i think that black performers, particularly back then, had to be very careful about seeming unpatrioticroad. i mean, paul robeson got in terrible trouble for that, for criticizing america abroad. you know, bill clinton got in trouble for protesting abroad. you know, it's just not the kind of-- it's seen as disloyal. billie holiday did perform it abroad, but there were many places where she couldn't perform it. she was always very careful about where she performed it. you know, it's one thing to do it in new york city in an integrated nightclub or in sort of progressive nightclubs in other cities that were analogous to cafe society, but she would never do the song in the south--almost never. i only came across a couple references to where the song was performed in the south. she tells the story about doing the song once in mobile, alabama, and having the police ride her out of town, essentially order her out of town. i would have loved to have documented that. again, it's one more issue i tried to examine, and there was just no record left behind. why do you think the b.b.c. banned stran

that seems unpatriotic. they should have stayed here and appreciated american things like the statue of liberty and mayonnaise. checkmate. checkmate. [laughter] why would they go there? >> the statue of lib ber tip hadn't arrived yet. -- liberty hadn't arrived yet. there were no schools of architecture here. medical training in in country was woefully behind. most american doctors had not been to medical school. >> stephen: no? >> and trained under doctors that never went. >> stephen: how did it help to good to france? they were teaching medicine in french. >> that's right they had to learn french to attend the school there. >> stephen: were they just as senate toy as they are now? they are creeping people. [laughter] >> you have to remember that frns and the united states have been in very good relationship for over 200 years. there have been rough time it's be sure. >> stephen: oh, yeah. >> but we would not have succeeded with our revolutionary war or independence had it not been for the financial help and

. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. the republicans led by their tea party radicals are determined to cripple government and destroy medicare, medicaid and social security. >> what i think is not helpful is that the process we're going through here on the senate floor. >> we're here today right now for this reason. it's spelled filibuster. >> the clock is in thing loudly. at this point the worse case scenario is a failure of reid's bill. a vote on that bill is scheduled at 1:00 a.m. coming up tomorrow morning. as soon as we get into the next day, after we get the midnight tonight. if that happens a new bill would have to be crafted, scheduled for a vote in the senate sometime on monday or tuesday and shift to the house and finally on the president's desk. joining me is chuck todd, chief white house correspondent for nbc news. chuck, bring us up to speed. >> reporter: it's still a lot of talks going on behind the scenes between the white house, vice president biden in particular, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell

. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. the republicans led by their tea party radicals are determined to cripple government and destroy medicare, medicaid, and social security. >> what i think is not helpful is the process we're going through here on the senate floor. >> we are here today, right now, for this reason. it's spelled f-i-l-i-b-u-s-t-e-r. filibuster. >> so we watched the clock tick. at this point, the worst-case scenario is a failure of reid's bill. a vote on that bill is scheduled for 1:00 a.m. that's coming up in just three hours. and if that happens, a new bill will have to be crafted, scheduled for a vote on the senate floor some time on monday or tuesday, and then shipped on to the house and then finally to the president's desk. joining me now is chuck todd, chief white house correspondent for nbc news. chuck, bring us up to speed. because we got this hot note that we were going to see senator reid return to the senate floor chamber. >> well, it's possible. look, there's clearly a lot of progress supposed

. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. >> let it be clear, as god is my witness, we will not compromise on our principles. >> this is a disgraceful moment, mr. dwyer. it is a disgraceful moment. >> not only is the reid plan dead on arrival in the house. it appears to be dead on departure from the senate. >> reporter: but the senate e bitterly debated the bill anyway. >> those who are showing great bravado and great political speeches here, are calling bluffs with other people's chips. >> if my house was on fire, i can't compromise about which part of the house i'm going to save. you save the whole house. or it will all burn down. we either save this country or we do not. >> reporter: no sign of compromise. but the speaker, at least, is confident a deal is coming. >> jon, as we get down to the wire here, are you getting any sense of fear in the air at the capitol? >> reporter: the interesting thing is the answer really is no. leaders on both sides, you talk to them away from the cameras and away from the back and forth, an

they want to stop short and not really voice their opinions because they don't want to seem to be unpatriotic but it's incredibly patriotic to be critical of expansive government power that is leading to the deaths of innocent civilians and of course our men and women in uniform but if those are where the threats are shifting and coming from does the united states need to shift its resources and protect the country from those threats we've made it ok to be much much menace much more menacing presence that really is it's not this existential threat against the united states can be dealt with through terrorism operations it does not need to require at least one hundred thousand foreign troops in these foreign countries and i think honestly i think that drones of course are a lesser of two evils compared to having hundreds of thousands of goods on the ground but at the same time i think drone operations enhanced the proclivity to want to use an insert u.s. military power so there's also a cost to rely too much on kind of terrorism as well but i think that that's again the lesser of two evils and

