i mean, you meet dizzy gillespie, and you're this young kid from panama. what's going on for you, as suddenly you're now with the great dizzy gillespie, and not only is he saying, "play with me," he's saying to you, danilo perez, "you have talent"? >> part of that is a basic fundamental that was, you know, meeting people like claudio roditi, victor mendoza, paquito d'rivera. and that... each one of those relationships took me to a place, all the way to dizzy gillespie. and somehow it's a story that has unfolded from every one of those experiences. and of course being with dizzy, i really learned about the human quality in the music, about "don't take things for granted." >> hinojosa: were it not for dizzy gillespie and the fact that he had this kind of global vision, and certainly hemispherically, north-south, in terms of the americas... i mean, he's the one who basically says, "the carribean, it's part of who we are." that... in a lot of ways, you're doing the same thing now with your career, you know? you're panamanian, you live in boston, but you're goi

paul gillespie. we support you for your idea. and mr. lieutenant governor, it is great to see you back here in san francisco. thank you for working with my board colleagues and planting a goal that none of us, frankly, thought would be achieved. and i want to thank all of you from the taxicab industry. what was accomplished from this ordinance should be the model of how we promote future for rums, when we talk about the taxi world here. we had a hearing at the border supervisors about future reforms. we know there are many things we need to fix in the taxicab world. i hope it is through a model of ideas from taxicab drivers, from the industry working with city officials, to make sure that we are leading the way when it comes to taxis. thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> our next speaker is the person everyone has been referencing, a former taxi cab driver, also the president of the taxicab commission. mr. paul gillespie. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for being here, alleging the seco

knew some, and paul gillespie. there will be a presentation. after that, we will go outside and do some things with the taxi cabs. >> who would have thought we would be saying thank-you four years ago? with that said, on behalf of all the tax to companies in san francisco, we want to thank lt. gov. gavin newsom and mayor lee for their generous support of the taxi industry, and your vision to not only make san francisco the best city in america, but the greenest. with that, lieutenant governor gavin newsom, thank you for your vision. we would like to present you with this plaque. [applause] mayor lee, we would also like to thank you for your vision. we look for too many years working together. we would also like to present you with this plaque. [applause] >> we have new decals that will be on some of these taxi cabs. i am a hunter who has them. here they are. -- i am not sure who has them. the lieutenant governor, mayor, are going to come down and help us put these on some of the calves outside. -- cabs outside. >> right here? there you go. very

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>> we will break down the race for us, and with us, ed gillespie, and chief foreign affairs correspondent for msnbc news, andrea mitchell, and helene cooper. first this morning, a preview of the fall campaign. a debate about what government can do to spur economic recovery. you saw the headlines this week. >> manufacturing is coming back and companies are starting to bring jobs back. the economy is getting stronger! the recovery is speeding up. >> what impact will the extension of the payroll tax cut have on jobs? with us this morning, republican chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan, and democratic congressman, chris van hollen. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> nine days to go for voters to go to the polls in arizona, and contraception issues back in the news. and rick santorum with a range of issues in what he called a phoney agenda. listen. >> it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not abouter quality of life or about your job. it's about some phoney ideal. some phoney theology. not a theology based on the bible, a different theology, but no less a th

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joining me is with the new york times, helene cooper, and andrea mitche mitchell, and ed gillespie, andxecutive editor for bloomberg news, al hunt. al, we don't see you enough. glad to have you here. i like reading about how enticive you have been about this campaign. political i thought captured the headline here, 2012, the year of birth control moms. i thought we were talking about the economy, and paul ryan wants to talk more about the economy, but the reality is, in the republican race, social issues seem to be energizing the base and fueling rick santorum. >> the question is whether it will energize the base and help to win the primary, and perhaps go on to the nomination, or whether this is going to debill tate the republican party when they need to go up against barack obama, and women who generally accept birth control. >> this aspirin business, foster freeze, a santorum supporter said to you on your program the best would be an aspirin, and rick santorum said that was a bad joke. and then patty murray wrote this based on that, and also that all-male image of the contraception h

