sharansky who? sharansky by reagan. i mean these these intellectual and spiritual lineages are important. and so i just close with that statement. i think it's the call for us today, reagan said. america's kept like the torch of freedom, not just for ourselves, but for millions of others around the world and. today we say, let's keep the torch alive. for billions of people around the world. thank you. nina. okay. thank you. i really want to thank, especially lee edwards, for his vision in creating this victims of and memorial to my good friend elizabeth spalding and ambassador bromberg for work in in organizing all of this especially as we begin to forget and as we as it recedes in history and and some of us as we said, weren't even. and the issues do resonate with what's going on in ukraine and china and other places. so in the late eighties, i the honor of briefing president one on one in the oval office and we discussed it at that time. a recent fact finding mission for center for religious freedom on the nicaraguan

here's how sharansky later, the impact of the speech. finally, a spade had been called a spade.finally, newspeak was dead. president reagan had, from that moment, it impossible for anyone in the west to continue closing their eyes to the real nature of the soviet union. so for those dissident prisoners those witnesses to and victims of soviet soviet and ideology, sharansky said the moment really marked the end for communists and the beginning for us. the lie had been exposed and could never ever be untold. now it was, he said, the end of lenin's bolshevik revolution and beginning of a new revolution, a revolution. reagan's revolution. and now john will tell us what it was like to be there. i can't wait to hear this part. john, this this first question asks going to be for you. so it was the second time that reagan in public referred he did interviews with the commons speech at the british house of commons and some considered there's always going to be a, you know, a 51, 49 or a 5050, take on president speech. some considered it use of the star wars film inspired terminology to b

we sharansky out in fact sharansky his wife, when she called me, he had just been arrested. he was about she was about 30 years old at the time, and she was crying on the phone. and she said, i have only one wish. get him out in time for him to give me baby. and i got him out when she was 39. she had two children. i am essentially their godfather and. you know, those kinds of cases give you tremendous, tremendous pride. you sleep well at night. but when you represent people who you wish you were prosecuting. but that's not the job were assigned. you have to do everything in your power ethically, zealously, legal way to try to make the best defense. and sometimes when you win, you go home. you have that glass of scotch, and then you have that glass and saying, why did pick this profession? why wasn't i a doctor? well, i guess that brings me to the question how did you feel when oj simpson was acquitted? oh, i felt very good about that i'll tell you why. and one of my heroes, bill bratton, is in the audience. they'll appreciate this. we didn't win the o.j. simpson case. the po

natan sharansky is a former soviet prisoner who was arrested in 1977 by the kgb and accused of espionagetovo prison. he decribes what conditions are like inside. first of all, it's the most isolated prison, it's a block system, in soviet russia. for example i spent more than one yearin example i spent more than one year in interrogations and i did not get one bit of news, i did not get one bit of news, i did not get one bit of news, i did not know what was happening in the free world, i could imagine but i did not know, and the world didn't know anything, there was no access for the lawyers, relatives, or anybody. so it's a good place to isolate someone from the world totally. second of all, there is a lot of psychological pressure, explaining that with such a serious accusation, i could be sentenced to death, if i did not co—operate and want to co—operate mean? it means you have to say publicly that you are right and you are sorry that you made some mistakes, and that's all they need. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. he may be 100 byjohn bell's memory is as bright a

natan sharansky is a former soviet prisoner he spent nine years as a political prisoner, including timeoviet russia. for example, i spent more than one yearin example, i spent more than one year in interrogations and i didn't get one word, i didn't know at all anything what was happening in the free world. i could imagine, buti happening in the free world. i could imagine, but i didn't know. and the world didn't know anything. there was no access of the lawyers of the relatives of the lawyers of the relatives of anybody. so it's a good place to isolate a person from the world totally. secondly, of course, there is a lot of psychological pressure explaining that, with such a serious accusation, you can be sentenced to death if you will not cooperate. and what means cooperate? it means that you have to say publicly that they are right and you are sorry, that you made some miss takes, and that's all what they need. french president emmanuel macron and european commission president ursula von der leyen met for talks with xi jinping in beijing today. it took place amid souring relations betw

