welcome back to who s talking. my next guests took very different paths to prominence. a cop and songwriter turned pop music sensation and one of the best selling authors of all time. up first, new york city mayorer i mayor eric adams with less than one year on the job. migrants bussed to the big apple and many are scared to ride the subway. you re saying the crime problem in this city is more presumption than reality? then pop singer meghan trainor tells me about her first album since becoming a new mom and how her breakthrough single changed everything. it was like watching the greatest movie ever and i was right there on the screen. and later, best selling author james patterson on the rivalry with steven king and his controversial writing process. i will say in your autobiography, you seem a little defensive. i worked a lot on this question, alex. [ laughter ] are you always like this? are you saying parents are wrong? yes. will you come back? yes, of co
trainor. so when you say self loving anthem, what does that mean? oh, when i roll all about that base and songs like that like me too it was more songs i wish were on the radio, songs i never heard on the radio and when i saw what it did to fans when i met them in meet and greets and parents said this changed my kids life. they were too depressed to get up and go to school and now they re happy. so i said every album we need a self-love anthem because it s something we re all working on every day including myself. this is your first album since you had your son riley last year. yes. and he s is he as cute as that? yeah. in real life. he is although, i ve seen some later pictures. he s a real red heat. oh, yeah, he has beautiful red hair and he can t see well