aleppo soap is made in aleppo -- not in paris or new york.s not like a restaurant where you can take the recipes along with you. it's about expertise. it's aleppo's heritage and its history. and more importantly, it's like stabbing the working people there in the back. this is their daily bread. if tomorrow aleppo soap is being made everywhere, the people there will have nothing. they'll all leave and be scattered around the globe. reporter: manar najjar also employs syrians exiles. there caught between the frontlines and witnessed terrible incidents. but here, they look after the organic cosmetics. that should keep the company afloat if the supply of aleppo soap dries up. manar: it's heartbreaking. i used to go to aleppo every three months. i left at age 30. you can imagine how hard it is to not be able to go back. reporter: aleppo soap is also a piece of home to these men. a home to which they cannot return. michelle: it's amazing the soap is still able to be produced and sold. but that's also a sign of the will of the syrian people to stay

cnn has the look at the rebuilding of aleppo.ian army took back aleppo, a divided city since the early days of protest against president bashar al assad. syria's second-largest city still in ruins, but slowly rebuilding. cnn's senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen, traveled to aleppo. he has this report. >> reporter: it was one of the most brutal battles in the syrian conflict when syrian government forces backed by russia launched their final assault on rebel-held areas of aleppo, taking them back from the opposition. nine months later, much of syria's second-largest city still lay in ruins. life is starting to emerge once again. thousands have returned to former battle zone neighborhoods, many relying on aid donations to get by. "we came to this neighborhood just as residents were rushing to get bread handouts. most people who return are in bad need of almost everything, the local head of this ngo says. many come back and find that their homes are reduced to just walls and ceilings. we help them as much as we can. s

the ancient citadel was one of the main battlegrounds in aleppo. parts of the city, repairing the damage will be a monume monumentous task. we climbed to the highest point of the citadel getting a stunning view of all of aleppo. one of the oldest cities in the world. badly damaged but now with a chance to stand up once again. fred pleitgen, cnn, aleppo. >> glad we have fred there to give the visual update on that. >> once a gorgeous city. sad. >>> more trouble for google. the company canceled a worldwide staff meeting over safety concerns for its employees. we'll tell you why. what's going on here? um... i'm babysitting. that'll be $50 bucks. you said $30. yeah, well it was $30 before my fees, like the pizza-ordering fee and the dog-sitting fee... and the rummage through your closet fee. are those my heels? yeah! yeah, we're the same size... in shoes. with t-mobile taxes and fees are already included, so you get four lines of unlimited for just $40 bucks each. and now, get zero down on the hottest smartphone brands. ♪ i'm living that yacht life, li

kind of warfare they cost a quarter so much civilian casualties just look at the civilian toll in aleppo. now the u.n. investigator says that u.s. led airstrikes on rocco are causing as doctoring a loss of civilian life do you think mass effect comment given that there have been reports of hundreds of civilian casualties however the u.s. senate com has reported a much smaller number indeed in the jury is out on how many civilians have been killed both due to the crossfire due to the coalition bombardment and by islamic state you know shooting people in the back as they try to flee or or using that them as human shields we know that there are casualties of very many we in the region refugee council are receiving those who flee from iraq we try to help them but at the search from my colleagues in a minute sense and doctors without borders that there are medical facilities have received very few of late it is very hard for people to escape from the remaining enclaves and rucka but i guess they would be fact to say that the liberation of iraq has come at a very high price in terms of civilia

originally from almost seventy percent of the refugees are returning home to the war torn city of aleppo which as we know was retaken by government forces back in december now now let's turn to the very bad news things are getting even worse for the people in yemen not only as the number of airstrikes in the impoverished country over five thousand now surpassed all of last year's combined in just the first six months just the first six months of two thousand and seventeen but now the world health organization is reporting that the cholera outbreak in yemen has reached epidemic proportions with five hundred thousand now afflicted with smiles the cries the good the bad the news of the world is never just simple anymore is it which is why we continue watching the hawks. well the watching the. social and it's interesting the dynamics between syria and yemen both countries that we in one way in one fashion or another that the united states. was into whether it be missiles or small arms or whatever it may be but i think you're starting with the good news it is nice to see that some of the you

