him that we didn't before we know things about joseph stalin that he was a dictator in a tyrant but i very much doubt that in the spring one hundred forty five astelin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany had he had it back in one nine hundred forty one nine hundred forty three when it was a matter of life and death for the soviet union in might have but back in the one nine hundred forty five when the enemy was all but broken. in the the the nazis had no chance of standing tough against the allies and i'm sure the stalin would not

millions of people in the former soviet union lost their lives under the regime of joseph stalin. the worst period during the 1930s came to be known as the great purge, or the great terror. a polish photo journalist spent four years documenting what happened. now he's published some portraits of the past. nhk world reports. >> reporter: this album of photos, entitled "the great terror, 1937-1938," was published in march. the book includes portraits of 60 people can killed during that period of repression. all of them were arrested and sentenced to death. most were executed within days. in the 1930s, stalin unleashed a massive campaign of political repressi repression, targeting senior party and military officers, as well as ordinary people, accused of being enemies of the soviet union. in 1937 and '38 alone, around 700,000 people were executed on trumped-up charges. the photo album is a work of polish photo journalist thomas kissney. part of his project to publicize the crimes carried out by the state during the soviet era. >> it's just images we see that give power to our project

stalin had massacred millions of his own people. dreadful things that have gone through his rule. it is incredible. the russians lost 27 million people in the war. 11 million were soldiers. but one in four of the russian soldiers that died in the war, they were -- i think it was one and 20 british servicemen and one in 30 americans died. so the russians did a lot of the heavy lifting. i don't think that we have any reason to be grateful to stallman that stalin was an unbelievably -- one of the things about him is that he went to berlin. he saw a picture with him. you would think that it was something terrible. you know, he was basically represented as unspeakable evil. stalin was. >> 27 million russians come 11 million russian soldiers. how many english soldiers and americans? >> it was about 400,000 for the united states and britain both. so they said, don't think for a moment that in my respect for what that generation has gone through, what the united states and britain day. it is just -- we can't take this in the same way. a lot

under stalinism they suffered greatly. have they forgotten the lessons of that or have they thought, yeah, it was wrong to oppress us but when we do it, it actually feels kind of nice. >> i think they were threaten bide the feminism as well. the feminist message the women have. especially the church because it's a patriarchal institution. >> jon: russian women are traditionally a strong group. they're not wallflowers. >> that's true. ( laughter ) >> i think it's important to understand this relationship between the church and state and that's really what the pussy riot protest was about. it wasn't an attack on religion itself but the religion in many ways has become a sim bofl extreme nationalism in russia and something putin has promoted and finds very useful. the russian pope said putin's return to power of a miracle from god and urged all supporters-- all believers to vote for him. >> jon: now, does he know the difference between a miracle and just slight voting irregularity? has he thought about that in any way? now, i

him that we didn't before we know things about joseph stalin that he was a dictator in a tyrant but i very much doubt that in the spring one hundred forty five astelin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany had he had it back in one nine hundred forty one nine hundred forty three when it was a matter of life and death for the soviet union in might have but back in the one nine hundred forty five when the enemy was all but broken. in the the the nazis had no chance of standing tough against the allies and i'm sure the stalin would not have used their nukes against germany in one hundred forty five years didn't he states did use it against. which was a non-nuclear states at the time and which was already losing the war so you do see differences in going mindsets between russia and america but still if people are willing to overcome those differences in try to understand one another if they would manage to do that. in the more than that we have no choice but to interact. seek to come to two terms to come to a common ground with the united states if you look at history both world

c-span: did you ever meet fdr or stalin? >> guest: oh, yes i did. oh, yes, i met fdr at the--for the first time at the quebec conference in 1943, and then we went and stayed at the white house and at hyde park, and naturally i was dazzled by him and, you know, had heard so much about him from my father who set such store by his great collaboration and friendship with him. c-span: i have a letter that you have in your book from 28 march, 1916, and it's from your father, winston churchill, to his wife, clemmie. who started calling her clemmie? >> guest: i don't know. very--very few people ever called her clementine. she was clemmie to all the family, and i--i don't know when it started. oh, certainly when my father first met her he called her clementine, but very soon it was clemmie and i think some of her close family called her clem. some of the older aunts i remember talking about her as clem. c-span: this letter from 28 march, 1916, it starts off, 'my beloved and darling clemmie.' the word 'darling' is probably in every letter. is that a word that

