Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
Fellow members who have been asked to come back and pinchhit for our 100 and 12th president , allison kojak, who is getting welldeserved rest leading Investigative Unit having just unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thinking the members as always for putting their trust in me to has have served as the 110th president in 2017. We welcome our headliner, congressman elijah cummings, democrat from the state of maryland, chairman of the House Committee of oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce the head table. A couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first. If you do have a question for the chairman, those of you in the ballroom, you have your cards on the table. Please write them down and pass them up front. We will try to ask as many of them as time permits and so forth. Also if you have a mobile device and you have slipped in there in the past few minutes and didnt hear my earlier warnings, before
Grateful to my fellow allison,o pitch it for who is getting welldeserved unitleading investigative having just Left National public radio. In 2017. Will introduce the head table. If you do have a question please write them down and pass them up him and we will try as many as time permits and so forth. If you have a mobile device through there in the past few live,s, before we went please silence or cell phones. Introduce those questions rather not have them not sound like r2d2 from star wars. I would like to introduce the head table to my left. Smith, a member of the National Press club headliners volunteer for them a congressman has that affect hold your applause until the entire has been introduced. Approval or disapproval, we hope not the level not the latter. Not a symbol of any journalistic bias one way or the other. Next to mike, lisa matthews, his assignment manager as at the and member ofss the National Press board of governors. One of my predecessors who served as president of
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first, if you do have you in the those of ballroom, you have your cards on the