or have i been leaving out a plate of cookies every arbor day for nothing? [laughter] and my guest tonight is actor jeff bridges, performing music from his new album. it's all the songs they cut from "tron." [laughter] 152 people set the world record for biggest group shower. afterwards, they set another record for the longest awkward silence. [laughter] this is "the colbert report." [ captioning sponsored by comedy central "the colbert report" theme music playing] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. [cheers and applause] welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. i'eç gj t to say hi to everybodyphere, d all my cousins by the dozens. [laughter] nation, texas governor rick perry has been in the race only three days and he's already blowing away the competition like it's a trespassing coyote. [laughter] in the very first poll perry has an 11-point lead. elev

. >> happy arbor day, everyone. we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more senio

facilities in the past year across the city, including the chinese rec center, the marina at iraq arbor, michigan playground -- the marina harbor, and mission playground. phase 2 projects are all in the design process. 140th birthday of golden gate park. fountains, gardens, ball fields, and even trash cans are getting a facelift. the planning team oversaw the completion of the north beach library and secured prop 84 grants. bonn programs are under way. last is our commitment to our own administrative deficiencies. as we reported previously, our staff has achieved a $370,000 reduction in workers' comp savings in the last 12 months. we did a very detailed custodian service analysis. custodians were reallocated to better meet needs. we are just beginning a reorganization of our aquatics program that will ensure more and better service to the public. it has been a very full fiscal year 2010-2011. we are looking forward to a fabulous 2011-2012. a very big shout out and thank you to the rec and park staff. i can tell you without a doubt that this is the hardest working, most dedicated staff.

or have i been leaving out a plate of cookies every arbor day for nothing?laughter] and my guest tonight is actor jeff bridges, performing music from his new album. it's all the songs they cut from "tron." [laughter] 152 people set the world record for biggest group shower. afterwards, they set another record for the longest awkward silence. [laughter] this is "the colbert report." [ captioning sponsored by comedy central "the colbert report" theme music playing] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. [cheers and applause] welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. i'eç gj t to say hi to everybodyphere, d all my cousins by the dozens. [laughter] nation, texas governor rick perry has been in the race only three days and he's already blowing away the competition like it's a trespassing coyote. [laughter] in the very first poll perry has an 11-point lead. eleven

>>reporter: she says one tree will likely die after others it is just a matter of time w.cuts to arborbingt and the budget there short doesn't want resource to fall away from neighborhood in need. >> frankly this is a big corporation that is not alaska very good corporate citizen. would i like to see them pay their fine and, you know, maybe they could contribute to some tree planting to try to mitigate the impact of this he have devastation they have caused. >>reporter: at friends of the urban forest a non-profit tree metro atlantaing organization in san francisco, the important thing now is that it doesn't happen again. >> i know that bank of america has gotten the message. >>reporter: director dan says they work with the city to plant 2000 tree as year but we lose 4000 a year. so each tree counts. >> urban setting are really tough setting. so if you have tree actually able to survive for 30 years, that is a really important thing for our city and see it lost in a couple minutes is a tragedy. >>reporter: bank of america says they will now pay the 1600 dollar fine for the dying irving

. >> 94 yards just like south bend, play suspended in ann arbor because of lightning.wolverines, more defense. big pressure again. who's got it? brandon herron. >> taking off for a second defensive touchdown of the game. pressure on the quarterback can solve a lot of ills in the secondary and cause havoc. >> then the lightning and the rain came. this game actually called in the third quarter. the final in this one, 34-10. as for herron, his first time in wolverines history a player has returned an interception and a fumble for a score. michigan obviously has a lot of history, 34-10 the final. >>> you know, number one oklahoma will visit florida state in a few weeks. this week florida state making light work of louisiana monroe. the pass a little ambitious here. >> no fair catch for the interception. >> and e.j. manuel, a heisman candidate. >> great job of standing in under pressure, taking a shot under the chin and putting the ball perfectly out in front for the big touchdown. i tell you what, he is the best quarterback in the acc. >> greg dent the reception. he walks

