karafano and heritage foundation for inviting me. such a great institution, and a privilege to be here. but to you personally, i think our audience needs to know that in addition to the things that dr. carafano said, you served as an adviser to me as the director of national intelligence on the advisory board, and it was great to work with you and great to be with you today. >> thank you for those kind words. as the old refrain goes, inquiry minds want to know. and in so doing, we want to know what you think about the wide array of threats that we face that are either present today or looming on the horizon and around the globe. and then also, get a better understanding as dr. carafano suggested. how's the intelligence community positioned in terms of intelligence reforming that are still needed or building off of the intelligence reforms of approximately 50 years ago when the intelligence reform act was passed as you sat as director of national intelligence. to that end i thought we would break the session into three parts. the thre

longtime visiting fellow here at heritage foundation. before coming to heritage he had a long and very distinguished career in the intelligence community, including the central intelligence agency and serving as director of the defense intelligence agency. so no one better qualified to guide a conversation today on arguably the most important thing that we are not talking about. so david, over to you. >> thank you, jim. it is a delight to be here, and greetings to the audience out there, as well. and to have former d&i john radcliffewith us. recently he was principal experience adviser to the president and leader of the u.s. intelligence community which consists of 18 elements now with space force being the last additive element to it. no long introduction is really needed today. but as america's top spy, director radcliffe directed intelligence and counterintelligence platforms, cort action platforms and the analytic enterprise of this intelligence committee where i served for 33 years. prior to his time as d&i he served on the house com

as to what we want to give back that has to be decided by the board of the prussian cultural heritage foundation is used to that's not something that the president or the museum director can design and another important question that needs to be clarified is who the rightful recipient it is at the stade or a national museum system is it a local community and that's quite complicated for but just to be clear we will be returning benny and bronzes consequently all sorted b.p. out and begin production sort of. part of the bin in works will be returned but part is to remain on display at the humboldt forum so how can these tainted exhibits be displayed appropriately. this is where this multimedia program which is really a multi screen film right will be presented and all the voices from europe and africa including the oberoi. and scholars from africa will talk about the provenance of the burning bronzes the idea is. using very simple questions to get people to open up and talk openly what are the benny and bronzes. what do they mean to you. what should happen to them in the future and then to really

optimism 100 days since i took the oath of office left in my hand off our family bible and heritage foundation we all did it was in crisis the worst pandemic of the century the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war now after just 100 days i can report to the nation america is on the move again thank you for being a wide ranging vision of jobs prosperity and a new era of big government with big spending plans biden said he would pay for it all with higher taxes on corporations and the super rich continuous cycle growth things worse $20000000.00 americans lost their job in the pandemic. working middle class americans at the same time. roughly 650000000000. saw their net worth increase by more than one trillion dollars the same exact. my fellow americans trickle down. trickle down economics is never work it's time to grow the economy in the bottom in the middle out. on international policy biden focused on adversaries russia and china linking america's ability to conjure them to the success of his domestic policy agenda. america's

agencies the heritage foundation event was by videoconference rated. >> it good afternoon, thank you heritage events life. is my pleasure to welcome everyone in today's event. solar when this, and how the u.s. and reducing the chances of it happening again.

it's wonderful to partner with the heritage foundation on this nuclear series. it's my honor to welcome our guest today senator jon kyl. you may know him as his time serving the senate from 1995 to 2013 when he retired he served as the senate i nor a whip from 2007 through 2013 and during that time he was a champion of nuclear modernization issues. it was pivotal during that period of time and we will get to some of that momentarily. senator kyl returned to the senate of september of 2018 after being appointed to succeed his good friend the late john mccain in the fact that he was asked to return to the senate really is a testament to the respect and trust his colleagues have for as long commitment to public service. senator kyl welcome and i'm glad to be having this conversation with you today. >> thank you roger thank you jim and thank you heritage and the reagan foundation. >> wonderful. we have about 25 minutes or so to set the scene a bit on this important issue. let me start with something deputy secretary of defense said during her confirmation hearing. s

elizabeth: with me now is the heritage foundation han von spakovsky, can hunter biden be believed heainly the last stop at the center of multiple probes the hunter talked about in december that it could certainly be his, they pointed this out to legal experts, he said hunter can reminder minor details from decades ago but now suddenly is the revelation of the laptop of his after months of dodging it you cannot believe this guy here. >> he's just debating the truth, he doesn't remember whether he dropped off the laptop at a repair shop, that's a little bit hard to believe in the recent r book is not giving any details in the investigation that is currently going on by the justice department over possible tax evasion in the lot information came from the laptop. elizabeth: he found the format the repair shop and itic apparently had a sticker on it from a bidenot foundation, he is still dodging about it, if he can't remember details like that why would you buy his book? if he can't remember stuff like that why would anybody take it fiercely to buy his book this is like james comey james

