we have more flip flops being sent to >> thanks for watching the show. the election exare only 74 days away. there are two things we all must do. one, of course, pay taxes but don't forget to vote. more on that later. this monday, the republicans kick off their convention in tampa. the d.n.c. is in charlotte the following week. i'll be there looking forward to representing our state. it's appropriate tonight that i welcome someone who's been to more conventions than most, political luminary willie brown over 40 years of experience in

government. he'll tell you why conventions are more boring than reality t.v. and less exciting than the olympics. i believe one of the most important responsibilities we all have is securing a better future for our children. jim steyer, the author of talking back to facebook has made it his life's mission to go through the unchartered mine field. finally, yves behar is here to talk about the $100 laptop and other break through designs. first, the legendary willie brown. it's great to have you on the show. convention in just a few days. you are an experienced convention goer. do they matter anymore? they're scripted, there's no floor fights. they used to make a difference and there was suspense. >> it's dramatically different. i've been to every convention

since 1960. >> when a vice president really mattered. >> when the convention meant something. when you had some credential fights, some rule fights, some platform fights. all of it is now fixed and packaged, so much so that in a horrible place like charlotte i'm not going. >> you're not going. >> i'm all booked and all that stuff to go, but i'm definitely not going. just think about it. if you're stuck in charlotte where do you receipt? >> conventions aren't just for those delegates and friends of the president. they also serve some purpose don't they? >> no, not anymore. not anymore. there's no mystery. there's nothing about this proposed convention that means anything. it's a television show, not nearly as good as the olympics. the performers are not equally as quality so therefore you really don't -- you have a paid

for opportunity to do wonderful things if you are the mayor of let's say san antonio and you're the key noter. you have an opportunity if you do a bill clinton retrospective or jimmy carter retrospective or any other exliving penalty or relatives of living presidents with that it's a reality show from that stand point but it is boring. >> we've got two conventions the republican on monday. it's really a story at this stage of not only who's presenting themselves, rising stars and the team of leaders, but who was excluded, herman cain perry bachmann, knut is doing a university. >> don't you think if you were running the republican operations that is exactly what you would do? >> yes. >> why do you wanted to display your bad things. you've got enough of an apology

for a guy who doesn't pay his taxes or according to reed, pays no taxes. you've got a bad way who wants to take away my medical coverage as a senior citizen. you've got to explain all of that. you don't need bachmann sitting there questioning everybody's heritage and everybody's identity. you don't need rick perry who can't figure out how many alpha belts there are in terms of total numbers. you don't want any of those people. it would be better if you had sarah palin. at least she would be entertainment. >> which of the two incumbents conventions tend to be more staid because they lack a little bit of the intrigue. for romney, it seems to me there is a lot more at this convention ryan's speech laying out an agenda and trying to layout concerns about medicare and medicaid and everything.

>> if you are an out, you really are in a position where you've got to sell. you really do have to show that you're better than the guys who are in, unlike if you were just simply taking on george bush. when barack obama got elected president obama got elected in 2008, in denver, it was a crown a real crown so to speak of a difficult primary contest between quality competitors who have remained at odds with each other even up to an including the convention. the republicans don't do that. they become conversant with each other, really soon. it's almost as if they showed up in a bar and it's 2:00 and there's nobody else and they've got to go home with somebody. the republicans are in that position when they show up at the convention, that's where they are. in 2008, that's not where we

were. we were still hillary clinton's camp, you know, barack obama the emergent guy nobody knew or understood. you add the ethnic flavor to the whole thing, there is nothing like that on the republican side. you've got a whole different deal. what you do have, though, is that you have unknown qualities suspected qualities how they use the man from new jersey, i'm not sure. everybody is looking for him to put it out of the park. if you are suspected to be a phenom and you turn out not to be a phenom. >> bobby jindal's response to the state of the union. >> you got it. they thought they had a superstar and realized all they had was some guy who got lucky

in new orleans and won in a district where people thought he was black originally. it's a whole different world and he clearly has limited skills. the republicans have a limited bench, and they're going to have to display that limited bench. it's no wonder that they wouldn't have bachmann present they wouldn't have perry present. they wouldn't have cain present. they want to package something supposedly that america has never seen, and that package is supposed to dwarf the achievements of the incumbent president. i don't think it's going to work that way but i think america is going to look to see if that is in fact what happens whereas on the democratic side, america is simply going to see a well oiled machine, a carefully orchestrated, totally and completely staged and rehearsed and literally rehearsed several

