that was congresswoman's barbara lee's bill that they are voting on tonight.nate the champion of that idea that congress has to weigh in and authorize these wars the champion of that idea in the senate has been the senator tim cain. and he used this week's anniversary of brown versus the board of education he used that anniversary this week in the senate to rail about the senate refusing to fill the vacant seat on the united states supreme court. >> the brown case was originally argued in 1952 and the court was divided, so divided that they ask that the case be reargued in 1953. then to make matters worse one of the chief justices died before the argument. by many accounts his death left the court evenly divided over an issue of the most fundamental importance. the president nominated the former california governor to fill the vacancy. the senate did its job, held a prompt hearing and confirmed the appointment. and chief justice warren used his skill to cut through the division and convince his colleagues that the court should speak unanimously and say a child

house minority leader nancy pelosi and barbara lee anglena ashu toured the gal herry this morning. it showcases the way technology is influencing the design to medical devices. on the subject of the presidential race, the three democrats did not reveal who they would be endorsing although congresswoman pelosi made reference to the next president whoever she may be and criticized the gop. >> rhetoric that we are hearing on the republican side unworthy of the american people and unworthy of any office. >> the autoto desk gallery is opened for free from 10:00 a.m. to five p.m. and located at one market street in san francisco. >>> coming up, donald trump working to unify his party but it won't be easy. at 6:30, the latest on tensions between the presumptive nominee and housespeaker paul ryan. >>> paul ryan is not the party and even donald trump is not the party. >>> and i'm tracking that warmup in the bay area this week. >>> a first bay area resident accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her clients. how investigators say she did it and the charges she is now facin

. >> reporter: oakland representative barbara lee is a member here at allen temple baptist church.he was not in attendance today and as of yet has not endorsed a candidate for president. scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> a surprise guest, bernie sanders paid his respects to fallen vets with an unscheduled stop in san francisco. mark matthews has comments from senator sanders and reaction. >> reporter: this is the biggest memorial day event but bernie sanders kept it on the down-low. he says he didn't want to turn this observance into a political event. it was a surprise to many to see senator bernie sanders walking in today's memorial day parade. asked why he wanted to be here, the former chair of the senate veterans committee told me it matters. >> the issue of veterans needs and the families of those who walk their lives is something that has always been of importance to me. that's why i'm here. >> reporter: and your opponent is on the east coast. >> i don't want to get political right now, okay? >> i would have made the decision that he wouldn't speak. >> reporter: wallace le

. >>> congresswoman barbara lee also responded, donald trump can spew his hate all day long.ow great our town really is. >>> the city of oakland is also in the headlines because of a comment made by actress blake lively on instagram. the start posted this photo from the cannes film festival with the caption -- some people think it's funny but others aren't happy saying lively is being racially insensitive. >>> calling all fans of disney star selena gomez. she is producing a new netflix series called "13 reasons why." extras and stand-ins are needed to play high school students parents and coffee shop customers. according to the press democrat, a casting call will be held may 21st at the -- centeror for the arts. selena gomez was just in the bay area last week visiting mark zuckerberg at facebook headquarters in menlo park. >>> well, we have a winner. >> and we will hop to it to tell you about it >>> let's talk about champions and the best fans in basketball. let's make a splash and show them our california gold. let's get loud and undeniably proud. let's do this together and

barbara lee. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for a minute and a half. ms. lee: i want to first thank congressman polis for yielding time and for your work to ensure that our nation is secure through this amendment. thank you again. it's an honor to co-sponsor this amendment with you. i want to thank our ranking member for guiding us through this very difficult bill to make sure we all know what is included in the bill and i just have to say, our amendment, i think, would take a modest step really in making this bill a heck of a lot better to help us rein in the over the top, quite frankly, pentagon spending while protecting the pay or health benefit accounts of our brave service men and women and their families. over the last 15 years, pentagon spending has ballooned by 50% in real terms and pentagon spending now consumes more than half of the federal discretionary budget. that's just outrageous. recently, the "new york times" made this case in their editorial, it's called a better, not fatter, defense budget. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to submit

