david marks, senior editor at the politico.re any of them further at reaching an agreement? >> know, there is no reason to believe that any of these plans being put forward at this point by congressional republicans are going to break through truly and become laws. senate democrats have their own plans. president obama has his own ideas. but so far there has been no meeting of the mines and we are looking at a stalemate with days ds withmeeting of the mine just days to go before the default. the cru>> there is some optimist an agreement will be reached. how unfounded is this optimism? >> some traders believe that members of congress and the president will not let it get to the point of default. talking to some in the financial sector they also believe that an extension of this deadline, this august 2nd, maybe it is not set in stone. maybe there is some leeway. but at this point in the financial sector, if there is not seem to be much urgency about it. >> is this not all about reaching a short-term solution, getting the debt cei

. >>> i spoke with david mark earlier tonight. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> a lot of senators are a bit upset that they have to come back on tuesday when they thought they have the week off. but imports and staff. >> there is unfinished business dealing with this debt ceiling it is essentially how much money the government can borrow. if there is not an agreement reached in the next three weeks there is big trouble ahead. the treasury department says that the default is coming. they seem to think that it is imperative that they reach a deal. >> it seems like a broken record. they have been saying that for months. what will be different? >> they are building of the best position. they're waiting for the best possible moment. republicans do not want to commit to any tax increase, any type of revenue raising. they're saying to cut spending. democrats say that we have to raise taxes do something different. they're still a good distance apart. but president obama is getting involved in these negotiations personally. the

syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. it's good to see you both. >> few. >> woodruff: so we're just watching a tough situation in california. we've got another kind of a tough situation here in washington. mark, what about this ongoing stalemate over the debt limit? does it look like they're going to reach an agreement and not breech the deadline? what do you think? >> judy, anybody who-- at this point is really just shooting in the dark. i am hopeful that they will. i think that the more likely scenario is that the senate works first. i think senator-- republican leader mitch mcconnell came up with something that was devilishly shrewd with his proposal to basically yield responsibility for the budget process, appropriation process from the congress and putting all the responsibility on raising the debt on the president it politically puts the blame there, in his judgement. gets by the possibility of the government closing down and avoids as he put it damaging the republican brand with a showdown or shutdown. and damaging

. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, tell us what's going on? >> jim, what you've just seen is the rupture of the summit. this had been a summit deal, involving the speaker of house, a republican and the democratic president of the united states. nobody else had been really party to it other than eric cantor, the republic house leader. but the democratic leadership, the house and the senate were not party to it. nor were the republicans in the senate. so it came down, he said-- he said break up and the time is now short. i mean the grand deal appears to be in shamables. and now the urgency is to raise the debt ceiling and get it done. >> lehrer: what do you think happened? >> shambles, a complete meltdown, apparently. i've never seen a presidential press conference with the president so angry in public. and you know, i sort of think he's maybe mostly right on substance. he laid out apparently in the next few hours they are he going to be laying out the details of what the white house offer was. there were a

perry, mark moreale and david webb. talking about the policy issues, foreign policy around afghanistan, around osama bin laden in particular. i want to shift gears a little bit. david you had a comment you ke. >> yeah i want to add to something mark said. i understand and there are the political credits due to the president. after all the decision is his, but this has been an ongoing professional process, and whether it was jimmy carter, bill clinton, reagan, bush or whatever, all presidents have to deal with the process that happens to take an action. it's not just he gets the credit or the blame for the success or the failure, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that there are professionals that have spent almost a decade tracking osama bin laden. >> i think one of the challenges people accused obama of not having been aggressive enough on terror, he wasn't following the bush plan. >> most of his policies have followed exactly what came out of the bush administration with the war on terror. he's followed the war time pol

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so we have got david adderfield, byron yee, mark casagrande, and i would like to ask you all to join me in thanking them for their support of art in storefronts. [applause] today, we have to thank as well the artists who were selected to be part of this program. i want to read their names and ask you all to collectively acknowledge them. [reading names] [applause] let's give them all a big round of applause. [applause] you know, these are the artists that competed for this honor and distinction out of a pool of about 150 applicants. it really gives you a sense of how many artists are active in san francisco, how many artists want to be part of bringing their art to the public. so it is a great distinction and honor for them to have been selected. thank you so much for everything that you did and your contribution to make art in storefronts a success. if i come back to the microphone, i want to be able to introduce -- we have two distinguished speakers. do you have an order of preference? [laughter] i'm going to introduce first our president of the board of supervisors and a great sup

