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Watch live coverage of the house on cspan, see the senate on cspan 2. Good evening, everybody. Welcome. Im mike friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club, and what an honor it is to have this as the First Program on my watch this year. As the former general manager of cbs Radio Network news and former managing editor for the broadcast division of united press international, the boys on the bus was required reading. And i had the pleasure and the challenge of having on my upi team ...

Cbs Radio Network news and former managing editor for the broadcast division of united press international, the boys on the bus was required reading. And i had the pleasure and the challenge of having on my upi team one of the boys, the legendary chamberlain of upi. A prospect. Sounds like a lot of you knew him. Looking forward to a terrific discussion this evening and now i have the pleasure of introducing the chair of the National Press club history and heritage team, the 87th president of the...

And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its political gaffes through the decades. The great edward r. Murrow said when politicians complain that tv turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there and that tv has merely demonstrated that not performers are well trained. Today on through the decades, we look at politicians who didnt give their best performances on the political stage as they attemped to run for office. And the Television C...

Each of them made the case and christopher would get up and offer his rebuttal. The doctor of islamic thought happened also to be in a wheelchair, and so after christopher finished taking down each of his opponents he then looked at the crowd and he said, surely you must be thinking he cant go after the woman in wheelchair. But i assure you, you are wrong. Its been pointed out often by him, by christopher, that he shouldve had come easy would have lived longer, if you less good constitution, alt...

Will lead us out of the mess we are in today probably is the president who would not be equipped to deal with the civil war or reconstruction. That might be an unsatisfactory answer but it is the. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I did a tv interviewnm  earlie, and they put makeup on me. I debated whether or not to wash it off or not, but i decided to look fabulous for you. [laughter] i usually dont spend much time reading, but i wanted to read a short passage from the beginning of the book bec...

King abdullah of jordan. Former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. Valerie jarrett was there, read a statement from president obama. Mike tyson and lennox lewis sat together at the event. Republican senator orrin hatch of people, he was friends with muhammad ali as well, he spoke in muhammad alis memory. Just a remarkable event today. Over 100,000 people turned out today in louisville, kentucky, to line the funeral procession for muhammad alis casket. 100,000 people in the streets. Yeste...

One of the greatest ever icons of american culture, muhammad ali today eulogized by former president bill clinton and by Billy Crystal and brian gumbal. Theres not another person on earth that could attract a guest list. Karzai, former president of afghanistan. King abdullah of jordan. Former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. Valerie jarrett was there, read a statement from president obama. Mike tyson and lennox lewis sat together at the event. Republican senator orrin hatch of people, ...

Republican senator orrin hatch of utah was friends with muhammad ali as well. He spoke in his memory. A remarkable event today over 100,000 people turned out today in louisville, kentucky to line the procession for muhammad ali. 100,000 people in the streets. Yesterday was an Islamic Prayer Service for ali, a religious event. Today, though, it was for everybody and it really was an enormous event. It was an interfaith event. At one point the liberal rabbi michael learner at one point he got a st...

It is a mistake that hasn’t been repeated in the 50 years since. Vice president selections are now vetted so thoroughly that the process ranks somewhere between having a root canal and being audited by the IRS.

continues on the republican nominee for vice president. and we want to focus on mitt romneys running mates. were asking to hear from republicans only. here are the numbers. tomorrow we will focus to hear democrats only. who should mitt romney pick as his running mate? a couple headlines this sunday morning. and from the weekly standard go for the gold is this editorial by bill crystal. the headline from this weekly standard editorial, go for the gold, mitt. you can join the conversatio...