I hope everyone had a great lunch. As i said last night, i often have privileges to do things as national chair, and this afternoon is no exception. As many of you know, there is no private organization that works more extensively with Law Enforcement and the Antidefamation League. There is no agency we work with more closely than the federal bureau of investigation. We are partners in the fight against hate crimes and extremism and terrorism and our shared mission of protecting civil rights. Director comay is a yonkers new york native and graduated from the college of william and mary and university of chicago law school. He served as a u. S. Attorney in new york and in 2003, director comey was appointed deputy at appointment general at the department of justice pretty was was sworn in as the seventh director of the fbi in september 2013. Under director comays leadership, every fbi agent must attend a full day of training by the Antidefamation League and the Holocaust Museum before they graduate from the academy. This program, called lawenforcement in society examines the history of the cost and the role of Law Enforcement and our democracy. Before i welcome him to the podium, i want to thank him personally and on behalf of the adl for what he did two months ago after and at the height of the wave of more than 160 bomb 60 bomb threats against jewish institutions. Director comay convened a meeting at a time of extraordinary anxiety and uncertainty. He want to express his support and compassion and assure us that the fbi would expend whatever resources needed to close the case, and true to his word, thats what what he did. We thank the bureau publicly then and we wish to thank director comay personally again today. Please join me back. Please join me in welcoming the fbi director james comey. [applause] thank you for that and the kind introduction. Thank you for your applause for the fbi. They are people who spend all day every day worrying about protecting the people you are worried about protecting as well. I last spoke to you in the spring of 2014 and i was seven months into this job. It seems like a lifetime ago. I was taller than. [laughter] when i spoke to three years ago, i sing your praises and highlighted the way you fight for inclusiveness and diversity and the way you fight for equality and justice. I did that because at the time i described yours as an organization that works with us to fight hate crime and terrorism, to educate Law Enforcement and build bonds of trust with important communities all over the country. I labeled that speech three years ago, a love letter to the adl. Three years later, i can say from the perspective of the fbi, we are still in love with you. [applause] i want to spend some time explaining why we still love you, but first let me express regret which is as much as we love you, we have we have been spending way too much time together lately. I think we would all be happier if we had meetings that were fewer and far between. If we had no need to investigate hate crime, no need to share information about pending terrorist threats, no need need to educate kids or Community Leaders or cops about bigotry and hatred. If we had instead time to focus on other things, life would be better. But, its been been challenging in recent months. Together we have targeted bomb threats against Jewish Centers and schools, vandalism of jewish citizens, the racially charged shooting of two indians, swastikas and other graffiti painted in subway walls and more. In your line of work we see a lot of people filled with hate. Some people will sit quietly simmering and stewing in their bitterness. Someone shot about it to anyone who listen. We are hopeful that we can illuminate and educate those people who are sitting there simmering, some will always be trapped in that stylist midnight that Martin Luther king wrote about so many years ago. We have to ask ourselves, are people emboldened by divisive rhetoric . Either more opportunities to instill fear and intimidation today than ever before . Do the ways in which we communicate, often anonymously and from a great distance, offer license to those who want to hate, who want to discriminate and poison . Some of you may have read recently that i am on twitter. I am not a tweeter. I am there to listen, to read whats being said about the fbi and its mission. Sometimes its a wonderful place. Sometimes its a depressing place and sometimes it feels like i am all of a sudden, immediately in every dive bar in america where i can hear everyone screaming at the television set, but it is free speech. You dont have to like it. You dont have to agree with that, but we will protect it because it is the bedrock of this great country. Commack that we can believe and say what we want no matter how tasteful or disruptive. That is a vital right in this amazing country. Theres others more worried in this room. They are the ones who stop talking about who they hate and what they hate so much and start acting on that hate. And you know all too well that in a heartbeat words can turn to violence because hate doesnt remain static too often. And open you dislike sometimes foments investors and it can grow to something far more dangerous. Sometimes, too often, hate becomes hate crime so we have to do everything in our power to stop those people who move from stewing to acting. Who move from hating to hurting. Wherever they are, whoever they are, no matter if they occupy positions of authority or private citizens. Of course we have to do everything we can to educate, talk to people about diversity and the strength that comes from our differences but we have to do everything we can to bring those who act on hatred to justice. Hate crime is different from other crime. It strikes at the heart of ones identity. It strikes at our sense of self and our sense of belonging. The end result is loss. Loss of trust and dignity and too often loss of life. It hurts more than just the victim. It harms the entire community. An attack on one of us, because of who we are or what we believe or what we look like is an attack on all of us. We each must accept responsibility to speak up and stop it. If we dont, eventually it will come for all of us. I want to talk to very briefly, and remind you about ways the adl helps the