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cupcakes candles and friends. she didn't have in the video what she credits her longevity. quote, a lot of booze. mom, just trying to live a long life. >> see you next weekend. and this is a fox news alert. police in dallas are confirming a suspect in a dangerous standoff at police headquarters overnight is now dead. hello, everybody, welcome to american news headquarters. they shot the person accused in an overnight attack on headquarters. authorities are trying to figure out if he is actually dead in that armored car and used to launch an all out assault on officers there. >> the suspect was parked in front of police headquarters and police officers arrived. the suspect rammed the police
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officer's squad car and began shooting at the officers striking the squad car but missing the officers. >> joining us now, casey spiegel standing by with more of the dramatic details as they unfolded. >> reporter: yeah uma, absolutely wild. dallas police chief says this guy showed up to do damage. in his own words, said his officers barely survived the suspect's intent investigators say he pulled up to dallas police headquarters and opened fire with what they say was an automatic weapon. police tell us that the suspect left explosive devices in the parking lot, rigged to go off when touched. two pipe bombs were detonated safely by the bomb squad.
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luckily no officers were hurt in this whole ordeal but bullet holes could be seen on some of the police department windows. the suspect then led officers on a chase about 11 miles south of here to hutchins texas, in a fast food parking lot where his vehicle became disabled because an 11 hour standoff ensued after officers fired shots into the suspect's armored van to disable it. police say a sniper also hit the suspect through the windshield. we just learned before the top of the program that dallas police confirmed now that the suspect is dead though they're not revealing his identity. investigators say prior to this going down the shooter had called 911 and gone on a rant aboutng responsible for him losing custody of his son and now dallas police report two additional pipe bombs were found inside the suspect's
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armored van on the scene, 11 miles from where we are. i am only two blocks from dallas police headquarters. police said they found more explosives in the vehicle. there have been reports of witnesses down there of two loud pops. controlled explosions if you will. we presume dallas police have detonated the two pipe bombs just as they did with the two bombs that were here at police headquarters. rapidly developing situation. but again, the headline here one suspect dead they believe he acted alone. no officers no bystanders miraculously injured in the 11 hour ordeal. >> an ordeal indeed. thankfully no police officers or by standers injured today. thank you for that update. the search intensifies for two escaped murderers on the run in northern new york for about a week now. police helicopters began to circle over the town of
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plattsburgh where 800 local, state officers are hunting for david sweat and richard matt that busted out of prison. they allegedly received help from this woman, prison worker joyce mitchell who was arraigned late last night on felony charges. police are saying she provided the inmates with illegal items, but not the power tools they used to make their escape. peter doocy is outside that correctional facility in new york with more on this story. >> reporter: uma, the two fugitive murderers are still out there. it is a dramatic scene in upstate new york just in the time we drove from the hotel to the live shot outside the walls of the clinton correctional facility. we went through three police check points. at the final two, officers were clutching weapons tightly, searching every car. they think they could be
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anywhere. they're hoping for at least a confirmed sighting of either richard matt or david sweat because there still haven't been any in the one week after their daring escape. today is one day after their alleged accomplice joyce mitchell stood before a judge and pled not guilty to supplying a saw weeks ago. on may 1st the complaint lays out a week long effort to tunnel out of clinton correctional facility with supplies from miss mitchell who law enforcement officials are telling fox was supposed to be a get away driver when the two popped out of a manhole cover a block away but she got cold feet. her arrest is the only success law enforcement has had so far in the manhunt as officials now are trying to send messages to the escapees that are simple but serious. >> we have a message for david sweat and richard matt.
