Of chicago and the south side cultural sent, thank you for having us. [ applause ] thanks for joining us tonight, happy friday. Nice to have you with us. Look at this awesome picture from 1968. I love every single thing about this picture. This is the Central Middle School band from orville, california. This is the majorettes part of the band and they are marching through downtown orville, california, on may 1, 1968. This picture is perfec and this picture the property of the California Department of Water Resources. The reason the California Department of Water Resources had a photographer on site taking pictures that day of the majorettes in orville is because that day the governor of california and his wife came too orville, california, to tour a really big awesome new piece of Water Structure the california
governor at the time was Ronald Reagan. He and his wife nancy went to orville for the dedication of the brand new orville dam. It looks kind of fun. They got to go inside the da
do you agree? i completely agree. what we saw today was shocking. it was numbing. we re parents of four children, we have three grandchildren. to see these shallow graves and to watch these investigators who are with shovels digging, shovelful by shovelful extracting these bodies, the bodies of women, of small children, civilians across the board, it is it s mind numbing. it s terrible. and we were there, in fact, looking as they re excavating, taking these bodies out, you could see the rubble. like an earthquake had destroyed these residential neighborhoods. we met with the mayor of bucha today. he said, senator, can i show you my home? mm-hmm. so we followed him to his home. completely destroyed by the russians. you have some photographs you took of the mass grave. i do. and we want to put those up. as always, we want to warn our
moment they ceremonially broke ground on the construction. this was 1957. this was a previous governor of california, goodwin knight. everybody called him goodie knight, as in good night. he s got a shovel full of dirt there. somebody at the ground breaking had the foresight to save that exact shovelful of dirt they dumped it into a bag, saved it for the day the dam would be complete and up and running. they could have saved a little of it but they saved a lot of it. they saved a giant amount of dirt from that shovelful and gave it to ronald reagan. they sent ronald reagan back to the governor s mansion that day with a giant jar of a previous governor s dirt.
ground on the construction. this was 1957. this was a previous governor of california, goodwin knight. everybody called him goodie knight, as in good night. he s got a shovel full of dirt there. somebody at the ground breaking had the foresight to save that exact shovelful of dirt they dumped it into a bag, saved it for the day the dam would be complete and up and running. they could have saved a little of it but they saved a lot of it. they saved a giant amount of dirt from that shovelful and gave it to ronald reagan. they sent ronald reagan back to the governor s mansion that day with a giant jar of a previous governor s dirt. thanks for visiting, mr. governor, give it pride of place somewhere. like if you moved into a new apartment and the landlord triumphantly handed you the vacuum bag from the old tenant. here s the original dpriirt fro
the congress has not appropriated it. doesn t he have to build it now? i think he has to try. we don t know if he s who is going to stop him from building this wall at this point? democrats have no power. people who say they can t spend the money. at some point soon they re going to raise the debt limit. going to have to raise the debt limit. do you think the tight-fisted guys in the speaker s office are going to say you can t deliver on the reason you were elected of course they will at some point. this is a legitimate policy of his. he campaigned on it. he will do it. the point today is that nothing really happened. what we have to do is wait and see. is it a wall? is it a fence? is it keeping people out? is it not keeping out? the thing about this today was it s all pr. what we have to do didn t he do the keystone today, did he dig the first shovelful today? it was ceremonial. i agree entirely with andrew. it s going to happen. things don t happen like that i