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this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the show, the middle east is on fire yet again. as the u.n. warns the conflict could turn into full-scale war. what is behind this eruption and what is going to put the
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>> i'll talk to martin indyk and rashid khalidi. and amal clooney is on a quest to bring isis to justice for genocide. but she said the u.s. government is not interested enough. >> they deserve better than the response that they're getting. >> i'll have an exclusive interview with clooney and the nobel peace prize winner nadia murad. but first here is my take. the republican party's decision in effect to excommunicate liz cheney is a water shed event. it marks the final transformation of the party from an ideology driven enterprise to one that is tribal, marked less by ideas and more by group loyalty.
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let's compare the voting record of liz cheney to the woman who replaced her as chair of the conference, elise stefanik. the american conservative union gives cheney a life time score of 78 out of 100 for her consistent conservatism. stefanik gets a 44, which is one of the lowest scores for a house republican these days. cheney reliably voted for trump's policies while stefanik was one of only 12 house republicans to vote against the former president's signature legislation, the 2017 tax cut. but stefanik has pledged fealty to trump and his big lie about fraud in the 2020 election and cheney will not. and republicans these days care more about tribal loyalty than conservative principles. this is a big shift. during the 20th century, the party evolved from a country club for wealthy elites, itself a kind of tribe, into a party
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animated by ideas. the struggle began in the 1950s as "national review" publisher william rusher once noted modern american conservatism largely organized itself during and explicit opposition to the eisenhower administration. barry goldwater railed against his own party for daring to compromise with new deal liberals. he was on the senate floor in 1960, we have said for nearly 30 years that the welfare state, centralized government and federal control are wrong. but in spite of that, say a little bit is all right. we're against federal aid to schools, but we have suggested a little of it. we are against federal aid to depressed areas, but we have offered a plan for a little of it. we recognize that to increase the minimum wage would be inflationary and would result in unemployment, but we suggest a little increase.
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goldwater created the staunchly conservative base that would take over the party. but his free market ideology was so extreme it proved too toxic to implement. they were promising the repeal of the new deal and the great society but never actually delivering. this became the republican dynamic. fire up the base with visions of rollback and then, once in power, quietly accommodate to the reality that most americans actually wanted the welfare state. it created what e.j. deon called the politics of betrayeral, in which ideas are sold out because of republican cowardice. enter newt gingrich, focusing less on ideas and more on attitudes. gingrich destroyed then republican minority leader robert michael an old-fashioned
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politician called mr. nice guy. he led the attack on george h.w. bush for striking a deal with democrats and raising taxes which ensured that bush lost his bid for re-election. he ousted democratic speaker jim wright on flimsy accusations masterfully using innuendo, exaggeration and slander. he tutored a generation of republicans to remake rhetoric coaching them to use words like sick, traitor, corrupt and selfish when describing democrats. the republican party became the fight club party. over time republicans' dedication to the core ideas began to wear thin. it is difficult to claim fealty to fiscal conservatism when the party have been streetal in creating massive deficits. nixon and reagan expanded the welfare state. the elder bush was a lifelong moderate while the younger spoke of a compassionate conservatism
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that would use the federal government to solve economic problems and the iraq war discredited the republican internationalism. so donald trump picked up where newt gingrich had left off. he again energized the republican party around attitudes, mostly resentments aimed at liberal elites and foreigners, chinese, mexicans and muslims whom he painted basically as foreigners. trump was socially conservative, and yet economically he violated free market principles all of the time. embracing tariffs, assailing big companies and providing generous subsidies to his favorite constituents such as farmers. but he understood the increasingly ethnic base of the party, and his rhetoric was pitch perfect for the working class. liz cheney says will fight to rebuild a republican party based on conservative principals, but
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that battle was lost years ago. the republican party today is not a movement dedicated to ideas, but a tribe devoted to self-preservation, defined by ang and emotions and organized around a clannish loyalty to its leader. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "washington post" column and tune in my new special, "a radical rebellion, the transformation of the gop" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and let's get started. ♪ the u.n. security council is convening this hour to discuss israel and the palestinians. hamas fired 120 rockets overnight according to the israeli air force and israeli air strikes have killed 63 so far on sunday. palestinian officials say in total at least 188 people in