originally from almost seventy percent of the refugees are returning home to the war torn city of aleppo which as we know was retaken by government forces back in december now now let's turn to the very bad news things are getting even worse for the people in yemen not only as the number of airstrikes in the impoverished country over five thousand now surpassed all of last year's combined in just the first six months just the first six months of two thousand and seventeen but now the world health organization is reporting that the cholera outbreak in yemen has reached epidemic proportions with five hundred thousand now afflicted the smiles the cries the good the bad the news of the world is never just simple anymore is it which is why we continue watching the hawks. as. you know that i got. so. welcome everyone the watching the hawks i am tyrrel than her. so sean is. interesting the dynamics between syria and yemen both countries that we are in one way in one fashion or another that the united states as a board arms into whether it be missiles or small arms or whatever it may be but i th

two year old was arrested in april last year and is accused of abducting and torturing civilians in aleppo he allegedly led a militia group of one hundred fifty men links to the free syrian army considered one of the so-called moderates in the west this is a very comfortable to use for the narrative that guy is a syrian army like europe did with the good guys and you know it turns out what the for instance critics you can say right from the beginning these are good guys of the position to a lot so-called opposition. they're being hijacked by by by terrorists by you thought it was interesting the enough it appears the suspect came to germany as a refugee but was caught after he was recognized by a man he allegedly tortured and here are some of the answers he put down in his refugee application do you have no knowledge about war crimes committed in syria or crimes against humanity in particular about fide has taken civilians the perpetrators who commit these crimes or syrian regime and terrorists from isis can you name offenders by name i know no names as an alleged rebel commander who is no

after his aleppo flub, they largely abandoned johnson. what made it so vexing to trump's analysts was there intentions were difficult to discern. many refuse to answer pollsters questions or declared themselves undecided, the clinton campaign thought of these persuadable voters as being pocketbook republicans, people whose votes were driven by kitchen table economic concerns but were deeply changed by trump's sexist and racist outburst, these were the voters clinton hoped to shear off of trump by her speech condemning the all right and steve bannon in august, quote, what we found out is they were very fickle, they toggle between telling pollsters they were leaning clinton depending on where the news cycle was that week. this was the largest piece of follow we ascribe, ending the campaign on a note where people were reminded of our very first controversy, we saw fickle republican leading voters that we did not successfully attract drop a general election revert to trump at the end. this was the decisive block of swing voters. comey's lette

was arrested over alleged war crimes the suspect is accused of torturing civilians in the city of aleppo france the santiago has the story. the forty two year old was arrested in april last year and is accused of abducting and torching civilians in aleppo he allegedly led a militia group of one hundred fifty men links to the free syrian army considered one of the so-called moderates in the west it's a very comfortable use for the. syrian army like europe did you know what we've. been saying right from the beginning these are no good guys on the opposition to the more they're being hijacked by by by terrorists by jihad it is interesting the enough it appears the suspect came to germany as a refugee but was caught after he was recognized by a man he allegedly tortured and this baffling story by the way has barely been touched by the mainstream media among the few mentions it's had in germany it seems the coverage is making sure no one things badly of the free syrian army of course they're not the bad guys just good willed rebels according to the findings of the federal prosecutor's office

suspected former commander of the free syrian army is accused of torturing civilians in the city of aleppo local media reports that he was arrested after one of his alleged victims recognized him in the street because france's sensi argo has the story. the forty two year old was arrested in april last year and is accused of abducting and torturing civilians in aleppo he allegedly led a militia group of one hundred fifty men links to the free syrian army considered one of the so-called moderates in the west is a very comfortable to use for the narrative. syrian army used you're a good. boy. we've. been saying by the beginning these are good guys on the opposition to the more they're being hijacked by by by terrorist by jihad it is interesting the enough it appears the suspect came to germany as a refugee but was caught after he was recognized by a man he allegedly tortured and here are some of the answers he put down in his refugee application do you have no knowledge about war crimes committed in syria or crimes against humanity in particular about fide has taken civilians the perpetrators

