[applause] >> i want to think on this pride weekend and assemblyman who is here who spent many years of visiting a friend of his who was a resident at laguna honda. before i bring up the next speaker, i will tell you this story are probably should not, but i am going to tell you anyway because it's so exemplifies the next speaker. i am going to ask that you imagine the scene. it is 1998. i am in the office with mayor willie brown, who i still could not find enough mr. mayors to say his name. louise comes in to discuss the future of laguna honda hospital. she had just won this huge settlement with the tobacco company. she was the first of any local city attorney to join in that lawsuit. at the time, a lot of people were arguing tobacco companies would overwhelm us. there will be all of these freedom of information act. you should not do it. she stood bravely and did it. she said to the mayor, and i will never forget -- she said "we have this opportunity. we can either use this money to rebuild laguna honda or we can pass it away -- piss it away." that was the exact quote. [applause] b

i watched sean hannity with the blonde woman who is the darling of the right -- >> ann coulter. >> who said that andrew breitbart was set up. she is making him the victim. it is beyond comprehension on that side. >> talk about selective editing. the main news show on fox at 6:00 with threbret baier -- we did not touch the store on monday because we had no background. we touch the story on tuesday at the time, the day before, the deputy chief of staff was the commanding -- commending his staff at "politico" the quick action on the story of canning her. if you are going to have the full record here, you ought to show the full record. >> what you did is also what hannity and bill o'reilly did. >> this is not fox news story. this is an naacp story and shirley sherrod story. >> this is about a big lie that the media facilitated without checking. i don't think you should be paranoid about fox or anything like that. there is plenty of adults to go around here. the real story is that a big lie -- plenty of guilt to go around here. the bills are is that a big lie went around -- >> in the world

died but who who is ancestry can be proved. that sides don't do you think that the the rest of these people at that time was politically most of a sense i don't know i it's all because i'm. it's. it came just. prime as a president medvedev was. sort of sharing a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama was very pleased that should be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we can't delay perhaps we thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway they were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for for for moscow this is a thing that was sold very quickly more quickly than it would have been for example during the cold war why why do you think that was what was behind the solving of it i think the reason. the original arrests the trial all the arrangements were streaming quick and the decision to swap them was very quick. from amer

have served and any of those who have met with some of the soldiers who lost limbs in combat through ieds and other ways and elsewhere you can't help be incredibly impressed by the spirit and the bravery and the determination of these people to go on and live as full lives as possible. we've set out very clearly what we want to achieve in afghanistan. this is the key year when we surge up the military forces. we surge up the political pressure. and my honorable friend the defense secretary making a statement and how we do that best and make sure our forces are properly spread across helmand province so we can really have the effect that we want. but let me be clear, that we should be there in a combat role or significant numbers in five year's time no, i don't. this is the time to get the job noun and the plan envisages making sure we won't be in afghanistan in 2015. we have been there for four or five years in helmand and since 2001 it's time to maximize the pressure and to bring our forces home as we train up the afghan army and police force to do the job that needs to be done, whi

-- tom vilsack, the monday who apologized profusely, -- the man who apologized profusely, cast light on how far that department has come in the last few years. gloria: and although this isn't a question, it's a question in a could take a -- a question that could take a whole show. this is a white house, the first after can american president that goes out of its way to not be defined by race, yet things like this always occur. seem to occur. and so what are the risks here really for this first african-american president? >> when you take up race on your own terms, at your on time, say the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation you can have an inclufsive conversation about it. when you find yourself talking about it because someone else raised it it's very hard to get past the division. gloria: and very difficult for this white house. and now for something completely different, we're going to turn to the topic of national intelligence. in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, the intelligence community has grown by leaps and bounds. but the question is, has that all been for th

i want to thank all those who have served who are in the room. thank you for your service to your family members whose support you with care and compassion, thank you as well and to all the providers who show their compassion for those who have served. i want to give them a quick thanks as well [applause] . i want to give a short talkfroml perspective, what we have seen in the way of progress on the issue of dealing with the challenge of those returning from the current conflict and prayer complex with mental illness and then the progress we have observed in some of the challenges that remain. first, i think it was ron who came up here and said it is not just about money and he is correct a substantial amount of resources have been devoted which va to increase the mental health capacity to treat those who have served our country. in just a 10-year period, we have gone from a $10 billion budget for mental illness -- $2.6 billion up to $5.2 billion. that is a doubling of the budget for mental illness. we are also seeing by way of progress a growing

