we have to be very careful. we haveo be careful. i am not sure when you're talking about speech and debate. if they could explain it but a little more. >> if you have something going on you have two parts. you have a member or other individuals making a transaction and telling the broker to buy or sell stocks. on the other hand, it is based on certain information that the person received within their congressional employment. there's not going to be a problem. to be able to prove that they made an order, that is outside of the legislative spare and process. -- this year and process. or they got that information, they may have a practical issue with outside enforcement and someone to say a member sits on the committee. the member traded on that. he may run into problems. you cannot introduce that evidence. it speaks to a legislative activity covered under the speech and debate clause. he just look back in the recent history. members of congress ll be prosecuted for things. they have evidence and other ways. if it is on where people g

cannot be both. and what we tried to present in this series is the best analysis that we could by people that have a public interest to explore that. some of the first was the cost of four. the second, the cost of intelligence. then the cost of defense and finally democracy or empire. these will be broadcast on the day after christmas and the day after new year's. and this is supposed to be in one of the weekly newspapers. but as we talked about this, we ask, how will the rubber hits the road? even as we interviewed different president to candidates that we have been doing, and put test very strongly. no wind pirate king. -- no empire thing. when january 10, we would and by different groups that are also interested in democracy, for example, occupy, to contribute questions and put these on a ballot. and after people vote for president, they would be offered a ballot, hopefully at every polling place in new hampshire, how many people know how many that is? >> two to 35? >> not bad. you should get a ca

this is not where i want to be. >> you're told not to be weak in prison. don't be weak in prison. that's a downfall. i don't know how to be strong. i just had that one habit and i just couldn't break away from it, you know? it was like taking away the loneliness. >> violence and drugs still take their toll inside valley state. darlene acevedo is serving time for petty theft. but as a drug user, she was sent to the ad seg for feeding her addiction on the inside. which led to an attack on another inmate. she's been in ad seg for 21 months. >> this is the first time i've been sober in my whole life since i started using drugs since i was 18. so that's what i meant by reality check. this has made me the me, the real person, that i really am. >> darlene's facilities are basic, with a few luxuries like lotions, spices and a television, she spends her time reading with only pictures of her family to keep her company. >> they give me hope. when i look at my pictures, i know that i have a purpose. >> today darlene will go before a committee to determine if she is fit to leave ad seg. >> sh

they would be in order. 599 would be before 700, but they would be where we issued. anyway, thoughts while driving. chairman nolan: anyone else to address the board on public comment? seeing none, secretary boomer? secretary boomer: these will be acted upon by a single vote unless a member wants to have one suburb. item 10.5 has been severed from the agenda by a member of the public but also by our vice chairman lee had requested this be severed, but no other member has requested that an item be considered separately. chairman nolan: for the rest of the consent calendar? all in favor? opposed? next. secretary boomer: item 10.5, obstruction. riding bicycles on the sidewalks. director: i had asked for this to be taken off, because we should do enforcement for the right reason. when you take a look at this amendment, it talks about raising the fees for double parking, for obstruction, for other various reasons. we have no data to justify the increase. i have asked to take a look at citations to see where we stand. if there is an lack of enforcement, where there is a pro

what the contractors role would be, and the term sheet does specify that they would be locating because interactivity is in san francisco. there is even a date specified of no later than six months after the launch of the program. let me touch base on timeline. were we are here now, the sf puc contract and the 19.5 million. a parallel path, we expect the master contract to be approved by the board of supervisors. we're working toward the completion of the contract that noble americas. introduced at the board of supervisors, we expect the economist and the comptroller will have the report on the program that will be available for the supervisor's consideration. sometime in january, board approval could be finalized. the new areas and we think we will be setting the not to exceed rate. setting the rates for the various class's. = = ca -- classes. the not to exceed rates will be approved by the body and to go before the board where there'll be some time where it can rejected those rates or not. then we jump to march where we get the final confirmation pricing from a shelshell, some t below

within his "to be or not to be" and therefore risk your life or should you let it be? how should we best behave? how can you deal another tremendous relevance of his work forus today is the appalling polarization between amorality, rampant immorality, and a rigid fundamentalist ideological puritanism. th we're being driven into a choice between tse two and shakespee tries to pop you late the human land in between. >> ros how didyour russian experience shape you in terms of a dramati and as a royal shakespeare company director? >> i think maybe the most important thing was witnessing how urgent theater was as a art form inhe 1970s in soviet moscow. that the... not only were people sort of peering around the and the theaters were fantastically full but you couldn't, for instance, produce ibsen's "enemy of the people" under that title because it would be read as an attack on the government, ennobling an enemy of the government. there's a word in russian that's used to denounce people who were dissidents, really. so... and particularly actually in terms of shakespeare bein

