Being on a plantation, of being controlled. Thats what were talking about. The reality that being implemented into people every day, that was being implemented into us as democrats. We wanted people to get that ideology, that way of thinking and know that theres Something Else on the other side and thats what we did , we ditched the Democrat Party and switched our party to republican vote for donald trump. What was the event that led to that ditch and switch for you to . It was the candidate back in 2015, donald trump. When he came down the escalators and said i want to secure the border and the first thing we thought is go secure your house, is atthe white house secure . The American House should be secure and he said we want to bring back jobs. We the American People are building without jobs and why would you outsource our jobs and the American People have no jobs so he has solutions to the problems that were ailing this country and that was when the lightbulb went off that this is the man for the job. We dont need another career politician, we wanted a businessman. At that time you were both working at burlington,is that correct . We used to be in manufacturing so when the candidate was talking about how our job was being outsourced, help illegal aliens were coming into our country and whatever jobs were left were taking those jobs, we knew what that felt like. We saw how jobs were outsourced and went overseas. What would make our government, what would make bill clinton and jim crow joe biden outsourcing our jobs, signing into law so we dont havejobs here. We saw that area we saw how decimated communities. Decimated families and then older people that were supposed to retire, they were told youre going to have to go back to school so now they go back to school to find Something Else to do but now after almost retirement age all this year Student Loan Debt so this doesnt make any sense. We talk about all that in our books so that people can understand our experiment and experience that we had when it came down to nafta and working in manufacturing. And diamond, in the book you refer to yourself as the mouth of the south and silk as inspector gadget. What do you mean by that . I talk a lot. If i dont like something im going to Say Something about it and what i know about my sister still, shes going to get to the bottom of it, shes going toresearch it , investigated and thats what i love about her. Me im going to talkabout it. Diamond is like a deliverer, she knows how to deliver the message. She knows how to say it the way it needs to be said so it can resonate with people and people can hear the message as to what shes saying. Heres what diamond writes in uprising, the only thing that we had was true and thats where where wespoke. A nasty lowdown dirty truth let us be clear, where truth tellers, not robotic talking heads. I dont have a problem with sticking the knife in you, twisting it and bringing you down with the truth and silk then writes when diamond starts cutting lines with the truth im the one who softens the blows with a loving spirit and a Golden Nugget to give you something to think about. Absolutely and thats just a metaphor. Im not really trying to hurt anybody but i think if we to the truth of things and started telling the truth about things, the uproar, the civil unrest, the messages you see happening in our country would be happening but when you have the leftwing media and people who want to keep a narrative of they make money off a narrative, they make money off of exploiting the pain of other people, this is what we see but we have to tell that they can answer to you, when you see right or a line thats being perpetuated in front of theworld. Imagine if we told the truth about how the Democrat Party is a party slavery, the party party jim crow and the party of kkk they maybe people would be out in the streets talking about systemic racism because they realize its happening in the same cities and states that ran by the people they voted for. Host and this is a chance for you to talk with diamond and silk about their new book uprising. Heres how you can do so. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and your city and send it to we will begin taking calls and texts in just a few minutes. How did you become diamond and silk . Guest listen, okay, how did we think it thrown into this political arena . Back in june 2015 we started talking about the candidate donald j. Trump because we didnt like how the media wasnt vilifying him, throwing him under the bus, calling out of his name. Humanizing him. We spoke out about it. We just didnt know how these people are going to hear it. They were thrust into the political arena as being thrust into politics is very, is crazy because your people out there that have crazy ideas that want to hurt you, want to harm you. They dont like for you to speak the truth. Thats how diamond and silk came about. So that people wont be popping up a chest knocking at your doors which ive had that happen to me. Diamond and silk, listen, we do have a story. We tell it in a book uprising. Make sure you go out and get the book. Host one of the things you write about in the book are your folks, your parents. You say in one part they are both pastors, very loving, but at the same thats the type of mud i had. I had a mother i wanted us to have the best. She was from a family that we sharecroppers. She did not want us experiencing sharecropping. She wanted as to be