the first statement will be made by mort rosenberg, followed by doug, david rifgen and walter dellinger. after the formal presentation, i'll give the panel a chance to question one another and i'm sure we will see a spirited debate from that point. then we go on to questions of the audience. so keep track of things you don't think have actually been covered and we'll try to address those. many thanks for being here. i hope you find this panel, as i think you will, informative. let me start then, with an introduction for mort. all i have to do is find tepaper and i'll sit down. >> what i want to say about mort, he is an expert and has been a good many years in the appointments issue. he was a member of the congressional research service and he was there during one of the periods when the crs had its most important business dealing with appointments. that is during the watergate period for richard nixon. and his opinions, there were nine of them during that period, were extremely important in establishing some of the basic ideas for how we look today at the appointments process. he's also

the rosenberg institute reached out to local government for this project.oped monthly conference calls, one statewide convening various side presents, and the website. this has been valuable book for san francisco, as well as to further good practices in other communities. i'm happy to answer any questions that you have. chairperson chu: this is also an item that would not require additional positions, correct? >> correct. chairperson chu: why don't we open it up for public comment? >> ♪ coming to the subcommittee was not what i had planned ♪ ♪ and i wish you good luck with reentry plans ♪ ♪ i want you to be all free ♪ and now you're looking at me ♪ ♪ and that is what i want for you ♪ ♪ is reentry chairperson chu: thank you. are there other members of the public that wish to speak on item number two? seeing none, the item is closed. we have a motion and a second. we will do that without objection. item number 3. >> the resolution of the parks department to expand and urban grant for the boat bekker part funded by the safe drinking water, water quality and s

when i was the victim of acampal never forget, lee rosenberg and others meeting with me to tell me jane, we have your back. it really meant a lot. and the one plea to all of you is you visit congressional office in the next few days and push for an agenda that i fully share. that you urge them to stay bipartisan on the state of israel. israel loses if we make her a political football in the campaign. now about iran, you are right. i've long worried about iran. i'm a jewish grandmother and soon to be a jewish great grandmother. i come by this honestly. iran is not only a threat to israel that we all understand and get, and the clock is ticking, but iran has shown over the years that it is capable through hezbollah to attack this hemisphere. the attacks in the '90s were the largest massacre since the holocaust. more jews did there. so we better take this seriously. and if iran gets a nuclear weapon, the arms race that will ensue and the destabilization. not only of the region, but of the world, i think means that iran and a few other countries like pakistan are countries we need to worry

and to recognize aipac current president and chairman lee rosenberg. and of course howard core. thank you for this service -- for your service to this vital organization which has helped me and my staff immensely over the years. finally, i want to acknowledge all the kentucky ians who are here. we may not have a large jewish population in the bluegrass state, but i'd like to think we make up for it in heart. in fact, one aipac supporter i worked with years ago in louisville summed up the attitude most jewish kentucky yans pretty well. he said, mitch, there's only one race better than the jews and that's the kentucky derby. now, as we all know the u.s. and israel have a lot in common. in addition to the strategic interests that bind us, both were born of conflict and built by immigrants and pioneers. and both of all has been firmly committed to the democratic ideals that enabled their people to flourish. because of these things, israel has always enjoyed strong bipartisan support here in washington. but saying we support israel doesn't necessarily ensure it. that's why i wanted t

. >> my name is chris rosenberg. i want to start by saying thank- you to all the board members. i think you have done a great job of trying to avoid layoffs, which is what we all want. layoffs are bad for all of us, bad for our kids. in the event there have to be layoffs this year, i am in support of skipping the superintendent zone teachers. those are traditionally the schools where we have the highest turnover, the students need the most support the can possibly get. we have spent a lot of time and money with professional development. we are committed to reaching our goals. i would ask you to support this resolution. thank you all for your time. >> commissioners, superintendent, president yee. i am the proud principle of everett middle school. i support the resolution to keep the teachers in the superintendent's unsafe, so we can keep our promise to equity social justice, keep the consistency, the continuity, the investment, and the momentum to move toward excellence. a lot of time and money has been spent. the right people are on the bus. teachers are there because they want

doctor david rosenberg is convinced bridget, and the estimated one million other children in americaof ocd can conquer it. in a ground-breaking study, his team at the children's hospital of michigan is now looking closely at the mris of children who have ocd. >> it's chemical, it's physiological. >> and we can see it on an mrn. >> they know the chemical is cite kwli involved in ocd and it acts as a like switch. and that light switch is broken. >> they never get the all clear sound the brain's arousal signal gives the signal that you have to keep checking over and over. >> reporter: doctors can reset that part of the brain. with bridget eight therapy sessions in, she's about to reach a major milestone. >> just stay with it. >> reporter: this is the first time bridget has touched her mother in four months. >> there it is. >> reporter: tonight, see what those mris reveal and we take you inside the therapy room as david streets three children. tonight "my extreme affliction" at 9:00 eastern. >>> coming up a beverly hills auction puts movie history on sale. but first a special guest for v

