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I believe they're kicking things off with ballots at 10:00 a.m. and this is where the winter dnc meeting is taking place. that's atlanta inside. joining us now from atlanta, nbc's alex seitz-wald. i've just been looking over your great note from earlier today. i will not give out your cell phone number at the top of that note. is it 10:00 a.m. that they start with the ballots and we might know within an hour if they have to go on to round two, round three? >> reporter: right, thomas. we've got speeches around 10:00 a.m. from all the different candidates. tom perez, who's the more establishment...

And i think we've learned a lot of the wrong lessons from the 2016 race. tom perez would be a good chair. he may be a great chair. this is a time we shouldn't be making a safe choice. and mayor pete, i'm still practicing how to say his last name. >> phonetically spelled. >> he has an amazing biohe outlined. also he's somebody who recognizes it is not just opposing trump and opposing the republican agenda. it's about presenting our own positive optimistic agenda, that people want something to vote for. and i think we're not doing enough of that and i was really encouraged to see him talk about ...

Nomination, former actori iacti secretary in the obama administration, good to see you. so we just heard from mariana atencio at the top of the hour at this donald trump campaign rally. people are still saying it. jobs, jobs, jobs. does the acosta selection track with that in your opinion? >> in a word, no. he is an establishment pick. he's the kind of candidate that mitt romney easily could have chosen for the labor secretary job. donald trump talked about building up middle wage, middle skill, middle class jobs, raising people's wages, makg lives better for working class families, and alex a...

Diversity so. more of an establishment pick. andy was a multiple millionaire behind hardy's and carl's junior. but he was derailed for those racy commercials that the restaurants ran. acosta is a public servient. they feel confident by the fact he was confirmed by the senate three previous times going to help him. president trump over theers could of the campaign then candidate trump insisted unemployment numbers were higher than reported. you start to hear the shutter bugs. which means the president will be out here momentarily. just a couple of empty rows in front of us in anticipation. we i...

Administration himself. >> that's right. and we are told, my colleague sara murray is reporting that president trump met with some of the candidates for this pick today. yesterday afternoon. so this just occurred in the last 24 hours. obviously, as things were unraveling for andy puzder, this white house had to get cracking in terms of finding somebody else and we're told that this just happened yesterday afternoon. that he was talking to some of these candidates, including alexander acosta. this is much more of an establishment pick. he served in the bush administration. he's going to be the ...