to " c.s. lewis, coverage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue of the testing point, something these officers were tested with. to our command staff, ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the recipients of the silver medal of valor, sergeant scott ryan, and officer reuben reyes. [applause] offic>> we are at the part of te ceremony now where we will present the gold medal of valor, the highest award given from the sentences go police department. tonight we have six, an unprecedented number. i would like captain ann mannix, and officer minkel, everson, griffin and tursi. >> can we do this separately? there are two separate incidents. but go in your order. -- >> let's go in your order. >> tonight it is my honor to present to you the heroic acts of officer joseph everson and officer minkel. wednesday, october 13, 2011, there were patrolling together as the violent reduction unit they have been assigned in uniform and driving a large unit. they were driving along pulled street w

thing in some room that they're not part of and i connect that to this amazing speech that c.s. lewis gave in one thousand nine hundred five called the inner ring and he talks about the seductiveness of wanting to be on the inside of the inner ring of walking into a room when two people are having a conversation and they hush and they stop talking as soon as you walk in he says if you ever experience that you've experienced the pull of the inner ring of wanting to be on the inside of it and he says that will in your life be the source of most of moral corruption that happens to you and the meritocracy in the current structure of the elite are nothing if not a series of perpetual earrings and you talk about. bishop tutu talked about this how apartheid and you write about how apartheid not only corrupted the average person and south africa it ultimately destroyed or badly corrupted anyway the elites how is that happening in america. yeah the did the temp ladder is a to quote because i think it's such a profound moral observation about systems of oppression systems of hierarchy systems o

culture of meritocratic achievement that just exacerbates i mean i quote in the book an essay from c.s. lewis beautiful essay given in one thousand nine hundred five is if you ever walk into a room where two people are speaking and when you walk into the room they stop speaking he says if you have the new understand the desire to be in the inner ring and that desire to be in the inner ring will prove to be the source of most corruption in your life so how do you see that playing out with let's say the the white house leak scandal that we have going on right now because on one hand you have bipartisan members of congress that are up in arms that are calling for the special counsel you have joe lieberman who wants to just create some crazy blanket legislation that's going to make the disclosure of any classified information illegal and then you have to and feinstein is going out saying that she couldn't believe that when she read david sanger's book there was stuff in there that he knew that was leaked that she didn't know while sitting on the intelligence committee and until she actually care