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SOLEDAD: IT'S BEEN A CHAOTIC WEEK IN WASHINGTON TO SAY THE LEAST, AND WHILE THE LEGAL TROUBLES SURROUNDING THE PRESIDENT'S FORMER LAWYER AND RNC DEPUTY FINANCE CHAIR

MICHAEL: AND THE PRESIDENT'S FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER PAUL MANAFORT WAS CAPTURING THE SPOTLIGHT, IT'S EASY TO MISS SOME OF THE POLICY CHANGES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS

IMPLEMENTING.

FOR EXAMPLE, HUD CHIEF DR. BEN CARSON GUTTED ON OBAMA ERA REGULATION DESIGNED T COMBAT DISSEMINATION IN HOUSING.

A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES SUED HUD.

LISA RICE WAS ONE OF THE LEAD PLAINTIFFS IN THE CASE.

SO NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, WHICH WAS SIGNED IN 1968 INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

WHAT IS FAIR HOUSING?

MS. RICE: FAIR HOUSING SIMPLY MEANS THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IN THEIR COMMUNITY OF CHOICE FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION.

SOLEDAD: YOU HAD HOPED THAT DR.

BEN CARSON WHO RUNS HUD WOULD CHALLENGE AND AGGRESSIVELY CHALLENGE HOUSING DISCRIMINATION.

HAS HE DONE THAT?

MS. RICE NOT WHEN IT COMES TO LIFTING UP AND ENFORCING A KEY PART OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, WHICH IS AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING.

SOLEDAD: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

MS. RICE: NO FEDERAL FUNDS CAN BE USED IN A WAY TO PROMOTE DISCRIMINATION, ENGAGE IN DISCRIMINATION, SUPPORT DISCRIMINATION, AND FEDERAL FUNDS SHOULD BE USED IN A WAY

THAT PROMOTE AND SUPPORTS INCLUSIVE, SAFE, DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS.

SOLEDAD: WHAT DO YOU WORRY ABOUT IN THE WAKE OF THAT LAWSUIT BEING DISMISSED?

MS. RICE: IT ELIMINATED WHAT IS CALLED THE ASSESSMENT OF FAIR HOUSING TOOL, SO IT IS THE PART OF THE RULE THAT MUNICIPALITIES AND HOUSING AUTHORITIES CAN USE IN ORDER TO GO THROUGH A SERIES

OF QUESTIONS AND A SERIES OF STEPS TO FIRST IDENTIFY FAIR HOUSING ISSUES AND BARRIERS TO FAIR HOUSING, TO IDENTIFY WHERE DISCRIMINATION IS HAPPENING, AND THEN TO FORMULATE A SERIES OF

STEPS TO CURE THOSE DISCRIMINATORY ACTIONS.

SOLEDAD: BY REMOVING THAT, YOU REMOVE THE ESSENCE OF HOW TO FIGURE OUT SOMEONE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

MS. RICE: EXACTLY.

SOLEDAD: WHAT DO YOU THINK T ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS IN HOUSING DISCRIMINATION?

WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT FACEBOOK -- THEY HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF ENABLING HOUSING DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE YOU C DETERMINE WHO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE WITH, AND YOU CAN

MAKE SURE PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEE THAT LISTING.

MS. RICE: WITH ENTITIES LIKE FACEBOOK, THEY HAVE CREATED A MODERN-DAY HIGH TECH SYSTEM OF RESTRICTED COVENANTS.

SOLEDAD: BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE ADVERTISING TOOLS THAT CAN LIMIT WHO CAN SEE SOME OF THESE HOUSES POSTED FOR SALE.

MS. RICE: EXACTLY.

NOT ONLY DOES THE TO A LIMIT WHO CAN SEE, BUT IF YOU ARE A HOUSING PROVIDER AND YOU HAD NO INTENTION OF DISCRIMINATING, NO INTENTION OF LIMITING WHO CAN SEE YOUR HOUSING AD, FACEBOOK

ACTUALLY ASKS YOU, DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS?

DO YOU WANT TO LIMIT WHO CAN SEE YOUR HOUSING ADDED?

SOLEDAD: AREUD AND THE FAIR HOUSING AUTHORITY ON THE SAME SIDE IN THIS DEBATE WHEN IT COMES TO LOOKING AT HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS PLAYING A ROLE IN ADVANCING HOUSING

DISCRIMINATION?

MS. RICE: WE ARE NOW.

INITIALLY, SECRETARY CARSON DISMISSED THE COMPLAINT AGAINST FACEBOOK, AND RECENTLY, AS YOU SAW, THE SECRETARY ISSUED A CHARGE AGAIN FACEBOOK.

