The first president in more than three decades to skip the annual gathering. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jeff mason. [applause] i hope you enjoyed your dinner. We are going to kick start the program now with a video. So you better sit down if you want to catch it. There is a lot to celebrate, because journalism is such an important part of the freedoms we continue to enjoy in this country, and many other countries wish they had the benefits we had because our Founding Fathers were so brilliant with the First Amendment. Thomas jefferson famously said he would have a press without a government than a government without the press. When the press conference the government, that means the system is working. When you dont acknowledge at fundamental role that the press plays and protect it that is the role of the press secretary, to protect the role against those that are fuming at whatever has been reported. If you dont protect that relationship, we are losing something fundamental
Potentially even repeal some other all of those rules. From the internets inception until the day the rules were passed the internet was free and open. There wasnt a problem. As the chairman said there was no controlled internet with i. S. P. s or anybody else interfering with peoples ability to pose content or reuse the applications or look at the content of their choice. Watch the communicators, tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Comedy centrals sinage provided the entertainment at the dinner. Before the house gavels back in well look at some of his performance from saturday night. [applause] thank you, wow. Oh, my god. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Series Finale of the white dinner. Rrespondents oh, man. My name is hassan minaj. Or as ill be known in a few weeks number 830287. Who would have thought . With everything going on in the country right now to be standing on this stage, for the ninth year in a row, baby. We had eight years of barack. I see you, what you doing right
Leader nancy pelosi. Plus [ chanting ] all usa, usa battle at berkeley. Is free speech being silenced . Robert reich and ann coulter are here. Good morning. Washington is a town obsessed with milestones. All week, its been all about President Trumps first 100 days. But for all the hype around that, as it turned out, day 100 of Donald Trumps presidency looked and sounded a lot like day one. There was the president delivering a hardedged America First speech. His tone and his message as dark and foreboding as his inaugural address. If you tried to illegally enter the United States, you will be caught, detained, deported, or put in p it will happen. And just as they did on day one, protesters filled the streets of the capital. This time, demanding action on climate change. The 100day marker has been an on segs of those in power and those writing about power since that pole yoens days ended in waterloo after 100 days of emperor. For the americans, its been a marker since fdr passed a blizz
Iifs washington policy summit. I was last here at a similar gathering in 2011. Which was very early in the International Financial reform process. And from the iifs perspective of that time and theyve done a lot of thought and research about the issues at the time, there were three Major Concerns about that reform process. The first was whether or not the reforms were consistently implemented across the g20, secondly, what about regulatory arbitrage, particular fli shadow banking . And thirdly, whether the reform process itself would impair the recovery that was just beginning at the time. And im going to start by suggesting that those debates i would suggest have been largely settled to the positive. Theyre being consistently and properlily implemented in the g20 jurisdictions. You dont have to just take my word for that because the progress is being regularly assessed, not just about it iif and yourselves as practitioners, but by the fsb through peer review and by the imf. And in gen
Tonight. Military experts do not believe north korea has the capability to hit california with a nuclear bomb at this time. Still locals are is an aide to supervisor mark ferrell. This week he tweeted check that off the list, got our first constituent call asking if according to active nuclear no the Emergency Operations center. Its not arce nessfoarr ily situations the best thing is to shelter in place. That wasnt always the case. In 1971 the city of San Francisco announced it would officially accommodate 3. 2 Million People in shelters in case of a nuclear attack. These arent necessarily shelters built to be shelters. Most of them are buildings around the city. Case in point, the crown zeller box building the city, 4,000 people could shelter in this garage in case of a nuclear attack. There are 28,000 u. S. Troops on the border between the u. S. And south korea now. 3,000 more are on the way for a long planned military exercise starting august 21st. Kim jong un has long called it pra