Of the republican party. All right, folks, lets get started. When you ask a question, come up to the question mike, state your name and your school and keep your questions nice and concise. It is my great pleasure this morning to introduced [indiscernible] he was the founder and ceo of the American News project, and others. In 2015, he coauthored nation on the take, which received praise. He serves on nonprofit boards and Advisory Boards. Lets welcome Nick Penniman this morning. He has received praise from historians such as doors earns mckinnon,irector mark and he has served on Advisory Boards including the center for responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Let us welcome him. [applause] thank you, and thank you for the Washington Center for having me here this morning. I heard from anne that some of you all, this is the first time you seen snow. Is that correct . To see a show of hands, because that is fascin
Lets get started. It is my pleasure to introduce nick petaman. He was the founder and director of the huffington post, director of aslieps for democracy and editor of lincoln journal. Received praise from a politically Diverse Group including former republican allen simpson. He served on multiple nonprofit boards and the Homeless Empowerment project. Lets welcome nick he has received praise from historians such as doors earns mckinnon,irector mark and he has served on Advisory Boards including the center for responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Let us welcome him. [applause] thank you, and thank you for the Washington Center for having me here this morning. I heard from anne that some of you all, this is the first time you seen snow. Is that correct . To see a show of hands, because that is fascinating for me. First time . It hit your eye . Welcome. [laughter] planned a talk, but it would rather just have a
Julia all right, folks, lets get started. We are once again being filmed, so when you ask a question, come up to the question mike, state your name and your school and keep your questions nice and concise. It is my great pleasure this morning to introduce you, Nick Penniman. He was the founder and ceo of the American News project, and others. In 2015, he coauthored nation on the take, which was which received praise. Former george w. Bush indications director Mark Mckinnon and Bernie Sanders. He serves on nonprofit boards and advisory boards, including the homeless apartment project. Lets welcome Nick Penniman this morning. [applause] responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Responsive politics and the homeless improvement project. Let us welcome him. [applause] thank you, and thank you for the Washington Center for having me here this morning. I heard from anne that some of you all, this is the first time you seen snow. Is that correct . To see a show of hands, becaus
[speaking in foreign language]. Translator colleagues, good morning. We begin our Traditional Press conference by Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. The highlights of last years efforts. Please be brief in your questions so that we can take as many questions as possible. We have press conference in russian. But you will have some translation into foreign languages. And the broadcast is available on our website and social media. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Hope you had a good holiday season. Welcome to the new year. Very grateful to you for taking part in our annual press conference. I dont think i should spend a lot of time on my introductory remarks. Just recently, the president gave a big end of the year press conference. And just a few days ago, president putin met with the editors in chief of russian news agency. S in chief of russis agency. You are well familiar with the president s comments, including foreign policy. I will say briefly that once again, we have to say
Election process itself. So in early september, when i saw president putin in china, i felt the most effective way to insure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out and there were going to be sears consequences if he didnt talking more about this, is niles Standard Associated editor for the hill. Thanks for joining us. Watching that long press conference, what were your big take aways from this last press conference in 2016 obviously, president obama expressed lots of differences with donald trump. He wasnt hiding those, but at the same time, he was, i thought, trying to calm some of the most fierce tensions we have seen in the recent past. He wasnt going for the idea of Election Fraud in the sense of messing with votes. He wasnt really suggest the Electoral College voters should change their minds, calming the waters but not denying that he had i tutee interesting. He sort of scolded the mad a little bit with our obsession with the hillary emails