an inspiring jazz musician and he is special to us here at the press club because he is -- andrea mitchell houthi national press club honored just a couple of weeks ago for a lifetime achievement in journalism so we are honored to have him in our audience for that and we are excited to have you back. i also want to let our audience know that if you are tweeting tonight the hashtag is the map in the territory so please go ahead and use that hashtag with abandon. would you like to say a few words or should we go right into the discussion? >> go right ahead. >> all right. let's start by talking about the end of the book. you talk about a lot of concern with the political system that we have today and of course shortly after the book came out the government was shut down so you are quite prescient to forecast that quite well. what do you see coming next? do you see any prospects for improvement in the political situation or not? what are we in for? >> i think we first have to define what the problem is and it is not unique to the united states. we have seen this before in our history but the best way