j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents that represented him and his views, a very particular image. when we think of an fbi agent or a g-man, there are very specific ideas about who that is. will it be a tall white guy in a suit with a hat and shiny shoes and a certain set of political views. during his lifetime, i do not think agents loved him. he was a hard boss to work for. they had a lot of respect for him. right now my sense is the fbi has an ambivalent relationship with hoover. on one hand he did build the institution. on the other hand i thi

j. edgar hoover. thank you. i think this is particularly for jamie, but perhaps both of you do speak up a little bit as they go. i think this is particularly for jamie, but perhaps for both of you, i'm wonder while your focus here in the in the united states the parallels perhaps to what was going on in great britain during the same period of time. the question was about, are there parallels to what was going on in great britain during the same period of time? there were there were the the westminster lobby correspondents who were sort of similarly cliquish. i think that because washington was so insular and isolated in way that london isn't, paris isn't. and a lot of these other great capitals and sort of the way that it was, the way that it was founded, means that it actually is a very particular case. and there's a there's a reason, a little bit of exceptionalism, i think, in our stories, washington was very unusual in its origins, where it's only business is its politics. there a number of parallels with gre

j. edgar hoover was running the place and the reason is because you don't give straight answers. you give answers a court deems untrue and end of the day you won't criticize a shake down in front of us and it appears as though you're whitewashing the conduct of drcorrupt individual >> i'm sitting here with my father. i will make certain a if man sitting next to me and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. i am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. >> sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it director? >> i'm not going to get into that. >> you seem deeply uncurious about it, almost suspiciously. are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. >> well, the criticism here wasn't just from republicans another point in the hearing, democrat congresswoman camila channeled wray on the agency practice of illegally obtaining cell phone location data. >> it is public information that the fbi use babel street and ventel and has a lexus account. can you tell me how fbi uses that data? >> this is a topic that gets involved to explain so i

j. edgar hoover had put him even before world war two on a list to be detained in case of a national emergency as a suspicious person. oppenheimer, in the 1930s had participated in left wing activities. his wife, kitty, was a communist party. his brother, his sister in law were communist party members. so hoover thought that he was a communist party member. that's been proven. but but he was left leaning louis straus, who was the director of the atomic energy commission. in 1953, didn't like oppie, partly for just kind of petty personal reasons teller edward teller didn't like oppie because teller thought he should have been appointed the head of the theoretical division and lo said not better. there are these people that kind got together in the early fifties to take down r.p. and some of it was for petty reasons. some of it was for security reasons. maybe he was connected with the soviet union, but also i think it's because we as a country had come to a in the road and. oppie was saying maybe we should be rethinking this fork, that we're going down in nuclear weapons. maybe we should go a di

j. edgar hoover and the making of the american century. this in this biography beverly gage tells the story of the quincy government man j. edgar hoover, one of the most powerful, unelected did officials in american history. he shaped the fbi by his image. we cannot know our own story without understanding his it all, its high aspirations and, terrible cruelty, and its many contradictions. writes beverly gage beverly gage has miraculously untangled those contradictions in her own paradoxical national involving american anxieties over security, masculinity race. it's a big ambitious book and is written with a propulsive energy and on its she weaves through archival revelations historical nuance to to interpret notations and psychological keenness. it is really suspenseful biography washington dc is essential to her understanding hoover and his biography is also the biography story, his hometown as it ran swarmed from a sleepy, parochial city into the center of the global power gauge. she herself understands power, she writes. it does not ar

mean weren't different a period in our country, maybe j edgar hoover did this and was abusive. made me wake and i run contract was abusive. i, i'm not here to go back what we can see now. well not that far is not very well. we can see now is obama and button in the white house with susan rice choosing to put our country on the brink of nuclear war by making the russia hoax go for. it's in the americans are just moving on. well that house is actually going to get us into a real war. exactly. that's what's happened twice and it was all.

mean, were in a different period in our country, maybe j edgar hoover did this and was abusive. made me wake and i run contract was abusive. i, i'm not here to go back what we can see now. well, not that far is not very well. we can see now is obama and buddy in the white house with susan rice choosing to put our country on the brink of nuclear war by making the russia hoax go for. it's in the americans are just moving on. well that house is actually going to get us into a reward. exactly. that's what's happened twice. and it was all a hoax component. yes. and we've violated all kinds of agreements in, in, in terms of, in the visibility of, with, with allies. you don't are in terms of indivisibility, you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east. we did just the opposite by moving natal going, hey, hang on to that thought, my cause. i want to go back to august 2021. the official end of the afghan war, the withdrawal to be exact. so the whole world and saw what can only be described in the most polite terms of botched right bite and blame. trump say it was because trump alrea

