in the days and months following the terrible attack on pearl harbor, the future looked grim. yet brave men and women answered the call to defend our nation. in spite of incredible challenges, daring exploits such as the doolittle raid and battles in places such as coral sea paved the way for what would come to be known as the most disciple -- decisive naval victory of our time, the battle of midway. awe ande look back with gratitude as we remember the hard work of people like the commander in his incredible team of intelligence experts. admiralchester nimitz, spruance, jack fletcher, and other naval leaders. we especially today, remember the countless unnamed sailors and marines and coast inrdsmen who stood fast the face of great danger. those who fears -- whose fearlessness in the seas, below them, and above made the difference in crucial -- between crucial victories and crushing defeat. we remember this day with solemn gratitude all who gave the last full measure of devotion admin play -- at midway. on this day, we honor their sacrifice and give thanks for their courage and

three months before pearl harbor, ford was in uniform. he felt that war was coming and that he also understood that hollywood needed to be prepared. he had gotten the navy to agree to let him create something that came to be known as the field photo unit. it was an auxiliary in which he recruited cameramen and soundman and film editors from hollywood studios who would spend their weekends and nights training to do things like develop film and shoot film under wartime conditions. in some ways, it was a lark. ford really loved ceremony and military procedure. but this unit became absolutely crucial during the war when it was called into action to shoot documentaries. >> two of the most significant events where john ford witnessed the events unfold on omaha beach in the battle of midway, in which he was wounded. correct? >> "the battle of midway" was the first time a major american filmmaker was there to film an engagement. it was the middle of 1942 and the war in europe was not happening yet as far as the u.s. was concerned. all of the conc

pearl harbor, d-day, and president roosevelt's death. this is about 40 minutes. >> in his book, the late historian john keegan writes, the second world war is the largest event in human history, fought across six continents and all its oceans. it left hundreds of millions wounded, killed 100 18 million human beings, and materially devastated much of the heartland of human civilization. ins affected life here abilene as well as in communities around the world where our panelists were during the war. i will begin our introductions with march olson. marge spent the war, part of the war in texas and oklahoma. she followed her husband from post to post. they spent time in our relic, texas, that i know we will talk about. snyder.our panel were -- doris snyder. doris is the mother of our snyder.urator, william that has made the panel a real family affair as you will see in a moment. skipping down to the end of the bob was a boy in western oklahoma. went on to oklahoma a&m, now of course oklahoma state university, where he studied journalism. he

but that's what happened to me on pearl harbor day. i was working at firestone. i wasn't exactly rosie the riveter. i was at -- firestone, in order to accommodate us, they built quanset huts on the main factory ground. i wasn't on the main ground. i was in this hut, and in the bottom of the kwan set -- of they were huts, building wings. i was working up on the second floor. no air conditioning. believe me, it was warm. but we knew we had a job to do, so we did it. a man was sent down from new york to train me to operate this huge -- it was like a typewriter key board. it was about four feet long. and believe it or not, it paid the pills -- the bills and ordered the materials that we needed to build the wings all on this machine. it made the checks, and it kept the accounts right on this machine. i guess it was the nearest thing we had it a computer back in those days. and that was my pearl harbor day in a nutshell, i guess. >> thank you. margin, how about you? -- marge, how about you, if we could move the microphone to her? >> thank you. >> i was a new bride. i h

this is a photo of admiral nimitz, a man who was able to restore morale quickly after pearl harbor, but nimitz is on the only laboring under a of resources and manpower, but he also has another challenge and that is this. we have not yet broken japan's naval code. harbor we got smart and we began to apply more manpower and resources to military codes. and there were any number of organizations that were devoted doing just that. they are working every day to break japanese systems. there's another organization in washington called op 20g that is thing.he same work,a lot of very tough in may of 1942, they achieve a breakthrough and they begin to portions of japanese naval messages to the point where they whatretty much ascertain the japanese are going to do. when they look at the messages, to see clearly that the next objective for japan is a.f. the next question of course, what does a.f. correspond to? to the conclusion, because he had been doing this type of analysis for quite a while, that a.f. was definitely midway island. most importantly he convinced casethat's this was the and nimi

this is four months before pearl harbor.he two men are on board a british battleship, the hms prince of wales, which parenthetically would be sunk four months later by japanese aircraft. to arrange the meeting between himself and churchill, roosevelt had sneaked away from washington, keeping his intentions hidden and completely secret even, incredibly enough, from the secret service. if you could imagine such a thing happening today. at this time, when the photo was taken, roosevelt still hoped the united states might be able to limit its involvement in the war to what he called being the arsenal of democracy. in fact he wanted the u.s. to provide the matÉriel of war so britain and her commonwealth australia, newa, zealand -- could not only holdout, but eventually with american support when. -- with american support win. became more realistic after hitler's fallujah and in fatalght completely decision to invade the soviet union in summer 1941. that made churchill at least think it was possible, just barely possible, that wit