to be landlocked. but canadian other companies might increase the profits, such exports, at the expense of american consumers and american national security. if we are in conceptual agreement that there's a relationship between domestic while supply national security, then perhaps we should acknowledge that hemorrhaging overseas would undercut those benefits. proponents of the pipeline have argued it would create jobs. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the washington post fact check article noting that many jobs have been. in reality the pipeline will produce at most some 6,000 annual temporaries' obstruction related jobs and as few as 50 permanent jobs. compared to the half million public-sector jobs that have been lost this is an anemic job boost at best. irrespective of whether one is a finely to nighter or acceptor, all of us can agree additional oil transported by the keystone pipeline should stay in the united states. absent legal guarantees likely will not. with that i yield back.

be interested in. so those are the of three points that concern us most. another point, which is related, is there is a great deal up confusing financial information around the mta. -- great deal of confusing financial information around the mta. i will draw your attention to two or three of them. the first one is this body, this board, march 30, 2010 authorized were passed a resolution authorizing 1.57 8 billion for the central subway project. this is on a number of conditions. one of the conditions was the stick to the 1.57 8 billion budget. -- 1.578 billion budget. the report shows the estimated cost was 50 billion above that. this did not attract comments from the board members, nor was unnoticed by the senior members of staff. in fact, when we inquired about it, we were told it was a typographical error. another example is the executive director, about a year ago, told the board that the mta expected to spend 455 million per year on the state of repair. just a few months earlier in march they had

there will be the heat in the house may not be as good as it should be. won't be a turkey, or a ham or whatever on the table. but that's why christmas comes. i think christmas comes to remind us that there is a god, and that this is a god who loves us. i think the -- if you touch the whole basis of the abrahamic family, the family of abraham, christians, muslims, jewish people, and in that -- there is a god who loves, a god who is our muslim brothers and sisters, a god who is loving and compassionate. loving and compassionate. and merciful. and the -- the lesson of the world -- the hebrew scriptures when we pull the old testament is equal, this is a god who made us, who loves us, and who promises us that we'll never leave us. and of course, we christians will celebrate the birth of christ this day. we believe that that is the answer to god's promises that he will always be with us. he sent us his son. >> and it is in that spirit that we wish you and your family a very merry christmas and a joyous and peaceful new year. we'll be back next week. new year's

anybody that wants to say this might be additions would be vetted. anyone who wants to suggest a resource could do that. >> i would encourage further working. there is a lot of people who spoke in support. i would encourage further working with the very invested community members. >> anybody can have a copy. >> in terms of the community policing, there might be training included for advanced officer training. there is a piece in here, that is something you would work on. we will hear about that. lastly, occupy. i wanted to ask about the barricades. a lot of people are puzzled by that. >> a naked occupier started a woman as he ran down the camp. the deterioration in the camp suggested by the occupiers was our own business that we had taking care of. since it was impacting passers- by, the thinking was if they could put a fence around it. at least people could not accost people that had nothing to do with occupy. if there was objection we would not do it. nobody foresaw there would be an attack or the barricades would be turned into weapons or the brea

those could be permitted and approved from 2006, but it would be quite a while for it to be just not showing up. i could look into it if you like me to research it. >> that is not in a neighborhood commercial district. they are in an industrial district, they are not subject to formula retail controls. it would have to be in one of those areas where we do regulated as formula retail, otherwise it is under whatever requirements we have for that type of retail category. supervisor wiener: in that castro, the planning commission did it reject one for walgreen's and an additional space on 18th street and chase at 18th and castro was rejected because banks are included. >> there are some cats with this matter. this shows walgreen's that was a an expansion, so we have one criteria that was disapproved earlier and they came back with a subsequent application that was approved. there are a lot of cats with that. another is the way we do data is -- i did not go back and personally review the applications, so this is subject to planners properly categorizing that this fell under the formula re

