we do? -- no matter what they say about the contributions, what do we do? >> i want to see a discussion moved past the leaders. whoever we are talking about. we took a huge leap in the last few months. when we had for the first time -- not the first time, i should say. it happened before in the women's movement. but a leaderless movement. a proud and leaderless movement. what does that mean? was that crazy? was that not? -- next? no, that meant everybody becomes a leader. we have discovered something in the last few months, which is much bigger than any individual, leader or otherwise, and that is, the power of solidarity. people working together. you are not going to defend your house against a sheriff or a banker when foreclosure time comes all by yourself with a shotgun. that is when you need hundreds of people that is when you need scores and hundreds of people, when you are being evicted from your apartment. it is a strong part of the american tradition, the union movement, the civil ri

. -- and you do. -- than you do.t you believe is in the best interest of this country, and secondly, be bold. this country is at a critical juncture. do not settle for something less than what this country needs. you will have a victory, but it will not make the changes necessary to preserve that freedom and security for the next generation. those of the two things i challenge you. one reporter said it was and ask, don't tell. i am asking you to be bold and lead, and i will let you make the decision. i trust the people of iowa. the number one state for website visits the last two weeks has been iowa. i know you think you are the center of the universe -- the center of the country, sorry. i misspoke. believe it or not, you are not the biggest stake in the country. california is over 10 times bigger than you, and yet you have more searches and that of taxes or any other state. -- or taxes or any other state. -- or texas or any other state. you are doing your homework. i cannot ask for any more. going around and asking

to do this type of scanning. the issue is we need to ensure the records are indexed so that we can find the record that goes back to the 1930's that applies to today. not all of them have the same information, so we have to double check -- commissioner murphy: i understand and would be in agreement. the staff that you have now, supervise the indexing. what if somebody comes into the process quick? we do not want to be talking about this five years from now, and we will be. commissioner hechanova: commissioner walker. commissioner walker: i think the proposal is actually to have additional staff for a short period of time to accelerate this. that is what they are proposing. every month, we come and and talk about how there is not enough staff at the front desk, not enough for this spirit we have increased staff to accommodate that. now this is a separate project that is responding to some of the other issues. i think it makes sense to have enough staff to do this, so that it does not take away from some of the oth

if you want to do more -- if you want to do less, that is -- we cannot do that. that is not a reasonable compromise. the reason there is such acrimony is because there are finally a group of republicans who says, enough. we are not doing more. we are not compromising on doing more. we will do less and you will compromise on how much less we do. [applause] to finish your comments, i would not cut the defense department. the number one priority of this country, of the federal government, is the defense of this country. [applause] if you look at defense spending as a percentage of the budget, it is roughly 20%. what was its 50 years ago? close to 60%. what is the problem? defense spending? nope. defense spending is not the problem. since it is the only thing the federal government does that no one else can do, that is the thing that will be held firm. the rest of the military budget will be frozen. that is not to say we will not cost anything. we are not going to sacrifice the national security of our country when that is not the problem adding to the deficit. final

do you understand that? >> 26 items, yes, i do. commissioner ckingsley: do you read this as being lechler? commissioner terman: i understand i want to make sure that officer tachihara understands. president mazzucco: have been patient with where you have been doing and i think other commissioners have been also. your problem is you play in a gray area. and your problem is when you're asked a question about do you understand this, i do, and i know you do. you have had negotiations represented by counsel at one point and you have looked at this agreement. there has been a lot of work and effort and you have had time to digest it and it is relatively simple. you cannot give a straight answer. when you're asked a question, or you a police officer in washington, d.c., you draw the proverbial fog ball. yes i was and this is when i served, and this had better be the truth. the car you have in that last answer that you do not have. for some strange reason your car mimics the car of the undercover car. same color, the same number of light -