WE ARE ON THE SAME SIDE ON THIS TECHNOLOGY MATTER.

LISA RICE ITS SO NICE TO HAVE YOU. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US.

SOLEDAD THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME

YOU BET

For more infomation >> Housing Advocate: HUD is Not Standing Up to Housing Discrimination - Duration: 4:09.

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Holocaust Deniers Tried to Exploit His Photo. Now He is Fighting Back. - Duration: 5:23.

SOLEDAD: A FORMER NAZI LABOR CAMP GUARD WHO HAS BEEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1949 HAS BEEN DEPORTED TO GERMANY.

HE WORKED A A CAMP IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED POLAND DURING WORLD WAR II.

HE'S THE 68TH NAZI DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES AND WAS THE LAST REMAINING OPEN CASE.

LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE CAMP WHERE WORKED IN PART BECAUSE ON NOVEMBER 3, 194 3,000 OF PRISONERS WERE MASSACRED.

AUSCQ WAS THE MOST -- A CHWITZ WAS THE MOST FAMOUS DEATH CAMP.

>> CAN I HAVE A KISS?

THAT'S GREAT.

SOLEDAD: TO MICHAE BORNSTEIN'S GRANDKIDS COME HE'S KNOWN AS "PAPA." FATHER OF FOUR, GRANDFATH OF 11.

TO HIS CAPTORS, HE WAS KNOWN ONLY AS PRISONER B118, HIS IDENTITY REPLACED BY A TATTOO ON HIS ARM.

>> YOU DIDN'T HAVE A REAL NAME.

MOST PRISONERS DID NOT SURVIVE VERY LONG.

SOLEDAD: THE TIME HE HASN'T SPOKEN MUCH ABOUT TO HIS FAMILY, UNTIL NOW.

>> I ALWAYS KIND OF KNEW THAT MY PAPA WAS IN THE HOLOCAUST, BUT I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT.

SOLEDA IT'S THIS FAMOUS AUSCHQWITZ LIBERATION FOOTAGE HE SAW THAT INSPIRED HIM TO TELL HIS FULL STORY.

HE RECOGNIZED HIMSELF, ONE OF THE FEW YOUNG CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED AUSCHWITZ.

IT WAS ONE OF THE IMAGES BEING USED BY HOLOCAUST DENIERS.

>> THEY WERE SAYING AUSCHWITZ WAS NOT BAD.

IT WAS A LABOR CAMP.

IT WAS DEVASTATING.

I THREW A BOOK DOWN ON THE DESK AND WAS.

SPIRIT SOLEDAD WITH HELP FROM HIS DAUGHTER DEBBIE, MICHAEL BORNSTEIN SHARED HIS TRUTH IN A BOOK CALLED "THE SURVIVORS CLUB." >> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR

ME, ESPECIALLY NOW, THAT MY GRILLED -- CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN KNOW WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH AND TO KNOW THAT THIS CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.

THIS WOULD'VE BEEN TAKEN BEFORE THE NAZIS REALLY HIT.

SOLEDA HIS STORY STARTS IN POLAND IN THE LATE 1930'S WITH THE GERMANS INVADING THE VILLAGE AND THE FAMILY'S HAPPY LIFE.

YOUR BOOK STARTS WITH AN AWFUL STORY OF SOMETHING YOUR MOTHER WITNESSED AT A GRAVEYARD.

MY MOTHER WAS HIDING BEHIND A TREE, AND T NAZIS WERE MAKING A JEWISH FAMILY DIG A PIT.

THE NOT SEE -- NAZS ASKED THE FAMILY TO HUG AND KILLED THEM ALL.

MY MOTHER TALKED ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME.

IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR HER.

SOLEDAD: TALK TO ME ABOUT INDICATIONS THINGS WERE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION THAT MAN PEOPLE IGNORED.

>> THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT, AND EVENTUALLY, THEY SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

MY MOTHER WAS OPTIMISTIC.

SHE ALWAYS SAID THINGS WOULD GET BETTER.

SOLEDA BUT THINGS DIDN'T GET BETTER, AND IN 1944, BORNSTEIN AND HIS FAMILY WERE ROUNDED UP, FORCED ONTO TRAIN, AND IMPRISONED IN AUSCHWITZ.

WITHIN DAYS OF HIS ARRIVAL, HIS BROTHER, JUST FIVE YEARS OLDER, AND HIS FATHER WERE TAKEN AWAY.

THEY WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN.

HOW DID YO SURVIVE AUSCHWITZ?

THERE ARE VERY FEW LITTLE CHILDREN WHO MADE IT THROUGH AUSCHWITZ.

