mark levine is next with "plunder and deceit" in which he calls on young people to resist what he calls an ever growing centralized government. also on the best-selling list, presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon ben carson in "a more perfect union" argues a bert understanding of the constitution is needed to solve america's most pressing issues and he lays out hit plate cal thinking. ann ram ram in -- ann romney in which she details her struggle with multiple sclerosis. you can watch the authors on our web site, booktv.org. >> how do i find odessa? wasn't hard to find. it's football team, odesya, was absolutely legendary at that point in time in 1988. it ended up winning, i think, three or four state championships in the '80s and a the most competitive playoff system in the country. and 65 teams vying to be the state champion. they were ranked number one in the preseason, and what makes a book? it's story-telling, narrative. why you read it? to turn the page, and my hope was that they would ghetto playoffs as they were always pretty much guaranteed. then there was odessa. not

just for a little taste of mark levin, here was mr. levin on his conservative radio program giving his reaction to the cnbc debate on wednesday night. >> now, i didn't agree with every candidate on every issue. that's quite beside the point. that wasn't even the purpose of this debate. this debate was a hifrkts debate. it was a historic debate. because the republicans, not all of them, but most of them on that stage had had enough! enough is enough. and i say that reince priebus should be fired over there at the republican national committee. i don't know. did you hear that today from 12 different people? i doubt it. i don't know. that guy's an incompetent. he's a boob! the head of the rnc needs to go. these debate formats are preposterous. and let us not forget. the moderator food fights did not begin with cnbc. it did not begin with cnn. you know damn well who it began with. >> he means fox news, who had the first debate. what he means is that fox news is biased against the republican party. and why is fox news biased against the rep

. >> mark levin, who you joked and said i want mark levin as a speaker. >> he's definitely a true conservative. >> so you'll say that but you won't say -- he doesn't think paul ryan is. he doesn't like his stance on the debt limit and tarp. >> i have said consistently throughout that the question of house leadership the question of house republican conference. >> i want to move to foreign policy, afghanistan decision by the president. in favor of it? >> well, listen, it's a recognition that what the president has been saying for years, that al qaeda is decimated, was never true. that it was political spin. the reality is we live in an incredibly dangerous world and sadly the failures of the obama/clinton foreign policy have made the dangers great. >> if you become president you'll keep this policy in place of keeping those troops in afghanistan? >> it will depend on the mission. i don't believe we should be engaged in nation building. i don't believe we should be trying to transform foreign countries into democratic utopias, trying to turn iraq into switzerland. but i do think it is the job of

for the next big of a house, how about mark levin? [applause] can you imagine the great one? to just picture the first conference with the senate? [laughter] senator cruz: where mark goes, which, we are not going to do it, we're going to follow the constitution, and we are not going to give in exhibition point -- [applause] senator cruz: now, that would be real leadership. well, also, in the last couple of weeks, pope francis was in washington. i have to say it was really extraordinary to sit on the floor of the house of representatives, to listen to the pope address a joint session of congress. i will note the week before, or the day before, rather, the press conference at the white house -- it got a little awkward. every time the reporters would address a question to your holiness, obama would answer. [laughter] senator cruz: then the day after that, the chinese president was in washington. he was meeting with president obama, and media outlets all across the world reported on this momentous meeting between the world's most powerful communist and the president of china. [lau

mark levine, ford o'connell. gentlemen, appreciate both of you being here. ford, first to you. boehner resigns in the middle of his term. that hasn't happened in a while. mccarthy says thanks but no thanks. there is a call for paul ryan to run. he says no. why does anyone want the third most important job in the united states government? >> because it's a terrible job. you have to fund raise and be a mainstream needimmediate media-will-let me say this, this is not armageddon as much as the democrats want to make it out to be. >> in look, paul ryan, i think s too smart for the job. i still think so. i don't know. he may he said up falling on the sword. but this is the poisoned ring. this is the ring of power, one way ticket out of politics. paul ryan wants to run for president some day. >> he needs to take a cue from the pope, lock them all in a room. >> john boehner needs to stay around for a while. >> he might have to stay around because he wants to go golfing on marco island. not going to happen right now. if we don't come to a consensus, john boehner will be around at least

