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For 50 years and talking about illegals. thats not what they want to be able to do and it is no good. >> he was referring there some studies out there that show a large majority of illegal immigrants go on public assistance and stay on there at least for a generation and it is very costly. this is not necessarily new. you may not hear any president speak like this about it but its a concern that a lot of american taxpayers have. he put it out there. of course nancy pelosi is calling this whole t...

History being the first african-american to win an academy award. born in 1895. she was the first black woman to be broadcasted on american radio. mcdaniels accepted many roles for black actor that was criticized by the naccp for accepting them. in 1939, mcdaniels won an oscar for her performance in "gone with the wind." you can find her name twice on hollywood boulevard as she was a star in both radio and film. if you got a monumental american, please tweet us. thank you for watching "velshi an...

Arent being addressed in the summit just as they were not addressed in singapore. the reports are 120,000 people are in political prisons in north korea. >> bill: you spoke with a lot of people there, greg, including someone with a special interest in what happens at the summit and the outcome. what did you hear? >> absolutely. the man i talked to is a former republican congressman from california. his name is jay kim. he was born in seoul in 1939. he lived through world war ii and the korean wa...

Supposed to be dependent on us if we had unfettered free trade. thats turned around completely. i dont know. im usually the one that says, hey, everythings going to turn out okay. right now, the west germans were our messed steadfast ally from 1939 through 1989, the west germans were, they were on the front lines and were always there, but, richard, im not so sure we can say everythings going to be okay. if youre in germany, if youre in france, if youre in britain, youve got to be saying, okay, ...

Enrolled in the math program in 1939. she would go on to work for nasa and was recently honored in the oscar nominated movie "hidden figures," tell us more about this remarkable woman. >> what i love about her is shes someone that can get her flowers while shes still alive. she was in "hidden figures." shes someone who was critical in nasa developing ways for people to go and explore space and this is an african-american woman who im sure faced all sorts of challenges in office in climbing up an...

Of your friends here had two uncles in the administration. >> one of my roommates was the nephew of george and bill bundy. >> george bundy was a national security -- >> national security adviser to president kennedy. >> yeah. >> and thats how you began thinking about enlisting and going to vietnam. >> it was part of it, david. i think i write in the book that i am the son of the greatest generation of parents. and as ive explained -- i mean, my dad left harvard law, and enlisted as a young cadet...

Sowf union hasnt changed acronym kgb went in and out. whitaker chambers reversed course he became a communist at columbia university in the probability i guess -- [inaudible conversations] and that would have been around 1920s, and a writing for mass es of the mainstream and so why did he reverse course? >> he eventually came to see the rotten stench of the exactly what it was. what the soviets were doing, like, like a lot of americans, he was horrified by hitler stallen pack. the idea you know,...

Another but agreed that they would -- they would mutually invade poland happen haded one week later september first, 1939 nazis invaded poland started world war ii everybody forgets september 17th, 1939, the soviet wheres invaded poland from the east, and so american communist to learn that most of them hated hitler and so to see their boy stalin and they swore a loyalty oath stalin soviet union. >> so chambers flips he becomes conservative in many respects libertarian. >> right. he starts writi...

Its immoral to have a fence along the wall. there should be a compromise that allows more fencing to be built. >> you are going to have more fencing built. there is a time and a place to build fencing but donald trumps obsession on the wall and him wanting to waste $5.7 billion just to fulfill a campaign promise makes no sense. we dont -- i know your child served -- your very grownup child served in the military. your son didnt serve in a military still building lines. that didnt work against th...

Western front and so insofar as the important war minister was concerned that was churchill. he was the one people listened to. they really mat nerd that 8-month period and so you see churchill able to range over a very wide area of the war not just the naval side of it. >> and how fascinating also something that you draw very well. just how negative chamberlain and others viewed the prospects for the british in 1939 and 1940.