transmitted from mosquitoes to mosquito, but initially i only heard it was transferred from mosquito to human and from human to mosquito. which one is correct? >> guest: the latter is correct. if i saved mosquito to mosquito, i made a mistake. you are absolutely right. s the mosquito will take a blood male out from an infected -- blood meal from an infected person, takes a couple days to process that and get the virus back in their salivary gland and then they'll pass it ton another human being. but it's the people who are infected are the ones who are infecting the mosquito population. so it's this cycle, but, yes, it's correct, that mosquitoes become infected by a human being who has the virus, the virus works its way through the mosquito's body and then can infect another person. the interesting thing about this mosquito is that it can last for up to a month, and it doesn'ter bite just once.

it can bite several times a day. so it can cause a lot of damage. >> host: is it possible for people to transmit the virus? person-to-person? >> guest: well, there has been -- scientist are studying this right now there has been just one case of this occurring. it was -- there was a man in utah, an elderly man who had a very high load of zika and we aren't exactly sure what other medical conditions, but this gentleman actually died as as result of his -- so we don't know that if zika was the cause but he died infected with zika, and someone who was caring for this person who has very close contact with this person, also developed zika. this person has since survived the infection but now scientists -- they just keep marveling at the things they don't know about this virus they're still learning.

>> host: up next, arthur from huntington station, new york. arthur, you're on. >> caller: good morning. i'd just like to make a suggestion that they could use if they need the money, use the money from the clinton foundation for the control of the zika virus to cure the vaccine. >> host: okay. julie, can you talk about where other sources of funding can come from?s of ... government? guest: foundations can contribute to research. the funds are limited. the amount of money it would take to do some of these research projects, i don't know that it would be able to come from private funds. pr contributing to this effort for sure. >> host: up next, gulfport, mississippi. good morning. >> caller: good morning.

how were you ?-que?-que x. >> i am good. you on with julie steenhuysen. >> caller: yes. i think a as a whole this county will have to do better as a whole because these things, there are unpreventable. these creatures, they live in the same world we live in. we have to do better as a whole country. i just love it when the president explained fored for e everything. whatever happened, it's president obama's fall. we've got to stop looking atav this as one individual's fault. it's not one individual. we have to work together. what about hiv? if i was has been around for years and years and years and years. it's getting better. we are not there yet but if

something big were done about it before our time, that it would not have gotten out of hand. now we have zika. let's do better at. >> host: let's let julie respond. >> guest: it's interesting that you mention hiv. hiv was a virus that was also found any monkey. it was a brand-new virus when it arrived in be united states. people did know what to do with it was a lot of research that had to go on. i think the same is true of zika. zika is an underappreciated virus. but because they can cause the severe birth defects people are realizing we have to pay attention. i like your point about we all have to work together and do more. i've been talking to a lot of people who kill mosquitoes for a living. they are saying there's a limit to what we can do just with

chemicals. people ought to have an insecticide that takes care of all the problems but this doesn't mosquitoes that lives in your backyard. if you have flowerpots and you've got reservoirs of water underneath your flowerpots, dump them out. look in your own yard. are their tires? just paddling pools, what ever it is. you can contribute to eliminating the breeding ground for this mosquito in your own backyard. that's really where, experts are saying we can't do this alone. we need partnership with people, so i agree. we need to do better and we need to do it together house of representatives we are talking to julie steenhuysen, a science and health correspondent for reuters about the zika virus. we have regionalize for our viewers for this segment.

julie, there have been some clinical trials underway according to u.s.a. the national institutes of health announced the launch of a clinical trial of an experimental zika vaccine. it's the second such study to begin this summer. ivanova pharmaceuticals provided provided the first dose of its zika vaccine in july of 2006. is possible to develop a zika vaccine in time to prevent the spread of zika for the in the united states and in other places? >> guest: not this year. not business give season but zika is not going to travel very far this year. it will likely be, hopefully they will be able to contain it and it will not become a regular

thing like west nile that comes back every year. it takes a couple of years of testing before the vaccine can be proven to be safe and effective. right now they just started human trials. they've got good candidate vaccines and they believe they will work. they have worked in monkeys. they worked in monkeys and other trying to int fit into existingt will prevent infection with the virus. this testing can take two years, maybe three. from the start of the whole process, two to three years. it will be a while and experts are saying what we need to do now is get rid of those mosquitoes and to pass control. unfortunately, a lot of the districts that are fighting zika really don't have the budget for it. mosquitoes are thought and

funded by local community dollars are typically states don't even, there are some states that don't find any zika at all. it's a very local, usually comes out of a taxing district or just counted budget. some places don't even have vector control programs. this is really where the attack needs to be because it's going to be a while yet before we have an effective vaccine. >> host: up next, new orleans. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> host: you were on with julie steenhuysen. >> caller: thank you so much. i wanted to ask ms. julie, i believe that the zika mosquito transfers its virus to humans. i know that mosquitoes beat mosquitoes. so what is it not possible for a mosquito defeat an infected

mosquito and contract with the virus in that way passing it on to humans? >> guest: from all of the scientists i talked to that's just not the way it happens. mosquitoes need a blood meal to propagate. it's the females that do the biting and what they're doing is giving the proteins that they need to make more mosquitoes that that's what's going on when they take a blood meal. this particular mosquito is the unique because it's, it only will feed on humans. there are other mosquitoes that carry like west nile, like this asian tiger mosquito, and that will also happily bite your dog instead of you. so it's not so picky. >> host: let's talk more about the regions where we might find these mosquitoes.

you said they tend to be, it's a tropical mosquito so they tend to be in the lower part of, the more southern region of the country. should end states also be taking measures and to be concerned about this? i grew up in the midwest, in the northern midwest and there were stephen thayer. >> guest: there are mosquitoes. they are everywhere but you have to this particular type of mosquito. either aedes aegypti. the, ms. give you probably remember that causes a nuisance, lots of other mosquitoes that do a lot of biting but they're called nuisance mosquitoes. and make it very uncomfortable for you to be outside but they are not going to give you this virus. there are some states in the north that don't have these mosquitoes at all. there is the concern is addressing issues with travelers

who have gone to places have brought the infection back. the interesting thing about zika is not only is it transmitted by mosquitoes but an infected person can pass this virus sexually to their partners. that's a concern anywhere in the united states because if you are trying to get pregnant and your partner becomes infected, asymptomatic and all of a sudden you are a pregnant woman and have zika. that's a very concerning thing that's the risk in any other states. >> host: speaking about the of the ways that the virus is transmitted, it says today in "the associated press" reports that --

the piece goes on to cite everything from those wristbands to anti-zika condoms with antiviral lubricant are also being talked. how can people know what are the products that they should be seeking out, and what might just trying to capitalize on this? >> guest: i think you have to be careful where you get your information. you are not going to see, in an advertisement you are likely not going to get medical information

about zika virus. the best ways to go is www.cdc.gov and search for zika. they've just been exhaustive source resource their of how to prevent infections, you know, if you're traveling. if you have recently traveled, instructions for what to do and how to come if you become infected how long you need to use insect repellent so you don't infect the population of mosquitoes around you. you are right, this looks like a business opportunity whenever there is some fear in the community. it does look like some companies have capitalize the i was talking to dr. goodall expert in florida and using its not just that people are spending their money and not really protecting themselves, but it creates this false sense of security. you hired a company to spread mosquitoes around your house and

then you notice you're not getting bit by mosquitoes so much. but the mosquitoes that they sprayed and killed are not the ones that carry zika. you come back and you sit on your back porch and have a nice cool glass of something. meanwhile, flying around your ankles are aedes aegypti mosquitoes and you have been bitten. you have to really be careful and pay attention to the sources of information you get. i would say to give any questions go to the cdc's website. >> host: up next to you call it in from maryland. you were on with julie steenhuysen. >> caller: yes. hello? >> host: go ahead, steve. you are on. >> caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. my question is how concerns with the transmission process of these mosquitoes?

