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We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governo...

Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of ...

This morning i got a call from a reporter who wanted to know, why would the museum at a time when it was focused on opening the building, why would they even helped organize such a conference . The simple answer is that we are crazy, but at the smithsonian and at this busy him, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decades of research and academic scholarship, there would be no museum of African American history and culture. We know that we are t...

[ applause ] day two of the Republican Convention begins this afternoon. House speaker paul ryan, majority leader much mcconnell, House Majority leader kevin mccarthy, two of Donald Trumps children and former republican president ial candidate ben carson are all scheduled to speak. Tonights theme is make america work again. Live Convention Coverage starts today on cspan at 5 30 p. M. Youll have a front row seat to every minute of the republican and Democratic National conventions on cspan. Org. ...

Take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. We want to defend it so that if and when we win, we can do it. [ applause ] guess what . Guess what . Hillary clinton isnt going to do one of these things. Not going to do a darn thing. Shes against all of these things, these principles we believe in. This is a binary choice. It is either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. If youre not for donald trump and not voting and not showing up, youre helping Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] pretty m...

This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to...

Field of africanamerican history and culture has expanded and morphed so many times. As such, theres so many issues, so many topics, so many themes that it was impossible to do everything in this conference. And theres so many gifted scholars whose voices should be heard but cant for this particular conference. It says, i think, so much about the vibrancy, the importance, the expansive nature of the field of africanamerican history, that no single conference can hold it all. But we are so excite...

We recognize, we cant do it alone. This goes to the staffing issues. Theres going to be in National Guard component. Theres going to be another sector component to it. The dhs component to it. A Law Enforcement component so bringing the whole Community Together for response to Cyber Threats is a great lesson out of the ukraine. Two things i wanted to put a fine point on. One, the physical cyber convergence, the attack surface growing exponentially. When we Start Talking about the internet of thi...

Another, radio host laura ingram tweeted friday, are they talking tact same paul ryan who once lost a vp debate to joe biden . Some of my conservative friends remember the plea frgs the wall street bailout. I would want to talk to paul ryan about why he kicked conservatives off the Budget Committee. Reporter for decades republicans picked the guy next in line to be the partys standardbearer. Now the conservative anger that propelled the party to victory in 2010 is reshaping it. With their larges...

Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pu...