edgar hoover. over the donovan's organization was the biggest collection of amateurs he had ever seen. and actually in the beginning it was a big collection of amateurs. hoover had his fbi spy on donovan, collected a lot of information on them. they spied on oss officers. he had moles in donovan's organization to donovan spied on hoover. had moles in hoover's organization. when i was. when i was doing the research i got winded have time to spy? the pentagon at first wanted no part of donovan's office of strategic services. george marshall thought that this was a plot by donovan to take over army and navy intelligence. which by the way is exactly what donovan had in mind if franklin roosevelt would have let him do it. so marshall eventually comes to accept donovan's oss, but a senior intelligence officers never did. and, in fact, they fought donovan's organization throughout the war. at one point toward the middle of the war, his military intelligence folks even formed their own secret espionage uni

hoover would hog the nomination.n that way, willkie was grassroots. he, himself, was not of the grass. he was chosen by people who were voting against the party. the other names were "the party." willkie came in as somebody different, not what we expected. >> he retired and an exciting man. i think for many people, it was none of the above. it was the perfect atmosphere for an outsider who promises and looks very different from the republican standard of the late 1930's. >> what was the state of the democratic party, amity shlaes, and franklin roosevelt and his support in 1940, eight years after the new deal at a time when most presidents would step down? >> roosevelt's victory -- 46 out of 48 states in the preceding election -- was so hard to get past. even as the party was beginning to get past it, this idea of having a third term -- the war was coming closer. war in 1940 had already been declared in europe. germans had invaded poland and britain. all of a sudden, roosevelt was -- just when you say there roosevelt

edgar hoover kept an eye on. >> hated. hated your great grandfather. >> well, at the time, you know, all the way up through the cold war, he was a private u.s. citizen that could fly between the united states and russia and back and forth as much as he wanted because of the connections he had. hoover was immediately like, spy. definitely a spy. >> jimmy: do you think he was a spy? >> i mean -- i wouldn't put it past him. who knows, man? >> jimmy: he might have been. and so, now, you're in this movie playing, essentially, j. edgar hoover's boyfriend. >> yeah, yeah. which the fbi was not happy about. >> jimmy: are they still protecting hoover, to this day? >> oh, yeah. if you ask any, like, current, you know, agent of the fbi, you know, what -- the director is an honorable man. he is the most perfectly structured -- like, they still fear that guy like he will come out of the grave. >> jimmy: maybe he will come out. he used to go through your great grandfather's trash? >> there was definitely -- i remember stories as a kid of

edgar hoover wearing a dress and being a transvestite. that story was manufactured just to tarnished j. edgar hoover by one of his enemies and has been around ever since but the problem with that story is it really distracted from the true scandal of j. edgar hoover which is that he used sex files on every congressman and senator and supreme court justice to control the federal government for 47 years he served as fbi director. this undermined the constitution using sex. that is the true scandal that we have not come to terms with. >> host: with two days of the los angeles -- we are here with larry flynt and david eisenbach and their book "1 nation under sex". next, you are on the air. >> caller: calling from the other end of america. mr. flynt legal i was executive producer of that you appeared in as you may know. the rentals affair which is one of the early american sex scandals with alexander hamilton. >> absolutely. right along with the jefferson -- those two were the first two scandals in the beginning where the founding fathers. >>

we have herbert hoover on the other side. in terms of prosperity, of course, both of them are running in favor of prosperity. the problem for al smith is you had eight years of republican rule. first warren harding, followed by calvin coolidge. the republicans have a leg up on the prosperity front. you had the 1920's. it has been a boom decade for wall street and for large segments of the economy, although less for farmers and agriculture at that point. i think the darkest part of this election and the reason i said it really is one of the most vicious elections in american history is our third "p," the question of prejudice. al smith -- i think most americans today are more familiar with john kennedy as a catholic candidate. that caused a real stir even in the 1960's. a real set of questions about the presidency. al smith raised all of those questions much earlier in 1928. it had already been a decade that had been seized with a lot of questions about immigration, immigration reform, the rise of the ku klux klan. those come

gresham carlson and margaret hoover. what say you hoover? >> you will hate this bill, you will say because i'm not a catholic. i'm catholic light i'm episcopalian. i thought this was funny. we can take a joke at the holidays. this was meant to be irreverent. 2.1 million canadians tuned in to watch pamela anderson as the virgin mary. we all get the joke. clearly she is no virgin mary. that's apparent. that's the joke. >> bill: hoover, you thought this was hysterical, funny? >> i thought it was good humor. it was ironic humor. take a joke. it's the holidays. >> bill: i didn't think it was funny. >> the whole thing was hysterical. >> bill: let me point out that 2 million viewers is nothing. it is not a good rating. hockey night in canada gets five times that. >> thank goodness we don't live in canada because we didn't have to be bored to tears with this over the top tongue in cheek stupidity. the only people reason why people were laughing with this it was a laugh track. this was the stupidest thing i have ever seen. as far as being offended fr

