willie nelson was your guest. he's interesting. >> oh, yeah, willie nelson i got to interview.s it gets? >> it is, yeah. >> jimmy: have you had conversations with willie, personal conversations before? >> i had, but he was my first interview for that night, so it kind of felt nice to break the ice with willie. >> jimmy: it's different when you're interviewing somebody, because you don't typically batter them with questions when you're having a conversation. >> yeah, like a job interview. >> jimmy: somebody like willie nelson, you probably have a million questions for him, and you want to ask those. >> you get such finite time. i don't know how you keep these interviews on the rails most of the time. >> jimmy: you know what the hardest part is? right behind you is guillermo dressed as a cartoon character. >> oh my gosh, how are you? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it's distracting. >> guillermo: she did a great job. >> jimmy: other than that, it's easy. >> thank you, you were my copilot. i literally had no idea you were right there. [ laughter ] you look amazing. >> jimmy: he'

did willy nelson really smoke on the white house roof and i don't remember what jimmy said, he didn't deny it, but rosalynn spoke up immediately and he said, oh, his wife wrote me a letter apologizing for that. she didn't want that to become a part of the public record because passage of times it is well-known. and just published a book on helping yourself help others, and she was going down to her office when she was-- on main street, and so she told me i could come down there and get a copy of the book so i did. i had to pay for it, (laughter) >> and sat there at the kitchen table and just chatting with her. carters told me i could send him a few more questions if i wanted to, that i could write, some written questions and he said two or three. i sent him 15, and he answered 14 of them and i knew that he remembered. >> and i didn't want to let the audience ask questions, i could respond to some of that myself. and now, i'm going to open up to questions, but you have to wait for the microphone to come to you. so anybody in the audience want to ask a question? or should i ask more? th

to ask you, jimmy, you know, just kind of joking and ken said, well, why don't you ask him if willie nelson really smoked and dope? the white house roof and i had nothing else to ask him at that point. so i said, did willie really smoke dope on the white house roof? and i can't remember, jimmy said. he kind of laughed, didn't deny it, but rosalynn spoke immediately, and she said, oh, his wife wrote me a letter for that. she didn't want that to become a part of the public record because with the passage of time, that's it. yes, it's it is well known. the relatives had just published a book helping yourself help others and she was going down to her, which was in this lillian's on main street and so she told me could come down there and get a copy of the book. so i did and i had to pay for it. and give it to her and and sat there at the kitchen table for hour or so, just just chatting with her carter as i left telling me that i could send him a few more questions if i wanted to, that i could, i could writing them in written questions and he would answer. he said two or three. i sent 15, he ans

that story gets read by willie nelson's ex-wife and she says somebody send that guy leonard sparling and see if he can help with clemency so when i get that file or those files, i don't know anything about leonard the american indian movement. i've heard a little bit about it. i barely know anything about the treatment and interaction between the united states government and the native americans because unless you go out searching for the information, you've got about 15 minutes of a sanitized story of the trail of tears and only the cherokee version. i haveis no preconceived notionf how this ought to turn out, why it happened. i have just started reading. i get some articles to get a general sense of what this is about and the opinions of the court of appeals to find out what are the issues that came in and then i started reading the transcripts. i'm reading this as a former federal judge who's only been off the bench for two years, maybe less than two years so as i read this, my thoughts are my godd how are we still talking this case. i start to see wait a minute how did you get le

in the oval office with the president, but the kim kardashian is there that story gets read by willie nelson'sex-wife, connie nelson. and connie then says, somebody send that guy leonard's file and see if he can help with clemency and so when i get that file or those files, i don't know anything about leonard peltier. i don't know anything about the american indian movement. i've heard a little bit about it. i barely know anything about the the treatment in the interaction between the united states government and the native americans. because unless you go out searching for that information, you're not going to learn it in school. you get about 15 minutes of of a sanitized story about the trail of tears and only the the cherokee version. and then that's it. you don't learn about anything else. and so when i sit down with the file of the united states versus leonard peltier, i have no pre-cancer seed notion of how this ought to turn out. what happened, why it happened. i just reading and i read some newspaper articles to get a general sense of what this is about i start reading the opinions of

nelson to take them. this case, and i think fani willis is a hero, she's a national hero, because she, more than any otherprosecutor in this country, and i respect jack smith, and i respect all the prosecutors that are doing this. she is the only one who said, these wealthy, powerful, privileged men and women are just american citizens. and when they break the law, they will take that picture. >> i have absolutely right. it's a fair criticism of everybody else. even when the sense of timing has felt unsatisfying, in terms of delay, perceived, allay reported the lay, by the washington post. fani willis opened the case the day that carolina reporter biden today, the washington post another importing on the tape in the. call she's the only person that has been the antidote to trump saying, don't believe your eyes. don't believe your ears. believe me. she saw it with our own eyes. she saw with her own ears. she starred investigating. >> a man. >> i think we can expect to see this photograph in a trump email money solicitation. before midnight. >> before the end -- of >> i mean, the overall feeling about, this

nelson to take them. this case, and i think fani willis is a hero, she's a national hero, because she, more than any otherprosecutor in this country, and i respect jack smith, and i respect all the prosecutors that are doing this. she is the only one who said, these wealthy, powerful, privileged men and women are just american citizens. and when they break the law, they will take that picture. >> i have absolutely right. it's a fair criticism of everybody else. even when the sense of timing has felt unsatisfying, in terms of delay, perceived, allay reported the lay, by the washington post. fani willis opened the case the day that carolina reporter biden today, the washington post another importing on the tape in the. call she's the only person that has been the antidote to trump saying, don't believe your eyes. don't believe your ears. believe me. she saw it with our own eyes. she saw with her own ears. she starred investigating. >> a man. >> i think we can expect to see this photograph in a trump email money solicitation. before midnight. >> before the end -- of >> i mean, the overall feeling about, this