yet three days later neville chamberlain was gone and winston churchill was premised her. and on that very day, hitler did launch in europe. this book is the story of how all of that came to be and how winston churchill and that's where he did. i would like to talk a little bit about how i got the idea for the book. it grew out of research that my husband who is sitting over there and i did on two previous books both of them touching on england in the spring and summer of 1940. that's when he took power and when fans and the rest of your file and germany launched the battle of britain. that story is without question i don't think anybody would disagree. as we researched that the period it seemed to me behind the scenes story of how churchill came to power involved the tory rebels defying the party and the prime minister was in its way just as significant and fascinating as the story of churchill himself. because if it hadn't been for them and further parliamentary colleagues that joined them in against the norway debate, churchill probably would never have come to power an

. >> neville chamberlain retained his place he and church tilbury the animosity. but churchill assisted and take a majority of the conservatives. and chamberlain once war had begun that one of the things i wanted to do in this book is reinstate some understanding but a strong tough powerful politician. to have immense political skills but he made the mistake that he couldn't negotiate hitler. and with the reluctance of anybody through the first world war but the other was would not be ready for combat there was no way to tell the british but he knew that he needed time so he bought time not the nice thing but the british and the french have to buy time. >> the newest book coming out in september thanks for spending a few minutes. >> is good to see you again. >> leading up to world war i with what we're facing right now but germany was the one that convinced them to get into the navy business that was a huge navy build up and what that did was change the game shortly before world war i to take the solomon islands a way. scipio germany with the base and the south pac

it was by no means a foregone conclusion that churchill would be the man to succeed neville chamberlain. the political establishment would have preferred lord halifax the foreign secretary but he was associated in the public mind with a prewar appeasement policy so churchill was the name. the same day, coincidentally, the germans attacked. for nine months there had been what was called the phony war, allied armies on one side, germany and france, and safety check in with virtually no fighting or shooting. suddenly the germans attacked. they attacked with the blitzkrieg warfare the , world had never seen before. war of rapid movement. it was spearheaded by armored columns and air power. nobody in the allied side had any idea what was happening. after three days, the british commander general ironside wrote in his diary it looks as if there will be heavy fighting all summer. actually the war was over, that part of it was over before the summer began. the attack took place in an area of northern france and belgium. i should not say the germans attacked france they invaded , belgium and hol

speaker, i just tried to lay out a history, all the ways this naive belief, neville chamberlain is the everybody uses. and then we look at what bill clinton did with the north koreans that allow them to get to where we are today. we saw barack obama naively handing over billions and billions of dollars. and i think he naively believes they will abide by the agreement. when the president sets fire, fury, and power, and sets further isolate north korea and then she suggests bilateral talks with kim jong un, i'm just thinking of just don't get it. you can't negotiate with crazy people like this. >> as ambassador nikki haley said, it's been a pretty powerful signal to the u.n. unanimous votes for stronger sanctions paired will it have any effect? start with the assumption that none of this works.ç then, what you need to do? what i tried in the last segment is there are a number of very bold, very powerful steps we could take if we acted on a wartime basis. if we said this is an existential threat. millions of american lives are at stake. millions of japanese lives are at stake. millions o

his is his comments on nevil chamberlain. chamberlain's opponents -- this s orwell writing -- professed to see him in a dark and wiley - as a dark and englandplotting to sell to hitler, but it is far likely stupid old merely a man doing his best, according to very dim lights. it's difficult to understand the of his policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him did the massive people he not want to pay the price, either of peace or at war. such a t last line is great line. he did not want to pay the price of either peace or war, and it's true, very insightful. all too often a problem in politics and policy. judged chamberlain a little bit more harshly. chamberlain himself thought he was a great man and i judged him dayicularly because on that world war ii began in europe, war britain entered the september 3, 1939. gave a l got up and war,rful speech, about the the war of the individual, in an talitarian iving to chamberlain got up nd gave the most selfish speech. all my dreams are shattered. it's not ab

it became the one word that every politician wanted to avoid being accused of after neville chamberlain and others were found guilty in the court of public opinion of appeasement during the rise of adolf hitler. it is, in many ways, the most loaded term, therefore, in our politics. the president's spokesman accused every prior president of the united states of the modern era of being guilty of appeasement of north korea. of course, none of them are guilty of appeasement of north korea. they all struggled with the same challenge that donald trump is struggling with now -- how to contain north korea. to accuse any of them of appeasement of north korea is a vicious and wild and unconscionable lie. this, this is appeasement. >> mr. president, do you have any response to the russian president expelling 755 workers from our embassy? >> no. i want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll. and as far as i'm concerned, i'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. there's no real reason for them to go back. so i greatly apprec