it's a pleasure and honor to be speaking with you today under the heritage foundation. i've had opportunities to do that in the past and they've always been rewarding ones and i look forward to the conversation of the next hour. >> several years o ago "the new york times" technology columnist david listed the 5 stages of grieving when you lose your computer files. denial, anger, bargaining, depression and whooping to amish country. it sounds like a description of the move, gripping many conservatives in the wake of the last presidential election. in early 2021, many american conservatives are ines a state f acute anxiety, convinced that they are under siege as never before and that they are losing. across the nation the commanding heights of the federal bureaucracy, the news media, the entertainment industry, the high-tech corporations and the educational system from preschool to graduate school --predominated and the ideologyf wokism appear to reign supreme and left-wing cancel culture with virtual impunity. having sense of conservative vulnerability is a recent trend

heritage foundation has a story about joe biden, scary tax plan, biggest ever. and you forgot to talk about the biggest tax cuts ever, at some point this has to balance out. folks have to stop voting their dreams and start voting their interests. i know you want to be out here and party with matt gaetz but there are consequences for that, you may have more in alignment with poor black or brown person or somebody that is in the south and you're in the midwest or in joe manchin's state. that means you have to vote in alignment with what is in your best interest, not what they're telling you. stuff they're telling you is not even true. shame on heritage foundation for the tweet today, and i hope that people start focusing on what is true and right rather than scaring people. fearmongering in politics has turned dangerous. it's been that way some time but going to see it increase if folks don't start walking in full knowledge of the truth. >> mississippi, a state starving for infrastructure and governor there is just cut taxes. they already have their taxes cut to t

i'm the director of the simon center for american studies at the heritage foundation, it is my pleasure to welcome everybody here for this event, conservatism and america's future. i'm also delighted to welcome everybody here as far as this kirk lecture series, russell kirk lecture series, russell clerk believed in the permanent things those moral and spiritual truths that makes government -- democratic self-government possible. and dr. kirk viewed the conservative movement, the conservative movement, as the crucial actor in task of recovering and defending those permanent things. and there's no more important scholar of the conservative movement in america today than our speaker, george h. nash. dr. nash has been studying the conservative movement for decadessed. we have made a fuel biography of dr. nash available but a couple of highlights here. three volume biography of herbert hoover is groundbreaking book 0 the conservative intellectual movement in america since 45 and a more recent back, reappraising the right, the past and future of american conservatism, just to name a few. i th

up next heritage foundation han von spakovsky on hunter biden out with a new book trying to claim he ukraine gas company, why, he says partisan politics, if that were so why isn't he investing his 10% stake in a chinese investment fund like his father president biden said he would more dubious claims from underwriting coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪i've got the brains you've got the looks♪ ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate click or call to switch today. seeing blood when you brush or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. new parodontax active gum repair kills plaque bacteria at the gum line to help keep the gum seal tight. new parodontax active gum repair toothpaste. i really hope that this vaccine can get me one step closer to him. to a huge wedding. to give high fives to our patients. to hug my students. with every vaccine, cvs is working to bring you one step closer to a better tomor

thank you, jim, and thank you heritage and reagan foundations. >> wonderful. well, we're going to jump to it. we have about 25 minutes or so to really set the scene a bit on this important issue with jim. outoutlined for all of us. let me start with something deputy secretary of defense cat hicks said during her confirmation hearing. she said, quote, i agree that nuclear deterrents is the department's highest priority mission. and that updating and overhauling our nation's nuclear forces is a critical national security priority. end quote. now, you've heard this a lot from past senior officials, dr. hicks, the deputy secretary, someone who will be a pivotal player on this issue set. with the kind of bipartisan commitment that she articulated there, tell me kind of -- how have we got ton where we are today regarding nuclear -- and how bad is the situation? >> well, back in about 2008, 2009, there were a lot of questions being asked about how we were going to conduct the modernization program both for the nuclear weapons themselves and also we understood that th

