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about this week's democratic convention in the issues most important in the presidential campaign. >> the most important issue to me facing our country today is gun control because to me people that should not have access to guns have access to guns and that makes me feel unsafe. >> i'm a state senator here in pennsylvania. i am at my eight convention because i am a huge history buff and i love to come and be part of history and witness what goes on. i am representing my district for hillary clinton who i think is awesome and inspiring and knowing the stake of this election i think it's important to participate at every stage of the game. looking forward it to a great week. we will see you all there. >> my name is john easterling from north carolina, a 19-year old college student at at-large elected delegate for hillary clinton. i'm happy to be a delegate because in 2008, i sat on the sidelines as a young

sixth-grader in north carolina, but this year you to sit on the front lines as a delegate to the democratic national convention. >> my name is kim weaver and i am the congressional candidate from iowa's fourth congressional district. some of you may have heard of my opponent, steve king. he is one of the reasons i'm here today and that is because i want to show the rest of the world that islands are more concerned about finding solutions than they are about creating division. we want to look for solutions for student debt reform, medicaid for seniors as well as security for all families. thank you. >> i am bob a guard, delegate representing west valley city, utah. iran to be a delegate. i believe that government should work for the poor, for the common people and i decided to become a delegate this year because i want us to fight for

the little people and i wanted to make sure that utah had a voice on the democratic process. ♪ >> voices from the road on c-span. clec cyber security is the topic of discussion at the annual summer meeting of the nation's governor. the panel discussed threats to states and consumers and how cyber security impacts infrastructure. the session including remarks by virginia governor who talked about initiative in plans with the incoming chair of the national governors association.

>> now design. welcome to our closing session. we are honored to have you here and thank you for your attendance. i know we have special guests that will be introduced shortly as we have a discussion on cyber security. again, all of our guests and sponsors we thank you for your participation with this national governors association conference. while i am talking about that, let me say as the chairman of this great organization, it's an honor. terry and i were talking earlier that this is a great organization doing wonderfully good things for our country, for our respective states and it would be an honor for me to serve as your chairman this past year and looking for to having tearing take on that responsibility and opportunity

here this next year. i have come to appreciate in this chairmanship role the significance help we get from our nga staff, kind of the unsung heroes that sometimes our behind-the-scenes that we don't see all they are doing i get today make things run smoothly and on time and help us as governors look better than we probably deserve. so, want to thank the national coverture-- governor association staff. the bipartisan effort we have here, the advice that comes to us from them as we sort through a lot of material is very impressive. again, we have had productive meetings for year after year for those of you that have been around for a few years. this is my seventh year and i have never missed a meeting. i enjoy coming and associating with great governors and leaders of our country. they are doing remarkably good things, and a learning from each

one of you all from our special guests that come in from time to time and give us their expertise in council, so i'm blood big believer in this organization. how to thank scott patterson. where did scott go? our new executive director who has come with a mandate to raise the awareness of this organization around the country and help us to bring a more impactful policy discussion here i'm a big believer in states and the roles they play and frankly, i believe the states are as i have said many time they are the best hope for america and getting things right and helping us get the country going and staying in the appropriate direction. i appreciate the support we have had and i know that governor terry mcauliffe will continue the same legacy here and he understands the significance and important roles that states plainer country and i know we will turn the reins over to him

in good hands. so, with that, i would like to call upon larry hogan who is our nominating committee chair to come and report on the nominating committee. larry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on behalf of the nominations committee, which includes governors baker, hutchison on the passing and tomlin, i am pleased to present the slate of ng officers and executive committee members for 2016-17. for membership on the nga executive committee, governor malloy of connecticut. governor bullock of montana, governor nixon of missouri, governor branstad of ohio,-- i mean, iowa. what it wonder that was. our great host here today. governor mercury of north carolina, governor haslam of tennessee and governor herbert of utah as immediate past chair

and for nga vice chair governor brian sandoval of nevada and for our next nga chair, my good friend and neighbor to the south , governor terry macola of virginia. on behalf of the nominations committee, moved to have this outstanding slate adopted. >> thank you we have a motion on the floor. is there a second? any discussion? all those in favor? motion carries. thank you very much, larry. appreciate your good work. as long as we are-- before we turn the gavel over to our new chair, let's-- i would like to make recognitions of those who are leaving their service with us here and just trying to check to see who is here.

those who are not with us, but this is their last as a now exit office we have governor jack markel and jack dalrymple and peter shamblin, jay nixon. i did not see maggie hasn't. she is leaving, also. i think she is running for the senate, as i recall. let's see kirk earl ray-- is earl ray here cracks earl ray tomlin. west virginia and who we do have here, i think, is governor pythias. right there. governor, come up. we have a plaque for you. [applause]. >> right here. on behalf of the national

governors association, we appreciate your service. the governor has been involved in one of the great things in puerto rico and we all know the challenges that you face, governor. really, one of the reasons he won't be with us is because he is stepping down voluntarily, not running again to see if he can concentrate on helping get puerto rico's economy back into a healthy condition. that's a true sacrifice and eight to service. we are honored to have you as part of our colleagues here at the national governors association. we wish you well. you have done great work in puerto rico not only as governor, but prior work with transportation, utilities and it things in puerto rico. we will miss you here the end, buddy. >> thank you. >> we went to offer that to you as a token of our appreciation. [applause]. >> okay.

i think we had the opportunity-- i don't know if i am supposed to hand it to you-- the gavel. terry, you are in charge. [applause]. >> on behalf of all of the governors i would like to present this gavel to recognize the service of gary herbert's who is been an outstanding chair of that national governors association. i can tell you i have served as vice chair along gary and we have a strong friendship that shows that bipartisanship works and i think that's what the national governors association has been. he's been a german to all enlist and 12 our ideas and i have to tell you, he is been a great leader. governor, on behalf of all the governors of the national governors association i would

like to present you this gavel as a token of our appreciation for all of your outstanding work for the nation's governors. [applause]. >> thank you. >> thank you, gary. [applause]. >> thank you very much. kerry will do a great job. you are all doing great jobs states are the best hope for america. keep up the good work. thank you. >> well, thank you all today. i cannot tell you how honored i am to become the new chair of the national governors association and i'm also honored that brian of nevada will serve as our vice chair with me. we will make quite a team working together. brain and are committed to making sure that the role of the nga's influence imports all governors across the country is recognized as we embark on a new administration coming in. the beginning of next year, we

want to make sure the governors are at the forefront and the new president-elect that we meet together and talk about the issues of joint concerns between all of us. one of the ways i do plan to move the national governors association forward is through my initiative, which is meet the threat, states confront that cyber challenge. in sport for all of us picked this it initiative will highlight finished you-- initiative i've focused on, cyber security. in addition to providing states the key resources that they need to meet this threat, my initiative will build on the strong work of the nga resource center for state cyber security and an effort that i am chaired for the last year and a half with governor rick snyder of michigan. i know firsthand my work in virginia that i hit this issue right in as soon as i took over as governor of the commonwealth of virginia. to give you an example, so for this year since january 1 virginia has had 53 million

cyber attacks. that is a cyber attack every four seconds. that's 300,000 cyber attacks a day. if we successfully block 40004-- 404,200 malware attacks on as. very serious cyber attacks. we know that both domestic and foreign actors are continuously probing into full trading our critical infrastructure to access sensitive information and our systems. if they are compromised it could have a significant economic, political and physical consequences to our citizens. likewise, they continue to encrypt and attack our hospital systems and data, demanding ransom for decrypting and restoring these systems and the data. financially, cyber threat of intellectual property and trade secrets alone has cost united states economy over $300 billion

