[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello. Hi. Good evening, everyone. Thank you. For joining us here at politics and prose for our monday evening event. Before we get started, a few quick things. Please take a moment now to silence your cell phones or pagers. After his talk mr. Brady carlson has agreed to take questions. If you can lineup behind this question has be clearly in the microphone because we have cspan filming today. Make sure the audience can here and they can be recorded for posterity. Third, after the event if you could help us out by folding up the chairs and stacking them against the sides, that would be great. I dont know how you heard about us, but politics and prose, we try to be more than a bookstore. They hold about 500 events a year between this location on connecticut avenue and our three busboys and poets locations. We have little flyers. A recording will be on our podcast and Youtube Channel and a couple weeks. Today i have the pleasure of intr