i am a first year student at yale law school. six of my colleagues are testifying today drafting comments on the proposed changes, the codes of conduct and the judicial conduct and disability rules. i express my gratitude for permitting us to testify today. as law students and potential future judicial employees we believe we have a responsibility to contribute in shaping reforms that shape safety and professionalism in the judicial workplace. specifically we appreciate the committee's recognition of the unique features of the judge/slerk relationship. we direct many of our suggestions today towards the challenges this relationship offers. my colleagues and i recommend changes ranging from reporting channels to disciplinary action. my testimony concerns the need for increased flexibility and the channels through which complainants report judicial misconduct. the working group recognizes the need for more channels of reporting we similarly find that the current reporting channels actually seem rigid. in large part because the chie

she is a graduate of barter college and yale law school where she served as an editor on the yale law journal. judge gertner has also been an instructor at yale law school teaching sentencing and comparative sentencing in institutions since 1998, appointed to the federal bench by clinton in 1994, and was only the second woman to receive the thurgood marshall award for the american bar association section of individual rights and responsibilities in 2008. public articles and chapters on sentencing, discrimination, and forensic evidence, women's rights, the jury system, as well as her autobiography in defensive when in -- women, memoirs of an unrepentant advocate. >>> the editor, one of the editors of today's book was appointed to the superior court and the district court by president carter in 1977, and subsequently reappointed by president george w. bush and 92, and president george w. bush in 2007. he received his law did great from the university of michigan in 1968 where he also was a an editor from the michigan law review. he also worked in dc as a staff attorney for three years,

puerto rican legal community, and generally he was general counsel to yale and he taught at the law school. he befriended me and he's been my mentor ever since. the most telling moment for us was when i joined the second circuit court of appeals. he was a judge there and one day he says that the strangest moment for him was when his students became his colleagues on the court. >> you're appointed to that by georgia hw bush, correct? >> sonia: i was. >> and from the supreme court by president obama. >> sonia: and to the court of appeals by president clinton. it is unusual for the justice to serve on the other two cowrtsdz. there's only three justices in the united states who have served on all three levels, and it seems to happen about every hundred years. so the last one was almost a hundred years ago. >> all right oliver corpus, university high school, irvine, california. >> we are literally hundreds of questions from these kids and we are pleased with the response, oliver would like to know do you and the other justices ever hang out, outside of the courtroom? >> sonia: we hang ou

television network, it was just ridiculous what jeffrey just said, this man is a harvard graduate, yale law law, and has, as many people do, have a different opinion than him of whether there's a legitimacy with respect to birthright citizenship. look, there are a lot of people in this country who have concerns about it. you know, whether it's birther tourism where people literally come to this country and stay a few weeks just to have a child and then go back or whether it's people that come here illegally and have a child, these are all legitimate questions the court has not ruled on. to suggest that someone who might have a different opinion than mr. toobin a racist is, again, we're -- this is where we go off the rails here. you've got to say, okay, you might be wrong. i think the court will rule against you. make the legal arguments but you don't have to call people racists and bigots because they hold a point a view. >> it's not something i do condone, but several conservatives were very upset with president obama when he used executive orders particularly on daca. and i understand tha

yale law school, the same law school where his hand picked supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh went bizarre language there. i imagine we'll hear more about it when he speaks to supporters at that big rally. this race has really turned into a proxy battle between new south and old south. of course, this is very red georgia. typically it's been very conservative. keep in mind president trump only won this state by five percentage points in 2016. that's a lot closer of a margin than we saw in ohio, which is of course typically considered much more of a swing state. so things appear to be changing here in georgia. somebody like a stacey abrams, a progressive democrat, could actually pull it off. as you said, this is a very, very tight race. pretty much within the margin of error. president trump really has sort of put a lot of stock into brian kemp. this is not one of those, you know, races where you've got a competitive senate situation in georgia. most of the states he's going to, it's about balance of power. this is simply about this georgia governor's race. brian kemp very much in t

but when you do have a yale law, which is the toughest law school to get into and you're stacey abramsu don't call the person low, unequipped, unprepared and all that. >> these people have way more experience for the jobs they're going after than he had for the job that he has. so at the end of the day, you know, i don't want to -- >> is this going to stoke -- is this going to help? i grew up in a city where we had a mayor perceived to be racist, frank rizzo, he was perceived that way. it was the best registration the blacks had in philly. they out registered the whites. they said this guy is out to hurt us. >> that's what we're seeing. andrew gillum said to your his opponent, you may not think you're racist, but all the racists think you're racist. >> he doesn't seem to be impressive, he doesn't seem like an impressive alternative. >> it's bringing out women and younger voters who see his tone is off. the swing is going to come from -- >> here's a question. i notice it had in my family. women tend to be more sympathetic to people of color. they seem to be more sympathetic to migrants.

