they've made a sale with winston churchill. but to fdr, the promised invasion of 1943 still sounds very far off. we're in 1942 at this time. "time" magazine has noted that we've been in the war for six months, and not a single inch of enemy territory has been occupied, nor have we won a victory. fdr wants to engage the germans somewhere in 1942. now, winston churchill had given lip service to his support of an invasion across the english channel, but his real objective was to save the british empire. and his conviction was that the lifeline of the british empire was the mediterranean sea. and if you wanted to control the mediterranean, you had to control north africa. now, at this time north africa was essentially controlled by the french. you had the three colonies, morocco, algeria and tunisia, all french colonies. these colonies were run by the french government, the government that essentially surrendered to nazi germany in 1940 when france fell, and they were allowed under the terms of that armistice to hold on to their co

everyone who watch this is program knows of my devotion to winston churchill, the courageous britisheader who stood against the nazis, knowing that if britain were to lose the war, he and everyone else in the british government would be killed. i look up to him. all that's good in political leadership. ted cruz, whatever else we decide he is, or whatever he decides he wants to be is no winston churchill any more than snoopy was battling the red baron. he gave up the colors and voted the same way as all the other 99 senators. it was barack obama who made history three years ago, not by making some long-winded speech like the kind fidel castro likes to make. it was to get health care for those who had to be treated in emergency rooms. his calling card is just the opposite. he seeks to divide. he seeks to destroy. he seeks to demoralize until the country is so divided its ability to govern so destroyed that even someone like the freshman senator from texas starts to look credible. joining us are political analysts. for 21 hours ted cruz stood in a self-made spotlight. make no mistake ab

winston churchill said this upon dropping chemical weapons on iraqi kurds he said and i quote i don't understand what all the fuss is about dropping gas on rebel tribesmen in the north of iraq we have been dropping chemical weapons on people of the so-called third world for the best part of a century the united states dropped an ocean of chemical weapons on the people of vietnam and their children are still being born today deformed as a result of it the united states used chemical weapons against the iraqi resistance . and followed just a decade ago and this really used chemical weapons against the palestinian people in gaza just three years ago the hypocrisy is monumental. proportions but i don't need george will not report this it's astounding and yeah i mean the toxic legacy and flu shows even astronomically more than her roshan shockingly enough and as you said on the floor of parliament you said what assad be insane and nuff to launch a chemical weapons attack on the exact same day that u.n. weapons inspectors are right in the basket and if he is that insane what's going to happ

winston churchill said this upon dropping chemical weapons on iraqi kurds he said and i quote i don't understand why all the fuss is about dropping gas on rebel tribesmen in the north of iraq we have been dropping chemical weapons on p. . the so-called third world for the best part of a century united states dropped an ocean of chemical weapons on the people of vietnam and their children are still being born today deformed as a result of it the united states used chemical weapons against the rocket assistance in fallujah just a decade ago and there's really used chemical weapons against the palestinian people in gaza just three years ago the hypocrisy is monumental it's of proportion it's a stone media george will not report this it's astounding and yeah i mean the toxic legacy and flu shows even astronomically more than her roshan shockingly enough and as you said on the four parliament you said it would assad be insane and nothe to launch a chemical weapons attack on the exact same day that u.n. weapons inspectors are right in the basket and if he is that insane what's going to happ

charge of the military at the beginning of the war were still there at the end, a time when winston churchill was firing generals left and right. so i would have to give a very high grade to fdr as the recruiter in chief. the figures that he selected still resonate in history; marshall, admiral king, admiral nimitz, dwight eisenhower, hap arnold, and it's hard to quarrel with a winning team. by the time of fdr's death in april of 1945, his battles have essentially been won. cruelly, he does not live long enough to see the defeat of germany which takes place just shortly thereafter or the defeat of the japanese. but when we consider the impediment that he bore, the polio that made of him a paraplegic, the suffering and pain that he went through, the heights that this man rose to as commander in chief during world war ii can only be described as heroic. when liberty-loving americans all over the world needed a giant, fdr stepped forth. in my judgment, the president ranks with the immortals, he ranks with washington, he ranks with lincoln as a great president in time of peace and as a magnificen

as winston churchill repeatedly said, americans always do the right thing eventually after they've exhaustedll other alternatives. (laughter) and i think we will. you look historically you look at, i mean look, even, i mean even gay rights and gay marriage, i mean this is a major civil rights issue of our time. we are making progress on it. if you had asked me ten years ago are we going to, 12 years ago, are we going to have a black president of the yoonteded states, i would have said you know it's going to be tough, a long time. we do the right thing, jon, be upbeat. >> jon: let me ask you know, we talk about class warfare, any time you talk about when income inequality gets like this or when we start to value investment so much more than labor which is i think what happened over the last 30 or 40 year, if you bring that up it is class warfare to register a complaint against a system is close warfare sfw yet to turn around and diminish people because they might need food stamp assistance or other types of assistance that in this country have always allowed people struggling to get their foo

