i would like to hear what he has to say. >> host: let's see what mark levin says.s in elections, he left for college and gerrymandering. let me start with corporate funding of elections. there is no corporate funding of elections. the citizens united case was allowing corporations to fund advocacy ads so they concluded not only should unions be able to do it but corporations too. why not? as long as it is public and we know who is contributing what to these campaigns it got to be online so you can get it immediately and in a lot of cases it is i don't have a problem with that. i have a problem with the shadowy stuff that goes on with members of congress and so on but the front donations is fine. i say this as someone who has a problem, the chamber of commerce conducted self and is now getting in the republican primaries for the purpose of defeating conservative candidates and pushing big government corporate republican candidates. that said, principle is principal, free-speech is free speech. as for the, durrell college of course i support it. there's a movement to

next, in depth with author and radio personality mark levin. .. sprite, liberty and security and is 2013 release, liberty and ants. >> host: author mark with in >> host: mark levin, in your book, you propose amendments to the constitution including term limits, an appeal for the 17th amendment, establishing term limit for the supreme court court justice, limiting federal taxes. which is most important to you? >> guest: they are all of the same genre because the goal is to restore the republic. the federal government is so unhinged from the constitution it would be nice to break them into three accept -- separate -- blanches but it is more mush now. there is the massive administrative branch as well. the 4th branch as i call it. the goal or the purpose of the book is to talk about revising the constitution and the republic but also to reform people how the republic is supposed to look and how the constitution is supposed to function and move some away from the government to the states acting collectively. >> you write about the 17th amendment saying

i listen to mark levin. always agree with everything he says, but one of the problems i see with our political system is -- [inaudible] they debate issues ask ask them questions and all i get back is -- [inaudible] and with that said, that's the only pining i'm going -- opining i'm going to do, i've got three specific questions for mark, and i'd like to get his knowledgeable opinion on these areas. corporate funding of elections, doing away with the electoral college and, um, gerrymandering, doing away with gerrymandering. i'd like to hear what mark has to say about those three -- >> host: thank you, todd. we'll have to see what mr. levin says. >> guest: what was the third one? >> host: gerrymandering. >> guest: all right. let me start with corporate funding of elections. well, there are no -- there is no corporate funding of elections. what the citizens united case did was allow corporations to fund advocacy ads. so they concluded that not only should unions be able to do it, but corporations should be able

this mark we're featuring mark levin. bruno, arizona, you're on the air. >> hi, mark. i enjoy your books immensely. i have all of them. i have a question about the liberty amendments because there was something that i've been thinking about since we have the occupant of the white house who changes laws at will, spends our money, driving us into oblivion, and does whatever he feels like he wants to do, wants to be a dictator, and we have a senate where harry reid is carrying his water constantly. i know that obama won't be impeached. do you have another idea that can be incorporated into the conviction the state that would allow the people to take other actions to get rid of a person like obama, because obviously right now we don't have a way of getting rid of him, and waiting until 2016 we may not have a country left, and as for the guy that was complaining about the koch brewers, he might realize george -- left wing organizations that was are out to destroy this country, but i really am interested in your idea. -- >> host: let's get an answer. thank you for calling in

you're the first call for mark levin. >> caller: hi. i've listened to mark levin's show every night for years now, and from what he means by liberty is the criminal elite looting this country clean, impoverishing the middle class and paying no taxes on the wealth they've stolen. what he means by liberty is to public money for social security, medicare, medicaid, education or the rebuilding of our crumbling infrastructure. he is a prop begannist for the criminal elite posing as a right-wing conservative. and his liberty amendments are to bring to an end once and for all in the united states of america any political representation for anyone in this country by the criminal elite. >> host: that was laura, new york city. >> guest: she figured me out. i confess, i'm part of the criminal elite. , i confess. i get callers like this all the time. one of the things that c-span does is you give 'em 60 seconds. i give 'em about 6 seconds. so what do you want me to say? there's -- yeah. >> host: why do you give them six seconds? >> guest: because a

