President trump, but a lot of it is your partys message about joe biden. What is your focus in pitching joe biden to the nation . Our focus this week is about uniting america. Not just uniting the party, but uniting america. This is about telling everyone you have a seat at the table. We will be highlighting what we are doing to build back a better america. We will be highlighting the leadership of joe biden and Kamala Harris and this historic partnership. We will be talking about the pandemics confronting america, coronavirus, economic collapse, and our civil rights pandemic. We are going to be talking all week about how democrats are building a vision of an america that works for everyone, Building Back better. What joe biden will do. It is not just a conversation with the luminaries in the party. We are excited to have barack obama, michelle obama, and remarkable speech are speakers of that nature, but people are going to hear from ordinary people doing extraordinary things, a param
Campaign chair. We have live coverage on cspan. A little different then usual, but we are here, our whole team. We will be here all week. Our first guest is tom perez. The leader of the Democratic Party. He is also an architect for the convention. They will be here to watch the democrats officially nominate joe biden. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the convention is virtual, mostly and it will include Vice President bidens acceptance speech. You have lined up a lot of heavy hitters in the party to keep this going online. So lets talk about it. Thanks for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. It six an exciting week. Weve heard a lot about the campaign being a referendum on president trump. But this is about your message country. What is your focus in pitching Vice President biden to the nation . Mr. Perez our messages about uniting america. Not just the united uniting the Democratic Party. With had Great Success there. This is telling everyone across america you have a seat at the
David. I question the meal part. It didnt look like it was ubstantial enough. Hopefully it will keep you from sleeping. Its a council. We are on tight budgets. For those that dont know senator burr, in his third term. Senator from North Carolina. I havent sorted out whether youre in the duke rooting side of the state or the university of North Carolina rooting side of the state. Senator burr whichever one ins. He is of course part of the Senate Intelligence committee and for his sins becoming chairman,ess messagering the most complex, the most complitly changed charged and i would say the most Important Senate investigation running at least a generation, maybe two. Its not every day that a senator gets to run an investigation whether there are disclosures happening every day on the front pages of the newspapers. Theres a parallel investigation under way. And whether the president from his own party get to declare on twitter every few days that the entire investigation is part of a witc
The Democratic National committees Unity Reform Commission was created in 2016. Its meeting this weekend for its final session here in the nations capital. The committees recommendations will be ed to update the d. N. C. s rules and bylaws and the committee will consider them for the 2018 election. It looks like itll be a few minutes to get under way as members make their way to the room. Well show you some portion of this mornings washington journal, congress this week passing the stopgap spending measure, funding the government through friday, december 22. We talked about that on this mornings washington journal and whats ahead. Host what exactly is in this measure . Guest its a clean stop gap spending bill. Almost nothing in this except keeping the funding going. Theres a small technical fix for the Childrens Health insurance program. This is just kicking the can down the road until the 22nd. Host why do this now . Guest they dont have a spending agreement yet. Congressional leaders
We are going to get started. We do have a quorum. Thanks to everyone for taking a break and coming back with us. We are going to continue as we have spent the morning going through the next section, which is party reform. Party reform is a big section and obviously covers a lot of topics, so i would like to highlight the key areas. And then we are going to be voting and amending, amending and then voting each section. So instead of going through everything, we will go through section by section and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q