mean, where did, if i'm a period in our country, maybe j edgar hoover did this and was abusive. maybe wake and i run culture was abusive. i, i'm not here to go back. what we can see now we're not that far is not available. we can see now is obama and button in the white house with susan rice choosing to put our country on the brink of nuclear war by making the russia hoax go for. it's in the americans are just moving on. well, that hoax is actually going to get us into a reward. exactly. that's what's happened twice. and it was all a hoax component. yes. and we violated all kinds of agreements in, in, in terms of, in the visibility of, with, with allies. you don't are in terms of indivisibility, you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east. we did just the opposite by moving natal going, hey, hang on to that thought might cause i want to go back to august 2021. the official end of the afghan war, the withdrawal to be exact. so the whole world on saw what can only be described in the most polite terms of botched right? by didn't blame. trump say, um it was because trump

me were in a different period in our country, maybe j edgar hoover did this and was abusive. maybe wake and i run contra was abusive. i, i'm not here to go back what we can see now. we're not that far is not available. we can see now is obama and button in the white house with susan rice choosing to put our country on the brink of nuclear war by making the russia hoax go for. it's in the americans are just moving on. well, that hoax is actually going to get us into a reward. exactly. that's what's happened twice. and it was all a hoax component. yes. and we've violated all kinds of agreements in, in, in terms of, in the visibility of, with, with allies. you don't are in terms of indivisibility, you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east. we did just the opposite by moving natal going hang, hang onto that thought might cause i want to go back to august 2021. the official end of the afghan war, the withdrawal to be exact. so the whole world on saw what can only be described in the most polite terms of botched right? by didn't blame. trump say um it was because trump

j. edgar hoover was running the place. >> respectfully in your home state of florida, the number of people applying to come work for us and twdevote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> we're deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> reporter: all as democrats took shot at their gop colleagues. >> we're here today because maga republicans will do anything to protect donald trump their savior no matter how unfounded or dangerous it may be to do so. >> reporter: democrats also needling judiciary jim jordan for once defying a subpoena in the house january 6 investigation. >> quite rich to me that you are hearing all these allegations from somebody who won't even respond to a lawful subpoena. >> reporter: republicans on this committee and particularly the chair jim jordan have made a big deal of their belief that the leadership of the fbi is somehow biased against conservatives. and chris wray was asked about this during the hearing. he said it is insane to him the notion that he would be biased against conservatives given his personal background. and he is a register

j. edgar hoover was running the place. >> respectfully congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> we're deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> reporter: all as democrats took shots at their gop colleagues. >> we are here today because maga republicans will do anything to protect donald trump their savior no matter how unfounded or dangerous it may be to do so. >> reporter: democrats also needling judiciary chair than jim jordan for once defying a subpoena in the house january 6 investigation. >> quite rich to me that you are hearing all these allegations from somebody who won't even respond to a lawful subpoena. >> reporter: republicans on this committee and particularly the chair jim jordan, have made a big deal of their belief that the leadership of the fbi is somehow biased against conservatives. chris wray was asked about this and he said that it is insane to him the notion that he would be biased against conservatives especially given his personal background. an

she was a correspondent -- not j edgar hoover -- not -- it is still early in the day. herbert hoover. a friend of j howard q, the president of sun oil and one of the key figures in our story. she's known to libertarians -- people who admire her call her one of the three furies along with sign rand and isabel patterson, three of the key libertarian thinkers in the mid century. but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder. the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched growing up were marketed as the true life stories of laura ingalls wilder as a young girl growing up on the american frontier whose families succeeded by dint of hard work, the strength of the nuclear family and, most importantly, with no help from the government . but the reality was, laura ingalls wilder did not write this books. her libertarian daughter did. and they were not true stories. laura made rough notes for the story but her daughter re-crafted them into libertarian parables. and they were

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j. edgar hoover was running the place than you. you don't give straight answers. you give later the court deems aren't true and you wouldn't criticize a shake down in front of us and appears you are whitewashing the conduct of corrupt people. >> respectfully in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> we're deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from -- >> thank you, mr. chair. director wray, thank you for continuing to serve with all of these attempts to sully your name. suggest you have committed crimes. you have done an excellent job as f.b.i. director. i don't know every you've done but i think the f.b.i. is a premier law enforcement agencies and i support law enforcement. to attack the f.b.i. is to attack law enforcement in general. two days after mar-a-lago there was some individual went after the cincinnati headquarters of the f.b.i. how do you think that came about?

