>> in january, barbara boxer will announce she's going to retire. you'll see a parade of democrats that will go for this seat. there's no guarantee feinstein will retire. >> i predict senator elizabeth warren will be run. hillary clinton versus warren race. we'll see. thank you all for being here. >>> and now, a lawmakers reflection. east bay congressman george miller is retiring after 40 years in congress. a lifelong bay area resident, he's been known as a tireless advocate for education, labor, economic equality, and the environment. he was part of the so-called watergate class right after nixon resigned. congress has become increasingly polarized. 2015 promises to continue on this path. scott shafer sat down with george miller to look back at his distinguished career. >> welcome. >> thank you. >> after 20 terms in congress, what does it feel like to be a short-termer? >> it is pretty exciting. i've had a wonderful career. i'm very proud of my body of work over those 40 years, those 20 terms, but i really believe it's time to come home. >> i want

beat presidential candidate saying she owes nearly $500,000 to creditors for her campaign against barbara boxer. with accusations like this, could she even be considered a contender? thank you very much for joining us. >> carly fiorina, she's run for office only once before as a republican challenger to barbara boxer of california in 2010. she lost. she reportedly owes a half million dollars for that campaign. what are her chances? >> if she runs for president, good news for those she owes money to because she'll likely have to pay them back. if she's going to run on the platform of fiscal responsibility, she's got to pay back people she owes money to from the last campaign. that being said when she ran for senate that was one of the most expensive campaigns in history. she spent $22 million. so so, she owes a fraction of that back. on top of that, she's not the first and nor will she be the last former candidate to owe a lot of money. just about all the candidates we can think of have owed money including the president $3 million in debt. as of 2014 he still owes money. hillary clinton took of

if barbara boxer and dave bitter and jim inhofe can move infrastructure, that's impressive, and you add bill schuster on the house side, that's great potential. i hope they'll go back to regular order. quit running everything out of the speaker's office or the leader as office. you have chair men and chairwomen that are except. let them do the job. have hearings are and investigations and markups and votes on amendments. move it to the floor, raise hell. have great debates, stay in on saturday, stay late, and vote on amends amends and quit acting like a bunch of chickens when you got a six--year term. so i'm hopeful that things will move. immigration? they got to do that. should have done it in 2007. one of the most disappointing experiences i ever had as a member of the senate. the amount of cower dis -- cower das i saw in 2008 on themes bill is extremely disappointing and contributed to misdecision to move on and do something else itch hope they'll come back to it. they can do it in pieces. i pray if they try to do the big gulp they'll choke on it. and it could moved in three pieces b

san francisco board of supervisors here by petitions our represents to congress diane feinstein barbara boxer and nancy pelosi to make every effort to initiate and support the decision of house resolution in the 113th congress. such a rescission will render public law authorizing armed forces as necessary null and void. i've heard you this afternoon talking talk about i can't breath a video is shown to a grand jury that shows without doubt the murder of an unarmed man for selling a cigarette. police homicides this country is in big trouble it's in big debt funding now 6 un declared wars as a result of this marshall law and californians have been lynched under this law. we the people if you would like to help fix this country and restore this constitution which has been aborted by this law and end the police state, please consider this petition. we have e-mailed it to you. i'm going to to fax it to you again tomorrow and make an agenda item for next week. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> peter alexander. good day i agree that there's nothing more heart wrenching than acknowledgi

in fact, as you know, barbara boxer and jim enof, one of the most liberal and conservative members of -- >> here's what critics will say. they will point to the highway trust fund right now and say look this turn into a big piggy bank. this money doesn't even go to doing what it was supposed to be with building bridges and road and highways. >> whose fault is that? >> how can we make sure it goes to what it's supposed to do? >> that's totally within congress and president's power and it should happen. it should be used for its original purpose, no ifs, ands or butt buts about it. mass transit is a huge help to the situation in our highways and roads because the more people we can get off our highways and roads, the less congestion we're going to have and it help it ps the quality o lyes. we've got to do it because since 1980 we've increased vehicles on our roads by 100 percent. we've increased lane miles but less than 5%. >> this is not a progressive tax. this is something that hurts people equally across the board. it's very unfair for people who have to drive just to make sure they'

