>> next, today's rally in washington dc, protesting the trump administration's immigration policies. then, a review of the files of osama bin laden. , a discussion on the state of the u.s. construction industry. hundreds of rallies were held around the country today under the banner families belong together to protest the trump administration's immigration policies. rallies was in lafayette square across the street from the white house, while at the president is in new jersey for the weekend. this portion is one hour and 15 minutes.

[applause] >> good afternoon. 30,000 and growing. because there are parents right now who can't sing lullabies to their kids. and i am just going to sing a lullaby that i wrote, and this is for those parents, and we are not going to stop until they can sing them to their kids again. [applause] ♪\ >> ♪

when you came into the world i cried and it broke my heart i am dedicating every day to you domestic life was never quite my style when you smile apartock me out, i fall and i thought i was so smart. you will come of age with our young nation we will bleed and fight for you we will make it right for you if we lay a strong enough foundation we will pass it on to you we will give the world to you and you will blow the world away someday, someday you will blow us all away someday

smile, i amwhen you undone, my son. look at my son there is so much more inside me now oh, philip, you outshine the morning sun, my son apartou smile, i fall i thought i was so smart arounder wasn't i swear that i will be around for you i will do what ever it takes i will make the world safe and sound for you we will come of age with our young nation

we will lead and fight for you we will make it right for you if we lay a strong enough foundation we will pass it on to you we will give the world to you and you will blow us all away someday, someday yeah, you will blow us all away someday ♪ untilstop, don't give up these families are reunited. [applause]

>> [chanting] [applause] >> good afternoon. [applause] >> are you feeling strong? [applause] >> are you ready for what is before us? >> yes. is alicia keys. [applause] alicia: thank you. and i am a mother.

that is all right. we have got a little sound issue. i am a mother. i love you. thank you. my seven-year-old son is here with me today. his name is egypt. [applause] >> egypt, egypt. alicia: and i couldn't even imagine not being able to find him. i couldn't even imagine being separated from him, or scared about how he is being treated, fight, is all of our because if it can happen to any child, it can happen to my child, your child, and all of our children. [applause] so i am here to read the words of another mother whose son was held in immigration detention.

the names have been changed, but the words are hers. my name is margarita. carlo, who isr of currently being held by the office of refugee resettlement in a detention center in portland, oregon. realized carlos had arrived in the united states was when i received a voicemail told me he which he wa was being held in kansas city. when i spoke to carlos, i felt my soul returned to my body. had nice without sleep worried about where he was, torture day by day. wascase manager said he going to send me some forms to apply to be my sons sponsor, and he asked me for many documents. i was also given a home check. the investigator and short me that in a week they would have results, and by the new year they would surely give me my son. i got so excited i even bought

some christmas presents for my son. i have them. i still have them, and they are still wrapped in the christmas wrapping paper. they give me deep sorrow every time i see them. first they tell you in a few weeks you will have your child, then in a month, then in a number month come a then they never fulfill the promise. i have asked myself, what am i doing wrong? have i not sent everything they have asked for me? i want them to see him one day, if only for a while. what mother would not want to have her son in her arms, if only for one moment? so please hold of this mother in your heart and never forget her family struggles. [applause] >> my name is america ferrera.

[applause] here not only as a child, theother, the proud child of immigrants. [applause] and not only as an american who sees it as her duty to defend justice, i am here as a human being. [applause] america: with a beating heart who can feel pain, who understands compassion, and who can easily imagine what it must feel like to struggle the way families are struggling right now. it is easy to imagine that i would hope that if it was my family being torn apart, my brother being arbitrarily criminalized, my sister being banned, then someone would stand up for me and my family. [applause]

is that simple. this fight does not belong to one group of people, one color of people, one race of people, one gender. it belongs to all of us. [applause] makes humans remarkable is our capacity to imagine. we have an imagination. let's use it. from aad these words grandfather who was fighting to be reunited, is fighting to be reunited,with his -- with his granddaughter, i what you to imagine if this is your grandchild, if you are this grandfather. these are his words. the names are changed. i am the grandfather of --, who is currently detained at shiloh

