. >> host: you worked with ed meese. >> guest: great man, great mentor. he was attorney general of the united states. i was, among other things, his chief of staff. this notion of originalism, he reintroduced it and promoted it in the 1980s as ronald reagan's attorney general, which was absolutely crucial. we had some hectic times there because the left hated him because he was so effective. so they would try and unleash prosecutors and so forth. but the fact of the matter is, he was a really effective, forward-thinking attorney general. so a lot of the people you actually see on the courts today or in different organizations promoting liberty and the constitution and so forth worked in the meese justice department in one unit or another, one division or another. so there's a whole army of conservatives/libertarian constitutionalists out there who got their first job or the most prominent job in the meese justice department. >> host: how did you get from chief of staff to ed meese to a radio show? [laughter] >> guest: wow. well, i'll tell you, let me put

and, attorney general meese just decided to leave office.and president reagan said to attorney general meese, who was coming under attack bit usual radical leftists and so forth, and president reagan said to him, i want to apologize to you, ed. all these attacks that are aimed at you are really intended for me. i'm sorry that you've had to go through this. that's what ronald reagan said. that is what kind of man ronald reagan was and ed meese too. great men. absolutely great men. >> host: one of the things we like to do with our "in depth" guests, what they're reading, influences, what their favorite books are. here are some of mark levin's answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> host: mark levin, ahn of the authors you list as your favorite, raymond aaron, the opium of the intellectuals. >> guest: raymond aron. he was french. he is absolutely great book and great thinker. there is a philosopher i didn't mention. and he wrote particularly about the cold war and the iron curtain and but he, but he skewered in a brilliant way the elites, so-called intelle

and ed meese too. great man. absolutely great man. >> host: well, one of the things we like to do with our "in depth"s is what they're reading, what their favorite books are. here's a look at some of mark levin's answers. >> host: mark levin, one of the authors you list as your favorite, raymond aron, "the opium of the intellectuals." >> guest: raymond aron, he was french. and it's an absolutely great book, and he was a great thinker. there, there's a philosopher that i didn't mention. and he wrote particularly about the cold war and the iron curtain, but he skewered in a brilliant way the elites, the so-called intellectuals. and it's just a tremendous book. and and i learned a great deal from him. you know, these masterminds. these aren't necessarily words that he used, i'm using. but he -- and he gave great examples of it and the danger of it, and he would talk about the communist elite and the liberal elite and the academic elite. and while he didn't agree with every exact thing, but the mentality. it was just

. >> stephen: we'll be right back, everybody, thank you >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, i meese tonight is keenoff-- keanu reeves, please welcome keanu reeves. konichiwa. >> konichiwa-- brark speaking japanese (. >> stephen: it's so wonderful to meet you and be angry with you in person. the three things that piss me off. you're a canadian. you're an acker. if you tell me are you a vegan i'm kitting off your mike right now, no, you're not, okay. also you're 49 and i'm 49. you go to hell. (laughter) are you an elf? what is with you. >> it doesn't count what is on the outside all the time, it's what is inside. >> stephen: please tell me this has to do with eating bacon. >> absolutely. no, i can't say anything about that. it is my ancestor. >> stephen: oh, good genes. >> good genes. >> stephen: all right, listen, i don't have to explain anyone here who keanu reeves, name your favorite movie, quick, go. all of those, all of those. you've got a new one now. >> that is what it feels like to me. >> stephen: you walk on the street and people just -- >> no, no, not like that, just-- . >>

