tv [untitled] July 10, 2012 4:00am-4:30am EDT
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you not only fled communism not once but two times and what do americans need to have in mind and why do you hope summit delegates will seek you out in the next 26 hours? >> good evening. i would like to thank john andrews because he is the fist and only man with courage to give me a platform like this. after a short conversation on the phone, especially how i look. i'm not a cookie cutter anything. and there's a reason for it. i grew up behind communism. and not like most that submitted, i became a rebel. and i'm still a rebel and i try to rebel against what's going on. if you think thursday was bad and bloomberg banning big sodas is bad that's nothing. it's just the beginning. if you don't wake up you're going to lose it all. it's worse than you think.
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but there is hope even though that word is profound to me after 2008's election but you have the power. you have to start exercising it. you really have to start working at it. you have to understand how dangerous the enemies of freedom within you in this country is. and in november, that's it if we don't prevail, we're done. >> tell us about your two escapes from the iron curtain. >> first when the russians invaded my native country. this is my country i'm a proud american. when the russians invaded czechoslovakia in 1968 i was a four-year-old boy and my parents brought me here. i learned quickly the differences. in 1973 my mom asked me do you
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want to fly to seattle to see your aunt? i was nine years old and woke up behind the iron curtain again. and it took me ten years to escape again just before the fall of the berlin wall and i was at demonstration, the first in 20 years against the communist government, prague spring in 1989. i know the enemies of the freedom better than anyone. thank you for allowing me this opportunity. >> martin dzuris the "d" is silent. >> i will ask you to clear the room and take your conversations outside. put your belongings on your
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chair but make it easier for the servers to get the room set up for lunch. the exception to clearing the room is come up front and meet martin dzuris or curtis olafson. we are adjourned the. doors will open at high noon, 12:00 noon for luncheon service. ladies and gentlemen, please exit the ballroom promptly and remember, take personal items with you as the room will be reset. thank you. doors will reopen shortly. ♪
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