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Didnt make america great again. he is a real maga king. historian extraordinaire, the author of doom, neal ferguson. you know where we are at today, you know where we are in our past, what do you think of my assessment? >> i agree with everything you said, brian. i say nearly because of a couple of omission. you could have thrown in lyndon b. johnson. he did not run for a second term which he could have done in 1968. i look back at the last president and i kind of wish that there would have been...

Didnt make america great again. he is a real maga king. historian extraordinaire, the author of doom, neal ferguson. you know where we are at today, you know where we are in our past, what do you think of my assessment? >> i agree with everything you said, brian. i say nearly because of a couple of omission. you could have thrown in lyndon b. johnson. he did not run for a second term which he could have done in 1968. i look back at the last president and i kind of wish that there would have been...

Argument for going late. and i think he set up the predicate for going late. hes also said if trump runs, ill run. and there are a lot of people saying you beat trump once, you can beat him again. i think there will be a lot of drama surrounding this decision well into 2023. >> lyndon johnson was the last president who could have run for re-election that didnt and he didnt decide until march of 1968. that would be very late in the cycle. david axelrod, great to see you. >> great to see you guys....

Territory. since 1968 we have seen nothing but expansion of individual rights across different issues. not just abortions. individual freedom has grown. thats for the majority of americans today voting age and beyond. you start taking things. look at obamacare. americans do not want to lose what they have come to value and believe is part of day to day lives. abortion is part of that. dont take it away. take rights that people take for granted away and i think that motivates anger and rejection ...

So, he needs a vocabulary for that to relate to the russian people. and its not there. so, that is where the invasion of nazis come. from yes, there were people -- there are some people on the far-right nationalists in ukraine. but to call this a national trend or to not fail to see, or to fail to see that nationalism comes from somewhere is to know nothing about ukrainian history. >> or the idea that putin has a problem with far-right nationalism. >> nationalists, all over the place in russia, ...

That putin has a problem with far right nationalism. >> yes. >> all over the place in russia. including in his own house. and hes losing it. hes losing it. and you know, i thought i was fullkn of news here coming, havg read russian web site, all about lenta.ru and all of the amazing things that went up and you obviously had it, and it made me thircht of a different time. in 1968, the soviet union invaded czechoslovakia to put down what is called, and what happened? nothing happened. right? in so...

>> in march of 1968 there were rumblings in society against the government and the government decided that the best way to deal with this social tension and opposition to the government was by claiming the jews, its all the jews doing it. >> reporter: which is the scapegoat line used for millenia. >> correct. tried and true. >> 1968 was the year of student revolution throughout the world. >> reporter: it was the late 1960s. protests were raging not just on american college campuses but polish un...

Poland has welcomed nearly 3 million refugees from ukraine since russian forces invaded in late february. it is a remarkable show of compassion and humanity. some of it may be lessons learned from polands own history. like some 50 years ago when polands communist government forced thousands of jews to leave the country in an anti-semitic purge. cnns dana bash has more. >> reporter: this is the only major synagogue in warsaw the nazis did not destroy. a place of worship once again. how many jews ...

>> they were told they have to leave their home. they were forced to emigrate. they were allowed to leave with one document. this is kind of the passport which is even not called passport because it is a one way document which means you could only leave poland and never come back. >> reporter: one way. >> one way. they were allowed as you see here to have with them only $5, nothing else. >> reporter: my uncle alex gelbert got one of those one way tickets out of poland. in 1968 he was 20 and in m...

Jew but he says he didnt have to. he was talking about zionists. after this speech this huge wave of anti-semitic campaign began. >> reporter: tell me your story from 1968. >> it was a very typical 68 story, when the anti-semitic campaign started and we started losing friends fast. >> reporter: this man was a polish high school student in 1968. >> got beaten up on the street for being a dirty jew and standing there rubbing my face and wondering what was that all about? >> reporter: his familys l...