however, david waggoner is the best person for the job. he is the most conscientious person i can imagine. his qualifications are unparalleled. response to problems with thought out answers -- he response to problems with thought out answers and tries not to equivocate. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. thank you for being here. [reading names] >> good afternoon, supervisors. in your to wholeheartedly support david waggoner for the police commission. he has been a close friend of mine for years, and i've had the fortune to work with him on a variety of community issues. his support for the lawyers community association against violence and the harvey milk fund is representative of the communities he has built a relationship with. i can personally say that his leadership as the president of the harvey milk the club was instrumental in garnering support in the lgbt community is to push for the implementation of the undocumented youth policy and to urge san francisco to opt out of secured communities. i think this is one of the many examp

if you look at the resume, david waggoner fits the bill. but if you want to do a testimonial,ly do that too. he's a good friend of mine and i learned a lot about progressive politics from him. will he have that voice. he will look out for people who do not necessarily have any money. he will look out for people who have been marginalized and he will look out for people who are basically the clients of the police who are served by the police and arrested by them. he has their back and has their voice. so please take that into consideration. have i been working in social justice issues for eight, nine years. in fact, sean elsbernd did one, a meeting a long time. he probably doesn't remember. a long time ago. thank you all. please consider voting for david waggoner. in fact, i would strongly encourage to you do so. bye, everybody. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. bard. any member of the public, please come up. two minutes. >> good afternoon. my name is richard nie and i'm a san francisco registered voter. i'm here to express my strong support fo

my dad was talking to david after the premiere and i think was stunned that david is so brilliant but also so infielder. >> how important was the times to you when you are growing up? explain it to someone who has never read it, that only knows it from the conservative point of view that they are continually beat up on for being a liberal newspaper. >> when i was in high school, we had a history class, an assignment to read the week in review on the weekend come in and discuss the paper. that would be the structure of the class for the day, talking about current events. my parents owned a restaurant, and the restaurant review would make or break restaurants at that point. that was before there were all the blocks that exist today and all the other online sources for rating rest once. it was huge. >> was your parents' restaurant ever reviewed by the times? >>, yes, it was. they got every rating in the book, including the highest rating. ever the only italian restaurant to have that for several years, but they got one, too, and three stars. made a tremendous difference. >> just the fact

david? >> incredible to see the roof tops there behind you. david, i wanted to get back to that nuclear plant. the held of the nrc headed there tomorrow. and you told me earlier, they're concerned about where all the water is coming from, too. >> reporter: yeah, and it's the same problem -- as a helicopter, a blackhawk national guard helicopter flies overhead -- it's the same problem. it's going to take weeks for the water to move through the system, because that's what they are concerned about, the nuclear power plants. there could be more to come. >> all right, david kerley leading us off again tonight. david, thank you. >>> we turn now to the unfolding investigation into that fiery collision with an amtrak train in nevada. we now know of six people killed, and we learned today, two other truck drivers watched in horror as that trailer smashed into the train. abc's lisa stark has been following the investigation, working her sources all weekend. lisa, good evening. >> reporter: good evenin

is ok david atlee do david you want to jump in there going on. what we should have had in the united states was the debate that robert and i could have had over the substance of this i think the intervention is a good idea and by the way i think i might agree with mostly that the u.n. resolution which says protect civilians by all means necessary other than occupation force authorizes regime change we could have had a clear debate on that in the united states at the very beginning and then gone in with congressional authorization to do everything that is necessary to protect civilians which includes ending the illegitimate khadafi tyranny can we say a word about their reality of what that would look like you have to remember that the the the french were out ahead of this mission and then the british before there was time to do so as you begin to have that kind of extended debate within congress it's already happening and you're either you're either you've either got to make and this is why you got the sixty you know in one of the war powers act.

