senior fellow the heartland institute did confirm that they are working on the curriculum and defended it by saying that again that they don't think science is being taught in the right way so let's teach you that it's their way ok i mean to thank so much for being with us and here for the great work that you all are doing over there for us thank you. this is exactly the sort of stuff that former supreme court justice lewis powell called for in his infamous one nine hundred seventy one memo to the chamber of commerce when he explicitly in that memo suggested rewriting our school textbooks to advance more business friendly attitudes to billionaires are continuing their campaign in good old fashion. coming up in tonight's daily take hard core fox news viewers may have noticed a change over the last few months but does this change signify about the republican party as a whole. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until she told the truth. i may confess and i am a total get of friends that i love traveling hip hop music and. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm ve

the information that is in them and the biggest part that we've confirmed in this is that the heartland institute has a plan and they are actively trying to curb gate an education curriculum that would be anti climate change to teach students for schools you know. the heartland is to just to clarify this is a right wing think tank in the pacific northwest as i recall and it's funded by the koch brothers and others i think koch brothers are some of the founder funder support and other and the other usual suspects i suppose and and so you said it's an anti climate what what's the essence of this curriculum going to be essentially the goal of the curriculum would be that a senior fellow at the heart of the heartland institute to communicate i think progress told us that their plan is to but they don't think thats. science is being taught in the right way that climate science isn't actually using what they think the science should be so instead their goal is to turn it around that now they want to say that oh well there's no proof that man is harming climate in any way and basically in your way you w

this is a heartland institute, they're called. over the years they've taken money from exxon and the american petroleum institute, places like that. nobody knew who leaked these documents. they were put out on the web to various websites. they were internal documents about fund-raising, about their strategies, things like that. and about a week ago, peter gleick writes an editorial, a column in "the huffington post" confessing saying, i took the documents. turns out he used this subterfuge. he pretended to be a board member of this organization. he wrote fake e-mails to the organization saying, could you send me these documents? i'm a board member who's changed my accuracy. they sent t my address. they sent the documents. the whole thing has blown up. people who are skeptical of the climate science are saying, see? this shows scientists are play politics, they're playing dirty just like the environmentalists accuse the climate deniers are of being. the key question to me is, today, just a few hours ago, we saw peter gleick put out

first of all, what is the heartland institute? >> it is a free market libertarian think tank based in chicago alone away and we cover the policy and our mission is to discover, promoted and send out to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we've been doing that for 28 years to this gimmick who founded two? >> the late david h. patton and a giant in the free market movement and the presidents of the institute since 1984. >> you also publish books and i want to ask you about a couple of them. let's begin with this one by herbert will work, school choice findings. >> one of the issues of the harlem institute has pushed for decades now the idea of school choice and having money and when that happens, student achievement does rise and so herb will byrd on of our senior fellows is interested in the topic and knowledgeable and was also a fellow at the hoover institution and has written two books on school choice so we can get the public and the politicians the facts about why and how a school choice works f

welcome to "the war room"." >> thanks for having me. >> how big is the heartland institute in the worldg to disprove climate change? >> it's one of the players that is involved in this effort to deny global warming to cast doubt on the science behind climate change and it's been at this game for a while. glenn beck used to attend one of his major conferences casting doubt on climate change. it's a big player. it's funded by microsoft g.m. the koch brothers, some major players. the person who engaged in this curriculum to engender climate skepticism and sell it and market it to kids is somebody who is a coal industry lobbyist, and now is being paid by the department of energy as a consultant, and he's using that reputation to get the authority and the credibility in an effort--basically prop propagandize to kids. >> why would the department of energy hire this guy? >> i think that's a great question. i think that this new revelation will cause the department of energy to reevaluate that relationship. i mean, he was getting paid $100,000 to put together a curriculum to sell to kids. it sh

. >> jim likely is the communications director of the heartland institute. you're website? >> heartland.org. >> another interview from georgetown university. charles discusses his new book "no one's world the west the rising best and the coming global term." the interview is conducted at riggs library on campus. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2. and we are at georgetown university interviewing some of their professors who are also authors and now joining us is charles kupchan, the author of this new book, "no one's world the west, the rising unrest and the coming global turn," published by oxford. professor kupchan, what do you mean by the global churn? >> i refer to a period in history in which the world's center and gravity moves. the last global turn is when the world was relatively multipolar, but arguably the center of gravity was in the mesopotamia in valley and was to the east. then beginning in the late medieval period said wells, 1300, you begin to see the commercialism rise in europe and cities are born to lead you begin to see the middle class, and by rough

seventeen year old high school student from pennsylvania sent a loud and clear message to the heartland institute a conservative organization planning to create a nation of global warming deniers by reeducating our youth who sit directly addressed heartland c.e.o. joseph fast in a petition letter sponsored by al gore's climate reality group asking bass to cease and desist his organization's efforts to create student conspiracy theorists who also took part in a video produced by climate reality directed towards the heartland discussing other fallacies that have been debunked by science in our classrooms take a look. even activities in changing the climate see to his highness people can't change the weather the ice isn't melting it's just a theory climate models around our lives everybody knows scientists are in it for the money scientists are like altering their data just to get a scientists will say anything you can help the germs be real if you can't see them gravity is just that very cigarettes are in effect that the earth to supplant the sun revolves around the earth you can't trust scientists

. >> host: the communications director of the heartland institute. your website. >> heartland dot or. >> at the 1968 olympic games john carlos and thomas mann to raise their fists and a black power salute. >> this is black power. they intended so many people, white people in particular, by using that phrase, black power because that phrase, it made many people think the black power mac distraction anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america and having america to have a new paradigm in how we could truly be with each and every one. elementary school and junior high school about the land of the free and the home of the brave. we all wanted to be brave americans. but as young athletes who found it was wrong. we wanted to take our time to evaluate and then take our initiative to fix it. >> discover more. an online at the video library, surge in share from over 25 years of sees them programming at c-span.org / video library. next on book tv, the history of the soviet union and the millions of victims of communism who he says have bee

first of all, what is the heartland institute? >> guest: a free market libertarian think tank based in chicago and illinois. we covered just enough domestic policy and our mission is to discover, promote, and send out to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems, and we have been doing that for 20 years. >> host: iphone did you? >> guest: the late great patent. in the kaytoo institute and really a giant in the free-market movement. but a president has been justice dances into 84. >> host: let's begin with this one by herbert wallboard, the school choice. >> one of the issues is the idea of school choice, having money follow the parent and having -- when that happens, student achievement rises. and so one of our senior fellows and board members is very interested in this topic and very knowledgeable about this topic and also a fellow of the hoover institution and has written two books on school choice so can get the public and politicians the facts about why and how school choice works for parents and student