[inaudible conversations] [cheers and applause]. Good afternoon. The center of American Progress. Robert mueller will appear tomorrow before members of llngress to detail how the government worked to sabotage the 2016 election and donald trump andd his allies to aid and abet and coverup the operation at every turn. The president has lied over and over again and tomorrow the American People with the special counsel. This time around they will be contained within the margins of the legal documents. This time around we hear directly from himself that is utterly damning. Mueller described at least 37 meeting 272 contacts in total like the Trump Campaign that to the highest echelon of the Trump Campaign and through the inner circle including donald trump junior. Campaign manager Paul Manafort chaired internal polling and political strategies with the russian agent. And with that assault and integrity of our democracy. Yet not a Single Member of the trumpe campaign reported their interaction
That was the day was the first House Intelligence Committee hearing and a day known for james comey announcing there was indeed, an fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns ties to russia. It gave a press into Opening Statement in which you outlined what we knew at the time on march 20th and when you asked is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and that nothing more than an entirely on happy coincidence and you said yes, it is possible but it is also possible and maybe more than possible that they are not coincidental and not disconnected and that the russians used the same techniques to corrupt u. S. Persons that they employed in europe and elsewhere. We simply do not know not yet and we owe it to the country to find out. Two and half years later what did you find out . Was this all just a random coincidence . No, it clearly wasnt. If i knew then that we would find evidence in writing of the russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton is part of w
Course. I mentioned the moderator stuart taylor, an author, journalist here in the washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society regular. Youve seen him before, hes wellknown to us. I will introduce halflength but i do want to introduce him for the role of the moderator today. [applause] thank you very much, dean, for coming. Welcome to the Panel Discussion titled citizenship the road ahead on issues entitled to citizenship and i said yeah, what else. Its no citizenship the road ahead on issues surrounding the Trump Administration efforts to make publicly available more information about the numbers of citizens, non citizens and Illegal Immigrants in the country. This includes the administrations plan to include a question of citizenship and the census now starting in the year 2030, that is because the Supreme Courts decision in the department of commerce versus new york made it logistically impossible and the attorney generals words to include a question in the 2020 census. We hav
Begin . At what time did man first embark on his journey to the stars. Gazed in all at the infinite lights of the heavens. And wondered how different they were from his own earth. Other men searched the night sky for religious signs or mathematical movements or imaginary inventions. For the earthbound astronomer, space was a lifetime of study beyond the window of his observatory. For countless centuries the exploration of space remained a dream in the mind of man. Then, on the fourth day of the month of october 1957, it became a reality. The soviet union hurled the first manmade satellite into orbit 558 miles above the earth. The space age had begun. A year Later Congress created the National Aeronautics and space administration, a new civilian agency with parallel missions, to continue research and improvement in aeronautics, and to build a team and Technology Capable of sending unmanned and demand craft to sh and unmanned and manned craft to explore space. Today, after a decade of re
And they are sifting through primary sources, secondary sources. And then they are thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to an annual theme. And this year is the theme of triumph and tragedy in history. And then they present their findings in different formats. Of course, one of the categories you see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Then there is also the paper category. And there is dramatic performance. Documentary. Or website. So, history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. So for the performance category, like any other student at any other category, they first have to do their research. Good, Solid Research means primary and secondary sources. Going into the museum, lets say it is a civil rights topic, then they will maybe find someone to do an interview with. Basically, the research of the historical quality, the information, the evidence, everyone has to do tha