back in high school and in college i don't in biology classes mosquitoes don't transmit hiv and aids. now, how is it that zika is transmitted through mosquitoes? >> guest: i mean, different diseases have different vectors, right? that's just whether it carries the virus. there are several diseases that mosquitoes carry and can spread, and we know them. dainty as another widespread virus. there's still a fever that spread by mosquitoes. in the message were often met with west nile virus, something that also spread by mosquitoes. it just depends on what the effect is. in the case of hiv, unfortunately humans became the vector.

so humans passed the virus to other humans, and it isn't that any mediator viktor. but with zika, mosquitoes are the vector and attack, mosquitoes carry the virus, infect humans, and other mosquitoes bite the infected humans, reinfect the mosquitoes and that's how the cycle works. >> host: up next, vienna, virginia. good morning, rhonda. >> caller: with the lack of any sort of comprehensive or any public health campaign at all, given the lack of funding, you mentioned two conflicting information. first you said is defective and then you applied that spring is not affected. we all know that the factor aedes aegypti is resistant to deet.

so what are they spring and is it actually killing aedes aegypti? number two, at what point can the government say you are pregnant, you should not be traveling to countries that have intimate zika? that's going to cost us 10 million a pop every time one of us kids is border you said before people need to take responsibility. if you are pregnant you shouldn't be going. >> guest: there was a lot of there. okay, so i will start with the insecticides that are effective. first of all you're right, there is, aedes aegypti has developed some resistance the we've seen in puerto rico to insecticides in the class. and so what they're doing in miami now is they are sprayed

with insecticides to kill adult mosquitoes from a different class than they are seeing some effective results there. but they have not won that battle gets a we will see. they're also considering using barbed asides to kill it once defined the breeding publisher they want to kill and prevent new mosquitoes from developing. so yes, but this is a very difficult of mosquito. even with the very best and most effective products, they say it has this cryptic breeding sites. it can hide out in very tiny locations and you might not be able to find or get it where, get the insecticides where it is. that's why people are saying it takes a partnership. people who live in the community need to also address the breeding sites. as for telling women not to travel, i think, i've talked to

pregnant women at a talk to the doctors who care for them, and people are very concerned. so i'm not so sure, i mean, we can't say you are prohibited from traveling or we won't take care of your baby, but i think a lot of people are really looking for ways to make sure that they take every precaution possible. for more information they have before they travel, the better they can do that. >> host: james is called in from prince george virginia. you were on with julie steenhuysen, hi, hello. thank you for c-span. i just have two questions. first of all, a different vectors. we have bloodsucking -- bloodsucking vectors, i.t. fleas and ticks and flies. can those vectors actually buy something and transmit those i

guess the virus from one person to another? the second thing is, how our animals, i.e., the chickens, the pigs, cows, are they affected with the seek and should women be concerned about the viruses are spreading to our animals? want want to know, are pregnant women going to be infected by different viruses what they eat is what my concern is? >> guest: first of all, you are right. there are all kinds of biting insects. many of them do carry disease. but zika is very particular and so far it likes, it spreads to the aedes aegypti mosquito. scientists are studying other kinds of mosquitoes just to make

sure that it can't also be spread through other mosquito populations, and so far the more common mosquito has not found to be competent to reproduce the virus and spread it. as far as animals, because aedes aegypti only takes a blood meals, they are not backing farm animals. they are biting people and that's the major worry with this mosquito. >> host: what about pets? is that a concern treasury bill. aedes aegypti will not buy your pet. it will bite you. >> host: up next james from montgomery village maryland. you were on. good morning. >> caller: i'm just wondering is this considered an international problem with why is the u.s. not getting international funds are additional countries of south america such as the w.h.o. and what not?

>> guest: thanks to actually the w.h.o. has to get something from countries. they don't have a whole lot of money just to throw out a problem. and they also had some challenges raising money to address some of the work that needs to be done on zika. so yeah, to zika, the united states, we have a few. we need to fight our own problem here. and yet states is also active in researching zika and helping out with studies in brazil and colombia and elsewhere. but it's to understand what might be done in the united states and protect people their. >> host: kenneth, you were on with julie steenhuysen. >> caller: i have just a few comments. number one, how many thousands

of people are into one square mile area trying to kill off this mosquito, for god's sake? i think we're bigger than a square mile in the united states. second point is this. anybody with half a brain knows that we have a preventive called ddt that for some ungodly reason was banned in the united states and then we used our political and financial status to ban it worldwide. how many people come how many millions of people in this country have to die before we say ddt, why don't we use it? >> guest: i think with any public health crisis you have to look at the risks that the infection poses and weigh it against the risk of in this case using an insecticide that could also be toxic and cause problems

to a white population. in the united states with other chemicals that the epa has been safer than ddt so we don't use it. and here you have to work with whatever label and registered as safe for use in public health and those other weapons we have to fight this zika virus at the moment. >> host: julie steenhuysen health correspondent from reuters. thanks for joining us today. >> guest: thank you. >> live coverage of the national urban league conference in baltimore is expected to continue shortly. up next will be a panel on voting rights and the november election with ben cardin also chris van hollen an entertainer janel monday. it is expected to start momentarily. we will have live coverage when

it gets underway here on c-span2. while we wait more from this morning's washington to add a look at the card legal climate. >> joining us now is the contributing editor at the atlantic as well as a senior fellow at the brookings institution. he issued to talk about his piece, the cover piece in the atlantic entitled how american politics went insane. good morning. thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you so much for having me. >> host: american politics going insane. what do you mean by in same? >> guest: we basically spent so many years attacking the political establishment and stripping away the tools that needs to organize politics that losing politics in the state of chaos and meltdown. one major party could not really even choose a nominee who was, in fact, a member of that party. we are seeing congress, it's almost incapable of doing basic things like keeping the government open.

and i are to all of this is related it goes back to stripping away the tools the politicians and leaders need in order to get their jobs done which is tough like baiting candidates and working people who are loyal and getting bills passed, stuff like that. >> host: where did this insanity as you put it start? didn't start in washington? didn't start out on the campaign trail? >> guest: i trace it back to 40 or 50 years ago when a lot of well-intentioned reformers, be included as a very young person, though politics, there's too much like course trading and bathroom deals and people should be able to choose nominees directly. so we have decade after decade of reforms which all basically two versions of the same thing which it reduced the power of parties and professionals, political machines, smoke-filled rooms to make decisions, make

deals, make four straight. you give me your vote from failing and i give you a runway for the airport in your district. then we turn around, eventually you strip away enough of the stuff the politicians in order to do their job and they can't do their job. qer. >> host: you argue in this piece that the political class is a good thing. just to add a necessary thing. >> host: what is the political class and why is it such a good thing transferring middle-class or any meteors, people in the business of politics into different from most of us. unlike an activist or a protester or a purist reformer, they have to be there year after year they have to worry about not just protesting but winning this election, winning the one after, making sure the brand of the party remained strong. they have to recruit people to run for office the they have to