>> i don't know, david. i'll tell you this, those guys sitting around the taenl are the ones in the best position to make the decision. the ones that study the national budget and what's going forward and the ones that will have to decide what the elements have to be. i will tell you i get in new jersey at least from our per smective our state is extraordinarily overtaxed. the most in america by all cal chase. there's not an appetite in my state for increased taxes. people think government spends too much in our state. >> tea party republicans, the senator from south carolina. there's got to be a balanced amendment if we're going to raise the debt ceiling, what's at issue in the debt talks. raising so america doesn't default and can't pay its bills any longer. without that there would be extreme political peril for republicans. what he said to abc. listen to this. >> i think based on what i can see around the country, not only are those individuals gone, but i suspect the republican party will be set back ma

it's been a pleasure to visit with david crosby and david bender, coauthors of the book stand and be counted: making music, making history. i'm ken paulson, back next week with another conversation about the first amendment, the arts, and american culture. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. captioning provided by the freedom forum first amendment center captioning by kristi at captionmax www.captionmax.com >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or m

they are tom friedman, david brooks, david leonhardt and roger cohen. >> i personally think we need a third party. i think we're caught in the middle of a corrupt monopoly that cannot get to the right answers anymore because of a lot of deeply imbedded things that have happened to american politics. >> put some baiers between our immeate needs and our long term needs and we have to have a government that's structured around long term needs but essentially we need leadership. >> when we look back a the first te we will say it was very much defined by health reform. it was a big accomplish many that came with enormous costs. >> europeans and everyone i think are asking where is u.s. headed. it cannot go on with these levels of deficits d debts, something has to be done. >> charlie: america seen through four the "new york times" columnists, next. all across america. it's ha, every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop smal

john heilemann, farr farr, andrea mitchell and david ignatius. first off, it was a week dominated by twitter, but the hard reality of our very economy is what is haunting the obama white house and giving encouragement to the republicans. the new issue of "time magazine" has this cover, what recovery? "time magazine" lists the five myths that shows how hard it will be to get back to how this one was. number one, the current is a blip. no matter how much the white house says it's true, two, more monetary stimulus could work if it comes to us. it keeps interest rates down, but it doesn't make people without jobs buy anything. three, private sector investment will help when it kicks in. businesses spending in emerging country is into the here. four, the people are ready to work. the fact is with new jobs, people can pick up stakes to move where the jobs are and many don't have the right training for the jobs. five, americans are entrepreneurs. that's just not the force it once was. rana this is a top portrait, are we in the downward from the american

there is no proof that king david was here.ant to take our land. >> stahl: some of the incidents have become violent, like this one back in october. boys were throwing stones at passing cars. watch what happens next as two of the boys get hit by one of the cars. the driver was, of all people, the head of el'ad. he later went to the police and said he hadn't stopped because he felt his life was in danger. both boys survived, one with a broken leg. fighting often erupts here with israeli guards brought in to protect the settlers. >> siyam: clashes are daily inside silwan between the villagers and settlers and the gun guards for the security there. >> stahl: the government pays for the gun guards? >> siyam: it's tax money. it's... i pay it. everyone who is paying taxes is paying it. >> stahl: you pay taxes and that money goes to pay for the guards to guard the settlers. >> siyam: yes, of course. >> stahl: so you're helping guard the settlers. >> siyam: yeah, i'm a fan of the settlers and the gun guards. >> stahl: jawad says that e

david?> all right, katie raml, thank you so much. >>> we turn overseas this evening and to the chaos unfolding at this hour in yemen. a crucial u.s. ally. yemen's president, who at first tried to hide his injuries after coming under attack, has now left the country for medical help, leaving a huge and dangerous power vacuum in a country where the u.s. has real concerns about terrorists plotting against america. martha raddatz has been following this closely. >> reporter: today, crowds rejoiced over news that the man who ruled this nation with an iron fist had finally left. a stunning departure. it comes after a rocket or mortar had hit the heavily fortified mosque inside the presidential grounds. the president, it was reported, had been badly injured. lies, the yemeni government countered. it was only a scratch. a television press conference was scheduled. hours passed and then only the president's voice. sounding muddled and sedated, it was clear it was the yemeni government doing the lying

david, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. some first good news today for this city. this is about it. a couple more inches and then the crest. that's two feet below predictions. but it's still 12 feet above flood stage. look at the houses here. look at this debris. an inflatable boat. a jacuzzi stuck on a fence line. there was nothing they could do here. almost 500 homes and businesses lost. but downriver, a frantic fight today. >> do you need diesel? >> reporter: connie, awakened by an evacuation siren, is on a mission. >> on the corner. trying to save my business. go. what are you doing? come on. let's go. >> reporter: nothing is slowing her, as she surrounds her steakhouse in the tiny town of sawyer, with five feet of dirt, hauled and donated by her customers. >> she's a great gal. i don't want to see her lose her place. that's for sure. >> reporter: but you're talking about hours the water's going to be here? >> yes. it's already coming this way. i think it's going to come this way. >> we have a low spot. so, we need to get sandbags here to build that up. >> repo

