loving life you know you you know we find some like you have a really pretty it's like my you tube you made so made you. think. i think i. was a. critic because. i. but it certainly leaves you out of breath and it gave me a chance to chat with samia about why she had decided to become a debutante amid so many different younger people who seem to be taking to this what is it that appeals to this as opposed to you know the traditional kind of going out on a friday night is that you know culture and that you know. sauce illusion. and it comes from this much and it's not the historical easter also very interesting here because all of us tonight you know these unforgettable bodies is known. as the evening wore on the orchestra was replaced by a jazz band and the music became a little less classical but unsurprisingly no one seemed keen to go home. i think the most revealing thing that i can say is i don't want this whole experience to end and maybe that's why people love it so that is just pure magical escapism a long way that i can see. as you can. see. i didn't expect my journey into all culture to bring me this far but it has been a fan

worse than no justice because hard justice is a mockery of justice lawrence go ahead reply i think churches room together two separate issues i was a very critic and i remain a view critic of the original invasion of iraq that is still very different from saying that the invasion is a crime it simply is not at this stage a crime that the international criminal court could consider we have all sorts of reasons to believe that it was an egregious or for ill fated action for the united states to engage it is still different than calling it a crime now as the destruction of georgia of your of one hundred thousand deaths he's talking about one hundred he's talking about one hundred thousand deaths a lot of those deaths the over one. majority was the result of the insurgency within iraq itself now if the united states creek perpetrated unmistakeable war crimes that is not the decision to invade but the way they conducted the war once the invasion took place was a dabbling a little more from having some kind of legal response bill you want to jump in there yes importance important to remember that the i.c.c. was set up not to respond to war crimes co

i don't know if i was critical. i was driving a cab at the time i wrote most of those to get and i am not driving a cab anymore. [laughter] if you are writing the same play at 65 as you were at 19, you are doing something wrong. [laughter] >> i saw heather higgins raise her hand so why don't we get a microphone to her. >> thanks very much. when you talk about the doubt that is being suppressed by courage and a belief, and you have now come out of the political closet what are the doubts you find or the most fertile ground for you when you're talking with your colleagues trying to persuade them to have the same epiphany that you have had. what are the arguments? denied the arguments about what? >> when you are trying to explain your political transition and the understanding that you now have the you didn't used to house, where is the greatest doubt that you have the greatest success in trying to persuade others to see the world as you now see it? >> i can't persuade anybody. i don't have that power. i certainly wouldn't attempt in

supportive votes this measure which was absolutely critical and i usually don't join in love fests like this, but i think it's important because during the last election a lot of mud was thrown around especially in d-five, some of it funded by enemies of clean power sf, and i think that a lot of criticism was raised about progressism and et cetera that was not valid, and the public needs to see the few -- i don't know how many people are watching this on tv. i do it all the time but the handful of people need to see that supervisor olague as a supervisor and commissioner on this body is a progressive and gets it, and on this last point i can't speak for the green party before anytime in the future that it makes a decision so i'm just speaking for myself and hopefully i'm hypothetical enough that i'm not stepping on any laws. if you were to run for a city office again i certainly as a rafid radical progressive would be behind supporting you in that effort, so hopefully for anybody that is watching we have all established that supervisor olague is a excellent major asset to the city and t progressives and i hope that you continue. thanks. >> next speaker.

i think, was not meant as a compliment. >> rose: yeah. >> i think in the context of a rock band, that was meant as a criticism, so i kind of like bristle feel, like, oh, that means -- that is something they don't like, actually. >> rose: yeah. >> but i also felt like a lot of rock music was intentionally preventing to be more -- less intelligent than the composers actually were and i thought let's be honest, let's be honest and try to talk about who we really are. >> rose: who we are. >> yeah. >> rose: when did you move away from that? >> early mid eighties. >> gradually, the experience of living and growing and doing and wanting to create new? >> gradually added more musicians to the live band and more parts to the recordings and i realized that it wasn't just more. i mean, adding more people, more parts. it wasn't just making it bigger, it made it into a completely different thing. it made the music about something else. as a result i had to write hercally about other things, it was no longer stripped down to where it was just like my angst and my personality. it had to be something about -- it was a community when it became more musi

