CNN's Candy Crowley wins WAW Award and Sam Brownback

i'm tired of this every year at the william allen white foundation honors a journalist who exemplifies the qualities of the famed emporia publisher candy crowley is the two thousand twelve recipient of the william allen white national citation she is that she political correspondent at cnn and the anchor of the news program the state of the union with candy crowley she spoke at the university of kansas auditorium on january ten thousand twelve years old at all very much for this incredible honor you can imagine what it's like to grow up in greek or missouri and i dream big dreams even though it seems like you always be there and number and then to get her email one day the demons queller journalism school and say om you know we selected use of william allen white award winner this year and would you come and yet the idea that so it's this is huge for me cause i

do feel like i'm a little bit back home i've got relatives stack crowd where an end its it's just a as a way to say i do a little bit on channel x in st louis every friday or i talk about what's going on in the political world to an ai dongmei can do it today because they'll be our money go on it until i was going but i have a feeling they knew and so they signal would you pre recorded on thursday yesterday and i said sure and so at the end they said well you know i can imagine so we will you get in the way of melanoma what word that hey you and we really congratulate you and we really dislike to read a few names and when walter cronkite when you know the hidden in the vineyard times publisher of the la times editor they went through all these great names and they wanted to think of to say was could you call my mom and tell her that made it just seemed so unreal to me that

somehow my name is mentioned in that in that same story so i am i am incredibly honored and deeply grateful and having a lot of fun so think of all i'm a really nice to know i'm sorry about my voice which is among the among the good side of getting rid of an illness and so i think new york and read my mind when i came in last night in a hotel room there's little goody bag there and there was a k u penn named jay hart's teachers and a model un the favorite the k u teach you were so i was very excited about this was meant to do you guys are very in tune with me so thank you again for all of that what i was gonna do today was just give you fifteen twenty minutes of the campaign trail as i see it in twenty twelve says that seems to be the hot topic out there that i can tell from the past twenty four hours and then as you see there these two microphones here i would love to take your questions will be thinking talking at the lunch table today about the twenty all

for the dirty dozen for campaign i covered john kerry in his bid to unseat which was an imam are going through or thinking they're so this'll be the last campaign but i do i'm a dull on a bomb on the bus off the bus on the plane on the plane in the hotel to the hotel on the press riser officers are flies like it is anymore i've had my fill of the road so two thousand for when you know i saved all of like you know a final new hampshire pressed hagel the final iowa price tag titles south carolina and then doesn't evolve around and hillary clinton got in the race and he's there men like a week later brock obama got the race and i thought i can in my road career on john kerry says so we raced ahead at a time and he had a tiring time and so

this race was of all look at mccain and mitt romney and then in the fall mitt romney described obama and then came island jonathan out rick santorum wins it out it's silent so they were not a great predictor of who's gonna be the moment mitt romney you know one the heaviest we thought he wouldn't use them are already south carolina reading the clock by newt gingrich so are which is to say that i guess this will be a campaign that i cover from start to finish what they are what they're going to be boys which campaigned like tibet so as is say they're all my children because there are one and there are right this one is fun because this ode to find anything we thought was going to happen and as always the ones i like as well i don't know the ending i like to write the stories were i'm looking forward to the ending the same way i hope viewers are from a mine in rich galen i give him full credit for this story which he had in a column that he wrote the other day talking about the race and he noted that in the

movie the agony the ecstasy michelangelo was busy painting the sistine the ceiling of the sistine chapel and painting and it went on and on and munson more months and finally pope julius the second lost patience with the whole process and answer the michelangelo when will you make an end and michelangelo says when i am finished i think when you look at om newt gingrich newt gingrich is it explain this one is harrison newt gingrich is the guy who says right there in that moment when you think about saying five hours later in the shower you know he's like this and he can't and he had somehow been able to take a real anger inside the conservative wing of the republican party and voice that and within that he has shown that he can that he is willing and abel quick enough to take on rock obama harm because they want

someone who will go toe to toe with him and as you know the president is a great orator i don't know that i think his skills as a debater were something that i'm stuck stuck out so much in two thousand at emily's early in a more than adequate debater but it was like well what will ahmed so if people look at newt gingrich and they say he had he holds their anger and their passion for something different arm when you look at ron paul interesting guy i am i would say that a lot of his turn out in some of these places has actually not been traditional republicans many the democrats be surprised how many people polling places say they vote for ron paul you say hoosier second choice mr brock obama i'm so this is a different crowd on the penny but it's also full of libertarians i mean and that's why everyone expected that ron paul would do well out west in these caucus states where

