brooks, commissioner brooks, or president brooks, as he is now known, is the western region vice president of government affairs for cbs outdoor, a leading global media company and is responsible for government and public affairs from california to texas for that company. he is also a member of the california international relations foundation. he provides assistance to the california state senate in furthering economic, environment, educational and cultural exchanges with foreign governments and citizens. president brooks also served as director of administrative services for the city of san francisco where he was responsible for policy and planning for 14 city departments, managing over 300 employees, and a budget of $100 million. please join me in welcoming president brooks. . >> thank you, susan leyall, and good morning, welcome here. before i start i want to thank our general manager leyall who has done an extraordinary job here at the san francisco puc and also i want to recognize two people that just walked in, our vice president commissioner ann (inaudible) and commissioner dennis

brooks said. you know, for seven years we've been dealing with this, and there are projects, you know, that goes on and on and on. but i want to make sure that you take your time and get all of the truth and the understanding that you need to go forward. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm eric smith, executive director of green depot. i was intending to speak on agenda item number five. it's always frightening when i agree with mr. brooks, but i'll just echo the sentiments of ms. jackson. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> aaron israel is here, a longtime member of the citizens advisory committee for power on issues of sfpuc. wanted to point out that the club thanks the good work that -- the staff of both the p.u.c. and lafco have been doing this year. focusing on the negotiations. finding the lessons learned from that process and being open. we don't have an opinion one way or the other about r.f.p. or splitting out

and martin bailey is an economist with the brookings institution.e served as chairman of the council of economic advisers under president clinton. he's also a senior adviser to mckinsey & company working on projects about globalization and productivity. thank you both for being with us. mickey maynard, to you first. the president was talking up the auto industry today. how much has it turned around? >> the auto industry is in a very slow turn around. and you have to think back a year. we had the worse car sales essentially in over a quarter of a century. chrysler had actually shut down its factories while it went through bankruptcy. and thousands upon thousands of workers thrown out of work. there was something like over 300,000 people lost their jobs in the auto industry between 2008 and 2009. and that's about the size of pittsburgh. >> woodruff: martin bailey, how do you see it, how much has the auto sector rebounded if? >> well, i think it was essential that president bailout these auto industries because it would have been disastrous when the ec

. >> lehrer: mk shields and david brooks present their weekly analysis. >> brown: paul solman wraps up his series on europe's economic woes with a look at spain's unemployment problem. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsur has been provided by:

-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, are all hands gonna be on deck for the democrats? >> i think judy's piece really identified what the problem is for democrats across the board, jim. the democratic party is a coalition, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses and with people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike. it was probably best pete by p.j. orourke who said that the democratic party believes that government will make you taller, smarter, richer and cure your crabgrass on your lawn while the republican party doesn't work and then gets elect and proves it. but the -- >> p.j. orourke said it? >> p.j. orourke said it. but democrats have the high level of what government can do. remember it's been a generation since there was a democratic president and a democratic congress at the same time. go all the way back to 1992 and bill clinton. so the hopes were high, and barack obama as we listen to the speech, hope and change are great themes. you can read a lot into it. you know, when you'r

much want to know thanks very much kimberly wells for joining us there live now in london from the brook thank you. well this is from the russian capital twenty four hours a day we've got our web site for you dot com let's have a quick look and see what else is online there right now at the moment along with plenty of other features a couple stories for you the indian teachers who are hitting children for not doing their homework corporal punishment illegal but parents want action after a tormented pupil commits suicide. temperatures are sending people flocking to the city beaches to cool down for more and her muscovites trying to head for. the british prime minister david cameron says afghanistan will be the main topic of discussion when he meets president obama on tuesday during his first official visit to the white house cameraman also have to answer claims that the british based company successfully lobbied the u.k. government for the release of the libyan lockerbie bomber to secure an energy deal almost one hundred ninety americans were killed in the tragedy over twenty years ago re

, syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, was the spy slop thing with the russians a good deal for america? >> i think so you know, after all the things that have been messed up, we rounded up this group. they might not have been the most competent keystone cops on earth but we rounded them up. we had a little problem with the russian relations but that seems to be smoothed over. we got them back. got some people in exchange. so i thought on the whole it was handled well from start to finish. >> lehrer: handled well from start to finish. >> from everything i do know about t jim, certainly, i think was. i think in a straight player swap we got a better deal than the russians did. we got four significant figures. at least one of whom denies he has ever been a spy. but three major players. and i think everythinge were going to find out about these folks we've known, the folks here. they have been watching for ten years. we know who they talk to. we know where they went and i think disrupts any sleeper, spy operation put t

