Monitor. Perez,st today is tom chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance. So welcome, chairman perez and congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york. Son of immigrants from the minnick and republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. After graduating he served a number of government positions. Clerk for a federal judge, with a federal prosecutor, advised senator ted kennedy, directed the office of civil rights and hhs under present clinton. He became the first hispanic member of the county counsel in maryland and then served as marylands secretary of labor. Named 2009 present obama 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 into thousand 17, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee. Which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. W
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
We are mostly volunteer run so when you see someone with a name tag and pink shirt say thank you to them for volunteering today. My name idsassi is. The book tent is by the book signing area. If you want to drop by. Im the author of the novel start with a backseat which housekeeping kind of announcements. Should silence your devices. We hope you are following gps on Facebook Twitter and instagram. When you post about the festival, please use the Hashtag Hashtag dbs. Your feedback is very valuable to us. Surveys are available to us at the tent. At this tent over here, and every tent really. So when you are done with your time here, please drop those off or you can visit that website afterwards. By cementing a survey, you will be entering a drawing to get a 100 visa gift card. Thats a great thing. Rob will be signing books immediately after the presentation. Copies of his book, are on sale in the tent which is right there. A quick word about buying books, this is a free event, but it doe
If look over to the left, can you see some scrape marks on the wallu of the tel. Police were looking at those earlier. Perhaps they have something to do with the crash or t altercation that led to this shooting. Again, this happened around 3 00. This is t o heart rush hour. The third street tunnel northbound has been closed down for about two hours. Ive got to give you one other thing. This is the lookout. The lookout that they are asking people to see. Its a lookout for a gray honda accord with a bik. Rac they believe theres a man and a woman in this gray honda accord with a bike rack. They believe the woman was the driver, the man the shooter. Were on the scene. Well keep you posted of any more developments. Now back to you. Pat collins, thank you, pat. We have more breaking news this time out of Fairfax County where chopper is over the scene of a tractor Trailer Crash in the vienna area. Hunter mill road, this is near hunting crest lane. Its closed because of this. That truck hit so