[applause] i am honored to be here like to say a couple of words about the track of the human spirit i talk to you about andreas bravery and i say this all the time we have to fight for our local newspaper and journalism whether its the bakery or in big parts of the community this is just as important joe mcnamara reported that we care about. Our kids, local teams and then theres Nothing Better than a local basketball and i agree with that 100 percent also thank you for coming here for co andrea has shown tremendous bravery and what she has done for us. Not only has she lost her soulmate but had the courage to stand up and step forward against the nra and subjected to horrible things throughout that process but she was brave enough to stand there to say we need to talk about these issues. These violent things that are happening in our communities whether red or blue we need to tackle these horrible things happen in our communities its not picking out democrats or republicans causes hea
Good afternoon. Im sarah perry director of partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and coauthors of the book upon which it is based. Why meadow died some of the people in policies that created the park when shooting and in danger of americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience, we will be taking questions during the last 15 to 20 minutes of this lecture. We will let you know when we are opening it up and the lecture will also be archived in our Speaker Series library frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill bennett wrote that why meadow died is the untold almost unbelievable true story of how the moral corruption brought by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radic
For those attending for the first time, the forms began in the 80s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan atmosphere. We have an expert speaker to address a critical topics in a bipartisan collegial atmosphere. There are a lot of media here, so i asked during the question and answers, reserve the for the Congressional Staff because of the limited time constraints and schedules. We are honored to have a prolific author, to address whats happening in asia today. Especially the citizens of hong kong and south korea on the front lines of freedom. Form is the author of south korea, shut down. The coming collapse of china. Shes the calmness of the daily beast and his writings on china have been featured in numerous newspapers from the New York Times the wall street journal and hes also a frequent commentator on cnn, fox news, msnbc, pbs and many others as well as a regular coke host and guest. I know his time is in great demand. We are mon
Trumps war on the fbi. To start by giving brief introduction, josh is a supervisor or was supervisor special agent with the fbi, involved in highprofile terrorism and kidnapping investigations, he managed the bureaus Interagency Communications in response to crisis incidents as he describes them, overseas he was on multiple diplomatic and operational assignments, he has been awarded the fbi combat award four times for work embedded with military special operations and cia teams abroad, he is presently a cnn Law Enforcement analyst, many of you have probably seen him on cnn. Hes a team member term member, excuse me of the council in foreign relations, teaches National Security law at usc, he received masters from John Hopkins University and much more important from our perspective here in austin, graduate of the university of texas. [cheers and applause] [laughter] most relevant to his book is that he was james comeys special assistant. The book, again, cross fire hurricane gets its nam
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