relatively small but owning population in north carolina, wisconsin. not only the large states like colorado or just double digits in voting by latinas but some of the other states were starting to see more and more of influence on the state elections and senate elections et cetera, and all the way down the ballot. so the latino population writ large, latino voters become more and more of a factor in elections, i think it really, the key to the council more 2016 and beyond, it's really with leigh keno communities. so i think that it's an excellent position and all the elections going forward. >> terrific. any questions from the media in the room? kim from politico. >> hi. thinks are holding this event. on the issue of executive actually details emerging on what they're considering, looking at some sort of -- five

to 10 years is tossed around. [inaudible] does that fall short of what advocates are hoping for and looking for from the president? >> yes. [laughter] >> well, i mean, i think you know most of us, look, daca which was done, was a tremendous success both in terms of helping real people and as a little move in a tough election season, you know, it was based on the dream act which had been defeated in a close vote months earlier, actually in late 2010 in the lame-duck session. we think the senate bill which passed on a bipartisan bill basis would be a good template

to use for, has bipartisan support, very clear criteria, who would qualify for legal status. but that would be a good basis. it looks unlikely that that's going to happen, but i think the administration should be well aware that if it goes small it's going to get as much grief from republicans as if it goes big. into the goes big it's going to get a lot more love from immigration reform movement, the latino committee and other constituents are asking for it than if they go small. we would encourage them to go big and bold, edited by the end of the year and to include as many people as possible. >> now another question from the live stream. >> this one is a two-parter. at least a couple of people who were engaged in get out the vote drives dolby during the campaign season that they were registering more the tenets and although they were hearing about executive action, other issues

are bigger concerns with the people they met during canvassing. so with the polls findings of small d democratic support, can you tell me what happened between what canvassers were hearing and the lighter democratic support? the second part is, and because, and can you review whether you think in some races such as colorado, republicans made gains with latino voters? >> let me try -- >> we have a lot of -- >> i would just had answer may be both with the colorado example and maybe matt or gary can go for the. but i think that for us, you know, this result in the poll that showed at least what, 45% of latinos didn't know that senator udall, his position on immigration, is that if all of latinos or voters can or is that a fault of the campaign and the candidate? i think there's a lot of

questions to be raised in all of this, and i think there's no question that for us in the latino community who care about civic engagement we believe where to register more voters, make sure voters are educated on the issues as they go to the polls. but campaigns and parties have a responsibility, and candidates have a responsibility. and if they're not doing their part to educate key voting constituencies on their positions, that is a failure on the candidates apart more than anything else. so i think there's a lot of responsibility to be taken out there on many fronts, but i think folks need to be looking at what do the campaigns do, what did the parties to come and what did they candidate due to invest and to engage the let keynote voting locks in that state. >> if i could bring in the immigration campaign manager with the afl-cio, a multi-issue

group that is a daemon is about of canvassing and voter mobilization. would love to get your take on this question of what were you hearing outdoors, what were you hearing from latino voters? >> thank you. as you say, yes. but before content i want to say thank you for this information, this day is for important not only for latinos is how we're going to move forward the progressive movement in this country. thank you to let keynote decision for acts of work, nclr, we look forward to look forward and what they provide to the latino committee and we work with the coordinated work in florida but i just got back from miami that i was working there with a group, no today was a tough day for those with their working, we will work very hard. i think people like myself and many people at this table we been fighting frankly 30 years. probably a little bit more than that.

but we know this fight is long. we know it's not an easy one, and we know we're going to see casualties along the way like the deportations that we see. it is tough but that doesn't stop us because we have that the only way out is to continue fighting. so we have learned that despite will depend on legislation, a cycle. we have to every to commit ourselves to continue moving forward and fighting. the message we receive at the doors, most likely voters, it is that that they also want to see action. and want to see those that they've elected cycle after cycle. they also want to see that there is a clear path to our the going to do. so this tells us that the latino community, the latino voters are not just doing this because it aren't liking one party or candidate. they are following and putting a lot of attention to the issues

but a lot of people were like informed about what best different candidates have taken to move forward the issues that they care about. and they know when they have or not. they were expressing that the doors. we think that they understand that, that they understand the power but we also think because it -- because i saw the doors that we need to do more to reach out. as janet just it would also need to ask the candidates and the political parties that they have to do a lot more outreach to our committee. la familia vote has done this for years and we know they've been there. so with that the afl-cio who's been working, as frank said, multiple issues but immigration is an important issue because it's an issue of equality, it's an issue of human rights for workers rights. we're going to continue.

yes, immigration reform, it is we know that not until we get a legislation we will get there, but action must happen. we have been saying this for almost a year and half and we will continue. this election is only going to renew the afl position on continue working on this one, not just because it's important to our members and workers, it's because it's the right thing to do. the more valuable thing i would say for the community, latino community, it is that we know we have to continue pushing, that we will do it. and you know what? we would not elect somebody because they have a d. or an r., or because whoever our relationship. we're going to elect people that are going to fight for the issues that we care about education and immigration reform. the message to the white house is we need you to act.

that the afl message, you know what? every single door that i visit in florida, people, first generation, second generation, very young voters were saying we don't want our parents to be continuing living in this country with the threat. we don't want threatened just because a good worker just because we're going to the park. we want that freedom and that's of the latino will define how we will continue what it is. thank you, frank. >> thank you, yanira. ben, let me bring you back in the u.n. colorado and that huge operation at the. what did you at the doors? is immigration the defining mobilizing issue? isn't not that important to some voters? how would you answer that question? >> basically, the immigration is one of the most important issues to the latino committee. we knocked on about 70,000 doors. we made about another one and 50,000 phone calls to our committee. and this is an issue that's

important to them. i just want to get us back to the question i think, frank, is what happened doing what we're hearing at the doors and what people ended up doing in the election? i agree with janet and with yanira. our job is to get people out to the polls, to continue building the political power, and i think we have done that. who wins the elections, i believe that is part of the responsibility of the elected officials, those want to be elected to let us know why she should we vote for them and why not? we have done a lot of talking about what happened in colorado. quite frankly mr. udall did not embrace our community into a little late in the game. there were some people at the door who were saying they will not vote for mr. udall because he's better than the other guy but not because they knew that mr. udall understood the issue of what was the issue pics i believe that we need to look at the latino community vote, not as a democratic vote. we are part of the society and

part of this democracy. our participation is growing in bigger numbers, and so i get strong recommendation to the political party and to the elected officials. but if you want our community to vote for herself and for the political party, you need to reach out to us rather than talk to us. >> terrific but if i could've want to bring in -- naleo just for a different perspective. naleo does a lot of work on a lot of issues but its primary purpose is to motivate latino political participation, and there's an interesting is on the front of latino candidates emerging as victorino last night. thank you all for inviting naleo to be part of this effort. i'm going to say something a little bit extra in addition with other groups have been doing, but as you know naleo has been of our hotline because we been writing monday and tuesday will be taking a look at the calls that we receive through our call centers across the nation. we're providing information to

latino voters about, you know, whether that questions are whether they need to vote on whether they were having issues at the polls. so we will be issuing that information shortly. but we are sure, you know, naleo likes to be the happy voice in all of this. and latino candidates had historic gains last night. we have statewide offices. we have new first latina secretary of state in california first latina secretary of state in rhode island. we have two new members of congress bringing up our gains on capitol hill to whine because we did lose one office. and then we have to latino governors who were reelected. so the way we see it is obviously a higher up that latinos can go in the chain, the better it is going to be for our community. and so when we start seeing the numbers of latino voters to ask

the turnout at the polls from we are still encouraged by the fact that latinos are getting elected to those offices and hopefully we can continue to work with them to not only ensure that we're going to more latinos and will be coming out with new numbers on other statewide offices that we were monitoring, but how can we develop that talent to so thank you again for inviting us. >> nt. let's take any questions from the room. >> media matters for america. a polling question and then i had a question for the audience. a call about exit poll, are you seeing a similar phenomenon that you mention in texas with the abbot races? haven't posted anything anyway but i'm true to get your take on that for the latino voters. >> we haven't seen them. call about exit polls are massed at the subgroup level, at least they were as of when i left.

