in the early 1930s, mussolini and his fascists imposed import bans on various foreign goods. this lead to food shortages, malnutrition and a lack of wheat which raised the prospect of italian tables with no pasta. >> [speaks italian] >> in typical style, rather than lifting the import bans mussolini tried to convince italians that eating pasta would make them weak, lazy and even sexually impotent and that a high protein diet would make them more productive and war-like. the campaign was clearly not a success. >> when the fascism arrived a big part of italy is with mussolini... >> yeah. >> ...but 30-40% is against mussolini. >> in fact pasta actually became a powerful symbol of the resistance against his fascist regime. armed with their guns and sheets of pasta many of the partisans who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. >> and the great access railyards from which troops and supplies are poured into southern italy are blasted... >> tucci: during world war two, this area bore the brunt of allied bombings that aimed to disrupt the nearby rail hub. tragically, ov

see how it's -- the mussolini, lincoln, and the -- patton, mussolini. so those two gentlemen are promoters of the qanon conspiracy theory which gained all sorts of improbable traction on the right during the presidency of donald trump, and they're still around. qanon folks think that the -- or propound the idea that the entire american political and cultural establishment, all the democrats and lots of celebrities, too, they're all a big satan-worshipping cabal of blood-drinking child sex traffickers. and, crucially, donald trump is the one who will defeat them all and emerge victorious and all the democrats will be sent to guantanamo and there will be mass public executions and blood will run in the streets. i know some of this feels hard to follow at first. it can be hard to sort of translate into sane. but for something that happens today, it's worth trying to catch what our dudes said here right at the end of that clip. >> trump is the biological son of general patton which makes him first cousins to john-john and the kennedys. >> donald trump is th

see how -- mussolini, lincoln, and the mussolini paton. so those two gentlemen are the promoters of the qanon conspiracy theory which gained all sorts of improbable in fraction during the presidency of donald trump. qanon folks think that they are propound the idea that the entire american political and cultural establishment, all of the democrats, lots of celebrities to, there is all a big state in worship-ing of blood drinking child sex traffickers. in crushingly, donald trump is the one who will defeat them all on emerge victoriously and all the democrats will be sent to guantÁnamo. and there will be mass -- and i know some of this feels hard to follow at first it can be hard to sort of translate but for something that happens today it's were trying to catch what he said at the end here -- >> trump is the biological son of general paton. which makes him for his cousin to john john and the kennedys. >> donald trump is the biological first cousin of former president john f. kennedy and the rest of the kennedy family. he is not. that is t

the donald trump commander-in-chief hitler, mussolini, that he should be gonna sooner or later and he called him a muckraking journalist and tells him he believes the commander-in-chief is a mein kampf hitler figure is a violation and yet there is no consequence. so he's almost in emblem that when you combine the judicial executive and legislative branches under one bureaucratic, then the citizen is lost control. we don't spy on anybody and then he was caught. no one can do that with the irs he admitted it was a lie and james comey 240 times under i can't remember and what would the two central foundations robert mueller was asked directly under oath what was your position? why did you spend $40 million in 22 months. where did all of these bureaucrats we were just talking about the conservative support. i'm kind of being animated because the 1983 i didn't know that the committee owns your reasons whether you grew them or not to so the price was below the cost of production, so about ten of us were flat broke and said we are not going to have them stemmed and sold by sun may do so we g

when they saw mussolini taking the power and standing his influence they also looked at what hitler was doing and they were cautious of the anti-semitism a number of them had read in german before hitler came to power in 1933 and they believed another sign would be the return so they saw hitler facilitating that. they didn't necessarily support it but they believed it helped set the stage which would literally happen in palestine. they looked at him and understood all these other things going on. there's no doubt that his campaign got off to a start. on the first set of ballots at the convention was 666. when i first read that, i thought it was too good to be true. i went back through the records and sure enough, that was absolutely the case so this already set the fundamentalists on edge. after the election they began in the same as other totalitarian leaders. i often talk to my students abouty this that it's become a revered person in history mostly because of world war ii americans don't realize how much of those who hated roosevelt in the 30s truly despised him, just couldn't stand

