County democratic steak fry. We are going to show you some of the comments now beginning with Michael Bennet and former hud secretary, julian cstrastro. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Family here today, iowa democrats, if we do our job, 400 days from today, we can send donald trump back to maralago long,d, and end, the National Nightmare we are facing and save our democracy. I am Michael Bennet and it is great to be here. Thank you. [cheers and applause] i am not a career politician. I was in business saving jobs and then was the superintendent of the Denver Public schools, a large, urban School District where most of the kids live in poverty but have the exact same dreams as my kids. I have been in the Senate Facing tough elections in a purple state. 10 years ago, when i got back to washington, i thought what i would find is the bedrock of our democracy. The government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And instead, what i found was steve king. And mitch mcconnell. Characters
Thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. Part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i and looking at this. It was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. There has been a dialogue, debate within the u. S. , about how to respond to it. What the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. What we would like to do is move in the following sense. We will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise that panelists will use that term. Just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. Will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss so
Thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. Part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i and looking at this. It was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. There has been a dialogue, debate within the u. S. , about how to respond to it. What the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. What we would like to do is move in the following sense. We will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise that panelists will use that term. Just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. Will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss so
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[cheers and applause] this is amazing. Ok. You. Hello, New Hampshire democrats. [cheers and applause] sen. Warren ok. Ok. Thank you. This means the world to me. [cheers and applause] thought in i never would get into politics, but the first lesson i learned is no one does this on their own. Volunteeryou to every , every organizer, every doorknocker, every phone banker, every five dollars donor. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This is how we build a movement. [cheers and applause] and thank you to our chair, ray buckley, who makes it happen every day. And my great partner in the United States senate, Maggie Hassan and jeanne shaheen. Go, jeanne. [cheers and applause] grew up out so, i in oklahoma in a paychecktopaycheck family. I have had the same dream since second grade. I wanted to be a Public School teacher. There is. There it is. My path was a little bumpy. My family did not have any money. I dropped out of school at 19 and got married, but my big chance was what was then a