they allowed the greatest killing of americans on american territory since we're arbor. a lot of their rhetoric and aggressive actions post nine eleven was to hide that fact and also to keep it from happening again because if it had happened again they probably would have been impeached on the spot thrown out of office so we spent four trillion dollars to counter an attack by bin laden's a lhari that cost maybe half a million that's not very cost effective that's really bad it's bad business so you have to understand that first of all about the bush cheney administration the second thing you have to understand i think is that we have made a cottage industry if not a much more than a cottage industry out of the what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror you're saying that you had lots of doubts about building this case for war in iraq was it possible that some point. to stand up and say no we have doubts we're not writing this speech where we're out of it w

size of the bailout but critically not how it should be found it now let's get the latest from peter arbor who is at the r.t.l. stock exchange here in moscow hello to you peter so what's the mood like now. the latest is the my six has made so many games however the r.t.s. is still trading in the red now this follows last week where both markets suffered shoot shoot losses following gloomy growth predictions from the united states also the ongoing debt crisis in europe having an effect there was a meeting over the weekend to try and determine a solution to this day crisis but out left more questions still to be amazing to be answered and they estimate that it could be almost two trillion euros that's needed to bail out the debt riddled countries in the eurozone now throw into the mix the big domestic news from here in russia not a mere putin will run to the presidency in twenty twelve and that's finance minister alex he couldn't could step down and it's really very difficult to see how the markets all reacting right now to all this news. ok peter thanks very much for the update when we get

and i like going to places that are not the typical ann arbor, madison, berkeley, where there is an echo chamber. i like going -- i like going to places down south. i like going to military towns. i like talking to people who maybe disagree with me or think they disagree with me and it is good for me to listen to them. i want them to know that while we may have our political differences, we are all americans. we are all in the same boat. we think are some together and we have -- all of us more in common with each other than not. if you make a list of all the things we disagree on comment is a much shorter list than the things we all agree on. we all want good schools for our kids. we want to drink clean water and breathe clean air. most now think that women should be paid the same as men. we could make a list of things that we have disagreement on and the things we disagree on, you know if i don't want a gun, i won't buy one. if you want a gun, buy one. if you want to kiss another man, for god sakes, don't. i don't think you'll like it but if somebody else wants to and they want to get m

to not allow pursued by what arbors to return to the occupied palestinian estate well fine let them build and let's see what's going to happen with the international community there is absolutely nothing of the israel can do because the palace and how sewage all its a strategy towards and on the violence the strategy. including for you're going to street it's like if israel stalled my up my apple is the west bank and gaza and then they told me they want to negotiate with you over this article while at the same time they are eating my own uppal that's basically the message of building a financial yesterday and that's a matter of a passerby rejected by all the international community but the most important year again let's not misunderstand the concepts we don't have to show our credentials but we are good enough to be free if we have shown very good credentials but the most important is not about instance from building the most important it's about the overview right of the palestinian people to sort of their mission we've been waiting for sixty four years that we have the largest refugee

all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey arbor and i thank my guests next for bits get it want to send me an email please do so i can report in our c.t.v. that are you in the next time this is maxed out or saying buy off. this is on c cummings you live for mosco the head of. britain's prime minister david cameron seeks to bury the post started false to close economic relations during his visit to moscow the past and six years mind you qaeda but signs have differences deals worth four hundred million dollars were signed with syria also discussed as much as any one hundred approach to arms the violence which was called over to foreign lives. over a decade of corporation bad fruit as iran gets its custom it traces you from the bush i knew deadline to build with the help of russia's internet agency to bring in engineers will praise be dropped from twenty fifteen with russia's special it's day in the country and the mean time for hunting out. into me is now in the eye of the storm when the deepening euro zone financial.

>>reporter: she says one tree will likely die after others it is just a matter of time w.cuts to arbor ibingt and the budget there short doesn't want resource to fall away from neighborhood in need. >> frankly this is a big corporation that is not alaska very good corporate citizen. would i like to see them pay their fine and, you know, maybe they could contribute to some tree planting to try to mitigate the impact of this he have devastation they have caused. >>reporter: at friends of the urban forest a non-profit tree metro atlantaing organization in san francisco, the important thing now is that it doesn't happen again. >> i know that bank of america has gotten the message. >>reporter: director dan says they work with the city to plant 2000 tree as year but we lose 4000 a year. so each tree counts. >> urban setting are really tough setting. so if you have a tree actually able to survive for 30 years, that is a really important thing for our city and see it lost in a couple minutes is a tragedy. >>reporter: bank of america says they will now pay the 1600 dollar fine for the dying irv

all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey arbor thank my guest nick verbinski if you want to send me an email please do so at times a report in our c.t.v. dot ru until next time this is. in india in. the gateway hotel the ground in period truly. run this is the hotel treat. us from. washington. i'll be back with more from washington to moment the. libyan rebels continue to attack the few remaining strongholds of. the country's transitional forces and given residents of the. leave before a. stormy season. potential. members of the. top stories this hour.

