and started the day to be an inspiration to people. i started doing that when i was on tim ferris podcast a long time ago. he asked me what time i got up i said early. he said i needed to get a twitter account. i didn t understand twitter. i signed up to twitter thing what am i going to put on this. i m up. let s take a picture of that i have done it ever since then. steve: what time did you get up today? 4:10. ainsley: don t stay in bed. on vacation you are up at 4:30 in the morning. what do you mean by vacation? can you expand on that. ainsley: feels so lazy. this is what separates the men from the boys. your best friend is leif. jenna lee. we congratulate you on first book extreme ownership. it did so well. you sold a quarter of a million copies. we sold more than that we sold a lot of copies and still selling really well? ainsley: how many did you sell? i don t know it s over half
trump s playbook and focus on rallying small town america. but will these working class voters really right the ship in strategy. joining us from our nation s capital. good morning, congressman. good morning. steve: these are the things you were talking about when you were running for speaker against nancy pelosi a couple of months ago that the democrats blew it because donald trump was talking about jobs, democrats were not. he won, game over. and he showed up to a lot of those small towns. and i think members of congress have a pretty unique perspective on this because this is what we do every weekend when we re home when we are not in washington. small meetings and small towns talking to people. you have got to be there. they have got to see u kick the tires. people want to know you. you are never going to get elected unless you show up in places like that. we have good candidates like joe manchin and sherrod brown and joe donely elm people who slow up in towns not just around e
perez refusing to say the president s name during a may day rally speech outside the white house yesterday. and those are a look at your headlines. steve: thank you very much. heather: you re welcome. steve: meanwhile texas governor greg abbott asking texans to help rebuilding each other s lives during the deadly tornado outbreak. we, as texans, especially the folks here in east texas, we come together and respond to challenges like this and help our neighbors. now is a time for us texans to come together and help our fellow texans rebuild their lives. brian: one building in need of repair is the st. john evangelical church in emery. ainsley: but the real story is about what the twister could not damage. the faith of the people who found shelter in the hallways of the church. janice: joining us now monica hughes, a church volunteer who was in that church that night. thank you so much for being here, monica.
you are on cable. steve: saw him on a couch somewhere. only you would come up with that. brian: all true. brian: have you seen disturbing images man dragged off a plane and one mom crying over a baby stroller. congressman set to grill those ceos on capitol hill. bill shuster. ainsley: later, stuart varney, laura ingraham, he had mcmahon, ed henry coming up @ @
get to phase ii with tom price health and human services secretary to shape it more towards overall more profitable view. a lot of moderates say wait a second, we are not covering. the question is are you covering preexisting conditions in the mcarthur amendment allows states to opt out of it. that allowed the freedom caucus to get into it the moderates say i m out of it. the question is, the president says if that s not in it i m not involved in it. so there is a little bit of confusion. ainsley: president is realizing all the red tape you have to go through to get congress to pass something. he is saying is he not going to sign this bill if he doesn t like it. brian: right. steve: that s right. according to the hill.com in their morning edition they say 21 republicans opposed to it. maximum number. one more it doesn t go anywhere. brian: meanwhile, let s talk about the president and how he ended his interview with john dickerson. they had dinner together. flew on air force one and we