Financial analyst, having campaigned twice and loss before her father won congressional race, jackie can understand and conveying the importance of working big, test innovative learning to help struggling students learn that they can learn and she knows the importance of learning every day by new life, homeless shelter for few babies, 5 milliondollar capital campaign, she has learned the value of giving to others. Jackie inspires others to learn, love and live lives successfully. Jackie writes with her heart and mind, note bid the Washington Times for her considerable talent in writing, jackies outlook and opinion are entertaining, jackie authored numerous books, 5 principles for a successful life from your family to your which is she coaughtor with her father and today our broken meeker, why both sides needs to start ranting and start listening, jackies work has been cited on the today show, the Washington Times, appears on abc good morning america, cnn campbell brown, 700 club, fox news channel, fox friends, the strategy room and the list keeps going on and on and on. Not [laughter] now least of which this past week where shes numerous interviews where you might have caught her on Tucker Carlson. Any Tucker Carlson fans . [cheers and applause] so jackies nonprofit activities included serving on the georgia advisory council, currently serves in new life, shes founder an chairman of the board of learning makes a difference foundation, and also works with American Solutions pack, a company dedicated to issues in american politics, jackie lives in atlanta with her husband jimmy, and her children, lets give a welcome to jackie gringrich cusman. Thank you. [cheers and applause] we believe that god has given us rights of individuals and we loaned them to the government and then if the government doesnt behave properly we have to pull them back, im a big believe in limited government which really informs what i am talking about today, i believe where we are today not only requires political response which is what President Trump is doing but also quite frankly a cultural response and thats what i want to talk to you about. That can only be done on the ground in communities with people like you and i know that you can lead this effort. So let me back up a little bit and tell you about myself and if you read the ajc that came out today talking about nancy pelosi being here and congressman and how important it is to her, you notice that they talk about the current district and thats been in republican hands beginning in 78. I want you to know that it is sixth district but the sixth district from 78 was not this district, for those who have been around as long as i have, right, you understand its not the same district, in the 70s, the sixth district was from South Atlanta down to griffin and over to alabama, okay, so i grew up in carlton, georgia where my dad was a professor at west Georgia College to be truthful he went there because it was the only place to get a job and he had two small kids, okay. [laughter] he had at job and we moved there when i was very young, even though i wasnt born here, i was born in new orleans, all i remember was georgia, in carlton was pretty much church and football and thats all we did, went to Church Sunday morning, sunday morning, wednesday might, maybe one other time and had football one other time of the carlton trojans. That was our life. I will back up one more generation, my father was army brat and his father was a careered officer and moved around a lot and learned about the history of the country and sacrifices that they had made on our behalf not only for our country but to free other countries, he began to understand how important politics is and quite frankly what we engage on a daily basis in the political world is a civil war but with words, okay, but when people get frustrated, this is more than civil war that we have gone through but we have to learn what Margaret Thatcher said, first you win the argument and then you win the vote. And i think too many times we try to rush through getting the vote without actually winning the argument. So lets go back to 1974, my first dad ran in 1974, for those of yall who were around in 1974 that happened during the time of watergreat, talking about impeachment right now, so dad was working very hard, his opponent was a democrat, at the time if you can imagine in georgia it was a democratic state, so he wan against the delegation, worked very hard and watergate happened and he knew it was going to be tough. My dad would sit there with a legal down and put the numbers down and in the night we lost, he had 48. 6 of the vote and he lost, and wed work very hard, this is a very big rural, you know, district, we spent a lot of time in the car, we spent a lot of time in the gas stations on 4way, not even a traffic light, but he lost, the next morning we got up, we went to the ford factory across from the original chickfila, for those who have been there and shook hands at the change and he said im Newt Gingrich, i need your support again and he ran again, he worked for 2 more years, hes now on second, hes working again very hard, we are all out, its a family event, we dont have babysitters watching us, we are sleeping in the car on the way home, we are exhausted, we take friends when we can, he works very hard in 1976, he thinks he has a chance, hes got to do and then he notices in the spring theres somebody named jimmy carter doing really well in president ial primaries and he begins to think, this may be more difficult than i thought. Hard enough when youre a republican running in guillermo, a past governor thats running as president , what does that going to mean, he sticks with it, works really hard, he thinks he really has a shot, he drives up to vote in carlton that day and its the library and he sees buses pulling up and people getting out and he realizes, theyre not there to vote for someone named Newt Gringrich and he was right, remember this ground game is important, okay. So we, again, we get the calls from different