resident residential treatment . i live in oakland, california. foodk every day as a vendor. i want to be her sponsor because she is my granddaughter and i am her grandfather. i spent a lot of time with her when we both lived in el salvador. i came to the united states when she was five years old and have helped to financially support her and her mother ever since. i think i would the a good sponsor for her because i want to take care of her and i am able to do so. in february 2018, a home investigator came to my house. she asked me a lot of questions and had me fill out a lot of paperwork. i got the impression the home investigator did not think i made enough money to support her and myself. i know i don't make a lot of money, that i make enough to care for her.

everything i have i will give to her. i have not heard anything since then. when i reached out to the social worker at the shiloh treatment center, she told me the office of refugee resettlement throughout my application. shame, shame, shame. america: and that they are going to transfer her somewhere else. talked, time that we she told me that she was starting to feel desperate. i told her not to lose hope and that we are just waiting to see what the government says about me. , ande remember these words please do not lose hope. hold him in your heart. we cannot forget. >> we love you. we see you.

[applause] and i are here to say what we all know, feel, and believe, and that our democracy is at stake, our humanity is at stake. we are out here to save the soul of our nation. we need all the children reunited to their parents. end the zero humanity policy. [applause] alicia: we need to save the supreme court. [applause] alicia: and we need to vote. because when we vote, we win. [applause] america and i want you to join us and say, we are not backing down. >> we are not backing down. alicia: we are not backing down.

>> we are not backing down. alicia: we are not backing down. >> we are not backing down. alicia: thank you for your strength. thank you for not backing down. [applause] vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. vote them out.

vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. vote them out. >> good afternoon. name is -- and i am an immigrant. [applause] >> my family came to the united states to get away from the trauma of a war. my family came to the united states because they knew that the opportunity to afford their daughters a more normal life, what is possible here in america , the land of opportunity, is

our ship rolled into nor you new york harbor, we passed the statue of liberty, liberty, freedom. , everyone'seryone life matters, everyone's life , children must be given the opportunity to be raised in a warm, safe environment that will cloak them for the rest of their lives. i am 75 years old. [applause] ago, my motherrs faced the most excruciating pain any parent could face by being

forcibly and dramatically separated from her eight-month-old daughter. i was taken away and she, my mother, did not know where i was taken to or whether she would ever see me again. we were apart for almost two years, and finally brought together again after the war. stranger know who this who came to collect me was, and i didn't want any part of her. were lost andng had to be started again. i was traumatized, and i was afraid, and the state with me to today. i am a holocaust survivor. [applause]

aliza: one of the few still alive today. child, in ahidden hole dug in the woods in a bunker with my mouth taped shut. two years of parent-child bonding lost, crucial years in a child's early development lost. love of awhen the parent and the physical closeness between child and parent, the years when a child learns to trust the world around is aand that the world safe place, or could be, all lost. i never learned this all-important lesson. and all these children today separated from their parents, if

they had lost the opportunity to learn trust or ever feel safe in their life. shame, shame, shame. right.shame is shame. >> shame, shame, shame. aliza: i want to share with you a little of what it feels like to be the product of traumatic separation. above all and always there is internal chaos. there is no peace inside. the world is a really scary place. the world is fragmented with pieces of memory floating up from the unconscious mind like the jagged edge of a broken mirror, and all i see are distorted images.

