the democrats they would have split the tea party movement into this disaster this electoral disaster in two thousand and ten wouldn't have happened if they had just an obama said in the campaign he wanted to renegotiate nafta oh my god why don't always know what you are korean and they will ride that right intil intill the last democrat was finally beaten in our in our last minute or two here you have a new piece in harper's the confessions of glenn beck is here father coughlin but i don't think that's a he's coghlan was that fascinating man we don't understand how it is that you mean there is there is a lot on hoglan yeah that's how he pronounced it that he cobbled moved from left to right in the course of the one nine hundred thirty s. very you know very curious movement and glenn beck this is what i discovered and i wrote about it in harper's magazine there's all these really peculiar echoes of left wing rhetoric in glenn beck's in the way glenn beck talks the things that the gospel that he said was it happens all the time but you also see this in the tea p

jane is the elder states woman of the san francisco democratic party. it's a pleasure to be here today. you all inspire me. thank you very much president chiu, members of the board. i'm a very happy lady. [applause] >> our next two commendations will be presented by supervisor john avalos. >> thank you president chiu. i would like to thank the commission on the status of women for giving us this opportunity to honor the wonderful women of san francisco. thank you emily morasa, for the great contribution of the city of san francisco. i am going to be honoring today supervisor's campos' honoree who i'm very excited to honor as well. it's an honor to call up marlene hanson. here you are. [applause] you're my honoree as well. ar lean, i've known for about 11 years. i first met you on the run-off election and from there on i really admired you tremendously and see you as a wonderful principle person. it's an honor to honor you here today. she's served san francisco in numerous ways as a feminist activists, the intersection of race, class, and gender are are

business -- had more people out working the grassroots than either the republican party or the democratic party had working on the health-care fight. they have become full-service political parties and we need to understand that if we're going to be serious about talking on what would constitute political reform in this day and age. c-span: you know, we start off talking about the teleprompter at that speech. and in the middle of your book you talk about a fellow by the name of larry o'donnell and the pen... >> guest: yes. c-span: ...and the quote, "you will force me to take this pen... >> guest: yes. c-span: ...veto the legislation and then we'll come right back here and start all over again. " how important was that moment in that speech when the president threatened to veto if he didn't get it all? >> guest: well, we ought to -- larry o'donnell was senator pat moynihan's chief of staff on the senate finance committee, which meant that he was sort of the guardian of one of the major passageways to the floor for that health-care legislation. he found his dealings with the clinton white house m

hard working americans in wisconsin it's really an unconscionable budget amazing ending the democratic party was constant has filed an ethics complaint against scott i mean walker they're planning to file a probe this week essentially saying that walker possibly valid over campaign finance rules or ethics rules in his conversation with the fake david koch if you will you know walker alluded to g.o.p. senators g.o.p. lawmakers in some areas sort of being under attack or wavering about their support on walker's sort of union busting the repair bill and so as walker you alluded to these people could use some support he was attempting to conspire to to to to get a big owner to to bring some money in in a way that was a violation of law it was cancer it's about the ethics laws that's what the democratic party is looking at you know it was you coordinating with these this massive donor to run some ads or some kind of support campaign for these on the fence republicans very interesting what lisa how long do you think that the wisconsin fourteen will be able to hold out and and given that the govern

were still largely representing the people so the coxon army set out to defund the democratic party by destroying the unions using their shill tea party republican elected officials think scott walker and given the power rich people like these have now because of the supreme court's citizens united decision even the president united states was probably really a pretty good guy seems to be cowering before the danger of millions being jumped in to do heating his reelection he's being careful not to anger the banks toure's or the nuclear industry or the coal barons or the transnational companies who want more so-called free trade with korea our democracy has been corrupted it's been corrupted by millionaire lawyers like john roberts being put on the supreme court and by billionaires now being able to pile actions until we cut this cancer of money from politics to the revolving doors and so we cut this cancer out of our government people will continue to lose faith in america first here and everywhere in the world thomas jefferson warned us about this very problem is rolling over in his

