The president making an announcement or there is a press conference that is interesting or something. And you listen to bush and i think a lot of people thought well he is very well informed and well spoken and this is not what i was expecting because most people are busy with their lives. Is he funny. There was a. Kind out who your audience is. And things of that natch. However, it is the president speaking and therefore as he always told us, everybody is important. We were not to think of a small rose garden event for teacher of the year as not important. It was part of the full jol yum of statements that he made at president of the United States. He was always after us to never skip a step in making a case. Even if youre speaking to the people that an audience of people likely to be in agreement of what youre saying, he always has a broader audience. And if he is making his case for Social Security reform and he skips the hard part, a person who disagrees and maybe even a person who
My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. Just curious, sarah, what do you think, what would you share about that process, how an idea becomes a speech. I think in a weird way as speechwriters, we are not coming up with the ideas. There are much smarter people in the building that are developing those ideas. But in a way i think that these ideas kind of they dont get crystallized until theyre litigated on the page. So a
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 for years now, its been assumed that americas destiny was to be overtaken by china as the Worlds Largest economy, and that may still happen, but actually its chinas economy that now seems under pressure in the face of robust american efforts to stop china taking advantage of the free trade that it never practices itself. The people who know china best, the rich china, cant wait to get their money out and their kids educated in the west and the people of hong kong who are risking bloody repression of support of their British Heritage dont trust the goodwill or longevity of the communist regime. For years its been assumed that globalization under pinned by free trade was unstoppable and unambiguously good. Even though it was much more obviously good for the rich people of poor countries than for the poor people of rich ones. Yet trumps tariff hikes against china seem to be bringing more investment dollars home, boosting American Manu
The latest on the series of quakes in recent days. Heavy damages and massive Power Outages reported. Live reports just ahead. Ready to talk. A bombshell reversal, from the president s former National Security adviser. Why john bolton says hes prepared to testify at the impeachment trial. Those stories, plus, the new charges against Harvey Weinstein in los angeles, as his criminal trial begins in new york. Race against time, a race to save the animals in the wild of that are ravaging that country. It hurts. It hurts. And big changes for youtube. The Major Overhaul rolled out for videos made for children. What your kids wont see when they log in. Today, tuesday, january 7th, 2020. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this Tuesday Morning. A busy news morning it is. Were going to get right to our top story. Huge crowds in iran for the funeral of the countrys most powerful
For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Strategies a former npc president and a cochair of the nbc Headliners Team which organizes these