As the Mueller investigation into Roger Stone's niece's lemonade stand enters its fifth decade, the White House is finally pushing back, as it should. The more we learn about the Russia investigation, the clearer it becomes that it s a farce, initiated by Barack Obama s corrupt, crooked machine administration. We will analyze the facts as they stand today, but they seem always to be changing. Then, Google stops telling its employees not to be evil. We ll analyze what that means for conservatives, and the incredible stories of American soldiers escaping Nazi-occupied France on this day in history. And if we have time, we ll talk about the royal wedding.
00:09:34.560I don't know, because they don't like him, because they just don't like him that much.
00:09:38.160Here we have Representative Steve Cohen talking about how they're going to impeach the president.
00:09:42.100I'm proud to stand here with my friend, Congressman Gutierrez, with other congresspeople who will be here and announcing that we're introducing articles of impeachment to remove President Trump from office.
00:09:53.220There will be, I believe, six signatories on the resolution.
00:09:58.200Democrats only respect elections when Democrats win.
00:10:25.260Bombshell information now shows that Barack Obama's FBI interfered with and spied on Donald Trump's campaign much earlier than anybody thought.
00:10:34.200We know that the FBI planted a spy in the Trump campaign.
00:10:51.420When they open their mouths, James Comey, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, when they open their mouths, there is no reason to believe a word that comes out of them.
00:11:14.740In part, I suppose it's based on that Steele dossier, which was totally ginned up and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and by Democrats.
00:11:21.680So we see collusion there between the Democrats and the FBI.
00:11:24.500But now we know that an FBI informant who has been outed, according to reports, as Cambridge University professor Stephen Halper, that FBI informant started reporting to the FBI in early July 2016.
00:33:04.720A quarter of a million Jews were killed there between 1942 and 1943.
00:33:08.700The German firm IG Farben set up a factory outside of Auschwitz.
00:33:12.620And, on this day in history, 1940, the French Ninth Army surrendered.
00:33:17.020As you might know, I'm waving the flag of the French Army right now, as a matter of fact.
00:33:20.580The French Army surrendered itself as a nation.
00:33:24.000France would surrender within the month.
00:33:26.440We're lucky enough today to be joined by Carol Engel-Avriot, the author alongside of World War II veteran Captain George Starks of Coffin Corner Boys, One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France.
00:34:08.180And yet, these days, 20-year-olds suffer nervous breakdowns when their parents forget to upgrade their iPhone data plans.
00:34:16.360How responsible do you think, in your research for this book, the war was for shaping what we now call the greatest generation?
00:34:25.680Well, you raised some interesting questions there because, really, George was 19 when he first got his pilot's wings, so even younger than 20.
00:34:39.240There was one of them that was 27, and to the rest of them, he was ancient, so they called him the old man Pops or Pappy.
00:34:49.460And it was an amazing thing, really, because George has often told me all 10 of them were from very different backgrounds,
00:34:58.400religious backgrounds different, socioeconomic, family situations, educational backgrounds different, but they all had one thing in common.
00:35:07.320They were all patriots, and they all wanted to go to war to protect America.
00:35:18.340And, in fact, last week, somebody asked me, you know, Carol, to whom did you write this book?
00:35:24.160Well, obviously, people who enjoy reading about great heroes and World War II and all.
00:35:30.840But I have seven grandchildren, and I actually wrote the book for them because if we don't get these stories down and recorded, we're going to lose them.
00:35:39.820And I want my young grandchildren, a little too young right now to read it, but I want them to know what these men really did.
00:36:43.740How much are we going to remember in 50 or 100 years?
00:36:47.120Well, you know, we need to get as many recorded as we can.
00:36:51.500I'm doing my part trying to get them down.
00:36:54.060Now, this one book does have 10 stories, each of the crew and what happened to them after they were shot down.
00:37:02.760Of course, now, George Starks, the pilot, is the primary person in the book because he goes, he returns to Europe and later and retraces his steps.
