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When I was doing my book, Bomber Mafia, I spent a lot of time with, uh, um, with some Air Force, Air Force folks, pretty senior people at the Air Force and thought they were, uh, I just came away in awe of that institution.

Mary Mitchell Gone With the Wind and a star is born and how all these things may be connected and drunk driving has a seam in the story as well.

Mary Mitchell, who was the, uh, uh, Mary Mitchell, my, my Margaret, Margaret, who wrote Gone With the Wind was killed by a drunk driver, um, in 1948 or seven.

she's the most, when she's killed by a drunk driver, she's the most famous author in America. She is Gone With the Wind is like, you know, the far and away, the biggest book of that era.

Game of Thrones, the DC Comics universe, Harry Potter, The Sopranos, classics like Gone With the Wind, and much more will now operate under the Netflix umbrella.

But it's like you and I were talking about earlier at the beginning, even about Will Smith. You can know where somebody's bad behavior comes from and still say they must be held accountable for it. And that's how I see politics.

I read Mary Trump's book. I understand he was traumatized as a child, et cetera.

Cohen admits he's made roughly $3.4 million in sales of his two books over the past four years, both of which were about Trump.

Cohen also penning not one but two books, a 2020 memoir titled Disloyal and 2022's Revenge, how Donald Trump weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice against his critics.

It's covered in the book dope sick, but there's another book called Empire of Pain that came out not too long ago that goes into Arthur Sackler in the 50s and the 60s. In such exquisite detail.

I call it Charles Dickens in hell. I mean, it's very I want to read that.

There's another book called Empire of Pain that came out not too long ago that goes into Arthur Sackler in the 50s and the 60s in such exquisite detail.

It's a great book. I love it. I recommend it to Smug.

I just don't think that he could have imagined that Biden's career would end on a Monday night after 11 30 p.m.

It's a great book. I love it. I recommend it to Smug.

I just don't think that he could have imagined that Biden's career would end on a Monday night after 11 30 p.m.

That wasn't his sin, depicting an image of the Prophet Muhammad, but he wrote that book that obviously has been deemed deeply problematic.

And there was a fatwa issued on him and he was just attacked.

He's blind in one eye, he has three serious wounds in his neck, one hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut, and had about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso.

He was attacked by a man who rushed the stage and stabbed him repeatedly, identified as 24 year old Hadi Matar, a Faribault, New Jersey, who's now pleaded not guilty to second degree attempted murder.

Salman Rushdie hasn't been dealing with this since 1989.

And, you know, I was living in Sweden for a while where this became an actual issue of debate. There was a far right newspaper in Sweden was associated with the far right party. Legitimate far right people. I mean, they were not people that I enjoyed, but they published the cartoons that the Danish newspaper had initially published in, I think, 2005 or six. And the government intervened and I think shut down their server or took it offline basically.

And, you know, I was living in Sweden for a while where this became an actual issue of debate. There was a far right newspaper in Sweden was associated with the far right party. Legitimate far right people. I mean, they were not people that I enjoyed, but they published the cartoons that the Danish newspaper had initially published in, I think, 2005 or six. And the government intervened and I think shut down their server or took it offline basically. And I said, you know, this is kind of crazy. And in Denmark at the same time, they were reanimating a blasphemy law, a blasphemy law in Denmark because of the power of particular lobbyist saying this stuff shouldn't happen. And so when it happened to the US in a way that I found really disconcerting, which was initially a woman named Molly Norris, who has disappeared from the face of the earth. That's right. Disappeared. Her crime, she disappeared. I believe she changed her name and there was it. She was doing kind of cartooning or something. She's an alt weekly cartoonist. For Seattle Stranger. So Pacific Northwest. And she does in everyone draw Muhammad thing. This is actually where the real Genesis came from. And she did this kind of wry, silly thing. And this was woman's not political at all. And is a picture of a teacup. And teacup says, I'm Muhammad. And it's like an I am Spartacus thing with like everyday household items saying I'm Muhammad.

And if you think of the Salman Rushdie thing, someone survives. And I know someone reasonably well. And I've talked to him about it a number of times.

And it was a difficult thing in his life. But it was even more difficult for people tangentially involved. His Norwegian translator, Rashad, his Japanese translator, I believe was shot or stabbed. One of them died. So, I mean, this was their, you know, the Danish cartoons were published in thousands of people died because there were embassies burned all across the world. And it was and I took a step back and I was like, these are cartoons.

They found a duvet, a Dr. Seuss book and fibers of the outfit JonBenet was wearing that night, indicating perhaps the murderer might've tried to kidnap her or remove her from the scene in the suitcase, but it was too big.

I remember I, I, I've done my homework, green eggs and ham, green eggs and ham. I do not like them. Okay. And it's like, should you really be eating eggs? They're green. I kind of thing hilarious.

one of the things he said was that he wanted more than anything, his legacy to not be friends, but to be the fact that he got sober and helped other people get sober.

as Maureen Callahan wrote up in a great piece that's posted now, his greatest performance was not on friends. It was as a newly sober good guy who just wanted to help others get clean.

I met her two years earlier at another rehab where she had been working at the time.

I didn't get sober back then, but I saw how wonderful she was in every way and promptly stole her from the sober living rehab and made her my assistant.

She too understood the nature of addiction and would come to know my struggles better than any doctor I'd ever seen.