annually. yet, our ability to confront these threats is hindered by not investing in our education system and our workforce to the limit programs. we need to grow, train and retain the best cyber security personnel in our states. as a result, we are missing out on economic growth within our states due to our inability to meet the cyber security demand in the private sector. today, in virginia i have 17000 jobs open in cyber security. the starting pay, $88000. that is $3 billion of annual payroll that we are forfeiting. that is why in virginia today we are redesigning our k-12, our high schools to make sure we are adapting to this growing need for cyber warriors. one of my very first executive orders as governor, i created the virginia cyber security commission. of the commission held town halls throughout the commonwealth of virginia, which led to 29 recommendations focus

on education and workforce. economic deponent i'm a cyber crime, cyber infrastructure and network protection and most of poorly, public awareness. i am proud to say since establishing the commission today virginia has become the first state in the nation to adopt the national institute for standards and technology cyber framework. we passed legislation protecting citizens, digital identities, establishing accountability and authority now, for cyber security in all her state agencies. we developed and enhanced cyber security policies and standards and increase the crime and our ability to prosecute cyber crimes. we adopted an advance credit card standard for security. we increase the number of centers of academic excellence at virginia's community colleges and our universities and we introduced several cyber initiatives in the 2017-18 budgets including creating scholarship for service program.

if you will give us two years of state government, we will pay for your cyber gray. we also put a program together for our returning veterans. i'm proud of virginia, that per capita we had the most veterans of any state in the united states or female veterans or veterans under the age of 25 in any other state. we transition out 10 to 50000 veterans a year. we want to make sure when they come back we can hold them right to our cyber training and put them right back to work. another goal of arid ministration is to expand virginia's economic footprint in the cyber security sector. we already have a very strong base and we're positioning phrygia as an international leader in software. four days ago i was in israel and they are now going to make a major investment in the commonwealth of virginia for a new cyber information system. this is going on all over the globe. virginia's home to 27 military installations out of the pentagon, the cia, oceana, langley and the largest naval

base in the world. all of these have constant cyber attacks. our partnership with the federal government is to make sure that we protect our federal assets, so those assets stay and can need to grow. ipod's state of virginia is now home to 650 for cyber companies, the second of any state in the united states of america that represents an increase from a 450 cyber companies in 2011. i'm a proud to say that virginia was a just chosen for a new air force cyber operations squadron, which the virginia air national guard will establish at langley air force base. more than 67800 virginia's work in the cyber sector and that number is expected to grow by 25% through 2022. are aggressive approach to grow our cyber sector is a central part of our work to build the new virginia economy capable of withstanding the uncertainty of federal sequestration and budget cuts.

the aim of my chairs initiative is to replicate the work that we have done in virginia across all the other states in the country, so that everyone is best positioned. if it virginia is out in the lead on these issues, it does not matter if another state is in because as you will hear from our ceos they will go to a state with weak cyber protections and going through a back door if they want to get to virginia assets. our goal is to make sure all 50 states are doing the protection that they need in order to go forward. to do that we will go through recommendations and focus on how cyber security affects all sectors of state government including healthcare, education, workforce to. [bell ringing] development, if the structure and public safety. there will also be a series of regional summits designed to educate all of your state policymakers on how cyber security interacts with the government. the idea is to provide you with specific takeaways that policymakers can implement

immediately states. we will also develop an online resource library to help states strengthen their cyber security operations. this library will include products developed throughout the year all aimed at assisting states and creating, improving and fostering strong cyber security states. there will be templates for our policymakers that you can use as a cyber security strategy. we will have checklists for our governors are critical cyber issues and a compendium of cyber security executive orders, many we have been in virginia. just copy them and bring them back to your own states of push them through your executive orders and sample state cyber secure to policy documents and legislation that we have already had approved that you need to begin to move mediately to do yourselves. finally, i'm excited to announce that through this initiative we will launch a series of continuous podcasts featuring the leading cyber secure practitioners discussing issues

of particular importance to our state government. these will be hosted on the initiative website and through multiple podcast platforms that we have. in front of each of you is a checklist. you can use this to begin to assess your state's readiness to meet the cyber threat and to leverage the opportunities that exist in the new economy. i will not single out states, but we have been working very hard with the nga. today five states have really taken integrative leadership in there-- and they are in very good shape your 20 to 25 states have made good progress. 20 states have a very very long way to go. my point as i said earlier, if there is a weak link in the chain it affects everyone along the chain of command. in short, it's michael that a year from now that each one of you in this room while your colleagues not here with us today will be equipped with answers to each one of these

checklist items, promoting cyber security with our state not only protects arc privilege for structure, creates economic opportunities. as leader posey said this will be one area that the federal government will spend billions and billions of dollars on. as a governor, if they are spending that kind of money, i want to make sure we are getting our fair share in the commonwealth of virginia. in fact, we cannot protect our citizens without training and hiring new personnel with the skill sets to actually protect them. that is why all this need to be thinking about what we are doing in our k-12, code writing, computer sciences, in the k-12 and specifically in the critical high school years. we have with us today to great leaders who will help frame the issue, understand the role of governors as they work with the private sector. of their chief executives in their own rights. they play a very important role in protecting their companies. we had to oust any corporate leaders with us today. i have the pleasure of introducing susan story who is the president and ceo of

american water. as you know, american water is in about 47 states and joe a swedish who is the president and ceo of anthem incorporated. anthem, as you know, has nearly 100 million folks involved with that company. both of these individuals deal with cyber threats each and every day. as you know, nothing is more important for human health and clean, fresh water and millions of americans depend on utilities to provide a. much attention has been paid to potential vulnerabilities inherited the electric grid for today's discussion will highlight how cyber security affects the broader infrastructure sector. as you know, with the healthcare sector the entire industry is transforming how it now handles information and data and proper cyber secure measures are needed to safeguard patient information and guarantee the delivery of life saving medical services. both sectors face challenges,

not similar from what we face in their perspective states. we have two ceos who like most of us today did not have a cyber security background, yet they have to quickly learn about this comics issue and a spearhead new policies for their companies. they will as-- offers insight as to how we should address the issue as ceos of our states. let's start out first with susan and she will provide us a little background on our company and what she has had to do with the cyber security issues. >> thank you, governor. thank you everyone and i would like to thank the nga, the governor for making your chairs initiative. i think this is critical not just for governors, not just for the federal government, not just for utility on healthcare leaders, but every citizen in this country. this is very timely and important and thank you for the opportunity to producing in this

, also, governor brand said, want to thank you for hosting us in this beautiful city. iowa american water has served parts of davenport and clinton for 130 years. it's always great to come home, so thank you very much. what i want to do is as governors you all know and you know this and every speaker says this your chief executives, but you are chief executives with thousands of her's possibilities every day but, probably nothing is critical as your responsibility to protect the people in your states, protect them from any of the critical services that you have to provide, things like fire, police, health and human services. these are very serious things that people take for granted everyday, but you have to think about every day. as utility leaders, and i spent 31 years in the electricity industry before me-- before coming to the water industry three and half years ago. we also have to face these critical service challenges. we have to make sure after hurricanes, after ice storms,

after flooding during drought that people have the critical services they need and we work with you your states and some in the organizations and agencies in your state to do this, so the fact we are in this together. as governor mcauliffe said, american water has regulated operations in 16 states and touch will million people through our regular did operations. we have market-based operations. we serve 12 military installations across the country in water and wastewater. we also run 41 different municipal soup-- systems across the country. all in all, we're in 47 states. what happens in your state matters to us and we want to be part of solutions that you are working on and be part of the answer. what i want to do for a few minutes is talk a little bit about cyber, but from my standpoint in utilities and critical infrastructure you cannot separate physical and cyber security. everyone hears about the internet of things and it has

all of these different definitions let me tell you what it means if you are in an electric, a water, a gas or a telecom. what that means is that our cyber is not just our systems that have customer information and employee information. if the systems that run the grid. it's the systems that make sure the water treatment plants are operating. it's the systems that make sure the environment all challenges are met and it's the systems that ensure that the water gets through the pipes and that we don't have water contamination. so, you cannot separate physical and cyber security in the world of infrastructure and especially where utilities whether it's municipal utility your investor owned utility like american water. so, what do we need to do? when you look at these challenges, what are the things we have to do? i will tell you from american water standpoint there are for big things as we look at this, but i want to provide a definition.

