press club history and heritage committee and the 1994 national press club president. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome once again to the national press club. professor.nalist and our program tonight marks the 40th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixon's resignation in the watergate scandal. that was a significant event in the nation's political history as we will learn tonight. the national press club later role. archibald cox held his news on the afternoon of october 20 right next-door in the club's ballroom where he insisted that the president had to turn over all of the secret tapes. we was a brief clip of that later. that evening, the club held its first fourth estate award ceremony that honors a journalists lifetime achievement. that night, the award went to walter cronkite. as the great cbs news man was delivering his or marx, word began spreading through the ballroom of what nixon had done people began running in another room and poor walter was trying to figure out what was going on the

the tapes. cox responded to this by calling a press conference the national press club and saying he would defy the president's order and he would keep trying to get the tapes. which brings us to saturday, october 20th, 1973. and 6:30 washington time that evening, news started to leak out. >> there are reports tonight that president nixon ordered attorney general elliott richardson to fire the special watergate prosecutor archibald cox -- >> the country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. the president has fired the special watergate prosecutor archibald cox because of the president's action the attorney general has resigned. elliott richardson has quit, saying he cannot carry out mr. nixon's instructions. richardson's deputy, has been fired. he refused in the moment of constitutional drama to obey a presidential order to fire the special watergate prosecutor. and half an hour after the special watergate prosecutor had been fired, agents of the fbi acting at the direction of the white house sealed off the offices of the special prosecuto

to the national press club. it is my distinct pleasure, honor and privilege to welcome each of you to the audience this evening and our distinguished panelists. the press club, as i'm sure you'll hear in a few minutes played a big part in the saturday night massacre. we are very excited to host this program tonight and i will turn over the festivities of the event to gale cline, the hairman of our press club. [applause] >> thank you very much, angela. i am, as angela said, a journalism professor at american university's washington semester program. a former club president and now chairman of the club's history and hertg committee. our program tonight mark the 40th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixon's resignation in the watergate scandal. that was a significant event in the nation's political history as we will learn tonight. the national press club later role. archibald cox held his news conference here in the afternoon of october 20 in the ballroom where he insisted

press club played part in the saturday night massacre. we are very excited to host this program tonight. festivitiesver the to the chairman of the national press club history and heritage committee and the 1994 president. [applause] >> thank you very much, angela. welcome, once again, to the national press club. i am a journalism professor at the american university washington professor program. our program tonight marks the saturdayversary of the night massacre that ultimately led to president nixon's resignation in the watergate candle. that was a significant event in the nation's political history as we will learn tonight. the national press club later role. archibald cox held his news conference here in the afternoon the ballroom in where he insisted that the president had to turn over all of the secret tapes. we will see a brief clip of that later. award ceremonyts that honors a journalist lifetime achievement. that night, the award was going greatter cronkite. as the news man was delivering his remarks, word began spreading through the ballroom of what nixon had done. in and out ofun the room to figure out what was going on. they a

also, i would like to say thank you to the national press club staff for organizing the event. you can find more information about the press club and a copy of today's program on our website, www.press.org. thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> looking ahead tomorrow, we'll be live with governor pat mccrory. we will be talking about some of the challenges his state is facing and new voter id laws. you can watch the live tomorrow at 12:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this is eleanor roosevelt's typewriter. have here are the original drafts of some of the columns i wanted to share. this first one is eleanor my datet's first column. it sets the tone of the columns to follow. clipping is a my day clipping from election day. she talks about how admin that crowd came in with a band. it the president went out to agree to them. this is a tradition on election night. the roosevelts would come to hyde park and await the election results. when they were announced, the preside

skipping over our guest for a moment, jeffbelew, news editor for al jazeera and a member of the national presslub board of editors and the speakers committee member who organized today's lunch. thank you. from usa today and a past president of the national press club and the vice chair of the speakers committee this year. a membertraglinski, of the press club or have governors. jerry o'reilly, and editor at large for bloomberg news and jay quo the composer of "allegiance peer [applause] our guest today is akitschy 60s throwback. [laughter] is a a gay-rights activist, cult hero, a major movie star, social media phenom and headed for broadway. has one of the most varied and unusual biographies of anyone we have welcomed to the national press club podium. he is clearly best known for his role as lieutenant hakaru sulu televisionar trek" series. although they were cordial on frostytakei's relationship with william shatner has fueled gossip reports for years. return for the blockbuster movie franchise were after more than 20 years, he was finally promoted to captain. [laughter] [applause] his actin

