viewers of the press. the entire nature has shifted. >> the more the white house can move it in that direction -- >> the computer. controlled speech. >> they will -- >> only my son -- >> we live in the digital age and they are communicating in the way that more and more people are receiving communication. >> maybe this time. >> i believe president bush had seven full fledged press conferences. i didn't hear a lot of complaints about that. >>> maybe into it. issue three, no moon landing. >> i am 100% committed to the mission of nasa and its future. >> on thursday, president obama was at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida, and he unveiled his vision for the future of nasa, responsible for the nation's space program. primary features, item, budget, $6 billion added to the existing $20 billion budget spread over the next five years. item, private companies taking over space flight programs. item, robotic technology with a solar system exploration program using robots. so what's out? no landing

how do we know it was won in the press? because mike went down to a hearing in south carolina for the whistleblowers. but the hearing was an absolute sham because there were no real legal rights. so mike went into it and he said we want due process. we will not participate in a hearing without due process and the examiners said this is our hearing and we're going to run the rules as we want to run it. will you have your whistleblower come in and tell us what happened to her and mike said no, goodbye. the whistleblowers never showed up at their own hearing, yet we won the case. true story. they got reinstatement, back pay, because of the public pressure and i will also state, on the record, that even if it is not winning a case, that is the exception to the rule, i must say. don't think you're going to win your case that way. it can put pressure on an intelligent employer or government agency to back off. because it is pretty much what jim said. jim popkin said, for the press to actually run a story, they will do and should d

and the analysis was by going to the press. a politician or bureaucrat may ignore allegations of a whistleblower for years, but when they hit the newspapers, they have to take it seriously often. and that's what happened in that case we did in 1986. the issues raised at savanna river had been raised for at least two years. this the sky had been hammered down. the department of energy had originally from its case out. the department of energy had lobbied against it. i mean, looking at this case in 1986, he was a loser he is the contractor fired him and the local doe office of science and down. but once the facts got up to the national news media and a new light was shed on it and pressure was put on the secretary of energy, it was all reopened, all reinvestigated here it so it's clear, but had a whistleblower shown up to the "washington post" day one, there probably wouldn't have even been a story because he wouldn't have had a track record to back it up. so i think the good law is going to the press is protect it, but the realit

what about the press? the media coverage of it? >> i think the press is accustomed to covering this annual event as people are accustomed to exploiting it. what has happened is earth day has for both media and i think for mainstream world, have become a kind of victim of its own successor it's now a big business. so you have as leslie kaufman wrote an extraordinarily good article in the business section, earth day is big business, including the umbrella that enables you to drain and reuse water. >> i remember growing up in denver as a kid we had terrible pollution problems in the 70s that has gotten better now. >> it has gotten better and the environmentalists should celebrate that of course they are too busy dooming and glooming about global warming. every movement starts out i'd deal list tick then becomes a corporation and a racket. -- >> epa brought in by nixon. most of the media approach this secular religion, worship the earth. we did well in my father's generation with conservation. . you had the isaac walter league. even th

and the analysis was by going to the press. a politician or bureaucrat may ignore allegations of a whistleblower for years, but when they the issues rapesed at savannah river had been raised for

friar, veteran associated press newsmen and a member of the national press club. [applause] kathleen sebelius, the and of the health of the apartment of human services lead the principal agency charged with keeping americans healthy and 80,000 employee institutions have been the focus of some of the obama administration's top priorities. as the country's highest-ranking health officials she has been a powerful voice in reforming the health insurance system along with coordinating response to the 2009 swine flu virus and it range of services from health care to child care to energy assistance during the economic downturn. kathleen sebelius whose father was governor of ohio and whose father in law with the kansas congressman has decades of political experience in her own right. she served in the kansas house of representatives until 1995 followed by eight years of the insurance commissioner where she was selected as public official of the year for 2,000 by governing magazine. in 2002 she was elected governor of kansas and was reelected for another four year term. in

to dispute the notion that the press is politically motivated. it goes out of its way to say that because that is the general drift of the literature. the general rule drift of the literature is what is wrong with the press. they are liberals and i have no doubt they are actually liberals but i do think that the press makes every attempt, like everybody else in other professions to provide their own standards i think the press trice, i'm not talking about opinions. of course they try to tell their opinions but the people who are journalists try to push that out but i did think this was something worth pointing out and i still think what is the most important thing about this book is to suggest to the working press the need to be more cautious. i think you can find the same kind of what i would say amping out of the swine flu, the financial crisis there's a tendency to dampen up the rest and i am anxious in a subtle way. i am totally opposed to censorship. but i do -- i'm a professor and i believe in the power of rhetoric and arguing and this is my

