for his role. do you think this could signal an oscar? i think he s all but got the oscar in the palm of his hand with a performance as churchill as the statesman at a pivotal moment in british history, may 1940. interesting that both darkest film and dunkirk celebrated this, who led britain so well which paid tribute in a very moving speech. but it s a superlative performance. the makeup was extraordinary. there has never been a churchill like this. he really did deserve an award, which i think that means he will definitely win at the oscars. interesting, though, to see the baftas as a precursor of the oscars. the last three years they ve chosen different films, possibly because of the oscar s alternative vote system for best picture, which may mean that get out, the shape of water
protection and use the argument they used in ukraine to start to move into western european countries. that s really why so many nato countries want donald trump to continue to reassert this mutual defense that s article 5 of nato, right? that s certainly right. estonia has one quarter and latvia about a third. they were incorporated by invasion into the soviet union in may 1940. they liberated themselves at the end of the cold war and joined the eu and nato. our article 5 protection extends to them. that s why it was so important that president trump finally reaffirmed today in a speech in foe land that we remain dedicated to article 5. putin needs to know where the lines are and every american president has to defend nato allies. ambassador, thanks so much. nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state. phil rutger was with us in the
stage and he s taking the opportunity. george, is this administration, do you think, going to add air power to this situation, to back up the iraqis? i don t know. we just heard i think the president draw another of his red lines, or at least pastel line in this case, because he said somehow we cannot tolerate isis achieving a permanent foothold. well, they ve got hundreds of miles of territory. they have the city of mosul, which has 2 million people. that s the population of the metropolitan area of kansas city. it s a big deal. the army, the iraqi army, is melting away in the face of this. it s rather like france in may 1940. it s the the speed is breath taking. we went into iraq for a number of purposes, one of which was to build a democracy, constitution, political parties, free press all the rest, and the army. the army should have been the easy part because it doesn t require all the culture of
troops into this area does make sense because it s a siggal of our continued commitment to those countries. i think the president has done the right thing. i understand symbolic support. couldn t that translate to empty threat? no, because we re not making a threat. we re not threatening the 40,000 russian troops, not threatening president putin. what we re doing is saying he can not redivide europe the way europe was divided in the cold war and that the united states will, in effect, with europe stand by these smaller allies. the baltic states are particularly important, carol, because they were forcibly incorporated into the soviet union in may 1940 and treated very, very badly. their liberation from the soviet union in 1991 was a real victory for democracy and freedom. we stood beside them for a long, long time since they became members of nato. a great power like the united states has to act like a great power with a certain amount of self-confidence. i think this is the right
and the greatest generation in that our industry turned on a dime on december 7th, 1941, and started producing steel and started producing planes and started producing tanks almost overnight. well, see, that s what s so interesting is that s the way it s usually presented. and when we went to school you re going to tell me i m wrong, aren t you? it s always the bombs drop on pearl harbor and washington wakes up and says oh, my god, we ve got to start producing planes and tanks and machine guns and starts issuing orders. what i show in this book, you had to stand that story on its head because the real preparation for war comes not on december 8th, 1941, but in may 1940. and when roosevelt realizes this country is probably going to be at war in two years, he s going to have to mobilize this country for war. there s no defense industry. the war department and the navy