everything comes crashing down for joe mccarthy. it's tied with roy : in this relationship he was having. as he just pointed out, is not exactly disappear. [laughter] only did write? with neck joe lives of the three years. but there in america political life i don't know, i seem to remember reading somewhere had some sort of connection to another politician who done pretty well for himself in recent years. >> recent years guess. >> it seems like we can't avoid talking just a little bit about the ways in which politics you are describing have endured now into the trump the trump years. the trump years. provides us that bridge. >> right right. first as you note mccarthy dies almost certainly of complications related to alcoholism in 1957. my father in law grow up in appleton told a great story being young and seeing all of these cars go by pretty because out to a sidewalk he thanks are separate it's actually joe mccarthy's funeral. so it mccarthy in may of 57. but is the bad penny or maybe the more cockroach that cannot be done away wi

there's the joe mccarthy stand-in in the movie. he's actually kind of literally quoting joe mccarthy from real life. but you know, he's talking about these supposed exact number of communists that he has ferreted out and he knows the truth about, and he's demanding n otl answers for. even if he couldn't keep the numbers straight, since he had made them up. still, it sounds good when you cite specific numbers. it sounds better when you can remember what the number was. but still, it lands with a good effect.r.er ss in rudy giuliani's loss of his law license today, it's actually the exact same thing.ns the court today found that he, for example, made up wildly different, inconsistent, and all fake numbers of supposedly dead people who supposedly voted in philadelphia. s quote, respondent repeatedly stated that dead people voted in philadelphia in order to discredit the results of the vote in that city. he quantified the amount of deaf people who voted at various times as 8,021. while also reporting the number as 30,000. mr. giuliani,

that's joe mccarthy at the microphone. we next to him in the previous still was roy cohen. on february 9th, john mccarthy at the microphone -- in february night 1950, mccarthy gave a speech to a republican woman's club in west virginia. in which he really did wave around a piece of paper and say he had a list of communists on it. newspapers quoted him saying, that west virginia meeting in 1950, i have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the secretary of state as being members of the communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the states a department. he pulled that stunt and it was a hit! it caused a sensation. he then kept doing it. all his subsequent appearances, suddenly mccarthy could not keep total track of the supposed number of communists he had on the paper. sometimes he would say 205 communists, sometimes he would say it's 81, sometimes it was 57. [laughs] people didn't really care about the specifics, the turned out. but it seemed good that he had a specific number, even if the specific number changed all the

it didn't occur to joe mccarthy that he might be next. it seemed like an error for this hotel, for lebanon, for the foreign journalists working there. it was coming to an end, it was closing in around, around me. but also it felt as if the hotel was sort of closing down to mccarthy was then ordered by his w t. n. bosses in london to leave a route immediately. on the 17th of april, 1986, he checked out of the commodore and headed for the airport. but within minutes on demand intercepted his car grabbed him and took him away. joe mccarthy would be the last foreign journalists to stay at the commodore. so it's extraordinary. i started off that morning in april 1986 leaving this rather grand if dilapidated street at the commodore hotel. and then the next room i was in was underground in a tiny, filthy, dirty prison cell, basically as a hostage. and i was to remain a hostage for the next 5 and a quarter years. 9 months after mccarthy's abduction, on the 17th of january, 1987 hostage negotiator terri weight was also kidnapped. he was last seen

but it was the washington merry-go-ram that undid joe mccarthy. it started by revealing that one of mccarthy's aids g. david schein had dodged the draft. which prompted army doctors to reclassify them? next the common revealed that another mccarthy staffer roy cohen was demanding weekend passes and other special treatment for private china. mccarthy at the time was investigating the army signal corps. the army claimed that he was prolonging the investigation to blackmail it into special treatment for private china. mccarthy counteracted that the army was holding shine hostage to make him stop his investigation. as a result the senate held the televised army mccarthy hearings. and this gave the nation the chance to see for themselves the type of actions and the behavior center mccarthy that drew pearson had been reporting on in his column. no other journalist even not even edward r murrow who usually gets the credit but no other journalist, but contributors as much to joseph mccarthy's undoing. drew pearson spent four decades making allies among th

