fernando is the washington correspondent for the univision television group, an emmy nominated journalist, he's covered capitol hill, the white house and the federal government for more than 15 years. in 2014, the huffingtonpost listed him as one of the top 40 latinas in american media. prior to joining univision, his other experience includes working for cnn and spanish, the associated press and the correspondent for national television of chile. it's an honor that we have him deserve today as the moderator and now i will turn the program over to him. >> thank you for your kind introduction and being here with us today. what's been a long and interesting cycle, welcome to the panelists. we've been doing the national election cycle so i've seen how this particular has raised the interest of people particularly in the hispanic community and other minority communities as well. the rhetoric we have heard so far during the primary season may be since a year ago has been what many have called offensive or toxic. some candidates are not focusing on issues that are. how many of the voters will t

fernando is the washington affiliate correspondent for the univision television group. an emmy nominated journalist, he has covered capitol hill, the white house and the federal government for more than 15 years. twenty-four the huffington post listed him as one of the top 40 latinos in media. his other experience includes working for cnn in a spanish. we are honored to have him as our moderator and i will turn this program over to him. >> thank you for your kind introduction and for being here with us today. thank you to everyone who has joined us for this timely discussion as we head into the final stretch of what has been a long and very interesting election cycle and welcome all the families as well. i will introduce them shortly. i've been in this town for a while and i've been doing national election cycles since the year 2000. i have seen how this particular election has risen the interest of people and other minority communities as well. the rhetoric we've heard so far during the primary season has offensive or toxic, some candidates are not focusing on issues t