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>> this is a test for tom perez. either he will succeed by bringing bernie sanders and bernie sanders representatives into this process and they will say ooitsd faits fair, it work will fail. and i hope for democrats everywhere that he succeeds, and for bernie and all of bernies supporters. >> very quickly do you agree with the notion that it was rigged? >> yes. >> the president has called on the justice department to look into braziles claims. this was krius criticized by bo corker as in-proech...

2015. it never said that we would get to review e-mails or things that went out about a quote/unquote lawy lawy particular democratic candidate. and going forward i think its important that the integrity and their process around elections is protected and restored and that is a challenge for tom p perez and his leadership. im very optimistic that they will rise to the occasion. >> so based on what she said, is the dnc tarnished now, how many damage does this report from donna brazil do? >> i thi...

Getting a little too fixated on they are being mean to us. >> and that is a good point. >> yes, u i agree with that comple completely. we can worry about how we are treated as members of the press and not enough about how the readers and the viewers and our consumers are being treated. >> okay. >> all right. we are going to be listening to ja moou greene as we go out to break. >> and that is why we need tom perez to be the next chair.

>> and we should say that one of the candidates who dropped out, pete buttigieg, and so some said that they had earned his endorsement, but fluid here, and that is a mistake. and so where do you think that the votes will come from? and if there is a lot of ellison supporters here in the back of the room, and if he loses, what will happen? >> a lot of disappointmentt out there on the street. and incumbent on tom perez to go out to build credibility with the people we have seen by the millions out...

Unified message and slate of candidates of school board to the next prospective president to run that? >> the responsibility to party up is on me and everybody else to build it from the bottom up. so what has happened is that the money was not put there. representative ellison has said that he will fund the party at real dollar levels and not a couple of thousand here or there, and tom perez does not understand how the state party works, and ellison has raised over $2 million and helped the ka c...

Record, and to your point, the record may not matter for the job at hand, but if you want to look at the record, there is a lot to celebrate here. >> and one thing that you did not mention which is very near and dear to the progressives hearts and he was president obamas first head of the justice department, and revive and rejuvenated after eight pours of george h.w. bush. jayne, i want to bring you back in here to respond to my question to catherine about the fact that under this administration...

Said which is that there is a lot of bridge building that has to be done. and so, im not getting the sense that you think that that is going to be an easy jobb if the next chair of the party is tom perez. >> okay. sorry are, a little bit of the technical difficulty here, but it is not going to be easy for tom perez to win the people back? >> yes, obviously, given the experience in 2016, there is a lot of distrust of the people out there in the world, and sort of the internal, you know, dnc organ...

Does not know anything about the state funding seems ludicrous at this point in the conversation. andl second of all, we are talking about the party the leadership, and not just all of the people, but the people like bernie sanders standing in the treat and donald trump, and the most loyal base that there are and that is black women and they did not vote for bernie sanders in the majority at lao least. so how is keith ellison despite being black going to reach out to the most loyal constituency,...

Ellison over tom perez is that tom perez supper ports the ttp, and the dakota pipeline. you write about the economy, and those thing, and arent those two issues dead. so with that the case with president trump in office, and if that is the case, why should any democrat hold it over their head? >> well, iing a grew -- i argue that protections were expanded for his oversight for undox yumed workers and people eligible for overtime, and he held under the leadership, the labor department held a lot ...

Movement politics so he has to find the way, and people want the authentic messenger of the progressive image and he has to off that if he wants the support. >> that is the view from the floor here in atlanta, and back to new york. >> thank you, alex. i heard some cheer iing while y were speaking, and do you a sense of what was happening that had people cheering -- keith, keith, keith. but it looked like as you were talking about going into the second round of balloting, and judging by what jeff...