allows an excellent but not fully typical vantage into the -- into understanding in general what the press tried to do. post other coverage had minutes, hours, or even days between the appearance news material, but continuous coverage, wall to wall, as the journalists like to call it, created something of a plot and took the viewer if to some kind of a chronological -- intense chronological time, to literally you felt time pass. it's really visceral watching these elements of continuous coverage. chronology gives way to your sentiment or your feelings. this coverage was done and redone eight times in the 23 days of the event, from the very first day to the very last day. and so what i want to do is take a look at this continuous coverage and then we can of course, of a wards, talk about other elements of the coverage as you wish. some of the coverage ran for 12 hours straight. but always, there was a basic structure. stations came on the air, we allowed fanfare, heralding important and significant investments in the sniper case. the logic of the initial announcement was that something impo

but if something goes in the press, they can breed what you said. they can refer it to the security office. they can refer to their lawyers on trademarks events and if your name is associated with it, you may just have signed your employment death warrant. so going to the press has a lot of downsides, a lot of difficulties. it also can be the way to vindication or actually get the change. the bottom line is there are legal protections if you need to go to the press and those have to be carefully studied and implemented on a case-by-case recess with a lot of review and care. finally, if i do say and all the journalists they meet this bill, but you have to work with the journalist that understands the seven -- six rules that mr. solomon typed about. that is professional to understand what a whistleblower goes through in both the vetting process and in their own personalized. and there are a lot of journalists he do that. i'm honored to have three of them here. so that is the legal summary and what we'll do is when i'll open it up for questions. i have

and the heart of the action is in the press room. nicole takes us inside for a firsthand look. ♪ [ rock music ] >> reporter: zootopia -- it's one of the biggest concerts of the year. the all-american rejects, ciara, and kelly clarkson, among others, rocked the arena. ♪ >> ladies and gentleman, soulja boy. [ cheers ] >> reporter: but some of the most exciting parts of the concert don't happen on stage. i'm gonna show you something most people don't get to see. come on! this is called the press room. print journalists, still photographers and tv reporters, like me, make up the press. this room is set up for us to get pictures and interviews with the stars. there are three essentials provided at all press conferences -- microphones, a mult box, which allows multiple inputs for cameras to get audio, and the most important -- free food. hmm, i think i'll have a bacon turkey. after my crew and i set up and had a snack, we were ready to for action. one of the things you do a lot of in the press room is wait. and wait. and wait. we're waiting

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>> more of a pinata for the press. one on one, he has more control. >> i can tell you what they think, number one, they feel oddly constricted. the president likes to give long answers. he hates the short form ats in general. a prime-time conference, you make the networks mad if you go outside of an hour. already, he has in his own mind restrictions he doesn't like. second, they want to save a prime-time ask, because the net -- chris: a what? >> prime-time ask. they have made it much harder on presidents. you only ask when you feel you need this block of time. it's not like we don't see him or a chance to ask him questions. i think this is the networks and the white house. chris: here's a question with an answer in it. could it be he doesn't want to arouse his enemies. you go into prime time, you are going to face your enemy and taking away their favorite show at 9:00 and watch you and hate you? >> that may be part of it, but i think that what chuck is saying is right. i don't think he's very good at th.is i don't think

in front of the huge audience. pressonference, national conference, editorial boards, and maybe we could get a book deal. i was thinking of calling the book, "work force," by mike pence. well, maybe not a book bill. books require a lot of work. the whole reading and research and writing -- honestly, i might not have time to write a book. during all those cable interviews back-to-back in relief of up your schedule. if you want to talk about show horses -- tonight's n save legally changed his name to morning joe brought to you by starbucks. just watch tomorrow morning when joe puts this clip on the air just because i mentioned his name. mika, you know what i am talking about. i really liked joe. we have a lot in common. as conservatives in our respective work places, we are in the minority. cho left congress to do a talk show. i left that talk show to come to congress. public confidence in congress is at an 80-year low, the same polling results for msnbc. [laughter] keep digging. keep digging. mika has totally up in did my

