To donate, please visit press. Org institute. On behalf of members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker today and those of you in our audience. Our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. And if you hear applause in our audience, i would note that members of the general public are also attending so its 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 hash tag on twitter today using the hash tag npclunch. Ill ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guest. I would ask each to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, richard strauss, former white house radio director. Barbara cochran, head of the National Press Club Journalism institutes. Yolanda is ceo and former deputy chair of the Democratic National committee. Kathy spiller executive editor of ms magazine. Elle pres
Alt, delete. Obama frompresident last night white house Correspondents Dinner. We want to get your views from our first 45 minutes on what we would call beltway culture. Maybe events likes last nights dinner highlighted. Your thoughts and views on beltway culture. Numbers e information via social media. Our Facebook Page has 25 things posted right now. You can send us email too at 202 7370002 at journal cspan. Org. In the Washington Post, the headline she writes the rest of the world couldnt care about the dinner except it is out of touch with regular americans. Who would want to miss the scholarship awards . A couple of those thoughts from kathleen parker. We want to get your thoughts on the beltway culture. We are using the themes from last night in her to this. We will show you thats from this. The phone mines twitter is available to you. And if you want to send us thoughts on facebook you can do so at facebook. Com cspan. Off of facebook, Robert Wheeler says some of the thoughts on
People who perpetrated are brought to justice. Host the latest round of charges from senator john mccain and other leading republicans on the attack in benghazi that resulted in the death of a u. S. Ambassador and three other americans. Now, nearly two years later, this issue isnt going away on capitol hill, in part because of the newly released email. Also, a congressional hearing yesterday in washington. Good morning, it is friday, may the second ver2. Mainly, we want to know if the investigation is important to you. Meanwhile, at the white house the president will be meeting with the german chancellor Angela Merkel. His issues likely to come up in a News Conference with reporters. The president is hosting the german chancellor for a working lunch and an oval office meeting. Those nsa phone taps the situation in ukraine are also subject to dominate the conversation. We want to begin with the issue of benghazi because it has come front and center yet again. This morning inside the the
Those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on cspan. Welcome. This is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. So just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. And that is in 1994. I was president of my universitys college republicans. And it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. That army would soon be the majority leader. That phil grahams economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. And while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. This year know that that isnt merely about party registration. About one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people
Those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on cspan. Welcome. This is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. So just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. And that is in 1994. I was president of my universitys college republicans. And it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. That army would soon be the majority leader. That phil grahams economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. And while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. This year know that that isnt merely about party registration. About one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people