We are committed to our professions future through programs just like this and we fight for a free press worldwide. For more information about the club visit our website, press. Org. To donate to programs offered through our clubs, Journalism Institute visit press. Org institute. On behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you to todays luncheon. Id like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter. Use the hashtag npc lunch. Remember, the public attends our lunches applause is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. Ill ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes working people who are members of the National Press club. From the right will watson. A former newspaper editor and 20year National Press club member. Larry holdren, patrick host. Captain sydney dawson u. S. Air force, aid to the superintendent and a guest of the speaker. Donald linewein. Gene tie. Thank you so much. Lieutenant cassiem. Gra m. Grane
Be decisive, firm, why it matters to us as a nation to get syria right. The white house makes its case for military action. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee bringing in secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel. Bashar alassad said the middle east is a powder keg. The risk of regional war exist. Carried out joint missile test with the United States in the Eastern Mediterranean today. Just want to go over there to see my friend kim. Arrived in north korea for the second time this year. Took years but diana nyad was the first person to swim to florida from cuba without a shark cage. Rain rushed into two apartment buildings. All the water came out and it was like a river. The new eastern span of the San Francisco oakland bay bridge is open for business. A southwest flight makes an Emergency Landing after striking a bird during takeoff. People were in tears, people were scared, babies were crying. An agent. 727 pounds. An upset in the u. S. Open last night. Roge