in the hands of smugglers run by cartels with no regard to human life. they take their phones away from them and they have no lifeline. a complete disregard for their safety as they are being transported even if you think of the pursuits we get in and the way they are thrown in vehicles and breaking out. it is a disregard. they aren t considered humans, they re considered money. bill: border patrol confirms at least 600,000 gotaways this past year. 160,000 of those in the del rio sector alone. those are just the ones they know about. griff jenkins, national correspondent live again in eagle pass, texas with more on his ex plusive ride along. what did you learn? good morning. before we even get there, here in the del rio sector in eagle pass where i am take a look. an extremely busy morning. you can see now what is the remnants of a group of more than 300 that came here. this is what is remaining. we counted as many as seven large white buses and waiting for more to come
Program, i im pleased to introduce our guest, author dr. Ken rutherford. Ken rutherford, ph. D. , is professor in the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmines. Survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Brother rutherford was prominent also as a leader in the International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1997 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the center for Internet National stabilization and recovery at gmu. Hes been a peace corps volunteer in mauritania, unhcr emergency refugee coordinator and somalia humanitarian and emergency relief officer in northern kenya and somalia. And as a fulbright scholar in jordan, he holds a ph. D. In government from georgetown university, a b. A. And mba from the university of colorado, where he lettered in football and was inducted into their hall for distinguished alumni. Dr. Rutherford has al
Jimmy thank you, thank you. Thats very nice. Thank you. Welcome. Im jimmy, im the host. Thank you for watching. Dont think i dont appreciate it. Thank you for joining us in beautiful hollywood in spring. The dumpsters are in full bloom. [ cheers and applause ] and, you know, its a special day. April is behind us. Today is the first day of may. And once again, our nations newscasters were caught flatfooted. May 1st, can you believe it . Yeah, no. Crazy. I know. I really cant believe may is here, sherry. I cant believe its may already. I know. I cant believe its may 1st already. It is may 1st, a new month, can you believe it . I cant believe its already may. I cannot believe its already may. Kind of flabbergasted its already may. I couldnt believe it. Oh, my gosh. I cant believe its the first day of may. First day of may, can you believe it . May 1st, i cant believe it. Can you believe that its may 1st . Huhuh, no. Can you believe its may . I cant believe its may. Hard to believe its may
Well, weve made it to the end. This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its going to be a terrific synopsis. If youve been wondering about it, to get a big picture of everything, weve kind of dove into some of the details with television and movies. Were going to take a little bit of a step back because in terrys book, he gives a great historic overview of the history of Popular Culture and the white house and the presidency. So ill tell you a little bit about our guest toda
Well, weve made it to the end. This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its going to be a terrific synopsis. If youve been wondering about it, to get a big picture of everything, weve kind of dove into some of the details with television and movies. Were going to take a little bit of a step back because in terrys book, he gives a great historic overview of the history of Popular Culture and the white house and the presidency. So ill tell you a little bit about our guest toda