he had a long correspondence with stalin. he recognizes stalin was a mass murderer among other things, but also recognize that as he put it in times of trouble it's permissible to cross the bridge and the company of the devil. his handling of the soviet union, his insurer chose was a deployed diplomacy. >> host: how many deaths are soviet? >> guest: about 26 million. >> host: next call, jim and jim and sunset, louisiana. they're attacking with author rick atkinson about "liberation trilogy" on world war ii. >> caller: mr. atkinson, wonderful, wonderful presentation. i loved it. i was born in paris, france in 1945. by mother was french. my dad was american. she told me a lot of stories about the german occupation and the liberation ethic came in. she was telling me the most -- the worst part for her was being put in a position of being ready to come to america to be with my father. she said some thing about ships and all parts of europe coming over. did you do any research or run across anything in your book search is for this

it is not even ancient history it is north korea today to place of a mad stalinism producing enslaved people and the utter desolation of the entire land in the end everything depends on getting the politics right in daley politics in some way is quite appalling as climbing the greasy pole not exactly a romantic idea. politics has none of the elements of poetry and science but think of where they get the politics wrong even science says corrupted remember the late 1940's stalin decided that genetics remains the transition of characteristics that was proven 100 years earlier to be not true but stalin insisted on a new soviet genetics and do it and to not of the ultimate expression of the power of the corrupted and really everything that is hard and beautiful. that is why so many who want to wash their hands of today and understandably so is sovereign and must be. why i like medicine to enter a life of politics because in the end everything depends on getting the politics right. that is why because of what matters most in the end it is politics. and the book about hyper proliferation in

it's like the stalin constitution. southsouth africa today, the mur rate is seven times what the murder rate in the united states is. it's the rape capital of the world. of course the left which destroyed the previous regime, which was not an appartide regime, destroyed that, completely abandoned south africa. it goes along -- it gets everybody excited about the new world that's coming, and then it leaves dallas in its wake. in that constitution, it says discrimination is unfair unless established that discrimination is fair. that's a direct quote. [laughter] property rights, you have the right to property unless the government decides that it's in the universal good, they need to take it away from you. that's in the constitution. it's a communist constitution, and it was written by communists. now, the most important thing is not that ruth, an extreme leftist, has these views. it's that where are the objections from her so-called liberal colleagues? nobody's objecting. nobody. you say, well, how can you call liberals

it is not even ancient history it is north korea today to place of a mad stalinism producing enslaved people and the utter desolation of the entire land in the end everything depends on getting the politics right in daley politics in some way is quite appalling as climbing the greasy pole not exactly a romantic idea. politics has none of the elements of poetry and science but think of where they get the politics wrong even science says corrupted remember the late 1940's stalin decided that genetics remains the transition of characteristics that was proven 100 years earlier to be not true but stalin insisted on a new soviet genetics and do it and to not of the ultimate expression of the power of the corrupted and really everything that is hard and beautiful. that is why so many who want to wash their hands of today and understandably so is sovereign and must be. why i like medicine to enter a life of politics because in the end everything depends on getting the politics right. that is why because of what matters most in the end it is politics. and the book about hyper proliferation in

it would have been a wet dream for a hitler or a stalin, get the fingerprint be of every single person in the country and connect that with every book they buy and every movie they see and the connection with all of their friends and every phone call and e-mail. so you have this incredible ability to identify the individual, their tastes, their habits, their religion, their optics, their friendship and so forth and to sift through it and make correlations and so forth. so you have a totally observed society. the question i would put to you, is this fundamentally at odds with what we mean by the free society? is this in itself so inherently threatening that one wonders whether you could have anything other than a notion of freedom as consumer freedom? that we want to buy, shop, shop, shop, have all these ads next to us and so forth, and we're willing really to sacrifice the basic ingredient of a free society which is individualism. >> with the rise of what was called years ago the computer state in the '60s when we had some of our more primitive beginnings of computers, i read a wonderf

in those days they were pro-stalin. and my father met a lot of students and new-age historians. he believed they had to distinguish between anti-communism, and the anti-stalinism which they fought after world war ii. >> and as jack kennedy geared up to run for president he faced questions about whether he was sufficiently opposed to communist tactics. here is one strategic political advice, you will pay a serious price, people feel entitled to hold you to higher standards than they hold most people. as you know better than i, mccarthy is one thing held against you, how did your father deal with the mccarthy/kennedy failure to fight with each other enough? >> yeah, he always was very upset that kennedy wouldn't take a position on the censor of senator mccarthy by the senate. of course, kennedy was in the hospital at the time and had an excuse. but the fact is that many liberals represented in a sense by my father felt that kennedy nonetheless should take a forthright position for the censure of mccarthy. and the fact is that in the end, i think kennedy was you know, balancing dif