make sure they're okay and then it got to do the daily business of keeping the government open, tony devotes. we need is people and we need them to be a healthy group. >> host: we are talking to jonathan rauch of the atlantic about how american politics went insane. our callers can join us. taking a look at one part in the piecpeace where you are talking about the incident the politics, you write --

what did you mean? >> guest: i started thinking about this problem way back in 2013. do you remember speaker john boehner, paul ryan's predecessor? remember he went on the leno show. the u.s. government shut down, even though republicans didn't want it to shut down and democrats did wanted to shut down. they could keep it open because the republican party in congress couldn't keep itself organized enough to overcome this small faction within itself. so there's john boehner on the live show and asked why the government shutdown and he says, a leader without followers is

just a man taking a walk. so that's the position that he and paul ryan are in now. they have very little ability to influence their own members. all these people are directly collected. we have taken away some of the tools that figures like porkbarrel spending, for example, and secret negotiations. so they are left with very little ability to organize and lead. >> host: it seems the special and the presidential election as we see it played out there is this big advertise for outsiders. there's this distaste for the political establishment. is that part of what -- >> guest: it's a vicious cycle. as the establishment gets weaker and weaker and less able to do its job they didn't get simple crop ms. are things like for bills through congress, the public gets angrier at the establishment. they vote for outsiders. the outsiders are more independent, less willing to

compromise, more willing to challenge the leadership. leadership gets weaker, the cycle continues. >> host: we are talking with jonathan rauch of the atlantic about his piece how american politics went insane. on the line next we have laura calling in from erie, pennsylvania, on the republican line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i want to agree with you about the insanity part, but a lot of it is issue by issue and a lot of people would say that debt is insane. you can't even comprehend what we owe it interest every day. it continues to pile up. how will we ever get paid off? the biggest thing for me is, i just heard that hillary and her running mate, who's a catholic, is going to overturn the hyde amendment and they've always said they will do it. but that was the limit that prevented taxpayer dollars to be

used to kill unborn babies and abortion. i can't believe we are not talking about it. we hear all these other issues but to me, rush limbaugh, sean hannity especially because he's catholic should be having these topics up front and center. these are the positions of the candidates. this is what they're going to be doing on this issue and this issue. but especially abortion. i have a charity where i pay women not to abort. we saved 80 babies by offering them help. so why would i want my tax dollars used to have mothers kill their unborn babies? >> guest: so i want to try to focus you on a slightly different issue because abortion is important, but the question now isn't whether congress can do what you want it to do, which might be pro-choice or might be pro-life the it's can congress do anything? can't even keep the government open, for example.

.. with the republican congress it won't happen. i agree with you, it's important. we should be talking about it. i don't actually think president clinton will do it because there's lots of things in platforms that presidents don't do. but that said, let's all try to step back a minute and focus on the capacity of the system just to do its basic job, whatever you think that job ought to be. >> host: up next we have lydia calling in on our independent line, good morning, lydia. >> caller: good morning, thank you. sadly we have a lot of history

to tell exactly why these things happen. i want to reference two studies. one is a study of history by ernell, i hope. president obama -- excuse me. because one of the reasons we have this breakdown is because newt gringrich, our current leader was also part of the process that set in place the current time of troubles, the the crises that he helped to orchestrate and that was orchestrated when president obama was being inaugurated, the other example is about how these things happen. they happen internally with the

young boys that came to an island totally civilized and at the very end became barbarians and unless we refer to past studies, these situations and we address crises and move into the field of challenge and cooperation, we will also demonstrate that like these other civilizations that chose to fail, we will have that situation happen to us. >> guest: there are a couple of interesting thoughts there. i agree with you that newt gringrich played a seminole, pivotal role in the kind of breakdown i'm talking about. when he became speaker of the house in the 90's he decided to consolidate and centralize power in the house of representatives. and in the process of doing

that, he began a process of dismantling a lot of the traditional seniority system. well, that system it turned out was very good at vetting people, discovering whether they were loyal, putting experienced team players in the house and getting lots of committees and congressional middle management involved in decision making. a lot more people involved and they were participating. a lot of that machine has been abandoned or weakened by the tendency to move power up to the very pop in congress which gringrich started and then down to the very bottom. every individual doing whatever he or she wants. lord of the flies is a novel and not a study, the darkness of human beings, it has a message for conservatives. never take a government for granted. when politics doesn't work chaos is what happens, although we are

not at the brink of war in the u.s., we are at the brink of chaos politically. >> host: let's talk about how this is playing out in the campaign trail right now in this presidential year and today's washington times talking about the unfavorability ratings that both secretary clinton and donald trump have that is forcing candidates to turn on each other according to analysts, political analysts say the historically high unfavorable ratings for both mrs. clinton and mr. trump have left both campaigns with little choice to focus on tearing the other down, hoping when the war is finally over, voters will ultimately decide their candidate is less sorry of two evils. for the clinton campaign to paint mr. trump as pathological liar and con man who cannot be

trusted. we see donald trump referring to hillary clinton as crooked hillary. is this fueling the insanity that you're talking about? guest tbes well, i suppose. you know, it's kind of my view. i'm not a political professional but in my view it's ashame that secretary clinton hasn't done a very job of articulating what she is for. she's had a very long career in public and by this point she should have given people a better reason to vote for her and so, yeah, that's a problem. but it's not the problem. when you're running against a guy like donald trump who at least in my view that republican callers will disagree he shouldn't be 100-miles within a nuclear code. it's impossible to run a campaign where you don't run that out and he's incapable of

going after people, he's proven that. i think people are disgusted by that. >> host: up next we have ben from indiana on the democratic line, ben, you are on with jonathan. >> caller: good morning, and thank you for c-span. i just wanted to comment on hillary clinton's lack of articulation. >> host: up next we have dan calling in from billings, montana, dan, you are on with jonathan. >> caller: hello there, good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: i wanted to kind of reiterate feelings from years back political feelings and that is that we kind of prayed for gridlock, we hoped for it, we hoped that agendas would be kind of normally --

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card it's an honor to sponsor the important session on voting rights and to partner with the urban league in the fight for all civil rights and economic empowerment. now, you may not know this, mastercard is actually not a credit card company. we do not issue cards or hand out credit. banks do that. and i want to take a moment to ask all of you, do you know -- whether you know who are our best competitor is? does anyone know? i heard visa. i've heard discover. our biggest competitor is cash. mastercard is a technology company that helps real people do business together, safer, smarter, cheaper and faster than using cash. and i want to take a personal note to say that it's an honor to be in the company of senator carden who you will hear shortly and soon to be senator collins. i was recruited to join mastercard two years ago and it's refresh to go know that i'm

working with a company that truly believes in forming partnerships, strong partnerships and that is why we formed this partnership with the national urban league to really tackle these challenges of economic empowerment. as you know, over the years jobs and freedom or more specifically economic empowerment and the right to vote have always been tied together in strive for civil rights, from the march on washington for jobs and freedom to the current work of groups like the national urban league, we have long recognized that economic access and voting rights are fundamental civil rights and thanks to those who sacrificed for us, all of us living in the 21st century america should be able to have a better life than our parents did. and as dr. martin luther king, jr. reminded us, the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice.