we are joined by members of the committee vice chair supervisor mark farrell, board president david chiu. the clerk of the committee today is -- do we have any announcements? >> [clerk announcements] supervisor campos: thank you. please call item one. >>item 1. ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by amending sections 14.1, 14.3, and 14.4 of the health care security ordinance to provide that only amounts actually paid or irrevocably committed to pay for providing employee health care services shall satisfy the employer expenditure requirements of the ordinance, add an employee notification requirement, and to modify penalty provisions. supervisor campos: this is an item that i introduced. before our call the first presentation on an item, i want to begin by thanking my colleagues on the board of supervisors who have co- sponsored this legislation. supervisor john avalos, ross mirkarimi, malia cohen, jane kim. i also want to thank members of my staff who have been working on this for quite some time. i would also like to thank the city attorney's office, a number of st

. >> reporter: the last days of general david petraeus's command have been marked by two major events: the president's decision to begin withdrawing u.s. forces and days later an audacious attack on one of kabul's most important hotels. general petraeus told us the assault should not be seen as a setback. do you really think that the afghan security forces are ready if they can't protect a major hotel in the cap all? >> i can tell you that our special forces who were sporp not leading and not doing-- for the afghan forces who saw the crisis response unit said that they responded very courageously. in fact, that they took the loss of life with the wounded in action i think underscores that fact. >> reporter: but the training of afghan forces is uneven at best. witnesses at the hotel told us some afghan police ran away from the suicide assault. time for training afghan forces will soon be running out. president obama plans to withdraw about one-third of u.s. forces in little more than a year. it's no secret that you wanted a slower drawdown than what was announced by the obama administr

mayor scott weiner was there, and we were joined by board of supervisors president david chiu last friday morning to mark this milestone. the next item is related to the pride parade. the city will attract up to a million people to its 41st annual san francisco lgbt pride celebration, which will culminate in a festival saturday and sunday in the civic center and a parade up market street on sunday beginning 10:30 a.m. at biel street. our marketing teams have partnered with the event organizers to prevent riding muni throughout the week. this will entail expansive rerouting of our muni services as well as a great deal of support from our parking control officers to deal with congestion and traffic issues. next on my report is the return this summer, 2011. we are pleased to announce the reconstruction of the california cable caroline and the propulsion system projects are both substantially completed. this project team is a team that has included transit, corporate communications. we also worked with the department of public works since last fall on these vital projects. and most notably, the california ca

. >> mark, moderate conservative voices like david brooks of "the new york times" are telling republicans it's time to make a deal. brooks wrote this week and it got a lot of attention. if the debt ceiling talks fail, independent voters will see that democrats were willing to compromise but republicans were not. if responsible republicans don't take control, independents will conclude that republican fanaticism caused this default. they will conclude that republicans are not fit to govern and they will be right. got a lot of attention. i asked senator jim demint about it. and he said, well, david brooks doesn't speak for true republicans. that's what he said. >> he doesn't speak for jim demint, that's for sure. he certainly doesn't speak for some of the house freshmen that were elected on the whole idea -- this whole tea party fols fi that they're going to come to washington and shake things up, basically be obstructionists. but david brooks is absolutely right. what weave seen here in washington is kind of a sad note over the past couple of years. we've seen negotiators and compromisers

mayor scott weiner was there, and we were joined by board of supervisors president david chiu last friday morning to mark this milestone. the next item is related to the pride parade. the city will attract up to a million people to its 41st annual san francisco lgbt pride celebration, which will culminate in a festival saturday and sunday in the civic center

lehrer: and to the analysis of shields and gerson-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "washington post" columnist michael gerson. david brooks is away tonight. mark what do you make of that fannie mae story? >> well, the -- for home ownership is something i can recall president clinton speaking about it, president bush speaking about it, how important it was, a measure of achievement in the country. but as you go to the story of fannie mae, what it comes down to is they privatized profit. in other words, whether it's the investor. but they socialize losses. in other words, everybody else in the country picks up the tab when it doesn't, when it goes under. that is really --. >> lehrer: while you're making money yourself. >> you're making money, it's mine. >> lehrer: but if i lose t it's yours, government. >> it's yours, taxpayers. and i think that's a really bad public policy. >> lehrer: michael? >> well, it's still also the political context in which everyone's operating right now. as far as i know the president didn't have anything to do with this. but the bursting bubble of the housing market has really undermined c

we are joined by president david chiu, as well as a mark farrell who will be here shortly. we want to thank sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> i would like to announce to please turn off all riinger volumes on cell phones. and--- ringer volumes on cell phones. supervisor campos: thank you. if you could please call item one. >>item 1, hearing to receive regular status reports on the america's cup. supervisor campos: this is something i introduced with supervisor mirkarimi. we want to make sure that we provide the necessary oversight in the implementation of this -- of the various agreements that are implemented, and more specifically to make sure that all of the interests of the city and county of san francisco are protected come into the extent that there are certain obligations that those are met not only on the city part, but on the part of the cities involved. we have been joined by committee vice chair supervisor farrell. with that, i will turn it over to stop. >> good morning. mike martin and office of economic and w