right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser a four with name max geyser and stacey arbor thank my guests it want to send me an e-mail please do so i tried to report on our t.v. that are you in the next time this is nice guys are saying. to. get some closure see the story and the scene so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. welcome is a big. mission . couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. videos for your media project a free media. he . it's. hello i'm going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture being hasn't dried on president obama's america's american jobs act republican leaders spared no time attacking anything in the bill that may offend their close with patrons so is the president's job creation plan already dead and the republican presidential primary candidates played for keeps last night's debate rhetorical punches were fast and furious but did the tea party crowd steal the show us a couple real experts in just a few m

the story was the same in notre dame and knoxville for tennessee and indianapolis, and fans in ann arbor, because the game was called off because of lightning and the teams agreed to call off the game with the wolverines winning 20-10. jacqui jeras you know how fans are for the opening weekend, but better safe than not, right? >> it is great to see the stadiums evacuated to keep them safe. bummer for the football fans, but tomorrow is another day and we will get more great games in tomorrow. and we are tracking storms still at the house. we have a sliver of a severe thunderstorm watch including the detroit metro area, and you have been pounded in the last couple of hours with heavy rain and lots of lightning and strong gusting winds to go with it. this is the cold front driving the systems across the u.s. this is heading into the eastern great lakes by tomorrow, and could be having an impact on tropical storm lee. i know know a lot of you are going to be trying to get out there, but heavy rain across the great lakes and the gulf coast because of tropical storm lee. and because of the win

events will take place in san francisco, san diego, seattle, chicago, austin, ann arbor, new york, washington, and right here in atlanta. my colleague david mattingly will be at that one, so david, the question is really who is behind all of these rallies and this whole day of trying to help troy davis and what do they actually expect to accomplish? >> the main group is amnesty international, naacp, aclu. these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour -- there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there's a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don't see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. >> speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least

. >> so, download the arbor press. we're going to be doing this in cad. >> reporter: these freshmen at san jose high are getting ready for a wild ride into their future. >> we're going into the geometry and construction of that machine. >> they are in the early stages of project lead the way, a 13-year-old program designed to give them the science technology and engineering and math skills they will need, not for one job but for any high-tech high-skills job in the future. >> the teeth on the gear will be kind of square teeth. >> by sketching the six parts of this piece of machinery they are developing critical reasoning and problem-solving skills in what used to be considered shop class. >> i'm teaching more geometry than i ever have, even though it's mixed in with the technologies. i find it's a fuse visual. >> reporter: by the end of the school years students will come up with a concept for a design from start to finish and using the same equipment that the pros use here in silicon valley they will get to design a m

fans in and arbor didn't get to see the fourth quarter.tch-up was called off because of lightning. the teams agreed to end the game with the wolverines up dean obeidallah-10. not something fans want to see. jacqui jeras is at the weather center. we know how football fans are. they are into the game. this is opening weekend. better to be safe, right? >> absolutely. it was great to see they actually evacuated some of these stadiums to keep people safe throughout the storm. bummer for football fans. tomorrow is another day. hopefully next weekend we'll get great games in. we are tracking storms still moving across the midwest at this hour. a sliver of a severe thunderstorm watch which includes the det tro metro area. you guys have been pounded with heavy rain, lots of lightning. we've seen strong gusty winds to go along with it. this is the cold front helping to drive all of our weather systems right now across the u.s. this is heading into the eastern great lakes by tomorrow and could be having somewhat of an impact on tropical storm lee. a

and arbor, michigan. they were tracking ticks who did not -- they were attracting kids who wanted to not just stay in the ghetto, but wanted to bring their ideas to the world of public law and a number field. >> how long were you there at commentary? >> two years. upon editingrge the letters section. i became familiar with the intricacies of the base on domestic and foreign politics. i became more familiar with the way magazines work and how they get produced. >> going back to this book, who thought of the title? >> it was me. >> where did you get the interest? was it at the journal when you started? what triggered the idea that you said they will probably publish this book? >> i tried to sell to other publishes, but nobody else got it. it was about two years ago that i started the process. i've been covering higher education a long time. what was the driving force behind a book was this sense that i had this advantage that other people did not. i kind of understood what was going on behind the scenes in

