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>> i know, griff, that you've been here, too, and you've chronicled these tales and truly profiles in courage and a strong american supporter as well. griff: profiles in courage indeed. greg palkot live for us in kyiv. thank you. aishah: listen to this, a number of refugees around the world, a new record, 108 million people were displaced in 2022, up 19 million from the previous year. that's the biggest increase ever. those new numbers released by the u.n. refugee agency as it pleads for leaders to avoid further conflict. and i spoke to one of the agency's leaders to find out what's going on. >> we're joined now by the deputy high commissioner for the u.n. refugee agency kelly clemens. good to see you. >> thank you for having us on the program. >> i want to start off with this stunning report and this top line number which is so deeply troubling to see, the biggest increase ever in the
>> reporter: in common, the will to get better. they and others at a rehabilitation center outside of kyiv funded by the u.s.es-based charity revive soldiers ukraine headed by a woman who came to the u.s. as an athlete later starting the group bringing amputee and paralyzed soldiers to the states. now she's helping injured back home. >> we've got a great team of specialists. >> reporter: why is she doing this? >> i feel obligated and kind of owe this person for -- these people for what they're doing for my country. >> reporter: there is a strong desire to get back in the fight. >> translator: hopefully, i can get my hand better and then be able to go back. >> reporter: is it worth it and will russia be defeated? >> translator: i have no doubt about that. >> reporter: mike, truly profiles in courage. there's a lot of them here and a lot of danger ahead. back to you. mike: greg with talcott, many
america will go big. and 20 years later john kennedy stood and said with absolutely nothing to base it on other than his belief in us that we're going to the moon and we're going to the moon before the end of the decade. we didn't have a rocket. we didn't even know what an astronaut was. i'm confident he didn't. so how could he possibly have been so audacious to do it? he was that audacious because he was an american leader, who watched all those examples before him, and knew his history, wrote a book called "profiles in courage" about courageous leaders in this country, and what did he do? he put us on that path that even
[laughter] we didn't even know what an astronaut was. i'm confident he didn't. so how could he possibly have been so audacious to do it? he was that audacious because he was an american leader, who watched all those examples before him. and knew his history. wrote a book called profiles in courage. about courageous leaders in this country. and what did he do? he put us on that path that even though he wasn't there to see it to its conclusion, we would have never got therein if john kennedy would have thought small, would have not believed in the american people. would not have believed in our ingenuity and our industry and our faith and our hope. and then 20 years after that,
because she actually said january 6th wasn't a beautiful day. i mean, talk about a low bar. i just -- this is -- and did you notice the audience when she said it wasn't a beautiful day? half of them were sitting on their hands. this thing that has happened in the republican party is real. watching somebody like nikki haley try to find who she is in plain view is painful. she has no idea who she is. she has no idea if she wants trump supporters or doesn't want trump supporters, whether she thinks trump is a jerk or thinks trump is the second coming. by the way, that's the kind of wishy-washy stuff that makes everybody think politicians just stink. so i don't get how she gets there by doing this. you can't play both sides of this deal. if you do, you're going to get caught in the middle in a painful way and going to be a footnote in history. >> yeah, no profiles in courage.
remarkable. salman rushdie has been an important part of pen. pen mobilized, rose to his side, advocated for him. when he was a free man again, he came to new york and became president of our organization. he's stayed involved ever since. he founded a big festival called pen world voices that we do every year. it wrapped up this weekend on sunday. when he was attacked last summer, it was an absolute gut punch. it was terrifying to think that an authoritarian country could reach right here into the state of new york and launch a murderous attack. he really fought for his life. we didn't know whether and when we would see him again. and so to have him last night come up on stage, you talked about profiles in courage a few minutes ago. this is a profile in courage. to see him stand up there alive and well, he's missing an eye
On December 7, 1998, a special John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award was presented to eight political leaders of Northern Ireland and the American chairman of the peace talks in recognition of the extraordinary political courage they demonstrated in negotiating the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement in April 1998. The presentation of the Profile
guns and taking pictures of that i -- i'm not going to do the shock opera because it is heartbreaking. >> it is. >> because it's ripping our country and our children apart. >> it's so true. >> to have little children holding guns, to normalize it at that age, is just sinful but, you know, mr. mayor, when i was growing up in brooklyn, i read this book by john kennedy, "profiles in courage." leadership is courage. one of the things you're doing and other mayors that are harkening to your call is showing courage. enough courage to stand up to the extremists on the leftand the right. people are dying we need courageous leadership at this time rather than these daily reports of, oh, the mass shooting now moved here. oh, it's here. oh, do you have a camera there i mean, this is insane. >> it's this whole con co