The early billings were not propitious. During the very first days, the japanese would occupy singapore, they would defeat they would occupy the philippines, they needed that of oil to continue the war. The occupy these areas. By the same token, the americans were not only defeated by the japanese, but in many ways humiliated by the japanese. 76,000 permit prisoners, about 11,000 of them were americans. The way in which they were treated was nothing less than brutal. This was the real thing. The japanese be headed many of them. Many of those american soldiers and the filipinos died of starvation. This was war in its worst form. The americans are not going to forget that. Theyre going to pay the japanese back. The war and the pacific was a racial war. It became a racial war. The japanese mr. Did the americans and the americans, in turn, returned the favor. This weekend, world war ii, saturday night at 8 00 and midnight eastern on cspan3. I like the coverage because it is diversified. It
The Guardian Newspaper reports presence haspolice prevented similar gatherings in Mainland China where state censureship prohibits any the 198 protests. On monday, the council on hosted twoations discussions about the event at Tiananmen Square. Includes theel National Security advisor at the timesd new york nicolas kristoff. H two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. And welcome to the council on symposium onions the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square. Im richard haas, president of the council on Foreign Relations of i would like to thank all you for joining us on this glorious monday morning here in new york. We have two sessions from theperspectives u. S. And china on the events in 198. Nmen square in june of first, to speak to americas perspective, brent. Advisorational security at the time to president george bush 41 and Nick Kristoff whose recording from inside the less than him nothing the pulitzer prize. Full disclosure, i work for and every now and then against brent at the ti
And we have seen the extraordinary progress since that time. A united germany. Nations in central and Eastern Europe standing tall as proud democracies. A europe that is more integrated, more prosperous and more secure. We must never forget that the spark for so much of this revolutionary change, this blossoming of hope, was lit by you, the people of poland. [applause] history was made here. The victory of 1989 was not inevitable. It was the culmination of centuries of polish struggle, at times in this very square. The generations of poles who rose up and finally won independence. The soldiers who resisted invasion, from the east and the west. The righteous among the nations among them jan karski who risked all to save the innocent from the holocaust. The heroes of the warsaw ghetto who refused to go without a fight. The free poles at normandy and the poles of the home army who even as this city was reduced to rubble waged a heroic uprising. We remember how, when an iron curtain descen
Its a tale as old as time. Three pigs three houses. Straw, sticks bricks. But only one that i really want to get in to the white brick house, the strongest of them all. These others are just in my way, but not for long because in this town you have to know which way the wind is blowing. And right now, its about to get very windy. I cannot believe that. Thats the house of cards. Yes, it is. Muppet style. I like it. Welcome to morning joe. Mike barnicle is here along with willie, joe, and me. Good morning. Hi, willie. How are you . Pretty well. We have a huge show today. Gosh ann curry is going to be on Elizabeth Warren is going to be on. Your president ial candidate. Are you going to beg her to run or throw money at her . Ill try to keep myself together. You can have a fundraiser over there with all of your rich continental friends. I think shes good. So you see this va story. Yeah. Yeah. Why dont we starter there actually because i want to take a look at the video again. Veterans Affai
James comey to comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. A stunning reversal given trumps repeated praise of comey for how he managed that very investigation. It took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where in he are trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. Reporter and just last week, the president tweeting that comey was the best thing that ever happened to clinton. The white house says the president acted on the recommendation of newly appointed Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who made the case for comeys firing in a letter to his boss attorney general Jeff Sessions. Asserting that the way the director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong. As a result the fbi is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust. The attorney general pledged just two months ago that he would recuse himself from any russia investigations after it was revealed he did not disclose contac