ambitious, go out there and make it for yourself, get what you want. Obtain the American Dream so you will not be living the american nightmare. Thats the type of mother and father that we had chad you and what it is they instilled in us for us really for today because which is happening in our country today we understand exactly whats going on. Conformity, control and you have different people try to keep you as if you were in slate back in the days when actually you was born free end of this country a lot of people they taken and misinterpret that thinking okay now i have to play this particular role as a victim and dont realize thats way for people to control you and to control the masses. Just looking at her mother with her instilling things, the morals and values in as we really appreciate that today and even though she was controlling and strict, still is, these kids today need that in their life. Thats what you think then up in front of a policeman spit and set all these come disrespect the police. They think burned down somebodys business and to all these damnable things. Its time for parents to rise up and be actual parents and raise them and instill morals indoor children so theyre not out in the street acting like a full tragic understand is, our mother is a double every two today we reference her. We still dont get out of line when it comes to our mom. Guest and our father. Host now what did Wendy Williams have to do with you both get on social media . Guest okay. Wendy williams oh, god, she put out this year little documentary like movie about a leah. We did like the way the movie with and without she would talk about how bad the movie did that she was behind. I think she may have been allegedly the executive producer of that movie. The crazy thing is she didnt talk about honor show the next day. We were Wendy Williams watchers and it was we need something called like the viewers you to call people like this out. Whenever they dont call that are passionate when it comes to their cell. Thats our Youtube Channel sort of got started. It was posted podcast. That didnt take off what you wouldnt need to do because we just it was like we dont want to do that. And then i start making videos just thinking about things that i just didnt like and so silk looked at it like girl, the stuff is crazy. Im going about this the stuff to youtube and thats how it began. Guest thats exactly how it begin. We want to get Something Like a no judgment zone where people wasnt being censored. They was able to speak or to appeal that somebody shoving it down. Thats what wanted to create. We created it but now we have other social media platforms tried to silence diamond and silk. I mean, isnt that something . It supposed to be original a podcast and had another sister that just didnt like it. She thought it was to mean so we never ever aired that podcast but we went on to videoing and this is where at today. Host but you also refer to algorithms that the social Media Companies use as quote modernday lynchings tried to absolutely. Whenever you take come to build a platform one person at a time and then got the social media giants adult like what you say and they stifle your reach with algorithms come they keep people from seeing your content, they hide you. What do you call it . It is a modernday lynching. Im hearing the worst systemic racism. Let me explain to you all what systemic racism is. It dont have anything do with skin color. Its discrimination. When you discriminate against someone them because of their political view or political voice or you dont like what theyre saying, that systemic racism in the construct of discrimination is what it is. It knows no color. It can havent a white person can it can happen to a black person. Social media platforms trying to stifle your voice, want to to go along with only one narrative and it is their narrative and its considered to meet a systemic discrimination which is call systemic racism. Guest theyre choking out your reach, choking out the fact you all these people under social media platform. We have offended people. We did not buy our people. These people come to our page to see what diamond and silk have to say. But nowhere if you cant beat them been joined and thats what we did. We start our own social media platform where if you want to what diamond and silk have to say, without being censored you can come over and join and then you get your everything that diamond and silk have to say. Thats right. Host lecture from our viewers. Albany, new york, youre on what diamond and silk. Go ahead. Caller my name is Annette Johnson and i from albany, and im a a little confused about e way you were to find terms why you would decide to support someone who has yes told the truth but openly denigrate you in terms of calling you coming from, ancestors coming from shit countries i denying folks benefits like health care. So i would like to have you, im little confused as to why you think yes, he speaks his mind but is it in your benefit . Guest okay, can i answer that . Let me just say she mentioned a think about he said something about coming from the as country. How do you know he said that . You went on based on what the media told you. This is what i what people to understand. When you have a media that is feeding you one narrative and thats all you go, you go alone with what you hear are what you see instead of looking fat, et cetera for you to look into. Did you hear him say that . Guest