doug ginsburg, jeff sutton and then judge not justice neil gorsuch, also included former attorney general michael mr. casey, from white as counsel don mcgahn, john allison and senators tom cotton in ben sasse. that brings us to today's lecture. it is my privilege to introduce for this year's lecture the honorable william barr, attorney general of the united states. people serve in government from a wide variety of reasons in addition to performing valuable public service. there's power. there's a stepping stone to even higher office, or the prestige of having had the position and the honor one receive all serving the country in such an important role. but in the current case it's really difficult to see how most of these self-serving and sends apply. the that still does is for performing a valuable public service. indeed, much of his career has been spent performing executive session exact to such service going back to his early days with the cia. he received his ma in, from columbia in chinese studies, and that might come in handy. [laughing] and is gw from georgetown, george washington. he clerked for the underrated judge malcolm wilke on u.s. court of appeals for the