ben carson is absolutely serious. he is here tonight. well talk to him about that and more. >>> also the boy with the golden voice himself, the voice of god, morgan freeman is here. we want to know what you think about all these stories. make sure to use the hashtag, ask don. but first, my make on bowe bergdahl, the transition happened at lightning speed. last night on this program alan dershowitz said it could become unpolitical and sadly it has. organizing media interviews with some of the soldiers who served with bergdahl, i don't think anyone has a problem with these young speaking their peace. they have earned that right. in fact, they have fought for it. but many might request the operative encourage them to speak out. turns out, you don't have to. especially when the democratic administration in charge appears to have completely misjudged the impact of the negotiations, the release, bipartisan dismay and reaction from bergdahl's fellow soldiers. the army sergeant hasn't said one word about how or why he went missing or answered an

ben carson, neurosurgeon and author. june 11, hollywood writer-director m. night shamalan. --will discuss his canteen campaign to close the american achievement gap. we have other ones before august 1, but let me tell you we just finalized on august 1, the president of the republic of congo. we'll discuss peace, security, and stability of the central african region and oil investments in the country. next i want to have for the first time that i can recall a double presentation of our brand, the national press club mug, to ivanka and donald trump. [applause] thank you. how about a round of applause for our speaker and ivanka. [applause] >> thank you-all for coming today. i'd also like to thank national press club staff. that's the last question, and jerry always reminds me of that because i skip over the script. i want to finish with the last question. but like to thank national press club staff, including the broadcast certainty for organizing today's event. for our last question we have two minutes, you can make it short or take the full two minutes, if you had the power

ben carson. >> right. >> who was second in the straw poll with 29.4% of the vote.o got half the vote percentage that ben carson got. what does a socially conservative neurosurgeon, what role does he play in shaping the tea party at this point? >> well, i think he has a tendency to say the kinds of outrageous things that appeal to conservative base voters. i think that some of these sort of republican activists also want to neutralize the extent to which the republican party, when you look at its base as opposed to its figureheads, is an increasingly old white party. and they sort of value conservative celebrities that are female or ethnic minorities because they sort of break that impression that the public has. but i think that if you -- if ben carson is on stage in the debates in 2016, he's going to -- it's not going to be that he's going to disavow his claims about obamacare being worse than slavery, he's just going to pull other candidates in his direction. maybe not quite that far, but just make whoever ends up winning that process all the more unelectable. >>

caller: i like ben carson. and it is not because he is black or not black, because i think he is best qualified. he is pretty sound. it is just my opinion, just my feelings about the way this country needs to go and the direction we are not going right now. host: thanks for the call. let me put another potential candidate on the table. rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator, who spoke at the iowa republican party state convention. it is on our website at c-span.org. he brought up the issue of marriage and morality. here is rick santorum. [video clip] >> yet, where are we as republicans? i'm not talking about going out and fighting the battle of redefining marriage. i'm talking about the battle of reclaiming marriage as an institution that we should be promoting in america. [applause] we have lost the marriage debate in america for one reason -- the cause, during our watch, marriage has been redefined. marriage is now, by most simply acalibration, romantic relationship between two people that the governm

caller: i like ben carson. and it is not because he is black or not black, because i think he is best qualified. he is pretty sound. it is just my opinion, just my feelings about the way this country needs to go and the direction we are not going right now. host: thanks for the call. let me put another potential candidate on the table. rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator, who spoke at the iowa republican party state convention. it is on our website at c-span.org. he brought up the issue of marriage and morality. here is rick santorum. [video clip] >> yet, where are we as republicans? i'm not talking about going out and fighting the battle of redefining marriage. i'm talking about the battle of reclaiming marriage as an institution that we should be promoting in america. [applause] we have lost the marriage debate in america for one reason -- the cause, during our watch, marriage has been redefined. marriage is now, by most simply acalibration, romantic relationship between two people that the governm

ben carson, an outspoken critic of obama care was a close second, and rick perry was in the top five. and missing was chris christie and jeb bush. senator cruz was one of the few presidential contenders to attend the event. he said history shows that shutting down the government over obamacare was the right thing to do. >> somehow all the gray beards in washington who opposed fighting against obamacare, are looking around, and winning senate seats all over the country. they're reaping the fruits of the battle. which is perfectly fei lly fine. but we need to take a moment to acknowledge the lesson of the battle. how do you win elections? you don't win it by standing for nothing. >> after his speech, he said ronald reagan would have supported his efforts against obamacare. haley barbour discussed the 40th president, but with a somewhat different perspective. >> i've learned a lot from ronald reagan. and i admire what i've learned. but the one thing that he never deviated from was, we are here to improve the lot and life of our country and our people, and sometimes that takes compromise.

