Thanks, Steve, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. We're going to have a panel on measurement, accountability, and innovation. And as I was reflecting on the title of the panel, I uncovered some of my biases against the term measurement, which sounds incredibly boring to me, and it has ever since I got into the public health sphere. And I really think we need to be very clear when we package measurement It's not just about measurement for measurement's sake. It's about measuring results, measuring impact, and not stopping there. It's actually doing something about the results that you find to do better. So data that results from measurement that drives decision making is what measurement is all about. If you don't have measurement, you can't have accountability. If you don't know you're underperforming, you can't do better, and you can't fire the person who isn't doing as well as they should. And so that, to me, is the important principle underlying this discussion today. And we have a fantastic, very well-experienced panel from the spheres of global health, global business, global media and communications, all of whom have relevant experience to share with the global health sphere. And I would say that this is a microcosm, if you will, of how we need to be doing global health. Individuals who jealously guard global health topics because they're the experts in the field are not going to do as well in their endeavors as those who open their minds to approaches that have been proven to be successful in other disciplines, whether that be business or any other discipline in which there is a very clear focus on doing the best that you can because people are measuring you. So in global health, measurement matters for a few things. First of all, showing that what you're doing makes a difference. The fields of medicine, public health and science are littered with projects that began with very good intentions, but when somebody finally got around to measuring whether those things were making a difference, they found that, in fact, they weren't relative to more traditional practices or at worst, they were actually doing harm. Secondly, measurement allows you to identify what's working and helps you to do better because you can identify lessons learned and you can take those lessons into other programs to improve their performance. Thirdly is the point about accountability. If you're going to tie somebody's compensation to performance, you have to be able to measure that performance. And this doesn't just apply to the health practitioner in a country. It applies to global institutions such as the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria or GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. We should be measuring all partners to determine whether they are performing as well as they should. Fourthly, in this day and age where resources are severely constrained, measurement allows you to maximize efficiency and stretch every dollar as far as you possibly can because if you're asking others to pony up more resources for global health and you can't show that you got the most out of the resources you already have, you're going to have a much worse chance of getting any additional resources committed to your priority areas. And so demonstrating efficiency is critically important in global health. And then finally, the bottom line is that you've got to be measuring your progress if you're going to show that you're moving the dial against the Millennium Development Goals or any other goals that you have set for yourself. And so measurement allows us to collectively up our game and do better. Before I introduce my panel, let me just say that one anecdote from the Gates Foundation. This is an organization that I'm privileged to be a part of that has access to significant resources, albeit a drop in the bucket relative to the global need, and also a certain amount of influence. Now, one can invest a million dollars into an endeavor and save X number of lives. Let's say you save a thousand lives. And you may feel very good about that. And you should feel good about that. But if you don't have a benchmark to know how well you should be doing, given that amount of money, given the influence that you have to measure yourself against, you don't know if you might be massively underperforming. And so in global health, we suffer because we don't have what business takes for granted. Business has shareholders, shareholders that have a voice. If a company is underperforming, the leader of that company hears about it and he or she has to up their game or they're out of a job. In business, you have competition. In global health, we don't have competition.  And so the fundamental issue is that we actually do have shareholders. We have beneficiaries that are living in developing countries. The problem is that they don't have a voice. They can't actually influence our actions. And so we have to come up with other mechanisms to ensure that we are holding ourselves accountable. So with that, let me turn to our panel to begin by sharing their thoughts on measurement, accountability, and innovation. In a moment, I'll turn to Mike Merson, who's a director of the Global Health Institute at Duke. I'm not going to go through everyone's bio in detail. You have that in front of you in the interest of time. Then I'll turn to Rona Appelbaum, who's the vice president and chief scientific and regulatory officer at Coke. Then Pat Mitchell, who is the president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media. And finally Rex Tillerson, who's the chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. So Mike, let me turn to you first and have you give us a couple of minutes of thoughts on measurement, accountability, and innovation. I think we have two real challenges and they're addressed in the report, at least two. One, we have methodological challenges. As we heard from the deputy secretary today, the administration and I think our commission endorsed the fact that we need to measure impact of programs. That means deaths avoided, new infections avoided. It's not simply measuring how many people have a bed net or how many health workers have been trained or how many people have been treated, but showing impact. And I think this is something you've already addressed. And I think it's very important that we work together to come up with a set of indicators and ways of measuring them that demonstrate this impact. And then our second challenge I would say, and it's related, is an operational challenge. The commission heard some presentations about what it's like to be in the field having to produce data for different donors. And certainly, the situation is a little bit better than it was maybe five years ago when PEPFAR has worked to harmonize with other donors. But I think the commission certainly felt that to all extent possible the donors need to come up with a similar set of agreed upon monitoring and evaluation indicators for measuring the impact of programs that are agreed to with national governments and that everybody stick with these and not everybody add a few others. Because as we continue to do that we make it impossible in the field and we heard testimony to that in the work of the commission. So you'll see in the report we call for addressing both these methodological and what I would call operational challenges. And the third point I would make is, which has been alluded to already today, which is if we can have, I think Steve Morrison mentioned this, if we can have a 10 or 15 year horizon rather than a five year or God forbid one year horizon, then I think we can be more patient, we can plan better, and then we can look at our evaluation not producing results for tomorrow but producing results over a longer period of time. And if we have the confidence of the funding and the confidence that our programs will be around for a while, as long as we can demonstrate impact, I think this would go a long way to advancing the field. And I know that many of you are getting money year by year and we did talk about this at the commission and certainly you'll see in the report the strong recommendation that those of you out in the field implementing programs not be faced with these year by year deadlines because it's very hard to show impact on a yearly basis. But I think we need to be accountable to a common set of indicators but it doesn't mean we need to expect in reality, particularly with the problems we're dealing with, that we can achieve great success in one year. I think those are some initial thoughts. Great, thanks Mike. Want to turn to Rona? First, I'd like to say I agree with a lot of the things, many of the things, if not all of the things that have been said. The issue with process is absolutely key from the beginning into the end. And what I mean by that, it's absolutely essential to identify where you are and where you want to be and make it very clear to the point that's already been made that it's not going to be a quick fix. And in our society, everything, at least, especially in the business world, it's, you know, what is the next quarter results? They have a tendency to judge things on a three month basis. We can't do that. In global health, it's a long term. We have to be in it for the long term and we have to plan accordingly. At the same time, we have to also identify where those, you know, what the deliverables are and attempt to meet those outcomes. One of the points that was made very clear to me, and I was shocked to be perfectly honest, as it relates to the burden that's placed upon those organizations, those individuals that are trying to do the best job that they can, but their efficiencies and their effectiveness is impacted by the burden of reporting. It is so outrageous. Please see page 38 of the report where you see the spaghetti chart. And that's a nice term for it. When I was listening to the, you know, impassioned pleas, make it easier so we can do our job, which is absolutely spellbound binding for me. So I applaud the report and I applaud the experts who are making it very clear that we have to reduce that burden. We have to streamline it. We have to make sure that it's more efficient in order to get the job done that we need to do. There's a lot of... I'm so pleased to hear the commentary this afternoon as it relates to we all have a role to play. We can all learn from each other. And the idea of the embracing that I've felt and I've heard as it relates to the importance of public-private partnerships are absolutely essential. For a company like ours that's in over 200 countries, we can't do it alone. There's information that we have. There's lessons that we have learned that we would like to share. The outreach and the fellowship that we can glean and align and interconnect with in order to make things better. For our workforce out there, for our employees, for our consumers, and above all