so thankful that the reporters committee has decided to hold an event at the national press club, and it's a privilege to be here with my friends and colleagues on the panel. i'm going to be autobiographical just for a moment. i'm in favor of greater transparency in the supreme court, so that's the organizing principle and the application of that principle. what i'd like to speak to is i am and have been for now a couple of decades in favor of cameras in the court. i was trained as a young pup by chief justice warren burger for whom i was privileged to clerk for two years, and he was a great protecter of traditions while at the same time seeking to reform, change the court's procedures in a number of ways. he loved to share with the law clerks as we came in that he was in favor of technology, so much so that he decided when he became chief justice in 1969 that there should be a photocopier in the court. [laughter] and that was a great reform, because law clerks from yore will say, yes, we had to do what are called flimsies to prepare cert pool memos. there was no cert pool at the time

you can see this live from the national press love at 1:00 eastern on c-span. film aspeople think of stories that you see in theaters. the truth is that film, cinema is a much rudder carried great -- category. the movies you see in theaters are only a small part of the total national world production of films. when you begin to broaden out and look at these poorly , you are ablems to get a much broader sense of what our country's history is. >> i think in the neighborhood of 200,000 educational films were produced in the united states. ,hey range from works of art consciously produced as films with some sort of special production value and creativity, to tremendously banal films about how to brush your teeth or how to ask for a date. the value of educational films aday is that they are tremendous documentation of how they wanted young americans to turn out. they show us what we were supposed to be. >> now that the soup is served, the crackers are passed. floyd passes the crackers to dorothy before he hopes himself. should he have helped himself first or not? >>

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i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club coffee mug. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> and for the last question -- tell us, are there gay vulcans and if so, how do they socialize? [laughter] >> i can answer that. it's a changed world now. we have the new version of " star trek." the last two movies had younger actors playing our roles. the actor who plays spock, a vulcan, is played by zachary quinto who is gay. we have an out gay vulcan and he happens to be spock. [laughter] zachary is a real great guy and he's also a very serious actor. as you know, he was on " heroes," and i was mr. knocker mora -- nakamura, the father of hiro who has magical powers. zachary was the villain in that. \zachar was the villain in that. he had evil powers. after the series was canceled, he went to new york, and he had been doing off-broadway plays. in a challenging role in a great american drama, "angels in america," playing the gay attorney. or, he was not an attorney yet, but a very important, dramatic, demanding role, and he got good reviews for th

can, let's watch a clip of what took place right here at the national press club. a special report from cbs news in washington. here is cbs correspondent nelson benton. >> archibald cox is holding a news conference to discuss the president's action last night on the watergate tapes. the white house announcing that rather than appealing to the supreme court to turn the tapes over, it would provide a summary of the tapes to cox and the watergate committee. toing unlimited access verify the completeness and the accuracy of the summer. -- summary. as a refusald that to obey the decree of the court that violated the solemn ledge he made to the senate as a special prosecutor. he said last night that he would have more to say a little bit later on. today,this setting archibald cox would have more to say. we see him coming to the press club ballroom with mrs. cox. listen. and >> i read in one of the newspapers this morning, the headline "cox defiant." i have to say that i don't feel defy it. defiant.feel i told my wife i hate a fight. defendi can explain and them steadfastl

