. >> and bill bradley on how to fix a broken washington and what we can all do better.'m candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> not the best of weeks for the romney campaign. it was under fire for sources as not ready for prime time when a senior adviser said that obama care is fine for when buying insurance is not a penalty and a tax. a big oops in the republican world world because the republicans have used the supreme court decision to say it is a tax. reset. >> the supreme court said it is a tax, right. it is a tax. >> too late for the conservative "wall street journal" who blistered the romney campaign for looking confused and politically dumb. mr. romney promised republicans he was the best man to make the case against president obama who they desperately want to defeat. and so far, mr. romney is letting them down. joining me is senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, and few people in washington with a larger stake in seeing that mitt romney does well, than you do, because you want to go from the minority leader in the senate to majority, and how d

from toyota. >>> former new jersey senator bill bradley is the author of a new book "we can all do betteri will a agree with on general principle. he talks about politics and how the government runs or doesn't run e depending on your point of view. i asked him about his inspiration for writing this book. >> well, last summer when tb debt limit debacle took place and when we were still in two wars and when the middle income people were still facing stagnant incomes. i, as a citizen, said what can i do? so i decided to write a book and my hope and my desire was to give people hope that we have faced difficult problems in the past, and we have overcome them. i wanted to remind them that the political institutions have the capacity to deal with the situation and also to remind them of something that we frequently forget, and that is that there is a good innocence the american peop -- good innocenness in the ame people, and there is a selflessness of which american policy can be built. >> and on the show, we have had a number of senators and congressmen who come on and what they speak to is a

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>> bill bradley presents his thoughts on several economic and political issues facing the u.s. this is about an hour. [applause] >> well, how is everybody tonight? pretty good? thank you for the very generous and kind introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. this is my seventh book. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> is that better? this is my seventh book. i've had people introduce me at book signings before. that was a terrific one. thank you for that introduction. people get confused when they introduce and i remember this one person has died, we are so glad senator bradley is here tonight. he's going to speak on his new book, wonderful book. i can guarantee you if you put it down, gil never pick it up. [laughter] i was on the energy and natural resources committee and the chairman was the guy from louisiana name ben johnson. secretary henry kissinger was on the geopolitics for boyle and the chairman of the committee said were so glad you're here, dr. kissinger. i know to make important contributions for this committees were. i want to say to the committee members tha

former democratic senator bill bradley saying more people more than just the wealthy should be payingtaxes. take a listen. >> if we are going to succeed we have to face our problems squarely. the deficit is one problem and that requires taxes on a lot of people, not just the wealthy. entitlealments, defense. the real issue is we need more people working in america and higher income americans. >> how would the white house be responding to that and mitt romney? >> mitt romney is imposing ag further 20% reduction. president obama wants to let the bush tax cuts on the wealthiest alone expire. what bill bradley says reflects a point of view which has a substantial constituency which says the long term is a problem not closed solely by raising taxes on those 250 and above even if coupled with significant reductions. there are others in the democratic party who says at some point all of the bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire. we should go back to the tax cuts of the 1990s where we had a good economy. it is something the president has indicated publicly and privately that he will fight

what bill bradley says reflects a point of view which has a substantial constituency which says the long a problem not closed solely by raising taxes on those 250 and above even if coupled with significant reductions. there are others in the democratic party who says at some point all of the bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire. we should go back to the tax cuts of the 1990s where we had a good economy. it is something the president has indicated publicly and privately that he will fight until the end. if he is reelected and there is a broader fiscal deal he will continue to draw a line at 250 and above. as you know there are democrats who say the taxes should only be raised on people on a million and above. it will be interesting to see how to narrow it. >> and the u.s. supreme court's decision upholding the health care act still resonating. romney spending a big part of the week in a tangle over whether the health care plan includes a mandate and if it is a tax and there are no differences between what he did in massachusetts and what the president has done on a federal level. is

senator bill bradley. so i said to my daughter, she said stick around, it's going to be on tv and she had her little friend that was with her that said all he's going to do is talk about loopholes. [laughter] so, you need that kind of single mindedness. but it would never happen without ronald reagan as president committed to it and i once had a meeting at the white house when of the two times i met ronald reagan sitting around the table with wild tax reform or what we wanted to say so i said mr. president i know you're interested in tax reform because when you were an actor the marginal ax rate was 90 per cent. and i said i'm interested in tax reform because in basketball my contract made me a appreciable asset. so the point is that would be the thing that i would point to legislatively and in terms of a big legislator. if i talk about what warms my soul, i would say a little program that i created in 1992 with congressman jim leach another republican who were in high school between their junior and senio