. >> this is the headline the day after pearl harbor. december 8, 1941. >> after the attack on pearl harbor life changed for the japanese americans who had lived here for some of them 40 even 50 years. all of a sudden they were the enemy. on february 19, 1942, executive order 9066 was signed, ordering all people of japanese ancestry and we're talking down to 1/16 if you were eve answer i tiny bit japanese you had to relocate to a camp. and these were the instructions they saw in the telephone polls and around and they were given almost proposal a little over a week to get rid of all of their possessions. first of all they had to report or they would be arrested if they did not, then they had a week to get rid of everything. we're talking quitting their jobs, selling their homes getting rid of their businesses. my grandparents owned a dry goods store, and they had to get rid of all of their inventory get rid of pets their cars. and then decide what they were going to take. the other instructions told them you have to take dishes, bedding,

the strategic landscape changed dramatically after pearl harbor. churchill was thrilled to have the united states as a full ally. given the character of the japanese attack, american public opinion would first -- force franklin roosevelt energy to the pacific rather than against germany. he needn't have worried. at least not about that. as it happened in the month before pearl harbor, between this photo and the japanese attack, the united states has settled on a new strategic plan. it would have to be defeated before the united states turns a deal with japan. it was an american admiral. they drafted the memo that established a new policy of germany first. it became the key element of not only american but subsequently anglo-american war planning and churchill was much relieved to hear it. on the other hand, churchill learned the americans took the view that because germany was to be the first target of anglo-american ferocity the best possible thing to do was to attack it immediately. at once. this is kind of a characteristic american attitude. we

in the is the headline "san francisco chronicle" the day after pearl harbor.ember the eighth, 1941. >> after the attack on pearl harbor, life changed for the japanese-americans who had lived or 50or, some of them 40 years. all of a sudden, they were the enemy. 19, 1942, executive signed ordering all japanese people of japanese ancestry. we are talking down to 1/16. if you are a tiny bit japanese, you had to relocate to a camp. these were the instructions that they saw on the telephone poles. they were given a little bit over a week to get rid of all of their possessions. first of all, they had to report and they would be arrested. then they had a week to get rid of anything. we are talking about quitting their jobs, selling their homes, getting rid of their businesses. my grandparents owned a dry goods store and they had to get rid of their inventory. had to get rid of pets, their cars. and then decide what they were going to take. told themattractions you had to take dishes, bedding. you're thinking what you are caring, they had to leave the lot behind. my fa

west virginia station in pearl harbor.at the time there were few options for black sailors in the navy. dorrie was assigned as the mess attendant. t 6:00 a.m. on december 7, dorrie was awake conducting his duties as room steward for the officers when the alarm for general quarters rang out. throughout the fighting, he assisted in transporting wounded to the first aid stations, kept load ammunition and manned an unattended aircraft deck gun. while under bombardment from e japanese, dorrie continued attacking at the attacking men, possibly taking down one of the aircraft. for his extraordinary courage, dorrie was awarded the navy cross for admiral chester them its. he was the first african-american -- nemitz. he was the first african-american to receive that honor in the pacific fleet. the two years after pearl harbor, dorrie gave the ultimate sacrifice, going down with his ship during the battle in the south pacific. dorrie has been immortalized in movies as well as with commemoration on the united states postage stamp. he

most of the news in the six months after pearl harbor that had come out of the war was not good for the u.s.

family says he was used scapegoat in the attack on pearl harbor.son fighting to restore his name. you will meet him next. you don't want to miss this photo. shia labeouf going on a rampage hours before he was cuffed by police. why was he chasing a homeless man, the details are next. is this all part of a movie stunt? i say yes. what do you say? >>> hello and good morning. brand new pictures released showing actor shia labeouf odd behavior before he was arrested outside a new york city broadway show. tmz catching the star chasing a homeless man accused of taking his hat. the 28-year-old appeared whacked out and kept saying it's me shia. suv driver loses control and flips his tractor-trailer on the highway. the 45-year-old was not hurt but was cited for in inattentive driving. >> four star general, admiral husband kimmel was considered anything but a hero. he was accused of not taking extraordinary action to prevent the assault and he was demoted. his family says the government made kimmel a escape got. further investigations pointed to washington of

