leslee sherrill is former president of abc news, fellow of the school of politics working on a nonpartisan initiative, democracy project which focuses on electoral reform with ralph. she worked as white house staffer at the manhattan institute for policy and research. pete peterson is the dean and senior fellow at pepperdine university school of public policy, 2014 republican candidate for california secretary of state and in another state he might have succeeded. trevor potter, former chairman of the united states federal election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain and president george hw bush, i assume not at the same time, founder, president and general counsel of the campaign legal center which is working in areas of campaign finance and elections, political communication and government ethics. a superb co-moderator, adam grushan, is vice president of our student group, a standalone student group, we are proud to be associated with them. he is a senior at the university of southern california and he will kick it off with the first question which all of you could take a