mcrae and cooper were good friends and cooper went to mcrae not realizing that mcrae had been asked too it and discussed it with mcrae cooper admitted that he didn't think you wanted to make a movie about a conscientious objector when he felt we should be getting ready for war, not backing away from it. mcrae convinced him that you will be a hero if you do this movie and that was another reason why cooper went along with it . >> in terms of the timing of the release in 1941 because, it came out earlier that year and in december 1941, pearl harbor was attacked by via japanese, so, explain the timeline . >> it opened in early july 1941 , in new york. at that time, the country was almost equally divided between interventionist and isolationist . the isolationists were saying a mere 20 years ago fought the war to end all wars and now you are back saying you've got to fight another war. interventionists were saying what's happening in germany, italy and france, it's going to affect us if written falls, there is nothing to stop germany from coming over here. it was not unlike what i suspect

mcrae says he didn't do anything wrong. an election board member then calls for further criminal investigation. what appears to be republican voter fraud. >> we'll be making a motion that any and all information that this board has in its possession shall be forwarded to the united states attorney for the eastern district of north carolina. >> this guy gets up there, gets on the microphone, supposedly to lodge a complaint against the democrats, then admits he has no idea what that complaint even is. but while he's up there, he admits into the microphone that he's been paying people to obtain other people's absentee ballots to fill them out and cast those votes on other people's behalf for money. what, is that wrong? that is what this public radio show, this american life, discovered two years ago in 2016 when they went down to north carolina to look at the aftermath of that hotly contested governor's race. a guy in southeastern north carolina, blade en county, north carolina, blatantly confessing at a board of elections mee

the guy allegedly at the center of these shenanigans is named mcrae dallas. he was personally hired by republican candidate mark harris. what's amazing is that dowless was at the center of a mail-in ballot keep in 2016. he even got on "this american life" about it. state elections officials even referred mcrae dowless and his ballot scam to federal prosecutors after the 2016 election, but it doesn't appear anything ever came of it. and as all of this began to come out after last month's election, what had looked like a razor-thin victory for an upstart republican in north carolina's 9th district has become a giant mess, going all the way back to the primary. people also started raising questions about mark harris' narrow victory there. so the north carolina elections board opened an investigation. that board has the power to order a new election if they decide that's what's needed. and the board ultimately scheduled a public hearing on the allegations for january 11th. but here's the thing about the north carolina board of elections. when north carolina voter

at the center of the probe, the operations of republican consultant mcrae dallas to collect them. harris. harris won by 905 votes. investigators were looking into irregularities but after initial results, more concerns ballots may have been tampered with and counted or thrown out. the state board of elections confirms dallas and an associate requested 775 absentee ballot applications where montgomery lives in bladen county. 61% of absentee ballots were cast for harris, though only 19% of them by registered republicans. no comment from dallas e. >> reporter: now an election hangs in the balance. catie beck, nbc news, elizabethtown, north carolina. >>> as president, president trump continues his tough talk about controlling the flow of migrants into the u.s. two housekeepers who worked at the new jersey golf club he owns and often visits say they are undocumented. our kate snow sat down with him today. >> reporter: it's one of the president's favorite retreats, trump national golf club in bedminster, new jersey. morales worked there since 2013. >> translator: i liked working for him

him i'm proud of them they bros persues you know sprigs and mcrae coming in and we've heard it all season long but we just heard too much of you know we've been playing a lot of younger and. i think you'd better do it in the future for this we're. going to do to stop here right now and stick together. and pakistan's yes it was closing in on another personal record as it's a matter of good opening day in the deciding test of the series with new zealand yes it's three wickets in abu dhabi and he's just a couple more to reach two hundred korea dismissals is set to hit a landmark in the fewest of a number of test appearances the ceiling caps in kane williamson sub scored his team with eighty nine is that source reached six hundred and twenty nine fists for ok the decisive force looking for now let's get back to lauren in london. andy thank you very much indeed and that's it for me for this news out of the back in a moment with more the day's news thanks so much watching to. know that we're in the world is primary for us to be superior to then it is inside all. defending the will fly we have b

state's election board is investigating the actions of a longtime republican political consultant, mcrae. two women say dowless paid them to pick up ballots and drop them off at an office building. it is unclear what happened to those ballots. the election board will hear evidence in the next two weeks. >>> well, there was a major scare at an amazon warehouse in new jersey. 24 workers had to be rushed to the hospital after an automated machine punctured a can of bear repellent, which contains the same active ingredient in pepper spray. one person who was listed in critical condition is now expected to recover. critics say amazon needs to improve worker safety with seven deaths reported since 2013. the company says safety is a top priority. >>> i want to get to the emotional homecoming now for people who lost everything in paradise, california. many of the evacuation orders have finally been lifted, but that historic wildfire has nearly burned the town off the map. this morning, going back to home and to heartache in the california fire zone. >> it's devastating. >> reporter: families hop