You know, I was reading the Britney memoir as soon as it came out last week. And I kept thinking about Matthew Perry because at this time last year, I was reading his memoir and columning on his memoir and his, his memoir struck me as so much more candid than the average celebrity memoir.

the amount of trauma and physical debilitation and pain and the sheer consumption, not just of drugs, but alcohol. And, you know, he was a three pack a day smoker, which I forgot about. I didn't know that. You know, just the, what he put his body through and that he was still even alive. And that book to me felt like, I mean, talk about a legacy play that book to me felt like I may not live much longer. And this is the thing I want to be remembered for not being on a sitcom, not being the sort of Gen X icon, but trying to help other people who are as tormented as I am.

And he says in the book, like I would give everything up if I could just not feel the way I feel about myself.

his book has now overtaken hers on the Times bestseller list.

Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Presumed Innocent or read the Scott Turell book, tune out now because it's a great, great, great powerful last line.

Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Presumed Innocent or read the Scott Turow book

All I can think of is The Godfather, which, of course, has the answers to everything. Frank Pentangeli was called. He was going to speak before the Senate. He was going to testify as Michael Corleone was being cross-examined. And they had him. He had turned state's evidence. He was going to testify against him. And then what happened? He didn't do it, even though he'd already given it all up to the feds because they had his brother.

They dragged in his brother from Italy. He was sitting there in the audience and they knew exactly what was going to happen to the brother. I think it was the brother or the uncle if he spoke and said those things under oath. And so suddenly Frank Pentangeli is like, they came to me. They started putting all kinds of words in my mouth. Michael Corleone did this. Michael Corleone did that. So I said, yeah, yeah, he did it. And he totally reversed himself.

That's what they just did to Joe Biden. They had Joe Biden's library. That was the uncle. The library gets it. You leave, the library gets it, your legacy gets it.

And so he did what Frank Pentangeli did. He said, all right, fine, I'll do it. And he's out.

He played the young Vito Corleone. So he's a great. Michael Corleone.

It Ends with Us is in theaters now.

And It Ends with Us is in theaters August 9th.

He had purchased the rights to that Colleen Hoover novel. It was his film. He agreed with Blake Lively that she would star in it. And she agreed to that just to be the star, not the co-writer, not the co-director.

Chris Rufo had a great book about it last summer about the 1960s cultural Marxism.

The book is entitled Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.

It describes how the radical left has seized every major institution of our nation and is weaponizing it.

It's where the virus was created. It's where it mutated. It's where it spread.

In Marxism, Karl Marx laid out a fundamental conflict that we are irredeemably in a conflict between oppressors and victims.

And he based it on socioeconomic divide. So the oppressors were the owners of capital and the victims were the workers, the proletariat and Marxist solution. What Marxists call for is the violent revolution by the proletariat to overthrow their oppressors and use government to forcibly redistribute to the victims.

You denied it, he proved it.

They ordered a hard stop to reporting. They told me and a producer working on this that we should not take a single call. They told us to cancel interviews. The question for years has been why?

I mean, you lay out the suggestion that Harvey Weinstein was blackmailing NBC News.

Multiple sources do say that and the way in which that's framed is very careful. All of NBC's denials are in this book. We fact checked for many hours with them. That said, it is indisputable based on the evidence in this book that there was a chain of secret settlements at this company that were covered up with victims of harassment and assault.

Some of them about Lauer, some about others in the company. This was a pattern. It was concealed from journalists there.

They allow it because they were afraid information about Matt Lauer is going to get out. That is what the extensive conversations, transcripts and documents presented in this book suggest.

When my son brought home the book Beloved by Toni Morrison, I put down my copy of Fifty Shades and said, no, a woman named Toni, not my America.

We're taking Beloved by Toni Morrison out of our libraries.

The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda, white supremacist agenda.

She is being singled out as someone who is only surviving because of her race.

Well, it's racist.

The fact that of those presidents who all came under intense scrutiny, that only one has been called out as a so-called diversity or affirmative action hire just speaks to what black women in this country have gone through historically and continue to go through every day.

No one has produced a shred of evidence that shows that the sole qualification that President Gay had was that she is a black woman.

It's trying to push The 1619 Project and the teachings of Ibram X. Kendi.

McConnell came out and said, voters didn't ask for this. There is no mandate to teach our children that America is inherently evil.

Yes, they give her a Pulitzer Prize, which a bunch of scholars, black and white, have demanded be pulled back, be revoked, because The 1619 Project is so nonfactual.

It's the same sort of construction. Like these people are voting against their own interests. We're not the problem. If voters aren't choosing us, it's because of something that's wrong with the voters, either it's white supremacy or it's what woke derangement.

Thomas Frank is an author who wrote Listen Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas.

Bari, great to have you back. How are you? I'm great. Great to be here, Megyn. I dried my hair for you.

and author of the book How to Fight Antisemitism.

She's the author of "How to Fight Anti-Semitism"

The Jews or Jews or the Jewish state comes to stand for whatever a given culture or civilization defines as its most loathsome or disgusting qualities.

How under Nazism, the Jews become the race contaminators. How under communism, we're the bourgeois arch capitalists.

And he said, all Jews must die. And he killed 11 of my neighbors. And he was driven by, I think, what is just very archetypal view of Jews from the far right.

So in fact, not only are they not a minority and not oppressed, they're handmaidens to white supremacy.

but there's no historical basis for any of the literature except for To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible.

To Kill a Mockingbird has been removed from two schools' curriculum. It's still available in the libraries.

I know what I've seen in the documentaries and read in the book about her Bad Blood.

If you read the book, and I highly recommend that you do, it's called Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.

She's a very dangerous person who did horrible things.

And she knowingly misrepresented this system that she had of testing that she represented could create multiple test results with one tiny prick of blood.