fdr knew about pearl harbor? i think he knew an attack was coming the first of december or the first two weeks but where would it be? almost everybody thought probably singapore and the philippines. the japanese had 50,000 troops in saigon in french indochina a. move came there to the philippines or singapore was easy. fdr and a general marshall have the word department to warn the basis to go on high alert but if i had an hour i could go over what half-inch but it is the perfect storm of mistakes. everybody believes they were in command with the attitude it does not matter because we will not be attacked so why bother. that is a bad way to do with. but 1932, four, 36 come a commander and why you could have the attitude and you were fined and spent two years in hawaii and not do all lot. but december 1941 it was up four way to run things. i don't think fdr directly new that would be pearl harbor but new the attack was coming and i blame him most 1900 anti-aircraft guns and given away hundreds of fire planes. and

the problem -- if i had an hour i could go over what happened at pearl harbor. it's a perfect storm of mistakes. and everyone there believed they were in command but they were in command with the attitude, oh, it doesn't matter anyway because we're not going to really be attacked and so why bother? that's a very bad way to do that. other commanders had done that but if it was 1932, 1934 and 1936 and you were a commander in hawaii and if you could have that attitude and you could be fine and you could do two years out in hawaii and not do anything but who cares but in the summer of 1941 it was a very poor way to run things. so i don't think fdr directly knew it was going to be pearl harbor but he knew an attack was coming and what i blame him for most with pearl harbor is he had given 1900 antiaircraft guns to other countries and he had given away hundreds of fighter planes and i will give the commanders in hawaii this much credit. they didn't have the weapons either. they were very shorthanded. [inaudible] >> well, admiral richardson had gotten fired. i point th

or over the cause of pearl harbor which was the u.s. who adopted the strategy about a year before which was in case of war, they thought. the united states would stand on the defensive in the pacific and take the offensive in the atlant atlantic. churchill brought over and it will show the americans where the war should be fought and also to answer questions like this because the british thought they had the attack on pearl harbor and so great that they would abandon the strategy and be on the pacific and would have been amazing and the pacific began to get increasing emphasis faster than what the plan called for. but the americans are going to take the offensive in european theater, with what and how, that was the question that the planners had to face. and that was the traditional thing that he called for. across channel landing and an attack across the plane to france into germany and end the war that way. i don't know if it was immediately, but that was the grand zion and to begin with, marshall, a favorite and landing with the plan

the night of pearl harbor gives you some idea of their importance. weiman, and merrill was at the white house with roosevelt. as soon as they heard the news everyone knew the long fight was over and america was now in the war. and a new struggle began and all three of them played a very key role in continuing the alliance and as i said, keeping it alive. there were many, many problems with the anglo, american alliance and it progressed and the u.s. became clearly, the senior partner and it's important to remember that despite all those difficulties, that alliance did hold together until it won the war. sch a wartime bond never existed before and it will never be duplicated again and the fact that it did exist and did sor survive was due in no small part to john gilbert. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, lynn. our next speaker is douglas waller. mr. waller has spent two decades as a washington journalist covering the pentagon, congress, the state department, the white house and the cia. mr. waller currently is a defense analyst for bloomberg gover

america came into the second world war because of pearl harbor. it accelerated the entry -- we can discuss what happened -- but it certainly gave hope to britain standing alone, and of course, a book about roosevelt, because he was the dominant figure, but there was another player, churchill. >> absolutely. >> when you have finished your research on churchill -- phenomenal. the notes in the back alone are just absolutely overwhelming. i don't know how you organize them all. then the bibliography -- i wish there were an index. >> we had a discussion but the publisher about that, but that is another story -- about publishers. >> i know about publishers. intermittently. i also like the way you write. a very clear and simple and declarative. in researching this, these extraordinary man, did you change your view of churchill? >> even higher than before. a similarly extraordinary man. >> if you read your book, where you quote his speeches, extraordinary -- only maybe martin luther king came close to him as an orator. >> he was marvelous. and it confirms

