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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 ...

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 met...

Thanks for having me here. Im trying to think about your new job in this way. Is being a White House Correspondent at the moment the best job ever or the worst job ever . In my mind its not the best job ever because i think that theres a lot of jobs in journalism that are amazing, but this is one of the best gigs in town for sure. In dc i think its the best job, because you have a front row seat to a history making president. Before donald trump was elected, i said if we get him, hell be the first reality tv president. I think that thats completely still true. I think if you are covering donal...

Were in a film called chappaquiddick . I thought, a comedy about chappaquiddick . audience laughing oh, right its not a comedy. No, its not a comedy. Its the actual chappaquiddick. Its a look at the story that really kind of affected ted kennedys life completely arguably changed history, right . If you believe the idea absolutely that ted kennedy was going to be president at some point, and this might have been the thing that disabled it, right . Oh yeah, beyond a doubt. And its also interesting given our current political climate, like what ted kennedy got away with, the entitlement and stuff...

Audience laughter applause katy tur, welcome. Thanks for having me. So good to see you, congratulations on the book, its so great. Thank you i love this book, and the thing i love about it the most is that you had the good sense to write it, you were the earliest or among the earliest people on the Trump Campaign. You had the good sense to take notes, you figured out im gonna be witness to history, even if we didnt know whether hed get anywhere in this campaign. Yeah, i was there from the very beginning. Almost the very beginning. I was, the first rally i went to was june 30th of 2015, a few d...