applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the cofounders of no labels, nancy jacobson, mark mckinnon, kiki mclean, bill, ron, david walker and clarin. ♪ for you"]there ♪ [applause] >> thank you everybody. we are so thrilled you are here. without we would all take a moment to share on this idea got started. and where we are going with it. if that started -- it got started with a feeling. -- a feeling shared by people on this stage. it spread to many of you in this room. that something was not right in this country. that gridlock and hyper partisanship was getting our country stopped. we decided that we needed to coalesce all of you into a national movement so you had a voice, so washington could hear you. >> two years ago, some of you were here when we launched. today we have arrived. this is really exciting to see everybody here today. we start off by organizing, county by county, state by state, and we start off with hundreds of people. that turned into thousands. now it has turned into hundreds of thousands. washington is starting to get the message. the great thing about the selec