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gaza and 21 in the west bank have died in the conflict. many of the dead have been women and children. israel reports at least ten dead including two children. meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, president biden called for an end to the violence when he spoke with bibi netanyahu and mahmoud abbas. let's get the latest on the ground from nic robertson who joins us from an israeli city north of the gaza strip. welcome, nic. when people hear the numbers, the disproportion in terms of casualties, about 20 palestinians for every israeli who have died, about the same numbers injured. does it feel like that on the ground? >> reporter: i think when you're outside of gaza, there is an entirely different sense of the level of danger you face than if
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you're inside of gaza. gaza is a very densely populated place. it is a relatively small place. and the israeli defense forces say that they know that hamas put some of its operational equipment, people, material in amongst the civilian population. the israeli government makes the point of saying they're defending the civilians that they go out of their way to make sure this they don't hit civilians, whereas hamas fires their rockets indiscriminately. when you see 188 people killed in gaza and 10 israeli citizens kill so far, those numbers speak to the level of threat. i think it is hard to draw a conclusion. but they don't mitigate, they don't eradicate that sense of fear and desperateness about the situation, but people on both
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sides of this conflict feel. they both feel fear. whether you're sitting on this side or the other side. that disproportionality is what in the past has brought international pressure on israel to back off, to try to find a peaceful solution. >> this time what seems different -- and you tell me if i'm wrong, nic -- you're beginning to see clashes within israel, among israeli arabs and israeli jews on a scale i don't recall having seen before. >> there is a ferocity and intensity that flashed a couple of days ago, and that has caught everyone by surprise. i think one of the other things about this time, this particular conflict around gaza is the speed with which it has happened, the massive number of
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rockets fired in a short space of time, that is the idf's perception of the situation. the sort of speed with which the escalation has come and the consequences and the way that it played out on the streets in israel and mixed cities and towns is something that really, you know, speaks to some serious significant underlying tensions that are coming to the surface in the way that they haven't in the past. i think if you look at the signaling that is going on here at the moment this weekend, last night hamas signaled that they would not hit -- not fire rockets at tel aviv on the coast for a period of two hours between 10:00 p.m. and midnight and right after midnight they fired those rockets., and right after midnight they fired those rockets. but they signaled there, their ability to pause, you won't call it a cease-fire, but that is what it amounted to.
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on the israeli side, the signaling today, the highest death toll so far in gaza, signals that there are still a large number of targets that the israeli defense forces want to hit. they struck the house of the leader of hamas. that is a political message right there. they've struck today a weapon source that hamas uses. so from an israeli perspective, it seems that there is more to be done. from a hamas perspective, it seems they're signaling that their own political gains have maybe been achieved. >> nic, you've covered this conflict for a long time and others like yugoslavia. when you look at this, does it feel to you that you -- are you hopeful that we're moving toward a cease-fire, or does what strike you as this time is different, there seems to be a eruption of internal tension. quickly give us your own gut feeling about all of this.
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>> my gut feeling is that there is a good possibility that this would de-escalate next week. certainly the meeting of the united nations will call for that, and there's certainly pressure coming from the biden administration for that to happen. so there is a good possibility for that. and nevertheless, the actual root of the conflict remains in a cul-de-sac, and the direction of travel is toward the end of the cul-de-sac. no one has opened the road out of this dead end, if you will, to get to the root issues over land and finding a lasting durable peace solution. what may happen now will likely be a temporary band aid again. >> as always, brilliant aid aga. >> as always, brilliant -aid ag. >> as always, brilliant reporting. thank you and stay safe. stay with us. let me bring in now rashid khalidi and martin indyk. the professor of mod arab
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studies and indyk was the united states envoy for palestinian negotiations under president obama and served two different stints as the ambassador to israel under president clinton. rashid, let me begin by asking you, what is the root of this -- and don't go back all the way decades and decades, what i mean is this didn't just begin with the rockets and the air strikes. explain to us what was happening in terms of what israel was doing in east jerusalem which seems to have triggered all of this. >> that is what triggered it. the assault on the mosque, firing stun grenades and tear gas into the mosque while people were worshipping on a ramadan night, and the displacement of palestinian refugees who were settled in homes which
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jewish groups claimed set everything off, as did the heavy-handed policing in the streets of the older city. i know people don't want to go back, but when people who are refugees from 1948 are being evicted yet again, it strikes a cord with palestinians everywhere. everybody in jordan, in israel, palestinians all over the world react to this and understand this. and so each of these actions, attack on the mosque, on a night of ramadan where worshiperpers were actually praying and other actions in jerusalem, palestinians who were frustrated and angry because of the oppression in different ways in different parts of old mandatory palestine. it raised for them issues and traumas and things have been bubbling and what happened in the mosque was actually the trigger. >> martin, there were -- i saw
