we say politely a fake fake facsimile of the western europe. that's the least of it. i mean, that would be the minimal strategic objective of our president and his administration. limited government, yes, and we have to think about which what we can and can't do. like, i mean, -- but i think we have to bear in mind that we lost this last battle on november 6th, the war is by no means over on the contrary. and i think that if unless we keep it in focus, unless we keep reminding ourselves that the stakes in many particular war about as great as they can be, we're going lose. and it's got nothing to do with whether there's another regulation of the banks or, you know, whether taxes go up on the rich or don't go up on the rich. i don't don't say they are unimportant. they are tactical or intermediated measured involved in a strategic objective that i think barack obama is very clear about, and is determined to pursue and, god help us may it succeed in doing. [inaudible] [laughter] >> i want to add briefly and commenting on what norman said about those who love america and

you think you can dig up some news in europe? i'll be happy to try, sir. later there are us is sensible encounter with nazis in dutch windmills, and amazing scene of an assassination that takes place in a heavy reign on the steps of the peace palace in amsterdam. and finally, joel mccia winds in dlon when german bombers are wreaking havoc on the city. in the last scene of the movie, johnny jones is no longer that detached reporter. instead, in the style of radio he speaks seriously to americans from a radio hookup on london. hello, america, he says to the radio audience back home. i've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. a part of the world as nice as vermont, ohio, virginia, and california and illinois. all of that noise you hear isn't static, it's death coming to london. you can hear the bombs falling on streets and the homes. this is a big story. you're part of it. it's too late to do anything here except stand in the dark and let them come. it's as if the light were out everywhere except in america. keep those lights burning. cover

what europe needs is a fresh, unused mind. you think you can dig up some news in europe? i'll be happy to try, sir. later, there are suspensible encounters with nazis in dutch windmills and an amazing scene of an assassination that takes place in the heavy rain on the steps of the peace palace in amsterdam. finally, joe winds up in london, just when german bombers are reeking havoc on that city. in the last scene of the movie, johnny joan jones is no longer the detachedded reporter. in the style of correspondence, he speaks seriously to americans on a radio hook up from london. hello, america, he says to the radio audience back home, i've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces, a part of the world as nice as vermont, ohio, virginia, and california, and illinois. all that noise you hear is not stat tick. it's death coming to london. you can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes. this is a big story. you're part of this. it's too late to do anything here except stand in the dark and let them come. it's as if the lights were out everywhere exce

they needed valets in europe as well. so he spent the next six years traveling around europe as a kind of itinerant waiter and valet, zigzagging from north to south and east to west. frederick also had a remarkable knack for acquiring languages, and i found a very revealing memoir by a visiting american reporter who ran into frederick in monte carlo where frederick was working for what was then and what still is the fanciest hotel in town and was struck by how pure frederick's french was. it sounded completely pa reese. but when he switched to english, it was a distinctive kind of southern black english he spoke. why was frederick in monte carlo? he was on his way to italy because he wanted to learn italian, and he had already been in german where he picked up quite a bit of that language. and uponty car low's also the place -- monte carlo's also the place where frederick's russian future somehow began to materialize before him. he subsequently said that a visiting russian nobleman hired him as a personal valet in monte c

it is key to the recovery of europe. second of all, a plan that he talked about on july 26 in london last year, which is the outright monetary transactions where the ecb would buy bonds from the country's in trouble along with the european stability mechanism under certain conditions. in other words, certain conditionality. no, the ecb is not going to put up that conditionality. they have enough as the central bank and no as a supervisor for the banks. and so it will probably be the international monetary fund, but they have not really agreed what kind of conditionality they're going to put up into is going to do it. the lead candidate for this should be spain, but the prime minister of spain told me several months ago, he would only go in to this program f there was no additional conditionality other than what he was taken because he thought he was taking enough in spain. second of all, if the ecb could prove to him that by taking his son that the spreads for the cost of issuing bonds would go down significantly. as you

it turns out the brown law interpreted to europe in the early 30s from that. and witnessed the rise of hitler and came back to america what was coming over the horizon to face the decision that would face the roosevelt government. in 1936 as the brown world report was the president needs help and nothing happened for three years. then in 1939, it wasn't the congress and the dentistry in the government. this roosevelt himself with his famous executive order in september 1939, which created and strength in the white house staff, created the section of anonymous assistant. the famous quote was man of great passion and vicar -- great physical vigor and anonymity. from then on, how is one of the beginnings of the strengths and white house when it was mostly -- >> i appreciate that. academics love for us. franklin roosevelt didn't propose that reorganization act after the commission including rob to try to see how an efficient executive work and the president did issue an executive order, but congress passed a reorganization act of 1939, which surrounded the executi