pearl harbor and the dramatic attack and a turning point* militarily for the united states in many waysessentials two victory. the atomic bomb itself in here you have to give roosevelt credit for thinking ahead for what might make up a little difference in the war. then you have the end finally of the great depression which dominated the thinking of generation of america coming to an end for the end of world war ii. we work with those elements in the book fdr goes to war. i would like it needed to start by commenting on some of those features of world war ii of franklin roosevelt >> it is the pleasure to be here today with david and kato institute. but yes, in our goal in retained this book was to make it larger than the economics although that is important but to give everybody a book that in 300 pages or so you could -- could get an overview of world war ii whether young person trying to learn, a son who is 26 and i can assure you most of his friends know almost nothing of that entire period. it is amazing. we have material you probably never heard before so i want to set the stage ab

so, and then at the time of the outbreak of world war ii until pearl harbor, hoover took the position that the united states, while aiding britain, should not intervene militarily in the war in europe. so he opposed roosevelt's foreign policy on step after step. and that, of course, only deepened the cleavage between them. >> host: in fact, hoover had, i believe, in 1934 published the book called "the challenge to liberty" which represented some chapter and verse his first wave of philosophical criticism. >> guest: that's correct. >> host: of the new deal. >> guest: yes. he said there were statist ideologies afoot in the 1930s; communism, socialism, fascism, nazism, and what hoover called regimentation, and he saw the new deal move anything a collectivist direction, and hoover argued his own view which he called historic liberalism would be conservativism in contrast to roosevelt's brand of liberalism or progressivism. so there was not just a personal rivalry between them, but it took on an ideological cast. >> host: right. now, it's interesting, and we'll get back to "freedom betraye

so, and then at that time of the outbreak of world war ii until pearl harbor, hoover the position of the united states while aiding britain should not intervene militarily in the war in europe said he opposed roosevelt's foreign policy step after step and that of course only deepened the cleavage between them. >> host: in fact hoover had a i believe in 1934 published a book called the challenge of the liberty which presented sorry chapter and verse is his first wave of philosophical criticism of the new deal. >> guest: yes. he said that there were status ideologies a foot in the 1930's called miss of fascism, socialism and what hoover called the regimentation is the word for the new deal. and he saw the new deal moving in a collectivist direction and who argue that his own view which he called historic would be conservatism in contrast to roosevelt's brand of liberalism or progressivism. so there was not just a personal rivalry between them but it took on an ideological past. >> host: we will get back to the trade in a moment, but the more recent revisionist criticism of roosevelt fr

and then at the time of the outbreak of world war ii and pearl harbor, hoover took the position that the united states, while aiding britain, should not intervene in the war militarily in europe so he opposed roosevelt's foreign policy step after step and that only deep ended the cleavage between them. >> in fact, hoover had, i believe in 1934, published a book called, the challenge to liberty, which presented some chapter and verse, his first wave of philosophical criticism of the new deal. >> yes. he state there war statist ideology afoot in the 1930s, communism, fascism, and what hoover called regimen addition, the new deal, and he saul the new deal moving in a collectivist direction, and roosevelt argued that it would be conservism. so it took on an idealology cal al cast. >> the recent revisionist criticism of roosevelt from the left, he didn't use the crisis to move in a nearly radical enough position. did he acknowledge that school of thought or did it even exist at that point? >> that school of thought largely came into fashion in the 1960s and 70s with the so, called new lef

they were obsessed with what had happened at pearl harbor. they wanted to continue to fight in the pacific. and there was a great deal of public attention to that fight. and roosevelt felt it was absolutely critical to get the american public thinking about the war in europe and they had to find a place where they could find the nazis in 1942 and absolutely wanted to do that. and really the only available area that made any sense was north africa. so he went ahead with the north african decision over the objection of his chief of staff. in the intelligence world of course, you know, it's very interesting. so much of what we take for granted today with respect to our economy, whether it's fdic, the securities and exchange commission, there's so much that goes back to the new deal. but what we also need to remember is that the whole national security structure of the united states was built in the second world war. the development of our intelligence capabilities through the oss which eventually would evolve into the cia. the office of the nati

that was a ridiculous statement by the gingrich person, responded by saying no, it's less like pearl harbor than lucille ball at the chocolate assembly line where she's stuffing them in her dress and putting them in her mouth. she couldn't pack the chocolate fast enough. gwen: we have to bring up within person who's been completing missing in action the way huntsman was in iowa. rick perry is completely missing in action here in new hampshire. and we thought he was on the verge of dropping out of the race. michele bachmann, of course, did drop out of the race this week. what's he doing? where is he going next? what's his plan? >> i think it's a mystery to everybody. he sounded very much on caucus night as if he were heading back to texas to reassess -- gwen: word reassess. >> which is the signal next step is withdraw. and then next day said he said no, i'm going on to south carolina. apparently to the surprise of a number of his advisers. only thing i can think of is they have money left. they will run some ads. he will make one more run. it's a state they thought he would do reasonably wel

