like senator earnest lundin, as my colleague and friend rachel maddow points out in her amazing new podcast, ultra. fellow americans, america prepares to take the last step before entering another world war. i call upon the youth of america to put a stop to these un-american pro-european doctrines. the people should make known their protest, write your congressmen and senators. telephone them, wire them, come to washington to see them. you must do this now, immediate protests will block the way to militarizing our nation. and recently, rachel maddow joined me to talk about her podcast and how history is rhyming once again. the podcast in the final episodes of the season is about the great sedition trial of 1944 where there s more than two dozen people on trial for seditious conspiracy.
his wife who was left behind when he died. you get to hear her trying to explain away everything he did, saying definitely wasn t a nazi. all of this stuff you guys are saying about him seeming like a nazi isn t true. it s all just a big misunderstanding. so we have a little sound from the senator, but i wanted to give to you, nobody else has heard this, the sound from senator lundin s widow. here it is. roll it. a number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. one of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika as a matter of fact, he was standing under the stars and stripes. i have beside me four photographs proving the truth of my statement. and as chris hayes would have said, duh-duh-duh. she s like, do you think you have seen a photo of him standing underneath a swastika
they re charged not only with trying to overthrow the government by force but by being hooked up with the hitler government while they did it. it s about sedition, which we re confronting now. it s about authoritarianism and fascism in the united states, which we re confronting now. the other piece of it which i also feel like you and i are of the same mind about is it s about there being really, really, really terrible members of congress. you know what i mean? like, we think that we have got as bad as they get, and there couldn t be a worst bunch. but like, so earnest lundin, the podcast opens with him dying in a plane crash in a very mysterious plane crash that stays mysterious. and what emerges is that he s involved in a plot with an agent from hitler s government. that s kind of where we left the story of earnest lundin at the beginning of the podcast. as we head into the next episode that s going to drop on monday, you get to mead earnest s widow,