I am thrilled with today's guest Brett Stevens who I am an avid fan of, big reader, in agreement with 90% of the time.

He's, of course, New York Times opinion columnist, Brett Stevens.

He is a Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary.

He spent years of Wall Street Journal.

He's also a, I see you contribute to NBC.

One of the few, if only conservative voices

at the New York Times.

I like to think that we're brethren in that I spent a lot of my time at MSBC,

probably one of the few conservative voices there, or conservative for MSBC.

Welcome, my friend, thanks for doing this. It's a pleasure, nice to see you so first off let's get

right into some stuff that's going on recently you like I were I had been hoping for

Joshapiro as a pick for Kamma being that he's a centrist, being that he would deliver Pennsylvania, being

that I think he would have made for a very youthful, vibrant ticket.

Clearly not the choice, obviously.

Tim Walts, give me your feelings about that.

I think it was a missed opportunity for her and I'm not close enough to the campaign to fully understand the reasoning.

So I've just followed what I've been reading in the Times

and other publications.

But obviously, Minnesota was already

going to be in her corner.

There was no serious question about that.

He has a very liberal record in Minnesota and so in a sense it mirrored the mistake that Trump made in picking J.

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