about winston churchill. he served as prime minister of the united kingdom and again from 1951 through 1955. but he was so much more. during the 20th century's darkest hour, winston churchill warned of the approaching evil, stood tall when it arrived and inspired his citizens and ours and liberty-loving people around the world to fight, to persevere and to never surrender before victory was assured. he knew that the long road of our humanity-affirming progress would not end and could not end and was not going to end in defeat to tyranny. mr. speaker, we are in fact one week away, as has been said from the 70th anniversary of churchill's address to a joint session of congress. on december 26, 1941, with our nation still in shock after the attack on pearl harbor, and simultaneous defeats and setbacks across the pacific, and more than two long years since the invasion of poland, prime minister churchill, as this resolution reminds us, said, sure i am this day, now we are the masters of our fate, that the task wh

bush's winston churchill bust in the oval office. house republicans have spent their time in the house this week, among other things, voting to place a bust of winston churchill inside the united states capitol instead of the one that was in the oval office. so, america, when your paycheck shrinks substantially on january 1st, at least you can take comfort that we'll have the churchill bust to cuddle up to in the capitol if we need to? congress did make sure to handle that? bust, yes. looming inexplicable tax hike with bad economic consequences, no. that we cannot do. >> the house republicans say they don't dispute the need for a payroll tax cut. what they're really trying to do, what they're holding out for, is it ring concessions from democrats on issues that have nothing to do with the payroll tax cut. issues where the parties fundamentally disagree. >> house speaker john boehner, though he reportedly signed off on this payroll tax thing, plan, over the weekend, he is now insisting that passing a two-month extension of the payroll

>> there's a famous line of winston churchill in the second world war. they said we have to cut the arts when the war started, the second world war. he says, well, what else are we fighting for? it's that important. >> exploring the arts finds arts programs in 14 new york city public schools, including this state-of-the-art high school in astoria queens, bennett's birthplace. >> he was my master, you know? >> though his name is on the auditorium, the school is named for someone else. not just anyone, old blue eyes, frank sinatra. >> why? you could have put your name on the school. >> because he changed my life. in "life" magazine he said that i was his favorite singer. he said, "for my money tony bennett's the best". he really changed my whole life. all of his fans came to see what he was talking about with me. and i've been sold out ever sinc since. >> that fame is on display here. >> how does that make you feel? >> it's the greatest fan club in the world. >> the school says it has a 97% graduation rate. 95% go on to college. and it's competitive. this

and you know what why is america i think america is more obsessed as winston churchill than you know the brits are so we just say that . british accent sounds a lot like a sesame street character. i mean but here's the maybe it doesn't congress do kind of one off bills like that where they'll do it by easily and honestly triad i mean like a post post office i mean no churchill bust of the most important thing and you know i do other things down doing something i don't because of the rules weren't getting into damn pain for breath he did things he did saying that he was an important historical figure but it's like it's an obsession it is more than you'll have our guys are going to have a kind of put up hey watch yourself are you put there for night so thanks for giving him a free come back tomorrow night for example to join us for happy hour in the meantime topic it's become a fad of us on facebook you can follow us on twitter you can watch everything you tube dot com slash feelin to hell and clear sex pistols. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industria

obama also gave back a bust of winston churchill which was given to us on nine eleven as a symbol of unity. he said no to you about you they're like no no seriously would you learned your in america you put it in a museum no no take it you got to be kidding me right so basically right now while congress is big not passing the payroll tax the house did the other day commissioned a new bust of winston churchill and you know why is america i think america's more obsessed as winston churchill than you know the brits are we just say that. british accent sounds like a sesame street character. but here's what maybe doesn't congress do kind of one off like that where they'll do it by easily. i mean like a post post office no i mean churchill bust of the most important thing you know i do understand doing something i don't think is a very important issue and gets you into damn pain he did things he did saying that he was an important historical figure but it's like it's an obsession it is more than you'll have our guys are going to have a kind of put up hey watch yourself. for tonight so than