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we're coming for you and we will not stop until you are caught. >> reporter: you get a sense how serious the search is and how close the prison is to the town. the walls cut through the middle of what is a very nice town a nice part of upstate new york and it is so intertwined, the prison is with everything that happens here that we just got copy of the street where many of the prison guards and reporters in town have been going, and they're selling t shirts with the prison guard tower on them. so the prison obviously is very important to the town. but the most important thing right now is finding these two people who are supposed to be inside but instead are somewhere out there. uma? >> thank you very much. with the latest on the search that continues at this hour. that is why i am running for
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president of the united states. >> turning to politics and shifting gears in a big way, hillary clinton hitting the reset button on her presidential campaign kicking off what her team calls a new phase with a big event on roosevelt island and the first major speech and rally of her campaign. host of media buzz on fox news channel joins us live from roosevelt island. howard great to see you. did she talk about president obama this time around? >> she mentioned the president only a couple of times. as she went through a policy laden speech checking the boxes on the liberal agenda everything from income inequality attacking wall street shoutouts to women and gays getting to the level of pre-k and paid sick leave for workers, i thought who has been in the white house the last seven years.
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there was a pointed reference to her, and since there was little foreign policy in the speech reference to her having within in a situation room with the president on the day osama bin laden was killed. >> i want your perspective on the optics of the rally. first, want to mention the fact that she also devoted some of her speech to memory of her mother. why do you think she's doing that and what impact will that have on voters? >> reporter: less than i expected given the leaks about her mother's difficult life when her mom was growing up. hillary clinton was trying to make things more personal warm up her image a bit, describe how her mother had been inspiration to her, but didn't go into great detail. perhaps the best moment was when the speech was over and bill clinton came out, and chelsea clinton, that reminded me that the speech that went on here sounded like one of bill clinton's lengthy, policy heavy
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state of the union addresses. made me wonder whether he had a hand in writing it or rewriting it. first time that bill and hillary appeared together since she declared her run for president this time. >> that's interesting, too. a lot has been made of whether or not we will see much of her husband on the campaign trail and how much of a factor he is going to play into this race particularly at a time when so much has changed since he was president. what's your take on this in terms of the optics? >> reporter: i think it is great for bill clinton to be seen with hillary clinton, had he spoken for a few minutes, he is a natural orator and speaker in a way she is not, there would have been inevitable comparison. that's what i think they're trying to avoid. have him there for the pretty photo ops, but let it be hillary's day as she makes a case for candidacy. >> a lively campaign indeed. howard thanks for joining us. always appreciate your perspective. >> thanks.
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>> we want to hear from you. recent polls show voters have trust issues and credibility concerns about mrs. clinton in light of recent e-mail controversy. do you think this reboot will restore credibility problems? i would like to hear from you. tweet me. we will read some of your answers a little later on the show. on the republican side a half dozen presidential hopefuls attending a conference in utah hosted by former candidate mitt romney. the event this weekend includes speeches recreation and private meetings with some of the party's biggest campaign donors. senior national correspondent john roberts joins us with more on this. john? >> reporter: uma, good afternoon to you. don't forget this is a group of people that raised a half billion in campaign funds for mitt romney in 2012. it is clear from the conference that there's still a lot of campaign money sitting on the sidelines, as deep pocketed donors look for a candidate they
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can fall in love with. one of the candidates that stands to gain the most from the conference marco rubio who you see in the photograph leading a flag football game yesterday morning, some fun here as well as political talk. he is raising hard money as a conservative candidate, can use the assistance of bundlers going forward. he is making a virtue of the financial struggles they faced years ago, subject of what his campaign called another hit piece in the "the new york times" this week. >> this is part of the process, media can decide to write what they want. at the end of the day, never claimed to be a rich person. most important thing i tried to achieve is a good home for my kids and opportunities. i am proud of what we achieved. >> reporter: another candidate looking for cash lindsey graham has lead a skeet shooting event. he is a startup company looking for people to vest. graham was the butt of off color jokes about the status of never married. his colleague called him up to
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apologize to graham for calling him on an open mike moment a bro with no ho. i asked senator graham about that. why are people making this an issue? >> i am single. i am the only guy running who's single. america is going to have to decide can a single person be president. i think i'm a good person by no means perfect, but of all people running on both sides of the aisle, i am single. haven't had a single president in 100 years. last time i checked no sign on the white house says married people only single people need not apply. >> he is staying in the race. he went over well in the speech he gave yesterday. as far as mitt romney who organized the conclave goes he told me he is not going to endorse any single candidate just yet, but as the process goes forward, if a candidate starts to rise who does not share his values he may throw his weight behind a candidate who does. uma? >> very interesting.
