[applause] >> our next invited speaker is robert phillips from border community alliance. welcome. >> thank you. thank you for this opportunity. to put this in context, i lived with my wife who is also an immigrant, in novalis, arizona, for approximately ten years. i went there to direct a children's clinic and provided free medical care for children coming that was my in-depth exposure to the realities of the border as it is today. i am representing the board of directors, which is a community operation in the state of sonora, new mexico. these are colleagues of mine, we were together on the border for many years now. they felt that san francisco, and the resources, the insights and the dedication that is present in this area, in the institutions, such as yourselves on universities, other agencies could be critical help to them in their time. i am not going to go over all of the statistics, because many of you have access to them. we know how bad it is, we understand the numbers are increasing. we know how many children and families are being forced to remain in mexico. i

phillip d. miller. >> robert alan miller. >> robert cromwell miller jr. >> benny millman. >> charles m.ls jr. >> ronald keith milstein. >> robert j.minara. >> william george minardi. >> louis joseph minervino. >> thomas mingione. >> wilbert miraille. >> domenick mircovich. >> rajesh mirpuri. >> joseph d.mistrulli. >> susan j.miszkowicz. >> paul thomas mitchell. >> richard d.miuccio. >> jeffrey peter mladenik. >> frank v.moccia sr. >> louis joseph modafferi. >> and my brother, alan cornwell, it's been 18 years, and i haven't missed a year, you're always in my heart. with your brother, and your sister, and your niece, your nephew. and your great nephews, and your great niece. we love you, and god bless the united states of america. >> and my brother-in-law, jayesh shah. it's been 18 years since we put a bookmark in the book of life and held this spot that you were forcefully taken away from us. i look forward to a moment when our souls can reconnect and we can share the wonder of these chapters. your spirit of love, adventure and compassion live on in your three children, nici, sonia and

psychologically damaged reminiscent of taxi drivers travis bickle one of robert de niro's most iconic roles. our. director todd phillips best known for the hangover trilogy came to venice with his star joaquin phoenix. both were in high spirits confident that with joker they had an ace up their sleeves. here's a guy who searching for a dennehy i think he becomes mistakenly symbol and really what he was looking for is adulation he was never looking for the world to burn this joker. arthur flick has a condition he bursts into cackles of laughter usually at inappropriate moments he's heavily medicated a wannabe stand up comedian he can't keep it together onstage it always bombs he's a loser. i didn't refer to any customer relations of the character. it was just something that felt like it was our creation some ways and the think that's what was really important for me. it's an inspired reinvention of the villain purpose even heath ledger's character pales in comparison to joaquin phoenix's joker i have bad news he lost 24 kilos to play the part of this underdog turned angel of vengeance. and we just. got the way. everyone

and jean-roberts will like get his groove back and do the right thing. and that's not what's going to happen in 2021. >> and phillipeon the impeachment front, this is -- this is the driving debate right now in the democratic party, is whether or not the leadership in the house is going to take the plunge and go right to impeachment. >> well, look, at 1:00 in the afternoon, i'm not as excitable as elie at one income the morning, but i am as worked up about this as he is, but with one little difference. the candidates brought up, the candidates discussed what was brought up today. the real question is why weren't they asked about it. if someone is asked a question for the 40th time about medicare for all and says look, there is no point to this unless we impeach donald trump, that's a little bit of a stretch. there is a circular argument where the media are not asking during the debates these question, and then people like speaker pelosi say we're not hearing about it from the voters. what's strange you had ten people on stage. five or six if not seven are sitting members of congress who have come out very strongly fo