-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. good to have you with us. a lot of ground to cover. we've already talked about the jobs report on the show. but david, political fallout, the unemployment rate improved but the hiring is just not happening. >> right, i think it's going to be huge political fallout. you had over 600,000 people leaving the workforce. that suggests-- and we're only produce approximating 80,000 private sector jobs. that suggestion the economy really is going to be stagnant for a while. a lot of economists believe the unemployment rate will go up to ten so fall campaign will be waged in a terrible atmosphere and then you've got a huge debate between those who think we need another tim lus and those who think it is not the right time that is the central debate. we have seen it at the g-20, and we will see it more domestically. >> woodruff: is it just the democrats that get hurt. >> i think is. when the economy is bad the economy is the only issue. and what su have going into the fall is comparable to what h

-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. full scale civil war among democrats and the white house, mark? >> i think it may have been stated a little strongly but i was reminded of words of mo udal of democratic congressman from arizona, and briefly a presidential candidate in 1976 who said when we democrats organize a firing squad, we begin by forming a circle. and i think there was something of that to this. >> lehrer: is it real? >> it is real. it's real on the part of the house democrats. and look at it from their perspective. i mean barack obama is not on the ballot in 2012. two-thirds of the senate is not on the ballot. >> lehrer: 2010 you mean. >> 2010, yeah, not until 201. >> lehrer: yeah. >> 235 of them are. and they have done all the heavy lifting in this two years. i mean they not only passed everything that the president really gave as a priority item, but they passed it in the form which he asked for it, in a tougher form, if anything, than had to go to the senate. they had to wait while the senate went through a

later, reagan at brooks -- raven brooks.rn here on c-span. >> today, and oklahoma governor's debate. you will hear remarks from six democratic and republican candidates looking to replace the democratic governor. that is at 6:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. . . out >> on balf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees of today's event. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after the speech concludes, i will ask as many audience questions as time permits. i would like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, rodgers robert benjamin sunlansarlan, morkiver, dana wolbank, thomas cook, andrew schneider, maryland to >> -- marilyn, del loveless, jim offstra, and a labor reporter for bloomberg news. [applause] don blankenship is one of the country's most talked-about co's because of his extensive involvement in local and state politics. but in recent months, he has been at the center of news stories and congressional investigations related to a disaster at hi

eric brooks, san francisco green party and community choice energy alliance in our city. i just spoke to local power an hour ago and maybe paul was being polite to work constructively with the other parties. but i definitely ascertained from him that he's not satisfied with where this r.f.p. is at. and as all of you know, the lafco commissioners should know from the email that i sent yesterday, that the advocates are not satisfied at all. we do not want an r.f.o. process to be separated out of this r.f.p. and we want this whole thing to move forward as one package, not in separate piece that's can be undermined. the key issue -- the key thing that needs to happen that has not happened yet -- and the reason the last r.f.p. was not successful, is that before that r.f.p. went out, both local power and and a half gant specifically said in their assess -- navigant specifically said in their assessments that we need to do a long assessment for the renewables and their efficiency and a comprehensive outline about how our renewables and efficiency assets will roll out so that the

>> brooks: it's that the world has changed.to speak. >> safer: afflicting the soaps: women leaving home for the workplace; more and more competition from talk shows and so-called reality tv; and, despite the casting of younger actors, a dwindling number of younger viewers willing to sit still for an hour a day. >> brooks: the audience has gotten older, and as the soap operas have attracted more and more 50-plus, 60-plus audience, they've become less attractive to the soap manufacturers. >> action! >> safer: seeing the handwriting on the wall, "guiding light's" executive producer, ellen wheeler, did everything she could to postpone the inevitable. she's a whirlwind on the set, where time is money... >> ellen wheeler: frank, shut up. i have speed. you have to tape now. you actually have to do real work now. >> safer: ...hustling cast and crew from scene to scene. >> wheeler: it's great to work at that speed. and if it was really good, we don't have time to pat ourselves on the back. but if it was really bad, we don't have to thin

alice rivlin joins us now, she is also senior fellow of the brookings institution. >> good to be here, susie. >> susie: alice, when you look at the forecast of the white house, and looking out, it is expecting the deficit, it will be able to cut the deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next two years, by the year 2012. that works out 10% of g.d.p. now down to 5.6%. does that seem doable to you? >> i think it is doable if the recovery doesn't falter. the assumptions behind this drop in the deficit are that the economy does recover, grows moderately this year, and continues to strengthen. i don't think that's unreasonable, although there is some reason recently to doubt how strong the recovery is. but on those assumptions, much of this deficit, and it is very, very large, is related to the recession and to the temporary spending that we had to do to mitigate the recession. so it is reasonable to assume that that will diminish as the economy recovers. but -- >> susie: let's look at the economic assumptions because today the white house put out what their economic assumptions are,

jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com joins us. >> good morning. this is going to be an absolute key for the markets going forward. we still have the same thing that happened last year on stress tests on banks here in the u.s., testing better than expected. the hope is that will be the case in europe. 91 banks being tested to see how they are handling their exposure to the debt crisis especially in places like greece, spain and portugal. if those banks can prove they are doing well and well capitalized to handle that exposure you can see the markets jump up. we have seen encouraging signs out of europe lately surprising after the couple of months that really rocked wall street. yesterday industrial growth grew more than expected in the month of june as one. big reasons, one of the catalysts why wall street rallied yesterday. a lot of earnings news fairly positive. microsoft, honeywell, mcdonald's and ford in particular proving that it's really doing well for u.s. carmaker. it's revenue was at $31.3 billion, profit of $2.6 billion. these numbers eas

brooks, go ahead. guest: i don't know the specific details of this incident as far as that person being injured in one of the town hall meetings, but i do want to say something generally about the implication behind this that you know, there are union thugs, if you will, that come out and just cause trouble. it's absolutely not true. unions are the backbone of our middle class. and it's working people. it's people thatr you know, cleaning hotel rooms. it's people that are taking care of you in the hospital, it's people that are building cars. they have some of the hardest jobs in the country and do them well every day and they deserve our respect. host: what's the plan for today as you wrap up your convention? guest: today is a cleanup kind of day. we have a service project here in las vegas and we're going to be working with this organization called three square which provides meals for folks and helping them in their facilities to get some meals packed and basically be packing things up and heading b

immigration policy, hosted by the brookings institution.astern here on c-span. later we will have more live coverage from the brookings institution. the japanese ambassador to the united states is speaking there, and his focus is the japanese response to global challenges. in between those two brookings events, we will have live coverage of defense secretary gates and joint chiefs of staff chairman admiral mollen. coming up tomorrow, is the national governors' association meeting from boston. state executives will gather for three days of talks and presentations, including a session on sunday featuring former senator alan simpson and former white house chief of staff erskine bowles "national review" magazine has stated there opposition to legislation making its way through congress. a look now at their discussion on "washington journal" from this morning. spruiell, a staff writer for the "new york times." good morning to you. thank you for being with us. ças we begin, let's talk about the legislativeç head counting. what is scott brown so

in a sports reporting that could be well's from the brook an international quine welfare charity says the reaction to the footage of the parasailing don't could help the fight against animal cruelty. this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is create a demand. for animals to be treated better and for people to pay attention and we think you know at the brook we do believe that the russian authorities are in the best place to be dealing with this matter when we look at the footage of this video the animal went through quite a horrific event i mean donkeys are meant to be staying on land and what we did see was an animal parasailing into the sky landing and water and being taken up to land which is you know put the animal through a great deal of fear distress and potentially pain definitely seeing the international reaction it's very encouraging i mean when people learn the right and wrong ways to do things people will people's actions will change and i think it's about

processes, or the kind of coercive power they can project. >> vanda felbab-brown, a fellow at the brookings institution and author of "shooting up, counter-insurgency and the war on drugs, thank you for being with us. and arnaud de borchgrave, the director and senior advisor the transnational threats project at the center for strategic and international studies, thank you as well for being on great decisions. and thank you all for watching, as well. we'll see you next week. i'm ralph begleiter. >> to learn more about topics discussed on great decisions, visit our website at greatdecisions.org. great decisions is available on dvd. to order, visit shoppbs.org fuing for grt decisions in foreign policy is provided by the carnegie corporation of new york, the starr foundation, shell international and the european commission. great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. next time on great decisions in foreign policy... >> call it the greening of america. as the price of crude oil continues to fluctuate, and concern about climate change spreads, americans are increas

it was just a >> be are going live to the brookings institution. -- we are going live to the brookings institution. japan's ambassador to the u.s. is speaking there today. he will also talk about the global economic situation in japanese relations with united states. live coverage here on c-span. >> he is included in the small circle of the very best. it is a pleasure to have him with us today. without further ado, i will invite professor fujisaki to the podium. we will have questions and answers after his address. thank you very much. professor fujisaki. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i thought he would introduce me for 20 minutes and i would have 20 minutes rest. he did not give me that at all. i am glad you're here to hear my predictions on the house election. i am not going to do anything like that. i am here to listen to your predictions. i want to talk about changes. there is a saying, as saying a stage in the orient once said -- "the world is changing a little bit more quickly than young people would wish, but it is moving a lot more quickly than old people wished." fol