and vaclav havel, natan sharansky. but you have some there's vaclav havel right there. but who are these people that we're looking at? right. we wanted to again, those big numbers, over 100 million killed by communism, over 1.5 billion people still living under communism. again, this is an effort to make this personal so that people understand individual by individual. we have over 200 faces here. and there's a story with each person. the this one, the ones that are well, okay, right here. do you know who that is? i don't. okay. so i'm not going to tell you yet. he was a german force live in east germany. his father was taken in the night at some point and put in the gulag he didn't know why there was no reason and. as a young man, this gentleman wanted to be a journalist and he had really good grades and in east germany he could have gone to and had that kind of career and because of what happened to his father and his father did end up coming made it back from the gulag. he said, i don't want to ever join the communist. so he's an east german, you know, german. but in

natan sharansky, i mean, he said stuff people want to be concerned about, you know. timmerman right. because it's over the map. and so we have to do so. i want to spend the last few minutes doing a quick around the world with you. so we can it. so let's let's start with iran. you know what? what's sense for the state of the prospects of the protesters and like next steps. i think that the that something fundamental is broken in iran in terms of government's hold on the people because. it's not just a political revolution like in the past. and there have been protests in iran. it's like people are upset about this election being stolen or people are about the economy. this is a social revolution led by women that is about core nature of the islamic republic of iran. what they just don't want to be an islamic republic, you know, and i don't think you put that back in a box now. i don't think and i talked to a lot like i do not think that means that next week iranian regime is going to fall. i do think that it means that there's going to be some of evolution in that cou

. >> nathan sharansky, soviet dissident, now israeli politician, he and jim my used to podcasts.alked about how to be a free man in prison. jimmy is doing that. he is not going to plead guilty to ridiculous charges because he won't give them satisfaction of admitting guilt to one of their lies. david: giving up our freedom for the sake of liberty used to be one of the hallmarks of receiving, those who received a nobel peace prize. that is what what what it is suo exemplify. if he is not the perfect candidate i don't know who is. thank god for your work too highlighting his case. the guy is pretty close to a saint. bill mcgurn, thank you. great to see you. very quickly. >> okay, thank you. david: very quick last point, go ahead. >> last point is today the cato institute in washington, d.c., announced that jimmy recipient of the milton friedman prize for championing liberty. david: good muse. >> so he is being recognized for his achievement all around the world. david: he is a hero. bill mcgurn, thank you very much. my friend, appreciate it. more "coast to coast" right after this.

want to play sound from one of the most famous dissidents, former prisoners there at 1/4 of a baton sharanskywho was held there, the jewish refugee who now is in israel. he was held there in the 19 seventies. here's what he said about the prison. i had this experience when years ago. and the photo prison means that maybe it's not the most stuff prisons there were old differently, the most sense of it. it's kgb prison, and they'll make sure that you know nothing about what's happening in the world and the world will know nothing. until they want to know. i'm curious because or do you think evan's work in russia and his familiarity with that prison will somehow mentally make him better prepared for what's to come? and the days and weeks he may be forced to spin their versus previous inmates? there's a good question. it's something i've been wondering a lot these last few days even will have covered lefortovo a dozen times during his career, so yeah, i was. i was wondering too same, i think, knowing the system and knowing the prison and the fact that it's meant to try to isolate you and break yo

natan sharansky, who spent some time in the lefortovo prison. investigation into a unit in russia that has suffered big losses. and also we will talk about the royal family, which is delving deep into its history with slavery. to stay with us. —— do stay with us. hello there. we saw the sunshine developing more widely today. and as the showers fade away and skies clear and winds drop, the easter weekend could start cold with a widespread slight frost. the cloud that brought the earlier rain followed by the showers are moving away out into the north sea. and following on from that, we've got pressure rising, this ridge of high pressure tending to build in and that will kill off any remaining showers there may hang around for a while across some eastern parts of england and eastern scotland. but even here, we'll see skies clearing later and the winds will be falling light. so temperatures will drop sharply. these are the numbers in towns and cities. so in rural areas, knock off a couple of degrees and we could be as low as minus two or minus three