I am the 113th president at the press club. Residence atst in the university of maryland, global campus. We have an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter. Live. The npc for our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask that you hold your applause until the head table guests have been announced. Beginning to my far left. John oshea, colonel, retired. And member of American Legion post 20 based here at the National Press club. Wensing. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Lolita, National Security reporter. John donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. To my immediate right, the president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club Presi
Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. We are Close Friends and collaborators and the state Department Historical Advisory Council and he continues to be active as a scholar and mentor and is an active citizen in the guild of National Security scholars and historians. Next to him is a professor mel leffler of the university of virginia. Again, another titan in the field of diplomatic history. I started reading his books as an undergrad
Nonbinding vote to stop trump from taking further military action against iran. Well have the latest on that. Trump is on his way to a rally in toledo. Back in d. C. , dems and republicans are in open warfare over his impeachment trial. Im susan li in for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Susan so much to get to night. Hillary vaughn in d. C. On the Ukrainian Airliner, now believed to be brought down by Iranian Missile. Kevin corke in d. C. On congress, limiting President Trumps war powers. Gerri willis on floor of the New York Stock Exchange, covering record highs. Lets start in d. C. With hillary vaughn. Hillary . Reporter susan, senior u. S. Official tells irans antimissile Defense System actually fired taking out the boeing 737 plane shortly after takeoff in tehran. The official tells fox the Missile System was russian made and accidentally fired a Russian Missile bringing down the jet, tell fox quote, they screwed up and it i tragic. The president mad
Thousands fill the streets to mourn as some of manis body is brought. Also this hour indonesias sinking capital massive flooding increases worries jakarta could become the 1st big city submerged by Climate Change and the people simply rule the day sports over and out for the reigning super bowl champions of the new England Patriots lose in the playoffs. Thank you for joining as the u. S. Assassination of Senior Iranian commander kasim cinema any is causing major reverberations across the region with every passing hour iraqs thought a moment has just passed a resolution telling the government to expel foreign troops early a rock scare take a Prime Minister action from parliament no no you do the allergic be. No foreign troops are to do military actions in iraq eisel has been defeated and now the government of iraq must make a timetable to schedule the withdrawal of foreign troops for the sake of our National Sovereignty as iraqi Prime Minister was speaking in baghdad in lebanon scampere
At. The end thank you very much for joining us its been a day of extraordinary and fast moving developments as a sense of crisis grips much of the middle east Iraqs Parliament has passed a resolution urging the expulsion of u. S. Troops from the country even as the u. S. Military says old supes have stopped most of their operations against eisel and are now focusing on protecting themselves at the same time the leader of hezbollah i never known has warned that the u. S. Military across the region is not fair target for retaliation after the assassination of an iranian commander cass sense and amani these are live pictures right now from iran where massive crowds have gathered in several cities to welcome home the body of cars and cinema any was assassination by us 3 days ago set in motion the Current Events are we have reporters covering this story from washington beirut and baghdad we begin in iraqi capital where in the last few hours weve seen extraordinary scenes in the Iraqi Parlia