said if it feels right i might sing it. i said, okay. wow. so it was relatively spontaneous. amazing story. you started with ted kennedy and worked in his office. jon favreau recruited you into the white house. you are president obama s right hand. what is that relationship like for you? how do you help him to write his own story? i did learn it from jon favreau and worked on the world view together but it is a collaboration. that s a most important thing president obama taught me. you are writing something i can work with. on the best speeches they were collaborations with drafts. congrats on the book. that speech arguably finest moment of that president.
likely to vote. what we don t know is how the people who haven t raemy been paying attention to all of this will vote or if they ll even show up to vote at all. john is running focus groups like this one to find out. how many of you plan on voting in the midterm elections this november? what is that? who is your member of congress and do you think they re doing a good job? i don t know anyone in congress. that s okay. does anyone know who their member of congress is? no. okay. that s okay. joining us now is john favro, former speechwriter for president obama. he co-hosts a podcast and host of the wilderness, a podcast about the history and future of the democratic party. john, thank you for being with us tonight. congratulations on running such a successful focus group, i
were, how to get the ballot, who the member of congress was. that s the challenge and actually educating people about what they need to do to go vote. john, former obama speechwriter, focus group commander, season three of his podcast the wilderness is out now. great to see you, john. thank you, alex. still ahead, january 6th, investigators receive a treasure-trove of text messages from the secret service. stick around. secret service. stick around if you have diabetes, then getting on the dexcom g6 is the single most important thing you can do. it eliminates painful fingersticks,
new hampshire is a small state. it paints a clear picture. in 2020, 800,000 people voted the general election. in the last midterm, back in 2018, nearly 6 hub hundred,000 people did. so as much as we can analyze the 230,000 people who collectively voted new hampshire primaries last night, is that really a good predictor of anything? after all, those are the people who really pay attention to mikz. the kind of people who vote in primaries. and november is likely going to come down to some 400 to 600,000 people who did not vote last night but might vote in november. if we re honest, they don t watch a lot of cable news. and that is basically former obama speechwriter john favro s theer you of the case nationwide. we know people that watched every neutral of the january 6th hearings are likely to vote. we know how the people that thought the 2020 election are
take on a chubby thor. you did it, man. you did it. you know, yeah, all right. i will take the win. hey, look. i i mean, that s that is what a powerful body looks like. your your power s in your core from belly to butt that s where the bulk of your mass is. chris hemsworth is built to be in movies but, you know, to each their own. so good to have the three of you with us tonight. former obama speechwriter, david lit. politico s eugene daniels, and npr s aisha roscoe. coming up, it s been 20 years since the 9/11 terror attack and we asked what s on your mind as we reflect today. we will share some more of your stories when we come back. stay close. close