times, and with no mistakes, or minimum mistakes. >> what happened? i mean from all that intrigue, from all of that suspense and expectation to the sanitized press releases in essence i mean, what happened? why aren't conventions that important and relevant now? when did that shift occur? >> i think it started back in the early 1970's. once we defined what delegations had to contain we said we had to have old people, we had to have the diversity of the delegations. we started that. then we started to script what you could or could not say on the podium. >> was that not the case in the past that people would come up and just go way off script and do their piece. >> totally. >> without reward to the overall message. >> totally. you couldn't even program them to do it.

they were so talented and they had their own agenda, in variably, they would run their own program. in 1968 in chicago when you developed the opportunity for the chicago seven or when they came along all or much of that was totally and completely unscripted. you had delegations that fought amongst themselves and people wanted to be delegates and they tried to figure out how to be delegates. we've sanitized all of that. we now do delegates dramatically different. at one time, you had the nominees selecting delegates from every state. if i was going to be the nominee, if i was going to be the candidate i selected my delegates. it wasn't the voters in that state selecting. i ran my slate and sometimes they wanted, sometimes they didn't, so you had some mixture of political interests.

you don't have any of that anymore. over the last 20-25 years maybe 30 the evolution of control and power has pretty much evolved to the democratic national committee, to the democratic senatorial committee aband more important to the nominee. the combination of all those things, the interest is in showcasing the nominee the platform's not important, the rules are not important. >> right. >> the credential -- there's no such thing as credentials anymore you. put me on the credentials committee, it means you're inviting me as a guest to the convention. i am not to participate period. >> with all that in mind, bill clinton came out of the convention with extraordinary bout, 16% increase, carter with a 10-point increase in public opinion polls.

do you expect that we're not going to see a bounce in either convention object republican or democratic. >> i don't think you get bounces anymore out of conventions because you get a bounce if there was a mystery. >> right. >> there's nothing mysterious about obama there's nothing miserious about room knee, there's nothing mysterious about their felony nominees. cabinet members no longer participate in the political process in campaigning period for whatever reason, so you don't have anything that is t.v. worth. you could actually shorten the convention governor, to a day and a half. >> yeah. >> and it would be even better for a day and a half, because you're only then showing the highlights. you wouldn't make work. you wouldn't make time. >> the argument is now the argument against that is that

this is outside of the debates the one occasion where more people will tune in than any other time in the campaign. if you're mitt romney and you're trying to define yourself after being defined at someone not transparent on his taxes increasingly defined beyond bain, around medicaid and ryan pick, is it not the opportunity to at least layout a vision and direction and answer your critics in a positive and optimistic way. >> you don't need three days to do that. you could actually do that if we would have the occasion hyped advertised, pumped pushed and marketed that each of the candidates are going to be given one hour to convince you, mr. and mrs. america that who they are, and what they are about and they were the prelude to the debates. we aren't going to restrict the subject matter of the respective

debates so that preparation won't be specialty done. it would be far more interesting. if i knew that there's mitt romney's going to layout his vision for america what he's going to do for the next four years if you elect him, and he's going to do a chapter and verse and he's going to cover all of the subject matters he wishes to cover, he's going to tell you whom he would think of as part of your cabinet, et cetera, and then if obama were given accounting of his four years as a penalty and the indication of what his new administration is going to look like, and what he intends to emphasize, you would have the format and the platform of each candidate's presentation that would be how you could judge them for the remainder of the campaign. >> speaking of judging people for the remainder of the campaign if conventions aren't giving folks the conventional bump and people aren't tuning in

for surprise and for nuance and the unexpected, but the predictable, the sanitized, is it the debates then that you think will define an analysis of a very close election? >> i think the debates give each of the candidates an opportunity to force a mistake on the other one to the other. it is clear that when george, the old man kept looking at his watch in the clinton debates of 1992, that was a negative and the public picked it up quickly. i've got to believe that president obama is looking forward to indicating how much taxes he paid, he and his wife paid in 2008, in 2009, in 2010, in 2011, and will pay in 2012. he's going to turn and say to mr. romney, and what were the

