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the star of the series Monk and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, among others, he grew up a Lebanese-American kid in Titletown, USA, Green Bay, Wisconsin, where apparently he felt the mix of cultures on his home table as a bonding rather than a separating experience.

He has a new show on CNN called Breaking Bread, where he travels the world to eat and talk to people about their breads and their lives.

Later in the show, we'll talk with the wonderful cookbook author Maureen Abood about her new title, Lebanese Baking, But first, we'll talk and eat some bread with Tony Shalhoub in the studio.

So, hey,

But that didn't stop us from eating it.

It's not stopping you now.

No. Tony Shalhoub is host of Breaking Bread on CNN.

I'm Francis Lam, and this is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media.

So this move here is getting some praise from nutrition experts.

One tells CNN that this was really well done, very well thought out.

Something to keep in mind is that right now, the amount of vitamin D in infant formula is a little below the recommended amount for babies.

Many parents actually have to supplement formula with extra vitamin D.

Why they had to administer the vaccine, why they had to basically demonize the alternative cures.

because uh i i can have no questions about how it actually works how the system actually works to go against people that are dissenters i have no questions because i was in the middle of it i saw it i saw it happen i saw the cnn thing where they made my face yellow and said i was taking horse medication which is that the most that's to say that and repeat that over and over again is such a clear indication that they conspired it's such a because it's this it's uniform It's horse dewormer uniform, a medication that's used far more often on human beings.

It's been prescribed for

billions.

And I think that that is a big service of this piece.

What I took away from the piece, however, is that all throughout these past several months of reporting, you know, it's not the New York Times has written stories about this, you know, is who is this other Dan Sullivan? What's he doing on there? How do you get on there? CNN, the AP, like a bunch of people have written about this in previous months.

And the whole time, Democratic officials or spokespeople for the campaign of Mary Poltola, the Democrat running for this, have said they had nothing to do with this.

And what the New York Times story did was reveal that that was a lie, that that was not even a way to kind of worm your way out of, yeah, somebody knew something, but I didn't know personally.

At Trump, it's an actual issue beyond the other.

But we played a clip months ago of James Tallarico.

This was an unearthed clip by, you know, maybe a Republican opposition shop, or maybe it was CNN's ever prolific Andrew Kaczynski, who seems to find videos that nobody else in the world can find.

But it was this picture, I mean, this clip.

Like they were so huge, but they existed over there in Bravo.

And then when the affair happened on Vanderpump Rules, they started talking about them on CNN.

They started getting put on shows like Love Island and Special Forces.

And so then the crossover happens and they get brought into mainstream.

Now, I know Alex Cooper is sort of mainstream, but a lot of people in America didn't have a clue who Cooper or Alex Earle was before this scandal, before the chat show host started to talk about it, take interest in it, and before it started getting covered on kind of the bigger channels like CNN and Fox and all of that.

And I suppose my take on Alex Earle's documentary was when I watched it, maybe I watched three episodes, and I wouldn't usually stop something and be like, Is this wasting my time? But I feel like Alex Earle as an influencer is brilliant at what she does on TikTok.

She's brilliant on those little snackable content that she does, be it Get Ready With Me's or whatever.

This is it.

Last thing you hear before you die is a health insurance bureaucrat telling you your medical treatment has been denied due to insufficient funds in your bank account, all while a TV in the background blares CNN pundits yelling about Hasan Piker.

It's all about health care.

That's why I support 9-11.

Andrew Morris,

former CNN digital chief, is launching something called Ferio, which I think aspires to be a sort of A24 for YouTube.

A little dubious, but we're going to talk about that.

Google earnings out this week.

You're totally right.

It's a great point.

Anyway, I sort of delighted in covering this story because it gave me something to cover besides the impending merger of Mark Thompson's CNN and Barry Weiss's CBS.

But it's also just, I was joking about this with Iran, it's an arena where there are a lot of people who really care.

Rather than bringing people together, he's just driven them further and further apart.

Hours later, Stevens reaffirming her support for al-Sayed on CNN, but urging his campaign to, quote, shut out the hate and call it out.

One flashpoint, an independent group's ad linking U.S. support for Israel to high grocery prices, according to the Associated Press.

The AP quotes Al-Sayed as saying that has nothing to do with our campaign.

NBC will be there.

Maybe even CNN will be there.

And therefore, every eye will see him.

Well, that's a possibility, but I have a better scenario, I think.