can you imagine putting a child in a cage? >> no. >> shame. aliza: alone. without her mother. without her father. alone. nightmares, what distorted truths, do you think that child will have for the rest of her life? this is what traumatic separation reduces, ladies and gentlemen. that thefear, the fear shaky world you have finally created for yourself will crumble at any moment, the fear that unless you have total control over every minute aspect of your life will dissolve and you will find yourself back in a cagel -- a black hole or

surrounded by boots, uniforms, and guns. what does this administration think? all this does to these children. and how dare they. >> how dare they. >> how dare they. >> how dare they. >> shame, shame, shame. aliza: shame, shame, shame. shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. aliza: when i was asked to speak today, my first inclination was to say no. i am not political. to me, politics often creates a feeling of chaos. they can create chaos. and i will do anything to avoid chaos. i see the faces of the

children separated from their parents. i see the tears, the pain. i see the fear and the confusion. faces notlittle understanding the chaos around him, or the cages that are holding them. not, know, political or once i was where they are now, and i, we, all of us, must speak on behalf of these children. and their parents. [applause] we love you. too am an immigrant. separated andibly dramatically separated from my parents. and i too must be, never again. >> never again. aliza: never again. >> never again.

aliza: never again. >> never again. aliza: thank you. [applause] >> [chanting] >> no more ice. no more ice. nomura ice. -- no more ice. >> hi. my name is john. talk about the expense of japanese americans and how what is happening today reflects so much of what happened to us during world war ii.

1942e morning of april 28, , as my family prepared to board the buses that would take us to one of the 10 concentration -- thankthis country you. i was literally taken from my mother's arms and separated from my family. thatircumstances of incident was world war ii, when president franklin roosevelt signed an executive order which allow the army to remove and incarcerate the entire japanese-american population. evidencete any lack of of any wrongdoing by any person of japanese ancestry, the government stated we are a threat to the security of the united states and the we were a

danger to every american. >> shame, shame. i spent a lifetime trying to understand how i as a two and half year old boy was such a threat to the security of this nation. the circumstances were different than, but we hear the echoes of that moment in history through 70 years. we hear today the same than him of racism, bigotry, and promulgation of lies to justify a racist policy. difference between zero-tolerance and our situation 70 years ago. both halle are based on nothing policies areism -- based on nothing more than racism. in both cases, neither judges

the individual, but condemns the group. i was taken from my mother's arms because i had broken out with german measles that morning. the memory of the two and a half-three weeks i was alone are vague to me because i was so young, but over the years i have come to understand the impact of that time, those three weeks, on my life, but i always wonder what it did to my mother, because today you read about the mothers and their children being separated. i know that it took my mother over 40 years to be able to talk happened, andat in talking with my older brother i know that for the time that i was separated from the family, all day long my mother would cry , and that night he said he would wake up to hear her whimpering in her cot.

i can't imagine how painful that had to have been for her. i was blessed because i was young and i don't remember a lot she remembered every single moment of those three weeks without me, not knowing where i was or what was going to happen to me, so i think about today, what is happening today. i, and i think about the mothers of the border and how they must expend so much angst, agony, and despair, and how hopeless they must feel not knowing where their children are. what kind of nation does this to mothers and children? not america. we are told it is their punishment for trying to come across the border without papers

. that justifies taking children from their mothers? >> no. what kind of nation does this kind of thing? what kind of nation puts children in cages? >> people, racist. that we are here to say want the families to be reunited. >> yes. [applause] john: it is important in this moment of national shame that we maintain a determination to end this madness and ensure a future in which we will make america truly great again, not in the vision of a cruel administration that is there, that in the vision of our founding fathers. [applause]

john: so it is important that we are here, because this is the true america, all of you out there. [applause] say, and we are here to end this madness, reunite the endilies, into zero zero-tolerance. [applause] vote them out. vote them out. vote them out.

