narrator: one group cashing in on illicit ivory is joseph kony's lord's resistance army, or lra, which sprang to life in 1988. kony is an aggressive, messianic warlord wawanted by te international criminal court for crimes against humanity. hutson: kony leads a fierce band of a couple hundred remaining fighters who ororiginated from northern uganda, but who now predate throughout conongo and central african republicic up intoto the sudans, and they commit mass atrocities. they'll t take their machetes and d systemematically take apat a mother andnd feed her to her children. narrator: the lra killed tens of thousands, displaced almost 2 mimillion people, and abducted over 60,000 children. they turned girls into sex slaves and boys into child soldiersrs. the lra supports suc atrocities by poaching elephants and trading ivory. much of kony's ivory comes from garamba national park in the democratic republic of the congo. hutson: garamba is considered to be at the end of nowhere. it is one of the last wild habitats. narrator: the lra raids the 1,900 square mile park with impunity and trades

i was abducted by joseph kony's army. by the grace of god more than , half of us got away the united -- got away thanks in no small measure to the moral force of the united states pushing and pushing. i never got the chance to thank you personally. and her father was one of the only who had gotten a gold-medal in the olympics from her country. our ability to do that rests largely on people thinking that we are for real. so we need to make our country work more like justice ginsburg's decisions. just on the level, no one has to win on the time -- when all the time or be right all the time but we have to get back to on the level. [applause] >> i think it is helpful to recall the way it was when i was nominated, 1993 and there was a true bipartisan spirit in that congress. my white house handlers were worried about my aclu connection and members of the white house staff would act as various senators and would ask questions like you were on the board of the aclu in 1975. they passed that resolution, how did you vote? i said s