tom it's great to be here and just for a point of clarification the class i teach at pepperdine is actually called film. and life because it's a conversation that i don't think we have with our youth which is we use films as an access point to start a conversation about decisions and choices that our youth are going to make. in their end when they graduate from college and when they move on with their lives so that's the conversation that i also wanted to start with i am just reflected that in the class i teach well it's fascinating it's kind of. robert mckee comes home to my life i don't think it's the the notion of the story as a person. how did you get it how did you get out of that how did that go bob. well i've always been a teacher in my heart i taught acting for years at a studio called the vincent chase workshop in vincent chase is now one of the characters on entourage they named the lead actor after me so renowned and i just enjoyed teaching and they called one day after i had done the film bruce almighty and pepperdine is a spiritually based school so they thought i would make a

. >> steven hayward is a policy at pepperdine university. >> it is poorly understood by the public and by members of congress. >> my understanding is there is situations where groups file suit against your agency. literally on the same day there are settlements entered into by the agency for those groups. >> i am not aware of any settling in the same day. >> there is a long history of epa working with advocacy groups. and what i would call a sweetheart deal. >> he is a former assistant epa administrative assistant. >> they get to cases they get to recover any fees you have to pay for the costs of bringing a suit. it's a pretty good money maker. >> it gets even worse says homestead. >> many of the same groups get grants from epa. seems like a skewy system. >> i have said it for years but it's the system we have. you are subsidizing these groups to bring lawsuits to attack private property rights to attack the capitalist system to attack various industries. >> mark levin says ma nin many s the law gives environmental groups special standing to sue. >> it is a horrendous circle. >> the co

she was educated at pepperdine university. she is working for "the daily caller." i want you to hear what she says from her perspective on journalism and get your reaction to it. >> i feel as though twitter and facebook have enabled people who maybe are not in the media and not have a loud voice to become one of the loudest voices in the media. we see people like matt drudge who has no connection to the media, is a political outsider, and look how far he has come. he took advantage and saw the potential of the new medium, the internet, internet journalism, and his voice is just as loud as the media establishment. >> reaction? >> appalled. i am appalled. i do not know quite what she thinks -- this is a good idea? >> she does. >> i think it is a dreadful idea. good journalism, good reporting must work in the constraints of great editing. it has to. i ran into trouble a few years ago, giving a speech at some award in canada. i was talking about so-called citizen journalism. i said i would trust it as much as i would trust the citizen survey. you need to work in certai

they like baylor, brooklyn college, morehouse, pepperdine, air force, university of georgia, west pointaum of these are doing six out of seven things and educating people. not your big brand names. >> not hearing my alma mater's name there. i want my money back, i think. i want to cut the people who respond to this poll a little slack here, because this is framed as another example of highwhow stupid americans are. only 17% know what the emancipation proclamation is. here's the actual question. the emancipation proclamation said -- >> most knew the basics of the emancipation prok vags involveded freeing the slaves. i don't think we should indict all of america for not knowing this. >> i'm all for better education and informing our electorate more, but it's reluctant to cast dispersions on the way that people vote and based on what knowledge base, sort of the thomas frank what's the matter with kansas method of judging people for not voting their economic interests. that's problematic for a number of reasons. also, voting is an intensely personal and private experience, whether you kryst