for ourselves would be absolutely essential. The things that we do in business are not strange. The applications that can be applied to what we need to do in the global health community are absolutely aligned. And to be able to do that more and more, to share our experiences, and in some instances share our resources, we would very much like to do. And it's been a true pleasure in terms of being able and an honor to be able to apply those types of lessons to this report. So thank you. Thank you, Ronette. So valuable for a global health discussion to be informed by perspectives from the private sector and now from media and communications. So Pal, let me turn to you. Well, certainly there's no tool for transparency, accountability, effectiveness, and reporting of impact than global media. And as someone who's been in the field for some time and now leading a discussion on the role of the global media plays across the landscape, let me just offer some thoughts. One of the ideas that we know will never live in a time of greater connectivity. We've never been more informed of the citizens of the global community. We've never been more informed as people in the field trying to address global health challenges. So we'll have at our disposal an enormous landscape of technology and media that wasn't there for people, that can shine the light in dark places, that can tell the stories, that not only illuminate the challenges, but also talk very clearly and directly about the programs that are in place, hold them accountable for their results, and then also connect American U.S. taxpayers to the stories that they are actually funding in the field. The good news on this is the connectivity. Additional good news and emerging news is that these technologies are giving us some tools. There's some small-scale experiments that are turning out to be quite effective through mobile technology in places where women, particularly during childbirth and pregnancy, isolated and often illiterate women are getting life-saving information through mobile phones. We know that... We also know this new open-source software that allows stakeholders to get to disaster areas and deliver very thin-pointed aid where it's needed. So we see a huge opportunity in the global media landscape to deploy these new technologies at a much greater rate and with much greater effectiveness. Whatever that may mean. The bad news is that according to the global media monitoring report that's done every two years, a news and information source across all countries across all forms of media. Social media, Facebook, Twitter, etc. to the mainstream news reporting in newspapers, magazines, and on television. Less than 10% of these stories are about global health. Now, of course, there are the spikes when there's a disaster, when there's an earthquake, or when there's an epidemic, or a threat of a pandemic. So it really came from where you grew up and how you're acting today. How come Elaine's not in there? Doesn't she want to see her own company? You want this. Yeah, here you are. Here you go. Okay. Yeah, real quick, because I've got to really get going to the shuttle. Okay. Have the challenge, along with the health professionals, to find a way to tell the stories that are compelling and engaging in the capture of the world's attention. We've heard today already personal stories that tell the whole story. The one one story that doesn't tell the every minute around the world somewhere. We know empathy research tells us we have to tell the stories that way. One child, one woman, it's so much more effective in media learning to do this now. And I must say that the Gates Foundation has found a way to do that very effectively with their living proof testimony that took the effect of their global health programs and told them through the personal stories. So that is, again, an opportunity. So the good news is we have new ways of telling the stories. The bad news is they're not being told effectively and consistently enough. But I am an optimist based on the opportunities we have ahead, but a little bit impatient with my colleagues in media by not recognizing and fully deploying media as a power player and both putting into place and supporting a smarter and more strategic global health policy. Thank you, Pat. Let me now turn to Rex Tillerson from ExxonMobil. Rex, you got involved in the global health so you're in a big way. Love to hear your thoughts. Well, as a business person, measuring and evaluating is central to any achievement of really large long-term objectives. For us, our business is pretty long-term in the things I do. We deal with 10, 20-year time horizons. And so I think part of the real important element of this report and has been noted by Mike is that we now want to focus on these issues with a longer-term strategy in mind, a 15-year time horizon. And we know what the objectives are and we know what the results we're trying to achieve or we want to eradicate malaria. We want to reduce the incident of HIV, AIDS by two-thirds. We want to save 2 million women a year from dying in pregnancy. We want to save almost 2.5 million babies a year from dying in the first month of childbirth. So we know what the endpoint is, but in achieving a strategic plan you have to have a good set of metrics that'll allow you to understand whether you are progressing toward achieving those objectives over this 15-year period. They're going to guide and direct the programs that you undertake, the effectiveness of those, and how to improve the effectiveness of those programs. But equally important, they're also going to guide you on what you want to stop doing because there will be things that work, there will be things that don't work. And to continue pursuing things that are not taking you toward that objective or consuming both financial resources and human capacity resources as well. So measuring and evaluating is simple to achieving any of these long-term objectives. And Mike mentioned and the spaghetti chart has been mentioned. I think the first time I saw that in one of our commission meetings may have been when Bob Rubin who just joined us held that chart up and we were all kind of horrified by this requirement that donor nations and donor agencies were putting on host government's recipients and we said, well gee, that just can't be right. A lot of those are the inputs, they're not really measuring what you're trying to achieve. And a lot of them were designed to meet the donor's requirements, not carrying us toward the objective. So I think one of the that was one of them, a great learning for me was to see how could this possibly be coming from the business community. The importance of evaluation really cannot be over-emphasized and there was a recent article in the Lancet which I thought just really nailed this. The title is evaluation, the top priority for global health. And I'm just going to quote a couple of lines out of it. Evaluation must now become the top priority in global health. A massive scale up in global health investments during the past decade has not been matched by an equal commitment to evaluation. This complacency is damaging the entire global health movement. Without proper monitoring and accountability, countries, donors, and taxpayers have no idea whether or how their investments are working. Evaluation matters, evaluation is science, and evaluation costs money. It's time that the global health community embraced rather than evaded this message. So it is going to require some dedication of financial and human resources in this area, but it is going to return huge dividends in the effectiveness of how the remaining dollars in human resources are utilized to achieve the objective. Now in the commission's report, there is a recommendation on getting at some very hard, fundamental results-oriented measures and agreement on metrics. Coming to a common set of metrics, as Mike mentioned as well, but also a recommendation that an independent, authoritative group be established to develop the evaluation process and to carry out that evaluation process. It could be within an existing agency. It can build on some of the measures that are already in place, some progress that has been made through PEPFAR, but let's establish what those set of metrics are. Let's have an independent body track those and report out those to donor countries, but to the congress. The people that are going to make this money available are going to want to know what are we getting. And there can never be a more important time now when you want to have this funding available in good times and in bad times and challenging times, you want this funding to be maintained uninterrupted because an interruption in the funding or financing, you lose a lot of ground. You give a lot of ground back on progress that's been made in so many of these areas when you have this interruption. These metrics are going to be vital to ensuring that the long-term financing is available to achieve this 15-year plan. Thanks, Rex. That was fantastic. I think we have a little bit of time left according to the recent information I just got. I don't know that I'll be able to ask all the panel members questions individually, but I want to get through as many as possible. Rona, in global health particularly in the vaccine sphere we always talk about how Coke has been able to reach places that nobody else can and you talk about 200 countries that Coca-Cola is in that's just astounding to me. There are some challenges in global health that I think would really benefit from the lessons learned of your experience and specifically, aside from the Colchain example that I just referenced where you actually have refrigeration capability presumably that goes all the way out to very peripheral regions. We have other challenges that relate to maintaining quality of health services and quality of the commodities like flasks. Now oftentimes we have to rely on local partners to ensure that quality. What lessons have you learned about working with local partners working in the country to ensure a certain minimum but very high level of quality in both services and commodities? It's a great question. And to start off with just to be perfectly clear the standards for whether it's our safety or our quality of our product. It's the same with the United States or whether it's in India or South Africa or Nairobi. But one of the things that we've learned over the last 23 years is it's not necessarily going to be dictated and done by Atlanta. What time? We will think globally but we'll act locally and doing what we need to do in the country is absolutely essential. Over 85% of our workforce is outside of the United States. So what does that take? That takes the necessary time needed to map what those processes are, what the critical requirements are and the resources are. But it's the investment in those local individuals because they are the community, they are our