and minds of the people and is likely to still be there now take this sort of we know a lot about stalin now we know him as a dictator and a tyrant but still i don't think that in this spring of one nine hundred forty five stalin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany if he had one he could have done it in nine hundred forty one or nine hundred forty two when it was a matter of life or death but i really doubt that he would have done it in one nine hundred forty five where the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to reverse the trend i don't think he would now look at the u.s. they dropped the bomb on japan a country that was a non-nuclear state and was very close to defeat so there are big differences between us but it's quite natural. people with such differences that find ways to understand each other better i don't think there is an alternative moreover it's not by chance that russia and the us forces alliance in the most critical moments of modern history that was the case in world war one and world war two even if there was fierce confrontation our countri

dictator and a tyrant but still i don't think that in this spring of one nine hundred forty five stalin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany if he had one he could have done it in nine hundred forty one or nine hundred forty two when it was a matter of life or death but i really doubt that he would have done it in one thousand nine hundred five when the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to reverse the trend i don't think he would now look at the u.s. they dropped the bomb on japan a country that was a non-nuclear state was very close to defeat so there are big differences between us but it's quite natural that people with such differences it's to find ways to understand each other better i don't think there is an alternative moreover it's not by chance that russia and the us fortunate alliance in the most critical moments of modern history that was the case in world war one and world war two even if there was fierce confrontation our countries united in the face of a common threat which means there is something that unites us and terror is honest to see at

their stories was not told, a positive story for them, but because of what was beginning on with stalin and forced labor camps. he's not -- it's not until power shifts, and he's long dead that he does get hero of the soviet union, and he's, today where many survivors come from, there's a huge stock today, and so he's slowly becoming and considered a hero for this. it's one of these if you believe this was a legitimate target because of military personnel on board, you know, to me the fact is the numbers of civilians, you know, far outweigh that, but regardless, these are people who were very much caught up between two madmen, you know, hitler and stalin. >> yes? >> here's where i have a name, and i understand that she was used in rescue operations after the war. did you ever run into that? >> i did not. actually, hitler actually never visited it either so it's just -- thank you. yes, sir? >> what was the water temperature and did the baltic ice over? >> it was that winter in particular. many of the treks people took to get there themselves were treks people could ice skate on occasional

regardless, these are people who are very much caught up between two madmen, you know, hitler and stalin. yes, sir? >> here's where -- [inaudible] as i understand she was used in rescue operations after the war. did you ever run into that vessel? >> i did not. actually, hitler never visited it either, so it's just -- thank you. yes, sir? >> what was the water temperature? >> the baltic was icing over that winter in particular. many of the tracks that people took to get to the harbors themselves, shallow lagoons, and people could go ice skating on occasionally, and they were iced over, and as they were going, russian planes were op them. they were targeting the civilians all along the way. frigid is an understatement. most would have died of exposure until they were rescued. okay. well, thank you very much for listening. thank you. [applause] >> here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country: >> with what we put in the intrough and what you helped me with because of the disconnect, first of all, the world i worked in for 5 years, tv, everything is exaggera

. >> bill: i have note box that looks like joseph stalin. throw it up there one more time.t's so ridiculous. you know what? the tea kettle does look a little like him. i just don't know. lebenstrom tea? >> i don't know. what it says people are spending too much time on the 405. >> bill: they did take the tea kettle down. maybe in milwaukee they will have something else. >> i can turn any cloud into stalin's head if you gave me enough time. >> bill: summer concerts, good,ed the bad and ugly. it tips are moments away. test >>. tip of the day about summer concerts but first dad will like you very much if you go to bill o'riley.com. here it is. it's flying out of here. we are ordering as fast as we can. get them on billoreilly.com and three best-selling books, dad will like them and in an incredible deal you get lincoln free of charge when you become a premium member. here is a letter. >> bill: that is some question. corey from canada. >> bill: try to keep things fact based corey. i appreciate the compliment. >> bill: there is no question about that, tom. >> bill: i urge all fa

there is no way they're going to stop this. >> you mentioned stalin, and i went to cube i can't duringa during the elia gonzalez. i thought, the next time i go to cuba i'm going to bring an at the moment amount of paint. but there are guards in every corner. and if anyone wants to cheerlead fidel castro at the time, these people are being watched all the time and its messed up. >> cenk: don't they have a code with the beard. >> when they talk about him they do this, and i thought they were kidding. it's great, they have healthcare, but they have this police state that exists where everybody watches, and it breeds something insidious. once you start watching then you start telling. somebody says-- >> cenk: great point. >> cenk uygur is receiving people at his house at 12:00 and 1:00 in the morning. what is that about? >> cenk: yes, then they bring in the drones. and then obama, wand we can't say that any more. exactly. that's why we've done the show so long. there were three whistle blowers asking about snowden from the usa "usa today." william binney said: >> i wanted to read that to y