i'm not going to talk about cyber security in general or physical security. i want to talk about a specific preparation that is being done in this country today that the nga is getting involved with, which is the black skies initiative. many of you probably heard about this. it was headed up by the department of defense, the department of homeland security and electric utility industry and back in 2013, they started looking at what they called a black skies event. what if there is no electric magnetic poles that takes out a great idea population center greater than a million people who are out of electricity for at least 25 days. how do we withstand that cracks what's interesting is that they went through the year, came back and said we realize that the number one problem, the number one threat would be water and sanitation services. how would you have evacuations of a major urban center with no drinkable water and no

sanitation services, so you have issues around diseases. i went and spoke to the group then they came and they said, we want phase two, which by the way will be released this summer of this effort. phase two will be the water sector and fuel resources during these times. what is important about this is the uk and israel were part of this effort. again, it was headed up by a consultant from the department of defense, but they very much want to get involved. when the report is issued this summer they want to have a checklist for public service commissions in every state in terms of what they need to make sure is happening with utilities and their stay, water, electric, whatever. this is a big effort called black skies. i want to talk a bit about how you approach the black skies initiative and that actually identifies or help you with the physical security and cyber security. technology, our systems-- a

cyber security cannot be an add on top of what you are already doing. detested be a part of the cyber. as we are developing, for example, the intelligent water system, which is a corollary to the electric smart grid, we have to make sure we build that protocol into every part of that technology. not something on top of it to make sure we monitor it. to test be part of the resiliency of doing that, so that investment in technology is critical, but it has to include everything around physical and cyber security from the beginning or we go back and make that part of the fabric of the system. the second thing is just like the state of virginia and some of your states have done subsequently, we voluntarily adopted the standard that the electric industry adopted. we hold ourselves to the same standards of electric, utility and the grid. it's voluntary for the water sector at this point. i think as we move forward, it would not be advised for it not to become something that every water provides and becomes a

part of in terms of the sanders. the third thing is, as we look at what we have to do, the partnerships, if you don't remember anything else from the comments i made to-- today, we all have to work in this together and at american water and our states we partner with the environmental organizations, the fusion centers that you have. we partner with the public service commission and we also partner with emergency planners. on a federal standpoint, we are able to help states because we partner homeland security because of critical infrastructure, a huge part of hours. in fact, home and secured it comes in every week to our company and test symptoms-- systems. then, we take those, then we try to make sure that we keep our system from people getting into a. we also partner, however, with the fbi and the department of defense because we do serve the defense, but also article infrastructure.

we partner with the centers for disease control, interestingly. we worked with them two or three years ago about how would we deal with in bola wasted that were to come to pass, so we partner with that us epa because of potential water contamination. what we all have to do is, we had to find intersections where we force conversations among all this. it's critical that what one person knows the other person knows and that we have open communication on critical things happening out there. another thing i am proud of is that what we do in american water, it's not the job of our it department or even our operations department. every level of employee including myself and the board of directors gets involved with cyber security at american water. in 2015, every state had an exercise with information technology. then, the executive leadership team that i lead, my direct reports, we took an all-day session and only i am the head of the physical and cyber

security new at this area was and i spent all day seen her senior executives would react to a rant somewhere, malware intrusion into our system. another thing we did then, was we took it to our board of directors and said we are going to spend two hours walking through with you so you can see how we handle this and you will hear from joe in a few minutes about actually going through this and how they did that magnificent job they did of dealing with an intrusion. another thing we did come up price waterhouse cooper has developed a simulation game of cyber hacking. the most incredible thing i've been through because it's real life. you divide up into two groups, one group is a hacker and the others the company and based on what each side decides to do you have to react in real time how you would deal with an intrusion in your system. one thing i found out from going through that is it's a lot easier to be a hacker then people trying to protect the system. whether his companies or states or local agencies, it was incredible how much-- how

difficult it was, but it was a great exercise to go into. bottom line, i will tell you that at the end of the day we have to look at physical and cyber security and the integration of the two of those for all of the critical infrastructure that you have in your state and that we have in our company's. number two is, it's not enough to be able to keep people from getting into your system. someone will find a way to get in. how we'll-- how will you handle it when it happens? and if we don't have that part, one mistake, if we defeat them 100 million times, but they get in once, then at least in our business in water and wastewater , your business in police and fire and by the way water have to make sure you have fire hydrants, so presses the whole fire protection also. we can't let that one get in. we have to make sure that when they get in that we find a way to stop them. i do have a call to action for

the states of the governor's. i think there are four things that we need to do together. number one, please a promote communication and teamwork. make sure your agencies are working with all of the utility's. make sure the utility commission and electric, gas, water that we are all doing this together and we bring in the federal department of homeland security. it's important that people are talking and sharing information. the second thing we have to do is that we have to make sure that we also have resiliency in our assets and if the structure. this is not easy. from the water industry standpoint, we have in many of our states the ability to get capital investment in real time in terms of every year, in terms of replacing pipes, which is important, but he did okay or approval to do something for resiliency that he hoped never gets used. from you as a state leader to invest in things you don't know if you will ever use or not, but it is there if you need it.

we have to figure out how to deal with that. that's not an easy task that we have to do. of the third thing we need to look at is public-private partnerships. know it can do this on their own and we often share our best practices because we are all try to do the same thing and we are after the same objective. the last thing i will tell you is we need to add us governors, we need to head of simulation exercises in our state's. six weeks ago the commonwealth of pennsylvania did a black sky simulation they brought in 130 people with federal agencies, the military, homeland security, state agencies, all of utilities all caps other for a full date and actually did a black sky simulation. if we are faced with an extended outage we can get power for 25 days, how will we keep the water systems running? how will we keep the wastewater system, sanitation services going? i think if we all work on this together we can ensure that your

citizens, our customers have a vibrant and they give you more peaceful knowing that we are ready to handle whatever comes along. >> thank you, susan. ,. [applause]. >> joe, i think sometimes people think of health. they don't think it as the traditional critical infrastructure, but it's clear that cyber terrorists out there clearly are targeting health information and it's one of their chief targets is to get it. at them, which you know has one of the largest tax in our nation's history. we have a proposed merger going on by the end of the day on most every american will be touch probably bite and some if the merger goes through. it was a big deal. i have five children, two of our children had information taken care tell me about it and what did you do to respond to that. >> thank you. it's an honor to be here with you today. it's a health plan that serves many of you.