. >> reporter: congresswoman barbara lee is a member of the church. she is not here today and thus far has not endorsed a candidate for president. in oakland, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> hillary clinton has cancelled campaign events in new jersey to come out to california. here she is yesterday at chappaqua, new york, at an annual parade there. it could be an indication she's concerned about bernie sanders's chances here. she'll begin a five-day campaign swing through here thursday. now, exactly where and when those events will be has yet to be announced. >>> donald trump is coming back to the golden state as well, due in sacramento for an airport rally tomorrow night. a republican candidate for president has not won the golden state since ronald reagan back in the 1980s. >>> the california june primary is exactly a week away. in some counties folks are already voting. in contra costa county, folks can cast their ballots in these places. in san ramone, the city community center is now open. in concord you can vote starting today at the salvat

barbara lee is to the left of bernie sanders. so i think it's a great group, and i give both sides a lot of credit for making this happen and that's a big step towards what i think is going to have to be unity to beat trump. trump is a real candidate. he may be a nut, as whacko donald as we call him, but he could win and we have to take this seriously. >> one of the challenges i think is that trump makes himself always excess ibaccessible. he's always giving interviews. if trump remains as accessible as he is. >> i don't think so. look, every candidate is different and every candidate relates to the press differently and the press always wants as much accessibility as possible. so each candidate will do their own thing. i think trump is getting in trouble. he won the nomination because he was so accessible to the press. the problem is he doesn't make any sense. when you get closer and closer to the election, it's very hard to vote for somebody who, as you very aptally said, talks word salad. >>> still to come, just how much damag

congresswoman barbara lee.> good morning. >> so ash carter went on to say the fight is far from over. he said that the united states and its allies will defeat isis. do you believe him? >> well, first let me just say that my thoughts and prayers go out to the keating family, this tragic loss. this is an example of why i've been calling for congress to do our job. we're missing in action. it's very important that the american public understand the cost and the consequences of this war. rightfully so, the president has not sent combat troops into the region, however, we see as a result of this tragedy, what can happen. and so i think the american public needs to demand that their members of congress call for a debate to talk about and understand really what this new war footing means, and what it entails in terms of a long-term commitment to what it appears to be now, a perpetual war. >> so congresswoman, is it likely any debate will occur, since it is an election year, president obama is in his last term? can th

. >> reporter: congresswoman barbara lee said he can spew his hate all day long. those of us from oakland know how great our town is. folks say they don't know if donald trump has visited oakland. but they'd be happy to give him a tour. reporting live from oakland, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> i'm sure they would. thank you very much, jodi. >> the bay area feeling the bern. bernie sanders rallied supporters. just an hour ago, bernie sanders made a surprise stop in san francisco. our nbc bay area chopper was overhead as he spoke and greeted hundreds much supporters. in less than 90 minutes, he'll take the stage here for a rally in vallejo. here's a live look where you can see it's packed. early this afternoon, a few thousand people braved the scorching heat to hear him talk about the education -- michelle is there. some people showed up as early as 4:00 in the morning to hear sanders speak. >> reporter: they let people in at 10:00. certainly a hot day for people to be outside all day. a lot of supporters are eager to see what he can do in the next coup

convention. [ laughter ] >> and all of them have pledged their support for hillary clinton -- except barbara leen the east bay and san francisco's own nancy pelosi. like i said before, those superdelegates can change their minds. the sanders people are already hard at work trying to make it happen. >> what does all this mean for hillary clinton? >> right. so she's got to be on defense. effectively, she is already at the cool kids table but wants to win california to stay there. a recent poll by the public policy institute of california says she is only a few percentage points ahead of sanders and is working hard to win here. sanders is in oakland today and clinton in san francisco this week for a fundraiser as well as all fun to be in the california limelight. >> a fight to the finish between clinton and sanders. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> all right. san leandro to bay fair is on a bus bridge until 3 p.m. caltrain and muni on a sunday schedule. traffic is going to be a little bit of a bear around game time. oakland a's are hosting the minnesota twins at 1:05. then when that game