>> everybody in the house, just so you know, there are cooling stations at h. don't stand out here if you are dying. go cool off. we will be here a while. ok. head on out. >> [cheers and applause] >> [chanting]

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like. this is what democracy looks like. this is what democracy looks like. >> hello, washington. [applause] >> one more time, washington, d.c. how are you doing today? [applause] it is absolutely incredible to see the crowd out here today, to see how many of you responded to the moral obligation to be here to demand that families belong together. [applause] is -- and i stand before you today with a broken heart. i devote each and every day to toding new and creative ways fight this administration's xena

phobic rhetoric and attacks on withees, asylum seekers all my might. [applause] and i will not stop -- isra: and i will not stop. we will not stop. as the syrian american muslim woman, i wake you up each morning waking with a knot in my stomach, thinking about my own family and what new and justice that they will bring. the attacks are coming at us from all sides. this past week, five men on the spring court made it illegal to discriminate against me. thank you. solely because of what we believe and how we pray. no amount of windowdressing or legal maneuvering can of secure this reality, and that ever

since the day trump called for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states, he has made it his mission to ban muslims, plain and simple. shame. >> shame, shame, shame. isra: for me, this policy does not just get close to home, it hits my home, literally. it's my family. and a proud american, born raised in boulder, colorado. i grew up spending my summers visiting my extended family in syria, playing with my cousins and bouncing on the laps of my aunts and uncles, but i have not been able to see any of them since the conflict broke out in syria seven years ago, and now this muslim ban prevents me from being reunited with them here in my home in the united states of america, and that is not ok.

days were touched by the sadness of my family's absence. heartg like part of my was missing as i watch my friends have their aunts and uncles at our college graduation ceremony. looking out into the crowd as i married my best friend to see over half the room where my family should have in indy. how many more life milestones will my family have to miss? will they be here the day i have my first child? to watch his or her first steps? family is everything, and nothing is more cruel than separating family members from each other. [applause] isra: i am heartbroken that the supreme court chose xenophobia and bigotry over me and my family, that they stood on the side of hatred and fear instead

of love and truth, because that is what this is. these are not just policies not just statistics, not just words on a piece of paper. there are human lives on the line. too many of our elected officials try to justify and rationalize this administrations discriminatory executive order, cruel family separation policies, xena phobic rhetoric, but today we call it what it is, bigotry. [applause] isra: looking out over this itiful, huge crowd, which never imagined i would be speaking in front of, i know so many of you have been affected by this administrations bigotry has well, and that is why we are all here right now. [applause] >> we love you. you luckythose of

enough not to have been targeted yet, i want you to think about your families. what would you sacrifice to see them? to be with them? imagine being porno tart from them, from -- being torn apart from them, from your entire world? whether parents seeking safe haven from violence in south america, it is about the cruel practices that show an utter lack of moral fiber and a complete failure of this administration to acknowledged the humanity of these brave and fearless individuals longing for the same security, keys, and normalcy that we all want. [applause] >> we love you. we see you. isra: we are tired. too many of us know what it is

like to wake up every morning since trump took office and be forced to fight for our rights. americano prove your -ness. to brace yourself on hateful attacks on your identity. tofamily and i do not have prove our humanity, and neither do you. [applause] we are all america. america is all of us. now i want to address all the few here in solidarity. i need you to commit yourself to this fight. it is not enough to take off one saturday and come to a protest. i need you to make this as start of your activism, not the end of it. [applause] isra: i need you to mobilize your privilege.

[applause] fight is not just for today, not this week, this month, or even year. it is a fight to take back our country and reclaim the vision that stands as a beacon of hope for every single person. [applause] know whatmany of us it feels like not to have the luxury of turning off the news or getting off of social media. for us, this is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. we need all of you now more than ever. trump is counting on your complacency, your distraction, but i urge you to prove him wrong. [applause] stay horrified, stay

angry, do not receive into silence as tempting as it may be. standmes we need you to with us as we leave this fight, and sometimes we need you to stand in front of us to protect us from the onslaught. [applause] isra: and all the time we need you engaged and active as they try to divide us. we will let them divide us? >> no. isra: we cannot fight them alone, but united we will prevail. will we stay united today, every day? >> yes. isra: i need you to be louder so everyone in the white house can hear you. will we stand united? >> yes. together we will continue to speak truth to power and fight for our american values. house and the white five men on the supreme court can never change this country.