-- so tie or bust of winston churchill, hope -- statue or bust of winston churchill hoping the other two statues are permitted soon. >> i feel it gives us an opening to approach the speaker to ask that our bill come forward of. reporter: at this point no word on where the winston churchill statue or bust will be placed inside the u.s. capitol. that will be left up to the office of the architect of the u.s. capitol. in the newsroom matt ackland, fox 5 news. >>> sexual assaults appear to be on the rise at the nation's military academies. a new report shows 65 incidents this year compared to 45 last year. the pentagon says it's encouraging victims to report the crimes and that could explain the higher number. >>> they are home from the battlefield, thousands of u.s. service members back from iraq and afghanistan looking for work, but the unemployment rate among veterans is higher than the national average and one senator is trying to change that. reporter: as thousands of troops return from overseas, many will be finished with their service poised to enter civilian life in an already pr

bush for his first term in office until two thousand and four loaned him a bust of of winston churchill that had sat in the british embassy here in washington d.c. in two thousand and four when bush was reelected tony blair said well you can keep it until the end of your term your second term and so it's very clear that you know the first week of january when george w. bush left office the bust was going to leave with the fact the british embassy announced to the press quote it was lunch for the first term of office of president bush when the president was elected for a second and final term alone was extended till january two thousand and nine so when the british took back their bust obama replaced it with a bust of abraham lincoln you know one of his heroes but glenn beck and a bunch are right wing radio guys went nuts on this they said that obama had first of all sent back the churchill bust as as i just point out not the case is not the case at all this is the bus was gone before obama even walked into the white house but why did this these right where say that he had sent back the

. >> winston churchill said it is good to keep your ear to the ground, so long as you remember where your posterior is when you do so. george, the congress of the united states has not decided that its purpose and function -- is that its purpose and function? >> the pieces that you see, the pieces of appropriations bills, they know they have to do 12, but they will do three and discuss authorization for the rest of the term. congress is really destined for gridlock just because basically it is a 60-vote threshold. you will always need republicans to get things passed in the senate. because of that, i think it is a recipe for gridlock. >> are the republicans aware that it hangs around in the populace against gridlock? >> i do not think so. it seems to be what they think their constituents want to hear. i think they are misreading the polls or whoever is doing the data, and i think will backfire on them. >> pamela, as a senior producer at sirius xm radio, channel 124, which carries the audio of this program, and where i appear on fridays for half an hour. having done that plug -- >> we

winston churchill was the best friend america ever had. i ask my colleagues to join me in honoring his legacy of persistence, determination and resolve. >> 160 million americans living in poverty, needing unemployment and he's up saying, we -- five days before christmas, need to put a bust of winston churchill in the capitol. this is either amazing insensitivity or contempt for the american people. if it wasn't boehner-like, i would cry. >> he really wants to also make sure that the -- he's worried more about the tax cut for the job creators, as he says in one of his quips. he said, i'm worried about maintaining their tax break at christmastime. he never talks about the people or the unemployed or the near poor or the people that are struggling in this society. it's just a plain old lump of coal. >> it was winston churchill who said the american political system will ultimately do the right thing after trying everything else first. i sure hope he's right because it looks like house republican are trying to prove him wrong. >> i don't think

or winston churchill or anybody. it's just -- those are the people he admires and collects books on and likes to read about and have inspired him in the same way henry ford and thomas edison were people that inspired him in business. >> taylorsville, illinois. this is ed. hello. ed, are you there? >> yes. from taylorville, illinois. >> yes, sir. >> i voted for perot in 1992. and i believe that's how clinton got elected and bush didn't seem like he cared whether he got elected or not. >> thanks very much. do you think that ross perot was responsible for the election of bill clinton, carolyn? >> i do. and i think there were two impacts. one is he -- similar to teddy roosevelt, he split the republican vote. and in that way, roosevelt denied taft a second term. perot split the conservative vote. and denied bush a second term. but he did another thing, i think, by getting in the race, and beating up on bush all along the way, kind of softened him up for clinton to come in and make the kill. so i think it was sort of a two

