it is more than a study of joe mccarthy. they take a look at the history of the cold war as it was waged inside the united states as well as overseas. they were domestic aspects in foreign aspects of it and on my reading of what is out there in the textbooks i don't think this history is being told accurately by other authors. maybe somewhere they are right about some aspects. the total picture i don't see in the books i've read including biographies and histories of the cold war. beginning to get more information about some things we did not have information on previously. that malcolm tested elon was a big guy who made charges are made a slice. he smeared innocent people called people communists without having any proof of it and otherwise was a bad guy who harmed a lot of people and pay the price later by being censured and autobiographies. he helps me do and have done more sense to plan off to make more money one thing that happened back then was bad and there were satellite countries controlled by the soviet union for a

chris matthews compared him to joe mccarthy. what is up with that? >> it only took him 30 seconds to do it. ted cruz threatens left-wingers because he does not compromise. because he does not play games. the correlation is phenomenal. this is exactly what they did to ronald reagan. stuart: that put down is a form of senior of him. >> they will try to take him out. you would agree if ted cruz is so conservative, you would agree that barack obama is the single most liberal candidate. how many times was he called a liberal in the entire campaign?

he is joe mccarthy. according to steve. washington post writes about his speech at liberty today. by selecting a private christian college as the site of his announcement, cruz is sending a signal to conservative republican primary voters about his candidacy and his political positioning heading into the race. he has courted evangelicals and other social conservatives as part of an attempt to build a coalition of conservatives frustrated with party elders. the choice of venue underscores cruz's intention to court young conservatives. "if we carry young people, we can turn this entire country around." jim is calling from pennsylvania, republican. caller: good morning. i would like to reply as a republican to the vitriol

but the point is the point he viewed as an anti-communist bully and people say joe mccarthy had it so therefore they just say -- it was a witchhunt. but basically what happened in 47 is that the house committee basically 19 people from hollywood only 11 testified and they became famously known as the hollywood ten. a lot of people like that for the top guys. we asked them a question very politely you have to remember this is during the cold war. and we know what stalinist like. they've taken over people the soviet union was the enemy and basically stalin had declared that we were the enemy and the point is they were members of the conspiracy that's loyal to the soviet union and that country wishes to destroy the united states argue a member of that particular group and they didn't ask it in that way they said are you a member of the communist party. it is a question about the membership. you have to be loyal. they have a construction in the communist party which if you deviate from it is out of the party. it was controlled by the basically controlled by the communist party in new york

zero, well, joe mccarthy have it. it was a witch hunt. the factors committee basically nine people and it became famously known as the hollywood ten. >> they were screenwriters? >> mostly screenwriters. junior. and what they asked, just asking questions very politely. you have to remember, this was during the cold war. all these agreements. free and fair election in east and central europe. in the soviet union was our enemy. basically stalin had. the.is that these people were asked whether they're were they were members of the conspiracy. are you members of the conspiracy that is loyal to the soviet union? are you a member of that particular group? and they do not have to in that way. i am putting and likeness of stack -- the subject of that. >> to be clear the question is not are you a communist but are you a member of the communist party. it's not a question of belief that membership. >> there was a construction within the communist party in which you can deviate. >> and it was administered from a abroad. >> well, that were controlled.

was joe mccarthy bad or good? do you just have the facts and expect your reader to draw conclusions? >> i think that you -- what i try to do is to draw conclusions through narrative and not your argument. i wrote this book about kit carson. a fairly complicated dude. consider this great indian killer, his 1st wife was indian, his 2nd wife was indian. he indian. he was very) with many tribes, complicated person but i do not want to tell you. i want to show you and let you decide. i do not like to be completely coy and say i have no. i am just a writer but i neither like to have this great summation or conclusion at the end that says ties it all up in a a bow and says this is what he or she was like. i hope that begins to answer your question. i i don't know if you have a follow-on those lines. >> i agree completely. not that that is a hard case to make. >> they are actually good. >> when i am done treating that topic i expect you will probably come to a particular opinion, but i we will not not tell you what that o