>> we're still waiting for the national press conference to get under way. at the end of this summit we will get more details then but we got quite a lot of details from the president of the european council and the commission and of course press conferences from francois and angela merkle. what is likely to happen over the next few months is that france and germany will try to negotiate a new framework for cooperation on intelligence with the united states. there was that sponing press conferences overnight. angela merkle of course believes her own phone was monitored by the americans and her view the relationship with america has to change radically and she wants to see deep changes and assurances there will be a fresh relationship and in short she wants to make sure america sticks to the promise she had from president obama not to monitor her phone calls, this is reading between the loins but not that far between the lines, frankly that she doesn't want the united states to indulge in espionage because there's an expliss it threat from her and implicit thr

november 5, election day, goldie hawn will be here at the national press club. gg will be, judd gre here. he plans to unveil protections for investors to be endorsed by the anti-group. november 11, president and ceo of the charles schwab operation. i would like to present our guest with the traditional npc m ug. [applause] i am sorry it did not come from rei. last question we wanted to ask, the most pressing issue for those of us who live here in washington, when will the washington monument reopen? [laughter] we hope to have it open a year from now. there are people who kind of like its exoskeleton. and i have a wonderful job, but it is made more wonderful by some of the places i can go. there have been a few places where i say, can i do this, they say, ma'am, you can do anything you want. i got to climb up the stairs to the scaffolding and then the latter that went to the top of the monument and looked them. i kind of like that exoskeleton. i do not have the exact dates. kate, do your member when we are going to reopen? no, pretty sure it is a year from now. it

you have heard that right now the national media gives this is ministration at pass on every foolish statement that they make. >> is studying the duplicity the national press to walk out the door to the talking point in when we point out it is wrong coming in incorrect they stare at you can say that is not my script so i cannot write about it. i am embarrassed parker tried to give the for the state some intellectual edit but theyave walked away from in the intellectual honesty. lou: now i give t republican party but today's speaker boehner how was that? i am asking my producer. by the way there is no even a single question about it yesterday from the reporters bahau kid you tax under obamacare a citizen that does not buy health insurance that they cannot buy on the government's web site? it is the first time your party has put for dave message that reverberates with people paying your salary. >> we have spent trying if they think we have done the okay job. lou: that is not a good standard. >> we're trying to be intellectually honest. lou: i will not canonize y or your party you have been talking about debt ceiling breakthroughs equaled the fault just as th

in a speech before the national press club, he stressed his determination to stick to this long-term se. volcker: will the fed stick with it? my short and simple answer to that question is "yes." and i don't intend to qualify -- i don't intend to qualify that answer. but i do want to be clear, clear about what the "it" is that we intend to stick with. [ laughter ] "it," in the sense of our october 6 actions, is restrain on the money supply, reducing its growth over time toward levels consistent with price stability. schoumacher: fred schultz was vice-chairman of the fed board under volcker. but the major change was a difference in how monetary policy was going to be carried out. before that, there had been an effort to try to have relatively slow interest rate changes. that clearly was not doing the job of controlling the economy in this kind of a very volatile inflationary environment that had appeared in 1979. and so, the change was to go to strict targeting on the money supply alone. the effect of that is, if you're not paying any attention to the price of money -- which is what in

kind of throws the national press here into a bit of confusion they seem a bit discombobulated by the whole thing papers that have traditionally been against the powers of the state in the extension of the powers of the state have done this sort of about and they've come out in favor of the government and in favor of m i five and attack the guardian for publishing these leaks basically so if you look at what the daily mail has been saying about all this it's in this sort of weird position where it is supports the state carrying out blanket surveillance almost calls for the states to be able to monitor individual e-mails as it carries on publishing its stories so there's been some quite ugly divisions exposed in the press here. some people suggest that it's because they're basically pursuing a grudge against the guardian for having exposed them all during the phone hacking scandal this is their kind of way of getting back at the guardian for that which of course is not really in the national interest not really useful in terms of a national press. papa had thank you so much laura for t

q and takei speaking at the national press club. poke about some of the issues important to the lgbt community. this is one hour. >> thank you. it's wonderful to be here and the feeling i have is that it is like a very elegant star trek convention. [laughter] that reflects on your good taste and high standards. it's wonderful to be back in washington at last and it's wonderful to have washington back and working as well. bravo for that. washington. when we arrived in the early evening, i saw all of the things that i loved about washington. monumentseeted by the in that dusky light. lights and a, luminous and i have visited them many times. i have been inspired by the .ords written on them there is one new addition to that collection of memorials here in washington that i have not visited and that is the newest one, the memorial tribute to dr. martin luther king jr. the first thing we did is we grabbed a cab and we went to the martin luther king memorial. we walked up to it and there was that hurricane looming above that white stone.

