well, you re welcome, we the travel east point about taking the abstracting concretizing it, they re not thought experiments anymore, it s really humans lives and it s real peoples lives. i do think that public opinion is more on the side of common sense on these questions than the republican party s, and we ll see how that plays out. we will see, indeed, i m a sun studio, come back soon. i will. thanks for joining us this hour, tonight, as donald trump s former s vice president considers talking to the january 6th investigation, his former lawyer testifies before an atlanta grand jury, and his longtime cfo prepares to plead guilty in turn on the trump organization. despite the presidents considerable legal woes, he can t seem to find any qualified attorneys to represent him. oh speak to caroline, who joins us live. then we go down to florida, where republican governor ron desantis has given some new lessons for revisionist history, and christian nationalism. new y
Lyle lovett, welcome. Evan, thanks for having me. Nice to be back with you. Congratulations on 16 years of the show well, thanks very much. Cant believe it, time goes fast. It was first season that we first spoke. Yeah, thats right, you came back again one more time, and now here you are again, so see you in eight years. Thats how that goes, i think, right . Or Something Like that. Yeah. So were sitting here today against the backdrop of this awful weather in houston, flooding. A community that you know well, care enormously about. You were born in memorial hospital, right, in houston . In methodist hospital. Methodist hospital, pardon me, in houston, and you grew up in houston and around houston, and you still live in the still live here, still live right where i grew up. Yeah, i know its, ive been keeping an eye on the, and been on the phone all day back home. Lots of folks are underwater, where we are in north Harris County, were on high enough ground that were okay, but things are
A new newcomer ellis merchant come back baby with the rockabilly group them baseball is marking big anniversary. One of the winners of last summers barking like a budget i. But thats kick off with alice merton my absolute favorite newcomer artist in two thousand and seventeen i depute sing a no roots make a big impression on me and countless other fans from the start the charts around the words i think its time to have a closer look at the rising star. Not. Introducing. Our very first single no roots which charted across europe and north america and went platinum in germany having been born in frankfurt and race in canada in england a rising star knows a lot about being uprooted. Fundamentally this song is about my life story about how often ive ever lived and how ive lived in many Different Countries ive moved a live in times its who. Its actually its twelve now because i just moved again two weeks ago my home has never been down to one place not to the people i really know by the men
Thank you, evan. Thank you very much for being here, congratulations on the book. Thank you, thank you. I have to say i was little surprised to learn about the book and to read it. Its a funny book, thats not the surprise but the surprise is that i remember when you got to the senate, there was talk of you, i guess the expression was the Hillary Clinton model, following the Hillary Clinton model, you know, do your homework, go to committee hearings, dont do national press, basically show that you mean to be a serious senator. Youve been in there for nine years. Right, right. This is not the kind of book you wouldve written, almost nine years, this is not the kind of book you wouldve written maybe at the first, would you . Oh, not at all. Basically, i had to not be funny publicly [evan] right. For my entire first term laughs . audience laughing and i took hard to do. I mean i get, the book is a response to a lot of questions i get asked. The first i get asked the most is is being a Unit
This is a big book. It is a big book. Its a Coffee Table Book and as advertised i went, oh okay, im going to look at it. Its going to be all pictures and there be little captions. No, this is a book, book. Yeah. You wrote the heck out of this book. They told me i would be writing some text for a picture book. I thought i would be writing captions. This literally, you could have written this as a regular book. Yeah, it is a relatively substantial history of his eight years as president , as told in the New York Times style journal. Except there was not a george w. Bush Coffee Table Book. There was not a bill clinton Coffee Table Book that im aware of. Admit it, youre nostalgic for this. Is that what it is . Well look, you know, what the truth is, we did a Coffee Table Book at the beginning of his presidency. When he took office because the election of the first African American president. Its a moment. Moment in history. Right. And so having done one in the front end, we just thought we