and tigers forges ahead to the masters, will the press tag along and a tormented teen takes her life and the media tells her sad story, but is the coverage helping to right the wrong or inflame the blame game. >> on the panel this week writer and fox news contributor judy miller, syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton yellow new american foundation and national public radio news analyst juan williams, i'm gretchen carlson, fox news watch is on right now >> when we talk about fighting for our country, let's clear the air right now on what it is we're talking about. we're not inciting violence. don't get sucked into the mainstream media's lies about conservative americans standing up for freedom as inciting violence. violence isn't the answer. it's a bunch of bunk what the media is trying to feed you. sarah palin telling the media to get it right. about the meaning of her call to arms. something nbc ignored when they aired a report by correspondent george lewis, tying ms. palin's energized appearances apriled at congressional members who voted in favor of the health care bill. s

especially when you're going to the press. why? because if you blow the whist until a letter, say, to an -- whistle in a letter, say to ad an auditor, no one may actually see the letter. they may not know exactly what you said. but if something goes in the press, they can read what you said. they can refer it to the security office. they can refer it to their lawyerses on trademark secrets. and if your name is associated with it you may just have signed your employment death warrant. so going to the press has a lot of downsides. a lot of difficulty but also describe way to vindication or actually get the change. . change. the bottom line is there are legal protections if you need to go to the press and those have to be carefully studied and implemented on a case-by-case recess with a lot of review and care. finally, if i do say and all the journalists they meet this bill, but you have to work with the journalist that understands the seven -- six rules that mr. solomon typed about. that is professional to understand what a whistleblo

our "meet the press" minute defending the race to space, only here on "meet the press." >>> the politics of the economy. what role will the tea party have on the midterm election? >>> we're back with our political roundtable joined by republican congresswoman marsha blackburn of tennessee, ed rendell of pennsylvania, host of the new public affairs program, "enfoque," jose b.a.r.t. and fellow washington capitals fan ron brownstein. welcome to all of you. i want to talk about this left-right political divide over the economy. let's talk first, congresswoman, about secretary geithner. you heard what he said. >> yes, i did. >> new rules for wall street mean no more taxpayer-funded bailouts? is the cage closed? >> no, it is not closed at all. what the american people want to be certain that we do not do is take boone and bust and replace it with fraud and bailout. they are tired of the bailouts, they want this to end. >> he said the banks are going to pay for it now. >> this too big to fail -- they know better than that. they know this financial regulatory reform bill in its current form that

. >> pushing the press away from the white house protests. we will show you this controversial video. will the president faced a fight over his supreme court nomination? clouds and some rain today. when will the skies clear again? >>> coast guard crews are hunting for at least 11 missing people. a rig blew up just after 10:00 p.m. last night. helicopters rushed to the rig. one worker was brought up to a chopper. at least seven people were badly hurt. >>> the search for the next u.s. supreme court justice is officially on. president obama is talking to some prospects this week. both sides of the aisle are digging in, particularly on the issue on abortion. >> in an effort to soothe -- president obama consult with it bipartisan commission of leaders. >> i will be interested in hearing their thoughts and concerns before any final decisions are made. >> it is designed to send a message that he is reaching out to republicans. if the choice is too liberal, expect the nomination to be blocked with a filibuster. >> i think it can be avoided. >> the ch

. >> it appears tiger woods came to the press conference today ready for full disclosure. here are some of his thoughts. he says the way he was thinking was not correct. he took full responsibility. and that issue that you just mentioned, peter, he said that he followed everything to the letter of the law. it seemed like he was really prepared for the legal questions today and fully prepared for this press conference, that it was a no holds barred press conference. i thought there was a wide array of questions thrown at him. was there any question that you thought that took him off guard? >> you know, that's interesting. a question that took him off guard. i think the one thing we didn't get a question asked about that would have been interesting is tiger made it clear in the past interviews he did that nobody else knew about what was going on claiming his agent and others had no idea about this. but just over the last several days there were explosive allegations in a "vanity fair" magazine saying his inner circle knew exactly what was going on, they were enablers, and hel

as an outsider familiar with the press, i want to say this. in terms of secrecy -- it is hardly my insight. it was best put by professor bickle, in a book called "the morality of consent" in the mid-70s. the question is the rules of the game. this is an adversary process between the people on this side, that is to say the journalists, and the government. it always will be. nobody is going to solve this by saying "we have a new freedom of information act. now the press gets what it wants and we have solved the problem of openness and closeness." the way we as a country have solved that -- one never can know what secrets did not get out that should have. we have solved it by having this adversary system with the journalists on one side and the people with the inflation, the government, on the other side. the tussle with each other, constantly trying to get what one person thinks is secret. they try to keep it secret. it is an adversary game, and a serious one and an important one. once they get it, they are responsible. there are things, as far a

