thanks, russell, terrific stuff. mr. mayor, jennifer, now we have got a special treat for all of you. we got a special treat and i would like to invite up here a colleague from oracle racing, the team coordinator who is going to show you the game called america's cup speed trial on ipads live and in color on the tv screens. please welcome ian burns. [applause] >> hi, how are you? >> great, thanks. >> ian is from sydney, australia, his nickname is fresh. half of the people don't know his real name is ian. he is known more commonly as fresh and he and a group of people from around the world, an international group at russell's behest have developed an ipad game for what you call it, the mobile crowd. the mobile device generation. tim jeffrey, that's the mobile, mobile device generation, the m.d.g. do you have a mobile device, charlotte? we're going to get you one. look how cool this is. fresh, show us how this works. we're on this screen, i think. >> when we developed the game, we wanted a game that anyone could play from

mr. russell brand, you gave evidence, written evidence, to this committee, which members of the committee have read. could i start with a point about what you say in your evidence, that you disagree with the legalization of drugs because you think that a deterrent effect is necessary? is that right? >> i don't feel entirely qualified to talk about legislation. to me, what's more significant is the way that we socially regard the condition of addiction. it's something that i consider to be an illness and therefore more a health matter than a criminal or judicial matter. i don't think that legalization is something, as i've said, particularly qualified to get into. i can see areas, in fact, where decriminalization might be considered useful and more efficient, you know, in countries like portugal or switzerland, where it's being -- where it seems to have had some efficacy. but for me, it's more important that we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and that there's a pragmatic rather than symbolic approach to treating it. and i think the legislative status of addiction and

mr. mayor, russell, jennifer.

mr. mayor, russell, jennifer. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards gett

mr. russell brand you gave evidence which members of the committee has read.ould i start with a point about what you say in your evidence, that you disagree with the legalization of drugs because you think that a deterrent effect is necessary. is that right? >> i don't feel entirely qualified to talk about legislation. to me what's more significant is the way that we socially regard the continue of addiction. it is something that i consider to be an illness, and therefore more of a health matter than criminal or judicial matter. i don't think that legalization is something, as i said, if you can qualify to get into. i can see areas, in fact, where legalization may be considered more useful an in those countri. i think this has been some efficacy, but to me it is more important to regard people suffering from addiction with come passing, and there is an approach in treating it. i think legislatively spiders of addiction and the criminalization of addicted is symbolic. not really functional. i don't see how it especially helps. we'll have a wacky free for all in

mr. russell also served as a law clerk for judge robert bell. judge bell is the chief judge of the maryland court of appeals. and i might add that judge bell enthusiastically endorses this nomination. judge russell is a man born and raised in baltimore. he graduated from the university of maryland law school and spent his entire career in maryland. he brings -- and his father, also a judge, was a legal pioneer in maryland, serving as the first african-american circuit judge. this judge, judge russell, has public service in his d.n.a., both working as a u.s. attorney on the federal bench and also in his connection to everyday life of people. he has been on the board of directors of the enoch pratt library, big brothers and sisters and the community law center. he has often been recruited to be a motivational speaker, an inspirational speaker, particularly to high school and middle school students, to encourage them to really stay in school and off the streets. he has particularly been enthusiastic about mentoring young attorneys and law students.

mr. russell, the decision to support marriage equality just came after president obama voiced his supportnouncement influence the decision and the cause of the naacp to come out with this endorsement? >> not really. the discussion that took place on saturday was a culmination of several things. one of which was our discussion of our strategic plan and a great deal of discussion around efforts to suppress the vote coming up. not really so much a discussion of what the president said, but a discussion about where the naacp needs to be at this point in time and the board of directors clearly felt that we needed to make a statement that talked about our need to support civil law and the equal protection of all people within civil law. >> certainly the obama administration appreciates having your support as opposed to contradicting the president's statement on this. i do, however, have to point out that the president of the black church initiative argues the naacp and president obama are going to lose support from black churches because of this stance on marriage equality. pastor coates, i wan

and the person who's bringing him in is russell keith pearce, russell pearce, his sponsor when he's baptized into his church. when mr. ready ran for city council in mesa, arizona, there were four people on the ballot. j.t. ready came in second out of four. it undoubtedly helped him do that well that he had the endorsement from a republican state senator, from ruffle pearce. although he didn't make it on to mesa city council, he came in second, after all, j.t. ready did ultimately get elected as a republican party precinct committee man in arizona. the problem, of course, is that j.t. ready is a nazi! and that really should not be compatible with mainstream major party politics. after he game a republican precinct committee man in arizona, arizona republican congressman jeff flake and john shadegg asked for him to be removed from his post. and after his long association with russell pearce, his long, close association with russell pearce, russell pearce too walked away from j.t. ready. >> could i ask you if j.t. ready is your friend? >> j.t. ready showed up at a rally with me and j.d. hayworth, the great fiction arou

