in her book how conflict, amanda ripley says that high conflict is a mode of thinking and feeling that leads to anger, hate and us versus them mentality. she says we address that not by getting out of conflict but by embracing conflict, she says that is what makes us better, pushes each other to challenge each other and to grow, by having the hard conversations driven by curiosity so that is what we do and what we will do here. i want to, before i introduce the governor, thanks to the siegels for making this possible and many people on the ground, alex ashley and our production and communication team, jack, anna, jane, ebony, thanks to you all for coming. [applause] >> we have been talking for a long time about a lot of change going on in washington. we should have a republican join us to talk about, a lot of them don't want to talk about it. why would that be? but our guest tonight is and does and he is here willingly. the 80 second governor of new hampshire elected to four terms, bachelors in civil and environmental engineering for mit and when he came out of school, at nyu, the scho