and she's going to be hosting this next segment of who we are. So thanks, Emerald. Thank you all.

Thank you so much, Mike. And thank you all for being here, like he said, you are the light.

And I think every person in this room will agree with me when we say that we live in a very, very different country than we did on November 2nd, 2020.

I can remember on November 3rd standing on that White House lawn.

Now I already had a sinking feeling because they had telegraphed ahead of the election that they were at least going to do melon, ballot fraud.

But I knew nothing about the machines that day.

But I started getting calls from friends, particularly in Georgia, saying, I want to vote.

And there's something about these machines.

I don't know if I voted who I voted for.

And I started learning that day.

And I learned a lot as all of you all have since then.

And I think about where we are now because of this.

Like a switch was flipped, right?

I had a conversation this week with someone who had been a mentor.

Someone who is well respected in recent American history who went and was stationed in Russian Siberia in the Cold War and thought he was fighting for American values.

And that everyone would continue to fight.

And he was sitting across from lunch at me.

He would always end every conversation with me with Emerald.

He would go be a good American.

And I would try to do that, but I didn't know really what that meant until November 3rd, 2020.

Not really.

And he looked at me the other day and he said, Emerald, what has happened to our country?

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