stalin then does what he does. he goes back to political act to defend.he is teaching the young students at harvard about history, but also in fact about the contemporary issues of the society there's no greater contemporary issue in the 1830s and the question of human slavery in the americas and ultimately will be chased out of harvard for that position. the funds for his professorship will be stripped away. >> host: who chases them out of harvard? >> guest: is the trustees and the officers. if a few things, but his position on slavery is critical. that's the accelerant have really inflames the fire. >> host: at some point we do read in history and you do write about it at some point, former slaves, african-americans are allowed to attend the harvard, dao. output point did that change? >> guest: it happens in stages at very different points. you can go all the way back actually to the revolutionary era. the first black people to come to campus this evening in what becomes the united states is probably right after the revolution. what happened is a member

from the united states and falling away from freedom, the fact is while he was making that clip, stalin had just died and the new leader in the kremlin wanted to have a summit of their new leaders with the western allies. winston churchill thought this was a great idea. the prime minister of france wanted to do it. dulles was absolutely opposed. he was against all contact with any government that we didn't like. asn he describes the world being incomplete confrontation, he omits the fact that he was one of the principal figures who intensified and maintained that confrontation. >> the women in their lives -- you do site when they met their women that they married and how quick. explain for both of them. >> their wives reflected the differences between them. the woman that john foster dulles. had dated allen dulles a couple of times. very dulles found her boring. he quickly moved on. that was just what foster dulles liked. , jenna avery come a was with him his whole life. i'm sure both of them were completely faithful. janet was really his only friend. he would spend his evenings at home

stalin in russia, hitler in germany, reviled modern art as degenerate, decadent, and elitist, and they sought to replace it forcibly by an art portraying the proletarian glories of their new order-- a kind of heroic social realism, in which, ultimately, the political meaning was absolutely unambiguous and totally controllable, which it could never be in modernism. for hitler himself, the modern artists were babblers, dilettantes, and art swindlers, who should be abolished in favor of the creative power of the masses. as the nazi director of the museum in essen put it, "the most perfect artifact of the last era "did not come from modern artists. it is the steel helmet." spain, immersed in civil war, offered the opportunity for the nazis to test germany's war readiness. in a show of fascist solidarity with franco, the luftwaffe tore apart the little basque town of guernica. this was a signal for picasso to offer a response to the savagery of the times. in a period of just a few weeks, he painted the canvas guernica to hang in the spanish pavilion at the 1937 paris exhibition. extreme dis

and throw they went and fired -d war ii stalin crushed hitler.nd that is what they did to frank and i stopped watching. >> speaking of walking dead we have vern that says please ask mr. brooks if he feels the walking dead approaches their version of the zombie outbreak properly? >> i doesn'i don't think there a properly. it's what are you trying to get across? for me i would never make the zombie virus airborne. my whole thing i pace pace basen aids. my book and all of my books are based on aids. i want to make them very easy to defeat. if they do win. it's not because of their inherent strength, it's our weaknesses. >> if the virus is airborne you are doomed. i iin the case of the extinction parade, they are sa vampires and they have never had to struggle or work for anything. >>> what was your impression of the movie "world war z"? i was so excited about the tied title. you know i thought they had a very different agenda than i did. >> did you know that going into it though. >> no. i think you have to always expect the risk which is why i would

they've made it about the david that was that i took the lead on muslims which is known as the punjabi stalin's in nineteen fifty three. and even in those incidents also we have to give up the step video using all the pointed to the park easily stop me organizations. to view million couldn't get the lose of truth to tell you in the air of may aged as to what is the difference between the two because out what i'm given to understand is that of the kids are so good not to the pope was the creation of the days when the jemaah did not believe in the nineteen seventy will one of the nation. he's got the standard orange today the two differ because her father pays the most fall going into cars and ten. but most of the deposit the viewers did belong to different political parties but to put into those puppies those low post about this including the chief of deposit feast of what could have disposed to know why people a goal he claims that adnan nonpartisan and one point the person but to have fallen becky was pretty much involved with ms on the stump boxing. that is adding to it and only jam up the se