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>> stephen: the man behind the ballot-collector scheme appears to be mcrae dowless.s is the only photo we could find of him on the internet. he's like an election-fraud sasquatch. dowless is a notorious figure in the tar heel state, a registered republican known for using absentee ballots for his get-out-the-vote campaigns. or, in this case, the "throw out the vote" campaigns. but he's generous. take a look at the stickers he passed out: "i voted?" ( laughter ) ( applause ) and dowless-- dowless-- dowless. and dowless was paid as a contractor by the harriste felony perjury and insurance fraud. look, a man like that should not candidate. he should be a congressional candidate. dowless-- ( applause ) yes, sure. dowless hired a bunch of women to collect these ballots, and local news tracked down one of the collectors. >> i was helping mccrae... pick up ballots! like i said, i don't know nothing what happened after i dropped them off. i dropped them off. what they do, that's on them. >> stephen: that's what you call moral responsibility. ( as woman ) "i just mined the kr

newly released affidavits allege absentee ballot collected from north carolina voters by mcrae dallase chief strategist for republican mark harris's campaign. one voter claims blackmail in absentee ballots directly to dallas. we are learning more about the deadly tsunami that water sure in indonesia. no sirens, no text messages, no major ground convulsions to warn people enjoying themselves over the holiday weekend. indonesia today mourns the dead and missing from saturday's tsunami, three way to the islands of java and sumatra, the first, witnesses say, 65 feet high destroying or damaging 700 shops, hotels and homes. >> i don't know what to say. i'm really afraid. i've not gone over the last few days. >> an eruption from this volcano triggered a huge undersea landslide, millions of tons of followers creating a wave that crashed to nearby beaches. >> the southern water had gone to the mainland, the hotel flooded by water. 200 people were dragged by the waves. >> reporter: indonesia is a chain of islands 3000 miles wide. it is part of the so-called ring of fire of earthquakes around th

deeper look at some of his history, we did find out that he started a political consulting firm with mcraek in 2014. we also know he has been interviewed by board of elections state investigators to see where he has been on all of this throughout the past couple of weeks. >> i'm so sorry to interrupt you. we've got breaking news coming out of the white house. stick around. >>> let me switch gears. to the white house we're going to go where nick ayers, the chief of staff of vice president mike pence whose name was in the running for possible chief of staff at the white house to replace outgoing john kelly is no longer in the running. we are told after it was widely believed he would be someone to replace john kelly. jeff bennett is at the white house with more of the details. >> reporter: we understand that the president and nick ayers couldn't come to an agreement in terms of a time frame. nick ayers had long planned to leave the administration at the end of the year and return home to georgia. he and his wife have a young family. that was their plan. president trump wanted someone in that

fraud allegations and plausible false statements to effect election outcomes allegedly perpetrated by mcraes is this man. a political operative hired by republican congressional candidate mark harris. harris won the 9th district race in a squeaker, just 905 votes. but that vote count is now in doubt because the operation run by mccrae dallas could have affected more than a thousand of the votes. freeman says her office and north carolina state bureau of investigation are also looking at these hundreds of absentee ballots which were cast but with suspicious witness signatures on them. a second part of the alleged scheme where absentee ballots were only partially filled out by voters then gathered up unsealed allowing political operatives working for the republican to fill in the rest. >> does it appear that there was a scheme for one or a couple or a group of people to stamp a bunch of ballots the way they wanted to stamp them and send them in? >> i think this, again, is a matter that is very much under investigation. those are the types of allegations that we are reviewing currently. >> rep

. >> in north carolina the state's board of elections has named mcrae dowless as a person of interest in the investigation of possible ballot fraud. the hired political hand is accused of forging hundreds of absentee ballots to help republican mark harris to win the 9th congressional seat in a very close race. abc's steve osunsami caught up with him in rural north carolina. >> reporter: what do you say to people who say that you rigged this election? >> no comment. >> reporter: so you refute any allegations that you rigged this election? >> sir, contact my attorney. >> now, with the election results under question, investigators have subpoenaed tically ut down this morning including iconic landmarks like the eiffel tower and the louvre museum as the city deals with massive protests. shops boarded up with police setting up barricades. abc's foreign correspondent james longman joins us from paris this morning. james, already a lot of activity today. >> reporter: so, this is the fourth weekend of protest. thousands of people have come down onto the streets of the champs-elysees and basic