sadly, though, here in 2016 we still face erosion of these important rights where voting is concerned, the presidential election is the first one in more than 50 years where our nation will vote without the full protection of the voting rights act of 1965. so we have lots of work to do and where economics are concerned, our country still has a lot of work to do before inclusions. more than half of all african american and latino household are unbanked or underbanked, forced to rely on a cash economy and on predatory alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders. in communities across this country, financial deserts have taken holds where we see predatory lenders and cash. in these financial deserts families are not only isolated from banks but also routinely face barriers to enter financial world like minimum balance

requirements and monthly fees. that's why mastercard created master your card. we realized that there's a real lack of access to the world beyond cash and the lack of information about what products are actually available. that lack of access and information equates to billions of dollars leaving our communities rather than using them to build wealth among our hard-working families. at mastercard, at master your card, rather, we realize that we can help intervene and end this cycle by helping provide access to financial resources and technology to people where they are and by educating communities. as a partner with the national urban league, we are creating educational resources and custom products that everyone can use regardless of where they live, so that they can build a strong financial future and we are working to help green america financial desert. we are working with morgan state university to study where these financial deserts are and this

fall we will be convening stakeholders from financial deserts in baltimore, the bronx, east los angeles, and the mississippi delta to identify the greatest needs and what works to address those needs. we will use this information to share best practices and to support other communities as they work to provide access to the global economy and economic opportunity to all those who are currently underserved. as we add mastercard work to increase access to the new financial economy, i'm glad that we can partner with the national urban league, our commitment to inclusion and economic citizenship runs deep. and this year i'm excited that we can all work together to march for jobs, march for freedom and march for economic justice. thank you so much for having us here today. [applause] [music] >> with pleasure, i now welcome

to the stage a man we all have come to know this week, jay howard henderson, president and ceo of the greater baltimore urban league. [applause] [music] >> thank you, carlos. it's a great honor that i have the opportunity to introduce two great friends of mine but before i do that, greater baltimore, young professionals, are they out there some where? [cheers and applause] >> okay, that's what i want to hear. we will be working on this issue in this coming year. but i do have the honor today to introduce who soon to be the senior senator from the state of maryland and a good friend of the urban league, they have a lot of things written on this thing and i know this gentleman very well, ben has been a friend

of the urban league and a friend of african americans and minority communities in the state of maryland for all of his political life, even when he was in the state senate and also when he was u.s. congressional representative and had been a congressman representing maryland for the last eight years, but anyway, ben has been a friend of ours and held many meetings tat urban league headquarters, he's a strong supporter of racial profiling legislation. he's been pushing that in the legislature for a number of years and he's still fighting that battle at the federal level and we've had many round-table discussions at the urban league on this issue. without further due, a good pleasure to introduce a good friend, senator ben carden.

[applause] [music] >> thank you, howard henderson, we appreciate very much your extraordinary leadership in our community here in baltimore. it's good to be here. welcome, national urban league to baltimore. it's great to have you here. [cheers and applause] >> in the city i love and the city in which i live in and it's good to be here with my colleague congressman holland who does an incredible job in the house of representatives on behalf of urban centers. thank you for what you do to help my city and help the -- you deserve a round of applause. these are tough times. [applause] >> thanks for what you do to help. the urban league is known to fight not just for the policies to help our urban centers and we do need the right policies, but the resources so that we could have opportunity for vibrant

urban communities. you're there on the front line and there are so many issues we could talk about. i know we are going to talk about voting, but i first want to thank you for what you've done to protect president obama's efforts to enact the affordable care act, what an incredible accomplishment with your help there's those who want to turn it back, we are not going to let that happen. one of the provisions in the affordable care act is sitting up institute for minority, i was proud to be the author of that provision, but i mention that because they did a study recently and showed that in our urban centers life expectancy can vary by zip code, by as much as 30 years, a generation. it points out that we still have a lot of work to do to help our urban centers and do what's right for quality in our

community. we need to do things about safety in our community. there have been too many tragedies including freddie gray in my own city of baltimore. we've got to respond in a responsible way and i'm proud that howard mentioned legislation i authored. it's way past time that we have a national law outlawing racial profiling once after all. it's un-american, it hurts public safety and turns community against law enforcement and it can be deadly. we can do better and we know we can do better. i've also introduced what's known as the baltimore act that will change some of our criminal justice sentencing guidelines which are discriminatory.

we have to make sure that we have the right relationship and my legislation also provides for a second chance. i'm going to tell you something, there's not a member of the united states senate who hasn't had a second chance. [applause] >> so we are going to fight for that legislation but i want to talk about the main reason for this session, the most important of our fundamental rights, the right to vote. it is fundamental. my vote, my impact reclaiming our right. that's what this is about. the voting rights act, historic, important legislation to say that we are going to protect every american's right to vote. it's been weakened by the supreme court of the united states in one of the worst decisions i've ever seen come

down from the supreme court of the united states. section 4, we have legislation in congress to restore the voting rights act, i'm proud cosponsor to see that passed, we have to restore and we need your help many establishing -- accomplishing that, that needs to be a focus in this election. we still have problems with voter fraud. in my own election to the united states senate we saw fraud in the state of maryland. i then joined a young member of the united states senate by the name of barack obama, introducing legislation to strengthen the department of justice being able to go after fraud in elections where they tell people the wrong date to vote or they try to discourage minorities from voting. we have to make sure we get to the finish line on fundamental protection and these id laws

have to come to an end. we have seen some favorable supreme court decisions here. we need to encourage people to vote, not to discourage them. in legislation i author and need your help on this one, they restored voting rights to returning citizens. we need to make that an national law and that needs to be passed. everyone should have the right to participate in the elections and we shouldn't disqualify someone who has paid their debt back to society and while we are talking about voting rights, please don't forget our brothers and sisters who live in the nation's capitol, they're entitled to have full voting representation in the united states, congress in both the house and senate. that's what the nation should be about. so you're here today to talk about how we are going to preserve our right to vote, how we are going to be my vote, my impact, restoring our right, but

it starts with unifying us together in this election, 2016. we need to get people registered and voting. and if there's not motivation this year, i don't know when there's going to be motivation. but we have to be out there. it's our responsibility. let me just conclude by the -- the ammunition of dr. martin luther king, jr. told us that each one of us is here for a mission. each one of us can make a difference in someone else's life but we work together, the national urban league, we can bring about change, we can bring about opportunity and it starts at the ballot box and it starts by registering and making sure that our voters come out and vote in november and if we do that, we will see our urban centers grow with a great future

for our children and grandchildren. god bless and thank you for being here in baltimore. [applause] [music] >> we can do better than that, let's give it up for u.s. senator ben cardin. [applause] >> at this time, we have the opportunity to introduce you to a gentleman whom i recently been building a relationship with. he was with me monday when we cut the ribbon at the urban league for our entrepreneurship center. this is congressman chris van holland. he has been congressman for the past 13 years, he's a top democrat on the house budget committee. he has worked tirelessly for advocating for strategic investment in our urban communities such as funding for health care.

so let me just tell you something else about senator van holland. he has been reaching out as he begins his journey to become the next u.s. senator for the state of maryland replacing our senior senator barber who is retiring this year, so we will call him senator today and we will call him our next senator for the great state of maryland chris van holland. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. it's great to be with all of you, jay howard henderson, thank you for your terrific leadership at the greater baltimore, urban league and i have the privilege as president henderson said just earlier this week on tuesday to

join with him and the head of the urban league when we opened an entrepreneurship center and to help those who have already started to grow even faster so that we can have more jobs and more capital formation in baltimore city and similar cities around the country where these investments are being made. that was the department of labor investment reaching out to partner with somebody in the private sector and i'm excited about it being part of the success here in baltimore and in west baltimore. i had the privilege several months ago of addressing the urban league during its legislative policy conference in washington, d.c. at the invitation of mark moriel who is doing a great job as president of the urban league.

