for the rest of you "moyers & company" will resume in just a moment. >>> we now continue with "moyers & company." >> i read just the other day that 76%, three-quarters of college graduates are unfamiliar with the bill of rights and almost all couldn't say who was america's arch rival during the cold war. pretend i'm a freshman in your class at indiana university which you left to come. how do you plan to rescue me from my ignorance of the past? >> if i get to meet you then i'm going to encourage you to take a u.s. history course for starters. the problem is that our colleges and our sense of public sphere are shrinking. colleges and universities are giving increasing weight to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics. they haven't cut out the humanities. i don't want to overstate or say there is a crisis. but there is a sense that university presidents have to be responsive to state legislatures and if those happen to be republican there is a lot at stake when it comes to what is the appropriate history lesson to be taught to our children. and i want to point out that in t

>> this week on moyers & company -- >> the border ran right down the middle of our depressed little apartment. kitchen was the united states, living room was mexico. walter cronkite was the ambassador to both countries. >> welcome. this is pledge time for public television, when we remind you there are programs here unlike anything else on tv. programs such as this one. there is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the united states and mexico. a vast swath of terrain, a long and tortured history, and an endless stream of humanity both separate and join our two countries. it's as complex a coupling as you will find anywhere. from brownsville and matamoros on the gulf of mexico, the border runs along the rio grande river to intersect with the continental divide. where it turns toward tijuana and san diego on the pacific ocean. 1,969 miles snaking through desert and desolation, dividing towns and cities marked now by stretches of steel and concrete fence, with infrared cameras and sensors, national guardsmen, and border patrol agents. well over 100 million peo

>>> this week on "moyers & company" -- nuns hit the highway on a road trip of faith and politics. >> the ryan budget cuts social services, devastates social services. they want you to think they're giving it to the deficit, but they're not. what they're doing is they're cutting taxes for the wealthy. >> come along for the ride. then, sister simone campbell and robert royal join me in the studio. >> let's not forget, there is no free lunch at the end of the day. that when something is paid for through a government program, it comes out of other people's pockets. >> announcer: funding provided by carnegie corporaon out of new york, committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. kohlberg, independent production fund with support from partridge foundation. clements, heart foundation, dedicating to heidening public awareness of critical issues. herb alpert foundation,ot pmroe passion and creativity in our society. bernard and audrey rappaport, john d. and katherine t. mcarthur foundation committed to building a more just and peaceful world. more information. the hth foundation,

bill moyers: after the ceremony at aberdeen. there's a press conference and you ask donald trump a question. donald trump: i'm very happy to report that everything we've done, i think it's coming out better than anticipated than in our wildest dreams. it's going to be really spectacular. there doesn't seem to be people against the job. the only one here. i want questions. >> he said he wants a real journalist. briefly, tell me about your experience. >> well, i started in radio as a news reader and reporter and editor at itn in london and then worked as a producer for the bbc and a reporter for the bbc and then made documentaries for the bbc. >> so how did you feel when he said i want to talk to a real journalist? >> i think it's bizarre. i think at the end of the day he was really saying i want questions from journalist that's allow me to say just how wonderful this is. what i really want to be asked a question where such as is this turning out better than you'd hoped, mr. trump? he said it turned out better than we could have p

have you bill moyers, jesse jackson and bruce spinning stein but no dwight david eisenhower. are you kidding me? >> dwight eisenhower was a great military hero and at the end of his 8 years as president he warned america about the military industrial complex. >> bill: he should be on this list and he is not there. >> you know, maybe in the second edition of the book. >> bill: the second edition. so bruce springsteen makes the first edition but eisenhower is going to make the second one? >> you know, bruce springsteen has been the voice of working people for the last 30 years. eisenhower was a brilliant general. but in terms of support for civil rights, for women's rights, for human rights. he waited 8 years until the end of his presidency before he warned us about the military industrial complex. he had to go into little rock arkansas kicking and screaming. i don't consider eisenhower to be in the position of theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. >> he you wrote the book and you are entitled to your opinion. now, explain to me this, this is fascinating. you seem like an

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so we're pretty well regulated as it is. >> reporter: moyer says balloon pilots are tested every twoears and their equipment inspected every 100 hours of flight time. >> the biggest challenge is common sense. you've got to know when to fly and when not to fly. and knowing when not to fly is really what's critical. >> reporter: that's something marcy cook knows all too well. >> he doesn't have brakes and gas pedals. he is operating on the whim of the wind. that's all he has. >> and to give you some comparison to other adventure sports, in the last three decades there have been more than seven times the number of deadly skydiving accidents than hot air balloon accidents. best advice, before you go up make sure you're flying with a qualified pilot in good weather. >> all right. speaking of weather, let's check in with rob mayeda and see what's going on here as well as what's going on with tropical storm isaac. >> yeah, right now, diane, with the latest update that came in just at 11:00, the storm is still a tropical storm, winds sustained at about 65 miles per hour. central pressure has

and bill moyers said w does the university exist? and martin amos said i think we're about five einsteins away from knowing the answer to naquestion. i thought five einsteins. that sounds about right. maybe there are five einsteins out there and i judg have to gem in the right order. >> rose: how did you begin the search, the journey? >> first of all, the reason this question just becomes such acute importance recently-- it's not just a teenaged obsession of mine. it became quite important when the god wars broke out. the arments beten the so-called neo-atheists like richard dawkins, christopher hitchins, daniel denet. and religious leaders, the defenders of religion. when christopher hitchens-- a friend of both of ours-- was on the tv defending his book, someone like sean hannity would say, if you don't accept that god exists, how can you explain why there's a world at all? and christopher and dawkins don't really have good answers to this question. there are -- >> rose: he's an atheist isn't he? >> not just an anti-atheist-- not on