. >> bill: i have note box that looks like joseph stalin. throw it up there one more time.ous. you know what? the tea kettle does look a little like him. i just don't know. lebenstrom tea? >> i don't know. what it says people are spending too much time on the 405. >> bill: they did take the tea kettle down. maybe in milwaukee they will have something else. >> i can turn any cloud into stalin's head if you gave me enough time. >> bill: summer concerts, good,ed the bad and ugly. it tips are moments away. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different. i met a turtle friend today so, you don't get that very often. it seemed like it was more than happy to have us in his home. so beautiful. avo: more travel. more options. more personal. whatever you're looking for expedia has more ways to help you find yours. >>. >> bill: factor tip of the day about summer concerts but first dad will like you very much if you go to bill o'riley.com. here it is. it's flying out of here. we are ordering as fast as we can. ge

. >> bill: i have note box that looks like joseph stalin. throw it up there one more time. you know what? the tea kettle does look a little like him. i just don't know. lebenstrom tea? >> i don't know. what it says people are spending too much time on the 405. >> bill: they did take the tea kettle down. maybe in milwaukee they will have something else. >> i can turn any cloud into stalin's head if you gave me enough time. >> bill: summer concerts, good,ed the bad and ugly. it tips are moments away. copd makes it hard to breathe... but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can help make this a great block party. ♪ [ male announce ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not bused more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may incrse your risk of

in the dinner parties had no chance of standing tough against the allies and i'm sure the stalin would not have used their against germany in the nineteen forty five. didn't states did use it against. which was there in non-nuclear states at the time and which was already losing the war see you do see differences in. in their mind between russia. but still if people are willing to overcome those differences in try to understand one another. to do that in the more than there we have no choice but to interact. seek to come to two terms to come to a common ground with the united states if you look at history both world wars you see russia. against a common foe regardless of their previous. contradictions in disputes so there must be some fundamental. principles in we'll use they do keep us together in this is something that we need to give more attention to you we need to know our differences but build on our common features that will enable us to cooperate. this is a very important issue for us i mean the u.s. and its relations with. the american audiences are one of the biggest audience

dictator and a tyrant but still i don't think that in this spring of one nine hundred forty five stalin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany if he had one he could have done it in nine hundred forty one or nine hundred forty two when it was a matter of life or death but i really doubt that he would have done it in one nine hundred forty five when the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to reverse the trend i don't think he would now look at the u.s. they dropped the bomb on japan a country that was a non-nuclear state and was very close to defeat so there are big differences between us but it's quite natural. people with such differences determined to find ways to understand each other better i don't think there is an alternative moreover it's not by chance that russia and the us forces alliances in the most critical moments of modern history that was the case in world war one and world war two even if there was fierce confrontation our countries united in the face of a common thread which means there's something that unites us but it's there must be some fu

but i just finished a short life of stalin aimed at young people because i find young people don't know anything about him. and i think they ought to know about him. >> host: what should they know about him? >> guest: they should know that he was an unmitigated a villain who murdered at least 20 million people and imprisoned many more of them. and they should know that he put russia on the course from which it has still not reestablished itself. so i think young people should know this. >> host: what are the best books at least in the united states is the history of the american people. and in the book, you write that america is still the best hope for the american race. >> guest: i think that is still true. though since i published that book, other countries have been capturing up with the united states in terms of economic output, particularly communist china. but in my opinion, america will remain the top nation for the indefinite future. the reason i say that is because the united states is a very free country. in many ways it is the freest country in the world. and freedom means th

