Its a great day to be alive. Here at the Heritage Foundation i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. From School Shootings and declining sunday attendance. Hyper partisanship and politics. And its tempting to turn off the tv to adopt the benedict option. That isnt what we are about here. That isnt the american way. He never surrendered without and despair even in a time of war or economic or cultural crisis americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and happiness. Always there have arise had aria time of crisis men and women who call for the best in us into such a president ial individual is our guest today. Its not only my opinion, and ive known him for quite a few years, but that of National Leaders like the founder of the Alliance Defending freedom to former attorney general in there about American Restoration of faith, family and personal sacrifice can heal our nation. Jim and his coauthor explain how you and i can restore the first principle of
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, a Beautiful Day in washington dc. I always say that but it is. The sun has come out, the rain has stopped and here we are, great day to be alive at the Heritage Foundation. My name is lee edwards, at the Heritage Foundation, i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. It is all too easy these days to focus on the negative in our nation. From School Shootings and the declining sunday attendance in our churches to racist rhetoric, hyper partisanship in our politics. It is tempting to turn off the tv, close down all the apps and adopt the benedict option. That is not what we are about here. That is not the american way. We never surrendered to doubt and despair even in time of war or economic or cultural crisis. Since our founding 234 years ago americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and our happiness. Always there have reason in time of crisis men and women who called forth the best of us, the better angels of our
Right now at 11 00. Tensions escalate at Columbia University. Take a look. The nypd in riot gear arresting protesters that took over that building right in the heart of campus. New pictures from inside that building show barricades and broken glass. The protests at columbia inspired this movement thats now spread across the country. And that includes right here in the bay area, where those encampments remain in place at San Francisco state, uc berkeley and stanford. Nbc bay areas Jocelyn Moran is at stanford tonight. Jocelyn, students are paying close attention to whats happening on the east coast. Yeah, exactly. Now, right here at stanford, everything remains peaceful as it has the last few days. But propalestinian protesters are very well aware as to whats going on at other universities like columbia. One person we did speak to tonight saying that they want those who are getting arrested to know that they here are with them tonight. Chaos at Columbia University as police in riot gear
Right now at 11 00. Tensions escalate at Columbia University. Take a look. The nypd in riot gear arresting protesters that took over that building right in the heart of campus. New pictures from inside that building show barricades and broken glass. The protests at columbia inspired this movement thats now spread across the country. And that includes right here in the bay area, where those encampments remain in place at San Francisco state, uc berkeley and stanford. Nbc bay areas Jocelyn Moran is at stanford tonight. Jocelyn, students are paying close attention to whats happening on the east coast. Yeah, exactly. Now, right here at stanford, everything remains peaceful as it has the last few days. But propalestinian protesters are very well aware as to whats going on at other universities like columbia. One person we did speak to tonight saying that they want those who are getting arrested to know that they here are with them tonight. Chaos at Columbia University as police in riot gear
Image a bit, and i released it to our work force yesterday. So many people went online to look at the new video. We crashed the system. We had to start over again. But it will be released publicly today. I hope everybody here will take a look at it. With that, david, back over to you. Thank you, sir. Im going to do the ceremonial softball opening, then well go to brian bennett, julie davis, julie edwards, mark thompson, aaron kelley, and john stanton to start. A long line up. That should keep us going for awhile. I want to ask you how the threat has evolved during your time in office and what further changes you think are needed at dhs to deal with it. You had a fascinating conversation, i thought a fascinating conversation with the times last week. You talked about the rise of isil and the rise of terrorinspired attack where the operative may not have met another single other member. Never received a direct the order. You said that makes more a for complicated threat environment that