hoover, let me outlining this to the audience. we are not going to tell you guy what is they're going to teach because some of it is very, very graphic. it doesn't have to do with just man/woman. it's everything you can imagine. this is sixth grade we are talking about. these are 10, 11, 12-year-old kids. >> 12. 13, 14. sixth through 12th grades. sixth graders are 12 years old. >> bill: the younger edge of this. so the parents in new york city many of them can't afford to go to private school which i always recommend if you can afford to go to private school please do so because you don't have to deal with this craziness. they have no choice. even if they don't want their kids hearing about alternative situations, they have to. something wrong, this disturbs me. >> i appreciate that on one hand. on the other hand, bill, we spend a lot of time in this show in this segment talking about how parents these days are advocating their duties as parents being active in their kids' life and teaching kids what parents used to talk to kids a

margaret hoover, here in the studio, gretchen carlson.s says she does not have an obligation to tell kids how to act and she was hannah montana in the disney cycle and a lot of young girls know her. i think she's on a down side of her fame now. but her point is very -- look, parents are supposed to tell them. it's not my job. you and say? >> i say that's a disappointment. she could touch millions of young people in this nation if she so chose to do. the exact opposite of what taylor swift is doing. guess what she's quoted as saying? i wake up in the morning and think about millions of people i might affect based on my actions. >> bill: we'll get to her in a moment. but cyrus says, look, i'm still trying to figure this out myself. so don't put me in a position where i'm going to have to tell america's children how to behave because i guess she doesn't really know how to behave. >> that's what she said. she's still trying to figure out. that's honest. >> her parents are still trying to figure it out. billy ray cyrus has gone on record that

. >> but at the same time, with hoover, hoover, he was brought up, that happen in november but actually palmer went before congress in june of 1919 and asked for powers to begin to throw out all these? >> that's an important point. regarding hoover and regarding palmer. palmer was the attorney general at the time. one important point is he a science who for this special mission, and they draft a report that is released to congress in the fall of that year and has this huge long rant about the anarchists. we've got to get rid of these people. they need to be deported to look at this crazy stuff they are writing. that's basically the majority of the document. then there's this huge part at the end that is tacked on, so they start i bought black publication. look at all these radical black publications, radical writing. and if you read those, read the quote that they listed, every stretch of the imagination they would be considered benign. things like shoot back if you're being shot at. that's radical. and that was really, it's sort of bizarre attack on, disjointed from the flow of this le

but there were they were all over the country the largest one was in seattle back the mayor of that hoover bill was a fellow by the name of jesse jackson who had a history of a nine hundred thirty five. i find just amazing. something cosmic about that what are the and of course the bonus army was camped out from the lawn of the white house all the way down the potomac forty five thousand people and herbert hoover ordered him. what's his name the general macarthur to ride through them do you see similarities between then and now and then i mean that's set up the roosevelt presidency could this be setting up something really extraordinary in the next few years political i believe it is there is a righteous anger out there and people feel as if america has gotten off track we truly are serving the one percent and we're leaving the ninety nine behind it was the one percent that drove our economy into the ditch and now the ninety nine percent is suffering people are tired of suffering they want good paying jobs like chris people want to live in their homes securely and they want to be able to s

edgar hoover building in downtown washington. the new headquarters would cost $1.2 billion and would not be completed until 2020. ben cardin says if the new headquarters lands in maryland it would create 12,000 jobs. >> many americans will receive a horrible gift this year. there is a 20% chance dual hate of youru will hate holiday gifts. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what's the worst gift you ever received, and what happened to it? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. i have an aunt that took some and from my house -- liked it button holder fixer. two years later, it showed up as my brothers christmas gift. laughed so hard. are you kidding me? 26 degrees on tv hill. diabetic patients been no need to work as much as previously thought. >> planning on kicking the habit of smoking? >> >> welcome back to 11 news today. 5:40. 32 degrees downtown. in the 20's as you head into the suburbs. make sure the kids are bundled up. they wil

the hoover middle school jazz band. the birchen high-school drum corps. the young people music theater company. the george washington high school marching band. the brunos. press, circus -- presscot circus. i also want to thank our co-host for the evening, the newly formed parks alliance. the parks department cannot do it alone. the alliance has really become our best friend. i want to recognize their board chair. our executive director matt o'grady will come up to say a few words. >> thank you so much. the parks alliance is the new kid on the block. a brand-new organization, and yet, a very familiar organization, because we come from the san francisco parks trust and from the neighborhood council. these two organizations got together and realize they can do so much more by combining forces to make this park system the best open space system in the world for san francisco. i wanted to give you a couple of samples of some of the great partnerships we have built to make these parks so fabulous and gray in san francisco. the first partnership is with none ot