joining me now, the congresswoman behind the twitter campaign, representative barbara lee.iewers, you are the only member of congress who voted against the authorization in 2001 because you were concerned about what has exactly happened since then, successive administrations have used that authorization to target other terror groups in other countries. how did that happen? >> absolutely. it was a blank check. and the congressional research service just published an unclassified report that has shown it's been used 37 times. imagine the unclassified numbers in terms of how many times it's been used. we need to go back to the drawing board, appeal that resolution, have a debate and vote on a new authorization. i have to say, the president did present a new authorization 15 months ago. the speaker won't take that up. regardless of whether or not one agrees on the use of force, the american people deserve to have the members of congress have an up or down vote. the speaker refuses to bring it up. that's why i'm moving forward to continue to try to repeal that resolution and to

in the last few yearses, an organization called the barbara lee family foundation which does a lot of work with women who run for elective office, harvard has done research, the pew research center, and they've found that for women voters to find women candidates qualified, they have to also find them likable. by, like, a 90% margin. it's kind of crazy. and on the flipside, women voters -- to find male candidates qualified -- do not have to find them likable. so two words: donald trump. he obviously wasn't in the picture when i started working on this book, but i think he bears that out. so again the question was that's really nice, that's really interesting, but why? where is the meat on the bones of this? how do we figure out why we have all these feelings? and i finally came to the conclusion that the way to get to the bottom of it was not really to keep more research -- keep doing more research, but to start asking women voters of all political types, ages, backgrounds, affiliations to get as diverse group as possible to answer that question and ask them why they felt the way they

barbara lee is probably the left of bernie sanders. i think it's a great group and i give both sides a lot of credit for putting this together and making this happen. that's a big deal, a big step toward what has to be unity in order to beat trump. trump is a real candidate. he may be a real candidate. he could win. and we have to take this seriously. >>> finally this. one of the challenges, i think, is trump makes himself always accessible. he's constantly getting interviews. he's constantly on tv. the clinton campaign has not had that same instinct. today it was obvious. do you think the campaign will need to be more successful with the candidate down the stretch of this campaign if trump remains as accessible as he is? >> i don't think so. look. every candidate is different and every candidate relates to the press differently and the press always wants as much accessibility as possible and sometimes that gets counter productive. i took trump as getting himself in trouble. he won the nomination because he was so accessful to the pres

it is my honor to yield as much time, congressman barbara lee. ms. lee: thank you for those remarks but i tharning you for your leadership and for continuing to come down here each and every week to ensure that your voice, the congressional black caucus are really put forth so the people of our country will understand the critical issues before us and the congressional black caucus is leading on each and every issue. you have done a nonl job and you have gone beyond the call of duty and thank you for your efforts. . . the united states of america imprisons far more people than any other nation in the world. when african-americans are incarcerated at six times the rate of whites, it's no surprise to me, it's no surprise that african-americans constitute nearly half of the total 2.3 million incarcerated americans in 2008. together african-americans and la tipows comprise 58% -- latinos comprise 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even those african-americans and latinos make up approximately 1/4 of the united states population. while our prison population gro

>> no, i think opening it up and giving him five people -- also debbie wasserman schultz chose barbara lee. >> exactly. >> who's far left. >> politics are close to bernie sanders. >> she stayed neutral but closer to bernie's standards and that's a big deal to stay neutral for some lefty people. >> right. >> it's a pretty progressive slate including some of clinton's own supporters. >> it might give her the chance to say, the democratic party's this but i'm going to move to the center. we've seen in colorado the colorado democratic party supported the single payer health care initiative. the sitting senator said, i don't support that. different politics but he can say, i'm not a senate democrat. >> interesting point. the other thing that i thought interesting about the developments today was, i sense, tell me if you think this is right, basically them turning some of the sort of animus, frustration, object of their who the establishment is, from hillary clinton to debbie wasserman schultz. which make at lot of sense in ways. a, they can win fights against debbie wasserman schultz. b, if you

things done that's why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee you're our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group you've been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors i'm fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural they've come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and

