he was one of the boosters of winston churchill's b57 european friends. he goes on at length in the state department papers how they will be all to do this, that and the other thing in the various islands and it's a very striking commentary that he presented to all of the commanders in late 1943. in his memo they chewed him out for that or the kind of hopkins story at times it seems very clearly it is not in his memoir. he doesn't discuss this. he was a politician. the papers were not published until about 61 when it was all over so it's kind of interesting thing that there is another interesting thing. i think that eisenhower had the great crime against humanity that the with british committed and that would be the soviet nationals repatriation and there is another one that is the abandonment of the american veterans of world war ii after the war. it's a horrible story. >> host: a lot of people care about -- >> guest: nobody knows. >> host: one of my projects were researched with a horrible story. >> guest: they covered it up and when you move into the 5

and winston churchill being so pro jewish and fro israel and i wrote to a jewish member of parliament who was quite famous in his day and why do you think churchill is so pro jewish? he is intelligent. he was in fact lawrence of arabia to palestine after world war i. >> to israel. >> he admired wiseman very much and apparently might have been an english bishop said something derogatory about why isman, lawrence of arabia rose a letter, it is uncertain whether he sent it or not in which he went to the bishop and said you must block wiseman's shoes. churchill was very pro jewish and had a slight change of course when a close friend of his was assassinated by young men in egypt. actually when churchill went with lawrence of arabia was his adviser in the middle east, went to a group to kill all the jews which learned from knowing quite well, and they were saying -- somebody over there asking for a microphone. >> i would like to know how you least double coin. historic document. were you able to conduct personal interviews? or new your subject? >> a lot of research in the libraries which b

for example, to give you an idea of his access, when winston churchill came to washington in december of 1941 for the very first wartime conference which went on for weeks, harry hopkins, franklin roosevelt and winston churchill ate breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. this was a tight, symbiotic presidency. and, indeed, he was often called the co-president. now, i have studied the record on ari hopkins -- harry hopkins, and he's a very controversial figure post-the nona archives, post-soviet because we have new information about him. i do believe he was a conscious soviet asset. that doesn't mean he was a member of the communist party, doesn't mean he was fessly getting signals transmitted into his ear. i don't mean acting in that fashion, but he was an agent of influence. >> host: well, who is source 19? >> guest: well, harry hopkins is source 19. >> host: you believe that? >> >> guest: it's the research of a late historian who really did skull work. it is sort of like a 99.9% possibility that agent 19 is harry hopkins. agent 19 was one, the unnamed member of a tete-a-tete between

for example, to give an idea of access, when winston churchill came to washington in december of 1941 for the first wartime conference, which went on for weeks, harry hopkins, franklin roosevelt and churchill ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. this was a tight, symbolic president, and he was called the co-president. he's a controversial figure in the archives post-soviet because we have new information about him. i do believe he was a conscious asset. that p doesn't mean he had a membership card or a member of the communism party or signals transmitted into the ear. i don't mean acting in that fashion, but he was an agent of influence for -- >> who is -- [inaudible] >> well, harry hopkins is source 19. >> you believe that? >> it's not my doing. it's the research of edward mark, a lates air force historian who did skull work. i read his thesis on this. it is like a 99.9% possibility that agent 19 and hopkins, agent 19 was one of the unnamed member of the taft between three, if you can have one with three, roosevelt, church hill, and agent 19, at which discussions for the date

okay, in the introduction, the wise words of winston churchill and i agree very strongly. i think he understands social development, we too will back a long way into the past. that is looking back all the way to the and, about 15,000 years ago. i think you need to start by looking at the history. when you begin to see this in different parts of the world some parts of the world, all over the world -- they are multiplying in a benign climate. the exact way depends on where we live. there a particular brand of latitudes across the planet. they are the only places on earth where this is hospital one is this western edge of the world. this is the first part of the world where arab culture begins. this is what i call eastern society the population grows this is something that we can always shift around with the new type of geographical boundaries that appear. toward the end of this, i compare this eastern and western areas and look at the most important areas, calculated the developments and that is the theoretical framework. and this is a huge problem, how on earth can turn fi

