What's up friends, subscribers, and new viewers.
It's Jon from Here Be Barr and this video has absolutely nothing to do with travel.
It's about life.
And may have noticed I haven't published anything for a while.
Well I've got a story to share that could have happened to any guy.
Your friend, your brother, your husband.
This is an ultra sound of my right testicle taken two weeks ago.
That growth right there in the middle is a tumor. It's cancer.
Let's backtrack two weeks to April 12, 2017.
I had about 11 days left in Mexico City.
I was having an amazing time with my girlfriend making travel vlogs.
For this channel, my subscriber numbers were going up.
Every single day. Literally nothing could go wrong in my life.
Ironically enough, I was shooting a vlog about our volunteer experience at a home for the blind.
When I first felt it.
Right as I finished my on-camera.
I felt this sharp jolt of pain, shooting up from right groin into my stomach.
I caught that moment on camera and i'm pulling it from the edit.
Not my best look right there.
It hurt so much I had to sit down just to compose myself.
My girlfriend begged me to go to the hospital.
And I was very reluctant as I hate going to doctors.
But in the end I decided to go.
I thought it would just be a quick in and out visit.
Boy how wrong I was.
We went to a local hospital where I was quickly seen and the doctors theory was that it was a hernia.
Because I had just come from the gym, I was lifting heavy weights.
But just to be on the safe side they sent me upstairs to get an ultrasound with a radiologist.
I was lieing there on a cold table when I saw his eyes widen.
And then he said something that I'll never forget the rest of my life.
I found it. This growth here.
In your right testicle.
It's not normal.
And that's when I knew something was seriously wrong.
The rest of the night was a blur.
I met a local urologist. He told me his theory
That it was a cancerous tumor and that I needed to fly home immediately.
We went back to the apartment, packed up.
I booked a flight home for the next day and I probably had the worst night of sleep of my entire life.
I never thought something like that could have happened to me.
I had an extremely healthy diet.
I went to the gym regularly.
I was a zombie for a couple of days.
I got in with a doctor at NYU. By Friday
And the American Urologist confirmed what the Mexican doctor found.
That it was likely a cancerous tumor.
And that I had to have my right testicle removed as soon as possible.
On top of that, I had to get bloodwork done.
I had to get a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvis.
As well as a chest x-ray to see if the cancer had spread.
Anybody who has never gone through a major health problem might not understand.
But that weekend as I waited for results to see if cancer had spread to other parts of my body.
Was by far the hardest of my life.
All of the problems that you think you have.
Most of them don't really matter.
All I cared about were those results.
And there was a book I re-read called a New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Which really helped me through those dark times.
And there's a passage from that book that I want to read right now.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
How do you know this is the experience you need?
Because this is the experience you're having at this moment.
And with that, I was ready to face whatever was coming my way.
The doctor phoned me on Monday.
He had the results.
Negative on everything.
Cancer didn't spread anywhere.
It was the first victory for me.
And I did feel some relief. But I still needed surgery.
This past Friday I went to NYU's Langone Medical with my girlfriend and my mom
To have my first surgery since I was eight years old.
Everything moved so fast, I was on that operating table a little over a week after discovering the tumor.
The medical team there was fantastic.
The surgery was done in less than an hour.
Here are some candid photos from the recovery room.
That's me waking up.
And that's me drinking water, lots and lots of water.
And with that, the process of healing started.
But their was one last order of business.
They had to do a pathology report on the tumor, to find out if I needed radiation or chemotherapy.
The doctor phoned me last night, I asked him how he was doing.
He responded shouldn't I be asking you that question ?
I've got good news. It's a seminoma.
A less aggressive form of testicular cancer.
We're not going to have to give you anymore treatment.
We're just going to monitor you every three months for the next year.
To make sure nothing comes back.
It was one of the best prognoses I could receive.
The odds are I'll never need any treatment again.
I celebrated.
With a beer.
A Brooklyn Lager if you're curious.
It's been less than a week and i'm still walking like a tortoise.
But I've learned a lot about life.
And what's really important.
Your health, your family, your friends.
And I want to thank all of the people that helped me out throughout this tough process.
More than I can ever say on camera.
And I also want to say, listen to your girlfriends, guys out there.
They tend to have a sixth sense about things.
I also wanted to bring awareness to Testicular Cancer.
Did you know that it's the most common kind of cancer for men between the ages of 18-35.
Which is a big portion of my viewers.
Guys, check yourself at least once a month.
In the shower.
I'm going to be leaving a link in the description showing you exactly how to do that.
A lot of times testiculuar cancer is painless.
I was lucky that I had a physical symptom.
It is a very curable illness.
But it is important that you try to catch it early.
As for me I am so happy to be healthy again.
And I can not wait to get out there, to make more travel vlogs.
And other content. I just need to feel a little bit better.
If you know any guys out there who could benefit from this video.
Please do share it with them.
And if you've ever had a similar experience or you just want to say hi.
Do leave me a comment. I'll appreciate every single one.
All the best. Thank you for watching.
And please stay healthy.
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Police: Woman crashed stolen car, set it on fire while nephew with special needs was inside - Duration: 2:32.
NEWS
REPORTER ASHLIE HARDWAY IS LIVE
TONIGHT.
REPORTER: GOOD EVENING.
MARGARET WALKER TELLS ME BOTH
SHE AND HER SISTER TRIED TWICE
YESTERDAY TO GET HER DAUGHTER
COMMITTED FOR MENTAL HEALTH
ISSUES.
IN FACT, THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY
TO DO JUST THAT WHEN THEY TELL
ME MA RQUITA WALKER STOLE HER
AUNT'S CAR WITH A LITTLE BOY
INSIDE.
A GOOD SAMARITAN HAPPENED TO BE
DRIVING BY AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT
MOMENT AND HE SAVED THAT WOMAN
AND THE LITTLE BOY'S LIFE.
>> THERE'S A KID, THEY NEED TO
GET HIM.
REPORTER: PANIC AND CHAOS LAST
NIGHT AS 5-YEAR-OLD BRAYDEN
BARNS WAS TRAPPED INSIDE THIS
BURNING CAR WITH HIS AUNT,
MARQUITA WALKER.
>> I SAID THE BABY DOESN'T NEED
TO BE SMELLING THIS SMOKE.
WIND THE WINDOW DOWN.
SHE SAID WE'RE FINE.
SHE SAID DID YOU CALL THE COPS.
I SAID NO.
SHE SAID WE'RE OKAY, IT'S FINE.
REPORTER: THE BOY WHO LIVES WITH
SHUNT AND LEG BRACES WASN'T
FINE.
CLIFFORD GRABBED A HAMMER FROM
HIS WORK TRUCK AND SMASHED THE
WINDOW AS HE TRIED TO PULL THE
BOY OUT, HE SAID WALKER KEPT HER
NEPHEW IN A CHOKE HOLD.
>> IMAGINE SITTING ON IT, FLAMES
COMING CLEAR UP AROUND YOU LIKE
THIS AND TOUCHING THE HEADLINER.
REPORTER: HE GOT HIM OUT AND
BRAYDEN WILL BE OKAY.
POLICE BELIEVE WALKER STOLE HER
AUNT'S CAR, CRASHED IT AND SET
IT ON FIRE INTENTIONALLY AFTER
HER FAMILY TRIED TO GET HER
COMMITTED FOR MENTAL HEALTH
ISSUES.
>> SHE WAS SCREAMING OH, MY GOD,
MY BABY IS IN THE BACK, STOP,
MA
MARQUITA, STOP.
REPORTER: SHE'S THANKFUL HER
GRAND SON IS OKAY AND HOPES SHE
CAN GET THE HELP HER DAUGHTER
DESPERATELY NEEDS.
>> I JUST HOPE MENTAL HEALTH,
NOT JUST FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE
BUT FOR EVERYONE GOING THROUGH
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
REPORTER: SHE WAS ARRAIGNED ON A
NUMBER OF CHARGES AND PLACED IN
THE FAYETTE COUNTY JAIL.
HER MOTHER HOPES SHE CAN GET
SOME SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH HELP
BECAUSE SHE FEARS IF HER
DAUGHTER IS JUST PUNISHED
WITHOUT RECEIVING PROPER
TREATMENT, SHE WON'T BE ANY
BETTER BY THE TIME SHE'S
EVENTUALLY RELEASED.
THAT GOOD SAMARITAN YOU HEARD
FROM, CLIFF, SAID HE AND HIS
ATTORNEY HAVE SET UP A FUND TO
HELP THE LITTLE BOY GET A NEW
CAR SEAT AND NEW LEG BRACES.
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN HELPING
WITH THAT, WE'VE POSTED THE
INFORMATION ON OUR WEB SITE
WTAE.COM.
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Cumberland Fire Chief: Building's alarm system was not maintained - Duration: 0:18.
TONIGHT: Increasing clouds
EYEWITNESS NEWS IN
CUMBERLAND...
...WHERE FIRE CREWS
ARE INVESTIGATING A FIRE
IN THE BEDROOM OF A
SMALL APARTMENT
BUILDING.
THIS WAS ON HINES ROAD
SHORTLY BEFORE 7:30
THIS MORNING...
EYEWITNESSES CALLED
9-1-1 QUICKLY.
CUMBERLAND'S FIRE
CHIEF TELLS US THE
BUILDING HAS AN ALARM
SYSTEM BUT IT WASN'T
OPERATIONAL.
THEY'RE STILL
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Man released on bail after 37 years in prison - Duration: 1:49.
>> THE MOMENT FRED ALWAYS HOPED
WOULD COME.
HE IS FREE.
AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT FOR THE
PEOPLE WHO STOOD BY HIM FOR THE
FOUR DECADES HE SPENT IN PRISON
AFTER HIS CONVICTION AND LIFE
SENTENCE FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH.
>> FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM.
>> UNBELIEVABLE.
IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
>> IT HAS TAKEN YEARS TO GET
HERE, AND AIDING THIS MORNING.
A JUDGE ORDERED A NEW TRIAL
AFTER THE DEFENSE UNCOVERED A
POLICE REPORT THAT SHOWED
ANOTHER MAN COULD HAVE COMMITTED
THE CRIME.
PROSECUTORS ARGUED TO KEEP HIM
LOCKED UP.
>> IT IS OUTRAGEOUS.
HE SHOT A MAN IN THE BACK OF THE
HEAD.
>> THE JUDGE WAS NOT SWAYED.
>> BAIL IS SET FOR $5,000.
>> HE HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED HIS
INNOCENCE AND THIS IS HIS THIRD
ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN HIS
CONVICTION.
HE IS CONVINCED HE WAS SET UP BY
WHITEY BULGER TO TAKE THE FALL.
STEVE GROSSMAN HAS BEEN WORKING
TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE.
>> DID YOU EVER THINK THIS DAY
WOULD COME?
>> WE DID.
WE NEVER GAVE UP.
>> BREAKING OUT OF THE APPLAUSE,
WHEN THE JUDGE SAID THAT, WHAT
WAS GOING THROUGH YOU?
>> IT WAS A SURREAL MOMENT.
>> WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
TODAY?
>> ENJOY LIFE.
>> A STEAK DINNER.
CAN'T BLAME THE GUY.
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Stranded UHC E4 - Wolf Among Sheep [Sous-titré en français] - Duration: 21:03.
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Tillerson's stock rises in the White House - Duration: 13:18.
Tillerson's stock rises in the White House
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looked like he had been cast into social Siberia.
The former ExxonMobil CEO was enjoying a martini with his wife at the BLT Prime steakhouse
inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Feb. 25, when President Donald Trump strode
in with Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, happened to be at the
hotel and was invited to join the president's dinner party.
Tillerson, who came over to say hello as he was leaving, was not.
Viewed as the walled-off leader of a demoralized department, Tillerson in the opening days
of the Trump administration was cast as an inexperienced statesman undercut by the White
House as the nation's top diplomat, supplanted in that role by the president's powerful
son-in-law.
But over the past month, as Tillerson has taken a lead on the administration's strategy
with Syria, Russia and China, his status has shifted — and behind the scenes, he's
emerging as Trump's favorite Cabinet secretary.
Read the entire
story
in Source, link
in description.
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She was 'always smiling': Friend remembers N. Highlands victim - Duration: 1:31.
BOTH CRIMES TAKING PLACE JUST
HOURS APART.
THE 86-YEAR-OLD IS NOW BEING
CALLED A HERO.
AN 86-YEAR-OLD WOMAN KILLED
DURING A BRUTAL ATTACK DURING AN
EARLY MORNING WALK IS BEING
REMEMBERED BY LONG-TIME FRIENDS.
>> FUSAKO HAS FAMILY IN JAPAN.
BUT WE ARE ESSENTIALLY HER
FAMILY HERE.
VICKI: VICKI BUTLER TELLS US
86-YEAR-OLD FUSAKO PETRUS BUILT
A LIFE IN NORTH HIGHLANDS.
>> SHE WAS JUST A FUN LADY, YOU
KNOW, ALWAYS SMILING, ALWAYS
HAPPY.
VICKI: A BELOVED FAMILIAR FACE
ON THE STREET SHE CALLED HOME OF
DECADES.
>> SHE'S WALKED HERE FOR 30
YEARS AND LIVED IN THIS
NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND HAS FELT SAFE IN THIS
NEIGHBORHOOD.
VICKI: WEDNESDAY MORNING, FUSAKO
WAS EXERCISING WITH HER
61-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOR AROUND THE
HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL TRACK
FIELD, WHEN INVESTIGATORS SAY A
STRANGER SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BOTH
WOMEN, BEFORE BEATING THEM.
VICKI TELLS US THE 86-YEAR-OLD
WAS KILLED TRYING TO SAVE HER
NEIGHBOR
>> THE OTHER WOMAN WAS ATTACKED
FIRST.
FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, HE WAS
CHOKING HER AND FUSAKO STARTED
HITTING HIM WITH HER WALKING
STICK.
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Man, 25, Gunned Down In Soouth LA While Killer Remains At Large - Duration: 1:43.
BACK TO YOU.
SUZIE: THANK YOU.
A DEVELOPING STORY OUT OF
SOUTH L.A., HOMICIDE DETECTIVES
ARE INVESTIGATING A DEADLY
SHOOT.
KCAL9'S RACHEL KIM IS LIVE IN
CRENSHAW DISTRICT, WHERE A BODY
WAS FOUND IN AN ALLEY.
REPORTER: YES, THIS SHOOTING
HAPPENED IN ANNAL THAT'S SITS
BEHIND THIS BANK OF AMERICA, A
SMART & FINAL STORE.
POLICE SAY AT-THIS-POINT THE
VICTIM IS NOT A GANG MEMBER BUT
IT IS UNCLEAR IF THE SHOOTER.
IS
THAT AFTER 4 P.M., THERE WERE
TWO PEOPLE IN THE CAR, IN THAT
ALLEY, SOMEONE IN A DARK SUV
PULLED UP NEXT TO THEM, AND
STOPPED.
THAT PERSON GOT OUT OF HIS CAR
APPROACHED THE TWO IN THE OTHER
CAR AND FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS
HITTING AND KILLING THE
PASSENGER.
THE SHOOTER TOOK OFF.
AND SO DID THE DRIVER IN THE
VICTIM'S CAR.
POLICE SAY THERE WAS SOME
DISPUTE BETWEEN THE SUSPECT AND
THE VICTIM BEFORE.
ALSO FROM THE AREA, SOME PEOPLE
WHO LIVE HERE SAY THEY ARE FED
UP WITH THE VIOLENCE.
I HAVE BEEN IN THIS AREA ALL
MY LIFE, AS TIME WENT ON IT GETS
WORSE AND WORSE, IT LIKE
DAYLIGHT NOW, THEY DON'T CARE NO
MORE, IT IS DAY LIKE, I AM TIRED
OF IT ALL THESE YOUTH, BLACK,
WHITE, HISPANIC IT DON'T MATTER,
YOU KNOW, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, ONLY
WAY THAT WILL CHANGE IF WE,
PEOPLE, CHANGE THINGS AROUND.
PEOPLE GETTING IT, STOP TALKING
ABOUT NO SNITCHING AND ALL,
THAT YOU KNOW.
YOU KNOW, THEY ALL KNOW, TELL
THE POLICE.
REPORTER: POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR
THE DRIVER WAS THE VICTIM'S CAR,
THEY ARE ASKING BEEN INFORMATION
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Fridtjof Nansen: The Arctic Saga | Tooky History - Duration: 3:14.
The toughest Winter Olympic event is 50km cross-country
Professional athletes prepare for the event for years and still fail to complete it
Then there's this guy, Fridtjof Nansen, he went 50miles cross-country daily, and still had time to do a lot of cool stuff
Nansen lived in Kristiania, which is an older and far more awesome name for Oslo
He liked going off into the cold to live alone with his dog for weeks
This developed his survival skills, but that's not all! Nansen became an excellent skier and skater
He broke a skating world record and was a 12-time national cross-country champion
A stat nobody would be impressed with if he was from, say, Algeria
Nansen studied zoology so that he could still spend most of his days outdoors
He concentrated on the central nervous system of lower marine creatures
And his work makes him one of the founders of modern neurology
While still a student, Nansen embarked on a sea trip, going through Arctic seas and landing in Greenland
During the trip he discovered some pretty obvious stuff that wasn't really known before
For example, the ice forms on the surface of the water and the Gulf Stream flows deep through the ocean
Nansen also became a top marksman and noted that he and his team killed 200 seals in a single day
Back then, Greenland was still an unexplored territory
Closest people came to the Greenland icecap was sending a letter to Santa
Nansen decided to be the first guy to cross Greenland
All previous expeditions would land on the west coast in the inhibited part and then go inwards until retreating
Nansen decided to land on the east side and go west
The country didn't want to help him with this suicidal mission so he had to organize everything by himself
For this crazy idea he needed crazy people who would actually survive
So his team of six had Sami people, who lived in the far north of Norway
Once landing, Nansen destroyed the ships so that there was no point in complaining about going back
I guess you could say he didn't get.....
Cold feet
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Upon returning to Norway, getting a PhD and becoming a national hero, Nansen decided it was no time to chill
He wanted to become the first person to reach the North Pole
This mission was not successful, although Nansen reached the highest latitude to that date
The ship took unexpected drifts through the ice, so Nansen decided to go to the North Pole on a sled
He went deep towards the Pole but had to retreat just couple of hundreds miles before
He was stranded and before a rescue mission reached him
Nansen built a hut and survived by eating bear and walrus meat
How did he get the meat, you ask?
Well, he clubbed them to death...
Once back, Nansen publicly spoke about Norway's separation from Sweden
He represented Norway in Britain and secretly talked to the prince of Denmark
He succeeded in persuading the prince to become the king of Norway and was instrumental in Norway's independence
Soon enough, WWI broke out and Nansen represented Norway in the League of Nations
He devoted his work to helping the prisoners of war and raising funds to reduce the famine
Many of the refugees were left stranded after the war not having any type of documentation
For these stateless people, a document called "The Nansen Passport" was designed
Which was recognized by more than 50 countries
Before dying aged 68, Nansen received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1922
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First Person 2017: Alex Schiffman-Shilo - Duration: 58:15.
I see we have many scouts here.
The picture can you put back the picture?
We've already been closed.
Sorry.
Well, you could see I was in uniform and the beret, in the middle was the sign of the Cub
Scouts in France.
And you can see in the middle of it a little wolf.
The wolf was because our Bible was "The Junglebook."
You had mother wolf and father wolf.
And we gave names, nicknames.