without mussolini, franco, i don't think there would have been as much fear and hatred of roosevelt. >> lincoln. >> a lot of people made fun of lincoln about chopping wood. i would say it was far more policy. the opportunity to address one of the questions about race, was lincoln hated because -- a lot of the criticism of him was really racist, the way it was for abolitionists early on and for radicals. i think those were sort of interconnected because when it came to policy, lincoln was very much identified with the politics of big government, of what they called federal consolidation in those days, the federal government intervening in the affairs of the states. but the states' rights to do what? to perpetuate and extend slavery. so i think the connection between conservativism, racism, big government, and racially liberal policies, it takes place exactly during the lincoln administration, kind of reaches its apogee during reconstruction and gets resurrected i think in the 20th century when it comes to people like johnson and nixon. >> jefferson. >> i would say -- i'm going to offe

in the chicano movement until about 50 years ago and then people m dug up the novel n the movie and mussolini and if they found out that this blood and soil emulation that said you could be italian unless you looked an' certain way and you couldn't be spanish even if you were spaniard and even if youou were living in the peninsula. it was very anti-semitic so they cooked up these terms and then the hispanic militants took the term and reinvented for the race they's changed it now, but they wanted to change the demography. the democratic party looked at california and said we are never going to have a party of governor reagan, pete wilson, even arnold schwarzenegger again and now there's the majority in both legislators, no statewide office held by the republican and the ninth circuit appointees is still very liberal despite the appointees and i think they felt that it could flip the electoral knowledge so they are flipped and feel the conflict florida and arizona. all these people wanted open borders into the people that didn't were the middle class that said they are lowering wages and flood

we've heard that donald trump, the commander-in-chief was hitler, mussolini, that he should be gone sooner or later, and general milley calls up a muck-raking journalist and tells that he believes that the commander-in-chief is a mein kampf, and fauci and all of those when you combine them into one bureaucratic octopus, then, the citizen has lost control. and we saw it with an absolute, i don'ten what the word would-- it was chilling for me, all of us when james clapper said under oath, we don't spy in nsa on anybody and then he was caught and he said i gave the least untruthful answer. none of us could do that with the irs. if you said, i had a call from the irs and said, you didn't report it and i did, but i could have said, well, i gave you the least untruthful answer. there was no-- there were no consequences when john brennan said we never have spied in the cia on the senate staffers computers. lie. he admitted it was a lie. we would never have collateral damage and drone operations, lie. he admitted it was a lie. james comey, 245 times under oath, i can't remember. and what were the

and then people drove up the franco novel and mousse lin think -- mussolini, and they townd out this blood and soil emulation of hitler that said you couldn't be italian unless you looked a certain way, and you couldn't be spanish even if you were spaniard and even if you were living in the iberian peninsula. very anti-semitic. to they cooked up these racist terms, and then the hispanic militants took that term and reinvented it for the race. i've been attacking it so much, and finally they've changed la raza into it's you knee toes -- unitos now. they wanted to change the demography. the democratic party looked at california, and they said we're never going to have a party, a governord of reagan, pete wilso, even arnold schwarzenegger again. and now we have a supermajority in both legislature, no statewide office that's held by a republican, and the 9th circuit, you know, the appointees are still very liberal despite trump's appointees. and finally, i think they felt that model had flipped the electoral college. so new mexico's flipped, nevada's flipped, colorado's flipped. they fee