not wait, but if there are efforts that can be made, we should be aware of that, too. perhaps there will be new things coming down the pipe that we will have to consider. since we are on basements, our office building has a base that extend underneath the sidewalk. we use it for storage and other things. there are cockroaches and other things down there. but it would be extremely difficult if we proposed anything that would trigger removing the basement to do so, because that is where our some pump is, where all the major electrical panels are located. i do not even think -- not sure whether our foundation wall does not incorporate some structural strength that extends out to the sidewalk. i am sure all that would be taken into consideration. in any case, it would have to be a case by case situation. i would like to have staff and supervisors stand firm on surface parking lots. support the direction you are going there. i did have a question on a long- term parking rates. could you explain that more? long-term parking rates isn't in terms -- the addition to what? >> it

it will probably be an online survey that should be fairly easy. the more people that fill it out, the better the data we will have we think it will likely be in the billions. the more you that it involved and give the data that is asked of you, the more accurate it will be. i will leave it there. the other thing i was hoping to do today, just a power play instead of the actual web site. many remember when, about one year ago, we had some violence going on. the mayor shook a finger in city hall and talk about fixing the night life and policing yourself. it was passed by david shu, regarding promoters. it started a few years ago ended did not go anywhere. basically it wound up being a listing of promoters. so, we are pretty close to launching this website. it will look like that. not bad. it is super simple and it is one of those things that you sign up for this free. it does not create a good promoter list or a bad promoter list. it's simply is a list. san francisco has never had a listing or registry at all about who is in that business of promoti

i think it should be available. >> i think out reached needs to be done to the elderly. and when we educates children and young people, they tend to bring these programs home. we have elderly who are using plastic bags to line their garbage back at home, so there might be some particular resistance to because of the way they are using them that we are not aware, but i think we need to definitely educates the elderly. >> do we want to see ongoing education in our buses? >> absolutely. . >> is there any consideration of a short race. -- short grace period where they would be informed this is going to happen? i have to see this day covering were all of a sudden these people are going to be prepared, even with education. gooall of a sudden there are gog to be all of these people who do not have a bag. >> i think the department of environment said the approach has been education, so they are going to educate and help them transition as opposed to penalize them. >> that kind of is the same thing. >> to that question should be asked for verification. are there any other particu

it be? >> welcome you don't have to guess. 25 states are doing the wide net and we should be finding out from them how they are doing. we ought to compare the two types of approaches. we are all about this very confusing question it seems attractive to cast a wide net. we know that there is a higher degree of reliability from the reports that come from professionals involved in the work. so there is something attractive about both approaches. we are all wondering what is the right approach. clearly all of us ought to feel the duty to protect our kids. we all ought to be informed about how to respond. it's quite unclear to me whether the approach is the professionals should report or every person should have this legal duty with some penalty. and i think it is a mistake to jump in to try to answer that without asking of the data which is the right approach which is working today. >> let me just say to that, i was specifically talking about where we focus the educational component because i th

>> i would be happy to. madame chair, i did not become -- this information was not made available to me. prior to my testimony last thursday in the house. i received this information this past saturday from an e-mail and a phone call from our lawyers and they informed me of this. what they found out in their investigations but did not share with me prior to thursday's testimony. schenectady you have the names of the specific people involved in terms of -- people were referring to things they heard, but do you have the specific names you've given? of those who were on the call and were involved in the conversation? >> one of our folks from cme who is the one the reported this back to us was on a call and you have to forgive me i don't know her name. >> i just want to make sure that you are referring to the specific names of people. >> yes. >> in the discussions. >> there's a specific name, yes, ma'am. >> in march of this year you testified before the committee pushing back on the effort to require more of exc

>> considered to be retained by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted on by a single vote of commission. a, for the new a ministry of building. and authorize the hon general manager to execute and increase the agreement not to exceed 14,001,400 --- the water systemt funded program to lowest qualified bidder. award water enterprise fund contract for recovery project. [reading items] this was the item that miss lamonte discussed. [continues reading] if you could entertain a commotion for -- a motion for items 9a through e. >> so moved. >> the questions on item d are still important, but we will pursue the answers to them anyway. president moran: any other public comment? all those in favor? the motion passes. let's see. for regular business, mr. cheng is not here. so let's pass on that item. we also, it's not 1:30 so we can't go to item 11. >> we can start item 12 if you like. president moran: ok. there's nothing before that that leads into that. why don't we do that. you're our next. >> ok. good afternoon. i'm mike campbell from clean powersf. i have five slid

