Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. 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. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
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 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. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
for the first time after becoming the first former us president to ever face criminal charges. these were the crowds of supporters who greeted him at his mar a lago estate. he arrived there after pleading not guilty to sa criminal charges at a court hearing in new york. in the speech, he criticised the case against him and repeated the false claims that he d been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. let s hearfrom him first. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign, remember that? they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. impeachment hugs number one. impeachment oats number one. impeachment oats number two. the illegal and unconstitutional raid on mar a lago, right here. hoax. live now to michelle fleury in new york. she has been covering the entire day of events for us
Im scared of you. You should be. Run for your life. Hes loaded up, folks. Okay, you can see very calm wind in this dark photo of our neighborhood. In old city, so, very, very humid, very close out there once again this morning, even though we did have some rain yesterday, 78 degrees, right now, as you walk out the door. It is another warm one. 81 relative humidity. Sunrise happens at 5 41, so lets check the radar because there is little bit to show you on radar this morning some showers around, the occasional heavy downpour, as we zoom into berks county, right, there in the southeastern part of berks some rain that one isolated heavy shower there around reading, casino of light showers. Then we go up to the pocono mountains, see showers as well. Nothing in our neighborhood at the moment. But, as we look at the future cast in a few moment, and show you that the possibility is there. So we go once again with seven out of ten. Weve had about three of those in a row. High temperature today
It doesnt you know, what lets hope it is our worse problem today. Put it in perspective. It is hot. It is july. We can deal with it. Bus stop buddy is here. Notice, in addition to muggy the dog because yes humid start again today there he is. We got the umbrella. There are some showers around in a few places this morning. And there will be some thunderstorms rolling through this afternoon. 77 degrees, right now with 74 relative humidity, 5 41 your sunrise time. And not much after breeze out there, folks. 3 miles an hour, so if you dont have airconditioning, youre not getting much after break with any breeze at all. Not getting it. So weve got Montgomery County, Chester County, Lehigh Valley poconos with some light, light showers this morning, or in some cases, a heavy downpour just east of pottstown, and moving into upper providence, in Montgomery County, and then moving up to the Lehigh Valley, there are some showers there, and in the poconos as well. So well look a little more in dep