. >> thomas shannon, now retired, was a campus police officer at the time. >> sometimes you just overlook those things. >> you want to do some fingerprints or not? >> reluctantly the suspect gets up. instead of facing the table, the 6'2" burgen stares down the must smaller burnett. the rookie officer tries to assert his authority. you going to cooperate or not? >> i think there's times where the officer was trying to establish himself as the alpha dog in the situation. he was a young officer, and there are times when you need to do that. this is not one of those times because you had a suspect who was unstable. >> burnett again sensing trouble is hoping to get burgen back on the bench and get some additional assistance. >> sit down on the chair. no, you're not. you're going to sit down. >> i'm going to try to give my fingerprints and do what you want me to do. >> you don't square off with me! you understand. we're going to do this again. after a minute officer burnett returns and uncuffs the suspect a second time. >> just off camera is campus police officer thomas shannon. >> officer burn

let me introduce our first panel , thomas shannon, counter the state department. ambassador shannon has a long has been hemispheric and does well this issues. emperor schwartz swartz at the criminal department of justice. thank you for being here. let me advise you your full statements have been included in the record. i ask you to summarize in five minutes or so so we can get into the q&a. we'll start with you, ambassador shannon. >> mr. chairman, senator corker, distinguished members of the committee, thank you or the opportunity to get by today. it is not to appear before you put my colleague from the department of justice, bruce swartz. i'd also like to thank you, mr. chairman. and you senator corker for the work you have done in moving ahead in nominations through the recent conservation as genial in a ponderous enhancer diplomatic presence. thank you very much for the effort you have made and the committee has made. i'm grateful for the offered committee to address the consequences of the surge in unaccompanied children along the southwest border. in my writt

thomas shannon, a counselor at the state department.has a long history in the hemisphere and is very well some of these issues. and bruce shorts, attorney general. we appreciate you being here. let me advise you both that your full statement will be included in the record. without objection, i asked you to summarize them with about five mins or so so we can get to to q and a. -- >> thank you for the opportunity to testify today. if i might, i would also like to thank you mr. chairman and you senator worker and for the tremendous work you and your committee have done in moving ahead with ambassadorial nominations. thank you very much for the tremendous effort you both have made in your committee has made gerry i am grateful for the opportunity to address the ineign policy implications the surge of unaccompanied children in our southern border. i outline the challenges we face . as we consider the challenges posed by this migration of unaccompanied children, i would like to note the following. first, migration by unaccompanied children is

ambassador thomas shannon, i have a question. why wouldn't the administration call an emergency summit with the organization of american states? we know the oas is a body set up for regional political economic and social cooperation. this is, it seems to me, the right venue where we take care of what we have to do here, take a look at this as a broader problem. can you react to that idea? >> that is a very good suggestion, and i thank you for it. we have had an opportunity to do several regional events related to this question. there was a conference held in nicaragua under the auspices of the un high commission on refugees about a month ago where we were able to fashion documents and approaches that allowance, i think, to understand in a common fashion house this dynamic, this crisis of migration. a similar conference was over a few days ago in mexico city sponsored by the mexican government and the holy see on migration and development and the government of honduras yesterday held a regional migration conference where we were a