in the aleppo province where they just bombed a mosque prayer time table it was like. it took them quite a while to say yes well we've had this investigation and we still stick to our story and now we talk about large civilian casualties in iraq about what the u.n. investigates a as previously stated is that these u.s. led as strikes on iraq are causing quote the loss of civilian life do you think that's a fair comment to make. yes in mosul as well and we have to remember also a couple of things first of all nobody invited the syrian government never invited the americans and the coalition to help liberate iraq from diet and be this comes at the same time on the for example the russian ministry of defense announced eliminating elimination of two hundred fighters without any single civilian casualties so it's pretty embarrassing but at the same time this is been turning into a trend and this is what is worrying and there is no stopping that obviously the reports you mentioned. we expect also heavy casualties over there now we need to take into consideration there is no

there is also a group of animals that was rescued and transported tojordan from a zoo in aleppo. climb out of its new cage because it got electrified by the new fence. we are destined to make the animal feel a bit more calm. there are so many innocent people stuck and abandoned in war zones. people stuck and abandoned in war zones. how come you decided to rescue these animals? mother teresa put it very well. she said i cannot perform great miracles, but i can perform great miracles, but i can perform them —— small miracles. and thatis perform them —— small miracles. and that is what i have chosen to do. derry are. a message of quality. economic inequality in america has been discussed across the board. it has been discussed from pretty much almost every angle. now here is a different take, a solid gold toilet. and more than 100,000 people have been to visit. allman explains. new york's guggenheim museum has been the venue for some provocative work down the years but there has perhaps never been an exhibit quite like this. # gold, always believe in your soul! it's called "america,

commission on violations of the join agreement has registered eighteen cases of firing in provinces of aleppo damas logic. the turkish side has registered three cases of cease fire violations in the provinces of damascus russia and turkey are just two countries involved in trying to deescalate the war in syria the us has also had its share of involvement as well most notably its bombing of the islamic state and the bombing of president bashar al assad's military back in april of this year after it was allegedly conducted a chemical attack against its own people many people are unhappy with the u.s. is involvement in the war some citing not only does the u.s. not have a real reason to wage a war in the country but it's also unlawful today a conference call no what u.s. warplanes over syria was held at the national press club in washington there were a total of five speakers at the conference including cia whistleblower john kiriakou and all three david swanson each gave their reasons why they support a petition that's calling on congress and defense secretary james mattis term move all of us m

year old was arrested in april last year and is accused of abducting and torching civilians in aleppo he allegedly led a militia group of one hundred fifty men linked to the free syrian army considered one of the so-called moderates in the west who is. very comfortable to use for the road to. europe. for. being saying by the beginning these are good guys on the opposition to the more they're being hijacked by by by terrorists by god it is interesting the enough it appears the suspect came to germany as a refugee but was caught after he was recognized by a man he allegedly tortured and this baffling story by the way has barely been touched by the mainstream media among the few mentions it's had in germany it seems the coverage is making sure no one things badly of the free syrian army of course they're not the bad guys just good willed rebels according to the findings of the federal prosecutor's office his troops pursued primarily self-serving interests while. writing about it why it's not top news because the minute you shouldn't. go well we have to go fishing narrative. for all these

so there's a potential, as isis loses its ground in aleppo, using raqqa, loses mosul, for it to carry out the most extraordinary diversary tactic and launch into southeasti asia. and tillerson is holding his nose and saying we'll give you more aircraft, more intelligence and more lodge gist come support. >> i know there's talk of grodrs as well. you can also see more of bill's exclusive reporting tonight on nbc nightly news. >>> tonight amazing pictures from san antonio, rescue teams are fighting major floodwaters trying to help people to safety, pulling drivers from the top of an suv, you can see all this unfolding. we'll continue to monitor the station and bring you the latest. >>> and donald trump house of card cards. it appears that vice president mike pence is gearing up for a presidential run of his own. that's next on andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. (mom) honey, honey, honey, honey! (vo) at our house, we need things that are built to last. that's why we got a subaru. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 subaru lega

this is forty-one year old mother malak rahmoun, who fled aleppo years ago and has been trapped in greece two years hoping to reunite with her husband and son in germany. >> i am not suffering from two years in greece -- i am suffering for five years in aleppo till now. i want my kids to go to school. amy: meanwhile, italy's cocoast guard onon wednesday seized a sp operated by german charity, accusing its crew of aiding illegal immigratation from libya to europe. on its website, the group jugend rettet says it saved more than 6,500 migrarants last year whwhose boats were i in distres, and who otherwise might have drowned in the mediterranean. brazil's president, michel temer, survived a vote in brazil's lower house of congress wednesday that could have seen hihim removed from office e over corruption charges. lawmakers voted 263-227 to keep temer in power, as opposition lawmakers chanted, waved briefcases stuffed with fake money, and traded punches with the president's supporters. temer remains in office despite a single-digit approval rating, and even though an secretly recorded tape cap