this is a playboy spy who was a double or triple agent who brought some questions on pearl harbor tond some people thought so we missed a warning of attack on pearl harbor and this message was hidden. the nazis -- doesn't he look like two face? this was a fun story. won't tell the whole story but he secretive secret link and he was a double agent also and landed in britain in the parachute and the british picked him up and took him to the interrogation center. he denied he had any secret writing like that and one day he was in the cafeteria and the capital to popped out with that bag of seeking can the british found out he had secret secret lincoln his tooth. i will start wrapping up here. buy mentioned d session. happened again during the cold war. this is a much longer war but it was a little different outcome quinn in this story so the east bloc was more successful at catching spies using postal interception than the u.s. was. it was a key counterintelligence method. the u.s. also wanted to use postal interception in 1952. they launched a program called hd lingual that was nipped

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. >>> ahora esta manera de mira mirarlo, ha sido atacada en una manera no lineal, heridos como pearl harborar sujetos a la vigilancia, no podemos ceder nuestra privacidad, no podemos ceder los derechos, tenemos que formar parte activa, parte activa de nuestro gobierno y tenemos que decir hay algunas cosas por la cual vale la pena morir, creo que el paÍs es una de ella. >>> ¿quÉ puede hacer la agencia nacional de seguridad con este aparato si se quieren meter en mi vida? >>> el servicio de inteligencia ruso, de la china, cualquier servicio de inteligencia del mundo que tenga fondos significativos y un buen equipo ten tecnolÓgico pueden ser dueÑo del telÉfono tan pronto lo encienda, lo pueden convertir en micrÓfono, pueden tomar fotografÍas de Él, pueden eliminar los datos de este. >>> ¿puede alguien encender el aparato remotamente? puede alguien importarle si busco el marcador final de los rangers y los canadienses. >>> claro, te dirÍa que si a todas ellas y me recuerdo, absolutamente lo pueden encender cuando lo tengas apagado, si la baterÍa no se ha quitado del telÉfono hay circuitos en el

. >> pearl harbor was attacked, there were approximately 5,000nese's serving.lmost immediately the military made it perfectly clear what they thought about their japanese american soldiers. >> the neses all their weapons were taken away. our rifles were taken away. and then we were shipped to the midwest. >> then the backlash fell upon the civilians of japanese ancestry. all those living on the west coast were by government order gathered up and shipped off to internment catches. allowed only the possessions they could carry they were sent to camps throughout the midwest. their official status was not prisoner, not internees but rather dislocated people. these dislocated people actually had a value to the army. they spoke japanese. now it was up to the army to turn that ability into a military asset. >> i spent three months interned. in november of 1942 i went to the camp savage. >> reporter: camp savage would be a school of language. these represented a way out of the camp, a better hand to play. >> rather than spending the rest of the duration pitching coal,

to the u.s., and some people thought that we missed a warning of attack on pearl harbor, and this messageas hidden in a hydrodot. concern microdot. the nazis' secret ink in a tooth story, this guy -- doesn't he look like he has a tooth ache? [laughter] this is a fun story. i won't tell the whole story, save it to say that he secreted secret ink in a mow hour, and he was a double -- molar, and he was a double agent when he landed in britain in a parachute. he denied he had any secret writing like that, and one day he was in the cafeteria, and, you know, the cap to the tooth popped out and so did the little baggy with the secret ink, and the british found out he had secreted secret ink in his tooth. bizarre stories. so i'm going to start wrapping up here. so cold war, i mentioned mail interception. can you believe it? it happened again during the cold war. and, of course, this was a much longer war, but there was a little different outcome in this story. so the east bloc was hutch more successful at -- much more successful at catching spies using postal interception than the u.s. was. it's

the pearl harbor was a defeat. so hence, now every round number, every ten years this has become one of the most moving memorial spectacles in the world. and everybody loves these d-day vets. >> and of course, the frailty of these aging veterans is what makes it ever so much more poignant. chuck, you've had a moment to reflect also on the president's speech. and the high points where he also talked about his own grandfather, serving with general patton, and how coming in for a landing with marine one and seeing normandy, he said to his aides, i've never missed having my grandfather with me more than today. >> look, i thought he did exactly what you would want the american president to do. first of all, a very apolitical speech. the only poke at media a little bit, very apolitical speech. president reagan what doug was talking about, marked 40 and that was when the world war ii generation was retiring. what president obama was trying to do today and i hope he's right, trying to connect the 9/11 generation with the w

