to this anniversary of d-day? the past 15 years we ve seen a surge. the interest and access ability to history has grown. it s the story of you. it s something that can give you personal context about your family culture, where you came from that can come in no other way. shepard: you find that you need to be more killed to mow what to look for or is that something that ancestry.com helps you figure out? it can be overwhelming. i don t think it has to be. ultimately if you want to know about your family history. for example, in my family, i don t have any world war ii servicemen. my grandmother was 11 years old when pearl harbor happened. i asked her, tell me what it was like. like what was the story. she said they got a phone call, had a family dinner. go turn on the radio. they huddled around the radio. she said they re saying there was an attack on pearl harbor. i don t know what that was or meant. i knew something horrible
song writing a lot of influences there was music nut household. my parents played and went to church. a lot of music at church and stuff like that. so that was all part of the kind of the family culture at the time. so i think i just kind of got into words and the words really helped. the word exposure helped me a lot. steve: whereby does the idea come from? it s got to started with a spark. the idea? oh, boy, it s hard to say because sometimes it s like a lightning bolt hitting you. i don t really control it. in fact, sometimes it s pretty annoying because i can t turn the mechanism off. i will be at dinner hold on a second. i have got to call myself and leave a message. you know. and that s kind of you who i spend my whole life. steve: are you working out rhymes in your head? yeah. kind of all the time. steve: really? what s the best one have you done recently? i can t tell you. it will be on the next record. i m keeping it all a secret until then. ainsley: you are going to s
clinical assessments. they re not meant to be judgments. they re just how doctors speak. when you bring it to the political realm, it s felt to be purely subjective, just an attack. but if there were a process by which, as we see candidates get older and older, there were an objective evaluation by neurologists, psychologists, and the information was shared in a transparent manner, and voters, the american public, the cabinet can make of it what they will, but they have the information, it d inform the process. you have been following the trumps and particularly the president for several years. how do these descriptions strike you? when was the last time you interacted with him? i ve been following him more than several years. more like 25 years, when i first started interviewing him for my book. it was about him, his father, his grandfather. really looking at the whole family culture, the background of this family over a century. the striking thing about him during the course of m
community were raised in what you call a gun culture. tell me a little bit about the relationship between country music and gun culture only in terms of how this discussion moves forward among people who have witnessed this attack. well, i think, you know, i grew up in south mississippi. i actually got my brother and i at christmas when i was 10 and he was 11 my grandfather gave us our first shotgun. we had been in the woods a good bit with him. it is a family culture. you grow up doing things, it is a culture where the family bible is on the coffee table and you say grace before every meal. that sort of thing. it is a simpler time that i think country music frequently goes back to. so we were taught gun safety. you know, taught how to be really really careful with them. it just was a simpler way of life that you certainly never foresaw this coming in the country that we live in. you know? and i think that changes are
well, remember, he came to town on a populist wave and that may have something to do with it because in this town, as long as other lawmakers believe he has a lot of people out there behind him, a lot of people, they may be a little more hesitant to challenge him. erin? tom, thank you very much. out front, now, the author of hillbilly elegy: request memoir of family culture and crisis. and author of the truth about trump. michael, i ve known donald trump for over a decade. and over that time, one of his favorite topics was discussing the ratings of a tv show. he appeared on every conversation he included that. at some point he included it. you also spent a lot of time with trump and talking to him what he cares about. this obsession on crowd sizes, vote totals, this is the core of who he is, isn t it? well, it is. and, you know, he used to pressure his pr man for the apprentice to go out and push the media to report that it was