precincts and tallied them all up, very late into the night, he did not win again but he got 48 points, 3 of the vote, still very close at the time, he runs against someone else, has a different opponent. This time my mother, she stopped working for a year and all in it for year, my mother, her grandmother stays with us, they campaigned really hard for an entire year and we were, again, this is a very rural district, we cant afford atlanta tv, its way to expensive. Theres no social media, we go to radio, small town newspapers and quite frankly we have a sign on top of our car that has Newt Gingrich for college. If you can imagine how embarrassing that felt. The third time was the charm and he won. What i can tell you that i learned is that persistence matter and you have to keep working and what i also obviously learned is the ground matter, you to get out to vote, you to make sure that people are registered to vote and you have to make sure that they can get to vote and make sure that you win the argument and thats what i want to talk about today, winning the argument, i think we have, georgia is an exceptional state, i mean, ive grown up in georgia, ive raised both of my children in georgia, we do live in atlanta, i think we only moved a little smaller, a little smaller town and, so we didnt and we are in atlanta, but we are such a great state because we are very involved and i know that we understand what government can do and what government cannot do which is quite frankly a lot and what we have to do, but i also know that theres a middle in georgia that maybe new to georgia or hasnt been around george very long that believes all the horrible things they hear about republicans from the news media, quite frankly that makes mesad because i know that youre a wonderful people, i grew up in the republican party, i cannot tell you, my fourth of julys were starting at sunrise, some of the places wed walk in the parade, sometimes wed jog in the parade because it was kind of fast and sometimes ride in it, i grew up in the republican party, i know you have great hearts, i know that we are loving people but im saddened by the fact that we constantly get maligned nationally and so i want us to think about collectively how we combat that. So im trying to transition from the 70s to here for those who remember, my father when he was finally elected in 78, the speaker of the Georgia House at the time was tom murphy, he lived in my dads sixth district, the reason im telling you, and he was not very happy to have Newt Gringrich as his congressman, right. Youre laughing, you remember, wasnt very happy, he wasnt happy, after 1990 census as they were redistricting, remember, this applies to the future as well, we are going to have redistricting again, as they are redistricting the democrats decided they would cut the old sixth district, South Atlanta, down to griffin, west of alabama into little bitty pieces in an attempt to get rid of Newt Gingrich, speaker murphy did that because he hated to have gingrich as republican. He cut it into little bitty pieces but created this new fabulous sixth district and what happened . So matt brought my dad up, dad walks around and met everybody here and dad ran for congress in the new sixth district, so that year after elections there wasnt just one, there were 3 additional republican congressmen, so thats what tom murphy gets for trying to cut it up, we actually won more, which was good. [cheers and applause] exactly. But does remind you of the power of redistricting which is going to happen again, keep in mind. This time i had gone to college, gotten my mba, i was working in business valuation and i was now working for, youre going to laugh again a wireless company, Cell Phone Company which at the time the wireless the phones were asthey were huge, huge bag phones, if they were installed in your car that was amazing, it was enormous, i remember one day i was going to work and i heard this ad on the radio and talking about about my father, im used to people having saying things that arent true, we never had a limousine, we had the impala, its not a limousine. I had people tell me theyre glad my father lost when i was in Elementary School and glad he wasnt serving, im used to all kinds of things. It just really got to me so i got to work and i called him, dad, you havent asked me but im glad to do a commercial for you but if you think it would help but this is outrageous, he said, i think it will help, so i did, i went a did a commercial and i said the true, its just not true. Sure enough, he won the primary not too many votes but he made it and obviously in great sixth district he won with a landslide, that was 2 years before the republican revolution , so the republican revolution because its been 25 years since that happened and i dont know if you saw the special on fox, yes, good, thank you, mini series on fax nation if youre interested on that as well. One is they were specific, here are the things we are going to do, right, it was a list, he actually punched off when they did it, very specific, second, it was positive, it wasnt things we werent going let them do, its like what are we for, what can we do together, it was positive and the third thing was that it drove all of the legislative action and quite frankly part of what happened i think there was a huge amount of work. My dad had a great idea, he had many great ideas, many of them are great but im not sure this one was great. His idea was he went to transparency in speakership and they decided to do a Daily Press Conference which theoretically was a great idea except it turned into a daily let me see if we can get Newt Gringrich with a clip he shouldnt have said. Turned into what can we get newt for, if you remember, this is around the at the same time that the government is getting shut down and he was the grinch that stole christmas, he never stole christmas, i would know. I tell you why, this is goes back what i want us to think about as a community. When you let someone else control the narrative they get