beverly gage j edgar hoover and the making of the american century. well, thank so much for this.this is a real thrill, i confess, when was spending more a decade working on. more than 800 page biog for fear of a strange and many ways terrible man. i wasn't always sure there really was a place for this book in the world and is a real thrill and delight to see that that it does have a place that telling some of our complicated history of the 20th century through someone who i think of as a very, very man, has really to many people. it is a tribute, all of you out there who may still want to think about one subject for more than a decade. and in fact to write an 800 page book. even in our very fast moving era that is still possible. and it's wonderful to see that. it is. i would like to thank quickly my partner john witt, who is here with me and who edited many, many versions of this has spent a lot of time hearing about a man that many people maybe would not to spend quite this much time hearing about. i would like to thank my research assistant, former graduate student entry, a tr

like every fbi director since j edgar hoover's time he is a republican. a registered republican. so i think what we're seeing here is someone who did not take this job expecting that he would be pummeled from the right, not with legitimate oversight concerns, but with made-up attacks. with conspiracy theories designed to destroy the fbi. it is time for us to call this what it is. it is not just talking about defunding the agency, it is trying to use people in congress to minimize the agency in a way that we have never seen in american public life. everyone who has the opportunity to should be calling this out strongly. >> carol, what have you heard about what is going on inside the fbi? amid these attacks on the agency on chris wray. >> there was a lot of shock, i have to say, there is sort of a stunned reaction in a news room as well. much of the reporting that we have been doing for the last several months has been about how cautious and careful, and at some point kid gloves the fbi was and how you pursued the evidence of criminal and possible criminal culpability on the part o

j. edgar hoover was running the place.'t get straight answers. >> the idea that i'm biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. >> it is a little wild. i mean, he's a registered republican. >> a republican appointed by a republican president to this position, president trump, that is. yeah, it's remarkable. and i think that it speaks to -- just one of many examples of donald trump's power on the republican party. and his ability to shift its positions and its views on things. and i'm talking across the board. everything from trade policy to whether the 2020 election was stolen and rigged. to this very issue here, right? i mean, it's all in the same mold and it all has to do with donald trump's influence on the party. >> yeah. and i think this is only accelerating as we go along into the 2024 field. >> absolutely. if you were to watch that full hearing which lasted hours, 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon, we heard these refrains over and over again. democrats tried to push back a lit

j. edgar hoover was running the place more than you are. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us and devoted their lives to working for us is up over 100%. >> we're deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> reporter: all as gop took shots at their republican colleagues. now, wray, also told the panel the notion he's biased against conservatives was insane to him given his own personal background. he's a registered republican and he was, again, appointed to this job by republican president donald trump, jake. >> sara murray, thanks so much. let's talk about this with a decorated former fbi agent who served under fbi directors james comey and robert mueller, and that's cnn's jaosh campbell. the fbi mentioned increased threats in the wake of the mar-a-lago fbi search, but the fbi is not only concerned about the fbi agents in that search. >> wray is concerned about all 30,000 fbi employees and that's why he mentioned wray standing up this unit to guard against threats to employees. words actually matter part

people trusted the fbi more when j edgar hoover was running the place that when you are. >> respectfully in your home state of florida, the number of people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> the american people fully understand that there is a two-tiered justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs, and that you have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi, and certainly your description of my own approach. the idea that i am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background. >> that was just a small taste of the cuckoo for cocoa puffs crazy that dominated that hearing. i think congressman eric swalwell summed it up best. >> this hearing has turned into absolute chaos. i yield back. >> joining me now is democratic congressman hank johnson of georgia. he is a member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, how did you and your democratic colleagues approach this he

j. edgar hoover was running the fbi than you are. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home state of floridaf people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> and i think another notable moment from that hearing today was when republican th massey questioned wray about the pipe bomb found at the dnc in 2021. massey asked why the fbi has not been able to share more information about that event and why they have not yet identified a suspect. he played a video that showed an individual that appeared to be wearing a backpack near the location where that pipe bomb was found and wray pushed bag saying this is an ongoing investigation. i can't offer much information. he did say the fbi had conducted thousands of interviews and reviewed tens of thousands of hours of video footage and so far they're still trying to identify who the suspect is and we're waiting to hear more. a lot of hearing has been very political from both sides. questions from republicans and democrats alike really serious in their grilling of wray. and i think we'll continue to see some

j. edgar hoover was running the place then you are. you don't give straight answers. you give answers that later in court are deemed not true. >> kevin: wray fired back saying his agency remains popular. expect in your home state of florida, the number of people trying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is over 100%. >> we are deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> kevin: so is the fbi protecting the bidens? that was one of the many questions. and also where the feds in on the january 6 protest? were they there at the capitol or not and why did the fbi allegedly target, catholics and demanding answers about the disparate ways the bureau appears to be happening the trim document trauma over at mar-a-lago and how they are handling joe biden's. >> and in my experience, ballrooms, bathrooms and bedrooms. >> how about a box in -- >> mr. chairman -- is back in the biden center. >> kevin: and he was not present at the time. the fbi had a statement tonight that said the fbi has never been in the business of investment -- investigating

