[ cheers and applause jimmy oh my goodness oh, wow, oh. Oh please, welcome. I feel the love. Thank you very much. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Thank you very much for being here [ cheers and applause guys, we had a Beautiful Day here in new york city. It was 85 and sunny. It was so nice over at laguardia. Whited pilots switched from [ light laughter ] it was really a beautthe democratic president ial candidates are visiting the iowa state fair. Yep, its the time of the year where they all pretend to be relatable by wearing jeans [ light laughter ] you fellas like the crease on these bad boys [ light laughter ] but the fair is a huge event featuring deep fried twinkies, bacon wrapped sausage and brownies on a stick. Or as one guy put it, wow, its just like the white house [ laughter ] thats just breakfast. [ light laughter ] the fair is massive. Organizers set up literally hundreds of food tents and this is nice, they also set up a prechewed food tent
challenger like rfk jr.. thanks to the democrat strategy of ignoring all states the put their primaries ahead of south carolina. a win a could give rfk jr. major momentum as democrat search for alternative candidate that can go on the campaign trail and function. the world s leading emitters to help poor countries do within the impacts of climate change. they called it the g7. build back biden. build back better. realize that got confusing. we don t call it that. we have plans to build a railroad from the pacific, the indian ocean. one of the largest solar plants in the world. i could go on but i m going off script. i could get in trouble. greg: to make matters worse than a focus group of north carolina swing voters as they are concerned by biden s age. whatever you do, don t bother nancy pelosi about it. do you think president biden s age has finally caught up to him at all? speak off slowly not. i think the president is great. i m proud to be supporting him and i do
Earth day. I hope you go do Something Special for the earth but we are happy. We have an unbelievably special panel today. We are lucky. There will be a lot we can learn from these individual books that you think you know about these subjects but will find your surprised to learn, as i was when i read them. I will introduce myself. I am dan smith, a writer from montana. I like to come here and get sunshine in the spring so its nice to be here. We will be doing some book signings and i urge you to join us if you want to talk to talk to any of these authors. We will lead you out. I want to introduce each person with a brief biography so you know who they are. First, i would say this is one of my books, so i will let you know that i will have a book fair as well, letters from yellowstone, but to the important ones. First is david maraniss. He wrote this book, the life of jim thorpe. An associate editor at the Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at vanderbilt. Hes won tw
punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york post a