to choose the points they want to say. But he learned from that and he was incredible by persistent and he takes a lot and i talk about tierful persistence, if youre not persistent youll never get anywhere, we all fail, i could tell you about my failures but i know that you have to eat lunch eventually, but i am not going to do that, you have to be tearful because if youre not tearful no one wants to play with you. The children that thats are sour and dower its hard to get somebody to play with. How can we be more cheerful, here is some of our framework for broken america, are we politically polarized, i think the answer is yes, is it dangerous for our country . I think so and are we a nation exceptional and worth saving, okay, so good, you agree with me, i agree with all of the things. How do we save it, how do we save it and is it true that there are Many Democrats on the left that are out to get President Trump, the answer is yes, i think we all know that, this is not a hidden fact, its not a hidden secret, if youre watching the 2016, i was at trump headquarters in new york and i could tell the sound was off but i was watching the tv and i could tell by the body language and expressions of the anchors faces that donald trump was going win. [cheers and applause] right, did you notice that . [laughter] when they got very upset, when they got very upset and looked like as if they might cry. When they quit calling i knew when georgia should be called and i knew where the votes were, and i knew georgia should be called, we called back, i dont know why georgia isnt called, they wouldnt, they couldnt call, maybe an attempt to see if somebody would do Something Different, but they couldnt admit it and then you had the whole he couldnt have b elected, we are so upset we cant go to work, we are so upset we cant go to school, frankly, i have to admit, i made a little fun of that and in retrospect i shouldnt have and i tell you why because we didnt stay at home, we didnt cry when barack obama became president , we got up and went to work, thats what you went to do, i think we missed an opportunity, i think we missed an opportunity to learn. I think we missed an opportunity to learn, why, why . Why were they that upset, why were they so surprised and what have we not communicated proper ly . I firmly believe in Republican Values and i firmly that we can communicate better as a party and also believe we have to if we want to win the next election and we have a lot at stake, let me talk about whats happened in the communication environment, the framework for this book, broken america, one news have changed, when i was little there was actually news, right, information that was given, not for very long, kind of dry to the camera and everyone had the same framework but over the last few decades, not going to say how old i am, that has changed so its no longer news, its now opinion, social media, perspective, not only that but theres so many channels that you have to figure out which ones may or may not be right and which ones are slicing and dicing facts, quite frankly, its really confusing for the average person, we actually care about politics, imagine if youre a person that had a single mother that goes to work and has to worry about her kids and has to pay the bills and she doesnt have time to think about it . We need to think about that, the second thing thats happened is that weve become because of this, right, this news thats no longer news, is that we allow, things travel so rapidly that once they take side on the social media its hard to get them back, i will give you a few examples, im not sure how to fix it quite frankly, i know together we can figure this out. In june of 2018 there was a time cover with trump and the little girl in the title was something around either in tower, callus, soulless trump and that didnt happen, not true, her mother had been deported from the u. S. , she then years later she brought child back with her, they were not separated and when asked the father said i didnt know she left, so the appropriate title might have been, mother kidnaps child flees to foreign country without telling husband, that could have been an appropriate title but that wasnt it. If you ask the average person, not a republican and not a democrat but the huge block in the middle, independents about that, they will have no idea that that wasnt true, think about it. Secondly if you think about the picture of the child that was in the cage, the child was in the cage and i say with quotation marks because the child was actually it was a demonstration and they had a cage put there for demonstration purposes and one of the people that were at the protest, their child got behind it and cried, this is a picture that everybody saw, you and i know that its not true but what about the vast middle. How would they know . Right, im just saying, the picture of the bus with the child seats and entertainment, right, attached to trump, the narrative is hate trump, must be trumps fault, i hate trump, must be trumps fault, but thatthat was during obama administration, again, the middle doesnt know that, we have to think about how do we do that. Part of the problem is whats covered, so if you look at it before the midterms, they had 33 hours, a report that said 33 hours dedicated to Russian Investigation which we now know was nothing for trump and 14 minutes, 14 minutes about the economy, 14 minutes, less than 1 and here we are with just the greatest numbers yesterday, incredible by great numbers on the economy and the great news about low unemployment is you have choices for jobs and you can either get a promotion or get a raise or you can change jobs and mobility and increase in income, so we have to think about how do we deal with this. Lets talk some more about we have news, the next thing we have is social media and social media does two things, spreads things very rapidly that are not true and also allows you comment from your bedroom at 3 00 in the morning. If youre one of those, i suggest that you dont. Allow