entered the war late, after germany's ally japan attacked pearl harbor in 1941.ritain, led by prime minister winston churchill, had entered the war in 1939, right after germany invaded poland. polish and british armies are side-by-side on d-day. together with canadians and other british commonwealth troops. 177 exiled frenchman took part in the invasion as well. the attack was supposed to be launched on june 5, but the weather was bad, so june 6 entered history as d-day, the day the allies landed in normandy to begin the liberation of europe from the nazis, 70 years ago today. >> now on the sidelines of the d-day commemorations, it looks like there has been some diplomatic movement towards easing the tensions in ukraine. >> the new ukrainian president and russian president issued a joint call for a cease-fire in the embattled eastern ukraine. >> vladimir putin had a number of what are being called constructive talks with western leaders, including with barack obama. >> the german chancellor has been using her influence with both men to find a path forward out of

rr a group of krien ease ships have arrived in pearl harbor. not only flying its own flag but also the colors of the u.s. china has sent four vessels, a missile destroyer, a frigate, and a ship. u.s. navial officials greeted their first chinese counterparts. chinese and other country's fleets got into formation ahead of the drill and conducted fire exercises. the naval drills are to foster cooperation among participants that is critical to security. 22 countries are taking part this year. >> translator: by visiting each other's ships, sailors can increase their understanding of one another. i think it has laid a solid foundation. >> reporter: china's participation comes at a time of growing tepgs over disputed islands. in may a chinese vessel rammed a vietnamese fishing boat in the disputed south china sea. two sides have repeatedly collided. nations neighboring china are increasingly wary of china of its building up its military capabilities. a former president of the national defense academy says that china's participation in the exercise is

build a reputation as a screenwriter, particularly with the help of william wyler. , he hadore pearl harbor his breakthrough success with the first movie he directed, "the maltese falcon." he had a chance to make about one and two thirds more movies. he had to leave for the war and a service for the war before completing a movie he was making , which reunited the cast of "the maki stopped in -- the maltese falcon." want to ask you about one of two films he put together. this one was from 1945, "let there be light." what did he bring to the american on the ends about this condition? >> it is a remarkable document three. -- documentary. he was tasked with what the army felt it would be a propaganda film about psychologically scarred veterans. the propaganda element was that the movie was intended to show these men could recover incredibly quickly and the film was specifically intended to be aimed at american small and midsized businesses who needed to be told that it was safe to higher returning veterans. it would be easy to reintegrate them into society. john huston took that assignment eage

pearl harbor hits that december. it is reorganized. the overt operations are put under the office of war intelligent -- of war, and the covert operations are put in an office named covert strategic services. donovan is reaching out to people like you. he wants the best and the brightest in our country. military. into the he reaches into academic and private industry. if he has an operation that requires a document specialist, a forger or lock pick, you will reach into prison if you need that kind of talent. ♪ ♪ >> this pic sure you are about to see is the first cinematic study of the preparation, arrival, and establishment of permanent cover for secret agents. >> over the course of its 3.5 year history, maybe 25,000 men and women have passed through its ranks. at its peak, 13,000 men and women served. william was a british special operations executive major, who had been training the militia in shanghai. he taught hand-to-hand combat, and one of the people he caught was richard helms. richard helms, before the war, was a newspaper corr

there's a lot of description -- discussion about a cyber pearl harbor. that misses the fact the problem is already with us. what we are suffering at this moment is this insidious sapping of our strength whether through the theft of intellectual property or the confidence these systems will be resilient against a threat in the future, they will not be because we have not made the necessary investments at this moment in time. any number of companies have suffered the loss of intellectual property and think they can weather that because they will out-innovate adversaries. i think that is less true than 30 years ago. there are worthy adversaries in the world in the competitive sense who not only have our intellectual property but can innovate. with the best of us this is insidious. that is what i worry about the most. that is less the problem. if your wealth and treasure is stored in cyberspace on a network, it is going to be interesting and lucrative to a potential adversary. judge said to the willie sutton, why do you rob banks?

