Nicole Lapin

Like, I can't tell you, it was indoctrinated into me just being like, one day you could make it big and you could do this too.

And so I never thought that I would actually meet you, much less know you.

Yes.

Back in the day in journalism, you...

We're supposed to go through these small markets.

And I thought like I would live and die in Poughkeepsie.

And maybe one day I would get to Los Angeles and local news.

And then I would die a happy woman.

But then you were out.

crushing it, covering 9-11, covering the Gulf War, like all the things at CNN, like the queen that you are.

And yeah, I thought that, you know, maybe one day, like I would meet you somewhere and did not expect at 20 to get called for this thing, this internet thing at CNN.

And I truly, truly, we were talking about it.

This morning, as we were thinking about you guys coming in, I thought I would audition there and it would be such a great experience.

As it would have been.

And I would leave and I would never, ever forget.

And on the off chance I emailed you and I thought, maybe, I don't know, like maybe she would write me back.

But you did.

And it and it was it's something that I'll never forget.

And you invited me to sit with you on the anchor desk.

But you know, in that space too, oftentimes like women are pitted against each other, that there's some competition.