are they available now? and if they are not, can the journalists in the room is called addison research and find out why we can't see them? >> gary is talk about a very important point there, but there's a large number of latinos in colorado. they should have a large number of latinos and issued a report those results of the fact have not reported subgroup results in colorado suggest that perhaps they don't have confidence in results. maybe they don't jive with other things that seem. there's a lot of polling discussion about colorado. we went in and that is what in terms of methodology. we would hope that they can learn from the mistakes, but as we pointed out in texas we know there's some major inconsistencies. [inaudible] >> what do you say to people, leaders out there who don't latinos not to vote in elections? does that help or hurt passing

immigration reform and other issues? >> i have a feeling will have a consensus on this one. >> i sure know léo's permission -- naleo's opposition. those he would tell you not to use your voice, not to vote are dead wrong. and i've negative feelings about the midterm election because i feel as if our community by not using its voice has delegated the authority for a future to group of people who clearly do not have our best interest at heart. and so by not voting we have representatives now to come and i wish i was as optimistic as janet on this issue, who i question whether they will take the action necessary to help us

with the defining civil rights and human rights issue of our time. i do think it is right to expect that this president will act boldly through executive action on immigration reform, but i don't think that you can lose sight of who your friends are and who your enemies are, right? they used to tell me. [speaking spanish] right? and so by not voting -- that's right. you now have a circle of friends have been elected to congress and to have been elected to the senate, who there's a high likelihood do not have your best interests at heart, and that is the result of not voting for your own issue. or your own candidates. >> i would just say, look, for us at nclr, i can always speak for them, i can't always speak for nclr, but we are a

nonpartisan organization. we have said all along we just want to grow the vote of our community. we want them to be educated voters, and at the end of the day they make that choice. and for us it's really not about supporting one party versus the other. it's about supporting the best candidates who have taken the best position on the issues of importance to the latino community. and for us that will continue to be our goal. and i think that if you look at the demographics in the future of this country, it's going to be an important -- it needs to be, it's imperative for that to be an important part of any candidate who is running for national office, and i think as we see the electoral map changed in 2016, it's going to be an important opportunity for both democrats and republicans to respond. >> i have to say this. like we've been working very hard to get the latino to nerdy to the ultimate political power.

i think it is irresponsible to advise our community otherwise. there are groups out there trying to stop us from voting by passing laws that will make it even harder for us to participate, making laws to make that harder for us to go out and vote. because i mean, we don't get to be i just believe it is not in the best interest of the only way we're going to be able to change this immigration issue is by having people that actually can do that and that is only legislatively. and if you don't elect the people that can make those decisions because you let others who are elected for you, i think that is a disservice to our community. and those of us have been working on this issue for immigration reform, we know one thing. without political power we're not going to gain immigration reform. we are sick and tired of waiting and waiting, and the only way we're going to change that is to continue dealing with this. i can tell you that this year my

biggest satisfaction of this campaign is to have seen a lot of friends working very hard to get the vote out. one of those doctor recipients had to me, ben, when i got my doctor card, my mom looked at me and said i would like to have one of those cards in my hands. -- doctor. do you know what, brother? you worked very hard to get the vote out because he wants to protect his daca card and he wants his mom got one. >> gary? >> i think i'm under no -- there we go. one of the concerns i would have fear is that it's a false choice but in the false choice is that you either don't vote or you vote for candidates who aren't taking care of your needs. there is a third choice, and a third choice is primary politics.

and that is that if you have candidates running in the political party that you normally favor he was not taking her interest to art, and primary them. you may not win, but just simply the fear of primary tends to make politicians do the right thing, and that's a good thing. latinos are not alone in their struggle. or other groups in the nation and in d.c. environment who are struggling to get the party in which they are majority participant to pay attention to them. coalesce, recruit candidates to run against incumbents. i mean come you can do that and move the party in your direction. so i agree with everything that folks say to absolutely when it comes down to it you've got to vote. but you have to vote more than just in the general election. but you have to vote when there's an opportunity to hold even politicians that claim to be on your side accountable. >> excellent.

all right, any other questions in the room? nelle, good. >> exit polls have colleges comprising 14% of electorate which is the same number of such an eligible voters. how accurate -- how accurate do you think assist? >> the exit poll estimates of the election share are just estimates, just guesses. they do take into account the census data if you take into account whether or not they are seeing more or less of different subgroups filling out their ballots on election day. but those are often revised. what gets posted on election night might look very different two weeks without when the final votes are in. and so those are just estimate parameters but it's not the actual exact number. we will have to wait for precinct level data to the best thing you do is look at actual precinct level data, how many votes were cast. did they were cast. did they come from majority latino communities or not? but we don't put a lot of stock into those estimates.

you really need to back them up with real data. >> we are going to bring this to a close to what i'm going to do, just can't go down the line but if you want to say one final comment before we close, please do. if you want to pass that's fine. let's start with laura maristany of naleo. >> i think we'll all be saying the same thing. and the point is that we need to get out there. we need to continue to vote. we need to make sure that we use the power of our vote to ensure that both parties know that we are watching them and that we want them to take action on the issues that are affecting our community, primarily immigration reform. >> as i said earlier, every election has consequences. i believe the republican party now has no excuse but to act in the best interest of our community and the country. they do not like how the immigration reform is, they need

to put out for some information, some work that we can do. secondly, and finally, i hope the president acts as quick as possible. >> janet murguia. >> sure. i guess i just want to make sure i clarify that, you know, there's an opportunity here for both parties to engage the latino community and latino voters. and in my opening remarks, somehow it was interpreted let teams will never vote republican, i want to clarify that the fact is that their policies have to reflect latino priorities. if going into future we're going to see opportunity for them to grow constituency of latino voters. and i think for us it's important to note that both parties have that opportunity and they need to take advantage of it. and i especially want to

reiterate how important it is for our community to understand that while we're going have a unique role i think in the next presidential election, it is true that we have to understand our own power and the power of our politics come and make sure that we are voting in each and every election. because we can make a difference at every level. >> thank you. gary seguara. >> with respect to executive action question, there's two reasons presidents do things. one is whether not it's good policy, and the second is whether it's good politics. it's a joy when good policy and good politics happen to overlap. and i think that the president of the united states would be well served remember the positive effects of daca and the negative effects of inaction and delay. and actually do what the policy suggests and what the politics suggest is in the best interest of his administration, and take aggressive action.

