the national press club. i'm a reporter for bloomberg news. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future while fostering a free press worldwide and at home. for more information about the national press club please visit our website at www dot press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide welcome our speaker today. our head table includes guest speaker and working journalists who are club members f. you hear applause in audience i note that members of the general public are also attending so it is not lack of journalist i can objectivity. i'd like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after our guest speech concludes we'll have a question and answer period. i'll ask as many questions as time permits. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask to you stand briefly. from your right reporters without borders and vice chairwoman of the freedom of the press committee. breaking news reporter for u.s.a. today. senior producer for

. >> at a recent national club gathering, gary pruitt discussed the seizure of the agency's phone records. this is an hour. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. my name is angela, and im a reporter for bloomberg news and a president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future while fostering a free press worldwide and at home. for more information about the national press club please visit our website at www dot press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide welcome our speaker today. our head table includes guest speaker and working journalists who are club members. you hear applause in audience i note that members of the general public are also attending so it is not lack of journalist objectivity. i'd like to welcome our c-span nd public radio audiences. after our guest speech concludes we'll have a question and answer period. i'll ask as many questions as time permits. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask to you stand briefly. from your right, reporters without borders and vice chairwoman of the freedom of the press committe

my name is angela, and im a reporter for bloomberg news and a president of the national press club. leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future while fostering a free press worldwide and at home. for more information about the national press club please visit our website at www dot press.org.

. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. ela, and im a reporter for bloomberg news and a president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future while fostering a free press worldwide and at home. for more information about the national press club please visit our website at www dot www.press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide welcome our speaker today. our head table includes guest speaker and working journalists who are club members. you hear applause in audience i note that members of the general public are also attending so it is not lack of journalist objectivity. i'd like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after our guest speech concludes we'll have a question and answer period. i'll ask as many questions as time permits. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask to you stand briefly. from your right, reporters without borders and vice chairwoman of the freedom of the press committee. breaking news

this is at the national press club. we will bring you live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span tw2. witnesses include acting irs commissioner danny warble. i arrested out facing a lawsuit in connection with this targeting of groups applying for taxes it status. you can watch the hearing live at 3:00 p.m. eastern. he indicated that he wanted the death penalty on each of the three charges. he wanted it three times. that made me realize how serious they were. it was not about me. , i couldn't be killed three times. it was about the construction of this imaginary enemy. i was the embodiment of that enemy. >> she wasn't that interested in talking about what happened. the crime, the implications. she was not that interested in talking about it. she is one of these people you do not necessarily go to directly. out there were very important people in her life. i chipped away at the people she knew and trusted. was able to get points with them. slowly she came around. she agreed to meet me. lynch on angela davis. tonight at 8:00 on c-span. yearck costello gave this 's

when birds came out hitchcock talked to reporters at the national press club about his upcoming movie. >> for over 30 years now i have been indulging in the occupation of raising goose flesh domestically and in england. i have only recently completed work on the latest picture. but i was quite sure just two words, the word three but we cut the first word four, and call it simply the birds. naturally most of the actors in the birds are. in fact, i have employed more feathered performers than have been seen since pen dancing went out of style. the cast also includes a few men and women. after all, the picture isn't just about the birds. it's about the bees too. >> around that same time in 1963 alfred hitchcock came to the bay area and ktvu cameras caught up with him first at the airport then at his hotel for his interview. >> you know i was asked why san francisco and particularly union square was chosen for the inception of the coming of the birds idea. well i suppose as the film starts in union square. subconsciously i may have felt that perhaps san francisco is the perfect setting fo