i do not think shakespeare was trying to throw gasoline on women. he gave women voices. lady macbeth, juliet. we had to read a lot of criticism written by lesbian writers. i said, why do we have to keep reading this stuff by lesbian women? i just do not get it. at the end of the class, the professor tells us, i want to tell you all i am gay. i wanted you to know that. i am thinking, why is she telling us at the end of the class? it might have been nice to know that at the beginning of the seminar because then i would have known why she was shoving all of this lesbian criticism down our throats. i know we all are subjective individuals and we come from a subjective place about where we are raised and who we are, but my parents are paying good money for me to go to georgetown university and i had to take a class which i felt was very slanted and biased. feminism is a bunch of garbage. it is written to brainwash women into believing they can do it all on their own and the big bad world is there to hate them. not all men hate women. >> all right. we are almost out of time. the final question for you is, not that we want to start

a democrat. when i got there, under the obama administration, i think it was a great deal of frustration. i think it was viewed as a traitor for having been so critical of the obama administration is a democrat. you know, one of my favorite rumors that they spread was that i was actually going to push and become a republican and run for office as a republican. his is one of their, you know, one of the rumors. of course, it was not true. but when you have a job like that, your job is not to be a democrat or a republican. you have to put politics out of your mind. early on, it was something we struggled with. we are putting out an audit that he we knew would be very hurtful to the obama administration. particularly going into the midterms. and you say, i'm a democrat, i can still serve under obama. how i feel about putting out a report that i know that it was at the cbi in an area that's horrible. the answer is i took an oath of office. i put my hand on the family bible and i swore to uphold the job i was going to do. and ultimately, that always put politics and those issues behind us and out of her mind. >> host: neil barofsky, did you meet with presi

was kitschy. i thought it took really amazingly trained dancers and, you know, made them "shake that thing." woman: maybe the critics had an issue with it but every single place we went there was ag it. man: i remember minneapolis, minnesota. for the last 20 minutes of the show, the audience just kept going "oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh!" and they were dancing and jumping up and down with us. it was like being a rock star. woman: and that was an amazing experience, to feel that from the stage, when the curtain would come in and you'd hear that audience just screaming. it was certainly not something you're used to hearing as a ballet dancer. man: it felt more like doing a broadway show. the management of the company decided that since they had this cash cow they could just keep running it, and we got away from the vision, and that turns away some of your funders because they see you as sort of a one-hit pony. but it certainly allowed the company to continue at a time when the company desperately needed something to keep it going. robertson: it delayed the demise of the company, i would say, rather than save it. because those financial issues didn't get resolved during the time that all o

i know that i missed this earlier, there was a critical incident last night or yesterday at treasure island and i want to make sure that the officer is okay? they were fired upon and witnessed something -- just a brief update on that and i'm sure commissioner chan would like to know if we had one available? >> it was an incident that started on the 800 block of push street, a wanted robbery suspect that had carjacked a vehicle out of benicia phoned his father and said essentially he was going to do

i co-authored that just came out in which chambers the merges as a central character which was not my intention when i began but the more i look into matters the more i realized chambers was a critical figure -- -- his look among other things apart from literary merits, it is a history of domestic coal, one of the best. it is not only history but a source, he was a primary source and all of you know that you have to go to primary sources. it is very risky to rely on secondary sources. he was a primary source. he was also -- his book is a guide for the perplexed, there are benchmarks of judgment, standards to this day, in addition to the information he provides. as i delved into some of these things, using some primary sources, mostly fbi files, i realized the centrality of chambers to the whole domestic coal or storage not only in his case but otherwise. the more i learned about his travail and service and sacrifice the more i learned through him about the need for the internal problems in our security situation in the 1930s and particularly 1940s though he gave most of his testimony about the 30s. he was still around in the 40s and consult often by the fbi. are formulated what i ca

