Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Thank you so much for that very kind introduction. Im really happy to be here. As you can tell, i have an amazing support team which includes three tiny people under the age of 3. It is a wonder that this book ever got written in the last few years. [laughter] but i told them id tell them thank you to cyrus and jasper do you want to wave . Want to wave . And asa, whos too little to wave, and my mom and the flannerys and so many of you who are familiar and my friends and my distant family. Thank you for coming tonight. So i was told that over the next 30 or so minutes that i should do a reading and speak for about 25 of those. Id like to make that a little more brief so that we can have a little more conversation if theres an interest there, and we can have some questions. But i would like to tell you, and im going to go light on the reading tonight, heavy on just the storytelling. I would like to tell you about the entrepreneurs that bookend what i
President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall
Half. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation, we welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse, check with our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. Those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments, simply email the speaker at heritage. Org. We will post todays program on the heritage homepage for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests, introducing the program is doctor ken holmes, acting Senior Vice President research, previously served as Vice President of foreign and defense policy studies and director of the davis institute, Founding Editor of the annual index of Economic Freedom which is the signature heritage publication of 2002 to 2005, served in the george w. Bush administration is assistant secretary of state for International Organization of affairs. [applause] thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, welcome to the Heritage Foundation. A pleasure to welcome y
This morning, a remarkable journey revealing resilience and massive need as millions still struggle for food, power and shelter. And here in my hometown, houston, the hidden crisis. I mean this is your life. Everything. And we find that mother who was stranded on her roof and the hero who let people make his store his home. Mattress mack with a new surprise this morning for his city. A very special edition of Good Morning America starts now. And good morning, america. Great to have you with us this monday morning. It is a special one here on gma. We are live in those areas hit so hard by recent hurricanes. You see robin there surveying all the damage still there in puerto rico and then we have some other remarkable images coming in. This is the florida keys, many weeks after the storm struck there. Our team is reporting from the heart of the path of destruction this morning as we mentioned, robin right there in puerto rico perdue. Michael in houston and rob is in the florida keys. Ther
Pleasure cove. We are live with tom on the phone. Reporter sometime between 9 30 and 10 00 this morning, two people were killed when a vacaville made plane crashed. It was reported by a fisherman who may have witnessed the crash. Right now even the person that called it in, we are trying to get hold of. Other than that we have no eyewitnesses to the crash. Its located on a cove and its only accessible by boat. Reporter coroners took the bodies away by boat. One source close to the investigation said the two killed were employees of the vacaville based manufacturer icon, identification is pending negatives of the families, for the ntsb, a series of questions must be answered. First things was there something about the pilot that caused the plane to crash or was it the feel or the weather or the waves, then they can come up with the probable cause in hopes that it will never happen again, this is the second crash of an a 5, the first one was sunk with a cracked hull but that crash result