We honor and thank a legendary author, thomas j brokaw. Newsr of the nbc nightly and now nbc special correspondent. So many distinct guests are joining us to0 including many members of the nbc family. Meredith is right down front. Welcome. And we welcome our vice chair of the smithsonian region. [applause] in a dramatic shift from just a informationo, new and history is being disseminated through an evergrowing buried in fracture array of channels and media. Many of us find ourselves searching for clarity for fundamental questions that underpin our nation. It mean to the american and what is the american and what is story of him we are focused on bringing the nation together through a real understanding of our shared American History. Through fundamental american ideals and ideas. To create the most engaging, interesting, and inclusive that helpsstory people make sense of the present. As part of a 15 year reinvention, we open a new floor dedicated to the nation we build together one le
Is ok, we are ready to get started, here. Lets get everybody in their seat. Ok, have you got me . No . Well, this is the part of the program that i have been looking forward to the most. The panel discussion. We have some Great Questions here. You will note that i on purpose have separated george and will. [laughter] i am not saying we are doing a pointcounterpoint, but i expect that to happen at any moment. I have all the questions here. The are really good ones. Not surprisingly, there are four of them that are basically the same, but with a little bit of a twist. There was a question i was planning on asking anyway, and what i would like to do is start over here. One at a time, tell me who you think was the most hated it general of the war . Rethink we all pretty much know this answer already. I think we all pretty much know this answer already. Then we will say who you thought was the most loved it general of the war. Lets start over here. The most hated general of the war . I get
dave typical bay area weather pattern returns for the weekend and into next week. Expect areas of night and morning low clouds and fog followed by sunny and seasonably warm afternoons. will get ready for a busy weekend around the bay area. This will cause major traffic delays. Several big events are planned as the offical start of summer kicked off earlier this week. It is pride weekend. There are several big events planned in San Francisco, including the pride parade tomorrow. It is also nascar weekend in sonoma county. The big race is tomorrow but there a lot of other events starting today. First, lets check in with kron fours Hermela Aregawi who shows us what you need to know about pride weekend. The annual pride weekend kicked off with the trans march. Where thousands rallied for lgbtq rights. Gail stern attendee i love the transgender parade. Ive been here every year. I love how its growing and its being more popular. And i love the growing acceptance. Jshon thomas attendee transg
Make sure and i dont want to waste his time and sit in the oval office unnecessarily. Thank you. Thank you, anthony. [laughter] thanks, guys. Thank you. Obviously i would have been happy for him to stay all day and continue to exhaust all of your questions but but i should answer a couple today and also the president has an event here shortly so i want to try to work through as many as i can, and with that, im actually going to start with jeff mason since i believe it is your last day and my first, so with that, jeff, take it away. Thank you, sarah. Can you talk to us a little bit about how this will affect the change will affect the press office and can you speak a little bit for sean how hes feeling and how he made the decision to resign . You know, im not going to speak for sean in detail. I can say that he understood that the president wanted to bring in and add new people to the team and sean felt like it would be best for that team to be able to start with a totally clean sleight
Ways for journalists and government officials to Work Together constructively to make sure that the public gets the information that we all need in a democracy. Kathy said i am barbara cochran. Im professor of journalism and the director of the Washington Program of the Missouri School of journalism. And also the president of the National Press Club Journalism institute, which is the charitable and educational arm of the National Press club. This session is one of a series we have been doing this year to address the problems that have arisen, very dramatically, in washington for reporters this year and the threats facing a free press. This spring we discussed the challenges facing white house and other Government Agency reporters and also reporters who were covering local issues at the local level. And other Government Agency we have spoken out along with other journalism organizations about efforts to block reporting about government, and we are preparing a curriculum for the fall tha