4 30 eastern. Live coverage of the conference should get underway shortly. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please. Good morning, good morning, everyone. It is my high privilege to stand here and welcome you all to the United States department of justices Human Trafficking summit. My name is patrick hovakenian. A federal prosecutor, serving in the office of the associate attorney general in the headquartersment ive had the privilege of working on issues that were here to discuss today and hoping that this summit can be used to combat further Human Trafficking. If youd please join me m welcoming our department of justice leaders. The attorney general of the United States, jeff sessions. [applaus [applause] the Deputy Attorney general of the United States, rod rosenstein. [applaus [applause] the associate attorney general of the United States, rachel brand. [applause] the acting assistant attorney general john cronin. [applause] and the acting attorney gen
Shop. If there are any questions, you can ask me for the doj staff here, we have folks standing in the back with badges and name credentials and theyre here to help you, please feel free to make use of us. We will wait for a few minutes until the stage is reset, and then well begin with our panel. Thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, if you will please take your seats we really begin our first panel of the morning. Session one this morning as a panel on effective Law Enforcement. Weve assem
Ranking official in the the third highest ranking official in the this. Efforts ton many of combat Human Trafficking. She was confirmed by the Senate Last Year and she had a Public Public service before becoming an associate attorney general. During that president Bush Administration she served at the white house special assistant to the president and associate counsel to the president. From 2005 to 2007, she was nominated by president bush and confirmed that the senate as assistant attorney general for legal policy. Served as the chief policy advisor to the attorney general, spearheaded the confirmations of the chief justice of the United States and Justice Samuel alito, alternating the administrations authorization of the patriot act. In 2012, president obama nominated her to serve as a member of the premises and Civil Liberties oversight board. She was confirmed and served board000 1210 2017 on the 20122017. Outside of federal government, she has been an associate professor of law,
This morning and cbs evening news. She is a graduate of villanova universitys law school, and she pa passed the bar exams in new jersey and pennsylvania. A and so paula is an attorney, and so i turn the it over. Yes, i am a recovering law r lawyer. And this is a topic that i am very excited to be at the important issue, and have the panelists take a few minutes to introduce themselves, and talk about this work, and specifically what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Would you introduce yourself and talk to us about what brought you into the field and what you do day in, day out. Thank you. Thank you for having me here today. And it is an honor to be here with you guys, and thank you for understanding how important it is to have survivors speak on this issue. It is different than a few years ago and it is exciting to share with you, what we are doing here in atlanta, and i am a survivor as you well know. I entered the life 20 years ago and i have been
Trafficking victims. This is just over one hour. Ofhere they come, the task introducing our panelists will fall she is a lawyer turned journalist covering Legal Affairs for cbs news. She has spent the last four years in cbss washington bureau, covering the department of justice, fbi, and Supreme Court for the network. She regularly appears on cbs this morning and cbs evening news. She is a graduate of law school in 2008 and passed the bar exam in new jersey and pennsylvania. She is able your and journalist. She is a lawyer and journalist. Paula thank you for that introduction. This is such an incredibly important topic and i am sorry it does not get more media attention. I am more than excited to be here today to talk to all of you about this important issue. I would like the panelists to introduce themselves, talk about what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Talk to us about what got what brought you when and what you do. Andrea thank you so much for