because you guys are going to give him cart blanche and he has been abusing the rules because he has had entertainment. what about the property owners, what about their rights i really urge you to seriously look at this situation. because, if it gets out of hand, then what? what is our recourse? yes, we can keep calling engle side and have calls for service out there, but then what? there are other issues that the police need to be taken care of in the district and tending to one bar is not part of it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and excuse me, i just, a point of information, i was just wondering, and could you tell me again, what neighborhood organization that you have represent? >> the outer mission merchant merchants and association, all the way from the city border to 280. >> he could also discuss or meet with the... >> okay, great. >> okay. >> any other public comment on this? thank you. >> good evening, my name is julana huvaten and i own the 6 unit building on the corner and i did send some pictures to miss black stone and one of the pictures that you saw, earlier wa

she's first and foremost a theater actor, winning wild praise for her hedda gabler and blanche dubois she can't take a joke, or a fun role in blockbusters like indiana jones. it seems she can do it all, playing americans, russians, germans, skinheads, albinos, and men! "vanity fair" called her "a character actress in a leading woman's body." so, you've played the queen of england, you've played an elf, you played an italian immigrant... >> cate blanchett: albino. >> stahl: albino. >> blanchett: and that's just before breakfast this morning. ( laughs ) i have pink eyes. like a putano, huh? like the devil, eh? >> stahl: the range is extraordinary. >> blanchett: i guess i've got one of those faces that's not particularly beautiful, not too ugly, you know. i can look... >> stahl: come on. >> blanchett: ...a bit masculine, i can look a bit feminine, depending on how you're lit, how you're shot. i don't mind not looking conventionally, you know, attractive, if that's what the part requires. >> stahl: so she can be gorgeous and regal as the elf queen in "lord of the rings"; not so much when

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blanche, tell us about social reformers, socialist you wrote about. >> thank you so much.[applause] i really just want to thank you all for being here and i want to thank the editors and i want to thank frances goldin who brought this into life as she does so much for all of us. and i just want to say, working on eleanor roosevelt right now who is one of our great socialist. and i started hesitated to say that for a little while until i found the column she wrote on august 10, 1944, just as fdr is going to run for the fourth term in which he is called on the american and the new deal is called un-american and everything they stand for is viciously attacked by that little republican, mr. dooley and his campaign manager, john foster dulles. [booing] so here we are in the 21st century with its great heritage, and this great heritage, you know, from crystal eastman, world war i socialist and pacifist who founded a place called the women's international league for peace and freedom. so there's ccr and the aclu and there's the funds for open information and accountability and th

next we will be hearing from blanche about her article didn't we respect the quality. the university distinguished professor of history in women's studies and a graduate center. her books include crystal eastman, the declassified eisenhower and eleanor roosevelt . she has served as the american historical association vice-president for research. she co-founded the peace history society and the fund for open information and accountability and is a life member. tell us a little about the social and activists he wrote about. >> thank you so much. and they're really just want to thank you all for being here. i want to thank the editors. i want to think francis and brought this and to life as she does so much for all of us to be done just want to sing, working on, no rules about right now who is one of our great socialists. i until i found a column that she wrote on august 10th 1944 just as fdr is going to run for his fourth term in which he is called on american. the new deal is called an american. and everything they stand for is viciously attacked by a bad little republi

they were just about ready to carte blanche sign t. so, with all that being said, that's really wonderful ~. i now have here in my possession basically the signatures that we gathered through community housing partnership. [speaker not understood] because we kind of got a double count. we have 1145 that we officially entered in the computer and another 500 online, that brought it to 1700. we roughly estimate we're over, there are still more. so, i want to say these 1700 people represented here, these are the folks who [speaker not understood] into work and everything. they kind of trump you supervisors. you guys only have 11 or something. so, i'm hoping a little bit of undue peer pressure from san francisco makes a difference. obviously you see the light, you know what's going on. so, i don't need to do that again. just want to thank everyone in san francisco and thank you. (applause) >> thank you, mr. gandy. and if there's no further public comment, seeing none, i'll ask the chair to close. >> we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> th