to fell that you have a connection when you really dont, i get on twitter and i see look at that, thats not real connection, let me tell you what a real connection is, this is real connection, coming to breakfast, so for me i have, you know, ive been an peleton, you have the video person in front of you, on demand, credibly convenient, highly motivating. I also have running group. Guess which one helps me when i have a problem . The running with people. I think we need to think about that because what that means is we have changes in our society, right, so we no longer the small communities, again, i grew up in carlton, georgia, Small Community that we didnt lockout door at night, why would we, i rarely tell my mother where i was because it would be only a couple of places, trust me, if i did anything wrong, she would find out about it, very, very rapidly and the only time i got in really big trouble in high school when i inadvertently, this is so ridiculous, left church one night to go with youth group and another mother let her know i was fine. Very loving, nurturing environment with close family and people that cared not only about their kids but other peoples children and looked out for each other and thats what we need to recreate today, we cannot do it alone, we must do it in community and the hard thing is that sometimes when youre in this community we have to remember that we are not necessarily all the same or believe the same but we still have to make sure that we respect one another and i will tell you why because i think theres this vast middle that has been led to believe that the republicans are terrible which i know that we are not that they are preconditioned to not like us that we have to be the first one to reach out our hand, we have to be the ones to say, youre welcome here, wed love to have you involved, please come and join us, we need you, we need your input, we need you to be with us and i want you to be there. So what else is happening in society, we have become less religious as a country, right . A few people that say they belong to a religion and the good news that 87 of us still believe in god and 55 believe that religion can fix almost all of our nations problems, i want you to think about all of that, high, high belief in god, what this means we are up for religious revival. [cheers and applause] right . How else can you explain that . We need religious survival. Trust me, i prayed a lot when i was writing the book, please lord help me through the next word, you will see that in big churches in new york, youll see in churches in georgia, youll see connection to people and not necessarily to religion or institution that they no longer believe in. We are in transitional time period and so theres a lot of fluidity but do i think it also means that we have the opportunity to reach out to others and say, youre welcomed here, i love you, youre a child of god just like me and to make sure that we have the connection, i believe we are going to have religious revival, i think its going to happen. We have a huge change in immigration, we all know that, in 1965 only 5 were first generation immigrants, this is not good or bad, this is is just facts, its a very low number, now we are at 14 with additional 26 second generation, so we are shifting, so part of that shift is, yes, its great to have immigrants come to our country, yes, they bring a lot, i didnt know it was barbecue,i cant wait to tell my house, he loves barbecue, but they bring so many Different Things and, yes, quite frankly a lot of the values of family and faith and belief are the exact same that founded our country and we need to make sure that we welcome immigrants and say, welcome to our country, this is going to be i want you to come into our country, one of my daughters best friends, she just became she moved her from ecuador and she just became a u. S. Citizen and she was so excited to finally become a u. S. Citizen, shed worked very hard and passed test, we have to remember that we are that country that people want to come to, we have to make sure that we reach out and wrap them in our arms, so thats happening at the same time we have this lack of news in this opinion and what is happening its creating this tribalism, i hate the word tribe, drives me nuts, so tribalism, my tribe is better than your tribe whether its your tribe at peleton, whatever the tribe is, tribalism, how we are different and i think the problem with that, if we begin ourselves not as individuals which is the individualism, that we are individuals that Work Together but as members of a tribe even before members of the country and thats where it gets dangerous, i learned so much in doing the book and i cant even tell you, its frightening what is happening and i learned a ton. If you think about the friends you have and how you interact, whats happened is that we slowly as a country sorted ourselves into political parties, not just geographically which has happened, we know that but also in the same geographic areas, as a fact, 64 of democrats and 55 of republicans have few or no friends in the opposite party. That is frightening. Quite more importantly, they think that you dont care about them. We are not communicating in a way that we understand, we cant do this for decades. Weve got to fix this. People understand that we care about them and we care about america and thats i think our next challenge. [applause] im a huge believe in divine scheduling which means i had nothing to do with it and so this morning actually i was going through my email and i have someone that sends me articles about everything and one of the articles that i received this morning is getting information of other people and really communicate with somebody, i dont know those of you who have a spouse or children, i dont know if youve ever had problems communicating with them, i know i have, but ive learned especially both spouse and children if they come in and theyre upset and they are ranting and raving at me and screaming, i learned from experience that doesnt