please welcome our master of ceremonies for today's symposium new york legend ernie anastas. [applause] >> thank you. a little song and dancece here. my my my. look at your faces. you know, i have to say one thing at the very get-go. having reported news in new york for over four decades and come on t the air in the evening and think that evening and then say why it wasn't, this is good news and i love this story and you should applaud your sales and michael dukakis for this wonderful day bringing uswe all together. michael, we love you. [applause] you know, i thrive on enthusiasm, and michael and i were talking about that just before we came in here because here's a guy who's got a good heart. i'm honored to be here as an alumnus of our beautiful university and to be sharing something that i trulyel believe in, and that's honoring people, rewarding good behavior. so many times on the news we reward bad behavior, they become stars and celebrities but we had report i can report speedy we will break away from this program for live coverage of the u.s. senate this morning lawmak