taxes that you and your lovely lady paid in those same years? that could be a defining moment, because if for whatever reason he stumbles on that, it's over. it's totally over for him. that's the one thing you cannot do. you cannot fail to pay your taxes and you can't fail to vote. those are both permanent disqualifying features in any campaign, at least that's the way i've learned over the 300 so campaigns that i've done in the last 40 years. i've lost the ones where the guy didn't vote or pay his taxes whether on his home, his income taxers what have you. you are considered a cheat frankly, by ordinary voters, no matter how rich they are. it's the no the question of how much did you not pay. it is a question of whether or not what you did pay would be

fair comparatively speaking. that's romney's problem, what he did not pay. what he paid can't be considered fair, and therefore he can't and that debate on those debates, that's going to be, i think, a cornerstone. all the business about medicare and who's paying and what have you, that's all interesting stuff, but it is not in the locker room near the water fountain, in the coffee room the next day. that's walking for. >> right. >> these debates are going to give the opportunity to get the water cooler debate going. >> you are not going going to the conventions but you're a political junkie, you will be watching right? >> i will be eagerly attached to the television and don't count out the potential for my surfacing at the convention in

charlotte, because at the last minute i may very well find out that there's some great party that i just can't miss. >> mayor brown great to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> more than 7 million kids under the age of 13 in this country are now on facebook, yet the implications of growing up as a digital native are widely unknown. we'll talk privacy and policy with jim steyer, the founder of common sense media. he's up next. magic underwear the same way as his tax returns, then he's been going commando for the past 10 years. >>since when do you get to say stuff like that on tv? >> listen, if you'd read your email once in a while, you'd know i have a new show. (vo) always outspoken. >> you think because this is an election year you can just say anything? >> hello! say anything, that's the name of the show.

>> if you have kids like i do, you know there's no manual for teaching them how to handle access on line. they are growing up with anyone on a cell phone camera may capture your most private moments and make them public. jim steyer is advocating for children's privacy on line and better ways to opt out. it's great to have you on the show. you make a very compelling

point, if there is facial recognition technology, why not the technology to erase? >> big deal. i think there should be an eraser button and not just some complicated delete button on facebook or google. it should be in europe, they call it the right to be forgotten. you and i both know there are things you do in life that you'd like not to have to -- right here's the deal. it's one thing when you're a 40-year-old, another thing when you're a 14 or 11-year-old. college admissions people, employers all look at your record. privacy is an important issue. you and i have both done stuff where you know that matters to your own personal relationship and is not everybody's business. think of some vulnerable 14 or 15-year-old where it's spilled out there. the business model for some tech companies is to get you to over share. >> is that fundamentally why

there isn't. let's answer the question. they have the technology to do it. there are sites right now that do. they don't do it, because it's not a strong economic model? >> the business models of some of the companies facebook falls into this category and others here in the bay area are basically based on, their model is we're going to get you to share as much personal information as possible. we're going to sell it to advertisers. that's the model. your fundamental economic is to get people to share and then to sell that. that's a big issue. not because you're evil. the second part, i wrote a chapter, kids are not data points. we know a lot of the titans in silicone valley. you've known them for years. it's an engineering culture a

data driven culture. my friend said they pray at the altar of data. data is god. now, profit is aligned with data in the business model but data, the agregation of data comes at the expense of your and my children. i don't think get a at a should be god but silicone valley has a data driven culture right now. if data is god everything is pushed aside in the interest of the coolest aggregate of data. that's a problem when you talk about human beings, which imperfect. if there is no eraser button, you have to live with it forever and the consequences forever. that's a big deal silicone valley hasn't dealt with. for me, and i care very much that this conversation happen, i've heard nobody in silicone valley, even people i respect the most because you and i know

personally a lot of really great people there leading these companies, where is the leadership? where is the talking about about the pros and the cons of this mass agregation of data? that is a conversation that needs to happen among the business leaders of the valley in a very mature way. >> it begs the question if the businesses themselves around there, we we have a regulatory structure, you are one of the original board members of common sense. what are we doing and what aren't we doing? >> first of all, on privacy in particular, one is much of what happens on the privacy front is not about regulation, it's teaching kids and parents to self reflect before they self reveal. that's not -- you can't regulate personal behave, so self reflect before you self reveal. pause before you hit the send button in life. we wish we could do that all the