>> we do not necessarily need to read of the criteria do we need a second, or do you want to read it out? >> we asked the board of supervisors to continue next -- to consider extending the program to complete a study before taking further action. it is a legitimization program, so it would be expanding the program for 12 months. good i have a motion by commissioner adams. >> do we want to vote any recommended guidelines for the review so the review does not, up three months before the deadline? >> within three months to? do you think that is too soon? >> to soon. >> we should have the report back within six months. it will come back to this commission. do we have a second? >> i will second. >> why don't we take roll calls? [calling votes] the passes 5-0. >> i want to bring something up because it was brought to my attention and is on this topic. one business i know very well is a large shawerma and -- a large warehouse with over 100 employees, trucks going in and out, and i want you to know affordable housing is the greatest pressure on their business right now, and affordable housin

how could they do what they do when we can't do what we are supposed to do? how do you cut a poll grant? forgive me and allow me an indulgence. 75,000 americans got engineering degrees. 300,000 indians. six hundred thousand chinese people. they are doing what they are supposed to do. reggie bailey, were you mit? what are we supposed to do? what are we supposed to do? i am going to be quiet. >> let me follow up because it is the collective wisdom that it is president obama has offered what the new york times has called an overly generous package of cuts in social programs. what do we say about that? of course the republicans walked away once again. >> holy water. holy water. you know what? let's take our time and talk about the energy we have. i can fix these people. they are not fixable but here is what i want black people to understand. you know it from your ancestors story. no matter who we are or how we are we have triumphed even in the middle of nonsense. let's continue the energy of triumph. the reason i wrote surviving and thriving is because i wanted p

what do you think about people trying to save money by doing it thems or doing some of it themselves? >> i think it's a disaster. and it's not that it takes brain surgery to do a kitchen, but they're complicated enough and there's a lot of things you need to know and coordinate and for the first time person, they don't know that. they don't think about how the ducts are going to go, the pipes are going to go, they think it's, you know, it's better to hire a licensed contractor to hire a professional to do the drawings, you save money in the long run even though there's markup but you get a better product. >> and they don't want you to help them because if you try to help them, it takes longer, it complicated their schedule, it will mean they'll have to be on the job longer. they want to finish it out successfully have you happy, and have everybody paid and leave and start the next job. if you say, i'll put down the flooring, oh, my god, now we're a week behind schedule. there's a lot of coordination that's required. so the electrical has to be coordinated, with the drywall, the tiles,

>> yes, you do not have to do the fire walls. i am perturbed by the pictures of the back of the building. it does not look the best. again, i think we should look into that from housing inspection. that photograph looks like there is a lot of light going on. that would be something -- it could be part of a nearly year violation. i know we have a bunch of complaints on this building. somersault, some not resolved. some of them are held up because of appeals. that back wall did not look the best in the photograph. >> it also looks like it does not matched the drawing. >> it is hard to tell. some issues with the building. inspection services could get involved in the bathroom tissue and the maintenance of the building. i think they are. i do not have anything with me tonight. >> we will take public comment. >> thank you. to the comments he made earlier about giving a forum for people who do not have attorneys, i appreciate you remembering the details of my bathroom. i stand here today eight months later, six months after i saw you,

what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let us know if you have a small business in there that we can patronize. thank you. -- in that area that we can patronize. >> i have a company here in san francisco. like all small businesses, working for the city of san francisco is difficult. cash flow is a problem. invoices' get paid anywhere from 60 to 120 days. being cash for, i do not know how that would help me qualify for a loan, but it is a problem. so my question is, where do you go, i

tavis: do you like doing the voice-over stuffed? >> i do. i can do books and stuff like this, too. i was nominated for a grammy because our produce the complete recordings of shakespeare's on it. it took a lot of wonderful actors together to do that. when i do these kinds of things, i go over the books of things that our record. 30% goes to the charity of choice. tavis: you live and you travel around the world in this wonderful career. you filmed around the world. there are two specific places of what to ask you about. one is china. >> i still have not been to china. my father grew crops in china. my mother went to china in 1947 with the united nations relief association. they met and married in china and lived there until 1949 s when all foreigners were expelled by mao. everything in our home, all of the antiques and the furniture and the rugs and everything comes from my father's family and several generations in china. my mother has banned back. she has been back twice. she went to the house where she and my father and his two aunts lived before the war. now there are 11 familie

