point i would like to introduce to you the executive director of progressive democrats of america, donna smith. smith: good morning. if we had needed a bigger room we would have moved today. but we did not. my name is donna smith, executive director progressive democrats of america. we have chapters throughout the country. we are proud to say here at the convention more than 220 delegates identified themselves as progressive democrats of america. we like to say we are the insurgency in the democratic party, not an official part of the democratic party. -- i thinke here it's important to mention most of our delegates, many had to raise significant some of the money to arrive here at the dnc. they did so not because they expected to come in the foot soldiers for anyone who espouse views over not there's in terms of what they heard from bernie sanders that drove them so fervently to support him over the last two and half years. progressive democrats of america in late 2013 issued a petition where he asked people to sign if they wanted to urge bernie sanders to run as a democrat for the presidency

he was joined by donna smith of the group progressive democrats of america. >> good morning. like to welcome everyone to this first news conference of the burnie delegate network. by weibel a bit of background, the network was launched by the online action group which i cofounded and coordinate. and roots action now has about 7000 active members online. and the burnie delegate network is ongoing and very active partnership with progressive democrats of america. this morning we're going to hear from executive director of that inside the democratic party major player in terms of progressive activism organizing and electoral work, progressive democrats of america pda donna smith. i would like to open by just giving a bit of background about the bernie delegate network got to where we are now and we anticipate we will be going in the next few days. one thing i think needs to be very emphatically emphasized is that the bernie delegate network is independent of we are entirely independent of the democratic national committee at the democratic party. we are entirely independent of t

my name is donna smith, executive director progressive democrats of america. we have chapters throughout the country. we are proud to say here at the convention more than 220 delegates identified themselves as progressive democrats of america. we like to say we are the insurgency in the democratic party, not an official part of the democratic party. when we came here -- i think it's important to mention most of our delegates, many had to raise significant some of the money to arrive here at the dnc. they did so not because they expected to come in the foot soldiers for anyone who espouse views over not there's in terms of what they heard from bernie sanders that drove them so fervently to support him over the last two and half years. progressive democrats of america in late 2013 issued a petition where he asked people to sign if they wanted to urge bernie sanders to run as a democrat for the presidency of the united states. we gathered thousands of signatures that were presented to senator sanders on her 10 year anniversary in may of 2014. there were many peop

he was joined at the news conference by donna smith, progressive democrats of america >> good morning. i'd like to welcome, everyone to this first news conference of the bernie delegates network. by way of a little bit of background the bernie delegates network was launched by the online action group, roots action.org which i co-founded and coordinate. and roots action has about 700,000 active members online and the bernie delegates network is ongoing in very active partnership with progressive democrats of america and this morning we're going to hear from the executive director of that inside of the democratic party major player, in terms of progressive activism, organizing and electoral work, progressive democrats of america, or pda, donna smith. i'd like to open by just giving a bit of background how the bernie delegates network got to where we are now and where we anticipate we'll be going in the next few days. one thing that i think needs to be very emphatically emphasized is that the bernie delegates network is independent. we're entirely independent of the democratic has commit

my name is donna smith, executive director progressive democrats of america.e have chapters throughout the country. we are proud to say here at the convention more than 220 delegates identified themselves as progressive democrats of america. we like to say we are the insurgency in the democratic party, not an official part of the democratic party. when we came here -- i think it's important to mention most of our delegates, many had to raise significant some of the money to arrive here at the dnc. they did so not because they expected to come in the foot soldiers for anyone who espouse views over not there's in terms of what they heard from bernie sanders that drove them so fervently to support him over the last two and half years. progressive democrats of america in late 2013 issued a petition where he asked people to sign if they wanted to urge bernie sanders to run as a democrat for the presidency of the united states. we gathered thousands of signatures that were presented to senator sanders on her 10 year anniversary in may of 2014. there were many people

trader asmara knows we have known each other a long time i am an adam smith froo trader i do believe i don't always agree with donnasure the idea have been somebody negotiate trade deals in a way puts america first american worker companies first is key to this, so i act and omission more of a free trader than he is but i don't think you are going to see taifrz i don't think you are -- taifrs, do you that it is great for great britain for the economy. >> brexit. >> yeah. >> absolutely this is pro growth pro worker, prop sovereignty, and the big loser is socialism. >> good for. >> everybody a winner, right? >> what do you manage make of banking sector dagen mentioned italian banks a major issue you look at deutsche bank credit suisse plunging to all time new loss because of concerns there is so much trouble in the banking sector does that carry over to the u.s.? and being the banks here? >> the european banks are in trouble there is no question about it i do think there is a hyper ventilation among investors as you saw when brexit passed remember that night, when brexit passed stock market fell 600 points i was the