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ben carson, retired neurosurgeon. conservatives love this guy. he just said that he believes that obamacare has been worse for the country than the 9/11 attacks. in an interview, he actually said this, he feels this way because 9/11 was an isolated incident. so a health reform bill is worse for america than a terrorist attack that killed more americans than pearl hasher? dr. carson, people say you should run for president. i think you should probably stick to surgery. >> i'm outraged at virginia's dmv. not because of the long lines, the rude service or the endless paperwork, but because they just made everyone's life much less convenient. they banned uber's car sharing service. if you don't know the name, it's an app that connects riders with part-time drivers who use their own vehicles. anyone with a smartphone and credit card can order car service literally anywhere. you don't pay cash. the tip is included. and the cost is close to the price of a tax i. that's the problem. the taxi cab lobby went to the dmv and won. they have banned uber as wel

all you need to know ben carson finished in second. someone that writes a book, is a medical professional and hasn't announced. these are popularity contests. i'm not going to put a creedo or graf to us to the poll. it's 2014. >> tara, does the democratic party like to see an extreme right candidate like ted crows make it to the top of a poll like this? >> is water wet? [ laughs ] >> obviously we'd love to have ted crows nominate. he would be the worst nightmare for the republican party. and the republican party, the strategists and the powerbrokers, they'll probably see too it that ted cruz does not make it to primaries, he could play spoiler and pull the party to the right which i don't think is in line with most of the country. >> we have to go. tara, strategist and former aid. lepy mc-calster working into the discourse. conservative political comment tator and former u.s. condepressional cannes date, thank you for waying in. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalist has been adjourned. bail was denied to peter greste, mohamed fad

ben carson has a story like this from destroys.er, but they -- from detroit. they overcame it. we used to tell these stories. we don't tell those stories anymore. we envy people their success.w so we get less of it. if we promote success, we'll get more of it. >> wouldn't you say the republican party is bad at doing that? >> oh, incredibly bad. incredibly bad. and i think one of the reasons is that the biggest contributors don't want to hear about it.doin i think jack kemp was probably b great friend and a tremendous man, was probably the last serious national republican leader. now, there are others who are coming along. marco rubio and paul ryan and others are kind of channeling him.a but there was a lie that saidhes jack kemp has showered with morm african-americans as an athlete than attended the 1988al republican convention or whatever it was. that's probably true. it still seems like a mostlyh white, older party. and i think, you know, and i've talked to a number of younger. african-american leaders, andpat they say you have to show up in between elections. you have to sh

ben carson is a story about this in detroit. they overcame it.the idea was that those people can do it so can you. we don't tell those stories anymore. we envy people and their success so we have less of it. if we promote success we will get more of it. >> would you say the republican party is bad at doing that? >> incredibly bad come incredibly bad and one of the reasons is the biggest contributors don't want to hear about it. jack kemp is probably a great friend and a terminus man. he was probably the last serious national republican leader. there are others who are coming along. marco rubio and paul ryan and others who are channeling him but there was a line that said jack kemp is showered with more african-americans as an athlete than attended the 1998

they put the texas senator narrowly in front of ben carson. but he was well ahead of rand paul who came in just over 10%. mike huckabee and rick perry round out the top five with about 5% apiece. we'll be right back. >>> we're back. as we've been saying for some time now, it's been a rough year for the tea party. establishment republicans have rolled the big victories over tea party opponents in states like texas, north carolina, georgia and kentucky, but things could be different tomorrow night in mississippi. republicans there will choose between vulnerable six-term incumbent thad cochrane and chris mcdaniel. it's the last chance to unseat a republican senator. it's the last chance to unseat a republican senator. democrats, could get their first legitimate shot to send one of their own to the senate in 32 years. the perception is that they're too far to the right. henry, i've always trusted your uncle, especially in back rooms when it's not on camera to tell the exact brilliant political truth. i'm asking you to do it on camera. and to tell

ben carson is absolutely serious. he is here tonight.o him about that and more. >>> also the boy with the golden voice himself, the voice of god, an

ben carson, an outspoken critic of obamacare was second. >> take a look as a fan launched a paper airplaneit the peru defender and england went on to beat peru, 3-0. >> a captured american soldier is coming home. normally a cause for celebration and for sergeant bowe bergdahl's family, that's still very much the case. >> you are free, freedom is yours. i will see you soon, my beloved son, i love you, bowe.

