jeremy ben hami, founder of j street s the author. >> up next, eli saslow reports on the letters that are sent to president obama from the american public, ten of which the president reads every night. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thanks, guys. appreciate it. um, i hope nobody who's here was here browse reading because if you were, this is going to be like a total disappointment. brad sings -- yeah, exactly. brad sings, he takes requests. you guys would all leave immediately if i tried to do that. i appreciate you guys coming. there are a lot of people here who have been supportive of me during the whole process of writing the week, people who edited, people who traveled out to montana to read pages on our couch out there and people who helped with my reporting, so i really appreciate you guys being here and showing your support here again tonight. so the idea of this book actually was, it was sort of borne out of frustration. and the idea crystallized for me the first and only time that i flew on air force one. i'd taken this job for "the washington post" where i'd been wo