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david? >> all right, david kerley at the white house tonight, thanks to you. i want to bring in our mike boettcher now who has been covering the war in afghanistan for nine years. and mike, we're curious how the u.s. troops are reading these mixed signals. >> reporter: david, the bottom line for american troops here is, they want this mission to mean something. their multiple tours of duty here to be for something. and that is their concern. that if there is a withdrawal of troops from here, that all of that blood, all of that treasure has been spent here over the last ten years will have been for nothing. now, it doesn't mean they do not want to go home, but they want to get their job done, the job they started ten years ago. david? >> mike boettcher in afghanistan. our thanks to you. >>> and one more note from the region tonight. another sign of the betrayal. u.s. officials say militants at two bomb building factories in pakistan's tribal areas fled after the u.s. gave pakistan's government information about those factories. the u.s. suspects low level pakis

david good, to have you back on the program, sir. >> great to be with you, tavis. tavis: there is a fine line, they say, between fact and fiction. of all the noffs you've written, which all seem to be rather timely, it's almost hard in some instances to know where the line is in this novel, "bloodmoney," between fact and fiction, because so much of what you write is literally happening at this moment. i assume you've picked up on that. >> well, i was astonished when i watched the raymond davis case unfold. your viewers will remember that raymond davis was the c.i.a. contractor who was arrested in january and imprisoned for shooting and killing two pakistanis who were trailing him. it turned out that he was part of an undercover c.i.a. operation that's so much like the one that i'm describing in my novel. and he ended up getting released two months later through payment of blood money which is the title of the novel and one of the themes. by that time the book was already printed. i was handing out copies to my mom and dad and other relatives, and here it was coming

go ahead robert and i want to go to david. says that yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry david it's just the opposite the opposite is the case this week ohio representative dennis kucinich had a resolution that was supposed to be voted on yesterday under the war powers act under the war powers resolution directing their forces be withdrawn the house leadership aide agreed to a vote they renege why look at the press because they expected it to pass that's why the house leadership pulled a vote on the war powers resolution they do not have the consent of congress for this the only reason that the house hasn't explicitly voted to repeal this is because the house leadership hasn't allowed there was a there were two votes during the amendments last week on the national. robert robert well let me jump in here let me jump in here a good short break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on presidential war powers day with r.t. . rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. that. we

republican senator david vitter of louisiana? in 2007 david visit ere was busted for having solicited prostitutes through the d.c. madam. she was running a high end prostitution ring in washington, d.c. her phone number list got out and david vitter was identified by "hustler" magazine as being a client of the d.c. madam. his phone number appeared on her list five separate times. david vitter was a member of the house of representatives at the time. two of the phone call from the d.c. madam occurred during house voters. really. david vitter like mark sanford and like john ensign addressed the media. he acknowledged that he too had been cheating on his wife. this wasn't just cheating. soliciting a prostitute is illegal even in louisiana and in washington, d.c. but senator vitter who had proovsly called on bill clinton to resign for his affair david vitter decided that he was forgiven. decided to stay in office we had all the image on the look of his wife's face burned into our minds forever. david vitter decided that he himself wa

thank you david stockman. we'll be right back. [ grunts ] [ male announcer ] built like a volkswagen. the 2011 tiguan. [ grunts ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natural gas turbine technology from ge, the power that will help make our nation more energy independent is right here in america. [ crickets chirping ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] advanced gas turbine technology from ge. ♪ >>> now for our "what in the world" segment. we all know how americans revere the constitution. so i was struck by the news that tiny little iceland is actually junking its own constitution and starting anew and using an unusual, some would say, innovative mechanism. the nation decided it needed a new constitution. it's soliciting ideas from all of iceland's 320,000 citizens with the help of facebook, twitter and youtube. this social media method has worked. ideas have been flowing in, many have asked for guaranteed good health care. other want campaign finance systems that make corporate donations illegal. some just want t