pat a passionate few can make can give you big results and i think ron paul is in this no matter what happens because ron paul i think to most people he's he says now he says both but the truth is ron paul is the leader of a movement and eye movements you know is can survive in and he goes on every bit as much for the movement enforce a cell in the republican party are then four am any kind of vision that he has a certainty of having of it getting to be the nominee so paul goes on i think they all go on on however in politics what i found is that people are always always always staying in the race until the day they hold a news conference and they're getting out so you can't see is what you have to say because as we saw also the only politician ever know my entire life who said at that i think about this for a little while ago think whether to stay in the race the only had ever know that we did that and then give that was rick perry galway invective of her tweeting that my arm and

saying it you know i've never known a politician who went home to think about it and then came back to run in with a character gets the us okay i'm still run and so but others to show you that there's you know politics is full of a lot of generalizations of roles that end up being i would think if you somebody asked me what i expect to have been salome just analyze it for you i'm so telling is when expect to happen cause i don't know any more than you do about what actually will occur but if i was looking ahead for you real quickly to the fall campaign and i was up in chicago not that long ago at the reelection headquarters for brock obama in talking to these folks at their high school you really wanna run again sending who then who do you fear the most we most fear you know in september and he looked at me and he said the economy you know that that's our biggest fear and they know that

this is about the economy and quite frankly if the economy feels better to people in september october november that i think you'd have to bet on the president's reelection incumbents you always when you give that a veteran incumbent he can raise a lot of money he's got old blood actually pass the donors are willing to give big big dollars he's now that means the outside the president has a bully pulpit the minute he opens his mouth everywhere he's a medium usually a republican or a democrat on the incumbent always has the advantage which is why incumbents by and large i think the percentile as the lowest percentile i think in modern history of incumbents been reluctant six sixty percent which is a more like seventy or eighty in terms of the congress and so i think you have to give the advantage to the tool bomb on money on profile and what they worry is that this economy which is shown some signs of me be getting steady steady out with except for the housing

market which a lot of economists will tell you economy can't get that until it did it housing market stabilizes but if the data's commerce committee is going be a tough guy to beat republicans on several levels one is what's what's plan b that mitt romney has been out there saying i'm a business except i understand how business works i know how you create jobs i know it put things together and i can do this or people are satisfied in september that the economy is on the manned what's plan b a plan b for the romney campaign as far as i can see and for others is to say yes that would be so much better if someone else had been and i mean that's no it was i getting to go to it that way because you've heard this tough spot because you don't want to be you know not happy about the economy getting better because it means people are getting jobs back and maybe they're not so afraid of losing their homes

ck it's on and say don't mean anything it's going to get worse down the line to have to embrace the progress will say yeah but he's not responsible we're at war you know i wouldn't be you know he didn't have to spend all this stimulus money and of course health care that you know that then brings health care back up as the key part of the economy not jobs on but health care what the health care law which is now moving into a fact in the post election years would mean to the pocketbook arm i have to tell you that joe biden has taken up talking about a friend of his who thinks that the bumper sticker arm for the obama campaign not to beeb in line is dead and general motors is alive if you think about it is pretty darn powerful i mean they think that they're sitting there holding a better hand today than they were in november or december armed and in fact they are and why is that because the economic numbers look a lot of people will say to you you know what's this jobless numbers it's a point three now i think

what's of jobs that most people understand two things home foreclosures and jobless were hits everybody gets fear losing a job and everybody gets fearing was in your home it's just as the american dream right their job a home a family and so you know i talked to i'm not an economist but i get a lot of them on the phone and i so i talk all the time up when you think what you're looking for and how will we know if this is for real or it's another one of those fake recoveries or what's going on say well aware that you're out there about this but you know it's the jobless rate and i sat down with a fairly tough pie at the white house and i said so i can you sell a jobless rate of eight percent invisible quite be right nobody thinks the economy will be great in november so in some way is i'm the white house has to get people to bet on the calm they're going to have to get people to believe that it's coming and to put their get back into him and on the way this guy described