it's working now with the heritage foundation on a $24 million campaign to produce model voting legislation for state legislatures like georgia's to adopt. and even to hire lobbyists in what they call crucial states. alec has create add secret working group on election related matters, mitchell who many people will remember for her role backing trump's effort to flip georgia's election results. so alec has its hands all over this. there is also the georgia public policy center, which is the local affiliate of the state policy network, the representative jones has said, i want to publicly say how much i appreciate georgia public policy foundation. we rely on georgia public policy foundation's research and work. they have been an invaluable, invaluable resource to us. guess what? alec is an official associate organization of the state policy network with the georgia public policy center. and the s.b.m. has paid for dozens of its think tanks to become alec members. there is a lot of back and forth between the dark money alec and the state policy network. like alec state policy network is large

other grant, a san francisco based asian pacific heritage foundation is part of the additional $60,000support a p i communities us bank announced on april 6th to combat biases and acts of violence. ah local origami master is using the ancient japanese art of paper folding to combat asian hate. linda miura owns the paper tree store in san francisco. and she has spent years holding the craft of origami. the attacks on the asian american community prompted her toe start a movement. she went on social media asking people to create origami paper hearts tradition. if you have a wish you want to have control, you fold 1000 cranes and i said, let's fold 1000 hearts and make that the new thing i really wanted people to think about love, because love is what conquers hate. full of traps, and they're so beautiful people from across the world have been sending bundles of hearts to hurt japantown store where than 1000 arrived in the first week. her shop window is now filled with these messages of love and peace. president biden the signs a new commission to look at reforming the nation's highest co

hard you pour they embody those changes in law, conservatives like thomas shipping with the heritage foundation argue adding justices to the court is a ploy to quickly gain a liberal majority. there's no reason to change that system. other than. >> to to forcibly pushed the supreme court. in a political in a particular political direction. it's a terrible thing. but paul schiff berman a professor at george washington university says republicans are the ones who have read the court for the first time in american history we currently have a supreme court where the majority of the justices. >> were appointed by presidents who did not win the popular vote. >> president biden has still not said, though, whether he will support expanding the court and imposing term limits live in washington. i'm jessi tenure. thank you, jesse. >> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been calling on governor newsome to declare a water shortage state of emergency. and this is coming as most of the state is seeing dry conditions and water allocation has been drying up for farmers across the state. ashley zavala has

the grant to san francisco based asian pacific heritage foundation is part of the additional $60,000 and support to a p i communities that u. s bank announced earlier this week to combat biases and acts of violence. notable change in tone this spring break compared to the one last year. well especially when it comes to travel ktvu maureen naylor is live with the recent boost in traveling what is behind it, marie andre, i have a math travel equation for you when you have decreasing mystery. actions and then you added an increase in vaccinations. well that equals a boost in travel. triple a saying last month marks the highest level of online bookings that it's seen in two years. it almost looks like a postcard whether carmel beach or the monterey bay area fell baby spring break. 2021 looks a lot different than 2020 with crowds of masked travelers now returning. it's. time to get back to normal. i'm tired of covid, having never been to monterey or most of california and having gotten. at least the first of my two sticks in the arm. i'm pretty excited to get back to exploring and seeing

well, that's grant to san francisco based asian pacific heritage foundation is part of the additionalport to a p i communities us bank announced on april 6th help combat biases and acts of violence. in the face of recent asian, anti asian, uh anti asian hate crimes here in the bay area across the country, a bay area artist and business owner has launched a movement inspired by a japanese tradition. ktvu jana katsuyama explains. so we're just going to fold this into the triangle like this. thea art of origami is about transformation, and then this edge will come up. meet the center line look beyond a flat surface and gradually it comes to life in three dimensions. it's really magic. almost magic magic is linda me. harrah's mission as an origami artist and owner of the paper tree store in san francisco. and in the wake of recent anti asian hate, she wanted to transform the hurt. i really wanted people to think about love, because love is what conquers hate. so she posted on her social media sites. ah call for hearts inspired by an old japanese tradition, the tradition if you have a wish