number one, after stalin died, they completely refused to respond to the kremlin. they never tried to see if the new leadership would like to develop a new relationship with the americans. number two, they completely misunderstood third world nationalism. that emerged after world war ii. they saw it as just a kremlin- organized plot. that is not what it was. their final huge misjudgment was that they had no idea of what we today call blowback. they never thought that their operations would have horrible effect decades and generations later. >> talking about foster dulles, he conveyed a harsh snarling image that alienated millions and contributed to generations of anti-americanism. why didn't general eisenhower have that same impact? >> eisenhower smiled a lot. john foster dulles never smiled. one example is that in many of these developing countries, like indonesia, afghanistan, the leaders invited both soviet officials and american officials to visit. they wanted eisenhower to come. eisenhower wouldn't go because foster dulles told him countries that are not 100%

many leaders spend their holidays here, including josef stalin. ever since it was chosen to host for the olympics, sochi has been undergoing a major facelift. a group of volunteers is studying english in preparation for the arrival of the olympic tourists. excuse me, why are you studying english? >> communication. >> i hope to study english better. in three months about, people from all world comes to my town and we must ready. >> reporter: not every in so he schi happy about the games. police complain how prices of almost everything has soared. the less wealthy are hurting. >> new apartments sold for unusually high prices for a small russian up to by sochi. this condominium with three bedrooms is on sale for $2 million. the average price of property has risen by 30%. even high end properties sold quickly. >> translator: even after the olympics, i think the demand for property will continue. >> reporter: consumer prices have jumped 15% since the announcement sochi was hosting the games. since then, the prices have risen steady. >> translator: pric

joseph stalin building to which this in the rain. together with the local artistic traditions it's a beautiful they could see that being in prison when will you choose to use the word dude he is actually more showers. some of them or are very defensive. we were just what to do so they were taking someone's force this is. he said. firstly and some of them are or are two techniques to look in mind that many that. its components. i see him with ite is represented by what you and i know what the western world knows is that he wants. and the change in scope that i'd chase that's the philosophy the art. i teach more beans traci. it's a thai boxing we have. iag the new york we had pt on fox. so it's basically a martial art based on. a full house. this dichotomy this nature. i don't rule rule. you use you ch. the us. eye. while i did switch a week that the deal then we cross over from suzuki. p s export as corrupt examine state of the art technology from ford. and introduce the mercedes and sixty three amg. premier model has been added to th

and i can't express my feeling is that especially in today's world in this appeal is an aisle from stalin and the unwanted for the war torn country the delegation visiting new delhi for the southeastern conference foe sees a bright future for the walk torn nation. i've stressed the importance of enhanced isn't engagement with god assigned boasts two thousand fourteen you've done delegation visiting new delhi for the salty shown on film school sees a bright future for the war torn nation has stressed the importance of enhanced condemning israel for the brothers uncles two thousand and fourteen. oh well more of the goal is to devise the performance of a promised on speaking on the sidelines of the conference said the future of abundance time is very bright and has made significant progress in the last decade he also stressed on the need to commend it to the success of a promised under the load to remove misconceptions about the country. yes as in newry the abbe. significant achievement in the second last the tenth of june of this axiom and have not been tended to eat it. they acted outside

in the western eyes very cleary divided -- clearly divided the world, and stalin told the french and and italian communists he was not going to support a revolution there. >> talk a bit about japan, because it's very extreme process that went on there. the cult, the revamping of japan root, bow, branch and twig, you know, removal of -- the emperor had to confess that he was human and not divine. and -- >> which came as a great relief to the emperor. [laughter] i don't think anybody really likes to be a god with. the emperor preferred to have his english breakfast and putter about, be human. >> talk about the process -- >> well, the difference between germany and japan is that -- which is the other thing, of course. after world war ii, the allies often had a very hazy idea of what had produced all this horror. as you said in the beginning, what explains what the nazis did, what the germans did? there's from one of the most common tierlies at the time -- theories at the time, and that was one that churchill for a long time believed in, it was because of the prussianism, the military sp

russia's republic of stalin is in mourning after a plane crash that took the lives of all fifty people on board. the victims' relatives are being treated by psychologists ahead of the start of the identification of the bodies. of. human rights violations on forced labor in qatar. and the report highlighting the brutal conditions faced by migrant workers in the nation for the twenty twentieth's copper. and german mazie reveal that british intelligence is using hundreds of luxury hotels across the globe to spy on international diplomats while they've been to stock option to cut.

