[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
Company as apublic service and brought to you today by your television provider. Hey everyone, im in number of the event staff here and id like to welcome you all this evening to politics and prose. A few quick notes, but tv is here with us and we are filming for our own Youtube Channel so with that in mind if you could take a moment of silence your cell phones, the opry two to, snap, however you like to use social media, just do it silently and along those same lines when we get to the q a portion we have one microphone set up over here and if you line up behind that for your questions andmake sure your short question is a short question and gets said into the microphone. We want to keep the dialogue running. Books areavailable at the register if youve not yet bought one. We have copies of the first conspiracy and we also have copies of bradschildrens book which are also really fun and interesting. You might want to pick up a couple of those as well which is of course why we are here
Show lost history. And he is also the host of decoded. We although why you are here, with out further do lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [cheering] [applause] stomach or having fun now just you all know, cspan is here but you know what that means questioning that means all of us book nerds are being watched by her fellow book nerds. That that were altogether one place. [applause] we have as many viewers as espn right now. [laughter] that joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington d. C. Area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, we had our lives here. We started writing here. Its especially important today, todays the day my dad died. And we mark today. And i know it seems like something sad part by loved my father specially loved biggins barnes noble because my father used to go into our local barnes noble, and he would always go yes im here for brad meltzers to but he is my favorite author. And they would
A month ago. And the president bragging today about how the jobs report beat expectations. But americans better not even think that this means we can get on with our lives. Americas job machine is growing stronger than ever know that after almost two years the physical and emotional weight ofmo a pandemic has been incredibly difficult to bear for so many. Ha the covid crisis hass been cut in half, down in half in just three weeks. Still too many cases still we have to be on alert with the extraordinary news with historic economic progress weve made across the paste year. We still have a lot of work to do. And how many times have you heard we have to follow h the science . Well, democrats are the media i only do it if it doesnt interfere with their narrative. Major study from johns hopkins, the source of democrats in the media lovejo shows lockdowns did very little to save lives d and instead destroyed the economy and ruined education for an entire generationnsne, which is why mot of th
A month ago. And the president bragging today about how the jobs report beat expectations. But americans better not even think that this means we can get on with our lives. Americas job machine is growing stronger than ever know that after almost two years the physical and emotional weight ofmo a pandemic has been incredibly difficult to bear for so many. Ha the covid crisis hass been cut in half, down in half in just three weeks. Still too many cases still we have to be on alert with the extraordinary news with historic economic progress weve made across the paste year. We still have a lot of work to do. And how many times have you heard we have to follow h the science . Well, democrats are the media i only do it if it doesnt interfere with their narrative. Major study from johns hopkins, the source of democrats in the media lovejo shows lockdowns did very little to save lives d and instead destroyed the economy and ruined education for an entire generationnsne, which is why mot of th