you say nono ban, wall. >> no wall. announcer: no ban. isra: >> no wall. ban. no no wall. no wall.ing] no ban, wall., no no ban, no wall. [speaking foreign language]

[speaking spanish] [applause] >> thank you. we are going to ask for the energy of the mayan calendar to

be with us here today. this is the month of wisdom. organizers. very well to do a big event like this with lots of hard to show solidarity in the face of the tragedy we are seeing right now with the children at the border. but it is not only that, it is also about someone named claudia , who was killed, murdered, at the border by the border patrol. >> shame. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] we, the first people of this together, have gotten in one heart, north, central,

and south america. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> we, the first people, have a history, life, and the dignity to be here with you, and for that we don't need to ask permission. [applause] >> because mother earth belongs to all of us. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> [speaking spanish]

>> our ancestors have in here for 25,000 years on this continent, and as their ,efendant, as a maia defendant i am here representing my people who have also been massacred and dragged through the mud by this government. >> [speaking spanish] >> and i want to thank my brothers and sisters from this sacred place who have shown solidarity with us. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> it is not just north and south who have come here, but people from all over the world. >> [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> and so we have to thank mother earth, and we have to show solidarity, and we have to stop this tragedy happening with the children at the border, and this is not a history that has just begun, but a history that has gone on for a long time. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> we are going to ask for the

heart of the eagle, the gazelle, guide usondor, to on the right path our grandparents have left for us. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] and we are going to ask you to recognize us in our name, to not ignore us, to give us a place, because we have the right to live with you on this mother earth. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> the heart of the sky, the heart of mother earth, the heart

of the air, and the heart of the water, this is the essence of our lives here has people on mother earth. people here on mother earth. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] you, thank you to all of you for coming from so many different places to show solidarity and ask for justice and to end impunity. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] may the energy of father sun give us the courage, the

resistance to continue to move forward with the fight. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> and i ask you again to not ignore the first peoples of this continent and to always the together. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> because our children who are in jail right now and who are isolated do not speak spanish. they just beat their original tongue. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] need to ask the authorities, the lawyers, the

judges, to find interpreters so we can resolve this issue we are seeing at the border. >> [speaking spanish] >> and also, the government of our countries, we have to ask them to put their hearts and their conscience, and not only focus on their graft and exploitation of mother earth, because it is also their responsibility to watch over her. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] solidarityu for your , the solidarity, and we will always be together. [applause] >> until we meet again. [applause]

>> dear community, i am 12 years old and from georgia. [applause] proud daughter of a domestic worker who loves me very much. [applause] job is verya important. she takes care of children as a nanny and make sure they are healthy and safe. [applause] -- i am herement

today because the government is separating and attaining refugee parents and children at the border who are looking for safety. also continues to separate u.s. citizen children like me from their parents every day. [applause] there is an evil -- [applause] it makes me sad to note that children can't be with their parents -- to know that children can be with her parents. don't they know how much we love our families? don't they have a family too? why don't they care about us

children? >> we love you. >> i love you more. [applause] >> why do they hurt us like this? it is unfair they got to spend time with their families today while there are children in detention centers and in cages missing their parents, who are thrown in jail. >> shame, shame, shame. [applause] >> i live in the constant fear of losing my mom to deportation. , andm is strong, beautiful

brave, and person who taught me to speak up when i see things that aren't fair. [applause] i don't want them to take away my mom from me. i don't like to live with the fear. it is scary. i can study. i am stressed. i am afraid they will take my mom away while she is at work or out driving. i don't understand why this administration won't support mothers who just want a better life for their children. [applause] this needs to change. [applause] allow them to keep hurting families, communities, and children. we can maketogether