just found a spot just began in the peak of shots he did that surprise when nato forces enough time stalin in protest against the continuing to one attacks the plot and scheme that he iot sikesn a white any teeth and said that symonds had the game the park is on audubon has warned the country's media toward freezing indicated the nikon soft and tender care. in a video message i live on spokes person tied to the shot it fit the bill to the garden phase because he's an indian tribe or two of them are good that the pocket on the media to support the domestic diva. one loves to portray overtones the other stays by his dusty terms of what happens when the two collaborate. take a look at this act addicted to all who sent two people audiences on the age of the seats that they see action this week. in march be the one who acts as a could be one that de f m i thinkum to three of the two of what teaming up for the first night in but it's not just the foot of the madness to pete abuzz current bid and won for his daughter home school is out to help draw for the astros a dent at the pta and fifteen am.

generate enough power for two thousand homes a steady supply of strong winds to get offshore in stalin's the efficiency and when bonds on that next fiscal year the central government land to what survives at the sides each of the new motors to have three times a generating capacity of the current one memory is that at times to assess the possible impact on the local fishing industry. i eye. in the oven japan's population is affecting almost every aspect of society even cousins jake and incarceration rate is one of the lowest in the world elderly women committing minor offenses and gradually increasing and changing the atmosphere of prisons age heroes meet stephanie and i can take silver. hp to prison for women in western japan there are eight of freaky that i create our own country be sure if he'll report to all the protein. the printer and it is designed to hold five hundred inmates economical with six hundred we are all from job to go find two walks up to the ap more and more over the amount of sixty five or older. shaw's be the new thinking we eat the park the beach it's just for them

stalin also said that china's recent announcement will not affect korea's jurisdiction over the waters surrounding field goal it's our military jurisdiction our military action permission zone and since the area stretches out two koreas jurisdiction over it though. our government won't give notice when flying our aircraft in the area maintains declaration is yet another step the search type in chinese control over the disputed islands known as the are you anti not insane couple in japan. china's government says it will take offense if emergency measures against any aircraft that does not identify itself properly in that area. this means aircraft flying in the zone without authorization can be intercepted by fighter jets the us says china's action as an attempt to change the status quo when the pacific. my japan called the move unacceptable and said that raises the potential for unfortunate incidents. meanwhile korea and china not plan to take up the issue during a bilateral vice ministerial level defense strategy meeting set for thursday and so it was a lot. i didn't use. a landmark nu

this is a multi tasked with alpine events such as stalin the books they will be helped. the new railway to the two areas. this is the main olympic stadium. it was served after the new political will and those whose family the tynecastle shorts. construction crews are working to unite to complete some of the airport she has long been famous for its hot streak. he said the whole the case here. you do with it for nothing. nice one to place the is it everything was chosen to host the olympics. she has been undergoing a major race day loyalty is to start location in concrete so pretty i tried on a fielding to me. excuse me. it is done. why are you studying english communication. i hope to study these men. in a three month about an ocean to come although it comes to my account and enter the munster eighty. russia has hosted a game that well. if and only from the olympics in moscow with back in nineteen eighteen. because of the soviet invasion of the youth and many countries one content. that's why many of the ocean themed thought she attests to regain confidence. i mean russia

went wrong with him about that no website mass is setting up the wall but that the study led by stalin's discover what it became uninhabitable the z visa go to people's about mission on a website i've europe's most active volcanoes that began with a show in the sky above to see what other that a breathtaking view of the erupting mindset that you don't get motion sick. right from the sea. the interesting picture. the reporters later on top. it brings to my mom sent away for getting money from social to critically injured a photographer with a hunting rifle that newspapers head office. now all the might meet your offices in paris to be heavily guarded by police tonight the attacker escaped from the state in hijacked the cough olson the driver to take into the shells they say police confirmed it's the same man who attacked a twenty four hour tv channel on friday. no shots of five dead but he didn't threaten quote not to mix next time big huge rebel bomb attacks brought to government buildings north west of damascus has killed at least thirty one troops and opposition group which is part of

sector care will they going to visit poland morocco and several other stops in the middle east to stalin cctv washington. china's anti corruption efforts have been making news today. according to the country's corruption watchdog the central commission for discipline inspection. the second team of inspectors divided into ten groups has begun its inspections and the targets this time include the official news agency she bought the car was ministry the southern economic powerhouse of one dong. coal which shunned she and the ministry of land and resources. the second such inspection will focus on violations such as how awful money deals bribery and corruption and personal gains through abuse of power. in addition i will also be guilty of violations that the physical disciplines and illegal promotions. the first round of inspections that began in may. this found clues of corruption and lead to punishment. all wrongdoings. since taking office in march. chinese president hu jin ping has called corruption of threats to the ruling communist party's survival and vowed to go up to powerful tigers