Of all the names possible, I was given the one of Mowgli, who was the little boy who
was adopted by the wolves.
I remember myself crying every time I read about the death of mother wolf.
Now, the two stars is just after a few years, one or two years you get one star, after another
year you get the second star.
This is the veteran you are.
That picture, you were older, probably 9 or 10.
9 or 10.
So that was not when you were in Strasbourg.
What do you remember about your early life in Strasbourg?
Very little.
Very little.
What I know is more what my sister told me.
I had a sister, passed away.
She was seven years older than me.
She told me a few things.
She said that my mother, for instance, was a certified Hebrew teacher but she never taught.
She had to help my father to make a living.
She worked as a seamstress.
She worked very hard.
And your father was a salesman?
My father was a traveling salesman, meaning he had clients he represented manufacturers
of leather goods like women's bags and handbags, etc.
He had clients which he visited regularly.
So that was his profession.
Now, during the war I'm sorry No.
It's ok.
I understood only after the war that my father we were all French citizens.
My father had a French I.D. with the red stamp Jew on it.
I understood only after the war when he boarded his train on Monday morning, there was absolutely
no guarantee we would see him on Friday or Saturday.
There was no guarantee.
I understood only later, after the war.
But that was his job.
He had a family to provide for, to support, and he did his job.
At the end of the war I guess because of that my father was not not very old.
He was under 50.
But he was worn out, a widower traveling during all the war, for the whole duration of the
war, under the threat of being arrested.
Was your family very religious?
Were they observant?
I was told that before the war my mother kept a kosher house.
After the war my mother was not there and because maybe because of the war we didn't
keep any kosher.
But my father insisted that I attend Jewish high school.
At the time I protested but I am very grateful to him because in the Jewish high school I
learned Hebrew.
And if I know well the Hebrew grammar, it comes from there.
Did your family what language did they speak when you were young?
My parents, I guess, used to speak Yiddish.
I know that I spoke a kind of German.
And when we moved to Paris, the French came.
Even that transition was kind of funny because I used to speak sometimes the words which
was half German, half French, the word itself.
So your family moved to Paris in 1938.
That was before the war started.
Did they move because the threats that they had heard?
No, no.
Simply it was more central to France.
And my father was traveling.
Normal path for immigrants like my father was, first of all, for a few years you represent
a few firms, you have your own clients and you travel.
After then when you have a little bit more money, you open your own business.
That was the normal path.
And that was the path my father's elder brother went through, the path he followed.
But the war caught up and my father couldn't go in that path.
At the end of the war he had to kind of rebuild his clients.
He was worn out, not old but worn out.
Later in his life he had the joy of having two granddaughters from my sister.
And he was also happy because my sisters with a dentist and she had a very successful career.
She had a happy marriage two daughters.
My father was very happy.
To say that he was happy with me, I don't know.
This is a serious point.
I decided I would not serve in the French military.
That was a time of the war in Algeria.
I was a Zionist in all the time but if I had to serve in the military, I preferred to serve
in Israel.
So I left France.
I was a draft dodger in France.
I don't hide it.
I'm not especially proud of it but this is what I did.
This is a fact.
And I served two years in the IDF.
And for seven years I couldn't come back to France until there was an amnesty.
Then I took advantage of the amnesty.
I came back to France to visit my father.
That's in your later life.
When you first moved to Paris, though, you were only 5 or 6 years old.
Right?
What do you remember of your life in Paris?
Did you start school?
I went to a school, which I guess still exists.
I know exactly where the school is.
And I know exactly the apartment where we were.
The surprise was I remember the gates we lived in a project, in a housing project.
I remember the main door to the apartment building.
And I remember it was a big, big, big door.
And when I came back after the war, suddenly the door shrank.
You got larger, I believe, is what happened.
Right.
So what was your life like?
Did you have lots of friends?
Were they Jewish?
In France I went first to Jewish high school.
And then three years in the French secular school, public school, public and secular.
At school we had good friends.
But once out of the school no friendship.
We didn't go to each other.
I went once to a friend from school, a schoolmate as we called him, because I forgot something
or I wanted to learn something about the homework and something.
I had a feeling of uneasiness from him when I came to his house.
Most of my friends weren't Jewish, from the Zionist movement.
Your family lived in Paris in 1939.
This is when the war broke out, when Germany invaded Poland in the east.
You were very young, obviously.
You might not remember or heard much about the war.
I was born in `33, `34, the real war -- you may know that World War II officially started
in September 1939 and the French called it the Phoney War.
Why the Phoney War?
Because there was no war.
Until April '40, when the Germans suddenly invaded France and bypassed the French fortifications
which were on the border, they attacked Belgium and then went to France further north.
They beat the French in a matter of three, four weeks.
Until then it was called the Phoney War because there was no war.
And your family, they fled immediately.
I think it was in `40, I think.
I remember that we had to take a taxi from Paris, about 60 miles south of Paris because
the trains were not working.
I think the bridge there was a bridge there, a big bridge.
To me it was almost immediately destroyed.
So we took a taxi.
We crossed the bridge and we took the train to the South.
It must have been somewhere beginning Did you travel with just your family or were
there other families in the community that traveled with you?
I don't know if it was with another family but my mother's brother's family, his wife
and son, my cousin went to the same town.
And also another sister, they went with two daughters to the same town.
It was in the center of France, more or less geographical center of Frances.
I can remember the families together because we went to the same school, the four of us,
my sister, me, and my cousin and female cousin.
Then some left for Tunisia and the other two families went [Indiscernible].
Why did you go to that town?
One good reason.
My mother's uncle was there.
My mother's uncle immigrated from then it was Austria to France.
He was 15, something like that.
He made the kind of living in Paris.
That's a whole story.
At some point when World War I started, he found himself no.
When World War I started, he was, himself, an Austrian citizen, meaning enemy citizen.
He was assigned to live near that little town where he met his wife.
And after this he settled there.
Your family, it sounds like they were very fortunate they had family.
We went to him.
We called him Uncle Max.
We went there.
At the beginning of World War II, he lost his son.
His son was killed as a young officer in the French Army, fighting the Germans.
And one very painful thing I saw after the war.
I could go to the house freely, just knock on the door, open, come in.
And I found they had a little radio.
They were listening I found his wife sobbing quietly.
And the reason was that the radio, at the end of the war, the radio broadcasted the
names of all the French POWs who were released and were coming back home and her son didn't
come back.
He was killed.
How did the rest of the town treat you?
Were they hostile toward you?
No.
In that little town everybody knew we were Jewish.
We were some 20, 25 families.
I don't remember exactly how many but something like that.
The population was not hostile.
The gendarme, which is the equivalent of the troopers, when they had once or twice they
warned us, warned the men, that they had to go into hiding for a couple of days.
Because they had orders to arrest them.
Now, during the summer we went to the countryside, a little Hamlet in the countryside.
To this day I don't know if it was for a vacation or if it was to hiding or if it was a mixture
of both.
I don't know.
One thing I remember.
In September `43-- one of your questions.
In September there was a rebellion inside the German Army, the German occupation troops.
It was a rebellion by Croatian soldiers against their officers.
That rebellion was crushed by other German troops with utter brutality.
That's another detail.
And they put a curfew on the town.
They put posters explaining what the curfew was.
And the last line said: Don't be influenced by the Brits and the Jews.
And we saw the Jews and said, maybe you should go into hiding for a couple of days.
So we succeeded somehow to bypass the curfew and went away for a couple of days.
The program was to take my father out of the train before he comes back to the town.
We knew exactly the itinerary, we knew which train he would be in.
My sister and me went to the nearest station to where we were hiding.
The train came, stopped two minutes.
In two minutes there is no time to go through the train.
And the train started to pull out.
And here my father shows up at the window.
So we, my sister and me, we ran after the train.
These were steam trains.
They start very, very slowly.
We ran after the train.
We told him, Dad, papa, turn back next station.
And so he came.
I guess that when we left, somebody left him a note that we have to go.
So we picked him up.
This was 1943.
So you were 10 years old at this point.
By that point the Germans had occupied the rest of France for close to a year.
Do you remember feeling in danger before the poster that you saw?
No.
I don't.
I don't know.
One thing -- my parents didn't tell me everything.
That's obvious.
That's obvious.
One day I came back in `42, something like that, we started to hear rumors from what's
happening to the Jews in Eastern Europe.
Another thing was we got postcards from my grandparents.
And the second postcard said: We are leaving; we don't know where we are going.
That was important.
Today we know exactly where they were.
They were marched to a nearby forest and they were told to undress and they were gunned
down in a trench.
Today we know.
Almost immediately after the war we knew it by survivors.
So we started to hear rumors.
One day I came back home, said to my parents, you know, today I spoke with my friend at
school, the poor Jews, what's happening to them in Eastern Europe.
And my aunt then said, "Don't talk about that."
That's it.
So I didn't talk about that later.
I remember that we went into hiding for a few nights to the science teacher.
For me it was an adventure.
And to this day I didn't have the curiosity to ask why.
I remember that I went to school from his house.
We were there two, three days.
I remember all the funny details.
Just to step back for a moment, your mother passed away in May 1971.
And so your aunt took care of you.
My aunt was her younger sister.
She came to take care of her sister.
And after this she took care of us.
She stayed with us.
One other problem with my tante was -- and to this day I don't know how she managed -- she
was not French.
She was a Pol, Polish citizen.
Although she was a dentist and she graduated from a French university, she had no right
to work.
She was a Pol.
How she survived all of that, I don't know.
Maybe also she didn't want to talk about it.
That underscores how important it was that you had French citizenship.
Sure.
Were there other Jews in the town that did not have the citizenship?
Yes.
Across the street from us there was a Jewish family, the Stochi family.
They had three boys, three children.
Two were in my class at school.
And one day they vanished.
They were relocated in Eastern Europe.
And two years ago I went to Paris to the Holocaust memorial in Paris.