time. the thing is, the regulatory's huge on tracking and sharing data there it's the federal trade commission that matters nationally. it's jon lieberwitz. it's mostly under the purview of the f.t.c. i think john has been a relatively bold leader. remember the argument is jobs, jobs, jobs if you regular lately it, it's jobs. sometimes it's real and sometimes pure canard, used for political purposes, which you would do if you were a lobbyist for business. the thing is, i think they could be regulated. your the lt. governor of california. privacy is a fundamental right under the california constitution, written in the california constitution. in stanford, which you have

lectured, hope you will this fall. privacy is a fundamental under the constitution. california could do more at the state level. one of the things i would say is the politicians in california can have much stricter privacy laws, and since most of the companies that matter are in california it would have a big impact. >> without stifling innovation and creativity. >> i'm in the business of innovation and creativity, as are you. we don't want heavy-handed send censorship. there's a healthy balance to be struck here. i think the equation in a political contest has largely been driven by the extraordinary pace of industry and technological change.

there's not been a lot of discussion on this. the chairman of the fdc is starting to speak out. the fines against google and facebook, they're real. the conversation is changing. the big picture, gavin, this is a topic you and i are going to be talking about a lot the next years, and i think the conversation is shifting among parents, teachers and even young people. i think, by wait, the industry notes that. they can tell, and i think there is a very important conversation to be had here and there's a role for california and for regulation, but it's not the be all-end all solution. >> provocatively, jim compares social media including facebook, to big tobacco. median companies are trying to attract younger and younger users. what to do to help protect your kids from digital abuse. unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts

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>> we're back with jim steyer, author of talking back to facebook. you had a very provocative facebook when facebook loud kids under the age of 13 to use their site. you said what they are proposing is similar to the strategies used by big tobacco in appealing to young people. >> you sure went right to the

big question right there gavin. i think the point is this. i think the reason is that we common sense reason facebook would go after young users is that in the sense, you want to build your brand early. whether it's big tobacco or a lot of other marketing companies, they try to get kids hooked to their brand at a very early age. facebook's had a lot of challenges. there is a lot of good stuff about facebook, and the title is provocative, the original title was in your facebook. in truth the book is not about facebook and there are a lot of good people at facebook. the issue is what is the impact on children. i don't want my four, five or 6-year-old learn to go relate to me or their friends on a social network. companies try to hook kids, because you build brand awareness at a very young age. that's why the budweiser frogs were very popular. kids loved the frogs but they

were planting in those kid brains that when they became of age to become drinkers, they could do it, so that's what i meant. i'm sure the facebook folks my friends there would not be thrilled at analogy of big tobacco, but it was getting kids to know the brand at a very young age. in truth, you are the parent of two kids. >> yeah. >> i don't -- i question whether you or anybody would want their young kids going on social networks and becoming so used to and in some cases addicted to that form of communication. >> jim we estimate and this is part of your book, 7.5 million people already estimated using facebook under the age of 13. >> correct. >> how do you top that? you're trying to advance an ideal, but this avalanche on side, not just facebook, but all these other tools are technology and particularly going mobile, it's going to be difficult to look over your child's shoulder when they're out and about.

how do you stop that? >> education, i think and discussion. honestly, with your kids, they're not old enough yet but they're going to be there soon. i have three teenagers. it's all about education and as a parent, about a conversation. what i think technology has done is forced us as parents to have very frank conversations with our children. oftentimes about topics they don't want to talk about including sex and violence. i think that can be healthy. there are a lot of teachable moments now. it's really about educating not just kids but parents about what's healthy for them and what is the appropriate age for kids to use certain forms of media device us and technology. we're having parents do a lot of dumb stuff and give their kids a cell phone at age seven. >> your teenagers you don't let them have a cell phone until they're graduated from middle school. >> until they go to high school.

kids will always, you know, complain and moan about how you're the only parent who -- we should have a session on the common sense website you're the only parent who. we're not the only parent. we're happy to be the only parent if i think it's the right way to raise my children. oftentimes, parents for safety reasons give their kids a cell phone, not realizing that particularly we're talking about a smart phone, you're handing a mini computer to your child. it's taking the time, it's critical, in a balanced and moderated approach. in my experience, holding off on things like cell phones, even i.m.ing when our kids, lilly we didn't let her i.m. in grade school. it takes away from their homework. technology is wonderful. facebook has a lot of good qualities to it, cell phones do, as well, but age appropriateness is really king. >> you made a point a moment ago about not just educating our children, but educating parents.

