Terrorism programs. Governors from across the country are meeting in des moines, iowa. Gary herbert and vice chair Terry Mcauliffe held a News Conference at the start of the conference joined by iowas Governor Terry branstad. 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, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far
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, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is