##### Metadata - Author: [[MSNBC Films]] - Full Title: Transcript: Trip 19 - Category: #articles - URL: <https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/transcript-trip-19-n1299418> #### Highlights - Ernest Lundeen. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410538)) - United States Senator from Minnesota ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410541)) - It's Saturday, August 31st, 1940 ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410544)) - that the other passengers on-board “Trip 19” included a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410580)) - Lundeen’s speech that he planned to give on Labor Day 1940, it extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life. It stressed, essentially, that we Americans had more in common with them, with Germans, than we had with our allies who Germany at that moment was busy invading and conquering. That's the speech Lundeen was heading home to give on Labor Day weekend, when his flight crashed on its first leg out of Washington. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410606)) - Now, somehow, miraculously, the physical draft— the hardcopy draft of that speech— survived the plane crash. You can see it in Ernest Lundeen’s archives at Stanford University. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410607)) - That speech had been ghost-written for Senator Lundeen. Ghost-written by a senior, paid agent of Hitler's government operating in America, a man to whom Senator Lundeen had grown very close. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410618)) - This was just days after Senator Lundeen was buried and Drew Pearson just drops this bombshell. He says, quote, "Justice Department agents were attempting to find out the extent to which Berlin was definitely hooked up with any members of [Congress] when Lundeen's plane crashed." ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410631)) - Radio Reporter: Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a leader of the America First Committee, has threatened to demand a congressional investigation of the way the Justice Department has been handling the prosecution of Nazi sympathizers. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1557510692/21410647))