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
Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming out. I know it has been a busy weekend for you all. This is the kind of thing that we want to be involved in. This is the kind of thing we want to be able to interact with members of congress and see what their positions are. Like a lot of journalists, i am a fan of the wire, the series. There is a great line, one of my favorite characters on the show, Lester Freeman had early on which was all of the pieces matter. That is the case here. All of these forums matter. All of these candidates matter. All of their policy decisions matter. All of their voters matter. The way they interact with people, the way they talk to voters and the way they talk to unions and their way to talk to the press, it all matters. We want to be a part of that. That is why we are so happy to be here and so happy to be a part of this form. I would like to introduce our moderator, Lisa Matthews to the forum. Lisa is a 20 plus Associated Press veteran. She is
Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming out. I know it has been a busy weekend for you all. This is the kind of thing that we want to be involved in. This is the kind of thing we want to be able to interact with members of congress and see what their positions are. Like a lot of journalists, i am a fan of the wire, the series. There is a great line, one of my favorite characters on the show, Lester Freeman had early on which was all of the pieces matter. That is the case here. All of these forums matter. All of these candidates matter. All of their policy decisions matter. All of their voters matter. The way they interact with people, the way they talk to voters and the way they talk to unions and their way to talk to the press, it all matters. We want to be a part of that. That is why we are so happy to be here and so happy to be a part of this form. I would like to introduce our moderator, Lisa Matthews to the forum. Lisa is a 20 plus Associated Press veteran. She is
The foreign and democratic candidates, represented with barbara lee. They discussed californias Homeless Population, the cost of living and support for union workers. The forum was hosted by vocal, the National Union of Health Care Workers and the Progressive Group current california. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming out. I know it has been a busy weekend for you all. This is the kind of thing that we want to be involved in. This is the kind of thing we want to be able to interact with members of congress and see what their positions are. Like a lot of journalists, i am a fan of the wire, the series. There is a great line, one of my favorite characters on the show, Lester Freeman had early on which was all of the pieces matter. That is the case here. All of these forums matter. All of these candidates matter. All of their policy decisions matter. All of their voters matter. The way they interact with people, the way they talk to voters and the way they talk to u