. >> britain's prime minister, david cameron, followed the example of whiston churchill -- winston churchill. legend has it that british sovereignty over the rock of gibraltar has disappeared. there's nothing wrong at the moment, but when it comes to britain's sovereignty over gibraltar, that has been a bone of contention between spain and britain for centuries, and it does not help that it was exactly 300 years ago this year that spain officially seated the rock to england. >> this summer, the government of gibraltar dumped locks of concrete into waters off the coast. the incident triggered the latest heated exchange between british gibraltar and spain. >> look at this -- from here to the gibraltar police boat, they've thrown concrete blocks into the sea across the entire area. 70 of them in all. they are ruining our fishing nets. what they have done is outrageous. they are stopping us from earning a living. we lived from hand to mouth. we rely on the day's catch, and now, they are preventing us from fishing here. >> the government of gibraltar says it needs the concrete blocks to create an

as winston churchill famously said.not forecast -- enigma but perhaps there is a key, that key is russian national interest. now that we're playing the game on their turf, it's worth asking. what makes putin's russia tick? simon marks, and sergei crews chief, the son of the leader of the soviet union. this is a picture of father and son back to 1959. sergei is now a senior fellow at brown university's watson institute for international studies. professor, thank you for joining us. i guess the first question is, what are russia's interests in syria? >> stability. russia don't want to have all this fighting on their borders. feared about the returning taliban and afghanistan and to have the city near the caucuses, nightmare for russia. they need stability and predictability and they think that the president assad has given the stability and all this his -- creating uncertainty because nobody know who are they and who will be in power will they win. >> do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now have f

well, these models-- uh, the top ones-- were made for winston churchill by bassett-lowke in 1942, afterst a 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 peo

british prime minister winston churchill joined him in the effort. the u.s. is the largest contributor to the united nations. get this, $4.3 billion this year alone constituting 22% of the u.s. budget. question. let's assume congress authorizes unilateral military action against syria. should commander in chief obama then take the case to the united nations before using unilateral force? mortimer zuckerman? >> no, i don't think he should. i don't think he should have taken it to the congress either. this is a presidential decision. it's a matter of leadership by this president on an issue that deals with our national security and what's happening in syria as far as i'm concerned is also something that's not nearly as important as what's happening in iran where the real issue is going to happen because iran is a country developing nuclear weapons and threatens us in the most serious ways. so i think u.n. would just compound the problem of going to the wrong places for the support for what the united states should and should be doing. >> eleanor? >> first of al

winston churchill, abraham lincoln... some of the greatest intellectuals on earth had trouble with their mind. i don't know what you're experiencing right now there at your house, on your job... i don't know if there's a fear that grows, because the only way to conquer fear is with faith. it's the only way. but your mind may be going through the fight of a lifetime. many marriages, when a thought comes into your mind about the unfaithfulness or the possibility of unfaithfulness with your partner, when you feel like you've been stripped of your significance, all of life's battles are in the mind. there's a great book that you ought to read. it's lance armstrong's book called it's not about the bike. i keep 500 books with me every day of my life. they're in my e-book reader. and i carry these 500 books everywhere i go so that my mind can run on the track that i want it to run on. lance armstrong, the great bicyclist, incredible athlete, just incredible athlete... had cancer. he lost all interest in the thing that he loved m

excesses and i think we'll do it again i have great faith in this country its resilience as winston churchill once said americans always do the right thing eventually after they've exhausted all other alternatives well america good did it with government involvement roosevelt's best programs that occurred what are you calling for now. well we're not in the movie itself larry we're not actually calling for anything i this is not a political movie i want this movie to attract and appeal to conservatives and republicans and independents but we do have a website and we do have and it's shown right at the end of the movie and it and basically we say to people look at the movies over but the work has just begun if you want to reverse the trends toward whiting inequality go to this website you don't have to do everything or even believe in everything that is on the website but if you want to get involved here are ways you can get involved personally and we want people to feel like they can change this and they can in fact if anything is going to make this change and if the change occurs in america i

winston churchill high is the top high school in maryland. and the george washington carver center for arts and technology. you can see the complete list on our website, wbaltv.com. 6:36. time to take another look at the weather with ava marie. >> she is joining us from canton. >> good morning. we are seeing another beautiful sunrise behind us. we have an outdoor yoga class going on. what a spectacular way to work out. it is very comfortable outside with temperatures in the 50 's. this is to preview bliss on the bay. you can do yoga on the water. have you seen stand up paddling? you can do yoga on that. we're learning more about that. forre seeing dry weather the next couple of days. temperatures stay comfortable in the afternoon in the low to mid 70's. we're leaning towards a gyre pattern. -- we are leaning towards a dryer pattern. saturday looks great. we will push those rain chances off to monday and tuesday. we will come back and put these guys out on the water. >> that should be good. yoga is harder than it looks. 6:37. a new place you c

