Dont you think it would be a great book . Youve covered congress over the years. You have six months. How is the deadline. I thought great, that will be great. This would be all the people and i had the experience of covering the republicans and the Tea Party Wave and what that was like to have a whole new part in time and i thought that was the end. From your book, he tells a lot of stories many of them personal to me. What once stand out to you as being the most remarkable stories, if you had coffee with someone, that you would want to share with them . A couple of things. I loved sitting and watching all of your interact. I did find National Security women, as they were referred to, so close to and tightknit and watching this bonding. The men as well but was interesting to me, this memory that sticks out for all kinds of reasons, the vote on the bill for a lot of reasons, she had run on the issue having had such a painful and horrific expense of losing her child to gun violence, so
Tack to time to write down the stories i have lived in the last year and a half. What inspired you to write this book. Guest my editor of the bork called me right after the election and said, my gosh, we have this Record Number of women in congress, and such an interesting mix of women in congress so many firsts for so many different districts and for congress, period. Dont you think that would be great book . You have covered congress over the years. Id love you to do it. You have six months or something. So killer deadline. I thought that would be great. All new people, and i had had the experience of covering when we republicans took over and the Tea Party Wave and what that was like to we have a whole new breed in town. I thought theyre book ends. Host thats an interesting contrast. From your book you tell a lot of stories, many of them personal to me. What ones stand out as the most remarkable stories that you if you had coffee with somebody you would want to share with them about
Pleasure to read. I think is great and important because a lot of attention. And just wanted to start out by kind of pulling back a little bit and asking you why did you want to write about Political Parties visiting your first book was focused on lobbying and in the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college, one of the biggest ones money in politics between your tongue about. The growth of executive power, he chose to focus on parties. Thats really is the linchpin. Can you talk a little bit about the parties. In the process. Matthew is going to be with you again. If an reunion here. Lee on cspan. And so why did i write this book. Another because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem. Affecting a country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve the problem. It kind of exploded in a somewhat indirect way for my previous book but the corporate lobbying in that book i had basically concluded that one race w
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