now, in this exclusive online course from hillsdale college, you can deepen your understanding of howok is essential to you today. sign up for the genesis story. absolutely free at learnfromhillsdale.org. dr. justin jackson, a distinguished hillsdale college professor, will guide you through this fascinating free online course that unfolds the biblical stories of adam and eve, abraham, isaac, jacob and joseph. when you sign up, you'll explore some of life's most important questions, gain a greater appreciation for how the bible confronts pain and hardship with redemption and hope and discover how the struggles people faced thousands of years ago are deeply relevant to us still today. take this six lesson course whenever it's most convenient for you at your pace or in your schedule. signing up is easy and free when you go to learnfromhillsdale.org today. so the fun thing with the serpent is how does a serpent talk? and not only that, but why is the serpent's punishment to crawl on its belly when that's what it does? join the hundreds of thousands of americans who are enriching their li

now, in this exclusive online course from hillsdale college, you can deepen your understanding of how is essential to you today. sign up for the genesis story. absolutely free at learnfromhillsdale.org. dr. justin jackson, a distinguished hillsdale college professor, will guide you through this fascinating free online course that unfolds the biblical stories of adam and eve, abraham, isaac, jacob and joseph. when you sign up, you'll explore some of life's most important questions, gain a greater appreciation for how the bible confronts pain and hardship with redemption and hope and discover how the struggles people faced thousands of years ago are deeply relevant to us still today. take this six lesson course whenever it's most convenient for you at your pace or in your schedule. signing up is easy and free when you go to learnfromhillsdale.org today. so the fun thing with the serpent is how does a serpent talk? and not only that, but why is the serpent's punishment to crawl on its belly when that's what it does? join the hundreds of thousands of americans who are enriching their live

now, in this exclusive online course from hillsdale college, you can deepen your understanding of howok is essential to you today. sign up for the genesis story. absolutely free at learnfromhillsdale.org. dr. justin jackson, a distinguished hillsdale college professor, will guide you through this fascinating free online course that unfolds the biblical stories of adam and eve, abraham, isaac, jacob and joseph. when you sign up, you'll explore some of life's most important questions, gain a greater appreciation for how the bible confronts pain and hardship with redemption and hope and discover how the struggles people faced thousands of years ago are deeply relevant to us still today. take this six lesson course whenever it's most convenient for you at your pace or in your schedule. signing up is easy and free when you go to learnfromhillsdale.org today. so the fun thing with the serpent is how does a serpent talk? and not only that, but why is the serpent's punishment to crawl on its belly when that's what it does? join the hundreds of thousands of americans who are enriching their li

now, in this exclusive online course from hillsdale college, you can deepen your understanding of howr the genesis story. absolutely free at learnfromhillsdale.org. dr. justin jackson, a distinguished hillsdale college professor, will guide you through this fascinating free online course that unfolds the biblical stories of adam and eve, abraham, isaac, jacob and joseph. when you sign up, you'll explore some of life's most important questions, gain a greater appreciation for how the bible confronts pain and hardship with redemption and hope and discover how the struggles people faced thousands of years ago are deeply relevant to us still today. take this six lesson course whenever it's most convenient for you at your pace or in your schedule. signing up is easy and free when you go to learnfromhillsdale.org today. so the fun thing with the serpent is how does a serpent talk? and not only that, but why is the serpent's punishment to crawl on its belly when that's what it does? join the hundreds of thousands of americans who are enriching their lives through this exclusive online course

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hillsdale college accepts no government funding, because independence makes possible the good to which we aspire. >> lawrence: it's 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, tuesday, october 15th. this is "fox and friends." former president trump heading to georgia and i'm heading to the touch screen to break down the swing states with a reporter on the ground. >> ainsley: and shutting down briefing on a potential terror attack, we'll talk to one of them. >> steve: all power could be restored later today in florida, but thousands are still in the dark in north carolina. coming up, we'll talk to one family who took a picture of their cat as it floated away in flood waters. after a couple days, the cat came home. >> ainsley: the cat came home. >> brian: final hour of "fox and friends" starting now. >> lawrence: almost there, y'all. three weeks from election day and harris campaign is scrambling to secure support from black male voters, as the key voting block is shift are more to the right. >> steve: griff jenkins joins us. kamala harris unveiled a lot of stuff to get votes, will it work? >> griff: w

