[applause] [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, would you please remain standing if you would while we introduce our distinguished guests to the podium in order of the seating. and let me ask you to please hold your applause until all have been introduced. first, mr. george beverly. second, mr. cliff barrows. next mr. franklin graham. former presidents of the united states, the honorable george h. w. bush, the honorable bill clinton, the honorable jimmy carter and finally, special welcome to the man that we are here to honor today, the reverend billy graham. [cheers and applause] good afternoon, everyone and welcome today to this historic event. from the book of psalms, the scripture says this is the lord doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. this is the day the lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. give thanks unto the lord for he is good. lord, his mercy is everlasting. mr. pre
people describe the threat the threat is islam. let s make no mistake. there is no such thing as radical islam because i like somebody to give me a definition of moderate islam. there ain t any. i think it was who said it best islam is islam. there are no modifier ss. we have looked for a leader to come stand up and try to modify islam. and previously mentioned here, on new year s day, president al sissy standing before all the leading sunni clerics called for a refirmation of islam. monumental. he then went to celebrate christmas mass at a coptic church and pledged to rebuild all the churches. clearly, he better bring his insurance policies up to date. but this is momentum. and the administration didn t even give it the tip of the hat. absolutely no acknowledgement. so it certainly tells you where their sympathies lie. it is up to this congress they have been given the mantle we are giving them the game plan on how to proceed and prevent the transformation of this grea
is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. and if you didn t have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. again, i know it s repetitious, but it s important. that s the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. and over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. and so we need it to plan. i mean if we don t have we need five six, ten years whatever the number of years that you decide, we just need to know what those are and we need to plan accordingly. and, this program that i have put in place and was able to actually put in place without legislation because the people of alabama had allowed us to borrow the garvey bonds. so we re using future federal dollars. and so the certainty is so important for me because i signed a billion dollars in bonds and i want
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watching tv. the white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, we re watching the same thing you are. we don t know anything about it. we re just watching it on cnn. it was amazing. they had no idea it was going to happen. and within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russia s the biggest. the second largest is kazakhstan. and if there is one thing that s maybe even more amazing, laookig back at that time and the fact that the u.s. had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking nuclear weapons over there once that country spun apart. kazakhstan alone, if kazakhs