i will going to introduce our offer erick erickson and erick erickson will speak a little bit and read through his book and we will open the floor to questions. if you do have a question, we are live on booktv so we want the audience at home to hear. erick erickson is the popular host of atlanta's evening news, 95.5 fm and a.m. 750, former editor of red states. his website, the resurgent, he is a fox news contributor who at the atlantic called the most powerful conservative in america today. he studied political science and history of university and earned a law degree at walter f george school. he lives in georgia with his family. in late 2016 he and his wife were diagnosed with grave medical conditions. in the midst of his wife's battle with cancer he was rushed to the hospital, potentially fatal influx of blood clots and leaving permanent scarring. facing this dual health scare and contemplating his mortality he published an unusual piece to his website which gets more than 2.8 million viewers a month. erick erickson fsa written in the form of a letter to his children was like anyth

i will going to introduce our offer erick erickson and erick erickson will speak a little bit and read through his book and we will open the floor to questions. if you do have a question, we are live on booktv so we want the audience at home to hear. erick erickson is the popular host of atlanta's evening news, 95.5 fm and a.m. 750, former editor of red states. his website, the resurgent, he is a fox news contributor who at the atlantic called the most powerful conservative in america today. he studied political science and history of university and earned a law degree at walter f george school. he lives in georgia with his family. in late 2016 he and his wife were diagnosed with grave medical conditions. in the midst of his wife's battle with cancer he was rushed to the hospital, potentially fatal influx of blood clots and leaving permanent scarring. facing this dual health scare and contemplating his mortality he published an unusual piece to his website which gets more than 2.8 million viewers a month. erick erickson fsa written in the form of a letter to his children was like anyth

i will going to introduce our offer erick erickson and erick erickson will speak a little bit and read through his book and we will open the floor to questions. if you do have a question, we are live on booktv so we want the audience at home to hear. erick erickson is the popular host of atlanta's evening news, 95.5 fm and a.m. 750, former editor of red states. his website, the resurgent, he is a fox news contributor who at the atlantic called the most powerful conservative in america today. he studied political science and history of university and earned a law degree at walter f george school. he lives in georgia with his family. in late 2016 he and his wife were diagnosed with grave medical conditions. in the midst of his wife's battle with cancer he was rushed to the hospital, potentially fatal influx of blood clots and leaving permanent scarring. facing this dual health scare and contemplating his mortality he published an unusual piece to his website which gets more than 2.8 million viewers a month. erick erickson fsa written in the form of a letter to his children was like anyth

. >> i want to read you a imagine from conservative writer, erick erickson, who was dismade yed a president trump's tweet. he said, yay, president trump punched a critic, a critic who's on an island trying her best to help others where most of the people have no homes and no power and no running water. what a man he is. he was being very critical, a conservative of the fact that president trump is punching down and attacking a mayor in the middle of a horrific humanitarian crisis. can you understand why some americans see these tweet from the president and feel revulsed? >> i worked in the trump administration and i've known from day one that there are people who want to see this administration fail. that they look for opportunities to say, they're not doing a great job. judge us by the actions. judge us by what's happening on the island. judge us by the men and women who worked tirelessly. i was on a show earlier with brock long whose team has been working 40 days straight since harvey hit texas more than a month ago. the outpouring of effort and work done by federal workers, by american c

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. >> joy, here's what erick erickson wrote yesterday.e goes, it should matter to all of us that the president is willing to get in the mud and fight back when they need our sympathy and compassion. sometimes the president does not need to dial up the jackass and does not need to be defended. >> donald trump is just being himself, right? he's channeling his base. he's talking to them, but he's channeling them. before donald trump started tweeting, some of the more prominent members of his base were calling the mayor worse names than that. saying she's a murderer and she belongs in jail. it is interesting that donald trump's reflex is to say that a woman, a woman of color, you know, is an ingrate or to attack her or say the people of puerto rico essentially are too lazy to help themselves. want something from the federal government that they won't provide to themselves. he went on the tweet storm which was the most he had talked about puerto rico at all. a year to the day after he attacked the former miss universe, donald trump has a parti

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life lessons from a father to his children, author and fox news contributor erick erickson.as of special interest. politics is your profession. and life and death is what havhave you been forced to deal with you and your life. >> right. brian: sadly, both have crossed. first on what senator murphy was saying. is there an implied go sign to killers because legislation is not passed? >> no. i don't think there is at all. that's a dumb statement for him to make. the fact of the matter is the left immediately piftd to politics and drowned out the stories of all the american heroism that happened. there was terrible tragic stories of people standing up and being willing to take bullets so that others could get out alive. and the media pivoted quickly from those stories to statements like this where nothing that congress could have done short of amending the constitution would have stopped this on the facts we know right now. brian: if you are going to play politics, i would rather not get into it, how could you not look at the 59 people on average killed a month in chicago there