A girl named tamara, lived on an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. She was beaten very severely at a drunken party. Her arm, her nose, her leg were broken and she laid in a room with no medical attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was featured in a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raised a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i sent her a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. I would always ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later, i got an email from her. It turns out she has been homeless in minneapolis. Went
Good morning to you. I will show viewers the photograph of the girl. Tell us who she is. Senator dorgan the book is entitled the girl in the photograph. A, lived ond tamar an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. Very severely party. Unknen her arm, leg were broken and she no medicaloom with attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was feature and a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raise a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i center a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. Ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later i got
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Is really not that bad. Its gotten one minute faster since i talked to you last. Still really good for this time in the morning. More great news is for those of you northbound on the nimmets i couldnt remember that citys name. Closes in efft due to construction overnight. Theyve cleared it early. So youre not going to have that bottleneck situation. Instead, youve just got free flowing northbound and southbound commute traffic. Same thing at the san mateo, excuse me the bay bridge this morning as that suns getting ready to peak over the horizon. Theres not even a back up at the cash lanes. Not quite the story at the Richmond San Rafael bridge but once you get to marin youre just fine. San mateo bridge is the only bridge where were seeing those slow delays. An update this morning on the gun scare at san jose state university. The lockdown is now lifted and a suspect is in custody. He was first seen off campus with a gun near east santa clara and 2nd. Officers found the suspect hiding in
Cable. Welcome and thank you all for being here this evening. For a very important conversation about how to heal our nation. N. Which is certainly a topic worthy of a lotwo of our time ad attention. And this discussion this evening will be led by solinda and ed who wrote a wonderful book, a question of respect. Which is something that is missing in american politics, and im grateful for you two to put this great Work Together and we look forward to hearing about it. So this evenings event is being hosted by the bipartisan policy center. An organization that im very proud to be a board member of, and i think the bps as its known is a singular institution in washington in terms of promoting as its name describes bipartisanship. D working together this notion that half of the country is not entirely wrong about everything they believe. And we can actually find Common Ground to advance the common good of the g american people. Senator mark kelly was here a minute ago. [applause] who was a