ladies and gentlemen, mess help me welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome to all of you here. someone point out this is more expensive than hbo and on-demand. so we'll try to make that worth why. mr. secretary before we start here, do you want to say hello? >> i'd love to say hello to my rabbi. jeremy bash. who is my chief of staff and his lovely wife, robin. [applause] >> and jeremy's parents are here as well. thank you for coming. >> want to thank politics and prose, and this amazing setting. welcome to those in balcony. we appreciate as we kick off, secretary, you have been out for a week now, talking about worthy fights. you have another week to go, you're about to head to california. earlier today, did you get tougher questions from the readers at gw or at costco? [laughter] >> guest: costco was kind of tough. people are shopping big. shopping for big things there, and they want you to deliver the best product you can, and i told them, read the book. >> host: pretty good. so, mr. secretary, as we heard, in the

. ♪ >>> joining us now, the chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen. , i know its not friday so i'm not going to ask you to do happy friday. but can you do happy new year for us? can you do that? >> happy new year's eve-eve, and fantastic 15th. >> i'll settle for that. thank you very much. so this morning you guys of politico, you're looking at the top 15 questions for 2015. let's start with one of the basic questions for the democrats. can anyone emerge as the left's alternative to hillary clinton? >> yeah nobody is going to beat her in money, but certainly someone could beat her in excitement. so that's what the hillary clinton camp is watching much jim web is someone who has gotten a lot of good buzz. elizabeth warren. people just aren't satisfied with hillary clinton. once she's running and has a message, this may die down. but at the moment there is a hunger for something else. >> do you sense that elizabeth warren has managed to push hillary clinton further to the left than she was six or seven months ago? >> no question. we've talked about this.

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. >> let's bring mike allen into the conversation. he's got a look at the morning playbook. d morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about this piece in politico magazine. you asked can the left launch its own tea party. can they launch one. second part is why would they want to? >> well after the mid-term elections very anxious to and let's just look at it. what's counted down, insurgent activists, populace pitch forks, prodding the establishment, and instyling intra party fear. this is where the tea party was with the republican party when they were in the wilderness. now increasingly you have momentum on the left in the democratic party for this. there's a story in the "new york times" today saying the moveon.org is prepared to spend a million bucks to draft elizabeth warren. and the most interesting part of this piece in politico magazine is that these activists are smart. they are picking issues that poll well. for instance increasing social security benefits. things that will help struggling americans rather than the sort of windmill of nationalized health care. anothe

ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. welcome to all of you who are here, somebody pointed out to me that this is more expensive than hbo in demand and we will try to make that worthwhile. mr. secretary before we start here, would you like to say hello as he did last time? >> yes, i would like to say hello. >> yes, jeremy spencer here as well. we want to thank everyone here. we welcome you all and we appreciate it as we kick off talking about were the fights. earlier today we are getting tougher questions from the readers. >> well, costco was kind of tough. because people are shopping for big things they are and as you heard in the introduction we worked in city government, you've been a democrat, a lawyer, and the army intel office, in washington this is good. house budget chair and the white house chief of staff, so what is left on this bucket list? and i'm waiting for the pope's position to open up. [laughter] >> you know, i enjoy being back home and as i said it's nice to be home wo

no one else is even close. >> mike allen, thank you so much. we love having you here.a couple quick reactions here. >> playoffs. >> playoffs. what do you think of tcu being number three? >> i don't know how the committee thought a week ago they were the third best team in the country. they win by 52 points on saturday and they're the fifth best team in the country. i don't know how you pick between tcu, baylor and ohio state. i don't know how you pick the last one. >> i really don't know either. again, how do you drop a team from three to five after they win by 50 points? >> ohio state won impressively but so did tcu. >> i guess nobody around the table is talking about it at the time but the new republic, man. it's a magazine that's bleeding right now. john heilemann, what's going on over there? >> it's a huge culture clash that's played out there. one that you could say some people thought you could see coming from the moment that chris hughes came in there and not just frank but a lot of -- almost everybody of consequence on editorial side has walked out the door wit

i'm for the improvement project at san francisco public works as well as mike rigor and allen robinson from the san francisco municipal transportation agency in addition senior and environmental planner is also here. i'm here to provide the background and and update on the status for the environmental review for this project. it's case 2007-0347. it's an update to the project and turn it over to public works for an overview in the project outreach effort. the second street improvement project is one that was finalize in the bicycle plan eir by the planning commission in june of 2009. the environmental scope addressed an update to the bicycle plan as well as minor long-term and near term improvement projects to the city's bicycle network including project 2-1 options for bicycle facilities along second street. three options for second street were analyzed through the eir process and could have been approved however no plan of action was heard by the board of directors. the neighborhood association a neighborhood group interested on the project street. the interest was upheld but the pro