business there. That's absolutely essential. What are the capabilities that we need, the competencies that we need and the capacity of the workforce that we have to have in country that's going to make the difference to make sure they're adequately trained and they're adequately enforced in terms of making decisions that they have the necessary tools and we have the necessary infrastructure and it doesn't always have to be the Cadillac. As you know being in the producing countries when I was in the cocoa industry we'd get coke anywhere. Banta it was great. We'd drink coffee in the morning in the afternoon until 5 o'clock and we'd have beer, we'd have Banta and we'd have Coca-Cola because it was a safe product but it wasn't as if they always had trucks to bring it there. They would use their bicycles, they would use a boat they would use a mule, they would use whatever they could. Again realizing that this was a shelf-stable product and not perhaps as sensitive as some of the the vaccines. But at the same time as you increase your innovation you then get refrigerated units that can still be on the back of a bike, on the back of a mule or in your boat when you're taking it down and you're taking it down one of the rivers. So to that point it's been, we aren't where we are it didn't happen immediately, it happened over a hundred and twenty three year period so it wasn't done overnight but this is an opportunity in terms of sharing those best practices and those lessons learned with the global health community to make a difference because when the global health is the best it can be where we operate it's going to be better for our business we're going to have a healthier sustainable business because the work forces that we need, we rely upon that make Coca-Cola what it is is dependent upon global health. So I think there's a lot of opportunities for us to work together share experiences share learnings and it's the only way that it's going to get done. That's great thanks Pat one of the one of the issues around accountability we talked about measurement here and measuring an individual or an institution's performance from a top down command and control perspective is one way to ensure that you maximize performance. Another way to improve performance of actors in the system is to increase demand particularly demand amongst the public if individuals who are of little means become aware that there are options to get quality affordable health services then they will begin to demand that from the public sector and the private sector being in media and communications you're all about informing individuals about the art of the possible what do you see as the potential role for media and communications in increasing demand and ultimately increasing accountability I'm so glad you mentioned that because I always like to it's so easy to blame media and just say media never covers the stories that are important and honestly what we do is we all know it covering anything complicated or complex and we just got to find a simple way to tell the story but there's a media organization but there's also a consumer and what has changed in global media now is power shifted the power is shifted from the people in top down mainstream media making decisions about what gets covered, what stories are reported to coming up from grassroots consumers people with cell phones or blogging in social communities and on Twitter they are themselves delivering a different kind of demand that information and you see it in communities and I was in a remote village in Kenya not long ago and the one person who had the mobile phone in the village and there was one and it happened to be a woman and she was going I said did you know that that clinic is she was passing out the information and then putting a demand and an expectation of the health clinic that was there that they do in fact deliver what she had found out the mobile phone was possible so it creates a different kind of accountability and really the consumer is a way to go and we have that power in our hands in a different way and I think the steps that we began to talk about at the commission is how we take something as wide ranging and as long-term as this and start to find some strategies where we can build social media communities around the demand and most importantly for our conversation today helping make those connections to US taxpayers who are funding and we are now being asked to step up their funding what's happening and we know that we can get those reports to run from the ground that's new that's powerful let me turn to my partners here and see how we're doing on time wrap up okay a couple of references have been made to the spaghetti chart so this Byzantine system of reporting to multiple different donors you know we have made a strong image here around the importance of measuring results and accountability but if we're having this conversation in an attempt to influence how the US government manages its investments and the same dialogue is happening in capitals around the country where bilaterals are deciding how to spend their funds we may not be solving any problems here we may actually be creating additional bureaucracy in fact we do you've thought a lot about this do you have any initial thoughts on how we can streamline and actually make this a value added it's a tough question because many of the bilaterals are beholden to their parliaments or legislatures to account for the funding and like we have seen in this country sometimes the congress has certain preferences for use or money and then the congress changes and a different party takes over and those preferences change and the poor countries have to figure all that out so this is a very tough issue where I think there's a growing consensus and the question I think is whether the US when we heard from the deputy secretary if the US really wants to invest diplomatically in a common set of reporting indicators it'll make a huge difference but that's that's got to come down to the ambassadors and it's got to be real and many of the organizations in this room which receive resources from PEPFAR or the new global health initiative whatever it is they have to know that they have to believe that this is really going to happen I don't know any way around it it's better but it hasn't happened yet the UN agencies are also part of this we have these new look at the Millennium Development Goals which the current Millennium Development Goals go until 2015 I think you know that there's now a beginning effort by the secretary general of a dialogue to talk about what the next set of these Millennium Development Goals will be this is a good time for the donor community to step back and say are we serious are we going to try to come up with a common set we tried indicators in HIV there was this 3-1 but you'd go to the field and there would be the 3-1 and then you get countries reporting on this common set of indicators and then the US wanted a little bit more and the UK wanted a little bit more and it turned out there was a common set of indicators but then everybody had their add-ons so the question in my mind is truthfully whether the US wants to invest diplomatically to make this happen I don't know a way around it the US has the most money invested in this field and if they are willing to throw their weight around and make it happen it can happen there's going to need to also be development of new methods and metrics to measure some of these impact indicators it's not going to be that easy as I mentioned earlier it's easier to look at an indicator or as Rex said an input then to really look at impact but I think if we get groups together around the table from different constituencies and get serious about it hopefully the spaghetti chart it'll be reduced to macaroni maybe but I think we need to have some commitment to make it happen and it'll be historic if it does but it would be a great contribution of the global health initiative I'm going to turn to Rex for my last question and that is Rex we talked briefly about the fact that institutions in global health don't have the traditional measures of accountability to say a business would you've managed a huge corporation what are the other principle strategies tactics that you would suggest to leaders of global health organizations that they should consider bringing into their operations in order to increase the level of accountability throughout the enterprise well I think you have to engage all of the interested parties from as I mentioned from the US government the multilateral agencies to other donor agencies but you also have to engage the recipient of the recipient country and a lot of these measures can best be defined by engaging with where the rubber meets the road what is it that we're looking for inside those countries where this effort is directed that will tell us whether we're being effective so to develop this really does require a great deal of collaboration from the donor agency or country all the way down to the recipient and it's going to require some capacity building within these countries for them to be able to provide those you know respond to those metrics that we're asking for we were having a conversation the other day about malaria which we're very interested in and how we can tell you how many bed nets were distributed every year but we can't tell you how many children between the age of birth and five years are infected with parasite they may not have malaria but they got the parasite we'd really like to know that because that tells us whether we're beating the parasite in terms of infection rates and in terms of vector transmission but it means we've got to build some capacity for that to occur for that to be measured it means we've got to build it into an integrated health system so that when a mother brings her child in for some other reason nothing to do with malaria well we've got them there we draw a little blood we do a malaria test we got it it's in the database so we need to integrate it with a lot of the other health programs that deal with mothers and children and a lot of this this infant care that we've talked about but it does involve a great deal of collaboration and that's the way we do it in the business community we work down throughout our organizations and when we enter developing countries with our own business model we're putting in place metrics for our business partners that are in those countries as well so we do a lot of training a lot of conversation around here's why we're measuring this here's why it's important and in terms of unraveling the spaghetti chart it is going to be a huge challenge but I think the central question everyone has to ask themselves for their piece of information on that spaghetti chart is you tell me what that tells you about eradicating malaria and then I'll tell you if you can have that information or not and if you cannot directly connect that to the result you don't need that information it's going to take that kind of discipline and that's what we have to do in the private sectors have the discipline to say no we're not going to gather that information because it doesn't really take us to our objective and you have to get that same mentality I think within this process as well and so tough Mike but it means we're going to have some tough leadership the United States has put a lot of money out there in this game they need to change the paradigm and lead and I think some other people will follow thanks for that Rex I think we've heard some great messages and guidance from our panel today I told you at the beginning there was a time when I thought measuring was pretty boring measurement itself is frankly a little bit boring but the reality is that it's really it's really really I'm sorry I had to say it it's really really important because if you're not measuring if you're not measuring you don't know that you're having an impact and I think that point has been highlighted in some way shape or form by every individual on the panel today it's the critical element that allows all of us forces all of us to up our game so I hope you all leave today convinced of that fact thanks very much to my panel members


