door because you will need the ticket to get in to get that great food and the reception in the greenroom. you will notice on the ticket, there are eight great -- plant boxes on the back, and they will mark each station. you need to visit all of the food stations, and once your ticket is mark, you can take it to a raffle, drop it in the bowl to with a gift certificate from one of the participating restaurants, and the winner of the raffle will be notified by phone or e-mail. remember, doors to the green room not going to open. we still have a little bit more of our ceremony here, so stay and enjoy the grand finale. now, i would like to turn the program over to rose, who has overseen the finale of this event since 2008. she also coordinates the decision america pageant coordinates all of tonight's multi-cultural performances as well. [applause] >> thank you very much. each year, it is our pleasure to invite friends of the community to showcase their heritage. everyone, please, for this year, joined in the segment with your party applauds, sing along, or just get up and dance, okay? we want

in the greenroom, we were talking about the cost of outfitting of one car. how much does it cost for a lawsuit? what does it do to the perception of the department. those are the kinds of things we can do. but we have to put it -- we have to commit as a city, as individuals to the detriment of our own police department, rather than looking askance at it and assuming that every police department and employee in that department -- is not fair. >> mr. hanlon? >> i think one thing to keep side of -- sight of, if we're giving people the power to carry a gun and arrest citizens and put them in jail forever. we talk about how we deal with this situation, to minimize it and say it is just a few officers, the department is generally ok, that there is not a culture here, whether it is a code of silence or a code that we can do what ever we want, it is not dealing with the problem. [applause] i believe that it has to be dealt with. but it cannot be dealt with by minimizing it and saying there's too much media about this stuff, that it is not fair. it is fair because th

housing, a renovated, as the official club -- a renovated, space- efficient club, the addition of greenrooms to the project, and a 45 and its preferred playground -- and a 45 foot preferred playground. this bids the scale of the surrounding neighborhood. this reflects the scale of the surrounding buildings and allows for density. given the proximity to much taller buildings, including the golden gate bridge parkway, the scale is modest and appropriate. we would also point out that this comes out of the northern embarcadero design process with community stakeholders, organ design professionals, and planning staff. it yielded the height guidelines that have shaped the eight washington crotchet into its current form, including the manner in which it is in height as it draws near the water. we are pleased to note that roger is located in proximity to many transportation lines, including bart -- we're pleased to note that the project is located in proximity to transportation lines. it will encourage them to bicycle, water, and ride transit as opposed to making a car trips. -- to bicycle, walked -

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host: we to offer more than pop tarts in our greenroom.: you seem to be in bed with the big carb lobby.l host: dale, a republican in florida. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. happy holidays. there are a lot of good leaders today. all of them are capable. i like the strategies of everyone, especially ron paul's, where there's more freedom. everybody out in the street is protesting. i believe some financial oppressions and possibly some other things. i think our answer is for if the economy and we are trying to recover from the war. inon't think anyone will get office and be a dictator. i don't think that is possible in america. host: how about his comments about occupy wall street? guest: i think occupy wall street is best understood in conjunction with the tea party. the tea party has vastly bigger numbers and vastly more negative news coverage. there were reports of real and implied violence -- hundreds of thousands of people were marching around. there were no acts of violence. occupy wall street, much more popular med

the fact you're in a campaign and see a reporter and, therefore, people scurry to the greenrooms and this is the republican party that's demonized the press for decades. they realize you can't run for the white house without talking to the press. and so that's their problem. the conservatives also don't see the press as being sort of the people's representative in a democratic society. so they don't mind just locking them out. >> i think it goes a little bit further than that in that the republican party doesn't let you get too close. >> right. right. >> to their candidates. >> yes. >> aren't they confident in themselves that they can go over and strike up a 90 second or two-minute conversation with someone and be confident they could have some kind of personal connection to them? and be solid? they're so protected at this point. does it help them or hurt them? >> it hurts them. romney was accessible in 2008. now he's not. can you imagine four years ago in the winter of 2007 in hillary clinton and barack obama refused to talk to the pres, lived in a bubble and went around city to cit

you can sit in the fox greenroom and get more exposure than this debate is going to get. >> i was surprised that the campaigns don't want to do it, that they -- i would want to play it both ways. i don't want to offend donald dd trump, and it seems like there's another way to get out of it, i have other plans, with my family with the holidays and christmas or it's a week out from iowa caucus, can't miss it, i have to visit 75 other counties. some of them are a little more dramatic and in his face. >> ron paul has been in a feud with him and he's easy to dismiss. and i think jon huntsman gets some political benefit out of this because he's a a twitter war with donald trump and that's a good thing because it's at least one thing. people are taking notice of the campaign. and mitt romney, there's little chance he was going to do it but he could have been moral subsequent in explaining it in a way that doesn't necessarily make the donald a little angry at you >> the more something thing is it actually -- i hate to use the word pitiful, but the fact that the candidates, in order to get attractio

our food is pretty good in the greenroom. how are you doing, martha? good morning. >> good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. boy, this is a real nail-biter. this is the ugliest fight in the house this year. house republicans are under pressure to agree to a short-term extension the one passed by the senate. the senate said you know what? our work is done. bill: house speaker john boehner said, democrats, get back to work. did you see this scene? >> president obama needs to call on senate democrats to go back into session, move into conference and sit down and resolve this bill as quickly as possible. bill: what a year it has been. it is not done yet. mike emanuel live on the hill. good morning, mike. >> reporter: good morning, bill. bill: size it up foreus. where are we this morning on this issue? >> reporter: the hill is largely empty, bill. the key republican leadership is here. the conferees they have appointed to a congressional conference to name or hammer out for a year-long deal. we'll see them in about an hour or so. the senate left on

no, i don't think -- we discussed this earlier on in the greenroom, and i don't think i could wake upevery day and do the same thing, and this allows us not to do that. >> all of us involved people asked if they were not paid to do this, t.j.'s got a job, but some of the folks doing it out of the goodness from their heart, and why were they doing it? the right answer is it's fun. it's fascinating. these people they they are smarter -- think they are smarter than we are? i don't think so. sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. >> no, never. the good guys always win. you saw all the cowboy movies. >> how many members are here? rick's here. paul here? anybody else? just two of you. >> are we a dying breed? [laughter] >> so what's your take on this white hat culture? what did you come away from with meeting this group of people engaged in the struggle? >> well, you know, i think you could, you know, make an argument that, you know, the conficker is not -- it's tremendously interesting and sophisticated, but it might not be the most dangerous worm ever. the botnet might not be the lar