as we continue on "hannity," and still with us to break down the state of the republican party, mark levinmark, i'm pretty happy with c conservative governors. you have guys like rick perry. we're going to be in new orleans tomorrow for the republican leadership conference. those conservative governors are doing a great job. deficits are becoming surpluses. unemployment rates are going down. they're making good decisions for their states. i don't see the same thing with republicans in washington. you've been pretty outspoken about it. i want speaker boehner to go. what do you think is needed in d.c. to get them going? >> without getting into it, i'm not a fan of every one of those governors. some of them have exploded their budgets. most people under 50 have never had an opportunity to vote for a conservative nominee for president of the united states. ronald reagan was over 25 years ago. what we have now with the republican leadership is essentially a neo statists that are supported by crony capitalists. these guys are stuck in the mud. they're reacting to the left. they're mimicking the

. >> mark levin was on last night. he doesn't hear the republican party talking about limited government anymore, balanced budgets anymore. i don't hear any inspiring message. guys, if you get power, what are you going to do? >> we're not just going to coast in into leadership positions. you know why? because the mainstream media, supposed to be the referee, is not doing a fair job, obviously. so we have that against us in our message also, so we have to work even harder and really kind of ratchet down some things and talk about limited government. that's the beauty of the tea party grass roots movement to. the tea party is all about limited government and allow the people and individualism to grow. >> what do you make of this tea party establishment schism? because it is real. >> tea party candidates are saying, we're taxed enough already. there's nothing radical about that. united we stand. divided we fall. if those who still believe in a place in the republican platform, whether they're ashamed to be associated with

as i was going home on friday i was listening to talk show host mark levin.is what he had to say about romney. >> he's just wrong. he was wrong with romney care and he's wrong with this. now he's becoming a troublemaker. now he's becoming a divisive force. now he is trying to leave an imprint on the republican party that will contribute to its destruction. >> mark levin is a pretty influential guy. he endorses candidates. >> he's a great guy. >> he said, look, this is destroying the republican party. >> i think governor romney came out in favor of president obama's increase. i'm not in favor of president obama's increase. when i was in the senate and the house, i did vote for minimum wage increases that were incremental, not inflationary. if you look at the cbo report, half a million people would lose their jobs. i'm talking more in the range of a dollar, phasing that in. i think that will create a minimum wage, only 2% of workers are covered by the minimum wage. historically it's between 5% and 7%. >> from a political point of view, there is this sort of int

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mark levine has expressed concerns to the high and transportation district. to make sure the brick district is accountable for the environmental and the labor practices to make sure that work is done. >> if there's any problems with the organization i'm responsible. >> that was the bridge distribute general manager, he admits he's caught the bridge painters not using their time or your money wisely. we'll have the results of his investigation on the 10:00 news. we'll let you know what's being done about it. reporting live. >> the department of toxic substances roll -- control is seeing clean up of lead on the bridge. and if you have an idea we'd like to hear from you. e-mail two investigates at ktvu.com. >>> today the heat is on. giving you two live looks the big picture is the oakland estuary, on the right it's mount diablo, our chief meteorologist told us to expect the weather. some of us want relief now. one hot day and everybody wilts. tomorrow tomorrow will cool along the coast, but a warm to hot day inland. santa rosa, that would be a record, but they a

on c-span2, mark levin. history tv,american a look at the new york city transit museum. a busy day in the nation's capital. a hearing on the drug task force. here's a preview. >> makes grants available to state and local government to improve and enhance those types of intervention programs. loopholes that are in our current gun laws, and does this by the prohibiting of possession of farms by certain individuals. these are people who have been convicted by stalking, who are subject to involuntary outpatient commitment, and people who are previously -- there is one category regarding domestic abusers, and we expand on that. otherand to include mystic abusers. right now it is mostly spouses, and there are only spouses and people who cohabitate. but the truth is we have expanded it to include other folks who fall into that domestic abuser category. it also -- we also build on the partnership between the federal and the state government. we provide grants so states can create laws that allow law enforcement to get a war to remove firearms from the possession of any individua