move back to europe. jews, it's not just a question of the beliefs, the anti-semitism that exists in these areas, but also the real world effects upon jews. jews are fleeing europe. they're leaving because many jews think there is no future for them in their communities in europe because there is so much anti-semitism and because they are under such threat and such danger. not from the government, but from people in their neighbors, people in their communities, sometimes people who have come to the countries recently, sometimes people who have been there for a long time. jews get attacked on the streets. the situation is grave. in country after country, jewish leaders and jews who are not leaders talk about this and write about it and try to raise the alarm, and yet it continues, so they leave. and those who are not leaving because they are in such, under such duress and threat are leaving in a sense anyway, because they're living in -- their communal institutions are bunkered, they're fortresses, they're

eisenhower after the war is viewed as the liberator of europe. he's elected president once, he's elected president again. george marshall, a truly great man, his image in the public consciousness has dimmed seriously since that period. let's talk a little bit about, perhaps, the most flamboyant pirg in the u.s. army -- figure in the u.s. army and maybe all the armies engaged in world war ii, general george s. patton. george patton's a brilliant battlefield commander, but he can be a terrible, terrible human being. nevertheless, fdr holds him in very high esteem because he's impressed by the boldness, the dash, the package nation of a george patton -- the imagination of a george patton. so just before the campaign in north africa in which patton will play a very serious part, the president invites him to the white house. patton is an old cavalryman, and the president says to patton, george, are you going to slap tank -- excuse me, he said, are you going to slap a saddle on that tank of yours and go in with your saber raised? he just finds patton a

california is europe. rarely is every measurable effect would also attitudes and beliefs and expectations have made their choice it is not a coincidence not just leaving the state budget having fewer and fewer children. a good example how the state can crowd out other institutions of the long term challenges for those that they try to help. >> to mention several times with those costs in the long-term effects. >> there are economic cost of social democracy, less productivity increased regulation, etc., etc. but with the right sense of responsibility of themselves before their families. the state takes care of that, right? the other is a moral cost of expectations that i am entitled to certain things as a matter of right without any explanation or they come from even the language of moral discourse becomes corroded, and breaks down wear writes the are the trump card because that violates -- violates my rights those with political discourse also expecting other people who you don't know also to bests -- basi

and he ended up moving to europe. and long story short, he ended up leaving amsterdam because he found that the muslim community there, he was like, oh, my gosh -- >> [inaudible] >> yes, sir. but over in europe they want to kill me. and i'm wondering, has there ever been any subsequent reporting about that? and it would seem that would be something that the liberal community in the united states would jump upon, but you don't see that. i was just wondering if you would care -- >> i have a whole chapter in the book, in the brotherhood called occupy shah arena, why the left -- shah sharia, why the left helped the brotherhood. people might say, what? i document in the book this kind of unholy alliance that's developed 2007 -- between the hard core left and islamists. now, strange bed fellows on the first. the left supports homosexual rights, abortion, multiculturalism. everything islamist, look, islamists are murdering gays, killing them, executing them. so strange bed fellows in ways. i document in the book the occupy w

they needed those in europe as well. he spent the next six years traveling as the waiter and valet zigzagging across the country and he also had a remarkable knack to acquire languages and i found a revealing them more by a visiting american reporter who ran into frederick in monte carlo where he was working for what ws then and is now the fanciest hotel in town and was struck by how purer his french was and sounded completely parisian but when he switched to english it was a very distinctive southern black english. where was he in monte carlo? he wanted to see europe also on his way and was already in germany where he picked up quite a bit of that language. and mud to carlo where his russian future began to materialize before him and that a visiting russian noblemen hired him as a personal valet and monte carlo. what frederick said depending on whom he was talking he refers to the fact and it was a grand duke and is a term that is used to designate the sun and a grandson of russian emperors' so look he could of been ver

europe, let's take europe. until the 1980's europe was a source of migration, of out migration, i mean. people leaving europe. and that was a wealthy and prosperous continent before they get into this mess. germany, the ridge in europe, exporting about half a million people every year until the 1980's. so clearly the motivation by now was not poverty. south korea is a force of significant number of immigrants to the other immigrants to come to the united states. and that's a rich country. bangladeshi women who are the very poor, the poorest among the poor migrate very little, even in asia, which is the continent that has the greatest number of migrants every year. so i could go on and on and on. the motives, they vary. yes, of course economic conditions are part of the story. but you have everything, including distressed conditions at home, politically, institutionally cannot necessarily economically, family ties to occupational preference, adventure, all sorts of different reasons for migrating. and historical

