Is debra our speaker lee james. She will talk about ongoing efforts in the middle east, as she recently returned from a trip. She will talk about drones, though she may not use that word when she refers to these vehicles. I want to first introduced the distinguished head table. It includes members and guests of our speaker. Tony, defense reporter for bloomberg news. Carl, senior military assistant to the secretary. Patrick, correspondent for defense daily. Eric, special assistant to the secretary. Chief, pastu president for the National Press club, and chairman for the speakers committee. Jean, the Speaker Committee member who organized todays luncheon. Of anselmo, editor in chief aviation magazine. John hurley, past commander and an air force veteran. [applause] i also want to thank our cspan audiences and the audiences listening on public radio. You can also follow the action on twitter. E the npclive. Debra lee james was sworn in as secretary of the air force nearly two years ago, a
Much, said risor about the firefighters she works with daily. So, for me, to help out another one of us that works here it is not a big deal, in my mind. That is what you do when you work here. The fire chief says risor was nominated partly because of her taking on the duties of a coworker who suffered Health Issues during the year. Risor said she is humbled by the award, and is thankful for the people she works alongside everyday. Three other people were also honored. Friends, family and colleagues say goodbye to a new York City Police detective with ties to siououand. Joseph lemm was killed in a Suicide Attack in afghanistan last week. Nat snd of bag pipes detective lemm was orginally from beemer, nebraska. He was the son of shirley lemm from wisner. During his time with the nypd, he was deployed twice to afghanistan and once to iraq. He was one of six Service Members killed. Behind a wife and two children. Siouxland veterans gathered today for free coffee and good company. The organ
I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr
We begin with your comments about Hillary Clinton. Renewed t friday, a rumors that the former first lady will run in 2016. Question is, should she . 2025853880 for democrats. 2025853881 for republicans. 2025853882 for independents. Already, many of you weighing in on our facebook page. You can also send us an email. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. First, this morning, the cover story from the New York Times. On a republican candidate. Back from the is brink, and ready to run harder than anyone else. That is the cover story of the New York Times sunday magazine. And dan has this piece at the le online Washington Post. Fridays gathering seemed very much like a Clinton Family reunion. In attendance were scores of from across the country, many of them instrumental in helping bill clinton become president. And all are now just as determined to see Hillary Clinton get to the white house in her own right. Speakers constituted a whos who of clinton loyalist. From ly notable wer
York chokehold burtis good evening and welcome to the press club for a very timely discussion on race coverage in america. How are we doing . How can we do better . This program has been plan to jointly by the National Press club and the Capital Press club. Tonight is historic because of how we came together here this evening as partners to discuss the very issue that once divided our two organizations. Race. The 107th president of the press club, i want to acknowledge the presence of the 108th president of the is club who took office last week. Thank you for being here. One of the highlights of my year was to be invited to speak in this very room at the 70th anniversary celebratory awards meeting of the cap patel press club captial Capital Press club. African american journalists have been members of the national is club since 1950 five, and were proud that many have been in leadership positions over the years. I also am proud, very proud thats one of our newest members is the preside