we're not sitting here praising joe mccarthy, we're sitting here talking about a very brave woman whoccarthy was censured by the united states senate, two years before dwight eisenhower was going to say something against mccarthy and was talked out of it in the 1950 campaign. and it was senator smith who was right. she was right early. mccarthy had -- his escalator ride in wheeling, west virginia, lincoln's birthday 1950 gave a speech to republican women of west virginia at hotel mcclure i think it was. he said 205 communists have infiltrated the state department, this is a conspiracy so immense it boggles the mind. in that he was playing to cold war fears and tapping into a deep american tradition of populist anxiety and conspiracy thinking. difference between then and now is that the conspiracy thinking used to be something you could isolate and look at as a political phenomena. what has happened today, 55% to 60% of the major political parties believes a lie of mccarthyan dimension. means to end of the declaration of independence, the entire ethos of democratic experiment that howe

for not sitting here praising joe mccarthy.e at talking about a very brave woman who stood up in 1950, for years before joe mccarthy was censured by the united states senate, two years before dwight eisenhower was going to say something against mccarthy and was talked out of it during the 1952 campaign. and it was senator smith who is right. and she was right early. mccarthy had his escalator ride, and it was wheeling west on lincoln's birthday, february 12th 1950 he gave a speech to the republican women of west virginia at hotel mclaren think it was. and he said 205 communists that infiltrated the state department and conspiracy that it boggles the mind. in, that he was pulling to cold war fears. he was also tapping into a deep american tradition of populist anxiety conspiracy thinking. the difference between then and now is that the conspiracy is thinking used to be something you could isolate and look at as a political phenomena. what has happened today is that 55 to 60 believes a lie of mccarthy dimensions which is about th

four years later, 67 members of 9 senate voted to censure joe mccarthy.. four years was longer than it should have been, but i think in the long run, the american people, the truth comes out and our democracy usually rewards that. so i think a few people with courage, we already have them in the house and senate, people who have stood up. margaret chase smith only had six. we at least have seven in the senate now, 35 in the house, and i think those fee people with courage can make a majority of people, particularly, as you see, republicans are now very concerned that trump is out there endorsing very weak candidates who could lose them seats. now, i'd prefer to have better candidates that aren't trump endorsed that win, but if they lose, that will be another way they learn that are lessons. i do think, you know, sooner rather than later, with the truth coming out, the scales will fall from the eyes, the way they did with joe mccarthy, and this will be either it's cutting out the cancer or maybe, you know, more optimistically it's passing of the political

some of those have not been kept. adam rainy al jazeera, berlin, cybersecurity pioneer joe mccarthy has been very dead and his jail fell iris after spanish courts approve those extra addition to the u. s. you sent to face tax for charges as well. routes reports john mcafee's anti virus software made him rich and famous, but apparently that wasn't enough. mcafee about to be extradited to the u. s. to face charges of tax evasion was found dead in spanish jail cell. on wednesday, he was $75.00, mcafee allegedly failed to pay his taxes for money earned in crypto currency. manipulation deals, speaking engagements, and other activities. he claimed the charges against him were politically motivated . in my interest is the self described lover of women, adventure and mystery founded his virus protection software company in the 1980s. it became one of the most popular in its field, but mcafee tired of being an executive and sold it in 1994, reportedly for $100000000.00. he then embarked on a 2nd career of self indulgence, drinking drugs, sex, and it was alleged crime by his own admission. mcafee

aide to joe mccarthy during the worst of the demagoguery in washington. roy cohn famously corrupt lawyer to the mafia and to the trump organization as it turns out. that testimony just unsealed today from don mcgahn who served as white house counsel to donald trump. mcgahn is the star witness to the more than ten instances of alleged obstruction of justice, instances of alleged obstruction of justice by trump when he was president, when he was maneuvering to try to shut down the investigation into russia's interference, when he directed don mcgahn to create a false paper trail to cover up how he tried to derail the investigation. the president told you to put out an inaccurate statement denying that he told you to get rid of robert mueller. he told you to do that, right? yes. that would have been a false statement? yes. but he told me to cover it up. here it is. the firsthand testimony from the white house counsel about alleged serious acts of obstruction of justice committed by the former president while he was president. this only came out today. this i

