." >>> the conference at the american bar association meetimg is where we are going next to hear steve bunnel talk. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> good morning, everything within. thank you, joe, for the kind introduction. i am very fortunate to be a successor in your position and i think all of us across the entire department continue to benefit from your leadership in our forming years. they say the years two-five are the most important in one's development and you were there in the beginning. let me also thank josh for his leadership not only in helping to get this conference organized but working with joe and your leadership in helping to establish the discipline of homeland security law and together with joe really helping to establish a bar in this space. i think it is an important area for people to draw together the different aspects of law and policy that shape what we do. and frankly it is one of the things that makes it so interesting. the different strains of law coming together around a common set of challenges. so thank you, not only for the logistics but the tho