thank you for having me here. live right now on c-span the voters first form happening in new hampshire. >> americans in new hampshire are buried about global terrorists and worried about isis but the war tomorrow may already be here today. we have 500 satellites up there in space the control atms, gps. if someone took out one of those

satellites and cause chaos here in the city of the heartland as president graham would you responders that an act of war are not? >> here's the problem very as the threats of this country grow we are disarming ourselves. i've never seen more threats particularly in the cyber arena so what is the response to cut the military budget and have the smallest army since 1940, the smallest navy since 1915 to neuter the f. the i cia and nsa at the time we need them the most revealing way we will prevent an attack on this country is hit them before they come here and ask to hillary clinton the last person in the world you want to send into the ring of the russians as hillary clinton. after the clintons i've been dealing with this for 20 years. i am fluent in clinton speak. you want to translate? when bill said i didn't have sex with that woman, he did. when she says i will tell you about bill when i get to the

president mean she'd want and which he tells us trust me you got all the e-mails you need we haven't even scratched the surface so i understand this crowd and i can beat them and if we can't beat them it doesn't matter. president obama on dale they major climate change policy. the plan calls for 6% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 create significantly boosting wind and solar power generation and forcing a switch away from coal-powered. regarding reports that the rules are expected to trigger it will maximum me of legal opposition on states and utilities who oppose the plan. and the headline in forbes says obama's clean power plan is a

special-interest salad bar for the number of lawyers and lobbyists who are working to block the rule. here's the president announcing today the plan at the white house. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> that's so cool to be able to do that. i am the appetizer. the dinner awaits but hi everybody. this is such an incredibly wicked cool moment. standing here right now the word proud doesn't even come close to describing how i feel.

it means a lot to have a chance to thank all of you come everyone who has worked so hard and waited so long for this very day to come. [applause] looking around this room i know many of you have been fighting this fight for a long time and since the beginning we have been here together. we may be too old to remember how long that is but it hasn't dampened our enthusiasm or passion. we have talked for years about what needs to be done, what we could do. we are getting a good understanding of how it can get done and today we are actually doing it. [applause] the road has been long but we have come awfully far and look at how many new faces have

joined in this fight. as president obama will no doubt tell you climate change is one of the most important issues we face as a country and as citizens of this world. it affects everything we know and everyone we love. our kids, our communities, our ability to earn a decent living. it impacts our health our safety and our livelihoods. one thing is crystal clear. acting on climate has become what it is, a moral responsibility and thankfully no leader anywhere has understood that other were articulated that more forcefully than our president and no one has led on this issue as fearlessly as he has. from day one he saw climate change for what it was, it right to our for american values families, communities and save guarding those who are most vulnerable. he did not back down from the a

challenge. because of his leadership and his trust and the great people at the epa who get the job done right they got the job done right. [applause] we now have a real shot at protecting this beautiful planet of ours. so this is a historic moment. we are forging ahead to do what's right for our kids and there is no turning back. i am confident that the huge step already are taking today will show the world just was possible and it will encourage countries across the globe to join in this fight because climate change is a challenge we can conquer together. [applause] i just couldn't be happier that we have the right person leading

this charge for us. with that i am honored, i am humbled and i am proud to introduce our resident barack obama. [applause] >> thank you. thank you everybody. [applause] thank you so much. thank you. thank you everybody. everybody have a seat. thank you. good afternoon everybody. gina, i want to thank you not just for the introduction but for the incredible work you and your team have been doing not just on this issue but generally making sure we have clean air rainwater a great future for our

kids are to want to thank all the members of congress who are here as well who have been fighting this issue sometimes at great odds with others but are willing to take on what is going to be one of the key challenges of our lifetime for future generations and i want to thank our surgeon general who has been doing outstanding work making a colon -- connection between this critical issue and the health of our families. over the past six and half years we have taken on some of the toughest challenges of our times from rebuilding our economy after a devastating recession ending our wars in iraq afghanistan and bringing almost all of our troops home and strengthening our securities through tough and principled to onesy. but i'm convinced that no

challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate. and that's what brings us here today. not everyone here is a scientist [laughter] but some of you are among the best scientists in the world and what you and your colleagues have been showing us for years now is that human activities are changing the climate in dangerous ways. levels of carbon dioxide which heats up our atmosphere are higher than they have been at 800,000 years. in 2014 was the planets warmest year on record. and we have been setting a lot of records in terms of warmest years over the last decade. one year does not make a trend but 14 of the 15 warmest years

of record have fallen within the first years of this century. climate change is no longer just about the future we are protecting for children or grandchildren is about the reality we are living with every day right now. the pentagon says the climate change poses immediate risk to our national security. while we can't say any single weather event is caused by climate change we have seen stronger storms, deeper droughts longer wildfire seasons. charleston and miami now flood at high tide. shrinking icecaps force "national geographic" to make the biggest change in its atlas and the soviet union roca part. over the past three decades nationwide asthma rates have more than doubled and climate