yet to get europe to get it. europe in the mid-1800s to make unique study of the german universities and we get the most radical secular enlightenment use brought back to america, and stocks in our universities. by the end of the 1800's it formed the foundation of our entire understanding of the intelligence pushed down to our culture. the law, the development of our law schools. that is all law schools got contaminated. you have to go back to the end of the 1800's to find that out. one of the things the imported was this bad idea from the 19,053rd french republic. >> your off the hook. >> liberalism, they tend to be tolerant, but there are so intolerant of religion. >> the least of certain kinds. there that tall -- no problem tolerating or any other religion but christianity. note that. they're is a reason for that. i read some articles. why can't liberals understand what islam is up to? because they have a long history of -- because liberalism is defined as directly against christianity it tried to come in the

he doesn't time for the idea of europe. modernization is simply let's copy the technology they have. do they have a -- let's deport one. do they have modern weapon i are? we'll have some as women. there's a famous story about books being translated. he couldn't write or read. he asked some of the assistants to translate european works to him to read for him at night. somebody thought about translating mac -- it's translated day by day. every day ten pages or so are listened. and the man listens second, third, fourth day. by the fourth day he sells them to stop. i've listened to you for three days thinking i can learn something. i have no use for this book. i know, so many more tricks than he does. [laughter] that's in a sense is the christy. because in reality historical -- [inaudible] that part grasping the idea behind of there. and his grandson is nice, and tend to copy the outer level of civilization. they have we have the nice building, we'll do this as well. he stole the european monarch problem assuming the crown givi

move back to europe. jews -- it's not just a question of the beliefs, the antisemitism that exists, but also the real world effects upon jews. jews are fleeing europe. they're leaving because they -- many jews think there's no future for them in their communities in europe because there's so much antisemitism because they are under such threat and such danger, not from the governments, but from people in their neighbors, people in their communities, sometimes people who have come to the country recently, sometimes people have been there for a long time. jews get attacked on the street. the situation is grave. in country after country, jewish leaders and jews who are not leaders, talk about this, and write about it, and try to raise the alarm, and yet it continues to exist. and those who are not leaving, because they are in such -- under such duress and threat, are leaving in a sense anyway because they're living in their communal, bunkered, for tresses, under police protection, and the jews watch the stre

it is key to the recovery of europe. second of all is a plan that he talked about on july 26th in london last year which is the outright monetary transactions, omt, where the ecb would buy bonds from the countries in trouble along with the european stability mechanism under certain conditions. in other words, certain conditionality. now, the ecb isn't going to put up that conditionality. they've got enough on their as a central bank and now as a supervise for the banks. supervisor for the banks. and it'll probably be the international monetary funneled. but they haven't really agreed what kind of conditionality they're going to put up and who's going to do it. the lead candidate for this should be spain, but the prime minister of spain told me several months ago he'd only go into this program if there was no additional conditionality other than what he was taking, because he thought he was taking enough in spain. and second of all, if the ecb could prove to him by taking this on that the spreads or the cost of issuing bo

crisis europe is not growing. bob gates when he was secretary of defense often talk publicly about the change in the political culture of europe. europe is just not going to be willing and able to be the partner that we have come to know. the good news is in some cases we will have other partners and so forth but if i am an anti-european argument is a life observation. in terms of china i'm struck at how much of the debate particularly in the city of washington is about china's inevitable emergence is a great power rival. i'm not so sure china emerges as a great power. just because its it's gdp grows considerably never forget you have to look at the -- 4 times hours and that is a real sponge. china faces massive domestic rovlin's from environmental degradation on an enormous scale to a political system that is not nearly as dynamic as the economy. an economy that is not nearly as dynamic as it was. was. high will china fare against the backdrop of six or 7% growth as opposed to 10 or 11% growth? i worry that china

someone's hand on this lee was a social good that with the connotations it's not always carry back to europe. said even the journeymen could hope to go into business for himself partisans' generally live better to make that comfortable provision for a jim their children. 1727 franklin for the leather apron club that was worn by craftsmen and partisans as a collective way to refer to the rising class they called themselves the leather apron club and of course, that was a badge of honor as mechanics and one to read a brief section from my book about their meetings now in philadelphia franklin's own group combined of the private drinking club with the advantages of a mutual aid society the moral intellectual and improvement of the discussion circle and the altruism of the civic association. members restricted at 12 am proceedings were conducted in secret of the better to add billions the project and facilitate planning and pursue a career in the investment and also protected the group from awkward solicitation from membership for friends and associates. gatherings were held at the tavern on mar

