texas barbecue. problem ♪ too much barbecue >>> on this holiday weekend as many folks bring out the grill, we're going old school. hardwood only, no gas allowed so pass the pulled pork and the brisket and the ribs. kevin tibbles in the pit tonight. >> i need those ribs, some fatty brisket. >> reporter: if you're going to break bread with daniel vaughn, better roll up your sleeves, because bread isn't part of the equation. >> it is the best bite. >> reporter: vaughn is all about the barbecue. texas barbecue. in his new role at "texas monthly magazine," as the nation's only barbecue reviewer. is that a weighty responsibility? >> in texas it is, yeah. i mean -- >> you bet. >> reporter: so most days you can find this transplanted ohioan bellying up to the brisket bar at one of the lone star state's many smokehouses. >> we have to get beef short rib for sure. >> half-pound of brisket. that's pork butt right there. what do you call that? this is a family show now, here, barbecue is religion. >> this is goo

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texas? is it because it is so close to mexico. >> well i would go for the barbecue, to be honest. it is funny people can't figure out why people want to hold on to more of their money. low taxes, businesses can grow there, why is that incomprehensible to the people and the media? you want to give more money away and work hard and hand it to somebody else? most of america doesn't want to do that. >> she's got a point. gawker would not understand why americans would want to live in a republican state. to them it would be like living amongst religious homophobes. >> what the liberals did was put them all in one little area called austin. you can go see a band and then get the hell out of there. >> texas is amazing. you can get -- you can have as much barbecue as you want and you look at the blue states and they are not just running out of other people's money. they are running out of people. they don't want to be there because the regulatory state is so bad. i love texas. it is a great state. >> can you trust somebody named buck? >> no. >> of course he is going -- >> i love texas. te

>>>>"and your barbecue" west point, new york and will end in dallas texas this weekend.ama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on memorial day. in his weekly address, obama says the country must set aside some time to honor the service men and women who gave their lives. "on monday, we celebrate memorial day. unofficially, it's the start of summer - a chance for us to spend some time with family and friends, at barbecues or the beach, getting a little fun and relaxation in before heading back to work. it's also a day on which we set aside some time, on our own or with our families, to honor and remember all the men and women who have given their lives in service to this country we love. they are heroes, each and every one. they gave america the most precious thing they had - "the last full measure of devotion." and because today - a free and prosperous nation, the greatest in the world." in the republican address, oklahoma senator james inhofe thanks the nation for its prayers and support following monday's deadly tornado in his home state.

texas. >> he is apologizing now, but why are democrats cashing in while people are digging out. firing up your weekend barbecue conversation right now. >> welcome to cashing in. our cashing in crew this week, wayne rogers and jonathan honig and kirstin powers join us. calls growing for the white house to can workers, but irs workers are unionized and unions protect their members. irs unionizing employees. is this a conflict of interest? >> it is an inherent conflict of interest. there is bias embedded when you have a situation like this where they are protected. it's difficult to remove them. they have positive incentive to go along with it and if you look at the numbers, the workers and political donations in 2008 and 2012 to president obama, $110,000 in contributions, 78% of them contributed to president obama and his reelection. they got a good thing going with him. they want to make sure it stays in place versus romney and mccain. only 22%. no wonder they got it in the bag. >> the pagds and the fire out number the democrats than they do to republicans. you love them, don't you? >> listen, eric. people have

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texas. ground crew scrambling to save the rangers field. >>> plus, from local hero to paid public speaker. >> barbecue with this dude. we eat ribs whatnot, listening to salsa music. i knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. >> charles ramsey's words of wisdom worth thousands of dollars. what? adam levine? you are live in the cnn newsroom. go ahead morning, thank you for being with me. i'm carol cost tello. a frightening new spike in one of america's most passionate debates. the fight over gun control. federal investigators ramping up the probe of what could be deadly letters sent to new york city mayor michael bloomberg. two separate tests say it was ricin. a material so toxic, a mere pinpoint can kill within days. cnn's deborah frerick working her sources. >> good morning, carol. some emergency workers had developed some intestinal symptoms consistent with ricin exposure. conclusive results on the orange pink oily material is being analyzed by the national forensic analysis center and should be back in the next day or two. this is pictures of the one of the mail faciliti

it's the whole texas te experience, being from texas, you know, the whole southern hospitality, being welcome as soon as you get here at the backyard barbecueole experience, to food,od, dirchgzdrinks and the hospitali >> you do serve shiner drinks. >> we have the specialty cocktails such as the porch porc swing. >> that's hard. ha >> chopped egg.>> chopped >> right. >> and then that is pretty much it? >> and we're done right here. >> voila and what we have right here is the praise the lord potato salad with the hot link. >> praise the lord potato sad sd al, hallelujah hot dog. dog. >> listen to myfoxdc.com. we have a link to hill country barbecue. their backyard barbecues aree wednesday through sunday here at west lawn of the national building museum.ing and they're having mini golf. we will talk about that in thete next hour.ur. meanwhile, i have a churchle, ie service to go to, back to you. [ laughter ][ laughte >> that is funny, that looked really good.ly >> i can't wait. >> i would like to have some of that. hopefully you will bring it back. >>> ready and waiting. wa we're on see cade cicada watch >> where are the billions of cicadas th

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texas, oklahoma. do heed the warnings. a quick look at temperatures, in the 80's widespread across the southeast. dave, that sounds like perfect temperatures for barbecues. it is actually national barbecue month. who better to have with me than dave anderson from famous dave's. you've won over 700 awards including best barbecue sauce. you have a barbecue party cookbook. >> just coming out. maybe national barbecue month, what a perfect way to get ready for this summer and learning about how to barbecue. we've got some really tasty recipes. we've got our burned ends which has been doing phenomenal. a lot of people don't know what burned ends are. they are the briskets. people when they see briskets, they normally get the slices of the brisket which comes off the brisket from the front here. what happens when you get a burned end, when you're smoking a brisket 15 hours -- and that's what gets it so tender, so juicy -- is all the juices start to rise to the top. when we first rub it with the brown sugar and the seasonings and black pepper, juices starts to run to the side. what you get is the burned ends. >> you cut the ends off here. >> what we do is we cu