And i want to welcome all of you tonight to books and books. For those of you i dont know, im Mitchell Kaplan and im going to be just introducing the person will be introducing you to the evening. As you can see tonight, we have cspan with us as well. So were very excited that theyre here. We thank them for all the good they do, all the good work they do in bringing important books to to the attention of all of us. Im also really, really thankful that that living not living, but but based here in miami, we have one of the great publishing houses, the publisher of this book, american carnage, is mango publishers. And tonight we have its its editor publisher, whatever you whatever youre now calling yourself the janitor and go and thats chris. So we welcome chris and his whole team for making really possible thank for all the good work that you do. Of course we have fred and tom, so lets welcome them before a formal welcome. Welcome. And you know, one of the cosponsors of tonight is moms
Going to be just introducing the person will be introducing you to the evening. As you can see tonight, we have cspan with us as well. So were very excited that theyre here. We thank them for all the good they do, all the good work they do in bringing important books to to the attention of all of us. Im also really, really thankful that that living not living, but but based here in miami, we have one of the great publishing houses, the publisher of this book, american carnage, is mango publishers. And tonight we have its its editor publisher, whatever you whatever youre now calling yourself the janitor and go and thats chris. So we welcome chris and his whole team for making really possible thank for all the good work that you do. Of course we have fred and tom, so lets welcome them before a formal welcome. Welcome. And you know, one of the cosponsors of tonight is moms demand action. And we are very fortunate to have with us tonight a woman whos been very outspoken the way fred has be
And i want to welcome all of you tonight to books and books. For those of you i dont know, im Mitchell Kaplan and im going to be just introducing the person will be introducing you to the evening. As you can see tonight, we have cspan with us as well. So were very excited that theyre here. We thank them for all the good they do, all the good work they do in bringing important books to to the attention of all of us. Im also really, really thankful that that living not living, but but based here in miami, we have one of the great publishing houses, the publisher of this book, american carnage, is mango publishers. And tonight we have its its editor publisher, whatever you whatever youre now calling yourself the janitor and go and thats chris. So we welcome chris and his whole team for making really possible thank for all the good work that you do. Of course we have fred and tom, so lets welcome them before a formal welcome. Welcome. And you know, one of the cosponsors of tonight is moms
I am happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on very important topics, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab theory is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays policy issues. I am pleased to see so many folks have joined our webinar. And seeing so many folks watching and listening on sees than one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who are joining on zoom, we will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a. If you have questions, post them in the q a forum on zoom, not in the chat. However, you can check the chat with additional information. We posted links relevant to todays information. Finally, quote captioning is enabled. You can display it by selecting the option in the menu at the bottom of the window. We are recording this session and will make it Available Online at a later date. I think we are ready to get going. I will tell you a little more about hours acres tom hom is an rind
[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America