[inaudible conversation] are you ready for whatever happens. Absolutely. All right. Welcome everybody. Not just those of you in the room but people who are watching this live on cspan, we are glad to have you here. I know by now we been in this generation long enough i dont need to tell you to turn off your cell phones or turn off the sound, but do, if you dont mind. I want to welcome all of you here, but also i want to call special attention to two groups of students here at the aspen institute. We have students here and from the charter school. Welcome. When we get to the q a asked questions and we hope you will. Let me start with a little story to get us started in this experiment that we live in that is so constantly contentious and uncivil. I run a program that we started at the institute 12 years ago. Its called the Hotel Scholarship in public leadership. What we do, i will be very brief, we go out every year and we find that 24 top Young Political leaders in the countr country.
It will put your name on all their advertising. You guys ready for whatever happens . All right. Welcome, everybody. Not just those of you in the room but people watching live on cspan. We are glad to have you here. I know by now we have had in this generation long enough that i dont need to tell you to turn off your cell phones or turn off do if you dontyo mind. I want to welcome all of you here but i want to call special attention that we have two groups of students here here at the Aspen Institute. We have a very Exciting Program on youth engagement. We have students here from the beret school. Where are you . The Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for public part of see that public policy. School for public policy. Where are you . When we get to questions, we hope you will. Let me start with a little story to get us started. In this environment that we live in which is so constantly contentious and uncivil. I run a program that we started at the institute 12 years ago. It is called
It will put your name on all their advertising. You guys ready for whatever happens . All right. Welcome, everybody. Not just those of you in the room but people watching live on cspan. We are glad to have you here. I know by now we have had in this generation long enough that i dont need to tell you to turn off your cell phones or turn off do if you dontyo mind. I want to welcome all of you here but i want to call special attention that we have two groups of students here here at the Aspen Institute. We have a very Exciting Program on youth engagement. We have students here from the beret school. Where are you . The Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for public part of see that public policy. School for public policy. Where are you . When we get to questions, we hope you will. Let me start with a little story to get us started. In this environment that we live in which is so constantly contentious and uncivil. I run a program that we started at the institute 12 years ago. It is called
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To engage and be a part of a process. Yeah. Its all about winning elections. I got about 763 of the 900 seats in 2010, but as i look back on that the question then becomes what did we do with that . What did we learn from it . Thats the space we find ourselves in and challenge both parties have to realize. As things have developed more recently you have chosen to do those jobs from the top of the establishment we had the virtual anointment of all of the party leaders, all of the establishments that Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee. There was no question about that. It was from somebody that wasnt a democrat. You had, you know, somebody who had never been really a republican and they knew it would be rubio depending which won the florida primary. So does the party itself really i mean i see how you can be an advocate for points of view but does it the ability to shake what ends up on the ballot representing the party . You know, you cant show up and all it an organizing strat