stalin -- the use of the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki struck stalin like a thunderbolt. he knew about the nuclear weapons. the fact that we would use them on what he thought was a defeated enemy, he saw as a warning to him that the soviets could be next. i am siad was not clear enough. >> do you believe as he intimated that heisenberg deliberately slowed the german efforts down? >> just to explain it to the rest of the audience, heisenberg, the famous german physicist who claim that after the war that he knew how to but did notmic bomb tell him about it because it was too horrible a weapon to give to him. physicist thatan the russians did not get were rounded up in an operation. they were sent to a building in britain which was completely bogged. when the announcement came over the radio that hiroshima had , one said to the rest of them if that is true, you are all second raters, implying they were trying to do it. argued that he did .ot know how to do it that the historians of science i have read make a fairly persuasive than his calculations are wrong. powersother hand

and so he knows if -- as long as stalin is alive, stalin will fine him. he keeps his head down until 1953 and then starts writing articles about how bad a guy stalin was for "life" magazine. and j.ed gar hoover reads this spread in "life" magazine and says who the blank is this guy and the fbi descended on him. that an amazing story. his problem -- orloff's problem is not with communist or killing people. it's with stalin and stalin deciding to kill him. so he stays a true believer and loyal. he could have told -- could have gone to the fbi or the cia and could have told them about maybe -- well, not hundreds -- at least tens of really important operations that were still going on. that were still going on. but he didn't. he kept his mouth shut just kinds of lived quietly in the united states and loyal to his own organization and towards the opened his life they came calling. they sent a guy from the station, in new york to say, we did an analysis. we realize you knew about these 50 cases and we're still running them so you didn't tell the american. it's

a potent stalin was not a friend but i'm asking you not so much of the past about the present because on the one hand to believe in an age when the scientific knowledge is generated and applied at a faster pace than ever before but on the other hand we see some human behavior especially in the middle is that we haven't seen in the last let's say a couple of decades maybe even centuries do you think it's safe to have things like large hadron collider on the planet that still practices decapitations for religious reasons large hadron collider when you have atomic bombs when you have collider when you have many other infrastructure that is clearly could be dangerous if you have fanatics who want to cause damage and who would kill people for religious people reasons in large numbers don't you think that the existence the coexistence of infrastructure together with the kind of religious believes that we see. expanding around the world is it doesn't outweigh the dangers company let's leave out the large hadron collider ok i take it you're talking about well let's talk about with the of with

i think my question would be about stalin. did he really think he had a chance of reaching some kind of post war accommodation with stalin or did he think it was worth the effort because the consequences of not reaching it war so scary and i might have asked him about the -- there was a lot of talk about whether it was -- would be a good idea to tell the russians about the bomb, and why he never did it. i have no idea what his answer would have been. >> one of the most interesting point in the book was had the war ended prior to the 1944 election, that people generally thought that president roosevelt might actually lose, and would you talk more about that and would you care to comment about governor dewey as a candidate. >> okay. well, roosevelt was in a situation not unlike the one churchill found himself in some months later, where people -- polls had reached a certain level of sophistication in those days, and you can see in the archives here polls that were made available to the white house from '43 and '44 that clearly s

was it was an atheist you cannot blame atheism for stalin now if you studied the early soviet history it wasn't only about atheism it was also about scientism this believe that science will dramatically change the makeup of this country and they make up all three of its people there was even a talk about homo seventy eight it was being a new stage of human evolution and we all know how it turned out many scientists i talked to believe that it was because of a gab that when scientific development and the ability of human society its moral norms its ethics to catch up with it is that still a challenge today the gap between science and morality or ethics the soviet system spectacularly failed in my own field of biology as i say in co episodes around the most disgraceful episodes in the history of science when politics started this politics was allowed to override respectable decent science and many decent russian geneticists were exiled or even killed because they didn't believe in the crackpots here is that stalin was. started was not a friend but i'm asking you not so much of the past

was it was an atheist you cannot blame atheism for stalin now if you studied the early soviet history it wasn't only about atheism it was also about scientism this believe that science will dramatically change the makeup of this country and then make up all five of its people to talk about homo seventy if it was being a new stage of human.

