the fathers, brothers, sons and husbands who shipped off to fight thousands of miles from home. now with battles raging on two fronts, fdr used one of his fire side chats to instill confidence. we are going to win this war. those fire side chats truly changed the course of this nation s history. absolutely. another interesting moment is in february of 1942, so three months after pearl harbor, the war is not going well. the japanese have swept through the pacific. the nazis have swept through europe. the british are losing in north africa. nazis are right outside. moscow is about to fall. and he gives a speech, fire side chat, and he says i want to talk to you about the world. and he had told people ahead of time to get a map of the world. he says now look at this map in front of you. look at the size of the soviet union. look at the size of china. look at the size of the united states. look at the size of canada. those are our allies. now look at germany. look at italy. look at j
to be called fire side chats is when he would do those speeches on the radio, and millions of people would sit in their living rooms in front of their fireplaces and listen to them and some of those fire side chats were written in the room and several were delivered from this room behind that desk. as he helped pull the nation from economic ruin, a terrible new challenge loomed one that would forge a partnership strong as steel. talk about the leaders in this room. churchill sat here. they had a good relationship aside from heading the two allied countries in the war. they had a good working relationship. in the beginning churchill was the dominant figure. they were already involved in the war. he was desperately trying to get roosevelt to bring america into the war against the nazis. and he had a lot more experience in terms of military campaigns. but suddenly roosevelt needed no more product from churchill. the surprise military strike on america s pacific fleet in pearl
not because they are easy but because they are hard. jfk and reagan. tear down this wall. are considered the best. this was delivered on dw twitter. president trump tweeted this. which brings us to number 45. i ll do it verbally, on television. i ll do it on twitter. we have gone from fdr s fire side chats to president trump s fiery tweets. bill joining us live. it is hard to have this conversation without talking about the twitter, isn t it? it is. it becomes such a part of our wallpaper that i wanted to sort of take a sweeping view of this. the idea that all of these tweets to be studied for centuries he has reinvented communication and it comes with a cost. of course we ll get into the pros and cons tonight.
christmas is the time you stay at home around the fire side. and celebrate singing carols. so, it s a very tricky thursday night. a lot of people are going to be looking very weary at their monitors. i know personally that there are special snipers on roofs in central london who haven t been there before. a lot of this has been caused because of the paris attack six weeks ago which killed 130 people. christopher, it seems like better to err on the side of caution. at least they have snipers in place again, you can t completely live your life in fear of a terror attack but being prepared is always good. thank you so much for that report. and fears of a terror attack causing the tsa to step up screenings of airport and airline workers. those employees are able to bypass security checkpoints and some are even able to gain unrestricted access to passenger planes. the move coming as it s
it. i perceive our government as being fundamentally addition functional on the number of levels. the office of management leak that allowed the chinese to gain access to 21 million files of government elm many of them secret covert agents overseas is unpardonable. nuts and bolts of the campaign. are you going to go to iowa? no, ma am. in fact, i m running a purely electronic campaign. i think this will be the world s first. my party is building the infrastructure that will allow me to have fire side chats with all of america as if i were sitting in your living room and you can input questions. they will be collected and collated and questions of a similar type will be answered. you know, so that i can reach out and speak as if i m sitting with you in your home. i won t be getting to iowa. i m not going to be shaking any hands or kissing any