process of nominating individuals as targets through drone strikes in yemen and pakistan. although these stories may have given some members a renewed sense of urgency, it is important to put them in context. the two points to be made here first, the obama administration s work to investigate and prosecute suspected leaks is without peer. this administration has prosecuted more leaks than all previous presidential administrations combined. attorney general eric holder has appointed two u.s. attorneys to lead the federal investigations into recent leaks. director of national intelligence, james clapper, has issued new rules to deter further future incidents, among them rules authorizing the inspector general of the defense community to conduct an independent administrative investigation, even if the justice department declines to bring criminal charges in a specific case. second, the problem of leaks in the federal government is not new. there were spies at the founding of
i said he was looking in the mayor and wanted to take a vacation, so he asked, who was the second-best talk-show host in the world? what happened is that congressman bob dornan used to fill in for him, and sometimes when i am interviewed, i can take over the show. he called me and said, would you like to host my show, i am going out for a couple of days. this was in october 1992. i have been doing it off and on since then. this is my big classroom. i love talking to people and trying to explain economics to people, and i think the combination of the talk-show and also writing a syndicated column, i get a lot of feedback from my fellow americans, and people will say, did you think about this? and it causes them to get more information than the average person would have. i have benefited immensely from my exposure on the talk-show and television. how powerful is this show? it s the biggest talkshow in the history of radio, 20 million people per week. i think that what this
person would have. i have benefited immensely from my exposure on the talk-show and television. how powerful is this show? it s the biggest talkshow in the history of radio, 20 million people per week. i think that what this does, talk radio in general has endangered the monopoly of the major media, with different ideas coming in, challenging conventional wisdom, which is powerful. next, bill cosby? when i was young, i was living in the housing projects in north philadelphia, my mother used to say, the boy will never get anywhere. she was referring to bill cosby. we grew up in the same neighborhood. she was right about most things but she was wrong about that. and how well do you know him? i knew him well as a kid, but i have not seen him in many years. we served on the board of temple university. some of the people he talks about on the show, weird harold and fat albert, were guys in the neighborhood. julius erving, dr. j. he is a second cousin of mine. and o
show host in the world? we kind of joke about that. no, but actually what happened is that bob dornan, congressman bob dornan used to fill in for him and he was interviewing me on air and a lot of times when i m being interviewed on radio, on the air, i take over the show and they just kind of liked it. and so rush called me and said, would you want to host my show? i m going out for a couple days. and i said, i never hosted a show in my life. and so he says, it s easy. my people show you what to do. and so that was in october, 1992 and i ve been doing it off and on since then. what does it do for you? well, i it s my big classroom. i love you know, i love talking to people. i love to trying to explain economics to people and i think that the combination of a talk show doing talk show and also writing a syndicated column, i get a lot of feedback from my fellow americans. and people will write or they ll call in and say well, did you think of this? or you re