i did want to say that -- we have some members of the press over there. i am sure they are very upset to learn that the freedom of this press depends on this due process clause. i thought you could not take away the freedom of speech or the freedom of the press, even with due process of law. those rights are guaranteed in the first amendment's. you cannot take them away. that does not mean that freedom and liberty means freedom of speech and freedom of the press. the first amendment says congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. says nothing about california. the reason it applies to california is because it has been applied to the word liberty in the due process clause. >> i don't know how far back you want to go. let's go back to the articles of confederation. go back to the question, and to answer your question, i have to give an example. the trouble with legal examples is, by the time you get them out, the audience is asleep. but i will try. let me show you. we had a case where we were trying to interpret the word "cost." the word is in t

tiger woods at the masters sitting there in front of the press looking like he would rather be in thedentist chair. did you get anything out of that press conference? >> well, a couple of things. one, i'm glad there were no salacious questions. he looked good. he was unscripted. he looked unrobotic unlike his last appearance. here is the thing that struck me and that is how different american athletes and american men are today than they used to be there is no way in the world babe ruth would ever have a news conference apologizing for his carousing. there is no way that would happen in the old days. there is no way that the press would even care about it the press didn't care that president kennedy was having sex with the same woman that the head of the chicago mafia was having sex with. they wouldn't care about what an athlete was doing. men have changed. i just report. you decide. i'm not saying it's good. i'm not saying it's bad. i'm saying it's different than it used to be. >> bill: one of the reasons it used to be that way is because they knew they weren't going to get scrutiniz

it's a pleasure to be back at the national press club with a different job. some of the same issues but some additional one sells well. as was mentioned in the introduction. very briefly before i turn to the act will topic today, which is aviation security and the ever-changing threat environment and which we live, let me briefly describe our department. it is an amalgam of 22 agencies. it was formed in the week of 9/11 but there are aspects of the federal government the word square away or pieced together in different departments that should be under one roof. i'm often asked how one can manage such a large and diverse organization, and we have done -- i was going to give [inaudible] for just a minute. [laughter] we have done a quadrennial review which is basically a really good plan for the department. the first woman ever since it is such a yondah department and we have boiled ourselves down to five major mission areas. one is the counterterrorism mission. the reason for the founding and the primary thread that runs through almost every area of the departme

rather than showing anger when interviewed by the press toward the man who killed his father, his son simply said -- "if he would have talked to my dad, my dad would have helped him." the people of the irs serve this country every day. they are not a faceless bureaucracy. they are the face of public service, the face of dedication and professionalism, the face of the internal revenue service, an agency i have got to know over the last few years that i am incredibly proud of, serving the american people every day. with that, i'm happy to answer some questions. [applause] >> thank you for your time and thank you for having a few months to answer questions. we have many questions dealing with health care reform package that just passed. for your agency, what are the challenges of enforcing compliance that will, under the health care plan? how will you penalize individuals who do not purchase coverage? >> the health reform bill that was passed will have implications for our agency. the first thing i would tell people, including the viewing audience, is none of the individual tax provision

press freedom. reporters without borders is one of the soul organizations talking about the situation of press freedom in iran day-by- day since january 1, 2010. we are updating our website with the latest news. you might have heard that with the new year coming, on march 21, some of the reporters were [unintelligible] you still have more than 100 of them in jail, reporters and blogers, a because,nd bl -- reporters and bloggers. it is not that. it is saying what is going on in the country. it is important. we will make sure that your friends in iran will get what you are saying tonight. we know that the message is getting there and we know that the message is getting out because our researchers are in contact with them. we still get the message out. that is why we're able to inform you of the numbers of prisoners there and the situation in the country. newspapers are being closed. journalists are being harassed every day. they're being jailed, they are being threatened, their families are threatened. it is hard to figure out what is going on. thanks to hasan, will have an overview of the situation. th

