Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louis mirrer, the im thrilled to see you this evening in our beautiful robert h. Smith odd terrorism tonight. s prom give me liberty a history of americas exceptional used i part of the distinguished Speaker Series and as always id like to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity which has enabled to us bring so many fine speakers to the stage. I also want to thank all of your Chairmans Council members in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support i tonights program will last an hour and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, this evening, and if not, my colleagues will go up and down the aisles with note cards and pencils. The note cards will be clerked later on in the program with you questions. Following the program there will be a book signing in the ny history store and copies of the b
Lets get started again. We will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. She is a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. Monica. Thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act came to be and then take a step back to
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
phillips how robin you watching, cal 0 life. my headquarters here in denver. also coming up. russia says it s pulled out troops from ukraine snake island to allow export of grain. you crinkles at a victory for people killed in saddam as please cut down on protests as coley vernon, to military rule and content. g brown, jackson is set to become the 1st black woman to join the u. s. supreme court will be life in washington dc. ah, welcome to the program, stronger, bigger and more united. that s the image of solidarity projected by nato leaders. on the final day of a summit in madrid, combating russia for its invasion of ukraine has dominate those talks and pledges were made to boost defense spending and significantly increase america s military presence in europe. an attack on one is an attack on all we will defend every edge of nato territory, every inch of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said to redo it, put in, invaded, enhance our for
russia abandoned the strategic island that it took from ukraine at the start of the war, handing back snake island in the black sea. after months of heavy fighting. and in sudan deadly street, protests, people are refusing to stop demonstrating against the military leaders of the country. leaders who took over 8 months ago. ah, i break off is good to have you with this. and we begin this thursday with the changes at nato and a changing security reality. today, native leaders wrapped up their annual summit by taking a tougher line on russia, made a presented a new strategic plan, which includes more unity than we ve seen in recent years. and it is pledging further humanitarian and military support for ukraine, for as long as it takes. we also learned today that it is official, nato is expanding by inviting finland and sweden to join the alliance. pomp and pageantry in madrid. the does of the 30 nato member states have tightened ranks against russia and the attack on one is att