Welcome to our audience here and those of us joining us by livestream. We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake. In 1919, ournning program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and service to the community. We are proud to continue the tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and the philanthropic we funded, philanthropically funded free service for journalists to accurateore credible, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping up a boot camp at drake where journalists from around the country received briefings from experts on issues that will be prominent in the president ial campaign. To acknowledge and thank the provost in the front row who is herself a scientist. Also the former Washington Post science reporter and the entire team of scientists and
Resources oft all the federal government are focused on the arriving storm, i am decided to send our Vice President mike pence to poland this weekend in my place. It is something very important for me to be here. The storm looks like it could be a very big one indeed. Mike will be going. Polishst spoken to the president and expressed my the wishes of and the american people. Our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane. I will be rescheduling my trip to poland in the near future. We are gathered here in the rose garden to establish the United States Space Command. A big deal. Command,west combatant it will defend americas vital interests in space, the next war fighting domain. I think that is obvious to everybody. It is all about space. We are joined by Vice President mike pence, secretary of defense dr. Mark esper, acting director of National Intelligence joe of the, acting secretary army, ryan mccarthy, acting secretary of the air force m
Arent aware that the president will be making his speech about the environment today but they live it on a daily basis this is a very outdoors state youre very aware of the outdoors when you are here and i think people even some officials are quite costly to talk about manmade Global Climate change but at the back of many peoples minds is or what can we do about this were seeing this happening on a daily basis and then for the fires for instance the hotshot crews that are brought in from all over the country a very thinly stretched i know fire officials are thinking well if alaskan summers keep getting hotter and longer were not going to have the resources to deal with things like this and were not talking about Something Like deforestation where you can replant trees were talking about glaciers that of tens of thousands if not millions of years old rapidly disappearing and theres not much without radical policy change that anyone here can do thanks so much i think gallagher there. Cen
Churchillians sharing stories and finding out what inspired you about winston. Its been a really lovely dayandahalf. It was very exciting yesterday to hear celia and Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary at charltwell, and part of the project were doing, we plan to open the secretarys room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, please own your packs about the project. In terms of churchill and ireland, i was trying to think about of what we had in the collection. And we have a gift from londondairy of a replica of roaring meg, one of my favorite items in the house, its in the library. And i was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with atly from lord derrien. Were going to hear more about that now. We have another family of writers. Weve got the bews with us this morning. So very excited to hear what they are going to say. And we have lord bew, who is professor of politics at Queens University in belf
I think its a watergate size and scale. We need the facts, its obvious there are people out there whio want to harm the president. We have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in 42 years, but wages arent keeping up with inflation. Chelsea manning, the former us soldier, who Passed Hundreds Of Thousands confidential diplomatic documents to wikileaks, has been released from a Military Prison in kansas. And items worn by one of televisions best Loved Characters, Coronation Streets busybody hilda ogden, have sold for more than £4,000 at auction. Its five oclock. Our main story the Liberal Democrats are putting another Eu Referendum at the heart of their General Election manifesto which was launched earlier today. The party said it would let the people decide Whether Brexit happens, once negotiations have finished. The partys leader tim farron says the decision to leave the eu could wreck the