. >> there is no excuse important the unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. >> god isy witness, we will not compromise on our principles. >> this is disgraceful moment. >> the american people are looking for real solutions! >> now the question is whether rank and file members can accept a deal negotiated by their leadership. >> the details are still being worked out and nobody has signed on the dotted line yet but i am told the congressional leadership will brief their members on the outline on the deal later today. >> while both parties are determined to have a debt limit increase in place come tuesday, there is no deal yet in the framework for long term deficit reduction. it leaves the toughest decisions yet to be formed congressional committee. should any reduction come more from spending cuts or should it come from tax increases? white house advisor david plus appears opposite lindsay graham on abc's this week. >> i think it's been a healthy debate. i think the american people understand more about the deficit, about there is no easy answers. it's been a healthy de

for more on this unpatriotic evilness, let's go to our cory spawn department, the lott -- correspondent, the sloth for angry analysis. >> that might have been the greatest thing i have ever seen. >> there is like this story nobody is telling. they do something horrible when they are around people and nobody talks about it. it is like the secret in the sloth world. they know that if it got out they would be killed. they are adorable when they are far away. and now we are no longer talking about jane fonda. jesse, i think she confessed awhile ago she betrayed american forces. should we let by gones be by gones? >> no, i think qvc is protecting their vietnamese interests. where do you think the watches come from? have you thought it through? what do you think the vc in qvc stands for? >> i have -- i had no idea. she took a risk and isn't the price you pay? when you are young and you say who cares? this is why. >> i am glad she likes capitalism now. it only took 40 years. no, i think qvc is banning me because i never sold my book. but this gives me a fantastic idea. >> what do you make of i

americans, it seems to me, you say this stuff and i bet you get deluged with people calling you unpatriotic, un-american. it's not american to admit that you shouldn't be spending money on the military, that you shouldn't be doing things the old american way. is it time america completely changed its philosophy in these things? >> what's patriotic is wanting your country to succeed. our country is not succeeding right now because our military is too big. by the way, people call it this military, hands off. it's not military. it's defense contractors, welfare for people who make weapons that we don't need. most of our weaponry is ridiculous. it's for fighting the russians in 1978. we don't need that. what would make this country stronger is economics. that's where the future is. that's what makes a country strong. if you're not strong economically, you're not going to be- >> that's where america is increasingly weak by comparison. >> this is one reason. we could solve this debt deficit problem if we do two simple things. tax the rich like they were taxed, not a hell of a lot more, just like

. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. >> let it be clear, with god as my witness, we will not compromise on our principles. >> this is a disgraceful moment, mr. dryer, a disgraceful moment. >> the american people are looking for real solutions. >> reporter: now the question is whether rank and file members can accept a deal negotiated by their leadership. >> so let's bring the rest of our team. john of course, jake tapper at the white house. bianna covering the markets in new york. jon, let me begin with you, it seems this tentative framework deal has a lot more support say in the senate an the house necessarily. >> reporter: that's right. republicans in the house will not like this idea of being forced to face the possibility of big defense cuts. george, there's a lot that can blow this up. the key thing is over the next several hours, when the framework of this deal is shared with membership on both sides, you could hear some very loud objections, both from liberal democrats and conservative republicans. >> and still s

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things like this i think are extremely unpatriotic.nd those behaviors affect everybody's understanding of what patriotism really is. >> i think -- guest: i think your caller points out something very important about dissatisfaction toward politicians over all. we are pretty dissatisfied with things are going on in the country, and congress is held in very low esteem. but i do believe -- here i might disagree that people will come to washington and served in congress -- it is a very difficult job and i think for the most part most of the members are trying hard to do the right thing for the country. although if you are looking at the headlines it doesn't seem that way. host: have polls explore often the question of political service as a form of patriotism? we talk about volunteering and community activism but what about political service? guest: i think there have been some polls that ask those questions and i think it is thought to be a mark of service to your country. host: lebanon, conn. caller: i think patriotism as on the by the w

