So you can buy the book in the tent adjacent to us and go get it signed in the next tent. A portion of every book sold today supports the texas book Festival Mission at all of this is courtesy off bookpeople. Joining me today are two of the authors of this book. Want to start on my far right, michael shear covers President Trump, a veteran Political Correspondent before comingo to the times in 2010, he spent spent 18 years writing about local state and National Politics for the Washington Post what hear is also part of the pulitzer prizewinning team that covered the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. To my right is Julie Hirschfeld davis, the congressional editor at the new times and deputy washington editor. Washington for 22 years, she joined the times in 2014 as White House Correspondent after bloomberg news, associated press, Baltimore Sun and congressional quarterly, she won the 2009 mckinley award for distinguished reporting of congress, please join me in welcoming our two guests t
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