as i mentioned earlier, he was blacklisted by j edgar hoover.he could not have any connection with stevenson through that channel. but then he did manage to get himself into the army. general smith the director of the cia in the war had the responsibility trying to deal with war criminals. he put them in charge of an office to track down and he did a great job. he applied computer technology to tracing down the suspects. that was a job he did in paris. so he had no connection with stevenson and that, he did good work in the war in spite of the efforts. >> that was true in paris? >> guest: yes. one of the questions was what did he do in paris? so after he was? sue to first of all there is the war, he looks -- networks for the army the united nations for agency which help track down not the war criminals. when he finished he became security guy, the billionaire who lived in france. he did a little bit of work a happy retirement. especially amongst american muslim veterans who lived in paris. the dismissal with prejudice in the 1960s, hoover finall

and people were losing faith in hoover. it also poked fun at political and social pretension in washington and at some of the press they thought were deferential to the politicians. everyone loved it except hoover, who got the fbi to try to figure out who the authors were and get them fired. they did not fire pearson but when they wrote a sequel, he was fired. that is when pearson and alan thought, why don't we take this writing and turn it into a newspaper column. host: what does the muckrakers mean? mr. ritchie: the term starts at the beginning of the 20th century. there were mass-market magazines and they hired a lot of colorful writers. in washington you had washington correspondents who developed high placed sources and got accurate information but they did not want to embarrass their sources. muckrakers breezed into town, found the stories the regular correspondents were not publishing and published the exposes. one leg to the amendment of the constitution -- one lead to the amendment of the constitution. they were in

it is like hoover and roosevelt. imagine if hoover was elected in 1932.nedy had the flair in terms of creative, energetic, confident, and -- robert kennedy would have attracted people and they would have been there in the late 60s ready to go, you know. i think there's a lot that had to change about american politics and public life in the 1960s, and i think his capacity and his ability to bring people in and delegate, you know, was just something that could have made a huge difference at that moment compared to when you think about how things turned. again, the country we talked about was entrenched with racism and hinton shows us what's coming, so the problems would have been huge, and there's no telling, but it would have been certainly different and yeah, it would have been i think what he had hoped was to move our public life and our democracy in a new direction. who knows what that would have brought, but it certainly would have been interesting to see. >> okay, great. that's a great segue to questions. last thing about that what if question. one of

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we're on the backside of hoover dam. this over here is the transformer deck.ce the power is made, it sent out so that california and other states can use it. the problem right now is. >> because of the drought. they're not able to generate as much power as they used to for rest were conditions. we can generate about 2000. 74 megawatts. >> of power here for around a million residents but unfortunately now we're down to because of the lower reservoir conditions rowling generating about 66% efficiency. these days. the oroville dam and others in california are suffering similar fates. the department of water resources says lake oroville. >> may get so low by the end of summer that the edward hyatt powerplant. there may not be able to produce any power. the hydro power problem is just one of many reasons the north american electric reliability corporation or nerc has put california at a high risk. >> of power outages this summer during hours. one which is the consumption is as high or as a solar is reduced closer to the evening hours. >> there may be need for syste

progressive america seems to be becoming with one of the countries leading historians, joining a hoovertution senior fellow victor david hanson has a new book called the dying citizen how progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. gerry: your team student of the rise and fall of civilization ancient, can you tell us in the space of that generation in america has gone from being a country that most of its own people in the world regarded of the most successful but the closest that we have come that humanity has come to an ideal country, how have we gone a generation to that to the situation today where most elites seem to hate the country and seem to think it's absolutely redeemable. >> i think a lot of these societal collapse occur when you do get very clear close to utopia you materially affluent leader society and we have the greatest concentration of wealth in a country of civilization and the most freedom, the most just and previously marks what they used marginalized groups of more freedom

