crowley. what do we do about iran and president ahmadinejad? >> well, this clearly will be one of the most compelling issues that the next president faces, either obama in a second term or romney in a first term. as the president said today, there's still time and space to work this diplomatically. he's put down a very firm position that iran will not have a nuclear weapon. i think governor romney actually agrees with that. >> richard, one of the problems here of course is credibility on all sides, and the reason i say that, i discussed with president clinton earlier the comparisons to iraq. here you have another bad guy in the same kind of region who everyone says has wmd or wants to, in this case, get wmd. it turned out to be not true in the case of saddam hussein. he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. can the west afford to go into any kind of military conflict with iran, with ahmadinejad, and then discover actually all he was saying turned out to be true? >> well, first of all, p

crowley. >> muni moves more than bart. it's the biggest in the united states. for the on time performance it's tough to get around traffic and mitigation but they have a plan afoot and bypass areas that have bus stops on every block and that is one way to improve performance. as far as free muni for kids i support that but in practice we don't have the budget to support it and that's my stance today. thank you. >> okay. >> i took muni to get here tonight. i share a car with my partner so two days a week when he works in the city i get the car and when he's in silicon valley i am on muni. big picture we're not going to fix it on time and most is on the service and there are traffic jams and again instead of spending billions of dollars and doesn't connect to the existing muni and tunneling down geary where it's needed and as far as free muni for youth does it make sense we're hundreds of thousands of dollars in deficit and give free fares and people say they need to take it to school and that brings up a issue why aren't they going to neighborhood schools. we cr

crowley. >> in district seven i think it's necessary to dismiss this idea all together and let's not forget the holidays and they hit them as well. a one size approach doesn't fit this and i suggest the parking lots at the ball field and we do dynamic pricing and that is one solution that is dense and know they're going to pay for parking and looking for solutions to fit their car in for free. only in areas where there is the retail wrap that should happen but in district seven it's a disincentive for the merchants. >> we are good at shooting the goose and in the foot and muni says we have a deficit let's gouge the drivers. are you going to drive anywhere? no. you're going somewhere else and where is that revenue that we need? and by the way give free passes to youth and expand it from there, so we gill the gooses and shoot the drivers in the foot by digging a deeper hole for yourself and why don't we increase revenue and ticket the people that are riding muni and not paying? enforce that. >> thank you. mr. garcia. >> it sounds like i watch a lot of tv. there is a guy that appears on

crowley. >> thank you cheryl. we are blessed. we are land locked but i believe in this case we need to have balance. we have a housing trust before us this november they believe needs to be replacing the redevelopment agency which has indexes for salaries of folks that can benefit from an affordable housing policy. i would also say that most homes and apartments and condo conversions need to be near transportation and retail wraps. we have things up in hunter's point and treasure island coming on point and with that i hope park merced gets built but not without tenant protections and that's what i suggest. >> thank you. i want to remind you we're taking questions from the audience so if we have more questions is a good time to collect those. looks like everybody dealt with the park merced issue so our next question is how would you solve the homelessness problem in san francisco? and we will start

candy crowley to you what do you make of all this, coming out today? >> reporter: well, it is friday. and tradition has it, if you have something you want to bury, you put it out on friday. but if you look at these things, there is nothing in it that we don't already know. mitt romney is a very wealthy man. mitt romney makes most of his money from investments, meaning the lower tax rate applies. i think it was -- effective tax rate last year was 14.1%. they donated 30% of their income to charity. so this is not, on the face of it, largely that different from the tax return we have already seen. in addition, we do have a notarized statement from price water house saying, look, in each of the last 20 years, mitt romney has paid taxes that over that 20-year period, the average effective federal tax rate was 20%. so doesn't seem to me there is anything in this you can grab on to, other than the fact of things we already knew, he's wealthy and pays a fairly low tax rate simply because it is investment income and that is taxable at a lower rate. so we're als

