Republican convention. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, congressman ben lujan is in charge of democrats efforts to win back a majority in the house of representatives. He spoke about the dcccs history and the effect that donald trump is having on house races. From the National Press club in washington, this is an hour. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. My name is thomas burr. Im the washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and the 109th president of the National Press club. Id like to welcome our guest today, congressman Ben Ray Lujan, chairman of the Democratic Campaign committee. The National Press club has hosted nearly every president since our founding in 1908. I should note weve had a lot more visit in modern times from our friends in the legislative branch, including a good couple dozen house and Senate Members in the last couple of years. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Im going to turn the microphone over to bob wiener from our
September 27th and 28th, 2012, is being withheld from the executive branch dribrations and theres concern they say that releasing the unclassified content of these emails could have a chilling effect. On the email chain, Senior Administration officials, including mcdonough, john brennan and ben rhodes, september 14th, 2012 email critics say linked benghazi to shape the discussion. The fox report from september 27th concluded the white house knew about terrorism within 24 hours and run information prior to those statements, including those of the president. The sevenpage dialogue concerning one fox news report, to me, demonstrates an alarm bell situation where they are reacting to and trying to shape a response. Thats the big takeaway from what we know about this email chain is that the administration was trying to come up with what was described as the formulation of a media strategy to deal with this fox news report. And the fox news report, u. S. Officials knew within 24 hours it was