See for the next 50 years . What would you like to see celebrating at its 100th anniversary or since your future successor will be celebrating that 100th here at the National Press club, what would you anticipate they be talking about in the organization 50 years from now . I anticipate they would be talking 50 years from now we would not even be having a conversation about explaining that the arts are not a frill, they are not off in a corner by themselves because everybody would so get it. It would become like many of our tribal partners and our families in of the native american who is do not have the word arts in their vocabulary because they are so infused with the arts in all they do. Its just part of their life and dont know it any other way. So in the next 50 years the chairman of the national e endowment for the arts will be thanking and celebrating all the new types of activities that the arts are tied to in our everyday lives. Things we cant even think about due to the Technology Developments and things like that. And we will still be honoring all the ways we have traditionally, it will be the both and. How about a round of applause for our speaker . [ applause ] i would like to thank or staff including the Broadcast Center for organizing todays event. If youd like a copy of todays program or to learn more about the press club, go to that website press. Org. Thank you, we are adjourned. Text messages are not immune. Using them to ascertain travel plans, social networks and credit card details. Let me be clear. This information is being collected on individuals who are not themselves suspected of any illegal activity. You cant name anything today. You cant name anything today that wasnt impossible first. Right . Think about that for a second. Its in the a trick question. Look around this room. Looig lights and cameras and projection and snap chat and all of these things, stacked potato chips. Everything. Everything was impossible before it was possible. Go back even further. Thiss kind of the obvious stuff. How about woven clothes . Go back even further. How about walking up right, right . Hillary climbs everest. So you have these things that are going. Let us not forget the most significant accomplishment of the last six months, the rock jump, right . On vacation. So you have all of these incredible things that are happening. And its readily about permission, right . Someone does it and then it gives cart blanch to everybody else to go and do it. And weve seen this in kind of the classic things, you know, jumping out of satellites. And you see these there the little things, you see this in your own life. Oh, ive got an idea. Boss says youre not going to do it. Someone else does it and now the impossible because possible. Im ceo and founder of a Company Called nonimpossible labs. I came from the world of technology from animation and entertainment and things like that. Nour, what we do is technology for the sake of humanity. What that means is how do you take something in you and crack it open or break it or modify it in someway, duct tape it and zip tie it back together so it accomplishes a fundamental and social and human need. And then we try to make that accessible, either free or d. I. Y. Or open source or we just keep it as cheap as possible. So we have a slew of things that were working on. Ill talk about them now. If you were here last year, you heard me talk about this. The iwriter. We identified an artist who was paralyzed with als and he hadnt drawn anything for seven years, we brought together glasses, a coat hang ere and a web camera, hacked it open and he drew again for the first time. Hes motionless in his bed, hes blinking. Als is taking over so now his eyes dont blink as rapidly as they could. So now what weve come up with is a device called the brain writer. What that does is were looking at measuring the eeg signal that is your brain gives off and were replacing blinking with thinking so he can draw again. Were doing a project right now and this is a project that im incredibly excited about. Walk nonimpossible became as an out pouring of a project called project daniel. And i set up the worlds first 3d printing prosthetic laboratory. And we started to print 3d prosthetics for the children of war over there. They got all of this press and notoriety. And it was kind of spread all over the world. People started coming in and talking and hey, can you do this or i want to help you with that. In a hospital in mexico city had me come down and tour their hopt. Its a Pediatric Rehabilitation hospital. I got there. Did my tour. I said welcome, weve already wanted you to knowment its noon and weve seen 1200 kids. Even at the 50 rule, 600 kids by snoon a lot. I got to the tour and the last room is the tech room. In this room, theres this little girl and shes hooked up to this thing and shes walking on this contraption. I said what is that . They said its a gait trainer. Cerebral palsy, basically, the brain is trying to tell the legs walk. So i do that and i walk this way. But with her, the signal is not getting to the legs. So what this does is et actually trains the body from the muscles up, shoots the signal back into the brain. They said thats incredible. I said tell me more. She said if they use this, if a child uses this for about a year, theres a high probability that shell become ambulatory. Shes walk. And i said whaps if they dont . Well, they have to use conventional therapy and its probably not. So use it and she walks and dont use it and she wont. Is that it . Yeah, kind of. Why dont you have an spire floor of these things. They had so many kids who need this. They said wed love to. We cant afford them. Theyre prohibitively expensive. I said its a treadmill. I said what are you talking, you know . She said theyre like half a million dollars. I said what . Are you serious . I said all right, ill be right back. So we went back i went back and the way that we work is we build consortiums of people that are smarter than us. I guess reagan did that, too. But we call it people who make us feel stupid. Woe surround ourselves with people that make us feel stupid. So we started to hack and program and come up