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. >> we spent less defeating hitler mussolini in japan. then you're spending tonight. house republican leader kevin mccarthy brought the build back better vote to a halt. >> for more than 8 hours. he railed against the president's plan and democrats for supporting it. you're celebrating it when it's as a 31% high. gas prices. thanksgiving. democrats were determined to vote on the nearly 2 trillion dollars. social spending plan thursday night. we're going to change the lives and livelihoods of americans for generations to come. >> massachusetts congressman richard neal and south carolina congressman jim clyburn. so the legislation makes necessary changes to build back better act. we were >> some longstanding faults, many of which have been exasperated by covid-19 democrats emphasized the bill reduces the deficit. >> but the congressional budget office says the bill adds 367 billion dollars to the deficit over 10 years. enough of the spending in washington let's focus on helping those hard working families who are being crippled by this inflation. >> now the bill would s

for the resistance using her performance as a cover to spy on the nazis and even italian dictator, mussolini should eventually become a left tenant in a female group of pilots, under general de gaulle, she remained loyal to the goal even during the upheaval of the 1968 protests after the war. baker got involved in anti racist politics. she was the only woman to speak at the $963.00 march on washington d. c. where martin luther king delivered his i have a dream speech, but she was also devoted to her family, adopting 12 children and living at a chateau in southwest france. she died in 1975 days after a final show in paris, celebrating her half century on the stage. at the request of her family, josephine baker's body will remain in monica where she was buried. this coffin contained soil from free places close to her heart. the us, monaco and france didn't bother al jazeera, stay with us here and al jazeera coming up. we've got all your sport with jemma nash. mm. yes, we do a live up from our special studio here in dia. it's day one of the fee for our cup and we've got plenty to get through. s

and so when they sought mussolini consolidating power, taking power and standing influence for them this was a huge sign there at the end of times. they also looked at what hitler was doing for their very conscious of hitler's anti-semitism men punch up many have read, they believed another sign of the ends of times but they saw hitler as facilitating that. did not necessarily support it, endorse it or cheer it but they believe god was using him for the armageddon which would literally happen in palestine for it all the stuff is going on in the background which then takes us to franklin roosevelt. they looked at him and they understood him then and the context of all these other things going on. there is no doubt his campaign and 1932 cut off to an ominous start. on the first set of a belt at the democratic national convention roosevelt received 666, 666 votes. when i first read that the fundamentalist magazine if it is too good to be true that could not be true. i went to the records and sure enough that was absolute the case. this already set fundamentalist on edge believing there's so

for the resistance using her performance as a cover to spy on the nazis and even italian dictator, mussolini, she'd eventually become a left tenant in a female group of pilots, under general de gaulle. she remained loyal to the goal even during the upheaval of the 1968 protests. after the war, baker got involved in anti racist politics. she was the only woman to speak at the 1963 march on washington d. c. where martin luther king delivered his i have a dream speech more, but she was also devoted to her family, adopting 12 children and living at a chateau in southwest france. she died in 1975 days after a final show in paris, celebrating her half century on the stage. at the request of her family to have been baker's body will remain in monica where she was buried. brisco for it contained soil from 3 places close to her heart. the us, monaco, and france. the dean baba al jazeera. this time, next year, cat had will be hosting the world cup the 1st time the footballs biggest event will take place in an arab nation. and in preparation and staging, a major test that tournament, the fee for arab c

and he saw the, the rise of hitler in germany and of course, mussolini, and franklin's initially and franco in spain. and he did see the soviet union as a bulwark against coming against against fascism and the whole block later life. he visited cuba when he there were defected by that. well yes indeed indeed. but i think he, he, he was an idealist. he was an ideological zealot. ah, and he had no, you know, he just alt democratic politics is not gonna is not gonna stand up for the working close to no less ideological. then the people that say, theoretically, were his best friends, although he was cheating on them as it were, who were involved in the qu, against more. so that can iran who were involved in all sorts of intelligence activities to destroy parties in the global self. yeah, he was, well, he was on the other side. i think i think the other thing that the cannot should not be forgotten about him was he did have an extraordinary capacitive deceit. he was brave, he was a brilliant liar. now it seems to me there's no reason why people who have that talent, if you regard as a tal

