whether argus has been deployed in the field is classified. antoniades: i'm not at liberty to discuss plans with the government. but if we had our choice we would like argus to be over the same area 24 hours a day seven days a week. that's not very easily achievable with manned platforms. this is where uavs come in and they're absolutely the perfect platform. narrator: argus may be mounted on an armed uav like the predator, a long-range platform like the giant global hawk or a development craft called the solar eagle that may someday stay aloft for years at a time. cummings: the u.s. air force right now has the ability to archive every single video that comes off of every single uav. we're moving to an increasingly electronic society where our movements are going to be tracked. narrator: while technologies like argus are expanding the reconnaissance power of uavs, unmanned aircraft remain vulnerable in other ways. the air force's large drones still crash more often than manned planes. the $100 million global hawk is nearly three times more lik

but i know that was argued by project sponsor. >> that waszqjyí argued in the litigation that was involvedr the landmarking. and it was tangentially argued in this case in regards to the demolition permit that, based -- they argued that based on the court of appeal decision in the landmarking dispute, we hadlú( o discretion to deny the demolition permit, because of that issue. but they are challenging that decision on religious basis in the federal action, which is also still pending. >> commissioner antonini: that's still active. okay. thank you. >> president fong: any additional comments? okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president fong: opening it up for public comment. joe butler, rowena jen, her oshi. >> good afternoon, president fong, members of the commission, joe butler and i represent the friends of first st. john's united methodist church. as an architect in the city, we are pleased that the city has won its case in state court, and we would ask that the city continue defending the decisions of this panel in the federal court lawsuit as well. we think that the case that

you argue what? >> i argue i don't think this case is legitimate. its meritless lawsuit that is going to drain resources from the school district that should be allocated to the students. >> neil: out of court settlement. >> i think what she is looking for, can you place me someone else that is reasonable and accommodating. >> neil: where? >> she offered to teach through the internet and to do something in terms of some sort of counseling. >> neil: don't you find it weird that teacher doesn't like kids? >> we can't say the phobia she doesn't like them. there is medical issue, okay. i have a peanut allergy and they put me on the goober line, i can't work with peanuts. >> neil: i have no idea what you are saying. but i understand.... >> its good point. i think what we need to do is look here and say we don't want people to be discriminated against with a medical condition. >> neil: if we were expanding a medical condition to something like this, assign sign me up for the latest disability disorder. this is stupid. >> you have to look at the children a

next, flynt and hillary mann leverett argue that the u.s. needs to change its policy towards the government of iran which they say is a rational actor and will play a leading role in the middle east for years to come. this is about an hour. >> it is an honor this morning to introduce flynt leverett who served at the state department and cia, but he's currently a professor at penn state out of carlyle. also with him is hillary mann leverett, and she served at the national security council and the state department. she negotiated the u.s. government, with the u.s. government with the iranian officials. she's now a senior professor, lecturer at american university in washington. their writing has appeared in "the new york times," politico, foreign policy and washington monthly, among others. they came to us last night from virginia. they took the late night train and stayed here. and what i'd like to do is just turn it over to you for your thoughts and comments to start off. >> well, thank you very much. i'm going to start off for us today. let

the second amendment most americans and even many american historians have overlooked my next guest argues just that bogus is a professor of law at the roger williams university school of law he's held visiting. at the rutgers camden and drexel university law schools is presently a visiting professor at the george washington university law school here in washington d.c. it's written spoken extensively about torts and the civil justice system gun control in the second amendment and political ideology as the author and or editor of numerous books including the second amendment and long history historians and constitutional scholars on the right to bear arms and in one thousand nine hundred eighty wrote an article for the university of california davis law review titled the hidden history of the second amendment professor bogus welcome nice to be here now that i have you here with us what's the relationship between the second amendment and slavery that was the essence of the hidden part of your yes that's so my thesis about the hidden history of the second amendment is that james madison wrot