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palestinian activists and observers saying they felt that the reason this was happening was the netanyahu government was trying to essentially jew-ize jury room, turn it away from a city that was in many ways a shared space for palestinians and israeli and make it more completely and wholly a jewish city. is that fair? >> i do think it is fair. the process has been going on for a very long time in jerusalem. but i think it is been given a turbo boost as a result of domestic israeli politics in which netanyahu, struggling to find a way to form a government, has brought in and legitimized the most extreme right wing racist organizations and their
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leadership into the mainstream, into the right wing list and into the knesset and that has given a boost to the extremists who are pushing their agenda at a time when i think that the political class was distracted by trying to form a government. and as a consequence of that, you see that in jerusalem, we've also seen it in the west bank where the settler movement has been pushing to try to expand the settlements, building settlement outposts that are illegal on israeli law and trying to legalize them through the knesset. so the recent period, the last 10 years, has seen a swing in israel to the right and that pendulum is still swinging further to the right, and that has enabled this kind of chauvinistic extremism to gain a
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greater grip, and that has roiled things with the palestinians. >> let me ask you a followup, martin. does that mean that bibi netanyahu might be able to use this crisis as a way to stay in power somehow? >> it's entirely possible. there have been four elections in israel in two years in which netanyahu and his right wing religious coalition, notwithstanding what i've just said, have been unable to form a stable government. and it looks like as a result of this outbreak of conflict that israel will head back into a fifth election, and we will have to see whether the conflict will give him a boost, because he's been tough in cracking down on the palestinians, or whether israelis will turn around and say, you know, you brought us these problems with your
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indulgence of the chauvinistic extremist racist right and you're to blame for this. it is impossible in the heat of the conflict to tell at this moment how it is going to happen. but, you know, you discussed with nic the question of the surprising way in which this conflict has spilled over into israel proper and the violence between jewish and arab mobs within israel. that comes in the context of netanyahu actually legitimatizing the move of israeli arab parties into the mainstream of israeli politics. and i hope that the israelis will come to see that that was the right path, that equal rights for israelis, israel's arab citizens is something positive that should come out of this conflict. >> and rashid, when you look at the palestinian side, is there also a story here of greater polarization?
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it seems that hamas has gained a certain amount of momentum, abbas once again postponed elections. i can't remember when the last time was allowed elections in the west bank was. explain to us what the dynamic is on the palestinian side. >> 2006 was the last election. yes, there is no question. but that the undermining of the palestinian authority by the kind of extremism that has developed increasingly in israel. and as a result of the malign neglect of american policymakers by every substantial issue in palestine. the united states has not addressed these issues in decades and would not allow negotiations martin himself was involved in decades ago. the malign neglect by the united states of these issues and the humiliation of the palestinian authority which is weak and lacks a great deal of legitimacy
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because, as you said, the last election was 15 years ago, 14 years ago. all of these things i think contributed. but the spark again was jerusalem, it was dispossession of people who have already been dispossessed. if you don't address refugee and property issues and control of the holy places in jerusalem, and if you support a normalization deals with arab countries while ignoring all of these issues, sooner or later you're putting tinder in place that going to do lead to a conflagration and hamas exploited that. there's no question of that. and as it exploited the increasing extremism by israeli government over the last ten years, which has not just led to settlers burning palestinian olive groves in the west bank or attacking palestinians has not just led to the marches calling for death to the arabs through the arab neighborhoods of jerusalem, is leading to some extremists coming from the west bank to cities like haifa and
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essentially provoking the arab residents trying to establish a jewish presence, something that has been hpg in jury room in the west bank literally for 53 years. so i think that you could talk about the internal divisions among the palestinians which are a terrible problem for the palestinians but i think you have to talk about both the role of the united states, which i think has actually seriously exacerbating this conflict through everything done by administration after administration, and of course the things that are going on inside israel are a major contributor. who sends the police into the third holiest mosque in islam to fire stun grenades and tear gas? we saw the images. cnn carried them. on worshippers on the holiest nice of ramadan and who does that and what kind of government orders that kind of thing and with what kind of domestic shenanigans as the motivation. the desperation of netanyahu to