be good human beings. >> amen for me. you're right, the stuff that is glorified is a necessary step you want to teach in your home. and again, you hit it again. i don't understand it, but you certainly said you understand because that's what sells and that what seems to be driving everything. i'd like to have one more question -- go ahead. >> again, thank you for sharing your personal experiences with us, very valuable for us in the task we have before us. looking back on your own come if we go, maybe to all of you just briefly, on the things you have experienced, and we often learned more from the things we could've done differently, what is your take away on that, what would you done differently than you did maybe? than in the context of the report we're looking to prepare based on your own experiences, what would you like to see included in that report that might have implications on a national basis? >> i guess i'll start. i would like to see in your report more support for places like baltimore child abuse center, be

so be aware. you can see the brake lights it's been stop and go for the past half-hour it will continue until 8:00. in the south bay, 280. traffic is looking great. but up in san francisco 101 northbound right where it switches to 80 before the bridge. this just sort of came on our screen here. this is causing some back up as you make your way to the bridge. as we pull out, you can see just how this has caused congestion as you try to make your way downtown or if you are trying to get to the bridge. so be aware of that. >>> let's go to steve. >> thank you, tara. we have high clouds. that will probably be the end result. temperatures, 30, 40s. the pattern's changed a little bit. the pacific northwest will be get some rain. but a set of lows diving into same. it will give us some clouds and that's about it. but it's still a dry forecast. so high clouds, warmer lows but mild afternoons under partly sunny, partly cloudy skies. you can see some the of those clouds driferpting over us. there has been ra

primarily going to be training. going to be on a rotational basis. are going to see every six months a new group of marines come through. won't be unlike the unit deployment program currently in japan. that program has been ongoing for years. >>> what are these guys, what should they expect when they get to darwin? it is a little bit of a tough town in some respects. >> it is a reputation of being a tough town. kind of got that small city feel, very isolated from some of the other big population centers in australia. northern territories you are already kind of getting a sense for some of the recreational activities. not that far from the out back, there will be certainly a concern among commanders about what marines are doing in their free time. >> it is the kind of town that has a list of folks to be wary of that are such heavy drinkers there are warnings put out about them, i understand? >> yes. there is significant concerns about social problems in darwin, i think again you know, it is very isolated. there is unemployment issues there. >> right.

yes, he will be there and i'll be hosting with gary. we will have a lot of guests and it will be a lot of fun. and looking at the golden gate bridge. we have been talking about all the traffic it looks pretty good. traffic is moving well and the san mateo bridge has plenty of traffic what it is slowing. stay with us, more news coming up after the break. >>kimberlee: rise in august announced plans that if dropping its $2 convenience fee. the company said it will not institute the fee announced earlier this week. >>kimberlee: verizon went to steer people toward electronic payments. as soon as the sea was announced, customers revolted. a petition gathered one to thousand petitions in less than one day. this woman earlier this year started a successful campaign making bank of america dropped their fees. we will be back after this. [ male announcer ] it's a rule of nature. you don't decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. the vegetables do. at green giant, we pick vegetables only when they're perfect. then freeze them fast so th

in a way, it is one to be interesting. -- going to be interesting. i would take issue that there is something wrong with our process. there are five attached to one permit. that is not unusual. it is not usually cumbersome. it is because we have all of these other things to nine associated with these other locations, it the other hearings, it made it cumbersome, but you are not barred for continuing this and having your day in court. it is not this board that a short circuit in europe due process by any means. -- that is short circuit in -- circuiting your due process by any means. president goh: did he do something? >> perhaps we should let him. but with the tenants we are representing, we accept the settlement -- >> with the tenants we are representing, we accept the settlement, and we will withdraw our people. director: and that is with respect to the appeal of 11-117. i think that the permit holder was looking for the board to actinide and uphold the permit on condition that those two locations are stricken. is that correct? >> if it is possible

to be lifted. it would be a victory for pro choice advocates that says to beeffective it has to be taken within 72 hours of having sex. but opponents say kids shouldn't be allowed to have it without parental consent. >> it is a hormone that they will be taking into their bodies, and it does have complications that can potentially have complication and side effects. and they need to be aware of that. >> reporter: today is the deadline for the fda to announce the decision. it's expected the agency will meet the deadline a spokesperson declined further comment. linda so, abc2 news. >>> a fda advisory panel will discuss health problems as a result of birth control oral contraceptives like yasmin and blood clots. state tuned to abc2 news at five for an update at what happened. >>> the result of a study regarding breast cancer will be released at a conference in san antonio texas casting doubt on aradiation treatment that is shorter that reaches part of the breast. medicare records show that women who ha