fbi and Law Enforcement educate ourselves. I believe the holocaust is the most significant event in human history. I mean significant in two different ways. It is of course significant because it was the most horrific display of inhumanity imaginable. One that simply defies words and i believe challenges meeting. How can such a thing happen . How is that consistent with the concept of a loving god . How could there be meaning in life when so many lives were snuffed out in such a way . I ask those same questions standing in the pit of ground zero in early 2002. Diaspora same questions studying the history of slavery in america. Ive asked those questions many times have i have confronted unimaginable loss and suffering Good Standing here today, i know i am in good company asking those questions. The answer for me is, i dont know. We dont know. That we do know this, it is our duty, our obligation to make sure some good comes from unimaginable bad. Not to make it worth it, thats nonsense. Not to justify the loss, but simply because its what we must do as those left behind. It is our duty regardless of race, religion or ideology. It is our obligation to refuse to let darkness win. It is our obligation not to let evil hold the field. There are so many ways to fight the darkness. This room is full of them. This room is full of people who have devoted their lives to making sure evil doesnt hold the field. I also believe the holocaust was the most significant event in history for a second reason, which is because although it was a display of inhumanity that defies words, i believe it was also the most horrific display of our humanity imaginable. Our capacity of true evil and. [inaudible] that is why we require every analyst to come to the Holocaust Museum because we want them to learn about abuse of power on a breathtaking scale but we want them to confront something more painful and frightening, we want them to see humanity emma we want them to look into humanitys mere and see what we are capable of. We want to see that although the slaughter of the holocaust was led a sick and evil people, those sick and evil leaders were joined by and followed by people who loved their families, who took soup to sick neighbors, who went to church, who gave to charity, good people. I said something similar about this at a Holocaust Museum dinner not long ago and i spoke about individual countries which created an enormous distraction because although what i said was true, my point was about human beings, not individual countries. Good people helped murder millions and thats the most frightening lesson of all. Our very humanity is capable of convincing itself that we have to do this, its the right thing to do and that should frighten all of us. That is why we send our agents and analysts to the Holocaust Museum, so they can stare at us and realize our capacity for rationalization and moral surrender. We want them to walk out of that great museum treasuring the constraint and oversight of divided government, the restriction of the rule of law, and the the binding of a free and vibrant press. It is also the reason why we now require every new agent and analysts study the fbi interaction with doctor Martin Luther king. As part of that curriculum they visit the king memorial. I am the seventh director of the fbi and i sit at the same desk that all the prior directors have used and it has glass on it so i dont ruin it , and on the right corner of that desk, under the glass i keep a single sheet of paper. Its a memo from october 1963 from director hoover to the attorney general robert f kennedy. It is a memo from director hoover on behalf of the fbi asking for permission to bug and wiretap Martin Luther king. Its five sentences long and its utterly without factual content. It simply says theres a communal and untrained communist influence. It simply says we need to wiretap this guy. Director hoover signed it, Bobby Kennedy signed it and we were off to the races. Heres the hard part. Im not telling this story and i dont keep the document thereto pick on hoover or kennedy. I have no doubt both of those men believed they were doing the right thing. They were certain that their cause was just uncertain that their facts were right. In the absence of constraint and oversight, there was no one to tell them otherwise. I keep that piece of paper in that spot to remind me of what the fbi is responsible for and what we as humans are capable of, and why it is vital that power be overseen and constrained, including my power and that of the fbi. Imac. [applause] we put those sessions and the king curriculum at the very beginning of our Training Program for analyst and agent spread the reason we start their education there is we believe its foundational. It tells us who we are and what we are. Learning how to shoot and conduct an arrest in appropriate ways are appropriate stuff and hard but its much harder to understand and internalize a longterm ratification of prejudice and bigotry. The value of oversight, its much harder to fight against unconscious bias. These are more than just lessons to be learned. We believe they are living principles that have to be ingrained into everything we do. It has to become part of who we are. We have to build a deep understanding, we must know it, we must nurture it so it can save us later. Thank you for helping us to be better in educating ourselves. Now i want to thank you for your work in community outreach. We work hard to educate ourselves and to build bridges, with your help, to the communities we serve and protect. We are listening to peoples concerns all over this country and we are trying to let them know that we can help. We are trying to create a sense of trust and solidarity so they know in hard times they can call us and count on us to protect them. We want them to know that when we cant prevent a hate crime, our agents and analysts will move heaven and earth to find those responsible to bring them to justice. Our victim victim specialists who are the angels of the fbi will do everything they can to help heal those who are suffering, their families and their communities. They will explain what the agents need to do, why they are doing the things they are doing. They will host town halls for frightened citizens. They will clean up