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get people like ben veer and smotrich into his government, with the most extreme racist elements in society. some were stirring up in the neighborhood where people were about to be evicted. some led the marches through the arab quarters, neighborhoods of the old city of jerusalem, smashing down people's doors, calling for death to arabs. these are people being courted by the prime minister. so the prime minister of israel and i would argue the united states government because of its malign neglect of the core issues, not putting a band aaid on this or getting a cease-fire and dealing with this over multiple administrations is where you get the situation that you have. in addition, i would argue -- i agree with you, it's a problem for the palestinians and exacerbated by external support for different factions, not just
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by iran, but turkey. this is a palestinian problem the palestinians have to solve but the meddling has muddied waters and kept the palestinians divided which is a strategic objective of israel. >> martin, rashid brings up the united states. the trump administration's abraham accord initiative and the entire policy was premised on the idea, the palestinian issue was not that important, the arabs care more about an anti-iranian alliance, anti-shiite alliance, does this demonstrate that that was all wrong or will we see that at the end of the day the saudis, the uae, egypt will not do much to help the palestinians? >> well, i think that that is true and has been true for a very long time. but what the trump administration did was not just to promote normalization between
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israel and the arabs, that was in fact something that the united arab emirates brought up. it wasn't their agenda. their agenda was the deal of the century. it was an israeli-palestinian deal, and it contributed to the tensions that have exploited now because it took these core issues, some of which rashid has been referring to, and that are part of the negotiation of a final agreement between the israelis and palestinians, and it came in and sided with israel on every one of the issues so there was nothing in it for the palestinians. and that unfortunately undermined america's role as a broker, as a mediator in these negotiations. in fact, the palestinians didn't -- wouldn't talk to the trump administration for something like for three years after they moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. so i think that the
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normalization process, while a good thing in itself, did nothing to deal with the israeli-palestinian conflict. >> martin, i'm sorry to interrupt you, but we're out of time. these are incredibly important issues that are not going away. both of you have been so brilliant in explaining them to us. we'll have both of you back. thank you. next on "gps," my exclusive interview with international human rights lawyer amal clooney and nobel peace prize winner nadia murad as they take the fight against isis to the courtroom when we come back. it doesn't ring the bell on wall street. or disrupt the status quo. t-mobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help you realize new possibilities. like our new work from anywhere solutions, so your teams can collaborate almost anywhere. plus customer experience that finds solutions in the moment. ...and first-class benefits, like 5g with every plan. network, support and value without any tradeoffs.
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in august 2013, isis captured a 26-year-old american aid worker, kayla mueller. she ended up in the custody of a top isis leader and his wife. held alongside her were yazidis, members of a long persecuted an jen ancient religious group. according to amal clooney who represents some of the women, the captives were enslaved and subjected to torture, rape, beatings. >> we all were scared and crying because we didn't know what was awaiting us. they were dragging the girls, beating them and taking them forcibly. >> clooney said the terror leader's wife facilitated the
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rapes. in february of 2015, kayla mueller died while being held by isis. >> we're taking out isis commanders and leaders one by one. >> in a u.s. radio three months later, abu was dead. >> his wife was captured in the same raid and in 2016 she was charged by the u.s. department of justice with conspiracy to provide material support to isis. but in the ensuing five years, clooney says, the case has gone nowhere. she wants justice for his clients, so she's now using a little known law to try to get it. >> i call on states that believe in human rights to commit to holding international trials. >> clooney joins me with nadia murad, a yazidi woman held captive by isis as a sex slave. >> i'm fearful that survivors will never receive justice. >> murad won the nobel peace
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prize in 2018 for working to end sexual violence as a part of war and armed conflict. amal, nadia, welcome. amal, let me start with you and ask you how are you going to do this, because what your plan now as i understand it is to use an american law to bring justice to an isis leader for something that happened in syria. it sounds ambitious. how will you do you it? >> yes, thank you very much fareed, for having us on today. we are using a u.s. law, and the argument is that this is a case that should be before a u.s. court. because there was a crime, a very serious crime committed against my clients who are members of the yazidi faith but also against an american young woman. the perpetrator was apprehended
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by u.s. forces, and she was charged in the eastern district of virginia. and what my clients want to know is why was she then transferred from syria to iraq instead of being brought to the united states to stand trial. >> this is a largest struggle for you, amal. you've been trying to get justice for the yazidis and it feels like you're in this inventive piecemeal way trying to ways to do it. why isn't there something simpler to do? this is such a horrendous crime, in an ideal world would there be another way of getting justice? >> yeah, absolutely, and we have the institutions that are supposed to be the answer to this. it is the u.n. security council and it is the international criminal court. but, of course, the problem is in the recent years the u.n. security council has been blocked every time there has been a serious crisis and effort
