and the hurricane and all that, and now we have rain and we have thunderstorms and the venue has now been moved so it is a much smaller venue, a nd how is that going to impact how we are going to hear the acceptance speech? >> we know for sure now that the waeather er gods are nonpartisa and they are just as angry at republicans as they are at the democrats. they are not liking the political houses. >> and that is mother nature. and that is the women. >> yes. yes. >> i will be greatly thankful that we are in a covered area. >> and i will say that perhaps on a much smaller venue, can you imagine that michelle obama and can you imagine when the president gets to the venue. it is going to blow the roof off. >> making lemonade out of lemon -- >> well, the disappointment of not all of these people. >> and 50,000 fewer people they will hold. and obviously, able to pack the stadium, but not the same kind of participation and exposure. they will be outside, dana, you know. >> and show them basically the same thing as the people in the arena do. >> and many of them seem to be out of luck, bec

i run to the ocean and cross 19th avenue and turn the the ipod off and i look and walk and it's human nature we're talking about. the cars are going to come. we need to educate people that the law is pedestrian is king it's meaningless when the car hits and you it's about awareness and also if i can take the rest of the time to think big. instead of building tunnels to no where and billions of dollars and tunnel down 19th avenue and geary and provide real transportation and get people where they need to go. >> mr. garcia. >> there was a comedian on johnny carson and she said the people go to school and said watch the lights and it's the cars. the lights didn't kill anybody and i watch horrified and the kids are texting and otherwise not paying attention and they walk into the street because they have the right-of-way. we have to educate them. it's difficult and when you go left or right and the time is up and your time to turn is up so we have that problem. on slope it's terrible watching the kids trying to cross the street and it's a dangerous street and narrowed it and we need to do

i disagree and dialogue and epigauge and pursue true.orship and elevate politics more than they should be, we say the other people are the root of the problem. >> mike: i don't want anybody to listen. i think you are right. and i do think that the fact is, a lot of people elevate politics way beyond where it should. a hundred years from now. i will be a believer but not a republican. and that's what i happened. and i get it i totally get what you are saying. here's another message that you have getting a message that we want to see what you think about it. >> now in judging . quit putting on a fake if they know you are a christian only by the facebook. >> mike: that is it a good one . don't put a fake look people will not only know you by the facebook. you could host the show but you will not get tompt talk about the fact that people put on the outward appearance in which it is loavely but they are not loavely inside. >> in the gospel jesus said the grouch people who everyone happenings speaks per god and the outside of the cup would be

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and he came and we had a very interesting back and forth. because the senators, of course were interested in the experiences that lyndon johnson had as majority leader, the tactics he used which are very different from any kind of leadership tactics that you would be able to talk about or actually do today. it's a different world. he was very for a strong leader, and also very demanding. so i think i would certainly recommend robert caro's book, and i know that his research is so good that you would enjoy reading it. another book that i have been beginning to read is a book by douglas brinkley. there wasn't a more well-known and loved person in an american news than walter cronkite. we love him come in texas. he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston. then he was a born correspondent for united press international. got a lot of real reporter experience. he wasn't just the kind of face guy. but then when cbs evening news became more important, when the news programs, all the three major networks have them, walter cronkite star

and then temps up around 90 degrees and feeling like 100 and extremely humid and uncomfortable and especially for people who don't have any electricity and are dealing with not having ac to help them out with this. a couple of things from the storm that we're watching unfortunately, jamie. >> is summer about to leave us? >> and it's beginning the meteorology season and fall are three weeks ahead. in theory we're going to be getting there, very, very soon. >> i hope we get a little bit of fall before we get that winter. >> thank you. >> thank you for all the weather departments, kelly. >> great work as well and we're getting word now that a second person in mississippi has died as a result of hurricane isaac. a 62-year-old woman was killed after a tree fell on her car, bringing the death toll now to at least seven people. and including two people found in a florida ravaged home in louisiana. nearly a million people are living without power and jonathan serrie is live from new orleans with the latest details there, jonathan? >> yeah, right now, one of the main priorities is restoring power and