but i think they figured, you know, the media doesn't always get it right. sometimes those pressreleases aren't exactly right, and they didn't see it as problematic. >> turkey? >> narrator: the marines celebrated thanksgiving in their haditha camp... >> happy thanksgiving! >> happy thanksgiving! >> narrator: ...and saluted their fallen comrade, lance corporal miguel terrazas, in a traditional memorial service. >> lance corporal terrazas, he was just the ultimate fun-loving guy. he was one of those guys, if you needed a quick laugh or someone to go talk to, he was always there, and whatever he'd do or say would just make you laugh. >> narrator: but the iraqis had not finished grieving for their dead, as the marines learned earlier in a meeting with the haditha city council. >> ( translated ): about a week after the incident, the city council met with the u.s. side: major hyatt from civil affairs and the commander of haditha, colonel chessani. many demands were presented in this meeting, and among those demands was opening a formal investigation into the incident. >> they were upse

welcome back to "meet the press." >> great to be with you. >> this was the positive news, 162,000 jobs that were created in the month of march. some of those temporary workers working on the census, and those who are sort of underemployed takes that unemployment rate

that afternoon and welcome to the national press club. 's leading organization for journalism. our programming offers a free press worldwide. for more information about the press club, please visit our web site at www.press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees for today's event which include guests about speaker as well as working journalists. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. i would allow my gosh i would now like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, a reporter for tax notes, a senior writer for cnn money dot com. diana gregg from the bnd report. susan anderson, the wife of the speaker. mullis the, vice chair of the speaker's committee. skipping over our speaker, paul, the bureau chief and jennifer, from the fiscal times and ryan, from bloomberg ms.. -- from bloomberg news. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as commissioner of the internal revenue service. he is responsible for collecting 2.4 trillion dolla

rather than showing anger when interviewed by the press towards the man who killed his father, ken, vernon's son, simply said, and i quote, if he would have talked to my dad, my dad would have helped him. the people of the irs serve this country every day. they are not a faceless bureaucracy. but they're the face of public service, the face of dedication and professionalism. the face of the internal revenue service. it's an agency that i've gotten to know over the last few years that i'm incredibly proud of serving the american people every day. with that, i'll be happy to answer some questions. [applause] >> well, thank you very much for your time, exhibition. -- commissioner. we had many questions, of course, dealing with the recent healthcare reform package that's been passed. first of all, for your agency, what are the challenges of enforcing compliance that be coming up under the healthcare reform plan? how will you penalize individuals who don't purchase coverage? >> yeah. so the health reform bill that was passed will have implications for our agency. i guess the first thing i would t

>> my father said to me when the book came out and i was doing the press for this book initially a couple weeks ago, he said, please stop telling people i'm dating my jamaican cleaning lady, because people are going to think i'm unavailable.

if i wrote a book today i would say stop the winding, not the press is. we have convince the public we're not worth that much and have relent ever owned business model. but one of the things we're working on is to come up with a business model to support a robust investigative journalism. i am at a nonprofit center that just spend money to do accountability journalism every day and there is another one out of new york doing the same thing. it has to transfer outside of the profession i am glad people are stepping forward and my goal within the profession is to convince editors and publishers that investigative journalism is essential to the public discourse and it cannot be profitable if done the right way and the great minds at the table need to figure how to convince our bosses of that. >> we were chuckling when talking about working on a story because any news organization especially not the magazine there is a constant pressure to turn it out. investigative units are costly and time-consuming. and the traditional models will probably go away or decli

. >> there are many different, you know, the lllc has gotten a lot of press but it is by no means the only organization that is out there. this is part of a big movement that has -- just a minute, jean. i will let you. >> i would just be quite in accord. >> no know i can kind of feel you chomping at the bit. but there is a much broader, a much broader movement for these, what are sometimes called for benefit corporations. to help out and economic development zones, say. and newspapers might be a beneficiary of that. . . much. we talked about copyright and i will let other people talk as well. >> and again, i think that the concept >> well, again i think the concept as you have outlined of a public spirited or public-focused entity reporting news and information is, you know, on the surface sounds really wonderful. i worry that, again, going back to 1791 or earlier, that we had. we had a system of government determination of social purpose we see that replicated in today's society called licensing. printers were licensed. i don't want to engage in hyperbole for sake of recounting histo

