on our souls and on our political leadership an interesting lesson in this victory day that was david cohen professor of russian islamic studies at new york university that is going to do it for our news i am lauren mr you can follow me on twitter at war and let's start and i will see you later for more news. a charmer in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. today borland's is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corporations are relieved. to. hello and welcome to crossfire i'm people of what is happening to the anti-war movement there are plenty of wars being fought there with far fewer protesters was the anti-war movement just really about the presidency of george w. bush and not necessarily against war. to cross-talk of the anti-war movement has vanished i'm joined by angela keaton in los angeles she is antiwar dot com development director and anti-war radio producer also in los angeles we have various russell he's a historian and author of a renegade history of the united states and in

. >>> ellen and david cohen say they hope janet cohen's story will prompt any water department or anyer agency to be more sensitive when somebody challenges an extraordinary bill. >>> 75 people became u.s. citizens today in fairfax, virginia. there was a special naturalization ceremony at the fairfax government center. it was held in honor of asian pacific islander heritage month. the new americans came from 32 different countries. congressional gold medal recipient grand itch cowa encouraged them to serve their country by helping wounded veterans. the ceremony wrapped up with the pledge of allegiance. >>> drug maishgs are make changes to infant pain relievers. [ male announcer ] want a better way to track what you spend? pnc virtual wallet now comes with spending zone. it organizes all your spending, including your pnc debit card, credit card, and your bills. so you can view them by category... or by month. you can set a budget... and it'll even alert you when you're getting close to the amount you've set -- and when you've gone over. spending zone is built to help you keep better tr

david, a lawyer. >> pretty feisty? >> she was. >> tell me something about her. >> stubborn as a mule. >> reporter: after a walk in mrs. cohen'sackyard with all its azaleas, her david grew up beginning in 1954. david told nbc 4 the $1,000 water bill case is now resolved. a letter from the water department confirming it. >> that her position was correct, she had not used the water, and the bill is to be corrected. >> this is great, she's been absolved of owing this money. there's only one problem. >> well, she's gone. it's postmarked a year and a day after she died. >> reporter: daughter-in-law ellen is certain the water bill affected jeannette cohen's health. >> there's no question in my mind. she was having trouble eating, she was -- her blood pressure was spiking, she wasn't getting dressed anymore. she always got dressed. she was a lady. >> i think she would be very pleased. i can hear her saying, well, i don't understand why we had to go through all this. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news 4, washington. >> ellen and david cohen do say they hope jeannette's story will prompt any water department or any other agency, for that

i am david cohen who is carla cohen's husband. she and barbara meet with the stellar staff at politics and prose and you, the engage and articular lovers of books and ideas for and community of writers, publishers, editors and agents that made politics and prose into more than a brick and mortar bookstore. it is a thriving community institution. it is a setting for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and a public space where people meet and talk and disagreed and do it in a civil way and it will continue that way under the leadership of its new owners, brad graham and alyssa musket. continuity will-around ideas and public space. i want to introduce frances fukuyama tonight because i respect him even though as i told him i'd taught civil society activists in asia and africa, work on civil society and we had a lot of vigorous discussion about the end of history ten or 15 years ago. that is one reason. be more important reason is he is an open-minded scholar who embraces big ideas, who is not encapsulated by silos or artificial

david campos is with us. [applause] supervisor ross mirkarimi. [applause] and supervisor malia cohen. [applause] where is supervisor scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause]

diversity that our board of supervisors represents -- and i want to thank ross mirkarimi, david campos, and malia cohen who are here with us today -- but it is an honor to serve with three other asian-american supervisors. we finally reflect the population statistics that we have here in san francisco. more importantly, it was an incredible honor earlier this year to take part in an historic, unanimous vote for the first time in our city's history to have an elected leader at the top of galt mountain, our first chinese- american mayor, edwin lee. [applause] as i look out onto the audience and i see who we all represent, i see our chinese a brother and sisters, our japanese and korean on and on calls, our cousins from the filipino community, the vietnamese community, the cambodian community, thai community, burmese community. i want to thank you all for making up the diaspora of our diverse community. and i want to thank those of you who are not asian on the outside but our asian on the inside. [applause] thank you for being part of the richness of who we are common here in san francisco. and i want to

diamond to be a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system, the honorable david s. cohen to. be undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes come u.s. department of the treasury. mr. daniel to the assistant secretary for finance u.s. department of treasury. miss wanda, the first vice president of the expert and ahe bank of the united states, andtn the honorable john robert ulvaney to be a member of the e board of directors for the export/import bank of the unite states. un at a time when our economy and financial markets are in fragile recovery recovery, it is vitally important that we do our job here in the senate to act on the president's nominees in a timely manner. i support the nominations and recommend a committee report unfavorably. to the full senate -- and that the senate as quickly as possible on their explanations. ranking member shelby and i have agreed to move the nominations for this closer, falling in mr. albini and block the advisable. we will then hold a roll call vote and mr. colin n. roll call vote. senator shelby, would you like to make a statemen

