>> i was thinking it was five years ago this sunday that chuck colson passed robby george with offeringe known as the manhattan declaration as you set a manifesto but a wake-up call to be the church of the most important issues of our time life, marriage and religious liberty. i thought i would read just a bit of what manhattan has to say about this question. it describes marriage as nothing less than the crowning achievement of god's creation. marriage is the first institution of human society. indeed it is institution on which all other human institutions have their very foundation and fast human experience confirms that marriage is both the original and most important institution versus the health and welfare and education of all persons in a society. marriage matters because it's good and it plays a central role in god's story for the world in which we live. that fact i think is underscored by what for me as one of the cruelest realities about scriptures testimony when it comes to the question of marriage. the bible begins with a wedding in a garden between adam and eve and it ends

he says to me in a stage whisper i was foolish to talk to chuck colson about clemency, wasn't i? i said yes, that was probably an obstruction of justice. i decided at that moment he didn't want that on tape but he wanted the answer. i also found out that that april 15th tape which purportedly has disappeared because it never was triggered by a second machine on april 15th to del off, did exist. .. i will circulate the fire with 12 other questions you don't want to answer. thank you. >> roger, come and take the answer please. just as lyndon johnson did not kill jfk i did not order the watergate break-in. no one could have been more amazed the ninth tried to turn off on two occasions -- i know you like to write books of fiction. that is fine. >> i move u.s. to the fiction section in barnes and noble. >> everyone who has read your book told me it is a good book of fiction. i like to deal with facts. ideal with primary sources, not secondary sources. if and maybe when we go to court we wi >> i welcome that opportunity because truth is the ultimate defense . >> on these revisionist --

and he said, don't worry, you cannot say something unkind about chuck colson that doesn't have merit. and that was very important. because as we now go back and construct the f.b.i. investigation, they had established hunt's role. in fact, he was not one of the burglars but he was outside that night and so forth and was the operational director of this burglary team. so he becomes important. >> but you don't tell mr. bratt bradlee about mark felled you just tell him what? >> that there's a senior source that's verifying details we're getting elsewhere. >> that surprises me about me. i mean, i wouldn't -- i've -- i'd never -- i've never done it again. but it was so hard to quibble with success. he was right. and there was a check. always money, and the money shows up and what you had heard it was going to be and it was where it should be. you know you've got a tiger by the tail. and why not leave well enough alone? >> that's what i said. >> i wouldn't do it again. >> i was going to say, was it unusual for you to have a reporter come to you with a major story and say "i can't tell you t

one of his closest friends for much of his life was chuck colson, who was nixon hatchet men during theergate scandal, the author of nixon's enemies list who then went to prison and came out as this sort of evangelical christian who spent much of his life than trying to fight the scourge of islam within america's prison. erik prince is surrounded by very radical right wing christians. the fact he says, we want to fight isis. first of all, they want to make money off of it. secondly, it plays into his world view that islam is the enemy. >> we have to leave it there, jeremy scahill co-author of the best-selling book, "blackwater: the rise of e world's most powerful mercenary army." we will have a link to your piece on democracynow.org. that does it for our show. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] holidays can be a source of great memories and in this program, i'm going to r

many in this room know that justice fellowships founder chuck colson saw his power and pride crumble when he left being president nixon's counsel to becoming a federal prisoner. but upon his release from prison, his work actually started touring a solitary confinement unit in walla walla prison in 1979, and that -- out of that meeting, senators, is where justice fellow ship was founded. and i'm also grateful to you, mr. chairman and ranking member cruz, for your support as has been mentioned of co-sponsoring the smarter sentencing act, and i believe that mr. collison if he were alive today would applaud your work in that area. solitary confinement, in theory is for the worst of the worst of the prisoners. however, data says otherwise. case in point is in illinois where a study was conducted and found that 85% of the prisoners were sent to disciplinary segregation for minor rule violations. prisoners in these circumstances too often do not have their cases individually reviewed and looked at from oversight. there was an analogy given earlier about police officers when they're struck o

worry, it cannot say something unkind about howard hunt or chuck colson but does not have merit. [laughter] important. very as we now go back and construct the fbi investigation, they established hunt's role. he was not one of the burglars, but he was outside that night and was the operational director of this burglary team. mark felt becomes important right away. bradlee. not tell mr. you just tell them what? >> there is a senior source in a justice department who is verifying details we are getting elsewhere. >> that surprises me about me. again, but, done it if it was so hard to quibble with success, he was right. always money involved. and it washows up what you would heard it was going to be and where it should be. you know you have got a tiger by the tail. why not leave well enough alone? i could not do it again. >> wasn't unusual for you to have a reporter come to you with a major story and say, i cannot tell you the source of this story, but trust this? >> it was unusual but not unheard of to say, i have a source. in the beginning, who gives a dam about who the source is

chuck colson picking up on the last, chuck colson told me, what made richard nixon and so competitive is we share the same school of thought when it came to politics. it's the knee and a growing school of politics. and they pushed each other. that's what brought out the worst in richard nixon. he is complicated. sometimes you hear something and it sounds like he's a good president in the conversation. other times you hear something horrifying very unpresidential. the example of homosexuality this is a perfect example. on the one hand he says we can't persecute people, leave them alone, they are born that way. that certainly was not a position of any national political leader in the early 1970s. to me it sounds like a lady gaga single that came out a few years ago. he's very ahead of its time in some ways. most people would stop at that point. they got the soundbite they wanted to move on. blame them for the town hall -- downfall of greek and classical civilization that strong society and the source of corruption is homosexuality and all these things. this is a perfect example of what

many in this room know that justice fellowships founder chuck colson saw his power and pride crumble when he left being president nixon's counsel to becoming a federal prisoner. but upon his release from prison, his work actually started touring a solitary confinement unit in walla walla prison in 1979, and that -- out of that meeting, senators, is where justice fellow ship was founded. and i'm also grateful to you, mr. chairman and ranking member cruz, for your support as has been mentioned of co-sponsoring the smarter sentencing act, and i believe that mr. collison if he were alive today would applaud your work in that area. solitary confinement, in theory is for the worst of the worst of the prisoners. however, data says otherwise. case in point is in illinois where a study was conducted and found that 85% of the prisoners were sent to disciplinary segregation for minor rule violations. prisoners in these circumstances too often do not have their cases individually reviewed and looked at from oversight. there was an analogy given earlier about police officers when they're struck o

many in this room know that justice fellowships founder chuck colson saw his power and pride crumble when he left being president nixon's counsel to becoming a federal prisoner. but upon his release from prison, his work actually started touring a solitary confinement unit in walla walla prison in 1979, and that -- out of that meeting, senators, is where justice fellowship was founded. and i'm also grateful to you, mr. chairman, and ranking member cruz, for your support as has been mentioned of co-sponsoring the smarter sentencing act. and i believe that mr. colson if he were alive today would applaud your work in that area. solitary confinement, in theory is for the worst of the worst of the prisoners. however, data says otherwise. case in point is in illinois where a study was conducted and found that 85% of the prisoners were sent to disciplinary segregation for minor rule violations. prisoners in these circumstances too often do not have their cases individually reviewed and looked at from oversight. there was an analogy given earlier about police officers, when they're struck or