaded in 1941. of course he lost that with the occupation because he turned out to be just as good as stalin. it was very depressing what was done and that's part of the world. a fascinating book called the best years of their life, kennedy and johnson are getting reelected to congress and of course johnson was prevailing as landslide lyndon but fascinating in terms of the social history of the times and these individuals who of course dominated in the latter part of the 20th century in american politics. this is the interaction between george washington and lafayette after the revolutionary war and the french revolution until it went sour the relationship was almost like father and son and very distinct impression and remain so today. the new history of the world from central asia point of

rather than concede in advance he forced hitler to change plans. strategy to remove in west and invade soviet union. germany attacked soviet's ally. now berlin had to fight a two-front war. in december of 1941, japan bombed pearl harbor. now moscow, washington and london forced coalition, together with the help of allies, the three great powers won the second word war, but had churchill not kept britain in the war of 1940, there would have been no such war to fight. now, in the second part of this chapter i move back to poland and i discuss someone who perhaps was a bit more like you and me. when i discuss churchill, that's behavior, of course, pardon the expression great men who can hold back the flow of history, but the second part of the chapter is a bit different. i think now occupied poland where the war seems to be lost. was meant to finish high school that year, 1940, her family lost its property to the germans and was force today move warsaw and rent. her father was arrested. one of her uncles were killed in battle and two of her brothers w

they had hitler and found that kind of started the whole story we're not a great depression right now is so the threat of a nazi takeover seems a little you know far out at least at this point but what happens if the articles that i keep seen in the front financial times in zero hedge in the conversations you and i have had what happens if we see a rip. off we revisit a crash like two thousand and eight or even worse. well i think that we're seeing more and more signs i notice that bank of america put out a very scary story today about what they see as a signal for economic trouble coming down the line then i think all bets are off i think if you have a major economic dern turn down which we are due for in terms of the normal way the capitalist economy bounces up and down if you see a sudden wave of unemployment shooting up and bankruptcies across the economy which is what we would expect in a downturn then you're going to see what we've already seen double triple quadruple and we're going to have a polarization between left and right and then it'll be a struggle you're quite right in

some wore t-shirts quoting hitler.ymbol of southern nationalists. clashes on the streets between hate groups and counterprotesters. witnesses say white supremacists chased a young black man into a parking garage and attacked him. less than a block from the charlottesville police station. the organizer of the rally retu s police didn't do enough to protect alt-right protesters. he ended up needing the police as locals shouted him down and literally ran him out of town. charlottesville police chief al thomas jr. addressed criticism from both sides. >> we did make attempts to keep the two sides separate. however, we can't control which side someone enters the park. >> do you regret not having your officers better prepared and in their proper gear earlier so they could have acted sooner? >> i certainly have regrets. we lost three lives this weekend. >> heather is my darling child. >> reporter: susan bro, mother of heather heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who died standing up for what her mother said were injustices she saw

he does have a hitler obsession. >> you have to bring him down with ridicule.s been one of my life long jobs has been to make the world laugh at adolf hitler. ♪ >> you never had the aspirations to be serious? >> [ bleep ]. all my films are serious. they are passionate and they depict human behavior at different points of history in humanity. ♪ >> mel brooks grew up loving westerns. and as he got older, still loved them, from his childhood. but you look back on some of them and go, wow, that's really racist. some of that stuff is really messed up. and that's where "blazing saddles" comes from. >> "blazing saddles" was satire cal. but it did it by making you [ bleep ] your pants laughing. >> what he did with the high and the low, is astonishing. you have one scene where a horse is knocked out with a punch. and then, deal with race relations about an african-american sheriff. that's pretty heady stuff. >> as chairman of the welcoming committee, it's my privilege to extend the laurel and hearty handshake to our new, -- >> mel brooks saying, can i do this? >> head o

on the left who is pro fascist but nonetheless i think a failure to condemn anyone who's carrying hitler's flag as being un-american i think is a failure of leadership and you know these people who are promoting hitlerism and anti-semitism anti black and anti minority anti-gay they can't be considered be part of of middle america as such not they're not mainstream they're radical they're french but unfortunately they've had a platform as mr bennett has said formally at least on the bright part and that's something the president has to take into account you can see that a number of the c.e.o.'s left his counsel as such now they've been disbanded to save him from further embarrassment by c.e.o.'s the same we can't afford to be on this council because our constituents our employees our shareholders are speaking out against what we're doing so we have to step aside if you were secretary of defense do you know marine general john kelly. not really well i knew him when i was at the pentagon. certainly and i think he's he's the right man to be chief of staff right now and he has his work cut out