winston churchill must be turning over in his grave after great britain fell to support action against assad. the house of parliament vote against action was true democracy in action. i am in favor of the action. and so is everyone i know. tom cogan, how can you be in favor of democracy, you disagree, with a majority of people that don't want another foreign fiasco. because democracy respects dissent. i never follow the herd, unless the herd is right. and in this case, i don't think so. i think we have to do the right thing, and protect the innocent if we can. >>> just because a 32-year-old has two children, doesn't mean he should be paid a set rate, it's all about a skills set. i was a single mom with three kids. i made little money but i didn't complain, i didn't deserve more. the word of the day should be propinquity. not quite rel vants with what we do with the word of the day. the factor tip of the day. we try to get these high-tech wheelchairs for grievously wounded military people in the u.s. we believe we'll be able to get the so-called track chairs for every vet that needs one

you'll encounter characters like winston churchill. it's a must read.enters the final week. we found the most interesting political messaging we've seen. a 3-d version of a party platform. the city of hamburg is home to the miniature wonderland. the largest model railway in the world complete with not only trains but a cruise ship, a soccer stadium, an entire miniature airport. the museum recently gave each of germany's major political parties an 11 square foot plot of land asking them to create their version of the future. chancellor angela merkel emphasizes the link to greater europe. it includes a policeman of color showing a commitment to integration. the free democratic party symbolizing vision for germany with no debt. the left party shows an ominous high tech spying center protestiprotest i protesting government surveillance. it made me wonder what kind of 3-d model the democratic and republican parties here in the u.s. would build in advance of the 2016 elections. send me your ideas in words or pictures. gps@cnn.com. we'll post the best one on o

he got rid of the winston churchill bust and there was a drama with a special relationship. what i don't understand is the white house pr people. obama has done this whole desk thing before and got in trouble for it before. you would think the white house would just stop releasing photos of him with his foot on his desk. >> well, perhaps he was stretching his hamstrings. maybe sore hamstrings. maybe he likes to jog and they were getting tight. >> he is an athletic president. i thought he was trying to look like a hood ornament. right there he is looking cool and lounging and everything. as usual the republicans make the humor go from obama to them. there was a tea party twitter has handle that says does seeing president obama's foot on the desk make your blood boil? everyone else that read it was like that not really. >> you know what it reminds me of it is a look into president obama's personality that he is not really cool. he is a dork. >> he reminds me of tony blair in that photo and that's why i object. >> he reminds me of a different brit david brent. remember this? it

winston churchill said democracy is the worst form of government except for all the letters that have been invented. [laughter] and i like that at least even some said even since then, democracy is great not only because the majority prevails but because it is safe to be in the minority. and what does that have to do with my book? nothing. i just like those quotes mainly because i think that is what we are all about. freedom and tolerance. well we are facing the real world and the president that is shocked. [laughter] which didn't seem to faze him until world but many more than a few i think and many friends and heavy contributors are all in the mix for both republicans and democrats i will grant you. the president has tried to get on top of the situation and he did have a news conference devoted mostly to his sort of a warm-up before the speech on wall street but was apparently disappointing even to his great supporters and they didn't applaud much but it has a new crackdown on the corporate fraud and i think it's all bewailing down saying who can we trust? the president said there w

everyone who watch this is program knows of my devotion to winston churchill, the courageous britishagainst the nazis, knowing that if britain were to lose the war, he and everyone else in the british government would be killed. i look up to him. all that's good in political leadership.

would rather disagree and i would invite to you consider the words of another foreign leader, winston churchill43 when europe was in peril and the united states intervened in the second world war, the price of greatness is responsibility, said the british prime minister. if the people of the united states have continued in a mediocre station, struggling in the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the world, then they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans. one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilized world without being involved in its problems. without being convulsed by its agonies, and inspired by its causes. this is a difficult moment for the united states. it is only difficult because america has carried the burden of leadership and has involved itself in the agonies of the wider world. and that, mr. putin, is what makes this an exceptional nation. thank you so much for watching this afternoon. coming up, right now, the ed show with ed schultz, and we leave you with a picture from a v

winston churchill said better to jaw, jaw, jaw than war, war, war. it could deepen the humanitarian catastrophe. what can't be denied is russia has a vital interest in finding a political solution to syria. it does not want to see chemical weapons spread beyond the weapons of syria. >> beyond chemical weapons it does not want to see a civil war devolve. >> undercut the possibility of a broader reset, not only u.s. russian relations but u.s. relationship with the middle east so critical moving forward. >> peter, a question of how the white house happen run this, you wrote a great article in the "new york times," those americans frustrated by the lack of decisiveness, if you will coming out of the white house and yearn for the days of george w. bush and happy to see a deliberative transparent presidency, do you think this is working for the president? these are certainly high-stakes negotiations. if nothing ends up happening on the diplomatic front, i think it's highly unclear whether the president will even be able to get authorization from both the a