chair, tim kaine; former party chair ed gillespie; and legendary republican strategist ed rollins. we will get analysis from john harris of politico and karen tumulty of "the washington post." then, final thoughts on melvin laird, the long-ago secretary of defense who is worried about the all-volunteer army he created and where we are in afghanistan. but first, american politics on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. well, it is not often that a president pleases people on both sides of the political spectrum. but it is fair to say, when president obama said muslims have a right to build a mosque near ground zero where the twin towers fell, it pleased many on the liberal left; and it is also fair to say that it just delighted many on the republican right, because they feel it is an issue they can use against him, not only in the coming elections but all the way into 2012. so i want to start there, and i'm going to poll t

i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a nephew, sean patrick mcflynn. i always question myself because my writing about the irish is really my writing about myself coming to the united states and coming into contact with the united states so consequently my puerto rican friends, and some of my irish friends, although they were more circumspect, what are you doing writing about the irish? i'm writing about the united states. the irish are more interesting. they had to put up with colonialism, just as puerto rico is a colony of the united states. i also respect the fact that they have a facility with language, which i also enjoy. consequently, i wondered why this attraction to th

ed mitchell, last crew member of "apollo 14" to walk on the earth. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, scott. a pleasure to be with you. >> an honor to be with you. let's start with the more recent news that president obama has discussed this idea of canceling the latest missions that would have gone to the moon. the next set of missions. what was your reaction to that? >> i'm disappointed. however, there were problems with the technologies that were coming along. i understand. i'm not close to them. and also the president has an enormous task of rebuilding our economy and so i understand that that's his prime objective. however, recent developments from nasa itself suggests that where this is going is using the nasa to encourage private entrepreneurial activity in space opposed to all being primarily funded and promoted by government. but in other words bringing private contractors in. so that seems an appropriate direction very much like the beginning of aviation. very shortly we have aviation companies and we now have airlines. maybe we'll hav

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a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to -- >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these h

- ed markey on the safety of seafood from the gulf of mexico.hen, a look of the future of iraq with christopher hill. >> one of the things i regretted about political and rhetorical life in the washington is that every major figure, from the president on down, is merely reading what someone else and some other committee has produced. more about presidents and architects of power. tonight, he will share his insights on washington on c- span's show. >> our guest this week on "newsmakers" is representative ed markey. this week on thursday he held that the latest oversight hearing looking at the facts of the bp oil spill in the gulf. thank you for being here today. let me introduce our reporters. this is jeff from cq, and david is from "the washington post." we will begin with you. >> since the oil stopped flowing, there has been an increased focus on the long going effects of the spill. as much as 75% of the oil the begun -- using that is a mistaken estimate? >> when the government released their work, they should have released the analysis that wo

a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to -- >> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and

ed students in english language arts. however, again i am going to bring you down to the number of students tested because some of them, the students, have now the option of taking capa or c.m.e. similarly in math we saw significant increases with the special ed students in both the previous year and this last year. disaggregating it by grade level, we have seen that in the last five years, there has been around a 5% to 10% increase in the grade level gains across all grades. in english language arts, a trend that was noticed was that for grades two, three and four, there was a flattening,. we didn't see significant improvement, but we did in grade five at the elementary level. in math, at all grade levels there was significance growth. math was much more distinct. the largest gain we saw was again at grade six. we've never seen a 6% increase in grade six. one of the reasons that could be infered if those gains is that this was the first group of kids that had everyday math in the elementary and were now moving on to sixt

a big round of applause for ed lee. ed this would not have happened today if not for ed lee. ed lee, thank you very much. [applause]. the only change today that i want to -- >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to

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this is ed. this is my last time here. hate to make him do it all, but it will end up being that way. my daughters get too emotional. >> it is better if you don't come back. >> they were not subprime are worse. their loan was modest. the bank offered $500,000, but then he lost his job. >> everything fell apart. the banks would not work with us. they acted like they would give us a loan modification and they knew things were bad, but they said for a year they would work with us and a couple months back they told us no. >> we don't have any other debt but the property. we were getting our affairs in order so we could stay here. >> why did you take at this mortgage in the first place? >> at that time i was making $4,800 a month. i have never been out of work this long in 30 years. this is the worst i have ever seen it. i have always been able to travel to find work. but i have not been able to find any work. >> do you blame the banks or the government? >> obama passed something down where it would help small people and it wen

the discussion about special ed would take place through another form. i was not aware that special and would be discussed. i thought student assignment would be discussed through special ed. >> we were going to have the committee as a whole. >> i want to take issue with that. i think it is the last meeting -- at the last meeting, i threw temper tantrum and said i wanted to have a conversation with parents. my understanding is we were going to do this in september or october and people need to know. when are we going to have this conversation i was promised? >> i am talking about planning for the board. that is why i am asking. >> before we get to that discussion, we need to hear the presentation of the recommendations being made on special ed. what day is that scheduled for? do you have that? september 14. we will schedule it after that. >> i would do it at this committee if you want, but we would have to add a meeting at the end of september or wait until the middle of october. >> whatever the pleasure of the board, i just want to have the conversation

ed whitacre announced he's stepping down. a federal judge delayed resuming gay marriage ceremonies in california until at least next wednesday. and numbers for july showed a new surge in home foreclosures. the "newshour" is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari? >> sreenivasan: on paul solman's "making sense" page, find all of his reports from europe and more follow up to his story on the so-called 99ers' who've been out of work for over 99 weeks tonight, the story of an unemployed woman facing years of condo fee payments on her foreclosed home. and there's more from our "cyber security" series-- watch a breakdown of some of the digital loopholes that allow online banking fraud. plus from our politics unit, a q&a with historian richard norton smith on tensions between the political left and democratic presidents. how does the obama administration's relationship with the liberal establishment compare with president's past? all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> lehrer

