Van Jones has worked in the Obama White House and at CNN and the road in between

those a gust stops was really, really hard and it shaped his life.

When you see people get torn apart on national hard and it shaped his life.

When you see people get torn apart on national media,

we all sit back and laugh.

I never laugh.

I've been that person.

And here's what it feels like.

It feels like somebody is taking your face and torn it off and stapled some ugly face on it, some other

face that's only this one mistake you made or this one downfall.

How he came back from that. Today, Van Jones on one of the smartest and most sober political analysts in all of cable news.

On nights when it seems like many analysts are running around the set with their hair on symbolic fire,

you can always count on Van to give us the cold hard truth.

In 2016, he became a national star because of how smart, how progressive and how elegant he was on

CNN.

That was a return to prominence for someone who had been high up on the mountain and then knocked very low.

In 2009, Van became a special advisor to Barack Obama on green jobs, enterprise, and innovation. But six months into the job, a smear from

Glenbeck led to Van being forced to resign. And then he was at the center of an

international story.

He's beaten up on Fox every night for weeks.

The moment left him deeply depressed.

He was adrift in life.

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