speaker, that it's unpatriotic to continue with megabillions and wasteful spending, or billions in spending that promote businesses in other countries. no part of the federal government should be immune from having to save taxpayer money. the american people would be far better off today if every department and agency had to take a care across-the-board 10% cut. let me mention a couple other things. we are going to vote later today on the keystone pipeline project. this is a project that will provide 20,000 jobs, and also will lead to 500,000 gallons of gasoline coming into -- gallons of oil coming into this country each day. this will help bring down the price of gasoline. and yet it is opposed by very powerful group of wealthy environmental elitists. most of these environmentalists today seem to come from very upper income or very wealthy families. and perhaps they don't realize how much they hurt the poor in the lower income and working people by destroying jobs and driving up prices, but that's what they are doing. and they are certainly doing that and blocking or delaying this keystone

the image of the supposedly unpatriotic '60s, and he turns him into this. that's what it becomes.es it go in 1992? so now you've got this out of touch president who doesn't even know what a supermarket scanner is, right? versus a guy, and this is kind of on the edge, bill clinton, this picture of him on the edge of the '50z. george bush tries to turn himself into the fighter pilot, you know, the brand of the '50s. and he uses allegations of burnt draft cards and protesting the war to try to make america see bill clinton as this. now, granted, that is bill clinton. [laughter] in 1996 it plays out again. you have bob dole, a consummate washington insider, running against a conservative democrat, and his tactic is to turn himself back into the '50s. and say that bill clinton is as liberal as the image, the presidential image of the '90s, lyndon johnson, to try to turn bill clinton into this. here's bill clinton with george mcgovern. no few, again, granted, that is bill clinton. and in 2000 it plays out again. you've got the frat boy aristocrat, george w. bush, running against an actu

what do you think about this harvard study where they're talking about how it's unpatriotic to be patrioticat's what they're saying. twitter us at twitter.com/fox and friends or e-mail us friends at foxnews.com. >> and if this came out before the parade, how empty the parades would be because democrats are afraid of raising republican children. >> i know. we don't want to breed any patriotic people. >> how many democrat politicians walked in parades yesterday and now you find out, hoh, it didn' do me any good. >> do you know someone looking for work? coming up this hour, you have five companies that are hiring right now. we'll tell you who they are. >> yep. we told you about david brock in the past hour, the head of media matters who is using taxpayer benefits to attack fox news. but wait until you hear about mr. brock's second in command. that man. straight ahead on "fox & friends." ♪ [ male announcer ] what is the future of fuel? the debate is over. ♪ lexus hybrid drive technogy is designed to optimize any fuel source on the planet. even those we don't use yet. because when you pursue per

reach short political gain by people who have been recently elected and believe that compromise is unpatriotic instead of the legislative objective. but more important than the jobs that we would lose, the money that we would lose, the fact that government would have to be expanded and larger than it's ever been, what i'm really afraid of is that we lose the american dream and create a scenario where that dream becomes a nightmare. i don't know what it is that made america so great. i can't imagine what kind of dream that someone could have in europe or a foreign country and just believe that making it to america that would be better than staying in their own country with their own language and with their own race of people. and yet these tens of thousands of people were prepared in many cases to risk their lives to come to participate in that american dream. i can't imagine how people who've been snatched from africa and brought in chains in the bottom of vessels and were actually sold as property and yet instead of saying that they want to go back to africa they adopted our bible, they adopt

schakowsky: there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. the looming default crisis could be resolved in five minutes by simply raising the debt ceiling. as was done seven times under bush and 18 times under ronald reagan. this is the exact opposite of fiscal responsibility. the republicans led by their tea party radicals are determined to cripple government and to destroy medicare, medicaid and social security while leaving untouched a hair on the head of millionaires and billionaires and corporations that pays zero in taxes. i say to the republicans, stop it. seniors call sobbing about their social security checks. our soldiers in afghanistan repeatedly ask admiral mullen yesterday, will we get paid? will our families get our checks? shame on the republicans for making that happen. in battle, when you accidentally shoot your own, it's called friendly fire. when you deliberately shoot your own it's called fragging. republicans, stop fragging the american economy and the american people. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempor

they act as though they believe that those who disagree with that ideology are either unpatriotic or heretics and that the only truth is their truth. what they have forgotten is that negotiating with those with whom we disagree and reaching a compromise is what good governance is all about. the other falsehood here is spending is not a democratic value, as our friends on the other side would have us believe. it is a republican reality. it was the reckless spending of republicans combined with a reckless tax policy and an ideology that let wall street run wild, turning a free market into a free-for-all market that brought us to where we are today. let's remember it wasn't long ago that the budget was, in fact, balanced during another democratic administration, when we had budget surpluses as far as the eye could see. the day president clinton left office, he handed the incoming president a $236 billion surplus with a projected surplus of of $5.6 trillion over the following ten years. when president bush left office, he had turned a $236 billion budget surplus into a a $1.3 trillion bu