My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here
For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here tonight to tell us about one of them, one of those epic stories is steve vogel. A former reporter for the Washington Post whose book, betrayal in berlin the true story of the cold wars most
it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedload
others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? , ., ~ got to? it s not quite i think necessarily got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? it s not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvious comparison of the telegraph. generating a lot of news. loads and loads of pick up and different news organisations but it is not necessarily top story everywhere for days and days on end., but they have shades of stuff to reveal. i went to the headquarters of the telegraph today showing the bunker where they kind of describe this windowless room where about eightjournalists since the turn of the year come over to europe months, sitting in the room not much bigger than this studio, may be
seen that widely across the uk for quite awhile. any snow should clear away quickly and we robertjenrick was a close friend and ally of rishi sunak s even he doesn t believe this new emergency legislation will work. we ll talk to a former conservative attorney general, labour s chair of the home affairs select committee, and a former conservative mep. also tonight. sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering. an apology from boris johnson to relatives of those who died during the pandemic. at the covid inquiry he admitted both he and the scientists underestimated how fast covid was spreading. we should have twigged, we should collectively have twigged much sooner. we ll speak to michael rosen, who spent 42 days in a coma with covid, and was outside the inquiry this morning along with other protestors. also us funding for ukraine is on the brink of collapse. what will that mean for president zelensky and president putin? hello. the emergency bill published by the gov