is we do and i do not agree.are exceptional but i think we are slipping. we should work much harder to be an exceptional nation, to practice what we peach, -- preached, to make sure we have a market and have prosperity and have people look and say, america is a great place. why don't we try to copy them? that would be a better -- better than forcing them to do something. >> what is your stance on legal and illegal immigration? >> we should not have any. my approach is not to reward something that is illegal. if states are forced to provide services and benefits to illegal immigrants, there will make benefit of it. illegal immigration is down. that tells you something about how weak the economy is. the jobs are not going begging. even today under welfare, this system encourages them not to take jobs they did not have to take if they did not get these benefits. we should not be forcing preschools and -- free schools and for medical care on people here illegally. we should revamp the whole thing about the workers pr

before you start, what do you do? stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gathering facts. you want to assess the type of damage there is. what kind of situation is it? what is the issue? is it a medical problem? if it's a medical, is it a big hurt or a little hurt? is it a rescue situation and if it's a fire, do you have the resources to control or extinguish that fire? how about your situation, do you have all your people? do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources

we can do that. we can grow food in our cities and use technology to help redefine what our regional office -- 2 system looks like. we can do these things right now. the best social service dollar spent is a job. it creates dignity and taxes. >> we have been sitting here talking about poverty in the system and getting out the truth about it. i am also looking at 1500 people and i have to ask you, each one of you, what are you doing to stay out of poverty? how knowledgeable are you about the money and that you are making? do you have the documents to protect your tomorrow so that if something were to happen, the amount of money does not go to a lawyer. what steps are you taking to keep yourself out of poverty? the more people into party, the harder it is going to be for everybody to get out. have you been on an airplane and you hear them say, when the oxygen mask falls, put it on your face a first. that is because if you cannot take care of yourself, you cannot take care of your children. you ask me a

if you do well in america, you should do well by america. that is how our parents and grandparents were. why should we have to beg you to do well by a country that has done well by you? it is a cheap form of patriotism to let them off the hook and say the country is supposed to serve them that they are not supposed to serve us. it is cheap form of patriotism to say the epa is a job killer. think about that. the epa. what is the epa do? think about this. we fall into this saying we do not know if we can defend epa because the economy is bad. excuse me. the epa keeps americans from buying -- from dying. i do not want to pull out the values card, but the epa has probably saved more american lives in the past 30 years than the department of defense. [applause] think about this. you are mad at the epa? just the mercury rules alone and --ly saved 100,000 eri american lives every year. if you take out the epa, do not call me a job killer. you are a kid killer. what would happen without the epa? mercury, lead, poison. the epa is holding back poisons

they do not want to do that. they really do not want to do that. they saw what happened in 2000. there are enough penstock people that will actually go somewhere else and can cause a huge ruckus. they do not have to go very far to think of an example of what happens when you pump on those that have left. imagine obama calling a press conference in going "i have decided that this year i am returning all the money i have received from wall street and i'm not taking one dime from wall street in this election right now." what you think would happen? think about the support he would have. how many in here went door to door and phone calls and everything in 20008? as, many people can wait to get back on the phone banks? it is not there. he could turn that around by not waiting until after the election but changing it right now. the majority is already with him. >> for those watching right now you are saying that -- who are saying that we have tried to eradicate poverty and we have for more money at poverty, there are more poverty programs than there have ever been, we have done this si

can you tell me what you do? >> do like a restaurant. we just want to get some entertainment for the customer, light dinner entertainment. vice chair joseph: what kind of entertainment? >> singing karaoke. vice chair joseph: ok. anybody have any questions? commissioner cavellini: have you had a karaoke bar before? >> yes. commissioner cavellini: i am sorry. i do not speak chinese. in san francisco you had a karaoke bar? or you have been working at a carrier could bar before? >> mostly, i do entertainment around the bay area for many years. commissioner cavellini: can you tell me where? >> san francisco, the masonic center. a chinese concert over there. at the city hall. at the palace. vice chair joseph: mr. chang, unfortunately, your application is not filled out. many of -- i am going to say this the only way i know how. if you do not understand what i am saying, stop me. the application, the paper you submitted, is not filled out. there are many areas that you did not answer. for instance, what are your door policies is blank. describe

do you cut. it should be about where can you get better value? if you're going to do that, you've got to understand how service members actually value the various forms of compensation they get. and it is a complex mesh of different forms of compensation. that's something the department has actually been reluctant to do. it's not through focus groups or senior enlisted leaders. you've really got to go out and get input from a broad secretary of the department. i will take a moment here to plug a study that we're doing. we're actually trying to do this. we're conducting a survey of military personnel where people can go in. it's an online survey. and they can actually start to show us their utility curves, if you will, for different forms of compensation. and then they make trade-offs in the tool of would you prefer a little more of this and a little less of that and some other combination of benefitings. it's online. we encourage people in the military or family members or retirees to go to it. c

