doctor luisa bernard is a senior vice president at the obama foundation the founding director of the obama presidential center museum. dishe previously served as director of exhibitions at the new york public library as curator of pros and drama for the yale collection of american literature of the rare book and manuscript library at yale university at the assistant professor of english at georgetown university. as curator of pros and drama for the yale collection of american literature atur the by nikki rae book and manuscript library at yale university. an assistant professor of english at georgetown university.wn chicago public library commissioner chris brown is passionate about redefining what public libraries can bring to the committees they serve. brown came to see po in 2021 after more than a decade serving in california districts. he is currently spearheading collaboration with g neighborhod safety groups, city departments, andes outside partners in ordero establish safe spaces for youth. and now, please welcome to the stage doctor carla hayden. doctor luisa bernard and commi

currently serves as the executive vice president and chief strategy and impact officer for the obama foundation. she served for eight years in the obama white house, first as the inaugural director of the white house office of public engagement and then as chief of staff to mrs. obama. chen also served as the executive director of the white house council on women and girls for eight years after the white house, she worked in the chicago office of the buckley law firm and later served as the president and ceo of time's up now! and the time's up, founder. the panel this evening also includes three hofstra professors who have scholarly expertise in women's studies, public communication policy making, education and mental health counseling all priority of michelle obama when she served as first lady. so far, this to your left. dr. lisa merrill is professor of writing, studies and rhetoric in the hofstra college of liberal arts and sciences. her research and publications are in the fields of performance studies critical race and cultural studies and women's and lgbtq history. professor merrill's pub

and and though i know it's no longer your role now that you're in the obama foundation, can you share with us what initiatives have continued or what new things mrs. obama might be up to? oh, so this is something i just learned from our predecessor is, you know, having both, you know, read, you know, the various biographies of our predecessors and also becoming the other the thing i had the advantage of doing as chief of staff was i became, you know, very good friends with my predecessor, chiefs of staff. so mrs. bush's chief of staff, anita mcbride, became a dear friend, milan verveer, who is, you know, hillary clinton's chief of staff when she was first lady. and they were real true advisors and and guideposts for me in this job that has no job description and and one of the things i learned from them was to think about where do you want to put your initiative. so, for example, you know, secretary clinton put her america's first treasures and got it, you know, embedded into the department of interior and the reading initiatives that mrs. bush did, you know, got it embedded, you know

current senior counselor of the president of the heritage foundation and served in the linton and obama foundations and is the center -- and at the center for american progress. to your assessment of the response so far when it comes to the outbreak of war in israel, what should be the priority right now for the administration? guest: so i think president biden has done an incredible job in a challenging situation. and his priority is i believe it should be, ensuring that israel knows that the united states is committed to their security and their ability to go after the hamas military in the way that they have, and to maximize the ability for humanitarian aid assistance to get into israel, and at the same time to ensure that american military that is dispersed to try to keep the region from further blowing up is also sufficiently protected. host: how do you balance all of those things and is the priority in that order as you laid out? guest: not in that order, thank you. because the first priority for the president of the united states is protecting u.s. national security and national security int

current senior counselor of the president of the heritage foundation and served in the linton and obama foundations and is the center -- and at the center for american progress. to your assessment of the response so far when it comes to the outbreak of war in israel, what should be the priority right now for the administration? guest: so i think president biden has done an incredible job in a challenging situation. and his priority is i believe it should be, ensuring that israel knows that the united states is committed to their security and their ability to go after the hamas military in the way that they have, and to maximize the ability for humanitarian aid assistance to get into israel, and at the same time to ensure that american military that is dispersed to try to keep the region from further blowing up is also sufficiently protected. host: how do you balance all of those things and is the priority in that order as you laid out? guest: not in that order, thank you. because the first priority for the president of the united states is protecting u.s. national security and national security int

their relationships are still extremely strong she is now ceo of the obama foundation. there was a very intense time in the way that, again, the limited timeframe, i am very sensitive to energy, so it gets more phonetic, which is fine for the role because that was what was going on at the time, everything was phonetic. the process for me is always the same. i dive as deep as i can. i was only in a few episodes, it doesn't matter the amount it just matters the quality of the content. i read her autobiography, there are tons of stuff that you can watch, obviously very different from elizabeth keckley . there was just something about her. you just cannot help yourself. you just have to love her because she has all this energy and goodness beaming out of her. >> and power. she was the most powerful woman ever in the white house. >> exactly. >> yes. back me up here. >> the monochromatic suits him at the power suits and all solid, exactly. the glasses that match the suit , she is a spitfire in every way, smart as a whip, and can handle those -- i don't know if i can say it. >

