Good evening. Thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the Clemen Center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for president ial history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffrey ankle Brian Franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the Clemen Center so my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorados campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools mu lab for text map and networks. They learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is number of you ii was hoping
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Immigration real quick. Yesterday, i guess, a group of House Republicans put out an immigration plan that would deal with daca but also do a whole lot of things that werent under the umbrella of the four things you outlined in the meeting why. Was that helpful . Was that not helpful to getting to a deal ultimately . Does the president wish they take that off the table so that you can focus on what might be happening with senator flake or others in the senate . How does a a complete package. We think its a great starting point, a great place. Reporter even though it went beyond the parameters what the president specifically and later you laid out . He felt it had to be included, not just what could be included. Certainly, we think that this is a good starting point. Part of the negotiation process, if we could get everything done, we think thats much better than getting part of it done, but were okay with getting a deal done as long as it falls into the parameters that the president lai