they were protesting columbia's ties to military research and plans to build a university gymnasium in a public park in harlem. the protests began less than three weeks after the assassination of dr. martin luther king, jr. the 1968 columbia uprising led to one of the largest mass arrests in new york city history. more than 700 people were arrested on april 30. it also inspired student protests across the country. today we spend the hour looking back at this pivotal moment. several of the student organizers are joining us in a minute. as one of them writes today in an op-ed in "the new york times" -- "in popular memory, the columbia protests were a high point of the campus movement against the vietnam war, and a mile marker in its radicalization. but this history, which privileges the actions and concerns of white students like myself, is incomplete, and it misrepresents what made the protests so powerful -- the leadership of the black students." those are the words of mark rudd, who will join us in a minute. we'll also speak with raymond brown, former leader of the student afro-americ

the reality is, columbia university, like all of these giant universities, they all attempted to r reform d the aftermath of the protest of the 1960's and 1970's, but institutionally, they are still giant c corporations that see te need to train the end people of that the elitist society one. they constantly regress. no matter what they say, they always regressed back to the for theicies of e elitism communities around them. i cannot think of the urban university in america that is not gobbling up the land of the residence right around them and attempting to build more buildings. the edifice of c complex that ty alall have to build thehe newest building.. it is a continuing problem. the role of the universities, vis-a-vis, the communities. >> i'm going to be at a black student event in hamilton. the times ran an in-depth story the other day and the president bollinger made a comment about, well, we didn't like the way they went about it, as though civil disobedience was invented at columbia in 1968. it is astounding the university is done engaging, yet have ignored 1968 in most respects a

rashid khalidi, edward said professor of arab studies at columbia university. he's the author of several books, his most recent is titled "brokers of deceit: how the u.s. has undermined peace in the middle east." when we come back, we will also be joined by moazzam begg who was held by the u.s. military for several years. he also spent time in syria over the last few years, and we will talk to him about what he found there. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "i don't have freedom" by palestenian hip-hop group dam. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: we turn now to syria. international chemical weapons inspectors are still attempting to enter the town of douma where an alleged chemical gas attack killed dozens people earlier this month. inspectors with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived in damascus on saturday, but have been unable to reach douma and have accused syrian and russian authorities of blocking access to the town. on wednesday, gunshots were fired at a u.n. securit

rashid khalidi, edward said professor of arab studies at columbia university. he's the author of several books, his most recent is titled "brokers of deceit: how the u.s. has undermined peace in the middle east." when we come back, we will also be joined by moazzam begg who was held by the u.s. military for several years. he also spent time in syria over the last few years, and we will talk to him about what he found there. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "i don't have freedom" by palestenian hip-hop group dam. this is s democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: we turn now to syria. international chemical weapons inspectors are still attempting to enter the town of douma where an alleged chemical gas attack killed dozens people earlier this month. inspectors with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived in damascus on saturday, but have been unable to reach douma and have accused syrian and russian authorities of blocking access to the town. on wednesday, gunshots were fired at a u.n. secur

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losing their jobs as a result with me now is adamant to an economic historian and professor at columbia university in new york thank you so being with us now president trump is tel to protectionist policies visits from both mccall and medical sales to throw out any promises regarding an exemption can we now expect to follow through and implement tariffs against european union. it's very hard to predict i think the behavior of the trumpet ministration those who've attempted to do so in recent months are generally fatal but on the basis of the evidence so far on the signs in the last couple of weeks i think we do have to expect a escalation so say who did deadwood stays tariffs redress the trade imbalance and i mean isn't it the case that in general prices of european goodson's that could rise to states certainly france's if you have been goods will rise we've already seen increases in prices for both the new million and still just through the announcement of the tariffs whether or not this will be just a trade imbalance i think one has to be extremely skeptical trade imbalances are the result not g

year comey told congress that he leaked this memo to his friend, professor daniel richman of columbia university. tonight sources are revealing comey's current lawyer, longtime friend patrick fitzgerald. you remember the scooter libby case, he was also given this potentially classified information. these documents. and sources are also claiming that comey may have leaked the memos to yet another unnamed individual. moments ago here's how james comey tried to explain these leaks he never told us about before. >> i sent one memo, unclassified, still unclassified. to my friend dan richman. asked him to get the substance of it to the media. i wrote a bunch of memos about my interactions with president trump and i was what was called an original classification authority at the fbi meaning i had the training and authority to make decisions about what should be classified, what shouldn't. some of these memos i decided should be classified. for others, i wrote them, and i was confident they should not be classified. those four, i kept a copy at the fbi and in my personal safe at home. after i was fired,