things done that's why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee you're our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group you've been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors i'm fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural they've come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and

that has drawn some concerns among some of your more dovish colleagues including representative barbara lee- do you think the authorization from congress is necessary and are you worried about mission creep? guest: i would like to see it but the president has the authority to make these decisions now. the alternative is we continue iraqiow syrian and fighters, isis fighters, to continue to take ground in iraq and then leave that area and come up through turkey and go west and plan attacks in western europe like we have seen or potentially in the united states. that is the alternative. i consider myself a piece loving human being. but when someone is trying to kill you, you've got to be aggressive and you have to be assertive.you have to be smart. you cannot just do it willy-nilly but you have to be aggressive and in this instance, it means special operations forces and making sure we are helping the iraqis coordinate and work with the kurds and all the rest but we cannot be passive because if we just remove ourselves from the situation, we will leave an area for training. we will allow them

things done that's why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee you're our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group you've been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors i'm fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural they've come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and

raised to be nice and that's true and i think that's sort of born out bi the research from the barbara leendation that you have to be likable to be seen as qualified as a woman where male candidates don't need that, what does that mean to be likable? there's a certain niceness element to that and how youn treat people and i think we have clearly seen that with, you know, the candidates we have no, when we look at donald trump and how he yells on the campaign trail and how bernie sanderse yells, regardless of what you think of their substantive political views that it's easier for them as men to get away with that than it is for her and there's so much about, is she shrill, is she yelling, i think that's shorthand for is she nice enough yet to be leader of the free world, commander in chief, that's sort of the flip side of that coin and that's addressed in a couple of essays that talk about how we view a woman and whether can she be tough enough or will she be viewed as too nice. and i think sadly, still in our culture today women have to sort of walk that line. you have to be nice but firm

that has drawn some concerns among some of your more dovish colleagues including representative barbara lee -- do you think the authorization from congress is necessary and are you worried about mission creep? guest: i would like to see it but the president has the authority to make these decisions now. the alternative is we continue iraqiow syrian and fighters, isis fighters, to continue to take ground in iraq and then leave that area and come up through turkey and go west and plan attacks in western europe like we have seen or potentially in the united states. that is the alternative. i consider myself a piece loving human being. but when someone is trying to kill you, you've got to be aggressive and you have to be assertive.you have to be smart. you cannot just do it willy-nilly but you have to be aggressive and in this instance, it means special operations forces and making sure we are helping the iraqis coordinate and work with the kurds and all the rest but we cannot be passive because if we just remove ourselves from the situation, we will leave an area for training. we will allow th

things done that's why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee you're our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group you've been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors i'm fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural they've come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and

barbara lee, of course, who is the leading voice of the anti-war democrats. was the lone voice against the authorization to use military force after 9/11 but she also has a lot of other issues including civil rights. she sits on the house budget committee and is a member of the poverty caucus. very important there. lastly, howard berman, a former member of congress from california. he is somebody with a lot of foreign affairs national security experience. that is team debbie wasserman schultz. to team bernie. team bernie sanders, notable in the fact there's only one woman on the list but he does have a couple other interesting people that he's added to the list. he's got two people representing the muslim community. of course, here we have james zogby, founder and president of the arab american institute. you have one woman on the list. let's go through these individually. so founder and president of arab american institute. the sanders campaign is making palestinian rights a big issue in the democratic platform so he's on the list. you also have congressman

only amendment made in order is the one offered by the gentlelady from california, congresswoman barbara lee, to repeal the 2001 aumf for afghanistan. an amendment that she's courageously offered for several years now. mr. speaker, one of the amendments not made in order was an amendment offered by me. and several colleagues. to prohibit the use of any u.s. funds after april 30, 2017, for the deployment of u.s. armed forces to iraq or syria and the fight against the islamic state, if an aumf has not been enacted. this was a bipartisan amendment. offered by representatives jones, garamendi, yoho, lee of california, cicilline, and myself. and let me make one thing very clear, mr. speaker. this amendment is not an aumf. there is not one single syllable in this amendment that reflects the language of an aumf. the distinguished chairman of the armed services committee was very clear during the committee markup of the ndaa that aumf amendments were not the jurisdiction of his committee, but rather the foreign affairs committee. but this amendment is not an aumf. and it's germane, by the way. my am

