. >> 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

here as my role in the public utilities commission i couldn't be moren enthusiastic about meesing with you for the first time, meeting jointly with you to discuss all the overlapping objectives and goals and a partnership moving forward and routinely getting together with each other publically and privately to talk about some of the things that we can kind of do jointly and individually as one. in particular i'm interested in looking towards putting together some joint initiatives, but i'm also looking to making sure that people have an at some point to talk about and think about all of the great things that the public utilities commission has done for the environment and some of the great work. i think today's meeting is probably just an exercise in illustrating a lot of the things that the puc has been able to do over the course of the past several years that the commission on the department of environment obviously staff should think pretty highly of. oftentimes people talk about what's not occurring and what's not happening without talking about the glass being half full. no pun in

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

politician he say it's all about gun control while people here say they're meesing the point. >> they -- missing a point. >> they believe our children are violent. i believe our children are suffering. >> it would be that really little little piece of light in a really dark room. >> in 1988, the university of chicago shut down the only level 1 trauma facility serving chicago on the south side. only open to children under 16. >> common sense says these people are dying because they can't get to a trauma center in time. why not put a trauma center? >> candace denard, in 2010, her brother damien was shot just outside the university of chicago. he was alived and talking when the ambulance came to get him. but by the time the ride to the hospital ten miles away, the boy was dead. >> he couldn't go to a loss literally six blows away. everyone in the community got to thinking, why wasn't he taken to the university? >> the death turned into an outrage and that outrage turned into a cause. >> this is youth oriented movement. these are youth doing something positive. these are youth who recogni

and attorney general meese just decided to leave office. president reagan said to himid who was comingen under attack attack, president reagan said to him, i wan to apologize. all of these attacks aimed at you are intended for me. items are yos are you have to go through this. that is when ronald reagan said, a great man. absolutely great teeseven cement one of the things he likedte to do their guest isom whate they're reading or other influences. care is a lot castle of his answanswers. -- at some of his answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ he drove up the cold war and the iron curtain but hejust skewered in a brilliant way the intellectuals.inds it is just a tremendous book. u i've learned a great deal from the masterminds.al and he gave great examples and the danger of it to talk about the congress and liberal elite and congress to meet while we did not agree with every exact thing , but the mentality was just superb. he is not the only one or that a trade economist and d philosopher. he did the same thing and is not alone. >> with so many of his books this

and provide all of the tools that you need to bridge meese different worlds. >> mobile advertising accounts for 59% of facebook revenue up 30% from a year ago. that's why it was a huge topic in the conference. >>> jake ward, what did we learn today from the conference? >> reporter: well, the big news today david is the facebook audience network. it's a mobile ad network that facebook is debuting. if you build apps, you'll be able to put ads that draw on user information that comes from facebook, which is to say a lot of information. what they like, where they live, what they do, that will be instantly built in the apps that you build. if you log into an app and you don't want to give over credentials and facebook information, you can log in anonymously. but here's the fine print, turns out facebook gets all that information. s just that the third party app developer does not get it. the big theme was mobile but they talked about growing up. mark zuckerberg had sort of a ruminating kind of self regard speech at the end where he tal talked about having just turned to the ripe old age 30, and

of the times i was with president reagan in the oval office, i was also with the attorney general meese, and a handful of others, members of the attorney general's family and justice department, and just decided to leave office and president reagan said to the attorney general, coming under attack by the usual radical leftists. president reagan said to him i want to apologize to you. all these attacks that are aimed at you are really intended for me. i am sorry you had to go through this. that is what ronald reagan said and that was the kind of man ronald reagan was. great man, absolutely great man. >> host: what are you reading? some of your influences, what your favorite books are, here's a look at mark levin's answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> host: mark levin, one of the authors you list is raymond aron, the 0 pulliam of the intellectual. it is an absolutely great book. he wrote particularly about the cold war and the iron curtain. >> guest: he skewered in a brilliant way be elites, the so-called intellectuals. it is just a tremendous book and i learned a great dea

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. >> the since we're speaker to a broader audience say to your local tv stations and broadcasters, meese give up your spectrum -- please give up your spectrum. purely voluntary. and saying this over c-span which is a service provided by cable, that's fair. i guess the speakers i want to thank you, and i think frankly, no matter how you feel, you have to at least thanking the folks at the fcc for a brutal couple of months, and thank you to the speakers. i appreciate it. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >>> the wonderful thing about the gulf coast is it's so underappreciated and that's good because it gives us a lot to write about. if we were in new york or san francisco or chicago, those cities and places are all so well known, and new york is a literary capital, but here on the gulf coast, we tend to think of that, say, from texas to the florida panhandle, there really is a sensibility. we have a similar environment, similar types of trees, live oaks, long life pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. the gulf of mexico, of course, nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seaf

i'd urge this house to continue to work to perform its function of oversight and to correct this meese- this most egregious situation and get the veterans the care they need. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? the gentlewoman from illinois. >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. it is with great concern with over the kidnapping of over 200 nigerian girls that we pass the national defense authorization act. ms. kelly: the department of defense in consultation with the department of state needs to report on the efforts of the search and rescue of the young girls who were abducted in nigeria last month. there is more our government can do to address the threat boko haram poses to international security. by congress knowing more about this terrorist group, their movements, the safety of the girls and

. >> the since we're speaker to a broader audience say to your local tv stations and broadcasters, meese give up your spectrum -- please give up your spectrum. purely voluntary. and saying this over c-span which is a service provided by cable, that's fair. i guess the speakers i want to thank you, and i think frankly, no matter how you feel, you have to at least thanking the folks at the fcc for a brutal couple of months, and thank you to the speakers. i appreciate it. thank you. [inaudible conversations]