please welcome your director, karon walters and her assistant, pilot. vice chairman of the american conservative union federation. and the executive director of the american conservative union, dan schneider. [applause] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> where's my mom? >> welcome, cpac 2017. you are all here. this is very good crack this. you know we have special people coming live tomorrow and that means going through and waking up in all of that. are we ready to do that? in the staff here, last night you got four hours of sleep. >> it's been a while. >> today you get to meet violet. violet was born in the middle of our cleveland offense. some of you may have been to our cleveland event at the convention as mike pence was given his very first speech after donald trump announced he would be the vice presidential nominee. car and was in the delivery room giving birth to violet. clark tax >> so now i think it's a great time to thank our sponsors. >> we do have great sponsors. these are the sponsors who make this possible and sponsors to stand for the america