he shares an anecdote of how he is able to deal with the freshman. during the debt crisis, he called two of them in, boys, that door won't open until you say yes. i got a week and a half worth of cigarettes in the drawer. that's his hammer. chris: what is his special office? >> the more ornate offense. he doesn't stand on the pomp and circumstance of his station as speaker. so to put them in that high real estate end was controlling. i think that there is a misperception that it's the freshmen and it's been shown in a lot of the fights that some of the more veteran republican members have been giving him the hardest time. chris: i would love to see the republican party he would like to lead. i think he is different than what he has been. i think he is a more interesting guy. david ignatius, here it is, your prediction. >> leon panetta, the defense secretary, is so worried about a failure by the supercommittee to pass a budget would mean in terms of doubling of cuts in defense to a trillion dollars. he is telling his aides, we may have to choose betwe

he tell us an anecdote in his oral history about when he was governor of new hampshire and that he had appointed at the same time three members of the new hampshire judiciary, including the chief justice of the new hampshire supreme court. and governor sununu went into this grand room where they were going to swear in these judges and their peoples were there and other people with fr the benfro the bar. and he said i looked out over the crowded and i realized that all of the three judges i had appointed were rather short of stature, not in reputation, but simply in height. and so governor sununu looked out at the crowd and he said and of course you've probably noticed that you cannot be aller than the governor and be a judge in this say the. so he went back to his office and his staff said did you see what happened when you said that. and the governor said, well, yes. everyone was very nice and they laughed at my joke. and the staff said, no, governor, every lawyer in the room ducked down when you said that. and so the governor ended this anecdote in the oral history by saying the poin

directly with voters overseas on active duty, on bases, trying to get their ballot in, here is an anecdote or a story that illustrates how this plays out at the local level. let's say a soldier is sent overseas to an overseas base in germany or italy, arrives in september after labor day. when you ah live, you don't get your address right away. and so you can't necessarily request your absentee ballot to be sent to that address right away. now let's say you get sent off on a training mission or for those serving on an overseas base. you leave that base. and when you come back, let's say you come back the last week of october, the week before election day. under state and federal law you can still request your absentee ballot. that doesn't mean the election administrator at the local level is going to know to transmit that ballot in an electronic way. in fact, in the story i experienced, that didn't happen. the ballot was sent and not sent electronically, even though we specifically asked for it to be sent electronically. it then arrives too late. you don't get your ballot on time. and even

after hearing what jim had to say, i will do something dangerous to tell a personal story that is an anecdote to reinforce several things that jim said. coming at a different angle. 1982 steadying in germany. four or five months there in anticipation of my ph.d. examination and my group of friends were all syrians and the jordanians. a number of reasons that came about in part because i was interested in the near east and already right team about the issues and already something of a pocket historian and i could talk to them about ottoman oppression and the provinces syria and now opening a personal challenge. to make this short and a stand there are a lot of good intentions but, over time, i will do one of the things my buddies did to sit in a german cafe sipping coffee he puts his hand up to his head like this and says this is the way they keep us and talking about the assad regime. i will not say anymore about it because i know he is around by that is the way it is. i got from the other syrians with say math -- mathematician going through the number of cousins who have been jailed and also

i'm sure there's a few anecdotes. but it's an overwhelming positive portrayal. she comes across very real. the whole idea that she considered staying in chicago to let her kids finish school, that's normal. >> i felt bad for the president when i read that. >> amen to all that has been said. first lady is a hard job, eventually they all feel like prisoners. they get written about. everybody wants to find some tensions between the east wing and the west. they always find something. let it go. >> and what strikes me is how incredibly scandal-free this administration has been. that some harsh words said on a couple of occasions is a scandal, my gosh. >> meanwhile, the talk about a former first lady continues. we got a question on twitter on this, it came from jennifer moore. i'm wondering if any of your panelists think there is any chance we may see hillary step in as vp? george, i'm going to start with you on this. i can't figure out why this conversation continues. as far as i can tell, it's never been considered in the oval office or the first lady. never been co

