What a progressive government should focus on. Former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , Samantha Power looking at the Progressive Agenda as it relates to National Security. Democratic legislative Campaign Committee president jessica post discusses the states the committee will be targeting in the 2020 election. Liketing states pennsylvania, arizona, and texas. Hello. Good morning. Im the d. O. C. National press secretary and welcome you to our first press event. Having a room full of reporters is a milestone and attention that the we werent getting. The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. Without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we
Welcome you to our first Major Press Conference at the d. L. C. Headquarters. Having a room full of reporters and National Coverage of an event is a milestone for us. And quite frankly its attention that the d. L. C. Wasnt getting two or three cycles ago. The major driver of our growth has been our president jessica post who i have the fantastic job of introducing today. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space and is a master resource on state legislatures. To quote a politico piece published last night, they wrote, steering democrat vati to win back state legislative powers jessica post, an operative who is little known outside Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy d. L. C. C. Into a juggernaut. So without taking any more of your time, im going to turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we turned the dlcc into a juggernaut and our plan to win more state legislatures in 2020. Thanks so
Good morning. [cheering] and the library of congress and i hope you all have been enjoying yourselves this morning. [applause] we have a rather large crowd and thithis morning for this particr session. Thats why im thrilled to introduce the next program. For the past year at the library of congress you may sit down because i have a few more. The United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. [applause] inspiration to so many of us and at 4 a. M. , students from the American University camp held in front oout infront of this univd they are here to. Spent most of your career enjoying all these things and youve been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. Without further ado, she is joined by her coauthors of her bestselling memoir coauthors mary, adjunct professor at georgetown law and her interviewer today, the person you know very well. [applause] i have to tell you before i leave the stage i want to shake your hand. [applause] i want to give a because that bd be very u
Im the Senior Editor at politico in washington, d. C. I think you might be able to hear me now . Lets check this thing on the side. Any better now . Ok, lets do it. Hows that now . Better . Good. Good. We are going to do it. Thank you for the feedback, thats the sort of participation we want over the next 80 minutes, you might be able to tell from my accent im not from around here. We are looking at how we can solve problems and fix americas political system, apparently it is still broken and they need an australian here. But we have just meant to tell us how to fix us its governor steve bullock. He will join me for the first 20 minutes. We have a panel of distinguished guests and we will go into the details of working in pieinthesky ideas of how we are going to fix american politics. As an outsider, before we get started, feel free to try some innovations like not talking about impeachment for 20 minutes. We are going to talk about some real ideas over the course of the next 80 minute
Now,s we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce the next program. For the past year at the library of congress you may sit down because i have a few more things im going to say. The past years the library of congress, we have been celebrating changemakers, and i can think of few people who fit the description in the United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. [applause] at 4 a. M. This morning, students from American University camp out in front of this facility and they are here. To talk about the graduation from Columbia Law School and spent most of your career advocatingfo all of these things and youve been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. She said i would rather you say jlo. [laughter] without further ado shes joined by the coauthors of her bestselling memoir, coauthors mary come adjunct professor at georgetown law Professor Emeritus at georgetown law and her interviewer today and the