diane keaton accepted his award at the goalen globes last month and indicate blan scate blanche up forylan farrow goes on to write, others are still scared, vulnerable and struggling to tell the truth. why bring the allegations up again now? matthew bellamy is with "the hollywood reporter." >> while dylan farrow specifically called out cate blanchette and other members of the cast in the op-ed, it's probably not good for woody allen and cate blanchett when it comes to the oscars. >> blanchett was quoted as calling it a painful situation for the allen family adding hoping they find peace. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> when we return, tebow time. we'll show you some of the best super bowl commercials including one former broncos quarterback tim tebow. one former broncos quarterback tim tebow. [ male announcer ] bob's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. uncovered after arresting t child's

. >> but any suggestion seeger himself had become big made him blanche.e spurned commercialism though he had been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. all of this after a long ban on commercial radio and television. in 1955, seeger found himself on the house on american activities schmidt refusing to answer questions with about his membership of the communist party and to name names of others who were. charged with contempt of congress, seeger was sentence today a year in prison. that was later overturned. >>> in 2009, generations of folk stars showed up to salute him at a 9th birthday concert at madison square garden. bruce springsteen called him a living archive, a testament of the power of song and culture to nudge history along. in ok occupy wall streeters camped on the in the lower manhattan. today, president obama issued a statement on the passing of seeger saying pete seeger believed 2k50e7ly in the power of song and in the power of community to stand up for what's right, speak out against what's wrong and to move this country closer to th

this is layered with blanched almonds, powdered sugar and cinnamon.s wrapped in a crepe-like dough. after baking to a golden crispiness, the final touch is a dusting of even more cinnamon and sugar. it's got a sweet savory thing going on, and it's quite tasty. >> if you get nervous when you go in a room and you touch the light switch, and the lights don't come on, you shouldn't be living in this country. >> what was that first moment when you said i could live here? >> i'm still quite unsure about that. i came here first in 1958. when it was quite different. everyone wore native dress, but islam still the throbbing motor of life here. i have a very tender feelings from morocco and the friendliness and the courtesy of the people and its children. it's bonjour. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i always feel welcomed here. i never consider it's mine. it's theirs and they've allowed me to feel here in a nice way. i feel recognition. they know who i am. they know who i am. >> there is a side by side aspect to life here that's very unusual. >> very unusual

. >> you blanch it in the water or eat as a suchy. the skip peels out. it's all edible. you don't waste nothing. >> washington state exports 90% of gooey duck. as china's prosperity climbed, so have the tribes. then, in december, a shattering setback. chinese officials found a gooey duck shipment contaminated with arsenic and mapped all exports. the squamish tribe were forced to shut operations. divers are today collecting samples for a weekly test. >> i'm concerned about pollutants going into the sounds. i live here, go into the water, eat and fish. >> this woman has been diving for 13 years, one of only two women divers. >> the income is huge for the tribe, which is a big part of the budget. that's why the ban worries my tribe. we use it for the tribe's elders checks. 40% goes to the divers and 60% goes to the budget to give the elders a monthly check. we are up in the air wondering what will happen now. >> behind me is the facility where the demand for gooey duck was met. the plan was to destroy the building and replace it. the ban came and those plans are on hold. >>

is given carte blanche. >> and there are reasons to believe that in terms of how the president sees our involvement in afghanistan, iraq. >> not only that -- >> syria, something that they are refusing -- >> the issue of an israeli attack on iran is now off the table. there is the interim agreement and there's very little they can do beyond raising the flag and raising the flag to be aware of the arminians, their intentions, their behavior. iranians.e of the the things that are happening there, the islamic fundamentalists going there to learn and fight as well as to .ake back >> in a complicated middle east environment, there is a new thread which are the sunni radicals part of the syrian rebels and part of the terrorist groups firing rockets and they just blasted a bus of tourists on the israeli border crossing from egypt. of iran and enemies syria. both of them are the enemies of israel. the entire landscape is far more complicated than it was three or four years ago when the regime appeared like a force of nature. it is far more difficult to navigate in that environment. >> how do you

