listen to what they told me about how they re doing with this. for hours straight i was on the phone almost crying the whole time and i went to school. i just knew it wasn t going to help me to stay home. it wasn t an option. at first i didn t believe it. then i texted my parents and i got all the messages, i saw all the news. it was pretty hard for the first hours, first minutes. my grandparents are still in kharkiv. i m trying to contact them at least twice a day because there s new news every five minutes about shelgs and blasts in my time. my city is only 20 miles from the border, this is a really dangerous place. this is just like a feeling that you can t really understand. lots of people come up to me and say they re praying for my country every day.
surgery. how long did it take for you to figure out it did not solve the turmoil within you? it took seven years of many surgeries and of trying really hard to make that connect. after seven years i was falling back into the depression people were talking about. trans-gender people are before the transition. i had that same thing seven years later. i did everything the book, therapists and medical community told me to do to find happiness. i didn t find it. i found depression. i was distraught. i called out to god for help because i did everything i could think about doing medically, everything, and i was so distraught. suicide was an option again, but it wasn t an option. i called out to god and gave me and all of my problems to him.
american people and our future. he didn t qualify for the debate next month, but ten others have. his analysis is it is now a three-way race. he is warning the party about moving too far left. former 2020 presidential candidate and congress member seth moulton joins me now. good to have you on the program. you have been touting as a rising star in the democratic party. some observers have been surprised your campaign failed to gain traction. what do you think went wrong? obviously we started late. i was one of the last candidates to get in the race. on a personal level, i have a new daughter at home. it wasn t an option to get in earli earlier. that was a handicap because of the way the dnc set tup. voices like the voices of governor bullock should be included in the debate. that is not the system we have
live that moment. they told did you go to the hotel. they didn t know what was going to be happening, right? it wasn t an option. my boss go over this sheridan. heard you on the head set. saw my daughter on the tiny little monitor, could barely make her out. and there she is. she is 13 now. brian: that was the first time i saw her. that was the first time i actually saw her. when i actually saw her she was 5 months old. she is talking now. she is 13. of course she is talking now. brian: i have a 14-year-old. i know exactly that time. now that you are out. you have been out since 2013. wow, she is 13 years old now. look at that beautiful girl. brian: wow, she is beautiful. 8th grade. 8th grade. you got it. you have been out since 2013. you want to write this book. you say this book isn t about politics or war. this is about people. it is. i think it s about the marines that are in it. it s obviously my story. but i wrote echo in ramadi as a tribute to my marines. they were the
chaotic and ugly. after overthrowing the mostly arab government, reprisals. it wasn t intended for revolution where more than 3,000 arabs were slaughtered, and a lot of indians were slaughtered or moved out of this country. but your family stayed. my family stayed. why? there was no money for them in the family to move out. it wasn t an option. no option. stick with what was left. yes. tough times. very tough times. and about two hours from stone town, this is jambiani, a tiny fishing village. here the first revolutionaries would meet and plan for an independent zanzibar. zanzibar s first post revolutionary president served until his assassination in 1972. this too is the grandson of the country s first president.