to me nice if you know the chi chi i'm most interested in moving into the selection is a guy who doesn't have a job we need him to believe it even if he didn't have a right now he's gonna get one soon so in so many ways were back to oh i mean it's got to me is why when all these economists talk about you know the ratio of the debt to gdp and the mortgage foreclosure rate and the jobless rate i think how i'd watch the consumer confidence really i'd watch how people feel about their lives and i think he doesn't have to september for people turn around the rally it ended july consumer confidence ought to be looking good on and then i think you could predict that things are going fairly well missing the kinkade defeated but that things are looking up for present obama consumer confidence is still shaky people still think that we're getting worse time sitcom of the things are getting better and that's very good for republicans i think it's probably a simple as we've been saying all

along this was of course things are nothing horrible worldwide happens that rivet our attention to something else but i think indeed that spits is the trajectory can the white house sell the trajectory of the economy can that guy who still doesn't have a job believe that he's about to get one so if it were me i am i be watching the consumer confidence rate as the surest measure of on the president's chances of getting re elected there is the other very strong thing that happens to incumbents and that is that people have come through a horrible and we hope we're on the other side a horrible economy and people don't like to switch horses midstream they really delved so if they're convinced that it's getting better then the scarier alternative is to try something know so i think so much happens in these figures in the next three four months if the housing figures matter a lot and in mark zandi who's like one of the smartest people i know i'm an economics i was on capitol hill this week

saying the bottoms not out of the housing market but the second is on that not the kind of thing they won here in the camp obama and see and he thinks it's going to fall further before them bottoms out so i would look for those things as you and i would also say you know as i was on a close excel at the guy's arm actually assassin questions about is that when i when i teach writing classes sometimes i give them a list of twelve roles in rule number thirteen is break all the rules because i think that that's how almost everything works i could sit here and tell you here's how the selections go places and seen so many of these but every election has its own pulse and its own people at the center of it all things can happen but i think that the generals template that this election it's set on has to do with what i'm sure you all appealing about for the last two or three or four years and that is the economy

i think it will probably be a very high participation all action it will be very close election on the end it and i think that is no matter who gets the republican nomination but certainly armed unite the president has a pre skillful team behind him calm and they're all like this i'm hoping that the numbers that we're seeing in the economy are as good as they hope they are so i think you know for your attention and i would love to entertain any questions you may have you're listening to for humans unique only on tv are for them i wake up to every sunday morning at so i don't throw things at the study of child my name is genuine back in nineteen seventy four i graduated from kansas here i was a unique a photographer i have a question with the heightened tensions in the persian gulf this brings to mind the tragic of that no

good on july third of nineteen eighty eight in the streets of her most instance that are now one hundred and one at the time why is it with all the finger pointing going on in washington dc but there is never made any mention of the united states navy and the uss first sense when they shot down an iranian passenger jet flight six fifty five the first sentence was in iranian waters the passenger jet crashed after was hit by a surface air missile killing two hundred and ninety people sixty children should someone not media been reminding the world how danger it is to say parole this was an administration of ronald reagan and to this day

no one from this government has ever apologized to nearly an animation for journalists act ok let me let me let me say a couple things about that one of the things i say when i talk to some of the kids today here that it wasn't all the young men and women may rise and they asked me how i would prepare to become i'm a journalist if i were right now them an ice and one of the things i would have done better than i do when i was in college was i would've paid attention to history because in the end everything goes back to something else and i would hate a good deal more attention i think that that is true across the board i think is true journalist day i think it's that juveniles ahead of me or behind me and many of them are unaware of things have happened that you know this began this begets the next thing and here's why we are here and number two i don't think that the news media per se the day today news the stuff you see a seven

or eight year or whatever you watch during the weekday on in pairs or feels that it has the opportunity to trace back and what now seems to many to be history there is a vip she huge huge pressure on at this point in the news business for audience it's not that he saw the good old days i hear about all the time about how it was fine if the news was the last leaders' prestigious to do the news and do it well and i think theyre evolve to me that's the beauty now of the internet because the ig is endless and someone like you are that has the start of this history that uses history can go on and say whoa let's stop and think about how we got here or hears my view on how we got here and it's why i mean i know that i have this total love hate relationship with the internet for a variety of reasons have to go into the almighty think that people always home when i distress regardless of what it's about people tend to focus

on what was left out and said look this is the most important thing about why we're here or just wasn't working at the string you let that out and i'm a look at and say yeah without because the three people who do the three hours ahead and we were totally focused on that so i focused on something differently is not that news is not a perfect science and doesn't take into account the historical things it's why i think the potential of the internet is to reflect to bring up things that you know people either missed in history a missed in there a you know contemporary lives or going out know now because they were born before it happened but thank you for your question how important do you think it is for journalists that political the political scene to keep their own political leanings he had been well i think i think it depends on what you mean by journalist a play to me their reporters and their commentators and their analysts commentators are people like roland martin does anyone here have any doubt that