paula jones thing gives them carte blanche to use violence into use the police to protect them but now he knows there is not federal intervention so they make up point to set up the big tent in the black community publicly. we have a right to use this land. what happens is many places along the way they say you can't but they do it anyway. when they get to camp at this point it is close to the end there is about 1,000 people participating. they come to the ball field of the elementary school in the black community even though the police arrested the advance crew. then they let them do it. then the say mississippi highway patrol that was supposed to protect them puts on right gear and launches tear-gas into the crowd not just to push people off but launching them directly into the crowd to punish. then they are hitting people kicking them dragging them into dishes -- to choose him pulling their hair. it was as terror wing violence that existed because it is dark and smoky and the photographers there is no iconic images in because it does not get the support of the federal government bec

it seems to give the governments carte blanche. their concerns here where we're seeing continued standoffs. large amounts of riot police moving around. continued back and forth with the molotov cocktails and missiles. real concern about how tonight goes. >> thank you very much, nick. we appreciate it. >> you can hear the noise going on there. it is 2:00 in the morning. >>> now to our other top story tonight, the breaking news here at home. issued by the department of homeland security. we have some overseas information. specific cities are listed on the advisory, including cairo, johannesburg, cities in the middle east, london. joining me, phil mudd, a former cia director of counter terrorism. phil, what do you make, they are listing specific cities. how concerned are you but think about those details. >> i'm no so concerned about that as i was the bomb. when i was following al dade from t -- al qaeda, we're not talking about a roadside device, we're talking about something that can get past sensors in an airport. so i'd be trying

with 18 meeting with her, amy adams, gravity and sandra bullock, judy-and what the allen, star kate blanch and my personal favorite female comedian ellen degeneres hosting for the second time, can't wait to see what she's wearing, most likely a tuxedo. the viewing public will take their own votes on what they wear on the red carpet. most people talk about the best, they talk about the winners. >> not looking at the oscars. i will be half asleep or asleep. the question is it seems with the bid award shows, they are changing how they get to the audience behind the scenes web cast. and the audience is getting away from the light brown cassel. cheryl: a lot of stuff going on on line and last minute votes for different movies. do you have any favorites? adam: no. blue jasmine, bernie madoff. cheryl: gravity would be my choice for best pictuue. might as well say it now. >> leonardo dicaprio will get something. cheryl: he was overlooked. >> he is so talented. adam: i like when they play the music and cut them off. >> are they playing music right now? >> not wolf of wall street, with gravity, the

a foreign minister called it giving the russians carte blanche for war and everyone is going to pay the consequences, including the united states. within the ukraine, i think there will be quite a bit of disappointment because, you know, russians have been told many times that people are watching the situation, that the international community is concerned about things. but the russians really aren't that worried about people being concerned. as a matter of fact, they think it enhances their reputation. >> it's important to point out, ukraine is key for natural gas and oil moving to europe. >> yes, it is key. but on the other hand, i mean, you could say that ukraine would have some sort of influence on russia because of it, but they're also dependent on russia for its gas supply and such. so russia can apply a lot of pressure to ukraine. but what it's doing now, you know, essentially siding with the minority within the ukraine, and for that reason, asserting its presence in ukraine, it's not something russia hasn't done in other places. it also invaded georgia to supposedly help, you kn

it gives carte blanche to use the violence against the marchers and protect them against that. they made a point in our march to try to stay on the community because they said we have a right to use this land. in many places along the way they said they can't invade them anyway. at this point the march is close to the end and there's about a thousand people participating in the final in one of these last administrations. and when they come to the ball field at the school in the community which is where they decide the police have arrested into first the police led them there and then who holes up that the mississippi highway patrol the same is to be used now come out and launch teargas into the crowd. they are not using it just to push people off. they moved their way in and they are hitting people with night sticks and dragging them into ditches and it is a chaotic scene. it's practically dark at that point and as it existed within the movement because it is dark and smoky, there are no iconic images of the teargas and because it doesn't get the support of the federal governme

