president and the library of congress has a series where every so often they'll bring you the author of a book on one of the presidents 'the last one we had, last week, happened to be on andrew jackson. they give you a book signed by the author, and i love reading those books, from lbj now to just recently andrew jackson. one book i wanted to read now is one called "a geographyy of genius," by eric weiner. why is that important? well, as an example, why is you have ancient athens and the 21st century silicon valley separate by not only thousands of milds but thousands of years apart? so how do you have this innovation, create different in athens maybe years ago and now look at silicon valley also and

you have this innovation creativity. so i looks into what happens, what sparks, what's the catalyst. so it's not only athens, it's not only silicon valley but different places across dispeople different cities and different continents and that is interesting to me. >> you focus on reading history books or any other interests when you read? >> i love history. i love also self-improvement. i'm also -- i have to say i'm a sci-fi fan. so i'm reading the princess of mars, many years ago, to, of course, not only reading the book but also i've southeastern all the prisons of marz, turned into a movie, john carter, and then "star trek" and other science fix. so that's my readings but i'm always -- i love history. i know that in -- in high school

and back in -- even in college, my classmates didn't like history but to me it's important because if you look out it, the wheel has been reinvented. it's all matter of rearranging things. if you look at discoveries and things, it's all a matter of rearranging things. look at history, there's a lot of ideas that you can look now, create a new niche, come up with a new idea and therefore you spark a new innovation or creativity, whatever the area might be. >> and finally, congressman, what some tools you could so you can add reading into your schedule? >> i love the ipad. there's just an app so i always look at what is out there. one of them is called blake list, an app that will give you smears books and you can either take the option of reading or do

it by audio, and then if you are interested in looking at the whole book, then you buy the whole -- the book itself. but it will give you snapshot and at the very end give you the key message, the takeaway from the book. the other is -- you get an e-mail every day and it has different things from humanities to music to science, whatever the area might be in. so every day give you something in one of those areas. so those are the ways you got to keep your mind active, and especially like somebody like myself, where i have to go from foreign affairs to appropriations to name the issues, and then we you get on the airplane from laredo to houston, from hewitt houston to washington you spained lot of time on the planes and you use the app to keep your mind active but at the same time you're constantly learning.

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>> some authors have or will we appearing on booktv. >> as jack said, to me, enemy blue, jimmy carter was arguably the most intelligent president of the 20th century. katherine graham said so, tip

opeel o'neill said he was the most intelligent president. jack said he could consume amazing quantitieses of information and assimilate them and use them. but i was having a conversation with brent scowcroft at one point, bush 41st amazing national security adviser, and he said, you know, zbig and i were talking one day and the said, love this guy. can give him a 50-page enemy know in the afternoon and i get it back the nest e next morning with notes in the margin on every page and scowcroft told him, that's the worst thing you can do. hi doesn't have time for that. jimmy carter issue think, got bogged down in the minutiae. in fairness, as stew will give

you chapter and verse and i'm a jack could, too on all the legislation that was passed early in the carter -- more legislation than any president since lbj, but he couldn't prioritize. you need a chief of staff to prioritize, to make sure that the narrative is consistent, make sure that everybody is on the same page. none of that is happening clearly in the present day, but he suffered from not having a white house chief from day one, and in my opinion, jack would have been a great one. >> well, one of thing, when you start your book you talk about what seems like just most logical kind of meeting in advance of an administration taking office, and that is bringing former chiefs of staff together and in this case it was

to -- >> mcdaniel. >> yeah to bring him up to speed and had most of the chiefs another staff there to give him advice. jack, what was it like? >> that's funny. >> december 5, 2008. >> dem 5, 2008, josh bolton, who was the president's chief of staff, outgoing president's chief of staff, george w., had gathered this group and there were 13 or 14 of us there, think, sat around the table in the chief of staff's office, having breakfast and talking. rahm was sitting knowns me at the meeting, and -- next to me at the meeting and we went around the table, and each one of us made a brief, very brief statement of some little piece of advice we thought was helpful or that would give some guidance, some of it humorous, a lot of it human, humorous. when it got around to dick

cheney -- he was the vice president, you'll remember -- and for -- >> and a hell of a chief of staff. ...

did the justice department fails to prosecute executives. he is interviewed by jennifer, law school professor and law school professor and author of other people's houses. >> host: it is my great pleasure to be here today with jesse the pulitzer prize-winning reporter to talk about the book that came out this week, the