we have heard donald trump the commander of chief was hitler, mussolini, that he should be gone sooner or later. they call up a journalist and tells him that they believe the commander-in-chief is a figure. that is a violation. and yet there is no consequence. and emblem of all of these people that when you combine their judicial executive and legislative branches, then the citizen has lost control. we saw it with an absolute, i don't know what the word, it was very chilling for me when james klapper said under oath, we do not spy on anybody. he said i gave the least untruthful answer. none of us could do that with the irs. at a call from the irs and said you did not report it and i did, i could've set i gave you the least untruthful answer. there were no consequences when john brennan said we have never spied on the senate staff or computers. live. he admitted it was a lie. we would never have collateral damage, light, he admitted that it was a live. james comey 245 times, i can't remember. what was the foundation of the whole russian collusion hoax. a steel dossier and gps. what is y

because now he understood the power and the danger of hitler and mussolini because they had been cooperating with the, with the franco de franco troops in spain during the civil war. that was a precursor to this whole thing. so he had to look at roosevelt was planning for a piece at the end of the war. he travel you all to is all about that when he goes to y'all to i'm sorry when he goes to ron. in his last international summit, he's looking for a piece that will go beyond the u. n. was always history in the united nations. that was his dream. he wanted a real united nations. and he wanted the united states with china, with britain, with russia, and with france to be the 5 powers that would be let's say, the dominant powers in that arrangement, not one power that would be above it. all. kennedy did the same for said, we don't want to pax americana, enforced by american weapons of war in his peace speech, should american university in june, 63, very important speech. put some right in line with, with roosevelt. i think they're very close. and i think the roosevelt inspired him in many ways. i

so robert just made it parallel to the protesters on that day to fascism and hitler was brought up. mussolini was brought up. these people were protesters at the very, very least. there were some very bad apples there. none of them were armed apparently, and only a civilian was killed. ashley babbitt, which we will talk about later. and again, i mean, no evidence has been proven that this was meticulously planned for violence. was it planned to protest? yeah, certainly it was. it's, it's, it's legal to protest. go ahead, brian. well, we're all in agreement that there was no insurrection in the, no congressional democrats using that word because it, in their own focus groups, it tends to, it tends to stoke a lot of passion among their base. even though their base, most of them don't know with the definition of insurrection really is, there's never been an insurrection in history. there were no weapons that the only people that were killed was people part of the insurrection, not who they were trying to quote unquote, over growth. so i agree with a lot of with robert said other than the fact th

after two years of being nonstop media action, tony fauci is morphed into a shorter version of benito mussolini. watch dr. fauci on television the other day refer to himself, without even flinching, in the third person. >> there are a lot of republican senators taking aim. >> that's okay. i'm just going to do my job. and i'm going to be saving lives and they are going to be line. there's a distinct antiscience flavor to this. so if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know at what they are talking about. but if they get up and really aim their bullets at tony fauci, people can recognize there's a person there, so it's easy to criticize. but they are really criticizing science, because i represent science. >> and they criticize me, they are criticizing science. i am science, declares tony fauci. so clearly something deep inside tony fauci has changed. the men now believes he is a deity. watch him sweat aside criticism from a sitting u.s. senator who has been democratically elected by millions of people by invoking january 6th. watch this. >> senator cruz told the attorney general

we spent less, defeating hitler, mussolini and japan than you're spending tonight. we spent less! but it cost us lives. and you're celebrating it. >> well, democrats insist they have the votes to pass the bill, but its fate in the senate is less certain. cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju. >> reporter: another twist after months of painstaking negotiations among democrats to get their large social safety net expansion together that cost roughly $2 trillion, to get it passed out of the house. they were very close to doing that late thursday night, until they hit a roadblock. the republican leader kevin mccarthy effectively delayed the house vote until friday morning, 8:00 a.m. eastern time is when the house is set to reconvene because kevin mccarthy used procedures that are allowed to him under the house's rules. he is the minority leader, has the ability to speak for as long as he wants at the end of a floor debate, the 0 iso-called magic minute in the house. he used that magic minute and spoke for hours. after midnight the democrats said they didn't want to have a