>> right. >> you make this point in the book, talking about digital tourists or immigrants versus digital natives our kids are digital natives. my child at two and a half years old is going on fancy magazines and wondering why she can't scroll through the magazine. what do we do to educate parents that are overwhelmed, two jobs, two or three kids are screaming and you're trying to put them to bed, the t.v. is the greatest thing ever invented. >> i agree with you. i wrote "talking back to facebook" to start a very serious and i think long terminal conversation about exactly that issue. i totally agree with you. t.v. is a very helpful device when you want to put one kid to bed, we have four, you have two but let me tell you so is the

phone. there's a term in the toy industry called shut up toys, when the kid is demanding everything before they get to the counter, you go here, you can have a dollar toy but a phone is like that. you watch people, they hand their phone to their kid, even an ipad, sometimes it's because they want to show them a game. one is be quiet here. they get absorbed in the phone or tab let. in moderation, that's fine. the one thing i always want to say, extreme approach where you say nothing. that is ok for some people, but i wouldn't recommend it. i think it's ok to use it occasionally. you can't do it all the time. you need balance. the thing about this new technology, we need to educate every parent. some of working two jobs, many overwhelmed, but the simple rule, that was the second half of this book, simple things you can do, simple tips to make it easy, it isn't -- there's no perfect solution.

the newsom maybe different than our home, but you've got to do it early. >> the conversation with smart phones or cell phones, don't let your child go to bed with a smart phone. >> oh, gosh, yes. i mean so i have teenagers who you know, and you know, kids, first of all it stimulates your brain. the one thing about texting is you anticipate getting a text back. if i sent you one right now, i would be like what is gavin going to say. the point of sleep is to rest your brain or mind. when you have it under your pillow and two thirds of texts are when teens are supposed to be in bed. between 3100 to 3200 texts on average.

over 100 a day. oftentimes, it's just inane little things, but still, it stimulates the brain. i wrote a chapter about brain research and this is your kid's brain on computers. there's no question it stimulates brain, it stimulates the impulse partly of your brain. it can get in the way of an executive function of the brain more thoughtful, organized thinking and the ability to focus when you're stimulated. there's no question that digital media is an inhibitor to sleep. there's no studies coming out of stanford and elsewhere that show that. you don't want your kid going to bed with a phone. >> give other tips that parents can use for their cased navigate the world. >> be a role model. if you're constantly addicted to your phone you work in the

political and media world. we know our own behavior. >> we're walking home with our head down, saying hi to the kids, what can we expect? >> they look at you. my kids are older, they call me a hip credit when i do it. there's simple rules about that. i call for media timeout. you have to put your kids on a timeout. >> not easy. >> not easy, for behavior, right? you have to do media and technology timeouts. they have to be regular. our meal times are completely media and text free times. i think that's critical. i don't care what you're expecting, you're a political leader a media career, everything else, but when you sit down at the table there should be no devices anywhere. >> you're right. >> and the phone rings too bad. you get a text, too bad. it's hard, because you're sitting there but kids need to know you're present and paying attention to them. i wrote a chapter about

addiction and attention issue because i think that's a very important issue. attention means you and me as parents paying attention to our children and devices get in the way of that, and we to have call ourselves on it. it isn't easy, but you've got to do it and you have to establish routines where they are simply not a part of the system. >> great to have you on the show. >> really good to be here, gavin. >> thank you. >> most people access the web using cell phones. the organization behind one laptop per child are promoting low cost p.c.'s to kids all around the world. yves behar is joining us right after the break. pure hershey's. [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ kyle ] nope, i've got... [ voice of dennis ] ...the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent. i too have... [ voice of dennis ]...allstate.