they also demanded freedom for kurdish political leader of the law of stalin who is serving a life sentence in turkey the pkk is fighting to create a finished eighth with in turkey but is considered a organization by the united nations nato and eu. in the bulgarian city of hope is that the country's largest opposition party has staged a mass rally urging the government to step down thousands of people have taken part in the demonstration using lawmakers have crept in and criminal types. the nation among the twenty oh eight has seen a number of political crises over the last few with frequent protests calling for political change. atlantic ocean feels like it's got another little bit wider since america was caught crying where it shouldn't have against europeans who considered washington a close friend. oliver has been talking to a prominent austrian politician about how far the bonds are being stretched to the sticks. relationship between the european union and the united states seems to escape something of a rocky patch of late. and that's why i couldn't get to the identity with a former e

in the bodies from the streets as a matter of health one out to a developing story out of pocket stalin. according to sources within the talabani the brother of the puck on the network's leader was fatally shot in islam by the earlier today now three noon at knott's reader wrote in an icon he was the group said a senior commander in finance see are his also the son of the group's founder of money was described as intelligent and business oriented and good with money so his death would be a huge blow to the crew. now back on a network of the syndicated operating group in afghanistan has been involved in extortion kidnapping smuggling and transportation it is now aligned with that call upon the latter means time with parts of pakistan's isi and was funded by the sea i am back in nineteen seventy eight else around the con ii's death are still questionable. these are all quite say that the group of gunmen on motorcycles trial pass and then fired bullets and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack security sources believe that his body is now being taken back to north waziristan pre

bill koch inherited his billions from daddy who himself got rich helping joe stalin build refineries in the u.s.s.r. so it's not surprising that he opposes the carbon tax it would cut into his bottom line but in reality opponents of the carbon tax like my next guest austin peterson libertarian commentator and editor of the republican the libertarian or dot com are the ones who arguably are tripping on acid not austin welcome. tom i never touch the stuff my friend begs or have moved like. oh you should you should try it austin . do you think do you think do you really believe that it's ok for a multi billion dollar arguably over the over the decades multi-trillion dollar industry to get away with not pain the waste the bill for the trash that they take out when you. i have to pay to dispose of art absolutely not but that's exactly what this carbon tax would do you're basically saying to these industries that they can pay to pollute so let me ask you something do you think it's ok for me to go to the government and say hey i'm going to give you the government fifty dollars and then i'm

bill koch inherited his billions from daddy who himself got rich helping joe stalin build refineries in the u.s.s.r. so it's not surprising that he opposes the carbon tax it would cut into his bottom line but in reality opponents of the carbon tax like my next guest austin peterson libertarian commentator and editor of the republican the libertarian. are the ones who arguably are tripping on acid but austin welcome. tom i never touch the stuff my friend begs for have moved back. oh well you should you should try it austin anyhow do you think do you think do you really believe that it's ok for a multi billion dollar arguably over the over the decades multi-trillion dollar industry to get away with not pain the waste the bill for the trash that they take out when you. and i have to pay to dispose of art absolutely not but that's exactly what this carbon tax would do you're basically saying to these industries that they can pay to pollute so let me ask you something do you think it's ok for me to go to the government and say hey i'm going to give you the government fifty dollars and the

it's pretty funny but i look and says it's collin brothers and i didn't say the coen brothers and stalin bros so i find out that's the way these guys make a living they mispronounce they they. but it's a very good guys and they're very very funny so i make fun of them so i and i met with them and i know him i know them both that from vegas and other places and i mean they're both belong in a home they're great and funny and. and then i you know i have two young kids still i stay home and i found it to be really fun and creative it's a great cast. of characters which we graded on set yeah he was not a good ballplayer like no he was he was like the second coming of sandy koufax actually it was a body bag he dragged me out of the league and was on the up it sounds like me but i i just thought it was a so post she called her junior because i raised a little boy her mom died when she was eight and i raised it just you know baseball and all these wealthy it was just not a great dad and. she went on to college and become an all american softball player and then she got married had a kid they sp