roman support if you know roll morton is brock obama eleanor clift owner cliff does a columnist she's a democrat i'm not a columnist i would like everyone to go away from my show thinking i wonder what wonder whose side she's on i'm we were talking a little bit about bias last night and i said you know journalists are not worried about it i have some friends or journalists who don't vote and to me this is i won't say how he's worked to understand that the guys just because you don't vote doesn't mean you don't think so i mean so you've you know you already think it's just because you don't go x about a piece of paper means nothing we all come to the plight of their own set of biases i was raised in the midwest i am i am what makes me different from east coast road has raised around guns and everybody my family was a hover om you know did things hundred to rise all winter long depending on what season it was you know so that doesn't

you know that part of a gun is never scared me i lived on the east coast for thirty years i don't know a friend that's ever seen and i know friends are scared of guns it's a different so therefore they are all for white people had to cancel so you we all have our different orientations but i can almost guarantee you if i did a gun control story it would end up the harder on the person pushing for less control than the one pushing for more control i think as a journalist you have to be oh well here of your biases and you have to have good actor because they're the ones that pick that up you can expect journalists not to have feelings you can expect journalists not to take sides in my journals i mean reporters and even analysts i hope that when you hear an analyst say i know when you hear me today say i think mitt romney he has the best hand going forward that that doesn't mean i want mitt romney to win that means i'm looking at the table as it's currently set and that's what i

believe not that i'm rooting for ok i did vote for mitt romney to win only because i wanted a short election cycle that so now i don't hear a young people with job at who think when i said i don't know i think it's gonna be running but that's only because i hope you wrap this up like every three first window but he enjoyed so we're gonna carry on so i i just heard you to be and i think we make a typical at cnn and elsewhere where it's hard to like which one music commentator and was working as an analyst in which one of you has a rope porter tickets are muddled up and you come to expect ahmed different things with the same thing from everyone in you should you got a reporter covering a candidate do you think is for their candidate that's a problem that's all this question connects the last one on the g discuss the of the state of cable news today and how it's affected your life seriously and then i you know i

have to say and that it hasn't arrived at the first on on i am worried about and electric that gets its news from one source i don't care with the source's the wall street journal the near times or you know what it is getting unusual or cnn all i'd love to have you all only innocence can i don't want to i think that's not a good way to go i am i am uncomfortable with news that seems to lean on it and i'm uncomfortable here's the republicans taking his democratic station i had that republicans i've asked on the my show on sunday and they use of that i can say he was a president of counseling on come on i know it belongs to but that's all right you abandon your competition series or even on fox we mean well it's fox you know it's our people so you know that's how it's viewed i don't necessarily except that in all of its hours because i know some very fine journals sit at fox arm but it even the pressure for ratings is

enormous ah the it's the twitter in the eyes of the blogging and their live streaming this is a math made me a little well larry except i think twitter tools unless i always feel like to like me with twitter's translation is your hundred and forty characters away from being fired you know i just don't trust the thing it takes me longer to write a tweet and write an entire stories and that people will people think there's a really think that you know if i put it this way will they think so i'm i completely freak myself up on twitter i think that i believe that scene and has done i'm a good job of walking that line right and journalism what bees that we like we don't have commentators we do hopefully you know who the commentators are what to expect from a but i think the hard news reporting is objective i don't think are

perfect and it i have not felt pressure from anybody at cnn ever in terms of the editorial you know in terms of you know i need you to do a little more of this or be a little more about why i'm in twenty plus years as finance never happen to me i'm we slip sometimes and we make stupid mistakes but i think in terms of dedication to the ideals of journalism i think that it's still there i think what harms there was a more than willing to the left of the lng to the right is just the sheer volume of stuff that's coming at you all the time now from these various entities and so now i'm not just i'm not going to let this with is to say i'm not spending all day writing one story calling next guy going because this right is this what you think or do you think some of them and calling back as sources say when you say this to you mean that is so unlike crafting the story all day long now i'm tweeting and blogging and