roosevelt worked hard on stalin, conferences in tehran and later -- he worked hard with stalin. and later at yalta. he worked hard with stalin. he knew he was a hard case. he knew stalin was concerned about a security boundary. roosevelt's dream was at least these countries dominated by the soviet union will be allowed to be free and have democratic elections. the alternative was another war against the soviet union. that was too terrible to contemplate. how roosevelt would have handled that honest problem can only be a matter of speculation, because he died just a few weeks before the european war ended. he had been a sick man for a year. terrible heart problems, blood pressure twice what would be acceptable today. clementine churchill, winston churchill's wife, who saw him at a conference in quÉbec city september 1944 said, i don't see how he can work more than four hours a day. and she was right. there was nothing wrong with his mind. he managed to put on a great show of physical strength traveling the pacific, campaigning in the election. he was a sick man. he went to warm s

stalin maybe killed 30 million people. he said stalin never committed a crime.e more, a college student wrote a school newspaper column making fun of micro aggressions. students vandalized his dorm room. true or false. you know about that? that that is good. that student is here with us. omar is here along with greg, who follows cases like these. omar, what did you write about micro aggressions? >> it was really tame satire. my dad, who might disagree with me politically said, that was classy. so these people, the fact that what they, that they reacted so intoably what i wrote serves ironically. john: how knows what a micro aggression is. explain what is going on. >> micro aggression is paper cut. someone might look at you strangely. someone might mispronounce your name. you're trying hard to do that. point it can be anything. can be anything the princeton started something, tiger micro aggressions. no one is allowed to tell anyone else what is micro aggression, and what isn't. if you're oaf phonedded you play the victim card and certain power. john: this is glo

he met with winston churchill, joseph stalin, and of course, roosevelt. long before the end of the war, fdr is a rethinking about the postwar period. so, in november of 1943 when he -- heys to tehran, he is has several important things on the agenda, one of them is trying to ensure that his partners in the allied coalition will sign on to the idea of a postwar organization, becomes the united nations, that he hopes will hope to turn the outbreak of another world war. another document on display is actually a little sketch that fdr made at the tehran conference in 1943. this is in his handwriting. in this drawing, you can see in fdr's own writing, a broad sketch of what he thought the united nations might be. it starts on the left with this little circle marked 40 un. the representative the 40 nations fighting the axis powers. its represents what becomes you and general assembly. in the center is executive committee. this is really the full-time staff of what will become the united nations. and the last circle, which is roosevelt'sice, is conception of wha

he brought a portion of it to the famous conference with churchill and stalin. he would work on his stamp collection every day for one hour before going to bed. one of the reasons was to let them unwind from the hectic day that he had. he passed away on april 12, 1945. he always had a portion of the stamp collection with him and he worked on that morning. when he got up as part of his routine. of course he died that afternoon at 335. believe it or not james cannot find one member of the family that even wanted one item of the stamp collection. i don't have an exact number but when he decided to turn it over to the auction house james decided that my father would want to share this with other collectors. there are so many that they had to do the auction over seven days and four sessions, all-day sessions. while his collection was estimated at $85000, he didn't care if the stamps were better oil from his fingers, the final gavel fell when they raise $225,000. everybody wanted to get a piece of his collection. >> here's a look at some of the books being published t

e even brought a portion of stamp collection to the famous war conference with churchill and stalin.one of the reasons he said was to let him unwind from the hectic day that he had specially during the war period, the war years. he passed away while he was down at warm springs, georgia on april 12th, 1945. like i said he always had a portion of the stamp collection with him and he worked on it that morning when he got up, it was just part of his routine and then he, you know, obviously he died that afternoon at 3:35. now his son james roosevelt was the executor of the will. i don't have an exact number on how many items were on the collection but when he decided to turn it over to an auction house james finally styeded, my father would want to share with other collectors. there were so many items that they had to do the auction over seven days in four separate sessions all-day sessions and while his collection was estimated at $85,000 which surprised a lot of people because he was a man, don't forget he didn't care if the stamps were bent or oiled from his fingers. the final gavel fe