in europe. and colonial education was dominated by the same elite, and they wanted their sons -- it was only sons at the time who received higher education -- to have the mark of a real gentleman which meant latin and greek learning. franklin and his circle started to see things quite differently, and at one point he writes a letter to a young woman whom he's tutoring in natural philosophy or science, and he says what signifies philosophy that does not alie to some use? apply to some use? this is very much franklin's mantra and became kind of the slogan of the movement for useful knowledge. another aspect that's worth highlighting is that anyone could contribute. now, these ideas came out of england. francis bacon, john locke, david hume, among others, had proposed a new way of doing science, one that allowed for not just the elites, but the petty merchant, the craftsman, even the unskilled or untrained laborer to contribute something meaningful to science. but it really was american conditions

action in europe. but nearly as many as died in june 1944, the month of invasion. it was awful, virtually to the last gunshot. so desperate was the american army for infantrymen at the high command to connection absolutely unthinkable just a few minutes before. he allowed back soldiers who volunteer for duty as infantrymen in white units. 53 platoons of colored infantry were integrated into the otherwise all-white divisions. many of those african-american soldiers are rendered sergeants drives they had earned as cooks and drivers and laborers for the privilege of being rifleman. there are many other surprises and discoveries in this dog. i found out that franklin roosevelt laboring hype park, new york, for example, a detailed account by the atlanta funeral home director who had prepared franklin roosevelt's body for burial when the president at warm springs, georgia on april 12, 1945. a document in his powerful and moving as it is clinical. after several hours and injected ex-bottles of embalming fluid

let's take europe. until the 1980s, early 1980s europe was a source of migration of outmigration i mean, people leaving europe and that was a wealthy and prosperous continent before they got into this mess which is a different story. germany, the richest among the rich and europe was exporting half a million people every year until the 1980s. so clearly the motivation for that was not poverty. south korea has a significant number of immigrants or immigrants to come to the united states. that is a rich country. bangladeshi women who are very poor, the poorest among the poor , by great even in asia which is the continent that has the greatest number of migrants every year. so i could go on and on and on. what are the motives? do they very? yes of course great economic conditions are part of the story but you have everything including depressed conditions at home politically institutionally and economically. family ties occupational preference adventure, all sorts of different reasons for migrating. histor

but the map of europe was not -- if they won there were not going to occupy germany. they would get war reparations but it was like germany was going to disappear from the map. the part of the map that could be carved up was the middle east. the reason that was, was because, in a case of really awful decision-making, the ottoman empire came into the war on the side of germany, on the side of the central powers. about three months after the war had started. so if germany and austria hungry one, germany, they would economically dominate the middle east after the war. if britain and france when the war and russia, the triple, they were going to carve up the entire region. and as soon as the ottoman empire into the war, the british foreign office or start referring to euphemism for ottoman empire was the great dilute. that's what it was going to become just a looting is going to happen after the war. -- great looting. >> i just wanted to talk about what the ottoman empire was like. and again, the ottoman empire existed for five centuries and even over the previous entry i

and europe. in united states it is better to our long constitutional heritage welcoming those to express their conscientious commitment. we do not have any behan's on the burqa or headscarf but there has been the zoning laws to force out the mosque and proposals to put the application of sharia law by the u.s. court and there has been horrific violence. the attack in wisconsin left seven dead. and consider these hate crimes but the political philosophy could help us think about how to deal with this fear and suspicion. i suggest the three-pronged approach that is good constitutional principles based on sound arguments derived on the idea for equal respect from dignity. i debate to religious liberty including roger williams and john locke and equal respect for conscience and the burden it imposes on the government and policy, led to a tradition that government may not substantially burden and exercise of religion without the public interest. i defend those ideas from other nations as well. the sec

we had troops anywhere near the killing grounds of europe. we would have no troops except in italy on the continent of europe until june of 1944 and didn't secure a position until later in 1944. >> host: that said, after the war roosevelt dies. was very change in policy at all tories european jews? >> guest: not so much. the holocaust was over. >> host: 's first establishment establishment as opposed to need state clinics >> guest: ultimately establishment of the palestinian state and the state of israel was a hugely controversial issue within the united states. on the roosevelt who had not been much of an advocate during the war becomes a major advocate of the establishment of a jewish state. the state department is against it. threatens to resign if harry truman supports the creation of the state of israel. but ultimately of course we know truman does come out and support the creation of israel and immediately recognized the state of israel and becomes a hero of the jews, even the earlier heap and criticized for being typically entice a min

