during this event of the national press club, the co-authors are interviewed by journalist ted koppel. it's a little over 50 minutes. [applause] >> i'm particularly relieved to hear that marchant and deborah only work on this book during their waking hours. [laughter] i must tell you by way of introduction that i am particularly grateful to have had one of the kalb brothers as a competitor for almost 40 years now in fact it is probably more than 40 years. when i was the chief and hong kong for adc, bernie kalb was the bureau chief with cbs, and then in 1971 when i came back here to the united states as a diplomatic correspondent i was blessed to have margin as a competitor. as many of you in this room know, our friends tended to become people who have been our competitors because by definition we don't travel with others from our core network or why your service or newspaper. we only travel with competitors. but i'm especially grateful to have had the kalb brothers as competitors coming and we are going to begin before we get to marvin and depo with just a few words or i must say it w