this has nothing to do with joe mccarthy. whether or not i'm asking peoples opinion, but he said he viewed his anti-communist goalie. therefore -- it is they wish. the fact is that what happened in 47 is that the house committee subpoenaed basically 19 people from hollywood. only 11 testified and 10 became the test. mostly screenwriters. john howard lawson. and those at the top days and asked the question politely. they are free and fair elections in eastern and central europe. the soviet union was our enemy. they declared that these people asked whether they were members of the communist party. i remember said the party that is loyal to the soviet union in the country wishes to actually destroy the united states. are you a member of that particular group? they said are you a member of the communist party? i'm putting in mind the subtext of that. >> host: to be clear, it is not are you a communist. it is a member of the communist party? suis not about belief. it's about membership. to be a member, you had to be loyal to the s

is the attitude of the panel that joe mccarthy's years were low? -- figures were low? >> mccarthy was right about the larger point. the u.s. government had been severely infiltrated by soviet spies. he was wrong about most of the details. mccarthy, of the people he named, several of them we now know were soviets buys. a number of the people he named were not. the problem was mccarthy, his charges were scatter shot. john and i in april -- a book we wrote, talk about you make up stupid charges and the people don't even bring -- believe the real ones. >> golos jupiter -- jay jupiter. how would you compare edward snowden and the current wiki leakers to the disclosure is going on back then? are they more dangerous, more valuable? how does that compare? >> thank you very much. >> one of the huge differences is it is a different situation when some but he is providing espionage to the soviet union and that information is secret and remains secret. and, some of you is leaking to the american public, or to the public of the world, there is an and or miss difference in the motiv

faces is underestimating ted cruz and when you write him off as a wacko you write him off as a joe mccarthy you are not understanding there is a very powerful, frankly, still evangelical antitax base that is a message that resonates with. he will be a first to be reckoned with and you need to take him seriously. >> juan williams it is not only the liberal media with the way -- the "wall street journal" criticizing him as self-centered and he stirs up the negative reviews. >> he does. i will irritate kathleen and nina by saying it is 9 conservatives would have really gone after ted cruz, including peggy noonan yesterday saying in the "wall street journal" this guy is someone who is not only inexperienced and doesn't have a track record in the senate but someone who does not have a chance to be elected president of the united states. if you, as a republican care about beating the democrats and claiming the white house you would not be lining up with ted cruz. >> what i said is not to the exclusion of what you have acknowledged. >> he said he was irritated. >> he is obviously not going to win

he doesn't believe in science, he's tried to derail every -- he conducts hearings like joe mccarthy,nd he wants to dismantle the u.s. government. this is it is unsettling realie about ted cruz. i think he's the problem, not the solution. republican congressman of new york peter king said he would rather jump off a bridge than support cruz. to me he's a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> would you support him in at the hess the nominee? >> i hope the day never comes. i'll jump off the bridge if it comes to it. >>> here he is. >> imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of obamacare. imagine abolishes the i.r.s. imagine repealing every word of common core. we will get back and restore that shining city on a hill that is the united states of america. thank you and god bless you. >>> well, there he is giving blessings to a bunch of students who were told if they didn't show up, they would have to pay $10. the common core might be just the beginning, when he ran for the senate in 2012, he told a crowd the tea party republicans that abolishing the irs w

and when you just write him off as a whacko, as a joe mccarthy you are not -- you're not understanding that there is a very powerful frankly still evangelical anti-tax base, he hit those two themes in his speech this week that this message resonates with. he will be a force to be reckoned with and, you know you need to take him seriously. >> juan williams, it's not all the liberal media. "wall street journal" editorial page krizcriticizing him. he has a knack for stirring up these negative reviews. >> i think he does. and i think i'll irritate kathleen and nina this sunday morning by saying i think it's conservatives who have really gone after ted cruz. peggy noonan in the "wall street journal" yesterday basically saying this guy is someone who is not only inexperienced and doesn't have much of a track record in the senate, but someone who really does not have a chance to be elected president of the united states. and if you as a republican care about beating the democrats and claiming the white house that you wouldn't be lining up with ted cruz. >> what i said is not to the exclusion

there was this channeling of the red baiting joe mccarthy in 2013 as he casualty accused chuck hagel, a republican who had two purple hearts from vietnam, of being too cozy with north korea. let's watch this. >> but it is at minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 he deposited in his bank account came directly from saudi arabia, came directly from north korea. i have no evidence to suggest that it is or isn't. no no way, shape, or form have i intended to or in fact impugned his character. my focus has consistently been on his record which i think is a record that is troubling and would be dangerous to the national security interests of the country. >> that's laughable. he just accused the guy of getting 200k in his pocket, but he won't admit he got it from the reds up in pyongyang from kimyong un. he tried to belittle democratic senator dianne feinstein who is a political grown-up in her knowledge of the constitution. she was the top elected official in the city of san francisco, major george moscone, harvey milk was gunned down by an assassin in 1970. she was the one who discovered