00:37:15.440And that's a wonderful part of that story.
00:38:08.020They say there are no atheists in the foxholes.
00:38:11.280Broadly in the culture, we see that religion is declining.
00:38:15.140And younger generations appear to be much less religious than older generations.
00:38:20.020Do you think it's the suffering of war trampling through France, surrounded by Nazis with a broken foot, that brings out people's need for God?
00:38:31.280Do you think that was the defining feature?
00:38:34.540Well, I think any time a person comes face to face with their mortality in a situation where their life is actually going to be on the line
00:38:48.200and might could end at any moment, I think that in and of itself produces sort of a landscape for thinking about what may be eternal and what might not be eternal.
00:39:02.380And George certainly, as he was going along, reached that place, that point where he was at the end of his rope in human terms.
00:39:13.780And so what he did then was turn to, at that moment, what he felt might be a higher power that could possibly help him.
00:40:50.240He's seen the world change dramatically.
00:40:53.620What that says for us individually and what it says for U.S. policy.
00:40:57.000Well, you know, really, when he returned to France, these were the people that had helped him.
00:41:05.200And actually, most of the people that he ran into did help him.
00:41:13.160But he it took him a long time to hook up.
00:41:15.780This is the this is the interesting part.
00:41:17.360It took him a long time to hook up with the actual organized underground or resistance.
00:41:22.320So from day one, the people that helped him were just normal, average, everyday Frenchmen, men, women and children.
00:41:31.420They were not part of an organized resistance.
00:41:34.240They just simply knew that, you know, they disliked the Germans for coming in and what they were doing to their country.
00:41:41.800And they wanted to do what they could with any American soldier or ally, you know, that they ran into.
00:41:47.240So to me, that was the most incredible thing, because these people had everything to lose.
00:41:55.660For example, the woman that he stayed with the very first night.
00:42:00.700OK, she had a little girl who was eight or nine years old.
00:42:03.580Her husband at that time was a POW, Polish POW with the Germans.
00:42:10.760And had she been caught, there is no question but what she would have been executed and probably her daughter as well, at the very least, sent to a concentration camp.
00:42:22.140I mean, when they caught, as I think you write in the book, when they caught people who were housing runaway American soldiers, men, women and children, they'd pull them out and they'd shoot them in the head.
00:42:33.580Right. Exactly. So. So when when George was shot down and after and in this 300 mile trek to freedom in Switzerland, he vowed two things to himself.
00:42:46.760Number one, that if he ever if he made it, if he lived through the experience and got back to the States, he would never lose touch with his crew again as long as he lived.
00:42:56.400The second vow that he made to himself was that at some some point one day, if he could, he would go back to France and try to locate all those brave souls that had helped him and helped his men.
00:43:09.100And he lived to do both of those things.
00:43:12.280It's an amazing story. It's a really amazing story. And the book achieves something which I think is really incredible.
00:43:18.440It really almost makes you like the French. I hate to I don't know that I could even say it on this, but it really does.
00:43:24.160I apologize for my French army flag joke. The book is Coffin Corner Boys.
00:43:28.820It's by Carol Engel-Evriette alongside Captain George Starks. It's a really engrossing read, really enjoyable and tells a story that is quickly being forgotten.
00:43:38.300So read it so you don't forget it. Go get the book. Coffin Corner Boys. Carol, thank you so much for being here.
00:43:42.700Thank you so much, Michael. Good to be with you today. God bless.
00:43:45.540You too. So that was wow. It's a really fascinating to talk to and a really fascinating book.
00:43:50.760Like, that's our show. So go read the book. We can talk about it tomorrow. You come back tomorrow, we'll talk about it.
00:43:56.660Listen, guys, I'm like getting ready for my bachelor party. I'm getting ready to get married soon.
00:44:01.180We are, you know, send me, send those good vibes, man. Thoughts and prayers. I can take them.
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