>> i will just leave you with one of the stories i think is relevant to highlight in our election findings that relates to latino policy and priorities, and that is the contrast of the latino vote across these elections for someone like dick durbin who got the highest vote of any candidate we recorded yesterday at 81, 82% of the latino vote. i think someone has been tirelessly fighting for the dream act, for comprehensive immigration reform, for health care expansion come for other issues important to the latino committee. at the same time we so inroads made by someone on the republican side, brian sandoval, who did just awful in 2010, had not established himself will get assigned medicaid expansion in his stake him invested money into english language learners come into the public school system in nevada, signed of the drivers permit card and started to do some outreach to latinos. so latinos will reward you for the effort. this is the state were latinos

voted 90% for harry reid and 2010 to come back four years later, provide 47% to brian sandoval. there was variation across all of the candidates. to take a look at the candidates policies and she will probably be able to understand the latino vote. >> henry munoz. and again thank you for sponsoring this event as well as you being a leader in this effort on the election eve polling. >> we need to lead ourselves. i agree this is not a blue-ish or read issue. it's a brown issue. those of you who would take away our voice, take away our vote, we need to say no. this is a moment in history where we need to realize that we live in a country that is not fair. it is not just and it is not equal and we need to harness our own power, not be afraid of him we we need to express it. >> thank you. randy borntrager. >> thanks to the sponsors here, great work. i appreciate it.

you know, i think we are altruism fails, there's shame the republicans don't do it right by looking at benefits of policy. we need to use votes to change the folks that are there. and i think let you vote in 2016 and going forward has that power. and i think it's at the republicans own peril. >> terrific. >> what i think is, this is important for the latinos, for everybody. i think that it's a clear message for our community. we will be with those were voting consistently with those issues that are important to us. as a message for all of those that are elected, that they were elected and now they have to act and they have to act and be responsible. in response -- there's also a

call for those already in office, for those who made promises. it is that we are watching and we act accordingly how we see people react and act on those issues that we can. so a message for the white house. this is important can anybody who's any trains to be in the white house will have to be sent to her committee, will have to work with it and deliver on promises they make to us. >> thanks to all for speakers of a soldier to join us. things are all of you joining us online and to see spann, and that closes the event. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations]

>> and with most of our live programming, it is available to watch anytime on our website. go to c-span.org and check the c-span video library if you missed any of this program. coming up in about 30 minutes on c-span2, conservativ conservatis from citizens united case party patriot and a number of other conservative organizations will discuss midterm election results. they will examine what the results mean for their movement into 26 in possession election, live at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2. in just under an hour on c-span, president obama will make

remarks on the midterm elections live from the white house. republican leader mitch mcconnell's news conference is about to start any moment now from louisville, kentucky, and you will be able to see that on c-span. democratic leader harry reid had this statement for the republican leader last that i would like to congratulate senator mcconnell but the message from voters is clear. they want us to work together to i look forward to working with senator mcconnell to get things done for the middle class. while we wait for the conservative leaders to get underway we will show you more from our midterm elections result coverage from earlier today. a portion from the swiss "national journal" day after conference. this panel features former senators pane panel features for senators olympia snowe and bob bennett and former congressman steve latourette, martin frost and bud cramer. >> thanks to avoid for being here. -- thanks, everyone, for being

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i think that it's abundantly clear that the congress is going to have to move forward and learn how to legislate and govern. it's a move from legislating to governing and the the comes of concept that has to be the operative language. to be critical i believe that senator mitch mcconnell_douglas knight in his own speech and in a speech that he delivered earlier in the senate this year where he outlined how they wanted to restore the senate to what it was intended to do to govern and deliberate and the legislative initiative to have the robust debate on the policies we have the committees considering the legislation marking it up and reporting it to the floor.

on the broad issues that face this country it's returning to the senate to its original purpose in founding and i believe that that is going to be the underlying objective moving forward. >> does that mean the house house and the senate republicans will be coming together and seeing what he will do or do you think they will be willing to pre- agree ahead of time on the confrontation? stomach when the president is meeting with the bipartisan leadership that is the first step in the process both the president and the congress have to learn to work together to develop political compatibility on the issues that matter to the country and to synchronize that agenda. obviously there are areas they differ but we have to find areas of common ground reaching agreement on critical issues to move the country forward most especially when it comes to the economy and also on the budget.

in that standpoint it would be prudent in mind for the republican leadership and the president to be able to work on some of these critical issues both in a lame-duck getting what needs to be done on the groundwork for the new congress and then with the new congress beginning obviously establishing those years they agree perhaps they can find areas of critical issues immediately such as repealing medical device tax for example or infrastructure some of the issues that matter and then moving forward to develop a budget to pave the way for tax reform and entitlement reform. >> if i could ask another two big issues people wonder if they are right get bipartisan agreement. i am curious to last nights results make either of those deals more likely? >> the former congressman

congressman tom davis and i have written a book about a congress that's going to be out in january and you will hear more about it at the time you've correctly identified the two toughest issues which will be the test of whether you can have bipartisan cooperation. tax reform is a very difficult issue because you have a lot of special interest and to try to resolve this issue will be a test. immigration reform is a horribly complex issue. i often tell people that immigration reform makes social security reform look like a walk in the park. it's so difficult to come to grips with, but those are the issues that will be the test of whether you can have true bipartisanship. i was in congress in 1986 when you did have the last immigration reform passed. it wasn't perfect and it took a

long time to get it done. the role of the president is very important because hopefully president obama will see these last two years as the opportunity to build whatever legacy he has as president and he will then want to work with the new republican leadership but that's yet to be determined how successful it will be and one of the problems you have is in the house of representatives you have so many districts that are safely republican or democratic and they are institutional forces that push people to the extremes because they are worried about a primary challenge for the far right of the democrats breathed out a challenge on the far left. very few people lose the primaries but they change their voting patterns because they are afraid they might lose a primary and that makes it difficult to meet in the center and to compromise.

so the jury is out. we are all hopeful that we like to see bipartisanship and cooperation that we cannot tell you what is going to happen. i would comment on one other thing. mitch mcconnell is a leader and i think that he will want to try to get some things done. the question will be as john boehner has a serious question how does he deal with the extreme elements to join in on this dialog and do something constructive and we can't tell if they did have a veto power over what john could do in the last congress that we are all hopeful. i'm old enough i remember the cartoon where richard nixon was elected president in 1968 and he had a clean shaven richard nixon sitting in the chair and said

everybody should get a clean shave and start new and that's where we are right now and we will see if all these folks can work together >> congressman latourette, the court congress has gotten bigger and gets a lot of attention but there are lots of members elected in the northeastern states and other midwest states who might be more sympathetic towards the partnership you're affiliated with. do those new members push in the opposite direction towards compromise? >> i think they do and if you look at new york and syracuse and a couple of the other, named for instance, you still had tea party faction but you also have what i call the pragmatists, people who want to govern and i think that is going to

strengthen the speakers hand moving forward. you will still have the caucus that i refer to as chuckleheads but if you can marginalize and not let them get sort of momentum in mitch mcconnell and john boehner you have two people that are dealmakers who can put together the packages and some people forget the rule in the house it's not that you have to have 218 votes but you have to have the majority which is 120. if you put together 120 republicans with a like number of democrats and the in the steny hoyer is a great deal maker who can get some of these done so i think things are -- we will see. if the president dances i think we can get a lot of stuff done. >> at the start of the last

congress john boehner had a little bit of a scare. there were a few members who wanted to vote against him the speaker and then there is tim. you see that happening did you see that happening again or has the past? payment you will still have people showing up on opening day that will have their ipad open and say i think we can take them that's going to be marginalized. i think the troops have circled the wagons and they've made it clear that if you look at john boehner for the speakers so that they don't get any money and the other lesson that i think emboldens the speaker is republicans establishment have done a very good job of making sure that the people were nominated and when you don't nominate, they have nothing to eat so it's all about barack obama and his record then not running against this person and that person so that helps the speaker and mitch mcconnell.

