for three bottles. start saving today at restasis.com. my nation wide book tour fr bobby kennedy, a raging spirit reached number one on amazon. it included a stop last night on stephen colbert s late show. colbert told me he was struck by the picture on the back of the book that shows a poor white family standing in salute as bobby kennedy s funeral train passed by on the way to arlington cemetery. let s listen. thank you for this book about bobby kennedy. hereto me is the heart breaking kennedy. this picture, one of the earliest memories of my life was watching that train. and i remember my sister putting her arms around me and point me to the tv and explaining what was happening and who this man was. my tour picks up tonight with
the last year. a number of years. all right. i m trying to figure him out. we ll see how that plays on twitter here in a second. but he was the last democrat that was attempting to stitch together this coalition, right, of basically what is now the trump base, right? is that what you discovered? i didn t start the book with that idea years ago, but it clearly is if you look at two pictures. think of bobby kennedy the night that martin luther king was killed. he goes into a tough neighborhood, an african-american neighborhood in indianapolis. the police wouldn t even go in with him. and he stood in front of this crowd and told them martin luther king had been killed. they hadn t gotten the word yet. this was before twitter. he had to tell them that with a full heart and say my brother was killed by a white guy and he s trying to talk to them. that sense of moral authority to cross the line from white to black is gone now. when he died, the funeral train, look at the pictures
gotten a nomination and might have shown us how potentially powerful that is. that s what trump cut himself off from. well, that politics of bobby kennedy is a long way in the past unfortunately, but it was once there because we saw as the train went by in new jersey and by here in 1968, the funeral train of bobby kennedy, there were white faces and black faces and they were all working people and they were saluting this guy as a fellow patriot. that was a moment we have to get back to. by the way, it s a great honor working with you. all of you. the night before the election. up next, hillary clinton s fighting hard in the industrial midwest. she s pushing to hang on to michigan and pennsylvania as trump looks to make enroads into these traditionally blue states and this is hardball. the place for politics. changes to make things right.
you re going to have a tough race in michigan this year. it s going to be really tight. yeah. jonathan, it seems to me that this has been going on a long time. the last guy i can think of in politics besides obama in his first run, president obama, was bobby kennedy. he was able to unite the two. i know people argue about this. but i saw it in his funeral train. all those white faces and black faces saluting him as he drove by. the train went by in 68. you can be a white guy making a modest income and black fellow and see yourselves in the same condition and no more fighting. at least it seemed that way. he was one guy that could do that. look, what is happening here is you have the president who what been saying time and time again, not making a racial argument in terms of, you know, his view of where the country should be and economically, but where all americans should be. if you work hard and play by the rules, then you should be able to have access to opportunity,
core issues, we ll be just fine. you re going to have a tough race in michigan this year. it s going to be really tight. yeah. jonathan, it seems to me that this has been going on a long time. the last guy i can think of in politics besides obama in his first run, president obama, was bobby kennedy. he was able to unite the two. i know people argue about this. but i saw it in his funeral train. all those white faces and black faces saluting him as he drove by. the train went by in 68. you can be a white guy making a modest income and black fellow and see yourselves in the same condition and no more fighting. at least it seemed that way. he was one guy that could do that. look, what is happening here is you have the president who what been saying time and time again, not making a racial argument in terms of, you know, his view of where the country should be and economically, but where all americans should be. if you work hard and play by the rules, then you should be able to ha