." >> mike allen here with the morning playbook. mike, what you got going today?morning, mika. first things first. for joe roll tide, number one in ap seventh year in a row. >> thank you for the updates. mike gives me great e-mail updates through the weekend. i greatly appreciate it. what a game. >> politico has a piece up entitled the obama republicans. who are they. what are they? >> so, mika, this is the first time i have had something hopeful to tell you from washington in i don't know how long. one of the big problems with getting anything done on capitol hill is that there's no swing republicans. they are all from deep red districts and current congress there's only 17 house republicans who are from a district that president obama won. that means there's 217 who are from pure red districts. in the new congress coming in january, there's nine more. 26 republicans come from districts that president obama won. this means that they are going to need to distinguish themselves from the conservative republican majority. it will give speaker boehner a little more le

mike? >> reporter: yeah, they really were, allen. first, i'm on estrella street in rohnert park. it's clear now but earlier today, i know high honest to god knee high. this family came out construction workers they didn't have jobs today so they did what came naturally. they started helping people. >> reporter: in an area where front yards look like creeks and streets like lakes, cars aren't always useful. other forms of transportation might be more successful. but if you do break down, this is the convoy you want around. man, we're deep in. >> this ain't that bad. >> this ain't that bad? this is pretty bad. >> reporter: we hooked up with the thomas family several cousins who all own four-wheel drives and came out looking to help. rescued at least one stranded driver. >> it was a woman in a little honda and the water was up to about the middle of her door. and when we jumped out of a truck and pushed her out of the puddle, she was more than grateful. >> somebody got stuck and abandoned the car. now, if they were here, this is somebody we would be pulling out right now. >> reporte

. >> he came in when mike shanahan and bruce allen came in, but it's pretty obvious something needed to change, so a mutually parting of the ways. >>> we're just getting started on wusa9 news at 5:00. the healing power of hockey, coming up at 5:30 diane roberts introduces us to the people who could get the most enjoyment out of tomorrow's winter classic. >> plus why the liquor board canceled new year's eve festivities at a popular d.c. bar. >> first alert meteorologist erica grow comes back with a look at your extended forecast. >> plus why millions of americans will be getting a ra i know grandma's house isn't the most exciting, but it's only for a few hours. look what i've got. when you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality; super fast internet, and america's most reliable network. so you won't miss a second of that movie, that game they love, or those moments with family. can we sleep over? please! come on! make your house the house when you get more guaranteed from verizon fios, with tv service rated #1 in hd picture quality and signal reliability based on custom

allen the skins are 28-52. he took over the football operations and became president when mike shanahan left, but the team has only regressed. with obvious frustration mounting and said and outside of the organization. during his nearly 40 minute press conference allen announced the departure of defensive coordinator jim haslet and promised even more changes on the way -- haslett and promised even more changes on the way. >> if we can find a winning formula, we'll absolutely do it and that includes me. if it meant mowing that lawn out there of tuesday, i would mow the lawn -- every tuesday, i would mow the wn every darn tuesday. i want the burgundy and gold to win. that is my job and my responsibility to try and figure out how to do that. >> make you all feel any better about that? [ laughter ] >> many complaints about allen has been his inability to secure quality talent or make questionable decisions. he green lighted the trade to get robert griffin, iii. today he defended his quarterback and reminded everyone to continuing practicing patience. >> at times you saw flashes of brilliance in 2012 and in this year h

insight first of all, mike is here the chief executive officer of international holding companies the parent company of metro ports and metro crews and then working closely with john allenthe director of business development for metro ports i'd like to invite them 80 much to let you know what's on tap here. >> good afternoon commissioner president katz and staff i'm mike the chief executive officer with the holding corporation we're going to discuss 4 aspects during the presentation so you'll know how long we've been around and follow with the attributes of peer 80 that are beneficial and go with marketing efforts we're going to be utilizing with the past customers of peer 80 and the business opportunities for potential new customers in peer 80 first exactly who is metro we've been around since 195 it started with the batiste company founded by two danish sea champions in 1973 metro corporation was incorporated and then in 2004 we decided to put a holding corporation in place basically little top holding place we're basically a closely held mostly family held organization we're headquarter in wilton california between loech we'll be moving to the city of long beach for