with different ways to go about this. We came up with a lot of what we thought brilliant things. At the end, the salespersintern back of the room raises his hand. I said what do you have . He said first of all,you guys are all really smart. So its, you know, its really amazing. Im honor today be in the room with you guys. But what i was thinking, what if we untethered the patient and created algorithms that created the force exertion of them and as they get stronger, it spins down the gyroscope and as they get stronger, it will spin down so they can keep thems up . And as the founder of nonimpossible, i said the most mature and encouraging thing you would expected me to say. Shut up, joel. And then you heard everyones jaw hitting the table. And im happy to tell you that literally, right now, we are checking messages as im coming up, we had been working over the last year to create a lowcost, rehabilitative exo skel ton that will be a fraction of the cost of what we were first exposed to. Im happy to tell you that that will roll out in second. Were working with brilliant engineers, were going to go into Clinical Trials and then were going to roll that around and actually get into the hopt in mexico city. And our mandate is to have a thousand kids walk again in the next two years. [ applause ] thank you. And guess who was the lead kind of team on this. Joel. Joel and his group of hackers and Robotics Club members. They were the ones that kind of set us on that course. To get to where we are now. So, for us, our process at nonimpossible is really quite simple. When you dont know that youre not supposed to be able to do something, you dont not do it. You just do it. And so what we do is we go through this process, we look for what we call morsels of permission. We look for these opportunities. Hey, what about that . Lets take a little piece of that and that. We dont have the exact thing, but if we take a couple things and put them together, maybe that will be your solution. So, now, its your turn. Im willing to bet the majority of people in this town have far more initials after their name than me. The question that you have to ask yourself is why it needs to be made. Not how. The how, youll figure out the how. An artist needs to draw again. A child needs to walk again. Thats the why. And things will congregate. Things will mobilize behind you to feg your out how that happens. Orr how that should happen. And i would is you guys, why not now . What are you waiting for . If youve got ideas of things that need to be made, finances, whatever, im the easiest person in the world to get ahold of. Our company is the easiest place to get ahold of. You already have permission. Everybody here has permission to go do this. You just have to jump. Thank you, guys, very much. And, now, Senior Advisor to the president , Valerie Jared with nbcs andrea mitchell. Thank you all. Thank you, again. Good afternoon, everyone. Hey. Well, so much has happened. Weve heard a lot of very interesting speakers today. I just came from the United Nations and the president most likely wanted to have a victory laugh, the iran deal, the cuban negotiations, at the same time, a very difficult meeting with vladamir putin and then, today, air strikes. What can you tell snus. We did have a heads up that it was coming. Its far too early for a victory lap. We still have another whole year and a month to go before the election. So i think the president did want to have an opportunity to address the u. N. Here. It is the 70th anniversary. Hes addressed it each year since hes been in office. He also was very clear ant the challenges that lie ahead. I think it was a productive last ten days between the visit with the pope, pope francis and the way our country welcomed him, the state visit with the president of china and then the u. N. This audience has heard speakers including mitt romney and john mccain strongly criticize the president s form policy. How can you respond to that to the criticism by a bipartisan Congressional Committee on the war against isis. The perception that isis is wining on the ground, that our air strikes are not effectively preventing jihadis from joining the group and that we dont have a plan for syria. Look thrks is a tough business. Its a coalition thats growing and ever stronger. So no one said its going to be easy. Its very easy to be critical in a sense from what they say are the cheap seats, but the president is committed to making measuring safe every day. He had an entire session focusing on how can we combat extremists and particularly isil, and what are we going to do collectively together. So it would be much more con struktive if those folks would join our effort. How concerned is the president about the kind of rhetoric thats being used in the campaign this year. Ill say this to you, abdree ya. Having the privilege with the last two president ial campaigns, my observation tends to resonate with the American People is somebody who sees the United States as a diverse country with diversities of strength. Weve always been the nation that people the world over gravitate towards. And thats something that we should celebrate. I think in the last two elections, the reason why the president won not once, but twice, his message is one that pulls the country together. Are you sur pprised with the popes private visit with kim davis who is defieing the Supreme Court and arguably not doing her job but stabnding up for her view of what religious freedom is . We believe Public Officials have to comply with the law. At if out set, he had a terrific visit with the pope. I think he and the president share common values, priority, everything from Climate Change to equality and justice and providi providing opportunities for those who are less fortunatement. The experience that you had, that you were able to share with the pope, what was completely different about this experience . Ive met some extraordinary people. But there was just something about his spirit. And im a noncatholic. And sitting in his presence and listening to his message, hopeful message, a message that really lifted up everyone and saw the value, i was brought to tears when i saw him at the