special , we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident noam chomsky. in a public conversation we had in april, we talked about climate change, nuclear weapons, north korea, iran, the war in syria and the trump , administration's threat to prosecute wikileaks founder julian assange. we also talk about noam chomsky 's new book, "requiem for the american dream: the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power." hundreds of people packed into the first parish church in cambridge, massachusetts for our , public conversation. i wanted to ask you about this comment that you made that the republican party, you said, is the most dangerous organization in world history. cambridge, can you explain? >> i also said that it's an extremely outrageous statement. but the question is whether it's true. i mean, has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on earth? not that i'm aware of. is the republican organization -- i hesitate to call it a party -- committed to that? over

first up, here is mit professor and author, noam chomsky. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [applause] [cheering] >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming. thanks for joining us those here and online via the form network. i am name is ashley and on behalf of harvard bookstore i am honored to announce tonight's event with noam chomsky presenting "requiem for the american dream" joined in conversation by democracy now! amy goodman. [applause] >> before we begin i want to take a moment to thank you all for being here. your ticket and book purchase support harvard bookstore. we are an independent bookstore and you make this acclaimed author series possible. visit used a harvard.com to sign up for our newsletter. tonight's event is being filmed by booktv, democracy now! and please know that during q&a your questions may be recorded. those asking questions at the end of the event should form a line at this center microphone. we will get to as many questions as week. after the discussion, ms. goodman will be signing books and out of respe

and noam chomsky hasn't mellowed much, aged 88. you've called the republican party the most dangerous organisation on earth? in human history. and... that's on viewsnight. hello. probably not the news that labour wanted — but a draft of their manifesto has been leaked. the telegraph and daily mirror have it and wrote it up about 90 minutes ago. labour's nec is gathering tomorrow in what is called a clause five meeting, to agree the final version, so it could in theory all be changed. and labour tonight told us: "we do not comment on leaks. we will announce our policies in our manifesto, which is our plan to transform britain for the many not the few". well, many not the few is the kind of theme of the draft — with, for example, a plan for there to be at least one publicly owned energy company in every part of the uk. national grid, railways and bus companies are to be nationalised. well, i'm joined byjack blanchard, the mirror's political editor — replete with a copy of this thing. and with our own political editor, nick watt. just

amy: so that was noam chomsky, who said there was just enormous corruption.said painful to see the workers party in brazil, which did carry out significant measures but they just could not keep their hands out of the till. the first thing i want to say is the following. i want to put some things in perspective. the greatest corruption in recent years occurred with the subprime crisis. now, i don't know that as a result of the subprime crisis -- i don't believe that all of the companies that were involved in corruption were destroyed. maybe their ceos or others who committed corruption had to answer for it, but they didn't destroy the institution. rather they took the person who committed the crime. the company is not thinking and just the company is not a thinking and speaking entity. the company is all of its compounds together. now unless the entire it's corrupt in its entirety then you , don't destroy the organization. so. why do i say this? well first to say that brazil has the greatest corruption in recent years -- brazil's corruption is significant. it

and noam chomsky hasn't mellowed much, aged 88. party the most dangerous organisation on earth? in human history. and... that's on viewsnight. hello. probably not the news that labour wanted — but a draft of their manifesto has been leaked. the telegraph and daily mirror have it and wrote it up about 90 minutes ago. labour's nec is gathering tomorrow in what is called a clause five meeting, to agree the final version, so it could in theory all be changed. and labour tonight told us: "we do not comment on leaks. we will announce our policies in our manifesto, which is our plan to transform britain for the many not the few". well, many not the few is the kind of theme of the draft —

at 7:30, noam chomsky takes a critical look at income inequality in the united states. then recalling william f buckley's relationships with presidential administrations and policymakers. on booktv afterwards at 10:00 p.m. eastern, physician and journalist elizabeth rosen thal lacks at the business of health care. and we wrap up with

republicans, noam chomsky, this is a guy i remember back in the '60s and '70s.e more dangerous than isis and north korea. >> liberals are starting to go off the deepened comparing republicans to isis. i don't remember republicans chopping the heads of christians raping women they make the comparisons and get away with it. the media hasn't reported on this story much. stuart: if there were something similar said about president obama at any point in his eight years, i suspect the reaction to be completely different. you would be done for. >> whoever said that would have career ruined, called racist. ashley: actually. you know why they're the most dangerous organization in the history of, human history? climate change. stuart: that is his reason. ashley: climate change. liz: republicans are backwards on climate change. he equated this to terrorism as well. that is the theme that republicans want to wipe out the planet because they're not serious about climate change. stuart: noam chomsky, wrote about language and how children learn language from leftist perspectiv

plus, noam chomsky takes a critical look at income inequality in the united states. >> alan belzberg require william f buckley's relationship with evidential administrations and policymakers and pulitzer prize winning journalist amy goldstein reports on the fallout after a gm plant in janesville wisconsin. that's just a few of the programs airing on tv this weekend. complete television schedule, go to booktv.org and we could gowith the founding director for the center of american war letters , andrew carol. so pleased to welcome tonight andrew carroll. andrew carroll is editor of several

plus, noam chomsky takes a look at income inequality in the united states. william f. with presidential administrations and policymakers, and pulitzer prize-winning journalist amy goldstein reports on the fallout after a gm plant closed in janesville, wisconsin. that's just a few of the programs airing on booktv this weekend. for a a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. >> kgb doesn't just let people walk away, especially in the united states. how did you -- and i love this story -- [laughter] i mean, it's somewhat disturbing at the same time, but it's fantastic. how did you convince the kgb to leave you alone? >> okay. so -- [laughter] i had to figure out, i wanted to make sure that they wouldn't come after me or possibly even do harm to my be german family. so i was wracking my brain, what do i do, what do i do? so i needed to them them -- tell them that i'm not following orders. so i wrote a dear john letter, and it went something like, dear comrades, i have to tell you that i decided not to come back because i have contracted aids, and the only place whe