Today on keeping it real, I have a special guest.

A dear friend of mine who's an author, a journalist, and a primetime news nation anchor,

Leland Vitterd is going to be here.

This is a man who's made a career out of running toward the fire, not away from it.

From the streets of Jerusalem during the height of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

to the front lines of America's media wars.

Leland has never shied away from hard truths.

And in his new book, Born Lucky,

he opens up in a way we've never seen before,

not just about his years as a war correspondent

or his mission to cut through the noise of polarized journalism,

but about something

deeply personal, overcoming an autism diagnosis that many told him would define his life.

And instead, he redefined it.

We'll talk about resilience, the resilience it takes to rewrite your story, his unflinching

take on the unfolding events in Israel and Palestine, and why he believes

journalism's real fight is for clarity, not sides. And without giving too much away, I'm also

going to be asking him a bigger question. What if understanding the root of autism is closer

than we think? It's a subject that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made his mission.

And one Leland has a very personal reason to confront.

We get.

Keeping it real with Jillian Michaels.

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