the ground, compared to four years ago, that tells you anything about turnout, at least enough of an anecdoteou're wondering which way is it going to go? >> i spent time with paul, there were a lot of people -- remember in '08, obama had nontraditional voters, independents, paul seemed to have hit that. if it's a huge turnout, that will help him because his supporters have gotten out in bigger numbers than you would have guessed. >> are you feeling energy or not? >> depends who you're with. talking about earlier, when you go to santorum's event, there's excitement but also right now a lot of like who is this guy? ron paul rallies it's something else entirely. voters are excited about ron paul who are going to vote for ron paul. with romney, there are a lot of people there. >> right. >> it depends where you are. >> some are casual, catch a glimpse of him because he might be president, are you caucus? i'm not sure. what many e-mails are you getting about rerobocalls? >> hitting rick santorum on the second amendment issue which he denies. >> all right. shameless plug time. perry? >> my brother,

there's an anecdote in the book in the last campaign where the florida advisers wanted him to ditch theida you need to look more relaxed. at that time they responded that would look unpresidential. this time around they've tried to take that advice but then it leads to criticisms like you just raised he looks like he's trying too hard. he's certainly more at home in the suit and tie. >> that's fair enough. just doesn't click with the way things are. great book, i'm sure. i'm going to read this thing. "the real romney." thank you, michael kranich and scott helman. when we return, let me finish with the grand reality in florida. it's not the magic kingdom, not the whole state. you're watching "hardball." nnou] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just be getting older. you might have a treatable condition called low testosterone or low t. millions of men, forty-five or older, may have low t. so talk to your doctor about low t. hey, michael! [ male announcer ] and step out of the shadows. hi! how ar

hearing what jim had to say i want to do something dangerous and stella personal story that is an anecdote that reinforces several things that chin said, coming from a different angle. 1982 i was studying in germany, spend four five month there in anticipation of my ph.d. examination. my group of friends were syrians and the jordanians. for a number of reasons that came about in part because i was interested in the near east and writing about near eastern, led the -- middle eastern issues. i was something of a pocket historian and i could talk to them about ottoman oppression in the syrian province of syria and the ottomans. here with a bid for being in touch with their history opened up personal channels. make this short because there were a lot of personal dimensions to this but over time and you will notice this is from the syrians. i will do one of the things my syrian buddies did. we were sitting in a german cafe sipping coffee and -- he put his hand up to his head like this and said austin, this is the way they keep us and he is talking about the facade --sassad regime. that is the w

there is an anecdote in the book in the last campaign where the florida advisors wanted him to ditchnity in florida you need to look more relaxed and that time they responded that would look unpresidential. this time around they tried to take the advice, it looks like he's trying too hard. he's more at home in the suit and tie. >> i think you're right. that is fair enough, just doesn't click with the way things are today. thank you, great book, i'm sure i'll read this thing "the real romney" thank you michael, i read parts of it, thank you scott helman. let me finish with the grim reality on the ground in florida. it's not the magic kingdom, not the whole state. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> let me finish tonight with this, we're heading in florida politically, get this straight we're not going t disneyworld. what newt and mitt are entering now in this state is the real world of 2012. the world of people's houses being below water level, being worth less than the mortgages they are paying every month. maybe in some cases more than 5%. in one county here, flagler the a

i'll give you an anecdote that i'm sure he'll appreciate talking to two voters at our hotel having theakfast, the waitress and host test. they are independent. they are deciding between ron paul and another candidate. that gives you a sense of how people are breaking here and a sense of how it is going to be late breaking for many of these voters. that is why even though we think we know who is going to be in first and the race is for second, you never really know until new hampshire voters actually go to the polls, kyra. >> that is true. anything could happen. dana, thanks so much. >>> coming up at 9:30 eastern john huntsman will join us. he's got traction going. we're going to ask him what happens if he wins and how he would carry any momentum beyond new hampshire. >>> beat the price hike right now. we'll tell you six things that will cost you more as the year goes on. >>> also ahead, britts advised to cut back their drinking to just five days per week. can they do it? >>> this lion might need a stiff drink after his terrifying experience. a staring contest with a little girl. j brit

