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The story of that day in a way that makes it clear to the american people so that we understand ourselves in a true, well informed way and can make good decisions about these kinds of problems in this kind of crisis moving forward. >> yeah, i mean think about the isolationism that we were facing in 1939 and 1940, and before pearl harbor, fdr was able to tell a story to the american people about why it was important to support england, who was standing alone against the nazis in western europe, a...

Heres a quote from claudia hyde — she works for the holocaust memorial day trust and she spends a lot of time thinking about the contemporary resonances of nuremberg, and she says this, "justice cannot be "secured without truth and for survivors, "thejudgement at nuremberg were not the whole truth". no judgement is the whole truth and nuremberg was like any other tribunal in that sense. its a partial truth — its what the judges decide. for example, the judges decided they couldnt look at any...

Better every day. i dont know. the problem, pete, is the left, the radical left has biden in a box. he cant make the adjustments on the border he needs to secure the border. remain in mexico was imposed by the court. he cant change his border policy because the left wont let him. we cant expand drilling for oil here at home because the left wont let him. the foreign policy he is just incompetent. wrong about everything for 40 years. there is a 1-2 punch. radical islam is raging in afghanistan. 2...

Today, it would be done differently. heres a quote from claudia hyde — she works for the holocaust memorial day trust and she spends a lot of time thinking about the contemporary resonances of nuremberg, and she says this, "justice cannot be "secured without truth and for survivors, "the judgement at nuremberg were not the whole truth". no judgement is the whole truth and nuremberg was like any other tribunal in that sense. its a partial truth — its what the judges decide. for example, the j...

Strong insight into his thinking or his intentions right now, which is exactly how he wants it. he likes to keep people on the back foot. he likes to keep people guessing. and he likes to have an element of surprise which is why we find ourselves in this scenario having no idea whether tomorrow we could be looking at a full scale military invasion of a sovereign country in ukraine, the likes of which we havent seen since 1939, hitler invading poland. this would be a momentous occasion. or we cou...

Tonight, the u.s. economy reporting new records. unemployment rate hiding a pandemic-era low of 3.9%. 199,000 jobs added in december. now, thats far fewer than what economists had predicted. president biden, though, looking at the positive side of it. pointing to the total number of jobs added in all of 2021, which was 6.4 million coming oun on the hemos of the pandemic and all the jobs lost, it is the highest gain since records began in 1939. >> i think its historic day for our economic recover...

Of their shortcomings? no, it was a revolutionary moment. this had never happened before in human history — that the leaders of a state, germany vanquished, should be put on trial before an international tribunal — this was a completely new thing. and as part of that process, new crimes were invented — genocide, the killing of groups, crimes against humanity, the killing of individuals. theres a problem, of course, these crimes did not exist in 1939 or 1942 as such, and so they were applie...

Brother and his cossacks. alina peretti, now in her— brother and his cossacks. alina peretti, now in her 90s, - brother and his cossacks. alina peretti, now in her 90s, has. peretti, now in her 90s, has had the most remarkable life. but like many of her generation she was real —— reluctant to talk about her past. 50 she was real -- reluctant to talk about her past.- she was real -- reluctant to talk about her past. so that is uuite a talk about her past. so that is quite a rare — talk ab...

>> someday this wars going to end. >> the fight hadnt gone how they expected. it wasnt a traditional war and it felt very hazy and a lot of them were high. and it felt like an apt metaphor for what the war was like for many, many people. >> this is a powerful indictment of war but its also a disturbing journey to the darkest reaches of our own human soul. >> i think just in terms of a movie that scares you, "the exorcist" is the best. there was nothing else like this. >> "the godfather" was the ...

About lets buy some time. and then the 1st of september, 1939, poland was invaded. im not trying to equate the two, but its just interesting how, if you look at history, its very difficult to determine what each side is going to do. nina, a conflict between russia and ukraine would no doubt lead to the death of thousands of people on both sides. there is a russian focus on ukraine which goes back through history. how do you read this? >> well, i thought that originally when the troops started ar...