change puts those americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital. as one of america's governor said we are the first generation to field the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. and that's why i commit the united states to leading the world on this challenge because i believe there is such a thing as being too late. most of the issues that i deal with and i deal with some tough issues across my desk. by definition i don't deal with issues that are easy to solve because someone else's already solve them. and some of them are grim. some of them are heartbreaking. some of them are hard and some of them are frustrating but most of the time the issues we deal with are ones that are temporally bound and we can

anticipate things getting better if we plug away at it. even incrementally. but this is one of those rare issues because of its magnitude because of its scope that if we don't get it right we may not able to reverse it and we may not be able to adapt sufficiently. there is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change. [applause] [applause] that should make us hopeless and ask if there's nothing we can do about it. we can take action. over the past several years america has been working to use less or the energy more clean

energy waste less energy throughout our economy. we said set fuel economy standards that mean our cars will go twice as far on a gallon of gas by the middle of the next decade he rate combined with lower gas prices the standards save drivers an average of $700 at the pump this year. we doubled down on our investment in renewable investment. we are generating three times as much wind power 25% more sober power than we did in 2008. the steps are making it different to over the past decade even as her con me has grown the red states as qatar total carbon pollution more than any other nation on earth. [applause] that's the good news. but i'm here to say that if we want to protect our con me and

our security and our children's health we are going to have to do more. science tells us we have to do more. this has been our focus for these past six years. and it's particularly going to be our focus this month. later not as i will talk about the extraordinary progress we have made in generating clean energy and the jobs that come with it and how we can boost that even further. i will also be the first american president to visit the alaskan arctic where fellow americans have seen their communities devastated by melting ice and rising oceans, the impact on marine life. we are going to talk about the world needs to do together to prevent the worst impacts of climate change before it's too late. and today we are here to announce america's clean power plan, a plan years in the making

and the single most important step america has ever taken in the fight against global climate change. [applause] [applause] [applause] right now our power plants are the source of about one third of america's carbon pollution. that's more pollution than our cars, our airplanes and homes generated combined. that pollution contributes to climate change which is to air our kids breathe. but there has never been federal limits on the amount carbon that power plants can dump into the

air. think about that. we limit the amount of toxic and that goes like mercury and sulfur and arsenic in our air or our water and we are better off for it but existing power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of harmful carbon pollution into the air. for the sake of our kids and the health and safety of all americans that has to change. for the sake of the planet that has to change. two years ago i directed the environmental protection agency to take on this challenge. and today after working with states and cities and power companies the epa is having their first nationwide standards to end the limitless dumping of carbon pollution for power plants. [applause] here's how it works.

over the next few years each state will have a chance to put together its own plan for reducing emissions because every state has a different energy mix. some generate more of their power from renewables, some natural gas or nuclear or coal. this plan reflects the fact that not everybody is starting in the same place. we are having the state the time and place they need to cut aleutian in a way that works for them and we will award the states to take action sooner instead of later because time is not on our side here. as states worked to meet their targets they can build on the progress our communities and business are already making. a lot of power companies have begun modernizing their plans reducing their emissions and by the way creating new jobs in the process. nearly a dozen safeguards their own market-based solutions. half of our states have set

energy efficiency targets. more than 35 have said renewable energy targets. over 1000 mayors have signed an agreement to cut carbon pollution in their cities and last week 13 of our biggest companies including ups and walmart and gm made bold new commitments to cut emissions and deploy new clean energy. so the idea of setting standards in cutting carbon pollution is not new it's not radical. what is new is starting today washington has started to catch up with the vision of the rest of the country and by setting the standards we can actually speed up our transition to a cleaner safer future. with this clean power plan by 2030 carbon pollution from our power plants will be 32% lower than it was a decade ago and the nerdier way to say that as we will be keeping 870 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution out

of our atmosphere. [applause] >> the simpler layman's way of saying that is it's like cutting every ounce of emission due to electricity from american homes are the equivalent of taking 166 million cars off the road. by 2030 we will reduce premature deaths of powerplant emissions by nearly 90% thanks to this plan there will be 90000 fewer asthma attacks among our children in the future. [applause] and by combining this with greater investment in our clean energy and smart investments in energy efficiency and by working

with the world to achieve the climate agreement by the end of this year we can do more to slow and maybe even eventually stop the carbon pollution that is doing so much harm to our climate. so this is the right thing to do i want to thank gina and her team for doing it the right way. over the longest engagement process in epa history. they fielded more than 4 million public comments, they worked with environment or groups and faith groups and people across the country to make sure what we were doing was realistic and achievable but still ambitious. some of those people are with us here today. tanya brown. there is tonya. [applause] tanya brown has joined up with moms across america to spread the word about the dangers

