Film from the Republican National committee telling the story of his political life. Thomas e dewey was elected, four years earlier he was appointed special prosecutor by the governor for the war on organized crime in new york. You have been given a most difficult task, and you have the opportunity to help people in this city. What can we do to help you. There is a detective in new york, mr. Mayor, whoa i think i one of the best in the United States. I would like him to head my squad of detectives. Clearing out gangsters, racketeers, they were tightening through years of rule. Are you going to keep out of our territory or not . Im not. But i dont need any protection. Dewey started by getting the frightened victims of the racket to talk. After long months of work. He had enough evidence to move in on the citys racketeers. He convicted all but one of the criminals. Rackets that flourishes with immunity started to break up as the cities gang overlords went off to jail. On the straight on
Currency is falling and thats i think what were seeing is that is this this fall has been accelerating recently as you said and. To the moon i think ive got a nice comparison for you here i mean weve saw this billions and actually trillions of money printing recently in the small calculation so the feds expanded the Balance Sheet by 3 trillion within a very short time recently so what is 3 trillion 1. 03 trillion dollars if you make a staple of 1. 00 coin this is a mind boggling staple of 3003700000 miles and this is a chilly. 20 light seconds so this is actually several times to distance to the moon and this was just. Rate it out of nothing within a few weeks and thats i think the real problem which we are facing and and people are waking up to this problem and i think thats a very interesting time when a good analogy there with the staples and all that stuff its amazing when you put these graphics and you look at them how really incredible trillions and trillions of dollars as now of
You have been given a most difficult task, helping the people of the city. What can we do to help you . There is a detective in new york, mr. Mayor, who i think is one of the best detectives in the United States. I would like to have him head my squad of detectives. Announcer from the beginning, dewey faced a hopeless job, clearing out gangsters and racketeers. Now for the last time, are you going to keep out of our territory or not . Im not. But i dont need any protection. Announcer deweys handpicked staff began singling out people and getting them to talk. After long months of hard, patient, dangerous work, dewey had collected enough evidence to move in on the racketeers. Out of the 73 indictments he secured, dewey convicted all but one, they begin breaking up and the gang overlords went off to jail. On the strength of this record, he was nominated for district attorney. He beat the tammany candidate and continued his crime smashing record and was on the roles of the governors in alb
Laura bush, what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said, i think im going to run for president . I cant really remember exactly what my initial reaction was. I think it was a little bit slower than just all of a sudden saying im going to run for president. He was governor. He had been governor roy interim and reelected and slowly i think we just both started talking about it. He talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it and i knew what it was like. Now, i knew already what it will be like this. And it wouldnt be like to live in the white house. George and i had an advantage that so far only one other family has said before, John Quincy Adams family. We had visited very often. We moved to washington back in 1986, or 87, rather, to work on president bushs campaign. And so i saw them when they were campaigning nationwide, and they still have time to babysit Barbara Angela on a saturday night when george and i would want to go out to dinner
Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight whotion up, doc . Plus, stephen welcomes Christine Baranski and ellie kemper with a special appearance by paul f. Tompkins. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Welcome to my home ,again. Fun fact two months ago today, we left the ed sullivan theater. I hope someones been checking on ed. Dont really know when well be back. Its all dependent on when we can gather safely. The country is starting to open up a little bit, but maybe too much a little bit, at least according to Infectious Disease expert and little boy in sweet shop indicating which toffee he would like, dr. Anthony fauci. In a preview of his testimony, today, fauci warned that reopening the economy too soon would cause needless suffering and death. No need to sugarcoat it, doc. Although, sugarcoating is a good way to get trum