and it's a very significant ship that mrs. perry is the sponsor for. she's the sponsor for the u.s.s. cole and i want to welcome you, lee perry, here this morning and thank you for all you've done and supporting your husband and his marvelous career. thank you, ms. perry. (applause) >> our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. and i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. but it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. and he then became our secretary of defense. and many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses we've ever had. he's currently a senior fellow at the hoover institute and a freeman foley institute of international studies. he is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at stanford university and se

i thank secretary and mrs. perry for coming, just -- i know it's, you've got some other things, people are waiting on you right now but i really appreciate you coming here. of course secretary and mrs. schultz for the entire program. vice admiral nathan, i don't know if he's here, he may have gone already, but he gave a great talk yesterday on the medical side. and vice admiral z, coast guard, our senior rep here, i can never pronounce his name but he's made things great. general speese, thank you for making this happen. rear admiral hubner, he was here, he's been terrific working with us. rear admiral rivera coming up from the chilean navy, thank you so much. i learned a lot. we need the kind of input that we got from you, really, and we thank you so much. i would be remiss not to mention the two people that really are responsible for all this. first was lewis loeven. lewis loeven works hours and hours to do this. thank you so much. but the other is because she's committed to make it happen and it's her focus that a

(applause) >> mr. perry, congratulations. >> thank you, sir. thank you to the director, thank you, sfmta. thank you [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> mr. fam, you have an important guest with us today. would you introduce them? [laughter] >> this is the very first mta board meeting. it's great. [laughter] >> this is my wife and my youngest son. >> thank you. thanks for being here. (applause) >> thank you, mr. haley. good afternoon. >> i'd like to say it's an honor to be here and a honor to be a member of the great team, sfmta team. i believe in our work and i believe in our agency. and i think we all really pull together. people were scared. they were frustrated. they were tired, cold, and hungry. and we were a family out there that night. so, thanks once again. >> thank you. (applause) >> thank you all. i'll finally introduce scott jefferies who was the control center manager, [speaker not understood] who was the supervisor at [speaker not understood]. and [speaker not understood] who is in charge of the service [speaker not understood].

schultz, mrs. perry, honored to be in your presence. the uss makin island, chief of the fairest city in the world, san francisco, and he esteemed professionals. this is nice, i'm going to move south of here and take you to afghanistan. as you know we have marines, soldiers, sailors in afghanistan currently, but i'm going to bring you to when i was there during 2010 and 2011 after the president decided to surge the forces. first marine decision, first marine expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. we arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. and we went straight to helman and nimruz province. very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. when we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what we're dealing with. afghanistan ranged 180th out of 1 86 on the world bank list of developed countries. 20 percent of the babies won't reach their first year of life. there i

and it's a very significant ship that mrs. perry is the sponsor for. she's the sponsor for the u.s.s. cole and i want to welcome you, lee perry, here this morning and thank you for all you've done and supporting your husband and his marvelous career. thank you, ms. perry. (applause) >

before mrs. perry comes and has to pay an estate tax.know, we are going to watch this closely. there is a question on the one hand, i want to be careful it's coming. there's the question of justice now. all right. when we come back, more on the question of justice now. we are going to talk about affirmative action and the ruling that could change it forever. watch this -- alakazam! ♪ [ male announcer ] staples has always made getting office supplies easy. ♪ another laptop? don't ask. disappear! abracadabra! alakazam! [ male announcer ] and now we're making it easier to get everything for your business. and for my greatest trick! enough! [ male announcer ] because whatever you need, we'll have it or find it, and get it to you fast. staples. that was easy. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- their inbox. and it gives you the tools to create custom emails that drive business. it's just one of the ways constant contact can help you grow your small business. sign up for your free trial

perry are you the defendant yes. mama dumber is present as is his attorney mr us some on the logic. call the witness. oh no i was not meant to the stand. hello hello give me your i.d. card. i'll place your hand on the crown and say i swear by almighty god. to tell the truth. and not to distort or lie. take a good look at these men those two sharif and you mean elem or yes they're my relatives were elam orse. you know suspects three and five are you familiar with the case yes the security authorities told me. that they want to sell my land to jews. where is your land near the bypass. bypass. when you bought it did you do anything with it. i couldn't do anything. for the soldiers it's on the border. but this is an area see yes it's even past areas see it's an israeli territory. it's under israeli rule which is why i couldn't do anything with that. ever speak to about the land yes i want to see sharif why he drives a truck i said you're my cousin. if you find anyone who wants to buy the land. you spread the word yes. all i know is what the security authorities told me. yes. yes just take your id card an