to presume to be able to dictate to the syrian government what it should be doing with its people any more than we would expect the syrian government or any other league of states under whatever suppose that international authorities coming in to for example washington and presuming to tell the obama administration how they should be dealing with the occupy protests i mean that would not be something that that's just a nonstarter in any sort of international discussion but for some reason on the in the syrian situation it seems to be perfectly viable idea but of course this is just all political theater that's being played out for the benefit of the public that is obviously unwilling to go along with military intervention unless there is the decree of some sort of body that's seen to or at least we're told has some sort of moral authority to pronounce on the subject that russia is praising the arab league observers mission hoping that it cayley's to ease a situation or evolve some of the conflict so they'll be no need for un resolution what's your view on that how efficient do you thi

what would be allowable. we did a google map searched to see what would be keeping within the neighborhood. i call this exhibit f, and just to give you a perspective of location of our house and how far out people have built on the block. in keeping with budding neighbors, our neighbors to the south, they have a three-story addition that is set back 4 feet and extends further into their and extends further into their ya

there will be some construction items. to talk briefly about what will ultimately happen, which is venue leases, these are short- term leases starting in 2012. really starting on a schedule that i'm showing on this slide, mostly 2012, some a little bit later, depending on the site. the mechanism for the event authority to control these properties and do construction on the progress properties where construction is needed, and we will be talking about that. i will talk about that briefly in this discussion, and that will talk about that in the scope for work approval following me. these are the then new sites. a number of water venues, if you will, along the northern and central waterfront, and then and number of properties will be used for the team industrial bases. the dda, which is the main subject of the transaction approvals we are bringing today, has four primary purposes. the overall document that governs the obligations of the authority to improve core property. it governs the construction process, including the rev

the air would be polluted. everybody would probably be fatter and it just -- it wouldn't be -- it's part of what has enabled amsterdam to be greet is the way they've done their transportation. and when you think about san francisco, a tiny little city, seven by seven. we're going to get another 100,000 people in the next 30 years, it's not going to work if they all bring their cars. what my charge is figuring out how to make it safe, attractive, and inviting for people to get around on a bicycle and make sure they're bicycling safely and that people who are around them, such as pedestrians and others are safe with more people on bikes. this is the focus of the workshop. it's going to be on three critical areas for our city. polk street, dewiggle and central market. our expectations are very high. we're very grateful to the nether land consulate and the folks who have come here, some of who you'll hear from this morning for bringing their time and expertise and lover and passion for cycling to us here in san fra

people continued to be in there more than hundred thousand be both been chronically. in the. groups walking in the back the children see the children to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country. in the sea as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries. and. unpunished. wealthy british style. that's not on the right time. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on or. is he. trying. to leave. it at that time for the the main stories we're covering today herit out a piece draft under fire bosco holds back a western push to amend its un roadmap on solving the syrian crisis which calls on all sides of the conflict and they don't know mr washington why. to blame the bloodshed on damascus while ignoring the armed opposition. oil town anger kills ten in kazakhstan the army moves in striking workers disrupt independence day celebrations still troops fired night grounds and.

if they can be broken or changed, then all of a sudden, it will not be economic.t is called grade. -- greed. president chiu: our next speaker, ed. >> thank you. i think it is important that this golden gate swim club was seen as necessary 50 years ago because there was a great deal of high-density housing being built on the site. that need has not changed. the commitment to that open space, it and i do not want to use the word open space without saying active recreational space, has been challenged. this is the fourth time. three previous times, prospective developments have come forward and wanted to remove the recreation area. in june of that time, the mayors and the board of the redevelopment agency and the executive directors, like me, opposed it, because that commitment was made, and it seemed that it was working. and it has worked incredibly. since 1968, this facility has served the golden gate residence, has provided recreational opportunity to downtown workers, and most important, for families with children. thousands of children have learned to swim there

