Told nbc news it s sad, i ve been sitting here the whole time and having approached anyone for the record, i am not a nazi. i m a believer in the us constitution. i haven t said one thing to him. now, this guy was apparently involved in the hunter biden laptop controversy. what do we know about him and how did you experience this playing out in court and around an after court yesterday well. case he let me be very clear that cnn has not independently corroborated that report from nbc. we reached out to hunter biden s team and they did not have anything to say about the matter, but i can tell you that number one, melissa cohen biden, the wife of hunter biden, she has been in the courtroom during this whole trial, sitting right next to the first lady and gerrit ziegler has also been in the courtroom and courthouse as well. so garrett ziegler, he s not a household name, but he is
When when he was there, but i to your bigger point, i think it just shows how emotionally fraught this entire thing is while she, you know, i actually saw melissa is and hunter s wife. she mouths an explicit explicit name at right after the prosecution opening statements that i can t repeat on television right. we should note for transparency sakes, ziegler did tell nbc news quote, it s sad, i ve been sitting here the whole time having approached anyone for the record, i m not a nazi, i m a believer in the constitution. i haven t said one thing to them. alex, radius inside the courtroom in terms of how especially hunter, his family reacted to some of what was heard in court yesterday. it seems like the prosecution was trying to make a distinction between judgments and choices that you can t make when you are addicted did as compared to what they described as a choice to purchase a
Confrontation that played out at the courthouse yesterday between melissa cohen, biden, who is hunter biden s wife, and a man named garrett ziglar, who is a former trump aide. so hunter biden s wife confronts garrett ziegler outside the trial. she points her finger at him and says, you have no right to be here you nazi pos. obviously using the profane version of that ziglar, then was interviewed, told nbc news, it sad, i ve been sitting here the whole time having approached anyone for the record, i m not a nazi. i m a believer in the us constitution. i haven t said one thing to them. now, this is a guy, garrett sigler, who after trump leaves the white house, has really made a career out of assembling information and disseminating it about hunter biden. they blame him for many of the most salacious and nasty things that came out into the open from the hunter biden laptop and everything else. but i was i was pretty surprised to see that his wife it really underscores just how tense this all is. there s a story, i believe it s in political recently
Wife, mother of their little boy, clashed outside, ken, with a former trump white house aide, garrett ziegler. he is being sued by hunter for pushing out data from that infamous laptop that s part of the evidence in the case, the emails and all, the texts. the emails came from that laptop. reporter: yeah. she lashed out at him, called him a nazi. she s very angry with him. two thing two pieces of context. he is not just a former white house official. he devoted his life to trolling the biden family, publishing the most extreme things taken from that laptop. this is a man that s detested by the family. secondly, he made statements that many people view as
Father desperately. the patrie? his country. his country is more important that his family. i think it s why. but you re proud of him? yes. a lot. i m very proud, yes. amongst the celebrations and solemnity of the d day commemorations, there are also painful memories of nazi occupation here, some collaboration, and so many lives lost. and also a realisation that despite decades now of pledging never again, war has come back here to europe on a scale not seen since world war two with russia s invasion of ukraine. ahead of tomorrow s formal d day ceremonies. a moment of liberty for us. ..we found this international youth group rehearsing for the world leaders expected here. as a german, i wanted to send a message, a message of peace. not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Normandy, france tuesday good afternoon everybody in martha maccallum and missus the story live from the american cemetery in normandy france where tomorrow we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of operation overlord, d-day, was in 150,000 allied forces landed on the beaches here to turn back the nazi hold on to europe. later this hour, another cure of world war ii. 96-year-old ronald roll do, i just 16 he found a way around the navies age requirement, bravely fighting and surviving injuries as a teenage boy. he says you comes to normandy because of the friends that he lost and also because of some of the nightmares he still has about his fallen hero buddies. people might think you re squarely when you talk about of the guys to back up from the grave but it s realistic to me
American cemetery here in normandy. thanks to the work over the nonprofit organization operation benjamin which has been led by lieutenant nathan bosco will be buried in his rightful restingplace, here, alongside his fellow heroes the next month. s body, at 28 years old, was dumped into a mass grave essentially with how many german soldiers? fifty-one, they were not separable so they were old jumbled together. at this man who gave his life in service of the united states, as they were fighting to the forces of nazi germany, where we know millions of jewish people were killed in concentration camps, this young american jewish lieutenant spent decades after the war mingled with the
dead bodies were already washing to shore when i got there. announcer: this was to be the longest days. reporter: june 6th, 1944, d-day. the u.s. and its allied stormed the beaches of normandy, breaking through nazi defenses, a massive assault that would lead to allied victory. the number of those still alive to tell the stories of that day disappearing fast, the average age now 100. ed betterhold is back for the first time. he bombed a key bridge on d-day. it was only his third mission. were you scared? oh, yeah. [ laughter ] as you approached the target, the bombing would be going off around you. i hope it helped there was one with my name on it. reporter: more than 4,000 allied troops died in the first
And its allies stormed the beaches of normandy breaking through nazi defenses, a massive assault that would lead to allied victory. now, eight decades later, veterans reuniting here likely for the last time. looking back at letters they wrote. dear mom, just a few lines to tell you we are all okay. reporter: diaries they kept. cruising off the beach. infantry ashore. reporter: and mementos they saved for all these years. what s this? that s a piece of shrapnel. reporter: ben miller, 99, was a medic, and at just 19 years old, one of just a few thousands carried to normandy in gliders. i don t know who it is. reporter: he is looking for the place his glider crashed. they were not experienced pilots but they glided the best they could. reporter: ben landed near st. marie
Painful memories of nazi occupation here, some collaboration, and so many lives lost. and also a realisation that despite decades now of pledging never again, war has come back here to europe on a scale not seen since world war two, with russia s invasion of ukraine. ahead of tomorrow s formal d day ceremonies. a moment of liberty for us. ..we found this international youth group rehearsing for the world leaders expected here. as a german, i wanted to send a message, a message of peace. not to repeat the mistakes of the past. and a plea from ukraine. freedom to all of us. a heartfelt d day message for leaders everywhere. katya adler, bbc news, normandy. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.