Officials in washington, d. C. For a summit hosted by the America First policy institute. The event focused on the economy, immigration and Election Integrity among other topics. [applause] top of the morning to all of our friends and engage citizens here with afpi, and particularly this morning the center for elections integrity. As you now know from video that i am Ken Blackwell, the chairman of the center for Election Integrity. Let me just say that they gave me three outstanding speakers and panelists because they know that i am a generalist, which means that generally speaking i am generally speaking. [laughing] my wife says what that really means is that you are talking more and more about less and less here. [laughing] so we have frontline leaders to sort of stimulate the discussion this morning. As i said in that opening video, the foundation of americas system of Self Governance is liberty. And of core expression of that liberty is the people having the right and the ability t
In order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We come to the end of a short week. For many the winter has outlived its welcome and the longing for spring and its warmth is palpable. May the longing for goodwill and the fashioning of policies benefiting our nation be equally manifest in the actions marking these days. Now we approach a weekend during which many members of this assembly will gather to remember an historic event in selma, alabama. 49 years ago, brave men and women, americans of all races, colors and faiths, walked together to help guarantee Freedom Still denied the descendents of those who were slaves. Bless the members of this assembly and all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans, to nurture and guarantee democratic freedoms to all who dwell on our great nation. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our resp
Trevelyan whose group ask called ngp van, he works with democrats, also joining us is chuck defeo of the Republican National committee where he serves as chief digital officer and shane daprile. Lets begin with you, mr. Terrell january, if we could. Trevelyan, if we could. What exactly are the components of a Digital Campaign . What type of tools are used . Guest well, so i think its actually evolving. I think historically the Digital Tools were largely thought of as the email tools and the online contributions, the web site, but i think its evolved. Our company, for example, also offers tools that enable sort of the shoe leather side of the campaign, so the canvassing, the phone calling, the direct mail. And then i think youre seeing many more marketing channels come online where now theres person addressable tv ads, online ads, you can actually do person addressable interactions through social networks, so i think now theres a pretty wide swath of things which you could call digital.
Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
Found ten objects, 26 feet long by 13 feet wide. Their pictures, they come from yesterday. Some officials in japan are reportedly saying they believe theres a high probability they could be linked to the missing jetliner. Great developments. Search planes had to pull back early from the search zone today because the weather conditions were just too brutal. A half dozen ships however are still out there looking. Again they have the challenge of dealing with low visibility. Theyre hoping to have the planes up again tomorrow if weather improves. Until then, experts are pouring over these images, new ones, ones from yesterday, ones from a few days ago trying to determine if objects are whats left of boeing 777. As we said, time running out. The planes data recorders are losing Battery Power if theyre working at all. Theres new concerns theyre not. Well tell you in a minute. The chances of finding pings are growing slimmer by the day. John is with us. A former pilot and criminal investigato