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of commentators to help us with this path. and for small i want to welcome melody barnes who is the professor and codirector of democracy initiative at the university of virginia. melody served as a senior policy advisor to president obama in 2020, the award-winning podcast printed in the great society of a project that has very extensive views of the lbj recordings and i would like to welcome michael beschloss, enemy contributing to news and cbs news our and attend highly regarded books on presidential history include to dive deeply into the lbj recording and finally it would like to welcome brian williams, the anchor of the 11th hour, which airs weeknights on msnbc news. brian williams service managing editor of the nightly msnbc news for decade which he earned every award that a broadcast journalist can earned. brian williams, michael beschloss, melody barnes, welcome and thank you so much for being here. now of course we want to play some of these types get your reactions to them. but let's talk a moment about what these are and why they were made they have come to light over the year. and michael, i think your experience with the case back at

i want, first of all, to welcome melody barnes, who is that dorothy danforth professor and co-director of the democracy initiative at the university of virginia. melody served as a senior domestic policy adviser to president obama, and in 2020, hosted the award winning podcast, lbj and the great society, a project that made very extensive use of the lgbt recordings. next, i would like to welcome michael beschloss, an emmy winning contributor to nbc news, and that pbs news hour. his ten highly regarded books on presidential history include to that die very deeply into the lbj recording. finally, i would like to welcome brian williams, the anchor of the 11th hour, with brian williams, which airs weeknights on msnbc. brian served as managing editor of the nbc nightly news for a decade, during which he earned just about every award that a broadcast journalist can earn. brian, michael, melody, welcome and thanks so much for being here. now, i want of course to play some of these tapes, and get your reactions to them. let's talk for just a moment about what these tapes are, why they were made, and how they have come to light over the ye