we're looking on he is the united nations director at human rights watch are a gentleman cross-talk rosenberg that means you can jump in anytime you want jacob if i can go to you first i didn't watching the syrian conflict on american british t.v. western media in general and it's basically good guys and bad guys so can you explain to me who the good guys are and who are the bad guys are because we have a regime that's killing its own people and we have an armed insurrection resorting to terrorism so please tell me who are the good guys and the bad guys. well i think it's always difficult to tell in this kind of situation i mean you've got a dictatorship there and traditionally a dictatorship is the bad guys i mean there's there's traditionally nothing good about a dictatorship and this happens to be one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world you've got an armed insurrection and that as i understand it human rights watch is now accused of some major human rights atrocities. what are the issues involved here i would be the last one to to be an expert in that area i have always taken the

congratulations to aipac's leadership, the new president, the chairman rosenberg, executive directornd all of the leaders of aipac for organizing another outstanding policy conference. [applause] more than 13,000 strong this year all of the delegates in the community act this year are effective voices on behalf of a strong u.s. israel relationship. let us all recognize the future leaders of the nation and of our u.s. israel relationships, our students who are here tonight. [applause] of course i especially want to honor my delegation for my own state of california. [applause] thank you, aipac, for your support of the foreign minister. your efforts to offer them a support for israel. anyone that cares about the alleviation of poverty, the eradication of hunger and disease owes you a debt of gratitude for your strong advocacy of foreign aide. thank you. the last time i spoke to the plenary session, i spoke to you about my jewish grandchildren. i had one more since then. tonight i want to talk about another member of my family. more than 70 years ago the congressman invited here from ma

rosenberg, one of the fellows at media matters.s a main stream media outfit. >> you want to talk to the arab and muslim world and also even much of the world. al-jazeera is very much a main stream network now. >> steve: oh, boy. i know i interviewed alan derchwics and he says media matters crossed the line into anti-semitism because they're tolerating him being on the payroll. >> mj rosenberg got a lot of heat for many things. one of which is he refers to american supporters of israel as israel firsters. basically questioning their loyalty to the united states of america. he only recently last week said he won't use that term because it created a hubub. if you listen to his speech in qatar, he expresses unreserved joy that president obama is treating israeli prime minister worst than any president ever treated an israeli prime minister that he's taking israel to the mat. this is in front of what is probably largely an arab audience with anti-israel tendencies. he's laying it on thick. he doesn't mention the threats israel faces fro

>> jessica rosenberg and linda katz, members of the park slope food co-op speaking to "democracy now!" last night. we will host a debate on the bds movement. dr. mustafa barghouti is joining us from washington, d.c., supporting the movement. he is a member of the palestinian parliament, secretary-general of the palestinian national initiative. he was also a presidential candidate and in the 2005 elections. rabbi arthur waskow is opposed to bds. he is founder and director of the shalom center in philadelphia. we welcome you both. professor, start by explaining what bds is and why you think this boat in brooklyn, new york is so important. >> bds is part of a larger movement of nonviolent resistance and palestine. it is very similar to the civil actions in several activities that were led by martin luther king in the u.s. against segregation. it is very similar to what ghandi led in inda. we have a situation of apartheid and segregation and occupation that is become the longest in modern history. the segregation is destroying our life. the so-called peace talks have become a peace proces

we have cooper and click click rosenberg. >> jimmy: sounds like you're having a lot of fun. >> the kidry time i'm walking, open and close -- shut up. i know you talked to our friend, don rickles today. >> don rickles. he sends you his love. he's come on in a couple of weeks. i love him. >> jimmy: he's the best. >> the best. >> jimmy: if you speak to him again, or i'll call him myself. tell him i said hello. >> i will tell him. >> jimmy: again, it's great to have you here. joan rivers, everyone. "joan & melissa: joan knows best?" airs tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. on wetv. "fashion police" airs fridays at 10:30, 9:30 central on e! we'll be right back with maria menounos. [ cheers and applause ] how are you? we're going to head on into the interview. john, jill...mr. jacobson... what's it like driving the fusion hybrid? you can read every system that is operating by pushing a button. it's like driving a computer. what would be the hardest thing for you to give up? the miles per gallon, the fuel. when you're used to filling your car up once a week, then suddenly once every three weeks, believe me