along with the professor of history in italian studies at new york university and author of "strongmen mussolini to the present." thank you both for joining me on the show. ruth, you and i have been discussing growing authoritarianism for years now and on this show all of this year. we have now reached the book banning stage. and yet, still, there is so much complacency among politicians and journalists in this country. >> yeah. in "strongmen" i write "strongmen" not only disappear but they disappear books and texts and ideas and whole fields of knowledge that conflict with their goals. sometimes the latter is a prelude to the former and in 2018 he banned gender studies. two years later, transgender and intersection people have no legal status. it starts in the universities and the schools and it moves on. lo and behold youngkin makes anti-trans campaigns together with anti-crt, part of this interlocking playbook. the other thing i am interested in is you mentioned representative krauss and trying to ban books that make people feel uncomfortable. this, too, is part of the playbook. the more you

we spent less defeating hitler, mussolini and japan than you're spending tonight. we spent less but it cost us lives. and you're celebrating it. >> and that went on fore8 hours 32 minutes. mccarthy rifted on erlg from baby creators and sandwiches to school hout rock and abraham lincoln to the delight of the former president saying, what it says. great job by kevin mccarthy setting a record going over eight hours on the house floor to oppose communism. it's not,i obviously. never forget what democrats have done highest level of evil. mitch mcconnell thought you would have a different republican president. when trump says that if mcconnell helped him overturn the election results and carry out some sort of coup, which thankfully did not occur. joining me now, former republican congressman from florida francis rooney. thanks for joining us. appreciate it and know the former president loves a spectacle. do you think it was a mistake, though, for republicans to vote almost in lockstep basically in lockstep altogether against this legislation that includes a lot of popul

we spent less defeating hitler, mussolini and japan than you're spending tonight. we spent less, you it cost us lives. and you're celebrating it. >> joining us now is the assistant speaker of the house, democratic congresswoman catherine clark of massachusetts. she is a member of the democratic progressive caucus. she is actually going to be presiding over the house this morning as democrats move forward on this. congresswoman, first things first, though, here. this was kind of a wild night. just finished up a short time ago. what do you think kevin mccarthy was trying to achieve here? . >> well, kevin mccarthy delivered an unhinged rant that really ranged in topics from baby carrots to jimmy carter's sweater. we are delivering jobs. we are delivering lower costs. we are delivering lower taxes for middleclass families. we are delivering addressing climate change. what he made very clear over his unhinged eight plus hours was the gop and kevin mccarthy don't want to lower the cost of prescriptions drugs. they don't want to help families pay for child care, which can

didn't understand about the vatican's position at that time that since 1929 when he did his deal with mussolini that vatican had agreed to stay out of politics periodod. they gave up the papal states in italy and created the vatican city and all that we know today as the vatican. he then also did a number of agreements throughout europe with a lot of the fascist countries including germany so that he could protect the catholics within those countries, but also get more money for the catholic church. joe didn't understand this. 1926 election, i thought you should see there was a time when america was all blue, almost. joe fails to get appointed as ambassador because bingham is still in his position even though is not well and is instead given the very lonely position of the first chairman of the federal maritime commission because there are 400 posts upon tribes that were gouging the government, fraudulent actually and he had 73 days to sort them out. he did do it in the 70s and he worked very hard to do it, but at the same time he said if i'm not going to prick be appreciated in politics, i'm g

situation where often times the republican party reminds me less of abraham lincoln than it does of mussolini. >> well said. dr. greer, so a recent poll just came out, 47%, not the majority, but 47% of republicans say that they should find space for members of their party and political leaders who describe democrats as evil. and when you take that into conclusion, you look at what gosart has done and marjorie taylor greene, if we were tweeting threats to our coworkers, we would will fired. our key cards wouldn't work when we tried to get back in the building, so not just politically, dr. greer, but what is lacking on the part of this administration that they're watching violent threats be lobbied at coworkers and staff members and none of these people are being kicked out of congress, none of them are being kicked out of the building, none are being escorted for engaged in the violent language or rhetoric that would have anybody from the university to chipotle outside the door. >> she's being silenced. >> you have a democratic party who isn't taking this as seriously as they should. we have a

