was a great thing to do. uninterrupted, rally after rally after rally. where i think we failed or the press in general failed was what we did not do before donald trump ever became a candidate. once he became a candidate we took them very seriously as a candidate and did those investigations i talked about but before he was a candidate i think we should of done a better job about talking about the lovely of anxiety and grievance that existed within vast swaths of the united states and brought that more to the foreground. we need to do a better job of listening to all of america and we are determined to do that going forward. >> i am a freshman at gw. currently working on a paper on how print and radio journalism can increasingly attract millennials to their traditional sources of journalism. i was wondering, what are the times and post doing it in terms of data analytics. how many of your new readers are millennials and what are you doing other than social media and online publications, what you doing in the future? >> i mean, there are areas of coverage and i think you can make yourself nuts chasing every sort of demographic group. but there are areas, i think traditional news organizations are read more by men than by women and i think that is partly a reflection of the people that run them and write for them. diversifying the staff helps. we just started a gender vertical with the thought that we want, and we have done the same with a race vertical, there are some subjects not present enough in our pages that we need to get present enough in our pages in they need to draw audiences that we did not necessarily have before. >> our audience size is about one third millennials and we have something now that is targeted at millennial women, quite successful. when jeff took us over, one of the things we thought about in addition to thinking about how we would become more national is how do we get younger people because if we don't have younger people reading us we won't have readership in the future, so we have a blog people can read about internet culture or a blog about the environment which people are keenly interested in. so we have a lot of things a lot those lines. >> all of the things that make journalism better are not done in a way that panders to readers. we understand there are people we want to cover. >> i apologize to the people who will not have a chance. here is one. >> my name is alexa x. i'm a student at university of chicago. my question is in regards to investigative reporting. both of your papers have released shocking exposes on harvey weinstein and the dea recently. my question is, how do your journalism overcome the challenges you discussed to produce such gripping stories and what is the overall impact of these exposes. >> i mean, the harvey weinstein story, the reaction has been probably three times what i anticipated. i think it is a result of bill o'reilly and some of the coverage of donald trump during the campaign. how do you do it? that is old-fashioned banking on the doors, convincing people to talk. trying to get them to give you documents. the same thing i did as an investigative reporter a long time ago. my job is to give them the time. make sure they understand you truly value it in get the hell out of the way when they do it. that would've been the answer in 1977 when i started. >> i will take the issue of how the readers respond to that. i agree with everything that dean said but readers value it. i mean really value it. when we do an investigative piece, our readers are thankful. i saw this at the boston globe and miami harold when i worked there as well. without newspapers is would not be done. this is why we need to support journalism. we need to remind. we need to keep doing this work and reminding the public this is something we do more than anybody else it if we were not there, this would not happen. >> we're out of time. i wanted to thank all of you again for being here, for your questions. i wanted to say to our two guests, i cannot express our attitude adequately for the fact you took the time. i have enormous respect and admiration for the two of you and the institutions you represent and for the broader sense of the free press issue you advocate big time and powerfully. i think we are all grateful to you and the work you do. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight. please drive carefully. >> on friday, c-span sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her recent book. during the interview, she talked about a recent speech given by former president george w. bush. bush talked about the cruelty in american politics. he didn't mention the president by name. the reaction? >> i thought it was an important speech and i appreciated president bush delivering it. he covered a lot of ground. he talked about how white supremacy is an absolute blasphemy to the american creed. he talked about the importance of listening to each other, working with each other. i did not always agree with president bush, as i think any democrat would say. patriotismbted his and never doubted he worked really hard all day, went to bed worried, woke up concerned about what he would do. i was in the oval office with him two days after 9/11. i looked into his eyes. i understood a lot of what he was having to face. out andiate him coming making a thoughtful critique of were american politics is the right now, because we are on the wrong path. >> watch our interview with on bookclinton tomorrow tv on c-span two. thursday, paul ryan headlined the alfred e. smith memorial foundation dinner in new york city. the annual event raises funds for catholic charities, that support needy children. and in presidential election years, usually features candidates from both parties. this is 25 minutes. patricia: let's talk about paul ryan, speaker paul ryan. certainly a familiar name and face. you know the basic story, wisconsin native, altar boy, worked for a construction company for his grandfather, meteoric rise in washington, vice presidential candidate, chairman of the house ways and means committee -- i mean most young congressmen would be content to handle only means or ways. paul ryan does both. we have a little bit of history, right? remember that night a few years ago, you, me, mitt in ohio. kind of dreamy. we will always have akron. i want to leave it at that. yeah, akron. you know what cleveland's motto is? at least we are not akron. [laughter] patricia: but beyond all the washington turmoil, paul is a public servant that works tirelessly to create opportunity and improve life for all americans. and that is why the work of the alfred e. smith foundation's work resonates with him so strongly. and i guess this is the right time to tell you, paul. i know you thought you are invited to be the keynote speaker, this is actually an intervention. [laughter] the cardinal has secured new identities for you and your lovely family. we have a nice place in north dakota where nobody in washington can find you. so right after the dinner, we will whisk you away, you do not have to deal with that anymore. before we do, we would love to hear some words from you. please welcome paul ryan. [applause] speaker ryan: thank you. thank you. we will always have akron. we will always have akron. [laughter] speaker ryan: enough with the applause, you sound like the cabinet