>> i felt the economists should do the economy and let the teachers do teaching.hought it was a very unfortunate thing to say because if you actually did that, we would lose all of our new teachers because the people that actually get really much better over two or three years are new teachers. >> you don't come in as the teacher you are going to be. >> never. so, i thought that was a very unfortunate thing to say. >> the report. do you agree with the report? >> of course if you have, you know, if you have good performance in schools, if kids do well in schools it gives them confidence to do well in the future. we have to all be about high performance and some of the work we have tried to do is revamp it. take it away from being a principals responsibility 57bd do it together. we will, ensure then that teachers are getting better. if teachers can't do their jobs and if you try to help them and they still can't do it, we have to usher them out of the profession. >> frankly, testing has a role. data has a role. but, the same day that harvard study came out, the gate

we do not expect what you do not inspect. and if you don't put into place policies that encourage -- i am not saying being a whistle- blower, but encourage proper at 6, and i think -- proper ethics, and i think greg suhr stated very properly its starts in the police academy. u.s. no other position probably in the united states -- certainly not for some of our elected officials. yet no one who gets more scrutiny and more background checks and psychological checks and an 18-month probationary period. we as law-enforcement administrators hope that those kinds of people who do not meet on moral and ethical standard, we hope they do not pass or get through. sometimes they do. i find it interesting that this is the -- it has been 20 years, 15 months, and two days since the rodney king incident in los angeles. when i watch that incident. -- when i watched that incident, it gave me shivers. what bothered me -- it was not only the people hitting rodney king -- but it was the other 19, 20 officers who stood around and did nothing. and

decades to do. -- to undo what took three decades to do. i believe is possible for him to win south carolina. it will be an uphill battle. if all democrats, independents, people of goodwill were to come around a good future vision of the country, yes, we can. >> question from susan ferrechio. >> the democrats were able to get the majority four or five years ago. if you managed to stay in the majority for just two congresses. can you talk about why you think you were only able to stay in for 4 years. was this bad policy, bad politics, or bad luck? >> i do not think any of our policies were bad. i think our policies were as good as the environment within which you laid them out. they are also as good as the message that you lay out to further those policies. i believe that we, in 2010, failed the message and effectively. in 2010, our biggest and tight- of vote came from seniors. -- anti-vote came from seniors. they thought we did something we did not do. the difference in our winning and losing was th

and if we do not deny it -- do not do that, i talked yesterday about how 1980 we're going to a similar election with jimmy carter and economic malaise in stagflation and a disrespect around a world, and the experts came down here to south carolina and told you you had a vote for someone who could win, because we had to win. and the only thing you care about is winning. and it promoted someone named george h.w. bush. and the other choice was a guy named reagan. everyone looks back at reagan says, ronald reagan. when ronald reagan came to south carolina he was not ronald reagan. it was just the governor of california, the former governor california, and not the reagan we all know now. if the south carolina saw in reagan someone who could be that person. and he was willing to buck the experts and the pundits and voted for what american needed. as a result, it made all the difference. that is what i have been encouraging south carolinian is to do. this is a state that has strong american values, a conservative principles, and all i ask you to do a vote your conscience. but those principal

, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do is work with small businesses to understand how to be ready for credit. a lot of that is helping folks that are interested in starting a business understand how to develop a business plan, how to get

work that they do. the budget is roughly 300 people. these are the positions we keep vacant and we do not desert -- and -- that is where we usually do position substitution if they are ever needed. the business services team, you see the changes here. the ones i would like to highlight our the i.t. systems and investments and as you read about recently in the newspapers, there is always computer hacking at various institutions. we are doing a lot of good work to evaluate every single systems we have and you can see that as part of the audit and review report. what is proposed is investment in a chief i.t. security officer. we're not asking for more money , just investment in intrusion detection. the retirement decisions are the same one additional decision to support the water meter program again -- we are not proposing any new ads, just a substitution with the currently vacant position. the office of the general manager is a very flat budget and the notable item there is additional support and software

i do not want to see more homeless familiesi do not want e homeless families, and i do not want to see more homeless families on the waiting list to get into a shelter. i would like to ask him to apologize to their families for what happened last week, because what he is saying is not a crisis in san francisco, it is a crisis. thank you. i am waiting for an answer. [applause] >> next speaker, please. >please, i want to go through the testimony, and with so much clapping generally not allowed in to keep it to a minimum. thank you. >> gracias. >> thank you for everything. >> [speaking spanish] >> first, we have a lot of feelings. we feel a lot of pain that with all of this trouble. obviously for the kids, because when they asked when windier -- when we're going to have our own place to play, we cannot find an answer to that question. [>> [speaking spanish] >> what are we supposed to say? we need to lie? i do not think that is the good way to teach your children, but sometimes i like to my daughter. >>i like to heard telling her we're going camping. she does not know what is camping, but

what do we do? younger workers we are going to tax you more and give benefits to high income seniors who have paid into social security, or are we going to make you pay more, slow down the economy, hurt the economy, and take more resources out of you? i have a hard time seeing how that is fair. franklin roosevelt would not have seen that as fair. we need to look at changing that. there is a whole bunch of ways to do that. there are a lot of ways you can structure it so higher income seniors -- another thing -- dependent benefits. we have benefits that go to children of parents who die. absolutely legitimate. a lot of those children, though, also get benefits if the mother or father -- in both cases the father -- turn 65. the child of a 65-year-old gets benefits. most of the 65-year-old dads i know usually are not hurting for cash. there are some things we can do. some little things and some big things. i do believe, and i know this is not popular, but after 67 goes we need to continue to move it for

i do not understand why would they do that. fe say they did not do it. it is kind of weird. >> of the security guard goes june a group of people waiting to get huandto a bus, do people respond to you? >> there are 40 people. the 40 people are drunk, and you have three guards, and after they get in front of our venue, it is not their responsibility anymore, so every time they come down, we have to get them moving. cracks do you know that your abc license says you are responsible for 50 feet in either direction of your club? >> i do understand. that is why we are trying to get them down the street. every time i tried to move, they say, they told us to wait for the bus here. i say, you have to move. people are drunk. >> you are outside working security. do you have a security training? >> no. >> you do not know techniques about moving people along the? >> we definitely move people along. we have such close proximity to the club next to us that once their patrons across to our club, they think it is no longer their responsibility, which is not the case. they

how do you do that?stimate america once again the most attractive place in the world for innovators, pioneers, and businesses of all kinds, so they come and invest here. i saw that the head of coca- cola -- talk about an american iconic business. he said that a more favorable business environment is in china than in the united states. i am going to change that. we will make it more attractive here than anywhere else in the world. i will do that by getting our tax code right. i will do that by putting a stop to all the obamacare regulations and throwing out those that kill american jobs. [applause] i will do that by opening up new markets for american goods so we can sell around the world. i will crack down on china, who of been stealing our designs, our know-how, our brands. they have been hacking into our computers. that has got to stop. i will stop it, if i am president of the united states. there is one more thing we can do to make this an attractive place for enterprises, businesses, pioneers, and jo