we heard a whole lot of stuff that joe biden has said on video, camera overheard a lot of stuff that he said that is of races sentiment tried it is bigotry. Standing on the set for furniture people as i can black people as in fort collins and printers come the American People the cost reach across the aisle. He didnt have response because its right there in his party. The Democrat Party. Why are you calling at jill biden . Joe biden has been it government for 47 years and has done one thing for black folks come not one thing. You live in albany, new york, why do you support joe . He ate never do nothing for black people. Many one thing. Guest he had a half a century to get the 1994 crime bill right but he didnt do that. Kamala harris invoked it. If you chose to support someone that do not even support life, they want you to kill your babies up to the birth, you want to support a party like that . You go ahead but as a christian we worked hard that thou shall not kill. If you as a question, as a pastor or whomever you are come if you want to support a party that believes in taking like you go right ahead because you are a hypocrite if you do try to thats right. We support donald j. Trump because hes done Amazing Things for americans including the black community. I want you all to name me one thing that these democrats have done for black america to benefit them. If there do anything to benefit them theres no way to get out the streets with all this unrest why do they have to plan this and organize this . Host lets hear from ron in brockton massachusetts. You are on what diamond and silk on booktv. Caller thank you for taking my call. Diamond and silk i love you guys. Guest we love you more come back you guys are awesome. I got no internet or nothing like that but when i see you on Jesse Watters i just had to watch the thing every time, even the reruns. You guys tell it like it is. I dont know why you aint in the white house. You should be in there having a job with mr. Trump. Youre making america great. I just love you guys. Youre awesome. Guest thank you so much for the love. Let me take something, diamond and silk and we are too big to fit in the white house. We like to be outer with the people so that we can see whats going on and we can keep our it on the ground come whats happening at a so that the top know was happening out here around the people. Guest we love educating the public. Being able to be there with the people educate them so they can know were right to with you all. Were not actually were although it appear and disbelief just. Would like it with you so we can be together and learn together. Guest right. Host and rot and brockton massachusetts heres a picture of diamond and silk in the white house with President Trump if this is in the book uprising. Lets you next from linda in Newport Beach california. Please go ahead with your question or comment. Caller i just finished reading begin again by about James Baldwin and i would suggest that these two women try to educate themselves, read James Baldwin, find out what really is going on and has been since the beginning of this country. Because these are either two of the most ignorant human beings i have ever seen, or they are absolute liars. Guest we cannot address that tragic instead of her tell us to read, why did she look into what her governor has done for california . Signing in the bill that will allow predatory behavior and she calling as a good . No, thats what you call ignorant. Thats what you call racism. Because for a white woman to get on the phone to call two black women a good because we dont go along with her ideology, her liberal ideology that have destroyed the black community, this is the stuff were talking about in this is why you need a diamond and silk so we can put it into this kind of foolishness. Thats what you call discrimination. Guest and keep in mind President Trump is not a career politician. He just got into office three to four years ago. But somebody like jim crow joe has been in there for half a century. When he has done is enriched himself, okay, while taking from we the American People. He is the one that is in bed with china and all these different foreign entities. So if she wants to pick up a book can reach you can pick up uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch . So she can learn about the particular ideology that is been implemented in her for her life that is been going on in our government is okay, lets look at right now how you present donald j. Trump wants to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, what to take our tax dollars and use for the good of the people and nazis and this was like something jim crow joe biden is for. So dont come at us like that. Dont start. Guest what this white women want to do is take us back to 1619. We are not living in the pains of our ancestors. Our ancestors paid away so we would have to do the things that they did back then today. I understand that. Dont have to go back to 1619. We are in 2020. I dont have to go back to the 1960s. We can drink out of the same water fountain. We can set that the same lunch counter. So let me you on that. Host Pompano Beach florida please go ahead. Caller ladies, i am beyond thrilled to speak with you guys. Ive been following you since you first busted out on the scene and i got to say i have read the book yet but but i amy much looking forward to it. Just so grateful you guys have had the courage to stand