. >> we spent less defeating hitler mussolini in japan. then you're spending tonight. house republican leader kevin mccarthy brought the build back better vote to a halt. >> for more than 8 hours. he railed against the president's plan and democrats for supporting it. you're celebrating it when it's as a 31% high. gas prices. thanksgiving. democrats were determined to vote on the nearly 2 trillion dollars. social spending plan thursday night. >> we're going to change the lives and livelihoods of americans for generations to come. massachusetts congressman richard neal and south carolina congressman jim clyburn. so the legislation makes necessary changes to build back better act. we were pale. >> some longstanding faults, many of which have been exasperated by covid-19 democrats emphasized the bill reduces the deficit. >> but the congressional budget office says the bill adds 367 billion dollars to the deficit over 10 years. enough of the spending in washington let's focus on helping those hard working families who are being crippled by this inflation. >> now the bill w

. >> tony fauci morphed into a shorter version of mussolini. >> those keeping score at home, that's two fascist comparisons from fox news hosts in one day. people keep coming up to laura logan and compare fauci to mangala, maybe it says something about the company she's keeping. of course, that's kind of the point. hating dr. fauci has become an industry on the far right. it began in the early months of covid when polls showed fauci was more trusted than trump. this was an unforgivable sin and resulted in repeated attacks on the doctor by the donald. became a right-wing signifier with gop fundraiser off anti-fauci swag, like governor desantis pushing, don't fauci my florida t-shirts, as his state closed in on record covid rates this summer. according to data from bully pulpit interactive, cited by "politico," conservatives spent $300,000 on facebook ads targeting fauci in the month of may alone. the threats became more personal and conspiratorial. you don't have to think dr. fauci has gotten everything right in hind sight to see thes are desperate deflections. it is possible to investig

. >> we spent less defeating hitler mussolini in japan. then you're spending tonight. house republican leader kevin mccarthy brought the build back better vote to a halt. >> for more than 8 hours. he railed against the president's plan and democrats for supporting it. you're celebrating it when it's as a 31% high. gas prices. thanksgiving. democrats were determined to vote on the nearly 2 trillion dollars. social spending plan thursday night. we're going to change the lives and livelihoods of americans for generations to come. >> massachusetts congressman richard neal and south carolina congressman jim clyburn. so the legislation makes necessary changes to build back better act. we were >> some longstanding faults, many of which have been exasperated by covid-19 democrats emphasized the bill reduces the deficit. >> but the congressional budget office says the bill adds 367 billion dollars to the deficit over 10 years. enough of the spending in washington let's focus on helping those hard working families who are being crippled by this inflation. >> now, the bill would

. >> think about the greatest generation who sacrificed so much we spent less defeating hitler and mussolini and japan. you're celebrating it when inflation is at a 31% high. anita: a passionate sweet aand, speech and this basic items that have gone up since august, grocery prices 73%. gas, 72%, housing costs, quite a bit there and the next poll, whether the social spending plan would help individual families and the economy, the numbers are pretty low there, in terms of helping, but the key number here is that 40% of those polled believe that it will actually hurt the economy. does your party have to do a better job explaining why the country needs more of these social programs? >> well, thank you. i think it is important. look, i know people are hurting because of the rising costs, we're seeing this across the country and the build back better is working to work out the supply chains and bottlenecks in the ports and products that they need for the holidays are on the shelves and working with my colleagues like you mentioned, i'm in the problem solvers caucus, republicans and democrats. and

what could we have done before the rise of hitler or mussolini? where could we have made that investment. then i thought to the future, as a policymaker, history repeats itself. i watched china steal our technology. i watched them test hyper son ins. i watched them build a new coal plant and shut us down. this isn't like the soviet union. we aren't going to outspend them. i asked the speaker, could we create a committee, equal number of republican, equal number of democrats, to just focus on china. she thought it was an interesting idea. i called steny. the majority leader. i said the same idea to him. i spent eight months on this. you know what, mr. speaker? they agreed. we agreed. we picked a number of members. and then they came back to me and said we had to shrink it. that's ok, that's ok. i just really want to have this happen. because you know, xi jinping isn't going to abide by the term limit. tries to wait everybody out, mr. speaker. we got so close, we invited "the washington post" in to interview the members that were going to be on this