." >> ♪ i remember pearl harbor..."ughter) that just pulled the song right out of me. >> stephen: right out of you. >> right out of my nose. >> stephen: we got a mountain. a cloud. a polish woman holding a pole. (laughter). >> stephen: it could be a polish stripper. >> that's what i think. >> stephen: any advice here? >> no, i just... i would leave it alone because it has a kind of delicacy and irrationality and... terrible quality of ordinariness. >> stephen: terribly ordinary. maurice sendak, that's another great blurb. >> supremely ordinary. >> stephen: well, moshe, i think with my fantastic book idea, my words, my drawings and your blurb i think we've got a hit here. >> i know we do. >> stephen: thank you, sir. (applause) folks, once i get a publisher i "i am a pole and so can you "reason available in bookstores everywhere in hard cover, paper back, maybe even an e-book. what do you say about that, maurice? >> (bleep)ing will i say? i hate those e-books, they can not be the future. they may well be... i will be hey,

the atomic bomb research after the british and the tube alloy program in england, ortly before pearl harbornuclear at that point, the americ program really took fire. >> to elaborate a little bit more on what einstein said about this, this is from your book, recordable einstein. great volume, by the way. >> thank you. a lot of surprising terial in here as to an indication of the range -- asyou pointed out. was a multi-disciplinarian. he was not in the narrow boards situation that scientists are in today where they bore down and down in a relatively small area. he was able to interrelate. he was able to connect. he saw -] huh? >>he w the connections. >> this is what you quote him as saying. father of the release. lf the my father was quite indirect. i did not in fact foresee that it would be released in my lifetime. i beeve@only that it was theoretically possible. it became practical only through the accidental discovery of a chain reaction. this was not something i could have predicted." >> yeah. >> it's a chain reaction that he didn't see. but he saw the atomic power was therep. >> he sawt

i hired somebody who turned in 11,100 and -- [unintelligible] >> he compared that to pearl harbor? i think itit is re like lucille ball at the chocolate factory. [laughter] you got to get it organized. >> gingrich posture problems provided an opening for the campaigns, specifically ron paul and romney, who are fighting for the iowa lead, followed closely by rick santorum, who jumped into double digits. jeanne cummings, what won't, self-inflicted or otherwise, mo led to gingrich's fall from grace? >> there is much chinenese backckground that was ing to come up --. his work up -- there was much in his background that was going to come up. his work with nanancy pelosi in that ad, his work witith freddie mac, an organization tt conservatives hate because of their role in the collapse of the housing market, and millionss in taxpayer money as it had to go to bail it out. but what really hurt him the st was when conservative opininion leaders, like charles here at the table, clan back -- glenn beck, formerly of fox, and others, one of those people started to come out and say whoa, ththis

we had pearl harbor, the invasion of korea, 9/11, and the invasion of kuwait, which came out of nowhere. we needed half a million americans, and succeeded in kuwait. the total strength of the army is going to be less than the number of troops we had in kuwait in 1991. that means we are held hostage. if you imagine that the arabs and the gulf are not looking around and thinking that america is sick of any involvement in there and is reducing its capacities, what side of we going to go with? who are we going to talk to? i can see the saudis dialing up the pakistanis -- you have a bomb, send us a dozen. >> we have enormous treasure and humanity in wars in that area of the world. i don't think the way it has turned out is terribly good, even afghanistan, which we should have done initially. it is turning out to be just sucking our blood. >> the question is not deciding to go here or there. the question is are you going to have any capacity to ever engage on the ground you shrink the way we do? the answer is probably going no. >> it always boils down to that soldier or marine or navy seal --

