Fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is a great lineup of fierce competitors. Lets have a round of applause ofor them, as they start to think about their spelling. Now, id like to turn the podium over to our friends from scripps, who will introduce their team and go over the rules of the competition. Hello, everyone. I am one of the eight spellers who won the 2019 Scripps National spelling bee in may. [applause] theall ourselves octochamps. [laughter] it is a great honor and privilege to be here today. I would like to thank the Scripps N
Canada trade deal. And then know celebration, just more frustration after senator mcconnell announced there will be no vote on the landmark trade agreement, saying the senate will take it up after the impeachment trial. Well not be doing usmc sarks between now and the end of next week. That will have to come up in all likelihood right after the trial is finished in the senate. Lou what can you say. The house announcing two charges against President Trump. One for abuse of power. The other for obstruction of justice. Both charges appear to any reasonable person at least as weak, meaningless, a massive waste of time and taxpayer money. President trump provided this reaction on the white house south lawn. The democrats couldnt find have much because they put up two articles that frankly are very weak. Also they approved today of all days, we have been waiting a year. They approved the usmca. I call that the Silver Lining to impeachment. The impeachment is the reason they approved it and t
Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. From nr, npr, my former colleague. Oey from buzzfeed alex from the and josh from the ericngton post and finally this is a great lineup of fierce competitors select have a round of applause and now, i would like to turn to scripts and they will go over the rules of the competition. Hello, everyone. I am one of the eight spellers who won the 2019 Scripps National spelling bee i
Canada trade deal. And then know celebration, just more frustration after senator mcconnell announced there will be no vote on the landmark trade agreement, saying the senate will take it up after the impeachment trial. Well not be doing usmc sarks between now and the end of next week. That will have to come up in all likelihood right after the trial is finished in the senate. Lou what can you say. The house announcing two charges against President Trump. One for abuse of power. The other for obstruction of justice. Both charges appear to any reasonable person at least as weak, meaningless, a massive waste of time and taxpayer money. President trump provided this reaction on the white house south lawn. The democrats couldnt find have much because they put up two articles that frankly are very weak. Also they approved today of all days, we have been waiting a year. They approved the usmca. I call that the Silver Lining to impeachment. The impeachment is the reason they approved it and t
Canada trade deal. And then know celebration, just more frustration after senator mcconnell announced there will be no vote on the landmark trade agreement, saying the senate will take it up after the impeachment trial. Well not be doing usmc sarks between now and the end of next week. That will have to come up in all likelihood right after the trial is finished in the senate. Lou what can you say. The house announcing two charges against President Trump. One for abuse of power. The other for obstruction of justice. Both charges appear to any reasonable person at least as weak, meaningless, a massive waste of time and taxpayer money. President trump provided this reaction on the white house south lawn. The democrats couldnt find have much because they put up two articles that frankly are very weak. Also they approved today of all days, we have been waiting a year. They approved the usmca. I call that the Silver Lining to impeachment. The impeachment is the reason they approved it and t