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alan colmes and monica crowley. one of the most glamorous women in the world, kate middleton, photographed topless in an outrageous invasion of privacy. she and her husband, prince within, are fighting back. is it legal? on the case (it's happening, people. it's on. here it is. >> bill: jon stewart already in training for the big rumble in washington. >> oh, yeah, it's on! >> bill: when he will debate me live on the internet. he will be here tonight. >> i'm so scared! >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> bill: hi. i'm bill o'reilly. mitt romney, the truth and the folks. that is the focus tonight. now we have a controversy over governor romney telling supporters that a large portion of the american population is dependent on government and most likely will not vote for him. here is my question: why is that controversial? that's true. mr. romney said that back in may at a fund-raiser in florida where he was secretly videotaped >> bill: i believe the governor over

prime minister benjamin netanyahu told our candy crowley that stopping iran isn't about politics. >> not an electoral issue. it is not based on any electoral consideration. i think that there's a common interest of all americans, of all political persuasions to stop iran. this is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the middle east. >> you can see more of that interview on state of the onuni with candy crowley at 9:00 a.m. eastern, 6:00 a.m. pacific. >> there is a war going on ore free speech and free speech is losing and that's the reason, frankly, i would not yield if i was youtube to these types of actions. there are some things you cannot yield to. free speech is one of those. it's a bright line and you have to protect it and once you start to compromise, it slips through your fingers like water, and when you look in your hands, you have nothing left of what free speech was. >>> here in the u.s. many americans are shock thad a youtube video prompted worldwide protest and such violence, aft all, blasphemy is illegal in many country bus is pr

crowley. >> i would say that one of the bigger things that we will have before us is the gross receipts tax check that norman talked about trading from the payroll tax which is punitive. the next thing i would do is increase the foot print on mos sony center and that brings in a lot of money to the general fund and erect a multi-purpose area and bring in more money to the coffers and a green industry. one reason to bring them in is people come and go into the city of san francisco and that is a large footprint. they come and go. the visitors spend approximately $1 million of revenue in san francisco every hour and save us $1,100 in services and that's what i suspect we should be doing. >> thank you. >> if the city needs to generate new revenue for the budget what fees should it institute? >> well, first of all we need to close loop holes. we can't have big office towers sold and pretending they're at the 1978 price so we need to close the loopholes. we need to encourage small business growth. we can't live on facebook alone and make sure a small business owner with an idea city hall mak

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i'm monica crowley in tonight for bill o'reilly.e personal story segment tonight, what does it take to make a run for the white house? what kind of inner strength, stamina, and fortitude? what and what kind of toll does a tough campaign take on a candidate's life? in an extraordinarily candid interview with bill, john mccain lays the hardships and highlights highest office in the land. >> senator, what was the most difficult thing personally about you running for president four years ago? >> i think probably the most difficult is the pace, you know, it's 24/7 even when you lie down to go to sleep you are thinking about things. the pace of things. at the same time, bill, i was always cognizant of the fact that here is a guy who stood fifth from the bottom of his class at the naval academy. >> crashed four airplanes at taxpayers expense that could run for president of the united states and get the nomination of the republic party. most of it exsill lear ration to tell you the truth. >> do you have to sleep at night -- you are jacked u

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state of the union host candy crowley joins us now from washington.ood laughs there along with us watching those "snl" clips. in all seriousness, who are these undecided voters, and why haven't they made up their minds? >> actually, it's one of the topics of discussion for the show today, but the fact is a lot of the things that -- the research that we have looked at shows that these undecided voters and its 6%, 7% -- i bet you get emails as well as i do, saying who is undecided between these two guys? they're so different. how can you be thinking, oh, i might do president obama, i might do mitt romney. the fact is that these -- many of them do have party affiliations, and they kind of drift in and out. maybe one week they will say, you know, i think i'm going to vote for president obama and the next week something happens and they go, i don't know. they go back into that column. it's the same kind of larger group of people, and i think the key question really is where are they trending now because obviously that -- the undecideds get smaller and smal

state of the union host candy crowley joins us now from washington.ood laughs there along with us watching those "snl" clips. in all seriousness, who are these undecided voters, and why haven't they made up their minds? >> actually, it's one of the topics of discussion for the show today, but the fact is a lot of the things that -- the research that we have looked at shows that these undecided voters and its 6%, 7% -- i bet you get emails as well as i do, saying who is undecided between these two guys? they're so different. how can you be thinking, oh, i might do president obama, i might do mitt romney. the fact is that these -- many of them do have party affiliations, and they kind of drift in and out. maybe one week they will say, you know, i think i'm going to vote for president obama and the next week something happens and they go, i don't know. they go back into that column. it's the same kind of larger group of people, and i think the key question really is where are they trending now because obviously that -- the undecideds get smaller and smal

