It is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, Congressional Staff, and thought leaders. Thank you for joining us this morning. It feels a little bit like a family reunion, but this is more than a reunion. It is more than an average think tank conference. We all have an urgent task before us, to be ready to advance the Progressive National security and Foreign Policy agenda on day one of a new presidency, should we be so lucky in november. It is obvious there will be a lot of repair work to restore americas leadership in the world after donald trump. The last couple weeks have shown what danger might lie ahead. It will be no small task to fix from the has broken, erosion of our National Security institutions, to our credibility around the world, to the rampant corruption across our Foreign Policy. But today is not really about trump, and it is not about returning to the status quo. We need to be ambitious about an agenda that advances our interest and refle
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
Progressive government should focus on during its first 100 days in office. Good morning. Welcome to the Cap National Security conference. It is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, Congressional Staff, and thought leaders. Thank you for joining us this morning. It feels a little bit like a family reunion, but this is more than a reunion. It is more than an average think tank conference. Advocates, Congressional Staff, and thought leaders. Thank you for joining us this morning. It feels a little bit like a family reunion, but this is more than a reunion. It is more than an average think tank conference. We all have an urgent task before us, to be ready to advance the progressive National Security and Foreign Policy agenda on day one of a new presidency, should we be so lucky in november. It is obvious there will be a lot of repair work to restore americas leadership in the world after donald trump. The last couple weeks have shown what danger might lie
National security correspondent for politico. Then what would be next to her is matt, our boss who is global editor at political and privacy editor in chief of politico. And had been at the wall street journal before that. Last but not least is editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine. Delighted to all three of you here. Welcome to you. Matt has been here before but a warm welcome to you as well. Im going to jump in and natasha will join us when she arrives and i want to start with the latest developments of this year, and that is a situation with iran. I wanted to ask it to do maybe jonathan i will start with you if you dont might and they will come back this way and reverse the flow. How do you think the president has handled the situation with iran . First of all thank you for having me here and thanks to all of you for listening. I had a funny thought today which i never expected to enter my head, which is if iran doesnt respond any further than it has today, or yesterday, and if
Us. The president decided the United States knock longer tolerate the corruption of the next can drug cartels and the deadly consequences of the tens of billions of dollars of Illegal Drugs those cartels smuggle across our southern border. President trump ran on an agenda of securing the border. Since taking office, the president has done just that. The Trump Administration working tirelessly to stop the flow of Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Drugs working with central mayor scan governments and members co, cracking down on caravans and false asylum seekers. The president s pressure on the Mexican Government led to 27,000 mexican troops on the borders helping curb illegal immigration to the United States. But as aggressive as mexico has been on cracking down on illegal immigration, the government of mexico appears reluctant to take the same aggressive posture to fight the violence of the drug cartels. 80 of mexico is controlled or disputed by the cartels, even though the murder rate in