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
Patriotic slogans and lots of boys on scooters just kind of really taking this chance to take over the streets and theres you know just droves and droves of scooters young young people who really dont have a part in this government this country who dont have jobs who dont have education who are just fed up with the very miserable state of affairs in this country very hard living on without electricity without water with constant pollution without with now theyre raising taxes people are feeling very squeezed and this thing with the whatsapp putting a tax on whatsapp was kind of the last straw because. People whats up with the only thing working in the country some people say was one of the few things that you know poor kids and regular folks in lebanon you know rely on for their entertainment or their communication and so you know the government is seen as really overstepping and speaking of the government as we wait for the Prime Minister to come out and speak there are some demonstra
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