aide to -- underhanded duplicitous aide to joe mccarthy during the worst of the mccarthy ite demagoguery in washington. roy cohn famously corrupt lawyer to the mafia and to the trump organization as it turns out. that testimony just unsealed today from don mcgahn who served as white house counsel to donald trump. even though drumm told him he wished he was more like roy cohn. mcgahn is the star witness to the more than ten instances of alleged obstruction of justice, instances of alleged obstruction of justice by trump when he was president, when he was maneuvering to try to shut down the investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election, when he, among other things, directed don mcgahn to create a false paper trail to cover up how he tried to derail that investigation. question if you had put out the statement president trump was requesting, disputing that he had ever asked you to have the special counsel removed, would that have been accurate? answer, that statement would not have been accurate. so the statement -- question, so the statement the president was asking you to

an equally this is a time joe mccarthy's active as wellin some ways.are beginning to be active in some ways. i think there are these two sides to this early part of the cold war era. i would like your perspective on how you reconcile those two things? >> it's a definitely they are as you describe it. i do t not like to over. i saying this but it's helpful to think about the. this way, for the first ten years or so after the war the emphasis on anti- communism taking the form of mccarthyism and rhetorical in other ways and on a kind of american way of life which you certainly say is not inclusive is quite dominant. 1956 that changes a lot. my book split in half in 1956 i don't like to say everything starts or stops there with that kind of is what happened. the communist issue starts to recede, the exciting about the fear begins to recede. the pre-court starts coming out decisions thatis are limiting the power for citizens i was very important supreme court starts taking on obscenity cases which open up freedom of expression for artistic expression or li

students of history in any regard because one of the things they would know is that the public gave joe mccarthyies. do you know when he got in trouble? when he said that the army was full of communists. people were not prepared to hear that. they don't want to hear the institution -- the army is the institution that has the most trust from the united states. it's in the top three consistently. no one is going to believe that. i'm really glad to hear general milley speak out in that way in a voice that people can hear some sanity from. >> god bless that man. jelani cobb, thank you so much. we'll be right back after this. we'll be right back after this spray, lift, skip, step. swipe, lift, spin, dry. slam, pan, still...fresh move, move, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness activated when you move. [lazer beam and sizzling sounds] ♪♪ this... is what freedom sounds like. and this. this is what freedom smells like. [lazer beam and sizzling sounds] ahhh, enjoy 30 days of open-road freshness. febreze car. with relapsing forms of ms... there's a lot to deal with. not just unpredic

he really is the most embarrassing thing to come out of wisconsin politically since joe mccarthy. ptable. >> you've described senator johnson as post truth and i know shortly after the election you claimed the senator called you and told you joe biden won fair and square but couldn't say that publicly for political reasons and more or less denied telling you that. is that what you mean post truth? >> well, that and i mean, you can look at the fact that he lies to the american people inse saying thousands of people died from the covid vaccine and take hydroxychloroquine for preventive measures and the fact that trump won, but the fact is ron johnson to my knowledge, he didn't say that the story was untrue. he just said that i was a weasel or something like that. so he can't say it's not true because it is. the fact is, i did have a long conversation with him and he did admit he knew it but the fact is he is more worried about how he looks to his base here in wisconsin than how, you know, than telling the truth to the people that elected him. >> you said that's really what it's about

he really is the most embarrassing thing to come out of wisconsin politically, since joe mccarthy. ble. >> you have described senator johnson has post truth. and i know shortly after the election, you claimed the senator called you. told you he knew joe biden had won, fair and square, but he couldn't say that publicly, for political reasons. he later, more or less, denied telling you that. is that what you mean by post truth? >> well, that. and i mean, you can look at the fact that he lies to the american people. insinuating that thousands of people have died from the covid vaccine. and -- and you should take hydroxychloroquine to -- to, you know, for preventative measures. and the fact that trump won. but the fact is ron johnson, to my knowledge, he didn't say that the story was untrue. he just said that -- that i was a weasel or something like that. so, he can't say it's not true because it is. and the fact is, you know, i did have a long conversation with him and he did admit that he knew it. but the fact is he is more worried about, you know, how he looks to his base here, in wi

