ed rollins who runs a pact as well. making certain that every candidate he supports, standing tall and side by side with president trump. i was thinking there ought to be a formalized wave of that. contract to make america great and every republican sign up for it if they are going to get the support of this president. how about that? >> i thinkna is a great thing to look at. i tell you. >> lou: you don't sound committed. >> most inthusiastic part of our party is the trump voters. they have 500000 more on line voters and no one in our party that energizes and connects with the country better than trump. i think every candidate ought to embrace the candidate. and put them in the district. >> lou: contract to make america great. >> i like it. i am demoting you. chair of the republican national committee. ronna mcdaniel. thank you for being here. and congratulations on last night and good luck going forward. up next, james comey's good friend turns out to be a very special person. ed rollins on comey's lies and ed rollins on comey's lies and deception and leak and performing on stage

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trump agenda. we take up ryan's retirement. ed rollins joins us here next. stay with us. retail. under pressure like never before. and it's connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing rooms. that's why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent network speed across multiple locations. every corporate office, warehouse and store near or far covered. leaving every competitor, threat and challenge outmaneuvered. comcast business outmaneuver. republican member of congress to announce his retirement today. dennis ross says he's leaving after eight years to return to his legal career. a total of 25 republican house members have announced their retirement this year, just ten democrats. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg back on capitol hill today, once again sort of testifying but certainly not under oath, telling congressional lawmakers that even though his own data was compromised by cambridge analytica, he said we need to be careful about overregulation. >> was your data included in the data sold to the malicio

series. who is easy rollins? guest: the kind of every man in the black community in the middle of the 20th century. he's been to world war ii. his whole view of himself and the world has changed. he came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of other southern black people from texas louisiana have moved to los angeles and what we do as kind of unofficial detective, but he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that has not been talked about. host: how did you come up with the name? >> i was writing a story and it was a voice speaking first-person and it was talking about this party he was giving and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rentnt and he talked about this woman he was in love with named etta mae , but she wasou in love with another guy named mouse and mouse comes in and looks at the person talking who we have not seen and said hey, easy, how are you doing and that's where it came from. host: what voice is he supposed represent? guest: who, easy? host: easy rawlins. guest: it'

of troubles that easy rollins or fearless jones will run into. and so it's, it's a different view because the relationships of black people to the world is very different than it was, you know, in the '30s and the '40s, '50s and '60s. and i really enjoy writing about current stories. i'm writing, actually, i'm writing a short story, if you call "the heart of darkness" a short story -- also for otto, because he wants to publish one of mine. and it's also going to be about leonid. >> host: wayne in texas city. [inaudible] can you hear me? >> guest: yep. >> caller: oh, okay. you are a new discovery for me. i'm really enjoying watching you -- [inaudible] i'm probably -- [inaudible] >> guest: i'm not sure. >> caller: oh -- [inaudible] benjamin was a jewish plantation owner at bell chase plan talkings in new orleans, and he was a member of -- plantation in norse, and he was a member of -- [inaudible] secretary of war, secretary of state and attorney general of the confederacy under -- >> guest: sorry. like, i do know him, but i guess i lost the name. all right, yeah, go on. [inaudible]