. >> and bill bradley on how to fix a broken washington and what we can all do better.e of the union." >>> not the best of weeks for the romney campaign. it was under fire for sources as not ready for prime time when a senior adviser said that obama care is fine for when buying insurance is not a penalty and a tax. a big oops in the republican world world because the republicans have used the supreme court decision to say it is a tax. reset. >> the

bill bradley dot com. coming up author robert murray examines how u.s. presidents are ranked in the eyes of historians and the populace. the author places the presidents and groups to better understand the places in history from leaders a destiny to a split decision presidents who had a better first and that second and other -- other failures. this is about our. [applause] >> thank you. i have to say that it is always a great pleasure to be here at politics and prose. have done this on more than one occasion. i consider this place to be a literary cathedral in washington, so it is a pleasure to be here. i will say that i am very pleased to see so many people here, although it gave me just a moment of nervousness because it looks like dow was not trying to be able to find a parking place. i get kind of nervous weather would be here on time. it is an honor to be here. i feel a little devalued to learn that in a three and in 65 the year there are four ordered 75 such events and politics and prose. my book really began with a phone call in early 2010 from an

bills. tahman bradley, abc news. >>> the san jose city council will decide whether to put a half cent increase on the ballot santa clara county officials will consider an eight cent -- an eighth of a cent hike. if voters were to approve san jose sales tax rate will judgment top 9.225% one of the highest in the country. >>> this morning san francisco city attorney will remind consumers they might be eligible for a refund if they got a payday loan. lawsuit in 2007 against payday lenders who targets borrowers through high interest rates. consumers have until october tpoeurz, to make that claim. >>> did you see fingers of fog on the way in? >> i wasn't counting so i don't know how many fingers. >> how many fingers did you count mr. nicco? >> it was overcast, so it was one big hand. kind of a palm. >> expert has spoken. >>> good morning. here's a look at live doppler, haven't heard of reports of drizzle and don't see any. we have a stronger sea breeze this morning, winds out of west southwest 5 to 10 miles per hour up to 30 in fairfield clouds are more widespread and will take longer to move back t

. >> former democratic senator bill bradley on fixing a broken washington and what we can all do bettercrowley and this is "state of the union." >>> not the best of weeks for the romney campaign. it was already under fire from friendly sources as not ready for primetime when a senior adviser said that obama care is fine for when buying insurance is a penalty, not a tax. a big oops in the political world because the republicans have used the supreme court decision to say it is a tax. reset. >> the supreme court said it is a tax, didn't they. so it's a tax, of course. >> too late for the conservative "wall street journal" who blistered the romney campaign for looking confused and politically dumb. mr. romney, it read, promised

among its members, former fed chairman paul volcker, former senators bill bradley and alan simpson, john reed, once the chairman of citigroup, and brooksley born, the former cftc chairman who back in the 1990s accurately predicted an economic meltdown. its mission, to prevent the banking industry from scuttling the reforms created by the dodd-frank act, and, hopefully, prevent another crash. she has a book coming out in late september about the need for reform called "taking the bull by the horns." she's also written two books for children about money and entrepreneurship. "rock, brock and the savings shock" and "isabel's car wash." sheila bair, welcome. >> thank you. happy to be here. >> if you were trying to help some of those young people that you write for, understand this business called libor, how would you begin? what's the "once upon a time?" >> i guess i would try to explain to them that when you borrow money there's something called an interest rate which is your cost of borrowing money and there are different mechanisms for setting what that interest rate should be. and one of

bill bradley is someone i think who often will come forward and state a case for what he wants or believes in. >> do you consider yourself a republican? have sure. i'm a republican. political conservative. i'm not party activist in the sense of someone who is involved with strategy and in the sense of someone who is advising. but i'm someone who certainly would be identified as republican. >> go back to dallas. what do your parents do for a living? >> well, they're retired now. my father was in the life insurance business, my mother was a home economics schoolteacher. >> can you remember when you first got interested in this stuff? >> well, i remember going to a -- some kind of rally for barry goldwater when i was 14 years old. back in 1964. it was a quite -- it was a quite festive occasion. i remember in a sense that goldwater was going to lose, which he did. it's interesting, i begin my book by talking about how in 1961 a group of conservatives met in a hotel in chicago, because they wanted to find a way for conservatives to capture the republican party and then the presidency. remember,