climate change poses to the health of our children including tonya's daughter renee. dr. cadre has spent a career researching to help at the cleveland clinic in helping families whose lives are impacted every single day. thank you. [applause] joan marie stedman has helped rally catholic women across america to take on climate. sister thank you so much for your leadership. [applause] and she has a pretty important guy on her side. as pope francis made clear in his encyclical this summer taking a stand against climate change is a moral obligation and

sisters living up to that moral obligation every day. now let's be clear there will be critics of both we are trying to do. there will be cynics that say cannot be done. long before the details of this clean power plan were even decided the special interests and their allies in congress were mobilizing with everything they have got. they will claim that this plan will cost you money even though this plan the analysis shows will save the average american $85 a year on their energy bills. they will claim the to/or investments in clean ancient -- energy. waste of money. they have spent billions of dollars subsidizing oil companies. they will claim it will kill jobs even though our transition to cleaner energy economy has the solar energy creating energy

10 times faster. they will claim it's a warm coal even as they ignore my plan to actually invest in revitalizing coal miners and their families and retraining those workers for better paying jobs and healthier jobs. committees across america than losing jobs for decades but i want to work with congress to help them. not to use them as a political football. partisan press releases aren't going to help those families. even more cynical we have critics of the plan who are claiming this will harm minority and low-income communities even though climate change hurts those americans the most tour the most vulnerable. today an african-american child

is more than twice as likely to be hospitalized with asthma and a latino child is 40% more likely to die of asthma. if you care about low income minority communities start protecting them and stop trying to rob them of their health care. [applause] [applause] [applause] you can also expand medicaid in your state by the way.

here's the thing. we have heard the same stale arguments before. every time america has made her it has been despite these kinds of claims. whenever america has said cleaner rules and standards for air our water and our children's health we get the same scary stories about killing jobs businesses and freedom. it's true. i'm going to go off script here just for a second. because this is important because sometimes i think we feel as if there's nothing we can do. tomorrow is my birthday. so i'm starting to reflect on the age and in thinking about

what we are doing here today i was reminded about landing in los angeles to attend college as a freshman as an 18-year-old and it was late august. i was moving from hawaii and i got to the campus and i decided i had pent-up energy and i wanted to go and take a run and after about five minutes suddenly i had this weird feeling like i couldn't read. .. breve

i but it at the time the same characters who are going to be criticizing this plan were saying this is going to kill jobs. this is going to destroy businesses. this is going to hurt low-income people. it's going to be wildly expensive, and each time they're wrong. and because they pushed through despite those tactics you can

actually run in los angeles. without choking, and folks actually take a boat out on that river, and those force are there. so we need to learn lessons, we need to know history. the kinds of criticisms you will hear are simply excuses for in action. they are not even good business sense. they underestimate american business, american ingenuity. in 1970 when we tried to do something with our cities they warned that it would decimate the auto industry. it didn't happen, cattle with converters worked. taken let out gasoline worked. our air got cleaner. in 1991 republican president,

george hw bush's wanted bush wanted to do something about acid rain he said businesses would suffer a quiet death. it didn't happen, we cut acid rain dramatically and cost less than people expected. because we are able to and people figured it out. when we restricted leaded fuel in our cars, cancer-causing plastics, it didn't end it. chemist came up with better products. the fuel standards we put in place a few years ago didn't cripple automakers, the auto industry retooled, today they are selling the best cars in the world at a faster pace they have an almost a decade. they decade. they have more hybrids, more plug-ins, more high fuel-efficient cars. giving consumers more choice than ever before in saving families at the pump. we can figure this stuff out.

as long as we are not lazy about it. as lies we don't take the path of least resistance. scientists, citizens entrepreneurs, together as americans we disrupt those debates, and end old ways of thinking. right now we are in for 19 new technologies, new industries not, not looking backwards, we are looking forward. if we don't do it, nobody will. the only reason china is now looking at getting serious about its omissions is because it saw that we were going to do it to. when the world faces its toughest challenges, america leads the way forward. [applause].

i don't want to fool you here this is going to be hard dealing with climate change in its entirety, it's challenging. no single action, no single country will change the warming of the planet on its own. today with america leading the way, countries representing 70% of the carbon pollution have announced plans to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. in december with america leading the way, we have the chance to put in place the most ambitious international climate bill in u.s. history. it's it's easy to say climate

change is just too big for humanity to solve, i i am absolutely convinced that is wrong. we can solve this one but we have to get going, it's exactly the kind of challenge that is big enough to remind us that we are all in this together. last month, for the first time since 1972 nasa released a blue marble, a single single snapshot of the earth taken from outer space. so much has changed in the decades from the first picture in the second. borders have shifted generations have come and gone our global population has nearly doubled but one thing hasn't changed, our planet is as beautiful as ever. it still looks blue. and it's as vast and also it's as fragile and miraculous as

anything in this universe. a blue this blue marble belongs to all of us. it belongs to these kids who are here. they're more than 7 billion people alive today, no matter what country they are from, no matter what language they speak, every one of them can look at this image and say that's my home. we are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, where the last generation that can do something about it. we only get one home, we only get one planet there is no plan b. i don't want my grandkids not be able to swim and hawaii were not be able to climb a mountain and see a glacier because we didn't do something about it.