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hillsdale college accepts no government funding, because independence makes possible the good to whichne more thing." greg? >> greg: all right. tonight we have a banger of a show. jamie lissow, mollie hemingway, timpf and tyrus tonight at 10:00. let's do this. in your face, harold. you know, there is a special species of chamelia flower. scientific name is harold page. it's a beautiful, beautiful flower. find it mainfully oakland where it originated and it is a favorite snack of lemurs. sometimes i wish lemurs would descend down into our studio and eat harold. i would not help harold. i would watch the lemurs tear him limb from limb feeding off his raw flesh while i shout go lieberman go liebelemur go. >> you wrote go lemur go. >> judge jeanine: how do you spell lieberman? >> long-term. lemur.>> battle for the black v. 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> judge jeanine: i'm not doing anything tonig us tonight, make sure to follow me on social media. jesse is next. >> jesse spoken to and i

learning, character, faith, and freedom, these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. >> lawrence: it's 8:00 a.m. on east coast, this is "fox and friends". with four weeks until the election, kamala harris struggles to answer basic questions about the border. >> policies we've been proposing are fixing a problem, not promoting a problem. >> but numbers did quadruple. >> brian: plus, white house press secretary walking out of a briefing yesterday after being pressed by peter doocy on fema funds. he has money for people in lebanon, what does it say about his values? >> the premise of your question is misinformation, sir. ar >> ainsley: north carolina getting help from luke combs and eric church, and they will join us coming up. >> steve: big final hour of "fox and friends" and starts right now. >> brian: fox weather alert, coast bracing for hurricane milton. as it heads toward tampa. >> lawrence: milton could be strongest storm to hit tampa in more than a century. >> steve: check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. we keep showing the cone, that cone gives approximate

eastern on lectures in history, hillsdale college history professor discussed interpretations of the vietnam war when it comes to questions about the necessity of the conflict and whether it was winnable for the united states. 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency, former franklin d roosevelt library director awakening the spirit of america. talks but at the artworks and philosophical struggle with famed aviator charles lindbergh's world war ii politics of isolationism. exploiting the american story paid watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2. tell it find a full schedule per kroger washed online anytime. >> the house will be in order. >> this year c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979 use your primary source for capitol hill. providing balanced unfiltered coverage of government. taking you to the policy is debated and decided. all of the support of america's cable company. c-span, 45 years and counting. powered by cable. >> i am joined by steven o'neil. steven is a graduate of boston college and boston university. he is currently the executi

a hillsdale college student is honorable in conduct, honest in word and deed, dutiful in study and service, and respectful of the rights of others. through education the student rises to self-government. >> lawrence: this is "fox and friends." fox weather alert. live look at sanford, florida. hurricane milton is category one storm packing wind gusts up to 80 mile per hour. >> ainsley: the storm destroyed countless houses like this one in miami. houses and businesses are without power and rescue is underway, responders are helping people trapped in flood waters. we have footage of what unfolded ove overnight in tampa. >> grab her arm. >> grab her arm. i'm going to grab her arm. >> good to -- it is okay. bubba. it's okay. you're okay. >> that's it. >> that's it. >> let's go. >> steve: wow. >> ainsley: so sweet. >> brian: st. petersburg, strong winds ripping the roof off -- caught everybody by surprise. >> steve: before the storm made landfall, it unleashed a record number of tornados, leaving people dead in st. lucie. >> ainsley: this was used to house vehicles. >> lawrence: janice dean is h

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hillsdale college accepts no government funding, because independence makes possible the good to which ainsley: welcome back to our live studio audience. everybody has been so wonderful. we are so glad you are here. we have a raffle for audience members and someone here is taking a big gift home from our friends at red land cotton. so, let me spin the wheel and open the raffle box. and the winner is patty dave feliz. come on. who wins? you are wonderful. come here. congratulations. from our friends at red land cotton. you get a beautiful blanket and a gift card that is filled with a lot of money. so you can spend it. >> thank you. >> congratulations. all right, steve, over to you. [applause] >> steve: congratulations, patty and thank you to red land cotton. meanwhile our department of justice is facing a 3:00 deadline this afternoon to respond to the commonwealth of virginia's republicans and their emergency appeal to the u.s. supreme court asking to block the return of 1600 and non-citizen tots voter rolls. meanwhile the pennsylvania g.o.p. is asking the court to block some provisiona