' do. they become mercantilists. they want trade barriers with cuba. how long do we need trade barriers with cuba? same way around the world. i want to make use of air 12,000 diplomats, talk to people and work out problems and be more engaged in the world. and use military force and violence as a last resort and a properly under the constitution and not allow a president to do it on his own or do it under authority from the united nations or nato and congress reneging on their responsibilities. i see myself as the freest trader in congress and i am an internationalist in this sense that it should be all pawlenty and you have more diplomacy with people. -- it should be all correct and you have more diplomacy with people. this is what we have is all due to george bush. what we have is all due to george bush. rick and said that we are for less war and all this, yet they end up doing more. as far as being isolationist, i think an isolationist is somebody who wants to wall themselves off. you he

i do not like absolutes. i do not like to say, "i will never do so and so."e should just be a little bit patient. on tuesday, we will find out a lot more about the future of this election. host: congressman ron paul on cnn. what do think about your candidate's viability as a third-party candidate? should he not be able to keep going forward in the republican field? guest: he would be very viable, if he decided to be independent. that said, there's virtually no chance that ron will run independent. he does not want to do it. i do not blame him. our system is so biased toward independents. ron has his home in the republican party. senator rand paul would say that political parties are empty vessels, unless we can't imbue them with values -- we can imbue them with values. mission andpaul's goal right now. i don't see an independent bid in his future. host: an article in "the wall street journal" talks about how the seekers of peace -- what do you make of that? guest: sure. dr. paul is a the peace candidate. the peace candidate has a great chance of winning in am

i miss those guys, man. >> jimmy: do you keep in touch with them? >> i do. i do.rking on a hay bailer. i brought him a six-pack of beer. i brought him some fake arms, too. they got his real arms on. i had a farmer tan. and i brought a beer with a thing -- what do you call it? >> jimmy: a straw? >> yeah, a straw. good people. back to work. it's good people. >> jimmy: wow. so, when you do the show, you're coming from a place of knowledge. >> absolutely. i like the four-wheelers. and i like that lifestyle. i'm one of them. >> jimmy: it's great to see you. you're always entertaining. thanks for being here. the show, "my big redneck" vacation. it debuts on saturday on cmt. tom around. when we come back i keke palmer. number 32,000,108! 109! 110! [ announcer ] introducing block live, a new service... that basically turns your home into an h&r block office. did you have any other jobs this year? get your taxes done for you right then and there... via video conference with a tax professional. was that cinnamon you put in the dessert? yeah. little dash of nutmeg too. wonde

do?eaknesses? >> it's great. you're really going to like it. it's going to be giant on "saturday night live." >> i'm not going to like it. everybody else is going to like it. >> if you think they're going to like it, we don't. we hate it. >> everybody who works for you will love it, your director will love it. >> why would i not -- >> you have to. you're going to freak out. i like it. andy san brg did me on the show, and i liked it. >> you're a funny guy. you're self-mocking. >> you're going to like it. it's a home run. would you like me -- >> i want to talk to you about another thing, taking your show on the road. >> it's a big deal for us. our show is from new york city, live in new york city, but we're going to indianapolis for the super bowl. february 3rd, 4th, and 5th. wednesday, thursday, and friday, and super bowl sunday after the super bowl, a live show. >> it's a dream for you, and be honest, if tebow drives denver to the super bowl and this song has taken off, you're thinking ma

what do you do?do not want anyone that has anything to do with washington. it is chaos. we cannot have it. second, it is not what you say, it is what you do. and he has done it. when he had 25 years in the private sector, he fixed broken companies. our country is broken. he took a failed olympics and made it a source of pride. we need that cried again with this failing economy. when he went into massachusetts, he cut taxes 14 times. -- 19 times. we could use that margin right now. -- use that in washington right now. [applause] michael and i are part of a strong military family. i will tell you that we need a president that will strengthen and back up the military. not weaken them and apologize for it. [applause] so, get excited, new hampshire. this is what i mean. we do not just need a win. we need a landslide. [applause] let me tell you why we need a landslide. guess where he is going next? south carolina. [applause] mitt romney is going to win south carolina, by the way. make it easier for us, go

i do not remember the question. >> i do not either. i think we're getting close to the time where we're going to take questions from anyone who wants to get up and ask them. line up at the microphone. in the meantime, i was wondering -- actually, someone in the audience was wondering. alan -- >> yes? >> what don't we know about billy crystal and/or larry david that you want to share with the international radio audience? which can probably be picked up in l.a. billy is like my closest friend. he and larry are both my buddies. larry david, when we all started out, we used to sit back in the back of the improvisation or whatever club we were in it just to watch larry. he was the comedian's comedian. back then he had hair like larry from the three stooges. he had wire rim glasses. he would get on a stage on a friday night at the improv. the crowd was predominantly suburban predominantly wouldblue hair. a pure suburban crowd. larry would get up. he will look at them and the first words out of his mouth -- you know, i feel very comfortable