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monica crowley, robert zimmerman, and former schumer adviser, chris hahn.ood to have you all here. as far as obama, an exodus on the part of his staff. >> i have learned some lessons over the last four years. the most important lesson i've learned is that you can change washington from the inside. you can only change it from the outside. lou: there you are. what the president to do? >> you have to motivate people and get them motivated to change washington. >> you have to help them to do what they can. >> i think that they can. >> there's a lot of drama with that spin. let's be serious about this. i'm glad that the president finally acknowledges that it does come from the grassroots of the community and you have to be actively engaged. that is a challenge in the first term. that is the way you only get through this. >> there is just such a devastating moment for obama. tonight he is probably kicking himself for two reasons. change was his reason for being in his campaign in 2008. the second thing, is that you can't change washington, with huge majorities du

candy crowley joins us. she will be moderating one of the debates.at? >> that's what we're talking about, what others are talking b not just peggy, but there are others out there saying what is wrong with this campaign? it seems tone deaf. there have been too many things he hasn't been aggressive enough. he hasn't -- this always happens, shall i say, when a campaign is faltering. i don't know if you remember the final couple of weeks of the mccain campaign, but it was brutal. and this is now brutal because people sense that this is slipping away from mitt romney. it comes with the territory. the criticism comes with the territory. and in the end, it's the candidate's campaign. but now what are folks looking at? they're looking at the senate races, republicans really wanted to take control of the senate this year. they're looking at house races. nancy pelosi did an interview with her last week and she said i think we're going to win 27 seats. a net of 27 seats, which would give the house to the democrats. now, most experts don't see that coming. i don

monica crowley. jim pinkerton, contributing editor of the american conservative magazine. kirsten powers and richard grenell that served as press spokesman to the last four ambassadors to the u.n. rick to you first, that netanyahu story would have been the big story of the week had the embassy attacks had not occurred. what do you think about what coverage the media gave his point? >> i think it was a direct assault at president obama. you can't blame the israelis for being frustrated. here, you know the white house was scrambling before all of this mess in the middle east started with the violence and the killing of our ambassador. what was really happening is the white house was trying to say the israelis didn't really ask for a meeting in washington with president. when the president goes to the u.n. general assembly he doesn't have a lot of time to meet with the israelis. i've been involved in 8 of the last previous plannings for the president coming to the u.n. under president bush. the simple fact is united states gets to meet with whomever they want to meet with. ev

robert zimmerman to much of the diet, monica crowley, robert has all of the tough assignments to my tell right bac ♪ lou: now, the "a-team," columnist for the association of major american citizens, author of the book out numbered, the author of what the bleep just happened, radio talk-show host, fox news contributor moderate to but monica crowley. democratic strategist robert zimmerman. good to have you here. let's start with these polls. robert zimmerman leading democratic strategist, fund-raiser among left-wing. this is for your benefit. the president leading by six points nationally in one poll, closer and another perry will go into that because you're here. in the nbc news poll in new hampshire, 5144. in north carolina, 48-46 for romney. in nevada, this is interesting, and nevada obama 49-47. congratulations. the president is doing very well. are you ready to start putting the inauguration? >> not even close. no one is watching, no one is in any way backing down. and of tell you what is significant about these polls. in every category you see the country, one is showing their feelin

it's my pleasure to introduce to all of you this monica crowley. [applause] >> with an introduction. i think i have to take you with me everywhere i go. thank you very much. that was very kind and very generous of you. thank you so much for hosting tonight. it means the world to me that all of you came out tonight. and know how busy everybody's lives are. the fact he took some time out tonight to celebrate my new book and meet with me tonight means the world to me. let me start with the title of my book which, as you know, is called "what the (bleep) just happened". i must say to my original working title for the book, the original title that i was thinking was 50 shades of obama. i thought better of it. i just can't picture them introducing a new book. and i saw the elgin sales numbers. the fact that she has and the someone, two, three, and for. the real story of the tunnel, the story of the quicken all relate to, last summer i went out to dinner with one of my best girlfriends. she and i were having a great time. we started talking about the last

>> his last chance. >> yeah. >> candy crowley, thank you.ng on "state of the union." what is it, more than 80% of the folks strongly support a candidate. so most people have made up their mind and and highly energized on both sides now. >> some of the top stories we're following. short term spending measure passes the house and now moves to the senate. party leaders agreed to this solution earlier this summer. current funding for federal agency expires during the end of the month. >>> federal reserve going to pump $40 billion a month into the u.s. economy, yet another round of stimulus. they will also keep interest rates at historic lows. ben bernanke hopes that will lead you to more buying, more borrowing. not everyone agrees, including mitt romney, who spoke to abc news. >> what bernanke is saying is that the president is saying is wrong. the president is saying the economy is making progress, coming back. bernanke is can a isaying, no, not. i've got to print more money. >> the dow gained more than 200 points. now futures are up ahead of t