help a lot for me to scream back, having tried that, i was not very successful, if you were, please let me know afterwards im glad to learn some tips but what ive learned from the experience is people actually shut down and become more defensive and thats what this article is talking about, that the way to really communicate with someone to understand where theyre coming from is to ask them what tell me about that, why is that, can you can you explain to me whats happening and tonight and not judge them and make them feel safe and welcome, for those that say shes rolling over and agreeing with it, no, no, i never said that, i never said roll over and abandon your principles, i never said agree with what they want, what im talk about is intellectual curiosity, whats happening with them because even if you dont learn anything about their position and dont grow with them, you will learn about them as a person and then you can communicate with them because if you dont know what they care about or if they think that you dont care about them, it doesnt matter, the facts dont matter, you are not going to be able to communicate, it is so important that we make sure people understand that we care about them and we want to listen to their problems and quite frankly, if we dont listen to their problems we cant help them solve them. Okay, we talked a little bit about party and travellism, if you know our parties have are pulled apart in terms of ideology, makes it hard of bipartisan legislation, weve had really good legislation in the past 2 years, we had the patriotic communitys act, agriculture improvement act, first step act, fourth incredible bipartisan bills, that trump signed, all passed, great work, no one talks about them. Not exciting, so one of the challenges i think for us as republicans is we need to tell people about this and i know we think we do it and im just as guilty as you are, my husband and i laugh about this, you know, you can tell what your child wants, just tell them and they do it, i think, again, if that works for you let me know. I tell my child about a thousand times and occasionally they do do it, we are kind of the same way, we cant tell people once that we do these great bipartisan acts, we have to tell them so many times that they finally hear, you cant just tell somebody one time, you have to tell them a thousand times and a thousand different ways for them to understand and you cant yell it at them, and i have tried to yell at my child to get them to do things, it is not very successful. Now when they were young i could pick them up and move them physically which i did especially in the Grocery Store if they were having a fit, we are not children and we are adults, we have to learn how do we best motivate people, how come we get them to understand where we are coming from and the polarization got worse, 1976 was the first big map on tv. At that time it was actually red for the democrats and blue for the republicans and mississippi turned red when carter won the state, little known fact, a light behind it and it was plastictype map and melted and went up in flames, so you can imagine that in 76. The colors and the maps changed, depending on the network or year the parties would be red or blue depending on who youre looking at. It wasnt until 2000 that the colors became the same. You also remember john king on cnn, the big map, the bushgore recounts, every day we not just we, the entire nation saw the map. All day, every day, its no longer about who won but what color won and what team won and i call it the fortification of politics. Its no longer politics its about sports. What theyre engaged with it really isnt about ideology and how they identify themselves in that group. We have to think about that because if they dont think that they belong to us, we have to think about that they belong with us so what are we communicating on, we have to fix that. Im incredible by worried about the future of our country. Yes, we can make sure that we support and understand and back up our foundation values and we talk about and we also have to talk about what we can do together. How i try to think about things. I challenge you to think about gratitude over grievance because the left has a lot of grieve, let them grieve about who belongs to what group, let them have grievance, let us have gratitude, let me tell you why we should be grateful. We live in the greatest nation on earth, you wouldnt live anywhere else, would you agree . [cheers and applause] come on. We live in america. [applause] not only they want to move here, people want to come here illegally because we are such a great country and they live in such horrible places, theres a reason they want to come here, we are a great country, lets be grateful for that. Amen. We have a great structure, we believe in god and god gave us rights an we loaned them to government, thats amazing, be graceful, i had nothing to do with that, i was just born here, be grateful we have a place that we have free speech, yes, they are trying to sensor it, thats fine, be grateful that we have free speech, because we have free speech, we need to use it and not to yell at the other side but to articulate more clearly while we are the better party. [cheers and applause] i think we win best when we win with clear communication, with explaining to people that we are the better choice. I love to think of grievances and gratitude, we should be grateful quite frankly. If you think about sportsman avid tennis player, i love to have competition, thats where we are. We have to work and we have to think and we have to communicate better. Secondly, i want you to think about our national narrative, again, its this optimistic versus negative; optimist, pessimistic. I do believe we are the best nation. If we pair ourselves down we will never be able to move forward. Try at home, does that work . No, try to tell your child how horrible they are . You know, theyll believe it and its terrible. I think we have an entire generation of people who we have told they cant be