s.s. st. louis. a state department and white house denied landing rights of the ship which contained a shipload of jews who allowed to use lead germany. when the ship turned around, they were killed in concentration. the question i have is why, why did the white house, why did the state department, why did the jewish advisers to the president must have been consulted turn a blind ausley and a deaf ear? >> thank you for the question and it is notable. the only answer i can give you as they turn as you put it a blind eye and a deaf ear they choose to ignore or not to respond for the same reason they chose to ignore everything else that had gone on. anything touching on immigration that regarded as too sensitive and dangerous politically so i don't know incidentally. >> [inaudible] >> i don't know the president's views were directly and i rather doubt it. those are things that the government works for and what roosevelt would do in most cases like that is left it to the state department and he had a pre