. >> reporter: they fled here with their family from aleppo, syria in 2014.hing about being here? i walk with ibrahim and aziza through the dusty cam op to their school. >> this is the arts center here. this one you did? >> reporter: it's a haven. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: you can feel it instantly. ibrahim's teacher tells me he's changed since he started coming to class here. he loves school now? >> yes. >> reporter: he's like he loves this place. then in this little school in lebanon so far from their homes the children get a surprise visit. it's ton-ton. she's a muppet from the local version of "sesame street," produced in nearby jordan. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: look at those faces. and you understand the magic, the power of sesame. that magic begins back in the states at sesame workshop. >> this is zirok. >> reporter: sirok who debuted just this year is zari's brother from the afghanistan production of "sesame street." so you tested out what his skin should feel like and the color of it. >> we brainstormed on whe

will but then the third-party candidate gary johnson to after his admission he did not know what aleppo was. [laughter] but then day abandoned johnson but then their intentions were difficult to discern or to declare themselves and decided. the clinton campaign was mainly pocketbook republicans those who is driven by economics but by those racist and sexist outburst. those had hoped to have helped to shear off each contending that right what we found out they were very physical. between telling pollsters they were leading clinton or trump depending on the new cycle this is the largest piece of fallout we have described to the call me a letter. people were reminded of the worst controversy the most fickle voters we could successfully attract on and off refer back to try that the and. for all their differences this was the decisive block of swing voters they would finally choose the affiliation or choose to stay home. one of trump's data scientist told me that it gave them reason to vote against her voting for him they could finally admit that to pollsters without feeling guilt all of tho

and before we go, a lioness who was rescued from a zoo in aleppo in syria has given birth just hours to a reserve with four other lions, two bears and two tigers on a three month trip via turkey. staff found this cute newborn cub in dana's cage on saturday. they've named her hajar which means fled in arabic. thank you forjoining us. we will be back at the same time tomorrow for another it newsday. well, tuesday's looking pretty good across most of the uk. the rest of the week, however, overall is still looking rather changeable. as we head into the weekend, it looks pretty blustery as well. heavy rain over some areas, and in the early hours of tuesday morning, there could be some rain in the far north east of the country and possibly the far south—east as well, maybe even a clap of thunder. the day starting is a relatively mild one. 14,16, even up to 17 in the south. bright across most areas, some showers around, here and there. the start to the day is relatively mild. even up to 17 during the rush hour. it is really starting nice and brightly across most areas. a few showers here an

examples is the many differences in the approach that warders took up when covering the liberation of aleppo by syrian government troops assisted by the russian army and also the liberation of mosul by the u.s. led coalition. and if you'd like to know more about that story and any of our of us into a website called i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. with this manufactured and sentenced him to the public will. when the ruling closest project themselves. in the final larry go round listen to the one person. we can all middle of the room see. the real news. local blogs sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that are going. to stop spreading tell you that every gossip and tabloid by a child or. off advertising tell you on pulling out and buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the one. my. goal. was a bit of cut a lot of b.s. to study well at the kind of mushy finality and i don't want to let the your talk about how much more i'd let her be honest and a half it shall get a letter i learned to w

that the russian army is happy with the way borders has been biased in the coverage of the events in aleppo and also the u.s. military campaign when it comes to the retaking of mosul where there are as many civilian deaths as in syria perhaps or maybe even more but the russian army claims that loiters is biased and when it comes to covering deeds of. thank you thank you very much indeed. and i'll be back with more news in just a half an hour. hideaway lost his boss because. we saw his you know. any of those in person but that's almost i don't mean any of them. so i was you know i was you know. you know just i mean what almost a lot more people have spent the better of me just a lot of the media. i mean we're going to. give it up as well i must say i mean i just don't get off on getting worse but those. people are going to respond on one of these but i was just this. much about him with us if he could have credible but you suspect that there will be more yes it will be and he thought of getting out there calling with you you're seeing him in ticket. welcome to you know i'm going on right now