j. edgar hoover was running the place than when you, and you don't give straight answers and later a courtrue and you won't criticize an obvious shakedown when it's directly in front of us and you're whitewashing the conduct. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us is over 100%. >> we are deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> the time has expired and the gentleman from d.c. is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair and director wray, thank you for continuing to serve with all of these attempts to sully your

j. edgar hoover has personally directed the fbi to try to find something on her. fiorello laguardia, the mayor of new york, has sworn that he's going to drive her out of the city, but even then, even once she rebuilt her savings and had enough money to retire. she hesitated to as she had seen enough of human autocracy to know that in the square world she'd be just another nobody. or worse, as she puts it, as miss pearl adler, the reformed procurer is an honest citizen. i a social outcast as polly. the proprieties of new york's most opulent bordello. society came to me. so she continues on through the fat cat years of the world war to build up and then the wars. but by 1945 she's now really casting about. for an exit plan. back in 18 excuse me, 1938, last vogel famous as the boy genius of the legendary william morris agency, had urged her to write her memoir. but at this time, nothing could have been less appetizing. she would been paid a pretty penny for it. but that would have just about covered the cost of her funeral. but as the years went on this idea of becom

everybody was honest who cared about america and all these other things and that, you know, whatever j edgar hoovers shortcomings were that was certainly image that he promoted and despite the shortcomings, there some of the cia. i most people especially lee coming out of world war two and the i think it was knew that we needed people who would put themselves at risk by gaining intelligence on what our enemies were trying to do to us. i just think that's you know in football it's called scouting and know you scout what the other team is doing and you find their strong points, weak points so you can exploit the weak points and defend against the strong points. i do the same thing. intelligence. and sure, there have been some that have gone over the top and off the off the rails. but by and large i think the fbi, the cia in the past have done a good job unfortunately right now, as you it has been weaponized and politically politicized, along with the irs. and this is good for a stable nation. people losing trust in their institutions at level. i have not seen in my lifetime and that is bad for americ

j. edgar hoover was running the place than when you, and you don't give straight answers and later a court deems not true and you won't criticize an obvious shakedown when it's directly in front of us and you're whitewashing the conduct. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us is over 100%. >> we are deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> the time has expired and the gentleman from d.c. is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair and director wray, thank you for continuing to serve with all of these attempts to sully your name. they assume you've committed crimes and the fbi is our premiere law enforcement agency, and i support law enforcement. to attack the fbi is to attack law enforcement in general. a few days after mar-a-lago there was some individual that went after the cincinnati headquarters of the fbi. can you tell us a little bit about that and how you think that came about? >> so the incident that you're asking about was obviously deeply disturbing. we had an individual wearing a

j. edgar hoover was running the place. >>> this hour, president biden and president zelenskyy clear the air at the nato summit. zelenskyy describing their meeting as powerful in a tweet just moments ago. all after public frustration from the ukrainians over the lack of a time line for their entry into the alliance. >> i hope we finally have put to bed the notion about whether or not ukraine is welcome to nato. it's going to happen. we are moving in the right direction. i think it's just a matter of getting by the next few months here. >>> a warning from the nominee to lead the joint chiefs of staff. the republican senator tommy tuberville's block on military promotions is affecting the military on multiple levels and could spark a talent drain. i will discuss it with former u.s. navy pilot mikey sheryl. >>> good day. i'm garrett haake. andrea is headed back from the nato summit in lithuania. here in washington, house republicans on the judiciary committee are hammering the fbi director for what donald trump and some conservatives have repeatedly claimed to be the so-called weaponization

people trusted the fbi more when j edgar hoover when running the place. >> respectfully, in your home state of florida, a number of people applying to come work for us and to devote their lives working for us is over -- up over 100%. >> the american people fully understand there is a two tiered justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs, and that you have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi. and, certainly your destruction of my own, approach. the idea that i am biased against conservatives's -- seems somewhat insane to me. given my own personal background. >> somewhat insane. that's also how republicans talk about the fbi, now somewhat insanely. it's not just on capitol hill, conservative media has also gone all in on this theory that the fbi is a weapon of the federal government that will attack conservatives. here's what coverage of that hearing, christopher wray looked like today on newsmax. >> anybody the defines themselves in the crosshairs of the

j. edgar hoover was running the place. >>> this hour, president biden and president zelenskyy clear thements ago. all after public frustration from the ukrainians over the lack of a time line for their entry into the allianc