europe is the same way. what we get is this here and now that angers the left is we don't have the courage and the future [inaudible] [laughter] >> okay, one more question over there? >> when you talk about balance, you talk about how there has been charles murray's book last year that talk about how we are in a wealth gap in education gap. does that answer this as well? does it talk about the great powers as well? >> well, we got accused of not talking about income inequality and we read the comments that people make. it reminds me of an interview that i did once. we didn't talk about income inequality in the polls. but sometimes you are just limited on what you can do. just 100 years ago, the average income in the world was $3000 per person. now in the united states it is closer to 45,000 and there is still inequality that goes on and i think most agree that growth is a big part of the solution to better the quality. but the program's waiver and they have gone up tremendously. the world has never seen that

and i think you since complacency in europe. it's interesting that one of the real drivers in brussels, he came out with a statement the other say -- the other day saying complacency and i think he's right on. judge of all these people saying mario draghi made that comment in july 26 with the markets have gone. the markets can be right but the markets can be wrong. and i think that not having been able to do the three things i said with a fixed timeline basically system how long as you're going to be stuck here? and so i think that this is a real question. you mentioned india also. andy was a 8.5, 9% growth. brought below 6% we have these major economies where they are. i think you need a good dose of not only fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus but you've got to back that up with structural reform and i think deregulation. and i think that's really key for the world to get out of this problem that it is in today. because we agree, growth and jobs. if you can't show the path to grow, that's why i use -- because it is a pathway

july 2011 tear struck northern europe. murdering approximately 76 people on the government buildings and shooting a young representatives of the labor party who gathered for a youth camp. confessing to a crime but claimed he is not the fault, released on the day of the attack released a 1500 page manifesto that he aligned a theory based on his actions that you must fight against the oscar judges solmization. the legal side so far with religious centers to express the conscientious commitment no bands of the headscarf or burqa are proposed but there is numerous attends to force up the mosque like here or proposals to bid the application of sharia law. and there has been horrific violence. the attack left several -- several people dead. my book argues says my a philosophy helps us to with this time of suspicion. with these principles based on a sound argument deriving from the idea of human dignity. here i studied the history of religious liberty including with joe-- roger williams and look at equal respect of conscience and

europe from ireland, britain, germany, scandinavia to the southern and eastern europe. ellis island were mostly people that were second or third cast citizens in a multi-ethnic states, southern italians from italy, the poles and jews in the russian and the austro-hungarian empires. the prospect of equal citizenship attracted in america, but the cultural customs, language differences led many americans feel that they couldn't be assimilated. as i said this was one of the three largest migrations of emigration as a percentage of the pre-existing population in the history. they headed to great cities on the east coast especially, but not limited to new york and to the industrial state in the cities of the great lake region. they found jobs in factories from the jews and the garment factories of new york to the auto factories in detroit and various ethnic groups in chicago and cleveland. these are the fastest growing metro areas in the nation at that time. from 1902 to 1914, the tide was at its peak in huge numbers. it came to a sudden and unexpected outbreak of world war w

if you look at europe today, trouble is europe is sick, forgive me, as a distinguished lawyer and judge, europe is thick with articles, conventions, laws everywhere. as great european thinkers point out, you need not only law, unique -- >> host: a great term. repeated. >> guest: you need the habits of the heart. he gets that from montesquieu, you need only structures of law but the spirit of liberty in every generation. in europe today the gap between all these incredible loss and the average person is total. they happen to clue what religious freedom means including sadly many of the leaders in brussels and leaders in my own country, england. the gap between these laws and the way people actually practice is extreme. in europe we tried to launch a discussion. it has got to get down to the habits of a heart. parents to children, teachers to students, etc.. it has got to become a living spirit in every generation. or it won't work. >> host: a great american judge of the 20th century rose a small book based on a speech that he gave to celebrate the fourth of july and one american liberty

europe is not the capacity given the limits of economic growth to pick a set of gears on crisis, europe is now growing. don gaetz undersecretary of defense talk publicly about the change in political culture. europe is just not willing and able to be the partner we've come to know. the good news in some cases five other partners and so forth, but that is some anti-european argument. it's a fact of life observation. am struck by how much debate is about china's inevitable adherence. i'm not so sure china emerges as a great power. just because its gdp grows considerably, never forget you've got a big denominator. that is such a real sponge. china faces massive domestic problems from environmental degradation on an enormous scale to a political system that's not nearly as dynamic. to an economy that's not as dynamic as that was. how will china fare against the backdrop of 6% or 7% as opposed to 10% or 11%? the cheney strength strength exaggerated. people who simply expand in a linear fashion chinese torture very for the last three decades have realities in addition to the low-hanging fruit