. >>> a devastating manmade if a minute caused by joseph stalin's attempt to collect. >>> they may bean's best friend but in romania stray dogs are a serious problem. 61,000 strays live on the streets of bucharest and attack are common. but a word of warning, you may find pictures in this report discerning. >> reporter: bucharest does not let sleeping dogs lie. every day the dog catchers are out netting strays. this woman rescued her dog just in time. another tries to set them free. it's only a little one, she says. many residents disapprove and even argue with the catchers, but the city is determined to step up the efforts. they have doubled it's catching capacity in two months and aims at 250,000 dogs a day. >> the program has been affected. dog attacks are down in two months and last month we had the fewest attacks in seven years. the definition of success would be to remove the stray dog population by 80%. >> it's all in reaction to the outcry that followed the fatal morning of a four-year-old in a pray ground allegedly at the jaws of stray dogs. stray attacks have caused five dea

10 for example is set in malta and yelled so where we are in the company of churchill, roosevelt, stalin and senior commanders. we often peek in on the other side of the hill to see what the germans are doing. i also recount that like the invasion of southern france in august 1944, as well as the subsequent drive up the river valley by french and american troops and the mountains to capture strasboustrasbou rg and to reach the rhine in november 1944. it's four months before the armies that are coming from normandy arrived on the rhine. it's an important part of the liberation of europe. it's a part that many americans know very little about. the characters are fantastic. they include the american generals jacob evers and alexander patch and the french first army commander at general who is beyond the power of any novelist. he was described by one of visit myers as an animal of action and would often appear in the middle of the night were soldiers were sleeping and he would roar out waking them up, what have you done for france? he is that kind of guy. as you may suspect the liberation of

if stalin's russia have been able to do that would have been the mark of totalitarianism.everyone in the soviet union had this fingerprint connected with every purchase they made in every meal that would be the ultimate totalitarian fantasy and yet we are on the cusp now of doing it voluntarily. i suspect people in this room routinely -- can we use your location? do you want to see if that restaurant is round the corner? maybe you don't but most people do. trying to find a movie in my area and we are turning up over the most private thing. and then as far as -- you make a very good point the question of whether it's misused. it can be augmented and distorted. the other day i went to a lecture on censorship. so i'm down -- downloading books that were formerly censored. i'm sorry, i was using amazon. they didn't have at the bookstore near me. suddenly i realized i am now presenting the portrait in the eyes of people -- some people is a. i think that is fine literature by the way that you are apt to think twice if everyone knows what short downloading. we have the good essay

microscope, found in this lyric that "happiness is just a thing called joe" was a tribute to joe stalins the blackest, the blackest and darkest moment in the history of this beautiful country. >> now, here we are at finian's rainbow at last. and this was--yip conceived this in 1946. and fred saidy, who was his co- me, you knowlove happiness is just a ♪ing called joe >> now, here we are at finian's rainbow at last. and this was--yip conceived this in 1946. and fred saidy, who was his co- script writer--and harold arlen demurred from writing this, because he felt that yip was too fervent in his political opinions, and he wanted--harold wanted to do something else. so yip got burt lane and then came out with this great, great score from finian's rainbow, "old devil moon." "how are things in glocca morra?" etc. but the theme of finian's was a total fantasy, and it was an american fable in which an irishman and his daughter come from ireland, search around and find rainbow valley in "missitucky." ok? and he believes that if he plants the crock of gold, which he stole from the leprechaun, in

witheir father cut a deal joseph stalin to develop the oil fields in russia.e have not been able to confirm all of it, but if the keystone pipeline is built, it goes to refineries in part owned by the koch brothers, and they could make $100 billion, which is more than what they are worth now. tell us about the man that rob a bank -- robbed the bank. a fellow who could not find a job, he had a growth in his chest he was concerned about. where do i go, what do i do? and gave anto a bank note to the teller and said that he was robbing the bank for one dollar. hewas arrested and he said got arrested because he needed medical care. did, by the way. he got health care as soon as he was arrested. back, i want to ask you about john kerry's comments that he does not think lee harvey also alter acted alone on this 50th anniversary of the jfk assassination. we are speaking to thom hartmann , nationally syndicated host of the thom hartmann program. his new book is out today "the crash of 2016: the plot to destroy america--and what we can do to stop it." stay with us. [♪]

