Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the preemie to preemie to press.

We're thrilled to have Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner Gary Oldman and BAFTA

Award winning director Joe Wright join us for insightful and thought provoking panel.

Additionally, I would like to extend a special welcome to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy

and Democratic caucus chair Joe Crowley.

We look forward to hearing your take on the film and talking about Churchill's impact

in his legacy.

And a special thank you to our moderator for the evening, member of our Comcast, NBC Universal

Family, NBC political director and moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd.

Also, thank you to the leaders from the British Embassy for attending this evening.

Our collaboration with partners in the United Kingdom helped make this film a success.

Darkest hour is the second film to have been given access to the House's apartment, the

first being another focus features film, Suffragett.

The historic events that unfold in the film helped shape all of our lives.

And while we know the ending, the movie provides us with an intimate view of gripping decisions

that Churchill had to make during extraordinary times.

I'm very happy to be here.

I promise I won't make any present day jokes on that front.

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

Good grief.

All right, hi, oh.

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