in much of western europe if not most of western europe, a contrary attitude has long been characteristic. if people are to live fulfilling lives, as far as consistent with maintaining minimal incentives of wealth creation, the attitude is people are provided and protected with risk. institutionally that translates squarely into the model. that's interesting is there is very little evidence that such policies actually help make people happy. as i illustrate in "becoming europe," many people on long-term health care are generally less happy than those who are in the same income, but don't do it through author payment, instead do it through work in a job. there's been lots of studies in both america and europe to talk about these in the book. we have to be careful not to read to much in the studies because correlation is not causality. they do suggest they are focused upon endless redistribution from the top down in an effort to realize ever greater equality and ever greater stability are much less successful at helping people to flourish as they had to flourish. benjamin franklin never mad

franklin delano roosevelt they understood he did not do everything possible to persecute the jews of europe but day understood he was vastly better in his position at home and better for his position than any other world leaders including churchill to talk to lots but didn't do anything for the jews and was bad for immigration and policy even after the concentration camps were repealed jews were continued to revere roosevelt even with his policy did not emerge in tall much later after critical books are written in the late '60s. >>host: professor allan lichtman was there an opportunity in the '30's to change your of fact what was about to happen in germany? >> it would be very difficult to change the course of events. hitler had his own plan for world domination, his hatred of jews and persecution and slaughter was not a secondary that was primary to his ideology and his approach to the world people wondered why in the world with tens of millions dying and the fate of the world hanging in the balance why would they divert resources simply to hunting out it was hard for americans to understa

in early 1945, the end of the war in europe was in sight. the americans and british were closing in from the west, and the soviets were closing in on berlin from the east. many civilians and some soldiers, choose to abandon these volatile areas of europe by any means possible. especially for those civilians living in east prussia at the time. they knew exactly what awaited them when the soviets were approaching. they knew that the same act of bash brifm -- brash would happen to them. however, they were under order not permitted to leave until the end of january,' 45. the nazi government forbade anyone to leave. to do so would have shown sign of defeat. an acknowledgment they were going to lose the war. >>> you can watch this and other programs online@booktv.org. >>> when did we reach a point where you have to have a certain philosophy because of the color of your skin? when did that happen? [cheering and applause] you know, a reporter once asked me why i didn't talk a lot about race. i said, because i'm a neuroseason. -- neuro surgeon. they

the achilles heel of europe. and this is again from the economist and they have been talking about this for a few times so they definitely have an interest but it would also contain this. here are the scenarios. germany stop supporting the euro and its gone a half an hour later, not one hour later, half an hour later and there are going to be three possibilities. the splitting up. i don't think we will go back to 27 currencies. one of the key clusters will be germany and the question will be be -- and the final thing is not coming from europe. this is actually coming not from them either but from the imf. i would describe that document as the pope inaugurating the buddhist temple. what is striking is not the buddhist temple. this is coming from the people who -- for the system. and they are really doing some remarkable things. basically what it would mean is the end of the capacity for banks to create money. only the government would be able to do so, and that would change completely the game. it would be the big

when war broke out in europe in september 1939 americans were very anxious to isolate themselves from the conflict. in fact only one in 40 americans favored a declaration of war against hitler when germany invited -- and david poland even though hitler was a clear and present danger to american answers as well as european interest. fdr wanted up the democracies in their fight against the dictatorships but he was hemmed in by congressional and public opposition. roosevelt's extraordinary achievement was to navigate these constraints and move a divided and has attended america toward a greater involvement in the war. within two years america had rearmed angry mobilized. a torrent update was flowing eastward to churchill's britain and its balance the beginning and the united states was watching a war against germany in the atlantic that by the time of pearl harbor in december 1941 and america's course was set for global leadership. in these two years in other words america turned but how did it turn so quickly? how did fdr come to have such faith in the ability of britain and the soviet

i have been in mosques across this country and across europe. i have picked up the literature and stared at it. the works of leading muslim brotherhood thinkers and ideologues. hassan albani who we mentioned and another name we should know google google it because our government apparently has sent. he really in the modern day provided the framework for the endless jihad of al qaeda and its offshoots want today in what they are trying to carry out. every al qaeda leader worth his suicide belt basically points to society needs subnine as their inspiration. he was their chief propagandist and i talked the muslim brotherhood who say he was a great man but he lost his way again. when he was in prison he got radicalized. but brother sayyid you have to take his writings in context. the ones who want to wage perpetual jihad until islam reigns supreme over the world? taking it back to the mosques in america have been on the ground and muslim brotherhood enclaves from coast to coast and i have to tell you it's a funny thing. actually it's a horrible thin

