we want to thank bob grant, the vice-president for city national bank, the nation's 26 largest bank with23 billion in total assets and 79 offices in the bay area, southern california, nevada, an atlanta. they provide their businesses and families with complete financial solutions on the way up. we also want to thank golden gate university, which is also what i'm going to sponsor this event, and an angel, president of golden gate university. you will see him in just a minute. for over 110 years, nonprofit golden gate university has been helping adults achieve their professional goals by providing undergraduate and graduate education in accounting, law, business, and other related areas. ggu is california's fifth largest nonprofit university, and rolling over five dozen students with over 67,000 alumni. offering weakened forces in downtown san francisco and online through the university's award winning cyber campus -- weekend courses in downtown san francisco. kaiser, founded in 1945, nonprofit integrated health-care organization with physicians, nurses, and staff working in collaboration

. >> bob: i grant you that.est that somehow the left is so dominant, and in these newspapers, in these networks, look, most of the people went to college at columbia school of broadcasting and they happen to be liberal democrats. that's how it works. but there are a lot of outlets out there, when i ran into trouble this week, there are more blogs that jumped on me than i've ever seen. >> eric: you're on the conference calls? >> bob: once in a while. >> eric: do you talk to into them? >> bob: we can ask question. >> eric: everything we talk about you with you for the preppation of the show -- >> bob: i rarely do it. once in a while i'm interested. >> andrea: i point it's not what they say or do, it's what they are not doingment so they're not researching. we know the least about president obama, than we have known about any other president. they were digging through sarah palin's dumpster and trying to take down a cbs george bush and smear him on his military records. they tend not to ask become obama where his e

. >> reporter: after taking the first loss against the indians, grant was sent down to aaa sacramento. and so bobelvin announced it will be jared parker who gets the nod on wednesday. at the coliseum, kate longworth, nbc bay area. >> thank you, kate. >>> warriors/t'wolves in the nba. check out who the team met before the game. this is the tallest living american, igor, he's 7'8". he makes david lee and nate robinson look small. that's the long and the short of it. first quarter, martell webster, he is red hot. he has 11 points in the frame. down 15 points after one. second quarter, j.j. barea's turn. drives and scores off the glass. and then the warriors come back. they win it 93-88. charles jenkins had 24. >>> lakers and the oklahoma city thunder game was physical would be an understatement. the lakers' meta worldpeace with the elbow to james harden's head. harden with a concussion. he had to leave the game. and meta worldpeace was ejected. 114-106, that is the final in double overtime. the lakers get the win. >>> to the nhl playoffs as seen on nbc bay area. caps trying to finish off the defendi

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bob: sometimes i can't make it out of here. i'm just saying that i think you -- by the way, the d.o.e. investigations, there are thousands and thousands of grantsthey are investigating 300 of them. >> eric: let's talk about what this is. this is a congressional hearing -- >> bob: tell us what this is. >> eric: stay on the subject, shall we? this is congress and how they spend the money. $60 million of travel within the department itself with the contractors. several hundred million dollars is a gross understatement? >> dana: that is the scale, right? that is what we're talking about and why the second look at the green energy programs, because they can't get to scale there. might be a reason to fund basic science and basic research. the specific companies getting money like fisker or solyndra that has been a terrible experiment that is lead weight around the obama administration ankle. >> kimberly: is it excusable? >> dana: it's also congressional. we throw a lot of criticism the way of the president. but regardless of who is in office, congress has a responsibility to look at this. that's what joe barton was doing. >> bob: we don't talk about

bob and john a big round of applause. this morning i want to provide a preliminary progress report on our school improvement grants, or what'ss our cig program. as all of you know, sig seeks to accelerate achievement in the lowest performing 5% of schools, through far-reaching interventions. the federal grant supports schools, leaders, teachers, unions, and local partners in the community to undertake this challenging work. we're seeing some very encouraging signs of progress in this first year of data from our s.i.g. schools which few experts anticipated but before i talk about that data, i want to put in context what we're seeing. the starting premise for the s.i.g. program is unfortunately painfully self evident. the united states simply cannot meaningfully boost graduation rates and promise a quality education to every single child without ending the cycle of failure in our chronically low-performing schools. tragically, sometimes not just for a few years but literally decades children have been cheated out of a world class education in these under-performing schools. and for far too long, we, all of us here, adults, edu