we have seen barbara boxer shown the ability to get bills through a committee.orking with jim and dave. now, if barbara boxer andday move infrastructure in the past, that's pretty impressive, and you add bill on the house side, there's a great potential, but i hope that they will do as they talked about, go back to regular order. quit running everything out of the speaker's office or the leaders office. you got chairmen and chair women that are very confident. let them do the job, have hearings and investigations and mark ups and votes on amendments. move it to the familiar. raise held, have a great debate, stay in late, stay in on saturday and vote on amendments and quit acting like a bunch of chickens when you have a six year term. i'm hopeful that things will move. immigration, they got to do that. we should have done it in 2007 it's one of the most disappointing experiences i ever had as a member of the senate. the amount of cowardice i saw exhibited in 2007 on the immigration bill was extremely disappointing to me. it was one of the things that attributed t

now watch how democratic senator barbara boxer of california defended bell. >> classic. >> she is annt woman. she knows how to be successful. she will do a good job and she will do very well i think in this position because i know her well and she knows how to make friend. >> oh. >> andrea, can she find hungary on a map. >> she couldn't. you would at least read about the country by the hearing, they asked her about hungary. she said no thanks, i've already had lunch. >> i'm half hungarian. >> look at that. >> that is all i know. >> after loud calls and ebola in the united states, and it is encroaching problems, named an ebola response coordinator who is nor a doctor or anyone who is even familiar with ebola that we've since learned or knew before. >> ron claim knows how to make friends, that is really important when battling a deadly virus. we all know this. >> kennedy, it is, it is tough to write these different plot lines every single day. >> how dare you? how dare you sleep with my husband! oh! i love you. >> but i'm not her husband. >> wow, you're good. >> her twin brother who ha

host: either barbara boxer or dianne feinstein. caller: yes, i cannot tell you which. host: what are you studying? caller: public policy at berkeley. host: what to do you want to do with a degree? caller: maybe u.s. legislative advising full stop i do not know. tot: all right, good luck you. finally we will hear from leon in wilmington, north carolina. hi, leon. caller: how are you doing? and joe biden ticket. host: why? theer: because with momentum of the obama administration and the ties that we have renewed back in the middle east, and the image we have projected to reach across differentto reach nations, hillary, i've been at the board, she is very influenced, and i think we should keep the momentum of what is going on in the administration instead of changing it. host: all right, thank you, sir. very quickly, big movie weekend full stop are three articles, just going to sho you the "eadlines, here is "the hill newspaper -- critic hate "the interview." "exodus" banned in morocco. in the style section of the art and lifeost," in selma with congressman john lewis hea

senator barbara boxer disagrees. she says bell is quote, intelligent and successful and will do a good job. she knows how to make friends and she's not angry. >>> let's go back to the weather coverage right now and more rain is on the way, perhaps some thunderstorms as well. >> meteorologist sandhya patel out in the thick of it. >> that's right, cheryl and larry. still some slick roadways behind me and still have to use the umbrella. don't ditch the umbrellas just yet. let me show you live doppler 7 hd. we have some more wet weather on the way and there is still a chance of thunder. as we take you in a little closer, our radar on mt. st. helena tracking light to moderate returns just northeast of santa rosa there, montgomery drive, calestoga road. we will continue to see scattered showers as you look from san francisco to san bruno. very light there. down towards the south bay, morgan hill, gilroy, santa cruz mountains, scattered showers. just offshore, over 100 miles away, our radar is detecting multiple lightning s

in fact, as you know, becky, barbara boxer and jim inhofe, one of the most liberal and conservative members of the senate, both proposed to the administration that they triple the amount of infrastructure spending in the stimulus. it just wasn't enough money for infrastructure in that stimulus. >> here's what critics will say. they will point to the highway trust fund right now and say look, this turns into a big piggybank. about 25% of that money doesn't even go to doing what it was supposed to be doing. building roads and bridges and highways. how do you make sure -- >> whose fault is that? >> exactly. how -- >> whose fault is that? >> how do we make sure we can keep hands off of that and make sure it goes to what it's supposed to do? >> that's totally within congress and the president's power and it should happen. there's no question. you shouldn't be able to raid the trust fund. of course it's been awhile since the trust fund's had enough money to be raided. it should be used for its original purpose. no ifs, ands and buts about it. don't short-change mass transit. some people say take

california senator barbara boxer and 12 others are asking the department of education to forgive the federal loans of thousands of students. corinthian colleges are accused of misleading students about both their graduation and job placement rates. lawsuits filed accuse the schools of this deception in an effort to convince students to take out high priced loans. state attorney general kamela harris has sued along with the federal consumer financial protection bureau. the attorney generals from wisconsin and massachusetts have also sued. the senators say under federal law, student debt can be forgiven if taken on to pay for a college that ends up like corinthian but the college says the senators are incorrectly assuming the allegations in the pending lawsuits are true. >>> imagine living the rest of your life under a mountain of debt. the survey of 1,000 consumers by creditcards.com found nearly one in five surveyed say they will take their debts to the grave. the 18% who believe that is double the number of people who felt the same way just last year. surprisingly, the results are p