death of stalin and one thing only it's time to end this disastrous democratic experiment we can't letthe people decide what they want you need a stalin or so humfrey from us many that's for you they hate the ship sailing serenely through turbulent waters if you've got the balls you can get up there and you can't change things things can't be cherry look at sherman picking up all these impersonations over i mean stock soap box you know freedom of speech you can say anything you want boy i said i think of a moral obligation how far you go genuinely i mean i would personally want to fight war on my for something not such. a good lloyd stunt and how they brought the biggest names in comedy together for the new film see this is a film about the art from the stand up comedy and it's very much a love letter to standup comedy i think it's true to say that once we go in ivory wayans and then i think we started to get some very decent people after that and then when we got jerry seinfeld to pretend to be in the film and snowballed so all of the people who did notice said oh that film with laugh

and even brought a portion of his stamp collection to the famous work conference with churchill and stalin and he was said to have worked at his stamp collection every single day for one hour before going to bed and one of the reasons he said was to let him unwind from the hectic day he had especially during the war period. he passed away while he was in warm springs george on april 12, 1945. like i said, he always had a portion of his stamp collection with him and he worked on them that morning when he got up. it was just part of his routine and then of course, he died that afternoon at 3:35 p.m. now, his son james roosevelt was the executor of the will. a believer or not, james could not find one member of the roosevelt family that even wanted one item from the stamp collection. i don't have an exact number on how the items when the collection, but when he decided to turn it over to auction house james finally decided my father would probably want to share this with other collectors. there were so many items that they had to do the auction over seven days and four separate sessions, all-

a term which stalin would recognize. i'm sure the mr. trump is unfamiliar with next and, that he may -- with nixon, but he may have heard of stalin and if he hasn't, steve bannon has. where are in a situation the most powerful authority in the land declares the news media to be not only his personal adversary, but also the enemy of the american people, that's a change situation. >> that discussion is part of a daylong event hosted by the ethics enter and barb -- ethics bardr and barb college -- college. this morning on "washington journal," we asked how you think the trump administration and the congress are doing so far. we heard from radio hosts and .olors -- callers thoughts in a moment. first, what the president had to say yesterday in the rose garden when he made the announcement to withdraw from the paris climate change agreement. grade based on what the president said yesterday? do you have been opinion on that, or any other policy decision? let's listen yesterday in the rose garden. [video clip] trump: as president, i have one ob

roosevelt and churchill will go later on to meet stalin after this conference. we will promise at this conference to build 90 chinese divisions. equipped with basically everything, artillery, weapons,chine guns, 490 divisions. 90 divisions. if the war had gone on to 1949, we would have gotten there. this is the southeast asian command. at cairo thening plan for retaking burma. it is a mess. on brits are barely hanging and all of the shipping that we need to do what we need to do to at back into burma --we need plane come over from northern india and the south by see. sea.uth by all of the amphibious shipping is an europe in the middle east -- in europe and the middle east. no, sorti shek said of. everyone keeps working. everything is on this chart except stillwell is holding six jobs simultaneously. savon, srie in lanka, burma, india and china all day, all the time doing his job. he cannot do all this. whose fault is the? -- is this? arguably his. it is not easy to call up george washington -- george marshall in washington dc and say i need four or five more gen

when the head of the kgb met with stalin, he said to stalin, show me the man and i'll find you the crime is what my friends, my liberal democrat friends are doing. they are falling all over themselves, trying to find a statute that they can expand and they can apply only to donald trump and then, they will bury the statute and try to put it back in his crib. for example, there was a period of time when they wanted to get him under the logan act. it hasn't been enforced since 1803. there is a concept in law -- they wanted to resurrected, applied to donald trump, and give it an honorable burial. but that is not the way the law works. the law works based on precedents. what you do to donald trump today becomes a president and can be used against democrats and independents or anybody in the future. that is why all americans who care about civil liberties, who care about constitutional rights, ought to be very concerned about the investigation love is being conducted and targeting donald trump. whether you like them or not. >> tucker: i cannot imagine how many people as yell at you at dinner