I found their name on the wall among the people who were deported.
Then I went to the archives and they didn't survive.
That's what I know.
So you, your sister and your aunt went into hiding in 1943.
How long were you in hiding?
Oh, that time maybe 10 days.
Not very long.
And you were in the forest.
In the forest.
My mother's first cousin, he was a character.
Asriel was living in the woods but literally in the woods, his bed was marked by stones
and he had leaves on which he used to sleep.
We went to him for I guess a week and then we came back.
So if you had not I'm asking a "What if?"
question, but had you not gone into hiding, do you know what might have happened to you?
We don't know.
That was when they had these posters and wrote on it don't be influenced by the Brits and
the Jews.
So we went to Asriel for maybe 10 days, something like that.
Then you came back home and your father stayed with you.
Correct?
Yes.
Yes.
My father.
He still was traveling.
So he did not stop working the whole time?
As far as I know he did not stop working.
Which might explain that after the war he was worn out.
So 1944, obviously history students will know this, the Americans and British forces land
on Normandy.
Were you aware at this point?
The news swept over France by word of mouth.
I don't think it took 24 hours until it reached us.
And we were some good 400 miles away, a good 400 miles away.
Swept maybe didn't take 24 hours.
When did the war end for you?
Oh, I'm sorry.
On the other hand, there was the SS.
In the German Army, the SS were the elite division, an armored SS division in the south
of France.
And when the allies came, they were rushed to the north.
And part of them went all through our town or nearby our town.
And I know that in one case I think that I know of, they saw a nice little villa and
they made the target drill, target exercise.
They blew up the villa.
Did you have any interactions with the German soldiers then or any other time?
At the very beginning they occupied all of France.
There was regular soldiers.
I remember one instance a soldier asked for cigarettes and I answered him in some broken
German to go to the nearest store here.
I was maybe 8.
When did the war end for you?
When did you have a sense that it was over?
That's a good question.
Paris was liberated in August.
And Toulouse was liberated in August also.
That was more or less the end of the war.
I there is no precise more feeling than the precise date.
We heard that Paris was liberated.
We heard about the invasion.
And we saw the Germans and the Russians to the front.
Your family returned to Paris.
Was that immediate?
I think in 1945.
And then I went to my father, first rented a room to start to rebuild his clientele.
And I went to boring school, which opened I think in `46.
I stayed there for three years.
You mentioned that you had a cousin who had been killed at the very beginning of the war.
Did you have any other relatives from France I lost, in France, two relatives.
One was killed at the liberation of Toulouse.
And to this very day there is a plaque there.
[Speaking Non English Language], Major Philip, his war name, and they give the date.
Another one was my cousin who was a doctor, an MD.
And he was in the underground.
He had a little clinic for wounded people who were in the resistance.
He was taken prisoner.
He said as a doctor, "I could not leave my patients".
And the Nazis wouldn't have it.
They executed him.
You mentioned the story of your grandparents and their fate.
Were there other relatives in Poland?
How did you learn about what happened to your distant family?
We learned by one who lost his family.
And he himself, that day, was in another town.
So he survived.
He wrote a book about his memories.
He wrote in Hebrew.
I translated it into English and French, French for the family, English for the museum.
I have a few copies here, how he survived.
But we know that from him.
Haim lived a very long life after him.
He passed 1991, `92.
How did you get into agriculture?
Well, I was a good Zionist.
I thought agriculture was a good profession to have in Israel.
Another thing, I went to a youth movement which educated you to go to Israel not only
to go to Israel but to join a Kibbutz.
Today they almost don't exist anymore.
So you moved I moved to Israel.
First thing I did was to enlist in the IDF.
I served two years in the artillery corps.
Then 15 years in the reserves.
And then you did you immediately then start working for the United Nations or did you
work in Israel?
No, no.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, first in a department which was a kind of school
which taught students from Africa to come to Israel and to learn about agriculture about
other subjects, etc.
And then I said I'm an agronomist, I want to see agriculture.
I list that post and I went into the agriculture advisory service.
I worked there maybe 10 years, something like that.
Then I was the minister of agriculture.
I said, you know, they are looking for agronomist, French speaking, with experience in agriculture.
That was in the Haiti.
So then I went to Haiti.
I spent a year and a half in Haiti.
And from Haiti I started wandering in other countries.
I was embroiled I was caught in the gears of the United Nations.
I went to Nepal for a year.
I went to Rwanda, before the genocide, and one year in Jamaica.
And then you moved to the United States in 1989.
`89, yes.
I got a second job in Haiti.
And then my wife said, "You go to Haiti, I go to the United States for a doctor degree."
And she wound up in the George Washington University here.
And one year later I used to shuttle, sometimes when I had a long weekend, I could come from
Haiti and then go back.
And after a year I came to the United States.
And the date is very easy to remember.
The next day George Herbert Bush was inaugurated, Bush the father.
It looks like we will have time for audience questions.
You will have a chance to give the final word after the audience questions.
But for many people here, this is their first time at the museum, perhaps first time in
Washington.
Is there anything in particular about the museum you would like to point out to them
or make them aware of during their visit?
Yeah.
When you visit the museum, in fact, the building is talking to us.
Try to listen and to see what the building is telling.
I'll give you a few examples.
When you're out of the building, you cannot see inside.
This is secrecy.
You'll know what's happening.
When you are in the little alley where you expect windows, there are plates of steel.
When you are inside, same thing.
You cannot look outside.
You have three windows and it's black behind.
This is the isolation.
When you are in the museum, you don't see it's not like a regular museum where you have
signs and arrows what to see, what programs to see, etc., you have to look for them.
And this is to keep you confused.
That's exactly how the people who were deported, they were confused.
In the museum, if you look from the entrance from 14th Street, you have a white wall.
In front of it, symbolic war scene.
It's a kind of building which was destroyed.
You just have the carcass.
On the other hand of the hall you have a black wall.
This is death.
And in the middle you have a slanted wall.
You will see when you come out.
The wall which is diagonal, you go straight, the black wall, death, but you don't know
it.
On the left you go somewhere, you don't know where.
But you live.
And you don't know it.
Now, the wall is the selection at the entrance of the camp.
Ok?
I went to Auschwitz last year and you see exactly the platform where was the selection,
where people came by train.
You had an officer with a little table like this.
He didn't talk.
One was slave labor and one was gas chamber.
I'll talk about this a little later.
I hope that everyone has the opportunity to visit the museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Be sure have your ticket stamped so you make sure to get in to see that.
We also have a number of special exhibits.
You and I talked briefly about one that is meaningful for you.
Yeah.
There is one.
If you go in the lower level, there are four exhibitions.
One is about the genocide in Cambodia.
Cambodia is very dear to my heart because I went to Cambodia with the Israeli Assistance
Program.
I should have stayed there two years in agricultural project.
I stayed only four months because this was the years sorry.
The war in Vietnam started to spill over in Cambodia.
And at night you could see the flares of the bombing in the east.
So the family couldn't come.
And I went back to Israel.
But Cambodia was a very, very nice place.
I'm not a travel agent but if you can go there, there are the ruins.
And this is where the whole trip is.
Thank you.
Are you up for some questions from the audience?
Yeah.
We have two my colleagues have microphones on either side.
If you could raise your hand, we'll call on you.
Please wait for the microphone to read the question.
I'll repeat the question just to make sure that everybody hears it.
And then we'll give Alex the chance to respond.
If there are questions you don't have a chance to ask or that are more in depth, Alex will
be around afterwards.
You can come up to say hello and have a conversation.
Are there any questions in the audience?
Were you scared?
Were you scared?
Oh, during the war?
I don't remember being scared.
I had no reason to be scared.
I went to school every day.
I know for a fact that I did not miss one day of school.
The only question I asked after the war.
And I did not miss a day.
I was not scared.
When I went to sleep, it was more an adventure.
They knew exactly how to occupy us.
Just an anecdote.
They had books of political cartoons.
And the cartoons showed two populations.
One they called the botellos, from the word boots, and the boots were the Italians because
the Italians Italy is the shape of a boot.
So the botellos and the cotellos.
The cotellos were the helmets.
Germany looked a little bit like a helmet.
I remember that booklet.
I remember also they had for breakfast good jam.
As you can see, I'm a good eater.
No, I don't think I was scared.
And for me to go to the countryside during the summer, I don't know as I told you before,
I don't know if it was a vacation or hiding or a mixture of both.
I don't know.
I loved to go there.
And the sheep, I used to take the sheep for grazing.
Also the ducks.
Once I lost the ducks.
I wanted to see something else and they were in the field.
They just ate what fell after the harvest, you know, you have all of this grain which
fell on the soil, on the earth.
And the ducks knew their way back.
So they started to walk back.
And I look.
Where are the ducks?
They were going back home.
I think we have a question in the back.
Good morning, Alex.
How are you doing?
I want to thank you, first off, for sharing your story with all of us.
You're welcome.
Historical, we all need listen to and experience.
I want to ask you, traveling working with the U.N. and traveling around the world, you
met people that might have believed none of this ever happened.
Some of those people might be in this country as we speak.
So what would you say to somebody You mean deniers?
Yes.
What would you say to somebody who might not believe this happened?
The question of Holocaust denial.
How would you respond to it?
I couldn't respond because I never met people who denied.
Another thing, that was not a subject of conversation.
It came out a few times maybe.
I don't remember.
But, no.
I don't remember having met a denier.
I remember having met deniers of the danger facing the state of Israel when Israel got
independent.
This I remember.
And especially, I shouldn't be political here but people from the left, especially, said,
oh, leave me alone with that whole security of Israel.
Well, the War of Independence in Israel was to this day the hardest and the bloodiest
war in Israel, the hardest and the bloodiest and the longest.
A population of 600,000.
They had 6,000 casualties.
I never calculated how it would be on the scale of the United States.
And for this I met not exactly deniers but people who were belittling that.
