>> aside from richard pryor?nets, he is the sun. [ applause ] the thing that makes pryor so great, like michael jordan or miles davis, or, you know, anybody named michael was great. he could take a socially con plex situation, make everyone uncomfortable about it and then do this thing that would make you explode in laughter. he would play five, six different people with depth in a bit. i mean, i watched him, you know, come up -- come up. when he first came around, and, the way he evolved from the '60s to the' 70s, it's astounding. his first concert film, pahe should have been nominated for an oscar. >> jimmy: cleto and i snuck in to see that, when we were much too young to be seeing that movie. >> it's astounding. and he, fortunately, was very nice to me. >> jimmy: now, you have -- this is your second book, and you get get great reviews. >> it's hard to sell books these days. it's a comedy mystery. it's a lot of fun. >> jimmy: but a real mystery, not a goof on a mystery. >> i play mais in the novel but i fold in

muskogee phoenix, a little column in which he said the family is very bipartisan, my friend senator mark pryor is a part of it. we have talked about prior on the show before. prior now denies his involvement. so you see some of these conservative democrats they're running away from the family. that's weakening them at the same time. this is a group that's been around for 70 years that knows how to weather scandal, sit tight and hope for the press to move on and that's why it's great that the times is doing this and you've been on top of this story. >> one last question for you, senator coburn, i used some very harsh lang in the introduction in the interview. i think that he deserves it. it's quite clear from the record that he's lying to the times now or he was lying when he categorically denieded it in june. it doesn't seem that he's got any wiggle room. as you say senator coburn has staked his political career in part on his professed character, and his professed integrity and a lot of that ties to his professed faith. if he's going to be in trouble here, he's going to have to answer these -

senator pryor, i noticed you did not speak for the legislation. are you in opposition to it? maybe you could speak to that a little bit. >> i did not speak for it because i have not had a chance to really look at it. we will definitely spend time in our committee on the legislation. we would like to have senator menendez and others involved in that process. whenever you do this type of legislation, there may be some opposition. we just don't know yet until we start to move the bill for the process. i can think of some people who might be opposed to it but i think in the and, my sense is that there will be very little, if any, opposition to this legislation. is a matter of us trying to get it right. >> very briefly -- whenever we impose the possibility of losing highway funding if you do not do a certain action, there is, of course, in some quarters, a strong reticence to that. i understand that that should not be done as quickly as we turn. the government should not be ordering every single when issues rise, particularly as we travel not just with our state but between states