and additional members of the headliners team who made this possible today, betsy fisher martin, lisa matthews is here with us, lloyd russo, tamara hidden, press club staff, lindsay underwood, executive director bill mccarron, thank you very much. i would like to thank the kitchen staff who blessed us with very good food and cookies. they are delicious and tropical. that is a fun thing. for our broadcast audiences watching on c-span and elsewhere please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction is not necessarily from the working press today. now our lead guest. this week nearly 155 years ago union pacific railroad laid its first rails to the outskirts of omaha, it was incorporated in 1862 through an act of congress signed into law by abraham lincoln, one of the company's biggest supporters, union pacific has served as a critical link of global supply chains with 40% of overall traffic originating or terminating outside the united states. at the head of it all is our guest today, chairman, president and ceo lance fritz who joins us at an inter

betsy fisher martin, lisa matthews who is here with us. t tamera hinton and executive director bill mckaren. thank you very much. i'd also like to thank you our kitchen staff who blessed us with very good food and themed cookies that are topical. for our broadcast audiences watches on c-span and elsewhere by live stream. be aware in the audience are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you hear not necessarily from the working press today. this week nearly 155 years ago union pacific laid its first rails. union pacific has evolved into a polling giant. at the head is our guest today, lance fritz. while trade wars and automation were not a thing, it affected how union pacific and competitors operated today. it could hurt 14 million of the workers who jobs depends on canada and mexico including those who helped elect the president. he has a pretty strong horse in this race as well. both commodities and finish products it's difficult to steer clear of many of the big debates shaping the country whether it's the effect that

lisa matthews, assignment manager at the associated press and cochairwoman of the national press club headliner team. clift, political reporter at "the daily beast." brian kim, executive editor of the daily sentinel. is thevingston washington bureau chief of "the texas tribune" and a member of the national press club headliner steam. nikki schwab, "the new york post." and laura curtis, "bloomberg news." [applause] i would also like to have knowledge additional members of the team responsible for organizing the team. , we haveon to kevin press club staff members lindsay underwood, laura coker and bill mccarran. to guests today are working give the miss america program i ine over two, as they put it their words, accurately reflect modern american women. gretchen carlson was miss america 1989 and is a journalist whose sexual-harassment lawsuit against roger ailes helped to floodgates.too she started in richmond virginia an anchorn to become and reporter in several local markets before nick cbs news and eventually fox. author of "be fierce," a new york times bestseller. she is a graduate

acknowledge additional members at the headliners team responsible for organizing today's event, lisa matthews, laurie russo, tamara, danny, bill as well as the national press club staff led by lindsay underwood, laura coker and executive director bill mcveigh. may we have one round of applause for everyone. [applause] >> the late comedian george carlin had a a wonderful routie in which he compared the intimacy of baseball with the combativeness of football. according to him, baseball begins in the spring, season of new life. football begins in the fall when everything is dying. [laughing] football is concerned with downs. what down, down is a? baseball accidents or with up. who is up? football has heating, click the compiling on, personal files, late hits and unvisited roughing. baseball has sacrifice. [laughing] football is played in kinds of weather, rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog. baseball if it rains we do not go out and play. baseball has the seventh-inning stretch. football has the two-minute warning. football, , the quarterback is also not as the field general with long pomc marches his