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. >>> finally tonight, you might remember our person of the week, ed stafford.ttempted to hike the entire length of the amazon river. everyone told me it was impossible, ed said, and i wanted to prove them wrong. today, he did. here is bill weir. >> reporter: if you think your summer vacation has been too steamy, too stingy, trust me, you've got nothing on this guy. ed stafford has spent the last 2 1/2 years machete-whacking and snake-dodging, partly for rain forest awareness, mostly to be the first. >> it's very easy to go into the jungle for two days, and great fun. for a week, it's a bit more of an ordeal. for two years, it's ridiculous. >> reporter: of the 4,000 plus miles, his feet have been wet for 1,000. he's worn out three pairs of boots, four pairs of crocs and two pairs of rubber wellies. after his original partner quit, a friendly peruvian named cho offered to join him for a few days and never left. and together, they survived anaconda and piranha, foot rot and dysentery, cocaine smugglers and hostile tribes. >> it was five dugout canoes, full of amer

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it wouldn't work, ed. if we both did the same thing.ke when me and jerol do the father and son. it wouldn't work if i rolled on the floor and he rolled on the floor. it wouldn't work if someone wasn't laid back. i took the same formula that me and walt use. jerol shoots through the roof when we do the father and son. i'm the laid back guy that i'm just singing. i'm the setup man and he's the man that takes it to the next level. >> let me take you to something, no secret, this has been a rough year. the death of a child is no one can conceive upon anyone. it's nothing anyone can understand unless you go through it. >> i don't think you ever quite get through it. i have good days and i have bad days. some days it's just so unbelievable that he's not here. you know, you know i wished i could maybe wake up and it was a dream you know what i'm saying? i would rather him to get seriously ill and i have to spend all the money, all the time, to get him hospitalized, to get the best doctors, to try to -- and i could have grew to the point that i

it's really been a remarkable experience for guys like ed lee our cao, for daniel and others who have gone to broodmoore and felt the remarkable connection. and have felt a great sense of responsibility to help out. in the spirit of that, we ask latoya cantrell to come here and talk about her struggle, her challenges and her resolve. because i think what she represents is the best of what so many of you represent. and for the grace of god every one of us could be put in the same position as latoya but how many would have the courage to become latoya? and actually step up and not give up. and so that's why we thought we couldn't get a better speaker today for a neighborhood empowerment necessary work initiative than someone who is empowered her neighborhood and networked her community across now this country. and notably and significantly in san francisco to talk about what she's done. she's an inspiration. featured in time magazine, new york times. "wall street journal." even tried to get her to run for political office she said, why would i do that? when i could do so much more as th

in a surprise announcement, ed whitacre is stepping down as g.m.'s c.e.o. at the end of the month, and will keep the chairman's job until year's end. board member daniel akerson will take over as chief executive september first. but, reuters says that change could push back g.m.'s i.p.o. filing for a few days, since new management would have to be noted in the paperwork. akerson is the managing director at the private equity firm, the carlyle group, and doesn't have a manufacturing background. he'll be g.m.'s fourth chief executive in less than two years. auto analyst rebecca lindland says the management change shows the company is focused on its finances. >> they feel like they have good people in place that are running the rest of the company, and that have manufacturing and automotive experience, and they've got to get somebody that has an even broader range of experience with wall street doing these kinds of deals, maybe even executing the i.p.o., just really somebody that's very, very comfortable with these kind of financial decisions that need to be m

renee rivera. >> thank you, ed. it is a wonderful day to be here at the san francisco bicycle coalition we are so excited about these wonderful changes to valencia street. we have been around san francisco for quite a few years now and have been working on making valencia street a better place for biking and for everybody for many years. in fact, i was thinking back to 1999 when we first saw the bike lanes that have just been improved put in on valencia street and what an incredible day that was for this street and bicycling in the city. one thing we saw after the lanes were put in is first of all a huge number of people coming out and biking on valencia street making it one of our most popular bike corridors in the city. but we have seen the neighborhood blossom and thrive and seen the businesses thrive. that is one thing that makes us so excited about today and the changes that have just been put in. because we know from our experience in the past how much these improvements and how much making better space for bi

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former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, mayor of new york city, michael jt pennsylvania, ed rendell. finally, an assessment of the many political and leadership tests for the president from jobs to ethics charges against congressman rangel laid out this week. with us, author and historian, doris kearns goodwin, and "time" magazine senior political analyst, mark halperin. >> from nbc news in washington, "meet the press" with david gregory. >> good morning. july is now the deadliest month for u.s. troops in the nine-year war in afghanistan. with us, the president's principle military adviser, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, david. >> we just played for our viewers strong comments by you about these leaks. you indicated those who are responsible for making these secret documents public may already have blood on their hands. a strong statement. what specifically do you mean? >> the scope and volume of these leaks are unprecedented and the specifics of them and i've been through some of them but we

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at the end of the day, we celebrate his work, your work, eds work -- ed's work, and all of you here. we are proud to be here today. now come back and shop and eat. [applause] >> good afternoon, open to the full board of supervisors. >> supervisor avalos is absent, can we have a motion to recuse him today? without objection, he shall be excused. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i have no agannouncements. >> items one through six, this is the consent calendar. >> would anyone like to separate any of the items from 1-6? please. >>aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >>aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> these resolutions adopted and the ordinances are passed. >> item 7 is an ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to authorize a grant from $75,000 from the california department of toxic substances control and the amending of the ordinance to reflect the addition of one grant funded position. >> this ordinance is passed. >> item 8, ordinance amending the police code for increasing the fines of would ring, pursued, concealed weapon, for certain crimes on