with the little mammals and we didn't do it we and we made a mistake with fox it was we didn't make a mistake it's i would be a little more critical of fox but again they were trying to compete with this more nimble digital media yes certainly with twitter out there i remember i was working and i had you know we had all three televisions on m.s.n. b.c. c.n.n. and fox and then i had you know twitter of course and i was literally getting opposite tweets coming and i was one of those things you know i wasn't in the supreme court so i didn't see it and it wasn't you know a large document but this is not a time in journalism as we had you know. fifteen twenty thirty years ago the whole report would be read and analyzed before any sort of announcement was made so i think it's every major decision of discourse even going back to the time of pamphlets and printing presses in the ninety three eighteenth century it was marbury vs madison things were read first and then the decisions were announced to the press this was one of those times where you know it really again is allegory for what's wrong well i think it deserves the award for the b

i know that i missed this earlier, there was a critical incident last night or yesterday at treasure island and i want to make sure that the officer is okay? they were fired upon and witnessed something -- just a brief update on that and i'm sure commissioner chan would like to know if we had one available? >> it was an incident that started on the 800 block of push street, a wanted robbery suspect that had carjacked a vehicle out of benicia phoned his father and said essentially he was going to do him harm. is overs recounted the suspect on 800 bush street and the chase ensued and taken them to treasure island. they laid down spike-strips and disabled the car. suspect fled the car with a firearm in hand and went to the water and put the gun to his head, setting up a stalemate. none of the pursuing officers were cit, this being a critical incident, hostage negotiators are basically that the cit plus. so hostage negotiators behind ballistic shields from a distance of no more than 15' engaged the armed suspect for a period of about five hours. the suspect wanted to go back to his car. t

was a pretty you. i mean to to hire a television crew and a still photographer make them work together i mean this sounds absurd and i think he was criticized for that decision. in the beginning how how did you how did you. mean it was. like you say is different does it i mean video and photos it's quite a different thing i think. you know this is the digital world we live in now when you make a program your you have to reach to as many audiences as you can online and film stills or you know blogs you know what it's like and unlike the natural history film about animals humans are quite predictable you know if you know if someone says they're going to be somewhere at a certain time chances are they'll be there which means rather than sitting in a hide for three months waiting for a snow leopard to come out of its lair you know so it's affordable when this is the mind the main point you can send people away and you know roughly going to get the shots when you do it but working alongside a film crew is hard as a photographer i've never worked as photographers we work a lot because they stop clicking stop like lashing. the bane of my life. aft

a virgin at the birth of the hero. >> who was sells us. >> he wasn't a roman historian, i was a floss fur. >> clus. >> yes. >> he wrote a book on the true teaching he criticized judaism and christianity. >> what did he say jesus' origin was. >> that's a story about a roman soldier dating mary before,g no foundation in fact? >> no, it's a way to discredit a tradition. >> is there any basis in biology for parthenogenesis, human biology, has it ever occurred? >> before technology, i'm sure technologically we can do all sorts of things. >> before technology. >> before technology do virgins -- how would i know? have i don't know, it seems to me if you're trying to establish the legitimacy of mary being a virgin one thing you would want to inquire is if it's ever happened independently of mythology and technology. >> well, i would wonder how i'd have access to that information. there is -- >> well, you're among all those boston scholars. what do you do in recreation, don't you ask questions like -- >> no, that tends not to be one of the things we talk about. with my grandmother, yes. with scholars, no. >> so you come down on the side that it was a true virgin birth

i think there was a great deal of frustration with me. i was viewed as a turncoat, a trader for having been so critical of the obama administration has a democrat. and a lot -- some much of washington is politics. one of my favorite rumors that the spread was that i was actually going to switch parties and become a republican can run for office as a republican. this is one of their rumors. the press would say we have the treasury. you have to put politics. early on in with something that mr. lewis. he sort of say, hey, i'm a democrat. i contributed to president obama pier rihanna i feel about putting an airport that i know is going to hit them right between the gas. the answer to that question is i took an oath of office. i put my hand on the family bible and swore to uphold the job that i would do. and that had a control. we had to put those issues behind us and do the job that we were sent to washington to do. >> host: did you meet with president george w. bush or barack obama? >> guest: arm sari. >> host: did you meet with george w. bush or barack obama? >> guest: nighter one. we always wanted to five nsa we because i went down with my deput

