Thank you so much. Thank you kindly. Book tv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to the john f. Kennedy junior forum. My name i am a junior studying government at college and i am a member of the jfk junior Forum Committee at the institute of politics. Before we begin, please note the doors located on both the parkside and the jfk streetside of the form. In the event of them emergency, locked to the exit closest to you and congregate in the jfk parking lot. Please also take a moment to silence her cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the jfk junior forum live and interact with our student run instagram at jfk junior forum for behindthescenes highlights. Please take your seats out and join me in welcoming our guests and director of the center on media, politics and Public Policy, nancy gibbs. [applause]. Good evening and for those of you that have not had a chance this semester to make it across the charles hotel
You and congregate in the jfk parking. Please also take those moment now to. [silence] your cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the hashtag, jfk junior farm life. Editor with our student run instagram. At jfk junior forum behind the scenes and lights. Please take your seats now join me in welcoming our guests, and director of the center on media and politics and Public Policy. Nancy gibbs. [applause] getting for those of you havent had a chance yet the semester to make it across the charles hotel, the center over on the industry is focused on the intersection of many of politics and Public Policy which means we are basically looking at the quality of information in a free society. So a lot of that means working to get the best research into the hands of journalists to help newsrooms with hard questions that they are facing in all that is about promoting good highquality information. You will understand why at this moment in our history, a lot of hard work is also foc
Friday evening, and lasting through early saturday a local mayor going against governor branad, saying he will welcome Syrian Refugees into his town. Swishers mayor, christopher taylor, signing a proclamation that says in part, swisher continues to welcome all visitors and prospective residents, regardless of National Origin or refugee status. Kwwls brad hanson getting a chance to speak with taylor today. He joins us live now from swisher. Brad. Taylor says he made thths proclamation directly in response to governor branstads comments earlier this week, saying he would shut down iowas borders to Syrian Refugees. Branstad and 30 other governors this week saying they wanted to keep Syrian Refugees out of their statesthis after obama saying he wants to bring in thousands of those refugees. Ma worried a terrorist could slip through the cracks. T taylor says that while he understands the Security Issues compassion. christopher taylor, swisher mayor 15 its getting to get that time of year wh