it's upon release of report, the state of black america. as you know the urban league does these every year and if you look at those reports, you know number one that we've got a lot of work to do in the united states of america. two, achieve the promise of equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity, and you know we have to do it on an urgent basis. and as senator cardin said and i want to salute the senator for his terrific work in the area of voting rights and many other areas, but as he said in all -- and all of you know, here in baltimore we experienced the tragedy of freddie gray. not an isolated incident. something we have seen in cities and towns across the country and as president obama has said, it's not a wake-up call because we should have been well awake to the whole series of issues that we have to attack with urgency beginning with things like lead-paint abatement

whether in baltimore city, michigan, ending scandal of mars incarceration and also dealing with opening the doors of educational opportunity for all and economic opportunity for everybody and expanding the circle of opportunity. those are all issues we have to address in this country with urgenty, do i want to salute president obama because compare today where we were in 2008, the economy has helped recover and we've seen steady, steady job growth consistent job growth for a long time. that is a big difference compare today where we were and where we would have been. but we all know and the presidents has said that we need to continue to make that progress and whether it's on economic equality or educational opportunity or all the other shrgs that bring us together

today at the core is the whole issue of voting and voting rights. we just saw the state legislature passed legislation that returning citizens would have their right to vote restored, but the governor, governor hogan vetoed that legislation and it was only because the legislature then had the votes to override the governor's veto that today in maryland returning citizens have their rights restored. so the make-up of the legislators and obviously the governorships are critical in this battle for voting rights around the country. across the batomic river you have the situation, governor expanding the right to vote for

people who have served their time while legislature in virginia is trying to block it. we also saw what happened in north carolina within hours of the supreme court striking down a big part of the voting rights act where they moved forward to enact more barriers to voting. in fact, within hours of that decision, you had one of the leaders in the north carolina legislature say and i quote, now we can go with the full bill, what do they mean? they meant north carolina, they had a bill that could erect a lot of bills for voting and wouldn't pass preclearance and they were going to have to go with something else. the minute the supreme court struck down provisions, the north carolina legislature moved forward with that bill to

increase barriers to voting. now, of course, the good news is just recently the four circuit overturn that north carolina law and they overturned the laws as we have seen in other states as well. however, the bad news is that -- because the voting rights act provisions were struck down, we now have to be in a response mode simply protecting existing voting rights in states like texas and north carolina, laws that would have never gotten through the regular free clearance process and so it is absolutely essential that congress pass a new voting rights act to restore the provisions for preclearance because since that provision was struck down about 22 states,

north carolina, texas, about 22 states have passed laws to create more impediments to voting. so like all of you, i would rather be in a position where we are working to expand voting rights by increasing the amount of time people can vote, the kind of thing that we've worked to do in maryland and instead because the voting rights act provisions were struck down in so many states, we are having to spend our time simply protecting existing rights from those who want to take them away. so i am so glad we are here to focus on the fundamental question, we are in election year and people understand what's at stake and it is really sad when you have one political party trying to win elections in the united states of america, in our democracy through subtraction rather than through addition by trying to win elections by keeping voters from

exercising their right to vote as opposed to trying to win elections by expanding the circle, encouraging more americans to vote. so make no mistake when donald trump talks about rigged elections -- [laughter] >> what he means is he doesn't like elections where more people go out and vote. that's what he means by that. [applause] >> and as the president said in response to, you know, different comments at the democratic national convention and i would say this regardless of party affiliation, you know, we don't -- we are not going to boo, we are just going to go out there and vote because all the issues that i talked about at the beginning trying to make sure we build a country that meets the promise of equal rights an equal justice, equal opportunity, all of those issues depend on everybody getting out there to vote and making sure that we break down barriers to voting

and we all know that at this point in our history it's a fund mental choice on whether or not we want to continue to build a more perfect union, to bend the arc of justice, the universe towards justice or whether we wanting to backwards and it's great to see a room with people who are focused on making sure that we exercise our rights to vote so that we can continue to move forward in the united states of america, thank the urban league for all that you do to make our country more fair and just and thank all of you for playing a part in that great endeavor. thank you very much. take care. [applause] [music] >> on behalf of the national urban league, conference attendees we greatly appreciate your strong words of encouragement and support of issues that impact our communities.

moving on, please welcome our moderator for today's panel discussion tamika malorie ceo and activist. [applause] >> good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, enough cannot be said about the importance of having our voices heard. often times it is too easy to say my vote won't count or i'm only one person so it doesn't matter whether or not i vote. on the contrary we are gathering here today to discuss the fact that your votes do matter. why your vote always counts, joining me at this time to shed light on this very relevant concern is a dynamic team of panelists. steven green is the national director of the youth and college division of the national association for the advancement

of colored people. the ncaap. [applause] >> in his role he oversees an army of more than 30,000 young activists across 800 active youth councils and college chapters throughout the nation. now we can give him a round of applause. [applause] >> david e. carter, president of the national action network youth move. he has worked with countless families who have been victims of police brutality and it is working with one of the largest civil rights organizations in the nation, founded by the reverend al sharpton. [applause] >> has dedicated his life to

serving his community and making new orleans a better place to live. [applause] >> simón d. sanders, national secretary at bernie 2016, u.s. bernie sanders presidential campaign, a communicator with the great passion for policy and juvenile justice reform, similar oan is the immediate past chair of the coalition for juvenile justice national youth committee and former member of the federal advisory committee on juvenile justice. let's give the panelists a round of applause. [applause] >> so simon, i'm going to start with you because you're my sister girl. >> pardon me. can the crowd wake up for a second, though? >> okay. let's get this round of applause

going for real. [applause] >> we are about to have a calmly conversation. >> since you said that good, let's talk about what is at stake here and i also want you to throw in the idea that if young people decide that they're going to stay home, is there any scenario where either campaign can win in the presidential race ? and don't be rolling your eyes and doing head bobbing. >> i will answer your second question first. so tamika's first question, no, there's not a scenario in 2016 politics where if young people ie anybody under the age of 40 stays home and does not vote in the election that i will say the democrats can be successful and not necessarily for the gop if you will if they stay home either. i think when young people don't go to the polls, people of color, black and brown people don't go to the polls, we lose out and we lose out on our

issues and communities, so no, there's not a scenario where it works well specially for the democrats if young people do not go to the polls. if young people do not go to the polls, donald trump will be president of the united states of america and republican will sweep local elections across the country. that's the answer to your first question. the second question what's is at stake, some people will have to say what's at stake is we can't afford a donald trump presidency, whichever side of the line you fall on. i work for the democrats. whatever. [laughter] >> i'm not going to say that to you. the issues are what we need to keep front and center. it's health care, education, our jobs for our communities, so that is what's at stake in the election.