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. >> good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. i'm overseer for foreign policy policy at the heritage foundation, and we have an extraordinary event today. and i think oneth

speaking at an event hosted by the heritage foundation, mr. ratcliffe outlets threats by china, north korea, and iran. >> good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. i'm overseer for foreign polic

my name is lora ries, and i'm the senior research fellow for homeland security at the heritage foundationhe views expressed here are my own and do not reflect an institutional position for the heritage foundation or its board of trustees. we are witnessing record numbers of unaccompanied alien children or uacs at our southern border. in march, nearly 19,000 uacs were encountered by cbp. in contrast, cbp encountered only 741 uacs in april of 2020. this staggering increase has been driven by messaging and policy choices that have endangered lives and knowingly enriched traffickers and smugglers. in february, border traffickers reportedly were making $14 million a day. instead, the u.s. should have policies that prevent illegal immigration and encourage lawful immigration. how did we get here? the 2,000 unaccompanied alien child protection act. its purpose was the permanent protection of uacs. it offered them easier and expanded immigration benefits including prompt -- into the u.s., taxpayer-funded guardians ad litem and attorneys, special immigrant juvenile visas, and easier adjustment of

optimism 100 days since i took the oath of office left in my hand off our family bible and heritage foundation we all did it was in crisis the worst pandemic of the century the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war now after just 100 days i can report to the nation america is on the move again thank you for being a wide ranging vision of jobs prosperity and a new era of big government with big spending plans biden said he would pay for it all with higher taxes on corporations and the super rich continuous cycle growth things worse. 20000000 americans lost their job in the pandemic. working the middle class americans at the same time roughly 650000000000. saw their net worth increase by more than one trillion dollars in the same exact period my fellow americans trickle down. trickle down economics has never worked this time to grow the economy from the bottom in the middle out. on international policy biden focused on adversaries russia and china linking america's ability to conjure them to the success of his domestic policy agen

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we are speaking with james carafano from the heritage foundation.e from just across the potomac. caller: good morning. i have a question. since wuhan had a laboratory that researched viruses, that they could use as biological weapons, how is it possible that the cia didn't have access in wuhan, where they could have found out what was going on there? in addition to that, since it is a large city, did the state department have a consulate in wuhan on the spot where they could actually seen some evidence of something happening over there long before it was imported to us? i wanted to make the observation that mr. pompeo, he was the director of the cia, and for the second part of trump's presidency he was secretary of state, so maybe we should investigate him and what role he played during this time. host: we will get a response. guest: i have no way to know how they would investigate in china. but here is what we think we do know. there's no evidence that has been produced in the w.h.o. report or any other credible report that this virus was man-made.

heritage foundation event was held via videoconference. student good afternoon and thank you for joining us today on heritage events live. my name is james and it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to today's events. solar winds and because it bears a russian hackers compromise u.s. government and how we can reduce the chances of it happening again. he solar when packed his rock the cybersecurity world and with good reason. it has been described as the largest and most sophisticated hack ever. to give a quick rundown of what happened basically it deems russian hackers affiliated with or for an compromised a top-tier technology firm in place malware in an update that went out to over 33000 and was downloaded by about 18000 users of the oracle software. after the client downloaded the seemingly legitimate update, they hackers gained access to their network and were able to use that to target information within those networks. the list of exposed organizations is sure to raise some eyebrows. it includes a number of government departments like

i amft the director for american studies at the heritage foundation and it is my pleasure to be here for conservatism and america's future and i am also delighted to welcome everybody here as part of this lecture series. including what they call the permanent things, the moral and spiritual truthshe that make democratic self-government possible. doctor kirk viewed as conservative movement as a crucial factor in the task of recovering and defending those permanent thing. and there is no more ans. important scholar in america today than our speaker. he has been studying this conservative movement for decades and we have made a full biography available today with a couple of highlights. a three volume biography in this groundbreaking book and a more recent book of reappraising the rights of conservatism just to name a few. just to pick up one of his books or read one of his many essays, there would be a lot less nonsense talk about the conservative movement and the united states and i think that there would be a lot more was done in the air and also about strengths and historic attachme

farm in a few months time as the heart of the ethnological collection the pression cultural heritage foundation which currently holds the bronzes doesn't want to give up that idea completely. optimistic i'm optimistic that the original objects can still be displayed here some could be returned and some could remain here so there could be a continual exchange of items on loan and it was always clear that the context in which they were acquired the context of injustice would be explained it's the fact is that in $897.00 in the kingdom of british colonial forces looted $4000.00 bronze sculptures in a raid germany 1100 of the stolen goods. there's blood on these objects so do trophies from the colonial era really belong in an exhibition in the heart of berlin. can be seen in many museums around the world the binning bronze those are exceptional art and when they came to europe they highlighted a completely new image of africa as a continent steeped in history and culture the binning bronzes are of course part of the cultural history of nigeria and been in but they've also become global. nigerian au

