we cannot trust soviet justice so pat buchanan and other prominent people pushed to shutter the unit for years another challenge they faced is once they found these men and he naturalized them and convince an immigration judge to be deported and removed from us soi soil, germany and austria would not take them back in fact there is a discussion where one of the heads of the unit germany said we don't want to take your garbage back the head of the unit said it's your garbage they just moved here but they could not convince germany or austria to allow the united states to remove them we could not force it. there was no way to do that. in 1988 a prosecutor in the office of special investigations a young man decided to fly to austria to convince them to take the perpetrators he had two young children and lived in bethesda maryland and was a storied prosecutor in this unit and had a way of convincing every defendant on his roster to settle. he was brilliant and austria around that time said maybe we will take some of your defendants back they were ready to make a deal with the state depar

but this pushback, not only from people like pat buchanan but other countries, was an ongoing struggle for the people. so was convincing judges today naturalized men look like ordinary americans. the subject, one of the horse trance, eli on the left remember doctor black and doctor white, their second black was now both worlds d foremost record on the cat training camp in doctor white on the front and the subject about that doctor black and doctor white think. but one of the hardest things for the prosecutors, inside of this office was to convince a judge far removed from the holocaust, that men looked rather ordinary, should in fact, be stripped of their citizens ship. jacob reiner, a 65, was taken to quote in new york in 1998. he was wearing hightop sneakers and sweater. in fact, couple of people in the courtroom said, who is the survivor and who is the nazi war criminal. it was hard to tell the difference. so many years after the war. and so fighting for convincing judges that these men should not have been here in the first place, is the great challenge faced by the nazi hunters in

this pushback not only from people like pat buchanan but from other countries was an ongoing strugglefor the people of osi. so with convincing judges to be natural allies men to look like ordinary americans. jacob rimer one of the historians. there was eli rosenbaum on the left and remember dr. blacken dr. why? there is dr. black who is now the world's most foremost expert on the trawniki training camp and there is dr. white. they still joke about the doctor black dr. white thing but one of the hardest things for the prosecutors inside his office was to convince a judge far removed from the holocaust that men who look rather ordinary should in fact be stripped of their citizenship. jacob rimer citizen 865 was taken to court in new york in 1998 and he was wearing high top sneakers and a sweater. in fact a couple of people in the courtroom said who is the survivor and who is the nazi war criminal? it was hard to tell the difference so many years after the war. convincing judges that these men should not have been here in the first place was a great challenge faced by the nazi hunters in

pat buchanan challenged bush telling bush and his vice president quote, george and danny boy read our lips, no second term. bucanon's campaign made sure no republican voter ever forgot that broken promise. >> now i don't believe a word the president says. i think it's all double-talk and i suspect every he says. i don't trust him. >> read my lips. >> send a message. vote pat buchanan for president. >> he didn't win the nomination that year, but he did fare far better than expected in the new hampshire primary, and that inflicted a major wound on bush's re-election effort. and of course bush did go onto lose in the general election against bill clinton. fast forward to now and we have president entering an election year seeking a second term who also ran on a big promise to his supporters. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. we're going to build a wall. an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico. >> not even a doubt, okay? so the wa

pat buchanan was quoted about saying about trump, i was delighted when he got in. the connection here is real. chuck and i talk about this in the last part of the book, both agnew and trump are political opportunists. they have chips on their shoulders. there is a general mistrust of institutions. they use the public speech as a way to connect with audiences. they appeal to the silent majority in the white south. many of you know agnew from his alliteration, that's fake news. that is fake news. their critical of fellow republicans who do not fall in line. friendly to authoritarian regimes. agnew was a greek-american. he was the only democratic leader who met with the colonels in greece in 1970. there was a sense that authoritarian leaders were friendly. again, the connection back to today. it has been said that the vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit. that's what people say. it is a job that is not important. thise argue that marylander had a profound impact -- influence on politics. and his impact was longer and wider lasting the best wider and long

jeffrey, senior advisor to pat buchanan and a writer for the washington times, now a columnist and editor-in-chief. thank you for stopping by. happy holidays. come back again. >> washington journal mugs are available on our new online story. go to c-span.org and check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the products. the white house did not release a weekly adjust from the

we can't trust soviet justice so pat buchanan and other prominent, some prominent people pushed to shutter this unit for years . another challenge they face is once they found these men and they deem naturalized them and they convinced an immigration judge to order them deported, ndremoved from us soil, germany and austria would not take them back. they would not take them back . germany in fact, there's a discussion recounted in the book where one of the heads of the unit said we don't, germany said we don't want to take your garbage back identifying and the head of this unit said wait, you are garbage. they just moved here. they could not convince germany and austria to accept thesemen , to allow the united states to remove them. we couldn't force it.m. there's no way to do that. and so in 1988, a prosecutor in the office of special investigations, a young man named michael bernstein decided to fly to austria to help the austrians to convince the austrians to take back not the perpetrators. michael bernstein and two youngchildren . then as the maryland outside of washington and he was co

