The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no
Senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends at 10 00. To we will email pictures all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you would like to ask a question, please send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. Mr. Perez. The floor is yours. Perez thank you for the additional invite to come back. It is an honor to be here with all of you. Two and a half years ago, february 2017, i ran for chair of the dnc, and iran under the promise that we were going to Work Together with our partners in the democratic ecosystem to build a 50state party so that we are competing everywhere, every year, in every zip code. And we are doing ex
Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International and john thomas glad to have you with us. Or 2 congressmen one republican and one democrat have tabled an amendment to block any strike on iran without the approval of congress came on the same day that donald trump posted a threatening tweet against iran. And run a new thing the memory with great fools and some a ruse. To reach all that was trump on twitter talking about possible obliteration in response to iran if they were to attack the United States harsh words well it is interesting to note that recently the United States did come apparently 10 minutes away from a strike against iran apparently there were 3 locations in iran that were to be hit by a u. S. Military strike however trump called off the strike 10 minutes prior to it taking place now that was in response to iran shooting down a u. S. Drone now this drone that iran shot down iran says it was in their territorial waters they were defending the t
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