things done that's why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara leeou're our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group you've been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors i'm fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural they've come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and ca

that has drawn some concerns among some of your more dovish colleagues including representative barbara lee -- do you think the authorization from congress is necessary and are you worried about mission creep? guest: i would like to see it but the president has the authority to make these decisions now. the alternative is we continue iraqiow syrian and fighters, isis fighters, to continue to take ground in iraq and then leave that area and come up through turkey and go west and plan attacks in western europe like we have seen or potentially in the united states. that is the alternative. i consider myself a piece loving human being. but when someone is trying to kill you, you've got to be aggressive and you have to be assertive.you have to be smart. you cannot just do it willy-nilly but you have to be aggressive and in this instance, it means special operations forces and making sure we are helping the iraqis coordinate and work with the kurds and all the rest but we cannot be passive because if we just remove ourselves from the situation, we will leave an area for training. we will allow th

barbara lane in willow grove. nice and warm for her and 80 degrees, lets see who is at 80, delores lee in newark, delaware.y right now. delores is very warm. cooled off from 3:00 p.m. and cloud are building. you can see blue skies, i love this photo phil sent in of kid eating ice cream in chestnut hill. great day for ice cream. john in yardley sent thus beautiful shot of the sky, deep blue skies with a few patchy cloud. cloud have rolled back in and lets look at storm scan three and tell you what is on the way for weekend. big difference heading in to your saturday. included hurling the arrival of the next storm. it is in two pieces. it is almost, almost like tracking a storm, snowstorm in the wintertime because we have a coastal piece and you have got a low off to the west and it will transfer its energy to the coast, gathering moisture from the atlantic ocean. it depend where heavier moisture sets up when this storm begins to develop its coastal element during the day tomorrow this piece may go to the north, this piece the heaviest rain could stay to the south over south jersey and delaware but there is

barbara county. >>> broken glass is all that is left after a thief broke into an fbi agent's car, stealing his gun and badge. it happened yesterday in the middle of the day. abc7 news reporter vic lee is live at the scene. this isn't the first time a federal agency had this happen. >> it's not, dan. this is pier stet. the crosses are haze and fell. this is a small street that attracts a lot of tourists and car burglars unbee known is the to an fbi agent that parked his car down there. >> just a week and a half ago, a cell phone video caught this woman breaking into a car near where their fbi agent's vehicle was parked yesterday. they pretends to tie her shoe, then steals backpacks. it takes a second to smash the glass. neighbors say there is an epidemic of break ins on piers between hays and fell. >> i see broken glass every day. >> yesterday afternoon, another break in, this one, different. >> usually there aren't cop cars. that got our attention. >> police responded quick because the car belonged to an fbi agent. >> not only was the gun stolen, but the thief took a badge and credentials. last year, kate steinle was shot on pier 13. last year, the uc berkeley police chief had her

barbara county. >>> broken glass is all that is left after a thief broke into an fbi agent's car, stealing his gun and badge. it happened yesterday in the middle of the day. abc7 news reporter vic lee is live at the scene. this isn't the first time a federal agency had this happen. >> it's not, dan. this is pier street. the crosses are haze and fell. this is a small street that attracts a lot of tourists and car burglars unbee known is the to an fbi agent that parked his car down there. >> just a week and a half ago, a cell phone video caught this woman breaking into a car near where their fbi agent's vehicle was parked yesterday. they pretends to tie her shoe, then steals backpacks. it takes a second to smash the glass. neighbors say there is an epidemic of break ins on piers between hays and fell. >> i see broken glass every day. >> yesterday afternoon, another break in, this one, different. >> usually there aren't cop cars. that got our attention. >> police responded quickly because the car belonged to an fbi agent. >> not only was the gun stolen, but the thief took a badge and credentials. last year, kate stein on pier 13. last year, the uc berkeley police chief had her gun sto