Club member ken burns. Thank you all very much for coming. Im so happy to be back at the press club. Its really been a home base for our long arduous for the film. Urs exception. E i do feel compelled to edit. Was negative three years old back then. Though i was already working not yetlls, i had perfected what we call the ken effect quite then. I also feel, now that you war, that ihe civil reminded you 24 years ago, in the, when we came with civil war, that i reminded you felt aboutm sherman newspapers men. He hated newspapers men so much was sure if they killed them all, there would be news breakfast. Efore and, of course, unfortunately, unscathed withpe the rooseveltss roosevelts, thol eleanor, who held twice weekly News Conferences with first time a the first lady did that and franklin, because he had been an the harvard crimson, felt that had made him a newspapers man himself and loved to develop and cherish the development of personal relationships with the newspaper that he crowd
Special damage to lower income folks who will be priced out of the market . What a terrible idea. Were going debate what the a leader of one of the countrys biggest unions. All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report, beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live here 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Former president bill clinton weighing on president obamas oft repeated if you like your plan you can keep your plan promise clinton says let them keep it. I personally believe if it means changing the law the president should keep his commitment. He has that story exactly right. How is this for spin. The white house today says the president agrees with the former president. As you saw, the president say in an interview with nbc last week the answer is yes, the president has tasked his team with looking at a range of options as he said to make sure that nobody is put in a position where their plans have been can
As well as working journalist who is are club members. To hear applause in our audience i note to members of the general public are attending so not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter, using hashtag, npclunch. After our guests speech concludes well have a question and answer period. I will ask as many as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our head table guests. I would like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i complete announcing everybody at the head table. From your right, gil klein, journalism professor, american universitys Washington Semester Program a past npc president and chair of the clubs history and heritage committee. Janice law, former print journalist and criminal court judge and founder of the american women writers national museum. Ambassador sell la, roosevelt, the United States chie
Contributes to obesity were already paying for the containers those sodas come in and i feel like whats going to be next their taxes sodas what else will they tax so, please dont tax that. Thank you. Thank you, maam next speaker im going to call one more name michael is the last card i have if anyone else wants to speak please step forward. Hi, im brittany im the Government Relations director for the American Heart Association im here to support in legislation there are strong things e links between sugar sweetened beverages and obesity and a rectangle disfunction the premature deaths and the list goes on consumers are not aware that one sugary drink a day can lead towards obesity i applaud you because through introducing this youve begun a conversation of what people are impacting their body i hope this leads to a passage but greater understanding of the links between sugar sweetened beverages and type 2 diabetes. Good afternoon. Im michael and thank you for letting me speak. Really q
Subsidize and finally in terms of the governments roll and we all everyday we make choices about what is the governments roll brown whether its an alcohol tax or helmets requiring people to wear helmets the government frequently helps to make sure that we have a healthyer society when we move towards 1 in 3 people having diabetes thats catastrophic it effects us as insurance watts rates goes up and our tax dollars taking care of people that dont have insurance we have a Orange County as a community to have those discussions and take steps to have a healthier community so colleagues with that, ill make a motion to adapt the technical clean up amendments weve mentioned at the beginning and thank you for your time and support thank you supervisor wiener we have a motion and a second do i want to comment. Yeah. Thank the supervisors and jeff and i want to say thank you so much for the perspectives that were presented and were helping to increase the education on the impacts of sugar sweete