we're going to start today's event with a conversation between judge brett kavanaugh of the u.s. court of appeals and paul gigot, prize-winning columnist in the past and currently the editor of the editorial page of "the wall street journal" and perhaps one time had the sweetest looking jump shot of any senior writer -- [laughter] and/or editor in the country. >> that's a very low bar. [laughter] >> it was enough to jump over mine. [laughter] then we'll follow that, in this discussion, with a panel of friends and scholars including john eastman of chapman, jeremy -- [inaudible] george mason law and kevin walsh of the university of richmond law school, and that session will be moderated by a good friend and hoover institution fellow, adam white. since we only have a limited amount of time and there's lots to cover, i'm going to let paul and adam do their introductions for their guests. a bit of housekeeping first, in this first session of the discussion will last about an hour, and then immediately following that we're going to set up our panel which'll require moving a little bit