she is part of the obama foundation. it was a very intense time in the way that, again, the limited timeframe. i'm very sensitive to energy, so it gets a little more frenetic, which is fine for the role, because that was what was going on at the time. everything was frenetic. the process, for me, is always the same. i dive as deep as i can. i was only in a few episodes, but that doesn't matter. it just matters the quality of the content, i think. i read her autobiography. of course, there is tons of stuff you can watch. obviously, very different from elizabeth keckley. but, there is just something about her. you just can't help yourself. you have to love her. she's got all this energy, and there is just goodness beaming out of her, and power. >> she has a -- she is the most powerful woman that has ever been in the white house. >> but, the monochromatic suits , the power suits, the glasses that match the suits. she is just a spitfire in every possible way. smart as a whip, and could handle -- i don't know if i can say. >>

affairs and he also serves on numerous boards including the legacy of war and consults for the obama foundation so please join me in welcoming ben rhodes. >> [ applause ] >> peter baker is a chief white house correspondent for the new york times and has covered five presidents as a reporter for the times and in his previous position at the washington post. as a white house correspondent, he has reported on elections, foreign policies, natural disasters, supreme court appointments and all kinds of other things. in between his stint in the white house, mr. baker spent four years as moscow bureau chief for the washington post and also cover the early months of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and was the first journalist to report from rebel hill after september 11th of 2001. mr. baker is the author of seven books which have garnered many awards and has been a lot of time on the bestseller list. most relevant to our conference, he is author of obama: the call of history, which was a finalist in the image award for outstanding literary work. mr. baker has won all three major awards, the gerald ford

she's now ceo of the obama foundation. but there you know, it was a very intense time. and the way that because it again, the limited frame makes them i'm very sensitive to energy it's like it gets a little bit more frenetic the and which is fine for the role because was what was going on at the time was frenetic and you know the process for me is is always the same i dive as deep as i can. i was only in a few episodes, but that doesn't matter, you know, it doesn't matter about the amount, it just matters the quality of the content. i think so. you know, i read her autobiography, of course, there's tons of stuff you can watch. obviously very different from elizabeth keckley. so i just love but i just there's just something about her, you know, you just can't help yourself. you got to kind of love because she's just she's got all this energy and this just goodness beaming out of her and and people most powerful woman ever been in the white house. exactly yeah, well, you're this story. yeah. okay, that's me up here. matthew, let me pick it out. so but, you know, the the m

he also serves on numerous boards including the legacy of war, and consults for the obama foundation. please join me in welcoming ben rhodes. peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for the new york times and has covered five presidents as a reporter for the times and in his previous position at the washington post. as a white house correspondent mr. baker has ported on election, inaugurations, natural disasters, legislative battle, supreme court appointments and all kinds of other things. between his time in the white house he spent four years as a bureau chief for the washington post. mr. baker also covered the early months of the worst in iraq and afghanistan the first journalist to report from northern afghanistan after september 11 2001. he is the author of seven books which have garnered many awards and has spent many times on best seller lists. most relevant to this conference he is author of obama, the call to history. which got the literary award for outstanding work. he has won all three major awards for house reporting, distinguished coverage of the presidency tw

current senior counselor of the president of the heritage foundation and served in the linton and obama foundations is the center -- and at the center for american progress. to your assessment of the response so far when it comes to the outbreak of war in israel, what should be the priority right now for the administration? guest: so i think president biden has done an incredible job in a challenging situation. and his priority is i believe it should be, ensuring that israel knows that the united states is committed to their security and their ability to go after the hamas military in the way that they have, and to maximize the ability for humanitarian aid assistance to get into israel, and at the same time to ensure that american military that is dispersed to try to keep the region from further blowing up is also sufficiently protected. host: how do you balance all of those things and is the priority in that order as you laid out? guest: not in that order, thank you. because the first priority for the president of the united states is protecting u.s. national security and national security interes

foundation. wiesel was the one who accused hamas of using human shields in the gaza war and was very critical of obama for pushing to stop urban development in jerusalem. soon, with the help of the media, wiesel became a global figure in the field of literature and human rights. now maybe it is better to talk about human rights institutions and their zionist supporters. in 1948, along with the birth of israel, the declaration of human rights is also born in paris. elino roosevelt, the widow of the former american president, now has the role of a prophet who announced a new order in the world. eleanor in the united nations followed the human rights activities of the united states and watched the rise and growth of israel at the same time . with the declaration of human rights, now the world seems to have become the ideal world of elena roosevelt and everything seemed good. the ink of the signatures of the heads of state on the declaration of human rights had not yet dried when the terrible war began in korea. it was an ironic symmetry. maybe this paper and his writings did not change anything in the ou

