Good morning. I am linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Welcome and congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez is from buffalo, new york. He earned his bachelor degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. After graduating he served a number of government positions, clerked for a federal judge, was a prosecutor for ted kennedy, worked in the office of civil rights for president clinton, and in 2002, became the first hispanic member of the Montgomery County council in maryland, then serves as marylands secretary of labor. In 2009, president obama named mr. Perez head of the Civil Rights Division at the u. S. Department of justice. In 2013, president obama made him secretary of labor, and in 2017, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record h
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
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
abortion, about which party gets your vote on policy. but there are also some new polls that at the same time hammer home the deep, deep alienation with the current president of the united states. you re watching cnn s special live coverage, election night in america. i m abby phillip in washington. and i m laura coates. here in new york. i m abby. if you re a democratic consultant, this should be a good night. cnn projects that kentucky s democratic governor is going to win against a rising republican star in a state donald trump carried by 26 points. now voters in red ohio approve abortion is still a very powerful motivator. tonight, cnn projects they said yes to enshrining abortion access in their constitution. and yet new cnn poll numbers confirm just how high a hurdle president biden faces with voters heading into 2024. talking about young voters, independents, black voters, latino voters. that s really the core of the biden coalition. and one year out from the president