Im myron belkein, the 2014 National Press Club President and a former correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in england, india and japan and i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington school of media and public affairs. Before we get started, i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones if you havent already done so and for our viewing and listening audience please feel free to follow the program on twitter at npclive. And for our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. Before i introduce the head table, i want to recognize two very special tables on my right and your left in the audience which are comprised of members of the National Press clubs American Legion post 20, which was founded on november 11, 1919, one year after the signing of the armistice that ended t
Night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan twos book tv. Staff marky chief of millie talks about Global Security challenges and military readiness. On the remarks president s comments on transgender people serving in the military. This is hour. Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im myron belkind, the 2014 National Press Club President and a former correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in england, india, and japan and i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington school of media and public affairs. Before we get started, i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones if you havent before i introduced the head table, i want to recognize two very special tables on my right and your left in the audience which are comprised of members of the National Press clubs American Legion post 20, which was founded on november 11, 1919, one year after the signing of the armistice that ended
Night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan twos book tv. Staff marky chief of millie talks about Global Security challenges and military readiness. On the remarks president s comments on transgender people serving in the military. This is hour. Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im myron belkind, the 2014 National Press Club President and a former correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in england, india, and japan and i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington school of media and public affairs. Before we get started, i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones if you havent before i introduced the head table, i want to recognize two very special tables on my right and your left in the audience which are comprised of members of the National Press clubs American Legion post 20, which was founded on november 11, 1919, one year after the signing of the armistice that ended
[inaudible discussion] good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis layman auditorium. We join white house join us on the heritage. Org web site and those chinaing us on cspan booktv in the future. Those here inhouse we ask that courtty heck that our mobile devices of various sort have been silenced or turned off. Those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or commentses at any time. Simply email us as speaker heritage. Org and we will post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guests today and leading our program is dakotawoods, Senior Research fellow for defense programs and our center for national seps defense, mr. Wood served our nation for two deck theyd u. S. Marine concerned, including strategic analyst for the commandants of the marine corps and the office of the offers of net assessment. Upon retirement he helped organize the National Biosurveillance integration statement at the department of homel
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