james lankford. james, i want to start with you. i m goingas to ask each of you this question. there must have been a moment iv your life when you just said, okay, that s it. i m going to run for congress. tell me that defining moment, that over the edge moment that happened for you. well, i can tell you i ve always been passionate about the issues and ideas and been part of my p family my whole life. grew up, i was the son of a librarian. my mom was always engaged in issues. but for a me, really came down o september of 2008. never been involved as ai candidate for anything. but had a moment where i thought god wasas calling me to do that. it wasn t a mystical adventure. it was, i have to do this. i m going to be an old man one day about i didn t do something i had to do. what about you, bill? actually maybe slightlyly different. i grew up with a family, dad had been involved in local political scene. it was always part of the fabric of our family, the two things ws
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all right. a pilot, a youth pastor and a state representative walk into a room. okay, no it s not a set-up for a joke. i know it sounds like it. this is the story of three concerned american citizens wite very different backgrounds who just didn t like the direction that our leaders in washington were taking. so they decided to try they d make a change by running forre congress in last year s midterm elections. before i speak to them, i want you to learn a little bit more about our guests today.e james languageford graduated from the university of texas and received a master s degree ini divinity. for 13 yearsers he have the prograasm director of falls cre, the nation s largest youth camp. fed up with government growth and excessive spending, he ran for congress and won in oklahoma. bill worked in his family s gravel company in michigan for most of his life and had a successful real estate career. he became a michigan state
talked about around the dinner table were business and politics. so i sort of had this thoughtul that i would do it later in life. i found myself in a spot where my predecessor who was a great guy, budget hawk and all those things, had decided to run for governor here in michigan andun that really opened up the spot pour me. i knew i had to do this for myo kids and my grandkids that i haven t met yet. chip, you have been in the military. you had sort ofha a government career, then a private sector career with northwest airlines as a pilot. was there that defining momente for you and you said, enough is enough, by golly, i m running for congress? it was august 19.ac exactly. i was a retired navy pilot. i had never really been involved inav politics before. but on august 19, i went to congressional representative s office and i requested a town hall meeting. we were in the office for over 2 1/2 hours request ago meeting and at the end of that meeting,n they basically said, we re sorr
and what do a pilot, a realtor and a youth pastor have in common?e well, they were all concerned c citizens who ran for congress and they won. minnesota s chip craddick, michigan s bill behind zenga and jane language ford joins us to tell us how they plan on making a big difference in washington. also stars of tlc s dc cup cakes. sophie and katherine are here. phil collin, lead guitarist of def help pardon will lepard will be robbing the house. my book is causing quite the stir this week. and some of it is quite franklyo from my own verbal gaffe. in a radio interview on monday, i said president obama spent part of his early life in kenya and i hadn t to say indonesia. his father and grandfather were