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Me. >> what do you think about central omaha high. >> why? >> good basketball. >> well, we're only halfway done with the show but i just want to thank you guys. can you guys come over to ratio that it do. would you mine traveling. get you out of school. take the band. take this whole thing on the road. i want to thank everybody here for their time. just ahead, fighting the special interests that have a stranglehold on our government. it's not the first time. some lessons from history. how farmers right here in nebraska 100 years ago banded together to fight the robber barons, the original popu...

Forward and starts questioning whether this is good for the nation. he's the one who really popularizes the idea of breaking monopoly, controlling the power, the wealth that's assumed by monopolies and making the point this is unamerica. america is a place of opportunity and everybody should have opportunity. >> thank you very much for standing here in the snow and giving me a history lesson. i appreciate it. >> appreciate you having me here. >> absolutely. >> still ahead, the big headline from washington today, the modern day robber barons that unduly influence our government, our president a...

Burton fullsome jr. i learned more about f.d.r. in "new deal or raw deal: how f.d.r.'s economic legacy damaged america." and "myth of the robber barons." will you agree the progressive did it to change history? >> yes, sir. deliberately. >> glenn: why? >> it's what progressives do. they reshape the past in order to make policies for the present. that's the definition of historicism. it's brought over from germany by progressive, change history to justify what we want to do in the present. >> glenn: okay. this is "understanding by design," high school, new york city. this is a drafting template...

Gerrard. >> in the appearance for us when we read history books, created the schools. but he created people that were dependent on him to stay in power. >> rockefeller retired by the 1900s and that is a movement that begins in the progressive era. [ inaudible ] >> that's true. >> glenn: that's what we were talking about, i don't know if you heard in the break. i said my problem is that, you know, that money can reach beyond the grave. i think it was vanderbilt who said the more money i have, the more i give my children, the more damage i do to them, because they don't have the struggle i have,...

Gerrard. >> in the appearance for us when we read history books, created the schools. but he created people that were dependent on him to stay in power. >> rockefeller retired by the 1900s and that is a movement that begins in the progressive era. [ inaudible ] >> that's true. >> glenn: that's what we were talking about, i don't know if you heard in the break. i said my problem is that, you know, that money can reach beyond the grave. i think it was vanderbilt who said the more money i have, the more i give my children, the more damage i do to them, because they don't have the struggle i have,...