at the heritage foundation, great to see you. why does biden trust china to play ball with us?een new deal light is doing is accumulating power in the hands of washington dc at the expense of american families and consumers, they are not going to go along with this and saddle our families with additional cost of $8,000 per year and little to no benefit to the environment including any impact at all on rising sea levels are rising temperatures. >> let's get into the details of the biden plan, investing in infrastructure, innovation feeling economic recovery, advancing environmental justice and bolsters american-made products. nice buzzwords in there. in reality explain how this will in reality. american finances, to drive their car with gas. >> in reality this will attempt to transform our energy sector by forcing us to abandon affordable sources of energy like natural gas and pushing types of energy that are far less efficient. what this means is you might have some visible jobs created in these sectors but that will be at a cost to other sectors and recalculated what those cos

agencies the heritage foundation event was by videoconference rated. >> it good afternoon, thank you for joining us today on heritage events life. is my pleasure to welcome everyone in today's event. solar when this, and how the u.s. and reducing the chances of it happening again. this color windy has really rocked the security world and with good reason. it is been described as the largest and most sophisticated pack ever. and even a quick rundown of what is happening, basically is being russian hackers affiliated with foreign intelligence services compromise technology firms and placed malware that an update they went out to over 33000 it and downloaded by about 18000 users of the oracle software. and after the clients downloaded seemingly legitimate update, the hackers gained access to the network and were able to use that access to target information within those networks. in the list of exposed organizations sure to wage raise eyebrows and includes a number of government departments of treasury and commerce and security. this was number of fortune 500 countries. in the reaches of

i'm the director of the simon center for american studies at the heritage foundation, it is my pleasureto welcome everybody here for this event, conservatism and america's future. i'm also delighted to welcome everybody here as far as this kirk lecture series, russell kirk lecture series, russell clerk believed in the permanent things those moral and spiritual truths that makes

optimism 100 days since i took the oath of office and left in my hand off our family bible and heritage foundation we all did it was in crisis the worst pandemic of the century. the worst economic crisis since the great depression the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war now after just 100 days i can report to the nation america is on the move again. offering a wide ranging vision of jobs prosperity and a new big government with big spending plans biden said he would pay for it all with higher taxes on corporations and the super rich continuous cycle growth things worse 20000000 americans lost their job in the pandemic. working middle class americans at the same time. roughly 650000000000. saw their net worth increase by more than one trillion dollars the same exact. my fellow americans trickle down trickle down economics has never worked this time to grow the economy from the bottom in the middle out. on international policy biden focused on adversaries russia and china linking america's ability to conquer them to the success of his domestic policy agenda. america's movie. moving for

the head of the heritage foundation.h, i'm shocked and appalled with the race baiting for left-wing politicians who are throwing around the term "jim crow" to score political points in the debate of strengthening voting laws. she says this in one thing. federalizing election and taking power." that is what this hearing is about and they're throwing around highly charged rhetoric to achieve that. >> harris: how do you have more power than the majority and a democrat in the white house. what is the end game here? i'm coming before here is achieving our in a new way. controlling the legislator, absolutely, but you have filibusters. you have an election to win to maintain power in a year and a half. you have to change elections and you have to get rid of the electoral college. you ensure you achieve power and perpetuity not just in the momentary time of this moment in history. your thoughts mr. markey >> exactly. what they want is no opposition. they're gunning for no opposition and the only way they can win to change the ru

. >> the heritage foundation in washington, dc hosted a virtual event with author and historian georgeash. he shared his thoughts on the state of conservism in america. >> from 2021 many american conserves in state of anxiety con sinced they're under siege as never before and they're losing. across the nation, the commanding heights of the federal bureaucracy, the news media, the entertainment industry, the high-tech corporations, and the educational system from preschool to graduate school, predominate bid people who seem increasingly hostile to conserve conservative beliefs enemy social media and yesoid politics and wokism appear to reign supreme and a left wing cancel culture operates with virtual impugnty. adding to the sense of conservative vulnerable is a recent trend accelerating. concerns what scholars call america's civil religion. for many years nearly all american conserves have believed that the american experience has been on the whole a success story, and that at the heart of this experience has been a commitment to individual liberty, limited government, and the politica