winston churchill was a hugely popular figure in america as he remains today but one funny story is churchill he got up early bathing and was in his birthday suit and the president opened the door to his suite at the warehouse and. [laughter] they were both surprised. >> >> this is ancient history. i know. >> if we could go back to general macarthur i know what truman thought of the nuclear weapons but what was macarthur's thought? to you think we would not have used a nuclear weapon macarthur would still have the capability to control the entire japan? would the russians have had more power? >> macarthur was personally repulsed with the use of the atomic bombs. a lot of people who thought at the time to meshuga demonstrate by detonating in tokyo bay with minimal loss of life so they could see the awesome power of the atomic bomb. but the commonly held and probably true believe is that the war would have gone on for several more years. of japanese culture is such that to surrender to your enemy is the worst thing that you can do too be captive is worse than death. that is part of the culture

winston churchill was a hugely popular figure in america, as he remains today. ut there was one funny story is that churchill got up early bathing and was in his birthday suit, and the president opened the door to a suite in the white house and churchill is, they were both surprised. >> audience? everybody, no, thank you. here we go. i know, this is ancient history to you. >> if we could go back to general macarthur. i know what truman thought of stuff like looking weapons, much of that. what was macarthur spot on the? and you think if we would not have used a nuclear weapon, macarthur would still have had the capability to kind of control the entire japan issue, like, within russia? meaning would russians had more power if we didn't use nuclear weapons? >> macarthur was personally repulsed and -- a special on civilian cities. there was a lot of people thought at the time that truman should demonstrate the might of america by detonating it in tokyo bay with minimal loss of lives, so the emperor himself would see the awesome power of the atomic bomb. the commonly

now, lord of the admirality, winston churchill, has created some controversy but suggesting that britain with a preemptive war? >> well, what winston churchill would like do is to cut off german access to swedish iron, which is sent down through norway and through norwegian waters. now, of course, a preemptive invasion would be illegal under international law, but winston has said that we should think about human i had and not legal knit fighting nazi germany. >> so, tell us, tell us about what's happening right now on the couldn't couldn't nent. the situation is very bad for jewish residents in occupied poland what do you know about this? >> well, of course it is not only bad for jewish resident. poland itself has been split in half by the two invading armies, itself yet and the germans, so, now polish residents must be forced to choose to live under nazi oppression in the west or soviet oppression in the east. as you said, for jewish residents it is particularly bad. we have reports coming in of synagogues being burned with flame terrors, of people being marched out of the towns and th

the british people rallied to winston churchill.the germans couldn't come across the channel on account of the royal navy, but they did send thousands of airplanes to bomb britain in hopes of invading britain eventually. they couldn't overcome the royal air force. and eventually, october came along. bad weather began. the germans couldn't invade britain and they had to put off any kind of invasion planned until spring. though this is the story about those months. they were very, very critical months. >> host: selected the bombing ended, did it end in tober quiets >> guest: no, it continued. in britain they have what they call the battle of britain, which lasted until october and then they have the bullets. the germans continued to bomb, mainly at night, through the winter. but the battle of britain was basically in the daylight and they couldn't overcome the fighter arm of the royal air force and couldn't invade. that's what the battle of britain was about. >> was there a time between june and october 1940 when it looked really bad

then pointing fingers at either side it's really an opportunity to say let's sit down and do as winston churchill said it's better to talk talk talk to fight fight for exactly but have to many onlookers it's kind of been like two steps forward one step back all the time this tit for tat thing under the new regime do you think things will be any different. realistic well we hope. we hope with kim jong il. that he is education. background will perhaps give us direction but it provides an opportunity for that twenty twelve is the year for peace in north korea and we should seize that opportunity it's the hundredth birthday celebration of kim il sung and they promised peace and prosperity in twenty twelve this is a door that is open right now and it is the new leader could orchestrate peace and a peace treaty after all of these years and begin to. exchange and have more dialogue i think that it will go a long way toward. empowering potentially. someone who might be a little more. connected with the international community nicely put good to hear your thoughts let's hope it all plays out co-founder of