. >> do you want joe mccarthy to come back or the bates motel.much for joining us. >> thanks. >> secretary kerry clashed with marco rubio. let's watch. >> i believe that much of our strategy with regard to isis is being driven by a desire not to upset iran so they don't walk away from the deal that you are working on. >> our deal is negotiated to make sure they can not get a nuclear weapon and it's really almost insulting that the presumption here is that we're going to negotiate something that allows them to get a nuclear weapon. >> i haven't discussed about the nuclear weapon. and i'm not saying there's a grand bargain. what i'm saying is i believe our military strategy towards isis is influenced by our desire not to cross red lines that the iranians have about the u.s. military presence in the region. >> absolutely not in the least. there's no consideration whatsoever as to how they or anybody else -- >> getting a little complicated there. rubio -- everybody is out there sporting that. they are trying to find a way to plant their flag. what's

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chris matthews compared him to joe mccarthy. what is up with that?o do it. ted cruz threatens left-wingers because he does not compromise. because he does not play games. the correlation is phenomenal. this is exactly what they did to ronald reagan. stuart: that put down is a form of senior of him. >> they will try to take him out. you would agree if ted cruz is so conservative, you would agree that barack obama is the single most liberal candidate. how many times was he called a liberal in the entire campaign? welcome ted cruz. everybody called to everything but a not see. stuart: was there anyone that took his candidacy seriously and presented it seriously? >> i was impressed by political and what they did. a very sober serious analysis. i am not too offended by what matt lauer said on nbc's. that will be the nicest thing that he says throughout the entire campaign. stuart: you cap it short and sweet. thank you. it is that outraged story of the day. children climbing on a vietnam war memorial. what is wrong with the parents of these children? ♪ (tr

i was a liberal and that is important to distinguish three joe mccarthy or their right-wing conservative anti-communism days were liberals who were very much affected by the 30's shattering of a coalition including the of communist party when it was legal but when it turned out the party members had an allegiance to the soviet union and stalin they had hidden allegiances that shattered organization in san coalitions to liberals concluded they were not reliable partners because they had hidden allegiances. they did not want to replay the 1930's and that is why there were so many other behind-the-scenes institutions focused to make sure there was not a replay of the american student union that the communist route from the get-go. >> one thing that made me realize that i thought i do something about i always thought the big scandal in fact, was run in manipulated and funded by the cia. after read your book i came to see a far darker and more disturbing part of the story was not just uh disorganization with the vast american -- intelligence or those from other countries that this was passed

we have bart murphy, jack fitzpatrick, joe duffy, agnes mccarthy and jong john ring and the executivedirector natasha mcpartland and joan cutty and the many volunteers who help us and represent the irish government for their financial support and commitment and finally to thank you for this honor. thank you, mark. and it's wonderful to be here. and i will go and celebrate st. patrick. [ applause ] >> thank you, father brendan and i know we have some of our stalwarts from our irish community to be here with us. i want to invite our counsel general, as well as board member, commission, as well as in the city of san francisco, bart murray. >> thank you, mark, madame president and supervisors, this is the first time i have had the great honor to address you. i can't think of a better occasion. our national holiday, st. patrick's day and to honor father brendan mcbride, perhaps one of the biggest heros in our irish community in your great city today. i want to thank you for all the work that you do, in continuing to extend an invitation, a welcome and a home to the irish. it has happened f

that is important to distinguish between liberal anticommunism and joe mccarthy or right-wing or conservativeanticommunism. these were liberals who had been very much affected by the ''30s shattering of coalitions that included communists. at the time the communist party was perfectly legal. when it turned out party members had an allegiance to the soviet union and to stalin, they had hidden allegiances and shattered coalition, shattered organization shattered roots svelte voting coalition. liberals concluded they weren't reliable partners because they had hidden allegiances. that was very key. they didn't want a replay of the 1930s. there were so many behind the scenes institutions focused rivetted to make sure that there wasn't a replay of the american student union, that the communists were out of nsa from the very get-go. >> you know one thing which reading your book made me realize, which i had not originally i thought i knew something about all this because i had been working at ramparts at the time and so on. i always thought the big scandal was that this organization that was supposed