they are not provided anybody who is arguing that. they did that last time when they thought royal exchange was a problem, but they haven't this time. so the same issue is the 300' walking distance. that doesn't change no matter where the due process -- the notice is coming from. again, we have done everything right. we have done everything in good faith and consistent with city policy up to this point and radius service policy and dpw policy and we request that you issue the permit. >> thank you. before you sit down, one thing that you are speaking very quickly and i recognize that you are short on time here? >> i'm sorry. >> the first argument set out by counsel for the appellants relates to the language in the code regarding assessor's block and block face. and you ran through that. your response very quickly. can you re-articulate your argument and his response slowly please. >> i think his argument is that because it does not specifically say "assessor's block," and therefore. >> the code section that is relevant? >> this is not

she argues this is, i think quite rightly, a radical system.industrialize the country with tremendous, tremendous -- [inaudible]. so i can add it as it's a common is lessened if someone thinks that stalin was horrible mass murder, one of the worst in history, and yet at the same time i agree with both of you that the united states is hardly brainless and -- blameless. so we have to take a brief and a few seconds but when we returned i would like to move forward to kennedy and talk about the clerk dramatic turning point of the cuban missile crisis. >> would you say that the american capitalists were very concerned about the labor movement? >> yes. >> and during the '30s. >> still are. >> exactly, that's my point. in the 1930s, a very threatening moment and during the strikes of world war ii. for more strikes from world war ii. there were more strikes during world war ii than any other timeline. tremendous dissatisfaction right after the war, 45, 46. there's dislocations and american life. the bosses, the owners, the elites to look, the tensions

we arguing about these two are inextricably linked. the successes that the islamic republic is driving, that they are linked and it is in fact americans dysfunctional policy towards the islamic republic of iran, which is part of our decline in the middle east. we also argue will take strategic realignment of the united states that the islamic republic of iran to enable america's strategic recovery in the middle east. we unpack these arguments by examining the bases for u.s. dominance in the middle east, something increasingly driven since the end of the cold war by americans in a capability to project enormous amounts of conventional military force in the middle east. no one else can project this kind of military force in the middle east today or for years to come. this has given the united states extraordinary economic and political influence in the middle east and in fact reinforced are military and economic dominance and other key parts of the world. but our failures in afghanistan and iraq in particular have underscored especially

the fourth and fifth is very important i argue here in the many scholars who have argued about al qaeda score is, was to serve as a brainy. al qaeda represent the highest level of jihad theology. this is important, free from serious punishment, penalties or home. and here this was indeed the kind of mystical notion of al qaeda prior to the rate against bin laden and abbottabad that was the notion of npd. that bin laden and to lesser extent the solitary were immune from justice and they could hide out beyond the arm of contemporary international law. and fifth al qaeda would serve, this also import from the notion of talibanistan, serve as a base certain for the conquest of afghanistan, and included in that is their notion of western pakistan and the name of global jihad. this is important because of the mythical origins about where al qaeda come from and how it it it builds up in afghanistan itself. i argue in the peace that these five essential elements of bin laden's al qaeda go through them were completely devastated by the rate and abbottabad and the passage of time has eroded by ab

that's not what the appellants argue. there are matters with respect to which interpretation is valid and legal by the zoning administrator, but interpretation is not the same as changing or modifying, and what the action of the zoning administrator constituted was a modification which under the planning code only can be effectiated by the planning commission itself. therefore, the appellates ask that you revoke and declare null and void a permit which has [inaudible] by reason of a failure to comply with the condition established by the planning commission on may 19, 2005. >> thank you. >> okay. we can hear from the determination holder now, mr. guttle. >> >> good evening commissioners. steve guttle from farella braun & martel on behalf of the permit holders. let me briefly describe the project to you. 800 brotherhood way is a 7.7-acre site and approved for a subdivision with 182 units to be built. it's a complicated project. it required a host of permits since 2005 all of which are now in place. it is has been a challen