and lions and tigers, oh my.one. and let's go over to peter. >> thank you ally. ♪ >> and robbsh hashanah starts tonight and joining us from the sinai temple, good morning, rabbi, how are you. >> i'm well, how are you? >> thanks for getting up with us, let's talk about rosh hashanah and the new year and explains what it means for the the jewish community in america. >> well, it represents two sort of linked ideas. one is the day on which the world was created. that sense it's different from secular new year because it celebrates the creation of the world, but it also begins this period of self-reflection that leads to the day of atonement, yom kippur. and i guess you might think that the holidays are reversed, you should first repent and then celebrate the new year, but the idea behind it is that rosh hashanah allows you to appreciate the wonder and majesty and mystery of creation. once you've done that, then you can understand and appreciate whatever you've done to make creation better or to make it worse and so,

much more aggressive and came out and said words outrageous and disgusting, and here it is, in defenseirs amendment rights more than from the secretary of state. >> we're going to carry the president's words live at 10:5 eastern time this morning and what is he going to say? what will he do or say about this outrage in libya? we'll be back in a moment. and waiting in line. i don't have to leave my desk and get up and go to the post office anymore. [ male announcer ] with stamps.com, you can print real u.s. postage for all your letters and packages. it gives you the exact amount of postage you need the instant you need it. can you print only stamps? no. first class. priority mail. certified. international. and the mailman picks it up. i don't leave the shop anymore. [ male announcer ] get a 4-week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >> this is the rose garden at the white house. ten minutes from now or thereabouts. ten minutes from now, you'll see it on the fox business network, and check the markets

cultural amenities and the arts and food and all of those kinds of things. and so instead of it being design professionals and people in the real estate industry sort of imposing on the world what they think the world wants, it is sort of coming the other direction. if that is, in fact, a new trend, i was not the only person who left that room sort of saying, gee, i feel old, you know? in terms of this is a whole new way in which we're going to now be doing our business in the real estate industry? and i think today's speakers are going to focus on various parts of all of that. and i think that is a large part of what makes san francisco such an exciting environment now. so thank you everybody. [ applause ] >> thank you and thanks again to shephard mullen. so i'm not going to take a lot of time with the mayor's introduction, because i want to give him all the time and i know he has a busy schedule, but we do appreciate that he has continued our tradition of every year having our mayor speak at this event and sharing the vision, his vision for the future, foc

teachers, you know, in ordinary workers and bridges and roads, and in the kind of projects that -- and that is the theme. now i'm not looking for a blueprint or some kind of a recipe, but it is thematic, and this is the way that elections are decided both how do you feel about the two candidates and what is the theme. i say that the theme is a very honest guy who is trying to do his best after picking up a horrible mess from the last guy. >> and that is certainly was also the theme of the democratic national convention. let me talk to you a little bit about tax hikes. you have put on the ballot proposition 30 coming up where you want to increase the sales tax as well as increase the taxes for those in the upper incomes, and the very top as i understand it, california at this point is in the top three states in terms of state income tax. it has the highest state sales tax in the country, and yet there is still this deficit. so, doesn't, doesn't it sort of play into the republican's argument that raising taxes does not spur the economy? >> well, here's what it does. and this is just math

mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, your sons and your daughters. they were taken from us suddenly and far too soon. we cannot begin to imagine the pain you have endured these many years. we'll never fully understand how difficult it is been for you to carry-on and to rebuild your lives. a matter how many years past, a matter how many times we come together on this hallowed ground, know this -- you will never be alone and your loved ones when never be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of our nation. through their sacrifice, they helped make the america we are today. an america that has emerged stronger. most americans never considered a small band halfway around the world could do us such harm. most of us ever heard al qaeda. we have come together and dealt a crippling blow to the organization that brought evil to our shores. al qaeda's leadership has been devastated. our country is safer and our people are resilient. the majority of those who died on september 11 never put on our country's uniform. yet they inspired more than 5 million amer

