I am really excited today's guest. I am a big fan. This is the first time with chatting and I'm

real excited. I'm with the great Dana Bash. She's got a New York Times bestseller,

very, very new New York Times bestseller, America's deadliest election.

The Corsoire tale, the most violent election American history, which has frightening parallels to 2020 and hopefully not going forward, but it's about the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election it's going to kind of blow

your I didn't know a lot about it and I kind of blew me away she is of course the

co-anchor of State of the Union and the anchor of inside politics on CNN.

She is a must listen to and thank you for taking the time and how busy you are.

Oh my gosh I we have a mutual friend Ali Zelenko and I texted her this morning and I said

Do you know what I'm the most excited about doing this week? And that is talking to Donnie Deutsch

Seriously, I'm I'm such a huge fan. I just think you are so wise and obviously you know how to

express yourself in such a when so many issues in such a way that I'm I marvel

out every day so I'm very excited to be here and a mutual admiration so I'm very excited to be here and mutual

admiration society you are both both right down the middle but also are able to do it

with a little little twist and a little little humanity in there.

I love the work you do and congratulations on the book.

Thank you.

So we're going to spend a few minutes on current events and we're going to spend most

of the time on the book.

We're going to sell a few books there because it's really an important important book.

But just fresh off the news yesterday, your interview with J.D. Vance where he actually, oddly admitted

to creating the dog and cat story.

He said, well, I think exact words were, you know,

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