e language access To the information that you distribute So that communities in georgia and across the country With limited english proficiency or for whom english is not a first language Can have access to the same vital information to protect themselves their families and their businesses From threats to their safety. So when the fbi issues warnings like that or issues other Forms of information or guidance. Do you tend to offer that in language other than english? And what steps can you take perhaps working with my office? We can work together on this to make sure that you have the resources you need to carry it out To improve the multi-lingual Outreach and communication that the fbi does So you raise a very interesting and important point. We have I think over the last couple of years started intensifying The outreach that we do Doing it with additional languages Because we've realized that there are Victim communities for different offenses different threats that sometimes aren't getting the message unless we do that So for example, I know our new york office has been particularly proactive in that regard both With the in the jewish community in new york But also in a api community in terms of you know advertisements and leaflets and things like that that are translated into different languages So I think we're going to need to do more and more of that And we'd be happy to follow up with you on how we might be able to be that be great Giving the growing diversity in the state of georgia. I would love to see the atlanta field office emerge as the national leader Making sure to convey information for example in hindi and spanish and korean and other languages widely spoken in the state So that every community is is well protected and well informed Speaking of community safety. You and I have had several discussions in in for like this one on violent crime across the country georgia communities from columbus to savannah atlanta albany continue to struggle with high rates of violent crime gun violence gang activity other threats to public safety I don't know when you next have plans to come to georgia director. I hope you'll return home sometime soon You're extensively experienced in the state I want to ask for your commitment that when you do come That you will sit down with me and state and local law enforcement faith leaders other community leaders To talk about how we can all work together To reduce community violence and violent crime in the state of georgia. Will you make that commitment? Well, I I look forward to meeting with you one of the many times i'm home I always looking for additional reasons To leave dc and be back in georgia. Um, and that's a widely shared sunday So, uh, we'll be happy to follow up with you on on your request. Okay. Looking forward to it I want to talk to you a bit about uh, how we can strengthen our protection of veterans across the country georgia home to nearly 700 000 veterans many of whom rely On the va and in recent years many veterans have been targeted as part of a pension poaching scheme Where unethical advisors a profit by assisting a veteran or purporting to assist a veteran In artificially qualifying for va benefits and these scams can tie up the veteran savings In investments that then earn lucrative fees For the scammer My question for you is what is the fbi doing to protect veterans in georgia and across the country from those who seek to Financially exploit them And can you reassure the committee and people of georgia and the american people that protecting veterans from abuse and exploitation is a high priority for the bureau Well, I can certainly get you more detailed information as a follow-up But I will tell you that, you know, we are pursuing a number of of types of schemes and scams that target different kinds of Populations that for one reason or another are attractive to schemers and scammers. Uh, and when it comes to veterans It is appalling that there are people that would prey upon the people who have served our country So nobly and selflessly and in fact, uh, you know, I think that hits particularly close to home for us at the fbi Because we have a very very large percentage of veterans in our current workforce and always have and so you know As they say them's fighting words appreciate that commitment director ray and uh, finally Just want to touch on a couple of matters related to civil rights. Mr. Chairman with your Indulgence. I recently wrote a letter requesting that the fbi investigate allegations of severe ongoing gain activity at pulaski state prison Pulaski state prison rather a state of georgia. It's our second largest prison for women Recognize you can't comment on ongoing investigations, but I do want to make sure you're aware of that correspondence And that it's received the full attention That it deserves because of the reports of horrific conditions and the extent of criminal activity within that state prison more broadly Where does the investigation and enforcement of civil rights violations fall among the fbi's priorities? And if it's a top priority, how is that communicated to your to your field offices? Can you assure people of georgia and the american people that investigating civil rights violations remains a top priority? So as to your letter, I have read it and read it with with interest. Uh, so I can tell you that um as to the, um Civil rights enforcement, uh, we as I think I mentioned earlier we elevated that to a national threat priority and the significance of that Is that it communicates to all the field offices and headquarters division Since this is one of the things that has to be one of our top priorities and as a result Both resources and intelligence collection emphasis flow from that And it was last year and it will be again this fiscal year And what would you say in closing? Mr. Chairman? What would you say director ray to those who will listen to all this? Hear your words on radio across the state of georgia who want to hear that reassurance from you personally That you're out there investigating threats to civil rights and civil rights violations We view our civil rights program as at the heart of our mission to protect the american people and uphold the constitution And the fbi has done some great work In that program over the years and it's something we're very proud of and intend to stay very committed to Thank you director ray. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thanks mr. Senator ausoff and senator gramm is next thank you, mr. Chairman Uh the bill on what we're talking about also you have a mission a counterterrorism national security mission to protect the american people against, uh, radical elements abroad And at home is that correct? Yes, sir So thank you to you and yours who are out there in the fight every day I just want to put a fine point on some of this so to understand what kind of threats we're facing When it comes to china How many cases a week will you open up against chinese agents trying to engage in illegal espionage activity in the united states? Well, uh, frankly, I wish I could measure it by week senator We are opening a new china-related counterintelligence investigation about every 12 hours. Okay stop Thank you to the american people Every 12 hours the fbi is investigating some nefarious activity Driven by the chinese communist party against american interest. Is that a fair statement? Yes, it is So when you talk to the ambassador to china as a member of congress House or senate and you ask them this question and they say they're not Engaged in such such activity. Would that can would you consider that a misleading statement? Well senator, I would I would find it inconsistent with our experience as you've heard from this hearing There is no shortage of things for fbi agents to be working on so I can tell you and I would tell him that the reason We're opening a new investigation every 12 hours sure as heck ain't because they don't have enough else to do And on the level of severity the harm it could do to our country Some of these cases pretty severe in nature Absolutely, it's it represents the potential Of who's going to dominate the most significant industry sectors for for decades So number one america is virtually under attack by chinese espionage activity and our economic sector Every 12 hours, so that's where we're at Do you need more resources than you have today to combat this? Absolutely Just write it down And I dare somebody to say no the point I would add to that center because I think you're you're hitting an important topic here Which is in addition to the every 12 hours on the counter intelligence side The chinese government has a bigger hacking program on the cyber side that we're up against than that of every other major nation combined And have stolen and have stolen more of americans personal and corporate data Than every nation combined so we will absolutely need more resources to be able to keep pace with something like that So write it down if you don't write it down. You got nobody to blame but yourself If you write it down and we say no then you can blame us All right, let's move to another topic international terrorism Are you worried about an attack on the homeland emanating from places like afghanistan? So we are As somebody who was in the fbi building on 9 11 A little over 20 years ago and have met with the families in the years afterwards. I think about that day every day Uh, especially now that we're out. I'm worried about The potential loss of of sources and collection over there So we're going to have growing intelligence gaps and I'm worried about the possibility that we will see al-qaeda reconstitute The ices k potentially taking advantage of the deteriorating security environment and i'm worried about Terrorists including here in the united states being inspired By what they see over there. Well, you got a lot to worry about And I appreciate you doing the best you can with the resources you have So let's drill down and find out where we know we're at with china. They're up to no good every day um We recently killed the leader of al-qaeda In cobble you're you're familiar with that, right? Yes. That's a good thing Were you surprised that one? He was in cobbles our herey staying at the house A guest house owned by the heqani number two guy of the taliban Not surprised but disappointed. Okay Let's play fbi agent What does it tell us about the relationship between al-qaeda and the taliban If the leader of al-qaeda is staying in a house owned by the number two guy of the taliban Would you say is close and friendly? Nothing good Nothing good. Are there training camps in afghanistan being operated by al-qaeda types Uh Well that I think I might need to have us follow up with you in a different setting Do the al-qaeda elements and ices elements in afghanistan throughout the world Do they wish to hit us again if they could here at home? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Now the southern border Have you been there lately? Yes. All right Secretary maraca says that uh, the southern border is secure From a counter terrorism point of view Do we have operational control of the southern border? Regarding counter terrorism threats that would lead you to conclude the border is secure Well, let me answer that this way while while on the one hand, we don't have So I don't want to mislead people Any imminent credible threat from a foreign terrorist organization on the border at the moment Any port of entry Any potential vulnerability something we know foreign terrorist organizations and others will seek to exploit and you only have to look at the case that we charged pretty recently Involving an individual Trying to smuggle nationals into the u.s to kill former president bush, right? To be reminded that it's something we need to take deathly seriously. So let's look at the stage of the border Uh, we're we're estimating there'll be one million Guiderways before the end of the year. Are you familiar with that? I've heard reports to that effect that we're we're on track to have the most illegal entries in the history The country this year by a factor of a lot. Are you familiar with that? I've heard again reports to that effect. How easy would it be for a group of terrorists To intermingle themselves and this wave of illegal immigrants And be able to sneak into our country to kill a bunch of us Well, I mean I don't want to give them a roadmap, but it's certainly something I think they already know So here's what I would suggest Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. I'm out of time I want you to tell me the likelihood of the southern border being exploited by terrorist organizations throughout the world To commit a terrorist attack on the united states if we don't change our policies. Thank you Thank you. Senator graham senator cotton Director ray. Is it a crime under Section 1507 of title 18 to pick it and protest outside of the federal judge's home to try to influence his or her decision Uh, I don't have the statute in front of me, but that sounds like a fair description Uh, so on numerous occasions in recent months, there have been large-scale protests outside the homes of supreme court justices in the washington dc area Yesterday the head of the department of justice criminal division confirmed that the biden justice department has not brought a single case Against any individual for breaking that law by protesting outside of those justices homes Are you aware of the fbi making any arrests for violations of section 1507? Uh, I'm well, I'm aware that we have a number of investigations related to threats of violence against Justices, um, and against judicial buildings including the supreme court And of course we assisted in the recent charges of the individual who had a plot to kill or an intent to kill justice Kavanaugh What statutes are involved? Uh, I don't know, but I don't I don't think any of them And used 1507 as the uh, why were why were there no arrests for an obvious violation that played out on national television? Did someone in the biden department of justice direct to you not to let fbi agents enforce that law? Uh, no, I don't think we've gotten any directive to that effect. I think part of what you're driving at, uh, Respectfully is is goes to questions about the Interpretation of and applicability, uh of the statute and while I absolutely understand your interest in the question Um, I think this is one of those times where I would uh point to the department as the lawyers who I have it right here in front of me. It's not very confusing whoever with the intent of influencing any judge in the discharge of his duty Pickets or parades and or near a building or residence occupy or used by such judge Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year I mean it happened on national television news Were there no self-starting FBI agents in the area that thought wow, they're committing a terrible federal crime. I'm going to go arrest them Well, as I said, you know, we're working very closely with the marshals with spring court police Uh With the spring court marshals, you know, they have the principal raw responsibility for crowd control And protecting the justices. We have a number of investigations underway as we speak and then questions as to the enforcement of that particular statute Constitutionally are are better directed to the department. I don't think there's much question about the constitutionality in 1965 in Cox v. Louisiana the spring court held up a virtually identical state statute in 1988 justice john paul stevens Stated that it would be constitutional to prohibit protesting outside even an elected officials home not judges home but elected officials homes Because quote there is simply no right to force speech into the home of an unwilling listener So so why why didn't no fbi agent in the national capital region seeing a crime committed repeatedly On national television not go enforce the law I mean, don't you expect your agents to go enforce the law? I mean if they if they're aware of a bank robbery or kidnapping do they need direction from on high to Make an arrest Well, our agents are as we've discussed at some length in different ways throughout this hearing Are up to their necks enforcing all sorts of laws And I wish we were in a situation where every federal violation that occurred in this country was something the fbi could Have the resources to investigate we have prioritized focusing on violence and threats of violence Uh, and we are aggressively investigating in that space across the spectrum Including violence and threats of violence against members of the judicial branch Well, I mean these protests wound up with a hitman traveling across the country trying to assassinate justice brunt cavanaugh And we he's been arrested and charged federal seriously in addition to that actual hitman's crimes I mean again that was happening on National television seems like a layup to show up and arrest them I mean, what what if those protesters were protesting outside of a district judge home? Uh were members of ms 13 and that judge was presiding over the murder and racketeering trial of an ms 13 gang lord Would you expect your agents to show up and arrest those protesters? You know, I would think we would want to be aggressively investigating ms 13 members and we are So but I that didn't answer my question Is there would you expect your agents to stop ms 13 from protests protesting outside of a federal judge's home as that judge presided over an ms 13 murder trial Knowing what we know about ms 13, uh, and they're uh almost Epic commitment to violence An ms 13 member engaging that activity outside of judge presiding over Uh an ms 13 trial would be something that I think would would lead to us trying to look at every tool We have to be able to protect that judge So it's it's okay to protest outside of the spring court justice home if you disagree with their potential rulings I didn't say that I don't know what's the difference between the two. I think the difference is twofold one Uh, we have to make sure that we are prioritizing and enforcing those violations of federal criminal law that represent the greatest threat To the public, uh, and so that in particular focuses on violence and threats of violence Second as to this particular statute Questions about when it applies constitutionally are with respect better directed to the department If I was sitting here as assistant attorney general or the attorney general I might have a different type of response to you, but as fbi director on the interpretation of the statute Uh constitutionally I would defer to the department on that Well, I'm I'm very disappointed the department of justice and the fbi didn't take these protests themselves seriously As I said, they led to a democratic hitman showing up and trying to assassinate a sitting supreme court justice We all know a federal judge who lost her son and almost lost her husband because someone showed up at their home as well These are serious and grave threats. It is an obvious Black letter violation of the criminal law and I hope if it happened it happens again The fbi will take it more seriously and start arresting them in charging with the violation of this obvious crime At this point I we everyone has had a chance for a first round and With the exception of senator tillis and senator cotton have gone over The a lot of seven minutes. I know that you have to leave I have additional questions, but I will not be asking them Uh, I recognize senator grassley who's asked for an opportunity to close this with questions Any other senator who has a question needs to be here and I'll give them one minute each senator grassley Mr. Chairman magic before senator grassley goes. I just wanted to raise one point, which is When I spoke before the break. I made a reference to I made a reference to a shooting. I think it was in response to your questions about the shooting of a couple of our agents Where they, you know, thankfully survived And I missed my staff informs me that I misspoke in a couple respects one is That it was last week and not this week And second was that it was That the weapon in question was a weapon that was converted Into a fully automatic and I think I characterized it a little bit differently So I just wanted to make that was clear on the record. Thank you for the clarification senator grassley. Yeah Did the fbi take any steps to identify any political bias from tebow Including open source postings that reflected a partisan Predisposition that would disqualify him from involvement in sensitive criminal investigations Well senator, uh We have I want to be careful not to comment on at the moment on ongoing personnel matters Certainly we want to take advantage of all the tools at our disposal to make sure that people are following the rules Can you just say this?  