podcasting and then going live and doing just like it's on set and doing a package so what i worry about more for for table in for news of the future is more of the project quality is being diluted across all the platform to put on if you were doing six things where you used to focus on this one thing this one thing is always good i worry about the quality of things that have been said i'm going in making my last guy most of us maybe all this are deeply concerned about the inability of our congress and the president to deal with some of the major problems facing our country like to get on to know what's going to take the gases you know i wish i knew the years that you know that the approval rating of congress yesterday was ten percent i don't i mean i think after a while just a scratch i just don't think you have anybody the light show i am the problem i think with congress

right now is they think john boehner thinks the reason that people dont like congress is busy policy and nancy pelosi thinks the reason people like congress's jon maner so nobody quite make sense there their part in this i'm in this flip his ideas when i'm trying to use using answers to of the fault dear brutus eyes probably not in congress but in ourselves we are divided country and if you look at the number of really really republican district every ten year census tells people re district and if you've got a republican legislature in charge of the re district so that the so that there are as many solidly republican district as they can get and the same happens with the democrats so what you get you get people coming to washington dc whose arm cruz elections and religions depend on a very red or a very blue district so they're like carry those very rare and very blue policies to

congress and fight to the death for them and pretty much you know they don't know i'm there's no and reason to compromise we've had to wave elections for scholars was concerned recently one of them was george bush all honestly six thousand sex a lecture when what happened on the north east lost every republican ever had all of these northeast republicans save the two women from maine icon since now is just wiped clean all of the moderate republicans people were you know a red state ever blue state guys who were elected as republicans ok so those guys are the best incentive to compromise there's constituencies fairly liberal compared to torture alabama but they're republicans but they get swept out of office and we have a next wave election and what was that it was twenty ten what happened all the blue dog

democrats got thrown out of office those are the ones most likely to compromise with the northeast republicans were also got because those of the southern democrats so those are democrats representing republican state so there is no incentive in that congress for anybody to come i'm wise because they come from there's sections and what about the people who elected them said here the principles i want to stand for here's what i think you ought to do to win he wanted two things really people understand rocca get everything you want i'm giving you need to think about that though people are as divided as congress is when you look at the polling on any number of issues and i think the other thing is that there need to be a few more profiles in courage on capitol hill i think that they're i am totally opposed to term limits as i think he is a fascinating exercise but i think people want a no vote for the same diet for his

entire life they hunted that's what representations all about but i think that it would be nice to see more people who could say listen here i'm willing i'll take this one you know i will follow my sword for this work is it's the right thing to do for the country but there aren't enough of those people to what we know we knew that last summer john painter and president obama were pretty close to a mega death dr and then you know i was in that i had been good for the country because the word deal perked my ears up that never happens you know so they were very close to what happened john maynard king confronts if you can't deliver then businesses including a not so they are they are we are captives of our own rigidities in some ways is that we have self segregated here is a republican district is a democratic district is a republican state has so i think that it i don't know what the answer as i think they have to change and i think to a certain extent voters have to change and reward somebody

says you know when i change my mind on that not so much on the flip flop around this guy's of this these guys that have i changed my mind because i think the best thing for the country you know i don't really like some of us i mean a vote for because i think overall the country will be you know help why this need people have to give their politicians the freedom to do that because of the overarching threat is or will throw you out of office and what you get is the congress is divided as a nation remains thank you will fear that with candy crowley she political correspondent for c n n and recipient of this year's william allen white national citation she spoke at the university of kansas would refine a tory am on february ten two thousand twelve that's a week governor sam brownback spoke at the university of kansas not an income taxes education funding or any of the other state issues you usually associate with kansas governor's he was speaking out against human trafficking and fish and he became interested in

during his days as a us senator i feel for coming out tonight for a nice of you to a duel on an extremely important topic and one to me that hits home for our state politically for our history that we have as a state and that it's nice to say it people coming out for such an event it is important it's key is happening in your world now and you can do some about it let me i'd like to get a disordered history on my part on this and try to focus on the international issues to start with and then bring down the state issues no i have some suggestions for you for action items of what what we can do what we can do and say guess what you can do your individual can do renee this journey started when a staff member that was on loan to me from not a group i came in my office was working in her office and was started tell me about slavery in the sudan this is nineteen ninety seven probably the nineteen ninety eight when it was nineteen eighty seven i was recently elected as state

senate she comes in she's been working for a group of christian solidarity international and they've been buying back slaves in sudan i envy people free and they would go in with money to northern sudan buyback southern sudanese and take them home to southern sudan back to their families i just thought about this and i was going na na na na that doesn't happen in the world and this is nineteen ninety seven this isn't you know at ninety seven where were a century pass the stuff in it i just i really i was this benign a saint ya die i just don't think this happens in the world today i and she said ok i will bring some way you listen to some other presenters on this is absolutely it i'd be happy to hear about that and so she brought in some bite there was actually going in and buying people back to take back to their families and then he was shown the videos of what he was taking when he would go and he would get the names of the family members from the southern sudanese families