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ben carson, an outspoken critic of obamacare was second. >> take a look as a fan launched a paper airplane finally coming to a stop when it hit the peru defender and england went on to beat peru, 3-0. >> a captured american soldier is coming home. normally a cause for celebration and for sergeant bowe bergdahl's family, that's still very much the case. >> you are free, freedom is yours. i will see you soon, my beloved son, i love you, bowe. >> how can anyone not want that? what if bringing that soldier home also meant putting a price on the heads of other u.s. servicemen and women defending our country? it's exactly the charge some on the hill are now leveling against president obama. >> the number one way that al qaeda raises money is by ransom, kidnapping and ran sm, we have not set a price. >> the u.s. agreed to release five prisoners from guantanamo bay, all senior taliban commanders imprisoned following the september 11th attacks. men that senator john mccain called the hardest of the hard core. >> i think the big issue here is what's going to happen to these five individuals. if they

elected he will become the first african-american senator in that state and he has been endorsed by ben carsonn and mark levine and ted cruz and joining us on the program is our guest who has been blessed by the conservativism bar. >> well sh, we are continuing t fight against the establishment that has more spending and more debt. i am excited to have their endorsement. >> if you got to washington and who would you model after? ted cruz is a big endorsement, but some people, the establishment doesn't like him at all and they hate him and i am saying that he is the guy who is stick big the promises? >> well, sean, what everybody agrees is that we can't continue to go down the path that we are on, and if we continue like we are, we are the first generation of americans to allow our kids and grand kids to inherit a lower standard of living and that is not acceptable from the greatest nation in the history of the world and so what we have to be focused on is reducing the debt. while i was speaker of the house, i said no to all debt and that what we need to do in the united states of america. we w

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caller: i like ben carson. it is not because he is black or not black, because i think he is best qualified. he is pretty sound. it is just my opinion, just my feelings about the way this country needs to go and the direction we are not going right now. host: thanks for the call. let me put another potential candidate on the table. rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator, who spoke at the iowa republican party state convention. it is on our website at c-span.org. he brought up the issue of marriage and morality. here is rick santorum. [video clip] >> yet, where are we as republicans? i'm not talking about going out and fighting the battle of redefining marriage. i'm talking about the battle of reclaiming marriage as an institution that we should be promoting in america. [applause] we have lost the marriage debate in america for one reason -- the cause, during our watch, marriage has been redefined. marriage is now, by most simply acalibration, romantic relationship between two people that the government

and retired neurosurgeon ben carson, the author of "one nation by "talks about hi formative years and political belief out, and book of the goes to missouri. also this weekend, sports and politics author attach zirin on the politics of hosting the world cup. matthew carnig warns about iran's nuclear potential. and senator elizabeth warren caulk necks. for -- talk economics. for more information visit us online at booktv.org. >> next on booktv, dare zirin talks about the politics and economic between brazil hosting the 2014 world up and the 2016 olympics. he argues these countries use these mega events to boost their image and bring in international investment but the benefits rarely live up to what is promises. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome tonight to prose and poets. [applause] >> the event tonight is hosted by keeping for charge, and filmed by c-span's booktv. i'm the executive director of teaching for change. we're the nonprofit organization that runs the book store here. anyone here for the first time this evening? we got some people -- great. thank you. so make sure

ben carson would run for the presidency. republicans would run dr. ben carson he would win. what about this argument from the "washington times." the house has plenty of its own institutional powers to control the president. this would be true with raising the minimum wage is a federal contractors. -- they control the purse and appropriate money for these actions. guest: things are going so bad that fema could take control of everything, they have the power and right to do that at any time. everythingide that runs through a wire they could kick everyone out of the sandbox. , democratic caller. good morning. go ahead. guest: my name is rose and i have a comment about all the silly folks calling you, talking about the president, and what john boehner wants to do. it is just a waste of time. they need to find something more constructive to do. shauna inill go to hanover, pennsylvania. independent caller. what are your thoughts? am -- i used to be a republican and now i don't know what i am. these politicians -- what they are doing is noxious, the horse is out of the barn. this

i think there will be other people who fill that name niche, maybe ben carson or rick santorum also, to the right of the republican party and it will dilute the vote. he and rand paul also complete for a certain part of the vote. i agree with what a lot of what jeff has said. i do wish that ted cruz didn't want so much that the niche he's caved out for himself hadn't been to to be the skunk of the republican party and that he would spend more time going after democrats and less time going after his own republican colleagues. >> donna, would you be happy if ted cruz were the republican nominee? >> oh, yes, he's a show horse, not a workhorse. let him run. >> that was very good. >> show horse. >> donna, ana, jeffrey, thanks very much. when we come back, president obama shares some intimate moments of being a father in an interview with our own kate bolduan. what he tells her about raising two daughters. that's next. i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at a

