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In recent years, we have seen the phenomenon of historical revisionism being taught in our schools. Usually, this deals with events centuries ago. But what about historical revisionism involving something in our own time?

Seeing if he can help in the moment. i want to bring in a couple of other experts here, but just let us know if you want to get in on this conversation because i think these two bring a lot of perspective now. joining us is a former fbi special agent, the founder of a center and new york sometimes best seller "anatomy of terror", and lawrence wright, best selling author of "the looming tower, al qaeda and the road to 9/11" and i think these two books taken together are two really important books...

Within the ambition of some of these terrorist organizations. you know, the japanese cult, you know, they really had a goal of reducing the population of the whole world to essentially their group, and some of these white supremacist groups have a similar goal of trying to eliminate other ethnic organizations through biological means. so, yes, im very concerned about all of those things >> all right. well, lawrence wright, im so glad you came on to talk about it on this really important day. alw...

Tajikistan, we pulled up a c-130 and said were going to let, you know, anybody who was involved with being sympathetic to us to get on the plane, we would have people hanging in the wheel well. >> whats your assessment of that, lawrence? >> that was a mess. you know, it is hard to imagine a graceful exit from afghanistan, and even the taliban didnt know that there were going to be walking into kabul when they did so it caught everybody by surprise. im heartened by the fact that people are now le...

Fbi station who also worked very hard and, unfortunately, failed. the young students that i mentor, these young reporters in saudi arabia. for one reason, i keep thinking about this young arab woman who asked me for how long must the middle east be a graveyard for the hopes and dreams of the youth, and i thought about all of those people today. theyve just been very much on my mind. >> yeah. statistics are pretty shocking that im going to share here. this is coming from a new updated preface for...