and just before we go, a lioness who was rescued from a zoo in aleppo in syria has given birth just hourstransported to a reserve with four other lions, two bears and two tigers on a three month trip via turkey. staff found this newborn cub in dana's cage on saturday. they've named her hajar which means fled in arabic. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, a reminder of our top story. the number of people killed by mudslides in sierra leone has risen to over 300. it is feared that many more bodies are still trapped under the debris. many people have lost their homes, the red cross estimates about 3000. it has been described as a national tragedy. well, tuesday's looking pretty good across most of the uk. the rest of the week, however, overall is still looking rather changeable. and actually as we head into the weekend, it looks pretty blustery as well. this is a gloomy picture from yesterday. tuesday is going to be a lot sunnier across this part of the world. this is the satellite picture, from the last 12 hours or so. we had some rain sweeping across many west

opening of the cab make you accuse most call for targeting hospitals and brutalizing civilians and aleppo and that's despite the fact that russia put a lot of afterwards into brawl currying a cease fire that so many of the militants leave the cd on harm four months on do you think that was fair criticism i will remember. you tube video clip a few. days ago or weeks five year old boy i have a five year old son a five year old boy who lost both his legs on to his crying buddy buddy you need to hold me you need to curry me. against all kinds of attacks on the hospital. home short of innocent people. did not refer to any particular nation in that speech of mine well that's right me i speak about i left my thing it is kind of obvious which country you're referring to i think we are all against killing we're all against gillies religion but you know the issue that is in they have a lot of these days is the city of mosul in iraq where three hundred civilians have been killed in one day and i think it's being it's covered very differently both in the western media and to my surprise in icelandic

neo autumn and ambitions and and along with ports portions of northern syria down to aleppo. i think that this is a bit premature to say that it's going to result in war because it's not generally these referendums this is a referendum it's one of a number that have been taking place. the question is what will be the result of the what will happen from that referendum yeah. most likely it will be just to show the sentiment of the people there and they may not do anything in immediately they haven't before there was a rough an early referendum referendum and they didn't do anything. but if they go ahead and strike out the side well this is our chance and this could and the referendum will also include areas that the kurds have taken over from dosh in the war in iraq so they have this is actually going to the kurds i believe feel that this will give them greater leverage towards some form of autonomy the syrians have already given the kurds at least ten. for the autonomy and royal visitor to face a little space for a time if turkey if syria becomes consolidated they could they

and before we go, a lioness who was rescued from a zoo in aleppo in syria has given birth just hourse with four other lions, two bears and two tigers on a three month trip via turkey. they've named her hajar, which means flea in arabic. tuesday's looking to pretty cloudy, quite blustery at the weekend. heavy rain over some areas, and in the early hours of tuesday morning, there could be some rain in the far north feast of the country and possibly the far south—east as well, maybe even a clap of thunder. the day starting is a relatively mild one. , ——1. day starting is a relatively mild one. , "1.14, day starting is a relatively mild one. , ——1.14,16, even up to 17. right across most areas, some showers around, here and there. the south—east, midlands, wales, some showers in the lake district. maybe some showers in northern ireland and western scotland, most of that rate moving to the north—east of the screen, good riddance. as far as tuesday morning, the second half of the morning in the afternoon, showers brewing inland. not a com pletely showers brewing inland. not a completely dry

examples is the many differences in the approach that waters took up when covering the liberation of aleppo by syrian government troops assisted by the russian army and also the liberation of mosul by the u.s. led coalition. police brutality is hitting the headlines again in the us soft a video emerged of offices in tennessee tasering a teenager in a restraining chair warning you may find the following images disturbing the incident was caught on surveillance camera the inmate is tasered several times despite being restrained and gagged he was also reportedly on suicide watch a teenager was jailed on drugs and weapons charges. how financially claiming the officers had no other option than starting the teenager the local sheriff's now launched an investigation three deputies have been suspended but one anti brutality activist told us most cases of abuse in u.s. prisons tend to go unreported. and people end up in the jail who've been brutalized and then that brutality continues in the jails and into the prisons it's kind of like a whole system from beginning to end that is dominated by brutal

