good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, the world leading professional organization for journalists and the place where news happens. i m lisa nicole matthews, 114th president of the national press club and u.s. video assignment manager at the associated press. thank you for joining us for the first in person headliners luncheon since march 3, 2020. [applause] we are so thrilled to welcome you all back. i know i am. for we begin, i would ask that you please silence all cell phones. if you are on twitter, we encourage you to tweet the program and please use the hash tag in pc live. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. so any applause or reaction that you just heard is not necessarily from the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. i please ask everyone hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. beginning up my right, at the far end, paula gwen
the archbishop of the roman catholic diocese in washington, bc, card cardinal wilton gregory join the national press club for discussion on his faith and the catholic church. he talked about a variety of topics, including climate change, women and the priesthood, and vaccinations. cardinal gregory is the first african-american in the united states to be a cardinal. good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, the world leading professional organization for journalists and the place where news happens. i m lisa nicole matthews, 114th president of the national press club and u.s. video assignment manager at the associated press. thank you for joining us for the first in person headliners luncheon since march 3, 2020. [applause] we are so thrilled to welcome you all back. i know i am. for we begin, i would ask that you please silence all cell phones. if you are on twitter, we encourage you to tweet the program and please use the hash tag in pc live. for our c-spa
see some of the kinds of developments that are going to capture international attention. so again, thank you all and good morning to all. thank you. bye-bye. we take you live to the impact on the u.s. withdraw from afghanistan and the taliban s takeover. a live coverage here on c-span. was able to take root and not take root, that people were so desperate, and that they had fallen so quick and in a way, for the very afghans who were asked to fight to save the country from a takeover, did not feel they have the motivation to stay and fight. so i think for me it is certainly bad for afghans and afghanistan, and for what was the opportunity is lost over the last 20 years. that has been my biggest we have talked about this a little beforehand and i heard your voice some of the same feeling. i should mention kathy is joining us from afghanistan this morning, virtually from afghanistan. atia is joining us from the west coast. if you want to continue. i think for t
journalists of the university of maryland and executive producer of the public broadcasting series moderated by journalist, calvin thank you for. doctor francis collins, director of the national institute and health. we are pleased to accept questions from our audience, especially journalists tuning in today. to the question, e-mail and letters and the edition of the u.s. government of health and human services is our nation s medical research agency of the largest biomedical research in the $32,000,000.000000 in hand life and reduce illness and disability. and i present components, each with its own research agenda focusing on particular diseases or body systems. about three received funding directly from congress. the office of the director and the policies and financial planning, managing and coordinating the programs and activities of all the nih component. 2009, doctor francis was appointed by president barack obama, serving as the 16th director of nih he was elected by
of the public broadcasting series moderated by journalist, calvin thank you for. doctor francis collins, director of the national institute and health. we are pleased to accept questions from our audience, especially journalists tuning in today. to the question, e-mail and letters and the edition of the u.s. government of health and human services is our nation s medical research agency of the largest biomedical research in the $32,000,000.000000 in hand life and reduce illness and disability. and i present components, each with its own research agenda focusing on particular diseases or body systems. about three received funding directly from congress. the office of the director and the policies and financial planning, managing and coordinating the programs and activities of all the nih component. 2009, doctor francis was appointed by president barack obama, serving as the 16th director of nih he was elected by president trump in that position in the current administration wi