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comey is doing on his book tour and the fact that he had a special friend at columbia university with fbi badge? >> look, comey is a leaker and he is a liar and not only on this stuff, he has been leaking for years. he is probably been using his friend, the so-called professor who turns out to have fbi clearance he never said, he lied about that he never said that in congress. he said he gave it to a friend. he gave it to a friend to leak classified information. it is all classified. it is totally classified. legally he did an illegal act and he said it himself in order to get a special counsel against me. so the special counsel and, by the way, intelligence committee and everybody else has found no collusion. there is no collusion with me and the russians. nobody has been tougher to russia than i am. you can ask president putin about that. there has been nobody. between military and oil and all the other things i've done, aluminum tax, they send us a lot of aluminum. i put tariffs on aluminum coming in. the 60 people we sent out, 60 so-called diplomats, nobody has been tougher. nobod

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"the wall street journal"'s reporting at least two memos comey gave to a friend at columbia universityo leak contained classified information. that's according to people with information about the department of justice watchdog. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with the latest. could james comey, the former head of the fbi, be facing a prosecution? catherine? >> let me start with what we know about the classified information that was given to this columbia law school professor. much of this information came from investigators that work for chuck grassley. they revealed the seven memos before they were public and they found four contained classified information. one is a very sensitive level called secret and the other was much lower level, called "confidential." based on the math, the professor received four memos, one contained classified information. we are working to confirm what "the wall street journal" has come up to memos given to this professor contained classified information. he would not be a person who had a clearance or would be in

a senior attorney at columbia university. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. follow us on c-span. am he have resources on our website for background on each .ase . and the landmark cases podcast. >> our c-span cities tour is taken american this taking american history tv on the road -- is taking american history tv on the road. there is a real sense of history in this town for lots of people who have been here a wild because we have been here a long time. >> in winston-salem, we took a tour of the city with retired radio personality jr snyder. >> thank you for agreeing to show us around winston-salem. where are we heading first? >> the art district. we turn right here. winston has an interesting history of being a factory town and this group of people right through here, without any assistance started being an artist colony so all these places - and lots of restaurants

civil liberties union and a law professor at new york law school and a senior attorney at columbia university's. watch "landmark cases" tonight and join the conversation. landmarkcases and we have research. the companion book. a link to the national constitution centers interactive constitution and the landmark od case. >> as a follow-up to the recent hearings, c.e.o. zuckerberg, "the communicators" look at the spread of personal data with the president and c.e.o. at the center of democracy and technology and former chair of the federal election commission. >> look at all the politicians who asked him questions for 10 hours, every one of them has en using data mined from american citizens to communicate with their constituents to target voters and a lot of this is for good reasons. >> the mega issue for me is how data collected, used, secured and processed by the companies in which we engage in the online world in a very pervasive way. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2.

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from columbia university, -- ariana.rom columbia university, from george washington university, from grambling state university, taylor davis. the recipient of the trust and recording scholarship cosponsored by the whdh. from howard university, harry. the recipient of the harry s mcalpine scholarship. also from howard university, tyra is your -- as their and collect -- alexa. from iowa state university, mary khan, recipient of the u.s. society scholarship and print journalism cosponsored by the w hca and historical association. from northwestern university, ricky. northwestern, the recipient of the deborah oren scholarship, william and jimmy. >> from ohio university, lauren fisher of cincinnati. also from ohio university, jessica hill. from uc california at berkeley, all andhra -- alondra. from the university of maryland, saman. and from the university of missouri, alex derosier, jamie dunaway, renee hickman, sue lynn shanita kathleen martin, jona mcewan, miranda moore, cara taymor. please join us in congratulating all o