>> MY MOTHER WAS I AUSCHWITZ FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, AND SHE WOULD COME IN AND GIVE ME SOME OF HER BREAD AND SOUP.

SHE WAS BEATEN OVER THE HEAD FOR DOING THAT.

SOLEDAD: BORNSTEIN SAYS INSTEAD OF KEEPING HIM IN THE CHILDREN'S BUNK, HIS MOTHER HAD HIM IN THE WOMEN'S BARRACKS WHERE HE LEARNED TO KEEP QUIET.

>> I WAS ONE OF THE BEST FIGHTERS -- HIDERS.

SOLEDAD: LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER THEY ARRIVED, THE WAR ENDED.

AUSCHWITZ WAS LIBERATED.

THE CAMP'S LIBERATORS FILMED HIS GRANDMOTHER CARRYING HIM.

THEY MADE THEIR WAY BACK TO POLAND, LOOKING FOR PROOF OF THEIR OLD LIFE.

ALL THE JEWELS AND MONEY WERE STOLEN, BUT THERE WAS ONE ITEM THAT SURVIVED, WHICH IS A KIDDUSH CUP, A CUP WHERE YOU MAKE BLESSINGS OVER THE WINE, AND WE ARE VERY LUCK

WE USED THAT AS A SYMBOL OF SURVIVAL.

SOLEDAD: THAT SYMBOL OF SURVIVAL MADE ITS WAY T AMERICA.

ODD JOBS AND HIS MOTHER'S ENCOURAGEMENT EARNED BORNSTEIN A COLLEGE DEGREE FROM FORDHAM AND A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY.

IT TAUGHT ME NO MATTER HOW MANY CHALLENGES I MAY FACE, THEY CAN ALWAYS BE OVERCOME.

MY MOTHER WAS A VERY POSITIVE PERSON.

SHE HAD A SAYING: GAM ZEH YAAVOR.

WHAT'S THAT MEAN?

"THIS TOO SHALL PASS."

For more infomation >> Holocaust Deniers Tried to Exploit His Photo. Now He is Fighting Back. - Duration: 5:23.

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John McCain Singing Barbra Streisand Is 'One of the Greatest' SNL Skits, Says Vietnam POW Pal - Duration: 4:43.

 Ailing Sen. John McCain has received well wishes and tributes from friends and colleagues amid his decision to cease treatment for stage-four brain cancer

 One notable salute comes from Paul Galanti, a Navy airman who was held alongside McCain in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp

 Despite the fact that the two men shared the most difficult and traumatic period of their lives, Galanti remembers the future legislator as a beacon of strength — and wit

   "John McCain is an incredible guy," Galanti tells PEOPLE. "He is one of the most courageous men I've known, with a hilarious sense of humor

"  McCain, now 81, spent five years as a POW after his A-4 Skyhawk was shot down in October 1967 during a bombing run over Hanoi

Over the course of his internment, he was beaten, tortured, starved, and battled recurring bouts of dysentery

When he was finally freed in March 1973, McCain earned the dubious distinction of being the most injured pilot to have survived the North Vietnamese prison camps

 Despite these extreme hardships, Galanti said it never diminished the spirit of the man known to his service buddies as "JSM" — John Sydney McCain

Decades later, he saw McCain's sense of humor shine through in a somewhat unexpected manner

"Google 'McCain Sings Streisand' for one of the greatest skits in SNL history," he says

"It's hilarious."  In the 2002 sketch, McCain pokes fun at Barbra Streisand's left-leaning political activism by crooning some of her best-known songs

 "I've been in politics for over 20 years, and for over 20 years, I've had Barbra Streisand trying to do my job," the senator quips in the skit

"So I decided to try my hand at her job."  Laughter aside, Galanti says he will never forget the man whose endurance and leadership made him an inspiration to other prisoners

 "John McCain is one genuine tough guy," he shares.  In a statement released on Twitter on Friday, the McCain family explained that the politician — who was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer with a median survival rate of just 15 months, in July 2017 — made the decision to stop medical treatment

 "Last summer, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news our family already knew: he had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious," the statement said

"In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict

With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment

"  "Our family is immensely grateful for the support and kindness of all his caregivers over the last year, and for the continuing outpouring of concern and affection from John's many friends and associated, and the many thousands of people who are keeping him in their prayers," the statement continued

"God bless and thank you all."  Daughter Meghan McCain, 33, tweeted the statement, adding, "My family is deeply appreciative of all the love and generosity you have shown us during this past year

Thank you for all your continued support and prayers. We could not have made it this far without you – you've given us strength to carry on

"  Added wife Cindy McCain, 64, on Twitter: "I love my husband with all of my heart

God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along this journey."