the films that i really go after and i get excited about doing, "men of honor," dory miller in "pearl harbore tuskegee and "red tail," it inspires me to get involved in films that tell a story of black history. when i was doing the first tuskegee airmen, i had finished my schooling and knew nothing about the tuskegee airmen. i have two boys and i've made it my mission to make sure that doesn't happen to them. a lot of kids today, they get their history lessons through the cinema, through these stories that are told so passionately. >> get your head up, son. you're a fighter pilot. >> i know you're a student of history, and i often hear you and see you talk to young people about history, about society, about issues of race and racism. how important will this film be as an educational tool? >> you think about it and you say, it bears no fruit. we look at our community and we see a fruitless community in many ways and they say we have a black president and more scholars and we have more people in prison and more disease in our community. the way to tackle those issue, we have to look back to a

week hired a guy who turned in 11,100 -- [unintelligible] >> he compared that to pearl harbor? i think it is more like lucille ball at the chocolate factory. [laughter] you have got to get it organized. >> gingrich's problems provided an opening for other campaigns, especially that of ron paul and mitt romney, who are vying for iowa, followed closely by rick santorum, who jumped into double digits. jeanne cummings, what wound it, self-inflicted or otherwise, most led to newt gingrich's fall from grace? >> there is much in his background that was going to come up. his work with nancy pelosi in that ad on the environment, the worker for freddie mac, which is an organization that conservatives hate because of its role in the collapse of the housing market and the millions of taxpayers' money it has had to go to bail it out. what really hurt him the most was when conservative opinion leaders, like charles here at beck, formerlyenbaglenn of a fox, and others, when those people started to come out and say whoa, this is somebody we cannot support, these are people that iowa primary vo

people were stunned by what had happened at pearl harbor. and this was the first christmas after the event, and so i wrote about the aftermath worldwide; what it was like around the country, what it was like around the world. it was still the time when people would light their christmas trees. there was an official blackout, but nobody paid attention. rationing hadn't begun yet. so the seriousness of the war hadn't really sunk in. in the united states. >> what was washington like at that time? were they gearing up? >> washington was gearing up, but in a very strange way. there weren't really enough antiaircraft guns available in washington although we never did have an air raid, but there were wooden, mock aircraft gunses up on the roofs of buildings so people would feel that they were being protected. it was a strange christmas. >> had a draft started? >> the draft had started in 1940 before the car began, and -- before the war began, and president roosevelt had a very difficult time in october 1941 renewing the draft because there were so

pearl harbor. word of advice, jake. never trust... both: ...the japanese. thanks, granddad. thank you, ben, for taking me to nice restaurant. hello, ben? ben, why you not talk to me? because it's a date, and i'm playing hard to get. joey told chandler that's what girls like. do you watch friends? yes, who is your favorite character? your cocoa pops, madame. thank you. and... yours. that's not how you treat a customer. you treat a customer with respect. that's the worst service i've ever had. if you had a restaurant, yours wouldn't be any better! ( both arguing ) okay! okay! time out! peace, peace, love! it was very nice food. thank you very much. my-- my date and i must leave, so, please, may we have the bill? here's your bill. it was rubbish service! okay, here is your money. i'm sorry, we don't accept 0retend money. oh. that's okay. my date. he'll pay. so, is tyson black? no. why? well, "tyson," you know, it's one of those names you can get away with if you're black, but if you're white, it's just a bit... well... well, i shouldn't think he named himself. he did, actually.

. >> surprise attack on pearl harbor occurred as first cadets were training. four months later first class got it's wings including west point graduate captain benjiman davis. >> with the exception of an order. >> surviving this and continued to love to, serve the country. it was remarkable example of patriotism it was tough, but fair, the same couldn't be said for the first commander of tuskegee. >> von kimble wasn't really happy to be there. wasn't in favor of the program. >> wanting to avoid trouble he transferred von kimble to another post n february, 43 he was replaced by colonel parish. >> one of his first actions was to remove the colored-only and whites-only signs from around the base. >> colonel parish, that was my man. he supported us. it wasn't a way for officers to do. >> parish's sense of fairness extended to instructor autos white instructors were just as good and just as friendly. and just as encouraging. >> he beat me to death, with that stick, making sure i did it right. >> instructor pilots are very difficult with white cadets as well as blac

