something either to the third reich and hitler or abortion. the sort of touchstones of human evil. he s not campaigning actively. and he s just skyrocketing in iowa right now. well, i ve been talking to a lot of sources about this. in the establishment, the republican establishment there s a mixture of like relief that somebody is taking over trump but also like bafflement that it s ben carson. but i mean, some people say, and i think there s a case to be made, that if you were to create a candidate in a laboratory designed to take down donald trum in this climate he would look a lot like ben carson. and the reason is that he is also an outsider. he has a lost same bona fides that trump has, except that he actually genuinely appeals to the religious base of the republican party. he is a man of faith. he s very culturally conservative, has been as long as we ve known. whereas trump is not at all. yes. he has an organic, intuitive, and long-standing relationship
know, i don t believe in slavery, i think it s wrong, but you guys do whatever you want to do? where would we be? carson s surge has come despite his decision to effectively suspend his campaign for a book tour. in a string of provocative statements like the one we just saw that seem only to have made him stronger. carson has also proven a very successful fund-raiser raising more than $20 million in the third quarter. but there are increasing questions about where that money is going. of the $20.8 million carson raised last quarter, 11.2 million was plowed right back into fund-raising costs. joining me now, mckay coppins, senior political writer for buzzfeed news. carson so here s what carson s last few weeks have been. he s out promoting the book. the book s about the constitution. he s out it s very hard to get through an interview in which he doesn t compare something either to the third reich and hitler or abortion. the sort of touchstones of human evil. he s not campaigning
children were on board. people s bodies have hit the ground and left these horrific marks. the bodies of the victims will be sent back to their families, i was told, by a gun wielding militia leader who calls himself prime minister. memorials are being held for victims from around the world. the downing of mh 17 was not an innocent accident. it was the outcome of a trail of human evil. reporter: and the international ang ser building. the dutch plim minister lost 193 countrymen. russia s president putin has one last chance to help, he says. but there is still no sign of crash investigators here, three full days after flight mh 17 came down in flames.
mozila wanting to hound him from political or rather public life. wasn t nazi germany evil? the treatment of women in some radical islamic countries is pretty evil, right? rape, murder, pedophiles is that human evil? are there spiritual forces at work there? i think there are. i am a christian. i know there are a lot of christians that will say i believe in god but i don t believe in the devil. jesus believed in the devil. if you believe in the bible i don t think it s a question of wonder if i can cast out your liberal demons. my angel. we do not have as carefully formed a notion of good and bad and the devil, but we have a belief in a judeo christian ethic and the context of politics and political life says we have unique values, cultures and life experience that makes us a beacon for the world and
when you think back, when you think of things you did right, your successes in life, do you think there is any area you maybe failed? yes, i think i failed but not studying more and praying more and spending more time with my family. has the world gotten worse in six decades? do you see more evil in the world, less evil? is it world getting better? it s always been the same. always been the same? everybody is a sinner before god. i think we magnify it today because we have television and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room. but you don t think you don t see a difference? that s fascinating to me. when you see all the changes in the world in the last 100 years in human history and human evil, and you agree there s evil. well, look at 200 years ago,