Welcome to this conversation here on the warning with Katie Kourke, and I'm going to turn it over to you right away.

It's starting.

Katie's asking the questions.

Yeah, I ask, I have a lot of questions always.

But Steve, before we start, maybe you should, I think it might be interesting for people joining us to hear a little bit about how we know each other and kind of our

professional history.

Well, we go back, when did we first cross, like in the McCain and Bush years?

Yes, I think especially during the McCain campaign.

And especially during the McCain campaign.

And, of course, the very famous Sarah Palin interview that you did, which I tell people all these

years later, you know, that everything was going on on that campaign on that day when that

interview came out, it was literally the third biggest problem of the day, right?

It was the global economy was collapsing.

That's right.

John McCain was, Senator McCain was headed to D.C.

and right for that emergency meeting, remember, and it kind of didn't help him because

he didn't seem that engaged with economic information? You know, it was a moment, it was a moment in time.

I'm still waiting. I was I was 30, I was when I was when I was doing the McCain campaign and I'm 54 now.

And I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me what the unfair question it is that you asked Katie Cork, excuse me, that Katie Cork asked

Sarah Palin, that you asked Sarah Palin.

And, you know, the one thing that people really missed in that moment in 2008, you asked this question of Palin, which is, so what do you read every day?

And if you're preparing somebody for any type of national interview on a presidential campaign, this is just a very early, early, early question that you go through.

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