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a lovely backdrop behind you there in park city utah. >> reporter: you should see it with snow. >> oh, my god, it must be breathtaking. thanks for that update. >> reporter: thanks. our objective is clear, we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil through a comprehensive and sustained counter terrorism strategy. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitment on the part of the iraqis as well and so the details are not worked out. >> quite a contrast from the president when it comes to taking on the isis threat. from degrade and destroy, the president is admitting what critics have been saying awhile there is in his words, we don't have a complete strategy about the fight against isis.
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president obama adding that the iraqis need to give him a plan that will work. plans to send 450 military advisers to iraq to train iraqi soldiers and give them backup for defending themselves. at this point the military advisers outnumber the iraqis being trained for combat. what does this mean. joining us for analysis oliver north and the author of "counter fit lies." welcome, great to see you, sir. >> good to be with you, uma. this strategy produced 2.5 million refugees from iraq
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christian and villages have been anie latd genocide on the scale of row wand a under way, and isis is in the meez and across africa and around the world and more are joining daily. this is not a good picture for success. >> what's happening in iraqi, plig down yis and end that trail of brutality but as a national security issue for america and our ally israel. what do you make of the president's remarks this week now that he is sending in more military advisers will it make a difference? >> 450 more u.s. personnel is not a strategy and it is not going to bring about any major change because the iraqis aren't playing the way they would be had we stayed in 2011. if they want to train more
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iraqis, train the sunnis giving them more equipment to handle isis is a waste. if they want to defeat isis uma, here is a five point strategy that will work. first, stop sending supplies to the curds through baghdad. directly arm the curds in peshmerga peshmerga. number two, put more u.s. intelligence surveillance reconnaissance aircraft in jordan another carrier battle group in the mediterranean and marine expeditionary force. third, but advisers and forward air controllers on the ground with iraqi forces. don't leave them in the rear with the gear that's not working. number four. support egyptian jordanian, uae
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force in anbar province through jordan to liberate that euphrates river valley. number five target and kill isis leadership deny them the safe haven they have in syria or anywhere else like in libya. here's what not to do. a nuclear deal with the iranians because it will validate the head of isis his claim to be the savior of sunni islam from shyites and persians. if the administration did those five things and walked away from this business they're negotiating with the iranians you could keep iraq together as a country. otherwise it is going to cease to do anything. >> takes a moral clarity, a specific belief that there is an important fight, not just for that part of the world but for the security as i pointed out earlier. do you believe if the u.s. doesn't take the lead now, it will be too late to bring isis
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down and how do we do that knowing that isis has no plans to stop any time soon. feel more embolden than ever before. >> we don't need the first marine division in don't need to put somebody else back in. we need to encourage egyptians and jordanians to do what they wanted to two or three months ago before ramadi went down. all we have to do is support them logistically give them encouragement, intelligence surveillance. they have two well trained militaries all they needed was support and the obama administration gave them the back of the hand. >> washington is continuing to push for a sunni shiite alliance in that area but as long as the iraqi government continues to embrace the shi'a militia, there's no hope that they're going to come together to cooperate and show up as a military force?
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>> that's whial sees ee ee option is the only way the soon east are back in the fight. holding iraq together as a single unified country is getting more difficult by the time. time is not an ally in this. you could take egyptians and jordanians in to liberate the sunni area through jordan. there are bases on the border they could be using today. >> colonel north, always great to see you. i know you paint a sobering picture of what's going on now, but as you point out, there is an urgency here. we have to see if we're going to see anything at this point from the white house that's going to meet that demand. thank you so much for joining us. >> uma, always a pleasure. >> thank you. new developments regarding release of more gitmo detainees. obama administration is transferring three of osama bin laden's alleged body guards out of gun ton mow. they're among six being sent
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welcome back. the navy crist ening the newest combat ship gabrielle giffords. named for the congresswoman shot in the head in an assassination tempt in 2011. the secretary of the navy saying it is fitting for the ship to be named for someone who has shown enormous courage. joining her, her husband, and vice president joe biden. in the efforts to shut down gu and tan mow, they transferred six including three of osama bin laden's body guards out of that facility. they were flown to the persian gulf to oman after being at gitmo more than a decade. molly henneberg joining us with the latest on this developing story. molly? >> this is the first transfer of gitmo detainees in five months.