. >> there is an anecdote about that that i think captures the essence of he is a diminutive stature. you are sure. he said when i'm sitting on my wall i'm the tallest man in the room. he's the tallest man in the room this morning but i think it tells you that -- the essence of this problem that we have with our campaign finance history. we are at the end of the road. institution is totally broken. he cannot be fixed with the last supreme court decision. we are going to have to have a constitutional amendment, i believe, fundamentally restructures how we do our elections and how we fund our election process and if we don't do that we are going to continue to drift down the road of what we are seeing on these primaries, crony capitalism, interest group domination and resentment of the 90% who aren't part of the process. >> you carved out your own portion of occupy. the 10% don't get off. >> i agree with most of what david said. the system is broken. i want to make two other points. system was broken -- >> citizens unite. >> let's not make that one case focal of our conversation because

directly with voters overseas, on active duty, on bases, trying to get their ballot in, here's an anecdote, or a story that illustrates how this plays out at the local level. let's say a soldier is sent overseas to an overseas base in germany or italy and arrived in september after labor day. you don't get your address right away, and so you can't necessarily request your absentee ballot to be sent to the address right away. let's say it sent off on a training mission, and an assignment. you leave the base and when you come back, let's say you come back to last week of october, the week before election day. under state and federal you can still request absentee ballot but that doesn't mean the election administrator at the local level is going to to to transmit that bought in an electronic way. and, in fact, in the story i experienced that didn't happen. about with sin and not sent electronically in the we specifically asked for to be sent electronically. it then arrived too late to get to get your ballot on time. even if it does arrive, let's say the monday before election day, you have t

we have an idea based on anecdotal information, and the pre application meeting for some of the other projects, but i can give you our projection. >> i do not expect something of this week, but maybe something at the next meeting. appreciate it. >> also in the category of major projects that have basically retracted in moving forward with their plans to build, are there those that have maintained their permits or have applied, is that part of what is rolling over on the extension of permits? >> we did seek projects -- permits that had it issues a couple of years ago when the economy was bad, and they have reappeared. so we have seen some of those. >> great. >> is there some category that can be safely projected for next year? no/ ? >> i can work and look at it. they are projecting revenue in this department is difficult because you do not know the projects that will come in or the size of the projects that come in. we do talk to the various expediters about what they're bringing in and what size and where they are bringing in. if they're coming in directly to dbi or directly into plan

we have an idea based on anecdotal information, and the pre application meeting for some of the other projects, but i can give you our projection. >> i do not expect something of this week, but maybe something at the next meeting. appreciate it. >> also in the category of major projects that have basically retracted in moving forward with their plans to build, are there those that have

we have an idea based on anecdotal information, and the pre application meeting for some of the other projects, but i can give you our projection. >> i do not expect something of this week, but maybe something at the next meeting. appreciate it. >> also in the category of major projects that have basically retracted in moving forward with their plans to build, are there those that have maintained their permits or have applied, is that part of what is rolling over on the extension of permits? >> we did seek projects -- permits that had it issues a couple of years ago when the economy was bad, and they have reappeared. so we have seen some of those. >> great. >> is there some category that can be safely projected for next year?

there's an anecdote that i have in the second chapter of the book which describes president obama whenving in baghdad in 2008, and he gave a speech at the baghdad embassy, and afterwards i was -- it was described to me, as it was described, he was complaining about having to take pictures with american soldiers and diplomats, and he was only in town for 24 hours and had been complaining about that as it was described to me, and one of the people who -- one of my sources said, look, he clearly didn't really get the culture of the military and the culture of these wars because -- when you're in town for that -- for that short of time, how do you -- how do you complain about having to take an extra picture with someone? now, why is that important, right? because when the president becomes -- when the president takes over there is this cultural disconnect he has with the military and that's played out on a policy level as the battle goes on, and then -- and he finally, i think, you know, the first time the president actually has to write a letter to any of the fallen soldiers must be a dev