he was stationed at pearl harbor at the time of the attack and he was then able over the course of that year of that war to be present to storm the beaches of normandy 70 seven years ago today. but it didn't have the proof of citizenship needed for a passport he got some help from social media and his local congressman mo brooks. he is able to take the oath of citizenship and hop a plane to france. they say it doesn't compare because there wasn't anybody shooting at him, and there were a lot of people shooting at him and the others that day on d-day. shooting into normandy. and now the word of the evening, grateful. grateful for those who gave their lives. seventy years ago today in norman opportunity to show that we are worthy of their sacrifice and service, and all who followed them. we are coming right back. lou: the longest day. president obama and vladimir putin spent the 70th anniversary of d-day trying to avoid each other in normandy. on fox, michael goodwin, on on fox, michael goodwin, on when you run a business,hat is you can't settle for slow. that's why i always choose the fa

multimillion dollar drill known as back of the rim of the pacific exercise will be get at the joint base pearl harbor and up to twenty three countries will be participating but alas if the navy's history of terrorizing marine life is any indication and the fisheries of the pacific that are brace themselves for a massive environmental price tag is it when the navy conducts its underwater operations very often sea creatures die and i'm not just referring to when the u.s. dropped four unarmed bombs on the great barrier reef last year that's because the use of sonar testing and navigate ships sends sound waves through the ocean and animals like whales that depend on their hearing for basic aspects of survival like finding food are interfered with and die in a court of the navy's own estimates for their two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and eighteen exercises quote sonar training and testing might unintentionally harm marine mammals two point eight million times a year over five years the injuries inflicted on mammals like dolphins and whales include deafness and other physical trauma such as blee

we ended up going to the war before pearl harbor and moved my mother, my sister and i, i think i was four or five years old. we went from camp grand in illinois to campgrounder in missouri then fort jackson in columbia, south carolina where he was shipped out in 1944. then, once he got over to england, he was there for a while. then ended up going across d-day plus 30. there was a truck and a driver. the ideas to have get the soldier back into battle as soon as possible. in addition to that, because he had an x-ray, he was able to take and develop pictures and he kept a journal. i also have the correspondence the e-mails that my mother and he exchanged during the war. then after he left, we moved to orlando because there was an air force base there. we could go to the px. then we ended up just waiting out the war there. i don't have memories of the collecting scrap and doing some of those other things. it was interesting to me to have all his pictures and all the other things that he was able to contribute to our family. host: have you gone through and read his journal? caller: , i r

in the days and months following the terrible attack on pearl harbor, the future looked grim. yet brave men and women answered the call to defend our nation. in spite of incredible challenges, daring exploits such as the doolittle raid and battles in places such as coral sea paved the way for what would come to be known as the most disciple -- decisive naval victory of our time, the battle of midway. awey, we look back with

in the weeks after pearl harbor was attacked winston churchill came over from the white house. they had to formulate the war-time alliance. fran line roosevelt wanted to call it the united nations. they signed the united nations charter and declaration on january 1st, 1942, which had the four powers. churchill wanted to put the british empire and include the british empire under the rubric of great britain, roosevelt wanted each country lifted alphabetically. during the war americans don't realise this, but it was united nations forces attack here, attack there. then they talked about a united nations organization that came out of the war time alliance and in late "43 roosevelt thought the best name would be the united nations. >> as we continue to watch the theatrical dance over a map of europe, they showed the iconic grainy black and white clip. the germans had pylons and till boxes, they knew something was coming, but not where. what was it about omaha that made this so deadly and devastating. >> the air power was not able to soften up the environment before the instrument g

cyber security was the biggest threat to american national security, the potential of a virtual pearl harbor. cyber was almost nowhere in that speech. obama spent most of his time talking about terror. obama is not a peacemaker. he is more than willing to be engaged unilaterally. under obama you're still going to see a very muscular effort. >> it's not boots on the ground but other tactics. is this a broader different approach? >> i think he's trying to explain himself more clearly to the american people. there were other elements that . one of the things that we have been trying to do was to look for what we do to support post withdrawal afghanistan. one of them is that economy deteriorates further it's going to be much harder to restore stability in that country and we tried to develop ways of connecting afghanistan with its neighbors. that didn't get very much attention, either. unless we can do something about the economics, it's going to be very hard to restore jobs. and then all of these radical groups have a heyday there because people are looking for some way to support themselves an

. >> george herbert walker bush met barbara pierce after the december 7th attack on pearl harbor. >> and george asked someone there do you know the girl in the red and green dress. >> beautiful girl -- >> no, he didn't say that. he said yeah, george said go cut in on her, in those days we did that. and you can bring her over. which he did do. they played a waltz, and waltzing matilda didn't waltz. and he said do you mind if we sit down for a minute, and i did, and we talked. then i went over to the andover dance, and he kissed me. i almost fainted from excitement. 16, 17 -- you were 17? >> you were 16. >> 18 the next day. he was. that is like a song, you were 16. >> i don't think -- >> two teenagers in love with wars in europe and the pacific, the future did not look bright. bush joined his fellow americans and enlisted as soon as he turned 18. he earned his wings and became the youngest pilot in the navy. >> his mother and father were wonderful. and i had a brother who was overseas. i had a brother-in-law who was overseas. but it was different, different times. >> lieutenant junior

