a neil eggleston with us. again, this was the president's commission on election. the president came up and appointed his commission and happy to have your in love to hear from you. >> 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, 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 working with states into stations across the country to advance the commissions importan

session. we have a visiting speaker, neil eggleston, who was the white house counsel who will be with us. i'm going to do a very brief introduction. we're not going to break for just a quick shift of seats were neil will come and join us and talk to us forgive us. will have a few questions and wrapup of the session. as i mentioned, neil was the white house counsel, previously served as associate counsel in the clinton administration. also is assistant attorney in the southern district on your end formally a law partner. 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

going to have a break but were in a shift to a second part of this session. we have neil eggleston who will be with us. were not going to break but will have a quick shift of seats where he will talk to us for a few minutes and have a few questions. he is a white house counsel he was assistant councilman to the clinton administration formally a partner at kirkland and ellis. we are very pleased to have him with us. the president appointed this commission and we are happy to have you here. >> thank you very much bob and ben into the policy center for this. i always say whenever i see bob it's clear that i wouldn't be white house counsel without bob's support and there are many days i thank him for that and some days i curse him for that. it's great to be here next to bob. thank you very much for that kind introduction. it's great to be here today. this is a matter an issue of importance to me and it is a matter of significant importance to the president and everyone in this room. first i want to take this moment to thank the partisan committee for taking the initiative to support the pr