please join me in giving a warm national press club welcome to david gergen. [applause] >> hello. it's good to see all of you here. it's wonderful to be with fred upton. i know why we have such a big crowd here today to the word got out that fred was going to bring his niece. [laughter] she's not here but the rest of us have each other's company. she's now of age, isn't she? [laughter] make sure dickerson knows that. i also want to congratulate john dickerson and halliburton for their award this year, -- to bernton. jerry ford may seem like part of a distant past, let me just say this luncheon emphasizes how relevant his presidency and he personally remain today. i was in the nixon administration and i remember what it's like to have a war on the press. i remember the wiretaps and the way so many, they used to tell us, graham is wrong. this is a conspiracy by the left to bring us down. i knew bob woodward. we went back to school together way back when and i had to agonize through some conversations on some evenings about what was going on, how the builders of the government seemed

general dempsey, you said last year at the national press club if we don't get the people right, the rest of it won't matter. that says it all from where i am sitting. this weekend, i attended a ceremony for a national guard unit in my hometown of springfield illinois. they just returned from theatre gateway operations in kuwait. it was a great illustration of why people are so important. , 10ittle over nine months soldiers to cure the needs of 100,000 service members. they also saw a little bit of everything, redeployments, medical issues, sexual assault cases. it was up to them to be leaders in the moment and they were. we are proud of the work being done by all of our military and today i would like to i -- i would like to especially salute the guard and reserve units who have taken up the responsibility so admirably. that leadership is what we need to maintain, but we have many challenges. how do we maintain the most skilled leaders across services? how do we reserve the guards tremendous value as an operational reserve? air wingnce, the 182nd in florida is about to receive it six

i would also like to thank the national press club staff including the broadcast institute and press club institute for organizing today's event. you can order a copy of today's recording online. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> next, we speak with a capitol hill reporter on the immigration bills making their way through congress. >> humberto sanchez joins us from capitol hill. what do senators plan to bring up on the upcoming bill? >> you will see senator start to frame the debate. wehave two camps here and heard a lot from senator sessions who is leading the opposition, making the case he believes this should be done in a piecemeal way and set a comprehensive way. this could hurt low-wage workers and threaten a fragile economy something should be done, something less comprehensive and more piecemeal is the way the senate should take this on. , it of forf eight democrats to drafted this compromise and are putting it forward make the case the current system is bro

we really appreciate it i would also like to thank our national press club staff including journalism institute and broadcast center for helping organize today's event. finally, here's a reminder you can find more information about the national press club online and if you'd like a copy of today's program you can also find that on our website at www.press.org. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] >> i realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on deaf ears. but we have no more success. some say -- or world law or world disarmament. and that it will be useless until the leaders of the soviet union adopt a more enlightened attitude. i hope they do. i believe we can help them do it. but i also believe we must examine our own attitudes as individuals and as a nation. for our attitude is as essential as theirs. every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace should begin by looking inward. inward. >> tom brokaw and nick clooney reflect on the kennedy presidency

journalists we have seen scandal after scandal today associated press gary pruitt spoke at the national press club about the chilling effect all of this has had on the media some of our longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us even on stories that aren't about national security and in some cases government employees that we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone and some are reluctant to meet in person now the government may love this i suspect they do . but be aware the government loves secrecy too much proas says the justice department violated its own rules in obtaining subpoenas according to the justice department's own rules are supposed to make these searches narrowly drawn and they're supposed to notify news organizations before obtaining or seizing their records says neither of these things happened in this case so this was an unprecedented intrusion into a piece of news gathering records we had never seen anything like this before and it was an intrusion by government officials that was so broad so overreaching so secretive t

at the current white house we hear the national press club. i would like to hear the take from both of you on the secret conducted into the first associated press and fox news. is this the entrenchment of the freedom of the press. the cable shares and committees that are beginning the investigation of this the we've got councils to the i am not an attorney but we have an oversight investigation subcommittee. we've got the lawyers and the key devotee to ask for the subpoena information. we need to find out what the truth is and find out where it takes us today i am quite confident that you will see that happen on the irs and deal with dave camp as the chairman of the ways and means and the darrell issa. we will get the answers. as my dad always said, gerald ford certainly believed tell the truth the first time and you don't have to worry about the second. [laughter] >> there is no question in my mind that we crossed the line when the fbi filed the affidavit and called a potential co-conspirator in a criminal co-conspirator as a reporter simply a

