party, i was immediately attracted. in that i had to go through this process of acquiescing to the idea that i m a conservative. neil: that did not win you a lot of friends. you lost a lot of dates that w way. they found out who you were. even your family? i talk about it in my book, taken for granted, how i had a number of individuals in my family that disowned me. they called me uncle tom. uncle tom. neil: what d you say? how did you fight back? what can i do when i have older members of your family. i began to distance myself. that s really what it was. at the end of the day, i felt that this is really me. i m a conservative. i m a proud conservative. we live in a country that is doing better than it ever has. even talking about president trump, i talk about president trump a great deal of my book. president trump endorsed my book. neil: critical comments of the president
react negatively. another state department official george kent testified that the president s feelings had been shaped by his interactions with, you guessed it, president putin. to also seemingly argue that acquiescing to one of russia s biggest foreign policy priorities isn t a big deal either. and for democrats, not tying russia to the impeachment investigation risks ignoring the president s conduct. they will tell you they simply don t have time because the 2020 primaries are right behind around the corner or they re recovering from a mueller hangover. what s driving the impeachment inquiry, evidence or the political calendar? the first public impeachment hearings hours away, let s turn to jeff bellamy on capitol hill. what are we expecting to see, particularly one thing that
astonishment. the ukrainians were fighting the russians and counted on the assurance of u.s. support. in an instant, i realized that one of the key pillars of our support for ukraine was threatened. i mean, so much of donald trump s presidency is what i would call stupid human tricks. he says inane things. yeah. people have to run around capitol hill to see if republicans still support the inane things and they try to get in elevators. this is life and death. as it is in northern syria where trump just exactly. willy-nilly abandoned an ally, the kurds. i think the other thing that comes out of this event is, you know, we ve come we ve gotten used to people around donald trump acquiescing or losing their dignity or integrity to further his aims. i think one of the great lessons of bill taylor is there are civil servants in our government who care about doing the right thing even if it means the end of their career. yeah. on the other ends of the communication with b
us is assisting with. those items and we have a couple international organizations who are actually met with red tape you know they can t get so they don t know the allens right now because the government only want to work for the few organizations so you know there s a lot of a lot of things going up and down right now rask youth is still continuing it is factually the people who need medical assistance and the clinics they don t have water because we now need don t have water on the island which is a big problem so the clinics the hospital they need water clean water. that was kimberly mullings in freeport grand bahama. here are some other stories making news around the world. clashes have broken out in southern mexico between migrant migrants and security forces the migrants from haiti and african countries want visas to continue north for acquiescing to u.s. demands of mexican authorities have stepped up efforts to restrict migrants passing
need to start doing their job and making sure the criminals are staying in jail, that they re prosecuted, that their bonds are being held and criminals are being held accountable for the actions that they do. brian: where are republicans making the argument that their philosophy works better than democrats philosophy? it just seems to be acquiescing in these major cities say we never going to get elected anyway. they used to try. the republican party in new york city, we had republican got elected once and of course rudy giuliani, they just disappeared. so, republicans make counter argument democrats continue to win. kevin graham, thanks so much. thank you. brian: all right. straight ahead. first it was eric mccormack and now debra messing walking back her comments calling out president trump donors and supporters. michael lofton says not so fast. is he on deck after doing the five last night. there he is. we trust usaa more than any other company out there.