he's a native of the cassai region of drc. he went to college and served overseas in much of south and southeast asia and new york city and south africa. and he's been the president's representative or ambassador to the united states since last summer. i think given the distinctive resumes here, just as a way to stop myself and make a clean break, let me please ask you to join me in welcoming them all to brookings. [ applause ] >> so, now, we'll go down the line starting with anthony gambino. >> thank you, mike. it's a pleasure to be here again and to share a podium with special enjoy perriello and ambassador balance humanny. all of us are tremendously grateful for what he's doing. we had a similar meeting in brooklyn last november. and i stated then that congo was already in electoral crisis last november. sadly, the situation has only deteriorated. congo today is roughly one month away from a full-fledged constitutional crisis. this morning, i'll try to get through things. first, i'll briefly talk about the critical constitu

my drc only went up sunday. three weeks ago, 2 1/2 weeksing a i they asked me if you i wanted drc. yes, sir, you find me a location. i found all the dry warehouse space we had in walker on burgess or florida. i didn't hear back from them a week. a week later, i called, mark, what happened to my drc? they're having trouble figuring out if these are usable. i said that is not acceptable. they sent somebody out, we reviewed each place, rejected all of them. so they set up drc in hutchinson park on asphalt lot with portable air conditions, but four to five miles from where the disaster hit. it is hard for people to get out there. that is my issue, locations seem to be convenient for people fema, not what works best for area you're in. >> thank you, mayor. we're joined by senator landrieu who has been in this exact situation in the past and worked tirelessly on recovery of hurricane katrina. certainly has some insight for many of us here today. thank you for being here. i want to yield to our distinguished majority whip, congressman scalise. congressman, obviously my earlier comments we

half of them live in the border region between rwanda, uganda and the drc.hey form a family clans. this one has 33 members. rebel factions, most of them in the drc make the survival of the girl is difficult. too often, the creatures are caught in the crossfire or poached. there is some good news. ecotourism is helping the gorilla population slowly recovered. in many well tells us that thet. at the end of each year, half of the profits go to supporting the communities around them. to show their pride, rwanda holds a festival every year to highlight preservation efforts. even the president makes an appearance. part of the festival is an symbolic baptism of the guerrillas. the guerrillas are not actually at the event. it has allowed them to survive against the odds. brett: after a short break, i will take you through the day. hope to join us for that. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] megan: hi everyone and welcome to our highlights edition, bringing you the b

filippppo: more than 2 270,000 people have fled to neighboring countries, , particularly tanzania, drc, and rwandada. andd that flow hasn't ended because the internalal conflict in burundi continues to be the cause of internal and especially exteternal displacement. all t s to sasay that africa is and remains the theater of some of the largest refugee situations in the world. unfortunately, uhuh, it has not receivedd enouh attention. fufunding of our operations i in africa continues to be very lowow. it is importat that the same attention that this puts in trying to address politically other crises is exercised also in africa. because in the end, like everywhere else, you need to make peace to find a way forward for these millions of refugees in this place. karen: i'm not sure how many years it will take to eliminate conflict. that will be a long time. i'm hopeful that we'll make some difference. it may not be a huge difference right away. we won't see a lot of difference coming quickly, but we can at t least set the grounds forr people ththinking about refugees and migrants in a diffe

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my drc only went up sunday. now three weeks ago they asked me if i wanted a drc. yes, sir. you find me a location. so i found all of the dry warehouse space we had left, ane i didn't hear back from them for a week. week later i called and said, mark, what happened with my drc? well, they're having trouble trying to figure out be these are usable. i said these are not acceptable. they sent somebody out, they review ared all of them and rejected them. so they set up on an at fault lot with portable air conditioners but, again, it's 3-5 miles away from where the disaster hit. it's hard for people to get out there. so that's been my issue is locations seem to be convenient for fema, not what works best for the area that you're in. >> thank you, mayor.r. i want to recognize we've been joined here by senator landrieu who i know who has been in this exact situation in the past and worked tireless on the recovery of hurricane katrina andnd certainly has insight for many of us here today. thank you for being here, and i want to yield to our distinguished majority whip, congressman s

we will be working with the o drc since 20 oh seven and it has been the most wonderful i get to wake up everyday and love what i place exclusively with children with abilities to disabilities to autismhi spectrum, whatever need variable to start right in your living room andh it is not about videotaping their lives and mailing it to us and traveling 2,000 miles to stay in a hotel room or ship the dog back to us like so many other programs. we start in your living room. we ended her living room and i think they will attest to the fact that we really don't go away.. we are pretty much a part of your life. >> is ah a good thing that you t that consistent support system. >> absolutely. >> if you could, tell us a little bit aboutus how john johy has changed things for you. >> he can do a lot of things he will pick things up like a pencil at l school. he can take my socks and shoes off in my coat off. he can pick dirty laundry off and put it in the hamper. >> i think a lot of people would >> i think one of the bigger aspect i don't think jack realizes that people gravitate gravitate to him

. >> i'm pretty sure even now, in, like, the drc, there are millions of internally displaced people. never took hold there. there are still countries where i feel like we failed to bring our ideas too. >> great point. if you think about africa today, and you think about that map that i showed earlier, many of those areas where we had conflict, many of which are not cold war conflicts, that gains special traction. what we are looking at here, a map of 1970. this blue and green are kind of good in the sense that those are american involvement or at least american alignments. red and pink are bad in terms of soviet alignment or involvement. that is 1970. in 1980 you see a few things have changed. not a lot. most of northern africa is still flooded pink. a little bit different particularly in angola. 1970 was u.s. involvement but 1980, the united states lost those countries and the influence to the soviets. the united states lost ethiopia to the soviets even though they gained somalia. they had regained egypt back. if you're thinking about the impact and effect of this whole thing, at be

she had different emotions at drc different times, but it was thought out, and she knew she was on camerahe whole time. donald trump didn't act like he was on camera. >> indeed, and in addition to hillary clinton knowing she was on camera, she also knew from all of her life in public office that it's harder to be a woman on the public stage than it is to be a man, and donald trump, i think he's gotten a long so far in the year and a half in politics being mr. natural. we may have come against the limit. >> you wrote about the simplicity of language donald trump used. it's a fourth grade reading rev level. it's about the value of simplici simplicity. do you think that was the case last night? >> as we discussed before, there's a way in which seventh of eighth grade language, if they parsed the discussion right now, i bet it would be in the seventh or eighth grade. that's what most news is. i think in the primaries, he was able to do a simple third grade build a wall, we don't win anymore, we lose, we're going to win with trump. i think trying to stretch it out over two minutes of answers w

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