bob made in the united states senate was april 14, 1969. it was about disabled american veterans. he championed their costs and the ultimate result was the americans with disabilities act. 43 million americans were grantedty they deserve. the examples abound in bob's career. the social security act. the social security commission with pat moynihan. 37 million americans not having to worry about whether they'd lose their dignity because they could not afford to maintain themselves. 1992, bob, you're the clarion voice in the united states and around the world to stop the butchery of slobodan milosevic and restore the dignity of so many tens of thousands of people who had it stripped from them. in 1983, you managed at the martin luther king holiday bill and you said, and i was there as you managed that bill, you said something very straightforward. you looked out at everyone and you said, "no first-class democracy can treat people like second-class citizens." it was simple. it was about decency. when that bill passed, i remember what else you said. you said it was a proud day for me. it is now a national holiday. i think i speak for everyone else here who served with you, it was a proud day for me when i m

human rights campaigner bob foo says high level behind the scenes talks are under way on a possible deal to grant chen and his family asylum in the united states. >> if he was given a choice to stay in china with the freedom guaranteed, he would prefer to stay in china. but at this current environment, and the chinese translation is almost impossible for that to narrow to happen. >> ifill: in the meantime the country's leaders are still coping with turmoil over a one-time rising star in the communist party. he's now been ousted from his positions and his wife stands accused of murdering a british businessman. >> ifill: for more on this unfolding story, we turn to susan shirk, a professor of china and pacific relations at u.c.-san diego. she was deputy assistant secretary of state during the clinton administration. and sasha gong, director of the china branch at voice of america. born in china, she was jailed for a year during the 1970s for participating in political protest. sasha gong, i want to start by asking you, some people are comparing this to the movie, the shaw shank redemption and appar

. >> if bob had strangled her, they were sure that a small u-shaped bone in the neck would be fractured. they were granted >> we thought if the bone was broken, we had him. >> they waited hoping this would be the evidence they needed. the injuries were horrific, but the bone was intact. she had not been strangled. >> it was very disheartening. everything they saw would be consistent with an accidental fall. >> so they brought in an expert about the way things and people fall. they took dummies the same size and weight and threw them off the cliff. >> we were trying to determine whether there was a difference as to the resting place or point of impact if someone was pushed with some lateral force or whether someone just slipped off. >> in the end it didn't matter if the dummies were hurled off on jumped off because they were funneled to the very same landing place. >> you guys were really reaching. >> i think at that point we knew that we would not get a lot of additional forensic evidence so we knew our case hinged on the credibility of roger brauburger. >> roger, who was certain that bob duke had murdere

granted citizenship. for more on the intense competition for hispanic voters from coast to coast, we are joined by representatives from both major parties. senator bobdez of new jersey, former chairman of the democratic senatorial campaign committee. and bettina inclan, director of hispanic outreach for the republican national committee. senator, start by telling us how critical the latino vote is this year. >> well, i think as it was four years ago, the latino vote is critical in some of the key states that will be battleground states that you previewed, some of them. but also in states that people may not think of as battleground states in terms of latinos but virginia, north carolina. this is an all-out effort by the obama campaign to reconnect with latino voters, to remind them what's important in this election, what's at stake for them, to talk about an administration that has worked hard from making health care affordable for nine million latinos who didn't have health care to looking at changing the economic realities of latinos in the country over $800 million in the president's small business jobs act, that went to hispanic-owned businesses

grant period. >> the service that many people are more familiar with is metro access. there has been a lot of problems with that service and attempts to improve it. has it improved bob?> metro access? >> yes. >> it really has, but there are still a lot of reliability issues and quality that has to be improved upon. that's why i think row d.c. is an alternative to that program and delivering successful transportation needs for a person with disabilities. the added option would allow people to move throughout the stay for recreation, for social events, and for school. i had also thought that it's good for business, tourism in the district of columbia. i think it's lucrative, well over $1 billion a year. we have a lot of people that come into d.c. with disabilities. >> are cities easier to get around in? >> yeah, i think -- >> for the disabled? >> a city has short blocks and sidewalks everywhere and places you can go into off of the street for business purposes, and so yeah, there's a lot to be said for living in a city if you are disabled because you can get around generally more easily. i would say that what we are talking about is a movement in transportation plannin

was americans with disabilities act, 43 million americans were granted the dignity, the dignity they deserve. the examples abound of bob'srity act, the social security commission with pat moynihan, 37 million americans without having to worry about whether they would lose their dignity because they couldn't afford to maintain themselves. 1992, off, you are the voice in the united states and around the world to stop the butchery of slobodan milosevic, and restore the dignity of so many tens of thousands of people who had it stripped from them. in 1983, you manage the martin luther king holiday bill, and you said, and i was there as you managed that bill, and you said something very straightforward. you looked out at everyone and you said, no first class democracy can treat people like second class citizens. no first -- it was simple for him. it was about decency. when that bill passed i remember what else you said. you said, i was proud, it was a proud day for me. it's now a national holiday. i think i speak for everyone here who served with you. it was a proud day for me when i made your acquaintance. it was a proud day