as the guy said earlier, there's no statues of hitler.hat was their history, but there's no statues of hitler in germany. and he was for enslavement, removal, and killing of other people. so i don't think they deserve any more respect than the losers in other wars in europe or here. host: ok, robert's thoughts there, texas. mili, connecticut, you say keep them where they are. hi, mili. caller: actually, i said that -- you know -- it's part of history. however, i agree with the gentleman from texas that there hitler minders when enslaved the jews. and it's a reminder. it is a reminder of what had taken place to a lot of people who lived within that community . it's an eyesore. it should be removed. still, there's history behind it that something should be contempt as a reminder as to what that gentleman had stood for, and it wasn't for goodness. as far as what took place on saturday, you have people who intruded upon a city to do awful things. i disagree with the president. a car ran through and killed people and hurt people. so they had s

hitler's to see this at home." donald trump coming back briefly today before he goes to new york. he says he will hold a press conference. we will see how he addresses questions from the media on this topic. adrianna: latest online. to a storying developing out of d.c., a firefighter recovering after he was apparently assaulted on the job, responding to a call about an injured child yesterday. the police report says the family accused him of the inebriated when at least two people attacked him. time is: back to school just around the corner and there is some good news for your wallet. pass free week -- tax-free week, no taxes on clothes or shoes, and the first $40 of the backpack are tax-free also. running to the 19th. coming up after the break, new closingents today, arguments in the taylor swift case. cleared by a judge, she still has big reasons to be concerned. after a big weekend, getting ready for some changes. veronica johnson z2fxnz zi0z y2fxny yi0y the pristine quite weather from 24 hours ago. looking at t

that is a wreck fascist handbook from the 1920's and 1930's when hitler took power. the leftists and the rightists have no moral high ground. that will include you in your book. -- and your book. guest: a couple of things to address. first, item clearly in all my right anti-stalinist. i make no effort to defend stolen. number 2 -- to defend stalin. for a fascist group is a fascist action. it differs from the classical liberal notion of solving social problems to the legit free market of ideas. politics areberal essentially the same for the kind of motive extremism that is very popular, to essentially normalize the center and equate isis with anarchists which is a historical and lacking any sort of content, the notion of what defines fascism and disrupting speeches is missing the point of fascism as an authoritarian doctrineierarchical that is killed millions of people. i think disrupting a fascist event does not in any way and you are a fascist, you are just not going to go with a liberal playbook in defeating fascism which we have seen fail in the 20's, 30's and 40'

. >> amid the terror of hitler's bombs... >> the airpower of the nazis was turned against britain. >> ...an unmistakable voice rallies the brits. >> i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. >> you think churchill saw his lisp as beneficial? >> what hitlerism is suffering in libya is only a sample and a foretaste of what we have got to give him and his accomplices. >> it was such an inspiring speech that it just worked magic on people. >> his dental tech worked magic, too. >> churchill said to my father, "you're not going anywhere. you're staying here with me." >> how did he earn a place in history? >> when you opened the box, what did you see? >> well, i saw some teeth staring at me. >> fighting tooth and nail, dentistry's finest hour. >> these are the teeth that won the second world war. >> any way to get a closer look? >> for you, yes. >> hello. i'm jamie colby. and, today, i'm in the back seat of one of those fabulous london taxis. after crossing the pond, i figured i'll leave the driving to somebody else. i'm here to meet an heir whose father played a big part in

his campaign was modeled based on hitler's.t as bad as hitler currently, if he gets his way eventually he will be. >> you think he's going to kill six million jews? >> steve bannon will love that. i don't think it will happen but they would love for that to happen. >> illegal immigrants. >> who'd you vote for? >> what about building the wall. we won't even talk about that. >> he's guilty. >> of what? >> treason. >> where'd you see that? >> why? >> where did he do treason. >> you know the answer to that. >> no, i don't, because it's not true. >> austin fletcher joins us tonight, so you're making friends out there in protest land. um, has anyone ever gone after you? do they understand what the game is when you go and interview them? >> uh, they actually don't. um, i think it has a lot to do with the weird outfits i wear, i carry a spoon attached to a microphone so they kind of discredit me. i also have a beard and look like a hipster. they think i'm on their side. i just ask them some basic questions, what are you doing here, wha