Were you happy with the decisions you made?
Excuse me?
What decision, to go to Israel?
Like all of your decisions.
Hearing from your story, that makes me think thank you for the question.
It makes me think, you were very young.
So a lot of the decisions that were being made were made above you but there are certain
points at which had your family not left Strasbourg, Paris, gone into hiding.
The decision to go to Israel I never regretted, never.
Although it cut me from my home and my home country for a good few years.
I never regretted it.
I integrated I was perfectly integrated in the Israeli society.
And one of the best ways to be integrated is to serve in the military.
You meet people from the Jewish people, met members of the Jewish people, from many countries
which I didn't meet before.
One example.
On Saturday morning I was in the barracks and I woke up the first Saturday and I heard
there was some soldiers playing an oriental game, and screaming at each other in Arabic
and playing with a boom box, full volume, music from the Arab world.
And I woke up, I thought I am in Baghdad, not in Israel.
These were the Iraqi soldiers.
I never met them before.
Another thing were the Yemenites.
The Yemenites, they were darker than we were.
They were skinnier than we were and more hard working than we were.
We were corner cutters.
For instance, I was in artillery and in artillery one of the hard things was to dig a position
for your gun.
Well, we got instruction to dig one meter deep, something like this.
And digging is hard work.
They give you only they give you, how it's called, picks.
And they give you shovels.
You have to work.
And you work all night because everything is done at night.
And you don't stop working until the gun is in its position and fully camouflaged.
Well, the ones who finished the job the first and the deepest were always the Yemenites,
always.
Each gun commander could more or less take his crew.
And when the Yemenites were in charge of the gun, he selected Yemenites to work with him.
They were always the first finished and the deepest.
We were trying to cut corners.
Yes?
Did your father say that he was scared?
Did your father say he was scared?
You may have been too young to be scared but your father or your sister, older than you,
do you recall them feeling scared?
I don't know.
I do not know.
My sister went to school every day.
She was seven years older than me.
She went regularly to school.
If my father was scared, he didn't tell us, as far as I remember.
And my sister, I don't think she was scared.
She knew better the reason why we went to the science teacher or we went into hiding
for a couple of days.
But I don't think so.
It must have been an incredibly stressful time, though.
You said your father was exhausted after.
At the end of the war he was exhausted and worn out, worn out.
Yes?
Ok.
Ok.
You said a German soldier asked you for cigarettes.
Did you have any other encounters with other German soldiers and were they friendly or
not?
I don't remember.
I don't think so.
The only thing I remember when there was that rebellion from the Croatians soldiers, I was
a good friend of my aunt [Indiscernible].
She was an Italian refugee.
She was a Communist.
She was an endangered species under the Nazis.
And I was at her home.
I don't remember why.
And I was walking home and I heard shooting.
And when I went to a nice little place in the center of the town, I saw dead soldiers
under blankets.
They were shot and they were under blankets.
I think my tante was scared out of her mind until I came home.
But I don't remember having been scared.
Time maybe for two more questions.
Yes?
Alex, thank you for your story.
You lived through one of the most significant parts of our world history.
You have a captured audience of young people.
What would you say to them out of your life lessons that may help them today with our
history that's being written as we talk?
What would be your lesson for the young people in the audience?
First of all, learning it and not forgetting it.
Fight against deniers.
Because the more we progress over the years, the less direct witness you will have and
the more deniers you might have.
If today you listen to Iran Iran is a denier, saying there was no such thing as the Holocaust.
That's one thing.
You have to learn it.
You have to also take a vow never again.
You see this in the museum.
Never again.
And unfortunately it happens.
It's happened in Cambodia.
It happens in Darfur and some other places.
Oh, it happens in Syria right now, right now in Syria.
They shouldn't be deniers.
By the way, if you go in the museum here, go to the second floor, to the right, in the
first hall there are a few photographs from what's happening in Syria, what happened six
months ago.
There is a defector, an official a photographer from the government who defected and he brought
memory sticks to the museum.
And you will see a few of these photographs there.
Today's worse.
It's worse what's happening.
I mentioned about the museum as a challenge experience.
You'll see posters, as you leave, that challenge you think about what you saw.
We encourage you to be witnesses by visiting the museum today, by hearing Alex's story,
by seeing the exhibit.
You are witnesses to the truth about the Holocaust and the related subjects.
And talk to your friends about it.
Sometimes, you know -- I am a sensitive soul.
When I work at the Information Desk, even if it is sold out, I always find a little
reason to give them tickets.
I always say I confess this to you.
I always say, don't ask questions about the tickets.
Then I said, you know, when you go out, you talk about your friends to what you saw here.
Whenever you're in the Holocaust, did you and your family have to wear like stickers
saying that y'all were Jews or nametag saying that you were Jews or no?
It's an excellent question.
In many places Jews were forced to wear yellow stars as you'll see in the exhibit.
But we never had to.
My family never had to.
And the Jews in that town never had to.
As I said, the little town, they knew we were Jewish, these 20, some families, knew we were
Jewish.
They were not hostile.
Once or twice somebody called, you know [Speaking Non English Language], the little Jew boy.
But that was it.
We wanted to make sure you all stick around to hear Alex's final word.
It's a tradition with the First Person program we give the survivors the chance to have the
final word.
But if anyone has questions you did not get to ask or follow up or just to meet Alex,
say hello, take a photograph, he'll be around for a few minutes afterwards.
I want to personally to thank you all for coming today.
I hope you have a challenging and meaningful visit to the museum.
With that, I will turn it over to Alex for the final word.
Ok.
Last summer I went to Auschwitz.
I wanted to see it.
So you fly to Krakow.
Krakow is a very nice town.
In Krakow you have the feeling, you still feel the influence of somebody who was called
Karol Józef Wojtyła.
You may not know.
He became Pope John Paul II.
He was the Archbishop of Krakow and you feel him.
Then you take unfortunately I would say Auschwitz and Birkenau are treated like a tourist attraction.
So you take guided tours.
They take you from your hotel.
You go to Auschwitz.
You see Auschwitz.
You see the gate with the famous inscription, "Arbeit macht frei," meaning it's a deceiving
inscription which means work makes you free.
When you go in, this is a two story building.
You can take pictures anywhere but one room.
In that room you have a heap of human hair and on the side there is a blanket made of
human hair.
This you cannot take pictures of.
It's forbidden out of respect.
In Auschwitz you see the gas chamber.
You see the crematoria.
And in Auschwitz there were 14 cematoria.
It was never bombarded.
You ask yourself why.
How come?
And the allies knew.
When you ask the pilots, the pilots said we never got the order to do it.
So that's one thing.
The last thing is, when you visit Birkenau, the Nazis tried to hide it.
They blew up the gas chamber.
And they blew up the crematorium.
But you still see the ruins of it.
You go there, you see also the railroad coming in.
You see where the SS used to sit with the table and directed people to death or gas
chamber or slave work, etc.
And one question you ask.
The prayer for the deceased, the Hebrew prayer and the Jews for the deceased starts with
the words, Kel Maleh Rachamim, meaning God full of mercy.
And you ask yourself, God full of mercy?
Where were you?
Where were you?
Now, I will end on a more positive side.
Last year I went to a small village in France.
And that village, I recommend it.
I can give you the name after.
That village is a little jewel in France.
But that's not the point.
In that village you have a little monastery on the right.
And on the right, and there's a plaque outside.
And the plaque says: In this site Sister [Indiscernible] and another sister, I forgot her name, and
other sisters hid and saved Jews.
We know that they are talking about 15 girls who were hidden there and escaped.
They saved them.
And that site was designated as righteous among the nation by the state of Israel.
This is what the plaque says.
I should have my printer didn't work at home so I couldn't bring it.
Anyway.
So, now if somebody wants questions after, I'm open.
Thank you all again for joining us.
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Zombie The Cranberries
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In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
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LIVE YOUR PASSION - HOW STARTING OVER WAS THE BEST DECISION - Duration: 7:47.
Not so long ago I found myself overworked under challenged and under stimulated.
Days turned into weeks and weeks into years.
Self employed but trapped in my own bad habits.
I had set out to escape the 9 to 5 but somehow my ambitions and goals had drifted off to
this unhealthy urge for mainstream success pushing me into
a harsh environment working up to 80h per week.
Not happy just….
Stable, bland, board Was I successful or just a hypocrite - something had to change - so
I changed.
This is what it is all about this is what making it happen is all about - these very
few very special moments in life that you work towards and then you indulge in them
100% these are the moments that make me really happy.
Being successful is so much more than society makes us believe.
Success should and can only be defined by your own standards.Being successful means
being able to do something you are passionate about not what society expects from you.
We live in a day and age that allows us to make more choices than ever before.
We sold one of our businesses and built a lifestyle that would allow us to live and
work literally any where on this planet.
We realized that the only way we could truly be happy was if we would live our passion
of traveling and sharing our experiences both good and
bad in life to help others come to the same realization
we had come to.
Be successful your way - don't put money or reputation before your own dreams.
My mom always told me I could do anything I set my mind to..
My dad always told me not to wait…
So I decided to stop waiting and make it happen.
Some people might call is insane for starting over - I think it would be insane not too.
This year we are pursuing goals we are really passionate about
this year we will keep on making it happen
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Man released on bail after 37 years in prison - Duration: 1:54.
APPEAL.
TONIGHT HE IS CELEBRATING.
>> THE MOMENT FRED ALWAYS HOPED
WOULD COME.
HE IS FREE.
AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT FOR THE
PEOPLE WHO STOOD BY HIM FOR THE
FOUR DECADES HE SPENT IN PRISON
AFTER HIS CONVICTION AND LIFE
SENTENCE FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH.
>> FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM.
>> UNBELIEVABLE.
IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
>> IT HAS TAKEN YEARS TO GET
HERE, AN AIDING THIS MORNING.
