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
through this process that they will schedule hearings should the investigation warrant. the investigation goes on and we have some anticipation that we were closer to the investigation right now. but the fact is, witnesses continue to come forward. so we are reserving the right to do more hearings as these but nurses come forward, and i think hopefully we will have a lot of work remaining to do. one of those witnesses s patrick burn, the former ceo of overstocked.com. he testified before the committee earlier today after his name come up at tuesday s hearing. witnesses for the committee testified that he was at an unhinged oval office meeting in december 2020, along with rudy giuliani, sydney powell and michael flynn. what is a former furniture ceo have to do with january 6th. here s what former white house counsel pat cipollone told the committee on tuesday. [inaudible] and i walked in and i saw sydney powell looking there and i was not happy to see the people in the o
the investigation warrant. we are far from wrapping up our work. the investigation goes on and we have some anticipation that we we re closer to the and of the investigation right now. but the fact is, witnesses continue to come forward. so, we are reserving the right to do more hearings as these witnesses come forward, and i think hopefully we will have a lot of work remaining to do. one of those witnesses is patrick byrne, the former ceo of overstocked. com. he testified before the committee earlier today after his name come up at tuesday s hearing. witnesses for the committee testified that he was at an unhinged oval office meeting in december 2020, along with rudy giuliani, sydney powell and michael flynn. what is a former furniture ceo have to do with january 6th. here s what former white house counsel pat cipollone told the committee on tuesday. i opened the door and i walked in and i saw general flynn and i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see
murder for 78 minutes, has not yet explained that decision. three weeks ago arredondo was elected to a second job as a member of the uvalde city council. he intended to continue to serve of as the chief of police for the uvalde school district while serving on the city council. peter arredondo was scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow as a member of the city council at a meeting of the uvalde city council. earlier today, that uvalde city council meeting is scheduled tomorrow was cancelled. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside robb elementary school in uvalde. they touched the photos of the 19 murdered children and the two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives of those children. president biden and first lady jill biden attended sunday mass in uvalde at a catholic church filled with mourners, including some of the family members of the victims, and as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with the president
Democrats 2027488000. Republicans 2027488001. Independent 2027488002. Join the conversation on facebook or twitter. We will get to your phone calls in a minute after this news update from washington. Politico, party of two. Politico magazine, how the two came together for this election cycle, he writes that one of the most important it hidden storylines of 2016 has been the obama effort to shape a race he is not running in an antiestablishment environment he can no longer control. For the past two years he has worked quietly on clintons behalf, never mind the not so convincing line that he was waiting for the democratic electorate to work its will, offering his former rival strategic advice, share his top dispatched his, top political adviser to calm the clintons during that not so infrequent freak outs over the performance of their staff. The one thing he would not do is endorse her before she cleared the field. Were darkest after her devastating defeat to senator Bernie Sanders in ne