a second set of mccarthy hearings began jim townsend. what were those? well, there had senator mccarthy had begun to make allegations against the u.s. military and the army in particular, and a facility in a signal corps facility at fort monmouth. you'd started to assert that there were communists who had infiltrated that facility, in particular. and he, in the course of doing so, was really starting to come into conflict with not only the us army, but the eisenhower administration. in a republican administration, of course. and this started to raise a lot of concern because of the way that senator mccarthy was behaving. his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic and his staff, particulay roy cohn and another staff member named david shine, were, you know, getting into more and more controversy. and ultimately, what happened was that some of senator mccarthy's opponents started to raise the question of why these young lawyers, because at the time there was a draft, why these two young lawyers, cohn and shyne, had not been themselves drafted into the

a second set of mccarthy hearings began jim townsend. what were those? well, there had senator mccarthy had begun to make allegations against the u.s. military and the army in particular, and a facility in a signal corps facility at fort monmouth. you'd started to assert that there were communists who had infiltrated that facility, in particular. and he, in the course of doing so, was really starting to come into conflict with not only the us army, but the eisenhower administration. in a republican administration, of course. and this started to raise a lot of concern because of the way that senator mccarthy was behaving. his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic and his staff, particularly roy cohn and another staff member named david shine, were, you know, getting into more and more controversy. and ultimately, what happened was that some of senator mccarthy's opponents started to raise the question of why these young lawyers, because at the time there was a draft, why these two young lawyers, cohn and shyne, had not been themselves drafted into th

as jim townsend, he spent decades working on european nato policy at the pentagon and nato itself. he's now in a john senior fellow at the center for a new american security. he joins us tonight from paris, going to feed them now 75 years after the founding of nato. is russia once again, the biggest threat in the rush is the biggest threats and to deal with the rest of the lions has to be united. and that was the main message coming out of a foreign ministers meeting. and the summit also in july is that the alliance, the standing firm and the alliance is going to be getting stronger, not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of spending and in terms of what's being bought with this money. and the readiness of troops that can be increased to make sure that they can to turn anything coming out of moscow. how much of that hangs in the balance going into the presidential elections in the us come november. well, uh the us election has stirred a lot of controversy here in europe. certainly concerned about a trump presidency. if 5 joe biden were to lose a trump, a president presidency th