. >> and we bring back jeff rosenberg, at black rock, along with steve at sun america asset management. good to see you. definitely kick this off with you. you said there are questions out there in terms of the greek situation. talk to us about how you see this from an investment standpoint. >> the most important thing is this is the expected outcome. you mentioned earlier looking for the greek default event to be not a destabilizing event. >> orderly. >> orderly, thank you. the only thing that remains is there's some exposure that we don't know about. the exposure we know about for greece, cds is very small. we know where the most part that where that is. i doubt there are any surprises here. if there were, we wouldn't have had a triggering event. >> you're saying what is important to recognize is what we don't know. and that may very well happen any day. once we know who's on the other side of the cds. >> the big uncertainty has always been, is there some exposure somewhere in the financial system that we don't know about. for years that had held back policymakers in europe from want

and jeff rosenberg.entlemen, good to have you on the program. >> nice to be here. >> your thoughts on this credit event that was triggered as a result of the news out of greece? >> well, you know, i think the market may be taking more out of this event than there really is. the expectation has long been that greece would use its collective action clauses and that would be a triggering event for the cds. this is really what the market was expecting, so i think we're making a little bit of a -- too much out of this. >> yet, david, the market did react, even equities reacting. do you feel more confident now that the eurozone crisis is not going to spill onto the united states post these headlines? >> great point, maria. i think you want to watch the three ps, portugals, those yields are up 14%. let's hope portugal can move without having to go to this default situation, or credit event situation. secondly is profits. those profit estimates have begun to start to edge downward. the consensus estimates. morga

i was curious if you support and stand by the rhetoric used by your senior staff for mj rosenberg who has accused american jewish and supporting members of congress as being israel -- >> i'm going to take this. here is what i think. you know, israel is an issue that has a deep and heartfelt meaning to me as an issue i have thought a lot about over the years. it is one that has had an impact on my family, sorry. it's had an impact on my family, had an impact on my ancestors. what disappoints me about this whole debate is you know, the topic of israel and the disputes in the middle east and iran are the most serious thing our country is dealing with today. we are asking big questions. we are asking, should we go to war in iraq and our debate is being driven down to a number of tweets from a staffer at an organization that -- i have this policy in general in my life so i'm not going to do that here. just going to say i consider myself a zionist. i consider myself in support of the state of israel. if you talk to to and a staffer at media matters on foreign-policy they will tell you the s

richard bernstein and david rosenberg. is that a smile, david? there's a smile.ow what passes for a smile. there we go. that's an actual smile right there. >> i'm always smiling. come on. let's begin the debate. richard, you think has the american economy turned the corner here and have stocks fully priced in that turn? >> i think the last quarter was disappointing. largest number of negative surprises since 2007. however, the household sector continues to improve. is it good on an absolute basis? no way. but i think it continues to improve. >> i want to follow up because in your notes you talk about this interesting idea of corporate profits would come down. that doesn't mean that the economy overall does toorly. eight shift in the distribution of the output of the economy or the incomes in the economy to households. ultimately does that ricochet back? >> i think it does. the twist where you invest in the stock market changes a little about the dave pointed out many years ago corporate profits were the largest percentage of gdp ever. i think that was an importan

>> well, i think that rosenberg has crossed the line.l loyalty, you invoke a kenard that goes back hundreds of years and falls into the category of anti-semitism. to the extent that media matters hired him to do that and is tolerating him to do that, they've crossed the line. >> you said this issue could become the jeremiah wright issue for this administration of 2012. >> that's right. unless the administration disassociates itself from media matters and stops having strategy sessions and stops inviting him to the white house and stops being associated with them, the president should do to media matters what he did to jeremiah wright, totally disassociate, rebuke and say i stand with israel. he has an opportunity to do that when he meets at apac. i think he will show support for israel and support for apac but he has to distance himself from media matters. they're too close today for comfort. it's going to hurt him in the re-election campaign. >> thank you very much for joining us from miami. there are a lot of people across this country

. >> reporter: john rosenberg lost his son to an unlicenses driver who repeatedly ran over him tryingflee. >> it's 100% political. >> reporter: over the objection of the police union and the district northern l.a.p.d. will allow drivers with no license to keep their car. >> we take the car away, what have we accomplished? >> reporter: supporters of the decision say current law is unfair because illegal immigrants can't get a license. >> basically we are just creating more punitive problems for them. >> by not impounding unlicensed the driver's cars you endanger the citizens of this state. >> reporter: opponents say unlicense drivers are more likely to drive drunking with cause fatal accidents and leave the scene. >> it's more important that people in the country illegally get to drive than it is people who are here get to live. >> reporter: the cost of getting your car out of the 30-day impound is $1,200. the mayor says it's like confiscating the livelihood of people trying to feed their families. taxpayers could be on the hook for the liability when accidents occur when cops do not e

