Lived in the true spirit of churchill, we would all be in bed at this time of day. Of course, we would have read all of the newspapers and have worked through all of the daily correspondence by this point. I feel many of us are lacking in the amount of domestic and secretarial assistance sir winston had through much of his life so perhaps our failure to emulate his morning routine is pardonable. Im a Senior Research fellow at the Margaret Thatcher center for freedom located in washington, d. C. The title of our panel today im great contemporaries has a truly churchillian ring to it and i am delighted to be joined by three distinguished churchillians who will be speaking on men who played important roles in different ways in churchills life. John anderson, mackenzie king, and lord morris. Is professoraker of modern history at Christchurch University in the united kingdom. Chartsest book churchills evolution as a nuclear statesman and has been described as impressive, gripping reading, a
Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
At the radio and Television Correspondents association dinner. This is an hour and 25 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the podium, tonights chair, john parkinson. [applause] having spent the last 12 years at abc news, many colleagues become like family. We spend long hours together, we travel around the world together, we spend friday nights together on stakeouts outside of the speakers office, we even work holidays together. When life events bring reason to celebrate, were often celebrating together. But when a member of our broadcast familiesen taken away our industry also grieves together. Since our last dinner last month, several colleagues who have dedicated their professional careers to broadcasted journalism have passed away. Tonight with pay tribute to them. Im morely safer. Ive led a charmed life. A lot of blood, sweat, toil, tears and a lot of it is pure luck and ive been a very lucky guy. Community members and Business Leaders are vined to come out and d
Entertainer for the dinner. This is one hour and 25 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the podium, tonights chair, john parkinson. [applause] having spent the last 12 years at abc news, many colleagues become like family. We spend long hours together, we travel around the world together, we spend friday nights together on stakeouts outside of the speakers office, we even work holidays together. When life events bring reason to celebrate, were often celebrating together. But when a member of our broadcast families is taken away our industry also grieves together. Since our last dinner last month, several colleagues who have dedicated their professional careers to broadcasted journalism have passed away. Tonight we pay tribute to them. Im morely safer. Ive led a charmed life. A lot of blood, sweat, toil, tears and a lot of it is pure luck and ive been a very lucky guy. Community members and Business Leaders are invited to come out and discuss some ideas they have to ce
Investigate this and oh, my god how could President Obama have done this to President Trump, and they were quiet, with the ni microphones except f microphones except for john mccain and lindsey graham. The question is why would the president Want Congress to spend money investigating a question to which he has the answer by virtue of his tweet . And can make that public any old time he wants. Lets talk turkey here. This is a president on a twitter storm clearly angry about the way that his staff had handled things, deciding to take things into his own hands and try to change the subject, who knows, probably divert attention from russia, all of the above. And sean spicer was asked and
this because he hasnt shown any evidence. Imagine if he had evidence of this action by the former president it would be the biggest political story in 50 years or so and he would want to put it out there and we will wait to see what he does. I think they are hoping this does become like Groundhog Day and e