brought down the berlin wall. nelson mandela taught us and i quote it always seems impossible until it's done. it always seems impossible until it's done. my fellow leaders, there is nothing that is beyond our capacity if we work together. let's work together. god bless you all and may god protect all those who seek peace. thank you. >> it always seems impossible until it's done. so true. coming up, tonight, donald trump is afraid. very afraid of what is in special prosecutor jack smith's 180 page brief that will be filed on thursday. andrew weissmann and melissa mari joins next. melissa mari joins next. it's jeep? probably the same way you know if a t-rex is chasing a jeep wrangler... is getting away. yep! or if it takes you places that make you say, woah. and their hair looks like this. or someone says, the doors come off. then you just know what it was. what it is. and what it always will be. because when you're an original, there's only one. with powerful, easy-to-use tools, power e*trade makes complex trading

people were shot dead in their tracks for almost 50 years for trying to cross the berlin wall and escape the soviet control dictatorship of east germany. people got executed on the spot trying to climb that wall because that wall coming down was unimaginable. no one dared to hope that wall would come down. people died trying to climb that wall because they believed it would never come down. the berlin wall was permanent and u.n. ambassadors would protested, but nothing would happen. something was happening. they were listening. no one knew they were listening. unfortunately you usually have to be old to know that things can change. to know that the hopeless can turn hopeful. the world war ii generation knew this. the vietnam generation learned this. so when we look at our most hopeless problems in the world today, the ones where it feels like we are making absolutely no progress, month after month, sometimes year after year, we should know that those problems aren't more hopeless than the berlin wall was. they aren't more hopeless than the vietnam war was. so now when you listen to an ol

november 9th, the fall of the berlin wall, just year and a half after reagan said, tear, it's down. that's when you know speeches matter. literally a year and a half afterwards, people of the captive nation of east germany with their hands with took down the berlin wall. however, at the same mike found an article had been published by felicity berenger, which is a very different take on the events of 1989. you introduced that article to me, katie, would say what was shocking about? berenger this article and why it really is the preface to this new yeah, sure. so you know, one of the reasons that we wanted to write the book was we wanted to understand how we've gotten to where we are. and i thought, you know, mike's found a really key clue, which was this article from 1989 written i think published couple several months before the fall of the berlin wall, where felicity barringer wrote in the new york times that marxism had gone in u.s. colleges. marxism had gone and been accepted. and she's writing that in 1989, 1989. and what's so interesting about that is that anybody who wasn't a

we started in berlin with the fall of the berlin wall and we had like empty factories. you had not to pay any rent. the electricity was still on and you just could start to raise the front of the building was once the beginning of the city is collapsing, as we know it today. empty buildings are founded in east berlin. a lot of clocks were born off to autism, and others broke into basements and started to hockey. this, for example, that is the one that club opened below the phone levels of a department store and earned berlin. it's titled as capital off tech know, before long techno had become massively popular, the law parade which began as a political demonstration in 1989 became a huge techno party with around 1500000 ravens attending during its peak in 1999. these days burdens clubs of world famous flags back on which opened in 2004 as the name of the world's best. not many times fuss is the cities club scene test . we know it's in danger. i think so. it's in danger. you won't find a space at the subculture and like the accessibility for club culture is like more and

brought down the berlin wall, the fight today for freedom, justice and dignity. we saw it that universal journey for rights and freedom in venezuela, where millions cast their vote for change that hasn't been recognized but it can't be denied. the world knows the truth. we saw it in uganda. lgbt activists demanding same. we've seen people around the world peacefully choose gz their future. representing one quarter of humanity who will hold louisiana tech this is year alone. it's remarkable, power of we the people that makes me more optimistic about the future than i've ever been. since i was first elected to the united states senate in 1972, every age faces its challenges. i saw it as a young man. i see it today but we are stronger than we think. we're stronger together than alone. what the people call impossible is just an allusion. nelson mandela taught us, and i quote -- "it always seems impossible until it's done." it always seems impossible until it's done. my fellow leaders, there's nothing that's beyond our capacity if we work together. let's work together

the eastern federal states are a special phenomenon. 35 years after the fall of the berlin wall, the country has not been fully reunited. to the amazement of west germans, who for a long time believed that there was no problem. it turned out that there is. and the reason is the unwillingness to recognize the rights of the residents of the former gdr to special status. before the unification, about 70% of gdr citizens says: no, we are first and foremost germans, secondly we are east germans, ninety- sixth year more than 80% says: no, we are first and foremost east germans, only secondly we are citizens of a single country, but now well somehow the situation is not so, of course, not 80%, but somewhere half of the population can say, yes, we are first and foremost axis, while they do not want to return the system, it is simply an idea that... that we are axis and we are unhappy with how germany was united, in political terms, this is very important, this identity, but here too a subtle point, it is not important that they consider themselves axis, east germans, but whether they conside

the eastern federal states are a special phenomenon. 35 years after the fall of the berlin wall, thecomplete unification of the country has not happened. to the amazement of west germans, who until ... believed that the problem simply did not exist, it turned out that there is, and the reason is the unwillingness to recognize the right of the residents of the former gdr to special status. before the unification, somewhere around 70% of the citizens of the gdr said: no, we are first and foremost germans, and secondly we are east germans. in 1996, more than 80% said: no, we are first and foremost east germans, and only secondly we are citizens of a single country, now. well, the situation is not that big, of course, not 80%, but somewhere around half of the population can say, yes, we are first and foremost axis, and at the same time they don’t want to bring back the wall, it’s just an idea that accept that we are on the axis too dissatisfied with how germany was united, in political terms, this is very important, this identity, but here too there is a subtle point, it is not important

one of the moments in modern the fall of the berlin wall. and i was privileged to be on the the white house pool that day for those of you not familiar. a small group of reporters represents, everyone else. and we were in the oval office. and as we entered the oval office with pictures flashing from all over the world to all over world of of the wall being chiseled down and people from east germany coming across there was the president of the united states just sitting in his chair behind desk in the oval office, seemingly very relaxed. he was understated. his comments. and at the as the q&a started after, he made a brief, brief introduction of his own thoughts. i asked him, is this the end? the iron curtain, sir. and went back to my notes and the transcript. and he said, quote, i don't think single event is the end of what you might call the iron curtain. but clearly, this is a long way from the harshest iron curtain days, a step toward a europe that is whole and free. it was clear to me immediately that president bush, the probably one of

the new berlin wall. germany is returning passport control on its land borders borders. heavy fog in krasnoyarsk, thunderstorm fire in rostov, northern lights over the european part of russia. a holiday of sports and faith. nizhny novgorod gave a bright start to the russian alexander nevsky games. and at the beginning of the kursk border, russian troops are pushing out enemy units. our aviation is working very powerfully. a new blow to the concentration of ukrainian armed forces personnel and equipment was delivered by the crew of a supersonic fighter- bomber su-34. on the ground , air efforts are supported by artillery, which operates in conjunction with drones. shot. shot. accurate strikes were made. mstab howitzer crews stopped the transfer of militants to one of the villages, where the militants planned to occupy the houses of civilians. in another area, russian marines ambushed the enemy and completely destroyed all units along with military equipment, including nato. as the servicemen themselves say, the enemy did not expect such a tough rebuff. and now about the s

after the fall of the berlin wall in november of 1989, former chancellor of west germany willy brant predicted that reunification would allow what should be together to grow together. how optimistic this sounds 35 years later. bloomberg notes, especially since next year germany national elections are expected, tesholz is already calling for the chairman of the afd. it was a vote to abolish the traffic light coalition. voters want early elections , among other things. that the party could get more than a third of seats in parliament, and this is an opportunity to block important decisions, it immediately became clear that there was some kind of error in the software, the voting results were adjusted and the afd was deprived of its blocking minority. in thuringia, where the party came in first, its opponents are having a harder time. a coalition with they exclude an alternative, and the only way out is an alliance between the cdu, the left and the wagenkneit party, however, earlier the leader of the local christian democrats banned an alliance with the left. that is, if we find a commo

and the brave men and women landed a part time brought down the berlin wall. fight today for freedom and justice integrity. we saw that universal journey for rights and freedom and venezuela. ramirez cast their vote for change as it had been recognized, but it can't be denied. the world knows the truth. we saw in uganda, that'll be g g, active as demanded safety recognition as our common humanity. we say instead of sitting across the world peacefully choose either future from god or to any of the software. nations represented one quarter of humanity will hold elections this year alone is remarkable. power of way, the people it makes me more optimistic about the future and i've ever been since i was 1st elected united states senate, 1972. every age raises challenges. i saw it as a young man, i say today, but we are stronger than we think are stronger to gather that alone. what the people call it possible is just an illusion. nelson mandela taught us, and i quote, it always seems a possible until it's done. it always seems impossible until it's done. i follow leaders. there's nothing t

