not a semi that the director of the center family studies at university of denver. great to get your thoughts and expertise and out there. thanks for joining us. my nada. her families of the victims of last year's buried port explosion have been staging and all the demonstration this time and support of the judge who is investigating the incident. on monday, tard bitter had to suspend his prob, after a complaint by a former interior minister, then a 100 reports now from the lebanese capital family members of more than 200 people killed in the bay report. the explosion aren't angry and they're standing behind a judge under fire from lebanon's political establishment. thought it better is leading an investigation into one of the largest non nuclear explosions in world history. it's been more than a year, and there are no answers that i thought is doing that i job going on. and that's what the price and the politicians are being accused of obstructing the prob, to avoid accountability authority, say the blast was caused by highly explosive material stored at a warehouse

. >> university of southern colorado. >> denver to the university of southern colorado. nths and waited tables at governor's park restaurant in denver and moved to washington, d.c. >> when you were waiting tables were your parents anxious to have you out? >> i don't think so. i lived in the basement and didn't cause too much problems. >> went to bed at 8 o'clock. >> did you think you were good at it? >> as a waitress? i was excellent. that was one of the best jobs. i learned so much. i have a great memory. >> and the biggest tips? >> i don't know. one of the big o.j. simpson nights i was working like the bronco night. i made like $1,000 in a night. nobody left. >> was there a racial difference between the tippers and the non-tippers? >> no, it was denver, colorado. >> there was no racial difference? >> boy! you are making my heart warm. >> i am just curious. >> when you left home? >> you left a gap? >> in my stepfather's right eye. we had a miscommunication at dinner. i served him a 2 piece and took a trash bag at 16 and went out in the world and didn't look back. >> can

he first came to cato as an intern after graduating from the university of denver over a decade ago. we've been stuck with him ever sense. i will return at the end of the day to introduce the vice dean. thanks very much. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. this is my 11th constitution day, including the one where i was an intern. what a difference a year makes. last year, i was bald voluntarily. we are doing this from our data new table. this is much better than last year. a year ago, we were facing a presidential election we did note would end up in a shameful debacle, although some of us would suspect. ruth ginsburg died the day after constitution day. the conference nation was difficult. it was not his contentious as justice kavanaugh. we have a new court. it is a very different thing than the 5-4 republican majority. what have we learned this year? we learned that people who owned tigers were crazy. we learned that justices are judges and not politicians. you can get nine it to agree on a religious liberty case. we learned that while chief justice roberts had power

he first came to cato as an intern after graduating from the university of denver over a decade ago. we've been stuck with him ever sense. i will return at the end of the day to introduce the vice dean. thanks very much. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. this is my 11th constitution day, including the one where i was an intern. what a difference a year makes. last year, i was bald voluntarily. we are doing this from our data new table. this is much better than last year. a year ago, we were facing a presidential election we did note would end up in a shameful debacle, although some of us would suspect. ruth ginsburg died the day after constitution day. the conference nation was difficult. it was not his contentious as justice kavanaugh. we have a new court. it is a very different thing than the 5-4 republican majority. what have we learned this year? we learned that people who owned tigers were crazy. we learned that justices are judges and not politicians. you can get nine it to agree on a religious liberty case. we learned that while chief justice roberts had power

neighborhood in denver he was valedictorian in his class and national merit scholar and first students to attend college of agriculture and mechanic arts which is now colorado state university. mosley was the school's first plaque varsity football player and served as vice president of his college class as a junior and as a senior. and at the start of the second world war mosley dreamed of serving his country as a pilot. after being denied the opportunity to join the rotc program in, he paid for his own physical and taking lessons. the program in june of 1941, mosley was not drafted to join them. he whats sent to an artillery unit in oklahoma. he protested, writing letters to members of congress and the president until he was finally accepted into the tuesday you tphoeut. they flew more than 15,000 missions over north africa and europe during world war ii. lieutenant colonel mosley served as a pilot in the berlin airlift delivering supplies to the soviet blockades. upon his death in 2015, his son eric dold "the denver post" that lieutenant colonel mosley always said that he had to, quote, in order to fight, he had to struggle, in order to fight for his country, end quote. h

court of appeals for the ninth circuit and taught for three years at the university of denver as a visiting professor of law. in private practice, veronica specialized in complex civil litigation and handled cases about everything from antitrust law to intellectual property law. at this point, veronica could have pursued any number of high-paying legal jobs, but instead she became a federal public defender for the districts of colorado and wyoming, and over the past 12 years, ms. rossman developed rare expertise as an appellate specialist, handling direct criminal appeals from every judicial district in the tenth circuit. in her time as a public defender, she has handled or supervised over 100 appellate matters before the tenth circuit. she has represented more than 250 indigent clients from controversial defendants to people sentenced to long terms for a nonviolent offense, even though they had no criminal history. she fought for every one of those americans, often against long odds. but more than that, mr. president, she fought for the american ideal that everyone deserves equal justice u