he also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. so does he believe that the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent, and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived in america. my parents were young immigrants, fleeing persecution and poverty no money, no skills, no language, and lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn t need any boots made in new york, there were no cowboys, but the owner of the building offered us the opportunity to sleep in the cellar, and my father would be the j
the five years after the military tribunal is, hardtalk repeated 27 interview with the last surviving prosecutor from the trials of nazi war criminals. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, here in florida, where my guest is 98 year old ben ferencz. he is the last surviving prosecutor at the nuremberg nazi trials. he also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. so does he believe that the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent, and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived in america. my parents were young immigrants, fleeing persecution and pov
they are said to meet with new york leaders, the president is expected to roll out a strategy to stop the flow of illegal guns and support local law enforcement. is it too little too late? so far, homicides in major cities like atlanta, baltimore, milwaukee, in minneapolis our way up compared to the start of 2021 and a new york city although mergers murders are down robberies and carjackings have spikes. police reporting more than 1,000 robberies in the city this year alone. of course, the deaths of new york city cup jason rivera and mora reminded everyone how the men and women who keep us safe are putting their own lives at risk. far left democrats have made it clear where they use stand on the police. popped talking about the reproduction of our nypd budget and defunding the budget. not only do we need to defund, we need to dismantle and start anew. i support the defend defund movement because this is about the investment in our communities which have historically bee
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another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the