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This is just under an hour. [applause] shalom, good evening, everybody. Its my pleasure to be with uiq. Im very happy to see so many people coming here and showing an interest in my boat i would like in the next 20 minutes to show we do not want this in the book, but behind the idea. We can all agree with happening in israel is important to the people who live in the United States of america. Why . Because we share the same values, the same principles, the same heritage and the same enemies. Because we are in the middle east today, dean attacked we ask ourselves why these people against the je...

Well, i was the president s chief domestic adviser, but it was my recommendation that created the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum, the excision that led to that. I the commission that led to that. But during the clinton administration, i was ambassador to the european union, and i did as undersecretary all the holocaust negotiations. I negotiated 8 billion of compensation from the swiss, the germans, the austrians for slave labor, forced labor, looted art insurance, property restitution and the like. And here im really trying to look at this from the perspective of someone whos been a senior G...

Protest of George Wallaces segregation now, segregation forever a doctoral address. And for the first time they had said its wrong and that was a really notable departure for someone to make a public statement. We listened to that now and it just seems so trivial for somebody to say that but at the time they were really going out on a limb. So when they get this back from king you know they go you are so misunderstood and when i interviewed him in the 80s he was still complaining about how king had made them out to be a bigot. That was what he had taken away from this experience. What the d. S...

From all 11 journalists that resonated with you as regards to why they left the profession state was i think most of them if not all of them said basically i wanted to do more. Would you ever come back to journalism . Im not sure. I love writing. I love writing this book. I think its more likely i would do another book. If youre a former journalist or if youre interested in the profession, celia wexler is the author of out of the news. Thanks so much. Thank you. And now from a conference on the 60th anniversary of the publication of Whittaker Chambers witness, a panel entitled without anticomm...

Canada now covers more than 385,000 acres. It is expected to grow substantially, perhaps double in size by sunday morning. Nearly 90,000 people have been evacuated from the city of Fort Mcmurray. Thousands who fled north are now being moved south as firefighters try to knock down giant walls of flames. Ben tracy is in alberta. Reporter there are times ouen you cant tell if its a fire or a volcano that just erupted. Sant stacks of smoke and flames reach for the sky, tearing through the droughtravaged canadian forest. Alberta wildfire manager Chad Morrison we still expect this fire to more than ...