winston churchill said history would be kind to him. he intended to write it. richard did the same. not that he needed any action kindness. -- extra kindness. he wrote his first book about his life before and after the iraq war. the book drew praise from chris matthews of msnbc, saying "this is hemingway country." he struggled with dyslexia. he went to stanford and then in a burst of intuition he decided to become a foreign correspondent by moving to cairo without really knowing a lick of arabic. he settled in a poor neighborhood to help build a street from the ground up. instead of enjoying the lap of luxury, richard taught himself the culture and language bit by bit. he renders the common people of cairo with a maintenance and compassion. compassion. and we see him struggle with early newspaper gave in freelance pieces like some latter-day benjamin frankly. he finally wound up in jerusalem with abc news before nbc in 2003. his reporting from baghdad set the standard. he was the only american to cover it all. he tells this story and another book, which will be studied by historians

in this room, winston churchill and his senior commanders could monitor the convoy as they made the dangerous journey from the united states. 5000 allied merchant ships were sunk with a loss of 30,000 lives. german uattacking by aircraftestroyed traveling as far west as fuel would allow. this year we mark the dogged courage and determination of every man who sailed those dangerous waters with the help of those who survived. terrifying times. looking back of the second world war in the atlantic with some of the people who were there at the time. that brings the show to a close. you can follow the news on our web site. thanks so much for watching. please make sure to tune in tomorrow. news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, and union bank, and fidelity investments. >> your personal economy is made up of the things that matter most, including your career. as those things change, fidelity can help

the wars and he did far more than any other world leader of his time including prime minister winston churchill who talked big but did little and his government tightly restricted jewish immigration to palestine during the war. >> michael: yeah, a lot of being president is about playing defense. it's about what you aren't. people even today who complain about barack obama, if there was president romney right now, the complaints would be of a totally different nature. so that always fascinates me. my father always used to say he didn't understand why america and the allies didn't just bomb the railroad tracks going to the concentration camps. that addressed in your book? >> it is very much addressed in our book. and you read that quote about fdr. jews revered fdr at the time. they voted for him in overwhelming numbers even after the horrors of the concentration camp were revealed they still loved fdr. they understood his limitations, but they understand how much better he was for the jews. this issue of bombing the rail lines was not an issue at the time. it became an issue decades later with cr

. >> ok, quiz question now -- what do winston churchill and pope john paul ii have in common? well, they are previous winners of the charlemagne prize. >> the prize is awarded each year to a leader who has made a contribution to european unity. this year's winner is the president of lithuania. >> sheet is a former eu commissioner who has led her country through a tough austerity program, and today, at the prize giving, she had a lot to say about europe's current crisis. >> the charlemagne medal was bestowed in recognition of her efforts to advance european integration. as the eu's finance commissioner, hard drive to increase competitiveness helped bolster economic confidence in europe. >> let us not be afraid to make difficult decisions. challenges may be we'd greater than less, but how we deal with them is how we measure crisis. so thank you, and i would like to ask your permission to dedicate this award to people of lithuania. >> she's been credited with rescuing the lithuanian economy through her stick -- strict austerity measures. the european parliament president pays tri

that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil. the warships the project the british cower all of the world were now run one hundred percent wrong. and then in one thousand fifteen to go ronnie ins decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most an ag national.

in uniforms storming the beaches of normandy, it's about eisenhower and above all it is about winston churchill with that kind of tone exhorting us to fight on the beaches and so on and so forth. in other words it is about guns and metal and men and for me there was one side of the story. i couldn't relate to it. i could add my gear and fuel fascinated but they didn't seem to have anything to do with me. so i decided kind inevitably after the previous book to look at it through the eyes of women and that is what i set out to do. >> host: you said the women had to reinvent themselves after world war i because of the death of so many men. what were some of the ways the reinvented themselves? >> guest: well, i think it is safe to say that the 1920's, the decade following the first world war was a decade of first, it was when a lot of women started to be allowed to think into the professions which they hadn't been permitted to do. they started to be allowed to sit on juries for example, which they had previously not been a lot to do. and all kinds of specialized areas, bill wall, politics, the coun

