Just waiting for the cronkite awards to begin. The award is presented in excellence in tv political journalism. Jonathan karl, ben collins, and Margaret Brennan are along the recipients. It will begin shortly on cspan. Professor martin kaplan. [applause] thank you. I know that hand is the voice of god, and god appreciates it. Good afternoon. Thank you. Thrilled to have you here. An amazing day. A lot of people worked really hard to make it happen. And you are those people. If you are watching us now on cspan, or on facebook live, if you are here in the room, please enjoy your salads. Above all, welcome to the 12th biannual Walter Cronkite awards for excellence in Television Political journalism. On behalf of the unc Annenberg School for communication and our Sister School at the university of pennsylvania, the Annenberg School s annenberg Public Policy center, we are thrilled to have you. You dont need me to tell you that these are Tumultuous Times for television, journalism, and polit
To be a concern about the growth of government and government power in general. And think the Obama Administration in the past 18 months has stepped into a number of woodchuck holes that have a them look not particularly competent and graceful, and not concerned about congressional power. The republicans made a good effort at saying he is becoming an imperial person, you doing stuff on his own, which of w congresse cannot get to pass anything, so he has to do things on his own. In his a backandforth issue. The backandforth on this really does help republicans. The economy has seemingly but it has gone through fits and starts in the past two months. Itcould see it slow a bit if is not Getting Better ands lives. That could help democrats. More time to talk about 2016 later on. Thank you for being with us. An f on transparency and freedom of information. I think my colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade, whether they are liberal or conservative. The freedom of information pro
Shows. Game of thrones. Her royal visit to the real iron throne. And good morning, america. Look who is back at the table, Michael Strahan. Im back. You cant get rid of me. You cant get rid of me. Im like a roach. Ill always come back. We dont want to get rid of you. We have to go to our resident game of thrones expert. What is the queen doing there . Well, i think, she, like so many of us, is a huge fan. It is wellestablished, if you watch the show last week. I love game of thrones. And you loved the dragons being given birth to by the khaleesi. Anybody that anybody is giving birth to dragons, you have to love the show. And the queen recognizes that. And for that, i applaud her. Michael says, im many. I was in washington, d. C. Yesterday. The white house, a daylong summit on working families. Had an opportunity to talk with mrs. Obama. She weighed in on perhaps what she will be doing or not doing when they leave the white house. Well share that conversation coming up. Looking forward
The worlds most popular tv shows. Game of thrones. Her royal visit to the real iron throne. And good morning, america. Look who is back at the table, Michael Strahan. Im back. You cant get rid of me. You cant get rid of me. Im like a roach. Ill always come back. We dont want to get rid of you. We have to go to army, our game of thrones expert. What is the queen doing there . I love game of thrones. Anybody that anybody is giving birth to dragons, you have to love the show. And the queen recognizes that. And for that, i applaud her. Michael says, im many. I was in washington, d. C. Yesterday. The white house, a daylong summit on working families. Had an opportunity to walk with mrs. Obama. She weighed in on perhaps what she will be doing or not doing when they leave the white house. We want to start with the new terror threat. Intelligence streaming in about planning for possible attacks on passenger planes. New kinds of bombing we havent seen before. Lets get right to Pierre Thomas in