after calling fishman collect from prison where he's serving one hundred fifty years of sentencing it seems like made off wanted to get a few things off his chest personally he says that he's a good person and he can't believe that nobody wants to hear about all the good things he did as a successful businessman despite the fact that he also is now known as the world's worst swindler when it comes to wall street banks government regulations he likes to spread the blame again calling out the banks that he worked with saying they had to know that there were problems saying that it's unbelievable that no one from goldman sachs has any criminal convictions after the financial crash at which point he also called the new regulatory reform of wall street a joke and called the entire government a ponzi scheme with a good person quote is a little bit questionable when it comes to wall street and the government is he right joining me from our studio in los angeles is richard as senior fellow at the campaign for america's future now richard thanks so much for joining us when you hear bernie mado

we have the streets at fishman whorf on hyde. also very attractive. the opera at civic center. we do not have problems with those. the san francisco streets on how -- powell and post, we have no problem with that. the only building that we anticipate having problems with is the one on pine street. 1000 pine street. >> it sounds like, based on market trends nationally and abroad, that we are doing much better. >> in general. supervisor mirkarimi: as with residential home ownership, there are different class is in tears. i understand that there will be some that will be more protected and stable as opposed to other tiers of ownership. in the middle, on the low side, that sounds an unstable. what does that look like in san francisco? >> 9800 timeshare units, we only have 96 time share, that is a low percentage. we believe that the owners that are delinquent in taxes simply abandoned them. either they cannot afford to take vacation anymore, or they cannot afford to pay the high cost of maintenance. close to $1,000 per year for the maintenance and the insurance. so, they do not feel

. >> while most teens would be happy eating pizza every day, david fishman is different.unique thing on the menu, then writes about it. he's a food critic. to find out what it takes to review a restaurant, "teen kids news" invited david to a meal at "good enough to eat" in new york city. well, the breakfast looks good. >> yeah, that's what they're known for! >> and david is known for reviewing restaurants. he's dined at world class restaurants and sampled the rarest of delicacies, and he's only 13! >> i've always been very passionate about food. ever since i was really young my love for food has grown above almost everything else and i also liked writing a lot more recently and they kind of came together and it became sort of a really passionate hobby for me. >> if eating food can be a hobby, then count me in! let's get this review started, bring on the food! >> i review a restaurant by looking at three different categories that i kinda customize to my own standards. i have food, i have dÉcor, and then i have service. >> what do you think of the presentation? >> it's real

. >> reporter: he called a reporter for "new york" magazine, steve fishman, who taped the calls and plans to release more excerpts all week. >> i think that the reason that he wanted to talk was in some ways to unburden himself in our conversation. >> reporter: the calls started after the suicide of madoff's son mark in december on the two-year anniversary of madoff's arrest. >> i cried and cried. i have tears in my eyes when i am talking to you about certain things, and not a day goes by that i don't suffer. you know, so, you know i may sound okay on the phone. trust me, i'm not okay. i never will be. >> reporter: madoff's former secretary says madoff seems to show no remorse. >> i didn't hear that, you know, mark is gone because of me, and i ruined people's lives. >> reporter: in fact, madoff actually blames his victims for expecting big returns to always be there. >> i made a lot of money for them. >> reporter: which he says made it impossible to stop the ponzi scheme. >> i tried to return funds to my friends. i tried to return moneys to the smaller clients and so on. they wouldn't tak

. >> reporter: in more than a dozen phone calls to steve fishman of "new york" magazine, madoff expresses remorse for his $65 billion ponzi scheme but also maintains it wasn't so bad. >> reporter: he's claiming his financial fraud had nothing to do with enriching himself or his family. >> couric: madoff says he even tried to save his clients before it was too late. >> couric: and even as his house of cards grew increasingly unstable, madoff says he didn't believe it would actually collapse. >> couric: about the suicide of his son mark in december, madoff said he cried for well over two weeks and he said "i destroyed our family." now to those protests in wisconsin over plans by the republican governor to cut the compensation of public employees and limit their right to negotiate with the state as a group-- which is known as collective bargaining. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight, 56% of americans say they oppose cutting the pay and benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits. and 60% oppose taking away collective bargaining rights. more from dean reynolds. >>

bury our man of many come fishman's. as you are the question, how did they survive this really strenuous journey to america? we are talking about new england in the 19th century, sort of goodwill. ten tradition. you were sitting around the dinner table. you want to eat, you better know how you want to call what you want to read in english. if you don't know ray pettitte is an meet and meet you ain't getting them. that is an education that they learned english very fast. >> but they come back to china, they were still quite young. they were like 20 years, 23 years old and could they make a difference in china? >> by the time they got to china they were very young. they were sent again to have all these menial tasks. it takes them a good 10 years i would say to really come into their own as men. to what they did, they really did make a difference because they really represented in whatever realm of life in the country they were, yet mining, engineering, telecommunications, politics, navy, army. they really brought with the

. >> reporter: he called a reporter for "new york magazine," steve fishman, who taped the calls and plans excerpts all week. >> i think the reason he wanted to talk was in some ways to unburden himself in our conversation. >> reporter: the calls started after the suicide of madoff's son mark in december, on the two-year anniversary of madoff's arrest. >> i cried and cried. i have tears in my eyes when i'm talking to you about certain things. not a day goes by that i don't suffer, you know. so, i may sound okay on the phone. trust me, i'm not okay. i never will be. >> reporter: madoff's former secretary says madoff seems to show no remorse. >> i didn't hear that, you know, mark is gone because of me. and i ruined people's lives. >> reporter: in fact, madoff actually blames his victims for expecting big returns to always be there. >> i made a lot of money for them. >> reporter: which he says made it impossible to stop the ponzi scheme. >> i tried to return funds to my friends. i tried to return monies to the smaller clients and so on. they wouldn't take it back. the abuse i got from people,

but knowing that it could be days and days before they can take that out, fishman especially their boatshere. but that's necessary. there are 47 votes we're told in crescent city damage their 11 saying, significant damage to the docks to. look at that, the docks are torn apart by the storm. but there is a trend a figure out how much gasoline has linked into the harbor because the damage boats. there are a response cruz called out at this point they say there's no observable a factor impact on the wildlife. >> mark: tracking the rain still rent louisa has the latest. >> we certainly still has some wet weather to talk about very light sprinkles starting to taper off just hanging around the peninsula. a looks like we've cleared of devices like walnut creek, as mark mentioned we do have a high surf the treasury for the north bay, the peninsula, week-to see some minor coastal flooding swells expected 13-16 ft. today that high surf rise three is an effect from 11:00 to 11:00 this evening. a storm moves during the afternoon into the evening producing between a quarter of an inch-three-quarters

sherry fishman, portland oregon. i have to choose between two questions. one question that concerns me a great deal when we're talking about energy and security is how are we going to safely store nuclear waste because we still have no solutions? we live not that farr from the hampton nuclear reservation. it's found to be volatile by scientists on several occasions. there's always some kind of a quick fix for it, but it's not a good fix. so that's one of my questions, and i'm hoping somebody else is going to ask you about ending our reliance on the automobile, but i'll leave that for someone else. >> let me tell you the second one first real quickly. i think we can't do it quickly, and so some of the longer term things, the jane jacobs stuff about towns and being able to walk places and mass transit, all that that's great. it's just you can't do it fast. we got an emergency with respect to oil on i think climate change reasons and certainly on national security grounds. that's why i talk about doing things to change existing vehicles, not even new models o