young women did on june the 6th, 1944, when they scaled the walls of normandy and liberated, michael beschlossfrom death camps, but also, after that, america liberated so many millions and millions of refugees across europe from hunger and homelessness. and michael, this was actually the first step for the united states of america working with its allies to set up a post-war order that actually led to the freest, and also the most peaceful period, in -- well, i've got to say it again -- in the history of this world. >> absolutely. you are so right. you know, this was one of the most important days of the 20th century. triumph of good over evil. and the other thing was, we were lucky to have fdr as our president in so many ways, but one way was that roosevelt had been through the experience of woodrow wilson and world war i. he was assistant secretary of the navy, and he saw how wilson had tried to establish american entry into the league of nations, and it never happened. so when roosevelt was waging this war, even the very day he was commander in chief on d-day, he was thinking to himself, yo

africa before we ever get high-speed rail in this country. >> we've got to recapture that. >> michael beschloss, what a treat to have you on as always. thank you so much for joining us. >> treat for me too, brian. be well. >> thank you, michael. >>> coming up for us, the latest on this crisis at the border just hours before protesters across this country plan to rally for families separated under the so-called zero tolerance policy. that and more when we continue. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month if you don't use them. so take audible with you this summer... on the road... on the trail... or to the beach. start a 30-day trial and your first audiobook is free. cancel anytime, and your books are yours to ke

africa before we ever get high-speed rail in this country. >> we've got to recapture that. >> michael beschlossat a treat to have you on as always. thank you so much for joining us. >> treat for me too, brian. be well. >> thank you, michael. >>> coming up for us, the latest on this crisis at the border. just hours before protesters across this country plan to rally for families separated under the so-called zero tolerance policy. that and more when we continue. it all started when donald trump tore thousands of immigrant children away from their parents. we the people challenged him in court and in the streets. then trump was forced to admit that his policy was wrong. and he caved. the court just ruled that trump must reunite every family he broke apart. (clock ticking rapidly) time is ticking. these children must see their parents again, and they're counting on us to act quickly. >>> the trump's presidency sparked another call for action this weekend with tens of thousands of people taken to the streets from coast to coast in an effort to end family immigrations. trump's policy are scheduled i

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a fellow author to all you guys here who have written books, historian, michael beschloss is here with us in our new york studios. michael, i just would like you to react to the conversation but more importantly what we've heard, what we've seen from halfway around the world in the last few minutes. >> well, for starters, you know, brian, one of the things you always ask is what is different about this. and one thing that is really different is the scene we're seeing right now which is the president of the united states meeting with the north korean leader in secret with only interpreters. you go back to nixon and xiao enlei in china 1972, he went with kissinger, other diplomats. that's usually the way it's done. sought question is why is the president doing this in secret? what is he telling the north korean leader and what is the north korean leader telling him that can't be heard by other members of their parties? and there is so much at stake. i think that's a real question. >> let me ask you, michael, a question that speaks to reading your history. and i'll ask this very gently. w

all through the trump scandals, all through the trump administration, we've been asking michael beschloss, seemingly daily, has this ever happened before? and the answer has always en "nope." but in this case, is there any parallel in u.s. presidential history, any time a president's personal attorney had ever been in this kind of jeopardy and in this kind of position with regard to serious accusations against a sitting president, for once, michael bescs was able to tell us, actually, yeah, this has happened before. herb kalmbach went to prison, and that is something in american presidential history that casts a kind of shadow that looks a little bit like what might be going on with michael cohen and president donald trump right now. he also told us that the herb kalmbach story has not just a shadow, but also kind of a long tail that reaches directly to thtrump presidency because the man who is widely believed tbe president trump's best friend, the wealthy investor tom barrack, you might remember him speaking at the republican national convention, he then became head of the trump inaugura

michael beschloss, nbc news historian. scary. thank you, sir. >> thank you. nice to talk, ari, as always. >> great to see you, and i appreciate your time. we do have a lot more on a busy friday night. you may recall if you were watching just last night rachel was asking for some help with photographic reporting. and i have the answer on that thanks to the team here. that evidence does exist. that's up ahead. also, why donald trump may now have more reason to fear his former lawyer than ever before. that's next. er, cause.... i don't think enough people heard about your big day. but nothing says "we got married" like a 12 ounce piece of scrap metal. yo! we got married! honk if you like joint assets. now you're so busy soaking up all this attention, you don't see the car in front of you. and if i can crash your "perfect day", imagine what i can do to the rest of 'em. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. the new united explorer card makes things easy. traveling lighter. taking a shortcut. (woooo) taking a breather. rewarded! learn more

joining us now is nbc presidential historian michael beschloss. mr.great to have you here. >> wonderful to see you, not just on tv. >> exactly. we've talked before about presidents' pardon power, which is very broad in the black letter of the constitution. but looking back at watergate and what nixon got in trouble for, it struck me that nixon was going to get in trouble and knew that he was going to get in trouble and people around him knew he was going to get in trouble for dangling pardons to people who were in trouble during watergate. is that true? >> oh, absolutely. and i think you're absolutely right in saying that mate have been another article of impeachment. and that goes, as so many things in our system do, all the way back to james madison, who said that a pardon, a president can use the pardon, it's an absolute power, but if a president abuses that power that could be an impeachable offense. >> has there ever been a circumstance in which a president is thought to have pardoned someone specifically to worm his own way out of his own legal

michael beschloss, nbc news historian. scary. thank you, sir. >> thank you. nice to talk, ari, as always. >> great to see you, and i appreciate your time. we do have a lot more on a busy friday night. you may recall if you were watching just last night rachel was asking for some help with photographic reporting. and i have the answer on that thanks to the team here. that evidence does exist. that's up ahead. also, why donald trump may now have more reason to fear his former lawyer than ever before. that's next. thing. your getting serious thing. that moving out of the friend zone, moving in together and getting two of everything thing. those fur babies preparing you for real babies thing. that one for me, one for you, us together for the rest of everything. buy one iphone 8 and get one iphone 8 on us. more for your thing. that's our thing. visit att dot com. that's confident. but it's not kayak confident. kayak searches hundreds of travel and airline sites to find the best flight for me. so i'm more than confident. how's your family? kayak. search one and don

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and our presidential historian and author and friend, michael beschloss is here with us in new york. you all. thank you for coming in. thank you for your continued service. sum up everything you and i and we have discussed here all night. i ended up asking both of those gentlemen if their grandchildren were safer because of what ppened today in singapore, and i think that's an acceptable lens to view this meeting in. >> the problem is we don't know, and only years later we'll know. even if there's a successful deal and there's an agreement, we don't know if that's truly successful or not. in the past, for example, when we agreed, we had an agreed framework. we thought it was a successful agreement. it was in 2002 we found out north korea was cheating on that agreement by separately pursuing uranium enrichment program. it's going to be many years before we know if there's a successful agreement and that's a big if because tonight could just produce a joint statement that's not a real agreement yet. >> there's a new york expression, couldn't hurt. how can a summit make anything worse?

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