>> going over to the senate you know mitch mcconnell well. a couple things he talked about he said if you become the majority leader he would have an open floor process. more amendments and more debate harry reid isn't allowed and the issue on the circumspect is what he will do on the nominees and i'm curious to get your thoughts will he allow an open amendment process and revert to the old rules or keep the current one's? >> i don't know what he'll do with respect to the rules. i do know that he is deadly serious about returning their regular order. he made that speech almost a year before the election and i'm told from the people in the conference that members of the conference came up to him and said if you do not do what you just promised to do what we will replace you as leader. that is so easy and told to get the senate where it ought to be.

one of the things that has been ignored in the data path of the senate is in their first term. you've never seen the legislation occur in their office. they've lived with continuing resolutions and omnibus bills aimed and the blocking of regular order. they've never attended a conference of any kind between the house and the senate. they don't understand how that's supposed to be done or how the amendments have been handled. a bill was put on the floor and you have a string of amendments. you spent your time as the manager of the bill because you had a republican manager in a democratic manager negotiating with all of the people saying will you please not offering that for the following reasons or okay we will accept that and

then between the two managers people drop it in conference and you end up with about five or six important amendments that are raised on the floor and voted on and then you take the bill to conference. half of the senate has never seen that activity take place. and mitch is determined to return to that kind of world. and when you go back to that world and start to educate the people who come in who think all you do in the senate is make a speech and all of the legislation is cooked in the leader's office and then talked as a drop-in to a must-have for cr so that you as a senator have no input was rather the leader

takes care of all of that and how powerful he was. lyndon johnson never had the kind of legislative power that terry reed aggregated with his office and staff. i think when that begins to happen, all kind of good things will begin to happen. if you have to managers on the floor, republican and democrat, you have to get together. she has managed on the floor as a republican. you can't be mad that you are a democratic counterpart when you're trying to move a bill across the floor. all kind of wonderful things begin to happen and that is the number one goal. mitch has an enormous advantage that is not available to most.

he knows he's not good to be president of the united states someday. [laughter] consequentially, he will focus on the institution and making it work. one other thing that if i were advising him at this point i would say do this to get rid of some of the difficulties in the senate and the house. eliminate the sequester and go back to the days when the appropriators made the decisions based on what is needed to needed to be done instead of being locked in the straitjacket of the sequester that says we are going to lower the spending across the board without regards to any needed. all we are thinking about is the topline a number and we are going to force everything onto that's bad. if he can restore the regular order and convinced john boehner

to convince his troops lets get rid of the sequester and go back to the legislation intelligently i think it would be powerful and it is the best thing that the republicans can do in preparation for 2016 because in 2016 the question will be which party is capable of governing and right now the answer is neither one. if republicans by controlling both houses of congress and tapping down the chuckleheads i will leave you with this one piece of history. i'm older than you are.

1964 v. the nl ss after 1964 is that the republican party was doomed and it was only the question of how quickly the party would be formed to replace it because of the tremendous amount to use president obama's words. four years later they won the presidency because of all the difficulties that were there and the inability to deal with their biggest problem which was the vietnam war so i don't think they are doomed but if they come back they have to demonstrate they can govern and that means in the congress they have to legislate and that is mitch

mcconnell's number one priority >> i am old enough to remember when appropriations used to pass the bills in regular order and most of them would get considered separately. do you think all of the republic and come told congress means we will go back to that? should be back to the >> i was the teen a teen years in the same again in eternity. i was there when we did the blue dog coalition that we saw as democrats and change. i was new and i have a career threatening night. they were kicked out and fired from their positions and we did that coalition together because

we wanted to work's pil and project. and we were not there to carry the president's agenda is was than bill clinton. but to pick up the pieces and say we are serious about this. we intend this to be a bipartisan but maybe we can come with ten or 15 on each leadership and put its thumb on our members leadership. i run numbers some interesting conversations i tried to dodge that they didn't come together as a democratic group that i made it to the appropriations and back to your question a serious appropriators that affects my congressional districts getting those bills

that was important to me. i know that the appropriators oh two the day those bills can be passed, the job can be accomplished and next week we will see if we do another. the attitude is coming in off of this night the democrats had and how they begin up the pieces that i went to involve the audience, too. go see it translated by new members and members coming back from the trenches. the appropriations process comes

a time but then you have diplomats that will affect. can taxidermy addressed in a bipartisan way. i'd i chair a board called center forward and we try to bring ourselves together. the >> on the question of regular order and it was announced for 26 years we had a suspicion voting. they decided they needed to write bills in his office. we took him into the order that

is the possibility. to make it very hard to do because with leaders of the house they are not inclined to go to regular order. they are inclined to have a strong speakership and top-down operation. i hope you are wrong but you have had. there are very few centers that are there that moderate where the leadership is coming from. the >> you were in the house when bill clinton was office and one thing he did was take some spans and make deals his own party wasn't happy with and i'm curious whether you think obama might even let by buckingham's party to be willing to do things but he does there anyway.

if the president decides he wants to get things done in a bipartisan racist and he's whisking to make a risk and he just kind of hides in the white house if he doesn't take a strong role. spirit i'm hoping the president will do his legacy and try to provide some leadership pac one of the issues is the debt ceiling.

senator snowe, what do you think? like they don't want to repeat the fiasco of the debt ceiling crisis in 2011 which could have been avoided. if you think about all of the crazy things that have occurred in the united states congress, they've been self designed by congress. everyone was manufactured and if so i am sure that senator mcconnell will want to avoid getting into a major conflict on that question because we are in the worst post recession in history, period. establishing certainty is going to be critical so i'm sure that they will find a way to pay forward and that would also mean giving other issues along the way.