new information about the columbia university law professor that passed former fbi director james comey's memos to the media. sometimes the word "leak" is used. turns out, he was a special government employee for the fbi. we we're only learning about this now and the potential effect of the latest revelations ahead. the white house is stepping up its support for v.a. nominee for ronny jackson. >> what we're seeing is these qualified honorable individuals being dragged through the mud. that needs to step. let dr. jackson have his hearing. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. i bet i'm the first blade maker you've ever met. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making our thinnest longest lasting blades on the market. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. it's about delivering a more comfortable shave every time. invented in boston, made and sold around the world. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only

joining me now, my pleasure to see him here, economist and columbia university pronegative jeff sachs good to be with you. trish: why do you think this is so bad, the potential trade war, i don't actually think it will get into an actual trade war but sticking up for ourself here on these tariffs with china, why in your view is that negative for our economy? >> i think there is a basic misunderstanding the president unfortunately has which is he thinks when we run a trade deficit it is because the other side is cheating on us, but we're running trade seven dids with most countries and the reason is, we don't save very much in this country, so we consume more than we produce. we're buying more than we produce. we invest for than we save and that is what a trade deficit is. it is not that this is nefarious dealings of all these countries. it is that we don't like to save in this country anymore. you know, we don't like to delay gratification. we like to have big budget deficits. trish: have to get elected every two years. >> you have to get elected they keep cutting taxes though they ca

and in fact, probably the biggest one took place in april of that year at columbia university. throw up a couple of clips from that. [ chanting ] >> we have no alternative but to call the police. >> the first thing he did was hid his files. besides a bunch of crap and his girlie magazines, we found papers linking him to the iba, a whole bunch of the sds and letters about cleaning up the area by moving out the blacks and puerto ricans. >> this is students in the office of the president of columbia university. they had taken over the office, they had gone through his files and found stuff in his files about the university's research activities with the defense department and some of its plans for dealing with this surrounding community in harlem. those really were two of the issues. think about it. war and race. war and race. again, the twin pillars of what was driving so much at that moment in time in america. i'll finish this out. >> after a week, the administration had had enough. they called in the police to clear out all five occupied buildings. >> we have been informed that

at columbia university.st throw up a couple of clips from that. [ chanting ] >> -- the magazines we found papers linking to the iba. a whole bunch of the sds and letters about cleaning up the area by moving out the blacks and puerto ricans. >> this is students in the office in columbia university and found stuff about the university's research activities with the defense department and some plans for dealing with this surrounding community in harlem. and those were two of the issues. think about it. war and race. war and race. again, the twin pillars of what was driving so much at that moment in time in america. i'll finish this out. >> after a week, the administration had had enough. they called in the police to clear out all five occupied buildings. >> we had been informed that the police department will seek all necessary actions against complaints. >> 1,000 cops against radical ivy league kids. >> get back. get back. >> -- whacked him in his face. >> i was completely shocked when the police went in and b

striking students say columbia university has refused to bargain with the students, who voted more than a year and a half ago to unionize under the uaw, the united auto workers. the strike comes at the end of the spring semester, when the labor of graduate student teaching assistants and researchers is most essential to the functioning of the university. it also comes only one day after the 50-year anniversary of the launch of the historic, nearly week-long occupation of five buildings, including the president's office and low library, which inspired student protests across the country. to see our full l coveragege ofe historic 1968 columbia student strike, go to our website democracynow.org. and in penennsylvania, thehe por rapper meek mill has been freed from prison afafter the pennsylvania supreme court ordered him immedidiately relead on bail. mill was sentenced and jaile last november over a a parole violation. but the philadelphia district attorne's offi, led by lry krasner, has questioned his underlyiying 2008 conviction wod withstand an appeal given he was convicted in part base

this morning she was spotted heading to work at columbia university where she is teaching law. and on may 7th, she will co-host the costme institute's famed m.e.t. gala. this year's theme? heavenly bodies -- fashion and the catholic imagination. yesterday evening george left town and was greeted by radioman. a former homeless new yorker known for being in films. in 2012 george, meryl streep, and tom hanks all appeared in a documentary about his life. >> nobody shoots in new york and doesn't know who radioman is. >> before leaving, george took a moment to make sure he's been doing all right. >> we have been checking in on you. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> that's really who george is, he's one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, ever. back to george and amal's date night. as busy as they are, it's nice too see they take time for themselves. >> yes, and moving on, clearly kate hudson took as much time as she could to announce her pregnancy with that amazing gender reveal on instagram last friday. i just watched it on a loop all day long. it was so sweet. and i got new details about

