so lissa, thank you for your friendship and for your literary leadership. thank you very much.ook was a little dreamlike to write as well. growing up, you know, i never imagined that i would write something like this. being vulnerable in front of such a large audience is not really my nature, but then i never imagine that i would merit united states senator or become second lady either -- that i would marry -- so going up in an idyllic suburb of philadelphia a young, slightly rebellious high school or rooting for the phillies and working during the summers to get money for college at the jersey shore, i really only wanted to things, and that was a marriage like my parents -- two things -- strong and loving in full of laughter, and i wanted a career here as it turned out i get both, but the path to getting both was just a little meandering. and that's really what this book is all about, a strange and exciting and unexpected journey, and the family that made it possible and made it all worth it. when joe and i got married he told me, jill, your life will never change. [laughing]

i'm brad graham co-owner politics and prose along with my wife lissa muscatine we have a great programou this afternoon featuring two political experts. evan osnos at pete buttigieg to talk about joe biden, a week before the election. but first for those of you not familiar with how this virtual format works, that me explain if you want to ask a question of our guests that you can do so by clicking on the q&a icon at the bottom of your screens. the chat function also will be active and in that, you'll find a link for purchasing a copy of the new book entitled "joe biden." evan is one of the most talented journalists of his generation but the first part of his career overseas, from the "chicago tribune" shown at the graduate from harvard and which three years later send sent to te east report from iraq and other countries. next he went to china for the trip and in 2008 share the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. that year he joined the new yorker, stayed in china for several more years before moving to washington where he's been covering politics and foreign affairs. his excel

for ease of comparison, your chances, lissa, of dying on your bicycle in london are 1 in 14 million.it was far more dangerous. i'd forgotten, rather, that he went out into no man's land 36 times in world war i making noise like a baby elephant, they said, and going so close to the german lines that he could hear them talking. i knew that he was energetic, but i did not appreciate the unique biorhythms that enabled him to drink a pint of champagne a day and to smoke 250,000 cigars in his lifetime. and he gave -- he didn't smoke all, he gave the stubs to his gardener and the poor chap, unfortunately, contracted cancer. i'm sad to say. a constitution that enabled him at the end of the day to have a huge dinner, champagne, red wine, white wine, brandie, liquers and to begin dictating a chart you may remember to pace up and down wreathed in tobacco and to dictate until 2:00 or 3:00 or perhaps 4:00 in the morning. now british journalists pride themselves on being a pretty hard-bitten, tough kind of bunch. and some of us can still write fast after a good lunch. but i don't know anybody who

i'm lissa muscatine, one of the co-owners of politics and prose bookstore and along with one of my co-owners who's in the front somewhere and are fabulous staff we welcome all of you to tonight's event here in our nations capital on the campus of george washington university. i mentioned our location because well, think about it. we are at an institution named for our nation's first president and we are assembled only blocks from the centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better than you for a conversation with tonight'sguest speaker ? senator kamala harris currently spends her days on capitol hill and you're not alone if you think that in a couple ofyears she might just be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue . [applause] since her election to the united states senate in 2016, senator harris has emerged as one of the most refreshing voices in the democratic party in national politics . a california native who started her career -- i know, i'm from the bay area to. we went to elementary school not far from each other. she started as a pros

. >> as carol got sicker, lis huh-lissa hussian and two others picked up the thankless job of caringtold us that she was dying, and that's why we all held on to these, because i think that is when you know that it's not going to be forever. >> it was over so soon. i had harry for 16 months, and then he was gone, too. when i took minnie to the farmers' market in october, she hadn't been up to going for a long time. ever the actress, she rose to the occasion as if she knew it would be her last great performance. less than three weeks later, she was dead. i didn't want my new york fairytale about puppy love and unexpected friendship to end, so i wrote about it. and now, thanks to one more uncanny coincidence, i have girlie, but that's another story. >> rocca: sh high-fives for friendship are front and center. >> every week, andy gullahorn goes for a walk, and every week, about a mile and a half away, his friend, gabe scott, does the same thing at the same time. they walk towards each other, and when they meet, it is the weirdest thing. you see that? clap, snap, high-five. and then often