34 seats in the election, 24 are republican-held senate seats. you had u a senate candidate on the stage holland, if you live in maryland you need to vote. what's at stake in this election are the seat that is are up for reelection right now, north carolina is one of those seats, so if you want to talk about voter suppression, people suppress the vote because they want to hold onto their power. north carolina wasn't about the north carolina legislature doesn't like black people, they were trying to hold onto their power and so those voting, tactics they use to suppress the vote. that race is now as to-up race -- toss-up race. these are all the things that are at stake in this election in addition to somebody like donald trump having his finger on the nuclear -- on the nuclear button. so lots of things at stake for this election. >> can i ask production to bring

the questions up on the screens and while they do that, you know , looking at particularly in new orleans and other places across the country and since we have been talking about voting down the ballot, you know, we often get caught up in presidential races and don't talk about the importance of looking at all of these other local elections that matter, so why don't you talk a little bit about that. >> well, elections -- all elections matter and i want to thank the urban league, of course, my former mayor mark moriel for his public service of eight years, two terms in the city of new orleans and the urban league for their advocacy work. this is about what's at stake as it relates to issues that affect everybody. you heard vice presidential nominee tim kaine say yesterday it's about elections, it's about

mayor, it's about the house and the senate, lieutenant governor, governor, federal. voting rights, it's something our ancestors fought hard for to say are we going to stay at home. we have to mobilize each other. we have to mend the fences and make sure that everybody knows what's at stake because you've got those folks on the other side that want us to forget what the 1965 voting rights act did and we have to elect people who want to change and make, restore voting rights act as senator cardin said earlier and put people in place that are going to vote for those changes that represent social justice and

economic opportunity and so i got to learn a lot about the votes rights act when i was in the state house in louisiana. i sat on governmental affairs. 2010 was redistricting and i study it had history of this disenfranchisement trying to fracture up districts so voters would not have to have the opportunity of electing the person of their choice, manipulation, and so discrimination across the board and in louisiana's history and section 5 was regrettably the supreme court's decision was struck down. that -- congress has to move to restore that and those representatives or senators who don't vote for it. they need to be thrown out of office. >> that's right. >> we have to continue to not

only speak about these issues but have an action plan on the ground to get our young voters to the polls. simple as that. that should be the play book and see that the voting rights act is restored. >> i work with a group called justice league nyc out of new york city, our mentor and it's a very diverse group of young people who some feel that we shouldn't even be voting in this particular election because we get nothing from either side and what i've argued with them is the idea that we go home after electing a presidential candidate and there is no continue ground game, no sustainable movement. so since we have the ncaap and national action on this panel, why don't the two of you talk about, we can start with you steven and go to david, talk

about what is the pressure that's needed to ensure that after an elected officials gets in office that we actually make them do the work. >> yes, thank you. i want to give kudos again to president moriel but i thank you tamika for this question is we must continue to recognize that the greatest form of resistance is not solely what we do in a protest but how we engage policy. i think it's also important to recognize that when we elect someone on november the eighth, that we not need go home on november the ninth and have demands as the country transitions and also to the nation's capitol in dc on the third weekend in january, third monday in january that we know what we are asking for. i think we need to be consistent and show up in representative offices, in congressional offices and be radically responsible but to have an agenda that's clear, based because in 2018 they are going to come back to us and wonder

where we are and mobilize our vote but we want to know what you're going to do from '16 to '18. we can't allow this moment to sort of diminish and people are looking at november the eighth as an end goal. that's just the start of a new race. we have to recognize that we have to be energetic and ready to ride this race on out. this is only august the fourth or fifth, this is early in august and we've seen another killing and shooting in chicago and in baltimore county in the past 72 hours. and so we must be very cognizant of what's going to be at stake not just in november but all the way to we get for freedom and liberation, we have been this this country for 400 years and still haven't yet to be receive. >> david. >> it's very important that we hold candidates accountable for what we expect for them to do in office. no matter the outcome of this election, we have to let them know that we the battle is not over, the battle is not won.

we are still going to fight for the issues that are concerning our community, that are concerning this country. most important we have to do is have this information provided not just at a rally, not just at city hall but we have to have at our churches, schools, all over so that they are able to get that information and apply it when they go back home, when they go back to their neighborhoods, we have to continue this information going on and on. you talked about policy, that's very important. we can get mad or glad, policy is going to stick and make sure that we are here and make sure they adhere to what we want them to do, we got them in office and they have to do that. i think that's very importan >> before you go, siomone, what are some of the issues that you think are important and everyone can take this, what are some of the issues that are important that candidates have to address particularly when we look at the nick cannons of the world who say i ain't voting, we can't just discredit them and throw

them to the side, understand the frustration and so what are we saying to them about the issues that they care about one, and two, how do we link it to either side of this campaign -- presidential election? >> well, so i would say the issue at least for me, i think criminal justice reform is the civil rights issue of the 21st century and you can't run for dogcatcher let alone president of the united states in 2016 without telling me how you're going to address criminal justice and juvenile justice reform on whatever level that is. and we know all politics specially when we talk about criminal justice reform, juvenile justice reform is local. i think health care is definitely an issue. you've got states that under obamacare which is an amazing accomplishment that we should all celebrate because there are people in this country that could not have been ensured without obamacare, but there are at least 29 million americans in this country that are still unsured and millions more still underinsured. there are states that have

refused to expand medicaid. so we need to talk about health care, education, we need to talk about jobs, talk about closing the wealth gap. i think those are the issues, but to david's point about we have to hold people accountable, as someone who held people aside saying these are our issues, we want to hold them accountable, i want folks to come to the meeting with a strategy and a plan. you need to put together a strategy and a plan on how that's going to happen and i think as particularly black and brown people that's not something we have consistently done well. so we will have the pressure on you during election season and if we don't have a strategy or plan on how we are going to hold you accountable, we take our eye of the ball on the issues and here we are. >> steven, you speak to that and i'm going to ask the councilmen, what does the pressure look like to you, does it look people

rallying outside your office or other steps to move you to do something powerful? >> i think my issue -- >> you were shaking your head. >> this is good. i want to get into the issue of the voting right and protecting voting rights. this is where you really se substantive change, prosecutor is and able to determine the length of sentences, you vote on judges across the country as well as elected school board. i think the rollback of the right to vote, you've seen five states, the courts have struck down the laws but there were 12 other states still out there that have voter suppressive law on the books. we can't be done yet. we celebrated victories in texas, north carolina and kansas but we have to make recognized and be renewed for the fight that there are people who still have to stand in lines until 8:00 p.m. and eight hours a day to be able to cast a vote, people who cannot use id to

vote, dmv's who have been shut down in black counties, this is still the law of the land and i think we need to recognize that protecting the right to vote and also protecting the integrity of the vote, we need to have a constitutional amendment to roll back citizens united where people are able to put profit, money where people are. we have to recognize the right to vote which is our most sacred and if we are not able to recognize it, we will have attorneys that will put black and brown people that will lock them up. the supreme court which made a decision to roll back about whether or not they can stop you and be able -- the fruit of the forbidden tree. we have a lot of stake and the supreme court hanging in the balance. we have to recognize the right to vote is the only way we will be able to have democracy and people need to know how serious it is. >> let's speak to that. what is that -- what does the

pressure look like? often times people walk away, how do i do it, what do i do. >> well, i think it's jury civics, civics 101. you get in front of your elected official, not just the rally cry, that's good and all good and well, but, you know, developing papers, briefs about what this legislation is. just educating for information only. is this going to hurt my community or this is going to be helpful to my community. when knives the legislature i authored a bill to have 12:00 to 5:00, early voting on sundays. you know what, it failed but it takes people getting in those committee rooming and broadcasting their voice and

making -- standing up and making their personal opinions known to the committee and, look, everybody has a lobbyist but it takes people, a strength in numbers coming together, getting on the road and going to your state capitol, getting on the road and going up the street to the city council chambers. this is our civil rights movement. you know, president obama is going to be out of office in january -- january 20th, he's done a phenomenal job but this is our job. this is about the trajectory of the united states for generations, this generation and generations to come and we have to have everybody involved, what the advocacy, with suggesting ideas for legislation because i can't do it alone. i have, you know, six other

members on the council that i have to get votes from and then you think about the possibility of what the next president of the united states is going to have with possible vacancies on the supreme court and how that affects the voting rights act, how that affects health care, how that affects women's reproductive rights, our national security. so we have to mobilize, stand up, speak up and get out there and, look, if you don't have a young professional group it only takes one person. >> that's right. >> i see one of my constituents in the audience. her dad are good friends but it takes one. >> get the spark going. >> simone you're a sought after political mind --