trump is unfamiliar but he may of heard of stalin. if he hasn't then steve bannon has. if you are in a situation where the most popular authority in the land declares the news media to be not only his personal adversary but also the enemy of the american people, that is a changed situation in which carpi ng about this and that imperfection about the media is no longer -- >> i think it is time to open it up to. >> i think this is undermined also by the fact that with the internet we have the ability to silo ourselves. to confirm our beliefs by not, we don't share a common source anymore. thatthink it must be noted throughout this campaign, the media were openly oppositional. on the front page of the new york times middle of august 2 had the media reporters say, what do you do when you think donald trump is a threat to the republic? was acknowledging that reporters think this and they need to behave in an oppositional stance, that they are going to be accused, they're going to be accused of not upholding journalistic standards. it is such an important issue that you have

own history of what started as temporary often leads to disaster as consequences for example the stalin era is a good example in russia. going back to turkey most of those judges as well as teachers as well as policemen were arrested on allegations that they were sympathetic to or part of the so-called his math moment. she's being accused by the current government of orchestrating the last years cool. we are talking about tens of thousands of people have been either detained or whole lost their job because of some suspicions clearly they couldn't have been part of the all of them do you think your country is treating them fairly you talked about the legal standards do they deserve deserve the kind of treatment that they are getting from from their state right now. for. you know. all their faults. this h. . having. incarceration. can not be acceptable and no one will have sympathy at this time for truth is people they are there to do this so it is well known and many people they have lost their lives. the trauma for me from the political climate and with all of us. this was a short for u

marshal stalin was probably the midi yield over a table that which he had seized in battle.theless he agreed on free elections. amid the ruin of countries such as poland, they were held. belfry they were was a matter of opinion. with communists already in key posts, it was no surprise things what their way. if anything else was needed to make the victory certain, there was always the presence of the secret police and a number of soldiers of occupying red army. war orles exhausted by hardly likely to resist such coercion. for all their energies were engaged in putting one brick back upon another. europe where destruction have been lighter, morale was much higher. regimentation has then accepted only because without it winning the war would not of been possible. theis the end of the war, essential freedoms of democracy burst out with new vigor. there was determination to see to it such a disaster would never happen again. tha -- there was the realization to become with insecurity europe must be united. but how could these europeans be united when they are also different? he wa

talked about the united nations and the idea that this was the first time the big three, churchill, stalin, and roseville, had gotten together. he had his whole family come to stay. he was communicating to america what the portman, how we were going to fight the war, and the scope of this global battle. he was talking about the russian americand how the -british forces coming through were putting pressure on nazi germany the success they were having and the pacific. there was a turning point in the war. prior to that, in 1942, early 1943, the allies had really struggled. the nazis and japanese had won victory after victory, but suddenly, the tide had turned, an with these meetings -- important point to communicate to the american public that there was going to be an end to this terrible global conflict and that he had a vision for the world after the war ended, that this united nations was going to come together and create a body for governing world peace, as he had hoped the league of nations would, and this new united nations would be an important organization moving forward. host: what

stalin --nin, look at i can't help thinking about that. host: ok, susan in fort myers, florida. we will next to bernic, new york, crestlinee -- democrats line. caller: i never believed trump wants to be the commander in chief. i think his basic purpose was to -- bannon, andnd bannon controls the house and senate -- to change the world order. i do not think this man gives a hoot about the country. i just believe he wants to change the world order and build his brandy, and he is allowing all kinds of people in on our national secrets who are a part of after his cap and his administration is covered with all kinds of covert people. who are willing to throw our country into all kind of turmoil for the world changing for america. host: which of the cabinet specifically does that? caller: i believe because of congress, the senators not speaking up, i think they are part of this contract with trump. they do not have a contract with america, they have a contract with trump. host: we have got to move on to the next call. richard in maryland, republican line. hi, richard, go ahead. caller

back 1000 years and be an agricultural society and china was going to be the new japan and offset stalin in russia. and asia. you have to have, not a sick china but a china that was getting well. marshall goes over and tries and it falls apart and mao's demands could not be met by chiang kai shek. he did military things on the ground operationally and strategically from 1946 to 1949 that were just stupid. that is the easiest way to say it. they did not make military sense. they lost. chiang kai shek lost china. >> didn't the split personality of this front start during the opium wars back in the british sponsored opium wars that undermined the social structure. a lot ofounterpoint, missionaries went in to do good for the little people which might not have been so good. >> i'm going to have a hard time answering that in less than five minutes. i made an earlier comment. mazy --meijit the dynasty -- and how japan began as a modern nation. you look at what happened in china, you go wait a minute, what happened in china. the argument used to the china did not make it -- used to be china did

