And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

There's scarcely a more fascinating figure in American politics than Governor Jerry Brown

of California first elected in 1974 to succeed Ronald Reagan as governor and office's father

once held. He was one of the youngest governors in America then. Now he's the oldest. He's

run for president three times, studied meditation in Japan, worked with mother Teresa. He's an

irreverent, iconoclastic, provocative, sometimes hilarious guy. It's always fun to sit down

with Jerry Brown and what follows is an extended version of the conversation that I had on the

CNN version of Axviles the other day.

Governor, thank you so much for letting us invade your home here and for sitting down with me.

This is an amazing house. Tell me about this place because you've reclaimed it as a

resonance for the governor.

It's a beautiful home. It represents a lot of the tradition of California. And interestingly

enough the first governor to come here with his family, with his daughters was the former

mayor of Oakland, John, Mr. Party.

And so that's why it's interesting. Also the second owner of this house was Lincoln

Stephens, a great muck-raking journalist. And besides that I guess the most prominent

person to live here was Earl Warren with his children. He lived here 10 years. So it has

a lot of history. And for some reason the governor's wanted to live in a more suburban

kind of house. And yet it's right by the Capitol. It has kind of suggestions of the White

House, even though it's a gingerbread Victorian house. But it does represent the tradition.

And for me, I studied for the bar here.

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