. >> i think the ambiguity of the movie, i'm not arguing whether the movie is true or not but it forces the debate. it actually shows both sides of it. it shows the horror of torture, the cruelty of it but it also shows the underlying rationale for somebody who might argue for it. so it sort of puts it right in front of us that says how do you feel about this and how would you feel about this in the future. it's also easy to feel about it this way. if we go back to 9/11 -- >> rose: and you hear the voices. >> it's different. but you have to set yourself a moral compass because long term i believe my personal position, if you start down that path, we won't be who we need to be and we won't be internal to ourselves and we won't be perceived who we must be perceived to be. >> rose: the national conversation is sparked by the film comes at the time of leadership changes at the c.i.a. state dent and pentagon. from washington peter bergen cnn national security analyst and author of man hunt the ten year search of bin laden from 9/11 and from new york delaware mark bowden he is author of the f

argued about al qaeda score was to serve as a brand name. al qaeda representing the highest level of salahi jihadi element to bring successful violence and so-called crusader governments in which the senior al qaeda leaders of the jihad remained free and this is important, free from serious punishment penalty or harm. this was indeed the mystical notion of al qaeda prior to abbottabad that was the notion of impunity that bin laden and to a lesser extent zawahiri were immune from justice and good hideout in the arm of contemporary international law and fifth al qaeda would serve and this is also important in the notion of the talibanistan service a case for the conquest of afghanistan and included in that notion of western pakistan in the name of global jihad. this is important because of the mystical origins origins of where al four al qaeda cat come from and how it looks up the anti-sovanti-sov iet jihad period in afghanistan itself or goa argued in the piece here these five essential elements of bin laden's al qaeda three of them were deva

krauthammer and amos yadlin are arguing question ma? >> how do you argue with that accent. i have great respect for him. i think that you the united states's position on this issue, which is a somewhat technical point, is understandably ambiguous. you do not want to signal in advance exactly what point you would go to war. you know who else has the same position? the government of israel. even though the israeli prime ministers has been asking washington to draw a red line, israel has not drawn a red line itself. i would argue, they are right not to draw a red line. you want to keep the other guy guessing. you want to keep the pressure on. you do not want to be entire clean -- entirely clear as to when. you do not want to give the other person a timetable for war. if they do an action that triggers an obvious response, but in a situation like this, we contain much more room to maneuver if we maintain some degree of strategic ambiguity, as the israelis are doing. it is important to point out, the iranians do not have a nuclear weapon. it is something worth pointing out today

>> first of all, how you argue with that accent? he was my debate partner the last time we did the munk debates debate. i have great respect for him. i think that the united states position on this issue is understandably ambiguous. you do not want to signal in advance at what points he would go to war -- you would go to war. the government of israel has the same position. the israeli prime minister has been asking washington to draw a red line. israel itself has not drawn a red line. i would argue they are right not to draw a red line parity want to keep the other type testing. you don't want to give the other person year timetable. if they invade a country, that triggers an obvious response. in a situation like this, retain much more flexibility if we maintain some degree of strategic ambiguity as the israelis are doing. it is important to point that the iranians did not have nuclear-weapons. there is something worth pointing out here. not only do they not have nuclear weapons, but the supreme leader of iran has said they had issu

they argue it was not covered in the order issued by the judge last week. the other big development happening is in the fourth circuit, ken cuccinelli the attorney general for the state of virginia, is arguing that the appeal for the decision from last week should go forward. they say that he's guilty and should continue to be tried and they are arguing for an appeal. if the appeal is denied in the fourth circuit, ken cuccinelli says he may take the case to the u.s. supreme court. a lot of things happening and a lot of tension in the courtroom particularly from the prisoner's family. more at 5:00 tonight. virginia. >> thank you. following another story. congress has passed a deal which now reverts the fiscal cliff. >> than since the dow jones sorry for the first time in weeks, but not everyone is happy with the deal. as brianne carter reports some lawmakers are concerned the new agreement will leave us worse off than before. >> a surge on wall street after congress finally reached a fiscal deal late tuesday night. on this thursday in trading of the new year

neil: they argue with this electronic program.that this is would save money. but even if it is a wash. money is using for unaccountable purposes like strip clubs, this undermines the integrity. neil: it would help the stripping industry. >> i have found they do not pay there are requisite share of taxes. neil: oh, that's right. the more you spend the rule of thumb is the more you waste. if you buy that 10% of waste and abuse then it out of control. >> the objective to you should put these people to work, i said if you want your welfare check, you have to work 20 hours a week, that got a lot of people off of welfare right away, that created a lot of howling, but it was one of the smartest things i did. we got off welfare, and most of them got jobs. neil: i remember you were vilified, antihomeless guys, you were not afraid to take on a media that would portray you as heart less. >> i went, i said, look, you can't live on the street. does not help you, does not help me, for you to live on the street. i'm not doing you any favors to l

