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Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Hey, everybody. It's Martha McCallum, and I'm very excited about the untold story today

because I have two good friends with us.

One of them is a surprise.

So if you're just listening, you will find out who the surprise is.

But if you're watching, you may have figured it out by now.

But I am joined today by Dana Perino, of course, the co-host of America's Newsroom, co-star of the Five.

She's a talented author, and she's written a number of wonderful books.

But this one is super special because Purple State is her first novel and as long as I've known Dana

she has been a voracious reader and she loves novels and has encouraged me to read more novels

which I'm grateful for but she took a crack at writing her own and you know doesn't it annoy you kind of

like when someone tries something for the first time they're just enormously successful at it

so so that's what happened of Of course, bestseller. It's a really wonderful book. Dana, welcome. Thank you. Great to have you with us. I'm so glad to have you here. You know, you've just gotten back from your book tour, and you shared a lot of it on the podcast. And I saw that you had people with you on the book tour. And I thought that was

really interesting. And I wanted you to tell us a little bit about what your takeaway was from being

out there and talking to people about the book. Yeah. Well, thank you for being a champion of

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