Hi, it's Carol Markowitz. I'm so excited to launch my very own podcast. We'll talk to the

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On this episode of Neutral, my guest is Brett Bear, Chief Political Anker for Fox News Channel,

and the anchor and executive editor of a special report with Brett Bear. He's a good friend,

and I have to tell you, he does an extraordinary job and has become a very good historian as well

as a reporter of current news. Many of us watch him on Fox News. I'm thrilled that he would take

time out of this extraordinarily busy day and talk with us about his new book. To rescue the

Constitution, George Washington and the fragile American experiment.

Brett, welcome. I have to just ask you for a second. Given everything you do,

how do you find time to write serious books like this?

But to speak, thanks for having me on. It's a labor of love, and you know this as a lover of history

that it's addictive. I started it with writing about Dwight D. Eisenhower and three days in January,

Reagan, FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. My last book was on Ulysses as Grant. And basically,

what I do is this has been a blueprint. The first book took three and a half years. Now a book

takes about a year and a half. I've got a great team, a researcher who gets these nuggets of

history. I've got a co-author that I bounce back and forth and we create, you know, this quilt

of what we have, this new stuff, and really delve into the narrative of history. And I just take

this soda straw moment and then bounce back and see how this leader gets to this moment. It's just

a process that I love. So I spend about a couple hours and I usually with a glass of wine,

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