we go back to the hancock villain and show you the next panel on the republican party, radio talkshow's hugh hewitt, peggy grande and corey fields who talks about the elephant in the room. live coverage on tv. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everybody, to the la times book festival, the grand old party for him. thanks for joining us, my name is john thomas, your moderator for today. i am a republican political strategist, i do hard talking head stuff on cnn, thanks for joining us. i won't do a lot of the talking today because we have a distinguished panel today that has written some neat books. the format will be we are going to have a conversation partially about their books but also about the state of the republican party national elections and see how that evolves into that for 30 minutes, and you can ask directly of our panelists. let's start with our first panelist, hugh hewitt, talk radio host you see on tv all the time and the name of the title. >> we did not bring copies of our books. >> are you doing a book signing? >> usually pulling it up at c-span, brian lamb is dying and laughing. it is called the fourt