he was at the heritage foundation, a visiting fellow, acting under trump. before that he was head of border patrol under obama. before that, had a long career as an fbi special agent and other experience in law enforcement, so he has dealt with this directly and in real life. joining him is andrew arthur, a resident fellow at the center for immigration policies. he has decades of experience in immigration, was a lawyer for the old immigration and naturalization service, at one point was acting chief of the security law division. has served two terms on capitol hill, wrote some of the immigration law that we all have to deal with now, and also was an immigration judge for many years. so i want to thank them for coming and i want to ask mark first, so you where the border patrol chief and then you got a promotion, you are head of cbp which included border patrol under it. how -- not just numbers have gone up, but how has it changed under president biden? push the button. >> hyper she the question. what we are experiencing is the worst self-inflicted border patrol crisis that we have experienced. sheriff daniels

foundation litigation. care is another organization that is linked closely with the democratic party and the f.b.i. and obama administration. she is the consequence of these things. she is heralded all across the middle east by not just palestinians but the most radical terrorists in the middle east and she is proud of it. so she serves here not as a support of the united states, which she hates, but as a support of these various movements in the middle east and when she comes under attack, she pulls her race card and also then takes a few steps back because that's what they are taught. in that meeting in philadelphia where hamas decided and their funders decided they have an influence in the educational system and media system and political system in the united states, that's what they said. don't be obvious supporters of who we are. use propaganda, use techniques, you know, come across as sort of soft but we know that what you are and what you are doing is what we support. so look, here is the bottom line. we have allowed our college campuses to get away from us under the rubric of free speech and academic

first, mark morgan with the heritage foundation as a visiting fellow, active commissioner of customs and border protection under trump and before that, under obama. before that, had a long career as an fbi special agent and experience in law enforcement. he has dealt with this directly and in real life. joining him is andrew arthur, a resident fellow law and policy at the center for immigration studies. he also has decades of experience in immigration, was a lawyer for the old immigration and naturalization service and at one point was acting chief of the security law division, has served as two hitches on capitol hill, wrote some of the immigration law that we all have to deal with now, and also was an immigration judge for many years. i want to thank them for coming and i want to ask mark first, so, you were the border patrol chief and then got a promotion and you were head of cbp, which includes the border patrol under it. how is the border border security changed under president biden since he took office? >> first of all let me be clear, what we are experiencing now is the worst self-inflicted border security crisis that we have experienced

foundational issue here. i have reservations about your ability to do that. you played a key role in supporting obama nuclear and i have concerns about transparency on the transfers of cash to the regime. you insisted that the transfers of cash do not free up iranian resources for terrorism activities. i agree with that assessment and it is alleged that you lied or misled us this very committee on that i have three items i want to insert in the record and i will, mr. chairman. two of them are opinion pieces from the "washington post" and third one is a report by the permanent subcommittee on investigations which has been authored. senator cardin: without objection. they will be included. >> i'm going to have questions for you about your activities in what i think was a back handed way of supporting iran. and with that, i yield back. i'm here to support israel today and help every way i can. it's important to get the right person in this position. senator cardin: we will hear from secretary lew. you may proceed as you wish. mr. lew: chairman cardin and ranking member and members of the committee. i am

obama's nominee to become the 11th archivist of the united states. we hope you get all the way through that senate process. also trustees of the gerald r. ford presidential foundation who, in addition to susan who are here, include tina freeze decker, david hooker and fred keller. the director of the ford presidential library and museum, brooke, brook clement, is with us also. and west michigan's veteran political reporter rick alban is with us. let's give all these distinguished guests a hand. [ applause ] >> i also want to thank the many, many generous donors, the sponsors who made this luncheon possible. again, please hold your applause, our premier sponsor, once again, fifth third bank, our table sponsors, steve and amy van andle foundation, blue cross, blue shield, blue care network of michigan and the seco family foundation are the principal table sponsors. and i want to point out that joan secia, the wife of the late ambassador, peter, is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [ applause ] >> there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program, and we appreciate and thank you all. well, i'd now like to invite reverend lynet

clinton foundation to pay for a lot of these color revolutions era spring libya over throw syria over pro ukrainian operations, it was a report called shell game, and it showed the a biden obama hillary clinton, eric holder landey brewery club ball using swiss bank union bank and switzerland to fund a lot of these neo conservative empire building the color revolutions and government overthrows. so that's, that's what they also used to overthrow donald trump was union bank of switzerland and covington, and burling and election fraud. but what we see now really is the implosion of the state department, the implosion of the c. i a, in their narrative, they're desperately scrambling. part of the reason for the avalanche, which always remember you can never stop is because you have countries like check the check republic. slovakia, poland itself. let's trail your united states, canada, britain. the people of these countries are over throwing their own political, elected officials, because they're considering them traders. and they're putting in officials or, or preparing to put in officials that are adamantly opposed to this ukranian war. and this endless funding. and this and tag

