Today we're doing a collaboration. I'm really excited about with Tara Palmieri at the Red Letter.

And if you are not subscribed to the Red Letter, please subscribe to the Red Letter because it's a type of independent journalism that everybody on the warning platform says we need more of, that's necessary, and it is.

And I just want to say a couple things about Tara before we get going, who has started not so long ago,

is built the red ladder into a formidable new media enterprise that I enjoy following, but it's breaking

real news. And one of the things that you should know about Tara is that in this moment,

one of the things to be cognizant of is the answer to the question of who's on your side and Tara is on your side

and the evidence of that and you can go and you can read this on the red letter about she's walking

home and sees a man in a store a target I believe being assaulted and Tara runs into the fight to try to help

the man and records it and reports on it. And that's Tara's nature to run into the fight,

to run into the trouble, to tell you what's going on, and to stand up for decency and

the right in a moment where there's a lot of right and wrong to cover. So I admire Tar very much on

that front. But also, right, there's an insight that Tara brings to all this and the red letter does.

And I view it as the Cafe Milano test, right?

And that's a power restaurant at Washington, D.C., right, where you can probably buy a nice

bowl of $110 spaghetti and all that good stuff.

And it's where a lot of the power players hang out.

And so some people go in there, right, and they say, well, there's the Democrats,

there's the Republicans.

And what Tara has is the insight and the judgment to recognize that at a fundamental level,

these are all the same people, right?

And those people don't necessarily have anything in common with you,

but they have a lot in common with each other.

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