she is a graduate of barnard college nel law school where she served as an editor on the yale law journal. she has also been an instructor at yale law school teaching sincecing and institution 1998 to his appointed to the federal bench by president clinton in 1994 and was only the second woman to receive the third -- of the third guard -- a section of individual rights and responsibilities in 2008. she has published articles and chapters on sentencing, discrimination, forensic evidence, women's rights, as well as her autobiography "in defense of women, memoirs of an unrepentant advocate." judge frederick weisberg, the editor, one of the editors, was appointed to the superior court of the district court by president carter and reappointed george h.w. bush in 1992 and president george w. bush in 2007. degree fromhis law the university of michigan in 1968 where he also served as editor for the michigan law review. prior to his appointment to this a prayer court, he worked with the public defender service in d.c., before you eventually becoming the chief of the division in 1974, supervising a

went to spellman college and yale law school. we'll see if he has elaboration about that today.rian kemp is in the trump hold on immigration. he brought it up at a town hall that he held in suburban atlanta. he made some very strange comments about stacey abrams, saying that she's very in support of illegal immigrants. let's take a listen. >> she also wants taxpayer benefits, free college for those illegally. my friends, that will bankrupt the citizens. she's also been asking illegals to vote for her in this election. undocument undocumented, documented people being part of the blue wave. that's illegal, and she knows it. >> reporter: stacey abrams from her part has from beginning said that georgia is a changing state. it's ready for a progressive democrat like her to take the reins. let's see what she told "am joy" yesterday. >> we foe that the state is changing and what brian kemp said in 2014 was that too many minorities were being registered and republicans should be afraid. he said it again a couple of weeks ago. this time he says if every eligible voter in georgia casts a

discharge review board rejected it as they do an eighty five percent of requests but a group of yale law students decided that maker and soldiers like him deserve better in march of twenty two the students filed a class action lawsuit against the navy on behalf of maker and other navy and marine veterans claiming the less than honorable discharges and refusal to upgrade them showed quote a systematic institutional bias or secret policy that discriminates against applicants who suffer from p.t.s.d. and this week a federal judge in connecticut ruled that their class action lawsuit could go on just by objections by the navy the national veterans counsel for legal redress as executive director gary monk told stars and stripes magazine that he filed we filed this lawsuit to make sure that the iraq and afghanistan veterans with service connected p.t.s.d. do not suffer the same injustices as the vietnam generation this is a store i am so happy that. you brought you know you because you told the story and brought it to our attention here what a great story it's just spirally a better pages turn

. >> reporter: gary hart grew up in ottowa, kansas, graduated yale law school, and settled in coloradown to public service by president kennedy, he ended up managing george mcgovern's losing 1972 presidential race. hart went back to colorado, won a u.s. senate seat, and built a distinguished career. >> i don't think caution is what this country needs. >> reporter: by 1983 -- >> you need to run for president. we need new leadership. that's the phrase i heard over and over again. >> you would aggressively seek an attempt at dialogue with castro? >> i would challenge -- >> reporter: but 1984, hart lost the democratic nomination to vice-president walter mondale. >> when i hear your new ideas, i'm reminded of that ad, "where's the beef?" >> reporter: he became the front runner in large part because of his visionary ideas. >> i saw as early as anyone else a shift of the economic base of america from manufacturing to information and technology. symbolically from detroit to silicon valley. >> reporter: you actually worried that we were heading toward a war in the persian gulf and nobody was go

so he was a young man who went to a law school that wasn't exactly harvard or yale.him all these rewards and status probably before he was ready for them. elevated him very quickly. and he gave in exchange essentially his ethics, his morality. >> what is this favor trump was talking about? he said he hired him today because -- didn't hire him today but he said he hired him because he was doing him a favor. what's he talking about? >> i think that's just silliness. i don't think there's a spec thing. i think he hired michael cohen because he met him in real estate circles and business circles. he saw this was a guy i think who had written all over him i'm vulnerable to this. i'll join into this, what is essentially a conspiracy. everything that donald trump did through his business life was to evade straight up competition. these are not people who wanted to go toe to toe with somebody. they always want to have an advantage. some way of gaming the system. and i think cohen indicated he was ready to do that. >> in the short time i have left, frank, if that is indeed so

