so now about tonight's author bethany maclaine coauthor of the best selling smartest guy in the room the amazing rise and scandalous fall with peter for second book which she coauthored with joe is all of the devils are here. the hissen history of the financial crisis. her most recent book, before this one tonight is shaky grounds strange saga of the u.s. mortgage giant. she's also a contradicting editor at vanity fair, and now lives in chicago. her new book saudi america reveals true story of fracking account ga on wall street to economy and geopolitics top topic near and dear to our hearts here in houston and happy she's here to discuss with us tonight join me in welcoming bethany maclaine. [applause] thank you all so much for coming. so i'm going to talk for probably about a half an hour and i'll come back to the probably and open it up to questions. and the probably is from young age in grade school i detested speaking outloud to i speak as quickly as i possibly could. which means that i talk really, really fast because i can't seem to untrain myself so somebody in the audience y