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the six men, all from yemen weren't sent to yemen because of instability in that country. they were flown out of gitmo yesterday, headed to oman. three are alleged to be body guards for osama bin laden. another was a taliban fighter. another was captured in pakistan after fighting american soldiers at tore a bore a, afghanistan. the sixth, a religious teacher who had ties to bin laden's religious adviser. new hampshire repair senator kelly ayotte is not sure they will stay on the straight and narrow. if they are not detained no one should be surprised if they reengage for more activity. the administration should be honest regarding detainee terrorist affiliations and activities and what steps are being taken to prevent their return to terrorism. these are the first transfers approved by ash carter.
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defense department says it doesn't make a transfer unless it gets adequate assurances that the receiving country is taking steps to prevent the detainees from becoming a threat. they have arrived and will be living in that country temporarily. not clear how long that will be or where they go next. president obama's national security council put out a statement saying quote, each of the six individuals was unanimously approved for transfer five years ago by six departments and agencies. the departments of defense, state, justice, and homeland security. the office of director of national intelligence and the joint chief of staff through the 2009 executive order taskforce. the united states is grateful to oman for the humanitarian gesture. there were 242 gitmo detainees when president obama took office and began efforts to close the
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facility. there are now 116 detainees. uma? >> all right, thank you very much. as we have been reporting, hillary clinton's campaign getting what's described as a reboot today. the democratic front runner promising in a major speech in new york to be a fighter for the middle class. but with a number of controversy and scandals swirling around her campaign can voters trust her and do they see her as a credible candidate. and the deadline fast approaching for the nuclear deal with iran some remain wary. eric shawn speaks to the leader of the largest opposition group who warns it is a bad deal all the way around.
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it can't just be for billionaires and corporations. prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. >> on what has been a picture per day in new york city hillary clinton making it clear today her campaign for the white house is different this time around. she's taking a hard left and says she's in her words a tenacious fighter for the middle class. issues continue to follow her from benghazi to her personal e-mail server. her campaign still dogged by some controversy. joining us now, frank lunt communications specialist fox news contributor. always happy to see you, frank. thank you for joining us. so hillary clinton is playing up the class warfare theme, positioning as the people's champion speaking up for the middle class, being a force to
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stand up to millionaires and billionaires of corporate america, painting the gop opposed to gay rights and women reproductive freedoms. she's taking this hard left turn even though she's a multimillionaire and raised more than a billion from u.s. companies and corporate donors. can she pull it off? >> look at this point i don't know any candidate that has had more negative coverage by the media than hillary clinton and she's ahead of every republican candidate in most polls. she says democracy is for everyone. i would have thought she would use freedom. republicans may have attacked her for doing that because some of her policies deny hard working taxpayers freedom, but right now the american people are looking at her and saying can i trust her, and that is the number one attribute the american people care about. it is not the policy it is actually the character.