it's time for -- >> i hate meese these people. >> all right. an airplane and you're wearing shorts, you shouldn't be on an airplane. let's just decide that right now especially if you're leaving sfo, san francisco and you're arriving in new york city where the temperature -- the temperature is 10 degrees and you're walking out, and you're in shorts. that's idiotic, i'm referring specifically to my brother-in-law who just arrived in shorts from the bay area to new york city where it is around 10 degrees and freezing. it's an insult to all of us. dress for where you're going, not where you're coming from. that's a different interview. >> how are his legs? >> not bad. he works out. >> you know. >> disgusting how shallow you are. >> bob? >> yeah. i'm happy to report that gallup just completed a survey about who is insured in america, life insurance -- health insurance, rather n.december, just a short month ago 17.3% were uninsured, and now with the first couple of weeks of obamacare, 16.1% are uninsured, a great start. congratulations. >> oh, my go

ed meese is heading up a project for them.fter republicans who are, they believe, going soft on the social issues. so how does the gop get past these civil wars? >> the good news is our terrain is not open to any of the sort of things that hurt us so badly in 2012. we're not going to have any divisive primaries of the sort that plagued us in indiana and missouri. mitch mcconnell is going to be the nominee. he's going to win handily. it looks like in south carolina that lindsey graham is going to be the nominee. he's going to win handily. meanwhile, people are looking at saying i'm going to put my money into tom cotton beating mark pryor in arkansas. i'm going to go up to alaska and be with mead treadwell to take out mark begich. so whereas democrats wish they could poll what they did in 2012, which was clever and divisive for our side, i don't see it happening. i think the stakes are too high and the destructive impact of obamacare and, by the way, our foreign policy. we are going to have a mess in iran. syria's over 130,000 d

he is carlos gohen, meese san motor company -- nissan company president and ceo. liz?le who criticize davos and say nothing ever gets accomplished here, it was here in davos where the idea of building out an entire electrical vehicle charging network for a whole nation took hold. the country was israel, the company who helped make it happen, nissan renault, and the ceo, carlos ghosn. wonderful to have you. you've been coming here for close to a dozen years if not more. >> yes. liz what do you look at this year as the most important thing you need to accomplish for the company? >> i think connection with new emerging markets, for example, we are hooking at the development -- looking at the development of the car african market. i have many contacts with business people from nigeria, i'm going to meet the president of nigeria, i have a couple of other meetings, till confidential, that's going to happen. this is what davos is about, is connection with people that usually don't meet and particularly hearing about the prospect of new markets or prospect of new countries. li

jenna: good, creative ideas to inspire future meese, jon.on that one. >>> the nation's third largest health insurer might have to drop out of obamacare. wait until you hear about the latest problem with the health care law. we'll have details next. >>> age-old question, are we alone in the universe? tiny particles could give us new clues. we'll have that coming up what does that first spoonful taste like? ok. honey bunches of oats. ching! mmmm! mmmm! mmmm! wow! it's the oats. honey. yeah. honey bunches of oats. this is a great cereal. >> right now today's top headlines and brand-new stories you will see here first. edwards noted about to speak out on president obama's plan to reform u.s. surveillance programs. we will get a live report. and major rest a decade old crime. the highs featured i in the plot of the hit film "goodfellas." and pop star justin arrested on charges in florida. police say he was dragracing, under the influence and resisting arrest. coming up now. speak ahead of one of the nation's largest insurance companies with a war

greg postell joins meese with all the details. what's the latest? >> you're exactly right.the midwest. let's have a look at advisories from the national weather service. winter storm warnings in place for much of missouri, illinois, indiana including st. louis, chicago, indianapolis all the way through detroit. big-time snows are coming your way. 2:00 on sunday morning we'll see a swathe of snow from kansas city to chicago. that will accumulate all morning long through much of the afternoon as low pressure begins to move out of the southern plains. it will be very cold behind the system. it's cold northerly winds from the arctic area move south into the united states, blowing all that snow around. there may be blizzard conditions as the times on the backside of the system. this system on monday morning will track up into the canada provinces and leave the east coast on the warm side. they should get mostly rain out of this. but eventually it will get colder, too. later on monday and on tuesday as the arctic air really spills out all across much of the united states. this is

