Host you are watching booktv on cspan2 this sunday evening. We are pleased to be alive with the authors diamond and a cell, their book is called uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and a switch, the uprising of diamond and silk. I want to ask you what you mean by ditch and switch. Guest to ditch what we call the democrat plantation and switch to republican and vote for donald trump and when we say this we are talking about the mindset of being on a plantation and being controlled. The ideology thats being implemented into people every day and that was being implemented into us as democrats. We want people to ditch the ideology. This got people thinking and that is what we did. We switch to the party to republican to vote for donald trump. Host what was led to the event that led for you to switch . Guest the candidate back in 2015 when he came down the escalator and said i want to secure the border. The first thing we thought is the American House should be secure and then he said
And chairman of the National Governors Association Larry hogan. Governor hogan was sworn in as the 62nd governor of the state state of maryland on january 21, 2015. In 2018 he was overwhelming reelected to a second term receiving the most votes of any maryland gubernatorial candidate and becoming only the second republican governor to be reelected in the 242 year history of the state. During the conversation Governor Hogan discusses his brandnew book launches on the date of this Virtual Event entitled Still Standing surviving cancer, riots, a Global Pandemic, and the toxic politics that divide america. Governor hogan originally submitted the book is published on february 1 just before the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States. They delay the publication for two months so he could add five chapters about combating the coronavirus, the economic crisis and dealing with the white house which he said made for more timely and interesting book. We now invite you to enjoy our Virtual Prog
My story about being born lower, middle class in akron, ohio. During the military at 17 years old to get a chance to see the world, to do a lot of Different Things. It is the journey about serving in the army in the era but also deploying to iraq, deployed overseas. And how i basically learned to love america. And then came out as conservative in order to help save it. That is what always a soldier is all about. He got the military memoir aspect of it, meet crushing it through basic training, me getting to know 70 different types of people that i had never been exposed to before. And then i get out of the military, i was a leftist for a few years in new york city. That it couple of years ago i came out as a conservative and got a lot of blowback about tha that. It is all about loving American Fighting for america as a republican that i am now. Host usurper five years the u. S. Army including two tours in the middle east. During iraqi freedom your awarded the Army Commendation medal and
Alliance for democracy and a senior fellow at the in your moderate for today. With that to introduce our special guest both have had the pleasure of working with. David is the author of race, america russian 100 years of covid interference. Foreignpolicy reporting going the new york times, the new yorker in foreign affairs. Steven is pursuing a doctorate in natural relations at the oxford up as a marshall scholar. He is an associate fellow at Yale University where he received his undergraduate and masters degree i got to know david his interning on Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. John brennan is a distinguished fellow he is a former scholar the university of texas in austin. His director of the Central Intelligence agency where he spent many hours in the situation room and previously served as assistant to the president , Homeland Security and counterterrorism. Specialists in middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john has received cell several awards for his contributio
Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos responsible for it was white, you eliminate other human beings who should also have the same moral outrage, too much of our time today is spent on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person thats the fact that this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens is that individual dies it takes away some of our humanity and who we