and as the hotel bill came due, david was short.d himself prepared to do nearly anything to keep his family from being split apart by the homeless shelters. >> david corfee: so, as embarrassing as it was, i sat down with a magic marker-- and i've seen these people on the road with these signs before-- and i wrote a sign out. >> pelley: what did the sign say? >> david corfee: it said, "please help. family of five." every truck that went by, i would holler out to them, and let them see my sign. "hey, do you need any help? can i get a job? do you need any help?" >> destiny corfee: i didn't think that it was going to have to, like, come down to that. like, he was actually going to go and take the sign and show it to people. and i don't want people to know, like, that i... he's my dad. like, i don't want to be embarrassed by people. >> pelley: you must have thought that you would never be that guy, the guy with the sign? >> david corfee: never, and in a million years, did i think that that would be me. and... and i told my wife, "this is

david wagner, i know reasonably well. i got to know him in the last year and a half and look forward to working with him as well. but today i am proud to support julius turman. one word i associate with him his courage. it takes courage to step up and be a voice of reason. he is willing to stand up above what is politically expedient and stand above political ideology and stand for what he believes to be right and correct, standing above the fray of infighting. this is a man that has integrity, that is thoughtful, and has the ability to sort out and find the facts. i enthusiastically will be supporting his appointment to the police commission today and ask that my colleagues join me. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: as is often the case with commissioner appointments, we are confronted by an embarrassment of riches. it is a welcome problem. the rules committee understandably has advanced a strong and solid candidate in julius turman, but i have known david wagner much longer. he is an acquaintance with whom i have had dis

this is a portion of what david rohde writes. at the same time simply walking away from afghanistan and pakistan and hoping for the best is not an option in an increasingly interconnected world. based on my experience in the tribal areas a sweeping taliban victory of afghanistan would move to impose sharia law across the world. their belief is they can defeat westerners who fear death and are unwilling to endure sacrifice to be reaffirmed. no clear message has emerged. in our war wariness in this country, do we risk not stabilizing in the country and getting a result? >> i don't think very many people were able to find a result. the model we're using isn't an appropriate model in the future and in afghanistan. one of the key points -- this is an area that senator reid and i may disagree on. i do not believe we need a permanent presence in afghanistan. i think it's counterproductive to what we're trying to do strategically. it's enormously costly. we are ignoring -- excuse me, we are ignoring the realityings of a serious emergence

david? >> alex marquardt in turkey. >>> a massive celebration of a royal milestone marking the queen's birthday. but it was the future queen many were out to see. and jeffrey kofman is in london tonight. >> reporter: buckingham palace rolled out the pomp and pageantry again. this time for the queen. she call this the colors. this isn't actually the queen's birthday. she turned 85 in april. but this is when they celebrate. the eyes of this crowd, though, are not just on queen elizabeth. they're on a future queen. and there she is, the woman formerly known as kate mill mild middleton, now the duchess of cambridge. it's clear he has given the royals a big boost in popularity. as the queen passed, a light applause. as kate passed, cheers. who's the bigger deal here, the queen or kate? >> definitely kate, yeah. >> she wants to see kate. >> and me, too. >> reporter: it was harder to spot kate's husband. but under that bear skin hat, that really is prince william. for royal watchers, pure delight.

david, you're an expert in the field. are we just pouring money into those bags of guys who want to be bought? >> it's very expensive to operate there and it's a very corrupt country. so a lot of the money is being wasted. one thing i just want to mention, because it's president h-part of the president -- chris: you you know how angry people get. >> they should be. there's no excuse for the corruption in the karzai government. it should frustrate everybody. just to focus on one thing -- part of what the president is doing is trying to keep enough troops in that the pressure on the taliban will be sufficient that the negotiations that have begun in secret -- we have had secret meetings with taliban representatives over the last few months, that that process will continue. chris: the eastern powers, including groups like the taliban, have studied western history for years. they've watched the british and the french cover their withdrawals with artillery, in our case with modern equipment. but basically it's a withdrawal. al