who invented it who developed it and who killed. i've come back to the one city where car bombs have forever shaped our history. beirut. i loved. it was a great place to be a spy. and then the embassy got hit. by a suicide car bomber. sixty three dead dead american dead. six of my close colleagues friends in the cia were killed. carsten to that bomb go off. this. white star. and then of course the bank and then when i looked up. and i run over. and destruction and. it was a stunning assault. one man with a car could wage war on the united states ironically with an american truck. there is one man who knows a lot about lebanese car bombs. mahmoud. a top expert who defused does. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs muslim car bombs. and the long drawn out. and then i was the only expert who was dismantling. and then his adversaries decided to target him. especially for me. it was activated. and as soon as i touch on the. february fourteenth two thousand and five the former lebanese prime minister hariri presidential cavalcade was

died but who who is ancestry can be proved. that side's done do you think that this latest arrests which came all through all the others and often we thought that this was in fact david do you think that means that this story may continue i should know i think they probably. the end i suspect the newcomer the last one was probably something that some of the f.b.i. discovered going through the papers of the one of the ten. but the ten who i think not all of them were known even to each of us. i suspect the betrayal if that's the word the giving away of them started with a tip off the whole thing to me reeks to pull off and let's not forget the f.b.i. been working for years on them there's wasn't as of a day on monday we saw the old tip we arrest them on saturday they were following them for years and checking them out and checking their backgrounds out and finding obviously eventually flaws that said this is not the person he or she purports to be somewhere i'd imagine in there they got the name of the eleventh. i did mention do

who are innocence -- innocent, for single parent head of households who are innocent, who literally have worked. a story i heard today at hearing in memphis on foreclosure, about a woman with a number of children who worked as hard as she could but the industry that she was in, furniture sales, obviously home sales are down, furniture sales are down, she find hers self upon hard times. she needs unemployment insurance to make sure that she doesn't lose the small condominium that she has. these are painful stories. 62% of americans agree that we should extend the unemployment benefits. the congressional budget office policies that could be implemented relatively quickly are targeted to what people whose consumption tend to be restricted by their income, such as reducing payroll taxes for firms that increase payroll or increasing aid to the unemployed would have the largest effects on output and employment per dollar of budgetary costs, meaning that extending unemployment benefits is one of the most cost effective ways of turning the economy but preventing people from collapsing you u

. >> the people who were involved in the courier, and not only the higher-ups who made the paper possible but the writers, the reporters, the runners, they were all very, very sweet, decent, highly professional people, and what they did was run a national paper. >> ♪ pittsburgh ♪ is my city >> it is indeed a privilege and a delight to be standing here on what i consider hallowed ground, because this is where the old pittsburgh courier stood. >> female narrator: on a september day in 2004, a group of people gathered in pittsburgh to dedicate a historical marker for the pittsburgh courier. >> and when you came upstairs-- and there was the editorial department, with the greatest collection of characters that anyone would encounter anywhere. >> and we used to come down the street to the end of the street and sit on the steps of the ymca and look across the street in this building. the courier building had huge glass panes, and you could see inside, and they had these big, frightening machines that were constantly rolling and spinning and had these men who had hats made of newspaper, and i alw

who lives far. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers supper. in a bowl made of his breath. the stew has boiled and i wonder at the cat born from it's steam. the cat is in the bedroom now. muling. the cat is indecent and i whom trying to be tidy, i whom trying to do things the purpose way, i who am sick from the shedding. i, am undone. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers pastry in a basket spun from his vision. it is closely woven. the kind of container some women collect. i have seen these in many colors but the basket he brings is simple. only black. only nude. the basket he brings is full of sweet burdens and i eat even the crumbs. as am i have not dined for days. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers tea made from the liquid he's crying. i do not want my lover crying and i am sorry i ever asked for tea. my lover, who lives far away opens the door to my room pretending he never cried. he offers tea and cold cakes. the tea is delicious. spiced like the start of our courtship. honeyed and