frankly that's what is different today than it was in previous times where. politics interfere in the second year but nowadays they campaign and that's what they have to avoid establishing that agenda so the more conversations between the president and bipartisan leadership and regularizing. they have to be essential and make the government work in the best interest. that's what the american people want and frankly all of this will occur in the process. you have to nail it down sooner rather than later and on these

questions i'm sure that senator mcconnell and speaker boehner will want to clear the decks so that they can begin anew. >> the test will be whether he is willing to tell ted cruz from my state that he is the leader and ted cruz is not the leader. he has to make it clear he's in charge and ted cruz can't be the tail wagging the dog. >> you may not consider himself as president and that is that of other citizens now be. we could have all the chambers running at once. it's not way to make it for mcconnell to move things when you have people wanting to make a fence. there is no canny politician in washington than carter and gives

ted cruz represents an unsettling factor within the republican conference. my sense of things and this just comes from conversation, he has very carefully and very methodically, very much under the radar isolated ted cruz. he didn't like they put a bag around a body. if it's expelled we can at least the tea party caucus that was going to be so powerful, we heard about that in utah and they said you're going to be able to do anything. is it yeah i'm going to have all these ideas that we are going to take them. but the time they got through it

was likely ted cruz and jim demint. he laughed and ran paul didn't join and marco rubio didn't join and all these other people we will just stay away from this. i do know some specifics of people that say he's not going to be for mcconnell and now they are with mcconnell and cruise is going to look around and there are not going to be that many people within and mcconnell can deal with this. >> we are a couple of minutes away from the audience questions. there are microphones you can stand up at if you want to line up and down for the folks that want to send a message you can use the hash tag #dayafter. a couple more minutes of this conversation and then we will go

to the q-and-a. one more question i have talked briefly about healthcare to get repealed. do you think it is possible they will agree on the affordable care act and that might get fixed or repealed? >> people recognize it's probably not good to have the votes to repeal obamacare in the opening session in january. most people -- if you look at the results, they feel there are decent parts to the act and some are really horrible part. the process was obnoxious. if it was rammed down the republican party probes and any big change requires you have a buy-in from both parties and the public by saying. i think that the smart people in the republican party get that there has to be an alternative that you can't just be though let's say it's replace and repair. so i think there is an

opportunity to do that. i want to go back to regular order and -- >> we will leave this event from this morning and go live to the national press club here in washington, d.c. where the conservative leaders from the citizens united group, team party patriots and other organizations are about to discuss the midterm election results. and audible conversations ..

and they will speak for a few minutes. then we will open up for questions. this election was rejection by voters of both the chamber of commerce and obama's failed agenda. every republican candidate ran as a born-again conservative. campaigning in opposition to obama's big government policies. once again, we see that when republicans present a conservative alternative to the

democrats big government policies, the voters reward them with a big victory as they did when reagan ran for president in 1980, his reelection in 84 and newt gingrich's contract in 1994 and the great tea party victory of 2010. however, when these same republicans present a can't we all get along, let's compromise with democratdemocrat s and pro-government agenda to the voters, the voters deal them a big defeat as they did in 2006, 2008 and 2012. the voters to the republican party a mandate to do what is necessary to undo, obstruct and oppose all of obama's efforts to ignore the constitution and fundamentally change america. no republican rant on a platform of cooperation, conciliation and compromise with president obama. the democrats, like many military leaders, made huge mistake and fought this campaign on the issues of the past campaigns, such as war on, phony

war on women, class warfare, racial divide. however, the republicans campaign on issues of 2014 such as no amnesty, protect our borders, national security, american exceptionalism, less government intrusion and regulations of our lives, free market policies of build the xl pipeline, lower taxes, et cetera, et cetera. regular conservatives ask me how can we defeat hillary clinton in 2016? i've got a simple answer. nominate a limited government constitutional conservative who is not part of the crony washington government. based on comments by some republican leaders since the polls close yesterday, they may be backtracking on repeating obamacare. it's clear there's still a major divide between republican leaders and the voters. the bible tells us and lincoln told us a house divided cannot stand. today, the republican party is still very much a house divided.

we will now hear from ken blackwell, former ambassador to the united nations human rights commission. >> thank you, richard. those stand before you today represent organizations that are in touch and integrated well with the grassroots of america. as we crisscross this country and we watched the election become nationalized, we, in fact, noticed those issues that mobilize and energized the base voters that turned out to give the republicans a clear majority in the senate and an overwhelming majority in the house. beef up national security, repealing obamacare, and stop amnesty and other forms of

lawlessness. let me be clear. we watched over the course of this campaign soccer moms be transformed to security moms. national security is a primary issue before this new republican majority. one of the things that became clear is that there have been expectations that we will have a defense budget adequate to meet the current and future threats to our country, including threats from radical jihadism, as well as nine state actors and sovereign state. what we didn't see yesterday, but we did hear from the voters was that they were sending a new republican majority to act like a minor-league republican -- or minor-league political party. they are the majority party in

this country across the state legislatures and governors in our midst. underscored this. at the end of the day they did not send republicans, the new republican majority, to be competent managers of big government. they sent a message that they wanted leaders that would put us back on a course of limited government, expanding economy that would put americans back to work, and make sure that we generated the revenue should take care of our federal government's first responsibility, and that is to keep our families safe. >> thank you, ken. next, david, president of citizens united. >> thank you, richard. i'm going to be very brief. it was a wonderful evening last

night because conservative ideals one the night. and it really proved that barack obama and harry reid have been a national embarrassment for the last six years. failed leadership, failed policy agendas, and a disaster called obamacare. so lets face it in september and october when they are trying to gut the first amendment of the united states, instead of trying to create jobs, instead of trying to fix the economy, you know their priorities are in the wrong place. citizens united come our supreme court case level the playing field and we are very proud of the impact that that had in last night's elections. a robust conversation which is what a level playing field allows really creates an opportunity for the american people to get information and

make good decisions. our future. we need to focus on doing the things that we promised during this election cycle, and that is repealing obamacare. that is stopping amnesty, and that is cutting spending, decreasing the size and scope of government. images going to say, last month i had one of the republican leaders on tv say, you know, i don't know if we're going to be able to repeal obamacare because we need to go first and foremost fixed the economy. and my message to the republicans in the house is, repeating obamacare is fixing the economy. pashtun repealing. it is small businesses that are not able to higher. it is big business are being impacted by the sheer cost of obamacare. citizens united, health care

premiums are going up by 45.5% this month. that's an increase that's affecting every business in america. if we can fix that, we can create jobs and create an atmosphere of growth and opportunity. so i'm excited about what went on last evening. i want to make sure that the republicans hear what these conservative leaders are talking about. because it is those promises that we made last night, it is the promises that the candidates made that they have to live up to. and that's what we're here for is to make sure that we help them along with the promise. thank you very much. >> thank you, david. next we'll hear from brent bozell. >> thank you, richard. thank you for putting this on.

the gop won a great victory last night because every single one of its candidates ran as a conservative, and the conservative base fearing obama's far left policies and the fact that they're destroying this nation came out in droves. voters spoke loudly and clearly and rejected big government. it is very important to stress this. not one candidate ran as a moderate. not one. and the voters who voted for these candidates are not going to stand for business as usual from republicans campaigning as conservatives and then governing as moderates. that is so because on us this time around the republicans to shrink every single winner successfully campaigned on a promise to repeal obamacare. every single republican member of the united states congress, house and senate, will have publicly supported repeal when they formally take the majority in january. that's a unanimous promise to the iraqi people to be against this. it is time to do it and not talking about it.