actually, 26 states totally and we are involved in a variety of health benefits, engagements and whether it's state employees, medicaid, service related to health or medicaid beneficiaries and a variety of sorts. we have a very deep engagements in many many states and so we take our responsibilities to protect data, protect the very nature of how our members engage in the marketplace with respect to their monitoring and managing their health status, true personal health information as to be guarded. so, for me as ceo it was incredibly troubling and quite frankly, mind-boggling that we could experience a breach at the scale you mention. what's i first want to say is to congratulate the governor and the work in the commonwealth of virginia, with respect to the speed with which you took it on as a priority for the

commonwealth, the leadership that has been executive-- exhibited and now the state resources that hopefully you can take a lot of information terms of your learned experience to the marketplace. it's a phenomenal gift to all the states. let me share with you what we experienced and again in terms of kind of understanding our company, we touched 72 million lives in a variety of ways. in the majority related to health benefits, balance of the millions related to a lot of specialty services around life insurance, dental insurance and so forth. we have a very sophisticated it of the structure. in that regard, we invest tremendous sums of money in order to protect the data. what happened is about 18 months

ago we learned of the breach and it touched 80 million records. as you pointed out, probably the largest breach in the nation's history. we do know that it was a state sanctioned breach. we do know that at least by virtue of our relationship now, which is very close with the fbi , that we have been assured that none of that data has gone to the black market. that is on amazing revelation because where it typically ends up is in the hands of people that use it for commercialized purpose from a criminal perspective. that did not happen, so very please with that outcome. notwithstanding that fact, we are very concerned with respect to the intrusion in our system, how it happened and how now, we can manage our way out of it. so, let me first talk about the fact that either growth in

technology as we all know is unprecedented and now it's escalating at an even greater pace, and a greater depth with respect to social media, with respect to tracking technology, with respect to computing technology. it is ballooning at an exponential rate, so our concern and what we are mindful of is that we're focused on both regulation and policy with respect to creating privacy and security. we are focusing on understanding vulnerabilities and the levels of risk that it presents. finally, we want to make absolutely certain that in terms of managing the threats we still have as an end again the use of data that is effective for the individuals and a services that need our information with respect to health information that is used for the betterment

of care delivery and health status of all of our members. so, we learned i would say three core elements that hopefully we can probably get a chance to talk about with respect to the depth of q&a that will happen in the moment. three or four elements. number one, absolutely essential that we have to target advancements and strengthening of our culture of the company. the culture is what i think differentiates the winners from the losers in this space. if you have a culture that is totally 100% committed to protecting every member, every customer, every citizen, you have a running head start against all the ability to number two, collaboration. i want to talk more about this a little later, but what i have witnessed once our breach occurred in trying to engage with my peers in the industry how i detected this sense of competitiveness, a sense of competitiveness where well, you've got to breach but we are

okay and we don't really need to share information. i think what you are creating with respect to your work in the commonwealth and connectedness to the states is representative of the collaboration startup necessary to really get traction and achieve greatness with respect to controls that are necessary to protect our society. third, went to make certain that we talk about commitment. commitment is absolutely essential with respect to resourcing and you mentioned resourcing as one of the core elements of your effort. i cannot tell you how may times i have heard that i have a budget problem. gee, i don't know that i can get the kind of commitment i need from a superior. to your point about data, and data that we now monitor very carefully, every month we have 19 million hits that we would consider a threat.

what's interesting is that now that we have on staff 250 individuals that are totally dedicated to nothing but managing the risk of cyber packs we have many others because we have 55000 employees, every one of those employees have training and engagement that we expect of those individuals as monitoring their individual workspace, but 250 individuals are looking carefully at the 19 million that then distills down close to 5000 hits that we believe are the fairies in nature and we now have identified-- it does not sound like a lot, but it only takes one, 150 hits that are truly threats to the intrusion that we think that can create another breach on the scale that occurred to begin with. so, those three core elements

really make up the difference with respect to whether you succeed or fail in the world that we have come upon with respect to the threat that has been presented to us. so, what i would like to do is maybe just pause there and begin opening it up for questions cement why do we open it up for questions. governor john hickenlooper and then governor hogan. >> thank you for being here. we appreciate your window into this issue. certainly as people, even though resources are not fully allocated now, more governors are paying attention. how did you change culture in your own organization because we are in a similar situation yourself with a million things going on around us, but finding the time and space for that to happen and then second, and what places do you see that states can provide you unique and critical support?

>> of the interesting thing about change in the culture is the great thing about being in a water company is that our employees get the criticality of what we do. even as a utility service people and just what we deliver. we are in some ways a health agency because of what we do. what we had to do though was at some point cyber security is considered an it function. i think that is the biggest cultural issue and corporations. the computer guys will take care of it; right? what we had to do is basically showing number one-- the weakest part of our company will come through an employee who mistakenly clicks on something. so, once we started communicating that and i have to tell you one thing we do once a month, our it and we have our physical cyber security is a separate function from information technology. we send out fake officious every month to every employee to see

who will click on it and then we debrief and another thing that came out of it and this sounds like a small thing, but sometimes it's not the big things that gets the most impact what we found was some of these fish would have liked my name and e-mail, but like an extra r and people look at it and they click on a because if this big announcement. every single e-mail that comes from outside our company and our domain has a red banner right after the subject that says this e-mail is from external sources. make sure you know the sender before you click on anything. at first our employees were like what a waste i had to read this before i read e-mail and said why are we doing this. we found from some of the fake officious we put out that it was reduced 50% after we started putting that header on anything that came from an external domain. that just sounds like a small thing, but it's started to

change a culture and it also with our 6700 employees across the country they are thinking about now. they are thinking about it and thinking what should i do and to -- the helped us is getting more calls. another thing we are doing is we actually and i think this is important. we have had eight chief information officer and then we also-- one question is how do you do with the big stuff and little stuff, so we put our research environmental r&d under one chief technology and innovation officer and his whole role is integration of all things technology, operational technology, not just six-- systems for e-mail, but people running the water to met the plant. connecting a together insane technology is not separate from her business anymore. it's not separate from your business and state. it is the business and i think a cultural shift of gay people to understand is every single employee's job, cyber security is every single employee's job

and we are not where we need to be, but we continue to put that out there. >> maybe i can even go back to the driving force of successful organizations, leadership were they say three things, leadership, leadership, leadership hurt it was amazing when i learned of the breach. i got with my team and the realization was that we needed to send a very clear message to our 55000 associates with the importance of what we had run up against, which i am certainly appreciated it if they just did not know what they did not know about its significance. we made commitment to not only our associates in terms of bringing them on board so that they were fully aware of our responsibilities as a company, but also we made a commitment to our members, so that we gave to them a sense of security that notwithstanding that the breach

occurred on our watch. we were going to take care of them. we were going to take care of them with the kind of support and security that at least gave them some peace of mind that in spite of the breach that we would take care of their situation to matter what might be in terms of how someone might use that data, so let me say that for our company it began with the board. i immediately inform the board that they hold us accountable routinely with respect to audit insights, regular reports with respect to how management is managing the affairs of the organization in terms of security. we internally now have a very educated, highly expert risk management process through a it security officer. that security officer has been given to menace amounts are

responsibly and authority, not only internally, but we now encourage him to get engaged on various levels of national policy, engagement, state relationships and other societies like you may have heard of high trust. high trust is an organization that we have been part of cents 2003 and we have a variety of certifications and now, we have brought them on in terms of a total engagement to get the kind of routine inspections that are necessary for us to be assured that we are actually protecting as organization. we have retained mandy and and it is also assessing our performance on a routine basis, so we have multiple sources of certification that we are secure. that all means that our engagement in terms of having built a culture that is

protecting our membership because at the end of the day we have incredibly sensitive vital personal health information and the good news is with respect to the breach, no personal health information was revealed. it was more the demographic. unfortunately, social security information and e-mails without nature of information, but we were very blessed that it did not involve personal health information, notwithstanding that we now have a culture in our company that is highly protective of data and every associate is expected, to your point, susan to be engaged and committed to securing the organization, so that they are monitoring in their space, but also on a collective basis. so, cultural, cultural, cultural driven by leaders that get it and who are totally committed to the safety of information for our members.

