so we are very pleased to have a neil eggleston with us. again, this was the president's commission on elections. the president came up and appointed his commission and happy to have your in love to hear from you. neil: so thank you very much and thanks to bob and ben as well, into the bipartisan policy center for this. i always -- whenever i see bob i think to myself that it's clear that i wouldn't be white house counsel without bob's support. and there are many days i thank them for that and many days i curse him for that. [laughter] so it's great to be here and next to bob. so thank you very much for that kind introduction. it's a great pleasure obviously for me to be here today. this is a matter and issue of imports to me and it's a matter of significant importance to the president. and i know it's important to everyone in this room. first, i want to take a moment to thank the bipartisan policy center, both for hosting this retrospective, and for taking initiative to assist the presidential commission on election administration in worki