of patients, who are really doing very well in treatment and who have been able to sustain recovery, and have professional business lives and families, but who really can't afford to have their faces plastered on the news and really can't afford to come forward. and we need to find ways to advocate and remember that there are other populations who are doing exceedingly well and who are very grateful for this medication and other treatments. very good. dr. clark, let's move now to talk about, we had mentioned earlier, very quickly, co-occurring conditions. are co-occurring conditions in medication-assisted therapies compatible? of course they are compatible. and the most important thing to recognize is that many of the people who present for specially driven care have co-occurring depressant disorders or co-occurring anxiety disorders or other experiences like post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma. the issue is that the clinicians in the settings need to be aware if you've got medications for the co-occurring depression or the anxiety disorder and you are contemplating the use of

coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and you even come under some criticism from human rights organizations for that and a u.s. official has called it a potential hit list for the taliban what's your response to that you know it's a piece of the mostly be media beat up i mean where we're looking at these you seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back people being thousand reports for for the through the review because they had this sort of classification that suggested maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to ask them for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house we don't accept that request at this stage we're looking at this is mostly a media beat up of course we are very concerned to make sure innocents are protected so we're very happy to receive any evidence or which report is possibly revealing information about someone who is who is innocent there's also been a suggestion that the release of this information will make it harder for al

there are people who are business people. they have not even five minutes driving a taxi getting the medallions. you need to keep an eye on this department very strongly. thank you. >> if you have a card to give, that would be helpful. you can fill one out. is there anyone else would like to speak under this item? ok, thank you. seeing none, we move to commissioner comments and questions, item number two. >> i just want to put on the record that i will miss the hearing on the 11th because i will be out of town. >> thank you. any other commissioners? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, moving on to item 3, the adoption of minutes. before you for discussion and possible adoption of the minutes of the board meeting of june 30, 2010. president peterson: any corrections? i move to adopt the june 30, 2010 minutes. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, if you could call the roll, please? >> on that motion from president peterson to adopt the june 30 minutes -- [roll-call vote] than

you want to be only the one who does what you do. his commitment to public health in san francisco is second to none. he has done an extraordinary job leading by example. this is a city that is doing things that no other city in the united states of america could even imagine doing, things that even when we had all the resources in the world and all the capacity, things that cities could not do. this commitment to an acute care, facility, a skilled nursing facility -- what county is having a ribbon cutting on a new nursing facility in this modern age? and what city and county can lay claim to comprehensive universal health care, regardless of pre- existing conditions, regardless of your ability to pay? dr. mitch kastz has been the architect of all of this. thank you for your leadership. there is the old play towline that if there is any hope for the future of those with lanterns will pass them on to others. let me talk about those that carry bright lights, that pass those lanterns on to others. many of them you will hear in just a mo

has a computer and who doesn't have a computer to now who has access to the internet, especially high speed internet, as well as the skills and the knowledge to use those tools effectively. . >> the city is charged with coming up with digital inclusion. the department of telecommunications put together a 15 member san francisco tech connect task force. we want the digital inclusion program to make sure we address the needs of underserved vulnerable communities, not communities that are already very tech savvy. we are here to provide a, b and c to the seniors. a stands for access. b stands for basic skills and c stands for content. and unless we have all three, the monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. >> a lot of the barrier is knowledge. people don't know that these computers are available to them, plus they don't know what is useful. >> there are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment that's perfectly good for home use. computers and internet access are helping everybody in the co

, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effecti >> let's get started. thank you all. very much. for taking the time to be here. i'm willie brown. and i'm honored to swear in 13 new and not old in terms of time of life but senior representatives of various bodies and boards of commissions in city leadership. i have the privilege today of wearing in 13 people. five who have served previously on board the commissions and seven that will be serving for their first times. i'm honored to be joined by many distinguished guests, leaders in their own right and capacity, members of various comm

the people who i was closest i still am close. the people who i was disappointed in their performance i think had a lot of opportunities. very disappointed. i don't know john, but i do know mark halperin. i'm very disappointed they made no effort to contact me. >> larry: never tried to call you? >> no. it's not that hard to reach me. >> larry: no. >> and they made no effort. it would have been nice if they had. not because -- some of the things are not true. that i understand are in there. but some of the things -- >> larry: well, they make you almost like a devil. >> yeah. and, um, they're just, you know -- were there times on the road when it was tense with john? yes. did i ever say john doesn't -- you know, i read books, john doesn't, for example? john reads ten times the number of books i do. i mean, i would never have said that. if i ever called him a hick, it was because he liked to be called a hick, you know? oh, you're such a hick, you know, you're such a country boy. i don't know -- "hick's" not really a word i'd use. >>