things better for families and kids. [applause] >> i want to be an example to other kids who are going through the same problems as me. [applause] kids at the tell border and all of the country not to give up and fight for their families. we are human. we deserve to be loved and cared for. our government has to do the right thing and stop separating us from the parents, stop blocking us up. favor, itsking for a is my right to live in peace

with my mother. [applause] [speaking spanish] families belong together. [applause] say with me louder. families belong together. thank you. >> families belong together. families belong together. >> washington, d.c. i stand on behalf of the more

than 1.2 million women entangled in the united states criminal system. and000 currently in prison one million on parole or probation. heard the cries of an incarcerated mother at 3:00 in the morning, desperate to see and hold her children, it is something you will never forget. they have created policies of separation, punishment, and incarceration as an answer to the struggle of poor people and derived from the policies of slavery. women are mostly mothers, the choices women make in search of food and shelter and too often to escape violence and abuse are the same no matter what side of the border they are on. [applause]

as -- at the national council for incarcerated and formally incarcerated women and girls, we have spoken to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls throughout the united states and we have traveled to mexico and brazil and the toibbean and spoken incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women there as well. whether in chicago where the bronx or appalachia or the collateral communities of lower alabama, the women's stories are the same as women in the states and towns of mexico or the favelas of sao paulo. stories of lifetimes of struggle as the result of being poor women navigating through persistent poverty and lack of food and housing, they tell the same stories of over

criminalization in nature of war that for decades target to their communities and continues to cause devastating social and economic disruption that has left the women of our communities alone to rear children with little to no support or access to meaningful resources and opportunities. [applause] disturbing are the same stories of being witnesses to and victims of violence while their trauma goes on and untreated. the common story of sexual violence, often starting during childhood. we also know the pain of being separated from our children and incarcerated in jails and prisons across this country. it leads to further incarceration of our children. women are currently the fastest growing incarceration population

in this united states. i know this to be true as i lived in a federal prison as an incarcerated woman during which time i was separated from my six month old baby boy and our daughter. mavens of children are separated from their mothers to do unnecessary incarceration in 85% of incarcerated mothers were the primary caretakers of their children prior to incarceration. takes theof country most vulnerable and harmed among us and responds to the pain and trauma with prison and protracted sentences, increasing the pain, suffering and economic that deepens poverty for their children, families and communities. we must recognize that separation of mothers from their children, under any circumstances, must be that deey

for their avoided whenever possible. [applause] keeping families together should be a priority of a civilized society. [applause] reform need immigration and we need criminal justice reform. [applause] we need sentencing and policy reform that stops the separation of mothers from their children, whether they are mothers making choices in search of a better life that brings them to our borders or whether we are talking about mothers from the east capital housing development or the seventh and eighth awards, with the highest rate of incarceration right here in washington, d.c., who are locked up in the d.c. jails, state prisons or any of the thousands of women i was incarcerated with in the federal system.

these women need to be reunited with their children as well. as we work for immigration reform and make the demand to keep families together, let's not leave out the fight for freedom, dignity and justice on behalf of the women and children separated by over criminalization and mass incarceration. [applause] join us in our work at the national council for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls to end the mass incarceration of women and girls. [applause] >> vote them out. vote them out. vote them out.

>> my name is danielle guerrero. [speaking spanish] i am here today not as a politician, a child psychologist, and activist, and actors or an author. i am here today as a woman who has a young child who was separated from her family. i am here today to be painfully honest about the damage these government policies due to human beings. you and convey that even some 17 years later, i still remember how it felt when i first cried out for my parents and they could not answer.

as a voice for thousands of children without voices. for those who will wake up every day and have to tell themselves they did not deserve for their parents to be taken from them, that it was not their fault. day, on top of trying to pursue their dreams and give love to them -- those around them, have two continue convincing themselves that they, , thate worthy of above they are valued, that their families love them. toill be honest, i have had be very imaginative and very creative to get her i am today. [applause] having my family taken away from me had a severe impact on all of us.