i don't want millions of people's lives disrupted in this world more dangerous because we didn't do something about it. it would be shameful of us. this is our moment to get this right. and leave something better for our kids let's make the most of that opportunity. thank you everybody, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. and cute. [applause].

coming up at ten am eastern, a hearing on the effectiveness of the federal prison system, including justice to apartment officials and advocates including piper kerman author of oranges the new black. our live coverage gets away at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. sunday night on q&a kevin or talks about detroit's financial issue and its job overseeing the largest bankruptcy industry in history. if detroit had taken when the stock market went down to 6700 and if it just invested in the index stock market is now trading at 18000, almost three times what it was.

not only what of it tripled their money it would've paid the in full and gone back in business and giving pensioners a check at the end of the year in addition to what they're due. it could have fixed itself if there had been some sort of sober management going forward just like any organization going forward in the night states as well. if you have strong leadership and focused leadership you can resolve these problems. but it takes a lot of effort. >> sunday night on c-span's q&a. >> during the pope's visit in september, he will meet with pres. obama at the white house address the joint session of congress and speak to for the un general assembly in new york. the pontiff will end his visit in philadelphia where he will deliver to public masses, the huffington post report that

philadelphia is the only city where americans will be able to attend non-ticketed public events with the pope. putting. putting pressure on the city of brotherly love to accommodate the masses that will congregate there. for example church groups are planning to sleep in the zoo, philadelphia residents are charging thousands of dollars for a room. city officials are closing subway stations and possibly even bridges. up next on c-span to a discussion on the issues, logistics, and media coverage of the pope six days in the united states. this is three hours.

>> i think will get started, i am sandy johnson pres. of the national press foundation and we're so glad to have you here. we have had more interest in this program than any other half-day briefing that npf has ever sponsor. i'd like. i'd like to take a misted to thank these for attending the of that, the un foundation and the aarp foundation. with that with that i will turn it over to linda. >> thank you sandy, were going to write into logistics, i will will introduce helen osman, she is secretary of communications for the u.s. conference of bishops. she is correlating media coverage over the visit with pope francis, she has been with u.s. ccd since 2007, and 2012 the catholic press association honored her with a saint francis a sales award for personal achievement and we are happy to have her join us today. >> thank you. thanks linda, i appreciate you all being willing to work with me and getting started on time i have a meeting that is

mandatory for me and several of my colleagues to be at at 10:00 o'clock. i have a few slides i will brief through them, i would like to give more time for you to ask questions if that's okay with everyone. i thought i would go over this money very quickly what is different from previous papal visits, i was was in the same role in 2008 when pope and it came, and he worked with colleagues and worked with colleagues who were at the conference for the previous visit from the pope. a little bit about credentialing, social media, and media, and other resources were offering to journalists. 50,000 level view of the whole schedule for pope francis, and statistically what we're doing at the conference and reaching out to the general public. level of interest is one aspect. we had had a great deal of interest in 2008 but i don't

want to use hyperbole but this is on precedented. we close credentialing on friday, we have over 7000 applications from individuals and about 600 outlets that have act first space at the venues. where for pope francis will appear. he attends to speak quite often first in spanish, then alternate and have an english translator available to him, he will go back and forth so that will be something new for us. social media in 2008 remember it was just beginning, we had long conversations over whether we would credentialed bloggers are not. but yes we are credentialing everybody, again the whole media landscape has changed dramatically in the past seven years, mobile devices, live

streaming, etc. the, et cetera. the part i would like to emphasizes the bottom line when we started planning the with the vatican it was back in january of this year, from the very beginning every time i would ask the question are these events open to the media, the answer was yes absolutely. we would like to see it available around the world, so we have been working with the networks on pool coverage of every events. as i mentioned, we close credentialing on friday, this is only for the venues which the church has responsibility, that means weird i credentialing for the white house, congress, and united nations. we are not credentialing for the white house, united nations, or congress but everything else. we anticipate that we'll try to be engaging in conversations and social media both in spanish and in english. we have asked folks to start

using # pope in the u.s. again where look working with the tv pool so we can have simultaneous translation when he is speaking in spanish or english for events. at this point we haven't looked into details at the white house and congress and we know the un is also planning simultaneous translation. linda has graciously offered to distribute this to you also you have it. each of the filing centers we'll have a live video feed from the tv pool, we'll have copies of the speeches, bob and i were talking about that. i asked. i asked that we had those in english and in spanish, and they are aware of the need to have them as soon as possible, at least on the day of.