be courageous women , and let's remember these courageous people who smashed brick by brick the berlin wall what these people were, people who valued freedom of law, freedom of expression, freedom, speech, so we can't deny that the world knows the truth and we have to know the right, certain lgbt communities, they demand their rights, certain communities from ghana, india and... countries that represent a quarter of the society this year during the elections and these achievements, power, it's people power really, it's been huge and that's why i keep my optimism, optimism about the future , because during any age there is certain challenges, i see had certain challenges when i was much younger, and i see certain challenges now, but we are now... much stronger than we think we are, and when we are united together, then we can achieve more, and when someone says something, it's impossible, it's just an illusion. nelson mandela once said yes, sometimes something seems impossible to us until we do it and so dear colleagues nothing is impossible if we work together so we work together god bless

one way or another, the berlin wall collapsed. champagne rastropovich on the ruined.rmany happened. a lot of hopes that the germans would finally live as one family, but it was not so, it seems, that west germany began to literally take revenge on east germany, in response to romantic expectations, anschluss and reprisals. east german industry was immediately declared unprofitable, and many enterprises were simply liquidated, so large steel plants were completely destroyed... according to the estimates of an authoritative professor of sociology in germany, paol windolf, in the first five years of the nineties alone, 80% of the working population of the gdr temporarily or permanently lost their jobs, 80%, four out of five, and this is not only in the economy, the military, police officers, teachers. professors, lawyers, doctors, theatre and film figures, journalists, officials of various levels. the personnel purge was total. east germans were deprived of the right to work in their specialty, were not counted towards their work experience in the gdr, were left without

i brought down the berlin wall fight today for freedom and justice integrity. we saw that universal journey for rights and freedom and venezuela. ramirez cast their vote for change as it had been recognized, but it can't be denied. the world knows the truth. we saw in uganda that will be g . g. active is demanded. safety recognition as are common humanity. we said and citizens across the world patiently jersey their future. i'm gonna to india to south korea. nations represented one quarter of humanity will hold elections this year alone is remarkable. power. we the people, it makes me more optimistic about the future than i've ever been. to josh 1st selected, united states senate, 1972. every age raises challenges. i saw this young man, i say today, but we are stronger than we think are stronger together than alone. what the people call it possible is just an illusion. nelson mandela taught us, and i quote, it always seems a possible until it's done. it always seems impossible until it's done. i follow leaders. there's nothing that's beyond are capacity. if we

was called the stasi and repressions, and the number of people killed who tried to get over this berlin wall and suddenly there is such a piety love for communist russia, and that's where it comes from, on the one hand, and on the other. alternative fued deutschland voting party, in which paraphrased meinkamp stuff can be found during their speeches in this election, where did it all come from? well, let's first, if we talk about an alternative for germany, then it sees its brother-in-law from afar, then let's be honest here, the opiate of the alternative to russia is no less than that of the former, more precisely, current east germans. leftists like sara wagenkny, etc., that's exactly what i'm asking, where does this come from, well, let's be honest, according to the principle of classical political horseshoes , the extreme left and the extreme right usually converge in the ecstasy of love for authoritarian methods, and then the only thing they decide among themselves is who will rule the country after all, let's be honest, on the eve of the collapse of weimar germany, and when the nationa

and the brave men and women who ended apartheid brought down the berlin wall fight today for freedom and justice integrity. we saw that universal journey for rights and freedom and venezuela. ramirez cast their vote for change as it had been recognized, but it can't be denied. the world knows the truth. we saw in uganda that will be g, g, active as demanded, safety recognition as our common humanity. we said and citizens across the world, peacefully choosing their future. i'm gonna to india to south korea. nations represented one quarter of humanity will hold elections this year alone is remarkable. power. we the people, it makes me more optimistic about the future and i've ever been since i was 1st elected united states senate, 1972. every age raises challenges. i saw it as a young man. i said today, but we are stronger than we think we're stronger to gather then alone. what the people call it possible is just an illusion. nelson mandela taught us, and i quote, it always seems a possible until it's done. it always seems impossible until it's done. i follow leaders. there's nothing t

come to an agreement , this is how it happened, you know, these ten years after the fall of the berlin wallbecause they cannot put themselves in our place, it is not... the indifference to accept that the reality of the world in general, not of ukraine, the reality of the world, the world order is broken, it is changing, the faster you act, the less it will be consequences of this hack, unfortunately, everything is going very slowly, do you have a project that you have been dreaming about for a long time, yes, but could not do it, i was thinking about how to approach and it is about war. to these traumas, post-traumas, how to work with them, as well as understanding what if you you start doing it, it's for a few pictures, i 've moved on, it's impossible, and it looks like now i'm going to do something along those lines with doctors without borders, if i'm still alive, when this war is over, because nobody knows when it will be over , and will it just be an interruption of this war, because the main goal is that it does not exist in our country, that it does not exist at all. then, if it end