in the the dignities had no chance of standing tough against the allies and i'm sure the stalin would not have used their nukes against germany in one hundred forty five were is there any states did use it against japan which was a non-nuclear states at the time and which was already losing the war you see you do see differences in military mindsets between russia and america but still people are willing to overcome those differences in try to understand one another. to do that. in the more than that we have no choice but to interact. seek to come to two terms to come to a common ground with the united states if you look at history look both world wars you see russia. against a common full regardless of the or previous contradictions in disputes so there must be some fundamental. principle we all use they do keep us together in this is something that we need to give more attention to you we need to know our differences but build on our common features that will enable us to cooperate obviously think you have been in new york for the past five years or so we've talked about sister e. w

nobody believed that stalin had given the green light to the chinese. macarthur completely surprised, suddenly said it did not give the tools. and the 25 bombs, and i want to bomb manchuria, use the be twitter.com/booktv and expand the war. the reason i can't is because i have communist in the state department. this was the beginning of who lost china and korea. although he had been a very good core commander, he was completely out of his legal and died in a tragic jeep accident. so now you have this senior commander did, everyone fleeing across the 38 parallel, the navy ready to pick them up at the very tip of south korea and forget the whole thing. you can imagine the consequences on everything from taiwan the berlin with his communist victory. no one really wants to go to korea. people read, well, there was always this bridgeway guy. he is a moralist, been married three times. he is kind of weird and thinks he can win a conventional war. the guy had never been to korea or japan. he flew in the dead of night. did not even have a chance to tell his wif

. >> they have stalin. >> exactly. >> what do you think of the heat coach, erik estrada?yeah, he's pretty good. he, like, he makes all the right adjustments when he needs to. sometimes, he don't make them right away, but he always adjusts it and comes up when they need him to. >> so, you love lebron? >> i love lebron. yes. >> do you think he's gonna be able to come back from his injury? >> hmm. i mean, he's come back before. >> that's true. >> we're talking about a bruised vulva, though. >> he's a strong player, so, i think he's gonna push himself. now, is that a good idea? maybe. maybe not. a weak stron vulva. >> he sure can. >> go heat! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: [ chuckles ] a moment of prayer for lebron's vulva. thank you, miami. and, hey, we have a lot ahead tonight. adam sandler, kevin james, chris rock, and david spade are here, and when we come back, guillermo goes in search of the elusive lebron james and finds him. but before we go to break, please enjoy another nba tweet as sung by the "jimmy kimmel live" children's choir. kids? [ piano music plays ] [ c

maybe not having the kind of cold war that we had became very close in one thousand fifty three upon stalin's death to ending the cold war we came close in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when kennedy was assassinated and in the war in vietnam and in the cold war if you could very different direction the early carter years again with the possibility of a different direction at the end of the cold war in one thousand nine hundred nine . gorbachev was reaching out to bush did bush take that olive branch that gorbachev was giving him no very. it's different what do we do instead we applaud the soviets for not invading when countries were liberating themselves from the soviet union and then we immediately go and we invade panama and then we invade iraq and so we're saying that that's great that's great that you show can restraint but we're not going to because where they had your body as well as madeleine albright secretary of state under clinton says if the united states use for if we use force it's because we're the united states of america where the in this principle nation she said we s

wrote animal farm a novel anthropomorphizing an animal kingdom meant to serve as a metaphor for stalin's betrayal of the russian revolution soon after all wrote his most famous book of all time nine hundred eighty four which portrayed a terrifying future of a total surveillance and police state tragically just one year after it published in one thousand nine hundred seventy or well died of tuberculosis. at the unforgivably young age of forty six however his work lived on and assist staunch opposition to injustice and authoritarianism led him to produce one of the most genius narratives ever written sadly orwell's dystopic future and vision in one thousand nine hundred four seems to ring more true every day in this technological age let me just say that if you have not read this book you must not just because it's a work of art from front to back but because it is so eerily realistic in fact it was even made into a film in one thousand nine hundred four take a look at the trailer. so many of the ideas and concepts in this book are a political to the way our society has evolved today in fa

wrote animal farm a novel anthropomorphizing an animal kingdom meant to serve as a metaphor for stalin's betrayal of the russian revolution soon after all wrote his most famous book of all time one thousand nine hundred four which portrayed a terrifying future of a total surveillance and police state tragically just one year after it published in one thousand nine hundred seventy or well died of tuberculosis at the unforgivably young age of forty six however his work lived on in a substantial opposition to injustice in authoritarianism led him to produce one of the most genius narratives ever written sadly orwell's dystopic future and vision in one thousand nine hundred four seems to ring more true every day in this technological age let me just say that if you have not read this book you must not just because it's a work of art from front to back but because it is so early realistic in fact it was even made into a film in one thousand nine hundred four take a look at the trailer. so many of the ideas and concepts in this book are a political to the way our society has evolved today in f

