jesse is a weekend host of washington journal and c-span, and the associate director of the of media and public affairs at the george washington university. so join me in welcoming laura meckler jesse jesse holland. wow, this is quite the turnout. this great. this is great, isn't it? i very much so. i mean, not so great for the people who don't have seats, but, you know, really, really great from this point of view. it's good for them. well, we'll keep engaging. look at it. engage again. it's interesting for them, you know, they'll be light on their feet. exactly. so, first of all, i have to say thank you to laura for inviting me to be here with her. i was lucky enough to see it early. copy of this book. and if you want to know what i think about it, just look on the back of my blurb is the last one on it. so so i'm so thank you so much for allowing me to see it early copy of it and for the work that you've done here. so we're going to have a quick conversation and we'll take a few minutes and we'll talk about the and the process of writing it. but we'll also ask for your questions. so we'll i'll i'll stop talking after a while. i'll turn it over to y'all because you probably better questions th

jesse is a weekend host of washington journal and c-span, and the associate director of the of media and public affairs at the george washington university. so join me in welcoming laura meckler jesse jesse holland. wow, this is quite the turnout. this great. this is great, isn't it? i very much so. i mean, not so great for the people who don't have seats, but, you know, really, really great from this point of view. it's good for them. well, we'll keep engaging. look at it. engage again. it's interesting for them, you know, they'll be light on their feet. exactly. so, first of all, i have to say thank you to laura for inviting me to be here with her. i was lucky enough to see it early. copy of this book. and if you want to know what i think about it, just look on the back of my blurb is the last one on it. so so i'm so thank you so much for allowing me to see it early copy of it and for the work that you've done here. so we're going to have a quick conversation and we'll take a few minutes and we'll talk about the and the process of writing it. but we'll also ask for your questions. so we'll i'll i'll stop talking after a while. i'll turn it over to y'all because you probably better questions th