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by all means, it is given carte blanche. >> and there is no reason to believe that in terms of how the president sees our involvement in afghanistan, iraq. >> not only that -- >> syria, worries about syria. something that they are refusing -- >> clearly the issue of an israeli attack on iran is now off the table. >> because they are talking. >> because they are talking, and because at the end of the day, israel is not a super power. therefore, as reluctant as netanyahu and the israeli government might have been with the interim agreement with iran and now in talks with the final agreement with iran, there is very little they can do beyond raising the flag of a position and beyond telling the world, beware of the israelis and their intentions, and look at how syria behaves. >> not only that, but all the things that are happening there because of the islamic fundamentalists that are going there to learn and to fight as well as to take back -- >> yeah, but in a complicated middle east environment, there is a new threat, which is the suni radical, right, who are part of the syrian rebels o

senator blanch bruce was born into slavery, fled to freedom in kansas and returned to mississippi aftermanemancipat. he actually received 11 votes for vice president. the next african-american wasn't elected to the senate for another 86 years after bruce left office. republican senator ed brook, represented a largely white constituency in massachusetts from 1967 to 1979. he was the only african-american in the senate at the time he did caucus with what was a record high 13 african-american members of the u.s. house. senator brooks' term ended in 1979. 20 years later he was awarded the congressional medal of honor. >> he broke down barriers that had stood for generations. he was a model to african-americans and to all americans of his day. >> we've given this congressional gold medal to george washington, to thomas edison, to jonas salk. you're in good company now that senator brook has joined that club. >> there was a long decade, first african-american woman democrat senator carol mose mosely-braun. taking the senate as a whole, numbers are stunning 2% of the senate is represented by a

argument, it seems to me crazy that it can be anyone's pair noids state of mind gives them carte blanchet someone if they feel threatened. it has to be standard or test that's higher than that? >> yes, and the reason you're confused the prosecution did a poor job explaining that in the zimmerman case, they did a poor job in this case as well. the law in florida as it is in most places, you have to be in reasonable fear of imminent great bodily injury or death. now, all three of those must be met. your fear must be reasonable. michael done said he was in a panic many if i were the moss cushion, i would have made a lot out of that. panic is not reasonable. imminent great bodily injury or death, something's going to happen to you right away. not because you're upset because this kid mouthed off to you. not because you're upset he played loud music when you told him not to, but imminent great bodily injury or death. he shot ten shots at that car, including a couple shots when the car was driving away. we know that the jury asked to see the videotape surveillance tape tonight before they brok

means economically, politically for western leaders and they're willing to give the iranians any cart blanch>> rose: there's reason for that, our involvement in afghanistan and iraqi and wars about syria. >> clearly the issue of an israeli attack in iran is now off the table. >> rose: because they're talking. >> because they're talking and because at the end of the day israel is not a super power. and therefore as much as reluctant as netanyahu and the israeli government might have been with interim agreements with iran and now talks with the final agreement with iran, there's very little they can do beyond raising the plague of the position and raising the flag of telling the world beware of the iranians and their intentions and their behavior and look at how syria behaved murdering all these people. >> rose: and the islamic fundamentalists going there to learn and fight as well as to take back. >> in the complicated middle eastern environment there's the new threat which is the sunnied rememberrals, the energy of firing rockets and a couple days ago they blasted a bus of tourists. the isra

