howard hankins, who is a business owner of hampton roads materials. it's an recycling and mr. hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and has partitioned co hacres to the nearby golf course. and this is a small sliver of. what's remaining of the 400 acres, the significance of that is that he was involved in partially involved in the creation of the original president's park, which was a tourist site, 12 miles from here. that was open from 2004 until 2010. that was the home. all 40 to 2 of these sculptures. and he actually was also instrumental commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures. when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. so he did not have the heart to do that. thank god and spent a considerable amount of own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt. nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to his property here as a way to store them temporarily until he figured out what he wanted to do with them. the sculptor of. all of these is a gentleman by the name of david addicks, not as in a home attic, but i see. yes. and he

hankins attempted to clean coing to clean some decay on his cheeks.ddly enough, andrew spent most of his life with a scar on his cheek because when he was a young, i believe, for the tennessee militia, he took a sworto the face from a soldier after president jackson refused to shine his boots boots. he died, i believe, with a couple bullets in his chest, not from being shot, but had engaged several others in gun duels. and his nickname was old hickory because people said he was tough old hickory. the other interesting fact about president jackson is that he apparently taught his parrot, his pet, how to swear, and that sometimes became problematic in the white house for some of his guests. so people often ask me on tours when i would deliver. they understand why abraham lincoln and george washington are up front, but they question center, all three of these are on bills, dollar bills, monetary, american currency. but people suspect rightfully so that thomas jefferson and fdr should probably be up here front and center with the big three. and i don't di

howard hankins, who is a business owner of hampton roads materials. it's an recycling and mr. hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and has partitioned off a couple hundred of that acres to the nearby golf course. and this is a small sliver of. what's remaining of the 400 acres, the

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terms and on the topic, the administration urges the speedy return and -- confirmation of dennis hankinsare the next steps and one to see arrive in haiti and what does that look like in the days coming forward? >> i have to refer to my colleagues at the state department to speak to the now investors travel plans. i have no doubt he will want to get down there as soon as possible and get started. he has been eager to get confirmed and we are really grateful that he got confirmed and put in place. that would maka big difference down there, but the state department can speak to that. as for shared commitments and i do believe we vered quite a bit of this in the opening statement, we have a shared commitment with the haitian people and certainly with the haitian national police to make sure that they have what they need. >> clearly, they are taking questions on a number of different issues, moving off the issue of israel and gaza. just a couple of moments ago, ey were saying that we haven't seen a rafah plan, we would like it -- who knows some questions on -- from reporters there. we will ke

dennis hankins was confirmed today as u.s. ambassador to haiti.t has been vacant since october 2021. here at the border it with the republic, tensions remain high and deportations continued with thousands of other haitians were allowed to cross less than 100 yards to buy badly needed goods at this open market for the first time in days. rosayli peralta runs a shop h here. >> [indistinct] >> reporter: so you've noticed less sales on your gotten less sales since the crisis started? missionaries joel and yvonne trimble have been splitting their time between florida and cap-haitien for the past 49 years. they managed to evacuate today. >> never been this bad. >> absolutely. but the violence, the guns, it's the worst it's ever been. >> reporter: i'm standing in front of the market, which has now closed. u.s. officials, norah, say that guantanamo bay is ready to be used as a processing center in case of a surge of haitian migrants trying to flee the violence beer norah? >> norah: cristin benavides, thank you so much. tonight, a number of new development

ambassador hankins has more than two decades of foreign service experience.rone situations in the world, including in haiti. in 2025 he was confirmed as ambassador to -- unanimous vote he was previously confirmed. he has the experience to guide this process forward and advance u.s. national interests. i want to call on my colleagues to support the administration's outstanding funding request for haiti. not only do we need to get the ambassador confirmed, but we need to have our -- available so the multinational force that kenya is leading can be deployed and we can start to restore order in haiti so that a transitional government has a possibility of restoring the order necessary to avoid the current crisis and be able to address the humanitarian needs and stability that the people of haiti so badly need. but it starts with us confirming the ambassador. and we have the that with this next vote. i'm pleased that we had this opportunity today, and i urge my colleagues to support this nomination. and with that, mr. president, i would ask consent that the vote th

in the diplomatic corps, imagine if you were confirmed today as an ambassador to haiti as denniss hankins by a vote of what was it, 99-1 or 89-1, yeah. they are sending the marines toe the embassy in port-au-prince, and they already pulled out oressential or nonessential dypersonnel. forgive me for not getting that right but they already pulledh some personal out and this guy has to go in and deal with this? he couldn't get france?i poor guy! speak with the most thing, lai h laura -- it is tough, it is tough. i think the most important picture though mike baker take away here is number one, thebord biden/harris doesn't care about the borders and more concerned d with looking good than actuallyo doing good for the people.us they have got to enter into the real world that the rest of ussv live in and may may be, may be exempt there is some interest in solving problems. they actually have to want to solve problems and it is clearn that they don't. >> laura: noib, they wanlet totr bring as many people into the country as possible. i feel that you mike that thereo will be haitians coming into

in the diplomatic core, imagine if you were confirmed today as the ambassador to haiti as dennis hankins a vote of 99 to 1 or 89 to 1. yeah. so, they are send the marines to the embassy in port-au-prince and they already pulled out a nonessential or a essential personnel. forgive me for maybe not getting that right. they already pulled some personnel out. and this poor guy is having to go in and deal with this. couldn't he get france? poor guy. man. i guess nobody else wants it at this point. >> it's tough. it's tough. i think the most important bigger picture take away here is number one as you said the biden-harris doesn't care about people, they don't care about our borders. they are more concerned about looking good than actually doing good for the people. they have got to enter into the real world that the rest of us live in. and maybe, maybe then there may be some interest in solving problems, but they first have to actually want to solve problems and it's clear that they don't. >> laura: no. they want to bring as many people into the country as possible and i have a feeling there

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ambassador hankins has more than two decades of foreign service experience. he has served in some of the most complex crisis-prone situations in the world, including in haiti. in 2025 he was confirmed as ambassador to -- by unanimous vote he was previously confirmed. he has the experience to guide this process forward and advance u.s. national interests. i want to call on my colleagues to support the nding funding re haiti. not only do we need to get the ambassador confirmed, but we need to have our -- available so the multinational force that kenya is leading can be deployed and we can start to restore order haiti so that a transitional government has a possibility of restoring the order necessary to avoid able t address the humanitarian needs and stability that the people of haiti so badly need. but it with us confirming the ambassador. and we have the chance to do that with this next vote. i'm pleased that we had this opportunity today, and i my■t