Hey, Selina Zito. Welcome to Battleground!

Hey, Sean, how are you doing? I am doing really, really good and for

everybody that's watching or maybe listening to this like I want to give people a

little bit of a background for you. So you've been writing for decades now. You've basically

interviewed, what is it, every president and vice president in the 21st century you're a

nationally syndicated columnist for the New York Post and the Washington

examiner. You worked on Democrat, worked for Democrats, work for Republicans, and the reason why I read your stuff every week, Selina, and I think so many people rely on you for news is because I think you're one of the last true beat reporters. I think you're like the lowest

lane of our time. And you know what I admire the most about you is the fact that you give a voice to people who feel like they've been forgotten in this country and I think that's pretty awesome.

Thank you so much.

I try to approach covering American politics but also covering American culture

by taking the back roads across the country.

So it's not like a thing I do, it's how I approach it.

I never take the term pike, I never take an interstate, I always take an old U route or state route once in a while, I've been on some crazy dirt road.

Some I thought and I had no idea where I was going to end up being. I don't stay in major like hotels. I always

stay in a bed and breakfast or an inn because the first person I meet in the town is a small business owner and they can pretty much

well small business people know where all the bodies are buried right?

So I get to I get the first gossip of out town, but what's going on. But traveling those back roads are important because I can see how counties are changing for the better, the worse what's going on what's

the industry what's the vibe how's the community look how the church you know how's

the how robust is the is the faith community how robust are the social fraternities like

elks and kowanas and rotary clubs that the sort of things that keep people connected in communities,

as well as what is the economic driver.

So that's what really helps me understand

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