shot of the fact that newt gingrich has been married three times. it s the way the game is played, you know, it s it s there s no real rules anymore. it s a steel cage match. and it s up to gingrich to see how he handles and responds to it. right. people certainly love to see him at the debates. real briefly, you got a new book out december 1941, 31 days that changed america and saved the world. if you want a good read this christmas season, check it out. craig, thank you very much for joining us. informative segment. thank you, sir. thank you. all right. straight ahead, at 11 minutes before the top of the hour, a town in texas is the latest battleground in the war on christmas. one group wants that nativity off public property. but our next guests say don t you dare mess with texas. first on this date back in 2001, toby keith had the number one song in america with i want to talk about me. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up!
and indochina. and east china. they were taking on a far more militaristic and far more belligerent cast. and we knew that the roosevelt administration that the japanese had an extensive spy network going on in the united states. and this culminated in the memo that was given to the president by the office of naval intelligence on december 4th. and it outlines all those spy activities that were going on. in it, it suggests that they were looking closely at american military installations. within possible open conflict, is the exact phrase. with the united states either in the panama canal zone, the west coast or the hawaiian territory. do you think in looking back and you ve done so much exhaustive research in the book here, craig, do you think that washington should have known? were there enough warning signs? there was a headline you pointed out in one of the newspapers, there was some warning of an attack that could take place on
the philippines, guam, malaysia. there were other concentrated attacks that day. and the counteroffensive didn t really come until february 1942. right. that s when the first attacked the gilbert and marshal islands. the first naval, the first nautical victory for the united states didn t occur until june of 42, with the classic battle at midway, where we sunk actually four of the aircraft carriers that had been used to attack hawaii on december 7th. so for the americans it was a bit of poetic justice there. we were pretty much utterly defensive in the pacific for many, many months up to june of 42. this book is a terrific piece of work, craig. i m so glad we were able to have you on today. congratulations fon your work. thank you. more on the breaking news out of pennsylvania. state officials have filed new criminal charges against former penn state assistant coach, jerry san dusky. the new charges are based on evidence and testimony given by two more alleged victims,
you can t help but be gripped by it when you visit. george lewis, thank you very much for being with us today. and as we continue on the subject of pearl harbor, historians continue the debate over just how much president roosevelt knew and whether the attack could in fact have been prevented. in his new book december 1941 the author craig shirley argues that president roosevelt did receive a lengthy memo from the office of naval intelligence just days before the attack warning that the japanese had been conducting surveillance on the u.s. paying particular attention to hawaii. craig joins us now. you do argue this was not an explicit warning. so you re not suggesting that they knew there was a point in time and what was about to happen. yeah, precisely, andrea. we obviously knew that the japanese had become more militaristic over the previous ten years, they had resigned from the league of nations. they signed the mutual defense treaty with nazi germany and italy. they had invaded
candidates, we thought it might be interesting to hear from a washington insider about how the establishment really views the republican field and whether or not there s really a lack of enthusiasm for all of these individuals. craig shirley is a historian and the author of december 1941: 31 days that changed america and saved the world. we ll talk more about the upcoming 70th anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor and your new book in just a moment. but first, let s get into the politics. is there an establishment favorite among this field? actually, i d say there are two. there s ursa major and ursa minor, mitt romney and jon huntsman, those are the two establishment candidates. what it represents is the what the republican party s going through. it s bipolar. in a way that it was with goldwater rockefeller and later with reagan and ford and then reagan and bush. so the party is going through an