ask girls who will listen to women who wear the book out ok i'm not talking from you know the bush was he i'm talking from the liberal class i'm asking the european democracy to stop the fundamentalist groups to use a body of the girl as you know you know why why why they let these groups use our body because we are immigrant because we are poor that is so. are the issues so i fight for the bad i am supported from by women from european and arabic country who are today. denouncing the it's in syria is a ban and in is already in the university they need come i don't understand why in europe you can have a statement who say the right of in months the patient for all of the girls who are growing in europe and the right to say we're not listening to me my they have to for example right all right listen if you're going to get your schedule really cares as much for changes occur as we're going to have to go to a break and we'll continue our discussion on the burqa ban when we get back stay with. you. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomo

so many people who are cash workers who don't pay into the system. can you comment about the effect it has? guest: item short and has an effect. -- i am sure it has an effect. fortunately we did not have an underground system like many of the european countries. we have an oversight system where most people don't want to get in trouble with their taxes. but there is an underground system, no doubt about it. what you do about it, i don't know. the oversight has to be better, i guess. but that is not the worry right now. host: corpus christi, texas. sandy on the republican line. caller: how are you doing? my main problem that i am having is that they are talking about cutting social security but yet they are having someone who has not contributed at all, very overweight, and put them on disability and welfare and yet they are willing to cut social security for someone who has worked their whole life. it is annow -- epidemic. they give someone -- then they go and sell their prescription to weather, which is no cause for them and they go out and make mon

is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war. one nine hundred forty five dot com. you're watching on t.v. that's taking the headlines the u.s. military hunts for who's behind exposing classified cover ups in afghanistan to wiki leaks web site. is promising further revelations to probe while exogenous at mit. the civilian casualties. that fear is still feeling the impact of the global recession sixty years off the country join the e.u. unemployment continues to grow more and more families are turning to charities for the denials. and russian legislators are preparing to clamp down on the sham symmetrix calling the thousands of dollars out of them. for having to ban them from advertising as well as demanding that they prove their abilities a city full. well let's head into all that now for some not.

these three men who were arrested and in fact there was a fourth man who has already been released with no charges they were connected to a man called mata who is one of the most notorious north caucasus terrorists still at large and he is known to have links with al qaida during the investigation obviously police raided the flats the apartment where these men were living they found explosives and also extremely significantly maps with various potential targets marks on them this arrest was really significant as i see it in three main ways firstly of course because it makes the world a safer place it takes out of circulation people who french authorities say they have hard and fast evidence planning terrorist attacks secondly it was a good score peroration between the russian authorities and the french authorities it was russia who saves the french police to the fact that they might have terror suspects terror activists living in this part of western france and then the french police moved in and also because traditionally in the rest of the. north caucasus terrorists have been seen as

turned to my colleague kevin now and spoke to christiane a medical doctor who disagrees that there's a global aids epidemic. there is no epidemic in europe there is no epidemic in the united states and in africa aids is mainly renaming poverty related diseases and as a clinician i find it just not helpful and what it all comes down to ask you so you are you disagreeing with you an age you disagree with the world health organization both very respectable organizations that do have the finger on the polls that say no it is an epidemic. what respectable they are about obviously they can and obviously they are driven by interests and we saw that just last year with this massive x. in asia for flu and now in reach respect it is it's become obvious that they were driven by pharmaceutical interests and the same i'm afraid to say it's true for hiv it's a huge movement mainly driven by pharmaceutical interests you're really basically saying people if they do i shouldn't worry maybe should we go for a test if they believe they put themselves at risk on all what you saying is what you say almos

you have this madam in the middle, the guy who is the promoter, who is played by joe peschi, who had to be charming to convince voters to vote in competition. then you have this fighter who is young, virile, and on the way down. joe could not be the manager because he had a criminal record. he made his wife the manager. they became involved. we did not do a doctor-,. we took dramatic license. -- we did not do a docu-drama. we took dramatic license with it. tavis: i want to follow up on your point about dramatic license. it has been fascinating to me. you two are members of the guild. it has been fascinating watching the academy awards. you are familiar with them. it is amazing how is -- how a movie can get buzz. as the bus continues to grow and build there is the risk that somebody is going to throw a chain in the armor and raise the notion that, "they took too much dramatic license." when you're in the process of working out the script, does that ever -- do you think about that? >> i do. in fact, we do follow pretty closely to the fact. but there were nuances of the characters that

