Host author mark with income and your most recent book, restoring the American Republic, you proposed amendment to the constitution, including term limits for members of congress, a repeal of the 17th amendment or the senate, establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices, limiting federal spending, limiting federal taxes, limiting the federal bureaucracy. Which of these and most important to you . Guest they are all of the same genre. Guest so theyre all quite important, and the goal or the purpose of the book is to notbot only talk about how to revive the constitution and restore the republic, but to inform people on what the republic is supposet to look like, how the s constitution is supposed tonsti function and to move some of the Decision Making away from thenta centralized Government Back to t the state legislatures acting collectively as the framers intended. Nte host you write in the liberty amendments about the 17th amendment. 17th amendment t the public interest, but th
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 it serves not the Public Interest but the interest of the governing masterminds and the
Reagan . Guest personal anecdote . I didnt see him a lot of times. I saw him may be five times. I dont think i ever mentioned this before. One 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 generals 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, heres a look at mark levins 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
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So from the standpoint of eliminating that possibility that there was in this case a conus in the United States connection, i think thats another important attribute of section 215. Thank you. General alexander, under current law when one of these socalled mistakes occurs that you refer to in your testimony, i believe you said they were somewhat less than 3000 of them had occurred, that the current law requires at the immediate report those to the fisa court, which you do. The current law does not require that the report those mistakes congress. But you do so on your own. And i assume you have no objection to us changing the law to mandate that nsa report both to the fisa court, the administration, as well as the congress for any of those instances that might occur . I personally have no objection, senator, to that. I think it makes sense. I would just add that both 2776 include executive orders and fisa court your so its all the possible areas we make across all our authorities. Only