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University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
Talk about reporting during wartime, both domestically and internationally. John good afternoon and welcome. Im john darnton, the curator of the george polk awards. It is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor, and in particular, dr. Kimberly klein, liu president , for her unflagging support. I want to thank my friend and colleague ralph engelman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know, our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk. The cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. We are now in our 71st year, having bestowed as of today 3125 prizes. In keeping with his legacy, our judges honor reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. We seek out those who are dogged in their investigations, resourceful in their tactics, and intrepid in overcoming the odds, whether it is sending dispa
You were not actually wounded during a war. During aa veteran period of time, but you were not in a war it self. I am a veteran era that. I was disqualified for three years. President obama came in and congress changed and allowed us to get in again. The thing that was not brought up this morning is that most people on medicare. Medicare pays up to 80 of your bills. , if they want to go private with this, they should allow you to go to medicare and have the v. A. Cover the 20 that is not covered by medicare. I think that would solve a lot of the delays. How about the tricare system . My mother was on that. It was excellent. The two,u combine youe and medicare can. I am not sure they pay for each. I believe the v. A. System takes out of medicare if you are on medicare and not be other way around. Thank you for your calls. Yourk you to continue with comments, suggestions, and reaction to todays hearing. Viacan send us your tweet cspan chat. Another Senate Hearing coming up. It is over ec
Todays rate, many with alleged ties to chinese organized crime. The charges against yee include wire fraud and weapons trafficking. Hes accused of soliciting favors in return for cash. Fbi agents raided a halfdozen homes and businesses across the bay area that included several homes in San Francisco, a house in san mateo and the Freemason Organization headquarters in San Franciscos chinatown. Federal agents arrested yee in his home early this morning and confiscated items from his house. Our crew got this video of the scene. Yee appeared in court in San Francisco just after 3 00 p. M. This afternoon. The federal complaint alleges that starting in 2012 yee illegally solicited thousands of dollars for his failed Mayoral Campaign ad is run for secretary of state. The indictment says of undercover adrian. Even before those details emerged San Francisco city officials, current and former express their dismay. What flashes in my mind is decades of public service, and i hate seeing that situa