presence as the liberal democratic party. do you feel that somehow that structure is now going to be affected as well? >> i would offer that we've been extraordinarily happy to be working with the dpj government over the past years. as i noted in my opening statement, the prime minister, the defense minister, the foreign member, all the senior mailboxes of the dpj government have made strong and forward-leaning statements about the value of alliance and the value of the u.s. military presence? -- in japan and about their commitment to move forward with the realignment roadmap and frf and so we view them as a good and strong partner. >> i understand what you're saying but isn't it true that the reality of it as to the transfer, that japan has yet to come up with approximately their 6 million, 6 billion of the 10 billion price tag and given the disaster, given the catastrophe. what are the probabilities that they're going to pay for the move of the -- part of the marines to guam? >> well, i mean, again, i think that would be hi

standoff last year and more of this developing story is mike tate the chairman of the wisconsin democratic party and i welcome thank you for having me on great to have us here with us have you here with us what exactly is going on in wisconsin i'm hearing stories like like the former staffers of the democratic senators have now been reassigned to republican senators that they might get fired that these guys are going to be a rested well known it's really not a residence a it's a detention in jail with i mean what's with we it's really it's i described earlier is turning into almost a banana republic it is just absolutely an incredible scene you know they've revoked the democratic staffers parking spaces mechanics copy machines you know but more and more importantly they've barred access to the capitol the state capitol which interstate constitution is required to be open to the public a judge ruled that they would governor walker had open the capitol people and he's still in defiance of that order to people can even get into their state capitol so you know i heard today from your communications

a walker a gift in some ways i think he's a gift to the labor man i think he's a gift to the democratic party i think that we're seeing a tremendous growth and enthusiasm and excitement and people who are just stepping up and saying this is too much you know billion dollars at the k. twelve education taking rights away from public employees and it's just too much you know he is saying he's ending the state's recycling program after twenty years he's just saying it was a wisconsin is no longer going to recycle i mean it's just it's gratuitous and it doesn't make any sense it absolutely doesn't mike thanks so much for being with think you very much i appreciate. there's a consequence to union busting is called wealth inequality take a look at this graph. published on think progress today it shows the rate of union membership in our nation steadily declining since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and with the paychecks of america's middle us it's simple without the ability to negotiate better wages and benefits workers have holes in their pockets. and their money is slipping through those

thousand and twelve to win the state of wisconsin what are you hearing jack you in the gym the democratic party's largest funder is organized labor by eliminating organized labor they're trying to eliminate the democratic party. i mean thing david real quick i asked you before i don't know if you were able to hear me i know it's loud where you are are you hearing talk about you know people starting to you know i've heard some of the firefighters are taking money out of the bank there they contributed to governor walker's campaign are you hearing any of this about people wanting to sort of hit them where it hurts where the money is to boycott these businesses you know to tout their so there has been much more talk about a general strike but these are basically just protesters i would say a source of general strike. to the child for the past twenty four hours and they had been over the last three weeks. i spoke earlier today with the with the chief of the firefighters union in madison who said they're also exploring options earlier today the firefighters union and the sheet metal workers union is i

the opposition party the democratic party forum in eight hundred forty by jumping out a second story window but if they were there would he be smashing up the windows with a door with a chair or something i mean isn't this a the larger question i guess is isn't this kind of an extreme measure and isn't making walker look. at the drama in the theatrical don't get in the way and puts it really if they care which is a state that is in dire financial crisis and a serious conflict of. philosophy here there is a public sector unions who really do i think probably believe that this is about corporate bargaining but i think that the taxpayers and i think governor walker realize that this is not about collective bargaining this is about the taxpayers' money this is about recognizing that public sector unions are not. the small sort of counterweights that big business but in fact they are very powerful that they have very large coffers that they are very influential in the political leaders of protocol it's absolutely and so i think that we need to agree on a credit reality and it's going to g

