Press club ive editor for Bloomberg News desk here in washington and i am the president of the National Press club. Our speaker today is his Royal Highness prince ali bin alhussein if a candidate for president of fifa we welcome him here today but first i want to introduce our head table introducing club members and guests of the speaker. From the audience right right, u. S. Navy retired Advisory Board member of the american sportscasters association. Assistant editor for the Washington Post and a member of the project for middle east Political Science at George Washington university. The starting goalie for the winning u. S. National team 1991 and a member of the gold medal winning 1996 u. S. Olympic team. Lead desk editor for the Associated Press and the ambassador of jordan to the United States. Breaking news editor at usa today. Former president of the National Press club and vice chair of the National Press club speaker committee. Skipping our speaker, president of standing commun
And allow me to be critical of this because the media is our gateway to express our opinions and share what we think and what we do with the world that ideally the media has been called into this competition and i believe that it leads into the community has been unfairly portrayed in the media and i believe the media should not help politicians who are trying to scapegoat the community to give them the attention they dont deserve i think they should criticize them and in a way the media did criticizing the challenge donald trump on his false accusations. He just did it to divide the public and he knows better. So despite being corrected several times, he was giving me a lot of platforms in the communities of the way that i believe the media is showed this as being silent and not doing anything or just focused as the problem lies in the Muslim Community when in fact we have come to violence all over the place and in 2015 we have more than 355 mass shootings. That means more than one ma
They wanted to make sure that the taxes began in the peoples house rather than in the senate and if you are going to simply rely on the congress to determine whether or not it is unconstitutional or not our fundamental procedures like this, then i think that we have some problems as the constitution mean anything anymore. So i think the court can look at it and not be terribly worried about the issue especially based on what they did in years ago. Other questions . Okay we will thank our panel on behalf of the National Review and the foundation. I know i had a great time. Interesting discussion. Thank you. [applause] im mark warner and i approved this message. The largest fraud in history and ed gillespie lobbyist. They paid him 700,000 to block the regulation of the Energy Market that they could raise utility rates. Former leaders headed to prison. The milliondollar lobbyist to put enron and had a few. Not directly through to the trade we are going to put a price on carbon. Mmike warn
With that term . Guest you know huiwei back in 2001 i was sitting around playing with some ideas and broadband discrimination, Net Neutrality i put them onto paper and one of them just had to stick. Larry was talking earlier about the neutrality network. Net neutrality is a little catchier. I didnt think it would catch on but somehow it did did. Host well the president this week professor wu spoke about Net Neutrality. Here is a little bit of what he had to say. Im laying out a plan to keep the internet free and open and thats why merging the federal Communications Commission to do everything they can to protect Net Neutrality for everyone. They should make it clear that whether youd use a computer, phone or tablet internet providers have a legal obligation not to block or limit your access to a web site. Cable companies cant decide which on line stores you can shop at or which streaming services you can use and they cant lead to any company pay for priority over its competitors. To pu
They produce about 100,000 barrels of oil per day. This is disconcerting for two reasons. One its a sort of business that was as we are supposed to be deterring and two it provides for russian control over significant European Energy supplies. Mr. Friedman is not currently subject to u. S. Sanctions despite his close ties with the kremlin. Do you know whether he might be a potential target for sanctions . Thank you for that. Im going to give back to on some the details but just to make absolutely clear that u. S. And european sanctions have targeted russian public and government assets and entities. Mr. Friedman runs one of the few remaining private companies in russia and as such has had his own strong views as a private citizen about appropriate russian european relations but let me get back to you on how we have evaluated that particular deal. But it is not a russian government deal. It does not deepen russian governments ties into europeans dependence on the russian government. Tha