crime scenes and if you have never seen the painstaking work that goes into restoring the items, clothing, the furniture, the rooms of loved ones so they dont see the stain of that crime, its an extraordinary thing. They will plan funerals and find counseling and wipe away tears. I call them the angels of the fbi because they carry this tremendous weight that they lift from the victims onto themselve themselves. They do it for people who are living their own worst nightmare. We are not just Law Enforcement. We are part of the community. We are in this together. We understand that some of the communities we work and dont fully trust Law Enforcement. They may not believe that we have their best interest at heart, and that is painful but we have to confront. It is something we need to understand deep down and work to change. Everyone in this room knows that officers and deputies and agents signed up for this work because they want to do good for other people or they want to help other People Matter what they look like or who they love. They signed up to help all the people all the time. We have to do a better job of not just explaining that to the communities we serve and protect, we need to do a better job of understanding those communities, especially those with the greatest need for police. We need to know that the people who live there, the challenges they confront, the fears they have, the hopes they have. As Law Enforcement officers we need a full understanding of the history and journey of black americans. The hopes, dreams, the, the disappointments and the pain. We need to know the history of lawenforcement interaction with black america because black people cannot forget it. We need to know what is happening in all of our communities, not what we think is happening, or even what the people we are serving think is happening, but what is really happening. For that we need better information. I know data is a boring word, people tend to tune out when you talk about data, but its vital because only information gives us a full picture of whats happening. Its what smart people use to make hard decisions. We at the fbi have been pressing for more data in this country for the past two years. We will keep pressing. Data related to Violent Crime in homicide and officer shootings and altercations with citizens and attacks against Law Enforcement and data related to hate crimes. We must do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crimes to fully understand what is happening in our communities and our country so we can stop it. [applause] some jurisdictions do not report hate crime data. Some say there were no hate crimes in their jurisdictions which would be awesome, if it were true. We must impress upon our states and local counterparts how important it is that we track and report hate crime data. Its not something we can in order even though its painful. We cant sweep it under the rug. Lastly, we need to know and believe in good policing in this country. We need to live it because up close, respectful, firm, fair, lawful, transparent Law Enforcement is what has always worked best in every neighborhood in this country. To take one example, african americans, like all like all americans know that good policing like that is the path to prosperity and safety. We have to stand together. Lawenforcement, advocates like the adl, community adl, Community Groups and people from all walks of life to understand what we need and insist upon it. As part of it, we have to work to understand and recognize ourselves in one another. I sometimes think maybe the reason we struggle as a nation is because we have come to see only what the other represents at face value instead of who that person really is. Who are they really . Ive long believed its hard to hate up close, when you know their story. Its long past time we start to learn each others story. I was in orlando last june in the wake of the pulse nightclub attack. I wanted to go down there just to meet privately with the first responders, without any media, just to thank them. We met in a big church and i spoke very briefly to express the fbi gratitude and i said i would love to take questions. A hand went up in a man in uniform stood up and he said my name is mr. Gree green and im jewis jewish, which confused me but he went on. He said im jewish and i was there that night. I iran toward the sound of gunfire and next to me was a muslim officer. He said we were jew, muslim and christian. We were white, black, latino and asian. We were we were rushing toward danger to help people we didnt know. We didnt know what they look like or what they believed. We didnt know anything except they were people who needed us. Then he said very quietly, i wanted you to know that and he finished by saying i think the American People should know that and he sat down. Later an officer came up to me and sheepis sheepishly said im the muslim guy, that was a true story. I said to that officer and mr. Green, i will tell that story all over this country because i do know it but i think the a. American people need to know that story. [applause] we confront divisiveness, we confront fear, ignorance and we live in a world with a lot of coarseness and lack of civility. We need to do better. Police officers of different faiths and backgrounds, running toward danger to help strangers. That makes us better. Muslim activists who raised over 100,000 to thousand dollars to repair jewish headstones vandalized in st. Louis and philadelphia. That makes us better. [applause] Good Samaritans who painted over the vandalized slayers written on a neighbors house so when they came home they would never have to see those letters. A defaced defaced sign on a Spanish Language church that local pastors covered with posters. Just couple minutes left in this discussion and video. You can see it online. Lets go live to comments from senator marco rubio who is delivering the keynote address at the conference on americans in washington d. C. He chairs the Foreign Relations committee on the hemisphere. I would like to introduce our speaker senator marco rubio and welcome his team. During his time in the senate, since 2011, senator rubio has been a strong advocate for shared prosperity in Economic Growth throughout the hemisphere. As a member of the