i am sincere and the fact that we love being there. i love being in san francisco. everything we just talked about, part of the reasons why we are there. i like because of where we are in the neighborhood. it is something that cannot be overlooked. commissioner dooley: just about the timeline of how this rolled out, what is the notification process over the three years? >> three months after the zoning took place january 19th of 2009, the planning department sent out a letter for all property owners. it was about 7000, they told me. it has been rezoned, uses without permits. there is a legitimization program. i saw that, and number of clients and said, what is this. unfortunately, it was drafted by attorneys. it is sort of an occupational hazard. a lot of people really didn't make sense of it. it also went to property managers whose addresses a were -- i went to the director of planning about six months ago. i suggested that other notification be sent out to those people. if it wasn't something to me that was really clear. i heard from a lot of people that a lot of

it would be better to let people willing to sell to be matched up with people who are willing. chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. secretary boomer: [reading names] >> i am a native san franciscan and proud to be a native san franciscan. i started driving a taxi cab, and that enabled me to put myself through college and get a college degree. that made the members of my family very happy and proud. in the 1970's, i took my life savings and borrowed an additional $20,000 to purchase a medallion and a bead of taxi from the bank regular cab company of san francisco. now, i am 63 years of age. on have a daughter that is approaching college age, and the fact that i am a pre k medallion older, i am too to sell it, too old to sell my medallion. i am a prek, not a post k, and i am another class of medallion holder, and it is that the city is just waiting for me to die, and i have nothing to show to my family for my hard work? when i purchased my medallion in 1978, i looked at it as an investment for some time in the future getting my investment back, a return on my investment. than

agreed international to be. negotiated and adopted the international standard of aition the food and agricultural organization the weald health organizations are the. system the financial stability of all now for banking and an insurance these are the places where these international standards are adopted what we do in the world trade organization is make sure all that when countries use what we call non if barriers to trade and regulatory requirements standards and norms very few kaixian that they do that in a way that these compatible with their obligations in that you know you'll have the right as a member of the riggio to protect the health of your consumers and. any mudda clones if the trade relationship you have is a threat for hadith and emotional. humans or pounds which simply check that this is done in a way that is not a sort of a twisted way of protecting domestic industries or as long as you apply the same standard. to your domestic operator and to your foreign operator there is a sort of presumption

on a 1 to 9 scale, where to put yourself, one being conservative and 9 being liberal. the obama voters who did not show what or switch to republicans in 2010 were right there in the middle. for the switchers and particular, they were just to the right of center. but the real interesting thing is where they put the other party. we ask them, where the you think republicans fall on the line? they put republicans essentially at a center-right and they put democrats pretty significantly to the left. that meant that when you look at the distance between themselves and those parties, they saw double the distance between themselves and where they put democrats than they did between where they put themselves and where they put republicans. that was the big danger. because if you go into an election year with people in the middle thinking that they are double the distance away from democrats than republicans, then that is a problem for democrats. host: mark stone says president obama cannot run as a moderate in the election. he has a record -- kansas, howh in does it play out fo

access it is being -- access is being provided. between that clause which we control and the fact the museum building is built to continue to allow that access, we feel like we have a comfortable situation. the museum is talking to the w now and by the time the clauses which is -- we have to be satisfied as a city that the access was a program. even though you approve the vacation by your action, it does not go into effect until lancelot closes. -- land swap closes. the vacation would not occur. we are protected their and we would recommend moving forward. supervisor mar: i wanted to ask, the letter from the w hotel is saying the vacation of hunt street will be to the detriment of the killer and pedestrian circulation. if you could go over that again, just why this is an improvement for their access. >> i am not sure if i am the appropriate person to go into the details. i do not know if john, do you have the diagram? i'm going to need someone with the diagram. supervisor mar: that would be helpful to what is through -- what is thr

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you know, being filmed for c-span, so it would be great to be allowed to your your your voice.here is one here. >> everybody please with a microphone. >> thank you very much, both of you. if you are both coke presidents of the united states would you both do to bring unemployment to four and a half percent? thank you. >> welcome all right. a good hypothetical. can't happen because i wasn't born in this country, but i do think that a starts is what the president is proposing in the jobs and recovery act which was to tie tax policy to job creation in the united states and to invest in key infrastructure that businesses believe is important to. i also think that we do have to have a national economic development strategy. i would like to see it jobs rest of the top in the same way that we have an education raise the top. if you put a small amount of money up there for governors to compete on jobs, do an assessment of the states and have a strategy to develop certain sectors that are in a to them, that education race to the top, $4 billion. it cost every single state 46 out of 50 s

