her mother, debra brown, is also present in court. >> okay. >> okay, we're on the record now the cases monique jeffries. >> before delivering his sentence, the judge allows jeffries to make a statement. >> go ahead, ms. jeffries. >> i would just like to say today that i have forgave myself for what i have done. i'm not a savage beast. i'm a human being. i will admit that it got a little bit out of hand, but i just didn't intentionally put my hands on her. i was provoked. i'm only protecting myself, and i can't help it if i protect myself to where i'm not going to let anybody put their hands on me anymore. since my incarceration, i have a new religion as a muslim. i've learned more than i have as a christian. and being a muslim requires a whole lot of structure, and i finally found something that's really going to structure me and help me guide myself to be a better person. >> thank you very much, ms. jeffries. yes, commonwealth. >> yes, thank you. debra brown, who is the mother, is here in the courtroom today, and i believe that she would like to address the court, and if the court wo

to spend more money and not necessarily are they going to get what they want out of jerry brown. >> and, debra, real quickly, former state senator says he now wants to vie for state gop chairman. what kind of relationship does he have with the governor? >> jim gets along with everybody in sacramento. that's one of the reasons why he's sort of an ideal chairman. he is a realist. he wants to get moderates into the party. he's not just -- he's not somebody who's just in the base sort of talk to himself. he's sick of the circular firing squad. so i think jim brolty is sort of kind of old-fashioned politics that we all now talk about that's so great. >> republican party is in the cellar in california, lowest level ever, 30% of the voters. this is a huge job for anybody. a lot of people feel if anybody can do it, jim can. he has lot of respect, a lot of contacts and donors. >> the chairmanship gets filled in march. thank you both for joining us. great to have you on the show. carla marinucci and debra saunders. that's all for tonight. visit us at kqed.org/thisweek for past episodes and segments, to

debra mcclain where every friday night, her parlor is transformed into a bygone area of late night jazz jam sessions. >> it is about community, having something to do, music, food. >> the elegantly restored brownrt of debra's family for six generations. after converted it to a bed and breakfast, she looked for other ways to share it. for basist, eric lemon, it it was about the music and finding a way to revive the music when bed-sti, was the "it" place for jazz. >> it has been strong since the '40s. hip-hop changed the way people were seeing it as a group. all of the sudden, clubs aren't participating anymore. >> so the idea of brown stone jazz was born. ♪ >> on a good night, 50 people will fill debra's parlor, old, young, neighbors, tourists, that pay the $20 cover for a night of music. ♪ >> i would say the jazz is a big old house party. >> that includes an old-fashioned friday night fish fry during intermission. >> this fish is awesome. >> even for people that don't really know that much about jazz, i think it is really easy to enjoy and just be immersed in it. >> but there is more to this audience than first appears. as the evening unfolds, some of the patrons become performers in the open

brown you need 450 to start. really high heat. >> do you cover it, debra? >> i don't.0 to start for 20 minutes. then you're going to take it down a notch to 400 and finish it off for another 20 minutes. >> look how good this looks? look what's happening. >> wear going to pair that with family-friendly roasted vegetables because, you know, it's wintertime. we hear about parsnips and turnips and exotic roots. instead you have broccoli, carrots and red roasted potato with olive oil rosemary. >> that broccoli is rocking. >> my 2-year-old loves it. my kids love it. >> kids will eat their vegetable ifs you do it that way. >> you can finish it off with a little lemon juice to cut that -- >> that's delicious. >> that is awesome. >> kind of brightens it up. >> you never talked about the sauce that you cooked it in. >> you can do a couple of different kinds of marinades. we could do a terriyaki or jamaican jerk. that's a part of the way you get a lot of different flavor varieties for your leftovers. >> try this potato. one of the things can you do with your leftovers is do chick