air force secretary under president obama was among the speakers at a women s leadership conference in washington, d.c. this is two hours and 15 minutes. good morning, everybody. good morning. all right. good morning. honored to bem able to moderate you this morning. we will be talking about secretary jane s new book. i have read it and listened to it. that is what we going to talk about. , first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story? throughout my life i have in the business of our national security closer to 40 years. i have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. , ile i was making my way up would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. and some men. i would wonder to myself about how their lives were perfect. and here was my life which had
i m a correspondent at n.p.r. news in washington and press club 112th president. we are pleased to welcome our headliner speaker, scott pelley. before we begin, i would like to ask you once again to please turn off your cell phones and if you are following along on twitter, check the #npclive. truth worth telling. that is the name of his new book and might be called history orth watching. in his more than two decades, he has had a front row seats to so many events from the oklahoma city bombing to president clinton s first presidential campaign to the september 11 attacks in new ork. he was so close there that he as literally covered in ash. in this book he uses those experiences to talk about truth, to defend our free speech and as one reviewer writes, offers inspiring tales that remind office the importance of values in our lives. scott has done it all at cbs. he was a war reporter, white house correspondent, evening news anchor and 60 minutes host. the list of honors
club today, he talked about some of his concerns with american journalism and took questions from the audience. i m a correspondent at n.p.r. news in washington and press club 112th president. we are pleased to welcome o our pelley.r speaker, scott turn off your cell phones and if you are following along on twitter, check the #npclive. truth worth telling. that is the name of his new book and might be called history worth watching. more than two decades, he has had a front row seats to so many events from the oklahoma city bombing to president clinton s first campaign and the attacks in new york. e was so close that he in this book he uses those experiences to talk about truth, to defend our free speech and as one reviewer writes, offers inspiring tales that remind office importance of values lives. scott has done it all at cbs. he was a war reporter, white house correspondent, evening news anchor and 60 minutes he s. the list of honors and awards he s received is far too l
orchestrated a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. what s next for speaker mike johnson now that the house is passed aid for ukraine. we are days away from supreme court arguments on trump s immunity claim. this case is national security. the 11th hour gets underway this monday night . here we go. good evening, once again. i am stephanie ruhle and we are 197 days away from the election. we are not talking about the election today, opening statements got underway in donald trump s first criminal trial. the former president was forced to sit in silence as lawyers from the manhattan district attorney s office alleged he and his allies were part of a conspiracy to influence a 2016 election. the goal, negative stories about trump so voters would never see them. trump s lawyers said he had no involvement in coverups and there was nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. laura jarrett was in court and has the details. reporter: tonight prosecutors painting a star
must be defeated by sunnis themselves straight it is the sunnis themselves who must reject that radicalism and defeated. defeat it. in the short term i think it will take more american action. we need to cut off their funding and all this propaganda they are getting by subjecting them to high profile, humiliating defeats. send in special forces, capture their leadership, video tape it and put it online so the world can see they are not invisible. ultimately they will have to be defeated on the ground by local forces. that may involve ejections and jordanians and saudis. you may also involve arming kudrs anrds and christians. they re christians who have been driven from their historical homelands. there the mercy of other groups defending them. we should allow local forces to ultimately defeat them and we must support them with air support, logistical support, and letting operations forces share intelligence with them. only america can convene the collective action. no one e