I mean in selecting them for the position or or No one whether they got any political bias or not. Well, we we uh We expect our people to comply with a number of rules including the hatch act Uh, and so we have a number of rules and policies that that govern not just Let me go on to my next question. Okay Which field offices are responsible for monitoring and investigating? Those afghan evacuees that pose a national security Concern and that's a follow-up to senator holly's question, but he didn't ask that specific question So senator I'll answer that one way, but I might need to follow up with you in writing At the one way the way I would answer it is All of our joint terrorism task forces all 200 of them Are engaged in the effort to investigate Potential terrorist activity and and any number of them would potentially involve people who Came from afghanistan. So I don't I think I'm a little confused as to The reference to specific field offices, but let me see if there's more information we can get for you as a follow-up I might be missing an important nuance. My last question. Does the fb. I know where all these flag evacuees are located Uh We have a lot of information about where people are located. I can't sit I can't sit here right now and tell you that we know where all are located at any given time That that's probably true. Okay. Thank you Director ray. Thank you for coming. There have been several questions At least one raised the question as to whether or not the fbi was Vigilant and protecting the supreme court justice who was being Harassed in some form I would just Say that for the record last december We passed a judicial security bill sent it to the floor of the united states senate to provide additional Security for the men and women and their families who serve All right guys, I'm gonna go ahead and just Stop them next. It sounds like they're wrapping it up but I thought I'd get on here and Chat a little bit with you guys if you want to talk a little bit about the hearings I watched I think the whole thing There might be a couple more questions here. I don't think there will be but it's just going to be democrat All looks like it's ended. Okay Good I've had my fill. It wasn't nearly as interesting as I was hoping it would be But it did give a couple I mean You know, I there's a couple things they said that were just lies I you know, I'll probably do a video about it and and talk about that But it's just the lies they keep telling over and over I feel this need that I have to Keep refuting them because it's like as soon as you stop Then they just keep going and it's now the truth, right? I mean, I'm not saying that I'm making any sort of real impact But I and other people Constantly pointing this out that does And so I want to continue doing that I did want to talk to anybody who might watch this channel regularly you might have noticed that I'm I don't have nearly as much content coming out lately just as far as like my comedy, you know, kind of review hot take videos I've had some shorts and I'm now I'm doing this live stream It really is just because as most of you guys probably know, I'm a stay at home dad I have three kids young ones Two of them are in school But they haven't gone back yet one of them actually just started going back yesterday But one of them was a one-year-old which anybody who's has a one-year-old knows how that goes Um, I'm gonna I'm never gonna quit. Just keep coming back. I'm gonna keep doing stuff Anytime I get a chance to work. I'm working. Uh, it's just been hard. Uh, something else. 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Allah is going to beautify your actions. Allah is going to forgive you all the things that you have done. And Allah puts another incentive for you. It says, the true success, the meaningful success, the success that actually counts, that weighs something, has value for you, is when you put your trust in Allah and you obey Allah and His messenger, Subhanahu ta'ala. That is the true success Allah says. So I'm here today with a simple message. You have heard this before. The way I say it, this job is very tough. Believe me, this is very tough job. It's not an easy thing to stand here and make sense of some things. It's a lot harder than you can imagine. But at the end of the day, today when we finish the khutbah and prayer and you say, I got nothing out of this, I knew all of it, I accomplished my goal. Seriously. Because what I'm about to say, you already know. It's just a reminder. That's what khutbah is supposed to be. Okay, so let's begin like this. Once upon a time, there was a man on face of the earth, a really beautiful man. He climbed a mountain because Allah called him to climb the mountain. Well, he did. Because Allah wanted to talk to him. Guess what his name is? His name is Musa Moses. So he went up to the mountain, top of the mountain, he spoke with Allah. When you read the Quranic passages about his conversation with Allah, one thing becomes very clear. That he loved it so much, he elongated the conversation. Allah asked one simple question. The answer was very simple and to the point, no, he elongated, he kept on talking and talking and talking. Do you blame him? The creator of this world. Allah, when we say, he invited him to talk, you think he's going to just say one word and give up? No, he kept on talking. And he wanted to talk more and more because the appointment is done, conversation is over. Allah delivered the message what the reason he invited him for. Now he is just dying to talk more and he's like saying but not saying, he's like, how do I continue this conversation with you, oh God? This is just like, wow, you can't imagine, you can't even put it in words. Well, Allah said, I'll give you a secret. You want to continue talking to me? Here is the secret. He gave it to him directly there, on top of the mountain. You know what the secret is? We are about to do that here. Allah said, you want to remember me, you want to talk to me, establish prayer. He didn't say pray. In the Arabic language, when you learn it, to establish something is different than praying. He didn't say just pray. He said, make sure all elements of prayer is in perfect condition if you want to talk to me. You want to communicate to me. And Allah said, I will respond to you when you communicate with me. There's a beautiful Hadith. I've mentioned this in one of our gatherings here. Unfortunately, I think it's kind of forgotten. The Hadith is just shakes you up, literally. Allah says in there clearly saying the prayer is a communication between you and Allah. That means you say something, Allah responds.  Immediately in the prayer that you are involved. But the question for you and I today is like, really? Allah responds. How come I don't hear it? How come I don't feel it? That's a completely different subject. What is it that we can do to establish prayer, not just pray? Okay. That was the gift he was given. Some years past, some thousands of years past, someone got invited by Allah to talk to him. So this time he went up, not just over the mountain, over the horizon to meet his Lord and guess who that is? It's our beautiful beloved Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Once the conversation took place, he got a gift. Guess what the gift was? Because he wanted to talk to God also the same way. He got a gift. And that gift was that five daily prayers that you are talking about. In 2005, you know the story, how it goes and the interaction between Moses and Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam once he was descending back to earth, it's just beautiful. He got that gift too. So how do we establish prayer? That's a completely different topic. There are three different scenarios when it comes to prayer. Three different scenarios, so pay attention. When the time of prayer comes, either we are kind of negative towards it or we are neutral towards it or we are positive towards it. What does that mean? How do we become that? I conducted a thing. Some of my Sunday school students, graduates are here. Last week was Sunday school. The first question I asked, why are you here? And my beloved answer, the answer that I love the most comes, resonates. And I loved kids' honesty. I love it. You know what they say? They have a tough number. Say, I don't want to be here. My parents, my mom, my dad made me to come here. That's almost the answer. And it's true. It's like my mom, my dad forced me. Oh, but actually, not made me. Forces me to come here. So I love that challenge. When I see that, then I want to make sure that what is it that I can do to entice that person's interest so it would not be force will come on his own merit and negative thought. When a time of prayer comes, I'm not pinpointing, I'm pointing the finger to no one. This is how the household works everywhere. The time of prayer comes, let's say Maghreb.  We're watching this mindless videos, short videos. And daddy bought that clock in the kitchen and this is a lot of work that goes on. And we're still busy with that. Or we're watching some mindless show on TV. The Adhan is going on, we have no idea. Beta, time for prayer. Maghreb. Maghreb. Nothing, nothing in the registers. That is a negative response. Some of us are neutral. We're like, ah, okay, time for prayer. I guess let's go stand there and just boom, boom, boom, boom. Done, I'm done. That's a neutral response. The third one is the positive response. Mashallah, my daughter. I hope, I hope I'm not embarrassing her. I don't think she's here. I don't know if she's here or not. This is the positive response. When a Thursday comes Thursday, the first thing she's asking me, daddy, where are we going for Juma? And what time? First question. I love it. I absolutely love it. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. Let's see, where's Munirbhai? Whatever he is, that's a positive response. I'm just kidding. That's a positive outlook. Looking forward towards a prayer.   How do we move from a negative to neutral and how do we move from neutral to a positive outlook toward the prayer? I was contemplating on that on my bike ride this morning. Yes. I told my Sunday school students, when they go bike ride, I'm actually engaged in the prayer and they're like, how is that possible? You're biking. Are you kidding? I'm like, hold on. This is what I was thinking. I came across this. I was just looking at there, trying to find it.  