who are doing scholarly studies, people who are more invested in change. it is a way of connecting with people and getting stories out. >> i am not sure the most effective way to communicate the message, but part of the message that jonathan is talking about, most of the victims and people accused of crime coming from the same place -- part of the message that needs to get up there, talking about justice and all that, it is meaningful to folks like us, but it does not play all that well with people who are afraid of crime, people who are out of work. part of the message has to become it seems to me, going back to the sources of crime, not from an economic point of view, if you want to save money, you should do things that effectively will fight crime, as opposed to making you feel tougher and stronger. also, if you can get part of the message out that it is a tragedy when anyone is wrongfully convicted, for that person, for their family and friends, but the other part is, if there are wrongfully convicted, there is somebody out there who is actually the cr

who is the extremist?tect of a stimulus package that was going to grow our economy, create jobs and did during his home state of nevada we are the country now 50 billion more in debt. nevado itself has a 14% unemployment rate. that's. who is the extremist? >> harry reid. >> and nancy pelosi. i guess if nancy pelosi is the mother maybe he thinks that he's the father of health care. he supports the takeover of health care and you know the argument what it's abot. how extreme is that? who is the real extremist? >> harry reid. >> i think the jury has spoken on this resonate. ladies and gentlemen, this conservative movement that we talk about, the uprising you see in the two-party spawned the new era and that is the era of the consvatives from mickey haley to sharon entel to michele bachman out of new jersey a little known and howe little taking on the author of te health care bill watch that rate by the way. we see more women engaged in politics and conservative leadership than ever before in the history of am

a wife who idolized him. who very rarely contradicted him. really a saint. >> but in those three years he had an affair with a figure that a lot of americans know. >> he indeed had an affair with frida kahlo, and that practically destroyed the marriage. >> she was married to diego rivera, the painter. >> indeed. and it was diego rivera the painter, and frida kahlo who had invited trotsky to seek refuge in coyoacan at their house, initially. so right towards the end of his life, trotsky behaved very badly to natalia, his wife. but she stuck at it. she had chosen the life of being married to one of the greatest revolutionaries of modern times, and she didn't have regrets. >> in 1940, what did people, including americans think, if they were trotskyists, and there were some -- have been some major figures in american politics that consider themselves major trotskyists. >> yes. >> what are they getting out of him? >> there weren't very many trotskyists in the world in the 1930s. most of those who existed were eliminated by adolf hitler in germany.

was the only person around who knew how to take it apart. well, philip reed was apparently the sharpest guy in the capital at the time. he was the only one, literally the only one who could figure out how to take the thing apart without the sculptor's help. it is largely because of him that this great symbol of freedom now sits atop the capitol dome. he was the only guy is smart enough to figure out how to take it apart. as the historians point out in their excellent report, the story of fell reed underscores one of the great ironies of this construction and that is the irony of the work and helping to cast the statue of freedom who was not himself free. this was a terrible injustice. but that is part of the story. we must continue to tell. as congressman lewis said, the history of the capital, like the history of our nation, should be complete. and so we are grateful to the slave labor task force for their work, they're helping us remember a moralize this painful but important part of our history, and they're helping to make sure that futur

barrett duke, who has a ph.d. in old testament studies, and i who have a ph.d. in theoloologtheolo take the biblical teachings and apply them to what we perceive as being an ethical immigration policy. it's much too long to go into, but i would refer you to it. >> thank you, and we will commend that to our committee. mr. gutierrez is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to go back to dr. richard land. temper proof biometric social security card. it's in our bill. we want to make sure, because i agree with you totally. you want to end illegal immigration, tell them they can't get a job in america. now, i'm saying that. i'm about as pro immigrant as you can get. tell them they can get a job in america, that we're going to end illegal immigration and we're going to end it once and for all. let's not -- let's just confess to ourselves. 1986 was a good start. but it was a fraud bill. and it was in essence amnesty to the extent that people applied -- you have been here four years, you sow up at an office, you go through a quasibackground chec

yes, five of those states who had the highest voting turnout in 2008 were five states who adopted same day election voter registration. i think it's time that san francisco helps lead the state of california in adopting this particular element because technology has now enabled us to provide the service that i think a lot of people feel excluded from. for a city like ours that certainly likes to see itself as engaged and sophisticated on so many levels, having that level of deficiency of voter turnout belies that particular reputation. i believe that the rest of california will follow. i would like to thank the senator for his efforts in sacramento of trying to get same day voter registration. it's passed the state senate but it's very unlikely that governor schwarzenegger will sign this into law. this idea had been attempted in 2002 by state proposition 52 and it passed in san francisco by nearly 60% of the vote, even though it did not pass in california. it came close. we're poised to make this happen and do well and quite a few good government organizations, neighborhood groups cert