bills. tahman bradley, abc news. >> new revelations regarding the scandal at penn state. university officials confirmed a so-called death penalty was on the table and it would abandon football team crumpling for four years. the board of trustees will meet today to discuss whether the university president had the authority to agree to the punishment imposed by the ncaa. penn state received a $60 million fine and scholarship restrictions. >>7 is on your side with eric you want to shut off your television and computer when you go to bed. a new study from ohio state university suggests not unplugging and night could affect your mental health. researchers found females with chronic exposure to dim light at night showed signs of depression. the symptoms went away once the hamsters returned to a schedule of eight full hours of total darkness per day. >> when your on tv all the time, how does that affect your mental health? >> you want me to answer that? florida residents woke up to find an unusual night animals roaming their neighborhood. and nine foot-long crocodile was spotted

everybody is getting a first look at the bradley bill. they took him with the third pick in the draft last month. they are teaching him to give the nba effort on every possession. >> just in case he needed a reminder, he got one today from his new head coach. >> i am no good if i did not do that. he taught me to shoot the ball. >> he turned 19 less than two weeks ago on the night he was drafted. >> the physicality is a lot different. there are a lot of things you have to adjust to. all in all, i think there will be fine. >> and other adjustment, being a rich man. >> it really has not hit me. >>% 8 two-year contract for $8 million. >> you always hear about as going bankrupt and not taking care of their money. >> he says he will live on a budget after he treats his faults. but i have never really thought about it. -- treats his folks. >> so we go back to washington. you have strasburg, rgiii, a good time to be a fan in wash ington. >> thank you. >> coming up next, some very new significant developments ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] uavirtu

bill bradley did.ocrats, 97-3 the 1986 tax act passed in the senate. >> why? >> now they're doing what? who understands -- >> why? >> i think it's just pure politics. they're losing. they've done a bad job and they're just grasping at straws and it's rather sad. it's just what jimmy carter did as well, by the way and he lost as well. >> when jimmy carter -- when reagan took over for jimmy carter, the country had a terrible problem with inflation, as you know, and very high unemployment. and art, current president has a terrible problem with high unemployment. but rather than talk about jobs, because there aren't so many, he's talking about class warfare and stuff like that and he's going to jack up the tax rate on the most successful and the dividend rate and some other stuff, too. >> it's amazing, isn't it? i mean, jimmy carter did much the same thing. do you remember the gas wars and all that? >> sure. >> the long lines where you had to stand and they raised taxes on many, price controls. that was hi

mike was a tech giant, one of the starters of net escape, and bill campbell, ron conway, and todd bradley of h.p. we would often talk about having to make san francisco and the police department the most technologically progressive police department in the country. and if we could ever be in a position to make that happen, we would do that. then we were blessed with a mayor who wanted to see that happen and an i.t. director that could make it happen. so going forward, this initiative, however it can help the san francisco police department be connected and then hopefully eventually grow it regionally, to make it simple, this is in fact the bat computer. we can punch a single piece of information into a google search system to tell us what we need to know, whether it is a car, a person, a description like that. we can find it out like that. you would think we would have been able to do this already, but that has not been the case. we just got e-mail department-wide last year. so we have moved tremendously just in the last 13 months, and we have left the note post-it days, and we are now in

when i was first here back in 1985, we were working with people like bill bradley from new jersey and david boren from oklahoma, and joe biden, now the vice president, obviously, and george mitchell the former majority leader and senator from maine, all of whom were dedicated to trying to take the big money out of politics and replace it with a public match for senate and for house races. fundamentally, the status quo won. the status quo stopped us, and the status quo is winning today. after the soft money scandals -- people have forgotten, we had our scandals in the 1990's, and so we finally passed the mccain-feingold bill in response to that. modest as it was because all it did was limit -- put a ban on soft money, the soft money, which is the big amounts of money that get poured into the political system. and that ban had the unintended consequence of pushing everybody to look for the biggest loophole that they could find and they found a loophole, and the 527 groups as we knew griew to know them and the debate was again taken away from the candidates and given to outside groups th