dictator and a tyrant but still i don't think that in this spring of one nine hundred forty five stalin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany if he had one he could have done it in nine hundred forty one or nine hundred forty two when it was a matter of life or death but i really doubt that he would have done it in one thousand nine hundred five when the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to reverse a trend i don't think he would now look at the u.s. they dropped the bomb on japan a country that was a non-nuclear state and was very close to defeat so there are big differences between us but it's quite natural. people with such differences to find ways to understand each other better i don't think there is an alternative moreover it's not by chance that russia and the us forces alliance in the most critical moments of modern history that was the case in world war one and world war two even if there was fierce confrontation our countries united in the face of a common threat which means there is something that unites us particular must be some fundamental inte

history earlier today yet another round of attacks happened against protesters in taksim square using stalin are to contributor who's on the ground in turkey has an exclusive update for breaking the set. i know i'm standing overlooking. tens of thousands of people now feeling this way which is perhaps coming as a bit of a surprise to the government because yesterday the numbers probably about five thousand in and i guess they expected that monday everybody would go back to college or the normal life and it was really seen as a kind of test day is just how much momentum this protest movement which starts at seven days ago with gezi park has. been the scene of the faces between protesters and police over the last few days it is where the palace is located where the prime minister of the gun has an office and police said a few hours ago that tonight would be the night where they finished protests. way expecting a very tough night bad for protest is now the demands of the protesters have morphed if you like from what started as a setting gezi park with a protest against. what was essentially an

and it's high risk but still i don't think that in this spring of one thousand nine hundred five stalin would have used a nuclear bomb against germany or if he had what he could have done it in one thousand nine hundred eighty one or nine hundred forty two when it was a matter of life or death but i really doubt that he would have done it in one nine hundred forty five where the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to reverse a trend i don't think he would now look at the u.s. they dropped the bomb on japan a country that was a non-nuclear states but it was very close to a free so there are big differences between us but it's quite natural that people with such differences that will tell me to find ways to understand each other better i don't think there is an alternative and moreover you know it's not by chance that russia and the us fortunate alliance even in the most critical moments of modern history that was the case in world war one and world war two even if there was face confrontation our countries united in the face of a common thread which means there is some

in regards to stalin, they have left onto this particular bandwagon and it is written. you see this scotland had a different idea from england. but they are, they are probably on the same page. and they have a broader view of the world. the view of the middle east and israel therefore the mainstream established churches in scotland, they have this view of israel, which is the view that i think in america is true of the more liberal party views. the presbyterians and evangelical churches are much more like this. but in britain we don't have that kind of balance. you do not have so many evangelical churches who remain, let's put it this way, scripturally faithful. those who believe that are ignorant and then we have what you refer to about how the animosity to israel needs to go hand-in-hand with education. it is all part of the same thing the more highly developed brains that people think that they have, the more that they hold our own intellect and the highest possible regard. the more departed from reality they are. that is true more generally with this hatred of israe

surveilling in a way that past dictators from stalin to him the whole court could only have dreamed of. while our society is the main subject to a proper rule of law perhaps we have lost the fear that if we do not take notice of what snowden has warned us about and legislate to ensure that these activities are controlled and not lawless in effect as we all know we will have a lot that we are creating for our generation or for the next generation it's very interesting to hear your thoughts your perspective on this invest your generous duncan campbell live there from brighton and the u.k. thank you for your time here in r.t. . what a man who was once america's second highest ranking military official is being investigated for allegedly leaking secret information about a u.s. cyber attack it's claimed retired general james cartwright revealed how these talks met virus disrupted iran's nuclear facilities three years ago when he coached khan has the details. in two thousand and ten when the u.s. carried out this cyber attack against iran general cartwright was vice chairman of the joint chi

