I must tell you we have had sir and this is going to be another special session. Im delighted to be here at the history and biography stage. Have to admit that im a pretty history geek and personally this is meaning so much to me. First i want to sing and im not a singer but i have to sing for Helene Cooper as a reporter. Join the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorol page editor and has been a diplomatics comedy for the time as well as a White House Correspondent and now the pentagon reporter for the paper, and in 2015, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, specifically for her work in liberia during the ebola epidemic and that sameyearold she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. Prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal, where she was an assistant bureau he could of the journals washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her
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