and i want to thank the national press club for inviting me today and i want to thank them for the really cool cupcakes they put together with all the logo through the years of a.p. i think it's really artfully done and deliciously done. for those of you who don't want your cupcake, bring it to the a.p. table. i'm sorry for those of you watching online on c-span that you're not going to get those cupcakes. but before coming here today to speak, i thought it would be a good idea to get a sense of how the seizure of a.p.'s phone records by the u.s. department of justice was affecting our reporting. and what i learned from our journalists should alarm everyone in this room and i think should alarm everyone in the country. the actions of the d.o.j. against a.p. are already having an impact beyond the specifics of this particular case. some of our long time trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us even on stories that aren't about national security. and in some cases government employees that we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone and s

i would like to thank our national press club -- press club's staff including journalism as did and rocket center for helping organize today's event. you can find more information about the national press club on line. if you would like copy of today's program you can find that on our website. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> thanks very much. >> bye-bye. thank you. have a good day. >> and here is what is coming up today on c-span2. next, a portion of today's immigration debate from the u.s. senate. that will be followed by remarks from u.s. trade representative. a little bit later, the first of two washington journal segment looking at the relationship between the u.s. and china. michigan democratic congressman john dingell today began the longest serving member of congress in u.s. history, having served continuously since 1955. mr. dingell, born in 1928 to my chair the house energy and commerce committee twice during the tenure. he has cast over 25,000 votes during that time. president obama mark the occasion today saying, john has always worked tirele

. >> good afternoon,, and welcome to the national press club. y name is angela, and im a reporter for bloomberg news and a president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future while fostering a free press worldwide and at home. for more information about the national press club please visit our website at www dot press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide welcome our speaker today. our head table includes guest speaker and working journalists who are club members. you hear applause in audience i note that members of the general public are also attending so it is not lack of journalist objectivity. i'd like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after our guest speech concludes we'll have a question and answer period. i'll ask as many questions as time permits. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask to you stand briefly. from your right, reporters without borders and vice chairwoman of the freedom of the press committee. brea

i'm not joining all of the other men and women at this hour saluting barbara walters at the national press clubonored todayta for breaking all of the barriers for we news women. even though i'm not there in person to toast her, let me just say, here's to you, barbara. is like hammering. riding against the wind. uphill. every day. we make money on saddles and tubes. but not on bikes. my margins are thinner than these tires. anything that gives me some breathing room makes a difference. membership helps make the most of your cashflow. i'm nelson gutierrez of strictly bicycles and my money works as hard as i do. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. every day we're working to and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested over $55 billion here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, y

i would like to thank our national press club staff, including our journalists institute.a reminder, you can find more information about the club at our website. press.org. if you'd like a copy of today's program, you can find it there. thank you for coming. we are adjourned. >> next discussion about the -- how the human race can avoid distant -- extinction. poor health, first lady ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy. because of that, her husband would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seizure, human ts isd her face from gues a large handkerchief. despite her health problems, chicago's first lady, even attending the 1921 -- 1901 pan- american exposition. we will look at her as if included our first season on first ladies. a discussion on how to convert urban spaces into biological organisms. separation and environmental destruction. this is about 45 minutes. these are events where more than 70% of species on the planet die out over a time of one million years. it is short in geological time. it is quite long in human time. most of these have been caused b

press club welcome to mr. gary pruitt. [applause] >> thank you. also to the nationalpress club for inviting me today and also for the really cool cupcakes that they put together. [laughter] of all of the logo of the ap through the years i think it was artfully done and deliciously done. and for those of you who don't want your cupcake bring it over to the ap table, we will take it back to the washington bureau i'd like any good news from they will devour those. [laughter] and m. sorry for those of you watching on line on c-span that you will not get those cupcakes. before coming here today to speak, i thought it would be a good idea to get a sense how the seizure of the ap phone records by the u.s. department of justice was affecting our reporting and what i found should alarm everyone in this room and in the country. the actions of the doj are already having an impact beyond the specifics of the particular case. someone time trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us. even on stories that are not about national security. and in some cases gov