and we will be able to reach more and different communities and audiences by doing so. and lastly, we are having a meeting next week, and we will be missing the committee of the whole meeting and you will be presenting the data, but we will be looking at it and commenting on that as well. and looking forward to many conversations with everybody, thank you. >> thank you, for your report. >> we look forward to seeing you again, next week. >> okay. let's move on to item f, public comment on consent items. i don't have any cards or speakers for that. >> item g, content calendar, the following summary pages, okay, is there a motion and a second for it? >> move, second. >> any items withdrawal or corrected by the superintendent? >> none. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? >> any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion for tonight? >> seeing none, since i am to jump right over to the vote for the consent item here. and go to 0. vote on the consent calendar has been moved under section f, so roll call? >> lee? >> yes. >> wo ng. >> yes. >> f

and invest in education and innovation and rebuilding america so that we can create a stronger and growing middle class. facts are facts. it is undeniable that unemployment is lower than it was and home foreclosures are lower than -- >> is it effective that when the president got the stimulus plan through and when we were told, look, this is what the economy needs and go ahead, mr. mayor, because is it as low as you thought it would be honestly? h. >> we have a plan for a year now, and the president has put a proposal to create 1.5 million jobs to keep teachers and firefighters and police officers on the streets and in our classrooms, and the republicans have refused to pass that legislation. the fact is that senator mcconnell said that his number one job was to make sure that the president didn't get re-elected, and they have tried to do everything they can to stop us from working together in a bipartisan basis, and they have put the party before the country -- >> and is that going to change? >> well, it will change as they lose the demographic across the board and when they lose this ele

and we will stand with leaders who strengthens and protects social security and medicare and medicaid, not those who plan to cut benefits that working people paid for, earned and are counting on. prosperity requires democracy. starting with the essential right of everyone in this great country to a voice, both at the ballot box and at the workplace. the right to solve problems together. and to climb the ladder to the middle class the old-fashioned way through hard work fairly rewarded. now, president obama and vice-president biden have put the country on the right path. towards jobs and shared prosperity. despite the obstruction they faced from a dishonest, politically motivated, economically challenged republic majority in congress. we face a choice in november between division and decline, between unity and growth. we love our country. we build it. we defend t we wake it up each morning and we make it run all day. we fix it when it's broke. we put it to bed at night. our country needs unity. our country needs leadership. our country needs barak obama. >> that is richard, the preside

and we have burskin and chamber and the staff includes michael krelin and todd restrum and david whos in charge of people who work in the area and julie who is the head of the project that we have been talking about the water improvement program and here to say a few more words about that is the assistant general manager and the incoming new general manager of the puc, harlin kelley. >> well, first of all i wanted to say that it has been an honor working for ed harrington he has demonstrated great leadership and you will be a hard man to follow. also i want to acknowledge that i have been at this for fine years myself and i think that ann cain was on the commission and her and i were talking about how we can make this happen and so we have done it. we are getting real close to completing. but when i tell you when you talk about complex engineering projects, and how difficult it is, the main key is the people behind it. and i really want to give a shout out to julie labonte, the program director with her leadership, it made things go a lot smoother and we were able to really move and

remarkable and special, and my kids are fabulous and remarkable and special.they are is because of michelle. i always say that in our household, she's the conductor. and i'm second fiddle. >> you know, barack always gives me so much credit for who our girls have become, but let me tell you, our girls wouldn't be who they are without a man in their life who loved them deeply. >> what i love about my wife more than anything is she knows what's important, and she knows that the best and most important legacy of anybody's life is making sure that your kids turn out all right. they have good values, they're kind, they're caring. and what's very gratifying to me is that i know the girls at this point are going to be fine because they've got the best mom in the world. ( cheers and applause ) >> coming on stage now is elaine bry, a resident of ohio, mother of five members of the u.s. armed services. >> wow. what's a mom like me doing in a place like this? i'm not even a political person but what i am is a military mom. ( cheers and applause ). my husband and i are so

and i go through this and i sit with the women and i talk to them and we go through our individuals and i hear it over and over. the women say all the time, "i need my kids more than they need me," "i need my kids, i need my kids." so that's one of our biggest goals is to reunite family and keep families together. family center treatment is the way to be. i don't understand why everyone's not doing it across the board because it is shown to be more effective. i just think it should be more programs like heros and sheros in order for many more families to be touched. so kim, we were talking about the adolescent and other institutions that can actually come in and act as a beginning of a buffer for that adolescent. talk to us a little bit about that. sure. well, i think in just about every setting, a child exists in there are caring adults available, or there can be caring adults available who can be a protective factor to a child and help that child access their own inner resilience. so including things like helping children realize that they can use humor, that they can develop close re