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here me tonight former acting secretary of homeland security of visiting fellow at the heritage foundation, chad wolf. mr. secretary thanks for being here. >> good to be here thank you. so team biden and the president himself or sing some of the following things is not a crisis, it is not unusual, this is seasonal. and that in fact it is your administration's fault this is happening. your response? speckled guy i would say all those very incorrect. but we know this is not seasonal there are certain front of the receipt hired travel higher illegal. the month of february there over 100,000 illegal that's the highest february over 20 years. what we knows about the messaging in the policy when the biting administration has really fueled the increase crisis on the border paid the insertion the trump menstruation broke the immigration system and the biden administration is having to fix separate that's not true the facts are not back that up. what we did is we inherited a broken system we ended catch and release. we instituted consequences to those who cross the border illegally. that's what mis

later we will talk to james cara bono of the heritage foundation with questions about the who report and why he distrusts china with much more ahead on the issue of covid-19 in the course of the program. danny joins us from tucson. good morning, do you oppose the idea of a passport? caller: yeah. if you get the shots, there should be a card from them saying who give it to you, getting it stamped and sealed. you carry the cart around. you really don't need a passport . if you do have a passport why not take your little blue or yellow booklet with you when you get your shot and then fill that out so there's your shot record for this covid. people aren't making any sense, what they are doing. they got the things in place to do it. if you go into where you got a passport and you decide to go to south america or somewhere like that, you got to make sure that you got shots for malaria and all these other diseases down there and they would put it in the shot record. you could do the same thing with these shots for covid-19. you could put in the shop where they have them give you the card th

. >> harris: chad wolf is a former acting dhs secretary and heritage foundation visiting fellow.nk you for being with me. when we've talked in the past we talked about the ramp up to where we are right now. how would you describe, categorize this moment this time? >> well again, we continue to have an ongoing crisis that is now becoming a national tragedy what's occur at the border. you've had over 170,000 illegal apprehensions in the month of march alone. the governor now those numbers increase as we get later into the months of the summer. so again the biden administration continues to address the symptoms of this problem and not going towards the root causes of it. you need to enforce the law and you need to get serious about border security. you can continue to care for these individuals that come into dhs custody as they should but that alone will not solve the problem. so unfortunately where the federal government won't step up you have governors like abbott in texas and duesy in arizona deploying national guard and their own law enforcement to the border. a sad state when

looking for more of the conservative leaning aspects of maybe that is not overly political the heritage foundation provides really great briefs that are two to four pages on any issue under the sun with other data statistics and sources you can jump to from there. utilize those when you have direct papers or trying to to prove somebody wrote on the subject, you'll not if any of that opinion or cometary or buys associate with those but they are hard to read such as preprepared the academic and a little stuffy. >> i am drew, an officer for the gc you capture and my question is for like when you're writing your book what was like the most difficult aspect or like one of the biggest obstacles you had overcome when you're getting your book written are getting your book published? >> great question. racially and if you love writing. and so. raise your hand if you hate writing. most people who are young do not love writing. i was in the love writing category and a son who love writing and loves reading you'd always find my nose in in a k when i was a kid. it's challenging to take the story of your life a

looking for more of a conservative leaning aspect but maybe that's not overtly political, the heritage foundation provides really great briefs that are two to four pages on any issue under the sun with other data and statistics and sources you can jump to from there so utilize those when you write papers or trying to prove somebody wrong. you won't hey bias but they're kind of hard to read to be prepared. definitely academic and a little stuffy. >> him drew. i'm an officer for the gcu chapter, and my question is for when you were writing your book, what was like the most difficult aspect or kind of like one of the biggest obstacles you had to overcome when you were getting your book written or published. >> great question. raise your hand if you love writing. handful. raise your hand if you hate writing. most people who are young do not love writing. was in the love writing category and even as somebody who loves writing and loves ready, you would always find my nose in a book when i was kid it's really challenging to take the story of your life and what you experienced and put that on paper in a

zach smith, who is a legal fellow at the heritage foundation for legal and judicial study, having already served for several years as an assistant united states attorney in the northern district of florida. prior to that, he spent two years as an associate in the washington, d.c. office of larry gottlieb, steen and hamilton, which he got after clerking for the united states court of appeals for the 11th circuit. he received his undergraduate, masters, and law degrees from the university of florida. during law school he served as the editor in chief for the florida law or review, and on the executive boards of several student organizations, including the chapter of the federal society. those are our speakers. but before we get into having our speakers introduce the topic , i want to just remind you that, if you have a question, at the bottom you will see a q&a button. click on that and that's where you type your questions. after both speakers have spoken, i will be reading those questions to our guest. so, professor, if you want to un-mute your microphone, go ahead. >> thank you, professor