mark levin, thanks for your time today on booktv. >> guest: great honor, thank you. .. >> and also this weekend a panel discussion on the black power movement with actor and producer danny glover, kathleen cleaver and brian jones. for more information, visit us online at booktv.org. >> steven pressfield talks about the six-day war between israel and its arab neighbors in june 1967. he tells the history of the war through the words of israeli soldiers who fought on the front lines. this 50-minute program is next on booktv. [applause] >> thank you, guys, for coming out on this hot night. what am i going to do? i'll just try to, you know, maybe do about 20 minutes, and then we'll just talk, you know, and questions and stuff, and i'll try and tell you about how this book came to be written and then sort of a little what it's about since the six-day war's sort of obscure, i think, in most people's minds. let me tell you about my own self as a jew, my background as a jew. [laughter] i found out that i was jewish when i was 13 years old. and that is not as uncommon as it might be. but that was

fragmented america you lament, you've got a forward by sean hannity, you quote limbaugh, you note that mark levin is the big -- and there are no liberal ideas, including social security that you say you like or medicare. they're not cited here. >> guest: look, this is, this is a counterargument to much of the problem we're facing. if i thought that government was working well, if i thought it was functioning well and promoting the general welfare, if i thought the tenth amendment was being lived under that all rights not specifically delegated to the federal government will be reserved for the states and the people, if i believed in all of that, i wouldn't have even written the book. so this is a counterargument to what the left is saying about government is the solution to all of our problems. if you tune into john stossel's excellent show on fox on saturday night, he's a libertarian. he goes a little further than i would, but he basically deconstructs all these government programs and mostly the attitude that people turn to government first. it's like a religious cult, juan, that no matter the

book tv is in prime time with mark levin. 3, a trip to the new york transit museum. >> what has beenhe result when you have this classic economic holdout with retransmission for doing you have companies this game of chicken. a cut off service to customers. they are trying to block traffic on internet services. the ultimate result is programming spiraling up and up. you wonder why your cable gets going up. the resolution of the disputes that were retransmission, the fcc is hamstrung by the rules and ways interpreted the congressional mandate to get involved here. the easy result is these parties eventually agree to deals which raise prices and give consumers a lot of channels they don't actually want. that is but i am afraid of. i think to say that interconnection happens in a private way is great. should be room for private deals. if we get to that point interconnection would be a tragic outcome. >> the impact of an open internet from a progressive policy institute. a live three-hour program in depth with authoring call missed -- and columnist amity shaleas. >> early today the chair

. >> thank you. ,et me begin with mark levine policy director. t to express my appreciation for this discussion by going on here. it is quite balanced and quite revealing. mr. levin, can you speak of are jose serrano is or reduced mandatory palaces and their and then the crime rate cooperation rate? >> thank you. one of these examples is michigan. in 2000 they eliminated their drug mandatory minimums. the second decade property crime there was another .xample that rollback drug courts are one of the best solutions we have. they rolled back drug sentencing laws. the penalties and they have seen crime continue to decline. texas, we're are definitely still tough on crime and we say we are tough and smart. that does involve making the sentence for the crime. for our drug position cases, your sentence can be two to 10 years. i think that we need to do is the heroin epidemic was mentioned earlier. there is new pharmacological interventions to block the receptors. so the heroin addict does not feel anything anymore. a certain amount of kingpins will cont

with mark levin, policy director. want to express my appreciation for this discussion going on here. it is quite balanced, and to me, quite revealing. mr. levin, can you speak about states that eliminated or reduced and story penalties -- theatory penalties, and guilty plea rate, the cooperation rate? very much.nk you one of the examples as michigan, which you are probably familiar with. their0, the eliminated mandatory minimums, including retroactively. in the subsequent decade, crime fell 24%, violent crimes 13%. south carolina is another example, in 2010, rollback their drug mandatory minimums. they saw crime drop 14% since then. -- his brothery is it drug court judge, and they are one of the best solutions we have. ago,lback those a year they have seen crime continue to decline in georgia. is tough onasm crime, we say we say we're tough and smart. , ifdrug possession cases you have one to four grams of drugs, your sentence could be two to four years permission or -- probation or imprisonment. there are new pharmac

