senator feinstein gave me too much of a role in this. this would not have happened without the mayors who have been involved in this through the years, starting with been near feinstein -- then mayor finds that appeared when i was in her office, she looked, listen, and said, "alright, i will do it, but i do not want to see any junk out there." we have watched the street cars go by. i think we have done a good job of keeping it classy. after the mayor said the very high standard for this service, muni has constantly delivered on it, starting with me when he ran the public utilities commission. he has insured that it rose to a level that is worthy of san francisco. his successors both in the governing body and in management. ed today and his predecessors have kept that going. it is their work, not the work of the volunteers like myself, who are responsible for this system being what it is, and it is time to honor them for that. [applause] i want to particularly on our people who we do not see. we all see the operators, and many of them are

if i may welcome to the podium, our senator, senator feinstein. [applause] >> thank you. thank you.nk you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, it is always nice to come home and get one good round of applause. kind of my morale boost for the week. this is a trip down memory lane for me. as a 6-year-old, i used to ride the f3 car from where we lived around beach st.. i could not read, so i would have to ask the operator to tell me when this streak came up, and, of course, he did, and i am still here. it really developed

if i may welcome to the podium, our senator, senator feinstein. [applause] >> thank you. thank you.nk you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, it is always nice to come home and get one good round of applause. kind of my morale boost for the week. this is a trip down memory lane for me. as a 6-year-old, i used to ride the f3 car from where we lived around beach st.. i could not read, so i would have to ask the operator to tell me when this streak came up, and, of course, he did, and i am still here. it really developed a tremendous fondness in me for these mechanical giants. then, as willie will know and rudy will no -- rudi was deputy mayor for willie, deputy mayor for me, we're joined by a distinguished public utilities commission of that i had the honor of nominating and putting on the commission, dr. flynn, if you would give him a round of applause. [applause] as rudy knows well, the problems are either how you fix it when something goes wrong or how you fund it because public transit systems are expensive. when i became mayor, one of the first

if i may welcome to the podium, our senator, senator feinstein. [applause] >> thank you. thank you.nk you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, it is always nice to come home and get one good round of applause. kind of my morale boost for the week. this is a trip down memory lane for me. as a 6-year-old, i used to ride the f3 car from where we lived around beach

we'll have senator dianne feinstein. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thank you, shannon. >> the latest information where al-qaida is headquarters. word of two drone attacks that took out militants. what is your information with al-qaida in that region? >> i think the sense is, i know the sense is, aqap is the number one threat to your country. there are efforts to get at the bomb maker of this nonmetallic bomb that may be able to go through mag notom meters and the fact that the bomb was recovered intact was a substantial victory and impressive win for the sy. we have to devote our resources to end it could become error complicated. >> the information that leaked out. there are concerns on both sides of the aisle on your counter part in the house mike rogers was upset that it could disred the opportunities and could be a crime . is is what defense secretary leon panetta. >> you have to protect the people and the confidence and the classification and the covert nature of this coined of work. when these leaks take pl

senator feinstein, agnos, jordon, willie brown who may be joining us, with mayor newsom, and now with our great leader, mmirror -- mayor lee, i have had the privilege of working with these mayors. that would not be possible without the work of so many of you here. some of us were on a trip to liberia for our colleague who is newly deceased, but this was several years ago. he was being honored. there were a barrel -- building a library in his name at the african methodist episcopal church in monroevia, liberia. it was boiling hot. there must have been 18 or 20 speakers. everybody that got up named every speaker before him and everyone else in the room. one of the people got up there and said, to all of the

in closing, i would like to thank president obama, leader pelosi, secretaries boxer and feinstein, asder lahood for the commitment to public transit, creating jobs, and investing in san francisco. again, thank you this morning for being here, and let's get it done. appreciate it. [applause]

senators feinstein and thune only on "fox news sunday." also the president changes his mind on gay marriage and now it is a campaign issue. we will ask our sunday panel how it will play out in november with voters. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> shannon: hello again and happy mother's day from fox news in washington. the u.s. in a joint covert operation with saudi arabia managed to block a potential terrorist attack. here to go over what we learned and discuss a dum a couple of domestic issues as well is senator dianne feinstein. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> it good morning, shannon. >> shannon: al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula is head quartered. word of two drone strikes there that took out two. what is the situation with al-qaeda in the region? >> i think the sense is -- well, i know the sense is that aqap as it is called is the number one threat to our country and their efforts to get at the bombmaker of this nonmetallic bomb which may well be able to for through magnetometers and the fact that this bomb was recovered

