jerry falwell, passed away, and that was a very moving experience around here, around this campus, and those who have been here for quite a while remember him very fondly for his vision and what his commitment was, not just to this institution but to our nation and to our culture, and yet it put things into perspective for me as well, because i remember increasingly how dr. falwell in the last number of years spoke increasingly about the role of the church, the role of christians in their everyday lives, living out the mandate of following christ and how that's what has transforming power. more than what candidates we elect or what policies we see put in effect in the houses of congress. and i heard him say those things. he who is so much associated with the rise of the religious right over the last generation, and i thought about that much when i was overseas and saw the power of the message of christ that works in a place like nepal. so that's when we crystallized that message that following christ is something that transcends the claims of any particular culture, no matter how much

. >> you talk about a visit that he made to nepal -- around our institution jerry falwell passed away and that was very moving around here, aren't just campus remember him very fondly for his vision and what his commitment was not to the institution that the nation nassau's the culture and that the perspective for me as well because i remember increasingly how dr. falwell on the number of years spoke increasingly about the role of the church their everyday lives and that is what is transferring power more than what candidates re-elect or what policies we see put into effect in the house of congress. and i heard him say those things. he himself who is associated with as i was overseas and is all the power of the message of christ at work in a. of any particular culture, no matter how much we are a part of and. the title of your book, the thesis of your book has a controversy on the right, the conservative right. >> host: the institutions with colleagues it's important to emphasize that liberty university is an academic institution. we are coming in the scholars who follow christ, and t

but since 2007 when he passed away and jerry falwell, jr. took the reins of the university and continued to grow at exponential rates and expanding with additional schools and additional programs and it's even remained exponentially increased in the expansion from a school that his 6,500 acres of property. >> what are your concerns as a dean and vice president about online, which? >> certainly the concern of anyone with regards to online is to make sure it is as rigorous as the residential program. one of the unique things about online program is that you are able to get experienced individuals in all walks of different areas of life that otherwise would not be full-time teachers because the ceos or business leaders were curious kinds of fields as an entrepreneur and they don't want to teach full-time that they will be about to be some of your top level experts that can teach on-line so we give them the opportunity to have interaction with them and we are very vigorous about the online program to make sure that there is parity in terms of th

this is jerry falwell. he is dead sadly. this is pat robertson. he is alive happily. i bring this up because these guys are frequently confused with one another. both men are or were televangelists who founded televangelist universities and often confused with one another. it's hard to remember which one is which. my numonic for remembering which university is which is that pat robertson founded regent university. r, r, right? regent university is the school where virginia governor bob mcdonnell as a 30 something year old mid-career student wrote a the sis how public policy should be designed to punish co- cohabitaters, homosexuals and fornicators. bob mcdonnell is tut a regent university graduate. you also used to be able to remember regent university as the pat robertson university and as the one of those two easily conflate conflated evangelical universities where mitt romney spoke. mitt romney spoke at regent in 2007 when he was trying to run an even more conservative specifically socially conservative campaign for the presidency. this time around, mr. romney has

doctor falwell asked me to be the dean, and i declined. when he asked me a second time, i also declined. when he asked me the third time, i became the dean of the law school in 2006. >> do you have another book ready to go? >> i do have a couple more in the process of developing. one is about the freedoms we do have in america and also about activism and motivation. i have been very moved by reading biographies. my desire is to ultimately educate and empower a new generation to make our community and world a better place. >> we have been talking with matthew staver, who is dean of the liberty university law school, vice president of the university. also a professor block. and the author of this book, "eternal vigilance: knowing and protecting your religious freedom". >> coming up next on "book tv", nikki haley talks about her life and political career. she was elected succulent as first female government in 2010. she describes her childhood and prejudice her family faced. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you, arthur, and it is a real pri

>> doctor falwell said that if it's christian, it ought to be better. we believe in jesus christ as our lord and savior. that permeates everything that we do. we want to make sure that all that we do glorified lord. we want to make sure that in everything that we do, that we do it not with mediocrity, not second best, but we want to do it the best. liberty may surprise people, but it has been the number-one debate team in the country for the last decade. the only school that has been ranked the best in all ranking systems. we have achieved that multiple times. the law school started in 2004 that it obtained provisional accreditation during 18 months, which is faster than any other school in history. in fact, you cannot beat that record. you cannot have an accreditation and the quicker than that. some of her achievements as 2004 are phenomenal, in terms of the competition. we are very competitive. we just won the national court competition in constitutional law. we have one the entertainment law competition negotiation opposition two years in a row. you

it's the christian institution founded by jerry falwell sr.. mitt romney has never striftd college. the university announcing today that the may 12th commencement which takes place on thursday and c-span will be covering that address. >>> the "new york daily news" website is getting a lot of attention tonight. the first fobs to of columbia escort and hooker scandal. it's available at ny"daily news".com and the photographs of the women trying to get her full payment for service. she's a 24-year-old single mom. she said tagts offered her $30 for $800 worth of service. they have an extensive story. it's an issue that continues to come up here in official washington including in today's daily briefing. jessica yellen posed the question to jay carney. >> we learned they are forming an external board to study the culture of the service. does the white house and president plan to name some of the members of that board? >> i don't have anything specific for you on that kind of review or further steps that might be taken. right now we're focused on awaiting the results of the completed inves

