. >> next booktv monthly program with off and wall street journal columnist jason riley the author of the case for open borders, please stop helping us how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed and faults like power a critique of black civil rights leaders. >> host: jason riley author, columnist, contributor to "the wall street journal" and manhattan institute. among your books please stop helping us. i want to begin where your book concludes because they see the following liberalism convinces blacks to see themselves first and foremosts as victims. >> guest: i believe that is a big part of a political strate strategy. they've been at it for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting and as victims and then the follow-up is we have a government program or solution to help you overcome your victim so i think it is a political strategy. >> guest: there've been books on lyndon johnson. is it a failure or a success? >> guest: if you look at the programs and the goal the object is overstated at the time you would have to say that it's largely a failure to t

let's ask dan hemminger and columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow jason riley. any doubt that sanders is the front runner? >> no doubt at all. numbers told the story. he has won two caucus is in the primary in a row in nevada and south carolina and bernie has a cement like block of supporters a 25%. it is the question whether he can expand that base. we said that about donald trump. i'm not sure the same is true of bernie. paul: you don't think he can expand? >> the story is how culinary workers in nevada repudiated bernie's medicare for all saying they prefer their insurance plan and the thing most people attach to bernie sanders is medicare for all and once that sinks in with the american people it begins to establish a ceiling on his support which gives an opportunity for the moderates to coalesce however they are going to do that, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, michael bloomberg, i am not saying joe biden and to find out if they have a candidate. paul: why couldn't elizabeth warren supplant bernie sanders as the champion? there was a lot of thinking he would

paul: we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason jason jason riley. make of the flap over stop and frisk? >> just that, it's a flap. i think most people understand that what mike bloomberg said basically true, it's true that the problem in these communities is not policing, it's the crime rate. polices are responding to those communities because that is where the 9/11 calls originate. so i don't think this is a big to-do, he'll is have to muddle through it. paul: can he pick up significant african-american support, as he claims he can? >> i don't know, paul, that's hard to know. he has a record, but he can't really run on it -- paul: wait, wait, what do you mean? the why can't he run on it in. >> because what the democratic party has billion. his record is crime reduction through proactive policing -- [inaudible conversations] school choice. but the party has moved away from those things. paul: well, is that true of african-american voters? in fact, they support charter schools and school choice to a greater degree than the overall democratic electora

let's ask dan hemminger and columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow jason riley. any doubt that sanders is the front runner? >> no doubt at all. numbers told the story. he has won two caucus is in the primary in a row in nevada and south carolina and bernie has a cement like block of supporters a 25%. it is the question whether he can expand that base. we said that about donald trump. i'm not sure the same is true of >> you don't think he could expand as much. one of the big stories in the past week, is the workers in nevada, they have repudiated, bernie's medicare for all saying the preferred their goldplated private insurance plans. and the thing that most people attached to bernie sanders is medicare for all. and i think that was that six and with the american people it begins to establishha a feelingn his support which gives an opportunity for the moderates to vote however they're going to do that, but a judge and amy klobuchar and mike bloomberg, those are not releasing joe biden. [laughter]. and find out if they have a candidate they can put up against him.

. >> next booktv monthly program with off and wall street journal columnist jason riley the author of the case for open borders, please stop helping us how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed and faults like power a critique of black civil rights leaders.

booktv monthly call in program in depth we were joined by author and wall street journal columnist jason riley the program he offers his thoughts on race in the criminal justice system. >> i think the criminal justice system is certainly an improvement today over what it used to be over what my father or grandfather experience. but it's still not perfect. i would caution against taking these examples and saying they are typical. versus exceptions or aberrations. or saying that the reason Ãb is because it's a racist system per se. i don't see a lot of evidence for that. i think often times we have discussions about the racial makeup of prisons and jails but we don't talk about the racial makeup of people who perpetrate crimes in this country and i don't think you can really have one discussion without the other. as imperfect as the criminal justice system is, has been, continues to be, i still think that there are behavioral differences among groups that lead to some being overrepresented in that system and others being underrepresented. >> to watch the rest of this interview and find more epis

jason breaking off his engagement to melissa reconnecting with second choice molly. >> we are coming on ten years of being married. ten years. >> my stepson is 15 and rileymost 7. >> reporter: they credit their long-lasting love to this. >> a big piece of continuing to have a successful marriage is just growing with each other. >> molly's always thinking about what's going to make me happy, and i'm always thinking about what's going to make her happy. >> reporter: for bachelorette desiree, it was heartbreak at first, but she did find her happily ever after. >> will you marry me? >> that was about seven years ago. so a lot has changed since then. we both have grown. we have two boys now. >> reporter: five years into marriage, their key to success is -- >> we can see a difference when we have time to just be us. >> we're trying to be more intentional about date and going on dates now. >> reporter: now advice for pilot pete. >> toward the end i think feelings can get convoluted. it's very important to be able to identify love and whether it's going to be something that is long lasting. >> reporter: but it's still a journey for pilot pete before he can put s