Since my earliest days in new york. I consider him a mentor and a friend. Youve got his boilerplate info, so im not going to reread that hes written many books and magazine articles. He produces tv series. My five word description of his books are he brings history to life. Its a nonfiction writer of. One of the things i most admire about dean is how turns his personal passions into, his livelihood. Way back in the 1990s, he fell in love. The historical maritime maritime novels Patrick Obrian set during napoleonic wars, and he spent the next decade or more becoming a maybe the obrian expert. He published companion books, some of which i him with, and he eventually published the first biography of Patrick Obrian is a fascinating tale of. A man who pretended most of his life during research. He was in the new York Yacht Club library when he discovered an old leather bound volume with, the title sufferings in africa. And that was enough to spark another adventure. That was the 1817 accoun
He would sign into existence five national parks, 18 National Monuments 55 National Bird sanctuary and wildlife refuges in, 150 national forests. Camping with the president was, a remarkable experience. Muir later said. I fairly fell in love with them, so the two of them together, i think, you know, did a lot of good thats great. Thats a great place to end. Thank you, dean. Thank you. Love them. Appreciate it. Thank you. Renee dudley is a Technology Reporter at propublica previously is an Investigative Reporter at reuters. She was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her work uncovering systematic cheating on College Admission tests. She started her career at daily newspapers in South Carolina and new england and has won numerous journalism, including the Eugene Pulliam First Amendment award, the Ransomware Hunting Team, a band of misfits, improbable crusade to save world from cyber crime is her first book. So with that you for joining us today, renee, im pleased be here. Thank you ve
trace, the numbers are staggering, almost unimaginable and agents are struggling to maintain even a semblance of border security. this is a 24-hour port of entry here. and right now, migrants have the right to something they have not seen for years. legal or not, they have the right to an asylum hearing, a credible interview and even if they fail they have a right to see an immigration judge. the biden administration has been sending conflicting signals, insisting the border is closed, while approving mass releases of those who enter illegally. i think it s going to be full, and many people are going to try to cross, and jam the wall. i think our facilities will be overrun and you re going to get worn out ice officers. i think you re going to have issues with people being arrested and detained and rushing the boarder. i think you re going to have overworked facilities and you ll have a slew of people being released. the problem for the u.s. is time, space, and critics
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
so walk us through. hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retrieve 15 boxes of information that former president trump voluntarily turned over. voluntarily. once they looked in those boxes, they were alarmed with what they found and here is why. look at these numbers, fred. 67 confidential documents. 92 that were marked secret and 25 marked top secret going in ford from the least serious to the most serious. not only that, fred, this affidavit that we finally got to look at yesterday, it gave us new details about the classification markings on some of th