[music] former san jose mayor ron gonzales, and current president and ceo of the hispanic foundation of silicon valley. and here we go again, it's another foundation ball. you're honoring this year the cervantes family of san jose. ron: the cervantes family is our 27th family that we've recognized in the 27 years of our foundation. and every year, we task a group of volunteers from our community that serve on the la familia committee. we ask them to find a family in our community that represents the kind of the objectives of the la familia award. and basic criteria is a family that's giving back to our community as volunteers. and the cervantes family, who we're honoring this year, you know, i think is a perfect example of that criteria. and all the 26 families that preceded them all involved in their own communities in very, very different ways. and of course, the cervantes family has dedicated a lot of their personal time and family time to being involved with immigration reform, immigration laws, assisting latinos who are first generation immigrants to, you know, get into the immig

ron gonzales: it's always nice to talk to you, damian. damian: well, you know, when you--and we talked about this before is that when you came on to the hispanic foundation, you took it to the next level, and then you keep--you kind of keep raising the bar. right now, tell us what the latest is with the foundation. ron: well, there's a lot of great things that have happened over the last year since we last talked about our hispanic foundation ball. and a lot of it has to do around the education space that we

doing this under the table and then later ron, if they want to pat themselves on the back, they can tell the press and the american public. is goinghan gonzales to be joining us in about 10 minutes to talk about the house and senate races and how the trump and clinton candidacies are impacting the down ballot races. a cover story focusing on hillary clinton, "her way: the reckoning." val is joining us from minneapolis. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i would like to see the proof. that thethe proof cyber attacks are russian? this build up with iraq and afghanistan, why do we always have to be in a perpetual state of war? certainly, people can sit down and talk and resolve things. i would like to see where the proof is. i think the media should ask all of these people, where is the proof that russia has done this. host: steve following up on an earlier caller's question. we caught up with paul ryan earlier this week. path's twisting, labored from party's standardbearer." a look at what is next whether hillary clinton or donald trump wins for the house speaker. tony joins us. caller: good morning, steve. thank you for c-span. host: