of benjamin of code pink joints jake and i and tell us how death and taxes aren't a certainties but go hand in hand atlas shrugged comes out today and we'll check in with film professor craig that while and sit down with abby alger of the leadership institute and andrew sharp of young americans for liberty about the surge we're seen in objectivism welcome to the last episode of the first week out on versus the man. they're currently about ninety thousand troops on the ground in afghanistan and that's not counting at least as many non military personnel on our government payroll in that country that we will probably never get a percent number on it costs about one million dollars to keep a single soldier deployed for a year there and according to cost of war dot com the war in afghanistan is nearing four hundred billion dollars and cost by the way iraq has cost us nearly twice that and those estimates are very conservative as they don't include things like base pay for soldiers deployed the interest on the debt that we are incurring or the cost of taking care of the troops when we come

the group code pink is showing his displeasure with the president. typically a liberal group and protest at the city hall but we did find a lot of excitement b here about the president's visit. >> his bay area visit dominating many of the conversation at the breakfast at in palo alto this morning. >> i think it's very important for us in the bay area. >> there is a lot of pride here as the president prepares for his big townhall meeting at palo alto's facebook headquarters. >> a lot of my former students will certainly be there. another student hosted a dinner for obama with the mayor. it's really nice to see young people getting involved into play. >> but even palo alto is not the friendly territory it used to be >> questions like on facebook, whether it would be hard ball, whether his liberal supporters are upset with him regarding recent compromises. >> even in the liberal bay area there is a sense of disappointment with the president. >> i think the country as a whole -- but i don't believe in his policies. >> a tech expert says turning to facebo

the group code pink is showing his displeasure with the president. typically a liberal group and protest at the city hall but we did find a lot of excitement b here about the president's visit. >> his bay area visit dominating many of the conversation at the breakfast at in palo alto this morning. >> i think it's very important for us in the bay area. >> there is a lot of pride here as the president prepares for his big townhall meeting at palo alto's facebook headquarters. >> a lot of my former students will certainly be there. another student hosted a dinner for obama with the mayor. it's really nice to see young people getting involved into play. >> but even palo alto is not the friendly territory it used to be >> questions like on facebook, whether it would be hard ball, whether his liberal supporters are upset with him regarding recent compromises. >> even in the liberal bay area there is a sense of disappointment with the president. >> i think the country as a whole -- but i don't believe in his policies. >> a tech expert says turning to facebo

will let you talk on this when you're the only man in the room at the moment i had no idea that the code pink the planned parenthood supporters that people i guess like myself are new i don't know powerful it's really tragic and you know personal i'm a little bit uncomfortable talking about it but in all our secret liberal meetings we always like the way bob barker signs off the price is right with you know make sure to get your cat spayed or neutered we saw an awful lot about how to make sure you get your men screened in neutered so you know it's not really has been out there the public but one of us is going insolence of the liberal men are in on this do you guys want to be world reluctantly i mean you know with the foreman asked you to do something you're going to go along and that is the right. crazy thing about this here is we actually saw the clip of pat robertson to add a little more fuel to this fire said the progressive support access to abortions because they want to make straight women equal with lesbians i just don't understand why are all white men so scared of everything are jus

. >> reporter: and into the media, code pink calling for an end to war. most protesters knowing they were not likely to get more than a passing glance and the president rushed to the town hall meeting. >> if he cease us as he drives in he ignores it. it's not even a pin prick. the important thing is to try to get some media attention. >> reporter: media attention and the attention of the public driving by. >> we're always hopeful. we have to be hopeful to be crazy to stand out here all day and i definitely think our presence will be felt, as small as it is. >> although the presence was small it was enough to created a disruption albeit a short one for people living and working nearby. >> i think palo alto is used to this. having stanford here, we had chelsea clinton and clinton in the past. >> and just like that, palo alto is back to normal. the commute is just the regular old nasty evening commute. of course, the president i now in san francisco. in palo alto, chris sanchez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. for continuing coverage stay with us here as nb

. >> code pink was among the groups poet protesting outside the auditorium. each group wanted a special message they wanted president obama to hear. some called for saving wild horses and others to save medicare. one young manmade a pitch for marriage equality. >>> the president arrived at san francisco airport early this afternoon. mr. obama stepped off air force one at 1:09 p.m. he walked over to meet a selected few who were allowed out on the tarmac. then off to marine one for the short helicopter flight to facebook in palo alto. that only took about six minutes. the event at facebook was billed as a town hall and lasted about an hour. but as ktvu's ken prichett reports while the talk focused on the economy it also helped with the election campaign. >> reporter: mark zuckerburg appeared nervous taking the stage and he confirmed as much. >> i'm kind of nervous. we have the president of the united states here. >> the president entered to applause and quickly opened with a joke to start the hour- long event. >> my name is barack obama and i'm got the guy who

. >> code pink was among the groups poet protesting outside the auditorium. each group wanted a special message they wanted president obama to hear. some called for saving wild horses and others to save medicare. one young manmade a pitch for marriage equality. >>> the president arrived at san francisco airport early this afternoon. mr. obama stepped off air force one at 1:09 p.m. he walked over to meet a selected few who were allowed out on the tarmac. then off to marine one for the short helicopter flight to facebook in palo alto. that only took about six minutes. the event at facebook was billed as a town hall and lasted about an hour. but as ktvu's ken prichett reports while the talk focused on the economy it also helped with the election campaign. >> reporter: mark zuckerburg appeared nervous taking the stage and he confirmed as much. >> i'm kind of nervous. we have the president of the united states here. >> the president entered to applause and quickly opened with a joke to start the hour- long event. >> my name is barack obama and i'm got the guy who

code pink among those visible. the breakfast at the st. regis hotel. he'll meet with governor jerry brown and then will fly to reno for the third stop campaign trip to talk deficit reduction. coming up later in the morning news i'm doing to have some of the president's speech, some of what he said to those people at masonic auditorium. live in san francisco, kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> all right. thank you, kraig. and in his appearance at the masonic center last night, the president kid acknowledge that some of his supporters are frustrated at the slow pace of change in washington. >> i know there are times where some of you have felt frustrated because we haven't gotten everything done as fast as we wanted. we didn't get everything exactly the way we had planned. >> the president says he gets frustrated too, but he reminded the crowd that back when he was first elected in 2008 he said it would take more than one term to do everything they want. >>> time now 5:02. well, the president has mostly encountered friendly crowds in the largely democ

just shut down the cia because wal-mart has better intelligen intelligence. >> lisa savage with code pink. in attempting to understand u.s. foreign policy under succession of administrations, i'm curious why you overlook the role of the miss profits for corporations that build weapons systems, contract secure services and so forth. it seems to be a very large factor, yet i'm not doing that. >> that would be one of the advantages of the war. obama is spending all this money on stimulus bill. we are providing jobs for public school teacher. if that were to i would be more in favor of it, except alas, it doesn't serve the united states security interests. >> while we're waiting i just want to have another question. haley barbour has become i think a major possible republican presidential contender, has come out and express a lot of concern about afghanistan in the last week. howard dean interestingly also yesterday basically said we need to get out of afghanistan. you can see some doing to. on hold i haven't haven't heard mitt romney, mitch daniels, polenta, sarah palin and others kind of li