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Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
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Book clock is stories of people are interested in what is going on in our country today yours is the book to read but i was thinking of the impact of her grandparents. Yes i wanted to talk more about my personal story because its fashionable for the media to create a caricature of everybody involved evil trump and mean candace if you think of these people and then they realize the media made me as someone who got into this for selfish reasons but i want to show people where my conservative roots began and it really all begins with my grandparents who are staunch conservatives so for me to be able to tell the story of my grandfather who was on the sharecropping farm and then what that taught me the way black americans view their circumstances today. Your grandfather was his voting or opining on politics but with his views be . Conservative all the way just because to the left was against every the value that was instilled in a way that out out to my chapter the black community is tremen
Cases unjust way and you dont have those that pick up the fruit that falls d from the tree and make jam out of it and i have in my role as an activist been more were tree shake that one that picks up a fruit and becomes one a leg to the office or head of a corporate entity in the private sector and i think theres a legitimate role for both i feel my calling is to be the one shaking trees rather than picking up fruits trying to make jam out of lets get to the jam eaters in a 2nd this book in this book you blame yourself and others becoming complacent under the Obama Presidency at tell me a bit about that and how you see that complacency is creating donald trump well i think that many of us were very supportive then are still supportive of many of the initiatives of president obama during his presidency from health care to Police Reform to other areas and did not do as much as we could to hold the opposition accountable and to hold even some aspects of his own administration that was res