at the university of british columbia and finished as a rhodes scholar at the university of oxford. if that were not enough she earned a journalism degree at columbia university in new york. you will hear from meredith first. dave levitan's book is called "not a scientist," how politicians mistakenly misrepresent and utterly mangel science. dave is a freelance journalist based in philadelphia. he write articles focusing on an array of scientific topics especially those at the intersection of policy and politics. is articles have been published in a host of other places. i list a few, reuters, psychology today, wired, the atlantic, scientific american, guardian and washington post. i had the pleasure of reading a couple that i will read to you. what is called when a president banishes science from the white house. that one will surprise you. and another called radical proposal would prop up the coal powered industry. that one will surprise you not at all. you one next hear from richard harris to my immediate left. 's book is a content, how sloppy science creates worthless cures, prec

as we await the news conference, i have none other than columbia university professor, my alma mater by the way, i author of building a new american economy, mr. jeffrey sachs. >> thank you. trish: i love talking to you. i read the book. talk about what is going on with the europeans. macron is with a plea of new tariffs. we'll hear more from angela merkel. you don't like the idea of tariffs. what is your concern here in terms of the world economy if he goes through with this. >> i'm basically a believer in open trade and don't think we need to add more headaches, more problems, more strife, more conflict because i think the open trading system serves us well. the u.s. economy is big and rich and it has grown on the basis of a open trading system. we championed that for decades i think we should continue championing that. trish: europe is your friend. germany is your friend. france is our friend. these are our friend. >> they are our friends and allies and we have good trading relationship with them. i think jumping in and introducing new tariffs was a bit arbitrary. trish: i have wa

striking students say columbia university has refused to bargain with the students, who voted more than a year and a half ago to unionize under the uaw, the united auto workers. the strike comes at the end of the spring semester, when the labor of graduate student teaching assistants and researchers is most essential to the functioning of the university. it also comes only one day after the 50-year anniversary of the launch of the historic, nearly week-long occupation of five buildings, including the president's office and low library, which inspired student protests across the country. to see our full coverage of the historic 1968 columbia student strike, go to our website democracynow.org. and in pennsylvania, the popular rapper meek mill has been freed from prison after the pennsylvania supreme court ordered him immediately released on bail. mill was sentenced and jailed last november over a parole violation. but the philadelphia district attorney's office, led by larry krasner, has questioned his underlying 2008 conviction would withstand an appeal given he was convicted in part bas

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our guests are the formal head union american civil the and a senior attorney at columbia university's night first amendment institute. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. cspan. us @ we have resources on our website. a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution. >> hillary clinton sat down recently for a conversation at rutgers university about her experiences in the 2016 campaign. her thoughts on america's role in the world as well as the future of politics. ruth

maybe it's too easy to say floozy to say it's rubbish to say well anyway he's a professor at columbia university teaches history and he's a director of the european institute and he had some charts that i found quite interesting and i retreated them this week the divergence of prime age labor market participation between us and other key economies is striking what is quite striking about that max do you see this this is from the blue line. as the united states says participation from twenty five to fifty four year olds in the u.s. labor market versus the united kingdom canada and germany up there you know they keep on rising their employment rate keeps on going up while the u.s. under clinton towards the late ninety's just started plummeting because all those other countries weren't plus were retired we're just picking up the rent on all these other countries slipping away particularly in britain that could be one solution and i'm going to look at a possible solutions i found a bunch of charts to go with this one chart to try to find an explanation of what happened in the late ninety's that coul