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mark shields is away tonight. david, the news of the world thing in britain, sarah ellison said a few moments ago, told ray that we're not immune from this. we the united states and the american press is not immune from this kind of stuff either. what do you make, what do you think about that? >> well there are some ways the british press culture is very different than ours t is more incestuous than ours ey all shower together and edin so they know each other since they were eight years old. there is also a bad boy ethos in some of the tabloids, we break the rules, we get story, we snoop, we're rats. and we don't quite have that tabloid culture but there are some dangers here which we should be aware of. first, prying. we pry. my first day on the job as a police reporter in chicago i'm 22 years old, whatever. a kid commits suicide and i have to call all the neighbors and figure out why. so that is snooping. a guy diesing midlevel city official dies, i have to get a quote out of is wife that is snooping, that is what we

>> david walker i was very impressed by david walker and the senator. >> mark warner. >> great. >> willie, what did you learn? >> the overwhelming response from viewers is call me when this is over. they're starting to get lost. >> i know. enough. all right. willie, "way too early" what time is it. >> "morning joe." stick around for "the daily rundown" with chuck todd. >> if you at first don't succeed try try again. speaker john boehner gets ready to bring his revised debt limit bill to the floor for a vote. but is it dead on arrival in the senate? with the august 2nd deadline looming there's only one hard part about playing chicken, knowing when to swerve. who's it going to be? and four straight days of market losses. the world is watching. are they losing faith that a deal can happen? good morning from washington, it's thursday, july 28th, 2011. i'm chuck todd. this is day one of six this is it kind of days. the beginning, not the end of the end. let's get to my first reads of the morning, call it a jam session. house republicans want to jam the senate, democrats want to jam the house,

thousands of people have gathered in trafalgar square to mark a year until the opening of the olympics. david reports on a day that has been a showcase for the organizers achievements so far. >> it was here six years ago that london celebrated its surprise victory in the race for the 2012 olympics. tonight, trafalgar square was the setting for another party, this time to mark the 12-month countdown to the opening ceremony. >> with a year to go, is on time, on budget. the great stadium is finished. the aquatics center is finished. the velodrome is finished. i believe this can be a great advertisement for our country. >> amidst all of the british pride, there was a -- there was actually an official purpose to today's festivities. >> i invite the athlete of the world to participate in the games in london one year from today. london.ss pu >> earlier today, i asked jack rubber how he -- the shock rogge how he assess the progress so far. >> it has come very far. i am optimistic and a happy man. >> tom daly has just completed the first dive into the olympic pool. but this time next year, it will not

. >> limon inmate david laudone has felt like a marked man for nearly a month now. he had gone to authorities and reported ha two other inmates were extorting him and forcing him to violate prison rules. one of the men is tommy holloman, the leader of a prison gang known as 211. the other, jason wright. but now only one of them remains at limon. >> we went on lockdown. and they shook tommy down and his cellie. it was a long shakedown, too. it was probably over an hour. maybe even longer than that. >> we had information that he was involved in drugs. we sent staff over to shake his cell down. and they found what tested positive for meth. >> they took him to the hole that night. two days later he was gone. they moved him. >> we just figured it was better to get holloman out of the cell and out of the picture because his name just keeps coming up. every time something seems to be happening and we get to the bottom of it, it leads to him. he's got enough clout that he can always have one of his cronies take the rap for it. it's best to give him a new start somewhere els

david weaver, social administrator for communications at nasa. mark, additional news at npr. captain mark kelly, astronauts, two-time shuttle pilot, commander, most recently commander of sts 134. spouse of a member of congress that has traveled to space. skip over the podium. melissa with news took media. she is the very effective speakers' committee chair who helped to get things going here for armor speakers' committee. lee perry man is the director of emps with associated press. he has organized two luncheons in a very short amount of time, and we are grateful for that. lowry is the nasa deputy administrator. elaine is the director in chief -- the editor in chief of "aerospace america." chris chambers, a professor at georgetown university and commentator for "russia today." mark, executive director with goi foundation. former national security assignment editor, reuter correspondent and pentagon producer at abc news. [applause] today's luncheon is not just about charles bolden, but about the future of nasa, which he leads. it is about his vision, president obama's vision,

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