without that, you are really kind of treading water, literally treading water. >> but we can do as a state and i mentioned some of those work we have to start between federal , state, local, utilities at least from a critical of the structure was talking about, but also key companies that are there that are part of this. simple things like having an exercise with a year i will tell you a great trial run and hopefully we don't have this, but we found during national disaster recovery where learning lessons about how we are not talking to each other. for example, after super storm sandy in the northeast with american water, we had plenty of fuel because 90% of our safety critical assets that serve water to 90% of our country-- customers across the country had back a generation, so if the power goes out we still a modern generation-- sanitation services. some of the local areas in new jersey and new york and pennsylvania needed fuel, but they has space, so we worked out

a deal that said we will provide you fuel if you will give us based to keep the fuel. the problem was we did it during the recovery. it is built into our emergency plan, so every time this cyber incident, the conversions of a physical and cyber don't necessarily have to have separate plans. emergency planning, there is a broad brush of that that should be the same whether it's man-made or natural when you are talking about glass as. it's a little different when it is just the information system, so the best thing is that we know each other, we share information with each other and that we make that a physical exercise one day a year. i think that is the best practice that we should be able to target in all of our states. >> governor hogan. >> well, first volley to congratulate and thank governor mcauliffe force focus on leadership on this issue. as most of you know, are two

states, maryland and virginia surround the nations capital and collectively we are home to most of the federal government defense intelligence and cyber assets and collectively we have about 1500 of the top private sector enterprise and are two states. we are actually-- our little region there is in my opinion cyber capital of america if not the world. i want to thank you, terry, for your leadership in this area and i want to thank both of you for this discussion. it's been fascinating. i think it's one of the most critical, critically important discussions we have had and something everyone of us us needs to focus on. just a simple question that paul is in the light of this discussion of governor john hickenlooper's question. in your cyber security efforts within your organization, can you give some specific examples of some of the internal resistance you may have come up against and how you were able to overcome it? >> fascinating question.

it's literally with respect to getting out of the gate one of the most painful experiences that i've had. in a sense of coming to the realization that people don't know what they don't know. that's a herculean kind of experience to overcome for leader. you literally are starting with bare-bones basics of getting information out and getting people on board. then, once-- you realize you have to establish educational models that get folks on board and develop that sense of responsibility. number two, there is a resistance to transparency. it's interesting, when the breach occurred for us how me folks-- you know, they said we got time.

we don't need to go to market. we have to just figure this out. let's run it out as long as we can and contrary to that sort of i call it a human nature wanting to maybe slow market and within the bout-- boundaries of regulation pesto could be wrong, we made the decision to go to market fast and get the message out to our 40 million members. .. budgetary considerations. i don't have the dollars or support and can't. if you say you can't, then you won't. the final piece of the puzzle as

i said earlier is leadership has to project a commanding presence that this isn't going to be business as usual and the revelation that it is me or the ceo or executive leaders every individual lives in the shadow of the leader. from that time forward after that breach people know the job one for me is to protect the company necessitates my commitment to protecting our information and living in the shadow of a leader is day one, day 2 and forever i experience with respect to this realm we have come upon. >> i will start with the biggest one that is widespread. as you do exercises and you see how people are going to react and no one wants to look bad so saying we are going to do an exercise and you won't know what

it is and follow-up with best practices to say where did we screw up, if we are not, culturally it is interesting that we do what is for us to learn. we don't expect you to be perfect and if we do these exercises i talked about at the state and federal level to have a safe place to say we may not do everything but if we don't let's support each other and look for best practices and not do this façade of going through the motions as opposed to finding where we have weaknesses. that is from the bottom of an organization to the highest level and state agencies. another thing i mentioned is the general population, the extra verbiage on their emails, you have information technology that that is what they do, that is their expertise, this is

everyone's responsibility. to joe's point, we have to set the tone to say none of us are where we need to be, none of us are perfect, we are going to mess up. we will see where we mess up the worst, and see if we can make it right. if we go through joint exercises within a company or across agencies, we are not going to be perfect and it is okay and we won't badmouth, sounds like a small thing but i worry that could trip up effective exercise. >> protecting yourself for cybersecurity. >> year one post breach the investment we had to administer was substantial, $100 million

plus in order to get to a standard we felt was necessary to meet the threat. looking into the future we now budget $50 million a year specific to enhanced technology and that doesn't count people, literally caused deployment to embed new technology, i am more educated, getting to the point of knowing what they don't know. predictive analytics have such a substantial role, helping us model what the risk levels may look like getting ahead of the game. to be deeply engaged in

predictive analytics as opposed to more reactive waiting for something to happen. that is a simplistic way of putting it but predicting what the future may look like based on solid data that gets us to the future faster than we would otherwise. >> all of us, most of us have risk management for every year, a senior executive saying the biggest risk to the corporation and in the past technology was listed as one of eight or ten. it is part of one of our identified risks. we don't make that public but we are integrating into every risk, the use of predictive analytics to say how will this impact the business or the agency? these agencies have no

interconnections but they do with your systems or they do in terms of services. the predictive analytics can help you say this one breach may affect 20 agencies where you are thinking it is one or two. and the scratching services what predictive analytics. >> the core basic way of running the shop, and our efforts, it is interesting because the lockout of the system, moche -- that create so much anxiety. we have by way of data analysis teams, they monitor all lockouts. when an executive or anybody is locked out of the system they

consider that a threat. they go to that executive they walk through why it happened, and what is happening to the system. >> that is a lot after you change your password after 30 days. you get locked out and cause that -- >> any questions? governor mccory? governor branstad? >> what will we do about the talent shortage? how will we afford it in government, the private sector stealing my talent. it is a heck of a problem. terry got some things in virginia. what are you doing to the talent now and long-term?

>> ed is on point about this, governors for dodge and dhs can't get folks to work the federal government. we have a problem at the state government, the private sector, three or four times more. >> when we do get them, they are taking from us very quickly, the best way to move up is to move out. it is a huge challenge and duke power, moving through the company or not. just curious what you are doing as far as talent, recruitment and retention. >> typically, what are you doing with it talent? for us, in critical infrastructure it is not just the people in it, we are seeing

challenges with blue-collar workers, the technical professionals, turning knobs in the water treatment plant, they have 12 screens where they are monitoring the level of everything, monitoring everything in it and the majority don't have college degrees. one thing they are doing is state community colleges, doesn't get talked about a lot. they talk about skill sets out of high school, someone walks into one of the skilled technical professional jobs, you know the immediate needs are greater for someone trying to get these jobs for a college -- the math, computers, everything around it is critical. the first thing is getting skilled professionals, we partner with a lot of national

labor unions, we have 18 labor unions represented across the united states, rather than re-create the training we are working to especially go into communities that are underserved, they learn a skill we can bring in that has been effective for us. in terms of the it, we are fortunate because i will tell you millennials that are coming up, and we want to have security, and when parents lost their job in the financial crisis. how many 25-year-olds a i will stay with a job. their information is stable is not the same as when we were there, it is 5 to 10 years.