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can we trust former secretary clinton, and that's the question she still has not answered. >> and in recent polls, we see her numbers have gone down on that issue. i know in your focus groups you're also following this. >> yes. in fact we have a clip now, her apology, her explanation for e-mails. the democrats don't move and republicans reject her. for someone who is asking the american people to give her four years, she's got to be more declarative than this clip here. let's take a look. >> when i got to work as secretary of state i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account, which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two. looking back it would have been better but i simply used a
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second e-mail and carried a second phone, but at the time this didn't seem like an issue. >> your take away from that? >> there are two things. if you're watching her, she never looks straight ahead, never looks at the people asking her questions. that's a problem. she's looking up here and looking up there. if you won't look someone in the eye, it suggests you don't necessarily believe what you're saying. number two, she never fully takes responsibility for it. the american people want someone who is accountable, someone transparent. i don't see that in any of hillary clinton's messaging up to this point. >> when you take a look at this situation as you are laying it out there, she has a big rally. she's going to have more of them. she's going to iowa from here. she's going to have to start answering questions and doing interviews. going forward, do you believe that she is actually prepared to look people in the eye and answer these questions? >> i want to be clear about
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this. i do believe she is the front runner and if the election were held today, hillary clinton would be the next president, i know that will upset many of your viewers, but that's a fact. but there are two other facts that are equally as important. american people never voted for someone where more than the majority believe they don't have the integrity to serve, they use that word specifically. right now 57% do not believe she has integrity to be president. second they always vote for the future not the past. a majority believe hillary clinton represents the politics of yesterday rather than today. she's going to have to overcome both those challenges between now and election day, 2016. >> on the other side quickly, in the next few days and weeks, we have another slew of candidates that are going to come out and announce their candidacy from jeb bush donald trump, scott walker. how do you see it play out when you have so many people in a crowded field on the gop side?
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we have a graphic for people to look at dates. you'll see a clear, defined message come out, and whittling process of who stays in and who stays out. >> you are not going to see a clear message. we're going to have ten candidates in every debate the next six months. it will take to 2016. that's a challenge for the gop. they want to have the one candidate to stand up and draw contrast with hillary clinton. we've never seen this in modern american politics. you cannot define a frontrunner right now. >> always good to see you, frank. thank you for joining us today. appreciate your insights. this is a long appreciate and we are just at the starting gate. >> you got it. the president of iran says a final nuclear deal is within reach. the iranian leader telling reporters that negotiators are making progress and indicating that tehran may allow inspections of facilities. meanwhile
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meanwhile, the largest group holding a massive protest in paris urging the u.s. and world powers to be tougher on tehran. eric shawn has more from the new york city newsroom. >> hi. do not believe iran that's the warning coming from the huge rally being held outside paris, iranian resistance leaders say the west has to be tougher on iran to prevent them getting a nuclear bomb. this started after 8:30 in the evening, hemmed by national council of resistance of iran. tens of thousands packed into that convention center demanding free democratic iran and calling for regime change. it is attracting support from a variety of u.s. officials, democrats and republicans, who spoke there today. all saying they fear without stronger restrictions on iran, the regime will go nuclear despite assurances in the framework of the agreement at the end of the month.
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the group's leader sat down for exclusive interview with fox news told me more needs to be done to rein in that program. >> do you trust tehran? >> absolutely not. i have said time and again they're massters of deception. everything they know has been exposed. there's not a single example where the regime has offered explanation on its own. >> there were messages of support from nancy pelosi and john mccain and other top level officials attended it signed a letter to president obama and all of the presidential candidates in the campaign calling for the u.s. to support
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and recognize the iranian opposition. one supporter, former democratic senator joseph lieberman told us the obama administration should embrace the group and its principles. >> what a message it is that this opposition to the iranian moolahs is led by a woman, an articulate woman. she's in many ways the moderate leader of islam that a lot of people in the western world have been asking for. >> iranian denies the nuclear methods and calls them a terrorist organization. those at the rally praise the resistance movement saying it represents the values and aims of the free iran one without nuclear weapons. >> fascinating story, eric thank you very much. an american hero who sacrificed in afghanistan continues to inspire many that served with him on and off off
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my service was the honor of my life. i believe the best i can do for my country, the best defense i can provide is still ahead. since tragedy first struck me i've done my best to give adversity and minor setbacks a swift boot in the back side. i was honored to serve you on the battlefield, and you helped make me the proudest american since returning home. i would be humbled again to serve as your congressman. >> a decorated war veteran
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releasing that political campaign ad to launch a congressional campaign. but his personal journey has been one of courage and sacrifice, never losing faith in himself or his future. brian mass losing both his legs after an ied blast in afghanistan. now the special forces combat veteran is following up on a personal mission, he wants to continue to serve his country as he seeks republican nomination for florida's 18th congressional district. joining us now, brian mass. great to have you today. >> thanks for having me. >> i know you're launching this campaign that's something that's quite important to you. what i thought was important is about your story, it is one of courage and faith in terms of being an inspiration to so many people. from your perspective, i know you feel whether you're a democrat or republican it is important for americans now to really believe in its leaders and to restore public trust.
