a lot of you know beth lester. then vice president of events who invented the play book breakfast and made every one of them possible. playbook is big on breakfast. a birthday in two days. so we're going to celebrate by having beth lester in for her birthday. sprinkles and cupcakes. cupcakes for breakfast. thank politico. beth, we love you. happy birthday. enjoy a sprinkles cupcake. we'll bring on mayor fox. mr. mayor? >> thank you so much for coming in. we really appreciate it. thank you, sir. now wuf worked in washington. you are on the house judiciary committee staff. >> i was. >> you've seen washington from two ways. what's it like to come back? >> it's much easier on the conscious to be coming back asking for things that have a real world impact on a local community. now you don't see what happens on the ground. as mayor, i see what happens on the ground. so it feels a lot better. >> now, you're a democratic rising star. charlotte's rising city has survived very well. very strong financial services downtown. w

where celebrate by adding beth lester. happy birthday. you can enjoy cupcakes for protest with politico. happy birthday. congratulations. take a sprinkles cuff kate and that will bring on -- cupcake and that will bring on mayor foxx. welcome. you were on the house judiciary committee staff. yes in washington from different ways. -- what ismy comeba it like to come back? >> easier on my conscience that have an impact on my local community. in washington you get stuck in a bubble. he did not see what happens on the ground. it feels a lot better. >> anthony foxx, you are a democratic rising star, charlotte is a rising city that has survived very well, with strong financial services. what are we going to learn during a convention that we do not know? >> we will learn a lot about the city that has a real heart to it, that is much different than an lot of parts of the country. i will give you a couple examples. the first one is that my grandmother turned 95 about two weeks ago. she can remember -- i did not often eat cupcakes for breakfast. not