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starts right now. hi, ari. hi, all night. i ll be with you all night. see you soon. see you soon. thanks. welcome to debate night in america. this special edition of the beat will take you through everything you need to know as we ramp up. this live shot outside the debate hall for joe biden and donald trump. this is the earliest general election debate in american history. that s not all:alex wagner is there and will be joining us in a moment. the biden campaign pushed to jumpstart interest in the race by making this debate earlier. we could tell you tonight a huge 73% of voters say they are planning to watch tonight. and you can, too. nicolle mentioned this debate airs right here on msnbc in about three hours with rachel maddow leading the special coverage in under an hour. i can also tell you this is the first debate between a president and a former president. kind of an interesting factoid there. also the first time these two have been near each other at all ....
host: how far was your boyhood home? guest: i was born in south central, picot union which is a pretty heavily hispanic area. and then my dad moved up to south central. we were the second black family on the block, and within five years the whole block was all black. host: larry elder, there s a picture on the front of your book, very quickly. and i promise then we ll go to calls. what is this a picture of? guest: that s a picture of my dad s restaurant. and if you can look very closely in there, you can see my dad leaning over there. it s one of the rare only photos we have of my dad s café. that s where i was born, in that little house right there. my dad tore it down after the place was zoned for light industrial and built the restaurant there. lousy location. you can t see it, but the food was so good, people found their way. host: and you hated working there. guest: i wouldn t stand working for you. he cursed at me. he would get volatile and start ye ....
host: our guest, larry elder. radio talk show host, columnist. the firms are up on the the numbers are up on the screen. we re talking about his most recent book which is a memoir. mr. elder writes a lot about politics as people who follow him know. if you d like to dial in and talk about that as well, 202-585-3885 in the east and central time zones, 585-3886 if you re in the mountain or pacific time zone where we are right now on the campus of usc. mr. elder, chapter two, if norl was hate. my hatred for my father was not the kind where you get a spanking, seethe for a bit and things go pack to number go back the number because you realize he punishes you because he loves you. norm was intimidation. normal was tense. normal was wondering if you would say something that could set him off. normal was hate. yeah. when people look at me and i m smiling, they often wonder why is it that i m so sort of nonchalant about it. i m writing that from the perspective of a ....
so because they believe america brought the terror war on its own. the far left is very consistent. it s always america s fault. therefore, anything that weakus. these people drive much of the debate about torture. the cia controversy is similar to the anti-police movement we re seeing. that was ignited by the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. over the weekend there were a few well-planned demonstrations implying that american police and prosecutors do not value the lives of black citizens. in new york city, a college professor was arrested for attacking police. there is the attack. two nypd officers were injured in the melee. the man, eric linsker, teaches at the city college of new york and has been charged with assault on a police officer and insi inciting a riot among other sing it out. mr. jackson is entitled to his opinion. and it would be interesting to see if he can defend it. but a far more serious question is, does new york city mayor bill de blasio distrust ....
it emboldened our enemies and look what they ve done since then. our friends in the region, the saudi s and the israelis never wanted this deal and they are happy it is not being recertified. are you confident that republicans and democrats in congress are going to be able to actually get something done on this in the next 60 days? that s the question. there s some great people on the hill that have spoken out about what needs to be done. jesse, what needs to be done you look at the last eight months what have the hill where the gop establishment on whether it s obamacare, tax reform they have dropped the ball again and again and again, so this is their opportunity to tell the world they are serious as the president is about national security, but it s too early to tell. if we scrap the deal altogether come is there anyway to get the billions of cash we gave them back? i think that ship has already left the port. those pallets of cash, the $150 billion, including a ....