i think i was criticized because i said things directly, and i think in america plain speaking is a virtuethink it's a virtue in diplomacy too. temperament more broadly, obviously, is a question when you have to manage a large staff, and it is a fair subject for inquiry by the senate in the confirmation process. if they do it with a little objectivity. and sometimes they don't quite measure up to that standard. megyn: well, i mean, if the movie is true in any way, she is blunt. she would get points in that direction. but we're not hearing some of the outcry from some of the critics on the left thus far, and it reminds me of the outcry we heard when you were nominated because your temperament was such an issue. you wound up having to be a recess appointment because your temperament was such an issue to the point where it literally brought one senator to tears talking about john bolton. watch this. >> too many of my colleagues, too many of my colleagues are not going to understand that this appointment is very, very important to our country at a strategic time when we need friends all over t

i was the person on vacation, i take a vacation once a year. >> i'm not criticizing you taking a vacation. [multiple voices] >> there was a notice on my e-mail, a notice on my phone message that says who can be reached in the case of this question. the person obviously didn't bother to follow-up on that. in the case the information she actually figured out is true, it wasn't right for an appeal because there is no c-e-q-a document had been prepared and there was no appeal that could have been filed at that time. >> right. i mean, i guess -- so, i could go to the planning department, file an appeal. there is a process for doing that, go to the website. >> the appeal, e-i-rs -- negative declaration appeals, choose to appeal [speaker not understood], choose to appeal to the board. exemptions are only to the board. >> okay. thank you for the -- answering the question. i think that there are a lot of great procedural changes and codificationses that the legislation does that's really -- that need to be done. i think that that's very true. i think the challenge is that there are some details re

i was the person on vacation, i take a vacation once a year. >> i'm not criticizing you taking a vacation. [multiple voices] >> there was a notice on my e-mail, a notice on my phone message that says who can be reached in the case of this question. the person obviously didn't bother to follow-up on that. in the case the information she actually figured out is true, it wasn't right for an appeal because there is no c-e-q-a document had been prepared and there was no appeal that could have been filed at that time. >> right. i mean, i guess -- so, i could go to the planning department, file an appeal.

great warrior, senator dan inouye, who we're laying to rest today, and a medal of honor winner, was also a critic of iraq. because ihink he, not just in this one vote, but there was an entire career, understood the suffering and sacrifices that young americans make on behalf of this country and must make. >> let's talk about the israeli lobby, which is a strong lobby. we know that. it is properly called the israeli lobby. they're very concerned about the security of israel. he with write about it, we talk about it, we know the people who are in it. it seems to me to the extent you're willing to be critical of an israeli government, whether it's the netanyahu government or not. some have been more questioning. others say like invading lebanon wasn't the smartest move in the world. where would you put hagel on that one? >> i think where chuck hagel got in trouble was one remark where he referred to the jewish lobby

was more than a flip-flop. it was a dangerous turn not only for the state of michigan, i think for the country. you know, having a voice in the workplace, eliot was critical for the development of the middle class. 40 some years ago i worked with two republicans governor george romney gil milligan, to give a voice in the workplace to workers. in those days, a firefighter was making $5,000. a teacher was making $5,000. they had no voice. indeed when i called wayne state university if i might say recognize a union representing two people. they had the cards of both people. what was the response? we can't do that. i say why not? they said because the king can do no wrong. in other words republican employer cannot find himself decent terms and conditions of employment. the law of some years ago changed that, gave a voice to people in the workplace and now under the leadership of this governor, they've turned their back, they've not only rode back the clock they've ripped off the hands. >> eliot: you're so right. the role of the union in giving workers a choice in equity and justice and helping the middle class has been beyond description. i want to quote a pa

was 18 years old, a high-school honor student, and an all-star athlete. in his book, "iron heart," he tells how he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. >> i lost a total of 60% of my blood and had to get all that replaced with 36 blood transfusions. >> we take it for granted that when we need blood, like brian did, it'll be there ready for us. but it's not as simple as that. >> our hospitals need blood for accident victims, people with blood diseases, people in need of surgeries, and if people didn't donate blood, then we wouldn't have the blood to supply to our hospitals in need. >> in fact, every two seconds, someone in the u.s. needs donated blood, but, according to the american red cross, many people who can donate, don't. >> 38% of the population in the united states is eligible to donate. out of that 38%, we look at about only 8% of those people actually coming out to do it. >> fortunately for brian, he was able to get the blood he needed. it helped save his life. >> from intensive-care unit, i was transferred to a local rehab center in baltimore, maryland, and from there i pretty much learned how to be independent again. >> now fully re