we will now have a roll call vote on the nomination of mercer david cohen to be undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, u.s. department of treasury. the clerk will call the roll. .. [roll call] [roll call] >> maza nomination is reported to the full senate. we will vote on the nomination to be a member on the board of governors of the federal reserve system. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] >> the vote is in favor the nomination. >> hereby ordered reported to the full senate. the executive session is adjourned. i want to provide my colleagues the record will remain open the next seven days for anything you'd like to submit. our witnesses today have all been before this committee numerous times this year so i will keep the intersections briefed. the executive secretary of the u.s. department of the treasury the honorable ben bernanke is currently serving as second term as chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. the honorable sheila bair is the chairman of the federal department insurance corporation and recently announced she will be st

we will now have a roll call vote on the nomination of mercer david cohen to be undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, u.s. department of treasury. the clerk will call the roll. .. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the voters 18 to four into ahe nomination is passed. >> the nomination is hereby outt reported to the full senate. we will now vote on thee nomination of mr. peter dimond to be a memberfederal reserve system. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] >> the vote is in favor the nomination. >> hereby ordered reported to the full senate. the executive session is l wat to provide my col i want to remind myagurd colleagues the record will be open the next seven days for anything you'd like to submit. our witnesses today have all l been before the committeemmitt numerous times of this year so i will keep the introspections brief. the executive secretary of the u.s. department of the treasury the honorable ben bernanke is currently serving as second term as chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. the honorable sheila bai

i know david chiu is here, jane kim, carmen. ross mirkarimi. malia cohen, of course. our city attorney. we have representatives from mrs. harris's office and city public safety officials. jose ses -- cesnaros our d.a. george gascon. jeff, the public defender, many conversationse conversationsen:the sheriff, juvenile probation chief. office of citizens complaints. joyce hicks. edit harringto harrington. edit harringto harrington interim chief, thank you for your wonderful service being interim chief. a number of members of our police command staff. certainly the police commission. mr. mazuko i want to thank you for a very thorough job in presenting to me the best candidates the commission could produce. it has been an amazing time to work with you and the commission, so, thank you, joe, and others on the commission. thank you very much. [applause] >> our police officer officer association president. gary, it is time to get quiet and go to work. thank you. our police public employee groups. i want to acknowledge greg's son neglect is here along with a very good friend w

necessarily in alphabetical order, supervisor john avalos, supervisor david campos, supervisor carmen chiu, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, and supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott leonor -- wiener. a number of your friends thought it appropriate to reach out to cover the span of mayors over the last fifth leaders, a small fraternity who you are about to join. leading that is lieutenant governor, who will brain some remarks. it was the man who served as a supervisor and whom the voters rewarded by making him lieutenant governor, and he was received by his colleagues at one minute after 1:00, when his tenure was evicted, and he gave an accounting of himself and the time he has been mayor, and now, welcome to the new mayor, gavin newsom. >> sit down those that have seats. let me welcome each of you for taking the time to be there. it is good to be here, and it is a wonderful occasion, and the people that need to be thanked the most are the people of california, because i would not have been lieutenant governor, and there would not have been a vacancy. i am hon

david, a lawyer. >> she is pretty feisty. >> she was. >> tell me something about her. >> stubborn as a mule. >> after a walk in mrs. cohen'sackyard with her azaleas, where david grew up beginning in 1954, david told nbc 4 that the $1,000 water bill case is now resolved. a letter from the water department confirming it. >> that her position is correct that she had snot used the wate and it's been corrected. >> this is great, she's been absolved of owing one mono pep. >> well, she's gone. it's postmarked a year and a day after she died. >> the cohens say janet cohen would have been relieved by the outcome. >> think she would be very pleased. i can hear her saying well, i don't understand why we had to go through all this. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news 4, washington. >>> also tonight there's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to our soaring gas prizes. according to a washington post, pew poll, in their words greedy oil companies for high prices. one in five say unrest in the middle east and north africa is to blame. one in eight believe the political motivation are behind these prices, but we may soon see some relie

cohen. to my right is scott weiner. we are also joined by president david chiu. >> please make sure to turn off all cellular phones and pagers. items acted upon today it will appear on the may 3 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. chairperson mar: we have four items on the agenda today. >> item 1, resolution of intention to vacate a portion of mason st. for the library and joe dimaggio playground master plan. chairperson mar: this item is sponsored by the mayor and president chiu. >> item 2 is a resolution of intention to vacate a portion of mason street to improve the area. presidend ct chiu: i want to thank the members of the public who are here. the north beach library has historically been one of the most overused libraries -- library branches in the entire city. it is one of the three top libraries used in the city. in many dimensions, the library has not been adequate to meet the needs of the community. it has not been accessible to a lot of folks, including our disabled communities. it has simply been an inefficient branch library. f