successful and unfortunately they have begun to believe it and i think its a travesty and i think we have to change it, we must confront the national narrative, we must communicate to people that you can be successful in the United States, we must continue to communicate how great we are as a nation and how great we can be together, i think to do anything else of that is quite frankly unacceptable and we must continue to be positive about our country, not saying we are perfect, but positive and move forward. The last thing i think its the biggest challenge, challenge, anyway, do i this, aye spent the last 20 years, so i was in Corporate America for a long time, i worked in corporate finance, i had 3 billion under me and after our second child quite frankly i was traveling so much i didnt want to do that, i wanted to be home with the kids. I spent time working part time, ive consulted, im on several boards and heavily involved in the community. When you work with people and find a problem, its the environment, Financial Literacy and early education, whatever you care about, it can be is symphony, garden club, it can be look, you find whatever you care about and you can find whoever cares about the same thing and you Work Together and make progress and you dont know if theyre democrat or republican, theyll be democrats on that team and change their mind on what a republican is because they will see you work next to them and they will see you caring about people and caring about them and you will leave their lives changed. We have to be in community with people even people we dont like because quite frankly if we didnt, wed sit alone by ourselves at home which isnt a really good choice. Intellectual humility to know that we may not have everything right. , be part of big system that works better than any place in the world. Any time that we are out in public, that we reflect not only ourselves and our country, but also Republican Values and our brand, reach out to people and if they yell at you, let me tell you, ive been yelled at so many times, ive been yelled at when aisle trying to check out while im at the store because of my father and id get upset about it and i finally decided to smile and if it makes them feel better to yell at me, maybe thats my job for the day. [laughter] i dont know. Together i know that our country has a great future. Thank you for having me here. [applause] i see and hear so much vitriol that we can have different viewpoints but what i see is probably the number one issue for me daytoday, is that we are calling each other names instead of calling out the issue and we are getting and its on both sides. How do we get out of the cycle . My kids are fabulous, i dont want you to get the wrong idea, they grow, this is part of the process, this is what they do, i found it rarely helpful to ever scream at someone screaming at me and ive actually done this, i can pull up video, ive actually had on tv people scream at me about, i dont know, whatever, and i usually find disarm to go smile at them and usually actually lean in because its very, it takes them so aback and then i will ask them, explain that to me and actually this happened last week not on tv but with somebody that i just met and she was like very emotional about what she thought and was happy to tell me about it and she did and i asked her questions and after she finished every time i said, explain more about that to me and shed go again and about the fourth time she just quit. She didnt have no more to say and so after that we were able to have a discussion but it took a while and took quite frankly, i think its really hard because we are all human, we are all imperfect, we dont do perfect things and we all when we get yelled at theres the basic human desire to defend ourselves, thats the way we were built, you can try it if you want, take a deep breathe to say a prayer and then if that doesnt work [laughter] seems to be able to keep me entertained while not responding back and, again, its not about agreeing with what they said because thats not the point but the point is to respect them as a human and i think unfortunately so many people especially in the middle have been told for so long that we are so terrible and they dont understand that we care and i know we care greatly, we care so greatly sometimes that we want to fix things so badly that we dont stop along the way and quite frankly and quite frankly i think we will have to stop some time. Thank you. First and foremost i want to say that i love my president , i love his tweets, i love everything about him, hes real, i like your speaking positive to your children so you can get positive results, its almost like a parable and i think also along the lines that what helps me because i have i started out with almost zero percent when people found out that i was with trump, no phone calls, friends, gone, everything, but i know the lord told me to get on his train and it was a winning train and i knew nothing about politics 4 years ago until the lord told me to get on Donald Trumps train, so in that i find that actually giving through history because black people number 1, they dont know their history because google has changed, social media changed history and i thank god i have two sets to know that in the 1800s that it was the republic of the democrats, the only party in the United States at this time, so when you really shared knowledge and opened people eyes and you also go in and show them, you know, when i teach the word of god, i like to go to the scripture, i dont like to quote scripture and when people are able to see this, they can believe and walk in and, yes, walk, but you have to walk in truth too, so i just wanted to just share that part as well and hear what you have to say about that, and thank you so much for coming and sharing your wonderful testimony with us. Thank you so much, i appreciate that, so comment about, you know, when youre dealing with people that dont believe what you believe politically, how do you communicate and all of that and