about standing in the world and if he wants them to like us, why be an ambassador, according to barbara boxeroesn't need experience or qualification, basic credentials for seeking office as 7th grade student body vice president. as independents we roll our eyes at both parties who continue charades of throwing bones to big donors, they get really, really expensive art. if they don't know anything about where they're going, if they don't have professional

barbara boxer and dave and jim can move infrastructure in the past, that's pretty impressive. you add bill shuster on the house side, there's a great potential. i hope that they will do as mcdonnell has talked a lot about, go back to regular order. quit rung everything out of the speaker or leader's office. you got men and women that are very confident. let them do the job. have hearings and investigations and markups and votes on amendments. move it to the floor. raise hell. have a great debate. stay in late. stay in on saturday. vote on amendments and quit acting look a bunch of chickens when you got a six-year term. i'm hopeful that things will move. i am gation, they got to do that. we should have done it in 2007 as one of the most disappointing experiences i ever had as a member of the senate, the amount of cowardicy saw exhibited in 2007 on immigration bill was extremely disappointing to me. it was one of the things that contributed to my decision to move on and do something else. i hope they'll come back to it. they can do it in pieces. i pray they try to do the big olf

horrific if just wish that more demcrat women is in country, like senator elizabeth warren and barbara boxer and feminists like gloria stein am would speak out against should rae use law. they're supposed be the party of women but they're silent. millioned of women in the middle east and africa are suffering grave, grave human rights violations. >> maybe what pakistan is doing right now is just deflecting, and hoping that people and folks in their country are upset more at hollywood and america so they're not aware of the nuttery going on in theirs country. >> they're trying to change the subject. they have much greater problems than some hollywood television show i haven't seen. much greater political problems because taliban, these radical jihaddist movements are spreading over the middle east and could they take over pakistan? never say never. they're a powerful force. so i think they need to focus on minding their own store. >> it's a pretty messed up store. we have a lot more of this later in the show. is jeb up because mitt was left out? the romney backer who is peeking -- speaking out

dianne feinstein and barbara boxer oppose the legislation calling it short sighted. >> this is certainly in the central valley, many people out there have no water at all, their wells are dry. well, we're going to get a deluge of water coming our way. >> a lot of those wells you're talking about are private wells. here montana bay area, as well as the central valley, we're all going to get a lot of rainfall as we head thought the next couple of days. those storms will rival some of the most potent that have ever hit the bay area. i'm going to show you how this system stacks up with some of the biggest storms that have ever hit the beautiful bay area. as we get into this afternoon, we're going to end up in the 60s, 66 on the peninsula, 64 on the east short and 67 on the south bay. this is when we're looking acti. you're looking great for most of tomorrow to get outdoors and get any sort of storm preps made. i can tell you as of tomorrow the wind is going to start and cloutd cloud are going to start moving in. let me show you the system and how much rain it has associated with it. we start

. >>> barbara boxer criticized regulators for not insuring the safety of the nuclear plant in southern california. she said they haven't done enough since new faults were discovered near the plant. but the nuclear regulatory commission said nuclear power plants are safe and there have been several improvements since the fukushima disaster in japan. >>> girl made a big statement about gender stereo types. she looked that cover of a book and find the publisher suggested boys only like outer space and bugs. ktvu's heather holmes shows us how she took action. >> reporter: at the public library a life lesson sat on the shelf. there is a explosion of books but all things sweet and pretty is not all she interested in. >> i like playing space camp. and my favorite part is when engines are failing. i would panic like crazy. >> reporter: she likes science too. when she found a book bugs she dove in. >> i was like, i almost throw it. i froze. almost dropped the book. >> reporter: why? >> it said books for boys on the back. >> the book that girl enjoyed reading was for boys. she decided to write t

here's barbara boxer. ted cruz gave us an opening to do nominations. he gave us an opening and we took it. it wasn't just the democrats, the opposing team taunting ted cruz. it was also his own team. republican senator orrin hatch of utah, quote, you should have an end goal in sight if you're going to do these types of things. and i don't see an end goal other than irritating a lot of people. senator susan collins, republican of maine. i don't understand the approach he's taking. and i think it's unfortunate and counterproductive. senator kelly ayotte, i think this is ridiculous. lindsey graham of south carolina responded, quote, i haven't seen harry reid smile this much in years. and i didn't particularly like it. so, congress might have been entirely over by now. they would have at least been wrapping up a lot faster, had senator ted football not gotten his brilliant idea this weekend to do whatever it is he thought he was doing with all of the confidence in the world. but as it stands, the spending bill passed, as is. they passed the same one the ho

