delighted we have this opportunity and i will now turn it over to my good friend and co-chair ben ginsberg. >> thank you. this past year, you have actually been and honor, privilege and pleasure to work with bob and nate and all the pleasure to come up with our series of recommendations and best practices. the truth of course is that bob and i have battled over many very partisan battles over more years than bob cares to admit. and it really was a tremendous opportunity for us to be able to come together over these issues. because republicans and democrats agree that the building of all qualified voters to cast their votes fairly and without barriers is a fundamental part of our system and needs to be encouraged everywhere. one of the things that all of you taught us is that we have a very interesting system with 8000 jurisdictions that have some responsibility for putting on elections. so that uniformity is extremely challenging, one of the things the commission saw. but for the few number of jurisdictions where there are problems, there are many more jurisdictions who do the individual p

ginsberg, former u.s. ambassador to morocco. jeremy ben-ami, president of j. street which describes itself as a pro-israel and pro-peace organization. nathan diament of the union advocacy center. erel margalit, a member of the israeli knesset from the labor party. i don't know where to begin right now so i'm going to start with steve israel because you're the top democrat here. what do you think? is this good for america, good for israel, the speech in the way it was put together by boehner? i don't know who came up with this idea. i have theories about it. what are yours? who came up with the idea of sneaking this invitation past our president? >> boehner. the issue for me is not bibi. the issue is boehner. look, let's be blunt. this was a trap that john boehner tried to spring on democrats in order to create the perception of daylight between democrats and the state of israel. and, chris, you've been in politic, i'm in politics. i know one thing about politics. when you know that your opponent is setting a trap, avoid the trap i'm not going to fall into that