we all talked about joe mccarthy and those guys in the 1940s, '50s, '60s, but the first red scare was sort of touched on lightly. and it wasn't really driven home to me until i was a young tank officer at beautiful ft. louis, washington. my wife and i were out on a day trip and we tripped across this little town called centralia. in the center of the town was this very nice monument to world war i soldiers. and of course as a world war i guy, i made a beeline for it. what shocked and surprised me when i got there was not how beautiful the statue was but the fact that on the side of the memorial were these plaques to four dead american soldiers. and what shocked me was the fact that all four of them had died on the 11th of november, 1919. so exactly a year after the end of the great war. and this puzzled me. how could this possibly have been the case? now, fortunately there was a library or an information kiosk close by. and i had to ask the people there about the statue. and they gave me a pamphlet. and from that pamphlet and what i subsequently learned, this is a monument commemorati

this is joe mccarthy speaking in the 1950s. how can we account for our present situation unless we believe men high in this government are concerting to deliver us from disaster? this must be a product on great conspiracy on a scale -- not just conspiracy, the biggest in the history of man and this is eisenhower who won world war ii is actually a secret pawn of the communist. if not eisenhower, then people high up in the white house and truman administration. the paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms. he's always manning the barricades of civilization. he constantly lives at a turning point. like religious millennialists, he expresses the anxiety and sometimes exposed to set a date for the apop lips. he's writing about political thinkers but as a religious historian, in particular, this language really speaks out to me and the language of millennialism of apocalyptic visions. people talk about a war of civilization. everything will be over if we don't have this, a border wall, something else. every

also communists, this is joe mccarthy speaking in the 1950s which is how can we account for our present situation unless we believe men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? this must be a product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. the biggest in the history of man, and that this is eisenhower is a secret power of the communists. the paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms. he's always manning the barricades of civilization. he constantly lives at a turning point. like religious millennialists. this really speaks out to me in the language of millennialism and apocalyptic vision. they talk about a war of civilization, everything will be over if we don't have this, a border wall or something else, everything will be gone. that this kind of language of this is the election, that if this election doesn't happen it's all over because of some dark conspiracy, okay? the illuminati, we go back into our history the illumined ones established in bullvaria in 1776 founded b

people come away thinking the president is going to take your device and win was important to joe mccarthyin the senate subcommittee on investigating sabotage and the united states government during the red scare in the early 50's in late 40s. roy cowen i don't like to cast aspersions on those who have passed away but he was a self promoter and he made himself more important to reagan than he really was. he had this framework for how he was going to run the government and the country and his worldviews were already stat so there was very little you can point to that he had any influence over. he met him once or twice and that was aboutic it. there were several letters and memos from the reagan white house that were generated by root roy cowen to mrs. reagan and president reagan when they were new york and it was to give him a wide girth as much as possible. his views were outside considering who reagan was and careful whose advice you to. >> host: beau is an georgia. good afternoon beau. >> caller: two things first when i lived down the street from the -- and the other thing i want to ask

right also communist, this is joe mccarthy, right speaking in the 1950s, which is how can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerning to deliver us to disaster. this must be a product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immigrants as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. so not just a conspiracy the biggest in the history of man and that this is eisenhower. who won world war ii is actually a secret pond of the communists. if not, eisenhower's then certainly people high up in the white house and the truman demonstration. the paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms. he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds whole political orders whole set to systems of human values. he is always manning the barricades of civilization. he constantly lives that a turning point like religious millennialists. he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set date for the apocalypse. so i want he's writing about political thinkers, but