. >> so that was on mark levin's show.made very similar comments when he visited harlem earlier this summer. nia, you said this pretty succin succinctly captures were carson is so popular. his blackness makes him the first anti-obama. >> yes, i think that has been sort of the underlying story of people like ben carson and herman cain and there has been a desire, particularly in this obama era for the gop to have their version of obama. and i think a carson definitely taps into that. and we've seen this from time to time, there have been, for instance, a draft movement for colin powell, there's still a draft movement for conde rice. the argument has always been that this drives white people crazy and then you hear black people using words like plantation and carson recently said something that black people are starting to think for themselves and in that way might support his candidacy. this has been an ongoing, sort of underlying theme when it comes to a particular brand of black conservatives and carson certainly fits int

initial resolution on the house near to try to out speaker bay summer and drove him out pushed by mark levinry popular with seven million listeners, they give these guy as platform for their conservative angst and it helps. it helps. >> i like that ryan's line saying he is not giving up the family time on weekends to go around and raise money if he took that job and some have criticized him for not backing paid family leave but how would the media react if a congressman said i am not sure i want to be speaker. >> easy answer, any woman for speaker would not daresay that. they wrote not ever. women feel the pressure to not admit they have a fame or need a family. and ryan, i am glad he did it, it could pave the women for women to admit more they need more family time but you are right, totally different circumstance if it was a woman. >> and for dads to talk about it in public. >> susan ferrechio thank you. a hard look at an embarrassing journalistic fair, everyone implying that vice president biden was running for president. and most who are covering hillary clinton are female journalists. i

how about a debate moderated by sean hannity and mark levine and rush? >> i think he's right. you strive to get to a place where the people that are doing the moderating are going to put on a fair show. that didn't happen last night. there's no question. i talked to dr. carson today, too. we're going to be getting together with all the campaigns at the rnc. >> listen, in fairness, i don't blame -- i don't think anybody could have anticipated that. >> i know. here's the thing. we cosponsored these debates. so although it's easy to just -- listen, i do blame cnbc, but i also take responsibility for the fact that now we've got to do everything in our human power to make sure that never happens again. that's why we have to take the bull by the horns here. >> all right. chairman, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >>> coming up, john kasich. he reacts to last night's republican debate and why did he go after ben carson and donald trump. and then later tonight -- >> every single policy she espouses and every single policy of president obama has been demon trably bad for wom

. >> i remember when he jumped on the mitt romney ticket, and the talk radio round, i remember mark levinsay we can repeal 85% of obamacare and he has been rallying conservatives. do you think he is on record as having said he would be a leader -- >> he made a splash when he entered at that point and he is seen by some, many, as the future of the republican party. there is a lot of talk about what this means politically for paul ryan if he were to become speaker. what does that do for a potential white house run for paul ryan? >> the question has always been, this is the difficulty in washington, some republicans say our job is to keep the government running and keep it open and there are those of us who say if you keep it open and borrow million dollars a minute you will destroy the country so i did and run for office because i wanted to be governing or in charge of something. i didn't need to be in charge of something. i was worried about the country that we were borrowing $1 million a minute. default and shutdown versus throwing a one million dollars a minute. if we continue to do the

>> in my view, republican primary debates ought to be debated by shawn hannity and mark levine and rush limbaugh? now, that would be a debate. >> what he was asked about cruz's idea he said i think he's right. i mean, here we go. it's interesting, howard, that he writes this very aggressively and a real show of strength actually before he is into this political season. i'm going to take control. we will not let the people run the debates. we will take control. i think especially he said no chris matthews which is fine when he was setting this up. then you get a ludicrous situation of people getting to pick who they would like to ask questions. then do they get to ask the questions themselves? >> well, i think there are two things going on. >> journalists can ask questions. let's face it, it is under assault. now the campaigns, which have the real power. >> one of the reason people ask debates, it does make it interesting. in baseball machines throwing balls at the batter. everyone asking, what do you think about the economy? what do you think about world events? what do you think about

how about a debate moderated by sean hannity and mark levine and rush limbaugh?be a debate. >> i'm in. and i think i can speak for the other two, they're in as well. i do agree with you. because these questions are downright hostile. and i believe this was a horrible night for the news media. and i will say in many cases, in many instances tonight a disgrace to the, quote, profession of journalism. this is a serious issue. >> the reason is the moderators and the networks don't want the american people to vote for any of the ten men and women on that stage. they want to beat up whoever the republican nominee is, then they want people either to stay home or vote for hillary. the purpose of these debates, listen, republican primary voters are making a choice. we ought to have questions that focus on our vision for america. for example, today i rolled out my tax plan. a simple flat tax. the first $36,000 of income for a family of four, there's zero tax, zero income tax, zero payroll tax, and then a simple 10% tax above that. that's the sort of thing we ought to be ta

