It is a real pleasure to be joined by somebody I've known for a long time.

I have a great deal of admiration for, we live in an era where there has been a profound,

and I mean profound collapse of trust between the American people and institutions.

And that crisis of character is not something that ever caught up to the person.

I'm real privilege to be able to be with this afternoon. That's Terry Moran, journalist, ABC,

newsman, when those words meant something. and there were inviolate standards and we'll talk about

some of that today. I've worked with Terry over my political career. I have no idea where Terry's

politics ever were. You could hold a gun to my head, didn't know he was an objective, fair, straight shooting

reporter.

And so we're privileged to have him with us.

You can find Terry on his substack.

Type in Terry Moran. It's growing fast. It's a great, great, great read. And it's good to see Terry out there.

Terry, I just wanted to ask you today that there will be a large, large cohort of this audience that remembers Peter Jennings.

Take us inside the room to the best of your ability, imagining Peter Jennings was still

with us today.

And you watched what unfolded on television with the President of the United States, flanked by the attorney

general of the United States, by the, by the defense secretary of the United States.

And you have to get ready for an evening newscast that's going to try to explicate this to the,

to the American people american people and you know

we're back any day we're serious people sitting around the table to take their obligations and

their duty very very very seriously and and and i'm just take us into the room imagining

peter jennings has just walked into the room as the managing director of World News, World News Tonight. You guys got to get ready for the broadcast after watching that. What did we see today? Wow. That is such a great invitation because I love Peter Jennings. He was a mentor to me in many ways,

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