joining me now is joe madison. >> joe, have you ever seen fear mongering like this ads? >> look. they have either made uncle sam a gynecologist or a pervert. this is what it boils down to. this is what they've done. and the reality is that young women should know that you can go in and get mammograms, no out of pocket expense, you can get the kind of preventive care. young men, as one who has gone through prostate cancer, you can get this with no out of pocket expense. these are things to prevent people from getting sick or to at least detect how sick they might be. this creepy is beyond the words. and i'm surprised that even general managers of tv stations would even think about running this. >> but they are. and let the tell you something. in case you weren't scared enough already, here's some more on the koch brother who is are funding this. they pledged to spend $60 million personally to defeat president obama. they host semi-annual conventions with rich donors and guests like paul ryan and senator ted cruz. th

joining me now are joe madison and ryan grim. en't go leaders like mitch mcconnell and john boehner denouncing this praise of jesse helms? >> because they can relate. this man has now been resurrected by them and they resurrected everything you stood for. imagine this nelson mandela would probably still be in prison because he supported the apartheid government. the voting rights act probably would not have existed. this is a man who even accused his opponent wife of dancing with a black man who was against interracial marriage. so what they've done, what ted cruz has done, he has resurre resurrected the last standing racist unabashed racist in the united states senate and the sad thing about this, it's not just the republican leadership, but you know, where are african-american brothers and sisters in the republican party? they wouldn't be in their position today if jesse helms was still alive. >> that's a very good point. you know, ryan, there's a precedent for this. we're not act asking for something that -- in 2002, and joe ma

joe madison, townhall, these issues will be taken up. we thank you so much, let's give a big round of applause for these extraordinary panelists and let's thank reverend doctor wendell anthony for opening the doors of the church. [cheers] [applause] >> on the next "washington journal", operative michael hurley will talk about threats to the united states from al qaeda related terrorist groups. followed by u.s. today alan gomes on immigration and what law enforcement says is missing from policies proposed in washington. then george mason university's janine wedel talks about politics and government. "washington journal" is live every morning on c-span at 7:00 a.m. >> yes, the world is changing. no, we cannot control every event, but america remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs command as, and as long as i am president, i intend to keep it that way. [applause] >> the president in the earlier clip is talking about we are the indispensable nation. what he doesn't want us to talk about, he wants americans to contemplate. we w

at 9:00, craig steven wilder joins book tv in an interview with joe madison he talks about his book ebony and ivy, race, slavery, and the troll history of america's university. then at 10:00 p.m. eastern meredith whitney explains why states and the midwest would become the new powerhouses for the american economy. we wrap up tonight primetime programming and 11:00 p.m. eastern. her experiences and the experiences of others with the american foster care system. that all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv. >> and now on book tv jesse walker talks about his new book, the -- "the united states of paranoia", in which he discusses the popularity of political conspiracy theories and paranoia going back to the founding of the country. this is about 45 minutes. >> our author. today we present a book dealing with an american history of conspiracies, just three days ago the cra admitted that such a place known as area 51 those actually exist. even though they disavow all knowledge of any aliens, so-called conspiracy theorists' rejoice. [inaudible conversations] >> the best way the some of mr. walker

at 9:00, craig steven wilder joins book tv in an interview with joe madison he talks about his book ebony and ivy, race, slavery, and the troll history of america's university. then at 10:00 p.m. eastern meredith whitney explains why states and the midwest would become the new powerhouses for the american economy. we wrap up tonight primetime programming and 11:00 p.m. eastern

up next on booktv "after words" with guest host plant or piston radio host joe madison. this week craig steven wilder and his latest book "ebony and ivy" race, slavery and the troubled history of america's universities. and it the m.i.t. history chair discusses how the campuses of many elite universities were not only built by slave labor but funded by profits earned on the practice of slavery. this program is about an hour. >> host: "ebony and ivy", professor wilder. i guess the first question is, how did you start down the road and we were laughing before you said 10 years ago when he first started you had hair. [laughter] >> guest: not a lot that i had hair. >> host: what started you down the road to actually put "ebony and ivy" together? >> guest: is actually sort of a long story that i can make sure it. i had just moved from one job to another in teaching because i had just finished a book project and i started out and it was going to be a simple book, a simple article actually. i

ellen ratner rusty humphries joe madison and i were all at machar a tiny village in south sudan near the border for border recently refugees in the war in darfur were streaming in as we flew out we could see the president of sudan's ginger with jonjo we had troops burning in another village and our four people were dying we saw the refugees president omar al bashir of sudan has been indicted by the criminal court at the hague but nobody's going to do it and nobody will arrest him he continues his war and campaigns of death in darfur and northern parts of southern sudan right now where is our noble outrage at that. similarly the death toll in the democratic republic of congo is horrific why are we the united states the supposed policeman of the world not taking action to stop these humanitarian disasters the united states should stop using war as a way to resolve conflict and change the world we have other tools beyond the hammer of war and every problem in the world is not a nail many countries could be helped tremendously particularly iraq and afghanistan by simple things like build

. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with clinical activist and radio host joe madison.this week on a craig steven wilder and his latest book, "ebony & ivy: race, slavery & the troubled history of america's universities." in it, and the m.i.t. history chair discusses how the campuses of many of the universities are not only built by slave labor, but funded by profits are from the practice of slavery. this program is about an hour. >> host: "ebony & ivy," professor wilder, i guess the first question is how did you start down the road? we were laughing before he spent 10 years ago when you first started you had hair. >> guest: not a lot, but i had hair. >> host: what started you down the road to actually put "ebony & ivy" together? >> guest: is actually a long story i can make sure. 'v

i had the great fortune this morning to tune in to the joe madison show and heard you on the air, andalso heard mr. king. and i said, i heard the story and i said, i sat straight up. i was preparing for a college class. i am an educator. i am not in the d.c. public schools. i work in a local jurisdiction here nearby. one of the things, i worked very close to the soviets with no child left behind, but on the montgomery county side, okay? we also have the poverty is different on that site, okay? one of the things, and i'm very, very concerned about winning heard you this morning, the question i have for you, to the students at dunbar know their history? do they know the history of the school lacks one of the things that i am finding has been very upsetting to me, after attending the march on saturday and seeing the numbers of young students and college students who march. redeker from howard on the front page of the "washington post" yesterday, the kids, our children don't know their history. and because of that, they have nothing to really aspire to, to know that all of this greatness

joe madison, town hall. these issues will be taken up. we thank you very much. let give a round of applause to the extraordinary panelists and thank the reverend for opening the door of the church. [cheering and applause] on the next washington journal the proposed military strike on syria. we'll hear from california economic representative barbara lee. she'll discuss legislation she's proposing to pursue diplomatic efforts. then new jersey republican representative christopher smith on his bill proposing a syrian war crime tribunal and the national clan clandestine service with former deputy director. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. secretary of state will be on capitol hill tuesday. i can remember the day it happened. my father was a minister. we had gone up to the church. my mother was the choir master. so we had gone to the church to get ready for service. all of a sudden, there was a loud thud, and we knew a bomb had gone off. you knew it. we thought maybe in our community. and then a little while miss lawrence rice came in. she wa