From its normative moral power abroad. I dont think that the United States wants to join cuba in becoming the only other countryr in the western hemisphere to have an imprisoned journalist. And thats whats at risk here. T it is much harder for the u. S. To be taken seriously when it advocates for press freedom and journalistic rights abroad when they are abridged at home. Governments have many obligations, to enforce the law, to protect citizens, to provente attacks. But they also have an obligatio to uphold the constitution and to uphold democratic principles upon which this society is built and to ensure the functioning of the democratic process in which the press plays a central role. The committee to protect journalists calls on the United States department of justice to withdraw a subpoena seeking to listsd give force journalist james risen to give testimony that would reveaf a confidential source. Our next speaker has worked as the director of theto rgton f Washington Office for
Snyder and democrat mark shauer. Campaign 214. Coming up on cspan 3, programs about journal oichl. Well begin with new york reporter james risen fog about freedom of the press, then bob woodward of the Washington Post moderates a discussion on journalism and National Security. Later the National Association of black journalists hosts an event on government and the media. After that association of black journalists mark rogers. New york times reporter james risen was subpoenaed in 2008 to testify at the trial of a former cia officer accused of leaking information on Irans Nuclear program. In august, mr. Risen spoke about freedom of the press at an event hosted by the institute for public accuracy. Youll also hear from former talk show host phil donahue, this is about an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Im myron belkheim, president of the National Press club, i would like to welcome you on a day that is important to our where journalists are once again at the front line, courageously
Were in line for a wintry mix tomorrow morning. Lets look at the Winter Weather advisory posted by the National Weather service for friday. It starts early in the morning and continues in the evening for the counties highlighted in purple well have slushy wet snow and accumulations on hopefully grassy surfaces, but some roads could get snow covered. Down south its mainly rain. As we look at the conditions, were clear and looking at sunshine early. The clouds to the south and west in association with the approaching storm system may increase as the days goes on. 23 in allentown. 29 in reading these are obviously cold numbers north to south, but not much windy, which is nice. As we roll through the day 38. 3 00 p. M. , 45 high of 46 hitting about 4 00 p. M. Well be back with how much snow were expecting and plot the arrival and departure of it with future tracker 6 in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter the big traffic story as this overturned tractortrailer. This is we
Thank you very much. Im very disappointed that sallie mae did not come today, and i think its important that we take a closer look at how all of our servicers are performing. But we need accurate data to be able to do that, so thank you. Want to ask a second question, thats about the Student Loan Program. You know, Student Loan Program just from 2007 to 2012 are now on target to make 66 billion in profits for the United States government. Just that small cohort. And lets keep in mind these are the best data we have available. These are government data, these are not data anybody else made up. The gao, the cbo to, the fed are all looking in the same direction at whats happening to students that are loading up on Student Loan Debt. And right now best estimate we have is that the Interest Rate were going to charge next year to our students is double, nearly double, the rate that undergraduates would have to pay in order to have the program break even. And as much as triple for graduate st
Forward to taking their money and buy school supplies. But once they removed all of that, by the time my children got to be 16 years old, they in my we call this crack. They started off with smoking marijuana, and then they would put Something Like embalming fluid, where it would make you get a more potent high. Host debra, thank you for that background. Whats the in your view, whats the current status of the situation . Caller the situation is, they have to get back to putting their children in more afterschool programs. They got to get their children with their lives being upsidedown, these children need to find some kind of way to say, okay, the house is falling down, my life is not that my future. Guest absolutely. There has to be more support for kids in all kinds of ways. Something that somebody brought up about the cutting back this is in a prosperous community, too cutting back on the choices i think reaching high school, that you could take art but you couldnt take do athletic