thousand and twelve to win the state of wisconsin what are you hearing do sack you and him and democratic party's largest funder is organized labor by eliminating organized labor they're trying to eliminate the democratic party that was labor journalist like alcan to know university of wisconsin david zines. also going to notional day in wisconsin to an emotional day on capitol hill this as the homeland security committee launched its hearing on the radicalization of muslims are you kalen ford was there housing or. morning the committee on homeland security. chairman peter king launching his hearings on the radicalization of muslims in america complete with beefed up security dozens of cameras so dramatic witnesses and someone to blame we must stop these extremist invaders from rape in the minds of american citizen hearings have received much media attention since they were announced but some say the hearings to look at the underlying causes of muslim radicalization in the united states including the role u.s. foreign policy in the arab and muslim world has played in muslim feelings towards ameri

i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part of the left on the national standard. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco spectrum, and probably considered more middle of the road. -- i am probably considered more middle-of-the-road. i am very independently comes to the issues. i do not vote the party line. a judge each i

parties are now ideologically resorted. this is a first. he used to with heavy solid start for liberals admit democratic primaries in the northeast to have the same thing. today parties are pretty ideologically sorted. a recent survey by national journal shows the most conservative democrat in the senate is more liberal than the most liberal republican. this is the first time in over a generation that's going to be that way in the house this time. most of the blue dog democrats were wiped out as the election became nationalized. their local voting records that became relevant but were caught up with the party. their local voting records that became relevant but were caught up with the party. you now have a very, very liberal democratic party in the house of representatives and a very conservative republican base in the house, where you're most liberal republicans are more conserved than your most conservative democrats. the point and not is that a lot of the issues that were always there in congress and the debates are not partisan in nature. secondly, this last election was the last election -- the first election where you have more money s

democrats. that may change. the green party rise may mean that the greens might get enough votes to form a coalition. as our correspondent reports from the heartland, the nuclear crisis in japan has transformed the election. >> these are angela merkel's people. she is campaigning hard. this is the state in southwest germany that her christian democratic party has run for six years. but now there is a harsh noises. there are cracks in the stronghold. the chancellor knows the nuclear crisis in japan has not helped her government. >> what do those events mean for us here in our land? even the fateful think they now. >> i think the cdu will lose in this election, a little. >> we are suffering from a lot of world problems. >> global impacts for the local residents in a region of nuclear power stations. in the pleasant town, an examination of what is on offer. she weighs things up carefully as she will this weekend. >> she is normally a cdu voter who is about to turn green because she does not like the cdu's policy on environmental m

-l 16 lawmakers in kan's democratic party of japan, or the dpj, rebelled and boycotted the voting. they say kan is not a legitimate leader anymore. their actions imply that they may do the same when it comes to voting on budget-related bills. the lower house's decision on a budget supersedes the upper house under the japanese constitution. but those bills have to pass both houses. without the cooperation from at least one of the opposition parties and the 16 dpj rebels, the bills cannot pass. the opposition is already threatening to veto using their majority in the upper chamber. >>> earlier my colleague catherine kobayashi spoke to nhk world's political commentator masayo nakajima for deelths. >> the lower house controlled by kan's party just passed the budget. however, cannes still needs support of opposition lawmakers in order to pass the budget-related bills which are very necessary in order to fund the budget. however, those budget-related bills need to be approved by both houses, the upper house being controlled by the opposition. it's going to be very difficult for kan to ge

the democratic party had to shore up t union for the wrong political base. sometimes when you cannot understand why politicians are doing something, there's probably aolitical downside to it. guest: and immigration is a very complicated issue. i would not say that is going to solve the state budget issues. there may be some overlap, but those are not going to get their hand in hand. in order to pass comprehensive immigration budget legislation, something that the president would be willing to sign, it will almost certainly have to include a provision that allows people here in this country illegally, some 11 million people, to be gaining citizenship. that is what republicans referred to as amnesty. republicans are more interested in sring up the border. there has been quite a bit down on that. but that is what talking points are focus on. an actual comprehensive solution which has eluded congress for years now has some difficulties is to for each party. there's absolutely no side that that is going anywhere. host: lots more phone calls coming in but i wanted

in san francisco, there are 18 billion is, including the heavyweight democratic party. they control san francisco. sf has the 10 highest gdp of all american cities, 18th in the world. there is extreme wealth here. go down to union square. there is 100 companies that are located here. earlier, an african man was crying here, and a latino woman was crying here. that is a crime, a travesty. that they are crying of here, and these people are pandering to larry ellison. he is worth $18 billion. right? he got the city to give him all kinds of tax breaks, property, everything else. that is who they pandered to and try to tell us we are the problem. it is a crime. these police officers should be addressing them -- for arresting them. san francisco is controlled by the white, the wealthy, and their businesses and corporations. they do not come to a town hall meeting and get two minutes to a top. larry ellison had his ear right away. they stuffed the agenda. they profit from san francisco, and i will tell you -- their agenda is not our agenda. me? i do not give a fuck about race.