was joe mccarthy bad or good good or do you just put the facts and expect the reader to draw on the conclusions >> i think what i tried to do is to draw conclusions through narrative and not the argument. i wrote this book about kit carson. kit carson is a very complicated did. consider this great indian killer. his first wife is indian, his second wife was india. he was very close friends with many tribes. a complicated person just as stonewall jackson was a complicated person but i don't want to tell you, i want to show you what he was like. let you decide so yeah i don't like to be completely coy and say i have no opinions on the writer. you decide but i don't either like to have this great summation of this great conclusion at the end of ties it all up in a bow and says this is what he or she was like. i hope that begins to answer your question. >> i agree completely. i think probably for instance with the nazi propaganda top of that is a hard case to make. when i'm done treating that topic i expect you'll probably come to a particular opinion but i'm not going to tell you what that opinion

he is joe mccarthy. according to steve. washington post writes about his speech at liberty today.y selecting a private christian college as the site of his announcement, cruz is sending a signal to conservative republican primary voters about his candidacy and his political positioning heading into the race. he has courted evangelicals and other social conservatives as part of an attempt to build a coalition of conservatives frustrated with party elders. the choice of venue underscores cruz's intention to court young conservatives. "if we carry young people, we can turn this entire country around." jim is calling from pennsylvania, republican. caller: good morning. i would like to reply as a republican to the vitriol against ted cruz. the only vitriol that is coming from republican ted cruz is he is speaking the truth about what president obama is. i want to remind democratic voters that voted him into office twice, this is the same this is the same guy who said we have 57 states in america. the same president who thrown israel under the that bu, and responded to benjamin netanyah

caller: joe mccarthy and eisenhower were right about what is going on in washington, with all the communistsn both sides of the aisle. what the gop did, well, you know, they are both guilty. a lot of the charge for treason is the obamas, the clintons, the bushes, little georgie, they are all a bunch of crooks. both sides of the aisle, we are a republic and not a democracy. they keep talking about a democracy people at -- democracy. people do not understand these people are bought and paid for. thank you very much. host: coming up next, we will talk to a conservative group recently ranked members of congress who vote on base -- these issues. we will talk to their president david mcintosh. we will hear from progressive later on. will marshall from the progressive policy institute will be with us later in the program. we will be right back. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] ♪ >> this sunday, dr. aetrium director of the georgetown unive

mccarthy speech. >> well -- was yesterday unprecedented? >> i can't remember anything quite like it at all, joe. i thought it was extraordinary. i wasn't up there but you could feel the tension from ten blocks away. i thought it was a very forceful and effective speech. i thought he started off, however, saying i'm sorry some people think this was about politics. it's not. it was all about politics. politics there, back there, and helped himself but may have hurt israel in the long run. >> you think it was all about politics, you don't any any of it was a warning to representatives -- >> i think it was both. >> -- saying this iran deal is bad for israel bad for the middle east. >> no. i think he -- >> bad for america? >> he clearly believes that but the speech was given two weeks before he's up for re-election. clearly political, and political here. but i thought -- i did think it was effective. the reason i say it may be bad for israel over the long run, for the past 65 years one of great strengths that israel's had in this country is a bipartisan support, and that

was joe mccarthy bad or good good or do you just put the facts and expect the reader to draw on the conclusions >> i think what i tried to do is to draw conclusions through narrative and not the argument. i wrote this book about kit carson. kit carson is a very complicated did. consider this great indian killer. his first wife is indian, his second wife was india. he was very close friends with many tribes. a complicated person just as stonewall jackson was a complicated person but i don't want to tell you, i want to show you what he was like. let you decide so yeah i don't like to be completely coy and say i have no opinions on the writer. you decide but i don't either like to have this great summation of this great conclusion at the end of ties it all up in a bow and says this is what he or she was like. i hope that begins to answer your question. >> i agree completely. i think probably for instance with the nazi propaganda top of that is a hard case to make. when i'm done treating that topic i expect you'll probably come to a particular opinion but i'm not going to tell you what that opinion