and also on the program is david brooks and e.j.noon from "the washington post". followed by rick santeli on cnbc. on host radio talking to tim geithner and chris christie. fox news sunday reairs at 2 p.m. welcoming the speaker of the house, newt gingrich and how ward dean. and then a look at race elections with jesse jackson. on face the nation, host talks about race in america, the vice chair on civil rights. and finally at 3:30 on cnn's state of the union, host talks about national security with former cia director. and then turning to host of america, and john mcwarner contribute be editor of new republic. wrapping up with president obama and the business community with the u.s. news and world report. five sunday network talk shows beginning at noon eastern, with meet the press, and fox news sunday, face the nation, and then at 3:30 eastern, cnn's state of the union. listen to them all on 90.1 fm in the washington area. or online at c-spanradio.org. >> can you tell us what it is, why you are here today? >> sure, secretary selius was here about three weeks ago

then there is a discussion of immigration at the brookings institute.then defense secretary robert gates talks about afghanistan and iraq. >> this weekend, we're bringing you the national governors' association annual meeting from boston. our live coverage begins tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern time with the opening session. >> watched the entire confirmation hearing for the supreme court nominee, including hoarheard testimony. to purchase a copy of any part of the hearing, click the "buy now" button. c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history, and nonfiction books, all as a public service created by america's cable companies. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu talked about reviving peace talks with the palestinians. he also discusses israel's west bank settlement. from new york city, this is one hour. >> i am well aware of the hatch of singling out some and not others. we welcome prime minister netanyahu, the prime minister's wife, the security adviser, the prime m

negatives. >> but the shadows are virtually identical. >> reporter: so today they're examining in brooks photo. during the first half of last century, many people took pictures like ansel adams, just not as well. still, he thinks any numb were of them could be good enough to fool anyone less than a real expert. >> and another thing coming into question is that $200 million price tag. interestingly in this case these are negatives but people say the real value, the magic happened in the dark room. so this is only part of the process. the analogy is like discovery a song written by john lennon, that's different than a song written and sung by john lennon. >> is it a matter of someone pulls a fast one or a mistake. >> it could be a mistake. they didn't do it as well as ansel adams, didn't have the dark room technique but it could be similar enough. >> it is disappointing for as of us going to garage sales. thanks. >> thanks. >>. >>> coming up, protecting best man on the jobs. how the canine vests work. >> my little pony attacking their cell phone. how they let their wallpaper learn everythi

written primarily in response to an approach recommended by the charges that were leveled by the brookings institution which faulted congress for failing to act by writing a detailed code that the specified procedures that courts should use in deciding who at guantanamo bay may be lawfully detained. we wrote this piece because of our concern that i mentioned earlier, about congressional action where it is not necessary and where it may well be the likelihood that things could become more mobile -- muddled. so i will refer to our article. we wrote that in response to that attack, in all likelihood, senator mccain and senator lieberman introduced a bill in the senate that would codify the government's power to detain suspects indefinitely without charge. and then senator graham, someone i respect a great deal, began to draft legislation in support of something very similar. all of these pieces of legislation are still spending -- pending. i think that summer in the drafting stage. we contended that those arguing for new laws such as these misunderstand fundamentally both the limits of the le

brooke sheilds. lisa kudrow. and emmitt smith. >> it was strong. it was a strong feeling. oprarararararararararararararara >>> united airlines is aproposal apologizing after a nine-year-old boy was forgotten at one of the most busiest airports. he finished visiting his father in san francisco where he was going to chicago and then to canada. they left him in o'hare for eight hours. he missed his next flight. he called his mother using a prepaid cell phone. he said he watched the same video all day and given all mcdonald's to eat and he a vegetarian and they yelled at him and other kids. he is back with mom now and united says, they are going to provide a refund for the child care free. >> you of to blanket you have to pay for but abuse, no charge. >> he got out of san francisco because of the cold, i guess. >> it's a lot warmer in chicago and parts of the east. you can see the reason why, clouds are looming from emeryville back to san francisco. let's contrast where we see sunshine in the south bay. we talked about it and over in the east bay valleys and temperatures respo