and go north to up partisan back and said you know it is cost me about other and then it was about thirty dollars a person it was evan davis raising this money and actually going in and wind that people for thirty dollars a person on i really and i'm shocked at this and then you're a first time ago were all okay the state employees but it's not my problem i have plenty of issues to deal with and i represent in the state kansas at united states senate and where the employee issues to deal with here is this important no question but it's not my issue but then it wouldn't the next thought that i realized it was a king yeah what's the history of kansas was my family history my mom grew up in the house on a property where john brown would stay when he was in kansas analysts want me kansas that's where my mom grew up eight when john brown is at harpers ferry in west virginia a bear yellin to him when they got in court in the the firehouses say is alice won the brown in there

i am the recycling most wannabe brown was because it made his name at the battle of those water may when he declared that his son is killed in this battle he declares and there will not be peace in this land until the issue of slavery is resolved and ten years later in the middle of the civil war let's all that's all my history that's all your history and the brown could not vietnam and never people say i don't know about this guy particularly i think you might have been a little off off our way but off but he was certainly read books about him he would say that he did the chapels of the big chains are on the slaves rubbed against his soul the rub against his skin with somebody else said shackles off and he felt and while others were able to kind of maybe set aside or they would go as far as he would he couldn't stop i am a push forward and that's our heritage is a somebody that when you feel the change the bondage of somebody

also robbed again hsu and i felt that when i got involved i organize a congressional delegation ago and though south sudan we flew in illegally and south sudan the sudanese government and lettuce and with women to yea south sudan met with a number of the individuals her and a vigil stories and several other members of congress and some private there are groups with me and came out and then was able to tell my colleagues about it and push forward on some legislation at that point on whether they see isis center and position like night i met you you've gotta get you get a kind of establish your credentials on it got noticed there was the you know something about a lot times it's yeah go to do that i end by women in the nicest way nineteen ninety eight that we did that a funny story coming either have to fly in and out with bush pilots and these are our guys did that understand the runway the runways are there not paved the one that i flew out of

and two and into nba was when he had to play the runway so when the guy goes to leave a case where the us loaded twin prop engine plane is a pretty new plan which i'm feeling better about that's a no or why it has got that engine those engines wrapped up as high as they can go on the ground is flat as heavy as he can on a break and go hua meis does hold a break and i'm on some appraisers i can't i don't know what's going to happen and he starts heading down that it's a it's a gravel it's a stand run what he just as clear an area again in the jungle it's a stand run what it is going downhill and then he's got a deal to get the plan because there's another hill not too far out there yet below to get up and then up over the slow it's not a big deal when it's a bit of wander stop it i s wave goes down it hits at the lights off the break the queen starts going he hits a bump the biplane bounces up or it comes back down again it's a second bump a new takeoff on the second bump

and so it takes off and we make it really happy about that there were able to able to make it that here i go in an out the people there have to live with the circumstances of what what they're have to deal with where a little greater good passes south sudan peace act ii and then later on master of the nine states negotiated peace treaty and now the southern sudanese as of this year declared independence from the north there are still i think vestiges of slavery but a lot of that practice a has been muted and and the reduced a great deal on in the door for fire looking at different but but not this similar circumstances as well then later and another guy came into my office mate had a big lock and he just laid it down on my desk as a big old rusty look and padlock and this guy was with international justice mission and he came in and he said i took this walk our group did offer the

brothel in india and no we've done a long term investigation and sent people in on the turn of a privately funded sting operation and they went into have have purchased sexual relations with girls under the age of twelve and it abroad the one indian and it specifically said this is what we want virgins the best you know we will pay this guy is setting up a sting operation of the local police would not do i and they were able to earn bus the brothel and the police came in with them they took the number these locks often so i want you to have this point you don't think about twelve year old girls behind bars the intricate says seduced away from their families and the family was told of a domestic servant in bombay come out in the