again, focused on telling the story of the monuments men effort in northern europe. yes, the answer to the question, of course i do hope they make a film about the story of saving italy. but it's an incredible, incredible experience to see the concentrated effort that they have thrown into this and this once in a lifetime cast, as far as i'm concerned, of kate balloon chet, bill murray, matt damon and -- [inaudible] i know i've left some people out, but i think you get the idea. and it will be out in december, december 18th. and i'm so excited about it for one reason that towers above all the others, and that is this: it was my hope and my dream as this project unfolded and as i've invested more years of my life, and it has defined my life and provided such meaningfulness that other people around the world not just in our country would have a chance to know of this story. and i believe that as a result of this film, there'll be some, i don't know, billion people around the world that will never be confused anymore when they see the phrase monuments men or wonder when

what europe needs a fresh unused mines. you think you can dig up some news in europe? i'll be happy to try commissary. later there are suspenseful and counters with saboteurs in dutch windmills and an amazing scene of an assassination that takes place in a heavy rain on the steps at the peace palace amsterdam. finally, joe mccray winds up in london, just a german mercer wreaking havoc on the city. in the last scene of the movie, johnny jones is no longer that footprint, detached reporter. instead he has this style of radio correspondent edward r. merrow. you speak seriously to americans on a radio hookup from london. hello, america he says to the radio audience back home. after watching a part of the world being blown to pieces, a part of the world as nice as vermont, ohio, virginia and california and illinois. all that noise you hear is static. it starts coming to london. you can hear the bombs falling on this streets of the homes. this is a big story. you're part of it. too late to let them come. it's as if the lights are out everywhere except in america. keep those

not only in america but the almost all of western europe, canada and australia? the answer is the extraordinary religious boom was accompanied by another boom even more familiar, the baby boom. which was itself accompanied by a marriage bloom. again either of these were anticipated by demographers but they spread across the west during those same years. that is the thesis of "how the west really lost god" in a nutshell, living in families, meaning families that are married with children is an important part of what drives many people to church. i will say a few words in closing about a couple reasons this might be so. there are many reasons and they are delivered another couple chapters in the book but if you look at the time line of the west and ask what happened to christianity what you find is it is only as strong as the family on which it depends. family and faith are the invisible double helix of society dependent on one another for support and reproduction. the combined boom of babies, marriages and christian practice from the 1940s into the 1960s are all a

it is key to the recovery of europe. second of all is a plan that he talked about on july 26th in london last year which is the outright monetary transactions, omt, where it's the ecb would buy bonds from the countries in trouble along with the european stability mechanism under certain conditions. in other words, certain conditionality. now, the ecb isn't going to put up that conditionality. they've got enough on there as a central bank and now as a supervisor for the banks. and so it'll probably be the international monetary funneled. but they haven't really -- fund. but they haven't really agreed what kind of conditionality they're going to put up and who's going to do it. the lead candidate for this should be spain, but the prime minister of spain told me several months ago he'd only go into this program if there was no additional conditionality other than what he was taking, because he thought he was taking enough in spain. and second of all, if ecb could prove to him by taking this on that the spreads or the cost o

in action in europe. that's nearly as many as died in june 1944, the month of the invasion. it was awful virtually to the last gunshot. so desperate was the american army for infantrymen that the high command taken action that had been absolute unthinkable just a few months before. they allow black soldiers to volunteer for duty as infantrymen in weight unit. 53 platoons of colored infantry were integrated into above an otherwise all-white divisions. many of those african-american soldiers surrender sergeant stripe they had earned as cooks and drivers and laborers for the privilege of being rifled. very many other surprises and discoveries in mississauga. i found that the franklin roosevelt library in hyde park, new york, for example a detailed account written by the atlanta funeral home director who had prepared franklin roosevelt body for burial and the president died at warm springs georgia on april 12, 1945. the document is as powerful in his minivan as it is clinical. after several hours spent inject

now, in much of western europe, if not most of western europe, i contrary attitude has long been characteristic of the economic culture. it is this. people are to live a fulfilling lives, as far as is consistent with maintaining minimal incentives to encourage some wealth creation, the attitude is that people need to be provided with things and protected from risk. institutionally that translates squarely into the european social model. what is interesting, however, is , there is very little evidence that such policies actually help make people happy. as i illustrate in "becoming europe," many people who are, for example, on long-term welfare are generally less happy than those who earn the same income but who don't do it through a welfare payment but instead through work in the job. no, there have been lots of studies done this. they talk about these in the book. we have to be careful, of course, not to read too much into the studies because as the saying goes, correlation is not causality. they do, however, suggest that economic cultures which prioritize institutions that are focused upon end

