Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest, the head made of green cheese episode.

I'm John Dickerson here in Washington by myself.

Emily Bazelon is in New Haven.

David Plotz, who is normally manning the host's chair, is stuck somewhere between Philadelphia and Washington on...

If he's lucky, I'd say.

On some brand of conveyance.

We don't, he was stuck in.

Why was he in Chicago?

Anyway, he was in Chicago.

The weather held him back.

He had that future tense thing to do.

Oh, that's right.

Oh, that he's been, yeah, yeah, right. Oh, right. Or was it future tense or the, anyway, he was extremely busy in the important engagements and couldn't make it for which we're all the lesser.

But don't you feel like you know more about the blow by bill of David's travel day than you do about your own day?

I do. And I'm also slightly glad because I've had to miss a few shows because of travel woes. And there's always no matter how bad you explain the situation, the feeling that people don't really believe you and that somehow it's your fault that you're not where you should be. And so I feel glad that we all share the pain.

But let's stop babbling. And we're going to have three topics today. The first topic is going to be an interview with Jody Cantor, the author of the Obama's, a new book about the Obama marriage, getting a lot of coverage, and we're incredibly lucky to have her here. Then we're going to talk about the New Hampshire primary. The results there, the Republican race, where we go from here. Is anybody else new going to get into the race? Is the Tim Polentie surge going to happen? And then the third topic will be the Supreme Court case. I don't know versus I'm not sure who the other case person is.

Hosanna Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church versus the Equal Opportunity, Equal Opportunity Commission, whatever it's called, the EEOC.

Excellent. And Emily is going to sing Hosanna for us when we get to that topic.

So our first topic is going to be the book the Obamas by Jody Cantor. And amazingly enough, she's here.

And instead of talking about things we know nothing about, well, in this case, we may also be talking about something we don't know anything

about. But we actually have the author here who we can ask questions. So our normal level of

ignorance is going to be increased. Jody, welcome. Thanks for being here. It is great to be back

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