peggy noonan has been a columnist for the "wall street journal" since 2000, and four ears mac ears ago one the pulitzer prize for commentary. she is also the author of nine books, u.s. politics history and culture, the most recent of which was the time of our lives. so michael and peggy, the screen is yours. >> thank you. thank you so much, brad. it is wonderful to be back at politics and prose where i had some of my most wonderful and most spirited and most full of back-and-forth readings from past books in q&a is with your audiences, and i hope when this is all over, and the heaven of the book out, i can go back and see you all again. it is great to spend an hour on this august evening with mike binder, senior white house reporter, as you know, as fred said dash as brad said, for the "wall street journal." i mccomas on the op-ed page. he is a major presence and highly regarded colleague on the news side. mike, let me just jump in here. i loved your book. i admired it for many things, including your love of fact, your deep reporting, your fair mindedness and your calm tone as you pain

noonan about his new book tonight. a couple housekeeping notes first. to pose a question at any point just click on the q&a icon at the bottom of the screen. in the chat column you'll find a link for purchasing copies of "frankly, we did win this election." his journalism career as filed a pretty steady upward trajectory er

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i will applaud the lieutenant governor, suggest to everybody who did not read peggy noonan's coal lump over the weekend, went into her background a little it, read peggy's column, it was fantastic. this lieutenant governor has a strong constitution. if she was willing to stand up to cuomo we don't know what will come of her but we do know we need strong constitution in all state governments. neil: yeah. we should point out as a former buffalo representative in her own right the lieutenant governor was concerned about that surtax on the wealthy. i think at the time she had mentioned that would also include a lot of small businesses. that was a big concern of hers from the buffalo and lackawanna, upstate new york area but you mentioned another interesting point and it concerns those who invest in new york. i mean you talked about the virus and now all of sudden the spikes in cases that is demanding those who go to restaurants wear a mask, have proof that they, you know have been vaccinated or testing negative for the virus. i'm just wondering how that goes? it might delay as well, in per