and mark lebowitz, author, welcome molly and mark. >> thank you, beth. >> great to be with you. >> iuess we're on. that's great. i like this. we're here, yes thank you all for coming, i'm mark lebowitz and this is molly on the other side of the screen. first of all, we have a lot of people here, according to the number on bottom of the screen, 428 people. >> and probably mostly russian bots, right. >> some of them might be. but first of all, thank you president and mrs. obama and clinton and carter and bush for coming and for all we know, everyone in the audience. anyway, thank you for asking me to do this and thank you for being here. this is a really great book and i will tell you that i've read it the last couple of days, it took me like maybe like a day and a half, and it was like a pure pleasure to do and i was just telling molly off, i guess off-line before you could see us, i hope, it's both a really pleasurable kind of beach read kind of thing, but at the same time, it will be one of those historical things where if you want to learn about, you know, probably one of the two o