One of the sponsors of this years festival we are proud to bring americas most beloved riders to this room. To do the work of the sort that youre hearing about at todays National Book festival. I want to welcome everyone joining on cspan today as well. We are proud to partner with cspan. The next panel is escaping genocide and Human Trafficking and features Joshua Freeman and jason. One of the foremost poets and writings in the language his new book is waiting to be arrested at night. A labor organizer and human rights strategist and director of the first book titled the great escape. The moderator writes for the Washington Post section and is the author of prisoner my 544 days in an iranian prison, solitary confinement, high stick highstakes diplomacy and the extraordinary efforts. Please join me in welcoming them. [applause] at homeybody watching its an extraordinary honor and privilege for me over the last couple of weeks ive gotten to know through these incredible books. Tragedy, l
Director of the John W Kluge Center of library of congress. Its my pleasure to introduce you to todays speakers. We are one of this part of this yourself to compress to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. The clue the center works to bring scholars and residents to. Work in the collections of the Worlds Largest library and to do work of the sort you were hitting about at todays National Book festival. I want to upgrade what is joining us live on cspan today as well. Proud to partner with cspan. Our next band is records of survival, escaping genocide and human trafficking. It features two saket soni, Tahir Hamut Izgil and Jason Rezaian. To hear one of the most foremost poet writing in the weaker language. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. Saket soni as human rights strategist and the founder and director of resilience forced from his first book is titled the great escape a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in america. Josh was a postdoctoral fe
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
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Counsel of the department of Homeland Security commented on the fact Homeland Security is a discipline and we see this in our law schools and undergraduate schools around the country were Homeland Security is taught today and we will be holding not on a penal josh will be moderating later. Celebrations and anniversaries come in 10 year intervals. Youre part of History Today with this 10th year program. The program really had its genesis to serving the general counsels office many years ago. So it is only appropriate today introduced the keynote speaker who is the current general counsel of the department of Homeland Security. The bible is the current general counsel and has served with distinction they are the last many years. Hes the chief legal officer of the department of Homeland Security and see if i lost track of how Many Employers you actually supervise, but it is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 1800 lawyers. I recall as many as 600 lawyers are sure the wash d. C. Area. I