steve: did i not realize until i heard about your book about the secret meeting in tehran with three world leaders. bret: goes overlooked in world history. 1943, fdr, churchill and stalin meeting and really the at the brink part is that the u.s. and the allied forces could lose world war ii. we forget that and they meet in tehran. they have a contentious meeting trying to get stalin on board. and they plan d-day. without that planning. without that operation, the world would be a much different place. steve: right. and fdr and churchill on the same page. they really weren t. churchill was much more skeptical of stalin and getting together with stalin. but listened to fdr. and what happens there and the concessions that they give to stalin really sets the groundwork for the cold war later as he takes over eastern europe. brian: took tremendous risk. also went into they were targeted too. hitler knew what was going on and where it was. bret: assassination attempts. plot dropping in