of the holocaust and the makers of the new film destination unknown about auschwitz liberated by stalin more than seventy years ago but it's a good day to bury bad news read rebel to mainstream media spin that you might have missed all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first bricks it negotiations begin today and. what is exactly the state of europe is mainstream commentators here in the u.k. use the strength of the euro currency as a barometer for wellbeing across the continent well the cradle of european democracy is arguably in ruins greece is sliding into recession with quarter with g.d.p. gone since the bankruptcy of lehman brothers and unemployment at twenty three percent this politician from europe's most powerful economy saw it coming from a tile induce a politike we utterly condemn the austerity policy towards the greek government by the german federal government it's an unjustified intervention and you get the feeling after the break to decision in england after the emergence of a great number of right wing populist parties and groups the european elite

of the holocaust and the makers of the new film destination unknown about auschwitz liberated by stalin more than seventy years ago it's a good day to bury bad news to mainstream media spin that you might have missed some more coming up in today's going underground but first bricks it negotiations begin today and what is exactly the state of europe as mainstream commentators here in the u.k. use the strength of the euro currency as a barometer of wellbeing across the continent well the cradle of european democracy is arguably in ruins greece is sliding into recession with quarter with g.d.p. gone since the bankruptcy of lehman brothers and unemployment at twenty three percent this politician from europe's most powerful economy saw it coming before trial induce a political we utterly condemn the austerity policy towards the greek government by the german federal government it's an unjustified intervention and you get the feeling after the break in england after the emergence of a great number of right wing populist parties and groups the european elite and especially the german federal g

about the united nations and the idea that this is the first time that the big three, churchill, stalin, and roosevelt, had gotten together. so he came here to sort of rest and recuperate. he had his whole family come and stay at the big house. that was a very important night. he was communicating to america what the war meant, how we were going to fight the war, and the scope of this global battle. he was talking about the russian front, what was happening in the russian front and how the american and british forces coming through africa and up into india were putting pressure on nazi germany and the success they were having in the pacific. it was a period where there was a turning point in the war. prior to that in 1942, early 1943, the allies had really struggled. the nazis and japanese had won ictory after victory but suddenly the sense that the tide had turned, and now with this big three meeting, it was an important moment for him to communicate to the american public was that there was going to be an end to this terrible global conflict and that he had a vision for the world afte

lot of mark from russia and all they're from various parts of the former soviet union could because stalin or georgia could be. certainly ukraine very very important and actually in the old soviet union ukraine was the there was gangsterism back then and ukraine was a hotbed of that the the organized crime in ukraine although they imprisoned a lot of the people they also tolerate a lot of the k.g.b. worked with a lot of them they needed their services frankly and then they used to going all the way back when there was a lot of pressure on the soviet union to release so we had jews that was used as a cover to get a lot of these people out really some from jails they went to the west a lot of them came here to new york to parts of brooklyn brighton beach in coney island so forth set themselves up here. but in any case mogilevich. is an extremely important figure considered by some to be perhaps the most powerful. head of organized crime in the world more than anybody else and related to a very intelligent man very very capable and he got into all sorts of businesses and one of the things he

like to have all those legacy in the stalin bad days and then i want to have it survive that i want to thrive they don't want their cars moving over and sponging on them i mean basically the situation is that he has lobbying group known as the cuban american national foundation during the one nine hundred eighty s. the head of it was jorge mosque and also and he became very chummy ronald reagan because you know the days of reagan was all about the cold war a fight against communism all that and you know mosque you know so was locked in step with all that and so you know the cuba policy those days was very strict i mean no deal isn't. he would talk about cuba during the one nine hundred eighty s. so we had the whole cold war factor but then the one nine hundred ninety s. came along and that's changed because there's no more soviet bloc russia collapse cuba one under so-called special period if you will during the early ninety's a wage the economy just collapsed you know you had a rise in prostitution all of a sudden you dealing with women with college degrees all of a sudden becoming pr