org. "washington journal" continues.ost: we will spend this segment going through the newspapers and taking your phone calls, e-mails, tweets. whatever public policy discussion item you would like to discuss is open today. i want to let you know that the president is on his way to boston. right marine 1 flying around the building just a minute ago, half-hour ago or so. thes going to be attending boston marathon bombings interfaith service. the entire event will be live on in about an hour and a half, 11 :00 a.m. eastern time. this is from "the hill" newspaper. discuss a newats formula to calculus social security benefits at a two-hour dinner with president obama at the jefferson hotel wednesday night. 'we talked for two hours on a wide range of topics and the president was in terrific form, ' says a democratic senator who broke bread with the president. a pool report quoting an administrative -- administration official says that that topics included the attacks in boston and gun control, hours after the senate delivered

org we going to great depths of that. the two questions on the table that we want to end up with, any thoughts on the changes in social mobility and wealth stratification, how they have affected journalism? and the question about how do we reclaimed the town hall space of newess? >> basically, by having more diversity, socio-economic, sociopolitical, gender, everything diversity in a management position. >> absolutely. >> i think those things are inter-related in some ways. we have raised a couple times about fighting social mobility and class. things like the increasingly well-based hegemony in some ways of being able to be a journalist. you have to be able to afford to do it now. you cannot earn a living by doing it. that is increasingly making it more and more challenging to ensure that the vario -- that there is still accurate coverage of inequality within that. -- many of us journalists come from onrcumstances where it are social context cover the way we perceive racial inequality, it becomes more and more challenging for us to provide a thorough dialogue around issues related to wealth wealth means and whether social mobility is diminishing. we do need to have that kind of diversi

journalism institute and broadcast center for organizing today's event, here's a reminder that you can find more information about the national press club and get transcript and video of today's event at www..org. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] -- www.press.org. >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> from the national press club, live now to the american enterprise institute for discussion this month on north korea's nuclear program, and recent tensions with south korea and the u.s. this is live coverage that is just getting under way. >> i'm going to introduce everybody quickly and we'll get right into it. >> just going to go right on down the line. nick eberstadt holds the political economy at aei. is a senior advisor to the national bureau of asian research. is a political economist and demographer by train. he has published over 400 articles, many books. of course, he's an expert on korea. korea. he's a founding drug abuse committee on human rights in north korea and the last year he won the very procedures bradley prize. next, just in time, bruce is the senior research fellow for northeast asia at the heritage foundation's asian studies center. ruth joined h