the holy father does take great personal interest in his text and also often revises and sometimes revises as he is speaking so it's just a alert to everyone on that. we have an interview desk if people want to interview others the holy father is not entertaining requests for interviews. if if you are on the plane with him and that has already been determined, the media who will be there of course he does do those on plane interviews with that group but that is the only time he will entertain interviews. we will have a other folks for you to talk with. different this trip from other trip from popes to the us, every day we'll have a briefing in the filing center from the father lombardi, he is the press

officer. we'll be using the filing centers as transport center to bring the media who have received assignments to the of venues and will be using that to bring you in on buses to work with secret service and other agencies so you get where you are supposed to be, and make sure that all those places get filled and that's extremely high demand for those. so dates to remember, i know it's hard to see in the screen here, in washington at the marriott marquis downtime, philadelphia it's the marriott associated with the convention center and the convention center hall a is where we'll be doing the filing center so just think marriott and it will be easy to remember a mat. you will need a u.s. ecb secret service

credential to go into the filing center. let me run quickly through the schedule most of your aware of this, he is coming in from cuba on tuesday evening september 22 we'll have a briefing that day immediately after he arrives with father lombardi at the filing center. the next morning he goes to the white house again the white house credentials for that immediately following that he goes to st. matthew cathedral and has midday prayer with the bishops pair. it is not a mass but it is an official prayer of the church and he'll have remarks there in spanish. following that, in the afternoon we are at the campus of the catholic university of america and the basilica, national shrine of the immaculate conception and he will celebrate mass they are, i think the number is about 22000 that is

anticipated to be there. he will also officially recognize a saint in the church ill be a massive canonization. thursday will visit congress immediately after that he will go after st. patrick's in the city where there's a maturity center where he will meet with about 200 of the clients folks who use catholic charity services. he he will speak in spanish with those individuals. that afternoon he leaves jfk goes to new york, he is still not done it for the day, he visits his second st. patrick's of the day, st. patrick's cathedral. for the archdiocese of new york where he will have evening prayer with folks they are. friday morning he will go over to the united nations again those are un credentials, after that he will go to ground zero

for he will have two movements. he will will meet with individuals who were affected immediately by the events of 911, family members, first responders et cetera on the outside run the two pools. then he will go inside and there'll be an events called a multi- religious event, with about 700 religious leaders. after that he goes to east harlem, to a school that serves immigrant families and another catholic charity center, and and that evening he has mass at madison square garden. next morning he gets up he goes to philadelphia, has mass at the cathedral there with philadelphia archdiocese. he's greeted by seminaries at st. charles seminary where he will be in residence those two days, that afternoon he will go

to independence hall and will have an address on religious freedom. that afternoon he joins families which is a multi- event celebration, music presentation, he'll be there for about 90 minutes but the actual best festival is about four hours at the benjamin parkland. the next day he meets with bishops who are gathering for the world meeting of families in philadelphia, from there over to sorry just blank on the name. a prison in philadelphia a group of about 100 who are are incarcerated there, most likely yet younger people. again he will be speaking in spanish and english there.

then the large mass, enormous mass on the benjamin frank the parkway, we have up to 2 million people who want to participate in that and then he goes back out and wheels up about 8:00 o'clock sunday night. a little bit about what we are doing, the u.s. ccd is launching a mobile solution were anticipated date in the app store is august 15, it is called catholic church, we think. we'll be live streaming on that all of the events, we want to encourage people to watch, i think everyone including those of you who are in the room have stories of those who really want to get here to see pope francis we recognize the intensity and the interest we are encouraging

parishes and schools, and dioceses dioceses to think about having watch parties locally. so virtual pilgrims if you want to call it that. our website u.s. papal visit.org is intended to be in place for people to catch live streaming and other information, we'll have a quasi- password protection password for journalists, resources that we are developing right now. again if you want to write down anything u.s. papal visit.org will be the go to site for media, if you have logistical questions for media you can e-mail. i know you have mine which is fine, but if you sent to this one is not going to get lost in all the other stuff that i have going on. so that is a quick fly through, i i want to ask if anyone has specific questions or anything

else. [inaudible] >> yes what you have to do is if you go to u.s. papal visit.org, scroll down it's on the bottom of the homepage there is a link there to the secret service's website which is where you go to get the credential. >> yet we are hoping to get the bishop and other experts and again were compiling all of that so yes. yes sir, do you have a question? sorry. >> for the st. matthew cathedral event, can you give us a sense of how much press will be

