Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t
College for parabens. His remarks at the National Press club run one hour. Andrea welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jerry weller, for
Silence your telephones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. So any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. We have jerry weller, foformer u. S. Representative from illinoiss district and the state society in washington. We have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d. C. We have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. Truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student whos planning to study neuroscience. We have armando rodriguez. We have Lisa Matthews coleader of the npc Headliners T
And thank you tonight for cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think they are at the register. You can purchase them there and then bring them up here to get signed after the event. If you could take a moment silence your phones, i think we would all appreciate that. Youre welcome to take photographs. You can post them on social media, if theyre good. And then after the event, or after the author has finished speaking it will be a q a. Then if you could please wait for a mic, come by with a a microphone so we can all hear your question, that would be great. All right, lets get started. James hornfischer, hes a writer, a literary agent and a former book editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno, the last and other 10 can sailors and the ship of goes. Hes widely acclaimed historical accounts of the u. S.
On Arsene Wenger as arsenal are beaten 3 0 by Crystal Palace in the Premier League. Indistinctive speech. If mumbling in Television Dramas really annoys you, well put different Acting Styles to the test to see which ones you find acceptable. And carol has the weather. Always perfectly clear is carol with the weather. Good morning. Eight chilly start to the day, for some A Touch Of Frost around but for most it will be dry with sunny spells, variable amounts of cloud, except for the north and West Of Scotland where there is more rain around and later we will see some gales. Further details in 15 minutes. Thank you, carol. Lovely there this morning. Good morning. First, our main story. Donald trump and theresa may have discussed what they call a window of opportunity to persuade russia to drop its support for syrias President Assad in the wake of last weeks chemical attack. The Prime Minister and the us president spoke on the phone last night as Foreign Ministers from the g7 group of coun