insight first of all, mike is here the chief executive officer of international holding companies the parent company of metro ports and metro crews and then working closely with john allenthe director of business development for metro ports i'd like to invite them 80 much to let you know what's on tap here. >> good afternoon commissioner president katz and staff i'm mike

he will talk to mike rogers about the latest fallout with sony and potential cyber attacks on american companies by north korea. >> allen gross may be home after serving five years behind bars in cuba. he set up internet access to the small jewish population. and the questions remain over the new policy. chris van halland was a law maker who travelled with mr. gross on the 757 that returned from sha havana yesterday. and he released throw of the so- called cuba five. there were spois released here including one serving life sentences in connection with the humanitarian mission on 1996. four anti- castro activist were killed in that. ncongressman, was it a good deal? >> yes, it was a good deal in many respects. allen gross was freed after five years in prison. but the exchange for the cuban prisoners including the one with a life sentence, was the release of a u.s. intelligence agent who was in prison in cuba for 20 years and wasted away the rest of his life in the cuban prison. this is an individual who provided very important intelligence information to the united states. information that it helped on our national secu

allen gross speaks. stay with us. >> it is a wrap that the congress is over. they packed it in for the holiday recess. and mikeanuel is live with us on hi, there, mike. >> a number of key issues were resolved and law makers passed a bill to make sure they don't face a retroactive tax hike. and for example, tony blanken was confirmed number two in the state department. 55- 38. and senate republican leader that will take over as majority leader offered a preview. >> we'll be starting next year with a job creating bill that enjoys bipartisan support. first item up in the new senate will be the key stone pipeline and the holden bill and open for amendment. >> mcconnell said he hoped there would be energy- related amendment. harry reid didn't allow amendments. and those who negotiated the follow-upping extension are pleased now that president obama signed it in law. the package prevented a government shutdown and avoided government on autopilot and will meet compelling human needs and a separate bill designed to have government cover the part of terrorism- related process was stopped by senator tom coburn who calle

mike warren has the story. >> reporter: they've got a website. they've got shirts. but what these ut students really have is heart and respect for troops on deployment. allenthe idea of caring for cam mow. >> i wanted to show that students care. i think there's a sense that a lot of troops have that, you know, the elderly care, kids draw pictures and stuff all the time, but i wanted to show that they're peers most people in the military are from 18 to 30 that group dares as well, too. >> reporter: what does caring for cam mow do? they send care packages to the troops. within the last two years they've had about two packing parties each semester. 1600 packages sent out to combat zones. 750ut students many without any direct connection to the military volunteered to pitch in in. >> i just want to get my grades. i want to party. i want to enjoy college. but there's plenty of pebble out there they have all these other things on their mind when you present them with a way to help and get involved, they jump on the opportunity. >> reporter: business students allen jacob gus and andy smith got caring for cam mow going. >> it's been the most rewarding experience o

mike inouye. >> looks like some extra stuff got out of front door, out of the living room and on to the freeway. i turned the camera as clearly as we could see north. allen rock is where they're reporting a couch on the roadway. it's reportedly now just moved over to the shoulder. chp advised that backup may be the ripple after a quick traffic break. there is the flow. nothing unusual for the rest of the bay. 101 should move in the next few minutes. fog in concord as christina said and the lanes are backing up. we should have the metering lights turned on possibly in the next few seconds. >> we'll be back with 15 minutes of nonstop news, weather and traffic right after this break. stay with us. looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. >>> 5:43 right now. u.s. embassies are on hype alert as new reports are scheduled to be release detailing the cia's interrogation process for terrorists. this could prompt terrorists to fight back. tracie potts is live on capitol hill. what steps are they taking to make sure americans abroad are safe? >> they told soldiers and sailors and marines to watch their backs. they have 2,00

ladies and gentlemen, mess help me welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome to all of you here. someone point out this is more expensive than hbo and on-demand. so we'll try to make that worth why. mr. secretary before we start here, do you want to say hello? >> i'd love to say hello to my rabbi. jeremy bash. who is my chief of staff and his lovely wife, robin. [applause] >> and jeremy's parents are here as well. thank you for coming. >> want to thank politics and prose, and this amazing setting. welcome to those in balcony. we appreciate as we kick off, secretary, you have been out for a week now, talking about worthy fights. you have another week to go, you're about to head to california. earlier today, did you get tougher questions from the readers at gw or at costco? [laughter] >> guest: costco was kind of tough. people are shopping big. shopping for big things there, and they want you to deliver the best product you can, and i told them, read the book. >> host: pretty good. so, mr. secretary, as we heard, in the