in hillsdale college's most popular online course; constitution 101, distinguished politics professorshe meaning and history of the constitution. how it's been undermined, and what it will take to restore it. absolutely free at learnfromhillsdale.org you'll learn the principles of american government. discover how the founders established the freest and most prosperous nation in history and see the ways we have moved beyond the constitution in the past and how we face a new crisis posed by the rise of the bureaucratic state. we think that we're becoming more advanced by abandoning the constitution and adopting something like an administrative state but the administrative state intrudes upon even the minutest aspects of people's lives. when you learn the facts about the constitution and see that its principles are just as important today as when first written. you'll understand why we must fight to recover it for future generations. almost everybody in america, even people, very different perspectives, senses there's something deeply wrong with our political life. recovery of the earlie

we have all come to hillsdale college and none of you can say with any certainty what would have happened if you had gone to say, another college. can you say with 100% certainty that my experience here was about choice? well, you do have other information that you can use to make that decision. you do know what courses you have taken here, including many highly stimulating courses in the history department and you know about talking to friends and acquaintances that some of them may soon be sleeping right now because they were staying up late last night having fun. based on information like this, you could make a fair estimate that, in fact, there was a sound basis for your decision. also, it adds that we often times don't think about how much we rely on counterfactual analysis when we study history but, really, whenever we have had judgments on events and individuals, we are engaging in some process of reasoning about what could have been done differently. so, let's take a great example from our history. george washington. george washington, most historians and most americans would say

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learning, character, faith, and freedom, these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. >>>face, indigenous people. tonight, tom salon, ordayingas, that's tonight, and now, let's do this. in your face, harold. >> here we go. >> it's not just columbus day, it's king harold day. harold goodwinson, it observes the 950th anniversary of this strong ruler. he wouldn't vote for kamala harris, in your face, harold. >> over the weekend, pumpkin picking action with the waters family. there is gigi with the pumpkin. we have the big one here. look, drop the banner, look at that. that's the happy pumpkin. this is the mean pumpkin. can we see that? that's the happy one. >> about the same. >> yes. >> did you do that one? >> no, didn't. emma and jesse did. perfect carving. tonight jesse waters prime time. >> look at that. >> columbus day edition. >> can't wait. >> dana. >> the community in johnson county wyoming, they had those huge fires there and it caused a big problem for that community. they are hosting a dinner this saturday to help raise funds to rebuild after being ravaged by what w

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hillsdale college accepts no government funding, because independence makes possible the good to whicht is protected by simparica trio and he's in it to win it! simparica trio is the first chew with triple protection. whoa fleas! and ticks! (♪) intestinal worms! whoa! heartworm disease! no problem with simparica trio! this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions including seizures. use with caution in dogs with a history of these disorders. for winning protection— go with simparica trio. >> steve: we've got a fox weather hurricane alert. rain coming down right now. you are looking live at tampa, florida on the west coast of florida. and it's looking soggy in sarasota as well as florida braces for hurricane milton to hit late tonight or early tomorrow morning. fox weather's area salazar laurie is live in orlando. oaari,it's supposed to hit orlas cat 1. >> i wouldn't be surprised cat 2. going to be moving at decent clip. not like it has a ton of land to lose all of his strength. this really does have the potential to be historic storm. a lot of the different impa

how to make decisions to give you another that is maybe a little to comprehend so you all to hillsdale college and none of you can say with any certainty what would have happened if you had gone to another college and so can you say with 100% certainty that my experience here was the best choice? well you do. you do, however, have other information that you can use to make that decision. you do what courses you've taken here, including many highly stimulating courses in history department and you know, probably from talking to friends and acquaintances that some of them may still be sleeping right now because they were staying up late last night having fun. and so you based on information like this, you can probably make a fair estimate that in fact, there was a sound basis for your decision. but also add that we don't think about how much we rely counterfactual analysis when, we study history, but when whenever we pass judgments on events and individuals we are engaging in some process of reasoning about what could been done differently. so let's take a great example from our history. george

hillsdale college in d.c. which is remodeling and expanding our d.c. campus on capitol hill right now. and so most gratefully rely the help of the conservative partnership institute host this event thank you cpi very much hillsdale has a graduate of government here on capitol hill. so we think a lot about the of the union about lincoln and about what to do our country and how better to it. my name is matthew meehan. i'm the associate dean of our van andel graduate school of government here in town. and i believe lincoln quoting the gospel of matthew was correct. a house divided against itself cannot stand. and i believe that this american government and this great country cannot stand much in the state in which the 1960s have left us. a people half enslaved to our passions and half free. if we do not understand how we have come to this present moment of cultural and political war as our author puts it, then we may become entirely enslaved to our passions. and in a state of and more crippling and permanent war with our own american heritage and our own

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