his character or policy positions the demagogue orientation to have a terrible experience with pat buchanan with the populist candidate who damaged george bush's reelection. >> you write in your book crime in progress from about march 2016 that now there was unanimity on the need to do it they could to keep trump out of the white house and also unanimity as to why. many strengths disqualified him from the job and up little rhetoric and the ties to the criminal underworld with russia money and the record of chicanery tops the list all prior to project bangor. >> that was from the republicans but you are right this is where we were spring 2016 when the republican primaries were starting to wind down with seven months of research with donald trump i had formed some very definite opinions of who this person was and if he was qualified to be president and he wasn't and that indicates a lot of our concern of the issues that are now front and center over russia but really about his associations from the figures of the underworld like the italian mafia he was doing business with a lot of characters

general populist demagogic kind of orientation that republicans had a terrible experience with pat buchanan who was a similar kind of populist anti-immigrant candidate, nativist who damaged george bush is reelection. >> host: prior to that you write in your book "crime in progress" that, this is from about march of 2016, there was now unanimity inside fusion on the need to do what they could to keep trump out of the white house and also unanimity as to why. many of his traits disqualified him for the job and his political rhetoric was loathsome but his ties to the criminal underworld, his reliance on it in foes of russian money and his record of two cannery in business top the list. this is all prior to project bangor. >> guest: it was the first phase of project bangor which was for the republicans and then phase two was for the democrats. you're right though this was where we were in the spring of 2016 win the republican primaries were starting to wind down, we had done seven months of research into donald trump and that formed some definite opinions of who this person was and whether he w

bush won the new hampshire primary ought the beginning of his re-election campaign, but pat buchanan'sg second-place finish was an accurate forecaster of how vulnerable president bush would be in the general election against bill clinton. now massachusetts former governor bill weld is challenging donald trump in the republican presidential primary. the latest new hampshire primary poll shows bill weld rising to 14% against donald trump. so how scared is donald trump of bill weld? well, team trump has convinced republicans in some states to just cancel their presidential primaries. and other states are blocking republican candidates from getting their names on the republican presidential primary ballots. joining us now is former republican governor of massachusetts running for the republican presidential nomination against president trump. during watergate he was counsel of the how judiciary committee on the republican staff. things are operating very differently with both the republican staff and the republican members of the impeachment investigation. now what is your reaction to what

they, you know, i used the pat buchanan our friend pat buchanan's political athlete assessment sayingh warren's a great political athlete. and she has been throughout this campaign. but, man, her numbers -- she really exposed her vulnerable idealogically when she talked about how she was going to pay for medicare for all. and we learned a lot very quickly about the democratic party that way and that is that the democratic party is actually not twitter. >> you know what's also interesting, joe, and you're right. and jason got to it in talking about what happens after thanksgiving. and you strip away all of the numbers that we throw out here and all of the issues that we talk about here. but a presidential election really is the last thing left that we do as a nation together. everyone votes together on the same day. and leading up to that vote is a national conversation that goes on. >> hold on, wait. do we want to tell mike that people actually start voting months ahead of time? >> the voting online. >> the bulk. >> the bulk of people get up and vote on voting day. >> oh, wow. >> [ mu

you always had a sort of isolationist, protectionist strain on the right going back to pat buchanan in the 1990s but that was never the dominant view on the right. reagan was extremely pro-immigrant, put in place amnesty in fact. george w. bush and his father were both very pro-immigrant. even the republican nominees that lost, mccain or romney were still far more pro-immigrant than you had in donald trump. this is a sort of new development on the right although there has always been this more and i immigrant passion on the right it was never the dominant one. we are in a new era here. >> host: are the rules any different for an immigrant versus a refugee? >> yes. they are two different groups that traditionally have been taught, have been considered 2 different groups, these days they are more conflated but people who studied this will generally tell you someone who is forced out of their country who would rather be back home is going to behave differently from someone who willingly leave their country to start a new life in a new place and so what i am writing, primarily economic imm

you always had a sort of isolationist protectionist strain on the right going back to pat buchanan's view in the 1990s, but that was never the dominant view of the right. reagan was extremely pro- immigrant, and put in place amnesty. george w. bush and his father were both very pro- immigrants, and even the republican nominees that lost like the mccain or romney were still far more pro- immigrant that you had an donald trump. so this is sort of a new development on the rights although there's always been this faction, this more anti- immigrant nato faction december been the dominant one. source sort of a new era here. >> are the rules any different for an immigrant versus refugee? >> oh yes. they are two different groups and traditionally have been taught -- and have been considered to differ groups. these days there's a little different. the people decided this would generally tell youho that someone who is forced out of their country, who would rather be back home, and is coming to the u.s. is going to behave very differently from someone who willingly leaves their country to start

jeffrey, senior advisor to pat buchanan and a writer for the washington times, now a columnist and editor-in-chief. thank you for stopping by. happy holidays. come back again. >> washington journal mugs are available on our new online story. go to c-span.org and check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the products. the white house did not release a weekly adjust from the president. we will hear from jimmy gomez who gave the democratic address, highlighting legislation and looking ahead to 2020. mr. gomez: hi, i am jimmy gomez. i represent the 34th congressional district in the heart of los angeles. it is important to look back at the year with a democratic majority. we stood up for our constitution and held president trump for abusing the power of his office and obstructing congress. we passed nearly 300 bills, including to lower drug costs. lower prices so more americans can afford the medicine they need. one legislation extends protection to lgbtq families. reaffirms the basic idea equal pay for equal work. the climate action now act aims to keep the united states in the paris clima