the republican party ran over 35,000 television ads on obamacare alone in the month of october alone. they spent hundreds of millions of dollars over all. it's a moral obligation they have to follow a campaign promise and pass legislation to repeal obamacare. as sentiment on a pledge to do. a firm pledge. the first act of the new majority in congress must be to keep its promise. finally, and move to repeal obamacare as fast as the doors of the new congress swing open. challenge the president to veto this legislation. take that veto to the american people. have a debate. republicans will win the presidency in 2016, i guarantee it. conservatives will hold each and every single republican candidate who won last night accountable for his or her promises. they need to join senator-elect ernst in making clear this is the number one priority of the

repeal majority. anything less is betrayal and conservatives will not forget. a republican can't forget winning the white house in 2016 if this is the case. pledges must be honored. the gop must reject its professional consultants and stop governing as big government republicans. this will be a prescription for political and policy failure. last night was a referendum, and the voters said enough of this. in conclusion, last night's results were not all that surprising. when the technical gop runs against big government and on conservative issues, it wins elections. history bears this out. 2014, 2010, 2004, 2000, 1994, 1988, 1984 and 1980. they were all managers were conservatives when they ran as moderates, 1992, 96, 2000, 2012 they lost every single time.

let this be a warning shot to all would be 2016 gop presidential candidates. no more moderates. if you want to keep your majority, keep your promises. celebrate today. you aren't it. get to work tomorrow. >> thank you, brent. next we'll hear from the president of susan b. anthony list. >> thank you, richard. well, the bottom has fallen out of the abortion centered more on women strategy. why is that? well, it is just the truth that women don't agree with the shrinking ranks of emily's list that unlimited, unrestricted abortion is the great liberator for women. at the center did not hold and that's why we will not see again an election fought on the democrat terms in such a manner,

where abortion is at the center of its theme. american women and, frankly, all americans are tired of the politics of division and grievance that come from the elite guard at emily's list. consider this. emily's list endorsed women chose to remain silent on the issue of abortion this election. that's unheard of. i used the only the republicans in previous elections that did that. why do they do that? emily's list and the candidates best campaigns consultants told them to button it up on abortion. don't speak of it because you'll be out of sync with your constituents. kay hagan, michelle nunn and alison grimes called devoted to unlimited abortion as a fundamental right chose to focus on other issues here clarity on abortion was the enemy for them. but as we've always said and we've seen hiding from this issue is impossible. our candidates took strong and

firm while these three women were resoundingly defeated. today, our more than 200 women speak out, activist and louisiana are going door-to-door to pro-life low propensity voters will carry on their jobs and work to defeat another emily list favorite, mary landrieu. her attempt to gain a pro-life label voting pro-abortion all along say a lot and have helped her in her downward slope. we believe bill cassidy and the ground game will help her out the door. to the extent that abortion was used as an issue by pro-abortion candidates, those candidates suffered a backlash. consider wendy davis in texas, mark udall in colorado and bruce braley in iowa. wendy davis ran from a platform of late-term abortion in texas, and it was too late. it was just too late. especially among hispanics. in colorado even "the denver post" said mark uterus, i think

we all know that, for his over the top focus on abortion and women's reproductive capacity as the defining point of her life. meanwhile, our candidate stood firm as their opponents attempted to avoid backlash. joni ernst, a pro-life mother, military veteran and longtime public servant refused to back down from her pro-life record even in the face of outrageous the tax from braley. when asked to clarify his position, braley directly lied to debate moderate about his position on late-term abortion but he just plain lied. that's one way of handling it. there's another way. literally running away which is exactly what greg orman it did when who should against senator pat roberts. of course, in kansas and they literally ran away from a voter was trying to ascertain his position on late-term abortions. and, of course, that is captured on film. i'm not lying. men and women voters alike

responded positively to the pro-life candidates who stood from a principal. they were supported by susan b. anthony list and women's because of attacks. our aggressive offense on the ground. to counterstrike the war on women we expose pro-abortion incumbents, the radical position on abortion and turnout those voters in an unprecedented ground game in arkansas, louisiana, north carolina and kansas. we had more than 7000 pro-life activists back almost 1 million contacts. more than half of those door-to-door, human to human, human through humor, woman to woman interaction about what mattered in their lives and what didn't. that was communicated. now we have a senate that is again more human when it comes to women's politics. it's reflective of the women of america are not a minority minded power elite who often cast men and children as obstacles to our success.

we are encouraged with the new pro-life senate. we will take senator mcconnell's commitment to take the pain capable bill up and to make sure that there is a vote early on in the first 100 days. we will take him up on that offer. we will not forget it as we know he will not. in attacking joni ernst last week, in summary, hillary clinton said, it's not enough to be a woman. you have to be committed to expand the rights and opportunities for all women. this attack against joni ernst, given the incredible fighter and war hero and a mother and human being that she is. the abortion centers more on women strategy is yet just because of the straight jacket style of feminism that you must complete a test before you can be considered a woman by the small group of women who have been running much of women's politics. it is dead because of the spirit

of susan b. anthony who come 100 years ago today, cast a vote and was fined $100 for that vote. she believes very strongly that she could never build right on the broken rights of other human beings. she went arm in arm with frederick douglass to the republican convention together and said we rise and fall together. she did not believe in abortion. she knew that they would burden a woman's conscious in life. she is our inspiration come and thank goodness we are returning women's politics to her model of what women in politics ought to be. thank you. >> thank you, marjorie. next we'll hear from jenny beth martin, cofounder and president, tea party patriots. >> for republican leaders, speaker john boehner in the house and presumed majority leader to be mitch mcconnell in the senate, i have two words.

earned this. live up to your promises. repeal obamacare. use reconciliation to pass a bill repealing obama's your input on the president's desk. let him veto it and draw a line in the sand. secure the border and block the president's plan to executive amnesty. maintain the rule of law and prove that we as a country, as we have been for more than two centuries, are a nation of laws, not of men. last night in the midst of what should've been a celebration, i had reason for concern because of a press release issued by speaker boehner's office. in this release of speaker boehner lays out an agenda for the 114th congress. he says republicans in the house will move jobs legislation in

energy legislation, in tax reform legislation, and spending reform legislation, in legal reform legislation, and regulatory reform legislation, then education reform legislation. obamacare is mentioned nowhere. neither is securing our borders are blocking the president's plan to executive amnesty. i can tell you having traveled from new hampshire to oregon, from nebraska to texas, from florida to iowa in the last six months and working with tea party activists around the country at the local level in battleground states and districts, there were two issues that motivated the grassroots activists that propelled you to victory, mr. speaker. obamacare and securing our border, and blocking the planned executive amnesty. one of two things is true. either obamacare and illegal immigration were left out of

this press release deliver live or by mistake. gushing deliberately. if it was a mistake, the speaker needs to make that clear immediately by issuing a revised released today on the agenda for the next congress that includes these important issues. if, on the other hand, it was done deliberately, then clearly we have a problem. the two issues that motivated the tea party activists to get the neighbors and friends to the polls in this election should be the two issues the republican congress addresses immediately. the time is now. the american people have spoken. they have decisively rejected these policies. we are calling on congress to act in a manner deserving of their majority. you need to live up to your promises. you need to earn this.