mccarthy. congressman joe neguse service peach manager for president trump and inciting an insurrection at the capitol and he joins me now. what is your understanding, congressman, of the structure of this committee and when the appointments might come together? >> well, good to see you again, chris. the selected committee is structured very similar to previous select committees that have been approved by congress as you mentioned. bipartisan structure, will have publican and democratic representation. i don't know when the speaker will announce their appointments to the committee but i expect that will happen in short order but again that remains to be seen. i have no doubt that shell appoint talented, serious, lawful makers who are committed to ascertaining the truth and getting to the bottom of what happened on january six so we can ensure that what happened on that they never happens again. >> republican congressman big from arizona has been, along with boebert and the likes has the most strenuous in their objections to the electors being seated. he said that if you're gonna do, it meaning

so you lose credibility if you're kevin mccarthy that this critique of joe biden's performance is stunning. the hypocrisy is front and center. it's also how do you take the critique seriously given his own history when donald trump had the presidency? >> it's interesting because mccarthy once joked he thought vladimir putin was paying donald trump and now he wants to get tough on russia. there's a new president in town. what are you hearing over there? what's the reaction? >> i think the white house agrees with what david said. it's hypocritical to hear any republican criticism of what president biden is doing when it comes to russia and putin given that trump was chummy with him and often backslapping him, embracing him over u.s. intelligence agencies. it's a criticism that doesn't really have anywhere to go around here. the other thing is there are actual legitimate criticisms and questions about president biden's russian policy when it comes to waiving sanctions that will empower russia and sidestep ukraine. those are questions you can ask of president biden and his top national securit

mccarthy a leader or follower? why don't they get leaders? republicans. >> joently? >> you're being optimistic here. do you think he and sinema are only two aren't against getting rid -- >> no, of course not. >> this time lately? >> they are standing in front of at least nine of them, letting kyrsten sinema and joe manchin take all the bullets, that's clear. just covering for other people. but -- >> here's the question, ask this. voting rights coming up. has to be passed by legislation, under the current law, filibuster could kill it. you know you have to do police reform, guns, what else? infrastructure. might be able to get infrastructure without getting rid of the filibuster, but everything biden is talking about needs 60 votes right now. are you willing to go to the polls next november with nothing? that is also mitch mcconnell's goal. he wants the democrats to get nothing done so he can go to the regular middle of the road deciding voter next november and say the following -- crime's up, inflation is up, the border is not under control. old republican trick

listen to kevin mccarthy the top republican in the house this morning when he says, joe biden now isn the global stage with vladimir putin, and he's worried. >> i do not want to join the eu. i want america to be first. i don't care about charming europe and think you're one of them. my concern that biden is making our adversaries stronger. russia is stronger today under a biden administration than he was under the past administration. china is stronger today. >> we have no idea where the biden chapter goes. we don't know the answer to what we get. but we do know that biden just convinced the europeans to stand with him to confront china. that biden came out with a nato alliance the europeans at his back going into a meeting with putin. that is completely different from the atmosphere under trump. i'm not sure what was in his coffee this morning. >> yeah. i mean, snort and roll your eyes. it's absolutely -- laughable. right? i mean, republicans on the hill have long sort of tried to paint their party as being tough on russia, trump comes in, he refuses to stand up to putin, he agrees

. >> good afternoon president mccarthy and commissioners. joe duffy. i think the director for administration services and i' like to give you some updates on inspection activity . the activity has remained constant through the year and last month in may we had 2666 inspections performed. the division was 2377. building inspection division was 282 for a grand total of 9295. our building inspections were 352 and with 260 complaints received. and 232 of those were responded within 24 to 72 hours. on our code enforcement division we had 37 cases sent to a directors hearing. we performed code enforcement inspections of 221 and we had 13 order abatements issued. that's it and i'm available for anyquestions . >> thank you. if there are no commissioners comments, is thereany public comment on the directors report ? >> there is no comment. >> thank you, next item is item 11, approval of the minutes of the regular meeting 2021. >> motion to approve the minutes. >> is there a second? >> second. >> and public comment from the minutes ? all commissioners in favor.