. >> the late jerry falwell's university, he's going to be giving the commencement address, some areaying it's not appropriate. what would you think? >> everybody has a right to their own view. i'm trying to reach the biggest, broadest group. my net may be a little bit wider. when i see somebody that loves the lord i try not to exclude them but to rather include them and realize we all have differences. we could look at our faith versus the catholic faith and other faiths. mormonism is a little ditch bff butch they love christ. we could ask ten people from den denominations and get ten views. i said if they believe in christ, they're my brother, they're my sister. >> another congregant comes to you says i'd like to reelect president obama but i heard he's a muslim. 18% of the people in the pew pole said they believe he's a muslim. >> i've heard him talk about his faith, talk about sealvation an redemption. i believe in high heart he's a christian. he says he is. i wouldn't push people away. that's the opposite of what we're supposed to do. i would encourage them in that. i know there

liberty is a christian university founded by the late televangelist jerry falwell.ughout the primary trying to win over the evangelical christians. the commencement is may 12th. >>> dozens of students rallied on the university of maryland campus, asking for an end to what they're calling the doom's day budget. the students want governor o'malley to call a special session to provide a $50 million cut to the university system and they would require a tuition hike. >> some say it's only $800. $800 means 800 new uncertainties and doubts. 800 new concerns. and 800 already that i may not be able to fulfill my father's dream here at the university of maryland. >> and they decided -- cited a study that claims for every dollar spent on higher education, maryland gets $8 back on the investments. >>> coming up, starbucks stoping -- stops putting crushed bugs in one of the drinks. >>> a mcdonald's employee ends up behind bars after they find something strange in the sweet tea. >>> and a man ends up with a colossal sandwich after taking advantage of a bargain. >>> if you have a

liberty was founded by televangelist jerry falwell. a crowd of about 50,000 people is expected. >>> clear skies this afternoon after some rain out there this morning and last night. >> let's get your first forecast from meteorologist veronica johnson. how about it? >> yeah. after some fog, too, this morning and we could see a little more of that fog developing during the overnight but the clouds that we talked about that were lingering early part of the day, here they are on satellite as we go back some six hours and now you can see again we're left with the clear skies right around washington. and up to the north into pennsylvania. head off to the west and you can see all that rain, those stormy conditions in minneapolis up at the top of your screen right under the banner there. chicago, too stormy. that is an area of low pressure. that's just part of the storm that's going to be coming our way for the weekend. so we've got just one more nice day here coming our way as we get ready to round out the week. we're at 70 degrees right now.

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so, for example, if you look back at reverend jerry falwell, a real leader of the mobilization of the christian right in the 1980's, you go back to the 1960's, he declined to be activist in the vietnam movement for exactly the reasons the caller cites, you know, we shouldn't be of this world and shouldn't be in the world. we have our own mission over here. this is specifically religious. and he very publicly said i'm going to confine my role to preaching the gospel, period, that's it. by the 1980's, falwell had shifted very much and he had shifted from preaching the gospel to famously saying we're going to get them saved, get them baptized and registered to vote. that mobilization so the caller is representing an older view in the evangelical world that all is tainted. we should let it go. we'll do our own thing here and kind of be, you know, faithfully religious but not get involved in politics. today, i think that's not the dominant view particularly among evangelical christians that the politicalization and political action movement in the 1980 as and the christian right movement i

. >> jerry falwell's university, he'll be giving the commencement address there and the graduation addressy. some are saying maybe that's not appropriate. what do you think? >> well, to me it would be appropriate. everybody has a right to have their own views. obviously, some people feel stronger than i do, but again, i'm trying to reach the biggest, broadest groupand you know, my net may be a little big wider when i see somebody that loves the lord, i try not to exclude them, but to include them and to realize that we all have differences and when we look at our faith versus the catholic faith, mormonism is different, but i still see them as brothers in christ. >> you're a big-tent christian. >> i am. i don't want to push people away. we can take the scripture and ask ten people that are all from the same denomination and get ten different views. i rather be inclusive and say, you know what? if they believe in christ, they're my brother and they're my cyster. >> another congregant comes to you, hypothetically, and they say they want to reelect president obama, and i've heard he's a muslim

i remember who was it, jerry falwell and his friend, pat robertson say blame gay people for 9-11.gious intolerance. >> i died when they did that. i thought oh, guys, you're missing the mark here. you forgot what it is you're preaching. jesus would not have said that. and i just go by what would jesus do. i do that saying and sometimes i fail. sometimes i do what a christian would do and not what jesus would have me do. i know that chely wright has walked through fire and she kept her head held up so high. she has friends in her life like me that say i love you god loves you and that's all we can do is be there for each other. >> stephanie: thank you for being such a good friend to our friend here. we gotta talk because i know you're on such a heavy schedule here. you've got a world tour so exciting. 19 dates. tell us about that. >> well, i'm going all over the country and i'm going to do -- i've got a 12-piece band. i'm sure i'm going to go in the hole on this but i have all different kinds of music that i sing and i need all of the different arrangements so i have dancers and sin