look at hitler. he's not checked. some political leaders were never checked mitch mcconnell. pronouncing to the world that he would not give an inch to obama. many do sports. you learn respect for other human beings of all races, of all ethnic background, of all religions. because they can all check you. so the notion of germany, for example, of hitler germany, of an arian race of such unmitigated bull, excuse me. >> let me ask since you went there. it is impossible to know anything about your story much less to read this wonderful text and not come to terms with what it has meant for you even all these years later. we have been born when and where you were. tell me about the role that that particular factor played in your journey? >> it was in the midst of the bombs that they began to throw at germany. and my town in the baltic sea was 96% destroyed. they threw thousands of bombs over that town. and after the war you grew up with simply the task of rebuilding a country that you were born in. you didn't deal with the horrors of the nazi regime until much later, until 1961. i

and an extraordinary book of stalin and hitler by the tens of millions of people who were murdered or succumb to the policies of these to criminals stalled and actually opposed the ukraine in the 1930's for millions of people died and that led to the welcoming of the nazis when hitler invaded 1941 that they could roll with the occupation is a fascinating history and very sobering and depressing because to think he did beings could do what was done in that part of the world. the best years of our lives is a fascinating book a wonderful prose book called the best years of their lives kennedy and johnson getting elected and reelected to congress bin johnson was in the senate prevailing and developed his nickname with the very close election highly contested in texas. and those that influence these three individuals of course, dominated the latter part of the 20th-century with politics and then the story between lafayette and washington. lafayette had a long career after the revolutionary war and tell lit went sour but the relationship almost like father and son was highly unusual for was

derek weimer was his high school history teacher. >> he loved hitler. he loved, you know the nazi movement. they were all, geniuses. you know white supremacy thing. white people were dominant. >> reporter: as a young teen, fields' wheelchair-bound mother called 911. records show he threatened her with a 12 inch knife and on occasion hit her. fields, focus of a federal civil rights investigation, grew up in kentucky moved to ohio with his mother a year ago. released court documents show fields worked as a security officer for securitas. in 2015, fields joined the army but lasted four months due to failure to meet training standards. court records describe fields as cooperative which could help the ongoing investigation as it tries to piece together his trip from ohio here to virginia and any possible contacts he may have had with groups espousing violence and securitas says he was on scheduled time off and has been fired. anthony. >> kris van cleave in charlottesville. thank you, chris. >> 23-year-old man accused of trying to detonate what he thought was

socialist, think the they fought against hitler and mussolini, but they know less about the second half of the story when self-defense groups were formed in britain and germany, among immigrants and leftists to defend themselves against the neo-nazi skinhead wave that was unleashed in response to waves of migration and how it moved over to the united states with the development of antiracist action. and it continued through today in the movement we are seeing now. host:, including the president have associated antifa with

my brother didn't give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. >> no matter our color, creed, religion, or political party, we are all americans first. >> reporter: also under scrutiny. the time it took the president to respond. as these horrific scenes were unfolding, the first response from the white house came not from the president, but the first lady. she tweeted, our country encourages freedom of speech. but let's communicate without hate in our hearts. no good comes from violence. #charlottesville. it took her husband 40 minutes more to send out his first tweet. reporters sought to press the president. >> do you want the support of these white nationalist groups? >> reporter: he ignored them. later, the white house sought to clarify the troubling phrase on many sides saying the president was condemning hatred, bigotry,

. >> sympathy towards nazi, hitler, that he had belief in white supremacy. it would start to creep out. >> at memorial, people from charlottesville came to pay their respects. >> this is about somebody who hate add different group of people so much that they just try to slaughter them. >> they say this kind of

we are learning the suspect apparently had a fascination with nazis and hitler. more on him and that part of our coverage ahead. first, both democrats and republicans criticize president trump for no coming out against white groups. the governor senator lindsey graham from south carolina says the president missed an opportunity. >> these people don't see me as a friend in the senate and i urge the president to dissuade these groups that he's their friend. >> president trump announced the department of justice opened an investigation into the deadly car attack. the president, rick, will be arriving in a few hours. the president met with jeff sessions today and his fbi director. >> that's right, harris. we want to give you a quick look at fifth avenue where security has been beefed up dramatically, similar to what people may remember from before the election. as you mentioned, the first time the president will be returning here to trump tower since he took office in the white house, extra rows of barricades out here an now a series of sanitation trucks parked in fr