joe biden is back in washington. back in washington's partisan politics. just a short time ago, the house minority leader, republican kevin mccarthy issued a statement criticizing biden's performance here in geneva at the summit saying, in mccarthy's words that, biden, quote, gave vladimir putin a pass. joining me, senior political analyst john avlon. as i remember, that is not a phrase that mccarthy used regarding trump following helsinki. >> that's right. and that tells you everything you need to know about how shallow and cynical these politics are. so it's stunning, but it's not surprising because it's part of a piece, jim. this has been the republican framing device heading in to the summit that biden was going to somehow be -- you know, not tough enough on vladimir putin which obviously begs the question, what the hell were you all doing the last four years because they didn't say boo when donald trump was losing no opportunity to suck up to vladimir putin and never confronting the kremlin on anything no matter how absurd. i encourage folks to look at an article marshall cohen did 37 times that donald trump was soft on putin and russia. so this is just an

mccarthys are apparently willing to ratify. >> yeah. i am assuming what they'll do is try to do the whole reason in the presidency when it is a democrat, joeblican because that seems to be the way things are going. it is tom nichols. let me give him credit for the late stage bolshevism thing. claire mccaskill, charlie sykes, thank you both. have a great weekend. >>> before break, a quick congratulations to darnella frazier the minnesota teen who recorded george floyd's murder last summer. she has now been awarded an honorary pulitzer prize for her video which spurred protests against police brutality around the world. well done, darn ella. you are a brave young woman with a bright future. up next tonight's absolute worst. stay with us. ♪ ♪ mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering another treatment ask about xeljanz, a pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis when methotrexate has not helped enough. xeljanz can help relieve joint pain and swelling, stiffness, and helps stop further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before a

joe manchin. they need to somehow punish them for what they are doing. to me, it seems like they are almost as much of -- these two are almost obstructing as much as mitch mcconnell and mccarthynd the others who are right-wing fanatics. i do not know what the problem is with this guy, what world he lives in, this joe manchin. this olive branch to republicans to me is nonsense. host: what exactly is wrong with senators mention and kyrsten sinema -- senator manchin and senator kyrsten sinema working on this deal? caller: there is nothing wrong with that, but i do not believe it is sincere. i believe it always comes down to republicans basically handpicking what they want, what is best for them. they are the party that lost the election. to the winner goes the spoils. i do not think the republicans are in a position to be dictating anything to people who do not trust them anymore. they are not to be trusted. guest: -- host: that is marvin in new jersey, bringing up senator joe manchin, also on the sunday shows. asked about some of his own priorities when it comes to how he approaches his more progressive democratic colleagues. here he is from yesterday. [video clip] >> bernie sa

mccarthy was on the channel yesterday. ainsley: i loved what he said. steve: he said we have -- here in this country, joeen is obviously not going to do anything. so what we need to do is the nih has got to stop giving money to countries like china, iran, north korea or russia. they need to limit the number of visas, he said, lift sovereign immunity so 600,000 americans who died can sue and the list goes on and on. ainsley: stop funding the w.h.o. but wind gave them 240 million no strings attached in the early days. deny function of funding in wuhan and declassify all the intel. steve: what about the olympics? ainsley: to move the olympics out of beijing. steve: pull them out. brian: problem is i understand the sentiment if we pull out of the olympics in beijing they are not coming here. we will back to 198 -- ainsley: should made that decision a long time ago. brian: there is next year. the games over in los angeles. pull them out of beijing it will be like 1980 and 1984 again. steve: it's all about national pride and china is proud that they have got the olympics. if the united states says hey, look, t

know what's interesting, leader mccarthy is you mentioned that the longstanding tradition is when you're overseas politics, domestic politics ends at the water's edge and so joest year, year before, when trump did it, politico, nbc , new york times all blasted trump for doing it because trump actually, you know, said some things about biden, and then biden blasted trump when he was a candidate, but there is no, you know, curiosity by the media about the different things that joe biden is doing because it seems like the narrative they want is joe biden is over on the world stage and he is charm ing the pants off of everybody. >> i don't know about you but i do not want to join the eu. i want america to be first. i want america to be energy- independent. i want america to be strong. i don't care about charming europe and think you're one of them. my concern is that biden is making our adversary stronger. russia is stronger today under the biden administration than he was under the past administration. china is stronger today. when president trump administration wanted to find out where this covid started in the wuhan labs, we were criticized and kicked off face