Stay, to take care of her, to get shoes for her. She was determined to find her precious baby. This is the part of the american story that we all need to know as well. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the National Press club the place where news happens im Eileen O Reilly the 2023 president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training and axios thank you for joining us both here at the National Press club and on cspan for our headliner book event. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank our wonderful staff and volunteers here at the National Press club for helping put this event together, including our headliners, team cochairs dan on line one, la jay and laurie russo and cecily martin, who is the clubs membership events and program coordinator. We have a very exciting tonight with our esteemed Panel Focused on a book just out called last honest man. The cia, the fbi, the mafia and the kennedys and senators fight to save democracy. So lets get started
The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
One last question and this is for everyone, with all of this in mind and maybe well start on the right, do you think its worth hosting the world cup . Yes. Why . Not letting you off the hook that easy. Well, i think its very important for a country like russia to get this kind of recognition and thats an important tool. We have been discussing how russia will be playing around but thats our own selfpower toward russia, that we can use that occasion. Its a nice way where we can try to celebrate what we share together with russia and put everyone back at least at the table of the discussion and so and so. I think its wonderful opportunity on both sides. Russia will use it on its own side but we can leverage it on that. We have to disassociate the Russian Authority for the population. The population will be very much interested in sharing more International Guests and sharing more stories about their own experience in the western world. I think everybody makes sense. Laurie . I think it j
Trump is poised to win the gop nomination for be president. Weve gone from x number to a much larger number. That hasnt happened to the Republican Party in many, many decades. Trump has won ten out of the 15 primary contests the Republican Party has had so far. Hes won in the suburban snort. He has won in the rural south. Hes won over wealthy voters and those in the working class. Hes got evangelicals voting for him and he has agnostics. Trump is riding on such broad support that he now talks of a quote new coalition to underpin the Republican Party. Yet. Ted cruz has four states under his belt. Including the delegate rich home state of texas. While marco rubio fast becoming the establishment favorite can finally claim at least one victory in minnesota. Meanwhile on the democratic side Hillary Clinton now has a Comfortable Lead against her rival Bernie Sanders after sweeping the south on super tuesday, clinton has won ten state contest to date, sanders 5. She still needs more to clinch
Party establishment and a confused news media are still in denial over trumps dominance at the polls. With the momentum he now has trump is poised to win the gop nomination for be president. Weve gone from x number to a much larger number. That hasnt happened to the Republican Party in many, many decades. Trump has won ten out of the 15 primary contests the Republican Party has had so far. Hes won in the suburban snort. He has won in the rural south. Hes won over wealthy voters and those in the working class. Hes got evangelicals voting for him and he has agnostics. Trump is riding on such broad support that he now talks of a quote new coalition to underpin the Republican Party. Yet. Ted cruz has four states under his belt. Including the delegate rich home state of texas. While marco rubio fast becoming the establishment favorite can finally claim at least one victory in minnesota. Meanwhile on the democratic side Hillary Clinton now has a Comfortable Lead against her rival Bernie Sand