it is still down know -- strip and the hoover dam.is still unknown what went wrong. >>> a riot involved 50 prisoner and guards used rubber bullets trying to get things under control. nine have been wounded and four have been returned to their cells this morning. >>> president barack obama has a new plan to battle home grown terrorism. one part is getting local police and community police groups involved. >>> -- >> reporter: they have not done enough to head-off violent extremism here at home. now they are bringing in partners from around the country to try to stop radicals from violence. now after a deadly shooting in arkansas to the massacre at fort hood, home grown terrorism is a big threat and we are still waiting for more details from the white house but they are reporting the obama administration will intense few efforts to -- intensify efforts to teach schools and community groups to prevent attacks. at a hearing we learned terrorist groups are targeting u.s. military bases. >> more that is hanna 5 is loom mists plots have invol

. >> katherine hoover. and >> i speak before you wearing two hats. my first is representing the passenger cruise industry. most of my professional career has been in the professional cruise industry. i am happy to be back in my native san francisco. in my role as a marketer, one of the things we did was market research, and there is no question that we have one of the most desirable sports to visit. i was blessed to travel the globe on passenger cruise ships and can say there are four or five gloria's ports in the world, one of them being in san francisco, hong kong, sydney, vancouver. one reason i am in support of america's cup, and i am not a small boater, but i am in support of sleep week because of the partnership and the results to have a proper professional passenger terminal. sadly what we are operating wilson is embarrassing ways of standard, and one of the benefits is going to have a fantastic, compliant, ecologically sensitive port facilities. just go down to the port and take a swim. come down to the court sunday when we have a passenger s

hoover's a pre-- here's a preview of what's ahead at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news, a revelation about marriage and family and modern america. find out why some women are choosing to stay single. the new modern family tonight on world news. stocks falling. the dow was down, nasdaq off almost 40. the s&p 500 fell 14. >>> scammers are targeting baby berms. there's been an increase in investment fraud case. many baby boomers are vulnerable to risky bet. last year there were more than 1200 criminal complaints. >>> how many of us are tired of those high volume commercials? you complained. now the government is doing something about it. a new fcc rule will prohibt commercials being played much louder than your tv show but it won't take effect for another year. >>> the united states postal service said it will delay the closings until may. the service was planning to close 250 mail processing facilities early next year to save money. >>> the holiday can be one of the most joyous but stressful times. we have tips to keep you cool. >>> houses and in some case entire blocks empty and in ne

i want to know what he really thought of hoover. not what he wrote in "national review" and not these very polite letters in the f.b.i. file saying, thank you, director hoover. he did have something of a relationship there. i'm curious of what you can tell me what he really thought of j. edgar hoover if you know or have interesting to say on that point. >> i will say one thing, bill was never so energized as when going after large authority. one of his great battles, he being a loyal son of rome, was to attack popes. he just loved to get into a scrape with the vatican. when he went after the john birch society in history it looked like he was cleansing the movement of this irritant. at the time john birch society was a major player. they had strings on advertising contacts for the magazine. they had strings on distributer deals for the magazine. they contributed, their members actually wrote checks beyond the subscription fee. but bill, while he was fearless, he was also a lover of danger. you got a story time sneer >> what's the st

officials say the choppers was on a tour of the las vegas strip and the hoover dam and that's when it went down last night. a pilot and four passengers were killed. the crash site is not accessible by road. federal investigators are looking into what exactly caused that crash. >> there will be an interfaith service for people who don't have jobs, and it will be held at the capitol, on capitol hill today. people there will hold while carnations in solidarity with unemployed workers all across the country and they'll call for jobs, not cuts, from congress and an extension of unemployment insurance. the event will take place at 11:00 this morning at upper senate park. >> it was a tumultuous scene during the occupy protests on k street in northwest d.c. more than five dozen protesters showed up and were arrested yesterday after shutting down k street, and that's where many of the city's influential lobbying firms are located. demonstrators from d.c., as well as across the country converged on k street. they were protesting what they call corporate greed. a mass demonstration snarled traff

the helicopter crashed while it was conducting a tour of the hoover dam. it is still unknown what went wrong. >>> the washington post says the military sent the incinerated partial ashes of 274 american troops to a virginia landfill. that is more than the military originally acknowledged. the families of the dead thought the bodies were being disposed of in a dignified manner. >>> program hosts, adam savage and jamie toured the damaged area yesterday, they were conducting one of their famous experiments yesterday afternoon when a 30-pound cast iron canon ball miss fired at the bomb range. >> we have been doing things safely for nine years and you always fear that something you don't expect is going to happen and you really try and think through all the worst case scenarios and we have just added a new one to the roster. >> now the myth busters do not know what went wrong. they will pay for all the damages and the bomb range is closed now pending a new investigation. >>> they are looking into the possible poisoning of two family pets. the family said their