either way 11 days later donald j. trump won the election. fast forward five years homa abedin the woman who hit send when it came to those e-mails writes now, quote, i have slowly come to accept i am not the sole cause of the 2016 election loss. one man s decision to play god forever changed the course of history. it should not be my burden to carry the rest of my life. she is out with a brand new book called both/and, a life in many worlds. it is a lovely book. i didn t know you were such a good writer. thank you, jake. i am happy to be on your show and to hear i really enjoyed the writing process. it was great therapy for me. let me start with the elephant in the room about comey. for a long time comey was a daily nightmare for you and what happened in 2016 you argue should be comey s burden to bear not yours. but do you believe that saga did change the outcome of the 2016 race? first of all, jake, thank you
get a weekly supply of homer simpson s favourite food donuts. so can the simpsons predict the future, the man with all the answers is executive producer aljean. well, i ve seen the episodes already, but i don t think it would be fair for me to do so. so you did predict this? we predicted it, and we predicted that somebody would offer £5,000 to view all the episodes in the year 2021, it s pretty uncanny. you are on the money, and i want to know how come you re on the money? do you guys have a magic ball? because you predicted the winner of the nobel prize for economics, that the fact that your own company fox would be bought by disney, greece falling into economic meltdown, lady gaga playing the super bowl and, one of my favourites, a three eyed fish. well, if you throw enough darts, you ll hit enough bull s eyes, or we actually have a greek oracle on staff, so you can pick the answer. but is there something about your writing process where you do try and
ite fish. if you throw enough at the wall, you will hit a bull s eye. but is there something about your writing process where you do try and predict the future? we write the episodes about one yearin we write the episodes about one year in advance so we try to be ahead of ourtime, year in advance so we try to be ahead of our time, but people have told us that they do wish we could make some good predictions of things that they want to happen, so we need to work on that. are there any plotlines that you would like to come true, such as a city trapped under a dome? that hasn t happened, but stephen king did write the book under the dome after that. and there is a particular hero, homeowner, who would you say is a modern day homer? i would say a lot of americans are a modern day homer, that is why they are popular in the uk,