Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they followed your lead, published the papers. At least were not alone. I have to tell the audience just a small eye roll here, because the New York Times was the first to publish the papers, but thats drama, after all. I wanted to ask both of you from a legal strategy standpoint, Daniel Ellsberg sending it out to so many papers, how does that change the governments ability to prosecute the case . Well, floyd should be the one to answer that first because he was directly involved. Right. Well, it did make it harder to prosecute the prior restraint case, the case that weve been talking about, against the times and then other papers. They did bring actions against the post, and the Christian Science monitor and other papers, you know, who got the papers from elsberg, to stop them as well. But one judge in the District Of Columbia board of appeals put it very well when lawyers were in front of him on this case. He said, youre asking u
Is doing as the head of that task force. However i have also been told that the president was a bit frustrated with the call that the cdc, the centers for Disease Control, had with reports yesterday in which they said the exposure or the risk for the coronavirus inside of the u. S. Is low, however, the chance for it spreading inside of the u. S. At some point down the line is likely. We are expecting the president here, to essentially address the American Public. The top Infectious Diseases doctor earlier today was asked what he thinks the president should say in light of all the messages that have been bouncing around and this was his response. Listen. At the present time things are under control here but realistically we need to be prepared for the possibility and maybe the likelihood we will see more cases here. The to the degree we can contain them women determine the impact on the country. Reporter liz, there is also a discrepancy on capitol hill the amount of funding needed to co
Media companies monitor stories and features about cannabis. This is just over three hours. Morning everybody. I would like to welcome all of you here today to the Second Annual National Cannabis policy summit here at the new dm and i would like to start the day by thinking our nonprofit Advocacy Partners without whom this wouldnt exist and many businesses in this industry would not exist. I would like to thank americans for state access, the aclu of dc, baltimore Harm Reduction coalition, bridges coalition, and bear with me, the long list, the cannabis cultural association, cannabis voter project, dance safe dc chapter, dc vote, dc mj, dc normal, delaware normal, doctors for cannabis regulation, Drug Policy Alliance, headcount, hip, Law Enforcement action partnership, Marijuana Policy project, maryland normal, mission zero, the minority cannabis is and is association, the National Cannabis bar association, National Cannabis industry association, normal, pittsburgh normal, students for
Pivotal moment for the cannabis movement. Theres so much excitement for the progress we have made and for where we are pushing to go. And if we do this right, by ensuring that we address the legacy of the failed war on drugs and center our work in Restorative Justice there is no stopping us. Thank you all for your leadership, keep up the good work. Hey, hey,. The war on drugs has got to go. Hey, hey,. The war on drugs has got to go. What do we want . Justice. When do we want it . Now. What do we want . Justice. When do we want to . No. Family, i just love those chants which i have either led or decided in demonstrations along with dpas damp why . Because they capture the essence of the man that i have been asked to introduce. I am mcgeachy 25, the tiny for group llc. I also commence a justice round table. Coalition over 100 organizations working in washington to advance, promote Justice System transformation. For 16 years, i worked for George Soros Open Society foundations and open Soc
2022 politics war room, and the author. The book Mary Llewellyn mcneil. More them later, though. Since the book has not been released before tonight, the presenters asked that i give you a very brief bit of. Who was wallace and why should we care about him . Wallace carroll although largely unknown, today was of the most respected and influential journalists, editors and publishers of the 20th century. A reporter. The united press in europe during, the 1930s and early 1940, carol covered of the most significant events leading to and during World War Two. Then went on to work for the u. S. Office of war information, undertook two stints as editor and later publisher of the Winston Salem journal and served as number two to james reston in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. Again more details to come, but was much more than a globetrotting journalist giving us eyewitness accounts of events, or even just your run of the mill editor. As alan mary will tell us, carol was a mentor,