it was so irreversible. and so you're responsible for our government, which never considered what would happen to brothers. my brother, eddie, you deserve so much more. you deserve so much more and i love you. [applause] >> we see you, we love you. >> i love you. years later, i want to change daysorld and there are when i cannot find the strength to begin. with open struggled eyes to the agony that everyone of these kids will face forever. it is not temporary, it is forever. it is for life.

my situation 17 years ago was different. i could not imagine living in a cage away from my parents, away from anyone i know or anywhere that i have lived. i certainly cannot imagine being detained with my parents as the new policy dictates. i was lucky enough not to be caged, but that is only because i did not exist in the eyes of the government. they had no regard for a child left behind. whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, i still do not know. but i would have had a much different story to tell if i had been imprisoned after being separated from my family. bed, and only the cold faces of ice agents and the feeling of a mylar blanket.

i was lucky enough to be with my parents until i was 14 years old. having my parents tell me that i could do anything, that i was .pecial, and that i matter that gave me the confidence to last a lifetime. know why i was lucky enough to have people in my community take me and, to be able to continue school, or why i was lucky enough to find work or to go to college, i do know that kind of luck is one in a million. i also know i've not have been so lucky if i had been among today's generation of children will be irreversibly damaged by

our government's actions. it is a denial of children's humanity to say that because they were born in difficult or dangerous places at the wrong time that they don't deserve a second chance. [applause] ask fory should not refuge. how many more children are we willing to subject to a lifetime of pain? once my family was taken, i became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. that we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born. but we are now in a moment where we can no longer be blind to the blatant disregard of human life. [applause]

time, the stakes are too visible. two well documented to be ignored. it has reached you. it has reached all of us. and forced us to ask ourselves, what kind of country do we want to be? one that violates the rights of children, including the fundamental right to seek asylum? or do we want to be an america that values children and families and the freedom to be who we are. [applause] and let's not forget our citizen children and our citizen children of color whose lives are threatened every day for reasons beyond immigration status. [applause] as one who has seen firsthand, i have taught myself to have hope.

that this isieve an opportunity for us to rise above the tyranny, the ignorance and believe in change. this is a chance for us to come riseher as a nation and above division and fear. only then can we stop the separation of families and stop the policies that place children in cages. childrenr families and , let us march to make our voices heard. [applause] remember this in november. remember this in november. ,hen we march to the polls remember our anger, the outrage, and the desire to act.

thember in november that end to these cruel policies starts with us. [speaking spanish] i miss you every day. thank you. [applause] >> syndicated columnist mona talks about her book, how modern feminism lost touch with science, love and common sense. we send confusing messages to young people. young women -- i don't envy them. story i put the book about a number of women athletes who opposed -- had posed semi-topless for sports illustrated and one i quoted

said, i want -- i am proud of my body and i want to help young women who might have body image issues. and, you know, my feeling is, that is a crock. dignified, they should remember that when you disrobe, it is hard for people to take you seriously. a man looking at a picture of a topless woman is not going to say, look at that fantastic athlete. isn't it wonderful that she does not have problems of body image. he will think about sex. he is not going to think of her in a respectful way either. merkelwhy i said, angela , the chancellor of germany, would not take off her blouse to prove she does not have body image issues. she wants to be respected and if women want to be respected, they have to behave in a way that will elicit that.

>> now, the weekly standard's hayes-in-chief, stephen hayes discusses the osama bin laden files and america's approach to counterterrorism during the obama and trump administrations. this is just under an hour. i would like to introduce to gentlemen here. , ands a brilliant writer incredibly keen thinker, one of the most important intellectuals in america, the other is steve hayes. [laughter] >> i saw that coming when you started the sentence. in all seriousness, one of the great things about working at the weekly standard and in journalism is you get to me a lot of people with high intellectual horsepower. tom joslin, where known for 15 yes,