and recalls an early anecdote from their first days of dating.irst started dating, john call immediate and right before he got off the phone said, don't be a stranger. i was so pissed, i called him right back and said don't you ever say something like that to me again. her relationship with john began with a chance encounter when john was starting the magazine, "george." he was renting office space in manhattan. and sharing the same floor as the pr company where she worked. she told abc's chris cuomo. >> he moved into my office one weekend, i came into my office monday morning and i was not pleased. as someone once said, you could be arrested in some states, the way you spoke to him. i was really unhappy about that, and i was moving into a much smaller office, so that went from indifference to dislike. >> it seems that way. it also was a little bit of a spark of a friendship. >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: she goes on to say that john's insensitivity was the biggest catalyst for their arguments. and that he was simply as disorganized and clueles

i have an anecdote. defenders association, a very controversial case where i was completely blindsided, and actually, frankly, caught on the ethical, by the public defender. and she was wrong. and i called her to task on it. and then was asked, after calling her to task to give a talk about what it means to provide trauma treatment. it ends up that nobody, none of the attorneys in this setting actually knew when they were requesting trauma treatment what it was. and i had, you know, to teach them what it was and when to ask for it, and what really to ask for, and evaluation, not for treatment. you know, they thought, bayside terrible thing happen, they must have trauma treatment. it doesn't work that way. this is the language that doesn't exist among all our various agencies and facilities and whatnot. it needs to be infused to change the paradigm. and i would argue that that needs to be throughout the secretarial and cabinet posts and agencies, and at every level of government in every level of communit

roots is starting to to work for him and the polls are kind of mixed, but i do just get sort of an anecdotal rising. >> how do you think the evangelicals or mike huckabee likes to call them the values voters. how do you think they're responding to mitt romney in your state? >> well, i think that romney is popular with some evangelicals because they like the kind of campaign he's running and appears to be running an effective campaign. electability means a lot of things. one thing electability means is the quality of the campaign you're running and i've had leading evangelicals come to my office and say, quietly, almost whispering, i'm going to support mitt romney because i think he's an effective campaigner, and he's run a really good campaign here. >> dave: the question always with things like this, whether it's an endorsement that comes out, most often we seem to hear that people don't want anyone else speaking for them. how representative is this group of evangelicals in texas, of other groups around the country, as we go to your state and beyond it into florida, nevada and so on? >> well

directly with voters overseas on active duty, on bases, trying to get their ballot and, here is an anecdoter a story that illustrates how this plays out. let's say a soldier is sent overseas to germany or italy. he arrives after labor day. you don't get your address right away, so you can't necessarily request your ballot to be sent to that address. let's say you get set up on a training mission or assignment. you leave that base and when you come back, let's say you come back the last week of october. you can still request your absentee ballot, that does not mean the election administrator is going to know to transmit that ballot electronically. in the story i experienced, the ballot was not sent electronically even though we asked for it to be sent electronically. it arrived too late, you don't get your ballot on time, and let's say it arrives the monday before election day, you have to mail it back. it arrives, at least in michigan, 8pm on election day. i believe there are improvements and believe there have been significant improvements because it encourages states to electronically tra

all he knows is how to list the complaints against this president in an anecdotal way that means nothings speech. newt is an ideologue when he wants to be. tonight he wanted to be one and he played the part pretty well. >> i find myself agreeing with chris matthews. we are imagining how this sounds to republican voters and here is my republican friend telling me, oh, no, it was off the wall. and so, i mean what is it that we don't get about how the republican voter consumes what to chris and i sounds like some boiler plate stuff that they really want to hear? >> you're getting ready to get off the wall. >> here we go. we have got ron paul about to address his supporters. ron paul, like rick santorum, not in florida tonight, focusing on the long game, saying he's in this for the caucus states ahead, that he's in this to amass delegates. he's the guy saying from the beginning he will be in it through the convention. ron paul finishing fourth tonight in florida. he had zero florida campaign staff. zero. he has moved on, but he's addressing his supporters tonight. let's listen. ron paul. [ c