when i got into yale college, got into yale law school, worked my tail off. >> stephen: i busted my butter into my butt. it's called boofing! ( cheers and applause ) what was the question? you guys check out the internet lately? i saw this yesterday, there was this great story about a moth drinking a sleeping bird's tears. >> jon: wow. >> stephen: well, that's tonight's top story. ( laughter ) >> jon: hmm. >> stephen: nothing else going on. ( laughter ) god, i wish i was that bird. ( laughter ) as much as trump loves rallies he has a new way to communicate with you because this afternoon at 2:18 p.m. eastern time americans nationwide received an alert on their cell phones from president trump. but here's the truly frightening thing about the system, unlike amber alerts, the presidential alert cannot be turned off. not true for all phones. after backlash apple released a work-around. i'll show you. so if you have -- anybody have an iphone here? ( cheering ) okay. if you have an iphone, just make sure your software is up to date, okay, open up your control settings and then go to control c

you won the top prize and went to yale law school, excelled there as well and got the same kinds of questionsd this supposition that you were somehow undeserving. >> at yale, it was at a dinner by a law firm that was interviewing potential student job applicants to their firms. and my friend who invited me to the dinner had worked with this firm during the summer went around the room and described me as a puerto rican that had come from the south bronx and gone to princeton and ended up at yale, and after the introductions had finished around the table, the partner who was sitting across from me looked at me and the first question he asked me was did you get into yale only because you're puerto rican. and i was stunned. my mind raced, which was i don't really think so. i'm sure it helped, but i think i have other qualities that they also found important. but you're -- your assuming it is really insulting. i filed a complaint with yale. >> and they were forced to apologize. >> and they did, and he did personally, as a credit to him. but i think that the accomplishments that i had gone through

school.one to yale law in northern school even though he was a southerner. he could debate anyone. he could write well and speak well. but he was increasingly being pulled by his own demons and by the demons of the south toward an extremely rigid proslavery stance. was finding himself near the top of our political system in the late 1820's, he found martin van buren blocking his way. a lotrivalry holds and it of the seeds of the civil war coming. it is still a long ways away but van buren is a northerner and calhoun is a southerner and they just irritate each other. host: where they in the same party? mr. widmer: that helps to form the democratic party in the middle of the 1820's. historians sometimes get jefferson the credit for founding the democratic party. but what jefferson had founded had turned into kind of a nonparty in the 1820's. the old federalist party had mostly disappeared. there really was not a two-party system anymore. after the controversial election of 1824, it leads to congress anointing john quincy adams as president. some new people get together to start a new

leader abrams, the former leader of the democratic leader of the georgia house, is a graduate of yale law school, the same law school that justice kavanaugh went to. president trump never mentioned his qualifications. >> just one other thing, if you're a trump supporter, tell me why it's important to mention barack obama's middle name in that context. what other reason could it be? >> i think it's important to delineate between trump's closing argument and for a lot of republicans. this is not what they want to see, especially on the house side, because this is being fought in suburban districts where you have independent voters, more moderate republicans who are turned off by this. at the same time that trump may be riling up his base and encouraging his base to get out there and using racially charged language to do it, it is going to be turning off potentially a huge segment of the voting bloc that republicans need if they have any chance of keeping the house. >> you know, to that point, even to shift back to the georgia governor's race, we could see that in the atlanta suburbs, where

this is a woman who has a yale law degree, like half of trump's supreme court. so how is that unqualified? >> and we know how much the president appreciates an ivy league education, as long as that person has an "r" after their name as we are in election season. listen, this is not the first time somebody has used qualifications. i think hillary clinton said that donald trump was not qualified for the presidency. but when the sitting president of the united states, you know, a white man referring to the woman that is seeking to become the first black female governor of a state in the country, obviously she's not of his party, he has every right to go and campaign for kemp and what have you, but she certainly meets the qualifications in the georgia constitution to serve as governor. so i'm not sure why he would use that word to say that she is unqualified for the position. >> david chalian, thank you. folks, in case you're not getting enough david chalian on tv, he has his own podcast. it called the daily dc. check it out if you haven't already. >>> new numbers s

