the war in liberia was terrible.e had lost eye, had lost two brothers already. and i didn't want to be the third one. so, my fiancÉe and myself at the time decided to flee the country. we fled on a nigerian vessel into ghana, and there, we contacted her family, her host family. my wife was an exchange student, and she lived in montana. when she was an exchange students, after she graduated high school, she went back to liberia. that's when we met. so, we fled liberia, she contacted her host family she had lived with in montana. they were more than willing to bring us over, to help us, but that wasn't easy. >> no, i can't imagine it was easy. that's what's going to ask you, mister mayor. what was the plan? you've got out of liberia. that was a feat unto itself. now, if landed in a completely foreign land for you, anyway, in the united states and in montana. what was the plan and how did you begin to make a life for yourself here? >> we didn't have a plan when we were fleeing. the only plan we had, really, was we were

collins fled the civil war in his native liberia for the united states making a home in montana. city in montana since the state joined the union. he now is serving his second term in office which he won overwhelmingly. mayor wilmot collins joins us now. mr. mayor, it is so great to have you on the show and so much to talk to you about and i first want to start with your personal story. we sketched it out in broad terms there, and what gave you the courage to leave home and come to america and how did you end up in montana? >> well, thanks for having me, willie. the war in liberia was terrible, and to survive we decided that we had to -- because we had lost -- i had lost two brothers already, and i didn't want to be the third one, and so my fiance and myself at the time decided to flee the country. we fled on a nigerian vessel into ghana and there we contacted her host family. now mind you, my wife was an exchange student and she lived in montana as an exchange student, and after she graduated high school she went to liberia and that's when we met. so when we fled liberia she con

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they're good things that i'm able to do in liberia, in serial liam in all the places to support regional peacekeepers who are trying to save lives and provide humanitarian relief to people in district professor. those are the kinds of calculations for me that were being made well, professor, you're clearly not making a calculation personally, when you advocate packs african and that's not going to get you invited to any i m f world bank conferences, just us. what is backs african and who do you believe we should watch out for who are going to be advocating this 21st century for africa, obviously now in the spotlight, partly because of the war in ukraine as new global lines is a forged packs, africa is basically a concept that was up to 967 by one of my intellectual mental leg kenyon, academic, allen, missouri. and the basic idea is that outside of should stay out of contraband africa. i left africans were though vale and complex, and he explained that through the concept principal of continental jurisdiction, almost like a monroe doctrine, but africa. and he argued that through the princ

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the fifth president of liberia was born in newark, ohio. >> in your hometown. >> my hometown, in 1815und me. and that's what the kids -- it's all around them. but they don't know it. they don't touch it. so, they can't aspire to be what they don't really see. >> now because of your archives, they can know. >> they can. >> that's got to be rewarding. >> yes, it is. but our work is not done. >> reporter: julieanna richardson is now on a mission to collect and digitize the papers of historymakers. these belong to entertainer eartha kitt and she found a willing partner in ford foundation president darren walker. >> this organization is indeed a national treasure, and you, julieanna, are a national treasure. so, i'm very, very happy to make this pledge of $1 million to your great debt. >> i've worked 24/7 for 22 years, and i'm surrounded by these such rich stories. until i take my last breath, they will always be a part of me. and the little girl, i mean, i'm now a very richly endowed person that no one can tell me that me and my people don't have tremendous value. no one can tell me that

society, whose mission to recruit free blacks and have them deported to which the country became liberia, and later, lafayette was an abolitionist. so custis would spend day with lafayette, and then he would come at night and write notes. and he eventually turned these into 16, published essays. they were called conversations of lafayette. they talked about a lot of those big issues of the day and was really the beginning of his career as. a journalist and memoir and the editor who helped him get a lot of these published is william seton was editor of the proud jefferson national intelligencer. but he was also a more general and he later became the district of columbia mayor. the biggest red letter date in kansas. custer's life in middle age be the 1831 wedding of the army officer robert e lee and his daughter his only daughter, mary custis lee. now, they had known each other since they were children. they had probably played together and mary would recall having seen a teenage lee during that visit from lafayette actually in uniform and, alexandria and. so they had their wedding in the

got a lot of hours in areas of conflict like the democratic republic of the congo and sierra leone, liberia, mow sack beak, and elsewhere. as a consequents of that, they're pretty -- very, very highly skilled and they're all paired with much younger pilots. but one of the younger pilots i spoke to who has been flying just a few years, this year alone, anderson, he counted to 100 combat sortis and stopped bothering. >> incredible. sam kylie, thank you for that report, really extraordinary. cnn military analyst, mark hurtling joins us now. are those helicopters even designed for that? >> they are, anderson. those are mi17 helicopters, i think. i just picked it up on the film as sam was doing his report. and what they're flying is what's called map of the earth. all combat aircraft do that. they try and stay as low as possible to avoid any kind of radar signatures, and there is that up and down nap of the earth undulating terrain. they're firing rocket pods, and rocket pods are not precision weapons. they're somewhat the artillery of the air. it's difficult to get a target strike with that unl

and he says, know liberia could work. but i really think panama's where you should go because they got great coal mines down there and you'll do great down there and it is just as horrible, i think condescending moment as a lincoln guy. it's of three or four moments where i'm like, come, abe, did you really have to do it that way? did you really have to say that you make it so hard on us today to to talk about what you were doing. but what was lincoln doing here? why did he invite five black men into the white house and then lecture them? well, lincoln also invited a stenographer, the room who wrote down everything that lincoln said. lincoln wanted message to go out to racist white northern electorate. he was preparing them for emancipation. he wanted them to know if emancipation comes, which lincoln had already decided. emancipation was coming. but if emancipation, you don't need to be as worried about it because i'm going to actually also push for colonization as well. now, this is, i think, an unfortunate moment of lin

i was an international prosecutor that prosecuted charles taylor, the president of liberia.thought they had escaped justice were arrested 13 and 16 years after their indictments. so it is possible to do these things if the international community is serious. and if they essentially provide that there can be no end of sanctions, no end of russia's, no ability for russia to get its frozen assets back unless they comply with international orders. the international criminal court has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against community and crimes committed in ukraine and certainly they have the ability to prosecute putin and issued an arrest warrant for him. there is the question of the crime of aggression and there is a lot of talk about the need to establish one.— a lot of talk about the need to establish one. . , , ._ ., establish one. please stay there for a second. establish one. please stay there for a second- i — establish one. please stay there for a second. i want _ establish one. please stay there for a second. i want to _ establish one. please stay there for a secon

inspired my interest in news as immigrants, they taught me awareness and engagement my parents left liberiar to build a new life and careers and create opportunities for my brothers and me my parents are educators my dad retired from the long career of academics and research and public service during this time, he fulfilled a life-long dream of running for president in liberia i'm inspired by their story. >> announcer: executive edge is sponsored by at&t business at&t 5g is fast, reliable and secure ! welcome to our t bark. oh, i can tell business is going through the “woof”. but seriously we need a reliable way to help keep everyone connected from wherever we go. well at at&t we'll help you find the right wireless plan for you. so, you can stay connected to all your drivers and stores on america's most reliable 5g network. that sounds just paw-fect. terrier-iffic i labra-dore you round of a-paws at&t 5g is fast, reliable and secure for your business. it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. science proves quality sleep is vital to your mental, emotio