he finally applied to pepperdine university in california and got in there and his law school roommaten monk who remained a friend and a former chief of staff and as happened to so many of his friends is now indicted with him. [laughter] >> told me as a student, even in law school, rod, you know, he did well in the subjects he liked. anything connected with history, politics he did well in those subjects. even in law school. he read a lot. but not necessarily what was assigned. and his law professor said to him, you know, if you would apply yourself -- you know a lot of your parents have heard this for your kids if you apply yourself to the subjects to the ones you enjoy he would do a lot better. he did exactly what he wanted to do and kind of ignored everything else and that was his academic career. >> pepperdine is a famously conservative place. and he is also known i believe you wrote about this in the book also to have been a real fan of ronald reagan. he voted for reagan, at least once, maybe twice. >> once. >> he was -- he was sort of a young republican at that point, right? >> w

and that was his academic career. >> pepperdine is a famously conservative place. and he is also known -- i believe you wrote about this in the book also to have been a real fan of ronald reagan. he voted for reagan at least once, maybe twice. >> once. >> he was sort of a young republican at that point, right? >> well, you have to remember his real hero is richard nixon and this is primarily because he's a son of a serbian immigrants and most immigrants at that point were republican when they came to the united states number oneuuz because th were very angry at roosevelt and -- roosevelt and -- [inaudible] >> well, eisenhower -- but what happened at yalta, in essence, they felt the many serbs felt yugoslavia had been given away by the iron curtain by the democratic leadership so they -- and they really loved general dwight d. eisenhower because he had liberated the prison camp, german prison camp that rode blagojevich found himself in. he had been captured and spent four years in a nazi prison camp so many serbs including rode blagojevich were staunch republicans.

nba finals in his first season as a coach in the association, westphal coached five seasons at pepperdine. as a player he played with boston, seat, and the. >> nick:s. >> the orlando magic may just be back. coming up shelly smith a report on the lakers and rachel nichols who is with the magic. phil mickelson makes an emotional return to the pga tour. >> and let's cluster score as we like to say. national league, pirates with a two-run lead over the braves, the pirates three losses in a row, top of the ninth, four outs away from the win. reds-nats in a rain delay, the reds with a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the ninth. the mets have tied up the phillies at four after cole hamels gave up four runs, 11 hits, the cards with a commanding lead over the marlins 10-4. >> phil mickelson is returning to the pga tour for the first time since he and his wife, amy, discovered that she had breast cancer. mickelson is making his emotional return to the tour in memphis. >> we're going through a tough time right now. we won't get started on our treatment until july 1, and in the meantime, we're fortunate tha

it was awesome at pepperdine university overlooking the ocean. 3,000 flags that were this tall. oh, my gosh. because the universities do nothing to commemorate the event except maybe to have a political correctness seminar about how america's insensitivities led to the tragedy of 9/11. they do this all over the place. some of the schools that have tried to have the 9/11 never forget projects, the schools have actually tried to shut them down saying -- one of the administrators said i feel uncomfortable having the american flags on our campus. can you believe that? we just plow through that. there's a great controversy to open up discourse on your campus. we're not for controversy for controversy's sake. what you're trying to do is make a difference and pass along to your fellow students there's another way of thinking. and, hey, maybe america is the greatest country on the face of the earth and maybe our values and principles lead the way for freedom and opportunity for other peoples around the world as well. so those are just a couple of examples but clare boothe luce folks and