john avalon is a columnist at the daily beast. international business at the university of maryland, and annie lowrie is an economic policy reporter for "the new york times." all great movies have memorable endings. when we look back at the end of the first term, is this a blockbuster or dead? >> absolute free fall, stock market hits its historic low after the first 100 days. trying to make a case that it could have been worse. not the most inspiring re-election slogan. compare to where countries in europe are, that chose a more traditional path of austerity, we do appear poised for recovery. if you begin on a freefall and end on an up note, that has the makings of a blockbuster. >> you say the president's policies are responsible for holding america back? >> president reagan had a deep recession, unemployment peaked at 10.8%. at this point he had the economy growing at 6%. we should simply be doing better. there are important legacies here. the health care legacy. although it's going to prove to be very expensive, that's what wil

. >> john avalon is "outfront." john, let's just start off with these background checks. obviously, look, for whether a potential purchaser has a criminal record or history of mental illness. obviously, there's issues with both of those things and how they're defined. but on the background check concept overall, how could we not have that already? >> erin, we do have background checks. we've had them for 19 years. but what vice president biden said is key with regard to private sales. there's what's known as a private sales loophole in the current background check law, that accounts for around 40% of gun sales each year. that means licensed dealers can account for 60% ever of gun sales. people who purchase a weapon have to go through the background check. if they have a criminal record, history of severe mental illness, outstanding warrants, they'll catch them. but if 40% of those sales go through private dealers, and those private sales are not subject to background checks, and that is what would be closed by what joe biden's describing as a possibility of proposing a un

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seven pm on august eleventh one thousand and sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth and avalon twenty one year old watts resident marquette frye was pulled over by the california highway patrol a suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding fries car despite being less than two blocks from school fry's mother. join the rapidly growing crowd who along with marquette grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements who called in a scuffle broke out and his mother rena and brother ron were all taken into custody . the squad cars rolled away but the crowd continue to swell as one of the incidents swept through the neighborhood when i walked up one hundred fifty to now would not quarter from the dartanion to me what happened is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said it was a cumulative thing it was one racist traffic stop two minutes. live clip. of the speech. with. some good. sleep. and. come out. the admission of three credit patience three. four judges three the a

stronger, particularly around athens street, you have a beautiful community garden there, at athens and avalon that will be dedicated in a couple of weeks now. we have a new neighbor organization, they will be honored tomorrow at the neighborhood empowerment summit. we are seeing a real physical transformation of what is happening in district 11. it is significant because i think the change cost from not what happens to us but we did together to create change. change is inevitable. we can control it ourselves. and what ideas we can share with one another to make them our ideas and our world and our vision for the city that is what. is happening in district 11. we have community-based organizations that have done a lot of work responding to neighborhood needs, holding neighborhood summit we had a summit on a homicide that happened recently and dedicated real resources for these efforts. the online community collaborative, also started the community grants program, and that is being emulated in other parts of district 11 and also district 6 and in other places of san francisco, the great model t

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so, john avalon, pizza? >> pizza.o, erin, the republican party is having a come to jesus meating in virginia and they've really confronting the fact they've got a real branding problem after the last election. so they're calling in a bunch of speakers to pump them up, give them some advice, including the ceo domino's pizza, patrick doyle. the logic is that domino's went through a pretty major branding problem of its own, rand some ads, let's remind some folks what those looked like. >> there comes a time when you know you've got to make a change. >> domino's pizza crust to me is like cardboard. >> you can either use negative comments to get you down or you can use them to excite you and energize your process of making a better pizza. we did the latter. >> who are we?! >> we are pizza. >> this is what john boehner is watching? >> a sneak peek of what john boehner and eric cantor and the republicans are getting. the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. >> and it is really bad. the poll number

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built but are basically now just becoming something of an entitlement to sell to either equity or avalon bay, whoever inherits these two particular projects is still a concern. i would like this project to be moved forward and continued until it can be brought forth with the actual developer so we know of true projects that are going to be built rather than the idea of project conceptions that can be sold throughout this city and passed on between people that may or may not build them until we have some real truth into development, so thanks. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, the public comment portion is closed. >> because we can, and the cars are there. and so that was going to be a lot of my comment, and i would like to say thank you, for doing three weeks ago out reach to the concourse. it is three years too late. and i didn't hear anything. all of the out reach that here has been done on the concourse. it is done by me because of the planning department refused to do any out reach because the owner of the site did not give a list of tenants. out r

wells is taking a majority stake in avalon jet charter. jet leasing is said to be a $100-billion-a- year market. and according to reports, other large banks are likely to follow wells fargo's lead. american airlines has a new look. the new silver jets and streamlined logo are meant to look modern and vibrant, and to reflect the change on the inside of the company, according to ceo tom horton. some unions wanted the bankrupt airline to wait to make changes until after its pending merger with u.s. airways. the pilots' union claims such costs are what sent the airline into bankruptcy. gold is on the move from new york city to germany. germany's central bank, bundesbank, will withdraw 300 tons of gold from the new york federal reserve. germany stored the gold there during the cold war to protect it, and it has stayed there - for no extra cost - as a backup currency in case of global financial crisis. now, bundesbank has a plan to move a majority of the gold back to germany by 2020. jack ewing of the international herald tribune says some belie

john avalon and maya mcginnis are back. john, two dirty words to some in washington -- consensus and bipartisanship. i want to show you something. these are laws passed by previous congresses, right? only 220 laws passed by the 112th congress from 2011 through 2012. 220 laws. the smallest number of new laws in decades. you might say congress is failing, it's not governing. it can't pass half the laws that were passed by the congress before it. others look at the number and say, hey, we're not going to pass laws, run up debts and deficits and operate business as usual. they see that as a victory. what do you think? >> that number says to me we've got a divide, dysfunctional congress. that's not a libertarian idea of not doing anything in the national interest. we have urgent challenges that we're not facing as a country. it is a direct result of the polarization of parties and makes compromise more difficult it achieve than ever. if people are angry at washington, d.c., the division and dysfunction, it's the polarization of

i remember as a child my parents taking me there as a kid to see elvis presley, you know, franky avalon, and i had one opportunity -- i had the opportunity to be an usher there. i remember when i was a kid i got my first kiss at the new mission theater. [laughter] >>> now i got a lot of grandchildren. [laughter] >>> and, so, you know i've been here in the mission district. i've been living in my house 28 80 25th street. i celebrated my anniversary in this home. my mother graduated from mission high school. i'm part of the mission. i'm a musician. i remember roberto hernandez the movie labamba. as tan a the family. also i've been at that great theater. * santana i believe that part is a big part of the mission. getting rid of the mission theater would be like taking a heart of the mission district. remember the seal stadium, candlestick park, we need to keep our mission theater. now i can take my grandchildren there instead of just walking by and saying, this is where grandma used to take me. this is where i took your mom. and i want to make sure that that stays a part of our community h