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Element of world war ii is we changed radically as a nation from an isolationist country to forever an internationalist country. after a prolonged look at america -- the saying going wrong, [ inaudible ] . we passed an act signed by a democratic congress and president and everybody as of december 6th, 1941, everybody, republicans and democrats, was an isolationist. in fact, in the 1940 camp fdr said he would never send american boys to a european war. another significant development too is after...

Go to the hospital. >> the president resisted. its better you walk out of here today under your own strength, your own power than for me to carry you out on a girny in two days. >> that was enough to convince trump. trump lost so much strength, he dropped a briefcase he had plan to carry outside on the walk out to the helicopter. at one point meadows recalled telling him, i lost so much strength, the muscles are not responding. >> jonathan, talking about this in realtime. i had a family member w...

Craig, as remarkable obviously, and weve talked about the remarkable job that our men in uniform did on that day in moving forward, but i want to talk about america going to war. its one of the extraordinary stories. churchill had lord dever brook, a man who was as much despised by polite society, but he used him to help mobilize the country, industrial base. talk about the extraordinary industrialization when detroit went to war, when america went to war, following december 7th. >> you know, th...

Harbor was he wanted there to be an attack that would shock americans and anger them into joining a war against nazi germany that they otherwise would not be in favor of. as it happens, i would say that roosevelt made a big mistake by putting those boats there. he thought it would be a deterrent. he thought there was no way japanese would ever dare to bomb them. but in the spirit of 1941 fairly few people, but some did, fairly few, a minority, had the conspiracy theory saying fdr deliberately en...

>> mika, this is not what you expect in hawaii, really horrible weather. the governor here has established a state of emergency, in some cases two inches of rain falling an hour. remember, this is a mountainous area so 15 inches of water collecting coming down the mountains. the real concern right now, of course, are mudslides. there are power outages on the islands in maui. the floodwaters got so strong, they actually picked up parked cars and moved them. this all comes on a day which is decemb...

To the house for criminal contempt? >> well, were going to go ahead with this deposition tomorrow. i hope that he is getting good advice, because ill tell him right now, his position is not supported by the law or the statutes. he needs to come in. if he defies the law, then i dont think we have a lot of choice but to refer this to the house to refer to the department of justice. >> the committee -- >> you know, id like to say something. >> please, please. >> i was listening to your prior segmen...

It is a date which remains in infamy as fdr said, but it followed a decade of depression which democracy seemed to be in retreat against authoritarian regimes. we have it easy by comparison. but democracies are against suffering from self-doubt as authoritarians seem on the march. america has endured sustained assaults on the truth, democracy and science. those breaches dont heal overnight. it taints a raising generation with a sense of pessimism. and the most stark snapshot from a new poll of y...

California also wasnt really front and center with the press. and so were seeing this play out now that she has these awkward moments, these strange laughs, and people are not -- her approval ratings are basically in the tank. she has a -12 approval rating when biden has a -6 and people are criticizing biden for having -- neil: many recent network it seems unusual, but it used to be common back in the 1940s and higher where presidents, you know, changed their number two. fdr went through vice pr...

Midterms. it closed for fdr, he knew that when he put that first on emergency session of congress into play to deal with the banking crisis, he saw momentum is here, i better keep it going. so time of the essence and it has to happen now. >> may i just say to you that to be able to talk to you about history as all of us who love it. well sorely miss putting daily events. >> i can take you into a place of my house where you can see nothing but your books on a certain coveted section of the shelve...

Detected in many european countries and they have not been banned. meantime, many african nations still suffer from a shortage of vaccines. the white house shipped 9 million covid vaccines to parts of africa yesterday, bringing its total doses to just 100 million for a continent with more than 1.2 billion people. do we need to rethink our approach to our stance toward african countries during this pandemic? >> absolutely, rev. you will remember, as a student of history, it was 1940 when fdr arti...