prison. You know, president obama just recent le visited a federal penitentiary in oklahoma. And i watched the president s conversation with those incarcerated. And to see the reaction on the faces of the inmates when the pope grabbed their hand, it was really very moving. Youre right, ive seen a lot. But every day theres something that happens that makes me pinch myself. Meeting him was a real privilege. And being on the hill when he was in congress that day, i found so ed vating and extraud lirly moving. What is your diagnosis that ails both party sns. How much time do you have . See, look, its dishardening, to say the least. One of the things that i like about my job is i get to work with all the elected officials outside of congress. And i think what is disappointing to me when i see just the amount of time that congress wastes where they could be doing the peoples business. I mean, just think about it. I lost counts after 54 votes to appeal the act. I think its troubling. How concern certained are you about the democratic race right now . There will be four more releases of emails before the iowa caucuses. So this is a drip, drip, drip. If one were to go back at this time in the 2008 campaign, im sure there were people that would say theres no way that thensenator obama will ever be elected. In the end, its going to be up to the American People and we think what the president has done over the last eight years, if hed just think about what was going on i think sometimes people forget. We had banks on the verge of collapse. Our entire economy was starting to head into a depression and we were able to stave that uf. And so weve made a great deal of progrez. And so our challenge for the nekts is to continue that trajectory h, as we aumpb say, talent is ewe peck willtous. So my point to you is were still focusing on a lothd of hard work to create that opportunity for every american. And i believe is that that is the vision that the majority of americans will support at the end of the next campaign. Obviously, the billionth hod acoraling to the latest nbc news poll, the best democrat to go again, youre speculating and Vice President widen hasnt ed up his mind. So let else see wo end up in the race. Then and whoever wins the nomination, thats who the president will support in the next election. He could shut down the speculation right now baa hes taken nor from clinton support than bernie sabders. Were talking ties prd. Hes doing what you would do if you had is. I think its the same thing that ive heard him say privately. Its that he really doesnt know what he wants to do. Hes had a devastating loss. I think it es possible to give him the time to figure that out on his own. The president has said that the best political decision hes ever made is choosing bow biden as his Vice President. How hard would this be for barack obama to have his Vice President running against his former secretary of state . I think he believes that everybody should get to make that decision for themselves. One of the main reasons why Hillary Clinton has been suffering the polls is this email con tro ver e she say if you did use a private email, it should be turned over. Thats what shes doing as recently as you said a few minutes ago. She has been asked about this mut multiple times chls look, to do it again, i probably made a mistake and woujtened do. When you look at the other said, what do you make of donald trump . I think really what resonates with people is his spirit of hopefulness. We have a great country. We are the greatest country on earth and i dont think that we should ever tare it down. Theres still a lot of hard work ahead. As we have seen in the last election and the one before that, people go up and people go down. In the end, the m. D. Youzed to say in m you got to go around the state and lift up your hood and people would kick your tires and find out who you really are. Thats whats great about a democracy. Thats why we have a long period of time where everybody gets to know one another. I think thats whats going to happen this time. He said later, the president wouldnt defend me, why should i defend him . One recalls what happened in 2008 is senator mccain still in the house . What he did was really, i thought, excellent. I thought sent an important message. Its okay to disagree with somebody. But name calling is something youre supposed to stop when youre much, much, younger. 34 we are a country that needs to celebrate diversity and strength. Wefr a cup that believes inially jous freedom. Ment ultimately, the reason i, i to have confers the in. And the president , in these nsh nkt floisht he layed out a vision on this p 0th anniversary. But he tounded frus raet one was filled with hope and change, if you will. And the speech this week seemed frustrating. I think obviously, six years later, hes had a spirit thats been enriched by the president of the United States. I didnt feel that he was frus raided at all. In aened the theme i heard when he was running for office was diplomacies hblgt they e think hes proving that its foul ming torkt does he wish that the world were easier and that some of these problems would have proveren do be quite intract an, of k pill suz. What are your hopes and his hopes of coming up with this yeemt . Are your homed e. Look, the whole purpose of that, rely on me gauchuation and we believe that this agreement is the best possible way of assuring that. So, obviously, time will tell. A lot of hard work is going to go into mob xxing the appliance with the grievement. I think thats a positive sign. The sail thing could be said pr childrening our rehaitians with kuba. I pi poo p mooet meeting he had in new york while is with florchd. Theres absolutely the om must recall possible of encagement is to make the wo tech nol is pricking under the circumstances all closer nrntd face along and i think thats the template going forward. We have to figure out how to be a port of the world and not live in isolation. We cant do it alone anymore. Do you expected that president obama would go to cuba before he leaves office . These are all posztive steps to take. Well see. Lets take it one day at a time. Imthink we had a pretty