Next up from last weekends Rancho Mirage writers festival, panel on National Security. Ill probably lose the hall in next hour. Are we allowed to start . Okay. Usually theres adult supervision around that tells you what to do. It is always a great pleasure to moderate a panel at a writers festival because youre dealing with men and women of incredible accomplishment. Who have done journalism, literature, of unusually high quality. And amazingly theyre very articulate at speaking about what theyve done. Ike going to be self indill self indulgent. I have never been in the presence of a medal of honor recipient, and jack, its a true honor to be with you. Jack is one of those individuals who was willing to saddle up and ride to the sound of gunfire and serve our country. He is one of 75 recipients living, and over the years had gatherings of men such as jack, he was with eddie ricken walker, jimmy doolittle, audi murphy. Its quite remarkable. [applause] lets set off. I dont know if you hav
Demonstrations. Last night, bret gave a really marvelous talk about immigration. [applause] and i bret has agreed in the last 45 seconds to sort of reprise what he said in context of what seems to be going on this morning. And then larry and tim are going to talk about this aspect of National Security as it is expressed in immigration policy, and then douglas is going to speak to the history of this kind of activity in our country. And jack and i will not get involved in this one. So, lets make it reasonably brief. Bret, can we hear from you . Well, the state of play as of this morning, which i was able to check oh. Can you hear me now . No. Were getting things set up. All right. Ill just speak loudly and then burst your eardrums when they fix it. As of this morning the order that the president gave yesterday at around 4 00 in the afternoon, has been revised so that greencard holders from some of the countries, the seven countries thank you the seven countries affected may now sorry. A
County is surging well beyond its original april peak. Disappointing those who hoped the disease might stay at least somewhat under wraps during the summer heat like the flu or common cold. Tulsa county sevenday rolling average of cases has now more than doubled the peak that tulsa hit in april. The county also just reported the most new cases on a single day yet. Again, thats the front page of the tulsa world in tulsa, oklahoma today. Vice president mike pence recently said that the Trump Campaign picked tulsa for the president s big reelection rally this week specifically because theyve done such a great job flattening the curve and stopping the virus there. Thats not at all true. The virus is actually off to the races there. And it is the worst it has ever been throughout the duration of the epidemic, both in oklahoma broadly and in tulsa specifically. We will have more on that coming up. But the president announced the Tulsa Campaign rally right after he moved the Republican Conven