Good day, citizens. Welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Hour. This week a special

conversation between Clay Jenkinson and someone who's been on the Jefferson

Hour before Mr. Jason Mayaries. Thank you David. Jason Mayaries is a former

member of the Virginia Assembly. You will remember that he invited me to

Virginia because I received a commendation from the Virginia House of

Delias for the work that we do here on the Jefferson Hour is a very moving

experience to me and he then later sent the flag that had flown over the

Virginia Capitol Jefferson's Capitol on the day of my award and I followed his

career. He's an extraordinary young man and he wrote to me a few weeks ago saying

that he had been elected Attorney General of Virginia and tremendous

achievement for him and he said it's a little short notice but what I like to

come to is inauguration. Well I couldn't. I was very short notice but then I wrote

back and said well I'd like to interview you and I'd like to interview you now

before you take this office and then interview every six months in the next

couple of years and see what you learned that you didn't expect what surprised

you, what the what the great issues were, how this relates to the national

concern about voting rights and so on. And he agreed to it and so I sat down with

him by Zoom and had really a remarkable conversation with him. You know he

he's a Cuban-American. He really has the deepest regard for his mother who came

from Cuba as a young woman as a refugee I think in 1965. He believes so

strongly in this country and he said that his favorite thing to do as a

public figure is to go to these naturalization ceremonies in which 50 or

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