ceo will speak at the national press club. she is chairman of the group called good 360. she ran for the u.s. senate in california a lost to barbara boxer. join us for her remarks on c- span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our sunday roundtable with two veterans of capitol hill. john feehery and jim manley. gentlemen, thanks for being with us. this is the piece this morning from the "washington post" as we talk about immigration and the house of representatives. john boehner's laid-back style is acceptable in some circles. guest: with all due respect to my former boss senator reed, i honestly think that speaker boehner has the toughest job in town. he is trying to manage a caucus that is all but an -- unmanageable. i have known speaker boehner for a long time going back to when i used to work for senator kennedy. they worked together a no child left behind, pension reform, higher education act reauthorization, and a host of other bills. i have seen him legislate before. i know he knows how to do it. the fact is he's got the caucus that is so far out of the mains

national press club 13th floor free and open to the public 9:00 to 11:00.time is way too short. we could talk all morning about this. the final word here. the caucus is trying to do what for our returning men and women? >> raise awareness of the issues so that the public knows and advocate for treatment for those veterans you are talk bsmg i represent the home of mayo clinic of using the private resources to bring the cutting c edge technology. it's not just enough to keepp these folk as live. it's a beautiful thing. may i call you dr. representative? thank you very much in for being here on this important mission. we'll be right back. >> welcome back. they can be seen dangerously riding through cars and bikerses and one gets hit by a cab afterr blowing through a light in logan circle oh, goodness. the man hurt his ankle and has a little road rash but that is it. >> could have been so much worse. >> i know the spokesperson for the group says they don't encourage this kind of them and people shouldn't let the actione of a few bad apples quote unquote tarnish

this committee knows this -- as the thatman noted in a speech chairman dempsey gave at the national press club, your people are your most important assets. we have made commitments to our people. our country has. we have asked them to sacrifice. you know all about that. therefore, we have an obligation. is a veryre program central part of the benefit package to our people. not unlike social security. not unlike our entitlement programs generally in society. when you look out over the next few years, how are we going to sustain these programs? what we are looking at is finding ways to make some modest adjustments now so that we are we faced with abrupt cuts will not be able to sustain. we can continue to play out the kind of benefits we have now, but what that is going to mean is a much smaller force, because we are not going to be able to afford the same kind of benefits. what we are proposing is modest increases in the enrollment fees. by the way, it does not affect any of the active duty members. affectedhose would be in the still working age after they leave the military, before 65. we are

the president ceo of the associated press speaks at the national rest club. -- press club. following season one of c-span series "first ladies: influence and image" our series continues. this is one hour. >> i wanted to ask a question. before i do that, i prefaced it by saying i would like to get a show of hands from people. if you could take a look, am i just right for the season? [laughter] maybe in florida. anybody who things i am, raise your hands. anybody who thinks it is premature? thank you. welcome to the world of first ladies. generally, when we look at first ladies, we talked about in terms of their fashion sense, whether it is mainly eisenhower's famous \it is mainly eisenhower's famous pink, and we think about how they have influenced society and think about them as white house hostesses and we pay more attention to things like how they dress and whether they are appropriately dressed and how much power they have over the events that shape our future and country. when i started to write about first ladies, i decided i was more interested in a different aspect of

yesterday gary pruitt, the guy who runs the associated press at the national press club said, you knowey talk to us and spill the beans, they're going to get in trouble. >> yes. that's right. the adjective chilling has been used so much now. forget about global warming. the problem in dc now is source chilling, thanks to this white house. and i have to say that after watching years and years of these liberal media boosters of obama, my sympathy is tempered. now they realize that this man and this administration represent a serious threat, not just to the free press and first amendment rights of his critics, those of us on the right, but main stream media reporters who are simply trying to do their job. >> steve: okay. and we noticed that. but for the average person watching right now, now suddenly they're questioning whether or not they can trust the government. can you trust the nsa? there could be a drone above us right now. we heard that yesterday. we don't trust the irs. we don't trust eric holder, the top lawman in the country after what he said and what he's done against james ro