perry are you the defendant yes. mama dumb or is present as is his attorney mr are some on the watch. call the witness. oh my god. to the stand. hello hello give me your i.d. card. i'll place your hand on the koran and say i swear by almighty god. to tell the truth. and not to distort or lie. take a good look at these men those two sharif and him you mean elem or yes they're my relatives were elam orse. you know suspects three and five are you familiar with the case yes this is curious already told me. that they want to sell my land to jews. where is your land near the bypass. you know the bypass. when you bought it did you do anything with it. i couldn't do anything. it's on the border. but this is an area c. yes it's even passed area c. it's in israeli territory. it's under israeli rule which is why i couldn't do anything with it. but the truth ever speak to you about the land yes i went to see sharif why he drives a truck i said you're my cousin. but if you find anyone who wants to buy the land. you spread the word yes. all i know is what the security authorities told me. yes. yes just take your id card and go

mr. ab does have a name. he haas is 21-year-old matthew perry not too long ago he was stocking milk in a new jersey grocery storemom entered the photo in a modeling contest the rest as they say. >> phone call from my agent saying the video that you shot is in the superbowl. i was pretty much speechless. >>reporter: speechless hardly the reaction the family had when they and the rest of the country saw him shirtless on sunday. now terri ab join the rank of other ab of steel and give david beckham a run for his money. but it takes a lot of work to look this good. >> i like doing planks. i find that once you get that burning feeling that's when you need to push yourself more. >> beyond a 6 pack. >> if you count the one on the side. >> without a doubt best 6 pack of the superbowl and it had nothing at all to do with fear. >> cecelia, abc news new york. >> all right let's go back and update the forecast. spencer is here. spencer i'm sure you look like that. >> i have to go home and do some planking. maybe i'll make the superbowl next year. time lapse view this afternoon from the high definition mount tam camera. clou

michele bachmann and tim pawlenty and jon huntsman and rick perry and everybody else lost in the republican primaries last year to mitt romney, mr. romney by winning the primaries became the leader of the republican party. when mr. romney then lost the general election to president obama and lost badly, and republicans lost in the house and the senate too, nobody thought that mitt romney was the head of the republican party anymore. but then who was? that was 3 1/2 months ago. who is the head of the republican party now? who is in contention to even be taken seriously for that role? who is in a position to be listen with by respect to other conservatives and republicans when he or she speaks from that side of the aisle right now? i mean, consider the landscape of what is going on right now. republicans still decided this year that they would split their state of the union response between the official republican response and the tea party republican response. both even just in terms of the staging were a little bit of a mess. what are you looking at, rand paul? beyond marco rubio and rand paul, the other new tea party republican

perry bacon jr. from the associated press, liz sidoti, and my colleague on the capitol hill side of things, mr.mike viqueira, we knew this photo op was going to happen and it needed to happen. but, wow, so cynical that they do it on friday. let's not even pretend to try to do it before the sequester kicks in. >> no last-minute miracle solutions are going to come forth. especially the day after the senate is going to have their big throwdown. a big rhetorical meltdown. the house won't likely even be around. they're never here on fridays. i mean, basically, what you have here is the main parties involved, they couldn't not meet. i mean, so this is very perfunctory in a way. and it's superficial. it's for show. >> by the way, it's the four of them together. whenever it's four of the leaders, all four, nothing gets done. it's -- it is nothing happening. >> so they're basically teeing it up for saturday when the world falls apart, or does it? >> that's the thing, liz. what's interesting here is how the republican is responding to this. the president, he's basically made the decision he's not going t

perry, or three, murray tina mcbride. >> mike: katie has bent around long. >> tucker: on the principle that the people you don't know i'm going with a. >> mike: brian mcknight has been around. >> tucker: mrk has it. >> i understand what you're doing. >> alisyn: in other news, an extra credit one now. >> rick: we do. who is the youngest winner ever to win a grammy is it number one, luis miguel, two, leann rimes or beyonce. >> alisyn: it doesn't say christina aguilera. >> rick: like the mexican michael jackson. >> mike: leann rimes has been in the business since she was a fetus. >> alisyn: i'm going with a, too. >> rick: it's leann rimes, b. >> tucker: you're batting a thousand. >> you are give us one last chance. >> rick: conversely, who is the oldest winner. >> tucker: jones. >> rick: a betty whites, two george burns, three or cricket. i think i said-- >> can it be earnest boring line. >> mike: george burns lived to be 100 i'm going to ligo with him. >> rick: c, pine top. >> alisyn: fantastic, great. all right. thanks, rick, that's great. >> tucker: but not funny. >> somebody call me a-- >> thank you, that was great. >> tucker: fantastic. >> mike: we'll be right.... >> tucker: oh, that's