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who supports -- who supports solicitor general kagan. it's nice to have you back in the committee and i appreciate you by educating people aout why the supreme court matters and how the decisions in your case need to be overturned by legislation. i hope my friends on the other side wil join us in protecng the workers discrimination act and they would have the bipartisan support and wou need the same out there. after the testimony, miss ledbetter, thanks for helping us overturn an unjust decision. miss ledbetter, yesterday senator klobuchar made a point that people like elena kagan broke the glas ceiling. when you started working how many women managersere there? >> ne to my kwledge. i never met any. >> do you know how many women were on the supreme court when your case went before them? >> one. >> how do you think women or young girls in this country who feel solicitor general kagan is confirmed? we have for the first time three women on the nine-member supreme cour >> i think it would be an outstanding accomplishme for the ople across t

everybo else who uses this part of our citd else who uses this t of our city else who uses this part of our city. it takes a lot of the city working together and it has been a hallmark of the mayor's administration to compel the parts who appear to have different interests to work together to achieve things like this project. i want to acknowledge some of those folks. one of our biggest partners was the san francisco municipal transportation agency. the manager of the streets. thanks dan. anita watson. we heard kudos for the planning department. we are joined by john ram and david for their work. the mayor's office of disability. susan misner is here with us. our director of cultural affairs and there is a significant public art component of this. luis cancell is here. some of the funding was made possible through the county transportation authority and i want to thank jose luis most co-very much and their directaz. >> a few different organizations, spur, the bicycle coalition and people for public spaces come together and formed the great streets project. and they did what the mayor

whether it is one of you who voted for this, or one of our wonderful residents who has been a volunteer here. all of you had a role in creating that facility we are so proud of. with that, i would like to bring out the mayo -- the mayor of san francisco. give him a round of applause, because he deserves it. [applause] for the last seven years, he has been a steward of this city, helping us to overcome many of the challenges that we have faced, as you will hear throughout the program. part of what makes today so sweet is it was not easy to get here. it was really hard. there were a lot of bumps on the road to this fantastic moment, many things we could not have anticipated, many things we did not know. throughout it, the mayor has always supported it, help us to solve the problems we face. i think the biggest part of the to be to him is the fact that this is the first leed building -- the environmental certification -- the first leed hospital in california to be built. i think that really speaks to his commitment to environmental issues at a time, 12 years ago, when it was not so popular

i would recommend for anyone who has interest in helping the haitian people-- who deserve their help and much more of it than all the generous donations to date so far-- that they could read timothy schwartz' book "travesty of haiti" which describes the dilemma. and through that, if they could read that, understand the dynamics of international aid work, the way it gets politicized, the way that religious organizations blindly support orphanages of... full of children who have families and are in many case what is would be the equivalent of the middle-class families of haiti and to cut through all of that, there are organizations, there are actions that are... where you don't do harm by doing good. food is a major area where we have done more harm than good and you can track this where c-130s full of race bags come in. and i don't mean in the case of immediate disaster relief. but as it goes on, there's still not a voucher system which would actually give people who need the leg up after the earthquake the opportunity to get some kind of an assistance. the tradeoff would be with the.

fred. >> who is your favorite? who does you the best? the best, probably norm mcdonald. i haven't heard from him in a while. ferguson is pretty funny. and darrell hammond does the best you. >> darrell is great. he is really terrific. well, listen. you've been on "larry king live" more than three dozen time over the years. sometimes i'm on the phone. i don't need to get made up. it is wonderful. i sit in bed and i do it. those are my favorites but i'm on the set. and we had an unbelievable moment. it was face to face and it became actually very controversial. let's take a look. >> larry: are you thinking of going beyond the east coast? we're seeing that new york and atlantic city have now crowded in. >> i'm involve in the west coast. i have a lot of property in california and it's been great. generally the east coast is what i have, larry. >> larry: why a board game? >> do you mind if i sit back a little bit? your breath is very bad. it really is. has this ever been told to you before? >> larry: no. >> then i won't bother. >> larry: that'

