Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration
That is the answer to everything. When donald trump talks about hes going to raise tariffs on people. But, quite honestly, its in the United States in a victim again. It is victimhood. That is all that is. It is not that we are not charging china for tariffs, it is not that we need to erect a barrier for trade, when used to be done is to use the constitution to free americas , the dreamers, entrepreneurs, the Small Businessman. [applause] get the government out of the way and let us create [applause] when i first heard donald trump say that he was going to make ,merica great again, i thought this guys ego never stops. There is no end to his ego. A president does not make America Great. A president stands as a sentinel between you and the bloated government and he is facing this way trying to hold them back. He is just like, keep going, keep going, you people stop. That is what the president does. He stops the bloated government from getting into your life. By applying the constitution.
Bus campaigning with him for about seven weeks and you get to know someone on a bus for seven weeks. Let me tell you about the guy i have come to know. We have been joined by some of his friends, some of his lifelong friends whether it is his College Roommate or louie gohmert. Such a great guy. I would rather have them for friends than john boehner. All those friends say the same thing. They all say the same thing. They say he is exactly the same. Behind closed doors and just with us kicking back as he is in public i bring that up because someone who endorsed donald , ben carson, ben carson said he endorsed donald trump. He is one guy and private and one guy in public. Think about that, ladies and gentlemen. Aremost important decisions made in privates we better know what we are getting. Someoneetter know when sitting in private what kind of Supreme Court justice they are going to nominate. We better know when the going getss desk gets tough that they will defend this nation and make t
[applause] expand our also moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people to our struggling, not just black folks who are struggling. Therefugees, the immigrants ral folks, the transgender, and yes, the middleaged white guy, who you may think has all the advantages, but over all the over thedes technological change and feels powerless to stop it, you have got to get in his head, too. Number three, you have to go through life with more than just passion for change. You need a strategy. I will repeat that. Have passion for you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness but action. Not just hashtags but votes. [applause] you see, change requires more than [indiscernible] in requires a program and organizing. The 1964 democratic convention, maddie liv, five feet, four inches tall, gave a fiery speech on the national stage, but then she went back home to mississippi and organized cotton pickers. She did not have the tools, technology or you can whip up a movement in minutes
Away. Three teens got out and ran. One was a missing 16yearold girl. We have more with chris cato. I watched the interview come down. Compelling stuff well share. Interview. First of all, this is a wild story that has the police wondering who they may have robbed. Two were behind and one on the run. Lets go back to the video. This is a camerad a walgreens. Police say in the car is a 50yearold woman. I wish we could drop that. Right there in the swede shirt Walking Around pacing in front of her car, he walked walked up. Yanked it open and pointed a gun in her face. Ordered her out of the car you saw the second get in. She ran in to call 911. We spoke with the victim. She did not want to us show her face for obvious reasons; i could not believe it was happening. He was waving the gun he said get out now. Scared but i was like ticked off, that he was going to take my car. I work hard he is going to come up and take my car. After taking the car it was speeding on i95. A trooper started cha