liberty. ♪ gerry: i'm back with hoover institute senior fellow victor davis hanson we talked about thewoke revolution where were required to acknowledge our own sinfulness and acknowledge our own guilt, it does represent a form of religion because of the traditional religion going blind and it's an emphasis on arson and responsibility, it does have an oddly religious feel to it, do you think there's something to that? >> there is in some cases in american history the great awakening or the abolitionist movement, there were advantages to the self-righteousness but in a postmodern world becomes too radical. you're absolutely right, data does not matter, if you say that the number of police who shoot unarmed african-american males just opposed to the african-american males who have come in contact every year with the police does not support the idea of a pandemic of police accreditation on african-americans, it does not matter, really doesn't matter and if you try to argue about the 1619 punitive data, the founding of america and none of the contemporary evidence suggests that racial prej

r. hoover's organization was the main contributor of information to the warren commission. they were feeding them information and we now know from the d classifications in the film that we're showing. that among the things that never showed up, the warren commission was seebert o'neill report, which 2 top agents were there at the autopsy in bethesda, and testified very clearly to there being a massive head wound in the back of kennedy's head that was never seen in the photograph that came out of the official photographs that came out of the autopsy, which indicates a divergence of what people saw with their own eyes. there still some papers that were missing there were supposed to be released. obviously we're thankful to donald trump for releasing some of them. do you think joe biden is going to release them? he has killed the 26 to make a decision on the release of other ones. trump did say though, because of national security law enforcement in foreign affairs concerned, i have no choice today to accept redactions rather than allow irreversible home to national security b

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edgar hoover as the most kang rouse negro in america. he says, i'm absolutely prepared to fight in alabama, but not in france. i have no particular battle there. so i value democracy. what we see after the war is that that same vision comes back. we are very familiar with, we return fighting, a short but absolutely powerful jab penned by w.e.b. dubois. but there is another famous poem from the period and that is if we must die by a jamaican both claude mckay. that both's last lines f we must die let it about with our backs pressed to the wall. indicting but fighting back. becomes so transgressive after world war i that he is of course brandsed a communist and almost they consider deporting him, et cetera. but in world war ii, churchill returns to that -- [ no audio ] -- to go into. he's a railroad porter in 1919. he's traveling with his friends, . they are going from town to town. every time the door opens for them to go to their hotel that night they don't know if there is a riot. rumor and newspapers, which were usually a day late, wer

edgar hoover as the most dangerous negro in america. he says, i'm absolutely repaired to fight in alabama, but not in france. i have no particular battle there, though i value democracy. what we see after the war is that that same vision comes back. we're very familiar we return fighting, a short but absolutely powerful jab penned by w.e.b. dubois, but there's another famous poem by the period "if we must die" by claude mckay. that poem's last lines, if we must die let us be with our backs pressed to the wall dying but fighting back, becomes so trans depressive after world war i that he is, you know, of course branded a communist and almost they consider, you know, deporting him, et cetera, but in world war ii churchill returns to that very language in order to galvanize britain. >> it's important -- claude mckay -- the anecdote is important to go into. he is a railroad porter in 1919 and he's traveling with his friends as a lot of young black men at the time, he is a railroad porter and they're going from town to town and every time th

hoover had things on the president. and the civil rights bill.this was october they were fighting to get the civil rights bill moved in the committee. he would often come and had a communist connection or whatever. and so i think that it was an attempt and i'm speculating here to also but he again, president kennedy was killed a month later. president johnson came in became president and lyndon johnson it and hoover and had no problem with dealing with king. so yeah, and i hope you'll read about in the book. bizarrely give it a lot of thought. and i sort of land out. and it certainly was not diminished in fact, fast-forward rated robert kennedy martin luther king become much more closely aligned in terms of looking forward to talking about poverty and they care about the war in vietnam. in the came these hearings in the cities which kennedy was a part of. but he and king almost thought same about the conditions and what to do so the relationship grew. and they both were so closely and what they saw as problems and solutions were very close and th

i'm not sure what is thicker, the hoover dam or the hoover skull.ry, she's a nice lady, but that was a good joke. look who found a thesaurus, it was under the fake barbells. >> part of the metric here is ignorance but also arrogance, misplaced sense of righteous indignation and resistance they believe is a false manifestation of freedom. >> greg: we almost have to stop the show and contemplate the hilarity of captain q-tip calling anyone arrogant or indignant, he was out picking fights with neighbors and who could forget his award-winning portrayal as lazarus. >> just worked out, it happens. this is what i have been dreaming of. >> greg: that's the truth, he probably replayed that moment over and over in his head, it was cheesier than a packers fan eating fondue. nicely done. then there was this clown finding his way back on the tv. >> maybe you're doing it because you're irrationally anxious, maybe you're doing it because you're disconnected or disorganized, maybe there's some sympathetic psychological reasons but maybe you're just being antisocial