. >> reporter: but the vessel that hosted winston churchill became a ghost ship. plants now grow from its floor boards. the presidential fireplace, disappeared. the gally, barely recognizable. truman's favorite sun deck, twisted debris. after truman, the williamsburg fell on hard times. eisenhower didn't want it. it was mothballed, changed names, even became a floating restaurant in new jersey. shipped to italy in 1994 for repairs, the shipyard went bankrupt. it's been here ever since. he believes that the williamsburg with so much american history in it, must go home, and he's trying to get the message out. >> you have a certain number of millionaires, certain number of billionaires, if they would donate 25 euros each, you raise a lot of money. >> reporter: the current italian owners want to refit it as a vintage charter yacht for about $70 billion, but can't find any american buyers. >> we want the ship to be back in the united states because we think that's the place where it belongs. >> reporter: and they can't hold out much longer. in just a few years, they s

things the obama white house did that caused a lot of upset in britain, this, was get the best of winston churchill that was in the bush oval office, and chuck it out, get rid of it? why did he do that, your bestest ally in the whole world, and the guy looked at me, and said, oh, people are mad? we thought it was eisenhower. he said, what other guy looks like -- i thought, you know, he was only half joking, actually, because that is modern america. it is people who have a view of the world that is not the kind of mayflower view of the world, it's not the view of the world you get in kansas city, missouri. it's not the view of the world among the kind of older generation of white americans who regard, you know, britain as being something special, and i spent a lot of my time, particularly in the flyover states based in the united states, you know, pretending to be hugh grant, basically, that english thing, and people loved that, but i'm very, very aware that future america is not that america. future america comes from china, has ties with mexico, with croatia, russia, all these nations around the w

that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched re coal to oil the warships the projected british power all of the world were now running one hundred percent wrong. and that in one thousand fifteen to go ronnie and decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most attack nationalized the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life. after the cia deposed most of the place muhammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five years with the increasing pressure until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy miles off revolution. with fundamentalists clerics n

well winston churchill said that americans can be counted upon to come to the best option after the tried everything else i think the united states missed an opportunity to. reinforce and support moderate. forces the center collapsed we ended up with extremists from the muslim brotherhood all the way to al-qaeda affiliated. job. up front. these are no good options today in syria and because ball is getting into the fray so the united states is trying to give it a shot it is not a ploy to derail the process unfortunately i want our viewers to understand the united states is not calling the shots on this there are other players as russia there's iran there. are a lot of people cars so yes. this is not something like president obama just pushing the button and everything falls into into its place this is a mess and it's a bloody mess and i hope and i pray for the sake of people in syria that a good solution will be found i'm pessimistic as usual peter you know me but it's the middle east ok neville what do you think about ariel's analysis there are you just as pessimistic. no the opposite i'

that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil the the warships of the projected british our all over the world were now run one hundred percent wrong. and that in one nine hundred fifty two ronnie and decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most and nationalize the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever knew. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life. after the cia deposed most of the place muhammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five years with the pressure until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. with fundamentalists clerics now

winston churchill said that americans can be counted upon to come to the best option after the tried everything else but i think the united states missed an opportunity to. reinforce and support moderates in thai forces center collapsed we ended up with extremists from the muslim brotherhood all the way to al qaeda so the united states is trying to give it a shot. at least with. a lot more new stories are coming your way here on our today finale u.s. justice department has defended its spying on associated press saying it was necessary to find leaks that could endanger american people the phone records of about one hundred journalists including that private numbers were seized sparking outrage in the media world wide white house though has distanced itself from the scandal saying it knew nothing about the probe i have a president obama's administration is known for targeting whistleblowers seriously and as r.t. contributor afshin rattansi reports that we now think twice before contacting ip. they would able to notify the head of associated press because it would undermine the securit

