I am the 113th president at the press club. Residence atst in the university of maryland, global campus. We have an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter. Live. The npc for our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask that you hold your applause until the head table guests have been announced. Beginning to my far left. John oshea, colonel, retired. And member of American Legion post 20 based here at the National Press club. Wensing. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Lolita, National Security reporter. John donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. To my immediate right, the president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club Presi
Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
Fail miserably. But he says that is all part of the magic. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, astro teller, head of alphabets x lab. And captain of moonshots, which is your official title, as i understand it. Astro it is. I function as the ceo, but i go by captain of moonshots. Emily you rolled in on wheels. This is your standard mode of transportation . Astro it is. Emily how much time do you think you shave off . Astro i have worked that out. Its about eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] astro its a big building. Emily you are making the most of those eight minutes. We are in the x lab, just a couple miles south of googles headquarters. This is where the magic happens, or sometimes doesnt happen, as you are quick to point out, because you have far more failures than you do successes. What is the mission of x . Astro x was created to be the part of alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waymo, the selfdriving car business
Of the 737 max airplane at a hearing before the house transportation and infrastructure committee. Hes joined by boeing chief engineer john hamilton. This is just over two hours. Committee on transportation and infrastructure will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recesses during todays hearing. Without objection, so ordered. I also consent that the chair and Ranking Member of the full committee be recognized for ten minutes each during the first round of questions without objection. So ordered. Before i begin i want to explain an administrative matter regarding some of the documents we may use in todays hearing and will be entered into the record. Ill be making two requests in reference to two document lists, a and b. We have been advised by the house generally counsel that the constitution provided authority for us to release these documents and the documents from boeing, boeings attorneys agreed to the release of these documents. I see no
Will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recess recesses in todays hearing. And i also ask that the ranking chair member be recognized for a minute each during first round of questions. Without objection, so ordered. Before i begin, i want to expla explain an administrative matter regarding some of the documents we may use in todays hearing and may be entered into the record. Ill be making two unanimous consent requests in reference to two document lists, list a and list b. First, the documents contained on list b are marked export control. Weve been advised by the house General Council that the constitution provides ample authority for us to release these documents and the documents from boeing, boeings attorneys agreed to the release of these documents. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents. The faa stamped every document and they sent us as export control. However, to prevent confusion with regard to documents with marki