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to respond to the crisis. we've had vetoes in the council, and although two-thirds of the world states are members of the international criminal court, which has jurisdiction over these crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, for the time being the united states stands with china and russia in being outside of the court. and so my hope is that under this new biden administration, we'll start to see some changes. and you know it is not inevitable for the u.s. not to be playing a leading role on these issues. the u.s. has a proud legacy of being a leader when it comes to international justice. it was the u.s. that pressed for trials of the nazis, it was the u.s. that led the effort for u.n. trials after the genocide in bosnia. and rwanda. and there are indications that president biden has already made and secretary of state blinken that there will be a new approach to foreign policy that puts human rights back into the center and that could obviously make a world of difference.
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>> nadia, you know the kind of horror stories that we have all just been hearing. you were yourself taken as a sex slave. when you hear these stories, what do you want the world to know about this? >> well, thank you so much for having me again. it is a great to be with you and amal again. i came out, and it was not easy for me and other survivors to do it. but we are doing it in the past seven years in hope that isis will be held accountable for what they did to women and the whole community. they have committed a genocide and sexual violence against more than 6,000 yazidi women and children.
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so we are doing this, and we hope that the world leaders will do their job and do what is right. it would deliver justice for survivors of sexual violence, not only yazidis, but all survivors everywhere that they have been abused, and they hope that -- they hope that they will not just listen. >> nadia, thank you. when we come back, you will hear one of the women who was held by abu sigh ef and his wife who will bear witness to the atrocities inflicted upon her. ♪ it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. ♪ as you charge ahead. illuminating the way forward. a light maker. recognizing that the impact you make comes from the energy you create.
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i am back now with amal clooney and the 2018 nobel peace prize winner nadia murad talking about the crimes perpetrated by isis. i want you to hear something that is difficult to hear. a woman talking about how the wife of an isis leader herself prepared this witness to be raped by the isis terrorist, her husband. >> translator: before i was raped, she asked me to take a shower. moreover she put makeup and perfume on me and dressed me up. then she took me to him and he raped me.
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um sayyaf was an isis member, just like them, they were like partners because she was preparing and taking us to them. >> amal, you talked to so many of these women, you've represented so many like nadia and the person we just heard from, how difficult was it to get them to talk about their experiences, these horrific experiences? >> you know, it is actually incredible, fareed. people have really wanted to come forward. and i sometimes get asked but don't victims prefer to move on with their lives instead of pursuing justice and going through these harrowing interviews, and the point is they can't move on. they deserve better than the response that they're getting. but nadia was incredible in her determination to achieve some justice for her and we've worked with governments to say at least collect the evidence of the crimes so the possibility of justice is preserved so there is
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a chance to have trials. and actually just this week at the u.n., the u.n. body that was set up by the security council pursuant to this advocacy has released its findings in relation to the crimes against yazidis and finally we have an official determination that the crimes reprcrimes constitute genocide and that isis had the intent to destroy in whole or in part this group because of their religion, because they prayed in a different way and that it sought to destroy biologically the ability of women to give birth to the next generation of yazidis, and this milestone is incredibly important. we know from the armenian example that is matters to victims for the crimes to be called what they are and in this case it is genocide. but that is not enough. what we said this week at the united nations is you had this investigation, the investigation has determined the nature of the crimes, and they've also pointed to a staggering number, 1444
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potential named perpetrators, and they've developed 14 detailed case files against principal perpetrators, and we're saying that you have to use this evidence and the victims deserve nothing less and it is true for the yazidis and the rohingyas, victims of genocide in myanmar. it is just awful to watch in each of the conflicts even going back to the protesters in syria ten years ago who were holding up banners, assad to the hague and calling out to freedom loving nations to help, and instead are left to be slaughtered. so if we can't as an international community prevent the crimes, at least we could do is punish them. and there are trials in germany, including the first trial for genocide in germany against an isis fighter, and i represent a victim in that trial. so there are some governments stepping up to fill this gap, this impunity gap.
