Veterans serving in the house of representatives. This is an hour. Good afternoon. And welcome. My name is byron and i am an adj adjunct professor and the 170ing president of the National Press club. He are commit today our professions future through programming with events such as this while fostering a free press world wide. For more information about the pres club visit our website at press. Org. I would like to welcome our speaker and those attending the event. Guest of our speaker are at the head table and working journalist who are club members. If you hear applause, generals of the member public are attending so it isnt lack of journalistic activity. I would like to welcome cspan and others. You can follow us on twitter. We will have a question and answer period after the guest concludes and i will ask as many questions as time permits. I would like each of the guest to stand as your name is announced. Erin kessler, marisa shultz, christina marcos, pope barrel former head of the