i digress, please join me in welcoming and applauding from the white house, lisa monico, cecilia munoz, jen stuckey tina tchen and moderator at editor of politico, susan glazier. [applause] >> good morning everybody and thank you so much laurie for that great introduction and i have to tell you, i'm so delighted to be here not only at one of my favorite conversations of the year but it couldn't be a better group. we are so excited to get started, we're already beginning our panel and we have a lot to say and a short time to say it but i can't think of a better group of people, who have more collective insight into the different ways in which a white house works and the ways in which power works in washington so these are just absolute the gold standard of the people, they had so many diverse experiences at president obama's administration to bear on the conversation today and i'm excited to get started as everybody is. this is a group of specifically powerhouse titles and i know outside of washington they don't mean very much solet me tell you something , hear those words definitely co