>> and unemployed. >> not for long. run and tell that. and i'm sure people call you from all sides asking questions trying to get your advice, what is some of the advice that you're give to go campaigns right now whether on the record or off the record of how they need to move from, the college campus is talking young people to entrepreneurs and others and really look at a broad spectrum of folks to go after for this election . >> people call me and want to know about millennials. bernie did a great job with millennials. >> i'm a millennial too. i'm 36. 1980 is the last year of being a millennial. excuse you. >> they call me about millennials like us but they

also call me about activists and folks from the black lives matter movement because apparently i'm like the black matters when i whisper. [laughter] >> which is, okay, so when folks are calling me and asking how can we engage young people, a lot of times and a lot of the camp -- campaigns, they think of millennials as college students, no, they have businesses, families, mel inails are -- millennials are leading companies. so millennials are multimultifa multimultifaceted. and so i encourage folks to think about millennials holistically and if college is not your think we have to talk about entrepreneurship programs and schools and where you can

send your kids to school and in terms of black lives matter, i tell people that you have to be willing to talk to folks and too many politicians refuse to sit across the tables from the activists. they will not sit in the room. the principals won't go. they will send the policy people and advisers and they'll send, you know, black representatives on their campaign but they will not send the principals. and i will tell you that in 2016 you have to be -- the principal has to be willing to sit in front of activists and have a conversation. >> i think we are actually -- am i looking at a wrap-up or is that a question in the audience. okay, let's go to the question, please. please, if you would like to ask a question go over to the microphone and while we do that i think the councilman was going to say something. >> i just wanted to add, you always hear about things that's

not going right but shot out to the louisiana legislature, this year they repealed 142-year-old law that would have more requirements of naturalized citizens versus natural born citizens and that's progress in louisiana and i want to thank my former colleague governor for signing that legislation in addition to another law that was passed allowed students at public universities, four-year institutions to use id cards to vote. >> that's awesome. that's definitely two wins. [applause] >> did you want to say something? we have a question. go ahead. >> my name is bryan williams, i'm the founder of purchase.com. i have a question surrounding black people's awareness of

black power with regard to effecting the electoral college. there was a statistic with the democratic candidate there was a 88% preference amongst african americans, meaning that if black people voted in ohio we would essentially pick the person that would win those votes in the electorate college state. how can we tell black people that. >> votes not only count but probably count for more because of the closeness with the two candidates? >> so that's a good question. i think it's about encouraging people and actually letting people know that their vote actually counts specially black and brown people. i i just had a conversation last night and i was talking about the electoral college. i was, like, no, your vote matters, your vote decides how many votes from the electoral

college go to each candidate. you do have to go to the votes. it is extremely important, that is black people we go to the votes, yes, you're right, we do have the opportunity to pick the candidates in some instances, if you will. but i think it's about specially in this election cycle tieing the vote to the issues and if we tie it to people and being excited, folks are not going to coming out, it's fine, you don't need to be excited to vote but you do need to vote. >> before we go to the next question, let me ask you about that, i'm glad to see that so many young people who have not been involved in politics in previous years but because how crazy this election has been on many levels, they are getting involved and asking questions about the electoral college which we never had even thought about that and how important it is. talk about that, what is it? there's a lot of argument that the electoral college are made

by wealthy white folks that own land and we had no place in the election once you look how the electoral college is made up? >> i do not purport a electoral college expert. i will preface it with that. are there wealthy white people that own land in the electoral college, yes. in the primary people in various states went and voted. it wasn't until after the people in the states voted that delegates, actual delegates were allotted to candidates. same thing to general election. instead of delegates we are getting votes. i'm from omaha, nebraska. shot-out to omaha, nebraska. in 2008, omaha, congressional district 2 gave one to have electoral vote to president obama. black people went to the polls and we are a red state so it matters, it counts if you show

up but you have to show up. in this election cycle, people are not excited. folks are not going to go to the polls because the candidates are making them stand up and saying, yes, we, i feel it, i'm going to go vote because that's my candidates, they need to go for the issues. >> all right, question in the audience. >> good afternoon, my name is thomas, vice president for next philadelphia, young professional group. the recent commentary that i heard between professor gold where one of the gentlemens was making a reference to knowing the fact that african americans are primarily voting democratic that in order to put it out there that states that lean democratic, that's a guarantied win that african americans shouldn't vote democratic but in competitive states where the -- where -- it could be a toss-up, then african americans should vote democratic with the logic

that in those safe districts or states that we -- if we are leaning toward democratic candidates that we need to emphasize to them that our vote is a guaranty? >> i think it's important to note that -- that each party has taken black people for granted in this election. >> that's right. >> i think it's important to note, and this goes to your earlier question about electoral college. where is the ground game to educate, what are we going to do to demand, for so long democratic, sort of the democratic party has sort of counted the black vote already assort of -- and taken it for granted because they say this is the party of lyndon johnson and the party of kennedy, this is the party of 2016 where you have someone who put black and brown people in prison for crimes for

multiple years for crimes they did not commit. we need to recognize that our votes can not be taken for granted, we will not be bought, we will not be sold in 2016. i don't know if we answered the question or not. >> hold on now. we also had to be responsible request rhetoric. >> i said the party. and the black caucus support it had bill. some of supported the same bill. i'm not saying -- i'm not saying the climate was different but i want to recognize that the party -- we have to recognize it is blood on both parties but people have vote our conscious and recognize who is going to represent the issues in 2016 that will show block and brawn people how consistent your messaging is. i think now we are in a great place to hold people accountable because we have the most radical progressive platform that this country has ever seen. thank you, simone. [laughter] >> okay, you got a little bit.

>> all right. >> so he said some radical language that i like that there's blood on both hands. i would like to hear you, david, talk about that, what does that mean when you're out, we have to turn out, we have to turn out, we have to vote and people say, there's blood on both hands and what do we say to them, what do you say? >> well, when you think about for baltimore, for instance, what we have gone through with freddie gray case, that was the time where baltimoreans and people nationwide but baltimore lost hope and they felt as though there was no point of engaging in this process, there was no point of actually going out there and getting your voice heard because at the end of the day it would not be heard. i'm not saying it wouldn't. when i was talking to community members and leaders, this is what they thought. what do we do? i think that what we should do is when we go out here and demand that this be done or this

policy be engaged or that we have to go through this process, like you said, we need to educate those who do not understand or do not have any clue as to how they should engage into this process. you said blood on both hands. we have to take and actually understand who has this blood on their hands. when you think about the republican party or you think about the democratic party, you have to go through -- whoever was leading the senate or the president at the time, what did they stand behind, what did they support, and that is what will lead us to really finding out who is the best candidate to support our issues and what we believe in and what we want to take effect immediately. >> i just wanting to back to philadelphia. some folks said that some people should vote republican in places that quote, unquote, don't matter. i'm paraphrasing.

