and then we'll hear from marcy hamilton, founder and ceo of child usa, a thank you tank, the policies that protect children against neglect and abuse and professor of practice at the university of pennsylvania, and experienced supreme court litigator and successfully argued bernie versus flores. and we'll hear from a senior fellow from the cato institute, center for constitutional studies and writes widely on constitutional law and constitutional culture and always nice to welcome my friend walter back to aei where he was professional a researchers and editor. and the aforementioned james phillips who naomi will hold responsible for the success or failure today, he's an aassociate professor for byu and the wheatley center constitutional government initiative and professional practiced constitutional law with the beckett fund. so, again, thanks to all of you for joining us and elizabeth, why don't you go first. >> all right. thank you to naomi for the invitation and to abby and all the staff of the aei for their hospitality and hosting us here and online. so, naomi sort of deftly lays