Woodward took part in a discussion about the pg papers and how their publication in 1971 changed the medias relationship with the government. Speakers also looked how coll t collecting and disseminating classified information has changed. From georgetown, university. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. Im Sanford Unger and delight to welcome you here or welcome you back for those with us for my conversation with daniel el elseburg for the publication of the pg papers 46 years later. I think dan will be with us again today and with us in the audience and making his presence known as we go on. He is the person who made it possible for us to be here. We are live on cspan. I think its cspan3. It will be rebroadcast at a later date or dates as well. My only role right now is to introduce jean meserve, our moderator, who is a veteran of National Security coverage and reporting on abc and cspan. Im sorry, on cnn. Youve seen one, youve seen them all, you know. I wont do what im tempted t
Woodward took part in a discussion about the pg papers and how their publication in 1971 changed the medias relationship with the government. Speakers also looked how coll t collecting and disseminating classified information has changed. From georgetown, university. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. Im Sanford Unger and delight to welcome you here or welcome you back for those with us for my conversation with daniel el elseburg for the publication of the pg papers 46 years later. I think dan will be with us again today and with us in the audience and making his presence known as we go on. He is the person who made it possible for us to be here. We are live on cspan. I think its cspan3. It will be rebroadcast at a later date or dates as well. My only role right now is to introduce jean meserve, our moderator, who is a veteran of National Security coverage and reporting on abc and cspan. Im sorry, on cnn. Youve seen one, youve seen them all, you know. I wont do what im tempted t
I am delighted to welcome you here or welcome you back. Those who were with us last evening for my conversation. Unger and delight to welcome you here or welcome you back for those with us for my conversation with daniel el elseburg for the publication of the pg papers 46 years later. I think dan will be with us again today and with us in the audience and making his presence known as we go on. He is the person who made it possible for us to be here. We are live on cspan. I think its cspan3. It will be rebroadcast at a later date or dates as well. My only role right now is to introduce jean meserve, our moderator, who is a veteran of National Security coverage and reporting on abc and cspan. Im sorry, on cnn. Youve seen one, youve seen them all, you know. I wont do what im tempted to do. Which is to channel the president , i wont do that. Jeanne has moderated panels all over the world. Im grateful for her taking the time to be with us today. She will introduce hur distinguished panelist
President of the National Press club. Pleased to have you all here. Nice capacity in the lounge. Please dont forget to put your phones on silent or vibrate so they dont disturb the proceedings. You can follow the proceedings today on twitter, on mpclive. Also, if you have a question, i will call i will call upon you but you must rise. You must identify yourself. And i will call upon you in addition to the questions i have already, some of which of course have been developing in just the past few hours given the events of earlier today. You noticed that leader pelosi is here leader schumer is on his way here and he will join us very shortly, as quickly as the streets can clear for him. But we want to get things started a little bit before excuse me before we get going. A couple other decor rum items. I understand mostly most of us are journalists, but we understand that some of the people here are indeed members of the club, guests of our speakers. We do have a bit of decorum. No applau
He will be here momentarily. The newly elected democratic member of the senate. From the state of new york. He comes with the confidence of his colleagues and the enthusiastic support of his constituents. You will tell them i said that, right . When he gets here. So tomorrow, 40 days into the new administration. President trump will deliver his first address to a joint session of congress. As we are reminded anytime the president or anyone from his administration speaks to the American People dealing with this administration demands that we stand up for the facts. And the facts are these on january 20, 2009, in the middle of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, president obama in his inaugural address called for swift, bold, action now to create jobs and lay a foundation for economic growth. One week and one day later, the Democratic House passed the american recovery and reinvestment act. One week after that, the Senate Passed the bill and on february 17, preside