now what we've seen with the laws is the removal of those kinds of presumptions of kind of carte blanche on the part of law enforcement and placing those in the hands of everyday citizens. >> phillip, stand your ground law got a lot of attention last year in the george zimmerman trial. i want to hear what your plan is next in the state of florida, right after we take this quick break. don't go anywhere. [ julie ] i've got to credit my mom. to help me become an olympian, she was pretty much okay with me turning her home into an ice rink. ♪ she'd just reach for the bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller, powerful sheet that acts like a big sheet. look, one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less, with the small but powerful picker-upper, bounty select-a-size. >>> we're back. i'm here with phillip agnew, lisa green and jelani cobb. there's been some research, and one of the things you see is in cases of white people killing black people and using justifiable homicide as a defense, self-defense, you see much higher ra

now what we've seen with the laws is the removal of those kinds of presumptions of kind of cart blanche part of law enforcement and placing those in the hands of everyday citizens. >> phillip, stand your ground law got a lot of attention last year in the george zimmerman trial. i want to hear what your plan is next in the state of florida, right after we take this quick break. don't go anywhere. [ male announcer ] legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. and this park is the inside of your body. see, the special psyllium fiber in metamucil actually gels. and that gelling helps to lower some cholesterol. metamucil. 3 amazing benefits in 1 super fiber. >>> we're back. i'm here with phillip agnew, lisa green and jelani cobb. there's been some research, and one of the things you see is in cases of white people killing black people and using justifiable homicide a

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they had a green blanch -- badge versus a blue badge. one team. in general it is good, why? because a lot of the progress being made in information technology is being done in the private sector. we have really right people. you have people competing for government contracts who can do it better. and wee enormous skills, benefit from that. sometimes they come to work for us. sometimes we give them a contract. from my experience, all i have seen is that the united states is by far the benefactor of having included all the scientific, technological information progress that exists by the contractors that we bring on board. it goes to things like information technology. linguistics to area specialties. you better be careful, obviously. you go inside an intelligence facility, a duncan doughnuts, and even though they are employees that have been cleared, everything you do has to go through a security clearance. sometimes people think you are outsourcing this to a private contractor, oh my goodness, that is not a security risk. usually it is not. but the capacity, the potential fo

it's not as if the irs or administration has carte blanche to do whatever they want.egulations,to the a listanxious to provide of things for the items they were veryhave -- anxious to get all the information he needs to make his decisions. we are working with the committees. we are working with the senate finance committee as well. we have for congressional ones going forward. to satisfy them that we have the information they need about the process. >> let me tell you why it's important. it's not important in who did what to whom or who shot the sheriff. it's important in the thing at this regulatory action and going, was this a flaw, or was this out of the ordinary? to listen to this, yes, we are changing the regulation. it's not you, but it's general. i think it's important and examining how the existing regulatory body was working before this came up, not in terms of who got caught. toh that, i look forward visiting with you, and i yield back. >> let me say couple of things to make sure we have clarity. the regulation was drafted pursuant to the report. my understa

all-star cast, matt damon, john goodman, bill murray, cate blanche blanchett.ler had stolen and threatened to destroy. why should they care about art with so many people dying? clooney's character explains it this way the night before a mission. >> because it's exactly what we're fighting for. for our culture and for our way of life. you can wipe out a generation of people, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they will still come back. but if you destroy their achievements, the history, then it's like they never existed. >> but for as great as the cast is, that little speech seems to be the movie's problem. a few reviewers like the fresno bee called it a fitting tribute to the men who put their lives on the line in the name of saving culture, but more critics agree with the l.a. times that the movie is earnest and well-intentioned but ultimately just talks a better game than it can deliver. >> next, our other battle story, a lego story takes us into an animated world made entirely of legos where we meet a cheerful, little guy named emmett, but wh