in film and television and today i have done a lot of reading and watched two documentaries and sawt after 9/1 19/11 where thes a gallup poll where there was 54% of muslims who believe there was no justification for 9/11 and the rest were nebulous and no comment and no feeling about it and then 7% said, yes, absolute justification. so that is a huge number of 1 bill yion people who believe the is justification for that type of action, and that is what bill maher is talking about. >> well, if you want to say, and i'm not sure what the number is and that was right after 9/11, but a few of the muslims who are radical and violent and vie haddists, maybe that is accurate, but the rest of us don't have to be defined by that and nor should we be. my fellow americans who are progressive have a different opinion when they get to the muslims an liberals and that we are all bad and secretly trying the do something and not as patriotic as the fellow americans and this is our challenge on some level as muslims to go out there to make sure people know who we are and what we are about. >> well, i

on the economic and security and league and administrative and even intellectual engagement. we need to face and combat terrorism and extremism. we enacted many laws that are specifically to combat terrorism and security level. we took many preventative measures against terrorist elements, and what -- what -- we got rid of the 344 terrorists from may 2011 to and through september 2012. we detected and arrested ten terrorist cells that contain -- that require -- many engagement of the civil society and political entities and many social players along with those official measures that's been taken by the yemen government, the public committees was civil committees assisted and combated al-qaeda fighters either by providing intelligence or their whereabouts or their participation in any action against them, and now al-qaeda targeting civilians from the areas by providing, but putting the ieds or the snipers or killing them. the challenges that we are facing in combating terrorism in yemen and it comes the high rate of unemployment and the deterioration of the gdp and there are h

up and let me swab your mouth, and taket from there and what happened and did you have a choice in thiscorrect, ashleigh. i was arrested at anti-war demonstration in 2009, and when i was arrested i was really surprised, because i did not know about the law, even though i had voted against it, but i didn't know that it went into effect, and so they took me out of the cell and they said we are here to collect yourd dna and i was shocked. i said, i would not like to have my dna taken and i believe that i have the right to refuse to have my dna taken and when i refused they said, okay, you will be charged with another misdemeanor which will land you two more nights in jail, and at this point i was nervous and confused about what was going on and i did not want to spend two more nights in jail and i felt strong armed to give my dna. >> and you are saying that you voted against the proposition, and voted against this law, but the majority of those in your state voted for it, and now it is under challenge. it is a technical challenge and i will get to that later with the legal expert, but i th

you should speak up and speak out and stand up and fight for a. you have to be consistent. you have to insist on the truth. not one thing is stronger than the truth. there may be setbacks and disappointment, but in the long scheme of things, you are going to win and succeed. the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence, the way of truth will win. this book has suggested whether it is in the middle east, and africa coming in america or a planet this little piece of real estate that we call earth, that we can as dr. king suggested learn to live together, brothers and sisters. gondhi put it another way. it is nonviolence or nonexistence. it is my hope that young people and people not so young will use of cross that bridge to find a way to get away. to find a way to get in trouble, unnecessary trouble and disturb the order of things. when i was growing up, my mother and father and grandparents and great grandparents would say don't get in trouble, don't get in the way. in the through study and listening, through being patient i got in tro

and i am a huge fan, so i would be thrilled and see supervisor avalos and go and look at the neighborhoods and understand how they do this in areas. and definitely for districts four and ten there are very significant issues. i know in your district on baker street, it is periodically it is a very heavily impacted area right around the dmv, you have a lot of vehicles there. >> you know i feel the six months with the three months requirement to come back, does give us a framework and i think that i am looking carefully the comments here and i welcome working with the coalition. i mean, truthfully, if we could work together on this, i think that they certainly have the trust of people who are living in their vehicles and so my objective would be not to work in opposition, but to work in partnership and we might come back and tell you that this is much more difficult than we hoped that it might be. >> supervisor chu? >> thank you. i just wanted to also emphasize, again, i know that supervisor avalos mentioned concerns about where it gets implemented. i think that the mta has a commitment to w