winston churchill was a hugely popular figure in america as he remains today. but there was one funny story is that churchill was up early bathing and was in his birthday suit, and the president opened his door to his suite in the white house, and churchill -- [laughter] >> in the altogether. >> they were both surprised. >> audience? everybody knows 1941. okay, there we go. i know, this is ancient history to you. [laughter] >> if we could go back to the general mcarthur. i know what like truman thought and stuff about using the nuclear weapons on japan. what was mcarthur's thought on it, and do you think if we would not have used the nuclear weapons, mcarthur would still have had the capability to kind of control the entire japan issue after, like, meaning, like, would russians had more power if we didn't use nuclear weapons? >> mcarthur was personally repulsed of the use of the atomic bomb, especially on civilian cities. and there was a lot of people who thought at the time that truman should demonstrate the might of america by detonating in tokyo bay with mini

christmas of 1941 which is right after pearl harbor and what was going on at the white house, winston churchill had come here. you talk about problems, you talk about a challenge, the world was at war. hitler had eaten up most of europe at that point. the japanese were amok in the pacific. we didn't have a military that was prepared, really, for the consequences of that. then i've been reading about the campaign of 1948. harry truman, who had inherited the presidency from fdr, and a lot of people were against him, and the vitriol in that campaign against the incumbent president who had not earned his place, they all thought, we had henry wallace and strom thurmond threatening to run or planning to run as third party candidates, we got through it. those were much more difficult days in many ways than what we're facing now. because, people came with big, bold ideas about how they were going to deal with it. >> it was a much less competitive world. and that's the thing. we've -- we -- it's true, tom, but we so dominated the world then in a way we don't anymore. >> no, i agree with that, tom. i'm j

cut the paper in half that was very deflationary it didn't contribute to the great depression winston churchill was the major architect of that he said later in his memoirs as one of the greatest mistakes he'd ever made. and i put out the book that if we go into gold in one thousand twenty five and say fifty dollars an ounce of twenty dollars an ounce that might have been inflationary and actually avoided the great depression so i was not unaware of the history of this effect i wrote about it so i felt too bad that you know professor roubini actually had read the book before he took a shot at it but that aside in terms of today could we go back to a gold standard the answer is yes but you had the exact same problem how do you get the price right and people say well there's not enough gold to support world trade well there's not enough gold the seven hundred dollars an ounce but there is enough gold at seven thousand dollars an ounce in other words the same quantity of gold will support any amount of underlying transactions depending on the price so what i've recommended is not that we do anythi

. >> his to evergreen heroes or teddy roosevelt and winston churchill. we forget a lot that both of them were considered intr's case, a damned cowboy. mckinley was assassinated and the republican party machine did not trust him. he was considered an iconoclast, an individualist and that whole cowboy notion. ross perot grew up in texarkana and his father was a cotton broker but also broke horses and went to cattle auctions and considered himself a bit of a texas cowboy. everything about the door roosevelt impressed ross perot and i think gave him courage. if roosevelt could do a bull moose party, why couldn't i in 1992? churchill, anyone who loves freedom, democracy and grit, winston churchill is your figure. those of the people he admires most. he also likes george washington and has a portrait of him. but there is also patrick henry. we talk about the founding fathers to actually become president, but this is about the contenders and how you have a revolution without patrick henry? those are the types of people prospero admirers. >> -- that types of peo