regulators have cart blanch to get tough and when you look at the bank's results on top of that it's having an impact. on the one hand they have to pull back their balance sheets and be compliant, tidying up their activities, they can't stop paying their bankers otherwise they disappear to the rivals down the road. >> they haven't started the foreign exchange investigation yet. >> remember the german regulator that's bigger than the libel scandal. perhaps more expensive as well. >> that's what it normally means. >> credit suisse raised provisions again for this. >> ain't going anywhere. thanks. we'll come back to you in a second and talk about earnings. >>> airbus announced a hike in aircraft production and posted a 21% rise in full-year operating results, see it a first on cnbc interview. >>> 1.3 about euros in 2013 dipped 1%, a slew of uk earnings, itv will pay a special dividend of 161 million pounds off to a sharp rise in 2013 revenues. the british broadcaster was boosted by a lift from money coming in nonadvertising channels. travis perkins appears to be reaping benefits from an

they beat blanche lincoln in arkansas, tom daschle in south dakota, russ feingold in wisconsin, that's it. during the same five elections, democrats defeated 11 republican senate incumbents, three verses 11. that is kind of interesting when you consider that one of those five was 2010 which was a fabulous year for republicans where they picked up six senate seats but they only knocked off one senate democrat incumbent that year. there is something going on that republicans have had over the last decade, real problem knocking off democratic incumbents and they've got to knock off two or three of those this time. maybe it's the same thing, maybe not. our newsletter, we do an updated weekly through the election cycle, the races all over the country. going into election day 2010, a great year for republicans, we had seven senate races that we called tossups. republicans lost five out of seven. interesting. 2012, we had 10 tossup senate races that year. republicans lost eight out of 10. the close ones -- up0, the republicans picked six seats but if you had read "time magazine" a month befor

and treasury have carte blanche to do whatever they want.ith regard to versions, in the process of having further conversations with chairman kanp of the house ways and means committee, and we are anxious to provide when i told him when i met with him about a month ago, and he gave me a list of things, the items they needed to have to get to closure, we are anxious to get him all the information he needs to make his decisions. we are working with the committees, working with the senate finance committee as well and the other committees. we have four congressional once going forward. >> and i appreciate that. >> and we want to satisfy them that they have the information they need to reach the determination they are making about the determination process. >> let me tell you why i think it is important. it is not important in terms of who did what to who or who shot the sheriff. it is important in terms of looking at this action and going. was this a flaw in the regulation, or was this something out of the ordinary? to listen to this today, yea

some folks who are making $8 plus an hour at mcdonald's want $15 an hour and mcdonald's is blanching at that kind of number. where do you stand? should you be paying a living wage? >> i'll let the government decide what the living wage should be. but at smashburger we index ourselves against our competitors and we pay well above minimum wage. >> one of the issues this week that's been getting a lot of attention is how much the cost of obamacare is affecting companies. i understand you guys have a good bit of a portion of what you do as a franchise model. talk us through 2014. what kind of increases are you facing if increases at all, and do you have to do things to offset that cost elsewhere? >> 2014 very minimal, if any, cost increases. we are looking at obviously every business should, what the effects are ongoing and certainly in the next -- the few outyears. but we look at whether it's the offerings we have, we're still hiring the right number of employees at every restaurant, and then what can we do with our vendors. the one thing we have an advantage over a lot of companies rig

you have linkedin with carte blanche. why are you optimistic?eally not going away. it is part of business etiquette. we are trying to keep the traditional form and look of a traditional business card. lori: what you have is an electric card in and of itself. here is my card. i take the physical card back after you have tapped it with your iphone. is that how it works? >> we are creating it so that you could give it away as if it was any other business card. lori: i understand the iphone is the only smart phone that will support it right now. >> we want to expand it to other devices. lori: okay. that is a yes. i understand you have to have the case off the iphone as well. >> the card stock that we use is a little stiff. once it comes out, it will be a lot more flexible. lori: you gave folks 36 cards in exchange for a $25 commitment. how is that going? >> it is going great. we only launched last week. we are pretty excited about the progress. we look at vista print as a potential investor. it is a huge market. i think it is very exciting. i think