but the ability to have stability whether you are a federal agency, state agency or utility but the second part is we have got to appeal to the out truism so many young people have. we are getting so many recruits because they want to be part of water. they will be doing something that makes a difference. the more we can talk about that. if you combine stable retirement benefits even though they are not what they used to be, a lot of competitive companies can offer a difference. we are finding at least for us it is being successful. >> i will add a brief comment to piggyback what susan said. we have every year over 20 interns we employ that are working with respect to moving up in their career. we put them on a variety of special assignments.

we are trying to evaluate where we are going to get talents. can't say it is an achilles' heel in any industry as far as finding the right talent, but our stance is we have a responsibility to train and give folks a career path in this profession that allows the organization to be protected in terms of the right talent at the right place and the right time. >> branstad? >> when it comes to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, what is the relatively role of the states and we should be looking to implement regulations and incentivize compliance with best practices? >> we regulated operations which means we are regulated on public utility commissions. new jersey earlier this year set up a requirement for utilities

in terms of cyber and a framework, the utility had the framework for a push back. i think not to the point that government can define what anybody needs to do but a broad framework of expectations, this happens, having that dialogue is healthy and constructive and we welcome it. >> speaking from the industry's perspective so many regulations are laid on us by so many external forces, dealing with other accrediting bodies, high trust is another example. i can distill it down to one big thing, unify and standardize. anything you can do to build the unification that is necessary in

and among states would be critically important. i could point you to regulations but we have to get back to my term collaborating to make sure the cultural connectivity occurs among parties involved in this space. unification, maybe not so much regulation. >> uniform state laws, is this something that will make sense to go with that group? they try to recommend certain areas where they have uniformity, state regulated, they try to be as uniform as possible across the country for the facilitation of the industry. >> following our breach we were front and center with every

insurance commissioner that intensely, multiple times, probably difficult for me to characterize it, a work in process but to me it was amazing how much connectedness there was among insurance commissioners individually working with each, had a sense of the spirit of unification and collaboration that benefited us, a tremendous asset for us coming forward. >> glad to hear that. i will let my insurance commissioner know that. >> it is a little different in that the federal and state don't conflict but we have different regulatory constructs, they are the same from a regulatory commission standpoint, it tends to be more environmental requirements conflicting with federal requirements, we are --

differences in state, the state tells us something else. >> some of the areas are what we are concerned about. >> thanks. [applause] >> you have a little brochure, and they are up front and a lot of issues and spend a lot of money, use it to recruit businesses and that you are safer in your state. we are only as good as doing this. you want to get to and from folks some state has it. this is the role of the national governor's association, 50 states, all of us to go are in

the same direction. governor branstad was looking, that is a portable phone charger, i saw you looking, you can get your phone rundown. i want to say in conclusion, what a memorable weekend we had at the historic capital, and the greatest fares in the history of mankind. let's give terry branstad and christine branstad around the applause. >> this would not have happened is governor branstad will tell you, without the cosponsors who literally stepped up to the plate. these are hard deals to put together. most of our cosponsors are out there. give them a round of applause if

we could. and thank our corporate fellows on behalf of all of you, we couldn't do what we do, give them a round of applause as well. [applause] >> i encourage everyone to stop by so they can package a few neil, the service event will run from 8:30 to 10:30, that will be greatly appreciated. i am calling the meeting to close but you are next to the gavel. >> a contribution to this effort, the nga doing good stuff and terry's leadership will do better. there have been people asking

about the booklet we passed out on highlighting the success of the states. contact scott and his people. there will be a continuation so things you are doing on cyberspace and other innovative things taking place states will have online in perpetuity to see the great things taking place that you can access. contact scott to access that website. hit the gavel. we are adjourned, thank you, everybody. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations]

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fried chicken by taking the skin off in the south, gerald ford built into an unchecked tamale and that community was shocked by that. >> host: some risk in the food photo up, what is the advice for candidates? >> know the community. not just food but anything -- we remember barack obama rolling a gutter ball in a bowling alley or when he spoke to farmers in iowa. the price of arugula, nowhere near iowa, he was talking about gourmet. you have to be careful, to know the values and that is what they do, campaigns are -- opposition is out to make the candidate look out of touch. >> host: when you get to the ordering spot, what is the right

way to order a cheesesteak? >> you would say onions, provolone or american cheese, get your drink at the second window. >> host: the right way to eat the cheesesteak? >> guest: hot and greasy with your hands. would not look great eating a cheesesteak. >> host: we are across the street from king of steaks, well-known cheesesteak spot. how does the candidate choose between one or the other? >> guest: go to both. the 19 which candidates have been to one or the other or both? >> guest: i don't think our front runner candidates, donald trump or hillary have been here yet. maybe hillary will come through this week. scott walker was here during the primaries but protesters were behind him with some signs so his photo op got ruined.

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representatives joe crowley and chris coons and david wasserman of the "cook political report" discuss key political races in 2015. this event took place earlier this morning in philadelphia which is home of the democratic national convention. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for being here this morning. i am president of atlantic live, welcome to our morning briefing, i hope everyone have a copy and banana muffins to kickstart your day. a few things to get started. i want to thank our underwriters in philadelphia who made this possible. the american petroleum institute, vote for energy.org, makers mart provide manhattan delegates, the cocktail hour

this afternoon, you have to come back at 4:00 for that. like yesterday after the session our friends from lulu lemon will lead a meditation session. sounds like a joke but it is not. i was a doubter yesterday but i did it, and if you do it will be worth your while and get your day off to a good start. we are on twitter at hashtag "the atlantic," after both of our conversations we will have time for your question so to the subject at hand. as democrats gather in philadelphia they have three major goals, first when the white house, win back the house, win back the senate. the battle for congress we will be talking about this morning, there are 34 senate seats up for grabs, 24 controlled by the gop.

in the house republicans occupy 247 of the 435 seat on the ballot in november. democrats have a big job. to talk about their chances, and excellent lineup, welcome the first conversation, new york congressman joe crowley, vice chair of the democratic caucus. senator chris coons, junior senator from delaware. [applause] >> and the democratic national committee, david wasserman's house editor of the political report, he is known as an analyst on nbc news election night, and for his book, leading the conversation, my colleague molly ball. [applause]

>> thank you for coming. let's jump in with the big question starting with the senate. i democrats going to retake the senate? >> i am confident democrats will retake the senate majority. it will not be simple or easy but if you look at the numbers that were mentioned in the introduction as you look at the candidates we got and the resources we have got, i am optimistic that we are going to take back control of the senate. if you look at getting to four five i think it is relatively at this point forward, evan by is up 30 points, a terrific name id. he will contribute to making sure we put it over the top. katie mckenzie is running a

clear race after having millions of dollars poured against her in the last six weeks, she is up by a couple points. i am optimistic about the resources we have coming out of this convention. if i were running in pennsylvania i would want joe biden next to me in wilkes-barre he, scranton, if i were campaigning in ohio or illinois or wisconsin, all the different resources we have in terms of folks with a national profile, whether it is president obama or my friend tim kane or the folks engaged in volunteering at senators, i am optimistic. out of cleveland you saw a divided republican party. they had a difficult primary process. the governor of ohio did not bother going to the convention in his home state. we have a coherent strong

message and a run of candidates, many of them have strong choices. >> before i start arguing with you, let's go to the house. are democrats going to retake the house. >> democrats will have a strong year this year. going back to 2015 we launched an effort to create a battlefield of 55 across the country with recruited candidates, many say you won't find recruits, it will be very challenging. as we get closer to january 2016. donald trump started to surge and the gop could not stop him, everything started to be said about different observations.