i would like to thank the national press club staff, including the journalism institute for helping organize the event. you can find more information about the press club on our website, and you if you would like to get a copy of the program, you can find it there as well at www.press.org. thank you. we are jorn. -- we are adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> lives now to the white house rose garden as the president is about to present his nominee for fbi director. would replace robert mueller who is stepping down in september. >> ladies and gentlemen, please silence your cell phones. the program will begin in two minutes. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, accompanied by mr. bob mueller and mr. jim comey. >> good afternoon, everybody. these have a seat. for more than a century, we have counted on the dedicated men and women of the fbi to keep us safe. in that time, the fbi has been led by six directors, and the second longest serving rector of the fbi. for the last 12 years has b

quality of the all volunteer force that you noted that was in general dempsey's speech at the national press clubthis budget also continues the department's approach for the last couple of years of targeting growing costs like overhead acquisition and pay in benefits. over the next five years d.o.d. as identified $34 billion in savings, this includes restructuring that will achieve $8.2 billion in savings, slow down construction and reductions in other lower priority programs. our military compensation package preserves d.d.o.d.'s world class benefits while putting the military on a sustainable path to the future. it brings the cost share closer to the levels and vision when the program was first implemented. the department of defense must be able to eliminate excess infrastructure. the president's budget request authorize for one round of base re-alignment and closure in 2015. it is an imperfect process. there are upfront costs. but in the long term there are significant savings. the previous rounds are saving $12 billion annually. we cannot justify to continue funding unnecessary infrastructure

eastern for a national press club for the gerald r. ford journalism award. >> host: tell us more about what is going on at the hearings on capitol hill regarding the irs's josh hicks and the "washington post," columnist for the federal eye. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: we will see the act dana commissioner, danny werfel today. why is his appearance significant? >> guest: well, he'll be talking to a subcommittee of the house appropriations committee of the financial services and government -- general government subcommittee. so this is the fourth hearing on this matter, so i'm sure some people are saying some. fatigue at this moment, especially the inspector general, russell george is also testifying today. the focus may be different than the others because werfel is there any say to the irs and he wasn't there. he had no involvements obviously would do targeting campaign. so there may be less focus within testifying on who's done it and why and more about next steps. >> host: who is danny werfel? percy come from? this is

by national captioning institute] >> the former hewlett-packard ceo will speak monday at the national press club here in washington. she is chairman of the group called good 360. they help companies donate items to charity. -- join us live for her remarks at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the supreme court ended its current term last week. at this week, we'll bring you supreme court oral arguments of be closely-watched cases from it. tomorrow, the oral argument in holder, dealing with the voting rights act. listen to it in its entirety here at 10:00 p.m. on c-span. it is criminal to me i had to authorize my budget people, my financial people, to write a $450 million to expand our contract with the russians to continue to carry our cruise to the international space station for 2016 and 2017 because we have not yet brought about the american capability of our program. we are not halfway to where the president has asked us to be. is to try to persuade the congress that the plan is good and that we will be efficient users of the taxpayers money. i have not been successful in that but i am working

i would like to thank our national press club staff, including our journalists institute. a reminder, you can find more information about the club at our website. press.org. if you'd like a copy of today's program, you can find it there. thank you for coming. we are adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> a discussion about how the human race can avoid mass extinction. then a funeral for frank lautenberg, who died on monday. a chance to see the gerald ford journalism award presentation. , ida mckinleyalth stepford -- suffer from epilepsy. her husband would sit next to her at state dinners so he would shield her face from guests. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady, even attending the pan-american exhibition where her husband was assassinated. we will look at the life of ida mckinley monday night at nine a clock -- 9:00. >> now a discussion on how to to preventces biological discussion. this is about 45 minutes. >> recent magazine articles. we are joined by