JUDGE ORDERED A NEW TRIAL
AFTER THE DEFEN UNCOVERED A
POLICE REPORT THAT SHOWED
ANOTHER MAN COULD HAVE COMMITTED
THE CRIME.
PROSECUTORS ARGUED TO KEEP HIM
LOCKED UP.
>> IT IS OUTRAGEOUS.
HE SHOT A MAN IN THE BACK OF THE
HEAD.
>> THE JUDGE WAS NOT SWAYED.
>> BAIL IS SET FOR $5,000.
>> HE HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED HIS
INNOCENCE AND THIS IS HI THIRD
ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN HIS
CONVICTION.
HE IS CONVINCED HE WAS SET UP BY
WHITEY BULGER TO TAKE THE FALL.
STEVE GROSSMAN HAS BEEN WORKING
TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE.
>> DID YOU EVER THINK THIS DAY
WOULD COME?
>> WE DID.
WE NEVER GAVE UP.
>> BREAKING OUT OF THE APPLAUSE,
WHEN THE JUDGE SAID THAT, WHAT
WAS GOING THROUGH YOU?
>> IT WAS A SURREAL MOMENT.
>> WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
TODAY?
>> ENJOY LIFE.
>> A STEAK DINNER.
CAN'T BLAME THE GUY.
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PHILIPPINE President: THE SOUTH CHINA SEA dispute "does not matter" - Duration: 2:04.
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WAS IT WORTH IT? I VIDCON EUROPE - Duration: 23:42.
Ey, Victim!
Hi. -Hi.
Today is
Thursday. No, yes. Thursday
We are in Amsterdam.
We took a plane at seven.
There was no time to be anxious because I was so tired.
And I did'nt manage to drink a coffee this morning. But ...
I got one.
It looks stupid. Look.
I have to say, if you think I have a little coffee: These are three espresso shots with milk froth.
I win.
We landet savely. We have an incomprehensible place to stay.
Such a nice apartement.
Which costs probably a million euros rent a month.
Although it is relatively cheap, for uns to stay there. -Yes.
The price was fine. -Absolutely.
I would describe it with ... Hipster.
Very open living space.
A little bit industrial look.
These Vitra chairs everybody loves.
Static lamp.
Really pretty and we feel at home. -Nice kitchen.
And our room ist sweet. Small but really sweet.
And at the stairs you are glad to have no artificial hip.
Someone who with a shoe size over 45, does not even fit with the feet on the steps. They are so narrow.
I walked like this. - Yes. Like a child.
We had breakfast.
I had Poffertjes.
He was like: "Minipancakes?" And in my head i thought: "I kow how they are called.
But I don't know how to pronounce them. But they were delicious
We need someone to explain the pronounciation to us. - They're a bit like minipancakes, but there's butter and sugar on it.
So nice. Oh, now I'm confused again, which way to go next.
Me too.
Let's take this way. -Check.
We both got up quarter to five. So we need more than a little cup of espresso.
And we got it from the coffee company.
I got one with almond milk and i love it.
We have no plan for today. We just want to walk around.
People.
I want to see the park. - Yes, me too.
The one with "Vondel" in the name, which i can't pronounce.
My bag annoys me.
Your bag is pretty.
I knwo, but i want to wear it crossbody, so...
I got that. Can I help you?
You can't without your hands beeing free.
Now, the bag is on the wrong side. This feels wrong.
I always try look into the camera a certain way so that I know quite as bad.
We look stupid.
Oh god.
I look like I smoked something.
Ey, victim.
The most soulless steak in the whole of Amsterdam. (because redheads have no soul)
I mumbled.
We found a park. - I think it is only the biggest park in the whole of Amsterdam.
Of Europe. Of the whole world.
Of Earth. - The Universe.
Have you ever been on Mars? There should be a larger park. It is also super beautifull.
We're talking bullshit. Is the lack of coffee -The lack of coffee?
If I were still at home, I would have had coffee number four by now.
Today I only had one and a half.
The first one wasn't a real one. -True.
This park is beautiful. -Really beautiful.
There are trees. -And people who do sports and look very funny. What is he doing?
Oh, he streches his artificial hip. Why do I constantly talk about artificial hips today?
I dont know. A minute ago you talked about dicks.
äh no. -We talked about dicknoses.
If you have seen the latest Instalivestream of Ella, you understand this insider.
You should follow me on ... oh.
Now he kicks air.
If you want to know if your skin is oily
Take a blottingpaper
put it on your nose. If it stays there, your skin is oily.
Hi. I have beans under my arm. I'm a ... Lena.
We ate good food at SNCKBR. -So goof.
I don't know the streetname where you can find it.
Neither do I. - It was a ... main street.
It was nice and we are stuffed. - You are not in frame right now.
I am still well stuffed, even if I do not fill the picture yet.
I think we will sleep well tonight.
It was a nice day and I am excited for our tour tomorrow.
We go on a free walking tour. - Then we finally learn how things are called.
How you pronouce them.
Now I look forward to go to bed and take my make-up off and brush my theeth. Desperately want to brush my theeth.
Good night loves. See you tomorrow.
Oh hi.
Today is Friday and we have already seen a lot, but we have'nt talked to you yet.
Sorry. -We got up. Half an hour too early.
Ups. I accidentally set the alarm clock half an hour early and when the alarm went off I said "I hate myself."
We got ready and went to the Free Walking Tour, which I would highly recommend if you are in Amsterdam
The guy (Marius) was great and in the end, everybody gave him a little bit of money. I think it was OK that way.
He was really charming. I put the link for you in the infobox.
And it is easy to to join. Do not die.
You simply sign in with a a google doc and then you get an email: Yeahy. Happy you'll us ... bla bla english words.
Höhö, english words.
Highly recommend that and then we went for lunch.
Lena made a better choice than me. Mine wasn't as nice.
And now we want to look at the Anne Frank house from the outside, because we do not have a ticket.
And maybe in the evening, we'll come back to get in. - And at least we can say that we have seen it.
It is still so beautiful. - It's so nice that I think, "That's not real."
And tomorrow it will not be real, because we will be in a hall full of youtubers.
without a window. - and oxygen.
And you know. Lot's of youtubers farts in one room.
That will be fun.
You're already looking forward to it.
True.
I am tired!
Lena, come on.
Be a good girl.
Nooooo.
Lena, stop it.
You go to bed without dinner.
And you are banned from playing and using the ipad for a week.
I am still able to. Mommy a still knew how it works.
We have just looked at where the exhibition hall is.
and now we are on our way back.
And I realised that I forgot my dress at home, which I wanted to wear tomorrow.
So, you have to naked.
Boobs. Boobs.
Put on your pyjamas. There are pretty.
They are a bit see through.
Softy.
You do it. I take your outfit and you can wear my pyjamas.
No. -I knew it.
I have two of those striped tops but I don't see you wearing them.
I have bellystripes myself.
Here they are.
You are mean. - I know, but I don't mean to.
You stroked my arm. Since when are you so nice? Who are you? - I am tired.
We go home now and then we go to the supermarket and buy something to eat.
Chocolate and something to play. -Are you a good girl, Lena?
No. -Is it OK for you then to eat chocolate?
If you are a good girl now, until we are home, you can eat chocolate. - No.
Ok, thats it. -OK.
Hi. Today is Saturday and we are at Vidcon, in the large exibition hall.
and now we are in the creator .. space ... launch ..
It looks cute. Lena was like: Look, it looks like a nail salon.
Madame Grün is busy. -Yes I am posting an instagrampicture.
We eat nuts and I think, we go now and eat lunch, beacause later there will be no time to do so.
We could eat fries. - Where? Behind me? Oh, I thought you see fries now.
We are taking a small break. I just ... My trousers were open.
That will become our new running gag.
I just saw a russian Youtuber again, whom I met in SanFrancisco. He is the Youtube Ambassador for Moscow.
It is funny, that we meet again here in Amsterdam. So cool.
Now we wait for Karin and then we go and eat.
Hi friends.
I am so tiered. - It is a bit exhausting.
It is really interesting here. - Wow!
And now we are actually looking for the next room, but we are so tired. -We prefer to sit here.
You can't see anything. -We are in a hallway, I would say.
betweeen two buildings.
I have to say the convention center is very pretty. Not pretty from the outside. But from the inside it is functional and so bright.
Yes. - It is very pleasant. - I'm glad you're talking, because I can't talk anymore.
Do you know what? Everybody is going down, even if they are a Creator. - So we should probably go down.
Yes please. But can we take a break for 5 more minutes?
That is my nose you are filmimg there.
Did you hear the sounds in my throat?
Yes. For two days now. - I can't help it.
Lena without the sounds in her throat is not a healthy Lena.
Just like you would check the nose of a dog, whether it is still wet and cold, you look at Lena whether she still has sounds in her throat.
Mummy, why is that? I want a refund. I want my money back.
What did you pay for beeing born? -Au. Thanks.
What did you pay for beeing born? - Nothing. - So be quiet and thankful for your head.
How are you guys doing. We are dying out here.
I was like: oh wow.
So there you go.
Thats like the gravitas. Everybodys like: Yes, put it in a video.
I made really funny homevideos with my friends. We recreated commercials and stuff and movies.
The views came but it wans't what i wanted.
It disapears. It's like puff. It's gone. So it gives a little sense of anonymity which is really important for what I do.
This is going better.
If you don't know the story of "Up". It is this fascinating story
I consinder this to be actually my favorite pixar movie
Your are a fan of it, if you love france or rats or food. Are we getting there?
Still going.
Also ... oh yeah we try again.
Everybody hold your breath.
Hey! OK, guys. Pretend the last 17 minutes did not happen.
But they continuted to. So continuted to say yes.
But Anna and Elsa would not be genetically related if you run their genes through a punnett square.
... well thought out to talk to you about today. But I wrote down some notes.
My brand is very homemade so this is very on brand for that.
