jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
loud explosions. the loss of life is fuelling anger on both sides. this attack on the 7th of october is a proper before and after moment. it opens a new chapter in the palestinian israeli conflict. with israel on the verge of a ground invasion of gaza, could this crisis engulf the whole middle east? explosion. you could hear, tack tack tack tack. pack a packa, tack tack tack. thinking, ok, that s unusual. and i could hear it getting closer. just after sunrise on october 7th, hamas gunmen entered be eri kibbutz in southern israel. he whistles quietly. thomas hand had just woken up. so i thought, ok, i ll go in to my bomb shelter and actually close the door. on our telephone, we ve got loads of messages back and forward from the kibbutz, from members saying, they re in my house. send the army. where s the army? a few kilometres away, in another kibbutz, kfar aza, shaylee atary was at home with her husband yahav and baby daughter shayha. there was bombing in really early, earl
disaster situation. if the fuel is out, the hospital will turn to mortuary. loud explosions. the loss of life is fuelling anger on both sides. this attack on the 7th of october is a proper before and after moment. it opens a new chapter in the palestinian israeli conflict. with israel on the verge of a ground invasion of gaza, could this crisis engulf the whole middle east? explosion. you could hear, tack tack tack tack. pack a packa, tack tack tack. thinking, ok, that s unusual. and i could hear it getting closer. just after sunrise on october 7th, hamas gunmen entered be eri kibbutz in southern israel. he whistles quietly. thomas hand had just woken up. so i thought, ok, i ll go in to my bomb shelter and actually close the door. on our telephone, we ve got loads of messages back and forward from the kibbutz, from members saying, they re in my house. send the army. where s the army? a few kilometres away, in another kibbutz, kfar aza, shaylee atary was at home with her hus
as it was a one way system, i would pass whatever messages i had to and then, they would lift their lever and pass their responses. and it was when they lifted their lever that i realised i was listening to warfare. because they were landing on the beaches, and i could hear it. i could hear it all gunfire, machine guns, cannon, screaming, men men shouting, orders being shouted, all manner of things. you suddenly thought, this is a war . i really had the war in my ears and it made me very much aware of what was at stake.
gunfire, machine guns, cannon, screaming, men men shouting, orders being shouted, all manner of things. you suddenly thought, this is a war . i really had the war in my ears and it made me very much aware of what was at stake. so, you know, ithink it taught me a lesson about war although i was a non combatant, of course. nevertheless, i heard war at a very, very close source because not only did i have that experience on d day, but i d lived through the blitz as well.