Announcer in response to the opening meeting of the president ial committee, the Democratic National committee criticized it and question the justifications for this is half an hour. All right. Good morning, everyone. My name is michael blake. I am one of the vice chairs for the Democratic National committee. Thanks for joining us today. We are grateful we are here with our chair of the commission, and the president of let america vote, congressman terri sewell, who is the vice chair of the commission we have which i will talk about the moment. Secretary of state from california is here to join us. We are here because, as we know, President Trump has brought forth a commission, they will be having their first meeting today, around the myth of voter fraud. We consistently and regularly reject that. Our job should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder. And so we have come forward to create a commission that is focusing on, what are we going to do to protect the opportunity f
Announcer in response to the opening meeting of the president ial committee, the Democratic National committee criticized it and question the justifications for this is half an hour. All right. Good morning, everyone. My name is michael blake. I am one of the vice chairs for the Democratic National committee. Thanks for joining us today. We are grateful we are here with our chair of the commission, and the president of let america vote, congressman terri sewell, who is the vice chair of the commission we have which i will talk about the moment. Secretary of state from california is here to join us. We are here because, as we know, President Trump has brought forth a commission, they will be having their first meeting today, around the myth of voter fraud. We consistently and regularly reject that. Our job should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder. And so we have come forward to create a commission that is focusing on, what are we going to do to protect the opportunity f
Where grateful we are here with jason kander viewers are chair of our dnc commission and also the president of let america vote. Congress than terri sewell who is vice chairman of the the commission will talk minimum. Secretary of state from california alex padilla and congressman joe queen castro. We are here because we know President Trump has brought forth a commission they were having the first meeting on today around the myth of voter fraud which we consistently and regularly reject. Our job should make it easy for people to vote, not harder. And so with comfort to create a commission that is focusing on what of it going to do to protect the opportunity for americans to vote all across the country and all of the time. We will be here to making sure we provide consistent response back on whats coming from the Trump Administration. When you have leadership such as chris who is demonstrated regularly of trying to find more ways for people to difficulty devote is recently pushing back
President of let america vote. Who is here, our vice chair of the commission that we had well talk about in a moment. And congressman castro is here to join us today. Were here, because as we know, President Trump has brought forth a commission, theyll have the first meeting today. Around the myth of voter fraud we consistently and regularly reject. Our job should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder, so we have come forward to create a commission thats focusing on what are we going to do to protect the opportunity for americans to vote across the country and all of the time. Well be here making sure that we provide consistent response back coming from the Trump Administration. When you have administration, such as chris, trying to find more ways for people to have difficulty to vote is the reason were pushing back in this manner. Were expanding the work under our vicechair Karen Carpenter peterson, overseeing Civic Engagement and voter participation. Finding more ways to
Joining me this morning is deborah brown, member of the Naacp National board of directors from virginia. Deborah brown, please stand. Lets give her a round of applause. [applause] now will everyone please stand, everyone please stand for the invocation which will be given by reverend dr. Harold carter, pastor of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in baltimore maryland. Lets all give him a of applause as he comes out. [applause] my dear friends, lets bow our heads and humble our hearts. Before our god. We thank you as always, gracious god, for the gifts of life, for the gift of another day. We still our hearts in your presence because only you have brought us through the night. And we say thank you. And our gracious god, we lift the language of the song that he could basis of the day that you have made and were here to be glad and rejoice in it. With all of the gifts and talents that you provide us with an grant to us, we know that one thing we cannot do is make a day, but we are grateful th