opinion is a replay of the american strategy against japan that provoked the attack all on the pearl harbor we want to prevent the chinese economy from rising to box it in by reducing or controlling its access to energy. and we have timothy geithner he is now in china discussing that exact topic these sanctions that are being and that are in place now against iran i mean adie you expect china to react to this well of course i wouldn't expect china to do to shoot itself in the foot and i don't know why the timothy geithner or the united states government thanks shannon will cooperate and america's plans to do not generate energy it doesn't make any sense and you see channer is not threatening anymore and all the threats are coming from the americans well you know this war plans to attack the united states and china is now claiming the gulf of mexico as an area of its national interest so why are we claiming the south china sea is something that's so important to america's interest is of no importance to america's interests i mean you know it's interesting that you say that because obviously

. >> surprise attack on pearl harbor occurred as first cadets were training. four months later first class got it's wings including west point graduate captain benjiman davis. >> with the exception of an order. >> surviving this and continued to love to, serve the country. it was remarkable example of patriotism it was tough, but fair, the same couldn't be said for the first commander of tuskegee. >> von kimble wasn't really happy to be there. wasn't in favor of the program. >> wanting to avoid trouble he transferred von kimble to another post n february, 43 he was replaced by colonel parish. >> one of his first actions was to remove the colored-only and whites-only signs from around the base. >> colonel parish, that was my man. he supported us. it wasn't a way for officers to do. >> parish's sense of fairness extended to instructor autos white instructors were just as good and just as friendly. and just as encouraging. >> he beat me to death, with that stick, making sure i did it right. >> instructor pilots are very difficult with white cadets as well as blac

interest in going to war anywhere we have no interest in going to war the japanese only bombed pearl harbor we had no interest in going to afghanistan when the hottest destroy the world trade center well the contrast with that is what happens if iran gets a nuclear weapon and the entire world changes bottom line is the theocracy that runs iran is the equivalent of having al qaeda in charge of a country with huge oil reserves gas reserves and a nuclear weapon that is something that no president could possibly allow to have happen under any circumstances. i where do we start there when we go with rick santorum will the world change overnight if iran acquires a nuclear weapon let me just point out two things one that al qaeda and the leadership in tehran have getting their next have almost nothing in common and second and probably more important to the point is that north korea is in my view much more dangerous country with respect to our allies in the region and iran is north korea has tested not one but two nuclear devices at least and maybe weaponized where is all the brouhaha from rick san

. >> surprise attack on pearl harbor occurred as first cadets were training. four months later first class got it's wings including west point graduate captain benjiman davis. >> with the exception of an order. >> surviving this and continued to love to, serve the country. it was remarkable example of patriotism it was tough, but fair, the same couldn't be said for the first commander of tuskegee. >> von kimble wasn't really happy to be there. wasn't in favor of the program. >> wanting to avoid trouble he transferred von kimble to another post n february, 43 he was replaced by colonel parish. >> one of his first actions was to remove the colored-only and whites-only signs from around the base. >> colonel parish, that was my man. he supported us. it wasn't a way for officers to do. >> parish's sense of fairness extended to instructor autos white instructors were just as good and just as friendly. and just as encouraging. >> he beat me to death, with that stick, making sure i did it right. >> instructor pilots are very difficult with white cadets as well as blac

but sometimes pearl harbor happens or invasion of south korea or a 9/11.ound war is thrust upon you. it's not as if it's a choice. so the strategy is to reduce the ground forces, increase navy and air force. and yet, huge cuts in the joint strike fighter. this is a budget to reduce the american capacity. it will make it hard to carry the role that we have for 70 years. >> bret: we don't have a lot of specific numbers, we have specific strategies. the joint chiefs are saying that they can do this and fight two wars. there is a lot of people that are very concerned about that possibility. >> well, legitimately so. i think a lot of people are not necessarily looking for it. you go back to donald rumsfeld in the last administration. he, too, was talking about making the military leaner, more agile, more effective. but looking to do so again, by reducing the footprint of our ground war capabilities. the army and the marine corps. i think the president made a point here that is very important. which is that after 9/11, there has been a tremendous increase in def