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Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Program 20240604 00:17:00

They dress differently. they re speaking yiddish. they have italian foods. these are all things that are completely new to america. reporter: all of it horrified america s wealthy elite. the blue bloods of park avenue and fifth avenue. they begin to freak out and say we can t allow all of these new immigrants to come who are so different from us, they re going to change our country. these immigrants threaten everything they hold dear about america. reporter: so some of the nation s most predominant men got together and hatched a plan. these are men who saw themselves as the best and the brightest, for sure. and these are respected people. reporter: they put their money and prestige behind scientists who were studying so-called inferior races. a pseudoscience call eugenics. whether you would be a good immigrant or not depended on ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20191029 02:05:00

Ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, who knows lieutenant colonel vindman. evelyn farkas. and jonathan alter is with us, a columnist for the daily beast. ambassador mcfaul, let me start with you. what should we know about lieutenant colonel alexander vindman? well, we served together in moscow. when i was the ambassador, he was part of the military attache there. you read a lot of it already. and i was always struck, as i always am, the people that go to serve overseas in those embassies, especially the military attaches actually, not especially all of them. they re the best and the brightest, the people that are the most committed to the cause. another piece of his biography, from that part of the world. and from my experience, working in the government, there s something about the emigrants ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20191029 05:04:00

I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country, irrespective of party or politics. leading out of our breaking news discussion tonight from kiev, ukraine, is nbc news reporter, josh letterman, national reporter for nbc news. also joining us, former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, who knows lieutenant colonel vindman. evelyn farkas. former deputy secretary of defense in the obama administration. and jonathan alter is with us, a columnist for the daily beast. ambassador mcfaul, let me start with you. what should we know about lieutenant colonel alexander vindman? well, we served together in moscow. when i was the ambassador, he was part of the military attache there. you read a lot of it already. and i was always struck, as i always am, the people that go to serve overseas in those embassies, especially the military attaches actually, not especially all of them. they re the best and the brightest, the people that are ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170524:02:11:00

Months. to take these steps. it s at least reckless at worse and to suppress the investigation. nia, that s what you said before, you said before what the line is and what the protocol is, but, still, these are adults. are we giving them too much leeway in this because i think people who maybe are not as worldly as the people we have in the white house would probably know better. yeah, and this is a white house that came in essentially boasting that will they were the smartest guys in the room, and the smartest girls in the room, that everybody else who had served in administrations didn t know what they were doing. i believe at one point donald trump talked about the folks around him, his cabinet officials, having the heist iq of any other administration. he knew better than the generals. yeah. he knew better than the generals, and the folks around him were the best and the brightest, and that was supposed to kind of assure people who might have had doubts about his ....

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