that may be deemed by some to be something of conflict. the positions may disagree, but both statutes, if there are shortfalls, neither category commodity or security, a preference and have a mechanism for a trustee to seek to recover for an estate assets which should have been in segregated funds. >> mr. duffy. >> i am not a trustee or regular here, but i believe that there is insurance on the broker-dealer side. there is what we call segregated funds. i do believe that clients should be first in line in front of all other participants. >> thank you. thank you very much. senator roberts. >> thank you, madame chairwoman. mr. duffy, we have spent a lot of time here today. we probably should have had you on first. you have sort of tossed a bomb here right in the middle of who we are trying to find out who is responsible, who has the responsibility and authority. so senior mf global employee told one of your orders, why not use apply that to the committee if he might. i think you were going to turn to one of your attorneys. we will leave it a

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an important step but it's going to be just one of many more that we need to follow and be sure that many more lives. and to talk more about that of elements in syria was going earlier by the dr paul craig roberts a columnist and former reagan administration official letter points out this week of american involvement in training fighters in the border of turkey i asked paul if it's possible the u.s. is helping plot a civil war in the country and take a listen. i would think that the united states is involved stirring up decision and in armenia it's a way to justify intervention on humanitarian terms they use the cover of the arab spring. as they do in libya. so. these are not. spontaneous protest and certainly in a authoritarian state like there syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to readily supply themselves with arms with military weapons and this is not any longer just protests it is an armed. rebellion i mean it makes no sense it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves up opportunity for the country to be destroyed when i say like libya or iraq or or afghanist

safe and that we'll be safe overall as a nation. and when it comes to whistleblowing i mean how easy is it for someone to blow the whistle anonymously on the government these days i mean if somebody does know about wrongdoing how can they disclose that information and at the same time protect themselves or i mean is there even an outlet to do that or is wiki leaks and the media media are they the only alternatives. well unfortunately our media does not do a good job i think one of the reasons why bradley manning did not go say to the new york times or the washington post was that these mainstream media outlets had done such an incredibly shoddy job in the past ten years especially during the buildup to the iraq war when their coverage was uncritical and really nothing more than stenography of what the bush cheney administration was publicly saying so it would be nice if we had an active vigorous media as paul craig roberts was just say but i can't say that we really have it right no. we didn't alternative for a while it may well go

it will be -- hannity, i don't know which it will be.ngress has been a do-nothing congress on the issues that affect american people. the middle class is getting clobbered, and you're talking about dust. it reminds me of this business we went through, this manufactured stuff about raising the debt limit and it was such an awful thing so we created this committee that was going to cut $1.2 trillion. that was magician talk. you don't want to talk about raising the debt limit. you want to talk about this committee that did nothing because the six members of the republican side who came to that committee said from the very start they would not raise taxes. they would not look at revenue. mr. polis: an additional 30 seconds. mr. mcdermott: and in my view, if you're serious, you sit down and talk about everything. the last three weeks of that committee they never even met. that was dust in people's eyes. get them to talk about a commission. we had all this talk about commission, are they going to do this, are they going to do that, what's goin

can it be done? yes, will it be done? it's very doubtful. think most people would look at that and say it's kind of a kamikaze raid, if they go and do it, they're going to make a lot of people mad who already signed up with one of these candidates and if they don't do it, they're going to look like the spoiler and if they got in late and obama wins, they'll be blamed for it and i don't think any republican wants to be the one around whom that's placed for the rest of his life. >> governor huckabee, we want to thank you so much for coming in on this christmas and talking to us. thank you, sir, for your analysis. nobody knows iowa politics better than you and we want to note you have now rated a pro life movie called "the gift of life." merry christmas to you and janet and all the huckabees. >> thank you. merry christmas, chris. >> up next, religion and politics. sit down with the archbishop of washington as we continue. [ male announcer ] the more you lose, the more you lose, because for every two pounds you lose through diet and exercise, al

some treatment for her being here. some. of my arm today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that has been an ending because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least fifty thousand people who have been forced to drink contaminated water for the last fifteen sixteen years when you see that the next generation is affected and then you do not know when it stop. to get what in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless too it's like putting your child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and to be looked after but we are poor people and we don't have money and that's why no one looks after us even if your child is dying. we'll spend five thousand rupees since we have come here i'm not sad about that i will earn it again but as for my daughter there is no improvement and we don't know what to do. whatever is within my powe