fated to reconcile the present that was you know beyond just a democratically elected job in the national press should look at pressure inside egypt and also international pressure to reconcile with the brotherhood and of course the brotherhood today's a a force to be reckoned with in egypt it's going to be very difficult for them to run the country without without having the reconciliation with the brotherhood. well we'll be keeping you up today toward events in egypt of course and you can also follow bell trues on her twitter feed to get the latest updates from the divided country. meantime syria has begun the destruction of its chemical weapons with international inspectors now overseeing the process the elimination of the toxic arsenal comes in accordance with a binding u.n. resolution that was spearheaded by a russia u.s. agreement argues middle east correspondent policy reports from damascus. united nations has come to that chemical weapons experts inside syria have begun the process of destroying the estimated one thousand time chemical weapons stockpile inside of this country there is a

eastern live from the national press club and you can see on c-span3. ♪ >> we want another governmenttdown is affecting you. please send us your video. >> make your message about the shutdown and uploaded from your mobile device. see what others are touting about. >> we have more now on the impasse over the government shutdown as we welcomed a democrat member of congress to this morning's "washington journal." >> host: we are joined by congressman tim ryan of ohio. thank you for joining us. want to get your take on what happened last night in the house, speaker john mayer pulling his proposal that would've reopened the government, raise the dead thing to what is your take? >> guest: i think it's following the same storyline we been giving with for the last nine or 10 months. since really since the tea party came to washington, d.c. as you have a very, very small, yet big enough group in the house republican caucus that are controlling the agenda down there. i think that's what you saw last night to give all these facts -- factions within the public and come for us. he had extreme folk

we have gone on road trips around the country to teach seminars about free press and free speech. at the never had a panel national press club. we're fixing that today. onh our first ever panel supreme court technology and transparency. we have, as they say at the saturday night live studio, we have a great show for you today on technology and transparency in the supreme court. .e have judges and journalists we have academics. we have supreme court litigators. as our moderator and musical guest, we have a longtime veteran of the supreme court, a reporter. the head of the reporters' committee. thank you for coming and joining .s in this new chapter without further ado, i will turn it over to tony. [applause] >> thank you, bruce. my name is tony mauro. i would like to welcome you to our discussion. hostld like to thank our for making this happen. in addition to being on this years,ee for close to 30 i have been covering the supreme court for 33 years. this is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. this is what is special about the discussion this morning. for years and decades, if you raise the issue of access

. >> it has been stunning the duplicity in the national press of walking out the door, giving me theresint's and left's taing points and when we point out they're wrong, th have it incorrect, they just stair at you and say that's not on my script from the ite house, therefore i can't write about it. i've almost been embarrassed. look, i try to give the fourth of state intlectual credit. >> i'm now giving the republican party in coness some credit. today speaker boehner, how did he say that? how was it he said that again today? he -- how -- we talked about obamacare -- by the way there wasn't a single question about it yesterday at the president's press conference. how can you t under obamacare a citizen who does not buy health insurance that he or she cannot buy onhe goverent's website? that's what we've been reded to and it's the first time that your party has actually put forward a message that reverberates with the folks paying your salaries. >> look, wve been tryin now for a week -- i think we've gonna done an okay job. >> oy? there's a hell of a standard, congressman. >> lou, we

later, how is the relationship between the obama administration and the national press corps? that's the focus of a panel discussion at the new america foundation here you can watch that live starting at 2 p.m. eastern right here on c-span2. at the same time we'll bring you coverage of a discussion on the housing market. specifically the panel will look at what to expect once ben bernanke steps down as fed chair. the american enterprise institute hosts, and that's why the 2 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s.-centric on weeknights watch key public policy event. every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> coming up next, this week's prime minister's question time. david cameron takes questions from members of the house of thn commons for about a half an ho hour.ent. >> questions to the prime minister. paul broomfield.roun >> number one,fi m

right now the national mia is giving this administration and the democratic party a pass on every ignorant, wrong, foolish statement they make. >> it has bn snning the duplicity in the national press of walking out the doo giving me the president's and lt's talkg points and when we point out they're wng, they have it incorrect, they just stair at you and say that's not o my script from the white house, therefore i can't write aut it. i've almost been embarrassed look, i try to give the fourth of statentelctual credit. >> i'm now giving the republican party in congress some credit. today speaker boehner, how did he say that? how was it he said that again today? he -- how -- we talked about obamacar-- by the way there wasn't a singl question about it yesterday at the president's press conference. how can you tax under obamacare a citizen who does not buy health insurance that he o she cannotuy on the government's webse? th's what we've been reduced to and it's the first time that your party has actually put forward a message that reverberates wh the fks paying your salaries. >> look, we've been trying now foa week -- think we've gonna done a oka job. >> okay? there's a hell of a sta

press pool when the justices travel? >> when they take the exciting trips do teach a class? absolutely. the press pleyel i guess the analogy is for a long time in the nation's history the president to and how to do fund-raisers no one was there that changed when president reagan was shot the other is a regular press pool that travels wherever he goes around town, around the nation or around the world. to have a pool cover all nine injustices' covered granted they don't all travel at the same time, i cannot imagine that it would be logistically that match that people want to do but it how much would produce material that would be that useful? i think it is no. >> i will take the trips to italy. [laughter] but with that we must and if the program serves as a beijing to hold that is great and it has been a great discussion. think you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] . .

speaking at the national press club today the head of mercy wants congress to take action with funding and political pressure. there are 2 million syrians who are looking for refuge in surrounding countries because of the civil war there. mercy claims with approaching food and water could be scarce. and three years into that conflict word leaders are still treating it like a temporary emergency. >>> doug is here with a look at our weather. big difference in the temperature today. >> big difference in the temperature and big difference in the pattern in general. we have been talking about how great our weather has been over the past couple weeks. we had rain yesterday and get ready, clouds have moved in. and they are not going anywhere any time soon. we may get one more nice sunset, though. the clouds still rolling in from the east and moving out towards the west. sunset tonight is in 20 minutes. 6:40. today we saw high temperature that got up to 69 degrees. lot different than what we have been the last couple of days. little bit below average but not bad. 71 degrees. take a look at thi

. >> at the national press club today, sally jewell discusses the national parks. e spoke and took questions for almost an hour. >> thank you for that thorough and entertaining introduction. not necessarily accurate but somewhat close. i want to thank the national press club for what you do to bring opera voices and issues bringre complex -- to thoughtful voices to issues that are complex. i want you to pay attention to this. they are responsible for the best ever question i received from the media in my time here. ,y colleague kate kelly somewhere around here, she does a very good job will she is hiding in the background. an individual said, i have a question. i was hiking in grand seat and national park and her warnings about bears everywhere. i was hiking and i became nervous. i want to know if i had to really go back to my car. he held up his phone and said, is this a bearer? -- a bear? i said, no. you can continue your height. hike.r height -- your i have a broad portfolio at interior. my focus today is on the administration's conservation agenda. that is what

wouldn't know it by the media outside of "60 minutes" little has been said about the book by the national presst to handle for the secular progressives. some small newspapers are weighing in. review in the cedar falls paper said "bill o'reilly's ability to analyze social, political and social contexts has made him a writer in nonhistorical fiction. it's not about dangerous ideas. it's about how seemingly factions within a system will join to oust a threat." very percent perceptive review. they joined together to get jesus of nazarath. very good. i appreciate that very much. the smaller newspapers are generally more honest newspapers than the larger ones. now to mail. cheryl in illinois, thank you, bill, for pointing out conduct the defense secretary hagel and jay carney. chuck is nowhere to be found and carney is stonewalling. mr. know it all, laura ingraham is more in touch than you are. laura is wearing rose colored glasses regarding gop. ted cruz has done something that the president could not do in four years. increase the popularity of democrats. according to polls, everybody is going down