the press conference. you're thinking my goodness he really speaks beautifully. then on the way out towards the gate i find myself thinking what did he say? is that a weakness in the writing or is it the delivery or is it creeping senility on my part? >> i think it's characteristic of obama. that less man most politicians, where he speaks less than most politicians in sound bytes. "the associated press" talked to the editor of bartlett's in january, and he lined up 12 obama quotations for the next edition. one of them was from the obama presidency. everything else was previously, presumably from the campaign. obama's style is much more the long ex explained thought, unlike a lot of politicians, i'm going to treat you like an adult -- >> very rarely you get arguments in his speech. >> i think you're onto something in the obama resume here that completely escapes public scrutiny and that he's a former law school professor. and that's the way they talk in law school. he'll take a thought and slice it this way

welcome back to "meet the press." >> great to be with you. >> this was the positive news, 162,000 jobs that were created in the month of march. some of those temporary workers working on the census, and those who are sort of underemployed takes that unemployment rate still higher. yet with those caveats, what did this mean? >> it meant we certainly had positive job growth. even when you take out what you mentioned, which is the effect of the census workers. we had some 48,000 people hired by the census in march. we also probably had a snow rebound effect. we think the big storms push down the numbers in february and artificially pushed them up in march. even taking those into account, we think we had good solid employment growth. as the president said, that's the beginning. >> the worst is over? >> certainly we have been seeing gradually job losses mod rate. we've now crossed the zero line. i anticipate we'll continue to see positive job growth as we go forward. what i'll be focusing on is how big does it get. as you mentioned, we've got a big hole when it comes to jobs. >> speaking of

they say this is how this was one of the press because he went down to a hearing in south carolina for the whistleblowers. but the hearing with absolute sham because there were no real legal rights. so mike went into it and he said, we want to process. we will not participate in a hearing without due process. in the hearing examiner said, well this is our hearing, we are going to run the rules as they want to run it. would you please have your whistleblower come in and tell us what happened to her. and mike said no, goodbye. he got up in my spirits of the whistleblowers never showed up at their own hearing. yeah, we won the case. that the ae

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scott naturals are green done right. >>> let's get a check on what's coming up on "meet the press." regory. >> a shake-up on the supreme court as justice john paul stevens announced his retirement friday. we'll speak exclusively to the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, patrick leahy and jeff sessions. our conversation with secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense robert gates all coming up this morning on "meet the press." and that's going to do it for us on this sunday morning. janice huff. i was surprised i wasn't involved in the meat cutting aspect. >> we did give you the meet the press part. >> see you later on "nbc nightly news." so long, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> a nation in mourning. poland is grieving after a horrific plane crash, the president along with the top military and church leaders all killed. what's next for a country suddenly in a leadership vacuum? >> it could be some of the worst traffic d.c. has ever seen. the nuclear summit is coming to town, and it will make things difficult on the roads and on the r

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let's go live to ashburn, virginia where kelli johnson is standing by covering the press conference. i know you said that things were all buzz out there yesterday. i imagine the excitement today got notched up a level. >> reporter: it was absolutely crazy out here, probably biggest press conference i've seen in six years of covering the team. donovan mcnabb has the presence about him that fills a room. he's confident but not ar gant. he's a natural born leader and he continuing solicited the attention back to him -- back from himself to the team. winning a championship that brought mcnabb to washington d.c. >> it feels like -- it feels like being drafted again. you've been selected by a team and you're going through the motions of learning a new play and being here with the guys and working out. so it kneels like i'm back 22 again. the body may not respond that way. but when the trade was done, i went back to when i don't know played and jay was here and the things that they were able to do in the offense. and it starts with the run game. i know probably a lot of you come from philly

[applause] >> we would like to thank the national press club staff including its library and broadcastenter for of today's event. for more information about joining the national press club and how to acquire a copy of today's program go to our web site. thank you very much for attendance and thank you to our speaker. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] g, >> consequences of the type of fiscal behavior that we see today. it is depressing sometimes in the movement to see what appears to be a lack of listening to the lessons we were talked -- lessons we talked or maybe people -- lessons we taught. what irwin stelzer says is we need a new set of arguments. irwin stelzer has had a career that i were to describe his achievements, it would take up all his speaking time. i would just give you a couple highlights. he is the director of the hudson institute economic policy group. he is a columnist for the "sunday times" of london. he has edited many books. he has been on the faculty