sen tire feinstein, we are look -- senator feinstein we are looking forward to talking to her.ut this bomb plot. word overnight of two drone strikes and she mentioned the leaks. we will talk about that as well a number of lawmakers from both houses said how concerned they are ongoing operations may have been disrupted because of the leaks. she is also a proponent of gay marriage and has a measure to repeal offensive marriage act we will talk about those things as well. she happens to be plugged into all the hot headlines this week. >> right. interesting as far as the al qaeda plot goes you have republicans and democrats expressing anger. i wonder how far the investigation will go. white house, national security council or low level people. >> we have reports director of national intelligence is launching an investigation that will go across 16 intelligence agencies. will ask senator feinstein whether she thinks the senate will get involved. it is not just here we are hearing concerns but across the world. we had a lot of partners we partnered up on this, saudi arabia, great bri

senator dianne feinstein recently visited afghanistan and met with afghan president ahmed karzeid. they doubt the assurances the taliban will not return. >>> taliban has a shatter system of governors in many provinces that have gone up north and on east, attacks are up, they are attacking that killed over five honored of our people. there is a strength. >>>, that u.s. troops it's babbitt to leave afghanistan by end of 2014. one of america's biggest allies has a new leader. a socialist in france declares victory in france's presidential by-election. he urges unity after a bitter campaign against nicolas sarkozy. he says austerity should not be in the battle. greece entered by long financial crisis punish the politicians who have governed. election results show them supporting anti bailout groups. that means there will not be enough in each party to form a government. a pilot is his plan in san francisco bay but the pilot escaped safely. he was trying to land his amphibious aircraft at palo alto airport. he was unable to extend the nose gear and decided to put the plane down in a mar

go ahead, principle cheng. >> i am the principal of dianne feinstein school of dark side campus. i want to thank them for putting this fourth of the board, he was an amazing person. he did so much to help us grow into the community that we are, and when he passed away last year, i brought it to the pta and said that i really think that because of the work he did in getting the school built and the work that he did with children before that in the work he continued to do, everything from bringing cookies to taking pictures to helping with art in our school, i felt his marriage should live on in some way. i put it forth to the school site council and they voted unanimously to dedicate the room to him, he was also a member of the pta and he did not have any children in our school. he is an amazing man and wanted to give him this memory of being in the school, keeping it alive for ever. >> i was there for the dedication, and i was at -- i was talking to quite a few people including wives and relatives. when i heard the stories and the fact that there was a dedication, i asked the que

we will ask senator feinstein, chairman of the select committee on intelligence. then, the 2012 campaign is in full swing. well talk milks with republican senator john thune who some believe is a top conned materials in the vice presidential sweepstakes. >> president changes his mind on gay marriage and now it is a campaign issue and we ask the panel how it plays out. all right now, on fox news sunday. hello, happy mother's day from fox news in washington. this week the united states did a joint convert operation with saudi saudi arabia and blocked a terrorist attack. and now to discuss a couple of important domestic issues is the chairman of the select committee on intelligence, senator feinstein. senator, welcome behalf to fox news. let's start with the latest information from yemen where al qaeda is basically headquartered. there is word of two drone strikes that took out two. what is your sense over what the situation is with al qaeda in that region? >>guest: the sense, i know the sense is, aqa perform is the number one threat to our country and there are effo

earlier today i spoke to senator dianne feinstein. in the senate on national security issues, chairman of the senate intelligence committee. i began by asking her what it will take to reach an agreement with iran? >> i think all of us pretty much know what the parameters of an agreement are. and i think we also know the window is closing, that israel is quite adamant that this is an existential threat, that she will not let iran achieve a nuclear warhead and that means all kinds of unpredictable military actions. >> when you say everyone is on the same page about a deal, i was talking to prime minister netanyahu and he said he would allow no enrichment, not even the 3% that you would be using if you were using nuclear power for medical use or things like that. that doesn't really seem to be the same page as the united states, though, right? the united states would accept a little bit more, right? >> i don't think that's the united states' position. i think it's confined enrichment to 5%, limited to the medical isotopes. move anything

