Good evening everyoneand thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Event Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring miles and donovon hohn. I wanted to extend a thank you to everyone for your support of our Virtual Events programming. We feel incredibly lucky that we are able to continue to offer Virtual Events during these difficult times and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up and stopping by so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies. We do ask you keep your video feed disabled throughout the duration of the event and if you enable it we will disable it for you and if you and he let a second time we will have toreview remove you from the event. We appreciate your cooperation. I wanted to go over our format, were going to have a reading by miles and donovan to start us off and after miles reads from the king of confid
0 it is chilly but frankly bearable outside as the country prepares to celebrate the peaceful maintenance of power, the transferns of power from the first term administration of president barack obama to his second term administration. the president was officially sworn in by chief justice john roberts yesterday at the blue room at the white house as the first lady and the obama daughters looked on. but in the little less than two hours the president will affirm that oath before a much larger crowd with 100% more pomp and an equal proportion of circumstance. we have a stellar group of guests joining us throughout the day. honestly, to cut to the chase, it is pretty much everybody you know from msnbc. plus, visits with some members of the obama administration, folks from congress, we ll have live reports from the capitol and all along the parade route. and who knows what surprises along the way. it will be a fun day. reverend al sharpton and chris hayes are joining us onset as the day g