larger, well organized parties like the muslim brotherhood or the remnants of the old national democratic party. if we are talking about how to have been in close of political transition, we want a smaller parties to make sure they have a stake in the political system. how did you do that? you have a proportional representation system. even if they get 10% of the vote, they will not be locked up. there will have to% representation. -- of they will have a 10% representation. the that is the kind of thing that civil society can take the lead on. this is not easy, because egypt has not had to have that discussion for 60 years. [no audio] >> this is the kind of role that civil society can play. that is one area that -- so, one last point. in terms of learning from past transitions, this is not the first time a country has gone through a transition. there are other emerging democracies that went through their transitions recently, like indonesia. or the latin american country that had to deal with these same issues. this is where i think civil society in egypt can learn from this past mistakes and l

senate in pennsylvania and democratic primaries the party people don't want me because i want to say that but but why else are all his records sealed why is he spent two million dollars plus in hiding by a very good question still i've got a i've got a theory have you ever seen a debt or a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon. yes you have that they're actually they're actually a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon nobody's ever seen a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon and whenever important people gather there are huge flocks of pigeons i think there were body spies spies the planet xenu and i think that the pigeons have something to do with obama does this make sense well now i don't think that i think the if you really think about it who controls the united states it's not the politicians it's the money people behind this is george soros and other people go out of money remember rock obama when he first in office he said can i keep my black berry no one else has had a black where you saw those people went looking for a kenyan and i think been one of the people who went and said phil berg and other pe

this is amid mounting calls from within the ruling democratic party to use highway toll-related funds for reconstruction efforts. the proposal will suggest shelving a planned cap for freeway tolls on weekdays which was to take effect in april. it excludes toll-free sections already in place on a trial basis which cover 20% of rural highway roads in the country. the ministry says the move will save $1.2 billion. the ministry adds that after june it will scale back the toll-free experiment. $1.5 billion have been earmarked for this program in fiscal 2011. >>> russia says it's ready to boost energy exports to japan to help the country address power shortages that are still affecting numerous households and businesses. deputy prime minister made the proposal in moscow on tuesday. executives from russia's leading energy companies also attended the meeting. they suggest that russia will increase energy supplies to japan saying the march 11th earthquake has put bilateral friendship to the test. russia will send 100,000 tons of lick kwi fied gas to the far east and double the crude oil export

the free democratic party has to emerge as a party which is not only for a tax cut but witches in favor of other policy areas where the party is competent, especially economic policy, human rights, but also social policy. >> what do you think of the options now for chancellor angela merkel? >> well, she has to try to hold together the christian democrats. there are many groups, branches, which tend to get out of the party, which criticize her as a party leader. furthermore, she has to recognize that the german party system has changed, that the green party is in the center now, being able to coalesce with the christian democrat union as well as with the socialist party. that is very important. she has to offer coalition opportunities to the green party. >> in the years to come, do you think people are going to look back at this regional election as the daughter of a new era on nuclear policies? >> people will say that in the near future because of a change from a government run by the christian democrats for 60 years, and now, it is a dream/red government. it is not only the change in p

were unions and i'll give you democrats if we can just get rid of the unions they'll be no more democratic party we can have one party rule the billionaires make up like a fortune like bandits and you know all the people that they've promoted didn't and not not do very well so i think i just don't understand what you have against billionaires. i what why is it ok for a you need to get my feeling that it is not a billionaire in a nation where one in five children live in poverty right and you've got billionaires right you've got a problem what is the problem that some people have way more than they need and some people have way less than me and you think that's never been a problem in any other type of society or system i think that in the united states for a long time during the eisenhower administration for example good republican administration to dwight eisenhower i'm sure you didn't know about the letters he wrote to his brother edgar about this. to eisenhower started in ninety one percent top tax rate did two things we want less and inequality and it did by the way we were far less well the