A lot of his blessings to you. Allah says, I give you this blessing, that blessing, this blessing, that blessing. And then in ayah number 34, Allah says the following. So pay attention. Allah says, I give you everything. The really loose translation. Anything that you ask, I give it to you. Without asking any questions, without condition. You got them all. All the favors. Everything that you ask for. All the bounties, all the blessings. Here's the one I love the word. Nima. Nima, blessing is singular. Singular word, not plural. Singular. While Allah is challenging you and I, every one of us individually, collectively, saying if you sit back, sit back and start trying to say, Alhamdulillah, for an appreciation for one single blessing Allah has given you. One single. Entire life. You are not going to be able to calculate it. You are not going to be able to do so. That's the challenge. Allah started by saying, I give you every single thing that you are asking for. But if you try to show gratitude towards one, not going to happen. You are not going to be able to do that. So, how do you move from a negative to neutral to positive? Here's a tangible thing you can do. Think about one single nima, one single blessing Allah is giving you from the fajr until Zohar that we are going to do right now. One thing. What is that one thing? I don't know.  Gazillion is up out there.  Could have been one of those you couldn't hear.  The fact that you are breathing and each time you take the breath the oxygen goes in your lungs goes to the blood so that you can think and the carbon dioxide comes out. You know that, the biology of how it works. Any of those blessings, if you sit there for one of those to say thank you God, you are not going to be able to do so. But now here's your challenge. Before you start the prayer think about that challenge. Think about that nima, that blessing that you have. Think about it and concentrate on that. And every single movement that you have in the prayer, think about that.  You will not pray that you pray usually. It will take longer, which is so awesome the feeling you get, this accomplishment, this incredible thing that you are going to actually fly you get that. The next prayer you do the same thing. The next prayer you do the same thing. That's one of your tips. The next tip for you there's a hadith Allah says the key to jannah is prayer and the key to prayer is wudu, the way you prepare for the prayer. That is the key for jannah and for the prayer. Clean yourself properly. Pay attention. That's another thing. Here's a tip that worked really, really well for me and here's a tip we're going to do inshallah. When you come approach to the prayer, to the prayer spot, don't come as soon as you come there don't immediately just do and go on. Give yourself 10 seconds. 10 seconds. Give yourself 15 to 20 seconds. Just stand still. Don't do anything. Prepare yourself. Don't do anything. You will recognize this 15 seconds is long. It's really long. You will recognize that. But guess what's going to happen?   Anything that is right now in my mind right now in front of me, the challenges that I have, you are greater than every single thing that is coming towards me at the moment and I'm submitting to you Allah Akbar Dude, it changes the way you pray it changes the way you approach prayer How many tips I'm giving you? The third one. The next tip you might say, I forgot all of them Before the time oh, on your little devices do me a favor, every single one of you if you do not have it you have the prayer app the free one, download it it tells you the time for every single prayer go through the settings set it up the way you want it to set it up it tells you the time of the prayer that is out there you know what time it is you know Maghreb is going to come at 7.52 or something whatever the 755 or 752 I don't know what time it is you know it's going to come at that time give yourself 2-3 minutes for any social media or any shows or any movies, anything stop just calm down you know what if you're watching a funny thing you're watching one of the funny videos you want to watch a dude's mugshot or something that you have been doing immediately to the prayer that thing is in your head throughout the prayer one complaint that we all hear I can't concentrate on my prayer I don't know what I'm reading that's exactly right because we are engaged with something else and that thing is playing in your head if you listen to your music before that guess what I guarantee you that that is the lyrics is going in your head if you're listening to the Nashi that thing is going to your head over and over again while you're standing in the prayer now our second complaint is I pray and make dua but I don't see any results okay we would just watch that we just listen to that hip-hop song and we just before the prayer and we just put that little thingy down pray then you put it back in there how do you expect the prayer to be the way you want it to be that is nothing to do with the Iqaba Sala I'm not trying to put you down but these are the realities that we face prayer Allah gave this to you and I as a gift to communicate with him which means when you communicate with him you are asking him for things you're praising him the more you praise the more you ask the more you're going to get because why? he is going to give you every single thing that you ask for he will and this is why we started the Iqaba saying we want to put our full trust in him when you put your full trust in him this is what's going to happen that is now the ball is in your court as they say it what is it that you're going to do when you come out of this pick one of those and make a change in your life transform your life guarantee that you will love it guarantee that your life will be different I say I say I say I say I say I say I say and he says I say and he says I say and he says I say I say and he says I say I say I say yououflage Son And lastly, last order of business, the ayah from the Quran, the secret for success, things you're supposed to do and things you're not supposed to do, three things you're supposed to do because Allah commands you to do it. Three things you're not supposed to do, Allah tells you to avoid it. And Allah commands you to do it. And it will end with the explanation, the recitation, and the rest of what you're supposed to do. Remember and do our job.


From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Abdul you don't know me. Oh, I have the little business. Well, I'm so happy for you. I hope it's doing well Okay, what now look Joe Abdul Jobs for people for servants all the employment agent. Have you got the address of that girl who worked for the Countess? You've got the wrong idea Abdul. I just want to talk to her. Where does she live? I'll give you 10. No, she's worth more. Look knock it off I got to find her and talk to her fast while I'm still alive and while she is Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location Algiers, North Africa to the Home Office Transworld Fidelity Company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Lorco Diamonds matter a hundred thousand dollars worth missing expense account continues Item nine fifteen dollars even Gratuity tip gift bonus. Ah, why kid about it? It was a bribe To a man named Abdul for the address of a girl named Chara an address up in the native quarter the Casbah But the idea wasn't romance no matter what Abdul thought Four hours earlier in the Countess Duttalia's apartment somebody had turned on the gas and tried to kill one or both of us It was nine to one that the somebody was chartered a servant. I wanted to ask her why I Put my coat on it was just on the point of leaving my hotel. I Slipped a gun into my side pocket and moved over to the door Now is it Going What's on your mind you check if I come inside it's kind of personal, you know what I mean probably All right, come on in much obliged I didn't know who you were but when we when we got that little fracas at their cop told me about it afterward Man, you really got a wallop on you. You make a fella know he's at it You know what I mean is that why you're here a post mortem on the fight. No, no, no, it's done and over You whip me fair and square as far as I'm concerned if you've got anything to say, let's have it fast I'm in a hurry to get out of here. Well, I sure don't want to take up no more your time than necessary. I know how it is Course I'm on vacation now. We're back in Chicago. I'm in a meat business Look, Barrett, would you at least in a way? I am I mean by products. Actually, you know what they say use everything with the squeal I'm the fellow the Kansas squeal you get it. Oh brother What I come here for was Maybe to get it straightened out about that game Do you mean that count is that earlier count is count is them titles are a dime a dozen I can buy him sell them like sausages. Oh, what about her? I look neighbor I was figuring to come here and put it to your man-to-man. You know what I mean I know what I'm beginning to think you mean I figure when you see my position You'd want to do the square thing like anybody on the right side of the fence would you with me neighbor? You better drop that neighbor business. I've moved Well dollar the thing stacks up like this now. I already had my claim staked there before you even got in town I got a lot of money invested in that dame Barrett so how I've been taking her around places, you know feeding her buying her one thing another But I was even going to kick through For a 20 grand chunk of ice for her She and I had that fight last week. You want that dames got highfalutin. I did what are you talking about? Well, I just put it to a cold turkey.  Well, that made her mad. You understand.  You did you look when was this fight was it before the diamonds were sent here? We sure Sure, I said if that's the way she was going to ask she could forget about them diamonds Well, I ain't seeing a sense of talk to her, but I just can't I just can't seem to get her off my mind. I Look dolly you was in her apartment there for two hours and 40 minutes tonight, and I don't like it It bothers me strictly business Barrett, and I gotta get going now. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. All right. Wait a minute We we still got something to settle here Like I told you I got all Barrett get out You better hold your horses. I don't know if you know that the name CK Barrett if that means anything to you But I got influence back then in the United States. What's the hard way, huh?  