Host its wonderful to be here today. We have so much to talk about so before we get started i thought it would be useful to share with people our format which is that i want to start a little bit by asking you about how you came to write the book and the experience of being embedded in and step back and talk about the frame of the book and what youre covering here and get back to the particular assertions you make in the book. You talk about. The book is called forcing the spring with the subtitle inside the fight for Marriage Equality and to get inside this fight as you say to fully embedded yourself with the team the activists and the lawyers and plaintiffs who challengechallenged californias proposition 8 which was the course the constitutional amendment that took away the marriage rights for samesex couples in california. For starters im interested in how this came to pass. He said at the end of the book you got interested in the story because you interviewed ted olson and reported