. >> my name is david and i am the project sponsor. i thought it might be best, rather than me telling you about it, just to read a couple of letters. the first letter i will read as from the neighbor two doors up on the same side of the street. pardon? can you hear? "dear michael smith, i have seen the plans put forth by your neighbor and then impressed not only with the plants, but the time and trouble with john david has taken to accommodate the neighbors on the street. as a senior citizen, i like the staircase he proposes that will eventually connect the streets so that i don't have to walk in the road. i walked to the bus stop at night after work. i also think the light and he wants to put in will put the -- make the streets safer than it is now. i think it is a classic project and support it despite the fact that i will have a slightly lesser view from the deck. -- from the deck." no other opponents of the other shown up to any of the meetings. one public meeting we did have, none of the people came. thank you. president olague:

board president david chu is here. supervisor david campos, scott wiener, eric marr is here as well. have i missed any other supervisors? thank you, mark, for being here. i have great pride in introducing this year's grand marshals. before i do that, i am looking forward to joining the parade this weekend. i am looking forward to representing the city in my very first time and perhaps the only time i am the mayor of city and county of san francisco. it is exciting. as we raise the flag, i want to let you know that as our joint -- i joined our acting city administrator, we have not advertise that. she has been such a great city administrator that you overlook her background work. she has been doing the job very competently as our real estate director and acting city administrator as well as being the deputy over those years. amy, thank you very much for fulfilling that role. we appreciate it. [applause] it goes to show if you look at talent, you can be from any background and fulfill all of these jobs. it is wonderful t

we--i asked david to research it, and david came back with, there is no other work written on this subject, and that was irresistible to us. you know, we feel very strongly about it. we knew we had an advantage if we went to speak to the people who do it, you know? i don't have to walk in cold. i'm not, you know--it's like, "how did you boys meet?" i know, you know, who i'm talking to, and generally, we're at least acquaintances if not close friends, and we're talking about events that we did together or that we've done, you know, separately, but the same event, you know, at different times. and it gave us a window into these people that other people didn't have. we asked them, "what really matters to you? "what are you willing to put yourself on the line for? "what are you willing to put your rep and your honor "on the line for?" (bender) "and why?" (crosby) "and why?" (bender) you should see their eyes light up when you ask that question. it draws something out of them equivalent to the music. it's the passion. it comes from that place that is expressed often in the art, but when you're

first of all, david is exactly right. last week when this was unfolding, i talked to a couple members of the democratic leadership who said that they were really making clear to anthony wiener, clean this up, either talk and say what's really going on or stop talking. the fact that he didn't do that, didn't answer our questions, basically lead point blank to wolf blitzer, has made this so much worse for him now in the democratic leadership. nobody is publicly calling on him to resign. there's no evidence for any private push to resign. one other thing to make this point, the democrats really do wish it would go away. you showed a letter nancy pelosi wrote asking for an investigation. it was political and the democratic source i talked to said that adds pressure to go. >> paul, do you think he can remain? >> he can. david and dana make all the right points. it may be hard to prove and it may be technical, but a lot of members of congress are going to look to this question of using public resources, government resources. i

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i know the work of david chiu has been instrumental in doing that. i want to get david appeared to say a few words and also to signal, and we do not get -- often get an 11-0 vote. i can remember one other -- [laughter] david, you have been working so hard. come up and say a few words. [applause] >> it takes a village to build a village. i want to thank the village behind and in front of us. over the past year, we have put 10,000 units of new housing in the southeast part of the city with the shipyard project. [applause] we are putting 8900 new units of housing on the west side of the city with the approvals we did at parker said -- park merced. and with a much more comfortable 11-0 vote, we are moving forward with thousands of new units of housing on treasure island. i cannot say how proud we are of our city for coming together. we have been talking about for years how important it is to build new neighborhoods, develop new affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented, sustainable, green development that is worthy of the 21st centuries the

and also to david wong, thank you. thank you, david.thank you for being one of the first principles to participate in the community house, and to make certain that these shared playgrounds -- we were making certain that this was open to the rest of the public. we had that very fine effort, to make certain that the schools are part of that community. and for your great service to the students, who have engaged in the juvenile justice system, not only doing this but exhibiting your ongoing dedication by knowing that you will go right back to the classroom, and you will continue your excellent service. thank you very much for that. with the support of the school superintendent, and the city family, i want to announce that he will be receiving a very nice package of things that i hope represent our support for the work that you have done, the congratulation and the sincere thanks for a job well done. part of that package, you'll be receiving a cash reward of $750. we also have the best packages, to one of my favorite restaurants. you have p