up and do what you were doing and im wondering if youve always had your Family Support . If you didnt come have a come along to the light side now . Guest let me answer that. Try to make sure you buy two macbooks and give one to a liberal tragic death right. You have to give them out to the liberals. Whenever i approach my parents about the candidate donald trump back in 2015, my father leaned back and said, i aint never voted for no republican before. So we kept watching him and he liked what he was seeing. And they loved it. Let me tell you something. You had two lifelong democrats, my parents were lifelong democrats, switch the party to republican just to vote for donald j. Trump and there were voting again for him. They love this man come to love his policies and give up what he stands for. I dont care how the media type to vilify him. Let me tell you something the president donald j. Trump. He has supported use of those you dont see. Thats what people need to understand. People want real change. People try to be career politicians. They are skin from the top and leaving the American People left at the bottom. People are tired of that. Guest thats right. Host and here is the forward to the book uprising. Its from mom and dad. You can read in uprising. Keith in seagrove North Carolina please go ahead with your question or comment for diamond and silk. Caller hello. I am keith, i am a High School Teacher and actually teach in moore county, getting close to where you all are from there, and i just want to tell you i love your show. Your news show, i record all the time now. Listening to these last couple of people call in, one thing that ive noticed is jolliffe were raised like i i was raise, that your parents made you put in for some work. You did your work and thats the way we were raised in this area. Nobody looked for a handout. You were you are working and ifd something, your neighbors helps you. If your neighbors need is something you help them. These people are calling in calling as a direct . That right there, that just shows ignorant. That probably never helped anybody in their lives. Its just, i love listening to you all and just thank you for all you do, and thats it. Host keith, thank thank yo, keith. Diamond and silk, any comments . Guest thank you for your love and support. We really appreciate that and thats why, we was raised to work and work very, very, very hard for whatever you want it. Dont expect me to give you something you go out and get something yourself. Open up the doors and let me get it for myself. Lets talk about donald j. Trump. He created the opportunity for you to go and get it for yourself. Guest and a lot of times when people when you start calling you out your name at attacking or sassing your character, thats because they have no facts to come back on what diamond and silk have said. Guest thats right. Host now, diamond come you spend a bit of time in the book talking about wanting a first jobs at shoneys and then at mcdonalds. Why did and been so much time n those . Guest will because i wanted to emphasize, you know, shoneys was my very, very first job. Im going to going to put out there, you know, when i got pregnant i got pregnant at a young age, pregnant at 17. My mom looked at me a set on a siding to papers for you to cook and welfare. You better go get you a job. That was my first first job. I was a hostess cashier and a waitress. I emphasized on that that if you start from somewhere and love what you do i absolutely love that job. I love reading people. I love waiting their tables. I just loved it, right . And then i won the second jump so went to mcdonalds. What happened at mcdonalds, i dont know if you will call that discrimination, if you call racism but i but i wanted to pt about how they had me on the fry machine. I had a jericho. I did want to be around that because i did while my hair catch on fire. The manager told me as soon as another catcher position opened up you can have deposition. When it opened up he didnt give it to me. He gave it to a white girl. I did want to look at that as races and i was upset with him not because you lie to me. I was upset about the lie. Dont lie to me. If you tell me youre going to do something, i expect for you to do it. You want me to tell you why im behind president donald j. Trump . Promises made promises kept he said im going to do this and he went out there and he did it. And thats what i love. Yeah, emphasize things like that in the book to get people, listen, when youre down here not out and that ended up quitting that job not because he gave it to the white girl but because he lied to me. Dont you ever lie to me. Guest thats right. Host john from oregon. You are on what diamond and silk. The book is called uprising. Caller before you ask the question i to Say Something to silk that a think its very unfair that people think diamonds are more valuable than silk. [laughing] , anyway, my question in the beginning you said one of the things that turned you want to donald trump was that he was a good businessman. And my question is, and then he went on to talk about the problem with outsourcing to other countries. But in businessman would take outsourced labor to improve his profits. Would you be willing to take a more socialist initiative to interfere with the free market in that regard . Guest listen, let me just tell you this here. We are americans. I will never be for taking all of our jobs and outsourcing it to other