and i remember when the science and partnership was started and his wife and he was the former president of the national academy of sciences and his wife was a district pta president in san francisco and is the sort of shining light of science education in the country. and so, thanks. >> commissioner, mendoza? >> i wanted to really recognize csf and you have been fantastic. and so many more of our kids have the opportunity and the out reach that you have been doing to our kids that has not had access to such high quality programs is just fabulous and so thank you so much for all of your hard work and your continued partnership. >> yes. i have the opportunity to go to a poster session, i think that it was last year and i was just blown away by the high quality of work that our students achieved. and i just want to congratulate, ucsf. and the commission on the status where i work just released girls report and the dirth of girls pursuing science and i am confident that the programs will really help the san francisco girls and boys get better exposure to science and have rewarding careers i

and that's iraq. it was a very contentious issue and do spend a lot of time writing about it in the book and you reiterate your thoughts that it was not a legitimate war. you write, it if 9/11 change the world the consequences that the iraq war were similarly dramatic magnitude. why did you say that? >> guest: i say that because the iraq war led to major divisions within the international communities and i'm not just talking about the u.n.. i'm talking about its impact on communities and groups in the middle east and beyond and a sense that the world has been broken into groups and some were being targeted or profiled who felt very strongly about this and this is about a bar on which the international committee was divided. the council did not approve it and i firmly believe we should have given the inspectors, the weapons inspectors, more time to do their work in iraq and gotten back with a report to the security council but the council that heads wanted so dam -- saddam said there would be serious c

bush and under obama, and the u.s.still the best place in the world to do business and people on the board of seven start-up companies and we don't spend any time talking about this. it is never a conversation. >> so business isn't worried about -- >> well, that is a different country, because i talk to business people everyday and they are terrified with what this administration is going to do with a second term. you take, for example, oil exploration, and we have been focused on wind and solar and it is about this big, and the president has talked about green jobs. he has not given permits to oil companies to drill. we could be the saudi arabia -- >> but the production is the highest it has been. >> yes, the production is high on the private lands and that is what the president uses to brag about the energy policy, but on federal lands, no production in 90 days. >> why do we need to do more on federal lands? >> because we want to be independent. governor romney has set a goal to be energy independent in america in 20

and governor romney and congressman ryan, as we know it. the romney team quickly coming out with this response saying in a statement. only one candidate in this race has robbed today's medicare of 716 billion dollars to pay for barack obama care, barack obama. he has done nothing to reform medicare for the long haul and prevent it from going bankrupt, end quote. the latest back and forth hours ago with the president campaigning in florida. >> hear about their plan for medicare, would bankrupt medicare, our plan strengthens medicare. no american should have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. >> more on the president's claims in a moment, but first, we know at this hour, governor romney is at his headquarters in boston where we're told he's preparing for the first presidential debate. now, less than a month away. our steve centanni kicks off the political coverage from washington on this and governor romney was not on the campaign trail today, but on one of the sunday talk shows. >> that's right, it was a pre-tap

and there is all coming up at 9:00 and 11:00 and now... time for sports. >> and let's sart with baseball. a's and orioles opening a big three game series tonight loaded with playoff impolitics. and right now, baltimore tied for the lead in american league east. and oakland owns a top wild card spot. since june 11th no team had a better record and there is minus 20 in runs and 19 games over 500 in wins. >> we're excited about what we're going to accomplish this year. >> and there is these guy as long with these guys next week and we're going to keep it casual in possible. >> giants playing in arizona. it's funny. 300 pound behemoth running into each other at full speed we're wondering what kind of handshake they will exchange there is and almost started a sport. they had seen each other and there shouldn't be a big deal. >> and there is a bunch of nfl things going on after the season. so two teams take the field it's not going to be on player minds. >> and there is without incident. >> without incident. >> it's a huge step up in class this