. >> no one wants another pearl harbor.ans that we must have knowledge of military forces and preparations around the world. the safety of the whole free world demands this. >> our government was in effect admitting we had previously lied and that we had committed espionage. admissions no nation had ever made before. >> how will this mission affect the united states do you think? >> i feel it gives the americans a black eye all over europe. >> i think we thought to sink a submarine spying off cape canaveral. >> i don't think we should admit it. we have a right to protect ourselves. >> the shoot down was such a big event that it basically torpedoed detente. it torpedoed the chance to have a peaceful period, and actually, it was the beginning of the scariest part of the cold war. >> america's public mood was one of demoralization and there's the feeling that we can do better. and that's when the election of 1960 comes along. ♪ >> i think the question before the american people is, are we doing as much as we can do? are we as

a recognition that 9/11 was, along with the american civil war, pearl harbor, maybe the assassination of president kennedy and 9/11, its impact on the american people was such that this was really a response from america to demonstrate the solidarity and cohesiveness of the american people towards these victims. >> read more of our conversation with kenneth feinberg and other featured interviews from our "book notes" and q&a rams in c-span's "sundays at eight." now available as a father's day gift at your favorite bookseller. >> yes, a u.s. senate candidates' debate from south carolina. incouple bend lindsey graham and six others debated ahead of tomorrow's primary. the candidates responded to a number of issue is including -- issues including immigration, the health care law and the role of the federal government. the debate comes to us courtesy of south carolina educational television. it's one hour. >> etv, the state, the greenville news. the island -- [inaudible] the sun news of myrtle beach, the herald of rock hill and the item of sumter present etv debates. tonight, republican c

which to flesh out the division with draftees and replacement and new volunteers in the wake of pearl harbor. so the first division by d-day is a mixture of really jaded and cynical and heavily combat -- experience guys who have fought in the mediterranean and the new guys, who tried to live up to the the esprit de cowrps. corps. >> one of the many stories you tell in the book was about bernard freedenberg, who ended up having to decide who could live and who to die. he used some powerful words, it was a decision that only god should make, but where was god? i don't think he was on omaha beach that morning. >> right. his experience was emblematic of a lot of corpsmen on the beach. these medics are circulating around the water line, where generally the dragging the wounded towards the enemy rather than away, of course, and they're disprilt tryin desperaty trying to cave lives, ultimately having to decide who lives and who dice. you can see why combat trauma tends to be very heavy among medics, freedenberg is an example. >> one review of your book said, it reminds us that freedom is not free.

was,ognition that 9/11 along with the civil war and pearl harbor and maybe the assassination of presidentthis was a response from america to demonstrate the solidarity and cohesiveness of the american people towards these victims. >> read more of our conversation in c-span's "sundays at eight." now available for a father's day gift at your favorite bookseller. "washington journal" continues. host: representative doug collins from georgia. a member of the oversight and government reform committee. also a member of the foreign affairs committee. welcome. are doing an effort in congress, taking a look at something called redundant federal programs. what do you mean by that? caller: we have a bill we have introduced looking at programs that are duplicate of were inefficient. it takes away our excuses. this should be done already in our congressional oversight. what we are doing here is taking commission that says, let's look at these programs and come to an agreement and talk about them and put this on the floor. it gives another tool to our toolbox. host: examples of programs you would deem

he flew on a b-17 from pearl harbor down to new guinea. inwas with seven other guys in uniform who were going to take him down. they missed their refueling stop which was canton island, at very small point of land. they put down in the middle of the central pacific, not too far from where amelia ehrhardt was lost. the only food they had was the pilot was savvy enough to put four oranges in his flight suit. they landed and these eight guys ended up on three rafts. no food, no water. they had not been able to figure out the radio to tell anybody where they are. they were 2000 miles in any direction from land. no food, no water. off of the guys had taken their pants and shoes and socks because they thought they might be swimming. that turned out to be a bad idea. when sun came out, they got sunburn. skin broke out into open source. the salt water came over on them. on their backater sides. it was pretty awful stuff. huge sharks were always swimming around. the sharks like to rub their backs underneath the very thin opening. hey wereest ones -