Kalb. [applause] hello and welcome to the National Press club. I am marvin kalb. The conversation with ted koppel about democracy and the press. If i use the word twilight to suggest that network news, as we have known it, is on its way out and as something new is emerging. Whether what is new will satisfy the urgent needs of our democracy cannot be noted at this time. Lets hope that it will. Without a free and occasionally rambunctious media, we will not be living in an open society. The free press and an open society are intimately linked, one dependent on the other. Network news if network news is in its twilight, then perhaps our democracy is facing a turning point as well. I asked an old colleague and a friend, ted koppel, to discuss the changes in network news and what those changes might mean for our society. Ted is known best for his 25 years of anchor and host of nightline, but he has also been a foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, and author, and he has covered Many P
People say thank you for what you are doing. I feel guilty. I can never do for this country what it has done for me. I do not know where i would be of my parents have not come to america. I doubt whether i would be in a place like this. Perhaps i would be like this. Wrong with being a bar tender. I believe there are millions of people that want that for their children and grandchildren in america. Our job is to make it easier for them to do that. And government can play a role. The governor is an example of what government can do in the state. I pray god will give me an opportunity to be part of that in washington d. C. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on these topics. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am going to say, i am relieved there were no hecklers. The last thing is what we are here to do is to celebrate the governors birthday. I understand mackenzie is going to sing. Is that right . Everybody is coming . Great. We want to hear them. Im not going to sin
Arrests along u. S. Mexico border surged again last month. The border is a disaster. Its not a crisis. Its a complete, utter disaster. Mason and later, tom rice, who parachuted into normandy in 1944. At 97, he jumps again, as we remember dday 75 years later. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason, reporting from the American Cemetery in normandy, france, the final resting place for more than 9,300 americans who died in the allied invasion. It is Early Morning here in france, june 6, exactly 75 years since dday. A ceremony here will mark the anniversary. On that morning, more than 150,000 troops landed on the normandy beaches, many of them teenagers facing combat for the first time. German guns killed more than 2,500 americans that first day. Months of heavy fighting followed in northern france, but dday marked a turning point in world war ii. Victory over nazi germany would come less than a year later. 16 million americans served during world war ii. Fewer than 500,000 are still alive. O
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