we'll hear remarks from steve phillips a lawyer and fill lan troe pis. according to mr. phillips, the coalition that is likely to dominate american politics going forward is made up of minority groups and progressed with of whites. this city club of cleveland hosted this hour-long event. >>> good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland. my name is paul harris and i'm president of the city club's board of directors. i am very pleased to introduce today's speaker, steve phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders of powerpac. as stated at its website, power pac is a non-profit advocacy and political organization established in 2004, quote, to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country, end quote. before i comment on pacs, i want to say a few words about our esteemed speaker's background. mr. phillips grew up in cleveland, cleveland heights, so he's back home today and has a lot of friends in the audience gathered throughout this room. he attended stanford university where he majored in english and after row ameri

we'll hear remarks from steve phillips, a lawyer and philanthropist who chairs an organization called power pac, which supports democratic candidates. according to mr. phillips, the coalition that is likely to dominate american politics going forward is made up of minority groups and progressive or liberal rights. the city club of cleveland hosted this hour-long event. >> good afternoon, and welcome. my name is paul harris and i'm president of the city club's board of directors. i am very pleased to introduce today's speaker, steve phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders of our path. as stated at its website, power pac is a nonprofit policy and political organization established in 2004 to "champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country." before i comment on pacs, i want to say a few words about our esteemed speaker's background. mr. phillips grew up in cleveland, cleveland heights, so he's back home today and he has a lot of friends in the audience gathered throughout this room. he attended stanford university where he majored in engli

so, with that, i am very pleased to present on behalf of the city club of cleveland, steve phillips, president and co-founder of powerpac. [ applause ]. >> thank you, paul, for that introduction. very grateful to be here. just addendum in terms of the bio, one of the things that we created last year plus, they're going to be materials that pacplus.org i'll be referencing through the site and things on the table that we had had here as well. we were talking about how this is -- there are a lot of friends here and it's very touching and moving to me. made me think that if you ever -- this is probably the closest you can have of seeing what it would be like, who would come to your funeral without actually dying. and hopefully this won't be a near-death experience for me as i try to deliver these remarks. and i do want to give a special thank you to shandra who introduced me to dan and arranged this opportunity for me to speak here. a lawyer here in town, he and i have been friends since our days at stanford in the 1980s. and i always knew she was a smart guy who had great potential, but

we'll hear remarks from steve phillips a lawyer and fill lan troe pis. according to mr. phillips, the coalition that is likely to dominate american politics going forward is made up of minority groups and progressed with of whites. this city club of cleveland hosted this hour-long event. >>> good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland. my name is paul harris and i'm president of the city club's board of directors. i am very pleased to introduce today's speaker, steve phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders of powerpac. as stated at its website, power pac is a non-profit advocacy and political organization established in 2004, quote, to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country, end quote. before i comment on pacs, i want to say a few words about our esteemed speaker's background. mr. phillips grew up in cleveland, cleveland heights, so he's back home today and has a lot of friends in the audience gathered throughout this room. he attended stanford university where he majored in english and after row ameri

you. [ applause ] >> today at the city club we have been listening to a friday forum featuring steve phillips. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. this forum is now adjourned. [ applause ] >>> fbi director james comey will speak at the brookings institution about technology, privacy and public safety. right after that the director of the centers for sdredisease con and prevention testifies about the u.s. response to ebola. he will be joined by the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. it starts live at noon eastern also on c-span. videos need to include c-span programming, show varying points of view and must be submitted by january 20, 2015. grab a camera and get started today. it's the third and final meeting between the candidates. recent polling listed it as a to tossup. it's live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> our look at political campaigns continues now with a debate on campaign finance laws. the event looks at the supreme court's 2010 citizens united ruling and the notion of money as speech. the event is co-hosted by the miami dade ethics and public

his new movie "listen up, phillip" jason schwartzman is joining us. >> steve: oh!and applause ] he's always clever and -- >> steve: always fun. >> jimmy: and then we'll round it out with a performance from the cast of "the last ship" right there tonight. >> steve: yeah! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it's gonna be good. so good. i'm really excited about this. it's time for tonight show "hash tags," you guys. here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hashtags hashtags ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you guys are on twitter, right? [ cheers and applause ] oh, it's fun but we use twitter on our show every single week, so if you watch our show and want to play along with do this thing every wednesday where i send out a hashtag. we ask you guys to tweet out things based on that topic and so, since it's halloween right around the corner, i went on twitter and i started a hashtag called "halloween fail." and i asked you guys to tweet us something funny, weird or embarrassing that happened to you on halloween. we got thousands of tweets. within 20 minutes, it was a a tr