my name is theresa warner. we are the world leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to our programs such as this wall fostering free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website, www.press.org. to donate, please visit www.press.org/institute. on behalf of our members, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending our events. our head table includes the guest speaker and journalists who are working members. if you hear applause in our audience, general members of the public's are attending. i would also like to welcome our c-span radio audience. we have a weekly pot cast of the national press club available on itunes -- pod cast of the national press club available on itunes. i will ask as many questions as time permits after our guest speaker talks. please stand up as i announced your name -- jeff from bloomberg. julio from telemundo. dave nickolson. michael boldon, "washington post." alsion, freelance journalist. ms. stone, "huffington post." jeff, al jazeera. rachel from global secur

my name is theresa warner.are the world's leading professional organization for journalists, committed to our professions futures for programming with events such as this, while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website asks www.press.org. of our members worldwide, i like to welcome our speaker, and those of you attending today's event. a our table includes guest of our speaker including working journalists who are members of our club. your applause and our audience, we would like to know that members of the general public are attending, so does not necessarily a lack of journalistic integrity. i would like to welcome c-span and our public radio audience during our lunches are also featured in our weekly podcast from the national press club, available on itunes. you can follow the action on twitter, using the cash tagged -- hashtag npc lunch. it is time to introduce our guest, and i would ask each of you to stand up briefly as your name is ann