University in washington dc. Good evening. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you . Happy new year, thank you for being here. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose bookstore, lissa muscatine. Thank you. Along with my coowner and husband brad grant who is somewhere in the front and our fabulous wonderful staff, welcome all of you to tonights event in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because think about it, we are at an Institution Name for our nations first president and only blocks from the Nerve Centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker, senator Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple years she might be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. Since her election to the United States senate in 2016 senator harris has emerged as one of