This is Johnny dolly some drunk just wanted in here and passed out Would you send up a couple of boys to drag it out in the hall? Expense account item 10 $5.30 a tip to the bill boys and taxi fare to the Casbah The taxi dropped me off at the end of the causeway and from there on I walked It was late Well after midnight But the narrow crooked alleys were teeming with life Some of it out in the open some of it under cover Small groups of people met together here and there along the cobbled streets Men of two dozen tongues and dialects and women too slip silently in and out of the dark doorways Crouched over tables in the dim lit cafes and coffee houses Groups usually fell silent when I passed instead with hostile curiosity The Casbah backwash of North Africa Little-known seldom bothered and scarcely policed And for an outsider especially at night more dangerous than dynamite The address Abdul had given me turned out to be a coffee house, but it could still be legitimate And there was only one way to find out. I want to see Chata But for private reasons Chata's not here. Where can I find it? Take a seat table in the corner Maybe she'll come I Took the seat ordered coffee and waited a Wrinkled old Arabs squatted on a rug in the middle of the room and played strange weird melodies Gradually the other patrons went back to their conversations ignoring me completely in fact pointedly 20 minutes past the girl didn't show you will of course not object me sure if I take the liberty of joining you No, sit down. Merci So you wish to see chat. Yeah, that's right. Do you know her me? I know her very well no way to find her but naturally, miss you. I always know what they find here.  Oh Miss sure it is true that I gave him some wine a little not much But I think perhaps it was a bad vintage Yes, most unfortunate. It was for him. Well, perhaps it was for the best life is so uncertain But I do not wish to think of such unpleasantness Instead of let us talk about diamonds. Let's talk about killing or attempted killing Is Chata the one who turned on the gas in the Countess's apartment? Dispossible that she did that on whose orders it was nothing personal I didn't even know that you were going to beat him. I see then you really meant to diamonds Miss you that's enough of this foolish talk of killing All right. All right. What about the diamonds? You were sent here by the company that has insured them Is that not correct? That's right. And this company would like very much to recover this diamond. That's why I'm here Now I'm told that these companies sometimes give a larger rewards Agree to an arrangement of a sort make a deal you mean with no questions asked Exactly now is this thing true, sir? Is it possible that you would you have the diamonds Bobo? Well, let us say that I'm able to direct you to their location. You could almost call that a confession What does it matter so long as we are in the Casper? Oh, yeah, sure I imagine you have been spotted all over the place at least 30 right in this room. I am in no danger Tell me something you didn't pull off this job by yourself. Who else was in on it? I only wish to talk about the diamonds Well, can we come to an arrangement? Oh, I don't make deals with murderers. It is better that you do not use such words, it's true though, isn't it? That is not the question. It is only that I resent the insulting way Bobo Did you rise for the police to come here, sir? I'm as surprised as you are Bobo Consider this matter of the deal. We will talk more at some other time The patrons rush for the doors and in one minute flat the coffee house was empty even the owner was gone I was the only one left Three minutes later the inspector with a flying squad of 20 man came bursting into the street Well, I'm happy to find you are still alive. Why don't you get lost somewhere for you? I think it most fortunate that we are I mean time. Oh sure in time to follow up the only lead I had in this case lose a suspect is better than to lose one's life, monsieur Look inspector I was holding a gun in my pocket covering Bobo from the second he sat down at the table But you men are not if it had come to a showdown He couldn't have done a thing because he'd have been the first one to get it and he's wanted enough to have known that But I thought space and inspector. You've done it again. You'll goft, but I was only thinking The shooting was somewhere outside But it hadn't been the police all of the inspectors men were inside the coffee house He gave them orders quickly and they found out to search the area the streets were empty now dark and silent not a soul in sight We split up into pairs I worked with inspector Marcus for a while and left him and searched alone along a narrow side passage That's where I found him He'd been shot three times in the back and he was dying Mr. Dollar. Yeah, Bobo you you can't forget that deal. I think yeah, it's a little too late for deals now Who was in honor with you Bobo? Look, you've got nothing to lose by talking. You know that don't you? Except my auntie, monsieur as you see this of the castle who shot you a dragon, monsieur 12 feet tall with fiery eyes. All right, Bobo. All right, but just tell me this just one thing Are you the man who attacked the property agent at the airport the man who slug Andre Jardine? Oui monsieur. I do it very good.  I Minute or two later inspector Marcus came up and we stood there looking down at the dead man lying on the stones of the alley He was a short man stockily built with wide shoulders and a deep chest It was the body of a man of action of accomplishment But he chosen to be a smuggler dope peddler thief and killer Now he had become the victim of another killer. Did he say anything? Monsieur? Was he able to talk? Yeah Enough. Huh? What is it to mean monsieur? Do you know who is guilty of this? Yeah, that's right inspector. I know the whole story now The whole filthy rotten story There'll be the final intriguing episode in our story of the Lorco Diamonds matter tomorrow tomorrow night The odds are set the last chip is down. It's the last spin of the wheel and death is the croupier Join us. Won't you? Yours truly Johnny dolly Yours truly Johnny dolly starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield it is produced and directed by Jack John stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time in station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


The testimony of each defendant, these men saw no evil, spoke done, and none was uttered in their presence. If we combine only the stories from the front bench, this is the ridiculous composite picture of Hitler's government that emerges. It was composed of a number two man who never suspected the Jewish extermination program, although he signed over a score of anti-Semitic decrees.  A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy. A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice. A security chief who was of the impression that the policing functions of his Gestapo and SD were somewhat on the lines of directing traffic. A party philosopher who had no idea of the violence which his philosophy was inciting in the 20th century. A governor general of Poland who reigned but did not rule. A Gauleiter of Franconia whose occupation was to pour forth filthy writings about the Jews but who had no idea that anybody would read them. A minister of the interior who knew not even what went on in his own office, much less the interior of his own department and nothing at all about the interior of Germany.  To say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime. In the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sir Hartley Shawcross delivers his summation. This trial must form a milestone in the history of civilization, not only marking that right shall in the end triumph over evil, but also that ordinary people of the world, and I make no distinction here between friend and foe, are now determined that the individual must transcend the state. The state and law are made for man, that through them he may achieve a fuller life, a higher purpose and a greater dignity. In the name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, General Rudenko delivers his summation. And when we ask, have the charges against the defendants been proved before the court? Have the defendants been convicted of their guilt? There is only one answer. Their crimes have been proved. Neither the statements of the defendants nor the arguments of the defense were able to refute our grave accusations. It has been impossible to cast doubt on events which actually took place. The truth cannot be challenged. That is the real meaning of this trial. That is the lasting result of our long and strenuous effort. In the name of the French Republic, M. Dereeb delivers his summation. When this international trial is closed and the principal war criminals sentenced, we shall go back to our own countries. The fate of these men now lies entirely with your conscience. This is beyond our competence. Our task is finished. Now it is for you in the silence of your deliberations to listen to innocent blood crying for justice. Lord Justice Lawrence, Great Britain, Mr. Francis Biddle, United States, Monsieur de Fabre, France, and Major General Nikychenko, USSR and their alternates prepare the verdict. It will be based on the opinion of the majority. 46, the verdict is delivered by Lord Justice Lawrence, President of the Tribunal. Of the organizations, the SS, SD, Gestapo, and Leadership Corps are found guilty. The High Command, SA and Reich Cabinet not guilty. As for the individual, Wilhelm Hermann Göring, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Rudolf Hess, guilty of conspiracy and crimes against peace. Life imprisonment. Joachim von Ribbentrop, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Wilhelm Keitel, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Alfred Rosenberg, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Wilhelm Frick, guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Julius Streicher, guilty of crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Walter Funk, guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Life imprisonment. Helmar Schach, not guilty on this indictment, released. Karl Dernitz, guilty of crimes against peace and war crimes. 10 years imprisonment. Eric Rader, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace and war crimes. Life imprisonment. Baldur von Schirach, guilty of crimes against humanity. 20 years imprisonment. Fritz Sokol, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Alfred Yodel, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Franz von Papen, not guilty on this indictment, released. Albert Speyer, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 20 years imprisonment. Konstantin Puneura, guilty of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. 15 years imprisonment. Arthur Seis-Inquart, guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. Hans Fritsche, not guilty on this indictment, released. Martin Bormann, tried in absentia. Guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Death by hanging. The trial is over. Begin their prison sentences.  The other ten wait for the gallows. It happened and why. But Nuremberg is more than an answer to a question. As Justice Jackson said, this trial is part of the great effort to make the peace more secure. It constitutes juridical action of a kind to ensure that those who start a war will pay for it personally. Nuremberg stands as a warning to all those who plan and wage aggressive war.