valerie bauman is a journalist of over two decades standing who describes herself as less lois lane, more jimmy breslin. she is covered such disasters as katrina and the new york state legislature for outlets like ap and newsday. she currently for newsweek as an investigative reporter. and inconceivable is her first book. she'll be in conversation with kristal knight who you might seen as a commentator on msnbc or fox news. or you may have listened her as the host of the kristal knight podcast hosted by newsweek. she is a graduate of the howard university journalism program. knight is also a political operative, founded the voting rights nonprofit, organized tennessee. so please me in welcoming to politics and prose union market valerie bauman and kristal knight. good evening. hello. and before we get into the conversation, i know, valerie, you wanted give us a little bit of background and do a reading before we actually have our about the question and answers as well. you know, keep it short. just i think that was a great introduction. thank you so much. i just for little bit more b

so please me in welcoming to politics and prose union market valerie bauman and kristal knight. good evening. hello. and before we get into the conversation, i know, valerie, you wanted give us a little bit of background and do a reading before we actually have our about the question and answers as well. you know, keep it short. just i think that was a great introduction. thank you so much. i just for little bit more background i was 38 in the middle of the pandemic. i realized i was out of time. it was now or never. now, four years later, i'm actually pregnant finally and have a baby the way very soon. and it's just been a really long, strange journey and. i came across this world and i just realized it was a story i had to tell. so i'm going to read just a little bit about some of the legal aspects this and this is from 11 of my book. congratulations. you're a father. trent arsenal couldn't have expected federal agents to appear at his door demanding to search his home, but in 2010. the self-described christian version became the first ever private -- donor to be targeted for