the 11 front liners have done very well. we challenge them all to win, develop strong infrastructure to reach out to their candidates, constituents, the electorate across the country. senator coons says make sure you are leading by example, and acting like a small-town mayor in these districts. we have across the country, president obama won early loss, that solidified the base for those districts across country. we are working with president clinton, our allies in those states where we have battleground, presidential battleground states, our districts that are battleground in those areas and state housing and state senate working together and places like utah where we may not be playing with

the senate or presidential but we are digging in to make sure we have doug owens and all the resources he has and we have seen an expansion, taking on mister micah as you see the battle for ground in kansas. i haven't made any predictions going forward with the house but nancy pelosi challenged me to put the house in place, we are working day in and day out, every district, we want to do what we can to maximize those wins. >> david wasserman, you notice the answer to my question was not yet. can you provide an objective reality? how do you like democrats chances? >> current outlook, 5 to 15 seats, wouldn't be a bad night. democrats illustrate by pennsylvania perfectly, 2012, last time there was a presidential election democrats

had 83,000 votes for congress, won 5 out of pennsylvania. republicans were not only able to take advantage of the fact that the credit clustered in philadelphia or winning their districts in 80 or 90% of the vote but are also able to draw a map to attack democrats in 5 districts, out of the state's 13 republican held seats there was only one we rate as a competitive race and that is philadelphia suburb, the eighth district which is open and if democrats risen to a majority will run for places like philadelphia suburbs. it is a challenge in terms of timing. you said last year, what is one thing that tanked the republican majority, a crazy wacky nominee like donald trump. the problem in terms of house level attachment to trump is filing deadline has passed, 81% of districts, by the time donald

trump captures the nomination in early may. some democrats, they have done an admirable job with credible candidate into races while there was time to do so. it was too late in a variety of districts. a game of 10 to 15 would be a good night for house democrats. >> that suggests a big part of democratic strategy is going to be running against donald trump. do you see that being the biggest theme? >> it is one of the big things. david said it himself. crazy, we were not saying that. leader pelosi said he is the gift that keeps on giving. you are right in terms of philadelphia and the suburban area, the temperature of the house. and in new york. long island, a great candidate,

syracuse, running against incumbent republicans. both districts have a history of going back and forth in presidential election years. the great candidate at the same time, the turnout comes out that doesn't bode well for republicans in states like new york. there are 9 seats in new york we can be engaged in. it is in the realm of possibility that we have a higher hurdle than the senate does to reach, their playing field is a lot better, more republicans in play than democrats, but when do you recognize a landslide. it is unpredictable in terms of what donald trump will do and what impact he will have on the ticket but i can tell you my colleagues who i see, are on the

heels, they are very nervous about themselves. they found an excuse, vacation being one of them. they have stubbed toes and things of that nature. it is remarkable, john kasich in his home state, folks were not coming from around the country. i ran into a lot of folks but a lot of folks were missing, something to keep in mind. they are afraid of their own candidate. >> with the trump affect clearly the observation with republican gerrymandering in 2010 the battlefield is different and there were trends going our way where we saw republicans getting more distant -- districts getting more democratic. waiting for cities and suburbs, those trends when you look at voter registration data you see

those shift and the -- those were coming to democrats. donald trump is accelerating that and that is an important observation as we look at the battle across the country. >> you talk about a landslide right now. right now donald trump is ahead in national polls. if the election were held today he would win. how much do you need a strong performance? >> we need a strong performance but if you look at a number of states we hope might be in play the recent polls show it actually in play. and arizona, in missouri, iowa, north carolina, candidates in recent polls in the margin of error, against an incumbent republican candidate. national head to head is bouncing around. i would ought -- ignore all

national head to head polls. in our battleground we have expanded in several states where we got stronger candidates we might have hoped, we have weaker opponents we might have hoped 6 months ago and we are unconvinced donald trump is making our candidates truly viable in places that would have been a difficult place. >> in arizona we had greg walton, the head of the republican congressional committee, what he said was it is easier to tie democratic candidates to hillary clinton than republican candidates to donald trump who is unpopular because hillary clinton is obviously a regular democrat whereas donald trump is not so obviously a regular republican. easier for republicans to distance themselves, in -- there is an ad tying her to hillary clinton. >> as folks get to know tim kane, the strength, the reach and capabilities he will bring will excite and mobilize and

engage voters, and tim kane is a progressive catholic. the combination of his service and experience on services and foreign relations, his time in honduras, fluency in spanish and ability to work tirelessly to connect in a number of states that might not have been in place where he and hillary put them in place makes me optimistic about winning a number of seats that even a month ago even the most optimistic predictions didn't say we would have in play. i don't think she will be a drag. they will be left for us. >> is it significant that chris coons wants to talk about tim kane more than hillary clinton. will democrats look more at the second person on the ticket? >> solid for secretary clinton. tim kane is a happy warrior. it is hard to find anyone in congress who dislikes tim kane.

the senate will be decided by the presidential race. the overlap between that and the battleground is profound, only a couple states that are off the table like indiana perhaps but you go down illinois, wisconsin, the first fast democratic opportunities in the senate, new hampshire, pennsylvania, ohio and florida. adding north carolina and indiana, those last 5 will decide the senate. senate democrats have advantages democrats in the house don't have. the demographic shifts that are helping hillary clinton and senate democrats are in places like florida with puerto ricans moving from the island to the mainland particularly the ohio area. those voters are automatically

eligible by virtue of citizenship, helping hillary clinton win florida. they are helping democrats in the senate race to beat marco rubio. that is a house district, a lot of trends taking place with democratic districts. >> we are seeing an increased population of puerto rican voters, deputy murphy jumping into the race, the competitive nature the redistricting shifted. at least in those districts we should see a bump because of that shift. >> let's talk about the other side of the demographic coin. you are from a new york district, diverse place with a guide to look and sound like you. do you read a lot of these things? not saying you are a trump voter. >> what are you talking about? >> apologize for stereotyping but have you seen among your constituents evidence that there

is a group of previously disenfranchised people being brought to the electorate by trump? >> i come from -- i call him conman don. i referred to that once in a while, forgive me. someone who comes from queens, didn't grow up any way like i did. he has disavowed his queens citizenship. we don't refer to people from queens so it is kind of even. there was a bit. keep in mind as well hillary clinton served as new york state senator for eight years, is incredibly familiar not only as a political figure, people know her and i talked about the process in new york. there was a little bit of that in terms of long island, the first and third district. you will have a groundswell of

voters coming out every four years, latinos, just gets worse and worse with latino voters. growing population on the island is not as widely known. you will be surprised if a lot of people talk about guys who speak like i do, firmly behind hillary clinton. >> you talked about the pennsylvania senate race. this is a state that was touted as being put on the map by candidates who haven't gone democratic in the last several presidential elections. what is your view on that? obviously at the senate level you do but it will be more competitive than usual? >> pennsylvania is a key battleground state because of the map. if donald trump can't win pennsylvania i don't see a path to the white house. we need to hold pennsylvania to win the senate. it is going to matter for both sides in a critical way.

