we'll start with colonel amodei this. -- mo davis. >> thank you. i would start out by saying, it is a pleasure to see you, but i hate to start that way by lying. i have seen a number of you for years. i keep hoping that we will meet here one day on january 11 to take a historical look back at a footnote, regrettable footnote, in our nation's history, rather than an ongoing chapter in our nation's history. i do appreciate you coming out again this year. it seems a groundhog day. we just keep coming back here and replaying this same story over and over again. not much happens in between. i would like to say thanks to peter and the new america foundation for having us. andy, for organizing these things every year and staying focused on this issue, -- when a lot of other people find it convenient to focus on the kardashians. tom, for his years of working diligently to try to right this wrong. the speaker mentioned, -- as peter mentioned, it gives me optimism to see young people who are fired up, they will graduate and a lot to change the world. when i

so we'll standard with colonel mo davis. >> i start out by saying it's a pleasure to see you, but i hate to start off lying to you. a number of you, as i look around the room, i saw you last year and the year before that and the year before that, and i keep hoping we'll meet here on one day, january 11th, to take an historical footback on an egrettable footnote in our nation's history rate rather than an ongoing chapter in our nation's history. i do appreciate your coming out this year. it's like ground hog day. we keep coming back here and replaying the same story over and over, and not much happens in between. but, thanks to peter and the new america foundation for having us, to andy for organizing these things every year, and staying focused on this issue, and a lot of other people fine it more convenient to focus on the kardashians or whatever catches our attention at the moment, and tom for his years of working diligently to try to right this wrong. so, howard law school and that gives me optimism, sitting down with young people who are fired up. they're going to graduate and go out