>> this week on moyers & company nuns hit the highway on a road trip of faith and politics. >> the ryan budget cuts social services, devastates social services. they want you to think they're giving it to the deficit, but they're not. what they're doing is they're cutting taxes for the wealthy. >> come along for the ride. then sister simone campbell and robert royal join me in the studio. >> let's not forget, there is no free lunch at the end of the day. that when something is paid for through a government program, it comes out of other people's pockets. >> welcome to our take on one of the hottest controversies of this overheated summer. my two guests have some insights you'll want to hear on faith and politics. sister simone campbell heads the catholic activist group network, based in washington, d.c. a lawyer and poet, she has long been a fearless advocate for the poor and marginalized in america. so fearless she recently took on two other combative catholics, bill o'reilly and his alter ego, stephen colbert. robert royal is founder and president of the faith and reason institute, al

. >> that is glenn moyer with the balloon federation of america. >> we are restricted what areas we cann or out of, what altitu altitudes. because of the regulations, so we are well regulated at it is. >> he said that balloon pilots are tested every two years and their equipment is inspected every 100 hours of flight time. >> the biggest challenge is common sense, you have to know when to fly and not to fly. knowing when not no fly the critical. >> that is something that marty cook knows all too well. he is operating on the with. him of -- on the whim of the wind. that is all he has. >> in the last three decades there are seven times the deadly sky diving accidents than hot air balloon accidents. >> if you have a tip for the investigative unit, give us a call. or send us an e-mail we are back in a moment. jeff has his sea legs and he is back with us on dry land. >> yeah, it was great at the america's cup world series, we will have the forecast coming up if you are headed that way this weekend. right now numbers are dropping to the 50s that is good enough to produce fog. let's look at sa

. >> reporter: that's glen moyer with the balloon federation of america. he says balloon pilots are tested every two years and their equipment inspected every 100 hours of flight time. >> the sport itself operates under the federal aviation regulations, and that sets forth where we can fly in some instances, under what circumstances we can fly in terms of visibility, weather, et cetera. >> reporter: according to the national transportation safety board, since 1964 nearly 1,000 people have been injured hot air ballooning. later today we take a closer look at accidents and talk with a woman who nearly died when the balloon she was riding in rammed into a power line. that's tonight at 11:00. >> thank you. if you have a tip for our investigative unit give us a call at 888-9946en tips or send us an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. >>. >>> in sacramento lawmakers have sent the governor is bill intended to protect illegal immigrants from deportation when arrested for minor infractions. it requires local law enforcement to check the fingerprints of arrested s

. >> that's glen moyer with balloon fed raegs of eration of. >> we are restrict what areas we can flyt of because of federal regulations. we are well reg late ulated. >> the biggest challenge is common sense. you got to know when to fly. when not to fly. and knowing when not to fly is really what is critical. >> that's something marcy cook knows all to well. >> she doesn't have brakes and gas pedals. he is operating on the whim of the wind. that's all he has. >> to give you come pareson par. seven times the number of skydiving accidents than hot air balloon accidents. make sure you are flig wiying w qualified pilot in good weather. make sure you are flying with a qualified pilot in good weather. still ahead. whale watching is big business in the bay area. why spotting earth's biggest tree ch creatures in the wild has become easier recently. if you want less, you can always have less, but i like having a lot more a lot more than having a lot less. and the more more i have, the more i like having more. and that's exactly what i get at embassy suites. more post-meeting celebrations, more

♪ >>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> i think that we have to be prepared as a nation that if we'reoing to commit a 19-year-old to war, we're going to have to give him some help. and we're going to have to give his family some help. i mean, for every soldier with post-traumatic stress, there's a wife that is sitting there wondering what in the hell is happening to her husband. >> funding is provided by carnegie corporation of new york. celebrating 100 years of philanthropy and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund with support from the partridge foundation. john and polly guth foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb albert foundation supporting organizations whose mission is to create passion in our society. the john d. mcarthur foundation, creating to creating a more just world. more information at mackfound.org. and the betsy and jesse think foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischmann and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, de

moyer wild, which is a book about when walked the pacific coast trail all by herself. it's a thrilling book. i read it not long before publication and i couldn't put it down. so i totally see why oprah was enthusiastic to the point this is the book that revived her club. so what she is doing, there's not going to be a dedicated tv segment like there was in the past but will tie in more closely with the magazine. twitter and facebook discussions, a much heavier online component. so, a lot of people in publishing are also watching and waiting to see, well, will the book club work just as well in this form? will there be a dip? so it's another thing everyone is waiting and seeing this summer. >> host: finally, books do nonfictionbooks add to publishers bottom line? do they sell nearly as well as the novembers you have been talking about? >> guest: it depends. from what i understand general laird's imagine, which was bat creative, that sold phenomenally well, largely helped when barnes & noble made at it recommends pick, and certainly coming up-maybe not so much this summe

. >> there is car act ti -- car accidents are the number one killer of teenager autos and that is moyer than cancer, drug violence for gun use. >> and driver error is going to be with us but some technology in cars is helping curve accidents. consumer reports says attacking the problem on many fronts can go a long way. renee says her 18-year-old son, steven, was just a few miles from his destination when his car skidded on ice, and flipped several times, killing him, and injuring his passenger. >> we'll never be the same. to lose a child is the greatest loss. >> but steven was not wearing a seat belt. a factor in about 60% of the fatal car accidents for teens. the distractions like texting, or talking on the phone, are also factors. and in fatal accidents, 27% of young drivers are drunk. >> the first year of driving is the riskiest. 16-year-old are three times mer likely to get in a crash than 18 or 19-year-old autos and consumer reports recommends advanced training programs to teach teens how to handle passenger situations and become safe drivers. >> and says new technology seems to do