if i were a southerner, i would, i would make it a personal mission because it was distorted for so long. but as a northerner, why should northerners care? sean: well, i think if you look at the history of food in america there s no denying that southern food was the first, you know, true cuisine that had this foundation and that s important to preserve. and to me, though, it kind of goes back to the idea you should be cooking and preserving and celebrating the food of your grandmother. bill: people take a real pride in their ability to cook my aunt s recipe, my grandmother s recipe of this is how we made these, and the standard of food here is so high that when i go around any place i just go, eh. anthony: country ham, bread and butter pickles and, of course, sean being sean, there
democratic party than he had from republicans. the liberal wing of the party had trouble adjusting to this southerner. he was a little suspect, but he had the entire civil rights community with him. i think he was misunderstood, and he got into the office because of the moral the way he injected morality into his campaign message. then when he became president, everything was scrutinized. well, did he deliver on all of those promises he made? did he ever really tell a lie? the media coverage was pretty brutal. maybe that s as it should be. but i remember jody powell, his press secretary at one point saying to me that after he had been in the white house for a couple years, he was beginning to wonder if richard nixon had gotten a raw deal because the
process but you aren t allowed to use it as a shield to hide criminal conduct. and so a potential criminal conduct. discussions and grand jury inquiries, that s a time when i think the executive privilege will hold for him. i think it s a way to run out the clock, to be combative. at the end of the day, i don t have any doubt he will end up testifying about what went on in the white house. that s remarkable. michel moore, no one better to talk about this with as we are waiting for parts of that report to come out. thank you for joining us. love to have a fellow southerner on the program. it s fun to be with you. thanks for having me on. so interesting what he said. bringing up u.s. versus nixon and what the supreme court said, right? the shield only goes so far. he said meadows is going to end up testifying he thinks. any minute the labor department will release the weekly jobless claims. also, 373,000, what does it have to do with the job market? we will explain next. it s
about being right or wrong, he said any sane, sober southerner knows that it s wrong. it s about wanting to change or not. but people don t want to give up power. fear is still alive and well in mississippi. i think racism is one of those great things in the world that you ll never solve and that s why faulkner wrote about it. anthony: writers, as i know from looking in my own dark heart, are generally terrible people. put ten of them together and it s like putting your head in a bag full of snakes. i meet a bunch of them above in city grocery, john currence s place on the square. there s the brilliant author tom franklin and his wife, the poet beth ann fennelly. grisham writer-in-residence, megan abbott. pendarvis, you know. poet chiyuma elliott. wright thompson is a senior writer for espn. fellow writer on the series treme, chris offutt. novelist ace atkins. poet derek harriell is
votes. that much we know tonight. legendary strategist james carville is with me. this morning before the voting began, we want to show member of the freedom group blasting kevin mccarthy. instead of say, why have you brought me to this point? we haven t come here alone. there s one person who could change all this. here we are being sworn at instead of being sworn in, and we could have had this solved months ago. if you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise. and yet with all irony intended we go to our favorite alligator for a different reason, not a swamp creature, but a southerner. james carville, welcome back. [ laughter ] welcome back. we like to have you on these big news nights. we don t know what s going to happen. i don t do the predictions but we did predict january 3rd could