Cspan3, cspan. Org, or listen to it live with the free cspan radio app. The Democratic National Committee Held its Unity Reform Commission for its final meeting this past weekend. The 21member commission was convened ahead of the 2016 Democratic National convention to boost party unity by offering recommendations to the dncs rules committee for changes in the way the party selects delegates and other matters. This portion starts with remarks from dnc chair tom perez. Its just over two hours. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. I am jennifer dylan, im joined by my great friend larry cohen, who is the vice chair of the commission, and i hereby call the final meeting of the Unity Reform Commission to order. I would like to first ask the members and those with us to join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask Patrice Taylor
We do have some republican governors who are helping us who have expanded medicaid and their state helping us to protect medicaid, because they are out to get medicaid with attacks. Good morning. Blessings be upon all of you. Task foren given the invocation. Let not this prayer be in futility that our hearts are not present. Let it not be a service of the lips when the hearts are not in line. I want you to look into your hearts. Forget where you are come and be in the presence of god for a second. Feel the presence of god and look within your heart. It is important for us that when we pray, we are in the presence of god and humble ourselves. If we look into the words of the , prophetradition mohammed taught us that if the heart is sound and upright, then the entire body is sound and upright, and if the heart is corrupt and ill, then the entire body will suffer illness and corruption, and many times the world we see around us is reflection of the human heart that exist throughout the wo
Yesterday, i was proud to take part of the establishment of the Unity Reform Commission which was formed in collaboration between the Clinton Campaign and the Sanders Campaign and the dnc. The commission is made up of representatives from both campaigns and the Democratic National committee. Assessing andwith improving our partys president ial nominating process. Oncifically focusing in superdelegates, caucuses and strategies for opening up our system even more. The commission will set up a set of recommendations for the dnc rules and the Bylaws Committee 1, 2018. Than january takenquate action is not within six months, the commission will present those recommendations before the full Democratic National committee. You thehare with primary season brought to light some issues we need to address as a democratic family. That is exactly what we are going to do. As a party, i believe our diversity is made up strong. It is not required that we always agree, but it is vital that we always mov
And top Homeland Security senator gary peters is calling for a hearing immediately. Hes going to join me live. And coming up at 8 00, we count down to the conventions. Now less than 24 hours away. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins me in our second hour along with Steve Kornacki and so much more. We want to start with that breaking news. House speaker n eer nancy pelos announcing shes calling the full house to return to session later this week to vote on legislation to reverse changes put in place by new postmaster general and trump ally lewis dejoy earlier this year. The House Oversight committee is calling on dejoy to testify a week from tomorrow after the Postal Service warned all but a few states this week that it cant guarantee all mailin ballots will be received in time to be counted in the election. One example of just how urgent democrats feel it is to address this crisis, congressman jim cooper, a moderate from the red state of tennessee, says if dejoy fails to appear, t
Widespread chaos and confusion. Results from iowa normally give us insight into who could be the democratic president ial nominee. Right now, the candidates are at best in a state of limbo. Heres what we know. It is a tight threeway race at the top. We know that the three of us will be dividing up most of the delegates coming out of iowa. Im feeling good. We were looking at the internal numbers realize that something extraordinary had happened last night. I would say last night was a mess up. I would also say it means this race is wide open. When those results are announced, i have a good feeling were going to be doing very, very well here in iowa. Well, the Iowa Democratic party is working to get this result, get them straight, i want to make sure theyre very careful in their deliberations. We know theres delays, but we know one thing, were punching above our weight. The math that i care most about is the fact that this movement has become something that has already shocked the politi