. >> good morning, i'm jerry falwell, pastor here. >> southern baptist preacher jerry falwell made hisbroadcast on sunday mornings. >> isn't it grant to be a christian? ♪ >> this is miraculous indeed. >> he was a fundamentalist who believed the bible should be interpreted literally. he had apocalyptic messages over the years. >> if it doesn't come back to the world, it's all gone. >> but falwell believed that religion and politics did not mix. >> many angell cals did not even register to vote, because politics was satan's realm. >> that changed in the 1970s e. especially after the federal government gave private schools an ultimatum. >> the internal revenue service proposing to make private schools prove they are not practicing racial discrimination. >> some evangelicals built their own schools as a response to federal desegregation. but for many evangelicals, there was another important driver, to provide their children with a baseball-based education after the supreme court banned school prayer in 1962. people were furious. >> at the last count the irs received 115,000 protest letter

from pat robinson who certified that falwell was correct. [ laughter ] >> seth: well, if it was just both of them - [ laughter ] you -- i guess at a young age, someone who chooses his career and sticks with it for so long, at a young age you must have known you had not just a good sense of humor, but maybe the ability to see humor where others weren't was that the case? >> you know, when i was nine-years-old, my father got into trouble and was sent to prison something to do with fraud and the night he was -- two nights after he was called away, my mother had to give up the apartment we were living in and so forth she was selling the furniture. i was going off to live with my grandparents anyway, there were strangers in the house looking at -- the thing that killed me most was my father's red leather chair where we used to sit together listen -- i had radio, no television then -- to listen to the fights on friday night from madison square garden. very sentimental to me and i was in -- not in good shape. when a stranger who was looking at my father's chair with a -- you know, about to

is the author of numerous other books including once on the american apocalypse, a book on jerry falweller on amy simple mcpherson. he's been a fellow and i happen to know he's working on a new, brilliant interpretation for a textbook for american history you should all expect to be purchasing in the next 18 months or so. without further due, matt i turn things over to you. >> thank you so much jeff. thank you to the panelists for putting this together. it is been interesting in the first couple of papers here and how it popped up. it's a topic i'm going to be focusing on in my paper today. as we all know, religion can inspire a lot of great behavior can also inspire lots of bad behavior. in fact but i will be discussing today how it inspires presidential hatred. this is not a surprise to anyone in this room i am sure. we can see how particular groups of religious activists who favored hillary clinton, barack obama, joe biden, i'm going to talk a little bit more of the roots of that, or some of that hatred comes freud five focusing on franklin tilda roosevelt. one of the reasons it's not

eric's falwell must be green with envy. or broccoli. either way he needs to up his fire intake because while joe may not outsmart you, he will. what is happening to me? >> i really do think the intervention helped. what have you got against farc techs? >> what did he do to deserve this. >> that's what we're talking about. >> to interventions in two days. we went from peace in the middl east to relaxed tensions and north korea, operation works feed all from trump to this, an man who passes the buck as much as he passes the wind. and look at the meeting. you want low expectations, cnn happily defends joe saying there's nothing he could do to reduce the energy crisis. because increasing drilling and not blocking pipelines isn't possible. the two primetime house are accused of various things from groping to even more groping. maybe they are hard of hearing. why are the politicians breakin the expectations. it takes the pressure off them to do the actual work. we could put it on cruise control. while you're expected to lower expectations, th

he's on the side of larry flynn versus hustler magazine versus jerry falwell where he went to the supremeourt after putting an offensive to many people cartoon into a porn -- he's a pornographer. it was enough when kathy griffin held up the donald trump beheaded mask. paul gosar is a sitting congressman who put up a meme version of a snuff film on his instagram and twitter accounts. i'm with guy on this. this is low rent, race to the bottom and i do think it is a huge issue here that you've got to really avoid because this is getting completely out of control. howie: i slammed kathy griffin doing that. when we come back, the coverage of the threatening messages which are going to some republican congressmen and later andy mccarthy on the media and kyle rittenhouse. it's flexible if we need to cancel. cancel. i haven't left the house in a year. nothing will stop me from vacation. no canceling. flexible cancellation. ("this little light of mine") kayak. search one and done. - [narrator] in the world's poorest places, they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the

and of course you had jerry falwell and the clinton's critical, many saying bill clinton was responsiblenew is they just get passed around faster on facebook. >> i think they do. the other thing about that time november of 22nd, he sat around with jackie until they had to go to dallas and a big midday trip to dallas. the reason they made the big day trip had he wanted to get an honor ri degree from tcu. the trustee secretly met and said no, we are not giving an honorary degree. one of kennedy's advance men says why. he told the advance man the problem is he's a catholic and they don't want to give him an honorary degree. the result was the trip to dallas is a lot bigger. the source of history might have been changed had he got that honorary degree. >> unbelievable. doug brinkley, we bump in with lbj talking about kennedy believing in freedom of all people and you had lbj in '65 makes the voting rights act, the two most sweeping pieces of legislation in history. i guess i think we should stop here and just talk about how one of the extraordinary things about lbj's life when given this opp