It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment. It is a necessary component to republican selfgovernment and a hallmark of a free society. That is not in question. In fact, it is a nonnegotiable. However, is not the exclusive prerogative of the press. The First Amendment protects the freespeech rights of all americans, not just those who happen to have an m. A. In journalism. The press itself is subject to free speech just like everyone else. Journalists do not take well to criticism. I see this as a recovering journalist myself. There is a tendency in the media to equate criticism of the press with an attack on the freedom of the press itself. But i think you can be committed to free speech while attacking those who abuse it. What is more, the freedom of the press, like all freedoms, is not without limits. There are no prior restraints on publications. Those days are thankfully long behind us. But the press is resp
This is about one hour. Good morning. And i getnat malkus to take us through our panel with state decisionmakers and we have an excellent panel and im going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of School Choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. I have three state policymakers here today. Kimberly yee is the 36th treasurer of arizona and we are glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. The first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations first edution savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i
evidence in this case and not acting? two republican senators are sharing their own damming evidence on the biden family foreign affairs. brooke singman has details. brooke. brooke: republicans on the house oversight committee demand answers about hunter biden chinese secretary, house oversight committee james comer sending a all right to the fbi claiming the committee have documents that prove jacky bow has ties to the chinese communist party. they claim bow may have been involved in president biden s family affairs. after ip filtrating the biden family, urged hunter to encourage joe biden to run for president and supplied campaign advice related to china. in a leaked email she says uncle joe should run for president in 2020. there are documents and banking records from investigation into the foreign business affairs, the senators calling out david weiss for sitting on key evidence. in the letter, the senators state failure to respond to legitimate oversight request and pa
This is about 35 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor ron desantis. Thank you, thanks so much, god bless you all, great to be in Southern California, thanks so much, thank you, thank you, great to be here. I didnt know if i was allowed. Im a little close to disneyland, didnt know if they would let me come, thats okay, thats okay. We are excited to be her, dont need teleprompters or notes, we will let er rip and have a good time. We just got a taste of Southern California traffic. I did an interview for bill mahers show and i guess somewhere in hollywood, we drove from there to here, i dont know how many miles it was but it took us about 2 hours to get here, we saw the bumpertobumper and we were able to do that, i know a lot of people in Southern California, i also remember, we got into town, we had the debate in simi valley at the Reagan Library wednesday. My wife and i, we got into town in Southern California on sunday night and went to coronado and did an event at t
Please welcome governor ron desantis. [applause] a thank you. Its good to be in Southern California. Thanks so much. Its great to be here. I didnt know if i was allowed to. Im close to disneyland thats okay. We are excited to be here. We dont need teleprompters we will just let it rip and have a good time. We just got a taste of Southern California traffic. I did an interview for the belmar show and i guess its somewhere in hollywood. We drove from there to here and i dont know how many miles it was but it took about two hours to get here so we saw bumpertobumper and we were able to w do that which i know a lot of people in Southern California but ihe also remember we got into town at the Reagan Library wednesday and my wife andgo i got into town in southen california on sunday night and went to an event at the vfw and that was my intro to california. I was born and raised in florida. Id never spent time in california in any meaningful way. I was a naval officer and got orders to Naval