frustrate and angry as you watch president obama and the mainstream media and pundits attack mitt withistortions and inaccuracies, so i want to share some thoughts with you tonight and provide you with some comfort. polls are not elections. the voters have not spoken. >> and some democrats are trying to make more hay about mitt romney has released the 2011 tax returns and he paid 14%, but only because he did not take all of the deductions. >> at the end of the week we saw him manipulating his own tax returns to plump up his portions of taxes to 14%. >> you are talking about not taking the charitable deductions? >> right. two months ago on your own air said that if he did not take the deductions, he is not qualified to be president, and he is not, because that is what he did. >> the romney campaign is tuning it up by going with a bus stop in ohio and a rally in colorado, and now pete alexander is in denver where he will be speaking tonight. pete, you are joining us by telephone, and what can you tell us about the campaign game plan? >> well, the campaign will be arriving in a short time

and drive. the petaluma national league all-stars are talented ballplayers, but they also succeed because of grit, hustle and desire. they reveal themselves to be young men of maturity and character. they showed sportsmanship in victory and defeat. they were models of teamwork and discipline, qualities that will serve them well throughout their lives. these boys exemplified what is best about youth sports. being true to the mission and values of little league baseball. their peril formans on and off the field -- their performance on and off the field is a testament to their parents, teachers, coaches and their individual character. these boys are unquestionably champions. they are tomorrow's leaders and they give confidence for our country's future. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: madam speaker, thank you very much. yesterday was a remembrance of a tragedy beyond be

cases filed recently and see a lot subdivision had been filed and occurred and therefore because the definition is for all phases of the project we could include the requirements without that. it's not a question of which you choose. it's we have a backup if the first doesn't occur. >> thank you. >> thank you for that question. thank you. so this next slide is sort to scale the issue. while five to nine we feel is important segment of the how longing production that happens in the city and talk about the housing goals. it is a small percentage of the production over the last ten years and represents 3% of the units produced in the city and that gives you a sense of the scale of the issue. in terms of production since the change in the inclusionary requirement while it is difficult to ascribe a precise or exact role to that legislation given that we experienced large declines in the housing market over the last half decade. we have seen a considerable decline for applications of this size of development. this grass shows a rather precipitous decline in applications and you can see fro

and we see speechs and conventions and un is next in two weeks time and they will come and deliver a speech. we don't see action. action is crippling sanctions and we need leadership in the white house to take action on iran. it is in your back yard. maybe we are in the front line but it will come to the shores of the u.s.. iran is a threat to the american people. >> i think a lot of us are concerned that israel is not the primary target. it is what your book talks about. israel is the big satan but they see the u.s. as big satan and ultimate target. whaps to israel is a precoursor to the united states. iran said they will wipe israel off of the map. >> it is clear. they are not hiding. first they go after the jew in israel and after that we'll go after the sunday people the christians . what we are seeing today, it is not a real partnership. you defend with your friend and allies and the window of opportunity will be closed on us. and israel will have to act by itself it is harder but we can't wight forever. when you have a leader who is full of hatred against the jewish people you

kurdistan and baghdad and how kurdistan and iraq. that is what my question pertains to. >> another question? >> here. in the back. hi. my name is kay walters. i'm also an elliot school alumni. my question is, so the it seems like the tensions between the krg and baghdad were getting worse. and do you think that is the case. also the recent agreement to pay part of the money for baghdad to pay part of the money to the krg and there was an armed group that some of mall the supporters were going to have in the krg and they said they weren't going to do that. it was on puk news. maybe it's not a big deal. anyway, do you think that the payments are a sign of tensions lessons or is it not just a big deal and not important? >> thank you. another question? up hire in the front. -- up here if the front. >> hi. a question from matt. i'm wondering what are we talking about in terms of amount of money and time to repair those pipelines? and in the case of the one that goes to saudi, what would it take for to get the saudis to agree to reopen it

[cheering and applause] and so, mr.half of every single member from every single state in these united states, we are pleased to move for the adoption of the 2012 democratic national platform. [cheering and applause] thank you. thank you. [cheering and applause] >> cory booker, mayor of newark. [applause] [cheering and applause] a motion has been made to adopt the platform. is there a second? [cheering and applause] it has been moved and seconded debt we adopt the platform committee report. is there any discussion? hearing none, the chair calls into question -- all those in favor say aye. all opposed? the ayes have it. the report of the platform committee is hereby adopted. [cheering and applause] we now have a new national democratic party platform that we can be proud of. thank you very much to our platform committee cochairs, lieutenant general and the mayor cory booker and the members of the platform committee. before i leave, let me do a shout out to the great california delegation -- [cheering and applause] thank