koch brothers lapdogs scott walker called out the democratic state senate minority leader mark miller for sabotaging negotiations between the two parties and one of the filibustering democratic senators spencer coggs responded by saying that all the democratic senators are firmly behind their leader mark no there are reports yesterday that filibustering democrats were willing to negotiate a return to wisconsin but walker rejected those negotiations calling them ridiculous it's like republicans and democrats are still at an indefinite standoff over what to do in wisconsin but with the majority was consonants and americans firmly in support of public unions collective bargaining rights is the time for walker to throw in the towel joining me now with more on this issue is one of those wisconsin democrats who are taking a stand state senator chris larsen senator walk of the program. thank you so much for having me the associated press is reporting that e-mails released by scott walker's office indicate he may be willing to partially compromise expanding slightly the number of areas where he'll a lot of collective bargaining do you first of

the free democratic party has to emerge as a party which is not only for a tax cut but witches in favor of other policy areas where the party is competent, especially economic policy, human rights, but also social policy. >> what do you think of the options now for chancellor angela merkel? >> well, she has to try to hold together the christian democrats. there are many groups, branches, which tend to get out of the party, which criticize her as a party leader. furthermore, she has to recognize that the german party system has changed, that the green party is in the center now, being able to coalesce with the christian democrat union as well as with the socialist party. that is very important. she has to offer coalition opportunities to the green party. >> in the years to come, do you think people are going to look back at this regional election as the daughter of a new era on nuclear policies? >> ople will say that in the near future because of a change from a government run by the christian democrats for 60 years, and now, it is a dream/red gogornment. it is not only the change in pow

eisenhower they're far closer to the democratic party of today than the republicans are that. michael in his letter to me went on to talk about what pushed him over the edge. he wrote the one word stimulus for my of if any was wisconsin what happened to me was simply a retired teacher of the new york city high schools recalls ronald reagan's eloquent characterization of the teacher as a merican his finest but he announced in august one thousand nine hundred four his goal to put one on board a shuttle mission he was talking of christa mcauliffe as for. what i observe now is a crusade against my profession by republican governors senators congressmen and presidential wannabes egged on by the angry voices of radio and the poison pen writings of the internet and print media. they see nothing less than a glorious opportunity to move in for the kill on all of organized labor. it's a pity that the tea party composed mostly of working folks as emerged as a group of useful idiots in support of policies that will ultimately be their own undoing. conservative power elites must be rolling

she won several elections to serve on our city's democratic party central committee. she's advised not just myself but my spread sessor here as president of the board of supervisor. you can credit her for any decisions that you like and blame me for any decisions that you don't like. we watched the devastating footage coming from japan. think -- i think many of us think about if we're prepared for our next earthquake. gerry founded the north beach resiliency initiative which is a neighborhood council bringing together associations, merchants and residents to prepare for our next disaster. the mayor and i spoke last week about how the north beach resiliency will likely be the next model here in san francisco in how we prepare for our next disaster. gerry, we all love you. thank you so much for all you've done for san francisco. [applause]

tavis: the president is hearing from critics, and the democratic party at their annual meeting last week passed a resolution -- his party passed a resolution encouraging him to get out of afghanistan quicker. they're pressing now on afghanistan. i raise that because he is hearing it from a lot of different people. what are they not hearing? obviously what you are saying, others are saying about the war not been winnable, the strategy is wrong, too many trips, etc., the people are around him are telling him something different, and he is talking with experts. why is he hearing that? >> i would be careful, because i bet if we were having this conversation next september we would see the administration and military have come closer to my point of view that now. i think we will semi-declare victory this summer and after that start pulling out. i believe on the ground, that is the truth that we can do that. for a tactical reason, and i have been on the battlefield for years, but we have never before been able to link the air with the people on the ground to the degree we do now. we have unman