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Development for former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano whos now in my home state and prior to that served in a variety of roles of president clintons administration. Wellcome welcome, anna. Thanks. [ applause ] so i thought we would start with the heart of the matter. Which is by asking each of you to reflect just a little bit on your career path and talk about how growing up here in arizona in the west created opportunities for you and helped to shame who you are. Justice oconnor, would you like to start . I cant imagine having grown up any place else except the southwest. I am actually a ranch girl. I grew up on a cattle ranch on the arizona and new mexico border along the hila river. Thats about as remote if you can get if you were thinking of the u. S. Supreme court, you wouldnt be thinking about it from that ranch. We called it the lazy b because the brand was a capital b lying down which made it lazy. Thats where i grew up. And it started out there by my grandfather day in in a
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It has been, as we said peaceful. We could show you more video of what its been like all day long. People coming out in peaceful protests saying there needs to be justice. Things do need to change. And their demands need to be heard. There has been tension out here. One we caught on camera, man got a little bit agitated. Not sure what happened. Police decided to go out and grab him and bring him back into custody. Weve seen a cleanup across town. But for the most part what we have seen is people calling for change in a peaceful way saying what happened last night was not the right way. Now, just a little while ago, mayor stephanie rawlingsblake had a press conference and she said she hopes that what were seeing now becomes the norm. We saw people coming together to reclaim youre city and clean our city and help our city. I think this can be our defining moment and not the darkest days that we saw yesterday. We had over 200 to 300 Police Officers off at that mall when it took place. Why