when i visited, it was in an arbor, michigan. >> what did you find interesting? >> they were attracting some extremely smart kids, even though at the time neither one was accredited. they were attracting kids who did not want to stay in a religious ghetto, but bring their ideas to bear in the world of public policy or law, or any number of fields. >> how long were you there at commentary? >> two years. >> is that normal? >> yes. >> what did you take away from that experience? >> i was in charge of edmonton the letters there. i do not know how familiar you are with the magazine, but it has an extensive letters section. i became familiar with the intricacies of a lot of debates about foreign policy and domestic politics. i also became more familiar with the wait a magazine works and how it gets produced. >> going back to this book, "the faculty lounges"-- who thought of the title? >> that was me. >> where did you get the interest? what triggered the idea? >> i tried to sell it to other publishers as well. >> when did you start the process? >> about three years ago.

people in power always discover that it's the easiest way to take a situation of pure arbor thierry island authority and make it seem like the victim is to blame in the mafioso understand that you have power over somebody, just conquered them. easiest thing to do as they come you guys owe us your lives because we didn't kill you. we are going to demand this ending something that can't possibly pay. and they are going to a nice guy. the next month, definitely no. suddenly you have the moral high ground and they have to run around feeling rotten about themselves. the only way to reply to that essay who's supposed to do here, which is in fact the people almost invariably did and what we discovered is actually a very effect of way of reframing power relations to make it seem like they are disclaimed, to the extent that probably most people ever lived i would just have been told they were debtors at some point in their lives. it's also the focus of the vast majority of insurrections and rebellions of our world history. moses to me once that there is basically one revolutionary program, canceled

you could fill the entire stadium in anne harbor -- arbor michigan -- ann arbor, michigan, football, and still have a game with only 80,000 people in it. 280,000. think of it. the ann arbor, michigan, stadium filled 2.8 times over. teachers in the classroom. this is exciting. veterans, a very powerful incentive where a business can reduce its tax burden. that is the bottom line tax reduced by $9,600 when you hire a disabled veteran. that man, that woman's going back to work. becoming a taxpayer. once again pride in our nation. this is powerful. for the unploipped, an extension of unemployment benefits and we didn't even get to that today. and all of this in the context of rebuilding the american manufacturing sector. more than 10 million american manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last two decades. we can put them back to work if we use our public policy. use our tax money that's going to build those bridges, those roads, buses and locomotives, use our tax money to buy american-made, american-made equipment. all it takes is a law and it works. sacramento, california, near where

. >> and the connection between william jennings bryan and arbor day, what is it? >> it goes to nebraska again. it was a way to bring more business to this part of the state. >> from washington, good evening. >> my question was about the australian ballot, or the secret ballot of 1896, 1900, 1908. did bryan never talk about the need for secret ballots? i've read anecdotally where employers make sure that wrote in mckinley and things like that. >> it was not a major issue. like the potential corruption of companies that would bring in voters to vote for elections, or would require voters to vote in a certain way and these accusations are made especially in nebraska of one railroad. it brought them into lincoln and told them which way to vote. that kind of activity led to politicians like bryan and others to object to calls for the kind of secret ballot that would allow individuals to vote for who they wanted without the pressure of corporate interests in the election. >> our next caller from reno, nevada. >> [unintelligible] >> are you with us? we would try one more

. -- and arbor day, when it is aggression mark -- what is it? >> it goes to nebraska again. it was a way to bring more business to this part of a plane. >> from washington, good evening. >> my question was about the australian ballot, or the secret ballot of 1896, 1900, 1908. did bryan never talk about the need for secret ballots? anecdotally where employers make sure that employees road in the mckinley in things like that. -- rest in the mckinley and things like that very -- wrote in mckinley in things like that. >> it was not a major issue became upping contexts like the potential corruption of companies that would bring in voters to vote for elections, or would require voters to vote in a certain way and these accusations are made especially in nebraska of one railroad. it brought them into all mom and lincoln and told them which way to vote. that kind of activity led to politicians like bryan and others to objected to call for the kind of secret ballot bill allow individuals to vote for who they wanted without the pressure of corporate interests in the election. in our n