ladies and johnson and please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you doug and that was great and i thought i kid eat the rest of my lunch if you started on my bio. that could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long unfortunately, which just shows my age but it is really really a pleasure to be back here to be at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room and now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at its not the easiest to see all of you so i apologize. i will try and speak to the room without looking like i'm following a tennis match. [laughter] it is particularly nice to be here because it is a reunion of sorts with so many people that i know from jobs i have had before this from trips to the border, from trips to mexico, from so much of the work that we have all done together to work on order infrastructure, border issues back also to things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years with the exception of the cohort that in this room that wasn't born when i started w

these welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] -- please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you, duncan. that was great. i thought i could eat the rest of my lunch if he was starting on my bio. it could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long, unfortunately. which just shows my age. but it is really a pleasure to be back here at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room. now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at, it's not the easiest to see all of you. i apologize. i will try to speak to the room without looking like i am calling a tennis match. it is particularly nice to be here. it is a reunion, of course, with so many people i know from before this, trips to the border. trips to mexico. so much of the work we have all work on bordero infrastructure, border issues, all sorts of things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years. with the exception of the cohorts in this room that weren't born when i started working on mexican issues. there are more of those than i would like to admit. i am del

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roberta jacobson. [applause] >> thank you, duncan. that was great. i thought i could eat the rest of my lunch if he was starting on my bio. it could take the rest of the afternoon. it is now very long, unfortunately. which just shows my age. but it is really a pleasure to be back here at the wilson center. i have actually never been in this room. now i know why. because as lovely as it is to look at, it's not the easiest to see all of you. i apologize. i will try to speak to the room without looking like i am calling a tennis match. it is particularly nice to be here. it is a reunion, of course, with so many people i know from before this, trips to the border. trips to mexico. so much of the work we have all done together to work on border infrastructure, border issues, all sorts of things that so many of you in this room and i have done over the years. with the exception of the cohorts in this room that weren't born when i started working on mexican issues. there are more of those than i would like to admit. i am delighted to be here