this morning cheryl olson, co-author thor of grand theft childhood talks about the president's push of study on violence and violent video games on young minds and

host: proposals from the president, you can talk to cheryl olson at (202)585-3880 for democrats and (202)585-3881 for republicans. (202)585-3882 for independents. twitter.com/cspanwj is how you tweet us and if you want to post on facebook or send an email, facebook.org -- is there a standard definition of what is violent? when it comes to video games? guest: no, there isn't. the supreme court ruled on -- host: an explanation of what happened? guest: they tried regulate some aspect of video game content. what schwarzenegger of all people in those violent movies, he wanted to ban the sale of ultra violent games to kids younger than 18. they wanted to put an 18-plus label on it. no one ever said what an ultra violent game was. my concern was that they would be publishing in the paper information about hey kids this was banned because if you do this and that, this is what happens and it would cause them to go seek out the event. host: so as far as what he is asking congress to do, you said research hadn't been done on the policy level but which body would take the lead on this do you thin

host: joining us now cheryl olson the co-author of a book "grand theft childhood: the surprising truth about violent video games." thanks for joining us. guest: my pleasure. host: part of the president's proposal on gun violence was to fund a study looking at video games. what do you think of that proposal? guest: i think it's good depending upon how it's done. a lot of studies are out there but hardly any of it was design as an academic journal and we really need more research. host: specifically where? guest: first of all the concern that it might trigger some kids to hurt people or hurt property. we got a lock at the kids who have tried hurt people or property and see if their video game use is somewhat different. there's no studies on juvenile offenders and their media use. also kids with mental health problems and mental health has been related to school shootings, it's unlikely one kid is going to be influenced by a video game that way but we have seen no ranks between the violent behavior and video games but parents that don't know how the handle stuff, some children may express

. >> tomorrow, cheryl olson talks about violent video game and the effect on young people.lott talked about the obama administration's efforts to reduce gun violence. diane oakley talks about retirement savings purposes and what that could mean in the later years. live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. next, press enter a not -- inauguration speeches from the last year's starting with ronald reagan, bill clinton and dwight eisenhower. >> the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. this honor beacon's americans the chance to lead the world at last out of the valley of term oil and onto the high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization. >> making the benefits of scientific examinations and -- scientific advances for the improvement of undeveloped areas. story.ic radio's back live saturday morning at 11:00 eastern, part of three days of american history tv rights to inauguration day on c-span 3. >> in 1981, ronald reagan was inaugurated. he had won the 1980 election against jimmy carter. a major issue in the campaign was the iran ho