while americans stewed in gas lines, congress argued over what to do with 150 million acres of alaskanand. which would we choose? wilderness or mineral development? in 1939, one american in six was unemployed. by 1942, we were fighting a great war and living better than we had in years. how did we increase production of both guns and butter during world war ii? in 1978, a troubled textile industry was told to spend $2 billion combating brown-lung disease. by 1980, the supreme court was asked to choose between saving lives or jobs and profits. how much is a life worth? wilderness or minerals? guns or butter? jobs or safety? we always face choices. resources and scarcity. what's economics all about? with the help of economic analyst richard gill, we'll examine that question on economics usa. i'm david schoumacher. what's economics all about? there have always been theoretical answers to that question, but reality complicates the most elegant theories. economics usa is about theory and reality in 20th-century amica, and how people and events have shaped economic decisions that affect our

i will be arguing and across the house we will be arguing scotland should stay in the united kingdom. what i want to see in europe is a changed europe and that we asked the people per no. >> mark halsey. >> quite a busy morning and i'm sure the prime minister has seen today's report highlighting the huge savings that could be made from turning around the country's most troubled families such as the 24 million pounds to 32,000 per family. may i ask him what he is doing -- that i local authorities across the country? >> i think i write honorable friend is making an important point and i don't understand why people are trying to shut down what should be a cross party initiative to deal with the most troubled families in our country there is one that spend up to 20% of its budget on just three% of its families. this is a problem affecting all local authorities across the country and i very much commend the approach the community secretary is taking to bring together local councils and work out how we can help these families solve their problems and thus reduce a major impact on taxpayers

. >> i think the ambiguity of the movie, i'm not arguing whether the movie is true or not but it forces the debate. it actually shows both sides of it. it shows the horror of torture, the cruelty of it but it also shows the underlying rationale for somebody who might argue for it. so it sort of puts it right in front of us that says how do you feel about this and how would you feel about this in the future. it's also easy to feel about it this way. if we go back to 9/11 -- >> rose: and you hear the voices. >> it's different. but you have to set yourself a moral compass because long term i believe, my personal position, if you start down that path, we won't be who we need to be and we won't be internal to ourselves and we won't be perceived who we must be perceived to be. >> rose: the national conversation is sparked by the film comes at the time of leadership changes at the c.i.a. state dent and pentagon. from washington peter bergen cnn national security analyst and author of man hunt, the ten year search of bin laden from 9/11 and from new york delaware mark bowden he is author of the

i would argue that this ambition contributed to this serious depression that enveloped in an january of 1841, the period of melancholy that has been subjected to analysis over the years. to be sure the immediate event that triggered the depression was a broken engagement. some have argued as time went by, lincoln must be set by doubt about the strength but his heart wasn't going with his head. others suggested he felt love with yet another woman. while that may never be possible to know exactly what was going on in his head, i would suggest given his lifelong ambition to something memorable behind, that an even deeper source of his anxiety was the fear that a wife and family might undermine his concentration and purpose. instead of being a will to read late into the night, to master new subjects to grow the understanding of politics and law, she would be responsible for the life and happiness of a woman who had been accustomed to love and luxury. in the fear that a marriage might enter his career lincoln wasn't alone as legal historians of the period have argued the uncertainty invol

they're still arguing about whether george washington said it or not. host: why are they arguing? guest: various eyewitness accounts. various eye witness accounts. a bunch of people report the same event. host: calvin coolidge was sworn in in 1923 and had a second ceremony just a few blocks from the white house at the willard hotel. our guest is richard norton smith. we're looking at presidential second terms. one of the issues remembered by ronald reagan was dealing with the soviet union. explain the political situation in washington, d.c. that he was facing. guest: people who think of the reagan second term within the broad definitions of the curse, they refer to it as [indiscernible]. tax reform, the elimination of an entire class of nuclear weapons. reagan and his first term had spoken about the evil empire. he said later on the soviet leaders kept a dying on him. -- dying on him. one thing led to another. there had been no discernible progress. i do not think many people on january 20, 1981 would have anticipated ronald reagan's greatest historical accomplishment would be sig