mcrae dallas to a seemingly larger effort to collect absentee ballots.he was hired as a contractor to work on absentee ballot outreach for republican congressman mark harris. earlier today we learned the democratic challenger there dan mccready has rescinded his concession speech. documents posted on the election board site show that he turned in nearly 600 applications for absentee ballots. you're only supposed to ally for your own. subpoenas issued for harris' campaign, the firm that haired dallas as well as a candidate for sheriff in the same election who also hired dallas. if the board determines that it has found evidence of irregularities that may have tainted the results, they can call a new election down there. didn't know you can do that. for more on that, i'm joined by leigh ann caldwell, nbc news political reporter down there in north carolina. zbur lena maxwell and republican strategist. leeann, tell us about how it looks down there overall for this vote stealing thing. >> yeah. sure, chris. so i'm in robeson county, and robeson and the count

now newly released affidavits alleged absentee ballots were collected from north carolina voters by mcrae, the chief strategist for republican mark harris' campaign. one voter claims he gave a sign but otherwise blank male ingn absentee ballot directly to him. tonight we're learning more about the deadly tsunami that roared ashore inn indonesia. no sirens, no text messages, no major ground convulsions to warn people enjoying themselves over the holiday t weekend. william la jeunesse has the details of the search and rescue mission. >> indonesia today mourns the dead and missing from saturday's tsunami. three waves hittu the islands. the first, witnesses say, 65 feet high destroying or damaging 700 shops, hotels and homes. >> i don't know what to say. i'm really afraid. i have not got home in the last few days. >> interruption from us volcano experts say triggered a huge undersea landslide. millions of tons of falling earth creating a wave that crashed onto nearby beaches. >> i heard people shouting to run away. i saw the water had gone to the mainland and the hotel had been flooded by wat

those four people are all connected to this guy, leslie mcrae douls.an political operative, he has a record of insurance fraud, he's been accused of messing with ballots before, two years ago, yet he was hired by the republican in this race, mark harris. now, the alleged schema apparently included a practice called ballot harvesting. what's that? a stranger knocks on your door promising to deliver your absentee ballot for you, doing you a favor. it's against the law. some of those ballots might have been changed or just never turned in. the signatures are what tipped this off. that's going to be the key here as they get more and more proof. as you look through the ballots, there are seven people who were witnesses more than ten times each. but only a relative or a near guardian can deliver a ballot for you. so you've got two women who told cnn affiliates that they were paid to collect ballot that they handed over to dowles. listen. >> like i said, i don't know nothing what happened after i dropped them off. >> you don't know certainty whether they were

. >> the heart of the allegations is a man by the name of mcrae dallas who is a person of interest beingestigated by the board of elections. according to buzzfeed, wan man signed a blank ballot and handed it over to dallas. he delivered it signed, sealed and delivered to the board of elections. i'm joined by dallas wood house, completely different person, executive director of the north carolina republican party. let me ask you about this. do you think a tainted election should count? >> chris, we think that this is dee employerable and it shows systematic -- >> should a tainted election count? >> chris, the problem with that is i don't know what that means. it's not an objective standard. but we clearly have a problem here and we may very well be headed for a new election. we need to treat mr. mccready right, we need to treat the voters right. we also have the problem of 286,000 cast legal ballots that are not in question here, and so unfortunately, as good a job as the press has done about this, and i wrote a column thanking them for their sunlight and their disinfectant, we do have to

him i'm proud of him pursues you know sprigs and mcrae coming in and we've heard it all season long but we just heard too much of the you know we've been playing a lot of younger and. i think it's better to do it in the future for this we're. going to do to start right now and stick together and pakistan's yes it is closing in on another personal record as this team had a good opening day in the deciding test of this series with new zealand yes it's a three wickets in abu dhabi and it's just a couple more to reach two hundred career dismissals he set to hit the landmark in the fewest ever number of test appearances is in a captain kane williamson subsequent the his team with eighty nine as the sorest reach two hundred and twenty nine the seven this series level at warm. sports looking for now more lights out. and i thank you very much now the nobel peace laureate such ya think is a mission to see an end to child slavery and he's taken his message to the big screen with a documentary at this year's festival here in doha organizers are pledging to help set the hour to reach his goal dr ba

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brought up from the battles pursues you know sprigs and mcrae coming in and we've had it all season long but we just had too much of the you know we've been playing a lot of younger and. i think you'd better do it in the future for this or risk you have to do to stop period right now and stick together and pakistan's yes it is closing in on another personal record as this team had a good opening day in the deciding test of the series with new zealand assets of three wickets in abu dhabi needs just a couple more to reach two hundred career dismissals he set to hit a landmark in the fewest ever number of test appearances. caps and kane williamson subsequent to his team with eighty nine as the sorest reach two hundred and twenty nine to seven this series level at warm. sports looking for now more lights. thank you very much indeed that's it for me down jordan for this news hour but on that way i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's such experiments. to. cut down. december on al-jazeera. from hospitality to hostility toward hotels tells dramatic stories about high cons of complex an

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