if you watch us remotely, whether these be an or use stream, lifestream on the internet, you can tweetquestions to this address right here at ada at fund. but only if you watch life. if you watch it on tape we've all gone home. i beg to turn the program over to our moderator, john nichols. he is the washington correspondent for the nation magazine. he is also the associate editor of the capital times in madison, and not her of the just published book, appraising, how wisconsin renews the politics of protest from madison to wall street. so with that, we can thank everyone and applaud everyone i just thanked them also welcome, mr. nichols. [applause] >> thank you. right up front i want to say ada become a/d education fund and especially will to win out of his way over many, many months to pull this together injured during decile into this position. and i think we are very excited because these rare to have this collection of people together at such a critical moment. the president of the united states literally was talking about these issues today. he's out on the road. many political pu