>> thank you. next, tony perkins, president family research council. thank you, richard. i first would like to congratulate the candidates, not on those who want last night, but those who were in the arena. our system works because people are willing to make themselves candidates, to get into this arena and our republic and take the hits, take the shots, work hard, raise the money, sell their ideas and speak with the american people. that's what makes our system works so i can graduate all of those who are candidates last night in this election. but also want to congratulate those who want to i want to congratulate the republicans come in particular i would like to point out the rnc and reince priebus and the work they have done in laying infrastructure, not message of supporting

candidates but linked the infrastructure so the party could be successful. i think i've covered a lot of ground and closing the gap between the republican and democratic parties. he needs to be commended for that. this what we will see in january this new congress will be the most pro-life congress since roe v. wade with almost every gop senator being strongly pro-life. this is significant. look for liberals to start searching for a new battle plan as their fictitious war on women failed to serve as a decoy that they hoped it would be in attracting attention away from the failed policies of barack obama. now, president obama wasn't on about yesterday, but his policies certainly were. the american people have chosen to send a message by republican express. they sent a message to washington that americans have had enough, and the president's

failed policies that have hampered our economy, endangered our national security, threatened our families and trample upon our religious freedoms. enough is enough. now, the inability of the republicans to take and keep this new congressional majority and pave the way for the gop to the white house in 2016 will require them to use this majority. i do not believe the american people have hired them to babysit america's demise. they have elected republicans to undo the damage done by this president and return america to a position of strength both domestically and internationally. and we stand ready to work with the new majority to accomplish these goals of making america an exceptional nation once again. but time is not on our side. the policies of this president have truly hurt our great nation. and we must immediately begin

the work of rebuilding america, both domestically and on the foreign policy front. >> thank you, tony. we will take questions. please identify yourself, and if you want to ask a particular participant, please identify who you want to answer your question. any questions? yes, ma'am. >> there was a recusal, sort of a hedging by senator cruz last but when asked if mitch mcconnell would be the senate majority leader. that presumed leader referred to the do you support mitch mcconnell? do you think the conference can consider another option? >> who would like to answer that? >> i've been around the bases enough time to know that, that decision will be made by the respective caucuses.

and we, in fact, really do plan to articulate agenda and to establish the expectations of what we expect to get done. that is our goal. that is our objective, and then we, in fact, leave it to the majority of the republicans who were in the senate and in the house to pick their leaders. >> this is not about personally. it never has been. it's about personality. -- policy. it's senator mcconnell does what he pledged to do, we are going to be thrilled, and i think i can speak for everyone behind the. we will for everything we have behind him if he does what he campaigned on. we've got to wait to see if he does it, but i hope he will.

>> any other questions? do you have a follow-up state? i will ask another. there is government funding runs out on december 11 and at an rnc press conference or earlier, they were asked if obamacare should be defunded in any spending bill comes up with a lame duck, or if it ever should be made in january. obviously, you all want a full repeal but that is not happening or that not getting some by the president what are your thoughts? do you think it should be an issue in the december funding conversation? should they be held for a later point, and how aggressive should republicans be in using the spending legislation to try to get that done? >> thirty organizations signed the letter that you should be made, ther they should be made available to you. look, our overarching objective as relates to the lame duck is that there be no lame duck

surrender. we will, in fact, engage, as we have, with the leaders and the folks who we helped to elect to make sure that nothing is lost in a lame-duck session. as we craft a strategy as relates to obamacare, we have laid out what we've said. and that is, it's full repeal. >> yes, david? [inaudible] made a terrible mistake and there was a fight over funding of obamacare in the funding resolution. ..

second, just as in 1994 it has zero impact on the race. the poll by one of your news organizations shows the public blamed republicans 39% blamed obama and nobody gave a damn. so this is not an issue. this congress addressed the will of the american people and there's all sorts of stuff not

just obamacare that needs to be addressed. there is a whole host of things that need to be addressed. anybody have a comment on judicial appointments made as part of the lame-duck there's a statement in the action that is a coalition in the different organizations across the country. this statement was released this morning that was released this morning was signed by 38 conservative leaders. whether it be fiscal issues or omnivorous -- omnibus measure

that the republicans hold the line and use whatever means available. those that voted in yesterday's election depending on the candidate and how they ran as conservatives do turn out was higher. we saw an increase in this last election we saw an increase in those over 65 so we saw increases among those concerned about the direction of the country that doesn't end today. it didn't and last night. i think what you are going to see is a more engaged electorate that's going to follow through on the vote and that's why it's important for the republicans. i was campaigning with them and they got it.

even mitch mcconnell said i have hurt you. i have been listening. the american people's message got through and the republicans retrieve on these values and issues they campaigned on its going to be problematic. they are backing them up in that brand-new position. >> be sure to identify yourself. >> who are with >> i'm an islamist and my question is about the conservatives seeking out to the population to deal with the

national security challenges that we are facing. i want to get your comments about specifically the islamic values aligned more with the conservatives we are pro-life and pro- business and pro- trade and family values and all of that and i wanted to know how we could partner and look together to address america's challenges. >> we welcome your participation in the conference. as indicated at the conservative action progress is made up of well over 100 organizations and each of the organizations to varying degrees interact with a diverse cross-section and there are muslim americans who are constitutional and work in the framework of many of the

organizations. any other questions? yes, sir. >> [inaudible] -- if obama does executive action how to stop that from the funding. what is the strategy that they are railing around right now? >> we work with a number of organizations, the club for growth and a number of organizations that have varying positions among immigration policy in general as it relates to protecting our borders and

arresting and executive overreach on amnesty we are almost 100% united. our strategy as indicated by any legitimate means necessary to stop that if it includes not funding the executive overreach we will go that route but i hope the president will have gotten the message not just republicans but the president should have gotten the message from these three terms. we did nationalize the agenda. they were roundly rejected and hopefully the president will in fact come to his senses, sit down and take a rational approach to the mess that it has

on his watch. >> the polling data shows that this is one of the tipping point issues. the american people have no interest and are unequivocally opposed to the unilateral industry. republicans all campaigned against it. promises, pledges. if they turn around and find it they are guilty of it and even worse and they will have lied to the constituents but put it into office. they would expect republicans to stand up to them and the first thing you do is tell them we are not going to fund your wall lawlessness.

>> to expand on what he said, the message that was sent by the voters yesterday was not just to president obama and the democrats but it was equally for the washington republicans into the voters spoke loud and clear and i would hope our politicians both republicans and democrats were listening. >> they were to effectively aggregate their own party. >> i think this election and said we came and we saw from the same.

the issues drove the base. the republican party cannot act as a minority party. we have 31 governors. we have more state legislator chambers they and we have had since the great depression. and we cannot act as if it is folks inside of the beltway driving the conversation. we spent a lot of time interacting, so we are not speaking from some private manual that he crafted. we are just in eco- chamber of the people's voices that we work with.

>> it is eat or be eaten and it is defined or be defined. most republican leaders chose not to try to nationalize this election so the politics are like a vacuum into the conservatives movement at the national, state and local level will step forward and took on the job that had the task of nationalizing this election around the limited government and constitutional government. when the voters went to the polls yesterday that was the issue uppermost in their minds that all levels had been communicating to the voters. any other questions? the >> if they failed to pursue

legislation is important to the voters that put them there would have been? >> we are watching what they do and expect them to live up to their promises and if they don't live up to their their promises we will do what we've done the last five and a half years, and that is to make sure that the people in washington understand what the people in the rest of the country want to see happen in the country. we want more personal freedom and economic freedom and we want a free future for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. >> that does it. thank you ladies and gentlemen.