so if they -- let's say mark levin, a very influential conservative, you know, radio guy, says, well,l ryan is a squish and republican x should not have voted for him, some guy decides he's going to run against him in a primary, that's the thing these guys don't want. that makes them feel like, maybe i shouldn't vote for them. i don't want to be guy that gets primaried out of my seat. >> let me ask you the apocalypse question here. i keep thinking, if nobody's viable, including mr. viable, paul ryan is not viable or he won't run, that the fallback position is that john boehner has to stay speaker. is there so much turmoil among republicans right now that maybe that's not viable either? >> conservatives have already said that if it looks like he's going to be staying around a long time, particularly if it looks like he'll pass a debt ceiling increase and longtime -- and a long-term budget bill and spending bills, that they will go back to what they were doing before, which is getting ready to try to a force a vote on his speakership. and the reason he decided to retire is they realize

moderated by sean hannity and mark levin and rush limbaugh. i think republican primary voters would like to see that those are strong rock-crib conservatives, they're going to be voting in a republican primary and they're going to ask questions that would actually help people determine who has been the strongest conservative. who has been consistent. not people who are sitting there, for example last cycle in 2012. we all remember george st stephanopoulos. you remember all the candidates were puzzled and scratching your head on birth control. he kept asking and asking. we found out about a month later that was the opening charge of the democrats' made-up war on women. that it was a, a so-called media person who obviously had been a clinton political operative. launching the first wave of an attack. why would our primary debates be moderated by people with an agenda of defeating whoever the republican nominee is. >> let's go to some substance here. the question you were asked when you went into the comment about the questions that were being as

shouldn't be moderators but people high-profile in the radio world like radio hosts, rush limbaugh and mark levinwhat do you think about that? >> they have got to work this out. the campaigns will talk about what they want to do. they know they have research just like donald trump and ben carson were able to get them to cut the debate from three hours to two hours. the candidates if they threaten not to show up have a lot of leverage. i think there will be changes to the format. i'd love to see this broken into smaller groups, have the candidates sitting at a tablek with a moderator acting as a traffic cop and making sure every candidate gets equal time. wouldn't has be aunice for a change? it's supposed to be about informing voters, making moderators famous, building up the network so they can charge $250,000 for a 30-second ad during the debate. >> it would be a very interesting change indeed to see some of those things materialize. all right, larry. always great to see you. that you so much for joining us. >> thank you, uma. >> well, 7,000 pages, that's how many hillary clinton e-mails the sta

how about mark live-in -- levine. [applause] great one --ne the just picture the first conference with the senate. goes -- mitch, we are not going to do it. we are to follow the constitution. we are not going to give in. that would be real leadership. also, in the last couple of weeks, pope francis was awash in. it was reallythat extraordinary to sit on the house of representatives and listen to the pope addressed a joint session of congress. i will note the week before, or the day before, the press conference at the white house got a little awkward. every time the reporters would address a question to your holiness, obama would answer. [laughter] and then, the day after that, china was in of washington. he was meeting with president obama. media outlets all across the world reported on this momentous meeting. the meeting between the worlds most powerful communist and the president of china. [laughter] [applause] all of us are here tonight because our country is in crisis. are here because we are bankrupting our kids

marks the 20th anniversary of the o.j. simpson verdict. steve: pretty incredible. i spoke with all sorts of people, including harvey levin, to see what they remember about where they were when the verdict came down. dari: and janet jackson, yes, she's back, but she's leaving some things in her past in her return to the music scene. first, here's tonight's new york minute. minute. >> reporter: nyc parks announced a brooklyn borough senior olympics today. there was a preview of some of the events. the full games will be held in may of next year. the idea came from a brooklyn resident who was competing in senior games upstate. >> and i said, wow, i didn't know they had a senior olympics upstate. about half the people who participate come from new york city. so we said let's bring it to brooklyn. we started out as a small venture. now it's going borough-wide. >> a new exhibit is open at the whitney museum of american art. archibald motley features works from one of the most important figures of the harlem renaissance. >> anytime you google the harlem renaissance, you will see an archibald motley painting. he did paintings of