and russell bermen actually joins us now on the phone from the hill newspapers. mr. bermen, good morning to you. >> hi, thank you for having me. >> thanks for coming on. tell us about what's going on with the sequester in this committee hearing today and what the plans are for this week. >> well, the house budget committee led by paul vine going to be marking up today this large bill from house republicans, a total of $260 billion which is the product of six house committees and the budget committee is going to eventually combine that into one bill. to bring to the floor or one or two bills, and that includes $78 billion in replacements for the sequester street take effect in 2013. the sequester which results from the failure of last year's super committee is of course $1.2 trillion over ten years but the republicans are taking the first bite out of that this year by replacing most of the defense cuts which both republicans and the pentagon have come out against, and replacing that with cuts to things like food stamps and other programs, to the poor and from the heal

on the stand, russell acknowledged knowing the robocall needed the tagline. but said, i asked mr. henson, and mr. henson told me the client didn't want the tagline. speaking to wjz, henson also blamed the ehrlich campaign. >> i told them to put a tag on it. they refused. i sent the tag to someone else to get the second look. they still refused. so why am i responsible for a decision that was not mine to make. >> reporter: russell was forced to repeat what she told the grand jury about the robocall, that she felt the ehrlich campaign's motivation was malicious. >> reporter: henson could take the stand in his own defense. but right now, prosecutors are still calling witnesses as they try to prove that henson and ehrlich campaign manager conspired to commit election fraud. we're live at the courthouse, derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> derek, thank you. >>> ehrlich's campaign manager, paul schurick, was sentenced to community service for his role in the robocall scandal. >>> a missing tourist is found dead in ocean city. the coast guard recovered the body of 22-year-old lance g

on the stand, russell arc knowledged the robocall needed the tag line. but said, i asked mr. henson. and mr. henson told me the client didn't want the tag line. speaking to wjz, henson also blamed the ehrlich campaign. >> i told them to put the tag on it. they refused. i sent the tag to someone else to get a second look. they still refused. so why am i responsible for a decision that was moot a -- not mine to make. >> reporter: russell was forced to repeat that she felt the ehrlich's campaign was malicious. >> reporter: henson could possibly testify in his own defense. but prosecutors are still calling their witnesses as they try to prove that henson and ehrlich's campaign manager conspired to commit election fraud. we're live at the courthouse, derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> ehrlich's campaign manager, paul schurick, has already been sentenced to home detention and community service for his role in the scandal. >>> a new york city plan -- man's remains are recovered. police say gaines is from upstate new york and vanished last month, while visiting ocean city with h

on the other side, andy russell believes facebook has been tremendous for the industry despite the problems surrounding the ipo itself. david, you are mr you seen anything else like this? >> no. the intensity of the failure and the torching of market psychology on the part of investors is going to be a permanent stain for those people that just felt it was safe to go back in the ipo waters again. >> we know that nasdaq, our folks here at cnbc, have been learning that nasdaq officials have been on the phone burning up the phone lines for the last few days trying to reassure other technology companies that are consideringip -- ipos that it is still safe to get back into the water. is it? >> i believe it is safe to get into the water but what you're looking at with nasdaq is a lot of people that just recently found out that they have nothing done, just not getting your order completed five days after the offering here. so there is just no confidence with nasdaq and everybody is going to be pushing over to the new york. >> that is really extraordinary, david. i want to come back to you because i have a question on this as well. andy, you'r

mr. president. that's what mitt romney said. did he wade too far into the foreign policy deep end too quickly? plus, bachmann, gingrich, santorum overdrive. and russellpolitics. >> the scream has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. edward's 1895 painting, now a modern symbol of human anxiety. you probably recognize it. it is everywhere. they sold it last night after just 12 intense minutes of bidding. >> i shall sell it for the historic sum of $120 million. sold. >> that's intensity. including fees and commission, the final price for the scream, $120 million. so the buyer's name, we're learning details about the buyer have been released, have not been released but it hasn't stopped us from being curious. i have to tell you. this note came out. this amount. you are obviously an art expert. you know what's going on in this world. i think even experts were stymied by this. >> everybody was stunned. obviously, we're in an economic crisis. but globally, greece, the u.k. we're not just struggling here alone in america with the economy. so who has this kind of money to spend? >> globally, there are people with a lot of cash. and they loo

mr. president, i ask that my statement on the nominations of george levi russell iii and john tharp jr. be placed in the record at the appropriate point today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president you suggest the absence of a quorum but i ask consent that the time remaining -- the remaining time between now and 5:30 be equally divided. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. durbin: i ask proceedings under the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i would ask that a statement be entered into the record a statement by my colleague senator mark kirk. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: thank you. pending before the national is the nomination of j. tharp to serve on the court for the northern descrirkt of illinois. senator kirk and i have agreed on an approach to this. we both appointed bipartisan committees who review the respective applicants and make recommendations. we each have a veto over the other's recommendation so it is totally bipartisan. but

following the votes on the russell and tharp nominations, the senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to h.r. 2072. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i am informed that it is the majority leader's intention to resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 2072, the export-import bank reauthorization bill, on monday at 4:30 p.m. there will be an hour of debate on the russell and tharp nominations. at 5:30 p.m., there will be up to three roll call votes on confirms of the russell nomination, confirmation of the tharp nomination and on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to h.r. 2072, the export-import bank bill. if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it now adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, may 14. >> so that wraps up another day of senate floor action. earlier today lawmakers worked on a bill reauthorizing the export/import bank's charter. they also continued debate on a bill that seeks to prevent the doubling of student loan interest rates. currently set at 3.4%, they're due to rise to