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> dr. celine gounder and dr. ashish jha, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you so much. >> great to be here. >> the delta variant, which was first detected in india, is highly transmissible and now makes up an estimated 83% of new covid cases in the united states. dr. gounder, why is the delta variant more concerning than all the previous versions? >> the delta variant is by far the most contagious, most transmissible of all of these varian. it spreads more easily from one person to another. and part of that is because the levels of virus that people get in their airways, in their nose, in their throat, are so much higher than what we've seen with previous variants up until this time. >> the former cdc director, thomas frieden, says that the u.s. could soon see as many as 200,000 new cases each day. do you, dr. jha, agree with this assessment? >> yeah, so i do agree with the assessment that we could get to 200,000 infections a day. you know, the l

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> john mcwhorter, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you for having me, margaret. >> look, before we launch into critical race theory, which i'd love to talk to you about, i want to give our viewers a sense of your background and perspective. you are a prolific author, a podcaster, a professor of linguistics atolumbia university. you've described yourself as a contrarian race commentator and a liberal democrat. but there are others who have called you a right winger. so, where do you put yourself on the political spectrum? >> i am a liberal democrat who only seems like a right winger to some people because my opinions on race are on that are liberal and democratic rather than radical left. and somewhere around 1966, an idea settled in that typical good-thinking politics on race are radical left, and if you're anywhere rightward of that, you're "a conservative." so i've been confusing people for 20 years on that, but i know what i am, which is someb

. >> "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by -- robert granieri. charles r. the fairweather foundation. the asness family foundation. and by -- corporate funding is provid by -- stephens inc. and morg an stanley. >>> florida congressman, mario diaz-balart, welcome to "firing line". >> my pleasure, margaret. good to see you. >> 90 miles off the coast of florida there is a crisis in cuba. we have heard renewed calls for libertad. we are reading about increased food and medical shortages, we have seen images of violent police crackdowns. you and i have known each other for a long time, since i worked in your congressional office when you first came to congress in 2003. and working for you i learned about your family's unique history with the regime in cuba. your father a prominent politician in the government and at one point a dear friend of phi dell castro's. your father's sister, your aunt, was actually married to fidel castro, but ultimately your family was driven from cuba during the revolution. would you say that your father had early insight into fidel ca

." >> "firing line th margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... ...and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> admiral william mcraven, welcome back to "firing line" for a special edition episode honoring independence day. thank you for your service. >> thank you, margaret. good to be with you. >> admiral, you've just wrten a book, "the hero code: lessons learned from lives well lived," and your father served in world war ii. and you share memories of him and his fellow service members swapping stories about their missions. did you have a sense that you would follow in your father's footsteps? >> yeah, i don't know as a young boy whether i thought i would follow in my father's footsteps. what i knew was i loved the camaraderie. i loved the sense of patriotism. i loved the sense of kind of duty, honor and country that i saw in this greatest geration. and, of course, that generation, you know, they were children of the great depression. they were children of world war i. all the men went off to world war ii and then they came back and rebuilt the country. s

no hoover institutions with the mainstream university have hired him? [laughter] >> tom could have worked at any college or university he wanted to. he turned down offers at places like dartmouth, university of wisconsin. he could have gotten tenure and worked at any economics department in the country. he was quite talented in his discipline before he ever began writing about racial controversy and the number of academic publications. he had trouble with the faculty lounge. i think part of the problem was this was the 1960s and higher education was changing. you had the women's rights movement,h antiwar movement, all these things coming together. college campuses were being used as platforms for this sort of thing and tom was of a different generation. i think that he intended to teach the way that he was taught and that was hard starting in the 1960s. it became very very difficult to do. the professors and the administrators were much moret than anything tom had experienced. so, i think it reached ahead for him. he was there for the student protests a