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are here for me, who support me, and who i can talk to. the staff are great. any time i have a problem i can talk to them and they listen and give me good advice. i've reinforced to the family the importance of family therapy, continuing to stay involved; also outpatient treatment is very important. so it's not just like, oh, see ya, you were an inpatient, good luck, have a good life. you know, it's that we want to reinforce ongoing recovery through a type of therapeutic modality. five years from now, i plan on having my own business and making a lot of money. actually i want to have a kid by then, be a good father. things do get better. just coming in here for the first week that i was here, you know, i felt a lot better. i actually started laughing and smiling and just feeling good about myself, wanting to work out and i can only imagine that on the outside it's just going to get better and better and people can change. mark, what are the key components of an adolescent treatment? a good treatment program for youth is going to have, firs

anyone who has met some of the soldiers -- when visiting headley court, or elsewhere -- who have lostbs in combat, through improvised explosive devices or in other ways, cannot help being incredibly impressed by their spirit and bravery, and their determination to go on and live as full lives as possible. we have set out very clearly what we want to achieve in afghanistan. this is the key year, when we surge up the military forces and surge up the political pressure. my right honorable friend the secretary of state for defence will make a statement later today about how we can best do that, and how we can ensure that our forces are properly spread across helmand province so that we can really have the effect that we want. let me be clear. do i think that we should be there, in a combat role or in significant numbers, in five years' time? no, i do not. this is the time to get the job done, and the plan that we have envisages our ensuring that we will not be in afghanistan in 2015. we have already been in helmand for four or five years, and, obviously, we have been in afghanistan since

who could possibly go for a guy who's 19 and has no hair? the prospects were grim.is: does it run in your family, hair loss? >> oh, yeah, yeah. luckily, we've all had half-decent heads, and that's been a compensation of a kind. one of the nicest things that ever happened to me, one horrible, rainy, windy evening, working day ending in london, everybody's hustling down the street to get in the subway, and i walked past a guy and he's got a hat on. and he suddenly calls out my name, and i turn around and he lifts his hat off, and he says, "thank you, thank you!" so there are compensations. plus, i save hundreds of thousands of dollars in hair dressers and hair preparations, you know? just a scrubbing brush. that's all i need. tavis: i asked that seriously, because i know there are a lot of guys, because of this billion-dollar industry, who struggle with trying to -- andre agassi was on this program a few conversation. >> another role model. tavis: yeah. >> you know, there was a time he had all that. tavis: but in his book he talks about it was a wig. >> it was a wig?

even the judges in santa clara county who were giving the colloquies, and the judges who would turn to defendants and say, i would like to get this resolved today, which basically means to plead guilty or no contest, they talked grudgingly. >> watch out if you ask someone out for a drink. i know in your study one of the things you found was there was a tremendous amount of pressure that came from the judges. can you talk briefly about that? >> sure. does this still work? >> one of the things we found that was very disturbing in our study was that nearly three out of four offices reported they had been pressured by county commissioners to cut costs. a good example of fat was recently reported -- good example of that is that it was recently appreported sacramento was planning to cut a third of their budget, yet their caseloads are already at twice the number of the national standards permit, so you have got that kind of economic pressure. there is also another type of pressure that comes from the lack of professional independence, the way we structure our public defense, especially our c

just now who are the pros for you is. now heading to the us on the baseball diamond now the national leagues best have finally ended a thirteen year when lyster out against their american league counterparts and the am i'll be all star game the n.f.l. stars have won since one thousand nine hundred six and were not getting any blessings at the angel stadium but it's time around robinson came out with a separate files flying the fair framing allowing three time all-star even morea to pull the ale on the board one zero. brian mccann however making sure history won't repeat itself in the seventh inning the twenty seven year old beating a double for and eventually for the ones that train for the national leagues past the atlanta braves star rightfully already in the all-star game a trophy for he's after it's. you phil graham this is something you dream about i mean to be in a situation like that just to be in the game i mean to share locker room with these guys i mean it's you know as a kid you this is this is what you dream a