i'm a business owner, a tax attorney trained at yale law school. >> nbc's road warriors are fanned out reporting on new developments on the key races that include garrett haake in austin and catie beck in florida. >>> we begin with texas. the latest poll shows beto o'rourke closing the gap on republican incumbent ted cruz. garrett is joining us again from austin, garrett, i know you were covering ted cruz all day yesterday. now you've switched, you're covering a beto event today. how about the enthusiasm? how does it compare between both sets of supporters? >> alex, a very different vibe bouncing back and forth between the two campaigns. the cruz events have been crowds than have been older and whiter. this is the biggest of the crowds we've seen we're in aust austin, texas. here we meet voters like carly. can you explain to me what it is about this campaign that has got so many texans paying attention? nationally it's been huge but what's going on in texas with the beto o'rourke campaign? >> it's because for the first time i've seen in a long time a candidate talking to everybody, not

i am the most qualified candidate, i am a business owner and tax attorney who's trained at yale law school. >> the white house is framing truck as a senate seat saver. >> picking up a new seats will be historic. nobody is talking about losing seats is remarkable. >> our road lawyers are across the map reporting new developments on key races including morgan radford and kristen welker at the white house for us. >> democrats stacey abrams and brian kemp are locked in a statistical dead heat. this morning, kemp is charging georgia democrats with attempted voter hack, abramss fir fires b. >> reporter: i am standing in front of the united methodist church where stacey abrams is inside worshipping. she showed up at church on the late side and not prisurprising. she was dealing with this surprise announcement from the secretary of state's office. the secretary of state, brian kemp, is her opponent. they are doing a probe alleging of no evidence that we could see that they may have hacked into the state's voter registration system. that was not something anybody is expecting. they wrote us back sa

. >> the yale law graduate. >> maxine waters, low iq and attacks her even after the megabomber has herf people that he almost tried to assassinate. he still doubled down on her intelligence. >> an rdrew gillum. >> after a while, you have to believe maybe it's not racially tinged, maybe he's racist. >> and he shows it consistently. >> you invoked taylor swift. i'll bring up amarosa. but a huge facet of that book was her search for that tape and having him saying the "n" word on tape was going to change this story more. how does this change anything.? >> i have no doubt the president used and uses the "n" word, no doubt. i think it would be titillating to hear it on a tape, but it doesn't change anything. you're right, the president is a racist. he shows us that all of the time. and it is so outrageously toe l horrible that we are shocked every time. thank god most of america has some human sensibility about ourselves. but, no, we know who and what he is. he shows us all the time. >> david, can i just -- >> please. >> i think we've all become sort of immune to him being a racist, even th

i don't think the mueller investigation with decades of yale law school experience among them ever believed they would be there looking at folks like corsi. >> roger stone has been near the president. what does it say about the president that he surrounds himself about these people? but i do want to ask you about corsi because you are saying how do you remember all of these things. jerome corsi testified to the grand jury that roger stone asked him to lie. what am i talking about? well, it has to do with the podesta e-mails. we have seen it in an e-mail exchange between corsi and roger stone. they discussed the fact that they have something on john podesta. then after that, corsi says podesta -- that stone went to him and said we want to create an alternative explanation for what happened here. this is what corsi says he did and told the grand jury about this. listen. >> dr. corsi, was that a lie? i said this. was this a lie? yes. so i openly admitted to them that in their terms this was a lie. >> corsi told a grand jury that roger stone asked him to lie. how do you explain that. >> well, i

i'm a tax attorney trained at yale law school. am a civic leader who helped register more than 200,000 georgians. i'm a very accomplished political leader. i blocked the single largest tax increase in georgia history. there is no one more qualified standing for this office in georgia. >> as for georgia's republican nominee for governor, he's using his role as the state's secretary of state to investigate democrats over what he claims was a failed attack to hack into the state's voter registration system. democrats say it's a last ditch effort to distract voters in the run-up to election day. just the day before, an outside expert warned both the democratic party of georgia and a group suing kemp over voting machine security of a flaw in the state's voter registration site. according to the paper, the attorney for the group reported the flaw to the fbi and kemp's office. this morni ing kemp's office announced it was investigating state democrats for possible cyber crimes and said it was calling in the fbi. he >> he is trying to ril