when donald trump walks in the room. [laughter] we might as well get off to it. you know what i find amazing about this, is i do not think i have seen this many new york liberals, this many wall street ceos in one room since my last visit to the white house. [laughter] speaker ryan: um. [applause] speaker ryan: first off, i want to say good evening. cardinal doland, your eminence, he and i go back a long way. he was our bishop in milwaukee, so we have a great past. and we in wisconsin like you and we adore cardinal dolan. we just do. [applause] speaker ryan: governor cuomo, mayor deblasio, speaking of my buddies, and chuck and kristin could not join us tonight because they are literally voting right now and they will have a budget vote, should have had it about nine minutes ago, so knowing the senate, it has not happened yet. i want to thank patricia heaton. patricia and i do go back a long way. because she is a hollywood republican. [applause] [cheers] speaker ryan: a hollywood republican. that is an oxymoron. [laughter] which clearly was the word that rex tillerson was searching for. [laughter] [applause] [cheers] you know, i want to say that you all look great. everyone looks great. we feel right at home, because this is exactly what our dinner parties in wisconsin look like. [laughter] you know, this is really our favorite time of year, we love it. october. we have deer season, the leaves are changing, the beaches are empty, or as chris christie calls them, perfect. [laughter] [cheers] speaker ryan: now, i want to promise you, because i have heard a few stories about how the dinner went last year, i want to put your mind at ease. you can relax. i know last year that donald trump offended some people. i know his comments, according to critics, went too far. some said it was unbecoming of a public figure. and they said that some of the comments were offensive. well, thank god he has learned his lesson. [laughter] [applause] speaker ryan: a lot of people, they ask me, you know what is it like to work with an abrasive new yorker with a loudmouth? but once you get to know him, chuck schumer is not that bad. [laughter] i know why he has been so hard on the president, it has nothing to do with ideology. you see, chuck is mad that he lost his top donut. [laughter] [applause] [oh's and awe's] speaker ryan: look, chuck, he is 66 years old. which makes him part of the democratic leadership youth movement. [laughter] now he is not even here, so i feel like i need to apologize for the last joke. at one point, i did want to repeal and replace him but i could not get into the senate. when you look at where we are this year, think about it for a second. think about all that has happened since the last dinner. it has been almost one year ago that on november 8, countless shocked americans broke into tears over the election results. but enough about the press -- [laughter] speaker ryan: the truth is, the press absolutely misunderstands and never records the biggest accomplishments of the white house. look at all of the new jobs the president has created, just among the white house staff. [laughter] and when you read the papers tomorrow, everyone is going to report this thing different. "breitbart" will lead with, ryan slams the president amongst liberal elites. "the new york times" will report, ryan defends the president, saying that hillary won. and the president will tweet, 300,000 cheer at mention of my name. [applause] by the way, i do appreciate these laughs. thisnot get laughs like debating joe biden. people approved -- disapprove of the way i talk about the president. the oscar meyer wiener mobile, which meant people were constantly laughing at me. t preparation for being in congress. you know will be call the wiener mobile in congress, a chick magnet. i am a proud member of this church. the catholic church has a lot in common with washington, d.c. years forbout 7 someone to get confirmed. only difference between a catholic mass and a filibuster is one ends with wine and the other ends with the entire bottle. i believe in miracles. a 2015, i saw joe biden give two minute speech. romney withaw mitt a hair out of place. but i also believed in writing when he-- in ryan kelly of notre dame. i when people ask me if believe everything i see on facebook, i say niet. number nine, every morning i wake up in my office and scroll twitter. afternoon former speaker boener calls me up, not to give advice, just to laugh. it was john boehner who convinced me to take this job as speaker. god may forgive you cardinal, but i may not. talk about pulling the ultimate catholic guilt card. retired after he got the pope to address congress. momenta really special for john boehner. we all know how emotional he gets. he decided to hang it up. , i need you to hurry cannd become the pope so i invite you to congress and get out of there. we have some other things in common. ago,vember, a few years the cardinal ran for office in the 2007 united states congress of catholic officials. last january, january 20, he gave the benediction at president trump's inaugural. bookcited a prayer from a that no one in washington is familiar with. actually, there was this one moment when the cardinal talked beingthe almighty supreme , the president took a bow. both presidents, actually. the truth is, no one is infallible. we all make mistakes. we all learn. i have learned so much in congress. tweetingarned that after midnight is a really bad idea. oryou are president trump especially anthony weiner or ted matter.r that i was point the president actually insulted me. he described me as a boy scout. it did not hurt my feelings. what hurt my feelings was when my wife agreed with him. i have learned so much. you areearned that guilty until proven less guilty. i learned that god is always putin.ng, as is vladimir i learned how washington works, i play the good cop, mitch mcconnell plays the bad cop. steve bannon said that i was born in a petri dish at the heritage foundation. this is amazing. knew that steve believes in science. [applause] the most important thing i have learned at all, i have learned that becoming speaker of the house is a stepping stone to becoming x speaker of the house. speaker,because i am you do not have to invite me, but i am honored that you did. this is a significant event. people have watched this a dinner on tv for years. we need an event like this more now than ever. it is an opportunity for us to come together and support of a truly righteous mr. and. to bring hope to the neediest children in the archdiocese of new york. they are doing incredible work to help underserved families prepare their lives. we can achieve so much and we can achieve so much when we tackle poverty eye to eye, person to person. solidarity and we are not yet through the worst hurricane season. we need to be thinking about other citizen. the worst hurricane season in recent memory, and inferno that has blackened the homes and hillsides across california. so much has been taken. i went down to houston a few weeks ago and i was on my way to a shelter. the suns barely up and it was as humid as could be, you could feel the exhaustion in the air. we get there and the shelter was alive. it was full of life, hope and prayer. texas out of their homes. there were people everywhere. le

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