With him realized that what they had done with him working with o convicted nazi agent, they realized what they had done wita him was probably going to come out at that trial and that would be a bad look, so they decided to take action. One particularly powerful senator who was implicated in p this thing went to the attorneyi general and basically threatened the Attorney General that he would tie the doj up in knots, he would go after the Attorney General himself unless the Attorney General fired the prosecutor who was leading this case. And the senator had kind of a hook for doing this. The prosecutor he wanted fired had just been criticized by the court because when he was n prosecuting that nazi agent, th court said he spoke with basically too much passion, witk too much emotion about that defendant in front of the jury. So the prosecutor had been criticized in court. That was the hook they used for going after him. And you know, thats not exactly a Capital Offense as a prosecutor.
Here we go, ready . Meet this guy. The most highly paid nazi agent in the United States in the leadup to world war ii. His job here was to spread propaganda for the nazis in the United States. This guy was charged and convicted of being a nazi agent in the u. S. , and he was a relatively well known figure, so it was relatively big news when he was charged and convicted. It made the front page of the new york times, for example. But the bigger scandal about him was that he got a whole bunch of members of congress to participate in this Propaganda Thing that hitler was paying him to do. Members of congress were involved with him. Lots of them. Then he was indicted a second time, the same guy. And the first time it was for being a nazi agent. The second time it was not just for him personally being a nazi agent, it was a much bigger indictment. For him being part of a large, Seditious Conspiracy against the United States. And that is when members of congress who had been working with him
Time for a look at the weather across the uk with ben rich. And theres more bad weather on the way. Yes, for some things will get worse before they get better. Not least in the eastern dramatic developments tonight as hamas releases two americans a mother and daughter, judith and Natalie Ranaan into the care of the red cross after negotiations involving qatar. Hamas says it released the hostages on humanitarian grounds after President Biden decried them as inhumane. Two american hostages released so what does this mean for the fate of the nearly 200 that remain . Well hear from general david petreus, the former director of the cia. Will tonights hostage release impact israels plans for their offensive . Emir has been to the lebanese Israel Border where fighting there has intensified. What was that sound . This is the terrorist. What was that sound . This is the terrorist, the terrorists start the bombs well be speaking to professor lina khatib, the director of the soas middle eastern i
Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. Welcome to The Programme. We start in the middle east, where the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an Israeli Attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. Mahmoud abbas is at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. He will be joined there on monday by the us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken. Other Key International figures are expected in the saudi city and Sideline Meetings are expected to discuss the war in gaza and the way forward. That could include further Ceasefire Talks a hamas delegation is reportedly in cairo for discussions there on monday. This is the appeal from palestinian president , mahmoud abbas, to the us, urging it convince israel to reconsider any offensive in rafah. Translation and i say here whats happening now in gaza, | and what will happen in the coming few days, and what israel will do by invading the city of rafah, all the palestinians from gaza are gathered in rafah and its only one small strike tha
Statement of the Prime Minister . Lie communique from the government also supported recently by the leader of law and justice just a few minutes ago is that we remain at heart of support for ukraine because we are a hub of support via the polish border there is humanitarian as well as Military Support for ukraine going on. Also contracts already signed for contracts of weapons going on. Poland was one of the first countries supplying heavy arms to ukraine at the beginning of the war. I would say one third of arms stocks that we have to supply them by buying new equipment to fulfil and increase the nato requirements because we are one of the countries under direct threat from the russian federation. We under direct threat from the russian federation. ~. ,. , federation. We are seeing pictures of polish tanks federation. We are seeing pictures of polish tanks being federation. We are seeing pictures of polish tanks being delivered federation. We are seeing pictures of polish tanks being