history of the park, which was given to colorado springs by the children of a railroad magnet, charles elliott perkins

we've got it all covered for you tonight with charles krauthammer, mark thiessen, and toni perkins. but we begin with karl cameron with the latest from washington. >> trump has had one of the best weeks yet. he head lined a chairman of commerce lunch today that drew 1800 people and shade this amazing reaction is more than just him because he's tapped into a silent majority, a phrase that richard nixon used. this is a movement. when you see bush al 30 0 people and they're happy and we have 17 or 1800 people, there's something happening. there's something happening. >> trump's national lead is bigger than ever. in the latest poll he's at 28% to ben carson's 12%. the rest of the field is in single digits. trump also topped the key polls no way category. 26% of republicans say they won't vote for hill, bush is second in that category with 18%. trump is hoping to drive bush's negative tys even higher. >> there's a reason he doesn't use his last name. it's not going to work too well. we had a lot of problems with that last name. the article that jeb's funding is drying up. you know why? b

those are the reasons, and remains that today. 41909 when charles perkins gave 1909, when- before charles perkins gave the gift, he knew it would be important, and we keep it today. the city has well over 150 parks. this is the park that is most significant because of the national draw. it is unusual to have to maintain something like this, and as the same time you'd would perhaps do an overhead or a smaller park. in 1995, a foundation was a benefactor of this park to create a system for the visitors center to be owned by the foundation and with the profit from the visitors center going to maintain the garden of the gods park. we are proud of that, because this is so significant. they attempted to make this a national park and they were trying to combine the garden of the gods and pike's peak, but there was too much privately soed land between the two, that request was set aside by congress, and otherwise, i think it would have been. yellowstone certainly captured that. but this remains a draw with an excess of 2 million, two point 5 million people according to records today, and when you