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can you tell us more about why this is so important to you? >> absolutely ma'am. i think anybody that's been in the military knows what it is to see unity. we can be under the most aus tear conditions but we find a way to stay united. that's something that we're not witnessing right now across the board in the united states of america, and something that i feel is a leadership issue. something that we have been led into this divide it is something i honestly believe we can be led out of. >> you know when your challenges confronted you, you decided that you were not going to look back instead you were going to look forward. you went through an unbelievable journey, losing both your legs yet you never allowed it to bring you down. where does your sense of faith come from? >> you know it is largely coming from my upbringing. i can say when i was first injured, my father when he came to my bedside after telling me he loved me first thing he said to me brian, you need to find a
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way to pull yourself up find a way to get back out there, get to work. you can't let your kids see you sitting on your butt they would think that's an okay way to get through life. that's something that stuck with me something that i carried with me every day in physical therapy and carry with me still, every day going forward, it pushes me and drives me to make sure i'm always setting the best possible example i can for my children. >> i know you believe that a lot of your inspiration, your motivation to go forward has come from being with other disabled vets and watching the courage that they embrace as they get through their challenges. >> it couldn't be more true. when i think about the time i spent at walter reed i was injured by losing two legs and a finger. i know guys that are missing two legs two legs and an arm, two legs two arms that are burned blind, a combination of everything. and they're out there doing the most amazing things every day. those guys and gals inspired me
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going forward every day to say there's nothing you can't achieve. i think every one of them i would be hard pressed to say that i met one that didn't use injury as a tool to make themselves stronger. they didn't take injury and use it as something that defined them or discouraged them they used it to make themselves stronger than they were before injury. that's something i find to be amazing and it inspired me. >> it inspires all of us. we are so happy you could join us today. you are a true american hero. we wish you all the best. we will keep posted on how you're doing in the campaign let us know how it is going. >> thank you, ma'am. i look forward to it. >> great to have you on board today. thank you very much. a performance interrupted by an evil regime now completed more than 80 years later, the amazing musical journey between a father and his grammy award winning son, don't miss this.
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an emotional performance for the ages. we are honors to have the grammy award winning violinist and member of the quartet. great to have you here today. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i know this is an emotional story for so many people who are connected with you and your family. really quickly, could you tell us about why you felt it was important to complete that concerto. >> the story was part of family lore and i was growing up. it left a big impact on him as you said. by chance he had the opportunity
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to perform that a couple years later with an orchestra of the jewish cultural federation that existed in many cities in germany. as i was growing uplater, he was often practicing the violin concerto and it's one of the monuments of the violin literature and i always intended to play it and i've had a few other opportunities to perform it before. but i was very honored and touched when the orchestra in israel invited me to play it as part of the commemoration of the jewish fund. >> tell me what it was like in that moment as you played the violin knowing what an impact this concerto has had on your family's life. >> it was a very emotional event for me. in fact, the whole week that i was there rehearsing with the orchestra and also rehearsing some chamber music that i played i was trying to do my
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best in every respect, every piece that i was playing. and in the actual performance toward the end of the slow movement i began to think of my father not from 1933 but toward the end of his life. he passed away in 1993. he suffered from als. it was difficult time for me and my family and he and i had shared so much with regard to music. >> it's a wonderful story indeed sir. thank you so much for joining us and sharing it with us. we wish you all the best indeed. >> thank you for your interest. >> great story. very much appreciated. that will do it for us today. hope you have a nice day.
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