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-rrelations at columbia university's harriman institute. so how are we to square the statements that we had from the russian the u.s. last night, posted on their facebook page, with what president putin is calling for, with the actual military actions tt haven't happened? >> i think when we look at what's actually been happening on theround, it's cause to have a lot of confidence that both sides are actually trying tamp down the situation and make sure that it doesn't rescalate beyond the cent situation. so we know that the u.s. had-- and the british and the french-- had some contact with the russians in advance using the syria deconfliction line to maybe reassure the russians that no russian installations in syria would be hit. we know from the russian side that they did not activate their own missile defense systems. and so it just is an indication that the deconflation line is working, that at least the militaries on both sides want to keep the crisis limited, even though thehetoric coming from politicians in russia has been a lot strong

expanding, but it is still clearly not sufficient, you work, currently, i believe in colombia in columbia universityvery day. yes. so dying and death are realities you live with every day. absolutely every day. what impact has that had on your life? it changes and it changed who i am. i actually can't think of myself as someone who hasn't encountered a death a week. that person that i must have been at some point of time before i became a cancer, before i became an oncologist, has vanished for me, that person... that person who was under your care. this is someone that is under my care, is a friend, or someone i've been referred to, essentially, the familiarity with someone dying, as i said, one person in the larger ecosystem of my life dying once a week is the new normal for me and is the new normal for most oncologists. you're quite frank about it. you say that at times you walk down the corridors of your hospital after a particularly gruelling shift and you struggle to find the sympathy that you feel you should have for some of the patients in your care. i think for myself, i can answer for mysel

she graduated from stanford and from columbia university and she is a physician among us, a native of vancouver comes to begin a medical school at the university of british columbia and finished as a rhodes scholar at the university of oxford. she's also if that were not enough, earned a journalism degree at columbia university in new york. you have meredith first. dave levitan our second speaker, his book is called "not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science." dave is a freelance journalist based in philadelphia to get write articles focusing on an array of scientific topics especially those that are at the intersection of policy and politics. his articles have been published in a host the places, i'll list a few, reuters, psychology today, wired, the atlantic "scientific american," regarding and the "washington post." i had the pleasure of reading a couple that i will recommend to do what is called when the president banishes science and the white house. that when will surprise you. [laughing] and another called radical proposal would prop of

i just thought i would call my pal at columbia university.he says last night with anderson cooper on that town hall that he didn't leak. what's your definition of leaking? do you think that he did? steve: well, he was probably saying it's criminal leak. if you leak something super top secret but then that would be why somebody got out the story this past week that apparently this guy, professor richman, had the special government employee access, which is interesting because there are 35,000 people who work at the fbi. so, why did he have to give to mr. comey, give to that special guy the leakage? in fact, there are a lot of people who say what he did broke the law. and tonight, bret baier is going to be interviewing mr. comey live here on the channel. and, in fact, mr. comey kind of previewed that last night on another channel. and i should have said this to you before anderson because the facts matter here. i'm going to be on another network tomorrow that thinks i should be in jail. [laughter] the memos that i gave to my legal team after th

maybe it's too easy to say floozy to say it's rubbish to say well anyway he's a professor at columbia university teaches history and he's a director of the european institute and he had some charts that i found quite interesting and i retreated them this week the divergence of prime age labor market participation between us and other key economies is striking what is quite striking about that max do you see this this is from the blue line. united states has participation from twenty five to fifty four year olds in the u.s. labor market versus the united kingdom canada and germany up there you know they keep on rising their employment rate keeps on going up while the u.s. under clinton towards the late ninety's just started plummeting because all those other countries weren't plus we're tired we're just picking up the rent on all these other countries slaving away particularly in britain that could be one solution and i'm going to look at a possible solutions i found a bunch of charts to go with this one chart to try to find an explanation of what happened in the late ninety's that could possibly

here are today's contestants -- a senior at columbia university, from mclean, virginia...gainesville, georgia... and a sophomore at the university of oklahoma, from tulsa, oklahoma... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] a senior from the university of ottawa. thank you, johnny. hello, ladies and gentlemen. the second of our quarter-final matches today with these three talented young people. i give you credit even before you perform. good luck. here we go. the jeopardy! round today contains these categories... you should do well in that. each correct response will be a word from the dictionary that appears before "rec." and finally, this... hamlet -- clues about the prince of denmark from his native land. all right, thatcher, you go first. let's do vocabulary for $1,000. jordan. -what is a reed? -good. pre-rec for $1,000. thatcher. -what is reactionary? -that's right. pre-rec, $800. dhruv. -what is a rebar? -good. let's do hamlet, $800.