countries. Annette let me throw this in here. Then you have these government officials skimming from the top pick because who got paid for what . Why would you take understand what Business People do. I dont blame the Business People. I blame the system for allowing get for not putting incentives to keep these businesses writer in america for the American People. Thats who i blame. I dont blame the businessman by check to give Business Bank to cut the regulations and give them incentives to keep the jobs here for the American People. Guest but as the president of the United States of america when you have americans right to that can work and do the same job you dont take away their source of income, leave them homeless and hungry just to satisfy your own kickbacks. You dont do that to the American People, the working man and woman that has to provide for their family. You dont do that as the president of the United States. Thats what obama did. Thats what bill clinton did. They took an outsourced jobs and yet obama that was about to sign something the transpacific, about to signed into law as well to outsource more jobs, that those benefaction jobs are not coming back. You have to wave a magic wand and then go to school c can be in more debt. We need a leader like donald j. Trump that no how to negotiate, okay, and get these jobs back here, have allow these countries that theyre ripping off the fabric of america by not charging, were not charging their terrorist but we are charging their charges arches. Across the board, to donald trump, some of that was a businessman to come in and realize this is like a business. Lets run this like a business so that we can all be happy. If you ever want to know whats going on with the body of people, check the head. While we cannot be prosperous if you got somebody thats ignorant enough to outsource our jobs to somewhere else for lower wages, why your people right here in america that need those jobs. Guest thats right. Host and finally lets hear from john in chesapeake, virginia. Please go ahead. Caller i just have a comet for you all beautiful ladies. I just want to say this is a first time ive heard you all talk and i want to thank you that you are all beautiful for speaking the truth. Dont let nobody has you up. You all are beautiful in person and i wish you all could come to this area and do some book signing and get on mediate and let people hear you all talk. Guest thank you so much. Rethinking about the book to her in 2021 act we get past this pandemic also thank you so much. Guest thank you and god bless you. Host and in uprising diamond and silk talk about the relationship extensively with fox news if you were curious about that, you can pick up uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch . And lays we appreciate you joining us on booktv. Guest thank you for having us. During a Virtual Event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of california former defense secretary robert gates took a critical look at the use of u. S. Power around the world since the end of world war ii. Tuesday portion. How the United States has gone from a position of supreme power, probably unrivaled since the roman empire in every dimension of power in 1993 to a country today the set my challenges everywhere, and i thought about how did that happen . How did we get here . So i began looking at all of the major Foreign Policy challenges weve had since 1993 and thinking about what weve done and what we had not done that contributed to that decline in our role in the world, our power in the world. And what i came up with was a set of nonmilitary instruments of power that had played such an Important Role in our success in the cold war against the soviet union, and has largely been neglected and withered after the end of the cold war, at a time when we continued to fund our military we basically dismantled all of the nonmilitary instruments of power from diplomacy the economic leverage, to Strategic Communications and more. We can go into that later. And as i looked at the situations, at these challenges from somalia and haiti in 1993, and others, right up to our relationship with russia and china today, north korea, it occurred to me that we had failed in many respects to figure out how to compete with these powers outside of the military realm. And the reality is of the 15 challenges that i write about, for all practical purposes i considered 13 to be failures, and thats why in the title the word failure comes first. There are a couple of successes and they are important and are some lessons to be learned from those as well, but we had a lot of problems during that 27 year period and i would just conclude by saying the wars in iraq and afghanistan both began with very quick military victories. And the problem that i identified, when it was iraq and afghanistan or somalia or haiti or others, was a once we had achieved military victory, we then changed our mission we then decided to move to try to bring democracy and reform the governments of those countries. And thats what we ran into failure. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and do a search for robert gates or the title of his book exercise of power. Greeting everybody and welcome. My name is sabir sultan. Before we launch to a discussion of carl hoffman liars circus and Steve Bannons imposture would like to share history about the strain. It was done in 1927. Stretch of mean square, the book would wait