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On behalf of the members worldwide, i would like to and those ofpeaker you attending todays event. Our head table includes guest of our speaker as well as working journalist. If you hear applause, i will note the members of the general public are attending, so not necessarily evidence of lack of journalistic objectivity. We always put that disclaimer in because it is important to do so. I would like to welcome cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on the. Using we will have a question and answer time after lunch. Many questions as time permits. Now time to introduce our head table guests and asked each of you to ask it stands briefly. From your rights, Senior Vice PresidentThomas Jefferson waterman international. Until iold the applause finished. I know you are eager to do so. Eric smeltzer. Our friend has excellency ambassador to south africa ....
I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr ....
House democrats on the Judiciary Committee said two things. They dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members of get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director, the c ....
The president himself has talked about the conversations publicly on twitter and in a letter that he and james comey had. Basically, as it stands, theres a lot of question whether he could or not. The white house is reviewing this issue. House democrats on the Judiciary Committee just released a letter saying two things primarily. First and foremost they dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer yet. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate he ....