youre exactly right is making sure they understand the history and whats happening and the truth and the facts and, again, like, for instance, the fact we are in a great economy right now, no one talks about it but we have a great economy, lets talk about the four bipartisan things that are great for our coinry, i think the interesting thing that you said is youre in community, youre talking to and interacting with people that have different political perspectives than you do, right . They are on the trump train. [cheers and applause] these are people of color as well as caucasians. They would not have been if you had not taken the risk and have the interaction. We need to change this and we talk to ourselves and nobody else, its hard tokes up and down our base. We have to actually do exactly what you did, which is talk to people about whats happening and then, right, hear the information. So thank you, thank you for that. Thank you. [applause] last one. Okay, the last one in the back. Hold on. The microphone where is the im sorry. Yeah. Sorry. Two quick things, one, i know a few people in the room heard the story many years i was with cobb republicans and how do we get more people involved, how many have walked mlk, claremont, take Public Transit and talk to somebody on the street down there and we had a couple of people that said, why would we want to do that and i pointed right back to them, thats your problem, how to get more people involved. Something else ive been doing recently to get crossparty line discussion going is finding the which of the major candidates like on the democrat side they had 20, now its down to a dozen or so people running, which one do you like best from the opposite party, and why . Just because they are the opposite party doesnt mean that youre completely against, dell, you might be 100 against some of them but others they never have a chance of winning, for example, i like stacy evans much better than stacy abrams or like Tulsi Gabbard much more than anybody else in the democrat ticket and explain why you might like them at least on the the opposite side and thats discussion point. I think thats a great example, again, youre talking about how to get out and expand who you interact with because if you stay the sameole way you will not have that experience and also intellectual curiosity, i think its really hard when we have very firm beliefs in our country and what we stand for but im not saying to be intellectually curious and changing those beliefs, im saying intellectually curious on why people might believe Something Different because along the way youll learn something about them and be able to communicate better, thats a great, example, thank you. One last question. In the back. Thank you. [cheers and applause] appreciate you being here today. Should that recognition of their concerns and then begin lead them back in a position of principles, can you talk about the issue of being able to engage people, showing recognition of and understanding of them and why they are where they are as first step beginning people where they need to be to understanding things where they are . I think thats a great question, the way to describe that and i will say it again because its important, working definition of grace, how can you meet people where they are and take them somewhere else. For me quite frankly theyre all very intertwined. They dont think you care for them. But youre exactly right, we have to understand and communicate that we know exactly where they are and if we dont, wed ask them, right, explain to them that this is what i hear, the truth and we need to help them to go somewhere else, thats why ive been involved in a place and its a homeless shelter for newborns and their families and we work on Education Training and then job placement and we follow up for a long time but thats exactly the work that we do, we meet people wherever they are and then we make sure that they end up somewhere else better but youre exactly right, you have to be able to meet people where they are and still understanding our values and being strong in our values and quite frankly to take that screaming at us we have to be super strong in our values because otherwise you cant weather the storm and then we have to explain to them that we care and hug them and help them understand the way for it, thank you for that, that was perfect. And again last note, i appreciate you being here today, my husband jimmy would love for him to be here today but hes watching our 18yearold water polo, hopefully he won the game today and, again, the book is our broken america, why both sides needs to stop ranting and start listening,i know theres some books, books out front as well as the essential american which is 25 documents every american should own, so thank you again. God bless you and may god bless our great country. [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] here is a look at books being published this week, former un Ambassador Nikki Haley in memoir with all due respect. In the plot betray america, counterterrorism analyst malcolm argue that is the Trump Administration has compromised national security. Diplomatic correspondent paul profiles 4 american diplomats who chose to serve in the middle east following 911 in the ambassadors. And in taken for granted, calledwell of fox news argues that lawmakers have failed urban communities and offers his thoughts and how political citizens can work toward reform, all hell breaking loose, examines Climate Change from a pentagons perspective. Emerson accounts fulltime as navy seal in the right kind of crazy and ak sandoval, barrio america, how latino americans restored American Cities in 1990s and 2000s after disinvestment and white flight, look for titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many authors on book tv on cspan2. Good evening, everyone, thank you very much for your patience. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and pros and on behalf at everybody, welcome. Thank you so much for coming. You know, we b