it certainly isn't a coincidence that jerry falwell and 76 was running around with a liberty baptist college at the time required to bring to every state capital during the god and country rallies talking about the founding fathers on america's bicentennial. so again, that's kind of nostalgia creates this kind of longing for the lost world and i would agree with you, it is in deed a religion of hope. i need to be careful with the audience here. i know some of you might take this the wrong way but evangelicals and christians of all types believe in the kingdom of god. when betsy uses the word everyone freaks out. they say you want to become an education secretary so you can take over and bring the kingdom of god but that is an in-house term, that is a church term and it means that one day we will be with the lord in a way in which all will be made new. i am not the theological stripe without getting too much into the weeds of thinking we as evangelical christians should be doing our best despite the brokenness of the world to be able to lead out with this kingdom will one day look lik

and he set out to do so. >> narrator: he even embraced reverend jerry falwell, the founder of the evangelty university, a man he had previously calleagent of intolerance." >>eeverend falwell came to him, said, you know, "put our past differences behind us, our acrimony behind us," or something. and then asked him on the spot if he would consider giving the commencement address at liberty.d responded on the spot, "sure." >> senator! i heard this crazy story that senator john mccain is giving the commencement address at rry falwell's university. >> well, befe i bring on my two attorneys, i'd like to... (laughter and applause) >> don't... don't make me love you! >> it cut against everything that mccain had done and said up to that point. >> why i didt is because of the fact that my kids said, "wh haven't en on the jon stewart show lately?" and i figured that was the best way to do that. >> senator! >> john mccain is a politician. he's been elected to the senate. he's involved in politics. he understan that yesterday's battles are yesterday's battles, and if you're going to win tomorrow's, yo

is i heard razy story that senator john mccain is giving the commencement address at jerry falwell'sversity. ik well, before i bring on my two attorneys, i'dto... (laughter and applause) >> don't... don't make me love you!t >> it cut agaierything that mccain had done and said up to that point. >> why i did it is because of the fact that my kids said, "why haven't you been on the jon stewart show lately?" and i figured that was the best way to do that.>> enator! >> john mccain is a politician. he's beeelected to the senate. he's involved in politics. he understands that yesterday's battles are yesterday's battles, and if you're going to win tomorrow's, you may have to do things differently. >> so, you freaking out on us? 'cause if you're freout and you're going into the crazy base world... are you going int crse world? >> i'm afraid... i'm afraid so. >> mccain has demonstrated both a temperamental inclination and a real ability over the courseit of his pal life to, to do things that are politilly expedient, and at the same time signal with a sense of irony and detachment that he doesn

by mitt romney and i chas ties my senator lindsey graham and put him in the same category with jerry falwellstatements or not great statements, what's next? they don't do anything when they come out and says something racist it's so much inaction and nobody has the fortitude to stand up and say anything. i've said it once and i'll say it again, it doesn't -- mean at a turner and sellers will not change the conversation about race in this country. >> we won't? >> it's going to take -- >> bigger plans. >> it's going to take white males evangelicals who wants to stand up and say the values iespouse on sunday morning i espouse throughout the week. >> it's not -- the onus is not on black folks and brown folks -- >> why you're allowed to run for office -- opining with romney should disqualify him for office. >> come on. >> at the end of the day, the african-american pastors were visiting with the president and addressing the issues. there are people who don't agree and attacking this issue and discussing this in the white house now. meanwhile, we have twice as many african-americans support the pr

jerry jerry falwell, jr., said the same thing at the republican national convention. blue collar in this instance has nothing to do with wealth, it has to do with this cultural donald trump donald trump was very, very good at using those -- at least in the campaign. his policies have not really fallen through on that. but the way he talks about -- he talked about coal mining. he has, you know, the very famous picture of him outside of the white house. when he talks about jobs, he's talking about manufacturing jobs. he's he's talking about blue collar work. jobs jobs that don't exist the way they used to, but that's the sort of mind-set he has, and people hear it and respond to it. >> >> genuinely speaking, and i know it's a monolithic group, but the white working class voter, the trends went for johnson in 1964, nixon in 1972, went for reagan in 1980 and '84, the so-called reagan democrats, then back to clinton in 1992, barack obama in 2008, and generally speaking, donald trump in 2016. is that correct? >> umm, for the most part. and one of the things to really unders

. >> why is jerry falwell jr. involved in it? >> in this presidency?han the president. the president obviously wants to get rid of sessions. one thing holding him back the senate made clear he will not get a replacement confirmed so it won't solve his problem quickly. >> grassley has said -- depends if you get ben sasse or the others to vote for a replacement or cornyn. grassley said, listen, i'll have a hearing and lindsey graham saying there's wiggle room now more than there was two months ago. >> i think they're treating donald trump like the child that he is, basically trying to say, we'll do it, we'll do it and push it off. >> i don't know. like paul ryan saying donald trump was trolling everybody by revoking brennan's security clearance. >>> let's talk about over the weekend getting a memo circulated by republicans, warning against investigations that will come up if democrats take over the house. democrats will subpoena trump's tax returning. look at trump family business. comey firing. transgender military ban, mnuchin dealings. personal e-mail

people try to compare jerry falwell or some of these right wing ministers to king. they're using the gospel the rest that's not what king did. they were using their religious belief to justify this as a christian nation and to make everybody bow down at the altar of their narrow interpretation of christianity. king used his christian beliefs to make this a morally just nation so that everybody could participate regardless of their religious orientation. now we have religious bigots. howard thurman, the great teacher of martin luther king jr. was an king's briefcase as he traveled across the country. he said a bigger is a person who makes an idol of his commitments. these religious bigots who worship at the altar of their own narrow understanding of the faith. fetishizing their own theology. didn't understand what king was trying to do king was trying to open up space so that whosoever will, regardless of your faith, religion, class or culture could participate. so there's - - but the language survives. the moral orientation survives. and more than most other people,