and some friends that helped me get up there and stuff, but the press -- the press officers, they finally after two days got me a whipping because i'm much happier seeing things on my own, but they weren't interested in having an american reporter from the american post, the six largest paper in the united states, incredibly pro-israel, big jewish audience, they weren't interested because their first responsibility was to the israeli audience. and they concentrated on the israeli domestic audience. so i think it started as the media aspect of that, but also it's really hard when the entire world is against you to counter argue. in the media -- i think many in israel to make cogent arguments for why the criticism is unjust, but it just goes unheard. it goes back to the herd mentality. israel is just going to be in the doghouse and you have so many in the west who have been left wing propaganda. here's another thing. people self segregate. in our societies, it's not as intense as it used to be, but they do. certain fans who will join the military. a very different kind of person generally s

of the press. shirley, who is the program director of the whole science project which also has a web site called under the microscope.com. and a board member who in fact has done a lot of work on the science project. but, this was put together because it seems to us that it was really important to look at women in science in a different way, instead of theoretical and looking you know at them through a microscope, we said let's do something that is lively and interesting and engaging and tells a story about women and science, because we know that everyone likes a good story, not just those of us who are publishers for instance. so, julie's book came along and it is one we are delighted to have because it is all those things. it is lively and it is accessible, but it tells an incredibly important story about the role of women in science, and the heart of it is something that we rarely think about or acknowledge but it is that women's way of doing things is often different than men's. it is not neces

here's tiger woods at the press conference today. i want your reaction. let's listen. >> you won a lot of golf tournaments over the past five years living a completely secret life. how were you able to do sna secondly, what kind of golfer do you feel you'll be now going forward without having this secret? >> well, i think how i was earlier in my career, i was at peace. and i've had some -- some great years and unfortunately, what i have done over the past years has been, you know, just -- just terrible to my family. >> donny, i heard earlier today someone recommended to give a little bit of mfrgs on the m.o. how to get away with the secrets and love affairs, the meetings with women. he didn't want to answer that question. was that smart? >> interestingly enough, i thought best thing for him, i don't know if you feel this way, chris, the press conference was boring after five minutes. >> right. >> when he did mea culpa it was riveting and when you know that the parade is passed, you're watching and going asked that question and we have heard it. we have rip

look now, this is tiger woods at the press conference today. i want your reaction. let's listen. >> won a lot of golf tournaments in the last five years living a secret life. how were you able to do that? and do you feel -- what kind of golfer do you feel you'd be now going forward without having this secret? >> i think it's how i was early in my career. i was at peace and i've had some great years and unfortunately what i've done over the past three years has been -- has been just terrible to my family. >> i heard earlier today someone recommended he give a little motivation on his m.o. -- how he was able to get away with the secrecy and the love affairs, the meetings with women. he didn't want to answer that question. is that smart? >> i thought the best thing for him -- the press conference got boring after about five minutes. he did mea culpa, it was riveting. you know this parade is past a bit and you watch it, you're going, even if you ask that question, and? we heard it, it ripped it apart. it comes down to the golf course. he was direct, genuine. he's putting

>> there was speculation in the press leading up to that weekend that mr. prince would no longer be with the company. there was announced that there was going to be a special board meeting. but there is. >> but there was no water coming with folks in the coming have this info? you had to go find out about in the press rather than the scuttlebutt in the company's? >> i don't understand your question, mr. vice chairman. i'm sorry. >> we will just leave it at that. but you decided based upon what you read in the press, there may be a structural change in your company. and that putt did you do e-mail to rubin. is that because he wasn't speculated as being removed? >> i was -- i knew that there were issues that were being considered by executive management. and the board of directors. and i felt like i needed to get these in front of them because to my knowledge, they had no -- they had no knowledge. >> and if you were giving it to the board of directors, it made sense it could've been rubin within the board of directors. was that a motive to get it to rubin? >>

it is how certain decisions made, including our courts, are translated through the press into the public mind and how they reaction. and one of the reasons that hamilton, he writes in the federalist '70, whatever it is. he write this is, he said why should we give a supreme court the power to set aside a law of congress as constitutional? he said the reason is this, if we do not give someone this power, the limits that we've written into the constitution will become meaningless. but if we give it to the president, the president will become a title. because he will have the power to ratify whenever he does. and if we give it to congress, what will happen? well, congress is a politically respondive branch. they will pass the law that the public wants, and they are very unlikely to say the law they just passed which the public wants is contrary to the constitution. so we have no choice. we have to give it to these obscure places. there's a risk in that. but that's an san advantage. the risk is they won't do their job. the advantage is they don't have much power. they don't have the power of