Host good evening, everyone. Im so excited to see such a full house here. And i know our authors are as well. Before i start we are more than happy to have youve taking photos from your seats but just turn the flash off so you dont blind our speakers. And if you will put all of your cellphones on silent that would be wonderful. And if you want to post anything on social media, we would love for you to tag, politicsprose and gwuevents and possibly repost it. So, my name is brittany and i am the partnered Events Manager at politics and prose and i want to thank you for cooking out coming out on a friday night. Tonight is a joint event with George Washington university and we are all so pleased to bring you jim mattis in conversation with david brooks tonight. Before we get to tonights program, i just want to tell you of a few other Exciting Events we have coming in in partnership with gw. On september 11th we have an event with Malcolm Gladwell with his book, talking with straineer, part