yale law school graduate, and she talked about her qualification -- she doesn't even talk about her ownlification but her own work in a city legislator. she's going to be a guest on your program tomorrow morning. i imagine that issue of donald trump saying she's not qualified just might come up there. >> absolutely we're going to have stacey abrams on tomorrow. we're going to then travel to florida to look at the andrew gillum campaign. we're going to talk to people who want this new america to embrace it. do you want this america that sort of tries to retrench or do you want to go forward? so it should be an interesting conversation. >> i have this sound of stacey abrams, and again this is not her refuting donald trump saying he's not qualified, but this is the way she talks about her work on the campaign trail. >> i live these values every day and i use them to solve real problems. as deputy city attorney i wrote the strongest ethics legislation of any georgia city. and when i was the house minority leader i blocked the largest tax increase on working families in georgia history. it's

i am a business owner, i'm a tax attorney who was trained at yale law school, i am a civil leader whoregister 200,000 georgians. i'm a very accomplished political leader who worked across the aisle to improve access to education, to transportation, and i blocked the single largest tax increase in georgia history. there is no more qualified standing for this office in georgia and i look forward to having the voters of georgia say the same. >> you know, it's interesting, when oprah winfrey came to campaign for you, she said something that may have surprised some of your supporters that were in the audience that day. take a listen. >> i am a registered independent. because i don't want any party and i don't want any kind of partisan influence telling me what decisions i get to make for myself. >> obviously you want to win over independents, so on one hand, of course having somebody as famous as oprah winfrey saying i'm an independent, come on, independents, come with me and vote with stacey abrams. but do you think that sends a negative message to democrats as you're trying to fire democ

she's far more qualified, gr graduated yale law school, was minority leader of the legislator down there like most of us she knew that has very little resonance with any of us, right? that part of what she stated and i think her candidacy, and when you look at her candidacy she actually stays the course. she's very disciplined, very focused, she stays on message and that resonates with people. she's very high energy but also very positive and grounded and authentic. >> latasha brown thank you for joining us. >>> and up next president trump of course is talking about fear. he's talking about an invasion, and he's lying about how pittsburgh reacted to his visit, his unwelcome visit to pittsburgh. one of the people he lied about in pittsburgh will join us. if you have psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla,75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with

. >> yeah, sure, stacey abrams, yale law graduate, former leader of the georgia legislature, privateice attorney. it is something to ron's point earlier, it is easy to tag an african-american democrat in a way that the republicans are doing in a more brazen way than they've done in previous cycles. to ron and malika's point, even if trump is not on the ballot trumpism is on the ballot and part of trumpism is in the robocall, this idea that illegal aliens are coming to take your welfare, take your money, take your taxes and democrats want to give them the right to vote. a republican talking point for a long time, wolf, has been in idea that democrats really favor immigration from latin america because they want to make the electorate more of color, but president trump skips over that whole analysis. he doesn't show his work, and he just says they want to give illegals the right to vote. >> she's unqualified and says andrew gillum is a thief. >> yeah. >> but let me get jamie into this. big picture right now, the legacy for the republicans, step back, whatever happens tomorrow, how does

also a yale law school graduate just like brett kavanaugh, the supreme court candidate who presidentmp routinely traces his intellect. the other thing we've seen are these voting restrictions that are in force here in georgia backed by the republican gubernatorial candidate who also as you well know is the secretary of state. abrams supporters view those as transparent tactic aimed the limiting block voter turnout. if stacey abrams is victorious, it will be because she's done something that has never been defer before in this state. it will mean she has turned out young voter, women voters, and black voters who live in the rural parts of georgia. so the voting restrictions which many see as being voter suppression, really that's why they say that brian kemp is trying to put a finger on the scale here. >> so jeff, very quickly, did we hear brian kemp or the president make any reference to this investigation and accusation that the democrats tried to hack his voting system there in georgia? >> no direct rrns eference to i all. so far the president has stuck to what he call his greatest

she's far more qualified, graduated yale law school, was minority leader of the legislator down there>> like most of us she knew that has very little resonance with any of us, right? that part of what she stated and i think her candidacy, and when you look at her candidacy she actually stays the course. she's very disciplined, very focused, she stays on message and that resonates with people. she's very high energy but also very positive and grounded and authentic. >> latasha brown thank you for joining us. >>> and up next president trump of course is talking about fear. he's talking about an invasion, and he's lying about how pittsburgh reacted to his visit, his unwelcome visit to pittsburgh. one of the people he lied about in pittsburgh will join us. with my hepatitis c, i felt i couldn't be at my best for my family. in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. even hanging with friends i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. mavyret is

