mussolini had been in power in italy for a decade.the japanese, by then, the rather fascist japanese were on the march in asia. the world was getting dangerous. by 1937, of course, hitler had remilitarized the rhine land, mussolini had invaded ethiopia. it was clear that the fascist parties in europe were, were aggressive and ambitious and college rent. belligerent. but roosevelt, of course, was stymied by several factors, one of which being public opinion. um, most americans in 1937 felt that we had been sold a pig in a poke in world war i, that we had fought and hadn't really -- we'd lost 100-plus-thousand troops, but we hadn't really gained much of anything. europe had gone back to being its usual argue meantive stuff. here they were again, the germans and the french and the poles and the british all at each other's throats. who knows how it will turn out. you know, this is nothing to do with us and, you know, if we get involved, it will have the same unhappy end although x number of americans will die in the process. so isolationi

and i'm also not crazy about the idea of a defying the west as a set of ideas of liberty i mean mussolini and hitler were men of the west. reckon it's a really good oh i never. said liberalism i didn't say live at the i said it's. already written i want to write i want to go to the point still holds i mean hillary was leaning were not liberals ok rick i want to go to you i mean we don't hear today we use the term west all the time and you know and i use it all the time i'll be honest with you but we don't hear the word we don't say the east we don't people don't use that is it's polar opposite. well in philosophy we talk often about eastern philosophy and i'm reminded of the young in a satirical magazine we have here in the united states that had a headline that went something like chinese student discovers western philosophy and his parents were horrified that he was into these radical western ideas. but i want to pick up on something that homie said earlier that i think there is a certain experience of the west from the outside that we who are so-called westerners can't ignore that is w

early 30s as the depression went on and seemed endless and how many important americans talk about mussolini'strains running on time and how much hitler was accomplishing in germany and how the future was in russia. it was franklin roosevelt who saved democracy and capitalism and the capitalists have never forgiven. beyond national economic survival from the disastrous crash and depression which alone would have marked his administration a success, roosevelt abscission looked beyond the immediate economic recovery. he set his sights on permanent structural changes in the relationship of americans to the economic system and to each other. in a democracy, prudence and justice demanded that economic power strong enough to imperil the whole society must be subject to public scrutiny and regulation and for a long time it wasn't. roosevelt understood an increasingly impersonal and materialist industrial economy, poverty and insecurity could endanger the very survival of a democratic society, thus the new deal. let me of letter agencies produced during the famous hundred days and after was designed t

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>> bob: are you related to mussolini? you're like bull connors. of the greatest cities in the world burning as we speak? london. where are there more security cameras than anywhere nellis the world? london. single rioter -- >> kimberly: big brother is everywhere. >> greg: they wear hoods because of camera. >> andrew: wearing hoods or not. coming up, pawlenty and romney go on the attack in the newest campaign ad, targeting the same person. i wonder who that is? we play them both next and bob beckel will analyze and gregy will disagree on "the five." ♪ ♪ >>> i'm bret baier in ames, iowa, site of thursday's g.o.p. candidate debate. i'll anchor "special report" live from here at the top of the hour. tonight, the story of another roller coaster day in the stock market. huge losses again, reinforcing a severe correction in all three major indices as wall street closes in on a bear market. the dow jones/industrials average lost 520 points today. the s&p 500 dropped 52. the nasdaq gave back 101.5. we will tell you what president obama was doing while all

and what they don't want is to be hanging from a meat hook mussolini style, you know, when that countryimplodes. so they would like to see a family succession were largely for selfish reasons. now, that said, they understand that the sun is weak, he's young. it's going to be very interesting to see how all of that plays out. but because the way the military is set up there's just no way, it would almost be impossible for a military general to throw a coup d'État and the party watches the military, too, carefully. does that make sense to you? >> and really the final question deals with much when i opened the talk with him telling the story about the development of personal relationship rather than a professional relationship in the asian society. former ambassador donald gregg is somewhat of an expert on the current situation has recently written a paper that's been published in both the united states and korea that talks about the food shortage in north korea. and in the past that our government has been one that supports supplying food to the north koreans to help them with the starvat

my grandfather came from italy of mussolini, rejected fascism for his life in his children's life and somerset to dig coal in a coal town. actually, he started in a little town which was truly a company town. he lived in a house owned by the company right next to the mine, and he got paid with company stems. they used to call them coupons, so he figured out that was a dead end. he ended up working in a mine it, -- a mine, and he provided a better life. here was sort of a personal symbol of how america creates the opportunity, creating opportunity for me and now for my children, so i felt like one of the responsibilities that you have is if you're in a position to serve the country at a time when you think your country is in need of that service, and you step up, and i know maybe from the outside looking at this, what is a guy from my situation both politically and personally doing doing this, with seven children, certainly a lot going on in your life, ages 7 to 23, and you lost your last political race, so why do you think you can make a difference. i felt i could. as i traveled aroun

tales of violent demonstrations and it will set a dangerous precedent it's recommendesent of the mussolini black shirt march on rome in 1922. it is reminiscent of nuremberg. now, this is the real extreme reaction to the march. the kennedy administration's reaction to the march was trickier. he tried to get did leaders to call it off because he had a civil rights bill in congress and thought a mass demonstration would hurt rather than help the chances of the bill. and when it became clear that there was no way that a national administration no matter how powerful was going to stop the march on washington he put together a team of lawyers from the department of justice to make sure that the march planners the someone to talk to in the administration about security arrangements, about logistics and about really what they needed and it turns out the teamed got a little bit more involved than they thought they would. many years later it came out that the department of justice secretly paid the bill for the toilets that were rented for the march that day. [laughter] >> which i'm sure they didn't

it was, i mean, fried, hitler and mussolini acknowledged gustav as the father and the expert on group think. and so why bother quoting the other ones? if toward the end i was actually cutting some quotes out of some of the other books because i sort of felt like, well, maybe i should put in some other authors on this. but then i realized you're just stuffing them in pointlessly. gustav says it all. so you have to read a lot of books to know which ones you're going to end up needing or using or even what the direction of the book is. but it's so much fun, and you learn so much. and especially when you can talk to your friends about your theories on things and argue with them about it and then, and then write the case out. and i wasn't always sure what i preferred, the book tour or the writing, and i've been asked that a lot. and i was thinking it when i was writing this last book, i'm asked that question a lot, and i am so happy right now to just keep reading. >> host: is the book tour over? >> guest: well, i'll spend the rest of the summer be. i mean, it basically is. i have a big boo