he compared him to stalin. he vilified dr. national tv 28 times. >> tiller, the baby killer. >> tiller the baby killer, as some call him, will perform a late-term abortion for just about any reason. >> if you hear endlessly that someone is a killer, killer, killer, killer, he's certainly no longer a person, no longer a human being. >> that kind of behavior adds to the general attitude that it's okay to say hateful things about abortion providers. it's okay to act on that hate toward them. >> beginning in 2006, operation rescue also files a steady stream of complaints about dr. tiller's practice. in june 2007 they have some success with this tactic. dr. tiller is charged with 19 misdemeanor counts connected to an alleged illegal relationship with a physician who had approved a number of late-term procedures. >> in kansas in order to do a post-viable abortion, you have to have a second kansas physician who evaluates the patient and agrees that the pregnancy represents a threat to her health. >> and that physician could not be le

civilians far outweigh that, but these are people very much caught up between two madmen, hitler and stalin. yes, sir. >> hitler had a yacht. i understand -- [inaudible] did you ever run into that? >> i did not. actually hitler never visited the transport either. -- never visited the transport either. [inaudible] >> the baltic was icing over at that time. many of the tracks that people took to get to the harbor themselves, they were shallow lagoons in each pressure that people could go ice skating on occasionally. they were iced over, and as they were going, russian planes were scraping them. said they were targeting the civilians all along the way. it was like minus four celsius. the water was frigid again is like an understatement to me. many of them also died of exposure until they were rescued. thank you very much for listening. thank you. [applause] >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/the booktv. >> and now from raleigh, booktv sat down with ansley wagner to explore artificial limbs during and after the war. sort of to answer my own question, i starte

stalin certainly didn't. so yes, there's a plaque i started 30 years ago in westminster abby in the west stores about four by six secret italian marble in on it is simply says robert winston churchill. i remember thinking way back then, that's all you need to say a thousand years from now. you don't have to put anything on the plaque about what he did, who he was. the mets will transcend the legend on a thousand years from now, people will walk in there and none of them are going to ask who is winston churchill? >> thank you, paul. i welcome questions if anyone would like to approach the microphone. you know, i do have one -- people think of churchill as being quite the drinker and you address it early ink. >> he had a miraculous metabolism. that's all i can say. i created a word document and i took from all the diaries and sources i could find any reference to all nervous about the usual suspects encode the word document booze and realized his drinking was just off the charts from morning to night. wine and

stalin found us useful to rally the russian people in the second world war. when our usefulness was over, back we went to being an underground church and the persecutions became more and more severe, peaking under the khrushchev era. many of us sitting here all praised and rejoiced at the way that john paul the great, ronald in reagan, and margaret thatcher helped to bring down communism. what we do not know is the role and that the christian church played. in 1988, it was the millennial year. mikhail gorbachev and all those things were at play and decided in it would be a good thing to lift the lid off at least for one year. guess what -- it was not going back. this is not ancient history for us. this is very recent history. only since the early 1990's have a we christians been able to find our voice once again and become players. in what are often called the old countries among we also recognize that in america we are numerically small, but we are growing, moving in the right direction, and we are finding both the confidence to bea players in our society am

maybe not having the kind of cold war that we had became very close in one thousand fifty three upon stalin's death to ending the cold war we came close in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when kennedy was assassinated and in the war in vietnam and in the cold war i think a very different direction there on the carter years again with the possibility of a different direction and at the end of the cold war in one thousand nine hundred nine. gorbachev was reaching out to bush did bush take that olive branch that gorbachev was giving him no very. it's different what do we do instead we applaud the soviets for not invading when countries were liberating themselves from the soviet union and then we immediately go and we invade panama and then we invade iraq and so we're saying that that's great that's great that you show can restraint but we're not going to because where they had your body as well as madeleine albright secretary of state under clinton says if the united states use for if we use force it's because we're the united states of america where the in this principle nation she said w

i could never write about hitler or stalin, i couldn't wake up with them in the criteria hen far more dramatic eras are out there waiting to be captured. but there's a problem. it took me six years to complete franklin and eleanor and world war world war ii, longer than it took the war to be fought, ten years on lincoln, and i'm now on my sixth year of t.r. and taft. and each time i start on a new subject, i have to shift the books relating to the old guy to make room for the new guy, a shift that sometimes feels like an act of betrayal. i'd like to believe that the reason my books take so long is that all of them have actually been multiple biographies. hundreds, if not thousands of other people have chosen the same president to write about for the same reason, they're the most dramatic, the most interesting. so the challenge is to find a fresh angle, a new way to tell the story that will not simply go over the same ground. so i chose to write about three generations of fitzgeralds and kennedys instead of simply jfk, to tell the story of world war ii, i settled on the home front inst