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opinion that the board adopted which was having an outside expert evaluate the coverage and rely confidentially on at&t's underlying data so we are not being anecdotal about it. i just wanted to raise that. at the end of the last hearing last week, the appellants expressed that they were grateful for that. they would actually get an answer to their question. i am serious to know the appellant response to that and if that would be an appropriate condition here. >> we would be happy to have an independent person. we would like to get a couple of assurances that the expert was independent. that he would not be influenced by the industry. this is a difficult situation. i also want to make sure that if you are looking at old facts, we are a little concerned with the clinic. the director had not been approached as to procedures. sometimes they haveup to 60 people at the clinic. they are not sure how they are going to evacuate all of these people. you know that there is a safety risk. we want to make sure that the concerns raised. we were a little bit concerned about the building itself. this is a worker for the clinic. they will be talking about the conce

she not only told stories of our people, chickasaws, but she picked up anecdotes and tried to draw a moral out of them that an indian would draw out of them. i remember one. i will not be able to quote it verbatim. it is based on a real incident. a southern cheyenne war chief in the 1860s dealing with the american government. in trying to comprehend and encapsulate in words the enormity of the challenge and the change that he was seeing in the course of his lifetime. in the course of those treaty negotiations, he addressed the representative of the united states government and he was an american, but not american citizen, obviously. he said once this was all the land of the red man, but then came the white man and the black man and the yellow man. and i thought about this. and i thought about nature. and nature, aren't there white horses and black horses and red horses and horses of many colors? i thought about birds. there are white birds and black birds and brown birds. all one bird. all one horse. all one man. the great spirit must have wanted this to become the land of all the peoples. and so it shall be

an incentive. the staff thought that this was a good thing and for the customers especially. anecdotal information suggests that driver tips would increase as well. so do they enhance the san francisco taxi experience? no one knows for sure. one of the things we were looking at was a follow-up survey back sonalimentioned. information about taxicab drivers and the way of finding information. however, more data and customer perception on the volume, the ease of use, and just in general the alternative devices, more data is necessary. director: can i interrupt with a question? i understand that sometimes more data is needed, but other cities have done this. have other cities studied this, as san francisco is >> there was a new york survey of customers of the things they liked most about taxis and the thi like abd the number two on the dislike less was the, quote, annoying television monitors. director: until they learned how to use the new button. >> can we get that back? positive comments we heard from san francisco drivers. they would like to see more hard data as to whether or not it d

and will define a group or an individual when we determine what that truth is and where we want it to be set into action. >> so your anecdotens that i would offer up would be that an awakened population would force even the most corruption politician to offer their lives? >> it is the only thing that ever has. it's the only thing that has ever kept -- i mean, and on the opposite point, it's the only thing that has ever led governments to disaster. i mean, because this 11 million, how do you kill 11 million people, that's referring to the nazi thing that we all know about. but we could have used 61 million. that's the number that the soviet's own record shows that they killed of their own citizens, in that same period of time. there's countries all over the world, and it's still happening. >> i'm going to stop you there. because you're making the most significant point there is to be made. which is, it's easy for somebody like me or a protester of the tea party or a protesters in the occupation so artick late how royally screwed up everything is. >> right. >> it's royally screwed up! what is more significant, however, to und

an intermediary with things like a leaky faucets. it's not always easy to say what the effectiveness is. i will tell you anecdotallyare very effective. we can have a situation of walking out of a common area of a hotel in not knowing what the conditions are in their rooms because people may be afraid to open their doors. the of rich people have been able to get in. i will give you an example. we had an elderly gentleman in the 1940's. he was so afraid to let us in. it took months to have the inspector gain his trust. that started with the development center getting in and getting his confidence. then he would let us in and wens room. that's not always something we can readily quantify, but i can tell you that it really makes a difference with respect!imo!$jÑo quality of life issues. commissionerr3 walker: thank yo. it's really a difficult issue dealing with the senate community and the landlord -- with the attecommunity and the landlord community. with respect to senior outreach, we are proposing to expand the budget $148,000. would that be sufficient to deal more with those issues? you were at the hearings. you kn