pre-parties. you can view their full conversations on-line, but for now, let s just sit back, grab a glass of champagne, and enjoy it as if we were all together in real life sharing these conversations. you want to start it off weird, or do you want to start it off with more together? weird. we re going to start out weird, okay. if you were hosting your fellow finalists in your home for this cocktail party, what will we eat? what will we drink? and would we be listening to music? for sure, there would be wine. there would be sparkling water. there would be there would have to be chocolate of some sort going on. if i was hosting you at my house, i would go crazy. i have not had anybody in my house. probably some shrimp, not the little ones, but the big ones; right? where everybody would have their own cake. my mom would definitely send some delicious desserts for us. definitely have the wine flowing and some good cocktails. i think that would be a cocktail
search bar at the top of the page. welcome. i m your host. i m coming to you live from the beautiful central public library in downtown austin, texas. like last year, we wish you were in this room with us, celebrating with the brightest literary stars of the year. but we re grateful for the opportunity to share this moment with so many fans from all around the world. to give us an idea of what it would be like if we were together tonight, our editor-at-large, caught up with some of this year s finalists over zoom and recorded their pre-parties. you can view their full conversations on-line, but for now, let s just sit back, grab a glass of champagne, and enjoy it as if we were all together in real life sharing these conversations. you want to start it off weird, or do you want to start it off with more together? weird. we re going to start out weird, okay. if you were hosting your fellow finalists in your home for this cocktail party, what will we eat? what will we dr
like last year, we wish you were in this room with us, celebrating with the brightest literary stars of the year. but we re grateful for the opportunity to share this moment with so many fans from all around the world. to give us an idea of what it would be like if we were together tonight, our editor-at-large, caught up with some of this year s finalists over zoom and recorded their pre-parties. you can view their full conversations on-line, but for now, let s just sit back, grab a glass of champagne, and enjoy it as if we were all together in real life sharing these conversations. you want to start it off weird, or do you want to start it off with more together? weird. we re going to start out weird, okay. if you were hosting your fellow finalists in your home for this cocktail party, what will we eat? what will we drink? and would we be listening to music? for sure, there would be wine. there would be sparkling water. there would be there would have to be chocola
house formally rejecting a request by the previous administration to assert executive privilege over documents sought by the house select committee investigating the deadly insurrection on january 6th. president biden moving to unclog the supply chain bottleneck crisis that led to short ta tatakes shortages of goods across the country and jon gruden may be gone over racist home phobic emails but is the nfl full of grudens? a lot to discuss this hour. i want to bring in john harwood, legal analyst elliott williams. been a long time. john is here all the time. where you been, brother? you know how to find me. you don t call, you don t write, come on, don. well, you re back now. here we are. since that i ll start with john. john [ laughter ] it s official steve bannon is defying the select committee subpoena. what are you hearing how they will respond? i think they will get tough, don. the indications we have are that the select committee is going to not waste t
that stormed the capitol on january 6th. if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. if it requires pardons, we ll give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly. why are so many republicans silent? and whoopi goldberg apologizing saying the holocaust wasn t about race and getting help from the anti defamation league and he s my guest coming up. let s turn to january 6th and all the things surrounding and i want to bring in commentator ana navarro and a former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain and the executive producer of the circus. good evening to both of you. mark, sources are saying trump advisors drafted two orders, one to the defense department, one to homeland security. this is how far they went to try to overturn the election. it is really chilling. amazing we keep learning new things worse than what we know, don. you know, i ve been saying for republicans who wish for some future