if you have that, come anyway and listened to him talk about the book and his research and doing it and maybe get some pointers. i don't outcome would probably have some budding authors in our audience, either here or on c-span. let me just briefly introduce today's authors so we can get right into the program. i would mention that there is an article by our speaker, guy gugliotta, in our current addition of our d. magazine. there are copies of it in the back. please pick one up on your way out. it's also available online and an interactive version of the historical society's website, www.u.s. chs.org. is it mentioned are speaker today is guy gugliotta. after commanded a swiftboat in south vietnam he became a journalist who's covered latin america ever served 16 years of the national reporter reporter for the "washington post" and has written extensively on science and policy issues for a variety of publications including "the new york times," "national geographic," wired, discover and the smithsonian. he is here today to discuss his recent book, freedom scab in the coming of the civil

the one that pops in my mind and the goal is traffic call -- calming and pedestrian and bikes and we don't want people steady flow. the long way to ask the left-tun restrictions on the peak flow, northbound morning and southbound evening to eliminate this peak lane? >> the majority hayes and perk are permitted at a.m. and p.m. peak. >> okay, on the feldstreet will we have left turn restriction? >> no, the travel between oak and stell has three lanes. and it feeds into the next block that will merge into two to feed the rest of the project. even northbound vehicle at stell and feld is blocking and in the turn they have to go to two lanes. the two adjacent to that left-turning vehicle flows smoothly. you are going from three to two, basically. >> the improvement is not south of feld, it's north of feld. so the continue that is there south of feldwi wilwil wilwill remain. >> but south of feld, if you don't make that left turn restriction on feld-street. you will have a situation where someone in the morning hours makes a left turn you have one lane of traffic going northbound. >> the ve

and it is in the nature of politics, which is not clinical but human, and it is messy and difficult and it is always provisional, you get two or three chances to rise above that particular moment and leave something that we talk about going forward, and with the congress in 1944, it was the gi bill, it was with bush 41, it was iraq and the mission to kuwait and doing the right thing in terms of the 1990 budget deal which bill clinton will tell you help set up the prosperity of the 1990s and george herbert walker bush when he broke the read my lips pledge in 1990 he would lose the presidency. >> we continue this evening with a look at president obama from two people who have written extensively about him, they are peter baker of "the new york times" and jonathan alter. >> if you look at it just in terms of his accomplishments, if you go down the list of what got done in the first two years, he obliterates bill clinton in terms of achievements as law is passed which is often the way that presidents are judged, obviously clinton had a better economy and conditions of the country were bette

and they have learned how to trust and move on and are doing fantastic in school and have just really become amazing children, despite the trauma that they experienced at a young age. and this is a key word, fran, trauma. that is really the main issue here. the notion that the kids are traumatized and the trauma really does take a long time for folks to heal. correct? correct. and trauma has a lot of-there's an extended definition of trauma. we used to think of trauma very narrowly and now we're seeing that both in several different cultures and, in this situation of families with young people living with addictions and mental illness, the trauma can be very subtle and doesn't show up until they are adults. the trauma can be very severe and needs to be intervened with right away. so there are all different levels of trauma, but the good news is we also know so much more and we are-all of these services that are being described today, the key factor for all of them for me in prevention is collaboration. we must continue to collaborate and to bring these services together to bear and th

it was a journey and i had a lot of struggles through my faith and doubts and questions, and i just - made a lot of mistakes and i just had to keep going back and saying, okay, god, help me. >> what's your biggest worry for justin? he's on a spotlight and people chase him with cameras and i can't imagine how that must make you, as a mom feel? >> scary, i worry about him a lot, but, that's what moms do, and worry about our kids. but he, he's got great people around him and great security and he makes great decisions, a lot better than i did when i was his age and younger, so, i have confidence in him. >> mike: do you look out there sometimes and just say, gosh, how could could that be the same little boy that ran around in my house when i was trying to raise him in those early years? >> i-- and it's like a big home movie for me, and i get to see him with all of his-- he looks so cute and i look back and i just, i miss him. i think when parents, our kids grow up we look back at old pictures and old videos and miss that. but, he's-- we're so close today. so, it's-- i miss that little boy

