friend, mark pryor. i m looking forward to my first taste of raccoon. i ve heard about it. must be an arkansas delicacy. you can t just go down to walmart and pick up some coon. the raccoon, is it good? yes, it is very good. i want to spit it out. what s left people take home for dinner tomorrow. perfery bacon jr. joins us from little rock. we have the communications director with the pro-hillary clinton group, also an arkansas native. she knows politics in her state very, very well. maybe raccoon, too. political columnist at the guardian. ja jamelle bouie is back with us. we have a plate of delicious
will. his difficulty is that the story he s giving out to the public right now doesn t quite jive with what people know about how he operates and how he attacks politics. he has to persuade not just america, he has to persuade first new jersey that six of his people knew about this stuff, but he didn t know a thing. i don t find it plausible. i doubt the people of new jersey will find it plausible. folks nationally looking at this right now are just seeing soundbites. they re not seeing the whole sto story. it s early. i think when the whole message comes out, i believe we ll know exactly what the governor was telling the truth or whether he was lying to us. jamelle, from the national sta standpoint, the national press, this is their biggest story this we week, do you think the national press is going to follow up on this now and follow the granular at the tails that comes out or is this a story the national press steps away from and it s dependent on whether the local
still on our panel heather hadley, rick mer can kt, ray lesniak and jamelle bouie of the daily beast. you once wrote for politicsmj.com. we can both put that out there. you are also an expert on new jersey politics and you know a lot about how the intersection between development issues and new jersey politics. first, can you explain a little bit just we put it in that piece there but the permanent closure of these traffic lanes in a project like this, what the effect would be on a project like this? i think it would be devastating. and i should say not only did i work for law edge, david wildstein, baroni was at my wedding. i know these people. i should put that out there. when you look at the map, the