host: if there were no hoover institution what the mainstream university have hired him? >> [laughter] time could ever get any college or university he wanted to. he turned down offers from places like dartmouth, university of wisconsin, he could've gotten tenure and worked and any economics department in the country. he was a quite talented scholar in his discipline before he ever began writing about racial controversy. just a number of academic publications surpassed most people in the field. but where he went into trouble was the faculty lounge. the college administrators with his teaching style anything part of the problem was this was the 19 fifties and higher education was changing. you had a women's rights movement and antiwar movement and gay rights and all these things are w coming together and college campuses were platforms and time was of a differenthi generation. i think he intended to teach the way he was taught and that was hard in the fifties that became very difficult to do but the professors and administrators were encouraged to be much o more indulgent

edgar hoover days. in fairness to those guys they actually had to get into somebody's apartment and stick a bug in the wardrobe. it's the combination now of technology again, insane huge number 5 million people with security clearances any low level bureaucrat can basically switch on his computer and be inside the emails of whoever he wants. >> i think that's a key point. the internet, when it first emerged, the idea was it was going to be this unprecedented tool of human liberation. tawas going to enable us to communicate without centralized corporate and state power. and, in fact, the opposite has happened which it which is it has been turned into the greatest tool of coercion and control ever known in history because the nsa secretly, which is what edward snowden came forth to reveal to his fellow citizens had decided to use it to spy on everybody. and it really hasn't been reined in since then. so you are exactly right. it's the ease with which all of our activity that now take place digitally, espe

the 60sd and 70, he was teaching, ucla and cornell an event in 1980 he joined the hoover university andt's where he spent ever since. >> if there were no hoover institution, what a main street university have hired him? [laughter] >> comput have worked at any university he wanted to, he turned down offers to places likehe dartmouth, university of wisconsin, he could have worked at any department in the country, he was quite talented in his discipline before he even began writing on racial controversies and so forth. a number of academic publications and so forth. when he rannd into trouble with was faculty from the college administrators have different teaching style and i think part of the problem was this was the 1960s higher education was changing. you had a woman's right movement, gait movement, antiwar movement, all of these things are coming together. college campuses were using the platform for this sort of thing and tom was a different generation, he intended to teach the way he was taught and that was part, starting in the 1960s, that became very difficult to do. the professors

. >> reporter: hoover dam, an engineering marvel was thought to be a concrete solution. harnessed the mighty colorado river and created nevada's lake mead, still the nation's largest reservoir. this water supply is what made western cities such as los angeles, phoenix, and las vegas possible and allowed us to create some of the richest farm la land in the country. but the predicted water supply from the colorado river was based on 20 abnormally wet years at the beginning of the last century. now 40 million people in seven states depend on it. >> we did it. we've built it. we've become reliant on it. so we have to deal with what we have. >> reporter: pet mullroy is the form herd of the southern nevada water authority. we met her on the shores of lake mead, which has sunk to its lowest level ever. in the tweer 2000, the water came right up to the top of the dam. during the mega drought, the water has dropped more than 140 feet. >> so when it loses this much water, to me that is an enormous wake-up call. >> reporter: next month the federal government is expected to make an

masons through the history have hoovered up more and more symbols to use from all kinds of cultures and folklore since the one to use in their rituals but the original and most important of these symbols comes from the work of stonemasons with compasses, squares plumb lines trowels and the like and the ideas metaphoric way speaking that the freemasons built better men as the stain moe -- stonemasons built castles and cathedrals. so straightforward and sort of ordinary in a sense but what really galvanizes freemasonry and particularly galvanizes its history and makes it fascinating and surprising and pushes it in all kinds of the directions across three or 400 years in history is secrecy. now when you become a mason you undergo a secret ceremony in which you swear to protect certain secrets with your life, secrets which are further and developed in secrecy by being hidden behind symbols. so what are the secrets and why all the secrecy? do you they really mean it? can we trust a group that is so determined to keep things hidden from us? now in my look, i do explain and i do it early on, w