glenn beck is the fing man. for watching. >>> tonight -- >> you know i love polls. i love polls. i'm in love with polls. >> donald trump and drmt ben carson are battles for the top spot in the polls, so how will it impact tomorrow's big gop debate? then president obama finally heads to his home town of chicago to talk about the city's massive surge in violence. >> i'm there with families of children here in chicago who are taken from us by gun violence. >> so why has it taken him so long? also -- [ bleep ] outrage growing after a video surfaces showing a cop arresting a high school student in south carolina.

. >> host: glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with thomas jefferson and the library of congress? >> guest: because jefferson changed hi life. he wrote -- my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area. his mother had died, his father was about to the to die, and his father said to thomas, thomas l you oversee the education of my son when i pass on? smartest man i know. is he said, sure. so when peter comes of age, he writes him this beautiful letter. and he says in mathematics, you have to learn these things. never read a book out of its native tongue because you'll lose too much, and then he gets to the last one, and he said when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her season and question with boldness even the very existence of god, for if there be a god he must surely favor honest questioning over fear. that changed my life. that couple with the the fact that thomas jefferson was the man who fought the first war against islam when he was in office. we had the first, you know, the barbary pirates, and he

our look at the conservative best of this list continues with glenn beck's critique of fundamentalist islam. >> many of these others have more will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site booktv.org. you are watching booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. we are live from the wisconsin book festival in madison. right now you are looking inside a room of the madison central library, the home of this year's festival. all day we will be bringing you programs on politics, grammar, religion, justice system and more but here it is a history of the american public library system, wayne wiegand. >> good morning, everyone. the marketing manager for madison public library. on behalf of the library and the wisconsin boofe

show enforcing glenn beck off the air. it was black folks and their allies that did that and it wasn't because that show was less popular. the last episode of the glenn beck show was highly rated but they couldn't sell advertising is the company but bold in the envelope and send it in the sand back cash, it wasn't honda or toyota or walmart, the corporations were pushed to make a choice between standing with community or standing with fox. in the aftermath of alec there were many organizations the alec campaign would not have been successful with out. those organizations doing the research and organizing for years that many of those organizations were standing outside alec's office protesting. we said alec gets 98% of its money from corporations with corporations to everything to use our services and so we told those corporations you can come for black folks money by day and take away our vote or make a son saved by night. [applause] region after corp. dropped and domino after domino dropped, balladur is still around and s

show and force glenn beck off the air. it wasn't because the beck show was less popular. in fact, the last episode was pretty highly rated, but you couldn't sell that advertising. the corporations were pushed to make a choice between standing with communities or standing with fox. in the aftermath of alec, there were many organizations that the campaign would not have been successful without, organizations doing the research and organizing for years. many of those organizations were standing outside of alec's offices and protesting. fromget 90% of its money corporations. told those corporations that you can't calm for black folks money like they and make us unsafe by night. [applause] rashad: we mobilized our membership. we stood with other online and that rights organizations stood with us and mobilized their members, corporation after corporation dropped, domino and domino dropped. alec is still doing havoc in our state. in the process, we created a framework. no longer are they the shady, behind the scenes organization t

ben: you mean views that progressives have over a long time -- charlie: some of the things that glenn beckeves in. what i have seen over the course of time is the transition of the educational system so that it becomes more of a propaganda machine. this is particularly true in our institutions of higher education. these are supposed to be places where people learn everything and learn how to discuss things from lots of different points of view. universities want to shut down conservatives. they don't want them to speak. johns hopkins is one. charlie: this is a place that proudly wanted you, but they had an intolerance of free speech. ben: absolutely. ast is why i went through the commencement speaker for the medical school in 2013. charlie: tell me more about the ideas that you believe in, one that education does not want to hear the conservative point of view. ben: education is the dividing line, really. charlie: these things that you don't talk about that much -- give us a deeper understanding, or share your ideas about the country. ben: my deeper understanding is that i believe very muc

that cop would arrest any parent he saw doing glenn beck is the fing man. i'm megyn kelly, thanks for watching. >>> tonight -- >> you know i love polls. i love polls. i'm in love with polls. >> donald trump and drmt ben carson are battles for the top spot in the polls, so how will it impact tomorrow's big gop debate? then president obama finally heads to his home town of chicago to talk about the city's massive surge in violence. >> i'm there with families of children here in chicago who are taken from us by gun violence. >> so why has it taken him so long? also -- [ bleep ] outrage growing after a video surfaces showing a cop arresting a high school student in south carolina. did the cop do the right thing? "hannity" starts right here, right now. >>> welcome to "hannity." tonight we're less than 24 hours away from the third 2016 republican debate that's taking place in boulder, colorado. it couldn't come at a more interesting time. a brand-new national poll has dr. ben carson slightly ahead of donald trump on the ground with a preview of what we can expect

he told glenn beck i believe in 2014 that he thought there might need to be tighter gun regulations in large cities, that there might be a place for having gun regulation that's are a little more strict in the case of mentally ill people, and got a ton of pushback for that. dana loesch, who's one of the most prominent pro second amendment conservative media personalities, who just cut an ad for the nra, has a post up on her site saying "i can't support ben carson for president because he's soft on the second amendment." so it's just curious. >> this is my theory of watching this develop, is that this is someone who actually doesn't -- he's playing this role of kind of tea party hero and because it's a role he's playing seems to kind of over or misstep a lot. part of what's strange about this also is here you have this guy who had this whole career. he was unquestionably a brilliant pediatric neurosurgeon. he had to know what he was doing when he had people on the operating table. then you take him out of that domain, he's getting asked about the debt limit the other day and he very cle

here we was on glenn beck. >> i actually have something i would use the department of education to do. >> would it be pack boxes for the state department? the irs? >> no, it would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists. >> i like that. >> michele bachmann is back. carson was asked about the constitutionality of his proposal on "meet the press" on sunday and here's what he said then. >> how is what you're advocating not a violation of the first amendment? >> it's not because all i'm saying is taxpayer funding should not be used for propaganda. >> let's get this straight, jonathan, you're sitting at the university of michigan or one of our better schools, university of wisconsin, chapel hill, berkeley, all of them, you're up there and teaching political science, which always has a political angle, let's be honest. we've never have a political science teach who doesn't have a point of view. and you see the kid down there tweeting around, because you're afraid you just said something that might be considered a po

mark leibovich of the "new york times" magazine, amy holmes, news anchor for the blaze, that's the glenn beck television network, ruth marcus columnist in for the "washington post" and rich lowry, editor of the "national review" let me show up that statistic of the number of people that have died from terrorist attacks and the number of people that have died from l proposals for solutions, should we have a sense of urgency with the equivalency of the way we tackle terrorism? >> well, it's the core responsibility of the government to protect us from foreign enemies. the reason the gun debate is going nowhere and is so sterile is anything you do at the margins is not going to stop these kind of mass shootings and anything could do that would be much more sweeping is going to run afoul of a fundamental constitutional right to bear arms. >> it's interesting, ruth, i went ahead and did -- we looked up, the requirements for getting a car, essentially, registering a car and the requirements for getting a permit for a gun, all 50 states you have to get a license or permit to drive a car, 13 states fo