under mao, or stalin you have to actively participate and voice your enthusiasm and you couldn't just withdraw. it was not an option. >> thank you. >> my question is about japan and the japanese government is becoming more and more right-wing and 1990s -- and not the japanese government is trying to sell nuclear industries. what do you think about that? >> this is a long way from 1945. although not entirely. let's leave the nuclear question aside for a minute. the right-wing nature of the current prime minister, that does go back to 1945. the education japan in 1945, 46, 47 was that the americans wrote as you well know a new constitution and because the war was blamed on militarism it was the pacifist constitution and most japanese are proud of it even does some japanese nationalists felt this was robbing japan of its sovereignty if you use military force under any circumstances and foreign-policy. they have to leave it up to somebody else, your security and in this case to the americans. there has always been a vociferous minority that wants to change the constitution and restore the

there are disputes over, for instance, property that was confiscated by joseph stalin back in the sovietk about. it's questionable whether anything concrete will come out of it, but certainly some importance in terms of symbolism. >> a historic meeting there. ben wedeman live for us in rome, thank you. >>> afghanistan's president refusing to sign a security green light that would keep u.s. support troops in afghanistan beyond next yef. afghanistan's elder just met with president karzai four days. the elders are endorsing a deal on the table and urging karzai to sign it but he is refusing and wants to wait until after presidential elections in april even though the u.s. has set a firm year-end deadline for him to sign. >>> al qaeda northern border of turkey a town falling over the weekend to al qaeda fighters and that could make it a real challenge for rebel forces to bring in supplies from turkey. a chilling report from a london think tank says more than 11,000 children under the age of 17 have been killed in syria's civil war. more than two-thirds of that by execution. >>> protests beco

i couldn't write about hitler or stalin. i start out with affection and liking.them but in the end i want to wake up with this guy every morning. >> up with of the things that the book does that other scholars haven't focused on as much houfts william howard taft, even though they had this huge falling out, how much taft was a part of what ruse relts velt was trying to do. >> they were friends since their early 30s. they exchanged 400 letters between themselves. more importantly when he was in the white house with teddy he was acting president. teddy would go off for weeks at a time in a bear hunt. it's incredible to imagine. he was on train trips going around the country and taft was running things. he depended on him. he also believed that government had a role to deal with these social and economic problems of the industrial age which is what teddy was standing for. >> and yet when taft became president himself, he didn't really measure up. >> he didn't know how to deal with the public. he really always wanted to be a judge and luckily the last years of his li

it's in the grip of a mad kind of stalinism. as a result, people are enslaved and society is a spiritual and material desert. that's what happens. and that's why even though i really enjoyed the practice of medicine and i believe to this day it's one of the most noble hendefers anybody can engage-- endeavors anybody can engage in, i left it because i thought everything in the end is going to hinge on politics. i want to be in the conversation. >> rose: were you a psychiatrist that sat with patients and listened to their problem or were you some other kind of psychiatrist? >> i tried to do as little of the former as i could. when i was choosing which psychiatric i would do after medical school. >> chose the one at the massachusetts general hospital for the reason that it was the most biologically oriented. i'm quite opposed to psychoanalytics -- >> rose: you took the words out of my mouth. are you in sync with the notion nathat neuroscience has overcome psychiatry? >> i am and i was, and that's precisely why-- i mean, i think, yo

pipeline that feeds isn't it and then they got a couple lines would go with the buckets doing more to stalin the horse was. read more see it develop in the air when v it was clear they should do is to continue when there was a declaration all. of these corporations a cubicle nation intelligence cooperation with israel. more ck mouth and said good bye and he did all the air and an operation which is the operation to respect and also on some of your organization. read it and this caused a lot of that within his camp because of a single case of intelligence in the nick to be accorded with the zion. and you supposedly an islamist president. so how come you come out with ben and if the state of the two are that the event that this is or on the bone on the condition that caused some problems within his area is called issued in both of the same time he was. no more air the air. it means you're always easy on the blog although i did use the ipod is the fine line in and need to solve them and twelve. and the it and there was a cold if the elections would be on the whim of get to sixty percent because

clearly the competitor for the--with stalin for the most evil man of the century. c-span: could you ever have anybody like him again? >> guest: it's an awfully good question. this is the ultimate cautionary tale, isn't it? if you--if you understand in any way, shape or form that hitler doesn't just explode onto the scene, that hitler came to power in a series of carefully designed ways and in--in--in so many instances where there were opportunities to stop him, to dissuade him to reconsider. and so he came to power in--one might argue, almost in a democratic process. so on that basis, yes, perhaps hitler could come again. somebody asked me the other day where would i have wanted to have been a reporter at in history, and the answer is i would have wanted to be a reporter at the time of the concentration camps so that we might have served some useful purpose of--of preventing it or halting it or attracting the world's attention to it. c-span: middle east expert dan pipes was here one time. >> guest: right. c-span: and he--in his book on conspiracies, he totaled up 1

