king but what happened here isn't just about a photo is it lets us the co-author with filmmaker oliver stone of the untold history of the united states a companion to the showtime documentary series peter koos nick is professor of history at american university here in washington peter welcome back to see you for those watching outside the beltway your federal workforce consists of 2 kinds of people there are political appointees who come and go as administrations change and surviving trump cabinet members show this president the same undaunted loyalty is congressional republicans the other sort of government employees are a political career people who carry on despite who's in the white house peter even with this apology this national archives gaffe was an unfortunate curtsey to royalty well that's one way to look at it it was certainly unfortunate but we don't have royalty in this country but we have his donald trump whom i think that he's a king or a monarch but he isn't and the fact that the national archives even the head of the national archives and then forever who is appointed by oba

. >> oliver stone came into the '80s as a well respected and well paid screenwriter.o you want to play rough? okay. say hello to my little friend. >> i thought it was excessive and cartoony until i started spending a lot of time in miami. after that, i thought it was a model of restraint. >> it really was a decade that was fueled by how much money can i make and how can i display it best. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. greed works. >> "wall street" is a movie about more than just gordon gekko. it's about a father and a son with different world views playing different roles in an ever-changing economy. >> he's using you, kid. he's got your prick in his back pocket but you're too blind to see it. >> what i see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact that his son has become more successful than he has. >> what you see is a guy who has never measured a man's success by the size of his wallet. >> that's because you never had the guts to go out in the world and stake your own claim. >> it's th

oscar winning film director oliver stone claims that squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for the united states he was speaking to former ecuadorian president rafael correia host on our sister channel r.t. spanish if you have to watch the full interview on our website but for now here's a preview. but if you strongly criticized for your book let's delve deeper into why that is firstly tell us how your military experience in vietnam changed your views and your life is a home. well. i think the turning point for me. was when i went to vietnam and i saw the american army in vietnam fighting a war it was like moving a whole city into a country like moving huge amounts of equipment which we never brought back to the united states which we just disposed of and much of it went to the so-called enemy the north vietnamese a waste of money huge waste of money and i i say that because that is an american hobby a system that we cause we become spoiled dick cheney you still think saying that we have to fight in afghanistan and iraq not to pull out and no

says oscar winning film director oliver stone he spoke to former i could during president rafael career a host on our sister channel r.t. spanish. but if you go strongly criticized for your work let's delve deeper into why that is firstly tell us how your military experience in vietnam changed your views and your life as a whole. well i think a turning point for me. was when i went to vietnam and i saw the american army in vietnam fighting a war it was like moving a whole city into a country like moving huge amounts of equipment which we never brought back to the united states which we just disposed of and much of it went to the so-called enemy the north vietnamese a waste of money huge waste of money and i i say that because that is an american hobby a system that we cause we become spoiled cheney you still think saying that we have to fight in afghanistan and iraq not to pull out and now syria he's added syria this is the wish list of these i would call them the open servitors but they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking to question of mood so. you spend a lot of time in

they take some joy in pointing out not only bernie but folks on cnn, even oliver stone championed him as a great utopia you have a different critique. venezuela is such a disaster people literally we tell the story of a young lady who is teenage girl she has again but it's to defend the turf of trash, so certain garbage receptacles and those are her garbage receptacles for food. how sad, people killing rats in the street to try to eat them and pigeons. it just really is a sad thing but going back we have to understand why it's deteriorating into chaos and i think that is part of what the book is doing and it's also part of the debate we should be having appeared that they don't seem to have it in congress they don't talk about which economic systems are better and nobody in the media seems to care about the are supporting. it's stalin and all these terrible ideas and they get away with it because they are not challenged. >> host: you also traced the roots of socialism back to the arab world which i think was the enlightenment to many that would catch these monarchies and many other en

their words on venezuela, you take joy in pointing out not only bernie but folks on cnn and even oliver stone championed venezuela as a great utopia. you have a different critique. >> venezuela is such a disaster, people eating their pets. we tell the story of a young lady, a teenage girl, she has a gang at her gang is to defend the turf of trash. a certain garbage receptacle, those are her garbage receptacles looking for food, people killing rats in the street to eat them, pigeons and it is a sad thing. back to the world economy, why the world economy got better and why venezuela is deteriorating into chaos and that is part of what the book is doing. the debate we should be having appear that we are not having in congress is we are not talking about which economic system is better and nobody in the media seems to care what aoc is supporting or bernie is supporting is stalin and mao and paul pot and these terrible ideas and they get away with it because they aren't challenged. >> host: you trace the roots of socialism back to the arab world which i think would be enlightening to many who woul

>> and what oliver stone is saying is you can't trust anybody. >> 8-7-6 -- >> the nation was captivated the truth and the perversion of truth in the name of entertainment. >> you're young, you're from a prominent family. >> kids would run to do their homework to be like charles van doran. >> if you were a kid, would you want to be an annoying jewish guy with a side wall haircut? >> as i kid, i lived through that "quiz show" period. >> three points. >> i wanted john turturro to play herb stempel, a guy from a lower class area and rose to fame. and then certain people were beginning to get tired of him because he wasn't that pleasant to look at. but no one could beat the guy. he was so sharp. that's when they came up with the idea, let's find someone that looks good and we'll give him the answers. >> you are our new champion for $20,000. >> and that cruelty was something i wanted to show. the power of money and personality. so to me, that was a story that really had to be told. >> we didn't land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us, landed right on top of us. >> "malcolm x" is spi