Lately. You might call it stormy weather. What the hell. Trumps so desperate he started reading those bibles hes selling. Then he got to the first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. Thats when he put it down and said, this books not for me. Thats President Biden with some jokes about his 2024 opponent during this weekends white house Correspondents Dinner. Well have more of the punch lines and the president s more serious message just ahead. Also ahead, well go through bidens latest conversation with the israeli Prime Minister amid a possible invasion in gazas Southern City of rafah. Plus, well bring you a recap of where Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Stands and preview what could happen in the Manhattan Court this week. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, april 29th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well begin this week with the annual white house Correspondents Dinner in washington, d. C. President joe bide
Made me feel good. I appreciate that. But, look, i ran for this office chriscross the state of new jersey to all the southern counties actually and heard from people time and time again the lamen that our country was so divided, there was so much partisan gridlock in washington and lament that are not only dividing it but so much of my personal experience growing up with africanamerican family attending black church but living in an allwhite town i have been chriscrosses lines a lot, going to stanford, yale, it just showed me how united as a country we are and some of the best leaders i had some of them coming from new york, taught me lessons of the urgey of breaking urgency. Host its an interesting book because its not your chronological memoir, its kind of cimematic in terms of zeroing on moments. Tell me about virginia jones. Guest well, shes a pretty remarkable soul thats revereed newark and people were talking about her. Because of people like her and i had worked in the intercity
Right mind people of the intellectual history of conservativism. I tell students, youd be surprised to learn that the rock stars at the manhattan cocktail parties used to be conservative. Talk about that rich history. There was a time not that long ago when the knock against conservatives was that they were too intellectual. There were two academic who couldnt appeal to the common man. Its completely the opposite today. A lot of people think the intellectual father of conservative is aristotle which puts conservatism in very good intellectual company, but certainly the modern leader or the modern conservative is edmund burke, the british parliamentarian who famously was very supportive of the american cause against the french revolution. This is a guy who had been incredibly influential and if you look at the sort of battle that he had against thomas paine, you have the birth of the right and left even to this day. Burke believed in preserving tradition and western servo playstation di
Head. Guest it got lucky with the timing. Somebody said i should buy a Powerball Ticket because i can see the future. When do you start writing black . When you write the proposal or turn in the manuscript . I would say five years ago i start writing columns and around the time sarah palin went rogue. I thought after the race she got radicalized and changed, and i started seeing candidates like Christine Odonnell and sharon anle saying thing is felt uncomfortable with as a conservative. They were casting themselves as a victim, playing the victim card, which struck me as unconservative, and it was short of a populist tone that got me writing about the topic, and the week my book comes out, sarah palin endorses donald trump. I couldnt have planned that. Amazing time. Let get back to back lex, firstd poem of the intellectual history of conservatism. I know when i go to colleges i tell students, youd be surprised to learn that the rock stars that the manhattan cometail parties used to be
For most, history class in grade school was a dry, tedious affair. Memorize names, memorize dates, repeat. But as any veteran Listverse reader can tell