Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first, if you do have you in the those of ballroom, you have your cards on the
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