you know, what stalin, what have you, as always to protect the rights and the values of the people. so again i get back to the question, why is this not more alarming? why do we sound like some oddball characters worried about this thing? knowing probably full well what we get out of this mean we'll probably give what you more of our privacy, right? i will probably look for some restaurant and give the information. i'll send an e-mail that anyone can see, right? make this phone call that can be tracked. local and take a picture of my house, right? and everything about it. why isn't this more alarming? usage as what i think, i can't believe it's true but maybe it's true, that we trust the state? no, i mean -- but that is sure the assumption. it will only be done to the other. this isn't done now as i said at the very beginning of the whole assumption of our society which is a constitutional society of restraint on the state. a restraint on power, built on suspicion of power, built on the needs to protect individual rights. and yet as a culture, and maybe because of the dominance of,

i could never write about hitler or stalin.uckily i have found people i overwhelm overwhelmingly feel affection for. >> the last word hold on. we have been given a ten minute reprieve. >> those who wanted to ask questions can come back. i want to give those chances to people in line first. enabling i'm the executive producer of "forgotten hollywood." what an inspiration you both are to all authors in the room and to everybody at the fair. [applause] just a very simple question. can you both speak to the importance of eugene in the election of 1912? regarding wilson, taft, and roosevelt? ? thank you. >> go ahead. >> well, -- 900,000 votes. >> he if mighty well. he was extremely important. i think he was more than just paprika in the big stew of that election. which was a really fascinating -- you know, there was an election really of ideas. and there was so much progressivism in the air. it becomes extremely important in wilson's life later on. he's one of the people who will be arrested under the wilson law, the alien and is an

in the same way, as much as you guys are pushing these images of the other side, under stalinism, exactly the same thing. but for others no more meaningful dialogue. we had a meaningful dialogue between the left and the rate in the 1960s ended all deteriorated because students became in situ other things. we're not investing a culture of understanding complexity, on her standing at the in-depth matters. the u.s. position right now you would be a criminal. but if you really understood the depth of the need for dialogue, you wouldn't be speaking like a leftist. >> host: i think we got the point. let's get an answer from author ben shapiro. >> guest: besides the fact berkeley was the wellspring of debate, i would say the you did. the idea there is a tremendous debate between left and right in the 1960s is nonsense. governor reagan took over what would essentially be quote, unquote terrorist methods to take over government buildings and they were expelled by force. the democratic uprising. the truth is a the political system. the idea people have been calling each other names and going after

there are illustrations of secularation of property by joseph stalin during the soviet era within theym the catholic church in russia and, of course, as a result of that, there have not been any meetings between the catholic pope and the eastern patriarch, really the focus we understand today from the vatican is on the middle east on the plight of christians in the middle east, given the turmoil in places like syria and egypt. that's the focus, not the great historical issues, which obviously will take a lot more time to resolve. chris. >> persecution of christian across that region, certainly something getting more momentum. it will be very interesting to see who says what after this particular meeting. thank you very much. all right, that's that discussion. let's go over to indra now. this storm across the country is no joke, only true. >> we are looking through arc cao back through texas, we are looking for icing and sleet concern. conditions in the east have improved farther to the west. however, it only means conditions will deteriorate. we want to give you an idea how bad it has

even franklin roosevelt and winston churchill misjudged josef stalin in 1945. he's a good guy.going to hold on to poland. he will have free elections. of course he didn't. bad guys are bad guys because they're bad guys. making a deal with them, kerry says we're not blind or stupid. i've got plenty of examples of that throughout history. >> no kidding and you've written a column that details some of those. it seems every time in the last couple of decades we have asked israel to negotiate on things, they've gotten the short stick. >> it's fascinating. there are reports in the israeli press this week that kerry met for seven hours with netanyahu with rome last month and told him europe was ready to impose sanctions on israel if israel didn't move forward with its negotiations with the palestinians. let's see now, we're talking about removing sanctions from iran but imposing them on israel. what's wrong with this formula? >> no kidding. what do you think they're going to do? >> it's hard to say. kerry says we're going to monitor this but it's important to remember iran has come th