clinton foundation all the way to today we have been saving in nepotism and influence peddling and from the trump children to the biden's and now is enjoying his post presidential earnings like obamaand those vice presidential earnings that biden did that he's running for president of earning money from the saudi's. have we just become numb to this? >> i think we have and you mentioned the clintons, the clintonti foundation. hillary was taking in foreign money at a time when it was assumed that hillary would be that next president so i think we have become inured to this. after ronald reagan left the white house he went to japan in may by $2 million. i don't know ifu you remember , it was an outrage. people were upop in arms that reagan did made something $ like $2 million from giving speeches chump change. it's on the up-and-up in terms of ethics and legality but the amount you know it's a pittance compared to our rich popoliticians. >> it'san amazing. talk a little bit about as a result we are not policing them. we expect it and that gives rise to a lot of resentment and anger. we aren'tac bringing back those standards of what is within the bounds of reason. >> i think apathy is

foundation, the leon levy center i biography artists residencies and, other programs. she is the author. first book was american tapestry story of the black, white and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama, and she is a coauthor of unseen, unpublished black history from the new york times, her most book is the 272, which we'll hear about in a moment. kidada williams is like me, a professor of history. she teaches at wayne state in detroit. she is the author of two amazing books. i death coming, which she will be talking about today. and they left great marks me her she is a coauthor of the charleston syllabus, which was a collection of writings, was put out after the massacre in charleston. that was an amazing thing. kidada and she is the creator of a podcast seizing freedom, which is really a pretty amazing project. kidada williams has been interviewed on npr's morning edition on point. her essays have appeared the new york times, slate and multiple scholarly journals. nick tabor is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in new york magazine the new republic. the post oxford american, the paris review and elsewhere. africa town, which she's going to be talking to us about today

, with the heritage foundation is a visiting fellow but was acting commissioner of customs and border protection under trump and before that was the head of border patrol under obama and before that had a long career as an fbi special agent and other experience in law enforcement. he has dealt with this directly and in real life and joining him is andrew arthur, a resident fellow of law and policy at the center of immigration studies and he also has dedicates of -- decades of experience and was a lawyer for the old immigration and naturalization service and was one time thing chief of the national security law division and has served two hitches on capitol hill and wrote some of the immigration law that we all have to deal with now. also was an immigration judge for many years. i do want to thank them for coming. i do want to ask mark first. you are a recent border patrol chief and got a promotion and you are the head of cbp which includes the border patrol under it so how does the border security at the southwest border change. not that numbers have gone up but how did it change under president biden since he took office. you can push the button. >> let me be cle

clinton foundation all the way today we have been bathing in nepotism from trump family to the bidens and now donald trump is enjoying his post presidential earnings like bill clinton did and obama did and vice presidential -- post vice presidential earnings that biden did, but he's running for president while earning money from the saudis. have we just become numb to this? >> i think we have and i do think -- you mentioned the clintons, the clinton foundation, hillary was taking in foreign money at a time that it was assumed that hillary would be the next president. so yeah, we have -- inuerd. that's chump change. perfectly on the up and up in terms of ethics and legality but the amount is just pittance to wealthy politicians today. >> we lost the capacity to be outraged and as a result -- talk a little bit about that, as a result we expect them -- we are not -- we are not policing them. we expect it and then that gives riseen to resentment and populit anger but we are not bringing back those standards of, you know, what is really within the bounds of reason. >> yeah. i think that apathy is a really bad thing because it means we've given up. i don't think when we say we have go

foundational issue here. i have reservations about your ability to do that. you played a key role in supporting the obama administration's nuclear negotiations. and i have had long-standing concerns over a lack of transparency before congress on the transfers of cash to the regime. you have publicly insisted the transfers of cash do not free up iranian resources for terror activities. i fundamentally agree with that assessment. really importantly, it's alleged you lied or at least misled us, this very committee, on that i have three items i want to insert in the record and will i, mr. chairman, two are opinion pieces from "the washington post." and the third one is a report by the permanent subcommittee on investigations, which has been authored. i would like to enter though. chair cardin: o without objection, it will be included in the record. senator risch: i'll have questions about your activities in what i think was a backhanded way of supporting iran. with that i'm going to yield back. i'm here to support israel today. help every way i can. but as i say it's -- said it's important we get the right p