[inaudible] >> jill stein. >> this is what i will say to that, i want folks to understand, when you go -- when you go to cast your ballot, people have done work to get on the ballot. i just can't pop up and say i'm running for president and pay a fee and my name will be a ballot in all 50 states, you have to do work and pay fees to get on the ballot in all 50 states. i believe that as an african-american woman, i don't the luxury of a protest vote. too many people fought and died for my right to vote so -- there are too many things at stake. i listed them off when we first got up here. because of that, jill stein may not be on the ballot, gary johnson may not be on the ballot across the country, i believe that you have to use your vote

to effect, we currently live in a two-party system. if you want another party we need to plan so you can have a viable candidate. hillary clinton and donald trump are going to be at the top of that ballot. there are multiple people down ballot that we need to be voting for. i believe, like steven, vote your conscious and interest and i really believe that if we are voting our conscious and interest and voting on the issues, one, y'all probably not going to be voting for donald trump and two there's lots of folks that you won't be voting for. >> question in the audience. [laughter] >> this is nonpartisan. >> i work for the democrats, let me just be clear. >> i work for the naacp. >> mark is going to come in here and say off the stage. >> i don't have anything to do with that. [laughter] >> good afternoon. my name is daniel robinson, i'm from virginia beach with the ham

tone road chapter there of the young professionals and basically you answered my question but opening up to the rest of the panel how realistic is looking at kind of third parties as were mentioned aren't necessarily having put in the same amount of work that a republican or democratic candidate has, is that a viable option because that is something that just looking online some people are starting to consider because like you all mentioned, there aren't a lot of people who are interested or excited about trump or hillary, so -- >> well, i would say somebody started the independent party besides the republican and democratic party, somebody started a movement and it only takes one person and that -- you put that work by organizing and engaging and educating.

just to go back to -- on the point of what you said about third parties and independents have effective changes or whether republican or democrat got elected in our history, but many of you are aware of what happened in 2000, right? .. look, it's not for the

movement. you want to begin another party? go and start on. i want to add to this that it's also about the candidate that people are running and we need to do a better job and increasing a pipeline of black and brown qualified people who can run for office. we should not have to deal with this post obama, who's next kind of things. we should have people trained to have local school member members as county commissioners, as public works members because we have to much talent among our own community, national urban league, national action network, we have to many people and too much talent in our communities to go on tap. get your homey together, let's get a twitter campaign, let's get a treasurer who knows how to count the bread, have somebody do your social media and let's run for ogle local office in 2018 and think this happened >> last question in the audience. >> my name is cedric davis

from seattle washington. my question is more focused on not who's at the top of the party because it seems like no matter who we elect were going to have some and negative outcomes but how do we hold the folks accountable who are implementing the laws that whoever is in office signs? it seems that more of a problem that someone barack obama, who's at the top of all elected yet we are seeing things like, i for barack so let me be clear about that. but still we find and we see negative outcomes in our own communities. what i believe is based on again, who is implementing and carrying out these laws in our community? >> or whether or not a particular state is even abiding by anything or is there a federal mandate? when we look at police

accountability issues there are no federal mandates that are sweeping across the board that can challenge states on what is happening there so things like that, that's where we have to elevate the conversation and i totally agree with what he's saying. we have to hold people accountable for carrying out these particular practices in a press communities of color. >> i think it's two-pronged. one, we have to be committed to voting down ballot and i think we need to say that if we haven't said and made that clear, we need to be committed to voting down ballot. so many people will go to the pole and they will check the box for president and will check the box for their county commissioner or state attorney, they will check the box for the mayor or accountant, florida school board folks so we have to be committed to voting down ballot but too, i think we also more than just educating ourselves we have to be ready and willing to run an issue campaign locally and i think most recently in chicago is our best example.

please chime in here but states attorney? state attorney in alvarez, she had let multiple folks walk. there were black and brown people being gunned down in the streets of chicago and no one is being held accountable so young people have to get clergy folks together and they said okay, he organized the campaign and immediately it's on. she is gone. we voted her out. it's an issue campaign though so in the was there issue. a criminal justice reform is your issue and police accountability is your issue we have to be ready to start issue campaigns and not just do social media activism but we don't ever move past twitter. >> i want to say thank you and i'm so sorry we don't have more time to talk, this is been such an incredible conversation, thank you to the panel and the national urban league for providing lust with an opportunity to come here as young

professionals and talk about these issues. certainly we know there's a lot at stake and the bottom line is nothing will happen by just going to vote but it is our boat and then our action that counts and that's what we have to do. we have to meet, strategize in the living rooms and the board room but also history and make sure our voices are heard, thank you so very much. [applause] >> coming up at 7 pm, q and a

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>> unit 2015 mark the anniversary of the magna carta where england's king john sign a document recognizing the foundations of parliamentary democracy, human rights and supremacy of law. the conversation on the impact of the magna carta on the u.s. constitution from the fourth circuit court of appeals judicial conference in may it was just under an hour. >>. [inaudible conversation] ladies and gentlemen, were going to get started. our next segment is going to

deal with the magna carta. i want to tell you that last week or afternoon i had a friendof mine and his wife come by my house to visit . and he asked me some questions about what was going to go on at this conference and he said one of the kind of things you are going to talk about? i said well one of the things we are going to do is celebrate the signing of the magna carta. he said, when was that side? and i said 1215. he looked at his watch and said honey, i told you we should have come before lunch. that's not the 12:15 where talking about. we have a distinguished group that led by professor myrick so if you are ready i'm going to turn the program over to you.>> good morning everybody. nice to see all of you. as you know we are planning

this morning to a few words upon the 800th anniversary of the magna carta. i'm dick hellard, id constitutional law at the university of virginia and i'm happy to have with me on the platform to very distinguished guests, david hunt from the british embassy in washington dc, he is her majesty's consul general, that's quite a title because fancy titles. he is not a lawyer, he hastens to say. in fact he got his degree at the university of holland american studies and spent a year at the university of southern california in san diego doing i think a thesis on tom wolfe so a man of many parts.the other panelists this morning, william hubbard, known to many you as the past president of the american bar association from columbia south carolina. he is an honorary venture of middle temple in london and last year the 800th anniversary year he was in

london presiding at the rededication of the american bar association's memorial at runnymede, the memorial to the magna carta and presided over the apa london meeting attracted something like 1000 americans to england. this morning we plan to divide our presentation into two major parts of about equal length. first, i would like to undertake a sketch of magna carta . it's the 800 years, what were its origins, how did it survive, how did it manage to get across the atlantic to america? what does it mean today? and then the second major part of the program will turn to a discussion of first david hunt then william hubbard giving you some sense of the contemporary modern applications of magna carta. when it comes to our own time. first, a few words, a little background, a little history

on where magna carta came from. it was agreed, it was an unwilling bargain between a very reluctant king john and the barons at runnymede in june 2015 and it's clear that king john was a bad man, he was a bad king. he managed to quarrel with the pope, with the city of london and most importantly with the barons read he was a bad military leader, he managed to lose a major battle in france which resulted in the loss of the mormons possessions in normandy itself so finally he was forced to come to terms with runnymede and magna carta was the result. we need not worry here this morning about the feudalism that has most of the details of the magna carta has to do what were then important issues but among the most important provisions, one that above all survives was so-called chapter 39 of magna carta. the one that guarantees

proceedings according to the law of the land or what we today would call due process of law. there was another companion provision, chapter 40 which said that justice should not be delayed , denied or sold. there's no doubt that king john, a reluctant bargainer did not intend to keep his promise. he was going to turn his back on the magna carta and have the it declared null and void but as it happened he died the next year, 1216 and his successor was henry iii, nine years old. how long is a nine-year-old king going to live in the conditions of the middle ages? you've all seen game of thrones and you know what the environment was like so henry iii is regent william marshall hit on what i guess we would call a public relations device and that is he had henry iii reissue magna carta as a pledge of good faith to the english people and that started the ad