or people who used to work in vice president for sales who are so desperate that i assume some of meese resumes if -- some of these resumes if we looked at would be qualified to do many things other than working at a plant but they're looking because they desperately need work. we look at this program. it is the people who need work. we're not doing them a favor by letting them have this benefit. i disagree. we have to, i think, pass this measure. we have to do it because it' the right thing for these families. it's the right thing for our constituents. and it's the right thing for the economy. i think it would be foolish, frankly, to take a program that we are confident can create 200,000 jobs, can increase g.d.p. by .2%, that is one of the best forms of physical policy to stimulate demand and economic growth and say we're not going to do it. i think we say we have to do it. there's another aspect to this too. particularly appropriate to the issue of the long-term unemployment. we're seeing a remarkable number of long-term unemployed individuals in this recession. typically these benef

cannot start budgeting to fill that gap, so that is going to be a problem every bit as great as what meese for after floor of the was never going to happen again. it's just sort of an hon discussed subject now. so we hope that we can get the conversation going. part of the crisis is that they do not need a single state or local administrator that says i love my voting machines i only wish we could keep them forever. in fact we did not run into a state or local administrator who liked his or her voting machines and thought they were good. the reality is there is a huge gap and lack of development in the new voting equipment that boating equipment simply has not kept up with a technology that we could come to rely on in our everyday life. there are any number of reasons for that but primary among them as the standards and certification process is completely broken down. they are using the standards set in 2005 and 2007. it's currently housed in the eac and there is a broad prospect for the eac to be resurrected anytime soon. we disagree some about the truism of that statement and the method

passage of time always helps meese guys.e seeing that president obama is having some of the same problems president bush did and adopting some of the same national security problems. you go to ed gillespie's page. you go in and you see that he was the counselor to president bush for the last 18 months of the bush administration. joe, this is going to be a great race. both sides are going to have tons of money. mark warner who is certainly the favorite but work downstate virginia this week. ed gillespie launches helped him with fund-raising. i got an e-mail with the subject line this weekend, "here we go." and mark warner raising money and telling his donors he is running against a very credible washington insider. >> we will see how that goes. mike allen, thank you so much. >>> the play that sent the seahawks to the super bowl and the postgame interview that may have gotten more attention. >> what happened there? >> "morning joe" sports is straight ahead. ♪ should not all those presents make the cut ♪ ♪ no need to chuck, don

and that is a scandal in its own right is under virginia law you can, in fact, give meese -- these lavishkedown where they plead guilty to obstruction of justice charges because the virginia law, as sam said, the real scandal here, imagine if you're the lawyers for bob mcdonnell and going back and deciding to say, okay, let's find somebody that contributed to mark warner when he was governor, that contributed to george allen when he was governor, that contributed -- go back to the last five or six virginia governors and you're going to be able to find benefits that they handed out that were much greater to companies than, say, a launch party for a pill. >> you do get a feeling you know how this is going to end, that it will be some sort of deal. they seem to think they have her lying to investigators so your theory on obstruction of justice. your question is does the governor plea simply to keep his wife out of jail? and that is how this ends. you do get that -- that said, if you're mcdonnell, do you risk going to a jury with all of those, you know, with the -- you're not going to be a ve

or people who used to work in vice president for sales who are so desperate that i assume some of meese resumes if -- some of these resumes if we looked at would be qualified to do many things other than working at a plant but they're looking because they desperately need work. we look at this program. it is the people who need work. we're not doing them a favor by letting them have this benefit. i disagree. we have to, i think pass this measure. we have to do it because it' the right thing for these families. it's the right thing for our constituents. and it's the right thing for the economy. i think it would be foolish frankly, to take a program that we are confident can create 200,000 jobs, can increase g.d.p. by .2%, that is one of the best forms of physical policy to stimulate demand and economic growth and say we're not going to do it. i think we say we have to do it. there's another aspect to this too. particularly appropriate to the issue of the long-term unemployment. we're seeing a remarkable number of long-term unemployed individuals in this recession. typically these benefit