here is dianne feinstein talking about afghanistan. >> do you think that comparing it to when the huge sent more troops in, is the taliban now weaker or stronger? >> i think we both say that what we found is that the tall lan is stronger. >> so how are we ever going to-- >> michael: so, hastings, i'm going to come to you first. is president obama's afghan afghanistan a big lie. >> i'm going to say it's two-thirds a big lie. have they killed al-qaida leadership? yes. have they broken the momentum of the taliban? no. 20 americans have been killed by afghan soldiers who were there to train. i think we moved into the propaganda stage of the president's policy and what that means is he has to convince the american public that we won so he can start bringing the troops home. that's all it is. and the more resistence he faces from people like senators feinstein and rogers, the more difficult that job will be. >> michael: michael solomon, listening to what michael hastings said here. when it comes to convincing the american public who is 27%, what does he have to do? >> i don't think he has to

i'm pleased that senator feinstein tlaz joined with us. the second proposal would allow us to clear the remanding barriers for refinancing to borrowers with ge ensured loans. while harp 2.0 has given many borrowers an opportunity to reopinions. there are many responsible borrowers who need our help including those with equity in their homes. we support extending streamline refinancing for all borrowers irrespective of their home to value ratio. to the proposal removes potential hurdles like unnecessary pay praisals which will help responsible borrowers. clearing the barrier wills go a long way towards strengthening the portfolios and saving taxpayer money. while refinancing is critical to reducing costs to home owners, we need to ensure borrowers have an opportunity to rebuild equity. savings in our homes is a single biggest source of how we send people to college. it's how most people get capital for a small business and how people save for their retirements. the first of the two equity building proposals introduced today would give all u

afghan government with the chairs of the senate and house intelligence committees, democrat dianne feinstein and republican mike rogers. plus the anemic recovery and the election with the national journal's major garrett and janice rivlin. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> republican leaders and former rivals are gathering around mitt romney's candidacy, but the coalescing lacks a certain warp and fuzzy feature. >> compared to barack obama i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. >> he's the guy. he called and i called him back. we kind of traded some voice mails. >> he's the person that is going to go up against barack obama. it's pretty clear. and we need to win this race. >> i am joined by the latest candidate to exit the race, former house speaker newt gingrich. thanks for being here this morning. >> good to be here. >> my question is these have not been warm embraces. it was a tough campaign, and i get that that's a tough step to take, but do you think that it's time now to try to bring those who would follow you and say, listen to me, i do embrace this guy in a w

we have another -- a number of proclamations that was received from senator feinstein and boxer and othera couple of other people we do have with you. michael sweet is with us and sheriff ross mirkarimi is with us. let's give them around of applause. hansothis is a membership organization. open to any -- anyone. ms. kelly spoke to in her remarks. you wrote him to join us. there is information about the society and refreshments. please join us in the light court. thank you for making this a wonderful kick off. let's give naomi kelly a round of applause again. thank you. [applause] thank you all very much. ♪ >> the question when i started 11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image without the device as bein

so i guess the point is like coming from california, dianne feinstein, barbara boxer.sed to it. we take it for granted. you think about -- >> you think about the west coast, you have a lot of women senators from the west coast. patty murray, olympia snowe -- maria cantwell. you've got women up and down the west coast. >> bill: it is not true across -- my point is it is not true across the country. i hadn't thought of it that way. we still have a long ways to go in terms of parity among elected officials. some very important races. i just mentioned just two of them. >> talking about 12 or 13 women senators. >> i don't know the number. >> it is a small -- 13% of the united states senate. half of the -- 52%, 54% of the country. >> bill: so we have a long way to go which is why what you're doing is so important. >> thank you. >> bill: and what you're doing is so important. we can get these women elected make sure they're democratic women. the other thing -- >> i'm going to tell them i'm going to do my personal plug here. i'm speaking at my high school graduation. >> you're

show exactly lawrence wilkerson being one of the most reputable voices speaking out of the senator feinstein as well so what this house resolution has done that has stood out to me is two things one is essentially said that a nuclear capable iran is unacceptable not an iran with nuclear weapons or anything like that but a new york capable iran and that there's a big difference between the two because having the capability to build a weapon and making the political decision to do so two very different things and our highest levels of our political military and intelligence institutions have said that the iranian government hasn't made that decision yet which is why the obama administration says we have time for diplomacy the other thing that it does is it tries to reduce additional avenues for diplomacy to try to reduce the powers of the president to move forward and and have the latitude that he needs the political space and by extension the political will to move forward with diplomacy so i think it's congress in a way overstepping its bounds not by violating the law but by intentionally re