commission on violations of the joint agreement has registered eighteen cases of firing in provinces of aleppo domiciled to keep the turkish side has registered three cases of ceasefire violations in the provinces of damascus russia and turkey are just two countries involved in trying to deescalate the war in syria the us has also had its share of involvement as well most notably its bombing of the islamic state and the bombing of president bashar al assad's military back in april of this year after was allegedly conducted a chemical attack against its own people many people are unhappy with the us is involvement in the war some citing not only does the us not have a real reason to wage a war in the country but it's also unlawful today a conference call to know what u.s. warplanes over syria was held at the national press club in washington there were a total of five speakers at the conference including cia whistleblower john kiriakou and alter david swanson each gave their reasons why they support a petition that's calling on congress and defense secretary james mattis term move all of us mil

one of our last strongholds but human rights groups fear for the fate of civilians in the city of aleppo. donald trump u. turns on his repeat.

in the eighteen thousand who were displaced out of this year most of these people now come back to aleppo and that's just the first wave of what will stabilize for syria if things proceed and we have trouble you know not supporting the syrian army anymore so i mean i'm sorry not support is there rebels aid or so that sort of what seems to be good news yeah yeah. you know the other moving over to yemen the whole tragically i mean you know. our incredible. majority. which is then obviously provided by. forces there we do. you know supplying arms there u.k. is supplying arms and i mean the numbers are. pretty incredible yeah you're looking at basically a mission over five thousand this year that was more than three thousand plus almost four thousand really last year in the entire year so over five thousand this year you probably get closer to ten thousand by the end of the year the country's completely devastated i mean it's clear that there is really i mean there's it's a microcosm of basically could say the regional clash between saudi arabia and iran how much iran is supporting the i mean

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and a fifth cornered shouting aleppo, appeared to be shot once but got up only to be shot a second timeo died. authorities say there were wearing fake suicide vests, and had an ax and knives in their car. the investigation will go on. just as the pain caused by these attacks will endure. and, jake, authorities are saying they have identified all five attackers that were killed in cambrills amend saying they've identified three of the individuals they have in custody, but as we said earlier, some members of this terrorist cell still remain at large. >> all right. arwa damon in barcelona. thank you so much. >>> the violence in virginia brought attention to racists and nazis and the ones fighting nazis as well. cnn takes you inside the anti-fascist movement. stay with us. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ it survived 4 food fights,ew but old

another seven media activists with the aleppo media center were also killed in the attack, which occurred in the rebel-held city of sarmin. in pakakistan, isis militatantse claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a military truck that killed eight soldiers and at least other seven people in the southwestern city of quetta on saturday. the pakistani military says the attack was targeting planning efforts for indedependence day celebrations. today and tomorrow mark the 70th anniversary of india and pakistan's independence from british colonialism. vice president mike pepence is n colombia today for his first stop in a regional tour, where he and the trump administration are facing widespread opposition to president trump's threat of launching a possible u.s. military intervention in venezuela. many trump: we have options for venezuela. by the way, i'm not going to rule out a military option. we have many options for venezuela. this is our neighbor. , ande all over the world we havave troops all of f the wd in places that are very, very far away. venezuela is not very far away. t

tonight discussion is shakespeare and the rules of war from athens to alecto aleppo. please, silent your electronic devices and let you know that video photography of this discussion is prohibited. at this point, it is my honor to introduce tonight's moderator, steven ryan. he is a member of our board of trustees as well as the bard association and has chaired our fundraiser for many years. he is the head of government strategy at mcdormand, will and emory and previously served as the general counsel to the u.s. senate committee on governmental affairs alongside the honorable john cliff. in addition, he has served as deputy council of the president's commission on organized crime, directing investigations against. [inaudible] and other criminals during the reagan administration. that's part of his commission to pro bono work, he has represented operation hope of financial literacy group the past decade. it is my honor to welcome steve ryan. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure and an honor tonight to bring this group speakers to you. you will have a grea