What we are doing today. This whole festival is about the idea that we all have a stake in government. Of our and we as citizens should be more engaged and better informed as a way to motivate civic participation tams complicated and simple as that. For 10 years, the texas tribunes journalism, we have tried to give all of youened everybody else in texas and elsewhere, a way into that conversation. It is Public Service journalism in the ideal. We believe in it, we believed in it then, we believe in it now. Your being here makes an enormous difference. It tells me that like all of us at the tribune, you care. And you believe. So it is not insignificant that youre here. We love it. My job today is to say thank you. This will be the second time ambassador rice has been at the tribune festival in three years. Honestly, i cant believe we get her to come. She is an extriretnary Public Servant with a great story to tell. This is the first time that margaret is here, shes a journalist that ever
Hello laughter applause hello . Would do you me a favor . No its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, lowering the barr plus, stephen welcomes Rachel Maddow and thom yorke featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen nice to see you stephen thank you, everybody thank you so much. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Theerp theerp so nice to be with these people tonight. Heres the thing the news is so dark these days, id like to start off tonight with a story of hope that honors an american hero. Theres a viral video of this beverage cart at Ohare Airport jim. Its spinning. Its spinning. Its gonna hit the plane. Oh it just barely misses the plane, and bam forklift guy saves the day a tip for any passenger flying on that plane do not order anything carbonated. I just love that video so much. It has everyth
Subsequent whistleblower complaint. At 9 30 a. M. , Family Research Council Center for religious freedom policies. Ravis weber host good morning. It is tuesday, september 24, 2019. President trump is in new york city where he will address the United Nations General Assembly. President trump became the First American president to convene a meeting on the issue of religious freedom and on the washington journal, we will begin on the topic of religion. We are asking your view of religion and public life. The phone number to call this morning, 2027488000. If you think religion doesnt play a large enough role, 2027488001. If you think american politics and civics gets that balance about right, 2027488002 is the number to call. You can also text us your thoughts. If you do, please include where you are from and your name. That number, 2027488003. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Very good tuesday morning, you can start calling in now. We are talking about the
Host this whistleblower complaint that became public, at least the existence of the complaint are you involved in that at all . Guest no. Host what this complaint has shed some light on is there is a difference between whistleblowers in the Intelligence Community and the laws and rules they have to operate under and whistleblowers in the rest of the federal government. Can you explain why that is and what rules they have to abide by . Guest sure. The most basic difference is employees in the Intelligence Community deal with classified information and that needs to be protected. There are secrets, et cetera. That doesnt mean employees who work in the intelligence ormunity dont see fraud misconducts or violations of laws. There needs to be a system in place for all federal employees weather you work in the regular secret service or the Intelligence Community to report misconduct when it occurs. Host in the Intelligence Community, obviously we are trying to find out the information and wh
Incessantly for the last two weeks, this whole issue of whistleblowers. My name is patrick edington, im your moderator today. Just a few housekeeping notes before i introour guest. I want to make sure everybody have your phones at least on silent or off. Any other devices you may have whether they are smart watch, etc. , please make sure they are also silenced. When we get to the q a at the end of this event, i will ask you all to, please, wait to be called upon, wait for the microphone so that everyone in the room and our audience watching online can hear the question, and ill ask you to identify yourself to include affiliation where applicable. I think its fair to say that the anonymous whistle blower and ill continue to use that term of art throughout is just the latest in a long line of individuals who have come forward in the course of the last several decades to make various and sundry allegations about government and its conduct and, in some cases, corporate, nonprofit conduct.