here's barbara boxer. >> but it wasn't e wasn't gist the democrats, right? the proverbial opposing team taunting ted cruz. it was also his own team, republican senator oren hatch of utah. you should have end goal in site if you're going to do these types of things. and i don't see an end goal other than ear tatie in irritat people. >>> so congress might have been entirely over by now. it would have at least been wrapping up a lot faster had senator ted "football" not gotten this brilliant idea to do whatever he was doing with all of the comforts in the world. but, as it stands, the spending bill passed as is. the government, because of ted cruz, democrats are going to get 20 or 25 more obama nominees through. and the most high profile nominees that they were e they are going to and they'll have gotten through is this man, dr. vivek murphy, pet obama's nominee for more than a year now to be surgeon general of the united states. dr. murphy's nomination had been stalled for more than a year. the nra decided they were going to make an example of out him. make a

we have seen barbara boxer shown the ability to get bills through a committee. working with jim and dave. now, if barbara boxer andday move infrastructure in the past, that's pretty impressive, and you add bill on the house side, there's a great potential, but i hope that they will do as they talked about, go back to regular order. quit running everything out of the speaker's office or the leaders office. you got chairmen and chair women that are very confident. let them do the job, have hearings and investigations and mark ups and votes on amendments. move it to the familiar. raise held, have a great debate, stay in late, stay in on saturday and vote on amendments and quit acting like a bunch of chickens when you have a six year term. i'm hopeful that things will move. immigration, they got to do that. we should have done it in 2007 it's one of the most disappointing experiences i ever had as a member of the senate. the amount of cowardice i saw exhibited in 2007 on the immigration bill was extremely disappointing to me. it was one of the things that attributed

give us your two minute elevator pitch to senator barbara boxer about how to, why she should do the things on energy and other elements in your book. >> well, i'm going to get an appointment with barbara here shortly and actually do this, so this may be good warm-up. barbara, are you listening? so, barbara, we need to get the american economy growing again. we've got the resources we need, the finance, the technology to be energy independent, and i believe we can do it in a way that's environmentally sensitive and puts us on the road to dealing effectively with global climate change. what we need is to bring america together. the question is, senator, are you willing to participate in that effort? will you come together with senator inhofe from oklahoma? will you sit down with him and say we can work together as americans to make this country great and strong? or is each of us so caught up in our particular interests that we can't come together as a nation? and then i'd say, barbara, don't wait for the next war. because that's what this is about. [applause] >> so to go further down the dem

that brought john mccain and barbara boxer together, a pretty big spectrum, to agree on the use of force when assad was killing his people with chemical weapons in violation of international law. and that gave the president the wherewithal at the g 20 summit to get russia to turn assad around at least on the chemical weapons. whether you are being killed by chemical weapons or not doesn't matter, but for the international norm, it did. as it relates to spotters and special forces, i think that will be necessary. but at the end of the day, what we do to assist the kurds who have shown themselves to be resilient, to assist the iraqis, and to now help those who are willing to fight is incredibly important. better late than never. but at the end of the day, you have to make a determination -- sil is a national security threat, you have to have the wherewithal to defeat them. you have to listen to the experts. >> would you support the president on the idea of a safe haven in syria? >> that has to be further vetted out. it is easy to say safe haven. that is basically creating a no-fly zone. ar

month we learned that members of our state's republic delegation refused to even brief senator barbara boxer if democrats like me were even in the room. this is no way to negotiate something this important. it's a terrible precedent for other states as well. and that's why i'm glad that senator boxer has been so clear in stating her opposition to it. that it would ignite water wars in california, not solve problems. and i'm glad that over the weekend we received a veto recommendation from the obama administration. now, on saturday the pacific fishery management council sent me a letter about the bill. i asked them how they felt it would affect western fisheries in this country and here's what they said. h.r. 5781 would override endangered species act protections for salmon, steelhead and other species in the bay delta. 2008 and 2009, $158 million in congressional aid was provided to deal with the disaster of the closure of ocean salmon fisheries off california and oregon due to a collapse of this very same fishery. these finish riss are an important -- fisheries are an important sort of -- s

