President of the National Press club. Pleased to have you all here. Nice capacity in the lounge. Please dont forget to put your phones on silent or vibrate so they dont disturb the proceedings. You can follow the proceedings today on twitter, on mpclive. Also, if you have a question, i will call i will call upon you but you must rise. You must identify yourself. And i will call upon you in addition to the questions i have already, some of which of course have been developing in just the past few hours given the events of earlier today. You noticed that leader pelosi is here leader schumer is on his way here and he will join us very shortly, as quickly as the streets can clear for him. But we want to get things started a little bit before excuse me before we get going. A couple other decor rum items. I understand mostly most of us are journalists, but we understand that some of the people here are indeed members of the club, guests of our speakers. We do have a bit of decorum. No applau
President of this Historic National press club. Thank you, jonathan for arranging all of this. Its an honor to be here with chuck schumer, when he will wile here momentarily, the newly elected leader of the senate, democrat, and newly elected, reelected member of the senate from his state of new york. He comes with the confidence of his colleagues and the enthusiastic support of his constituents. You will tell him i said that, right . So tomorrow its 40 days into the new administration. President trump will deliver his address, his first address to a joint session of congress. As we have been reminded every time the president or anyone from his administration speaks to the American People dealing with this administration demands that we stand up for the fax. And the facts are these. On january 20, 2009 in the middle of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, president obama and his inaugural address called for swift, bold action now to create jobs and lay a foundatio
He will be here momentarily. The newly elected democratic member of the senate. From the state of new york. He comes with the confidence of his colleagues and the enthusiastic support of his constituents. You will tell them i said that, right . When he gets here. So tomorrow, 40 days into the new administration. President trump will deliver his first address to a joint session of congress. As we are reminded anytime the president or anyone from his administration speaks to the American People dealing with this administration demands that we stand up for the facts. And the facts are these on january 20, 2009, in the middle of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, president obama in his inaugural address called for swift, bold, action now to create jobs and lay a foundation for economic growth. One week and one day later, the Democratic House passed the american recovery and reinvestment act. One week after that, the Senate Passed the bill and on february 17, preside
He will be here momentarily. The newly elected democratic member of the senate. From the state of new york. He comes with the confidence of his colleagues and the enthusiastic support of his constituents. You will tell them i said that, right . When he gets here. So tomorrow, 40 days into the new administration. President trump will deliver his first address to a joint session of congress. As we are reminded anytime the president or anyone from his administration speaks to the American People dealing with this administration demands that we stand up for the facts. And the facts are these on january 20, 2009, in the middle of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, president obama in his inaugural address called for swift, bold, action now to create jobs and lay a foundation for economic growth. One week and one day later, the Democratic House passed the american recovery and reinvestment act. One week after that, the Senate Passed the bill and on february 17, preside
He will be here momentarily. The newly elected democratic member of the senate. From the state of new york. He comes with the confidence of his colleagues and the enthusiastic support of his constituents. You will tell them i said that, right . When he gets here. So tomorrow, 40 days into the new administration. President trump will deliver his first address to a joint session of congress. As we are reminded anytime the president or anyone from his administration speaks to the American People dealing with this administration demands that we stand up for the facts. And the facts are these on january 20, 2009, in the middle of the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, president obama in his inaugural address called for swift, bold, action now to create jobs and lay a foundation for economic growth. One week and one day later, the Democratic House passed the american recovery and reinvestment act. One week after that, the Senate Passed the bill and on february 17, preside