Good morning. I want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via cspan. My name is jamie horowitz, im on the Headliners Committee here at the National Press club. On behalf of our president , jeff, and our 3,000 members, were honored today to have mr. Walter shaub jr. With us. I want to say that yesterday as i was driving perhaps more accurately, stuck in washington traffic listening to radio news and despite all the drama going on about health care, i was taken by the fact that so many of the news stories had words like, emoluments clause, ethics, rich peoples problems, legal precedent, those kinds of phrases in story after story after story. All those stories had to do with President Trump and his relatives. One story trending yesterday had to do with the new White House Communications director and the pending sale of his company to chinese investors. So the question today, are these just rich peoples problems or are they serious challenges to our democra
Good morning. I want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via cspan. My name is jamie horowitz, im on the Headliners Committee here at the National Press club. On behalf of our president , jeff, and our 3,000 members, were honored today to have mr. Walter shaub jr. With us. I want to say that yesterday as i was driving perhaps more accurately, stuck in washington traffic listening to radio news and despite all the drama going on about health care, i was taken by the fact that so many of the news stories had words like, emoluments clause, ethics, rich peoples problems, legal precedent, those kinds of phrases in story after story after story. All those stories had to do with President Trump and his relatives. One story trending yesterday had to do with the new White House Communications director and the pending sale of his company to chinese investors. So the question today, are these just rich peoples problems or are they serious challenges to our democra
Good morning. I want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via cspan. My name is jamie horowitz, im on the Headliners Committee here at the National Press club. On behalf of our president , jeff, and our 3,000 members, were honored today to have mr. Walter shaub jr. With us. I want to say that yesterday as i was driving perhaps more accurately, stuck in washington traffic listening to radio news and despite all the drama going on about health care, i was taken by the fact that so many of the news stories had words like, emoluments clause, ethics, rich peoples problems, legal precedent, those kinds of phrases in story after story after story. All those stories had to do with President Trump and his relatives. One story trending yesterday had to do with the new White House Communications director and the pending sale of his company to chinese investors. So the question today, are these just rich peoples problems or are they serious challenges to our democra
Talked about getting things done with a pen and a phone. Now were seeing the next president get things done with a twitter account. He sat down tonight with the ceos of two companies he called out on social media. Boeing and lock heheed martin. He got a concession with boeing, which he had targeted because mr. Trump accused them of going way over budget on the next air force one. Trump was concerned the price tag for two planes had ballooned to more than 4 billion. But he was assured it wont cost that much. Were going to get it done for less than that and were committed to working together to make sure that happens. I was able to give the president elect my personal commitment on behalf of the boeing company. Reporter Lockheed Martin manufactures the expensive f35 military aircraft, which mr. Trump reamed while talking about how he plans to cut costs at the pentagon. He said he is working on lowering that price tag. Were going to get cost down. Were going to get it done beautifully. Th
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