. >> reporter: however, an expert says that they are just from brooks. >> they're nice, but to me they are not anzel adams. >>> california's whooping cough epidemic has claimed another little life. a one -month-old boy died from the disease on tuesday. that is the seventh infant death this year. so far there have been about 1,500 cases of whooping cough in california. a significant increase from last year. health officials are urging children and adults to get vaccinated to reduce the spread of the highly contagious disease. >>> nearly 100 people are under arrest tonight as part of the massive crack down of marijuana growing. they have made 97 arrest, most mexican nationals. they also confiscated $1.7 billion worth of marijuana during the three week operation. agents focused on fresno. >>> for many of us these jets are private, metallic magic carpets. but for some bohemian camp members, they are just a cab to camp. we'll explain, ahead. >>> some more heat headed your way as we head toward your friday. tomorrow's forecast coming up. >>> plus sherley sherrod is taking legal action after

. >> here's jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. good morning. a brutal friday!rning, sydnie. good morning, john. yeah, that wasn't any fun. we saw the dow drop over 260. a lot of that came from earnings that really disappointed especially from the big banks. bank of america and citigroup worry there is that the new financial regulation that have come through congress really hit those banks hard in many different ways particularly losing debit card fees and other things like that. bank of america's stock was down almost 9% on friday, down again 2% this morning. the market is coming back a little bit. that often happens after you see a big drop. we have had some decent earnings out this morning from delta airlines which is important for the travel sector, hasbro had some decent numbers. going to have a lot of big earnings this week, apple, microsoft, goldman sachs, ford. that's going to drive the market. right now the dow is higher by 65 points, nasdaq up by 19, s&p higher by 7. apple shares, by the way, down about 1% this morning. that's after their mea culpa on

here now jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. so we're faring pretty well, aren't we?> reporter: good morning. we are seeing very significant increases in prices according to the s&p kay schiller index. compared to may have last year, the bay area saw an 18.3% increase in prices. the next best was san diego, at just over 12%. prices coming back much better here, although if you look at what was selling last year at that time, it was a lot of short sales and foreclosures in the more inland areas of the bay area. those are simply cheaper houses so the prices have been brought up by some more expensive homes selling around san francisco, santa clara, marin, areas like that. overall, the market was up about 4.6% for those 20 markets. not that bad but prices will be pressured going forward because the federal tax credits have expired and the job market continues to struggle. stock market going for a fourth straight winning day. very strong. the dow it up over 400 over the past few days. earnings very strong from companies like lockheed martin, valero and dupont. the dow is

here now jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. some of in coming from the census workers?for unemployment? >> good morning. >> reporter: that is part of it. we also saw some other companies that do temporary layoffs and that was the reason for that big drop a couple of weeks ago and then we saw increase this past week up 37,000 to 464,000. no matter the reason, jobless claims are very high. we need to see that number below 400,000 to show improvement in the job market. and the unemployment issue is on of the main talking points by ben bernanke when he goes before congress yesterday and today. we have so many jobless out there that's continuing to hamper the economy, hamstringing the housing market. we'll have numbers on existing home sales for the prior month. probably won't be very good especially with the expiration of the federal tax credits. fortunately for wall street today which is rebounding getting a lot of positive earnings numbers out there including some real big companies that are very important barometers of the economy such as u.p.s. the world's biggest groun

jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> 6:46.e being called the toughest restrictions on the u.s. financial industry since the great depression. >> now it is up to president obama to sign the financial reform measure into law. yesterday, the senate passed the bill which would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy. it also aims to give consumers more protection in their financial transactions. the president is expected to sign it as soon as wednesday. >> and just to let you know, we are awaiting a statement from president bush in the rose garden before he goes on vacation. >> obama. >> i'm sorry. obama. where did i get that? >> i have no idea. [ laughter ] >> sorry. >>> there is a new line that's arrived at forever21 a popular teen clothing store. >> maternity clothes. some moms are saying that they are outraged, but we wanted to ask you what you think this morning. >> does that new clothing line send the wrong message? denny says he doesn't think the store is doing anything wrong and these

jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com joins us.o what have we got, apple, yahoo later on the today? >> some have already reported, though, haven't they? >> right. good morning, sydnie. good morning, john. apple and yahoo we'll hear from later today. we heard from ibm yesterday after the close and goldman sachs this morning. both disappointing. that's dragging down both the financial and tech sectors. goldman sachs reporting a profit 83% lower than a year ago due to lower trading revenue and also that more than half billion dollars settlement with the sec over fraud, and also with ibm reporting afghanistan yesterday's after yesterday. revenue from cautious business customers and the impact of the european debt crisis because the euro fell it made the dollar more expensive for products to buy for europeans and ibm got nailed there. that's dragging down the market quite a bit. right now, dow down 124. apple should probable report nice numbers after the close today. looking for profit increase of around 54%. revenue up 77%. basically,