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they see margaret thatcher and maybe even a hint of winston churchill. >>> we have a new clue tonightmelia earhart. for 80 years scientists have been searching the pacific for clues about how the pioneering pilot vanished. well, now, look what that i found. you can make out a shadow of white line on this sonar image. scientists believe it is the wreckage of a plane. it's man-made, 32 feet long, and by the way, her plane was 38 feet. >>> and here's something that created a stir today, the ceo of mcdonald's, donald thompson, says in the last year, he lost 20 pounds, even though he ate at mcdonald's every day. by the way, he also started exercising. so we asked mcdonald's what he ate and here's what they replied. thanks for your note. don enjoys a variety of food from the mcdonald's menu. he's traveling and i don't have more details on his exact orders. we'll see if we can get them, let you know. we love your ideas for the "instant index." so tweet them to me @diane sawyer. >>> and coming up next here, a familiar face on a mission, to help reach others who battle addiction. @diane sawyer

he was one of the boosters of winston churchill's severin european foot. he goes on at length in the state department papers about how fantastic this is the best way to get out and you will be able to do this and that and the other thing the country is on file in the yugoslav area. it's a very striking commentary that he presented to all of the allied commanders in late 1943. i thought he must have chewed him out for that or he was a hopkins still reject the time very clearly. it's not in his memoir. he doesn't discuss this. he was a politician the papers were not published until 61. it's an interesting thing that there is another interesting thing. i think that eisenhower was complicity, the british committed -- the national repatriation and there's another one which is the abandonment of thousands of veterans of world war ii in the soviet hand. it's a horrible story. -- one of my first project was researched and we found evidence that they were in the arctic islands. it's a horrible, horrible story. >> guest: and he covered it up and what he did is he sa

winston churchill and henry morgan saw both said why i'm having a trial? what a waste of time. what a waste of everything. why not see him not to come kill a nazi. that would be the most morally efficient corrective thing to do. the united states and russia by the way -- an international tribunal, we will judge the nazis that way. on the streets of cairo simultaneously vichy collaborator being strangled industry. nobody said oh, my god, how come they don't have a trial for the vichy collaborator? both ideas seem like they were just as, also revenge. most of the not see war criminals were prosecuted, number, ended up dying or spent their lives in jail. they essentially were punished but we conducted a trial. but in the same regard the same way we treated say osama bin laden, right clicks could easily talk about, could been kidnapped and brought back to the united states to stand trial. he was shot in it and even said that's just it. but isn't it also revenge? doesn't courtroom -- ways khalid sheikh mohammed sitting in guantÁnamo bay and he is still, still hasn't had his military

you heard -- >> winston churchill said anybody can rat, it takes somebody special to re-rat. anyway, good luck with you in the democratic party. let me go back to my hero, marjorie margolies today. i think you going to represent somerton, northeast philly. raised a son. chelsea clinton. you're a popular professor at penn. i know that's the case. why would you want to go back into the mall? >> i never stopped. i served one material and was defeated. then i started to do the kind of work i had done in congress in other places all around the world. sometimes many pretty dangerous places. but i just think that we women bring a different vision, a different view to the table. period. we're very underrepresented. when i first went in '92, we doubled the number of women in congress and what got done? family and medical leave. the assault weapons ban. we got things done. we became critical. and then clinton's budget. what happened with clinton's budget? the most dramatic job growth since world war ii. i think we can get things done. i also think people are really annoyed with members

, but, i guess what i'm asking is do you think he's less appealing to a lot of folks -- like winston churchillright? he carried, i thought more as a big guy, and to hear the stories when he visited fdr at the white house, rolling around the family mansion in the nude. i don't want to picture what that was like. >> where are we? neil: no, no, you heard the stories; right? do people feel the same about him? >> i think fundamentally, the struggle w's weight makes him relatable and responsible. obesity is a public health care catastrophe. neil: still popular as a thin and fit christie? >> absolutely. neil: really, peter, you buy that? >> it's not clear whether he's going to be a thin fit christie or a less heavy christie. neil: i don't know. it would be like if santa claus had a richard simmons workout. >> still a lot of heft, a lot of -- you know, a lot of power behind the words. neil: doesn't matter. >> i think he still will, yes. neil: you agree with that? >> yeah i take him at his word saying he's doing it for the benefit of the health and family and longevity. i think that sets a good example

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