right that those who argue that the silver and gold manipulation stories overplayed you know they had some ability to argue the point in seoul the library scandal which was a multi hundred trillion dollar global scandal involving manipulation by barclays and other banks that they admit they're not there's no moral in any debate about it they said yet also the bank of england admitted to manipulating the library so they manipulate large where you're manipulating it's our global commodity and futures trading infrastructure which includes gold and some are to manipulate them down to make paper assets look better but i kind of disagree with this idea that ok we're going to turn all the commodities in the world into these highly manipulative exchange traded funds and other products and this is going to somehow cast a slightly different line on gold and so are the gold and silver story of a story as the return of gold and silver as the backing of the global economy as the bond market collapses is been in play now for ten years and will become bigger more visibly in play this year and the ne

couples argue all the time. know it was going to go this far. >> reporter: lamar then ran screaming toward her home for at least a block. there were burned clothes left in the street. that suspect, dexter oliver, 5'10", 1 a55 pounds. he is facing attempted murder charges. if you know anything about his whereabouts, give san francisco police a call. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >>> this morning san jose police hoping new clues will help lead them to suspects in the city's first homicide of the year. officers found the body of a man in front of a home on tripoli avenue yesterday morning. that's just a few blocks from mclaughlin avenue. officers say that man was shot in the head but they did not have a motive for that shooting. he was in his 30s and related to the people inside of the house where he was found. there were 46 homicides in san jose last year. that is more than any year since the 1990s. >>> the man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage at a oaklan

which i think you can argue about and the right has been trying trying to hard to maintain a rational dialog about gun fnches he does executive orders he is become like chavez. >> like hitler, like mao. >> it happened in italy, spain, iew and good yanch even using children. >> reminds me of saddam hussein when he used kids. >> jon: wow! it's like a game of $25,000 pyramid where the categories are dictators or unflattering mustaches. [ laughter ] maybe we're not ready to have a specific conversation about what government can do about gun violence until we have a clear understanding on how we record our relationship to the government. if the united states wants to ban assault weapons the government should go first. and turn in their assault weapons that they engage -- >> jon: sit. [ laughter ] see now we're having a rationale logical conversation. so in your mind, you believe gun control is an arms treaty tbhoation our u.s. military as the founders intended. here is what concerns me about this: the whiff of self fulfilling prophecy. if you are girding yourself with a massive battle with

we can argue about what's minor. we can argue about what might be major.e you to do something tonight. i would like you to realize that there's a giant project going on three blocks from your house, and that that project is three blocks away from another giant project. that's going to take away a combined almost 230 parking spots. they're going to move into the neighborhood or move into other neighborhoods. how is the city not looking at this as a whole plan, not just taking little individual neighborhoods and railroading them through. a better plan would be to look at the entire bicycle lane issues. i don't think it's major. i think it would be minor when you ask what is the difference between minor and major. minor is a bike lane on mccallister. minor is a bike lane on paige. major is a bike lane running through masonic going through fell. have you seen the amount of cars there? do you see the amount of cars backing in to get on to the bay bridge? do you see the amount of airport shuttles, amount of taxis that are using that route? as i said i'm not here

argued to to call a film. and stop the process tom one of the besides the legislation i think we're missing the fact that these nominations are being held up one of the things that brought c.w.a. to this fight is the fact that one of our members was nominated to be the public printer of the united states to run the g.p.o. one republican held up his nomination to the point where they had to drop they ran out of time to confirm him and objected and held it up because of the fact that he was a union member and look at the judicial crisis we have today the fact that the president there are more vacancies now than when he came into office it's because of the abuse of these rules to not just block legislation but to block nominations to the judiciary to the whole of the federal agents and on top of that they also don't go out of session so that a recess appointment can add a so it's so it's like if you can't win using small democracy then when by rigging the game in it and let me just throw this in a political frame