here is our first group of semi-finalists -- a senior at columbia university, from mclean, virginia..ty, from los altos, california... and a sophomore at swarthmore college, from ridgewood, new jersey... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. well, we're now -- we're now into the last stages of our college championship. three semi-finals, whose winners get to come back on thursday and friday to play for $100,000. the players who are eliminated in these semi-final games will go home with $10,000 each. jordan, william, and rebecca, good to see you again. good luck. here we go. let's get to it. now the categories... aha. ...you'll love that. and finally... two words that are spelled the same, but as you know, pronounced differently. and in each case, we want both words from you. rebecca, start us. i'll take yes, mammal! for $200. rebecca. -what is a dolphin? -yes. mammal for $400. if you look at its back, you'll know it's a pink fairy this. -rebecca. -what is an armadillo? -right again. -mammal,

american civil liberties union and law professor at new york law school and a senior attorney at columbia university. watch "landmark cases" tonight and join the conversation. and follow us at c-span. and we have resources on our website for background on each case. the landmark cases companion book and a link to the interactive constitution and the andmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. >> as a follow-up to the recent hearings facebook, "the communicators" looks at the privacy issues raised by the spread of personal data with the president and c.e.o. at the center of democracy and technology and attorney and former chair of the federal election commission. >> all of these politicians who asked mark questions for 10 hours, every one of them has been using data mined from american citizens to communicate with their constituents to build mailing lists, to target voters and a lot of this is good for reasons. >> how data is collected, used, secured and processed by the companies with which we engage in the online world in a

we know when he gave these to his friend at columbia university he did it with a reason. council apointed. we know that he leaked those on purpose. we don't know what else was in them or who else he shared them with. it's reasonable. >> can we talk about karma here for a second? you know, remember, comey has been saying these memos weren't marked clas sified. the classification authorities who are wildly over zealous can mark things and based wloon was released yet it appears that some of the comey memos do contain classified informations. he could wiend up getting this trouble for the kind of thing health care health ca hillary clinton was about. >> i was looking at my watch trying to figure out how long it would be. i know it will be irresistible to make this comparison. zplp they are also looking at andrew mccabe. it seems the leadership of the justice -- of the fbi, they are look at comey. this is a real problem for them. >> it is interesting though in one of these memos comey recounts this conversation with president trump in which he is attacking leakers and critici

nadine strossen and katie fallow, a senior attorney at columbia university's knight first amendment institute. watch "landmark cases" monday. and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmarkcases and follow us on c-span. and we have resources on our website. the landmark cases companion book, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified on the 2019 budget request for his department. concern about trade disruptions, commodity prices, and recent natural disasters. this is about an hour and 25 minutes. >> we'll call this meeting of the ag appropriations meeting to order. we want to thank you very much for being here. we truly appreciate it. we're here today to discuss the department of ag's fiscal year 2019 budget. we also in addition to welcoming secretary perdue want to with el come dr. johansen. thank you for being here. and also mrs. jones, thank you as well. >> before we begin, i want to extend a welcome to our newest membe member, senator hyde smith who was

from arial -- from arizona state university, from columbia university, from george fromngton universityambling state university, taylor davis, the recipient of the trust and recording scholarship. , thehoward university recipient of the harry s mcalpine scholarship. o from howard university, kyla and alexi. the recipiente, -- from northwestern university, from northwestern university, the recipient of the deborah orin scholarship. from ohio university, lauren fisher of cincinnati. university,io jessica hill. berkeley,lifornia at ,rom the university of maryland and from the university of missouri, alex derosier, jamie dunaway, renee hickman, sue lynn martin,y to kathleen jona mcewan, miranda more and moore wagner -- miranda and rachel wagner. please join us in congratulating the scholarship winners. [applause] margaret: i hope you will turn back to the the you screen so -- toan hear her story the video screen so you can hear her story. last april your freedom award helped deliver me the freedom to walk out of prison. for three years i was kept hidden wind high walls with bart wire. -- wi