way more americans own cars and our drivers and europe. and as a result we have not only the scale of our productive capacity, but we have the technical know-how. all we had to do was organize it. all we had to do. and the space of what the book is about. if, in fact, we could do that, and the goal was literally the very the axis in weapons. the germans have better weapons. they had superior weapons in many cases. i'll give you one exception in a moment, but they didn't have nearly as many. and the result of that was, once we got production moving, and that did not occur and kill 1943, the tide of the war could change. and it did change. and we made the decision that we would basically focus on europe, and even though the first attack had come in the pacific, we would fight a holding action there. now, a couple of quick examples of how ill-equipped we work to do this. -- we were to do this. there is a shipbuilder named andrew jackson higgins in new orleans. higgins built landing craft. he had originally build small boats because new orlean

in europe is much higher. western europe. not poland for example, but scandinavia or hollander britain. >> host: a lot of that may have been because of you in your book the god delusion. >> that would be nice. i would not say that. >> host: take you to one thank you very much. >> host: jim rogers how did you retire at the age of 37? >> guest: i used to love what i was doing working at the market i did all the time of love is so much i did you things right with remarkable success i always wanted to have more than one life i did not want to wake up at page 75 watching a computer screen so i said i will have more life. >> host: what did you do right? >> guest: follow. sold high. the '70s were not a good time for the financial community that you may remember or have read about but we love to what we we're doing with a loved the fundamentals are changing dramatically when they were changing reid would jump been we borrowed a lot of money and it worked. >> host: what did you do wrong? >> guest: my first wife. [laughter] what a terr

this is an argument for more europe, basically more europe they should have started building in 1862. it's tougher to do now from 27, but precisely the problem is your nationstate so why somehow advantages of a larger organization, but they did not want to pay the price. so what we're facing in europe in 1786, the problem when you create the article of the confederation, a government that doesn't have the strength to needs. i'm not saying you have to agree with me. a lot of the people you speak we don't agree, but the problem is not simply talking about a choice here between national sovereignty and global governance. under larger sovereignties they could at least theoretically be practical and workable and could protect the sovereignty and prosperity of the people who live in them? >> yes, there could be something you just pointed out. your governance, which is not global governance. you could have a regional government. yes, you could have that. i don't think that foster liberty or consent, so i disagree with you there. i don't think it's 1786. yes they were virginians in massachuse

there was war in europe against the french occupation. over the decades since, what you -- i think there's one more -- okay. this was the four leaders at paris. so basically what happened before wilson got to paris, the british prime minister on the far left, and then george on the second to the right. they had reaffirmed between the two of them. and five-minute conversation, they basically said, okay, what do you want? and i think he answered first what he wanted from the region and then he asked lloyd george what he wanted, and basically said done. they made a deal they're going standby each other and can shoot down wilson's ideas. this was one of the last picture of lawrence that was taken in, i believe, december -- december of 1934. he -- for a couple of years after the war, he tried to standby -- he was involved a bit in trying to -- the decisions made in the middle east. he rejoined -- he read a great -- wrote a great memoir. he changed his name and rejoined the british military as a private. it's interesting, by the time the war wa

europe, let's take you out. until the 1980s, the early 1980s, europe was a source of migration, of outmigration i mean. people leaving europe, and that was a wealthy and prosperous continent before they got into this mess, which is a different story. germany, the richest among the rich in europe was exported about half a million people every year until the 1980s. so clearly the motivation behind that was not poverty. south korea as a source of significant number of immigrants, or immigrants who come to the united states. that's a rich country. bangladeshi women who are very poor, the poorest among the poor migrate very little, even in asia, which is th is a continent has the greatest number of migrants every year. so i could go on and on and on. what are the motives? a very, yes, of course economic conditions are part of the story. but you have everything, including distressed conditions at home, political, not message of economically, family ties, all sorts of different reasons for migrating. and historical tie

our allies in europe are spending less than 2%. and the signal that goes out to the world now with this sequestration is that we've cut $493 billion out of pentagon budget, defense budget, and we're about to cut another half a billion -- half a trillion, which brings it close to $950 billion out of a ten-year budget. the signal that that sends to the world is that the united states is not going to be in a position to contribute to a more peaceful and stable world in the decade ahead. >> [inaudible] >> you can watch this and other programs online at a booktv.org. >> when you write a book, i mean, a hot can go wrong. i mean, that's just sort of the way i approach the world. i have, i'm somewhat neurotic in my writing and reporting, and a lot can go wrong in 110,000 words. i've been pretty shocked by -- i guess if there's been criticism from inside, it's been mostly in the vein of how dare he, meaning how dare an insider give away the secret handshake. how dare an insider talk about other insiders in a way that perhaps might not be, y