allowed in there, or who else will be allowed in there beside bishops? >> it's not a large area as you probably know, i don't know the full guest list but there will be limited access for media inside were working on risers on the outside as well. but were working on it. >> good morning, the credentials you're talking about is it this same one that the deadline passed on friday? >> know you can still get into the website. >> for the filing center? >> but we closed on the venue. >> this second question is the daily briefing is going to be webcast? >> yes it will all be live. >> in order to watch it you need up password-protected? >> know it will be public. it will be part of the public

pool feed. so we will feed the lied briefings into what is provided through the u.s. tv pool. it will be live. >> if we apply for venue will we get the secret service credential or do we need to do that separately? >> know the secret service credential, you will use that to access the venue. >> okay but if we've done that are ready, applied for a venue then do we also, and we want to go to the filing center do we need a separate? >> it works across all three cities. so if you apply by the first deadline you're done. i can't guarantee that you'll get into the venues you want but you'll have the credentials.

>> now i'm going to introduce william douglas, he is a credit congressional correspondent from newspaper, his reporting experience includes new york city schools bill sick clinton's second term, that is covering congress, another kind of war and the presidential elections. bill has some pointers for getting a good story for the pope's visit from capitol hill. >> good morning and thank you very much for having me thank you all for attending i look out there and see some family faces on capitol hill. i can speak from the capitol hill perspective of the popes speech to congress. this will be very different, if i had to describe these

significance of the importance of the speech, it's going to be like a head a state visit on steroids. in terms of demand for media, in terms of demand for members of congress to actually be in the chamber for the popes speech congress people complain congress doesn't do a lot of things but i think last week they manage to vote next members of congress out of the chamber. they will not not be allowed in for the speech because, probably all the seats will be filled with members of the house and senate, normally when heads of state visit even with prime minister speech a couple months ago you have what you called filler. you had staff members, our interns, filling seats. that filling seats. that won't happen this time around. i doubt there'll be a member of congress who will want to skip this. for selfish purposes and covering this, this is going to be a challenge for reporters who

want to cover the speech. again going back to state of the union address, going back to a normal head estates, a, a regular head of state for lack of a better phrase, we normally go to the house or senate press gallery and say we would like to be in the house chamber and they're usually very accommodating. this time time around it will be more complicated because they have to accommodate not just us, us being the congressional, everyday u.s. press but they'll have to find room for the folks traveling press.

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>> to probably go through the house and senate office buildings as opposed to get to that capital because with the capital you have to go through the security and there will be lines. go through the office buildings. i may sound paranoid and i tend to get in now were or too early to go through security to get set up. i would defy a is you all to do that or maybe go earlier there are vice cafeterias you can buy eight your time but just to avoid that hassle because there will be a hassle because there is more people and security and

they are pretty thorough now. so give yourself time to get there. bridge in what you need to bring that will also help with security. don't bring any extra stuff like your gym bag. [laughter] just your work stuff and security will go much quicker. for those you don't get it, as speaker greater there will be a gem quotron outside it is a ticket did even to. citizens just cannot walk up ted expect to get in and watch the speech of the jumbo trod. i would suggest for citizens to have a desire to call your member of congress for acquire not sure how that goes but i assume it may be like inauguration you call

the member of congress to see if you can get a ticket. >> [inaudible] is. >> i have no idea. all i know it is limited. to what capacity is and limited by the sheer numbers that will be there. i don't have intelligence on the exact number if you have covered a head of state speech did you have been to the gallery, you know how long the rows are and the bench seats so just based on that. that is pretty much the upshot of what i know about getting in. do you have any questions? >> is there proceeding?

>> they're still working through that. >> you mentioned coming in through the office buildings rather than directly through the capital we are accustomed to walking through with almost no security do you suspect secret service will be beefed up at those entrances as well? >> i suspect security with the head of state with prime minister netanyahu or when the dollar lot comes, certain dignity's dictated serve lovell of security i am sure this will dictate a very high level so yes there will be much more than you are used to seeing. >> what would you say are the essentials to bring? what do you need to bring?

>> if you are covering it your laptop for recording devices or your notebook your phone if you were taking pictures but just bring the basics reporting tools that you require. but just pack a bag smart to get yourself through security quickly. >> don't forget extra batteries. if you are not able to get into that capital and not one of the lucky people with a ticket, you were standing outside. what would you say are the best tips for people looking for a live stream on their phone which would be possible? >> taking their other reporting opportunities if you do it windup on the west front watch the jumbotron to have automatic access to people to interview say you

have the advantage of the reporter inside the chamber because once that speech begins, you are pretty much going to be where you are you are stuck in place. your ability to get around, i like to joke when it comes to the white house you are a stuck pig you can only go to the briefing area or one paul and in congress you are a free range chicken but you don't have that with this. the you are in the chamber you are in the chamber of you were in the press gallery that is where you are in the senate press gallery that is where you are. no questions. if you have an idea to talk to a member of congress it will not be that easy. >> you don't think they will do anything with statuary

