this is -- at this seminar, the title is getting the ungettable story.irst, i'd like to thank the center for communications for their support. a few individual people in the audience especially harvey simpson who is here who is a very passionate about investigative reporting and has been a donor to the polk program. ralph angleman, my colleague. who shares more than half the burden of it. some judges are here, and i see sprinkled throughout the audience. we have our lifetime award winner, ronny duggar in the audience. the executive director of al jazeera english has flown over, john blair who is here somewhere and i'm forgetting some people, so, please, forgive me for that. now as most reporters can tell you some stories are just simply hard to get, and they may be hard to get because the very institution they're covering is premised on secrecy or they may be hard to get because, let's say, you're covering the crackdown of an authoritarian government and it wants to keep your footage off the air or it may be hard to get because you're a war correspondent

20, 30 years from now and see the hispanic vote just like the african-american vote, absolutely ungettableepublicans, if they continue on these policies. >> richard nixon got a third -- >> a third. >> a third of the african-american vote. >> wow. alicia, ed rollins on fox news, i don't know, maybe he's trying to get some days off from fox news, but saying the kinds of things that they don't want to hear, but that was kind of an amazing statement that it's not clear to me what the republicans might try to do about that, about this aging demographic that they have, this narrow ethnic demographic that they have. >> there are whistle-blowers in the party who are trying to make it clear to everyone that the shift is in progress, that they are largely out of step with this demo, but it seems to be a problem in leadership, that the leadership doesn't truly get it. >> i notice that it's the campaign types like rollins, like rove. >> you mean the people who want to win? >> the people who run presidential campaigns to try to win them are the ones who have been saying, you've got to worry about this.

this is a seminar titled "getting the ungettable story." i want to thank harvey simpson who is here and very passionate about investigative reporting. a donor to the program. my colleague, ralph. i see some judges here. we have our lifetime award winner in the audience. we have our lifetime award winner, ronnie. [applause] the executive director of al jazeera english has flown over, john blair. he is here somewhere. i am sure i am forgetting some people so please forgive me for that. as most reporters can tell you, some stories are just simply hard to get. and they may be hard to get because the very institution you are covering is premised on secrecy or because let's say you are covering the crackdown of an authoritarian government and it wants to keep your footage off the air. or maybe you are a war correspondent in the middle of libya or afghanistan. as winston churchill remarked, i think he said something about in war, the truth is precious. she must be surrounded by bodyguards of lies. finally, what if you have come with a wonderful, h