Hey everybody. Welcome to the Untold Story podcast. It's great to have you with us today. So I have

Brett Bear with me and I think he needs really no introduction.

Obviously, the anchor of Special Report and our chief political anchor.

And it's always great to have Brett with us.

Hi, Brett.

Hey, Martha.

Great to be with you.

Thank you.

So I really want to focus on that there's a lot to talk about.

And I think that talking about your book will bring us to some of what's going on in the world and I have really enjoyed going through your book and I'm excited. I'm actually going on vacation. I'm going to bring it with me because I feel like I don't know enough about

Teddy Roosevelt. And you have written a lot of history. How many books have you written?

So this is the sixth presidential biography. It's the seventh book overall.

And it's, I'm telling you, I know you are in this and you get it because it's sort of addictive to get this bug, this history bug, where you're like,

you're getting nuggets of history that really haven't been a focus before.

And suddenly, when it's on the page, it just seems like it lives again.

And I just think it's really important because, as you know, we look

backwards to look forwards. You know, like we've often been where we've been before in some way,

shape, or form. And it informs the way that maybe we're going to go in the future.

I couldn't agree more. And I think that it is

addictive. And I think your books are addictive. And I think that when people dive into this,

they're going to start to see so many parallels between what was going on in Teddy Roosevelt's

time and what's happening now. And the similarities between him and President Trump. And you talk about, you know, speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far. And his desire to make the United States the superpower of the world. So talk to us a little bit about, you know, first of all, what drew you to tell

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