i shouldn't even be here tonight, actually. [applause] um, was i critical of capital? i was driving a cab at the time i wrote most of those early plays. and i'm not driving a cab 234eu8 anymore. [laughter] so, you know, i see -- if you're writing the same play at 65 as you were at 19, you're doing something wrong. [laughter] >> i saw heather higgins raise her hand, so why don't we get a microphone to her. >> thanks very much. um, when you talk about the doubt that is being suppressed by courage and belief and and you have now come out of the political closet, what are the doubts that you find are the most fertile ground for you when you're talking with your colleagues, trying to persuade them to, perhaps, have the same epiphanies that you have had? what are the arguments that -- >> the arguments that i find about what, ma'am? >> hmm? >> the arguments i find about what? >> when you're trying to understand your political transitions, where is the greatest doubts, where is it that you have the greatest success in trying to persuade others to see the world as you now see it? >> i, i can't

i dreamed a dream. and time gone by... >> les miserables is spectacular. give ann hatha way a critic's choice award. i was number two play book. jennifer lawrence, it's funny, clever, hitting you with an emotional wallop. >> now, now. >> number one, very to say stevend"yo spielberg's lynn ko. weapons are words and stellar performance autos yes. an early favorite. there are more of the accessive, the master, denzel and pi. our look at the winners in january. i'll be there and back here for the oscars in february. but for now, a whole bucket going to go into storage. i think. as always, we'll see you on the aisle. >> you're coming back? retire something. >> yes. cake skpefrg. everybody was happy. 40 years, 1972, you started. >> yes. sun wasn't even out yet then. >> the mayan calendar wasn't even made then. >> a great cake. >> yes. >> in the shape of a full bucket of pop corn it had popcorn. you didn't shed a tear, don. >> it's a meegsal ride. it's just -- . >> there is a full tribute at 6:00. >> cry then. >> okay. >> if you want. >> i'll be back for that. >> yes. yes. >> you tu, don. >> i might take his ca

was a bear bet outright or protecting their portfolio. a lot of stops getting kicked in. 1390 in the emini future was a critical level. stops kicked in, set the market lower here, i think what came out of the meeting is nothing unexpected. we didn't expect them to have a deal here today and we didn't get one. so this is not unusual. certainly setting up some negativity in the market here. to mike's point, i don't see what gets cut here that makes the market go significantly higher. use caution here in the market. scott mentioned the price of options are more expensive now, yes, 16% rise in the vix. you have to be careful outright running out and buying. it's almost better to take some off the table, go to cash, come mnld, wait to see how things simmer out. a lot of volatility in the market now, hard to be an investor. >> the question, why can't washington get a deal done? ed rendell, arthur of a nation's wusss. governor, it's fantastic to have you on the program. >> i'm also the co-chair of the campaign to fix the debt. from our perspective, this is a disaster. because even if there is a deal, technically avoids going over the fiscal cliff, stops all the other st

was denied a promotion. my god how in the world could that happen? >> it doesn't surprise me at all, i have to say. >> so why doesn't it surprise you? how could the woman who was criticaling bin laden not get a promotion in the c.i.a.? >> you know, i just chuckled reading this story because there is a former intelligence official quoted anonymously and i don't know why this was anonymous, because i thought it was so brilliant who said the c.i.a. is kind of like middle schoolers with clearances. this is very much in keeping with my experience at the agency as i've said before. the agencies biggest secret is that its best buys women. i don't know necessarily know that this woman was an operations officer but she was obviously a very savvy targetter who evidently was one of the initial advocates of going after bin laden via his couriers. it doesn't surprise me she was passed over for a promotion. we used to joke that there was a reverse darwinism in effect where the mediocre rise to the top and the shining stars would not, particularly if they are women. >> that's amazing. one more question about this. as i read the story of how she pursued him, i thought it was the most