graduated magna cum laude from t tulane law school. we're also joined by the honorable adam laxalt. attorney general, state of nevada. he has been serving as the attorney general since january of 2015. form former lieutenant in the u.s. navy. volunteered to serve in a combat zone in iraq, had operating base camp victory where his team was in charge of keeping more than 20,000 detainees during the surge. he was awarded the joint service commendation medal and iraq campaign medal. his unit was awarded the joint meritorious union award. he served as a special ausa. taught law. advised at the state department and serves on the board of trustees for catholic charities of southern nevada and co-founded the saint thomas moore society in nevada. graduated mag na cum laude from georgetown. let's welcome our speakers and we'll begin. if i may begin with you, judge pryor, since you have served a little while ago, what was it like serving as attorney general then? >> it was a different world. i became the attorney general of alabama in january of 1997. jeff sessions, my former boss, had just be

she is a magna cum laude, phi beta kappa graduate of syracuse university, go orange. and she received her masters degree from the catholic university. please join me in welcoming her to hofstra so she can introduce the panel. [applause] >> good morning everyone. for the second time, i would like to thank hofstra for including the unique perspectives of some of our country's national treasures for political cartoonists who have drawn president george w. bush among other presidents and cultural icons throughout their distinguished careers. to my immediate left, is steve breen. he was born in los angeles and grew up in neighboring orange county, the second oldest of eight children. he attended the university of california at riverside where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and it was at the university that he started drawing editorial cartoons for his school newspaper, the highlander. in 1991, he won the scholz award as a top college cartoonist. all of you budding editorial cartoonists out there, it starts in high school and college. he was about to bec