unemployment of security agreement with unions that had been in place since before the fall of the berlin wall. this now puts the closing of factories and layoffs on the table and be w. i says it needs to save $4000000000.00 euros and that it could not rule out shutting factories and it's home country which would be a 90 year. first term, i say if i use the head of the v w brian and he said that the high energy prices in germany are a big factor as that to and what else is that's right. energy price is greatly affect energy intensive industry. so these sectors that work with metals like the car industry and the steel industry, higher energy prices are going to make those products cost more. so those prices, the energy prices have gone up significantly since versus full scale invasion of ukraine, because germany relied heavily on russian natural gas. but of course, the other big factor is this aggressive push from china into the electric vehicle market. it's not just germany that's being affected by this, but also the european union. it has stepped up to try to protect your p and made cars, whi

we thought after the collapse of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall that democracy hadnd aware of the dangers that could arise from it. let me give you a practical illustration. let us suppose that the american president ceases to be active alongside ukraine. let us suppose germany ceases to be active alongside ukraine and the europeans pull back and ukraine loses and russia wins. is that the end of the matter? no, it isn't because for every event, there is a consequence and the ukrainians are spilling their blood on our behalf. but let's assume russia wins. how does the world see that? they will see that the west has funked and failed to protect a democracy — a big democracy in europe, of all places — from an autocracy. now, what does that mean for the perception of america? they haven't prevailed. china will notice that. will it encourage china to think, "a—ha! "we may be being too timid about whether we go into "taiwan. "maybe america will do nothing about that, either." and of course, what happens to the allies of the west? what happens in asia, to japan, to south k

that was a moment, after the berlin wall had fallen, where people, a new world seemed very possible,ative values, and against all odds, with all the stalemate on political concrete solutions, the united nations security council created the yugoslav tribunal. and, you know, i was incessant in throwing my hat in the ring. so that brings us, then, to the decisions you make after you become chief prosecutor of the international criminal court. but before we get to israel and gaza, putin — the first big controversy that means that karim khan is in the news is the decision to issue an arrest warrant for notjust a world leader, but the leader of one of the five permanent members of the security council. how difficult a decision was that? well, i'll go back. i met the prosecutor general of ukraine in december 2021, and i told her at that time i didn't have any intention of opening a situation. we didn't have resources, and ukraine had not ratified at the time. and we had so many other responsibilities. and i personally did not think, you know, i'm not a political analyst. i didn't think it m

by the way, i remember this event very well, because when the berlin wall was opened, i found myself n, and in both the east and the west. were held in saxony and thuringia, the elections were really sensational in some way, because for the first time in the state elections in lantak-thuringia, the party alternative for germany took first place, the party that the ruling circles of the frg consider it extremist, nazi, subject to prohibition, and so on, nevertheless it received more than a third of the votes and first place, in second place was the christian democratic union. the main opposition party now, conservative. the union of sarah wagehnech, the newly created leftist party, which broke away from the communists, received 14.5%, in fact, the communists, the left, 11.5%. the social democratic party of germany is the party, the ruling one, the party of scholz, it turned out to be 6th there, green, the second participant government coalition, party. already after the recount and the christian democrats came out ahead there, but nevertheless the alternative for germany 40 seats (40%)

but there is the equivalent of berlin and walls all over the place that need to be dealt with. we don't exactly have wars but we're getting there and so there's a real life similarity between that challenge and and his. he to pioneered workforce development and and things that led to an improved workforce and his social policies to not go in direction that we've seen more recently particularly on the democrat side. this notion of paying people more not to work then they ever got paid when they were working strikes me as death knell for the american dream. and in fact, i learned not too long ago there's actually a reddit site on the internet that is devoted to a.i. anti war. 6 million people are subscribe was to this site and they post some of the most incredible things you can imagine. a frequent post will be something like a just can't force myself to go to work anymore. so the notion that work is an aberration or something that you have to be pushed into doing rather than something that's normal and constructive is a very poor and it is the complete antithesis of ronald reaga