Following your fear. Lot's of thinks in the creative world can seam totally scary but I think fear is a sign that you care.
Are you vlogging?
I have her jacket. OK? I have to give it back to her.
We had a great day at Vidcon. It was very long.
Just now we laughed a lot and now we will go home.
Bye.
Super! Super? Right? - Soup?
Maybe soup. -I don't know which language to use right now. - Neither do I. We spoke English for the last three hours.
Are you sure we're heading in the right direction? -No. -Ah, yes there. -This is the way. -I do not know.
I'm very satisfied. I am a bit annoyed that I have ... oh god, I am so tired. - Me too.
My eyes hurt. - My hair hurts. -What?
I do not know. - So there are some creators ... I say Creator a lot .. Youtubers, with whom I would have liked to talk. Just because I like to watch them.
And I wanted to tell them: I like your shit.
The workshops we perfect, just one wasn't what we expected. Otherwise everything we went to was great.
I was very happy about the Vlogbrothers QnA. That was great.
That confirmed for me that they are simply super nice.
And in the end, there were motivational lectures by larger youtbers only for the creators.
Could you hold my camera for a moment, because I'm just wondering if I have my phone still in my jacket.
That would be like me.
No, it is here. Everything is fine. Typical Ella.
The lectures were only for creators, so they were a bit more honest.
It felt that way. There were still a lot of people in the room. -You simply could address things that can not be addressed otherwise.
That was great.
Do we want to press the button? I'm not sure.
It was special. I am now in high spirits.
I'm so tired and I do not know how to make it home. - I'm tired and in high spirits.
It's like beeing on drugs. Green!
And cut.
Are you scared? You don't have to be.
You are a big girl. - I am trying.
Off we go to Berlin, again. -I am tired. -Me too.
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The DOJ Was Already Ignoring Trump's Sanctuary City Executive Order - Duration: 7:04.
The DOJ Was Already Ignoring Trump�s Sanctuary City Executive Order
BY ALEX PFEIFFER
The decision by a federal judge in San Francisco Tuesday doesn�t have any practical effect
on the Trump administration�s policy toward sanctuary cities.
That�s because the White House and the Department of Justice have not been on the same page
about the definition of a sanctuary city and how much federal money those sanctuary cities
should lose.
The executive order signed in January by President Donald Trump called for sanctuary jurisdictions
to be eligible to lose all federal funding except money needed for law enforcement purposes.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however, talked only about sanctuary jurisdictions losing
grants from the DOJ�s Office of Justice Programs during a White House press briefing.
Santa Clara County, California and San Francisco had sued to block enforcement of Trump�s
executive order, fearing that they would lose billions of dollars.
Judge William Orrick sided Tuesday with the California jurisdictions.
Santa Clara County receives about $1.7 billion annually from the federal government, but
a DOJ attorney said that the county would only be at risk of losing less than $1 million
in federal grants.
The White House and Justice Department also seem to have different understandings of the
definition of sanctuary jurisdictions.
The Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for reduced immigration, defines
a sanctuary jurisdiction as any city, county, or state agency that doesn�t comply with
federal immigration detainers.
The current page on its website about sanctuaries relies on a report from Immigration and Customs
Enforcement that identified 118 jurisdictions that �do not comply with detainers on a
routine basis� and �have a policy of non-cooperation.�
However, Ian Prior, a DOJ spokesman, confirmed to The Daily Caller Tuesday that non-cooperation
with detainers is not the standard the department is using when it comes to stripping funding.
Sessions stated at his March appearance at the White House that �the Department of
Justice will require jurisdictions seeking or applying for Department grants to certify
compliance with Section 1373 as a condition for receiving these awards.�
This federal statute, 8 U.S.C. 1373, prohibits jurisdictions from denying or restricting
in any way the federal government�s access to an individual�s immigration status.
Ignoring immigration detainers is not a violation of this law, according to attorneys from both
the conservative Immigration Reform Law Institute and the liberal Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
Judge Orrick wrote in his ruling that there was confusion for localities because the order
�equates jurisdictions that refuse to honor detainer requests with the term �sanctuary
jurisdictions.'�
Public statements by Trump administration officials have made it seem that compliance
with detainers was a requirement for federal funds.
Trump himself applauded Miami-Dade County, Florida after it decided to start honoring
all immigration detainers.
�Miami-Dade Mayor drops sanctuary policy.
Right decision.
Strong!� Trump tweeted.
On Tuesday, Sessions met with several mayors to clarify the stance of the DOJ.
Providence, Rhode Island was listed on the DHS list of jurisdictions that don�t honor
immigration detainers, but the city�s mayor, Jorge Elorza, said he was relieved after the
Sessions meeting.
�If it turns out sanctuary city is defined as Section 1373 compliance, then � there
is no sanctuary city debate,� Elorza said.
�What�s frustrating to us is we hear very different messages from DHS, from DOJ and
also from the White House.
� Please amongst yourselves just have one clear policy, one clear message so we know
where we stand and where we don�t stand.�
The Obama administration looked at sanctuary cities last year and found that 10 jurisdictions
possibly ran afoul of 8 U.S.C. 1373 and announced in July that cities that refuse to honor this
law won�t be eligible for two DOJ grants.
Sessions said at that March White House appearance that his department would continue to honor
this policy.
�What I�m saying today is that essentially the policies of the Obama administration that
were issued last July make clear that you should not be receiving certain federal funds
if you�re not in compliance with 1373,� Sessions stated.
Last Friday, he sent letters to nine of the jurisdictions identified by the Obama administration,
asking them to provide documentation to prove that they comply with the law.
The DOJ has been enforcing only the Obama administration�s policy on sanctuary cities,
not the one designated by President Trump.
The ruling by Judge Orrick Friday upheld the department�s ability to enforce the conditions
of existing grants and section 1373.
That�s why DOJ spokesman Ian Prior responded to the ruling with a rather nonchalant statement.
�The Department of Justice previously stated to the Court, and reiterates now, that it
will follow the law with respect to regulation of sanctuary jurisdictions.
Accordingly, the Department will continue to enforce existing grant conditions and will
continue to enforce 8 U.S.C. 1373,� Prior said.
�Further, the order does not purport to enjoin the Department�s independent legal
authority to enforce the requirements of federal law applicable to communities that violate
federal immigration law or federal grant conditions.�
The White House�s statement, on the other hand, accused the judge�s ruling of being
a �gift to the criminal gang and cartel element in our country.�
�This case is yet one more example of egregious overreach by a single, unelected district
judge,� the statement continued on to say.
�But we are confident we will ultimately prevail in the Supreme Court, just as we will
prevail in our lawful efforts to impose immigration restrictions necessary to keep terrorists
out of the United States.�
Sessions announced a change of tune for the DOJ Wednesday night and said that it will
appeal the decision.
�This is the Trump era.
Progress is being made daily, and it will continue.
This will be the Administration that fully enforces our nation�s immigration laws,�
the attorney general said in a statement.
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Trump Was About To Pull Out Of NAFTA Until... - Duration: 9:57.
JUST, REALLY MOMENTS AFTER SAYING HE WAS GOING TO TEAR UP
NAFTA AND PULL OUT COMPLETELY, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS REVERSED
COURSE.
ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT TRUMP
AGREED NOT TO TERMINATE NAFTA AT THIS TIME, AND THE LEADERS
AGREED TO ACT SWIFTLY ñ
TO PROCEED SWIFTLY TO RENEGOTIATE THE NASTY ñ
THE NAFTA DEAL TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL THREE COUNTRIES.
TALKING POINTS MEMO SAYS THAT THE STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE FOLLOWED TWO REPORTS THAT TRUNK ADVISERS HAD GONE SO
FAR AS TO DRAFT AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AS TO WITHDRAW THE
UNITED STATES FROM NAFTA.
THE THING IS, TRUMP IS AN OPEN-MINDED GUY, AND HE LOOKED
INTO NAFTA AFTER SAYING HE WOULD PULL OUT, AND REALIZED, WHO
WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT IT'S ACTUALLY REALLY COMPLICATED?
NO ONE WOULD HAVE KNOWN.
HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN A 10 MINUTE BRIEFING ABOUT NAFTA, LIKE HE
DID WITH CHINA OR NORTH KOREA.
OR READ SOMETHING.
ANYTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED.
IT'S SO WEIRD, BUT I THINK IT'S BAKED INTO HIS PERSONA, AND
HIS APPROACH TO EVERYTHING, HE IS FORGIVEN FOR ALL THESE
BRASH, OVERT MOVES THAT HE JUST OUT OF COMES UP WITH, AND
SAYS TO GET A FEEL.
HE'S THROWING SPAGHETTI AT THE WALL ALL THE TIME, AND IT
SEEMS LIKE THIS EXCUSES IT SOMEHOW, AND IT'S FRUSTRATING.
I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO MISUNDERSTAND THE WAY I AM
RESPONDING TO THIS STORY.
I DON'T THINK THAT NAFTA IS PERFECT.
IS FLAWED IN MANY WAYS.
I GET HAS HAD SOME UNEXPECTED, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES FOR
THE UNITED STATES, AND MEXICO, AND I'M SURE TO SOME EXTENT
CANADA AS WELL.
FOR INSTANCE, WE PRODUCE SO MUCH CHEAP CORN, AND WE ARE NOW
EXPORTING IT TO MEXICO.
LIKE ABOUT ALL THE FARMERS ñ
THE FARMERS IN MEXICO THAT RELIED ON THEIR CORN CROPS.
SO IT'S NOT JUST AMERICA SUFFERING AND EVERYONE ELSE
IS DOING WELL, THERE ARE RAMIFICATIONS FOR EVERYONE
INVOLVED.
BUT THERE ARE POSITIVES, IT IS A COP LOCATED ISSUE.
ñ IS A COMPLICATED ISSUE.