ben carson has addressed this in some detail. i think it offers this. we need the premiums to be tax deductible. we need to invite people to buy the insurance, to purchase it. we do not need individual mandates. we are people that pride ourselves on our freedoms and liberty. there are a host of conservative principles and politics that we can implement that would help contain the information or a healthcare cost that got obamacare in the first place. we could expand the health savings account that give individuals both responsibility and choice in managing their own health care and in addition we could even repeal or at least modest -- modify and that allows them to develop much larger risk pools that brings the cost down for everybody particularly folks in pre-existing conditions. remember that the obamacare is certainly a dream that pretense that it was also the result of a republican feeling when president bush was in office the inflationary cost was that republicans did not implement a conservative principle and so when we see the field we ended up

ben carson, outspoken critic of obamacare, was a close second.ee rounded out the top five. notably missing were chris christie and jeb bush. senator cruz is one of the few potential contenders to attend the event. he said history now shows that shutting down the government over obamacare was -- oh, my god. >> i'm sorry. before we go to the clip, can we say bill kristol it was disheartening we had michellebamichelle bachmann who won iowa called him to congratulate him. >> i want to hear this. >> don't underestimate ted cruz. >> he showed up. >> also he's gotten much -- he's always been effective in his way. he was always effective as more of a conservative voice of protest. i think he's making the transition to actually being a serious conservative leader. >> so here he is explaining why the shutdown was a good idea. take a look. >> somehow all of the gray beards in washington who opposed fighting against obamacare are now looking around and we're winning senate seats all over the country. we're reaping the fruits of the battle. which is perfectly

ben carson was beat by just 1%.ce. >>> and a wild car chase caught on camera and you will never believe who is behind the wheel. watch. >> you guys, watch out! get out of the way! get out of the -- ah! >> i think the pedal was literally on the floor. the 14-year-old was in the driver seat. the car was stolen from his grandfather. when he reportedly pulled out a gun, the cops went after him after flying through a park full of kids. nobody was hurt. the teenager was taken into custody. >>> and cruisin' for a snoozin'. this is adorable. the little boy fell asleep at the wheel of the tractor. he still had his foot on the pedal and the tractor continued to go in circles. it's not clear how long his son was driving. >> why ruin a good thing? >> it's hard to get them to fall asleep. i say to let it go until the batteries run out. that would be a quiet evening with your wife at dinner. where is mikey? he's still in the driveway going around. >> that's just like putting a car seat on the dryer. >>> those are your headlines.

and super knowledgeable any good to see someone over at fox has their head on straight the bad ben carsonthe republican party's favorite doctor took a lot of heat earlier this year when he said that obamacare was worse than slavery you think that the controversy those comments created would make him back down from any more while obamacare analogies but apparently not for you daily beast journalist evan gore person told him during an interview that obamacare has been even more damaging to that out of states than the terrorist attacks of nine eleven . i think it's safe to say at this point that the good doctor is in need of a good doctor and a very very ugly sean hannity just when you thought news coverage of the bowe bergdahl deal couldn't get any worse sean comes along and ends the dad by proxy president obama might be. seriously check out what he said on last night's episode of hannity. somebody i know you don't know well why he actually wrote a piece he said what that father was saying in the rose garden by the way you might argue in two thousand and eleven he's doing in acting anyway h

people born on the wrong side of the tracks, absent father, lived in a bad neighborhood, ben carson has a story of this in detroit. but they overcame. and so the idea was that those people can do it, so can you. so we don't tell those stories anymore. we and the people. so we get less of it. >> would you say the republican party is that a doing a? >> incredibly bad. the biggest intervenors don't hear about it. and there are others who are coming along, marco rubio, paul ryan, others, they were kind of being channeled by him. and there was an individual that had been part of this when he attended the 1998 republican convention and it's probably true. it still seems like a mostly white older party. and so i think i've talked to a number of younger african-american leaders that say that you have to show up in between elections and you have to show that you really care. you really have to help people out of their misery and out of their poverty. i think that school choice is probably the best way to start doing that. but you have to spend in the neighborhood and republicans don't do that en

ben carson is a story about this in detroit. they overcame it. the idea was that those people can do it so can you. we don't tell those stories anymore. we envy people and their success so we have less of it. if we promote success we will get more of it. >> would you say the republican party is bad at doing that? >> incredibly bad come incredibly bad and one of the reasons is the biggest contributors don't want to hear about it. jack kemp is probably a great friend and a terminus man. he was probably the last serious national republican leader. there are others who are coming along. marco rubio and paul ryan and others who are channeling him but there was a line that said jack kemp is showered with more african-americans as an athlete than attended the 1998 republican convention. that's probably true. it still seems like a mostly white older party and i think, i talk to younger african-american leaders who say you have to show up in between elections. you have to show that you really care. you have to help people out of their misery and out of th