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but we have to do more, and i think the u.s. government could really make a difference if they choose to be defenders of international justice once again. >> finally, nadia, how do you retain hope? this has been such a long, drawn-out struggle for you. >> well, i really hope that the world will send a clear message that impunity is not accepted and that survivors of sexual violence will see their day in court. i hope that more than 2,000 yazidi women and children that are still missing in captivity, including my niece, my nephew, my sister-in-law, will be rescued from isis captivity, and that survivors will feel safe when they talk about their --
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sharing their personal stories. i hope that the international community can help us to heal through justice, through right and justice and that they will help communities like yazidis to go back home and live a dignified life and feel secure to go back and that isis will not be free and that impunity will never be an option for those who committed genocide and sexual violence against minorities and especially women and children. >> thanks to both of you for your extraordinary work. >> thank you. >> and we will be back. guard, pet hairt your clothes can repel pet hair. look how the shirt on the left attracts pet hair like a magnet! pet hair is no match for bounce. with bounce, you can love your pets, and lint roll less. it's a simple fact: nothing kills more germs on more surfaces
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that explains the birth of the modern republican party. it's from my upcoming special, a radical rebellion, the transformation of the gop, which airs at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight. the year is 1964, the setting san francisco's cow palace, a massive arena built to showcase cattle. it was used that year to house the republican national convention. it was a showdown. that's because the presumptive republican presidential nominee was arizona senator barry goldwater, one of the most right wing politicians in the country but the republican party was still the home of many prominent liberals like nelson rockefeller, the governor of new york. it was the party of lincoln, still getting a sizable portion of the black vote and many of those voters protested goldwater's candidacy. one of the most prominent of goldwater's black republican critics was also one of the country's most beloved figures, the former baseball great jackie
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robinson, the first black american to play in the major leagues. watch this clip from the special. >> 40,000 people, have of them negros, demonstrate against zbronld water. >> those who felt unwanted took to the streets outside the cow palace, including jackie robinson. at the heart of their anger -- the 1964 civil rights bill. signed into law just days before the convention began. barry goldwater was one of only 27 senators to vote against it. >> we are being asked to destroy the rights of some under the false banner of promoting the civil rights of others. >> historians say goldwater was not a racist, but most agree, he did not do enough to denounce segregation. >> goldwater must go! >> at the convention the racial
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climate is growing uglier. >> the negro race sentenced a very -- >> not you, you see me first as a negro and then as a human, i'm first as a human being. >> they've got a core of demonstrators tearing up the center aisle. >> a black man protesting goldwater is dragged out by security, others a spat on, called racist names. >> it does represent to a lot of people watching on tv a nuremberg rally. >> jackie robinson said he thought he knew what it felt like to be a jew in hitler's germany. >> any self-respecting negro must walk out during this convention. >> the black republican famous republican had finally seen enough. >> president johnson -- >> yes, i would, very strongly, i'd vote for president johnson over goldwater, no question about that. >> he walked out of the convention, and the party.
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for good. >> we will not stand -- or any major party. nominating a man who in my opinion is a big gotot, and a man who will attempt and prevent us from moving forward. >> i would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. >> he called his supporters to be extremists, to be radicals. if was it a water shed moment in america? yes, it was. >> that call to extremism would lose goldwater the election and the black vote, which fled the party en masse, but it would win him the soul of the republican party. goldwater created what came to be called the base, the conservative core of the party that would dominate it for the
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next six decades. then came trump, and his own remaking of the party. please do watch my new special, a radical rebellion, the transformation of the gop, at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight. thanks to all of you were being part of my program this week, i will see you tonight, and then again next week. smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo
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thank you so much for joining me this sunday, i'm fredricka whitfield. today has been the deadliest day yet in the worsening conflict around gaza. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes killed 47 people today, amnesty international is calling for war crime investigations after israeli strikes on a refugee camp and a high rise building in ga