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>> it's not just a $100 laptop, but also a head set, and the soda stream soda maker, all iconic designs from yves behar. great to have you on show the. you've done very iconic products

and worked with some of the biggest companies from samsung to g.e., designing things, different light bulbs to actual different lights and chairs, furniture, watches you're wearing something you designed on your wrist you name it. what was something -- when you look back, what are you most proud of in term of those efforts? >> the $100 laptop was a very significant moment, just in my -- in my career, and i think in the technology world in general and beyond that in the life of children, about 3 million children that have the laptop now. it started as the most controversial project of the naughts. nobody believed in it. nobody believed that you could take a lop top a computer and anybody wanted something smaller, lighter and with a

battery that lasted a long time, nobody believed that that was a solution. you know, we heard from all the big players in the industry, includion steve jobs, who essentially said no, people want a full d.v.d., a hard drive they want a full graphics card without really thinking that this was actually designed for education, for children between the age of six and 15 in public school. so, you know, it became the redesign had to do with how you interact with the machine the hardware, how the software was functioning, the battery the battery life, the drop test, you know the robustness of the product, everything had to be rethought from june it's a

perfect example where it's not just painting over an old laptop. this is the full integration of a designer into the technology, into the engineering. >> absolutely. i spent three years of my life traveling around the world showing the machine to people who would want to adopt it, working with manufacturers, kind of really changing the minds of pretty much everyone about what a computer should be. now the computers are smaller lighter, not made for children, though, that's the big difference. everything we did was -- everything we thought about every decision we made on the product was about whether the kid needed it and whether they would love the final result. >> perfect example you did a water bottle, and i've been very intense about how we are spending 10,000 more than we do on tap water in shipping it all over the world and just in

californiale alone a billion a year. i never could have imagined moving beyond recycle but to convert these into toys. >> today i think i've gone a step further. i have a great partner with soda stream. you make sparkling water or sodas, but you do that at home. there's no shipping of the water, and you can add flavors to it, and you not -- the average household in america buys and throws away 2,000 bottles a year. the average family of four. >> that's extraordinary. >> 2,000 bottles a year, so this is a, you know, this is one of those projects where you can say well, then we should all stop and not use water bottles at all, or stop drinking soda, stop

drinking sparkling water but that's not really a solution, because you know, you can't reduce our lives to, you know, remove the things that we enjoy that taste good and that are -- some people like sparkling water. this advance that is idea that we can continue to consume the things i love, that i, you know, that i can serve them to my family in a kind of fun way at the moment when they want it without all the waste. >> you look back briefly all those products and companies and you're involved in we talked about moving from vendor to partner. i mean, iran entrepreneur as much as designer, you are investor and company founder of a lot of companies you do business. what are you most proud of when you look back at the body of work? there's so many iconic pieces you've developed but is there something from your perspective

that particularly stands out? >> the more i work with someone, the more i develop this deep relationship, the better the work gets, because you really can feel intuitively and know what the brand needs and you have full knowledge of everything that's changing, and in their word, in their business, and you can react to it in the most potent ways, and efficient ways. so one thing that i'm very excited about is the jam box. when we brainstormed the possibility of us doing a blue tooth speaker we're really good with blue tooth but had never done any audio, we had about half a dozen executives, and people had been in the space and c.e.o.s of big consumer electronic companies saying you are crazy, there's no way that you can build an audrey brand

your competitors out there the coneys and samsungs of this world have much bigger brands, they have great distribution, there's no way you'll survive this, this is really -- and you know what? we're the best selling speaker in the country, you know, two and a half years after launch, because essentially what we did is we turned that market on its head. we said the media's in your debt. you want to keep it in your pocket. you don't want to take your iphone and put it in a dock. then that media is not -- that medium is not wireless anymore that iphone is not useful anymore. we said people are going to carry more and more media in their pocket, they're going to want to listen to it and share it. portable created great sound in a small box and it's kind of a worldwide phenomenon.

i love seeing people use it. i love seeing people at the beach or people on walks or at home, just suddenly, music has become portable. that gives me a lot of pleasure. >> yeah. >> to see other people getting pleasure from the things that we make. >> thanks so much for being on the show. >> thank you. it was fun. >> somehow i all ties together. willie brown's unconventional views on conventions and jim steyer's conservative take on social media. my thoughts on tonight's guest and upcoming political showdowns, coming next. and social media. we'll provide unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts and pontifications, from the entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. brought to you by spiriva

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>> willie brown claims he's planning on not attending the democratic convention in charlotte. i bet he changes his mind to go. say what you wanted about the dog and pony show every four years, it's still a part of the political process. until someone comes up with something better, i'll join the best and brightest in our party. here's more than just a programming note. current tv is on cutting edge with convention coverage this year. it's all about social media instant information across all social platforms. watch the live conversation unfolding on our website and on t.v. jim steyer's point social media is here to say. it's how you digest it that

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