paul family's here's fifty dollars shouldn't be doing domestic servant work in bombay turns out she ends up in a brothel age twelve or younger day by age sixteen she may not be healthy enough to go on bail or come home when i was in nepal later visit they made a home for returning trafficking victims and this is while most on his piercing sides of anger or sailors a rifle of the beautiful young girls that should be in the flower of their life in these girls are sixteen seventeen eighteen years of age this is in katmandu nepal and the lady the rise of places trying to give up like a home for these girls are coming back from being trafficked in india and she looked around the room or fifteen girls nurses said this girl scout eight says she's dying this girl has this disease she's died she's died she's dying as she points to his girls sixteen

seventeen eighteen years of age and you and i got kids at that point time that age of ninety and is now thirteen fourteen like that those are my girls age and why they died in a swell yet traffic and there were ten or something like that they are forced to have fifty partners at night that's probably little high but not in some cases they were beaten into submission they were locked behind doors with us and then when they get too sick to carry on and you're thrown out there's a book on this i hope somebody read called disposable people anthony beale or i'm sure you're familiar with everybody else you're familiar with this book it if not want to kevin bales wrote that book i worked with kevin over the years it's a problem a british author and he tracks the the moment of people being trafficked around the world and sold into slavery and once they get so sick or ill have had virtually no value are thrown out like a

disposable diaper or a disposable plates and silly titles his book disposable people i and the numbers staggering and the type of circumstances and conditions are staggering the next journey went to north korea taxes on the chinese north korean border because receive a lot of trafficking victims come out of north korea into china and them and circumstance difficulties taking place in north korea or are well known but people can you can get it out of north korea you can get out of there on the chinese border there is virtue in and guarded border so people would walk out you're a female joe there are a lot of people that have farms or little places along the border their dogs they see some a strange come along dog starts barking if it's a man a little passive to one and they go out and a grabber and start talking to or worry from an it she's north korean good number of cases they say i were sent back to north korea unless

you agree to do what we say you during the day and also order some way the price back there was about seventy dollars to be a concubine of a domestic servant or for somebody in if he talked you're going back to north korea north korea you may go into the gulag you you know what's going to happen to their own really get past earth through a bobby orr north korean human rights act to try to address soundbite but by no means all of that issue i was on the miramar tied border several years back in the myanmar government doesn't like the korean people create is a tribal group of people right across the border in thailand and so they're kind of country less people victory and then get preyed upon by traffickers into the prostitution districts in another bangkok and regulators canada snatched almost though they will you like you're looking for fresh people are fresh girls in the system and

i met with people or rescuing girls out of the koreans are going into bangkok in congo water replaces hugo to go to our situation we have in kansas is well i i say all this to give you just kind of a some feel for the variety of type of situations there are around the world where there is trafficking it's taking place that is whole graphic by it is the worse you can imagine a is deadly is child focused it is looking at people as gangsters property almost like goats they pay about the same price to do for persons you do for a goat i and this continues to go on in the world today and us government i've worked with colwell stone he was a us senator for minnesota at the time i hear his wife are coming

at it i came out from the right it was coming out from the left in his wife were noticing in the battered women's shelters in minnesota number of ukrainian women showing up and this is late nineteen nineties and they were these ukrainian women or showing up is better ensure the beat up in a terrible circumstance in their time but what we're doing here is minnesota i mean i know it's a great you know but what it what you doing here and he would tell me stories about organized crime as laura was speaking over the chancellor was i a guy scenario america a yes or no to america ok we'll get you there a good and they're taken their papers say now cato adrian are lawful here at you all was five thousand dollars for it getting again you hear it at the working off when you work it off or do your visa that will give your papers back and they somehow never able to work through a year price tag off there are housing causes

much well we had insurance cost going up you know anything but it just seems like it never ends and then it gets very violent and now and the situation was done and they were seen that so we got to get on this that they'll lay on the trafficking bill trafficking victims protection act in two thousand and this was the first as far as we know bill globally to start to address this major international issue that was coming up at the time that has since been read or be reauthorized in two thousand eight chad bettis that works of the city kansas different revenue work for the trafficking victim's office at one time and when i get back to his name in a little bit because the biggest sting operation we've had in kansas is a k now the kansas farmer revenue before he got there but were watching for these sort of things in kansas i want to conclude on this area and one point in order to kansas and as we i think what we really need to be doing nationally as a country right

