was a very common story in the past generation, you know, clive james, and germaine greer, and bob hughesle like that. a whole generation of successful australian authors. yes. whose success was in the end rooted in london or new york or wherever by going away. yes, and i wanted to go a different way. i loved where i was from. i felt invested. i felt unable to just leave it behind for the sake of a career. i thought well, if i'm into making art, if i'm into making stories and getting these imaginary characters to get up and stand on their hind legs and walk around the park, which is the strange mystery of art, it's a pretty unlikely business, you get to make things that shouldn't feel real seem real. i wanted to do that from home. and it's the mix of the imaginative and the real that so strikes me about you, because when we talk about your rootedness and your determination to write about home rather than go away, it's also about the use of language. because in the novel i've just read, your new one, the shepherd's hut, you know, it's deeply vernacular, it is so aussie it's unbelievable, a

hugh sloan. >> bob woodward. >> thanks for giving us your time. >> you know the reason that we're hereeft the committee is because you no longer wanted to be a part of it. >> right. maybe there is a legitimate explanation for why the money was handed to liddy and mitchell's aide. >> i'm trying to understand this. i'm a republican. >> i am, too. >> well, i believe in richard nixon. i worked in the white house for four years and so did my wife. what happened on june 17th, i don't think the president knew anything about. >> is it possible that some of his people might have known? >> i'm not sure about that. >> do you think the truth will ever come out at the trial? >> that's another thing i'm not sure about. >> why? because obviously certain people lied to the prosecutor. >> we were never told flat-out don't talk. >> but the message was clear, though. in other words, by their very silence there was a cover-up. >> well, they didn't urge us to come forward and tell the truth. >> they meaning the white house? >> the committee is not an independent operation. everything is cleared with the wh

porky pig, daffy duck, hugh grant -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: is this in any way based on your own personal experience? >> i thought it was about my friend tom kenny, the voice of sponge bobi didn't realize. it's a guy who can't outlive this character that's trying to kill him for years. it was my daughter goes, "that's you, dummy." >> jimmy: you wrote this without even thinking about it? >> yeah, that happens to me often. >> jimmy: here's a clip, let's take a look. >> let me get a picture of you and that whiskey. stand right there. don't move. >> where'd that camera come from? i made it. i can make anything appear. as long as it's funny. >> why is this funny? aah! you -- you tried to kill me! >> yes, i did. you [ bleep ] with the wrong bear, amigo. >> jimmy: nicely done, i like that. >> thanks. >> jimmy: it's a fun show. >> thanks. >> jimmy: did you write all of them? >> i wrote all the episodes, then i had friends that were producers that would change lines. tony v., kaitlin gale. all the words came out of my head. one with david kochner, set in the '70s, used car sales man. they decide because he's a good old boy, shoots from the hip, they're going to run him for presi

bob thorton who plays the u.s. president and comes over and bullies the british liter who is hugh grant.r a bit of hollywood. many people think we're seeing that. the question now is theresa may going to be a hugh grant and to stand up and give a speech that basically fights back or is she just going to try and be diplomatic and smooth the whole thing over? there is a lot at stake in the uk right now, not just about special relationship and the security issues, but above all else, about the issue of trade. >> let's go to caddie kay. caddie, i asked t you to think about some of the things you might have heard around the world. i know you travel a lot and you have a lot of international contacts. it's not just what's happening right now with theresa may, although it is fascinating what is happening there with the dynamics especially in the lead up to this press conference that we are awaiting. but president trump seems to have an idea that he's widely popular, especially after the g7 summit. how is america viewed with president trump as president? >> you don't have to look very far to see