bills. >> oh, that is such wonderful news. all right. tahman bradley, live in washington. thanks, tahman. >>> new government figures shows the demand for guns has increased since the colorado shooting. gun control is once again an issue on the campaign trail. president obama telling supporters in new orleans last night that ak-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not criminals. he says it's time for both parties to work together to reduce violence. >>> mitt romney says changing gun control laws will not change things like the massacre. he said most of the guns holmes bought were obtained illegally, even though authorities are reporting otherwise. >>> and the presidential candidates will have the chance to debate on gun control and other things. the first debate in october will be october 3rd. october 16th will be a town hall meeting, where voters will ask the questions. the third on october 22nd will focus on foreign affairs. i think i like the second one. >> a lot of analysts say the debates could be a real turning point in the election. >>> in other news this morning, th

bradley reporting this morning. stay cool. >> love to see you power bill next month. >> yeah. >>> time for a look at weather across the country on this monday morning. we have hail, gusty winds, a chance of tornadoes in the carolinas. thunderstorms from florida to texas. pop-up showers from minneapolis, des moines, chicago. thunderstorms from albuquerque and cheyenne. >> 101 in boise. 90s from billings to salt lake city. 80s across the midwest and northeast. >>> in other news this morning, computer users could be dealing with a monday morning meltdown. this is doomsday for a virus that's been lurking for months. more than 50,000 compute ners this country and more around the world could be disrupted around the world. the fbi set up a safety net to protect computers. the backup system ran out today. >>> six u.s. service members have been killed by a road side bomb in afghanistan. an american tank ran over a bomb last night. and afghan president hamid karzai is in tokyo. a group of donees is offering $16 billion in development aid to his country. in return for the aid, afghanistan vowed to improve things and fight violen

got a great panel here for you tonight i'll be speaking about bradley manning's trial and what's coming up what discussed the fake big bill keller op ed that wiki leaks has taken responsibility for but more than that i want to highlight something that we see happening across the country now these are images that we saw play out all too often in new york last year between occupy wall street and the police. now as we told you last week a collaborative effort between four universities they conducted an eight month study which they determined that the n.y.p.d. abused and violated the rights of occupy protesters on numerous occasions also over the last nine days we've seen protests continue in anaheim in response to a police shooting death that killed manual d.s. and the scene in anaheim over the weekend look like this. police firing rubber bullets confront the class of two or five children. resident across. the street. which attacks the mother and child. then we go to burlington vermont where over this past weekend hundreds of activists demonstrated against the keystone keystone oil pipeline and again the police response look

the prices, this is killing us"what roberta bradley is refering to...is bge's announcement, that the company plans on raising each residential electric bill by about 11 dollars each month: month:"and before bge raises the rate for people here on &ppittman place, and all other bge customers, it will first be revieweddby the public service commission, the state agency that regulates all utilities in maryland"bge says this is only the 2nd rate increase of its kind in the past 20 years.and says the money will go to much needed upkeep for poles, lines and cab: cables:"there is no good time...we have to reinvest"but on a street where each dollar is earned... earned... folks here say they rather put their dollars somewhere other b-g-e." they don't even do their job"janice park, fox45 news at ten. if the public service commission gives its stamp of approval, the rate hike will go into effect in february. its been a bloody 24-hours on the streets of baltimore.... officers have responded to four separate crime scenes...where at least two people have died... died... this was the scene in east baltimore late friday night where, poliie say, someone re

the bill provides for ground equipments such as the abe -- abram's tank, bradley and humvee. it includes the guard and reserve and helps maintain a stable industrial base. the bill includes $250 million for the rapid innovation fund that will continue the committee's evers started in 2011 -- efforts started in 2011 to promote technologies among small businesses. and the bill includes funding above the request for joint u.s.-israeli missile defense technologies, including $680 million for iron dome. the bill funds operations in afghanistan, consistent with the president's plan to wind down our presence as agreed to in the lisbon accord of 2010 and this year's nato summit in chicago. the bill also includes important restrictions on d.o.d. activities. the bill prohibits permanent u.s. bases in iraq or afghanistan and prohibits u.s. control over iraqi oil resources. the bill prohibits the torture of detainees. the bill prohibits training foreign military forces if these forces are known to commit gross violations of human rights. and the bill limits reimbursements to pakistan and

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