we all know that stalin bugged roosevelt and bugged churchill so that they got an advantage in those negotiations about the division of europe as well. and i can't believe that from 1945 to 2009 other states haven't been doing similar practices as well. i agree, it's reprehensible. i agree there's a lot of explaining to do from the uk security services. i agree it's incredibly embarrassing as well. wasn't it ever the case that states spied on other states? >> no, they always will. it's just the fact that you don't talk about it. it's a dirty little secret that no one talks about. it's more on the embarrassment side, isn't it? it gets put on the front page. >> i think you're absolutely right. and it is embarrassing. that and syria are embarrassing issues. david cameron also didn't want to talk about the volatility in the markets. the other thing is that key word and everyone happening on every word of bernanke to see whether that will create more oscillation in the markets. shinzo abe is here. he'll be explaining about abenomics. they'll confirm that their policies are all about domes

requires truth, honesty and modesty, not continued countenancing of lies like this over regime of joseph stalin. every chinese and everyone in the world will feel a sigh of relief if china begins to be honest about its internal grievances, especially those stemming from june 3-fourth, 1989. a wise man said 2000 years ago, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. >> doctor, thank you very much for testimony, for being here today. dr. richard? >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee. it is always a pleasure to be here. take you so much for your devotion and your leadership on these. mr. wolf, i'm used to being humbled industry. i'm especially so today by being on this panel. it's hard to add to our improve upon what's already been said. i think my task this happiness try to put some of the events in all a bit of a struggle context that and it's a fairly basic idea that chinese government denial and repression of that tiananmen and 19 and nine make it impossible for the vote of tiananmen to heal that the trust the chinese government.a we see intiananmen the origi

joseph stalin, adolf hitler, chavez, et cetera, et cetera. mousse leany. ol' that can be very damaging. >> can we cultivate visionary leadership among normal, well adjusted people? >> probably. >> can leadership and creativity and drive be taught? you can take a person who doesn't play the piano at all and teach him to be a moderately good player. but you'll never get a person who isn't gifted in music to be a great player. it's the same in leadership. i think leadership personalities are always with quirks. some are normal, stable, predictable. they don't drive change. they may be comfortable ceos to have for the board. i find they don't get a lot done. >> you went on the bill marsh show. >> yeah. >> why? >> i like being lashed. >> do you like -- the left went crazy. you're a flat earther. i'm a former marine officer. >> you can be ex commuted. >> bob lutz, arthur brooks will be with us the rest of the show. stick around. >>> coming up, america's largest retailer out. mike jackson will join us next. strength in truck sales. there's joe. >>> still ahead, m

>> well, putin quotes stalin from time to time about if you're weak, you will be beaten.nd his general attitude is, don't be weak and that's fine. he's not really doing anything else except avoiding being weak except trying to throw his weight around on the united states. he's not cooperating in anything substantial. there's no risk in it for him. he doesn't have anything negative happen when he bavs that way with us. the kind of cooperative relationship we had from time to time in the past with say gorbachev, is just not here. >> you say he doesn't have anything negative happen when he misbehaves or acts this way. what should we do? >> at the very least, the president could make a strong statement or two. we haven't even seen that. and i think russia should not be the object now of unilateral concessions by the u.s. the president announced major reduction in american ballistic missiles recently, and russia didn't get rid of its tactical ballistic missiles when we got rid of virtually all of ours back years ago in the bush administration. so they're basically holding on t

what was happening was that joseph stalin in the soviet union was movings hi armies westward.t frightened. this was the beginning of the cold war, the start of the nuclear age. and truman was concerned that communism would simply take over in western europe. so, truman did whatever he could to win over the french. and he said, what can i do to help? and the french said, you don't make a thing of our re-imposing colonialism in indo-china. we need your weapons and we need your money. so truman began early on, 1947, put in i believe the figure was $137 million at the beginning. by the time he left it was triple that. now, did truman have in mind that we're going to get into a big war in vietnam? not at all. what he was concerned about was the in the middle of a budding cold war, that he not be the president who yields territory, more territory, to the expansionist communist empire. so the next guy comes in, dwight eisenhower. eisenhower likewise did not want to get the u.s. involved in the french war, in indo-china. but what did he do? in 1954, he in effect christened the arrival