the story begins shortly after the fall of the berlin wall. germany was on the brink of reunification, but there was a challenge. germany had surrendered unconditionally after the 2nd world war. so the 4 and victor powers of the us, france, britain, and the soviet union still had undisputed legal rights over divided germany, and particularly over divided berlin. so in order for germany to unify, all 4 had to give those powers up the 3 victorious western powers. ask themselves what the 4th power would demand. what would the soviet union's last liter mikhail gorbachev want in return for allowing the reunification of germany the the former west german foreign minister hans dietrich denture was, was certain that corporate charles would want the security of knowing and dentures words that neither poland nor hungary is going to join nato, so venture thought that was reasonable and felt strongly that the western allies, so america, britain, france, and west germany should offer that to gorbachev. denture, propose the idea to us secretary of state james baker. he too thought it was reasonable

states, one of two major parties, the party has won the popular vote one time since the fall of the berlin wall. say it again. only one time since the collapse of the iron curtain have republicans managed a national majority in a presidential election. so it is incumbent on democrats to win by such a large margin that overcomes the structural advantages against them. even some republicans know this is the case, like former congresswoman liz cheney who spoke in north carolina. >> as a conservative, someone who believes in and cares about the constitution, i have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that donald trump poses not only am i not voting for donald trump but i will be voting for kamala harris. >> the maga movement needs to lose over and over and over again point democracy will not be on secure footing in this country until republicans -- the lesson happens, understandably because happens, understandably because we focused the electoral college . because that is the way the system works. is to ignore how much the gravity of that pulls on everything in politics, particularl

the berlin wall had the gall of, if you tell me the cold war was over the degree and then dissolve the blocks that had been in direct opposition. look, he suppose they felt a little and the auto a treaty was supported by a group of countries that had come together in canada, showing the global scale up the problem couldn't well, what was the deepest you did the program that you won't be on, on the 3rd and 4th of december 1997. but tracy was hoping for signature. on the 10th of december of that same year, the international campaign to band land mines and it's spokesperson, jody williams received the nobel peace prize. this was in recognition of 5 years of remarkable collaboration between hundreds of organizations around the world off the rest of the cation by the signature, each states, the also retreats came into effect. on the 1st of march, 1999. it marked the beginning of a campaign for the mass destruction of still piled mines of the one that is going to be what is that the that when, when the also latrete, she came into fulton columbia, it really helped the country to organize in t

the party that i joined with ronald reagan standing in front of the berlin wall saying, mr., tear down this wall. it was optimistic. it was bold. everybody, if you were born in america kid became an american. it's a party they have driven by fear. people of these imaginary demons that are out there. i think it is so sad. most people don't wake up in the morning fearful, and yet, this has taken over this party. it is incredibly disturbing. >> we hear all these complaints all the time about big tech and it's in the tank for democrats. it's totally biased. let's get to the truth. you have elon musk, the owner of twitter, which has enormous reach, he himself has endorsed donald trump in day in and day out, he is pushing disinformation and allowing it to run rampant on his platform. how does this square? >> it doesn't square. the problem is we have a first amendment and he has a lot of money and he has that platforming can do whatever he wants to do. that's the bottom line. he has millions of followers and billions of dollars. he put it in that one platform, and at least right no

so, the berlin wall collapsed, the americans began to gradually seize the countries of eastern europewere previously part of the warsaw pact, now what is the point of the confrontation, is it more a question of practicality or is it still ideological, no, well, both practically and ideologically in this sense there is no contradiction for them, they understand when they have some kind of threat to their hegemony, what is now called the world... because for the first time they suddenly won, no and then there a decade later it turned out that sydney tried these same ones that we would now call foreigners who worked in great britain then former russian emigrants who fled i say again the methods remained the same absolutely the goal is to destroy the competition. cultural american values, when jeans are more than clothes, chewing gum and a hamburger, then it is more than food and i don’t know what else to call chewing gum in this sense, but this is such an american dream, you understand, american ideology everyone should certainly strive for this, and whoever does not want to strive, he w

i've seen it all around the world in the brave men and women who ended apartheid, brought down the berlin wall. fight today for freedom, justice, dignity. we saw that universal need for rights and freedom in venezuela where millions cast their vote for change but haven't been recognized. it can't be denied. the world knows the truth. we saw it in uganda, lbgt activists demanding safety. we see in citizens across the world peacefully choosing their future from ghana to india to south korea. the power of we the people makes me more optimistic. since i was first elected to the united states senate in 1972 every age faces its challenges. i saw it as a young man, i see it today. but we are stronger than we think. we're stronger together than alone. and what the people call impossible is just an illusion. nelson mandela taught us, it always seems impossible until it's done. it always seems impossible until it's done. my fellow leaders, there is nothing that's beyond our capacity if we work together. let's work together. god bless you all and may god protect all those who seek peace. thank you. [appl