. >> sean: if you can pan in on this, this is winston churchill, among many. look at that. it has history. i said have you heard churchill in the recordings? vy a recording. toil, tears, sweat. he has a very -- it was recorded. this was a spark of interest for you for history. >> 70 years ago on 23rd of december. churchill was at the white house meeting with president rosenfeld and at a press conference with roosevelt. the correspondents yelled we can't see you. we can't see you. he was a rollly poly in short. stansomeone said stand up on the chair. he did and was introduced. >> sean: at the time historically, a lot of people were isolationists. theydy not want america in the battle of europe at all. after the bombing of pearl harbor, churchill thought it was imperative to get over here and lobby fdr. >> for europe, first. >> break this down. took seven days to get here. >> took nine days to get here. he came to dinner and he wouldn't leave. he had it too good. he had the drinking water in the white house. he decided in america, away from the idea of japan first. >> he unde

he told winston churchill at one point prior to pearl harbor that a war against japan was a war in the wrong place and the wrong en enemy and the wrong session. he wanted to fight alongside the british in defeating naziism. >> 6700 miles away the japanese were launching a war of aggression. japan was a nation ruled by an emperor. a tradition dating back centuries. the real power was held by the military war lords. throughout the 1930s japan was a rapidly growing industrial state, desperately in need of land and natural resources for its exploding population of nearly 65 million. the japanese government took what it needed by force. >> japan was very poor. it was a farm country. >> oliver: "war stories" investigates tracked down lieutenant abe, one of the bomber pilots that attacked pearl harbor. born in 1916 in a small mountain village and the son of a saki brewers, he knew his country was and a war footing. >> the only thing she could do was to export silk and laquer ware which were nothing more than home industry. there was no way left for japan to exist. >> oliver: in 1931, japan in

he told winston churchill at one point prior to pearl harbor that a war against japan was a war in the wrong place and the wrong en enemy and the wrong session. he wanted to fight alongside the british in defeating naziism. >> 6700 miles away the japanese were launching a war of aggression. japan was a nation ruled by an emperor. a tradition dating back centuries. the real power was held by the military war lords. throughout the 1930s japan was a rapidly growing industrial state, desperately in need of land and natural resources for its exploding population of nearly 65 million. the japanese government took what it needed by force. >> japan was very poor. it was a farm country. >> oliver: "war stories" investigates tracked down lieutenant abe, one of the bomber pilots that attacked pearl harbor. born in 1916 in a small mountain village and the son of a saki brewers, he knew his country was and a war footing. >> the only thing she could do was to export silk and laquer ware which were nothing more than home industry. there was no way left for japan to exist. >> oliver: in 1931, japan in

and all that that meant to the survival of western civilized -- civilization, you think of winston churchill's speeches. >> jean baker. >> franklin roosevelt. >> why? >> at the time we needed someone who could make speeches that, in a sense, reassured the american people. franklin roosevelt used the medium of the fireside chat to great advantage. in the clips that you see, it is all roosevelt speaking. there is a certain emotional density -- intensity. from the audience's. of view, you cannot help but note that this is a person that has done -- that has connected to the audience and responded to them. "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." i suppose it is an upper class, elite accent, but everybody in these clips seem as if they all came out with the same unspeaking a voice. >> not my guy. >> hubert humphrey. i will tell you why. when i was covering the white house for the baltimore sun -- i was covering bill clinton -- people said how eloquent bill clinton was. i get back to my office and i did not have a very good quote. i call william lee miller and said, " is bill clinton eloquent?" he

reporter: norton does support a move by house speaker john boehner to place a statue or bust of winston churchillide the capitol. >> rather than feel insulted, i feel that it gives us an opening to approach the speaker to ask that our bill come forward. >> reporter: no word on where the churchill statue or bust will be placed inside the u.s. capitol. matt ackland, fox 5 news. >>> steven spielberg has a new emotionally charged film out. >> in war horse, a boy's beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. kevin mccarthy sits down with jeremy irvine to talk about the project.  are. >>> a boy's beloved horse is sold to the salvery in world war i. jeremy irvin and emily watson sat down with kevin mccarthy. >> this is a deeply emotional film for both of u what that camera shuts off and the day is done, does that stick with you? does that emotional element stay with you or are you able to turn back into your normal selves? >> i'm so new to this. yeah, you find that, if i know i'm about to spend a whole day doing a big scene, you kind of find you are in that mind set already and yeah tsh