authorization for the use of military force on a bipartisan basis, where i brought john mccain and barbara boxer, you know, that's a pretty big spectrum, to agree on the use of force when assad was killing his people with chemical weapons in violation of international law, and that gave the president the wherewithal at the g-20 summit to get russia to turn assad around, at least on the chemical weapons. now whether you're being killed by chemical weapons or not it doesn't really matter. but for the international norm it did. as it relates to spotters, and maybe even special forces, i think that will be necessary. but at the end of the day, what we do to assist the kurds, who have shown themselves to be resilient, to assist the iraqis, and then to now late but better late than never, help those who are willing to fight in their own country on the ground is incredibly important. but at the end of the day, you have to make a determination. if isil is a national security threat, i believe it is, then ultimately you have to have the whereal to defeat them. and how that evolves is a question to be lis

that brought john mccain and barbara boxer together, a pretty big spectrum, to agree on the assad wasrce when killing his people with chemical weapons in violation of international law. that gave the president the wherewithal to get russia to turn assad around. whether you are being killed by chemical weapons are not doesn't matter, but for the international norm, it did. it relates to spotters and special forces, i think that will be necessary. at the end of the day, what we who haveist the kurds shown themselves to be resilient, to assist the iraqis, and to now help those who are willing to fight is incredibly important. cut at the end of the day, you have to make a determination -- in iso-is a national security threat, you have to have the wherewithal to defeat them. >> would you support the president on the idea of a safe haven in syria. haven.s easy to say safe are we in it ourselves -- is it us in the turks? to use yourg aircraft and other elements to syrianely ensure that no air flights can take place in the area you designate. significant and it requires a lot more than the unite

differently about the world and see the world very differently, but i will tell you anything about barbara boxer. if i had to be in a foxhole, i would be with her. she never stopped fighting. she and i are very much alike. once we set our minds on something, there is no dividing us. people said, why did i send her money for reelection? why did i raise so much money in louisiana? i would do it again. upshe would not have stood when that bp oil spill went down and said, i am chair of this committee, i believe that the gulf coast deserves this funding, we just would not have it read it is as simple as that. people do not know how powerful chairman are around here. when a chairman makes up his mind, and says, this is what i want to do, and barbara said and the ranking member put his shoulder to the wheel and we were able to get a serious down payment on one of the great ecological disasters of our state, of our country, which is the loss of the gulf coast. louisiana. just the this is texas and mississippi and it is going to affect parts of the whole country. but we are on the mend. i came here to do

in the senate, the same language is supported by barbara boxer and senator feinstein.ou can't get any more bipartisan than that. fiscal responsibility -- c.b.o. says this bill costs the government zero dollars and zero cents. you can't get a lower cost estimate on a bill than that. environmental stewardship -- this bill's supported by the sierra club, and this land will become the gateway to the new san gabriel mountains national monument. local consensus building -- this bill has the support of local leaders and legislators, governor jerry brown, the local lease owner and virtually everyone involved in public life in santa clarita, which is los angeles county's third argest city. tireless tenacity for the public good is exemplified by our friend, buck mckeon. 22 years in congress and i believe 22 years focused on this problem. and now on what we hope -- only because we hope for a smooth day, what may very well be his last legislative day, we have a chance to solve this problem in a way that i think exemplifies what we should be trying to do here in congress. in additi

month we learned that members of our state's republic delegation refused to even brief senator barbara boxer if democrats like me were even in the room. this is no way to negotiate something this important. it's a terrible precedent for other states as well. and that's why i'm glad that senator boxer has been so clear in stating her opposition to it. that it would ignite water wars in california, not solve problems. and i'm glad that over the weekend we received a veto recommendation from the obama administration. now, on saturday the pacific fishery management council sent me a letter about the bill. i asked them how they felt it would affect western fisheries in this country and here's what they said. h.r. 5781 would override endangered species act protections for salmon, steelhead and other species in the bay delta. 2008 and 2009, $158 million in congressional aid was provided to deal with the disaster of the closure of ocean salmon fisheries off california and oregon due to a collapse of this very same fishery. these finish riss are an important -- fisheries are an important sort of -- s

in fact, it was only when senator barbara boxer insisted that there be transparency in the process and that we be given copies of the bill that the negotiateations were called off and senator feinstein said that she would take up this bill next year under regular order. where does that leave us? with a bill intended to help one region of california at the expense of endangered species that could end up hurting millions of dollars worth of commercial fishing interests, farmers, tribes, and neighboring states. my amendment would fix that. first it clarifies that nothing built would adversely impact the fishing industries in california, oregon, or washington. without this clarification the bill could result in exporting additional water which by doing that would devastate the salmon population and harm thousands of small businesses and commercial fishermen. my bill would clarify this bill would not create a precedent of impacting water rights in other states. this bill is a maimingor rewrite of california's water rights plain and simple. most notably under existing water rights, the bill