the national right to life conference, getting a standing ovation. standing up for the unborn, that's a fairly standard part of his stump speech to conservative audiences, even if the national press doesn't always pick it up about him. >> this is an administration that is telling christian companies like hobby lobby, that the little sisters of the poor, they must provide board efficients or pay millions of dollars in government fines. >> the audience shouting no, no. the audience is correct there. because no, no, what senator cruz said there is not actually happening. no! he totally made it up. the hobby lobby is a company that sells knickknacks and glitter and stuff. this week, as long as you're not willing to buy from the seasonal department, you can get 50% off on decorative vegetable and fruit filled bottles or men's metal and wood decor. it is a hobby shop where you can shop by gender. they are suing the federal government because they as a company disapprove of contraception and they want to be able to block their employees from having birth control covered on their health insurance and birth control, contraception, is not the same thing as having an abortion. it's not as t

. >> taking you live to the national press club in washington, d.c. for discussion on the second amendment and with paul helmke, former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. he will deliver remarks here. he is addressing the political debate surrounding and legislation. he is currently professor at indiana university's school of public and environmental affairs, crazy served as mayor of fort wayne, indiana. this is live coverage here on c-span2. >> before we proceed with his introduction would like to thank mr. richard heller who is responsible for our getting him you. they don't see eye to eye. mr. heller -- [applause] it was his lawsuit that overthrew the d.c. gun control law which was a landmark decision. anyhow, thank you and by way of him, we have mr. helmke here today. paul is a former mayor of fort wayne, indiana. he's the former president of the brady foundation, and is now a professor at the university of indiana. he attended the university of indiana and yale law school. where he was a classmate of two people called the bil

legislation to provide humanitarian assistance to the syrian people speaks at an event hosted by the national press club. cli starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> the heads of african affairs for the state and defense departments testified today on capitol hill about the situation in somalia. it's live starting at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekly feature live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events. and every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on the booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> monday, attorney eric conn refused to testify about his role in fraudulent social security benefits claimed. it was called for the settlement security committee examine social security fraud. this part of veering was an hour and 10 minutes. >> gentlemen, thank you for joining us this afternoon. i were briefly introduce the panel of three witnesses, and will begin with dr. david her. thank you. doctor her, a

i'm -- hold the event at the national press lob. i'm going to be auto biographical for a moment. i'm in favor of greater transparency in the supreme court. so that's the organizing principle and the application of that principle, but i would like to speak to is i am, and have been for a couple of decades in favor of cameras in the court. i was trained as a young pup -- seeking to reform change the court's spread your -- procedure in a number of ways. he loved to share with the law clerk as he came in he was in favor of technology. so much so we he became chief justice there should be a photocopier in the court. [laughter] that was a great reform because law clerks will say, yes, we had to do what are called flimsy to prepare certain memos at the time. for all of the justices and especially will the ifp. you use carbon paper. was that 1869? no, it was 1969. it was a bit of changing mained duelings and procedure. there was not much discussion about camera in the court. it was aanymore call to the great tradition of the court. my epiphany when i was privileged to argue unsuccessfully

responding to the allegations about what president obama may or may not have known back in 2010, going so far as to issue a press release in which the public affairs office for the national security agency denied reports in the german press that the president had had conversations about intelligence gathering related to the german chancer will, angela merkel, of course saying that had not happened. of course they were very specific in that press release, so it's not clear who else may have talked to the president. but right now we have foreign leaders asking for action at the united nations. it's the stuff of spy novels come live and real right before your eyes. >> it is indeed. randall thing you very much. >>> members of congress also said to be taking a closer look at the white house drone policy strikes today. they have invited a pakistani family that says they were victimized by a strike. they want them to share their story. they first stoke though to al jazeera kimberly halkett. >> it happened a little more than a year ago. for the 12-year-old and the 9-year-old the memories are still vivivid. >> i saw these bright lights fall from the sky and hit my grandmother. i

