thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
occasionally b somebody in powee will say something true and is swiftly punished for it canit s have that. it s infuriating to watch, but it s infur also, if you look at right, very amusing. these are not sophisticatedcate deceptions. this is not dwight eisenhowerd deg. thily plannin this is your five year old ambling in with frosting on hisy face to tell you he never touch the birthday cake. should that make you mad ?yo of course,ever toubirthday shou mad . but if you re human, you will also laugh at it. takeke? what?ha cake. it s hilarious.ow he the kid hares no idea how ridiculous he is . so with that spirit in mind,g to we re going to devote the next u hour to a special presentation on lying in american politics.la we re going to do our beststay to stay amused because that s ecause tmuch better than being t cod we re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of the year. vladimir putin blew russia s natural gas pipeline to europe. now, why would putin do somethin
inflation. we break down this historic move and how it could affect you and your family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. . capitol police say a review is underway after serious questions about the break in in the house speaker pelosi s home could have happened let alone the brutal attack on her husband. i spoke with the san francisco district attorney about the threat posed by the suspect and why she insisted he should be held without bail. this is a person who was willing to go to extreme lengths to plan out this attack. to figure out how to get in their house and then to enact violence even in the the presence of the police. we know he presents a level of danger that s really as high as it gets. let s go to our cnn security correspondent josh campbell joining us from san francisco. josh, the district attorney brook jenkins told me the pelosi family was set to meet with police to