president to deal with and he took it and ran with it and got it done and had some personal fors to tell about the time when they dated, when the president came up from nothing essentially and built himself up. tried to pitch him as that type of man and she was well- received here and we look forward to president bill clinton who will formally nominate president obama tonight for his next four years. allison. >> and we have lifted a couple of sound bites to bring home her message and what she was speaking about to add on to what you said. i guess number one on the hit- list is the economy and let's listen to the first lady right now. >> when it comes to rebuilding the economy, he's thinking about folks like my dad and his grandmother. he's thinking about the pride coming from a hard day's work. that is why he signed the lily ledbetter pay act to help women get equal pay for equal work. that is why he cuts taxes for working families and small businesses is any fought to get the auto industry back on its feet. >> the first lady hitting on the segment that the key segment that both are

allowed me to use 150 characters and i went and edited the joke and made it 140 characters, and it is a lot fun we are in way. >> rose: exactly right. and i would say to anybody, if you can't get a good question in 140 characters, then it is not a good question. >> that's right. there is something about it that works, it is magic, we will leave it at that. >> rose: why was it 140? >> >> rose: that is the oldest question ever asked about twitter. >> that's fine. it is a good question. so there was originally limit face between the text messages and text messages you could send between mobile operators that was basically 160 character limitation, if you were on one service and i was on another you were only allowed 160 characters a message, since, they decided well, we will take the 160 characters, shorten it by february for the user name of the person sending the twitter user name of the person send i don't go 2 tweet and then reserve five characters for something else. and you have, there you have your 140 characters. >> rose: who figured this out? >> jack dorsey. >> rose: jack's idea

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they watched them buy guns over and over and over again and transfer them over and other again without watching them or seeing where they were going. and so now, more than 18 months later, we've seen -- and fast and furious is such a big scandal, i really don't have time to get into all the details of it, but just catching you up on the current events, we saw the contempt charges of civil and criminal against attorneyeric holder -- attorney general eric holder, the first sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt of congress, and yet the media doesn't seem to think that this is a big deal. they've been complicit in the cover-up, they have decided that mitt romney's tax returns are more important than, you know, hundreds of people being killed in mexico and getting to the bottom of a scandal that resulted in two of the murders of our own federal agents. out of 240,000 documents that exist about fast and furious -- and, remember, attorney general eric holder claims he knew nothing about this. think about what 240,000 pieces of paper stacked up look like. seems like a pretty big case,

it is central to our government and our lives and our nation and thank god for organized labor and one cannot take away is collective bargaining. so the shift of the republican right -- from their party to the right to the extreme right has been stark when you look at the platforms. >> eliot: to continue the litany of areas where they've shifted, taxes. richard nixon supported using the income tax to redistribute wealth in a significant way. negative income tax. if you have income below a certain level we will use the income tax code to give you money. >> john: eisenhower with a much more progressive tax form is the last president to have a surplus while spending massive amounts on infrastructure with the interstate highway plan. these guys wouldn't be allowed in the party today. >> eliot: goldwater won. losing the election. intellectually took over the republican party. continued for 20 to 30 years. the tea party is arguably the intellectual progression of what he began. >> cenk: even goldwater on the social issues told about how he took his daughter to get an abortion. can you imagin

ok, and when it's-- >> and that's it.se increases on both sides makes this nice miter corner. >> makes the miter. >> nice. i never knew how to do that. >> very easy, and then to do this really easy, you've got a piece that's finished that's just 2 colors. >> mm-hmm. >> and i always like to put a little bit more into it. so this is embroidery, and wait till you see how easy this is. you turn it to the back, and i am going to just take a couple stitches to anchor, and i am going to come up-- i'm gonna skip my first row, and i'm gonna come up one row up...and now what i want to do is i'm gonna take my needle, and i'm gonna go over one stitch and under the next, over one stitch and under the next, over one stitch and under the next. >> ok, and so that's just like a basic kind of running stitch? >> running stitch, yep. >> that's so easy. >> and then you give a tug, and that's it, and you go all the way across. >> ...great dotted lines. well, that's a really easy way to add some extra color and still get that pizzazz without ha