hall? >> i have not heard anything. i am just speculating i would tend to doubt that because of security. the previous speaker laid out the agenda. if he does the author record and decides to rome to visit statuary hall, no. i think that would be difficult. [laughter] call your member of congress to make a date to speak 45 minutes after the speech but if you're looking for the instant reaction try to roll-call in the advance of taking call you shortly after the speech. >> if you said don't have

press credentials on a regular basis so if you go to one place in you could get access what is the best office to call? you had a lot of ideas. >> for congress. >> bb not the press gallery but the chamber? >> by all means call the press gallery if you can get in to the press section. you will not get onto the floor. but if you are in on a member of congress or to i would call them to see where they plan to be after words just to see if you can read them personally or talk to them over the phone. if you are compelled to be at the capitol, do you have

a hard pass? >> my colleagues do. >> they can get into the building. it will be a challenge but again i would try to arrange >> will have a hard time several hours ahead? garett there is a chance they could get into a press gallery. but that does not guarantee, i will go over this two ways. the senate press gallery there is assigned seating. we have desks there. if you are sitting here have desks there and then there are open areas. if you can get there in time with an open area given a shot. the out press gallery there is not assigned seating so what happens with heads of state summit people get there as early as they can

put the laptop's down and plug them in and basically laid their claim to that space. there will be a race for that on that day. if you have a hard passe and can get in there i wouldn't get there early to get my laptop to say don't move me. >> even when i have gone there a 9:00 every seat was taken. >> that tells you something. [laughter] >> just on a regular work day of the hill. >> i don't know what time they will open the gallery. as it gets closer you may ask them what time they plan to open that up. but if you need to write from their get there as early as you possibly could. again, if you get there too

early there are cafeterias, there is work you have the space to do it but check to see what time they plan to open and get there as early as humanly possible. >> have you covered? maya understanding is they will be doing in addition to the hard pass but a separate credentialed for the speech. that is what i have heard. they said as the date approaches we will let you know, . obviously there will be a lot of demand so we are trying to accommodate as many people as possible but i have not heard back. >> i think what they mean is with the "state of the union", they give us a ticket to go into the chamber may be that is what they are referring to. it is still early on that and.

just keep been contacted and they will let you know, but i think that is what they're referring to. >> for those who don't cover the hill all the time, who is the person they should contact andy you have an e-mail address? >> i would call the house press gallery and the senate press gallery. whoever answers the phone could provide information and the point people i can give you the numbers after words. >> you can get the director. >> gore just call the capital they can also plug you into the gallery. >> clearly this will be a very challenging event for

reporters. william douglas thank you so much. [applause] i will bring you back but right now for the next panel if they will make their way to the front i am looking at kalee, but anybody who is your, uh come on up. i will introduce these speakers but my introductions are very brief and i would encourage all of you to read the full introduction in your packet and if your watching on c-span you can find those bio of the zero web site of the national press.org. we will address the issues that the pope has really

brought to the for that clearly are on his mind and i am very pleased to have so many experts here to help us i will start right here with demetrios distinguish senior fellow and president emeritus of the migration policy institute a nonprofit independent research institution that studies migration trends and their effects. a leader in of several international initiatives that aim to develop new approaches to the problems of migration and competitiveness and human capital. we're very honored to have him with us this morning. please set says president of the aarp for a station as a leader in setting the direction to combat poverty and hunger and other social issues we are pleased to have her with us and kalee

special adviser for clyde but science at the united nations validation she previously spent nearly seven years working as a researcher with former vice president al gore to market several books and a film that you may remember called "an inconvenient truth". we're pleased to have all of you. to moderate i will hand over to jason the capitol hill editor for roll-call that previously edited national journal and also worked for green wire. faqs so much. >> i appreciate you having me it is an honor to be here. these panels can be helpful to help choose sort through what is truly a unique event

that combines all of the elements of the inauguration , instead of the union, and a rock concert. the logistics on this are a marvel to behold. but with the next panel we will talk more about those logistics' bear right now we want to use hero and on the big issues particularly the pope has made a part of his portfolio that happens to be three of the most contentious end debated issues that capitol hill and the country has dealt with in the last several decades but now they're at the floor.

