[inaudible conversations] good morning. thank you for joining us this morning at the national action network legislative and policy conference. we have a chapter here from virginia. can you hear me? good morning. i will try to speak a little louder. we have chapters as far as kentucky, south carolina, alabama, virginia, new jersey, new york city and we will make sure we hold our elected representatives accountable as we put them in congress. so now we will introduce the congresswoman from the district of columbia. ms. wallace. good morning i have the distinct honor to bring up congresswoman. i will not read her long bio that she is such a powerhouse she is now in her 14th term as the congresswoman for the district of columbia. [applause] there s more. she is the ranking member on highways and transit serving on two committees the committee on oversight and government reform and the committee on transportation and infrastructure. you cannot tell by looking at her but actuall
should lead our caucus. they want more time to think about it like the caller called in, what the constituents feel and should be leading next year. and john bennett. tells what the president feels about house democratic leadership? we saw some tweets for him on election night and the morning after. the president tweeted and said it out loud, that he thinks that nancy pelosi should be the speaker, at least post-midterm trump believes she s earned it and he said wednesday she s been out there battling. but what we saw on the campaign trail a very different message from president trump about potential speaker pelosi. he said she was kind of the leader of this effort to install socialism and throw open the borders, which he thinks automatically brings rampant crime. so i suspect what s going on here is the president would love speaker pelosi as he begins to run for reelection. she s his she is maybe his top foil and if she s in that top spot from demonstrations to legisl
very generous introduction. and i am very pleased to welcome reverend al and the national action network itself to the congress of the united states where you belong this morning. i want to thank you for your contributions to our country. you would be introduced as ranking member. something happened on november november 3. [applause] so they call you ranking when you re the lead democrat. you know, when you re the lead republican they call you chair, but we will change all that when the congress opens. we are still delighted, of course, to have you here today. because this is the first day that congress is back after the election. so you are right on time, national action network. you are on time for members of congress to hear your advice and your counsel and your advocacy. now, we are not moaning and groaning that we won only one house thus far. because as democrats we need to make full use of this historic victory. of democrats taking over the house of representatives. dem
talk about police accountability, criminal justice, voting rights and the 2016 election. community activists and journalists look at the challenges of poverty, gang violence and drug addiction in low-income communities in what s being done to address them. tonight at 9:30 p.m. on c-span, washington post executive editor marty baron talks about threats to freedom of expression across the world, covering world events and the state of journalism. early last year russian authorities were given the power to block websites without any official explanation. almost immediately four russian opposition websites were blocked. by the summer of last year, speech on the internet was constrained even further. new rules required anyone with the daily online audience of more than 3,000 people to register with russia s internet oversight agency. names and contact details were to be provided and bloggers would be held liable for anything deemed misinformation, including in comments from membe
silent it, we into grateful for that. our guests will be in conversation for a bit and then they ll be happy to take questions from the audience. we do have a mike microphone set up here and would love it itself you would you make it to the mic so we can record the questions and that would be very helpful. at the end of the vent there while be a signing at this table. you would you be kind enough to fold up your chairs it would expedite the signing and being able to get through and it out of here and make our staff very happy. at the end of a long day. then i just want to say that this is our first week of events to 2017. we have an incredible calendar coming up and if you want a hard copy of our january calendar its at the information desk and the front of the store. lots of really good stuff. and one 0 thing we re most it couldded about is we re launching i think some of you may know if your read our news letter and e-mails a launching a series of teach-in is we suspect t