Carson: Feds should police colleges for ideological bias

Ben Carson, who's running a tight race for president and coming in consistently second against Donald Trump, told Glenn Beck on his televised TheBlaze broadcast the Department of Education's mission ought to be shifted to include the monitoring of colleges for political bias.

His comments came after Beck asked if Carson favored national standards for education.

And the candidate's response?

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"Absolutely not," he said, in the video. "The closer education is to home, the better."

Beck then asked if he would shut down the Department of Education.

"I actually have something I would use the Department of Education for," Carson said. "It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny funding if it exists."

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He also said during the four-minute interview he was in favor of "the right kind of border fence," the Keystone oil pipeline and oil and gas drilling off the coast of America. He said, too, he didn't favor Common Core or the United Nations.

"I don't like the United Nations," Carson said. "And unless they change, I would not participate in funding."