it leans democrat. voting presidential in presidential years for democrats, we built a machinery of get out the vote. the state swings back and forth strongly from election to election, we have the benefit of the democratic governor, the chief of staff who is the candidate for the senate. having come through it was a tough primary. we reunited the pennsylvania democratic party, campaigning very hard, also some help from joe biden. i never met anyone as tireless, engaged and effective at the grassroots level as joe biden. tim kane, progressive catholic speaks to central pennsylvanians, someone who is going to be helpful and effective. the combination of the two of them will put the state away on the democratic side of the column, many recognize the centrality for the selection, pushing to make sure all the

resources and volunteers and airtime. >> the issue set, the republicans, republican counterpart, national security, crime, the issues donald trump was talking about last week. do you see those as the main things your candidates are going to be talking about. >> we talked about this upcoming election cycle. the nature of what is on everybody's mind, talking to sean patrick maloney, congressman out of new york, the assessment i get when i visit with people, they feel unsafe, things are unaffordable and unfair, i agree with sean patrick's assessment. we talk about the notion of national security, foreign or

domestic, we key people safe by securing the nations. economic security will be built in such a way that dad was an ironworker, mom worked in the local school district. and where the anxiety is coming from that voters are feeling right now but the real anxiety about the frustration with outside secret money pouring into elections as a result of citizens united coming from 2010, doesn't matter who you talk to, they are tired of this so we have to do everything we can by working to secure our democracy as well. each and every one of those areas we will work to make that contrast and show the difference between democrats and house republicans.

this is puzzling to me. the republicans who recently set out a series of papers to share with the american people, if they were in 2017, the worst kept secret, they are in charge now and the american people, why aren't you doing this now, house republicans left home with opioid addiction across america and they didn't help the poor people in michigan, around the country the list goes on. that is the difference. people across america want action, they want us to work together but we know paul ryan when he made a commitment to move a piece of legislation addressing gun violence with dallas and orlando, and moving a

package tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. that is the problem republicans have. i welcome that conversation. >> that is right. the nuance is this one issue house democrats are identifying with, they did a good job in terms of the murphy filibuster sitting on the floor, and people -- it is an issue we identify, house members, hearing about this. they keep the drumbeat going. an example of not adding the most common denominator of issues accomplished without talking about reenactment of the assault weapons ban which i

would love to have happen but i'm also a realist. commonsense measures the republican majority, able to get that accomplished at all. we identify with house democrats more than anything else. >> do you think gun control is in that for the senate candidates? somewhat of a third rail, chuck schumer and harry reid got that off the radar to elect pro-gun democrats in red states, purple states, midwestern states. >> closing the terrorism loophole for responsible background checks, the overwhelming majority not just of americans but nra members. we may disagree about the phrase of gun control but making sure

people who can't get on an airplane because we are concerned they might be terrorists, they by military grade weapons without restriction, that seems crazy. even family members who are gun owners say if i have to get a drivers license to show i have insurance to drive a car i am fine. i have to go through functioning background check system. we don't have a functioning, coordinated national background check system. there are loopholes that are too big. this can be a winning issue. i'm going from here to a rally about responsible solutions to the challenges facing us. the congressman is correct the average american feels safe and secure about a number of issues. you can see donald trump emphasize the threat of terrorism, we are the party that

has funded, and the other party can't responsibly talk about. >> one of the themes of the convention within the democratic party. your own delegation from new mexico in november. do you think democrats, former bernie supporters will stay home? >> i come from a great state. on all sides. they are here. what is great about a small delegation, 2.4 million people, you all know each other. and with the ugliness, racism and bigotry of donald trump, in

ohio, after the governor, i wouldn't vote for her going forward. what he did was out of bounds. he went to the republican governor. in new mexico, across the country senator sanders speaking last night, michelle obama's words of encouragement with little anastasia with her mom, talking about she wants to be an attorney to help other people. this is part of the process, we are coming together, the highlight of that, president bush, mitt romney wasn't there, john mccain wasn't there, someone told me charge he wasn't there. that was it. senator sanders spoke last night we we hear from president obama, joe biden, we heard from the

first lady, senator kane, we are coming together in a strong way and i'm looking forward to a difference in contrast last week to this week. >> a couple questions from the audience. what are the bellwethers you are watching as we get closer to the fall to get your finger on the pulse of which way this is going? >> the districts that intrigue me on nebraska second district and maine's second district. what do maine and nebraska have in common? they are the two states that abdicate their electoral college votes, the districts in play. maine's second district is a rural working-class white district where donald trump might have it healed. the second district in omaha,

white-collar, professional, diversifying district that might be poor for donald trump. congressional democrat who is the first democrat elected in nebraska since 1992. and the republican, the first republican to be elected since 1994. an interesting symmetry to these districts. a different party has advantages to take both of them. >> way up in his polling, and indication of an incredible candidate. i feel good about both of them. >> if you have a question raise your hand. when the microphone comes to you tell us who you are. keep it snappy and let us know who you are addressing your question to. >> to whoever would like to answer first. i am 18 years old. my demographic has aligned with bernie sanders in the election. how do you think hillary clinton

can best get my demographic by the party with all ages? >> where do you see this? >> it is a great question. the first thing, i don't think it is a theme that we are divided. it is an observation of protest at the democratic convention. it is something about us, we embrace. i think hillary clinton today is a much better candidate than she was prior to the primary. bernie has done a remarkable job. i don't think anyone here thought bernie would do as well as he did. i give him a lot of credit for that. bernie definitely didn't know. in the end we are hearing the fear, in terms of motivating

people, but without answers, listen to michelle obama last night, listen to bernie talking about hillary, listen to barack obama, bill clinton and the candidate himself. it will have it unifying effect. people will believe in the hillary clinton that i know. >> three or four issues that millennial's have set our central to their future, climate change, not just tolerance but inclusion, and real economic opportunity and a plan for addressing afford ability and college debt, those are issues where on the platform, delivery, proposals the democratic party has the strongest ideas and both secretary clinton and senator -- push for those issues and bring a lot of engaged young people into voting for the democratic candidate.

>> when you drill down, a great question, the main observation different from 2012, it is being driven by young voters. the numbers are double what they are among young voters, double among young voters what they are among older voters and if there is one theme driving this election that not only appeals to the bernie sanders base but wards off donald trump's advances, rebuilding america's infrastructure, the more democrats talk about it the better. >> let's go back there. >> yesterday at this wonderful breakfast, change, the notion of change, the trump folks don't care what kind of change, yet to them it sounds bad.

how do you address that? if you are talking about change we want to know what change but some voters don't care, just all the issues you raised and the concerns and so on how do you deal with change, clinton is steady and to me that makes sense but not to a lot of voters. >> someone at the convention called her secretary of the status quo. a burden for your ticket. >> i see a difference between good change and bad change. this goes to the previous question with what will it take to reach out to millennial's. ..

withdrawing from nato, economic issues, withdrawing from the world trade organization and look at what the cost of his economic policies domestic would have on the american people, namely burdening working people in america with his economic plans. that doesn't even begin to talk about making fun of people with disabilities, people of mexican heritage and our mexican brothers and sisters, suggesting that the judge cannot hold his job as a federal judge because donald trump said he's going to build a wall on the southern border of mexico will pay for, that shift in addition to not disavowing david duke when the questionquestion was asked of dd trump what he thinks about white supremacy and david duke, that has no place in american politics and that's the change you want to see. i want to see what secretary

clinton has been promoting and putting forward as well as where it alliance with senator sanders. overturning citizens united, putting the people's voice back in the people's house. economic security when it comes to more affordable college education, i'm saddling students with student loan debt, making us safer by having tough and smart policies that will achieve that. that's the vision i have going forward. there's the one that could have said it any better than a first lady michelle obama last night. who dishy trust over the next eight years, four to eight years, with making sure that we're going to be moving in the right direction with an eye on her girls? that captured it for me. >> thank you so much. thank you very much, senator coons, congressman and david walsh and. we're going to move onto the next segment of our panel. thank you. [applae]