going into conversion therapy, and conversion therapy is like a crucible that builds on al of the horrible feelings you have as a good growing up in the south, and a lot of stereotypes that exist. i was there in the therapy session the last day before left, and they were asking m to sit across from an empt chair and imagine my fathe sitting there. they said, you need to show us you hate him, because obviously, the stereotype is a gay ma must take the swab, or right there freudian stuff i there. i said, i don t hate my father i don t feel that way. i feel sad we are disconnected they just kept saying, you are not telling the truth, and luckily i had read 1984 at thi point. i learned that words can mea they re opposite they can be used in a certai way to brainwash people. i said, this is not what lov is you are calling yourself lov inaction, but it s hate an action i stood up and left th auditory, and that s when my
tell me, but that s where i got your father, obviously. did your fathe r really care for you? all right. nothw that we vee wors actuallyn through the worst case, if you could give any political guys or let s say a mediaperson personality gift to whomal would you give it and why? monica going to start with thest first? well, my media person, who i also think is person of the year this year is elonactual musk, who actually like to onelk of my tweets today.so tha so that t was very cool. and he s obviously the richestsd worlhe second richest person r n the world. so what he obviouslyd, so we ha everything. so i would give him a hug fornd saving free speech, at least the on twitter and at least for the time being, he thought i was thinking you could give him the rest of the alphabet, didn t name one of this kids x, so you could just see all the other letters. he gets those. that s for free to .u ques all right, jason , whatit about you? you re going to think of
not only gets in his 12 year old s face, but tells him things that i can t repeatthe fb on the air. look, i mean, when you think about it, the fbi conductsn early morning raid at the home of an individual. individual. they is 30 they have 30 fbi agents with long guns. they hav agee 15 vehicles thatto surround the house. they re pounding on the doordina they ve gom.t a swat teamt brea and they re pounding on the door. they almost break the door down. so wheare n they open the door, there are five gun aimeds aimedt the head of mark houk. so let s go back for a second sa and say, why do you need a swate team to arrestst this father? i mean, is a drug dealer or is he a violent criminal? because swat is specifically designed for specialized training and tactics for those individuals who are a danger or. a threat to public safety.e abst the absurdity of using swat in f doing all this is simply evidence of what the bident on administration i is intending to do to intimidate people on the righ
holocaust survivors, i knew that my whole life, but to hear in detail all of his recollections, his remembrances of the horror that he and his family went through, and to watch it on video it was just for me such an emotional, powerful experience and i was grateful to our team to help put this documentary together for tonight. that they discovered that they found this video and i could watch it and learn from it. i got to say, i got chills when i just heard that. wolf, bllistening to your fathe. for many years in the united states, even for survivors, it wasn t something they talked about as much in some ways as it is discussed now, wolf. did he ever talk to you about wanting to open up, about why it was important to tell the story? he always spoke about that. and that s why he did these oral history interviews, so that future generations from his family, but for everyone that they could listen and learn from
do something violent himself. he told the fbi his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020 when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021, attack on the u.s. capitol building. then the fbi decided maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son,th the son s fathe had not only traveled from texas to washington, d.c., to take part in the january 6th attack on the capitol, he had come back home to texas afterwards and showed his staged kids c stad kids video of the attack. he told his kids in texas, that, yes, he participated in the attack, and yes, he definitely hadat a loaded gun with him durg the entire thing. he also threatened to kill his kids if they told anyone. he told his 18-year-old son and