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president obama said that his policies were on the ballot and voters were very clear in the return it has to do with the policies of barack obama and hillary clinton up and down the ballot. they lost by over 15 planes and then hillary went to iowa and joni won by more than eight points.

hillary couldn't even save the democrat in the massachusetts governor's race. we won one in the red states and blue states and purple states. a resignation with but the electric and mobilized the voters and connected with the american people. they build permanent relationships in the communities. we made a strategic decision to prioritize the voters and invested in the new data-driven ground game. we wanted the new strategy and we built the build the new site at their own game.

doctors and healthcare professionals involved in the study presented data on treatment and management and highlight areas where more data is needed to address the challenges of the virus. this takes place at the academy of sciences posted by the institute of medicine. it's about two hours and 40 minutes.

>> [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. first the president of the institute of medicine and it's my great pleasure to welcome all of you to this important meeting. i'm sad that as of yesterday we have over 700 people registered. we've limited the size to 250 in order to be manageable in the breakout conversations so a lot of people are going to be here on the webcast. we are seeing the devastating effects of the virus outside of the united states because we are seeing it entered the united states as well. fortunately the public health system responds to the virus is

robust and of the small handful of people with ebola in the u.s. only one has died. in africa the picture is different. we have seen over thousands of cases and high fatality rates. we have just heard that the epidemic is still far from where we need to be. the cdc has predicted that in the worst-case scenario over many people could be affected by january, liberia and sierra leone. what went wrong? there are many lessons to be learned is that we can be better prepared in the future. among these in my opinion is that it needs to step up efforts to improve infrastructure globally.

in fact they've recently released a report on the global health systems which make the case that strengthening the health system is the future of global health. they wrote a powerful op-ed eliminating this issue you as a key factor in this crisis. the countries with the public health systems. even in the u.s. we need to pay considerable attention to how we identify and treat individuals with the virus and prevent the dissemination. it's the importance of having the robust preparedness hospital system and in addition it is important to ensure the guidance and actions are based on up-to-date scientific evidence

we must do the best for patients, providers and society. there are many scientific unknowns where we must put enormous effort we need to know more about the transition and activation and disinfection of the contemporary services. we also need to understand how the personal protective equipment can be best used by anyone that may be exposed to a virus and not just health professionals. so there's a lot of love since learned and there will be lots of opportunity to have that conversation discussion move forward based on what we've learned. so the secretary response

together with the nih and cdc asks that we can could be in this workshop to provide information about the scientific priorities on the disease. it is a trusted, independent space that people can debate many topics open my. we've developed the workshop to inform the public health communities of the research that needs to be performed to ensure that they are on the scientific evidence to inform the public health officials and providers and the public for the most current information about transmission and other measures

that should be taken to prevent the spread of ebola. furthermore what must be performed now for the important specimens and information and data. we should aim to have a system that allows us to collect and analyze data and provide advice in real-time. we will be addressing these in more detail so we need to listen to the various points of view and identify research needs and gaps. we are not here to provide a political advice at this time as that is not the intention of this workshop. we've opened this to the world through the webcast so that no matter where you are, west africa or the u.s. you can learn alongside with the participants. we have over 700 people

registered to watch today and the videos will be posted on our website for future reference. i want to put out a slide for the planning committee because they came together it. short time in order to do this to pull this together and because the chair and all the other people who i won't have time to read all the names. this is a workshop where therefore many of the researchers have come together to bring expertise to this issue. i like to acknowledge they brought up the policy, the population for the practice and the life sciences division of earth and life science studies. i also think so many of you that come from far and wide to present your research, viewpoint

and expert advice to the direction of the research in this country. some were not able to make it because they were battling the epidemic even as we speak and because our thoughts are with them today. we have a full day ahead of us and we will dive into several areas of the transmission routes cut survival of the virus can protective equipment and behavior, waste management and the methods and at the end of the day we will discuss the urgency of researching each topic. so i think that this workshop is timely, important and an exciting moment. we are advising the direction of research where the government and other dollars should be spent spent to send the conversation to be taken lightly. i would like to turn over to doctor goldman who is the chair

of the planning committee in a meeting and she will make some remarks. >> thank you so much to the planning committee. you've done a lot of work in a relatively short pier, tim and i appreciate the volunteerism of love with the speakers who are with us today, but the felicitous -- facilitators and all of you for being in attendance. the other toward him at the national academy and also online. you will contribute in many ways to this discussion and i appreciate that. the workshop format and the purpose is to foster dialogue about the research priorities but of course not to provide a recommendation. we do the leave that it's possible to help foster research

during a response to inform the practice and also ensure guidance in the future is based on the most current science and to make sure the data is gathered before they are launched. the research will help inform public guidance and critical guidelines but we are not here to review those or participate in developing them. so the outline for the day is that we will begin with some plenary talks that will help us come to a common understanding about the -- it has already established in this area as well as understanding the potential gaps that exist and then we will split into four breakout area is one on transmission routes and exit for the ebola a virus into the second on the insect in the environment and a third on

personal protective equipment and personal behavior to prevent transmission and reduce exposure to the ebola virus and the handling of potential contaminated materials. we know that health care workers are at risk and this shows the epidemic transmission diagram from the cases that occurred earlier this year in nigeria. on this side are the blue health care workers and responders of all kinds whether kind whether they are health care workers or family care providers that have been particularly at risk requiring this disease so we know that the workforce is at risk. when we think about the risk like this in the context of protecting the workers, we are thinking about exposure and at the concept of exposure has to

do with the contact between the outer boundary of the human body and the public and one extra of pollutants in this case the virus such as the ebola virus that requires the presence of the pollution and actual contact with it and usually a quantification of the amount of the pollutants and the kind of contact this is how this is normally done. so the whole paradigm for the environmental health has to do with looking at agents such as either biological fluids or an all-around server or is and exposure routes in the case of needle sticks or respiratory perhaps and biological response such as infectious disease and/or just any responses to that infection. >> in that framework what is the

agent and we are going to learn more later today about this agent on the ebola virus and it's very interesting and dangerous. when we think about how people might have contact with it what is important to understand and this is important in the epidemic in sierra leone that documents a fair portion of the case of diarrhea and vomiting and a smaller proportion cough and so these are three ways that awfully fluids are certainly going to potentially be involved with caregivers. animal hosts are another question. we know in the situation in africa but there are animals

involved into the don't know how those dynamics work in the ecology of the disease but we don't know if they are potential risks with companion animals and so there's been a little bit of a question about what to do with companion animals into this is simply a picture of one of the nurses with her dog both of whom sent home on friday and the other one after being quarantined for 21 days. so there are basic strategies and public health he is to prevent injury and people from receiving harm and the environment and arranging from of course trying not to create a hazard of the first place of reducing or preventing or modifying a hazard all the way through some of the things that could be done in the future like increasing resistance