and steven collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn but covered the white house for asp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas in asia and europe. so i'm delighted to have all of you here. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondents. selfishly, i decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent, particularly given all of the access limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and where do you get that information from and how does it all come together? i've asked them to each talk about some of the -- the one big standout story they've done on the beat and just give us a little window into how they came about it. so i'll start with margaret if that's okay. >> no pressure. >> actually the story that i want to talk about is probably not like the biggest story in the sense of shedding major light on a foreign policy scandal or something like that but an