AND THEN DONALD TRUMP MAKES UNEDUCATED STATEMENTS ABOUT
THESE POLICIES, OR THESE ISSUES, AND THAT'S WITH PROBLEMATIC
HERE.
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT NAFTA, IT'S ABOUT EVERY POLITICAL ISSUE
THAT HE HAS GOTTEN INVOLVED IN.
THAT IS TRUE, AND HE IS A GUY WHO DOES NOT SEE THE GRAY
AREA IN SO MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENS IN POLITICS, AND IN LIFE,
AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SERVING AS
SPECIFIC AS FREE-TRADE, HAPPENS IN THE GRAY AREA.
HE WAS ADVISED BY BANNON, AND THAT TRADE UNION GUY, NAVARRO,
THE NATIONAL TRADE INDUSTRIAL COUNSEL, WHO, OF COURSE,
IT'S IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO GET THIS.
BANNON IS A PR GUY, THE TRADE REPRESENTATIVE WANTS TO GET
RID OF IT JUST LIKE THIS.
BUT SOME PEOPLE'S LIVES DEPEND ON THIS TRADE AGREEMENT
THAT IT IS NAœVE.
YEAH, DISMANTLE IT, BUT DO IT IN A REASONABLE WAY.
DON'T PULL OUT, FIX IT.
IT'S NOT WANT TO BE PERFECT.
WHEN CLINTON PUT IT IN, IT'S NOT WANT TO BE PERFECT.
WHEN GERALD FORD, WHO HIMSELF WAS PRESENT FOR A WHILE, HE
WROTE AN EDITORIAL IN THE PAPERS AROUND THAT TIME, SUPPORTING
NAFTA, AND PEOPLE WERE SAYING IT WAS GOING TO REALLY HURTS,
BECAUSE IT WAS A FORMER PRESIDENT, A REPUBLICAN, CLINTON
MIGHT NOT WANT TO ALIGN HIMSELF ñ IT TURNS OUT HE DID ñ
BUT THEY ALL PREDICT THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING TO BE
PROBLEMATIC WITH NAFTA.
SO, RATHER THAN JUST FIX IT, TRUMP IS DOING WHAT TRUMP DOES,
IT'S EITHER BLACK OR WHITE.
AND HE DOES WANT TO GET RID OF IT.
AND NOW, COOLER HEADS HAVE TO PREVAIL THEN THEY HAVE IN
OTHER CASES WITH TRUMP, AND IT SEEMS THAT THEY HAVE.
FROM THE BUSINESS SIDE, YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT HE WOULD COME
IN WITH SOME KIND OF INTUITION ON THE BUSINESS PART OF IT,
WHICH MEXICO AND CANADA SEEM TO BE OUTSHINING HIM ON THERE.
AND IF YOU HAVE ONE THING ON DONALD TRUMP, MAYBE HE
KNOWS A TINY BIT?
HE HAS GONE BANKRUPT A BUNCH OF TIMES.
PULL OUT OF TPB, SAY I'M GOING TO PULL OUT OF NAFTA, AND
THEN SUDDENLY SAY HE'S GOING TO RENEGOTIATE IT.
WHAT KIND OF EFFECT OF THAT BEHAVIOR HAVE ON THE RIGHT
ñ ON THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS?
IT HELPS HIM WITH VOTERS.
YOU THINK IT HELPS HIM WITH VOTERS?
IT HELPS HIM LIVE UP TO WHAT THOSE VOTERS, WHO ARE
MIDWEST, UNION, BLUE-COLLAR, WHITE AMERICANS, WHO HAD
SOURED ON CLINTON, SOURED ON THE DEMOCRATS, SOURED ON BEING
TAKEN FOR GRANTED, THIS IS A PROMISE TO THEM IN A WEIRD
WAY, THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LIKE.
NOW, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY LIKE, BRETT'S QUESTION WAS
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE DEAL?
THE DEAL WILL BE HANDLED VERY CAREFULLY OVER A LONG
PERIOD OF TIME.
DONALD TRUMP'S ñ DONALD TRUMP ONCE ANSWERS RIGHT NOW, WE
ARE NOT WHAT YOU PULL OUT OF NAFTA TOMORROW.
3 DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS WORKED ON NAFTA.
AND THEN I LOOKED AT THE VOTE TO PASS NAFTA IN THE SENATE, AND IT
WAS 34 REPUBLICANS AND 27 DEMOCRATS.
IT'S SUCH A WEIRD ALIGNMENT THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE
WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WHO WANTS PROTECTIONIST
TRADE POLICIES.
IF YOU GET THAT PASSED, HE'S GOING TO BE APPEALING TO LABOR
UNIONS ON THE LEFT, AND DISSING OFF STAUNCH REPUBLICANS ON THE
RIGHT WHO WANT FREE-TRADE.
MEANWHILE, THE FOLKS WHO ARE NEGOTIATING THIS ARE LIKE,
WILBUR ROSS, WHO IS JUST OLD MONEY ALL THE WAY.
I DON'T HOW IT'S GOING TO COME OFF.
YOU WON'T KNOW FOR A WILD, IT'S GOING TO TAKE FOREVER.
I DO WANT TO PUSH BACK A LITTLE BIT ON HOW THIS IS GOING TO HELP
HIM WITH VOTERS, BECAUSE REMEMBER, THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED
FOR HIM WERE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOVED HIS TOUGH TALK ON
EVERYTHING, AND EVERYTHING HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO, HE HAS
EITHER FAILED IN DOING, OR HAS COMPLETE THE SWITCHED HIS
POLICY IDEAS IN REGARD TO THAT.
SO, HE FAILED WHEN IT CAME TO HEALTHCARE, HE HAS FAILED WHEN
IT CAME TO THE MUSLIM THEN, HE HAS FAILED WHEN IT CAME TO
STRIPPING STATES THAT HAVE SANCTUARY CITIES OF FEDERAL
FUNDING.
HE KEEPS RUNNING INTO THESE ROADBLOCKS, AND I DON'T
KNOW IF THAT IS RESONATING WITH HIS VOTERS AT ALL, OR IF IT
IS STARTING TO HIT A NERVE WITH THEM.
YOU ARE RIGHT, MAYBE I MISSPOKE A LITTLE BIT.
I'M NOT SAYING IT IS GOING TO HELP HIM OVERALL WITH VOTERS,
BUT THERE ARE SINGLE ISSUE VOTERS WHO VOTED FOR DONALD
TRUMP AT THIS TIME, WHO ARE IN MANUFACTURING AND AGRICULTURAL
UNIONS, WHO ARE REALLY PISSED OFF ABOUT FREE-TRADE.
HE PULLED OUT OF TPB, GREAT, WE NEVER KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE
HAPPENED IF HE LOST WITH TPP.
BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THESE VOTERS WANTED HIM TO REJECT NAFTA, AND
I KNOW THAT BANNON IS WORKING ON THIS.
I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THE TRADE UNIONS ARE THAT FAR LEFT,
BUT THE FACT THAT HE IS GOING TO TALK TO THE UNION PEOPLE
AND TRY TO APPEASE THEM BY PULLING OUT OF THIS DEAL I
THINK IS INTERESTING.
THERE HAVE BEEN TALKS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE TPP
FRAMEWORK, THE THINGS THAT MEXICO AGREED WITH WITHIN THE
TPP BEING THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT
I NEGOTIATING NAFTA, LIKE, WHAT IS IT?
THE ONLY THING I KNOW IS THAT ALL THAT DONALD TRUMP CAN
DO UNILATERALLY IS TWEAK AN INDIVIDUAL TARIFF ON AN
INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT, AND EVEN THEN IT'S NOT CLEAR, BUT IF
HE DOES THAT, THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT
HE HAS DONE BEFORE.
WHICH IS TO GO LOOK AT A LIST OF JOBS THAT HAVE MOVED TO
MEXICO, PICK AN INDUSTRY AFFECTED, SWITCH THE TERROR
OF A LITTLE BIT ON THAT, AND DECLARE VICTORY FOR 30,000 JOBS.
I LIKE THAT YOU BROUGHT UP A LITTLE BIT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS COMPONENT OF THIS, BECAUSE IT ALSO SHOWS ANOTHER
FLAW IN THE WAY THAT TRUMP HANDLES THINGS.
ON THE ONE HAND, YOU WILL HEAR HIM SAYING SOME PRETTY UNSAVORY
THINGS ABOUT MEXICO'S PRESIDENT, IN REGARD TO BUILDING THE
WALL AND IMMIGRATION AND ALL OF THAT.
HE'LL SAY OFFENSIVE THINGS, HE'LL SPEAK OFF-THE-CUFF WITHOUT
THINKING ABOUT IT AHEAD OF TIME, AND THEN STUFF LIKE THIS COMES
UP, AND HE WANTS TO RENEGOTIATE NAFTA, WELL, YOU NEED TO HAVE
SOME SORT OF DIPLOMACY WITH YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH WORLD LEADERS.
HE DOESN'T SEEM TO GET THAT.
HE SO USED TO BEING GIVEN EVERYTHING HE WANTS THAT I
FEEL LIKE HE IS BLINDSIDED SOMETIMES.
LIKE WHEN THE FEDERAL JUDGES BLOCK HIM FROM DOING WHAT
HE WANTS TO DO IN HIS EXECUTIVE ORDERS, HE SEEMS BEFUDDLED.
THAT BOLSTERS YOUR POINT.
YOU GET THE FEELING THAT MEXICO AND CANADA ARE LIKE, WHAT THE
FUCK IS THIS GUY DOING?
AND YOU GET THE FEELING THAT LEADERS IN CONGRESS ARE
DOING THAT WITH THEMSELVES AS WELL.
I'M SURE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL HAVE LATE-NIGHT
CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE REALLY DULL, BUT THEY ARE SAYING
THE EXACT SAME THING.
AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING, SO I THINK YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY
RIGHT, AND IT HAPPENS AT HOME TOO.
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