join tasc and see your engineering and technology expertise help solve the nation's most pressing and complex challenges. see your career without limits at tasc. >>> the mass shooting at the navy yard reinforced training for this anywhere in the city. there's a training facility that creates real life conditions in an urban area. we got an inside look. >> the d.c. police dog was real and so were the d.c. emergency response team. all being done on a new $6 million mock up of an urban street. it allows training 27/7 in any kind of weather or light. the facility includes hollow top buildings and rooms. >> the tactics we use if we were entering an active shooter scenario in a school is different than entering an active shooter scenario in an office building. >> the chief lead reporters on a tour of the facilities getting a tour of other law enforcement groups looking for different training. like learning to repel from office buildings and garages and guiding bomb seeking robots up steps. there's a gas chamber where recruits learn not to panic as they put on masks. something the chief stil

with the nation pressed up against its debt ceiling and future payments uncertain, invests will be hesitant to buy nor t-bills everybody. the objectio toxicity will spreo bonds and investors will demand higher yields which will cost our country more over time. this is what happened in 23011 when we merely flirted with default. right now the dollar is the world's reserve currency. instd of keeping their money in cash, other nations buy our debt in order to get interest without risk. america has been a great investment. defaulting would cause other nations to sell our debt, then sell our dollars, wakessenning our dollars against foreign currencies and raising the cost of every good imported. if treasury rates go up just one percentage point it would add over $1 trillion to tower debt service costs. anything we've saved because of sequestration would be gone and there's no -- to think that it would add $2 trillion to $3 trillion to our debt over the next decade. this also affects everyone in our community and our country from large to small from companies to communities to families when treasu

it is wonderful to be here at the national press club. the feeling i have is that it is like a very elegant star trek convention. that reflects on your good taste and high standards. it is wonderful to be back in washington at last. is wonderful to have washington to be back in working at last as well. rob over that. i love washington. when we arrived in the early evening, i saw all of the things that i love about washington. we were greeted by the national monuments and that dusky light. it was glowing light and luminous. i visited all those monuments. i have been inspired by the words written by it. there is one new addition to that collection of memorials here in washington that i have not visited here at that is the newest one, the memorial tribute to dr. martin luther king jr.. the first thing we did this morning was grabbed a cab and we went to the martin luther king jr. memorial. we walked up to it. there was dr. king looming out of the white stone. he had his arms crossed. he was standing strong. sawoked at that face and i the gent

and after, gay rights act this talks about lgbt issues at the national press club. and the associated press is reporting that republican congressman bill young of florida has died one week after announcing he was not -- he would not seek a 22nd term. he was 82 years old. he died at walter reed medical center in bethesda. he had been there in for nearly two week's. representative young was florida's longest serving member of congress. flags were

and he says if there are no negotiations, there won't be a vote to raise the nation's debt limit either. the pressesocrats want the gop controlled house to pass a temporary funding bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, no strings attached. john boehner says it is just not possible. >> the votes are not in the house to claim a debt limit. he knows what my phone number is. all he has to do is call. >> treasury secretary jack lew warns the consequences of the default could trigger a financial crisis as bad or worse than it was in 2008. the senate is

the other issue hovering over this, if mccauliffe goes on to when this election, one thing the national press is the shutdown, itself. sort of the knows doiv the republican party's image took in the last month. how much do you think virginia is home to federal employees furloughed, how much down the shutdown has to do with mccauliffe's position right now? >> big, big deal. it relates to people blaming the republican party. whether it's true or number perception is three-fourths of everything. most people believe republicans were a part, a major part of that shutdown. it has hurt cuccinelli tremendously. back in may, people were talking about a tight race. you know that, you did that even on this show. a tight race in the virginia governor's race. lock what has happened now. now, my thing as far as what the real problems are in terms of what has happened in the last several weeks or months as it relates to what's going on in washington, there has been a huge battle, a billing wall, the people lost and washington won. but the unfortunate thing for the republicans, they got the major fault fixed

because his life is really on the line in the life of the whole regime then of course then i think a military strike could take place. by the press all national security warry so britain's prime minister wants to publish those of n.s.a. needs to be careful with their reporting all be ready to face proceedings. the president speaks exclusively to r.t. on his visit to moscow rafael correa explains his outrage at the revelations of america's worldwide spying assets. my mother and my children were injured we have no idea what. this was talking to a pakistani family is on the doorstep of the u.s. congress demanding answers to why they. held by an american drone strike. so we report on europe's multi-trillions shadow economy so massive it's costing some say.