women are ugly, horse face, the comments he said about african-american are low iq or unqualified, a yale lawr office down there in georgia was unqualified. did you get a sense from all of that that led you into the question about the tenor he used? >> i think the president, his anger was boiling over because of a lot of things. at one point during the press conference he was literally pacing back and forth. i thought he might walk off. i think some people see this as the president attacking a woman of color. of course i'm a black woman. he was also attacking april ryan, telling her to sit down. jim acosta, and calling reporters hostile. i'm not sure the president was singling out people because of their race. but the president was very obviously upset with the reporting we were trying to do there. and i talked to some white house aides who say the president feels particularly aggrieved when we ask about white nationalists because he feels it's an unfair question. >> let's talk about this campaign. you come from south carolina, and i was thinking about georgia and florida where you had incred

she's a graduate of yale law school by the way, was a minority leader of the georgia statehouse. that seems pretty qualified to me. he called andrew gillum, the african-american mayor of tallahassee who is running for governor of florida, not equipped for the job, even outrageously branding him a thief without any explanation as to why he said that. so make no mistake, this election is a referendum on trump. he said it himself today. >> the key is you have to go out to vote because in a sense, i am on the ticket. >> and voters are listening. about seven in ten likely voters in our new poll say that when they cast their ballots in a matter of hours here in the united states, they're going to be sending a message to the president. 42% say they'll vote in opposition to the president. only 28% say they'll vote to support him. there's more bad news for president trump in our poll as well. his approval rating is a dismal 39%, the worst pre-midterm rating for any president in more than 60 years. don't be fooled. this race is as close as it gets. more than 31 million americans have voted

undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the district attorney office in new york county as an assistant district attorney. she was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. that attracted attention and before long, she had become a federal district judge on the southern district of new york. six years later she became a circuit court of appeals judge on the second circuit. that was 1998 and 11 years after that, she found herself here in the supreme court. so she, and one other justice in the modern era, justice charles whitaker, are the only justices who actually served on all three levels of the federal judiciary. justice whitaker was appointed to his positions by the same president, president eisenhower. justice sonia sotomayor was appointed by three different presidents. george hw bush, the district court, president clinton, to the circuit court, and president obama come to the supreme court. somehow, she has also found time to write some books. about her life in particular, i commend them to you as well. but let me just turn the pro

you can trust everything i say because i was first in my high school class and i graduated from yale law school a long time before kavanagh. >> understood it but that is predicate i'm dying to hear your question. >> does this feel upside down to you? a little like alice in wonderland? trump talks about fake news and produces fake news. lots of misleading things. the republicans held a supreme court seat open for nine months another trying to jam through, not in a month and they say the democrats, dianne feinstein delayed six weeks. they are trying to stretch the process out and hold the seat open. they know all about that. does it feel strange that the people who are complaining about things or the people doing the things they complain about? >> that's not a new phenomenon in politics as a general observation. the underlying question is does it practice as a higher level of call by president trump? even his supporters would say yes. trump supporters that i've met would say that's why we like him because he's so far up the goal is not any goal directed at their issues for a long time. i a

leaders and if there is a wonderful security blanket for this i did the same thing when i was at yale law school and one of my dearest friends is here from there. my five closest friends at yale were a mexican american here n now, a black man, another puerto rican and a native american indian. but i had a lot of other friends, too. i never isolated myself in the community i made. i use my community, the one uncomfortable in as an anchor of security and as a blanket that makes me feel people understand me and who share my life and experiences but then i go out into that bigger world to learn about it because if i don't become a part of it then shame on me. because i have been omitted into a privileged group and if i don't take advantage of that and of getting to exploit the resources that are there and getting to know the people and not exploit them but make them a part of my life i don't enrich myself. for me, you can belong to many different circles. the shame is if you don't let them interact with each other. that is important for me. >> so true. so true. essentially it's a beautiful an

[cheering] a graduate of yale law school, director of the writers workshop and the founder of culturalartists involved in issues of migration into social change. his own book won the 2009 competition. a former executive director of the poetry society of america and cofounder of poetry in motion that places the columns on buses thin thank you whereveu are. editor of poetry anthologies and the author of three the. of costco [cheering] the author of two collections don't call us dead, winner of the guy prize and a fellow the winner of the discovery award. the work has been featured widely including on "the new york times," pbs news hour and every poet's dream delete a show with stephen colbert. the owner of the store in california he served as a juror from book awards and has published essays and interviews and the first book is forthcoming with bloomsbury press and an object lesson which is about the fact that the fog like many things in this world has inexistent threats by global warming. in terms of our actual process, we decided to find books that we all admire and we achieved that by