fortunately, i picked up elizabeth david's book. i digested everything she told me. a lot about eating and seasoning food that is right. i connected in that way. i was able to feed my friends. they loved this. reu didn't really know how to cook. i made a lot of chocolate moose. that led into everything else. i have been on the fringes of the free speech movement in berkeley before. i was ascended by the way people gathered and ate. i just thought, there must be a better way. a more delicious way. [laughter]. so i thought, well, i'll open a restaurant and feed my friends and their friends. who knew that this would be something so strikingly different than what was going on out there. >> here we are in the 1970s, is it the fast foodification? mcdonalds? burger king, they'll have it their way? >> i was looking for real food. i was really looking for the green beans that i had in france. you go to the market and couldn't find the green beans. i thought, those weren't the green beans. they didn't taste like the french. i had a passion about flavor. philosophically, i wasn

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with david cameron at 11:00, followed by a working lunch, and then the two men will hold a jet -- a joint press conference. another fight is brewing and capitol hill about whether or not elizabeth warren should run the new consumer protection agency. created by the financial regulation bill that president obama is slated to sign into law this wednesday. we want to get your reaction this morning. what do you think? effigy run that agency? "the wall street journal" has the headline, "democrats agonized monday over whether or not president obama should take the lives of more and to be the first finance regulator, an indication of the intense fight to come. she is one of at least three finalists for the post created by overhauling financial regulation. many bankers and republicans claim that she would be an activist regulator, pushing for policies that would crimp of bank profits and consumers access to credit. she would need some republican support to survive senate confirmation. liberals have pushed hard for her nomination. a liberal activist group said they had collected close to 140,000 signatures for a petition urging the white house to nominate ms. warren on monday. carolyn m

host: elizabeth lynam is the deputy research director for the citizens budget >> saturday, on "washington journal," look at unemployment numbers by emily kaiser. then, david kramer, former deputy ve-- he discusses what it means for russia relations. later, a look at state budgets continues with john hall who talks about his state's $6 billion shortfall. we take your calls and e-mail slide every morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> now, a look at political campaign ads that canada -- that canada is our bunning in several collections. >> today, we want to take a look at some new campaign ads that are running in a few key senate races. joining me is amy walters, the editor in chief of the "national journals." give us a recap of what happened with the race for the senate seat in that state. >> this is former senator obama 's seat. had he stayed in the senate, he would be up for this election cycle. congressman mark kerr is a republican from chicago. if you look at the state, it is a pretty blue state. the president did very well there. democrats could easily hold on to that seat. a funny thing happened along the way. the family of jack an