now is focusing on policies that create pools of trafficking victims so you know you get different government policies and they can create pools of trafficking victims like what happens along the miramar thai border so yeah the regime in myanmar and it's not friendly towards human rights is a dictatorship they don't like a certain group and then you have a market a ready market next door in bangkok in the red light districts there i had that creates a poll and a ready market and then it's just some i put in these two pieces together that happens like a more from isis like a podcast looking for a match you can look at the north korean chinese situation ok the north korea's trying to get out a ready market for un single women in particular the men are taken as well with the policies create the pool and then there's the connection into the market and i think what we really need to focus on for policymakers and for us to have to start to ratchet this down in major ways is

what policies whether in the united states around the world create the pools of trafficking victims and the markets that move us on forward and started a what this on a bigger global basis announced at kansas state first passed the trafficking law in two thousand and five the department of revenue as i mentioned earlier was involved and one of the biggest trafficking cases this is an international criminal enterprise dealing in human trafficking it was successfully stopped in part because of an identity fraud investigation by kansas department of revenue fourteen people were convicted in the case maker won the largest human trafficking prosecutions in us history i can just right now in the midst of a significant technology modernization program that will make it much more difficult for trapped travelers to use a driver's license to cover up the other crime and abuse and it's my hope that as we can get our computer systems

talking to each other more the war had chances to see aberrations that may float these things to the surface and we can get on top of all the attorney general both the pass in the current of a taskforce on human trafficking there's a working group that's been working in the kansas city area across both borders and also involve in oklahoma on trafficking issues in our area this or oh i think very very positive signs are very positive things for us to address the case in our are my suggestions to live really interested in this area i ate a number was pick an area and focus on it because you can make a difference one quick story on this and there were three guys are college students that led curt about these kids in northern uganda that were commuting at night in the town because of the lord's resistance army was taking kids make him and child soldiers they heard about it they serve as terrible we'll do some about mostly one or was some video cameras and it has started film in an integrated movement

and so they weren't a part of that so the nih commutes that they were we were doing some of those here at from a witness the invisible children night commuters and that situation has as dissipated substantially since these three college guys i had went over and showed the world this was going on is not completely done away with that the lord's resistance army is a largely out of that area now many of the folks are largely moved back to the twenties and this had gone on for twenty years until these guys show up with three with the video cameras and then start i get in an internet movement they gave him a face they told the world this was actually going on they did it on their own money and and now there's a bunch of people about two million people live in a partner you your northern uganda i've been there i know i was there when they were doing it and i can use it's largely dissipated

or college days they focus they heard about it and they decided to do it the second one do an impact trick yourself warm blooded on ukraine that's been an area where they've had some real trafficking issues not know what it is today but no historically have had some major issues that they go yourself go full fireplace and maybe it's here buyers some organize states we're looking at your study is somebody said this doesn't look quite right you or maybe it is one of these other places to go and in the impacted yourself of my experiences one should go you're not you never the site is huge you've seen that you've now seen somebody else and then you have a choice whether or not you decide i'm going to do something about this or on and not my guess is youre me like they want to say it is going i have to do something you have to work so it i would urge you to do that and i've been given the high side in the back here you all have been very gracious and very kind

with your time to be here and looking at this tonight i really really do one or jew to him to conserve the us of something that you would study an anti apartheid of first force fighting again says you can make a difference i know it as guy that was raised on a pig farm in kansas and that legislation jose will be a part of and how some of this is three decreased in some areas i know you can make a difference in the sea and three college guys make a difference for about two million people in northern uganda i know you can make a difference this in one guy pointing out of northern sudan bind back people are thirty bucks a head i know one person can make a difference i know you can do what i have seen it done and i think you just needed to turn in your own heart is that something that i really feel led to do myself and maybe there's one

person here in this room tonight that takes a task on and it really says that this is something i want to do and i would dedicate myself lost go on to get a degree that will work on these topics and i can in addition the people that worked on that and there's plenty work unfortunately i say don't pay well but there's plenty to work and why not us when i can just be in the place and one idea being the person that can do this as you can it can also going to say oh i was interstate but three countries you do that to give hope to listen to not only yearning within yourself to address what it is and not get talked out of it because it's too hard it's too difficult it's too far away it's something that let somebody else do it maybe or the one supposed to do and if

you don't somebody else gets her what's the other end of the story you don't do what you're supposed to somebody else gets her you know you're fine you know watch tv the chocolate somebody else is wheels tires that was kansas governor sam brownback on any human trafficking governor brownback spoke at the kansas union ballroom at the university of kansas february second two thousand twelve before that we heard candy crowley chief political correspondent for cnn and recipient of the william allen white national citation i'm kay macintyre kbr presents is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas local programs like a pr percent are only possible because of your financial support

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