i'm brad graham, coother than of politics and -- co-owner of politics politics & prose along with

. >> i'm brad graham, the owner of politics and prose along with my wife and we have an informative program featuring two washington post journalists. and here to talk about their new book, nightmare scenario. how the trump administration so poorly and tragically mismanaged the coronavirus

we have time for questions from our audience so what i'm going to do now is throw it back to brad graham and we'd like to invite you to, if you have any questions for jackie go ahead and put them in the queue and a. >> they are is one question. let me go ahead and ask it. it's a question to both of you and it's about, it's a court action from last month or actually a decision that the court issued not to act that they decided not to hear an appeal from a coalition of men who were challenging the mail only u.s. military draft registration requirement on the grounds that it amounts to discrimination and the court decided not to hear that appeal and justice sotomayor issued a statement agreeing with that decision and it was signed also by justice kavanagh and justice -- and the statement cited the court's long-standing mission of deferring to congress on matters of defense and national security and the specific question of draft registration is being actively considered by congress. but peter who is asking this question says as a veteran i'm surprised that four justices could not support th

i am brad graham along with my wife. we have a great event for you this evening with michael lewis talking about his new book premonition. we would like to thank our friends in miami and harvard book store in cambridge massachusetts partnering with us to make this event happen. a couple of brief housekeeping notes first, a question at any point during the talk just click on the q and a icon at the bottom of the screen. the chat function will be available for audience comments this evening. in that column you will find a link for purchasing additional copies of the premonition. in the introduction of his new book defines his job as mainly finding the story and the material. he has done that consistently with extraordinary success with it 16 bucks over 30 years. found the story where the subject has been wall street, baseball moneyball, football and the blind side, fatherhood and home gain. the sub prime mortgage collapse. high-frequency trading and behavioral science and economics. the unduly project or the hollowing out

i'm brad graham, coother than of politics and -- co-owner of politics politics & prose along with mywife, lissa muscatine. we have two authors here to talk about their new book, "nightmare scenario: how the trump administration so poorly and tragically mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic." now, a couple of brief housekeeping notes first, to post a question at any point, just click on the q&a icon at the bottom of the screen. and in the chat column, you'll find a link for purchasing copies of "nightmare scenario." yasmeen joined "the washington post" two years ago as a national reporter. ly are, she'd been with reuters -- previously, she'd been with reuters, and after moving to the to the post, she continued covering health policy. so when the pandemic started last year, she was well positioned to report on the administration's response early on. damian established a great reputation in 2010 covering economic and financial issues in washington for the "wall street journal." then she joined the post four years ago to focus on white house economic policy. two years ago he was named economic

. >> i'm brad graham, the owner of politics and prose along with my wife and we have an informative program featuring two washington post journalists. and here to talk about their new book, nightmare scenario. how the trump administration so poorly and tragically mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, a couple of housekeeping members, click on the q & a icon on the bottom of the screen and then the "nightmare scenario". yasmeen moved to the post and tipped covering health policy. when the pandemic started she was well-positioned to report on the administration's response from early on. damian established a great representation in 2010 covering financial and economic issues in washington for the wall street journal then joined the post four years ago to focus on white house economic policy. two years ago he was named economics editor though he has a background in the sources to pursue the administration's bungling of the pandemic. in "nightmare scenario", they say their intention was to provide the first complete narrative about what really happened inside the trump administration in dealing w