. >> thank you. ,et me begin with mark levine policy director. want to express my appreciation for this discussion by going on here. it is quite balanced and quite revealing. mr. levin, can you speak of are jose serrano is or reduced mandatory palaces and their and then the crime rate cooperation rate? >> thank you. one of these examples is michigan. in 2000 they eliminated their drug mandatory minimums. the second decade property crime there was another .xample that rollback drug courts are one of the best solutions we have. they rolled back drug sentencing laws. the penalties and they have seen crime continue to decline. texas, we're are definitely still tough on crime and we say we are tough and smart. that does involve making the sentence for the crime. for our drug position cases, your sentence can be two to 10 years. i think that we need to do is the heroin epidemic was mentioned earlier. there is new pharmacological interventions to block the receptors. so the heroin addict does not feel anything anymore. a certain amount of kingpins will

i mark levin with light on crime. i to question about what folks think about the idea of allowing prosecutors to wave -- i guess the judge could realistically, most cases are plea deals, prosecutor would be able to waive certain collateral consequences? and i think there might be a fair amount of support in this room but interesting to see what licensing agencies and other bureaucracies think about that as well. thank you. >> great question. >> that is a great question. i don't know that prosecutors have the authority to waive them necessarily. that isn't to say that they couldn't if they did have that authority. that would be a question i've had in my mind as to whether they could wave them right in at the time of sensing but i don't know, -- but how much time judges spend with them either, but it's an interesting concept. i think it would be worth studying to find out if there's something that they could do at that level but i think the statues, given that authority to different agency in state government, as i said

on c-span2, booktv in primetime brings you in depth with mark levin. on c-span3 as american artifacts and look at the newark city transit museum, the national firearms museum and a visit to the national cryptologic museum. that's all tonight on the c-span networks starting at eight eastern. >> so what's been the result when you have this classic economic holdout problem with retransmission for video? you have companies doing this game of chicken where they cut off service to customers. they're starting out to block traffic on the internet services for customers, and the ultimate result is programming costs spiral up in the. you wonder why your cable bill keeps going up? one big reason is that the resolution of disputes over regions mission with the sec is hamstrung by the rules and what it's interpreted the congressional mandate to get involved here, the easy result is these parties eventually agreed to deals which wage prices and give consumers want to just they don't want. that's what i'm afraid of. i think that to say that interconnection happens in

host: a little bit from mark levin's radio show on. and politico report said the ed consultation radio is coming to an end. he will end his radio program and move to an online-only format. he announced really, this change will give me more flexibility to be on the road to do the kind of shows i want to do for the ed show on msnbc. the switch will go into effect after memorial day and it will be one hour instead of three. richard, what's your view on congressional involvement in the redskins name controversy? lake placid, florida. hi, richard. caller: yes. good morning, peter. congress ought to stay out of it. but the on positive thing i see here is if congress is involved and going around naming nfl football teams, maybe this will be down to the college and to the high school level, then they're not screwing up the rest of the country. but everything they touch seems to turn sour. our economy, our education system. how about the veterans and how about the health care? how about what's going on? we're involved in military in 47 countrie

>> you know, i don't like mark le le levin's argument because they have money to buy the team they canwhatever they want. >> why? >> i don't think that you have a certain amount of money that you can acquire things and put a label on things with respect to a number of people. there are large organizations and -- >> while the v.a. has no accountability and veterans are waiting in line to get care -- >> agreed with you there. >> let me finish. the senate should be doing the nation's business, not getting involved in a private sector issue that can be solved by the marketplace. >> but the question is from pete whether or not the name should be changed. i'm addressing that. politics aside, if there are large groups of people offended by the name of a team -- >> but shouldn't private organizations, private businesses have the ability to choose the name of their team? >> the answer is no. they should not be able to use something that offensive that is broadcast on national air waves. >> i wanted to count the pages of organizations and people which i printed out. it's five typewritten pages o