well, these models-- uh, the top ones-- were made for winston churchill by bassett-lowke in 1942, aftera number of ships bombed by the r.a.f. and he decided we've got to stop this. we're going to have to teach our air crews how to spot a german boat, a british boat, an american boat. because of course from the air, ship recognition must have been terribly difficult. exactly. and do you know if they then went into production of these prototypes? yes, they did. yes, they... i'm told that churchill was thrilled by these, and he then instructed bassett-lowke to make a quantity so that they could be sent to various places where they'd had problems. now, of course, bassett-lowke was very famous for steam locomotives, for model-- model steam engines... exactly. ...and train sets, that sort of thing. but i'm fascinated by what your father did. what-- what was he doing in the firm of bassett-lowke? my father was bassett-lowke's best friend. right. and they traveled the world together. right. and i have here bassett-lowke's sort of signature, really, which he took around the world, showing people

i think of a guy like winston churchill and people can reinvent themselves.ondering, i think, and republican voters are struggling with is there a new and different newt? and has time in the wilderness religious conversion changed him, deepened him, maybe made him wiser. and at the same time you're wondering about romney, are these issues real? so that's the real battle. i think it's going to go on a long time. i don't expect either one of these guys to do a knockout punch. and that's going to give each one time to make their case. >> the june 12th ohio primary, maybe we'll all be there. tom cole, republican from oklahoma, member of congress. and you i think successfully did not alienate either there. >> i achieved my objective. >> i'll try again next time. thank you, sir. >>> up next we're rounding out the week with our friday political panel. and a programming note this sunday's "meet the press." candidate ron paul. he's the guy in second place in iowa polls. also senators lindsay graham and dick durbin. check your local listings. >>> first, of course, it's

they did manage to get a bus to winston churchill put in today. that's exciting. what of importance happened today on the house, mike? >> >> well, shep, we are still working it out. we expect it's going to be a very late night on the house side. house republicans are calling on their senate colleagues to come back to washington to try to hammer out a deal. they say this is a lousy deal. bad for the country. you cannot govern in two month increments. here is speaker boehner making the case. >> i think we have made it perfectly clear that we believe that a full year extension of these tax cuts are very important. i don't believe the differences between the house and senate are that great. it's time for us to do our work. >> republicans are welcoming a letter from a nonpartisan group, experts in this area that say a two month extension of the payroll tax holiday will create confusion, chaos and significant problems for american employers and employees, shep? >> shepard: so now the house is expected to shoot down this bill tonight. what then? >> well then it's in sena

and i would say eisenhower and anyone else -- i think winston churchill is one of my great heroes.he was asked after the war what he thought about alexander in italy are not covering oral over the place. how do you rate them? and he said it depends on the task. if you transpose that to us in world war ii, what marshall had to do with entirely different for what macarthur had to do, which was entirely different from what patton had to do, which was entirely different from what eisenhower had to do. so who knows. each man a name came to just very odd to be. anybody else? yes, ma'am. >> anything you can speak to about where his grant or his reaction to the assassination? >> that's a very interesting question. i'm sorry. i said i'd be here as long as he wanted me to be. that's an extremely interesting thing, which i go into detail in the grant and sherman book as it happens. he was taking his wife julia to a house rented a new jersey. and stop being at a station where they're going to to switch trainings. this courier cannot form and looks at this telegram and he just won a white. and

young men, men who flew mustangs or spit fires or people in special forces or george patton or winston churchill they found the wore stimulating and exciting, but for most people it was terrible. you were separated from loved ones for years, and you worried like hell about whether your wife at home was being faithful to you, worrying whether you would see your kids again and all the rest and it's taken my 30-40 years fully to understand that and it's been a long downie from the kids' comics view to growing up a bit. >> so much military history concentrates just on the battlefield. >> i went through -- when i finished the manuscript, i went through it, and i cut out every single reference to divisional numbers or army numbers i could possibly identify without making the story incoherent, and although i told the story of the war, that people nowdays don't care whether the 53rd division went right or left. what they're interested in is what it meant to human beings, and that's what i tried to do, and made it simple so we don't fill in all the numbers of armies and so on. this is just trying to tell