when you do that, you see, you do not change the song. you do not change the integrity of the song.ou make it even more lyrical and even more personal. trevor's reason for getting me to do that song is that he said it is perhaps more relevant now or socially just as much, just as important, just as relevant now as it was when the late marvin gaye originally wrote it and sang it. tavis: when you refer to it as a perfect song, this is one of those crazy the dates that those of us who are music lovers have all the time about to are the greatest songwriters and what are the greatest songs and who has the best tone and who has the best addiction. to my mind, and i have said this many times, i believe that "what's going on?" bayberry will be the best song ever written. that is a strange -- may very well be the best song ever written. that is a strange thing to say. when you say perfect, i guess that is it. >> by the way, we had this conversation as well, me and my buddy. there are two songs that come to mind. i think it really all depends on how you are as a person, though where -- where

they are doing well.e have a lot to learn on how to organize and structure schools and we are grateful for the generosity, the charter movement in new york state doesn't get equal funding. the philanthropic community has allowed us to start up schools and innovate. >> there is another group that says it is impacting things and we don't like it in our neighborhood. you are going beyond harlem in new york and you have gotten pushback from parents in some areas. basically they are saying charter schools take away from traditional neighborhood schools. what do you say to that? >> it is often not the parents. it is the teachers union. they hire organizations like acorn, they actually rent protesters. one has to be careful about where the opposition is coming from, but we had 9,000 parents apply to our schools last year for 900 spots. so we clearly have community support. >> the numbers tell the story right. there eva, sounds great. thank you for all that you are doing. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we

you can do mountain bike tours. you can do horseback tours. you do atv tours.he zip lines have been the biggest product we've expanded into. we now have two zip line courses. >> with all the new activities and a bunch of new accommodations the adventures on the gorge was turned into a true all-inclusive destination. >> the future was a resort, the future was, you know, more lodging, restaurants, and a variety of scenarios. >> sometimes, radical change needs to happen. it has made us much more profitable. it has made us a much stronger company. we've been able to reinvest in things. >> after three years, paul says he's incredibly proud of what they've been able to accomplish, in both merging cultures and building out the companies. but he says they're nowhere near done yet. one day he hopes that these three companies will truly be one. >> as time goes on it will take more prominence. and you'll see it being on top of that name brands, and as time goes on, you'll see the flip-flop go on, and some day, it's our goal that adventures on the gorge will be the primary

do you think you should? why? >> i didn't do anything. >> you didn't do anything?t go to court. >> i know. i was scared. >> you were scared? >> they said they why going to give me two years of placement. >> you should have gone to court. >> i'm going to court now. >> mm-hmm. you don't have a choice. they told me they took you to the hospital, you tested positive for marijuana. you've been smoking, huh? >> i don't know. >> you don't know? what you do that for? >> thought that would help for stress. >> you feel like you need something to calm you down? then that's what you should have been telling the counselor and the therapist. if that's how you feel. this is what i'm talking about. the things you're telling me, you need to tell them. you may have a chemical imbalance. who knows? there's medicine for that. and people are not crazy who take it. >> i told people. they ain't going to help. >> how do you know? you keep going with a negative train of thought. what makes you get angry like that? >> just stuff people do. >> even when things don't go your way, you stay ang

they do not want to do that. they really do not want to do that. they saw what happened in 2000. there are enough penstock people that will actually go somewhere else and can cause a huge ruckus. they do not have to go very far to think of an example of what happens when you pump on those that have left. imagine obama calling a press conference in going "i have decided that this year i am returning all the money i have received from wall street and i'm not taking one dime from wall street in this election right now." what you think would happen? think about the support he would have. how many in here went door to door and phone calls and everything in 20008? as, many people can wait to get back on the phone banks? it is not there. he could turn that around by not waiting until after the election but changing it right now. the majority is already with him. >> for those watching right now you are saying that -- who are saying that we have tried to eradicate poverty and we have for more money at poverty, there are more poverty programs than there have ever been, we have done this si