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. >> reporter: don rosenberg lost his son because of unlicensed driver who repeatedly ran over him tryingthey must impound for 30 days the vehicle of any driver without a license, most of whom are illegal immigrants. >> oh, 100% political. >> reporter: over police union and l.a. district attorney, l.a.p.d. will ignore the law and allow people to keep their car. >> we take the car away, what have we accomplished? >> reporter: supporters of police chief charlie beck's decision say current law is unfair because illegal immigrants in california can't get a license. >> a low income person doesn't have the ability to pay the fees after 30 days to get their car back. so basically, we're just creating more punitive problems for them. >> by not i'm pounding unlicensed drivers cars, you endanger the citizens of this state. >> reporter: opponents say unlicensed drivers are more likely to drive drunk, cause fatal accidents and leave the scene. >> it is more important that people who are in the country illegally get to drive than it is that people who are here get to live. >> reporter: police chiefs s

. >> reporter: don rosenberg lost his son to an unlicensed driver.will stop enforcing the law that says police must impound for 30 days the vehicle of any driver without a license. most of whom are illegal immigrants. >> oh, 100% political. >> reporter: over the objection of the police union and district attorney, lapd will ignore the law and allow drivers with no license to keep their car. >> we take the car away, and, you know, what have we accomplished? >> reporter: supporters of the police chief, charlie beck's decision, say the current law is unfair because current illegal immigrants in california can't get a license. >> a low income person doesn't have the ability to pay the fees after 30 days to get their car back. so, basically, we're just creating more punitive problems for them. >> by not impounding unlicensed drivers' cars, you endanger the z citizens of this state. >> reporter: opponents say unlicensed drivers are more likely to drive drunk, cause fatal accidents and leave the scene. >> it's more important that people who are in the count

simon rosenberg, john and lenny ma mcallister.o be there, but it's all good. i'll be back in. >> it's all the guys today. let's talk about romney here, close to finally sealing the deal. what do you think, simon? >> well, he had a good night last night, and clearly this is becoming a two-man race that he's winning at this point. i don't really know why newt gingrich and ron paul are still in this thing, but i think the bill challenge for romney, and we saw it a little bit today with this etch-a-sketch comment is about what he believes. it's not about what his changing of his positions. it's that his basic beliefs, he's doubling down on the bush strategy which is failed foreign policy, failed economic policy. that's going to be the major issue for him in the fall and that die is cast in this race so far. >> lenny, i want to bring you in here. we took a look at some of the exit polls from illinois, and it shows romney was winning among some of the groups he's struggled with in the past. so he beat santorum 47% to 39% among conservat

[applause] in 2009 when i was the victim of a political smear campaign, i will never forget we, rosenberg others to meet with me saying, jane, we have your back. [applause] it really meant a lot. my one key to all of you is you visit congressional offices in the next two days and push for an agenda which i fully share is that you urge them to stay bipartisan on the state of israel. israel loses if we make her a political football in this came pain. [applause] now, about iran, you are right. i have long worried about iran. i'm a jewish grandmother and soon to be a jewish great grandmother so i come by this honestly, but iran not only is an existential threat to israel, which we all understand and get and the clock is ticking, but iran has shown over the years they are capable through approximateys like hezbollah to attack this hems -- hemisphere. .. in a terrorist armed with a nuclear weapon. anybody think about the fact that iran is one of the worst state sponsors of terror today and our sponsorship as those groups hamas and hezbollah tells you that not only do you run the risk that they

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the aipac chairman of the board, lee rosenberg.se] >> good morning. it is my great honor to welcome back president barack obama to the aipac policy conference, the central address for america as a pro-israel community. [applause] last year, as many of you may recall, i remind the president's that while our) should goes back many years, to his days as a state senator, he has not yet invited me to play basketball with him. well, another year has gone by without that invite. as i continue to shrink in height with each passing year, i am beginning to think there may be a strategy to this delayed invitation from my friend. or maybe it is possible that the president is just a little nervous that i could be the next jeremy lin. [laughter] in the meantime, what a year and has been. mr. president, in just the time since you last spoke to was at last year's policy conference, you have continued to demonstrate your unshakeable commitment to the unbreakable bond between the united states and israel. [applause] with an understanding that israel