you are one of the world's foremost experts on immigration and have been there watching as capitol hill has struggled with this issue over the of course, over the last couple of decades and going back and forth. and now, with the pope picks in the vatican in quite literally at the front of many of the issues as people are trying to cross the mediterranean. so let's just turn off with a question in light you have been doing this a long time how does it change when of pope takes an interest in your topic? [laughter] >> good morning. thank you for the question. i think when the pope speaks the perspective that is

global and tomorrow at the same time. and then to focus on the importance of family and children it is in a very clear way these kinds of issues that lots of people will want to hear the pope speak but i am not quite sure if the u.s. congress who have spent the unable there and willing to reach any agreement with regard to immigration will influence them one way or another. it is more likely to sway public opinion than people in the u.s. congress. the issue is very difficult because everything seems to be broken up on capitol hill

but, philosophically the parties are the two major wings of each of the two parties that fundamentally disagree on how to move forward. i am talking about u.s. sovereignty we know politically who should get credit or not, etc. but the broader context first is that washington cannot move forward but more specifically the two parties have a philosophical disagreement about the size of migration or what to do about legal immigration or how to deal with the challenge at the border, how much immigration or how many people to bring in and the

formula. let's not forget the way we choose them to day is designed between 1965 that was 40 or 50 years ago. so if you drive the 50 year-old car without updating so we fall behind on immigration and both parties understand that we always had a prohibitive advantage with immigration because people want to come here first and foremost, for fairly obvious reasons and we're losing that advantage as they are more aggressive to attract immigrants that they want to read again the of vintages no longer prohibitive but the pope will focus what the catholic church has always focused on

that is legal migration he will call let undocumented and unauthorized or not regulated. and mass migration and more generally and anything that involves protection of refugees to temporarily protect the people, etc. etc.. these earn if the churches concerned with migration because they argue for protection to save lives to treat people properly and not take advantage to exploit people and argues strongly against discrimination in, etc., etc. but at the same time

very conflicted about migration more generally. often with the church thinks of migration as the lesser of the two evils. were one has and "fantasia" with development or jobs or opportunities, etc. or one verses' the other but that does not treat them well. but immigration is about immigration and to be persecuted of the people who have no other choice but to go elsewhere to create a life for themselves. >> reset your organization and deals with a wide variety of issues but for most is poverty and hunger

as they affect the elderly. is a little bit more amorphous than just the immigration proposal that congress is looking at can use. [inaudible] as an to what you're looking for with the pope and how you approach the visit? iraq also thank you to my colleague because first of all, great to be with all of you as a time together to think about this important conversation with paul francis. and what is extraordinarily helpful about the pope's visit, it is he speaks on many occasions about dignity for all people. so i just that, giving a voice will be important. we are the charitable arm of aarp to focus on anti-poverty work in four

areas to see those as interrelated that if you think about a problem in one of those areas you can imagine the individual would have difficulty in one of the others as it is a multiplier effect that could be a spiral downward for individuals. what is on my mind? just over 50 years since johnson declared war against poverty by yet pc is on the rise rather than on the decline so we come together at this moment in time to put a spotlight to of that issue is to talk about some opportunities that have worked. when we think about poverty that is the key issue the pope has discussed, we know

there are tens of millions of people in the united states that are in hunker every day so you may think of it as that temporary or physical state of not having food but there is a growing number whether children or midlife or the older americans that our food is secure and i hope that is highlighted because this is about the lack of dependable access to nutritious and affordable food. moreover it is an opportunity to talk about the fact there is no face of thunder as is is about children or young adults and our seniors and that is almost every address in our nation which is an important feature. urban settings, rural settings, but the fastest

growing address is in the suburbs where individuals have been pushed out of cities possibly but do not have enough income to meet their basic needs in america there are programs that have worked to reduce poverty to increase food security said any highlighting of the great work of the supplemental nutrition act act, we know for seniors up problem remains the dave persistently do not apply for benefits of which they are eligible so it is just over one-third of seniors your accessing the important benefits that our nation is supportive of. that is lack of education and also older americans going back to your dignity thinking there are others.

and reduces poverty rates in the united states to have access to affordable food and to lift them up out of poverty. so it is my hope to think about the fact that a a rp foundation that we have founded in addition to others a faith based community but we also know it will take a collaboration from the private sector to come up with new solutions with access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and it would

read the about putting together the food supply chain so we are looking at how we can produce more nutritious and affordable and accessible food for children and older americans as well. there is a question to be asking why aren't we winning the war on poverty? and how do we bin to that with under? this is getting worse and why do we have such a persistent deficits supply chain and those that are proving is secure? but to use the this as a great opportunity to let them know there are so many americans that our hungry those that our hungry every day i would say that is

invisible if it is the opportunity to lift this up and encourage people to take more directed action to solve the persistent problems. >> we will get to your questions i want to make sure everybody has a of a chance as they have an opportunity and at the forefront today with global warming program, it has already attracted criticism on capitol hill. as a political issue the pope has the question from your vantage point and your

experience, how has that changed? >> and to put on your smart phone that was released in june by the pope that is praise to my lord. have the reason it has six chapters of the believe the pope will speak to that when he is here in the united states to build upon the work of the prior popes as well as in france's over the 50 year history of the catholic church to address these issues