Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin
Would like your phones on silent or vibrate because we also like you to tweet and follow along here in the room and of course to our viewing audience. Turments allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us using the handle pressclubdc nancy, p as s in paul, live or hashtag headliners. Using the handle pressclubdc. And thats for our Television Online and radio audiences. Please be aware that there are member who are members of the general public. So therefore if you hear any expressions of applause or signs of approval or disapproval, that doesnt necessarily mean its coming from the working journalists in the room because we do have some decorum, at least id like to think we do. Before we get into the rest of it rest of the things, i would like to introduce the head table and then we will thank some important people who put together todays luncheon. So starting on my
Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possible ground incursion. But what we saw back in 20082009, was that
Our starting point this morning, president obama putting his foot down. He says no tax hikes for the wealthy, no deal. America hits that fiscal cliff in 27 days and that means tax hikes and deep spending cuts if the democrats and the republicans cant come together in some kind of a deal and with just ten days remaining until congress is scheduled to go home for the holidays, the clock ticking. Heres what he told bloomberg news. Listen. Were going to have to see the rates on the top 2 go up and were not going to be able it to get a deal without it. We start this morning with White House Correspondent dan lothian, hes in washington, d. C. Okay. So whos got the ball in their court at this point then, dan . Well, you know, i think the house gop, they have presented their counteroffer which white house spokesman jay carney is referring to as, quote, magic beans and fairy dust. We expect that House Republicans will keep putting pressure on the white house to engage, push for more details on