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i would like to point out my colleague michelle gillespie has a future princetonian in utero in this particular picture. as lecturer, as biographer, jim eyeing the camera suspiciously shooting him with shelby foot. he was smooth sailing onto the lincoln memorial, fame, fortune, fabulous students were coming his way in the '70s, '80s and '90s, we need to reflect this public historian had other roles to play. as a family man. there he is with his father jenny. father of an equestrian. as an extended family adding first a son-in-law and then grandchildren as a story teller. she wants her grandpa to come out of the box to play with her. when does jim ever take time to stop and smell the roses? those of us who follow him know at the huntington library is the only place you can catch him at risk. pilgrimage to normandy, as a babysitter. here he's reminding future students don't even think of getting me a kindle. here he is, jim and pat in the early years. there they are over half a century later still going strong. the napa valley tourist, father of the bride, favorite new role. on tour in

and later on, ed gillespie, the former counselor for george w. bush speaks at the hispanic leadership conference. >> there is a new web site for american history tv where you can find our schedules and preview our upcoming programs, watch feet video from our regular weekly series as well as history tweets, history in the news, twitter, facebook and four-square. follow history tv all weekend every weekend on cspan-3. or on line at cspan.org. >>> they called the transition from u.s. to nato control a hail mary pass that was handled well by both sides. canadian royal air force charles bouchard spoke in an event on tuesday. air strikes began on march 18 last year and ended on october 31st, seven months later. >> gregts aetings and welcome t of you. we were just sitting briefly with president bouchard and decided that the title of this event should be liberating libya. there were other titles we came up with, but they encapsulated the difficulty of leading a complex alliance operation of this sort, and ultimately the success of working that through. w

. >> reporter: chico came to new york and worked as an arranger for benny goodman and dizzy gillespieunding his own oh, tra. he taught arturo his own music and after chico died in 2001, arturo took over. the following year, arturo went to cuba. he went again in 2010. that visit was filmed for the forthcoming documentary "oye cuba, a journey home." people have politicized cuba and politicized your visit there. >> i got a lot of hate mail. >> reporter: saying? >> that i was a disgrace to my farther's name. my farther was rolling in his grave. >> reporter: what remember you hoping to accomplish? >> i brought my father's music back to cuba to be played by his orchestra. the last number was called "fathers and sons, from havana to new york and back." and it featured my children, zach and adam. >> reporter: zach, a drummer, and adam, who plays trumpet, shared the stage in this tribute at the havana jazz festival. >> man, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. >> reporter: o'farrill's sons aren't the only ones to inherit his musical legacy. twice a week when he's not on the road, o'farrill men

and later on ed gillespie the former counselor for president george w. bush speaks at the hispanic leadership network conference. >> in 1966, julian bond was prevented from taking his elected seat in the georgia state house, after state representatives voted 184-12 not to seat him due to his stance against the vietnam war. his appeal went to the u.s. supreme court. >> i went to the court to hear the argument, and i was sitting in the court, just behind the bar with the lawyers in front of me, and i was sitting next to my lawyer's partner, victor robinowitz and the attorney general of georgia was making an argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i said things that were treasonous and sad ishs. and i think it was judge white said to him, he said, is this all you have? he said, you come all the way up here and this is all you have? so i said to rabinowitz, we're winning, aren't we? >> discover more during black history month on american history tv on c-span3 and online at the c-span video library. search and share from over 25 years of c-s

. >>> and later on, ed gillespie, the former counselor for president george w. bush speaks at the hispanic leadership conference network. >>> saturday on "washington journal," reuters tax policy correspondent kim dixon looks at the tax proposals included in the $3.8 trillion budget that president obama released earlier this week. lar lawrence yun talks about the current state of the housing market. after that, "usa today" correspondent dennis kauchon talks about an analysis in a drop for spending for services, employee compensation and infrastructure upkeep in certain states and localities. plus your e-mails, phone calls and tweets. "washington journal" live saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. oh >>> army secretary john mccue testified before the house armed services committee friday on the budget request. the overall army budget request of $184.6 billion is down from 2012. but includes a 1.7% pay increase for soldiers. and a housing assistance increase of 3.9%. the total defense department 2013 budget request is $525 billion. a 1% decrease from 2012. this

. >> she had worked with dizzy gillespie. she played trombone.was rare. >> the only woman i had heard who played trombone. she had this big sound. this had to be early 1950. we collaborated in 1958 for the first time. when she came over to the bandstand, i said, i have to meet this lady. electricity between us. she moved to new york, originally from kansas city commack and like mary lou williams, was living in harlem. they knew each other, the two queens of music. i got together with her and we had the same feeling. you see, artistically, paul robeson said it best. an artist is responsible to fight for freedom. an artist is responsible to change society. not only do you have to be good at your craft, but you have to make a contribution to society. what better contribution than to the african people? there were put on the bottom of the human scale. i wanted to do this suite, in four movements. the first movement was called reimbursed. the second was called african lady. the third was called bantu. we were trying to recognize the significance of af

>> no, i am confident in gillespie and our community. they believe in standing on the same principles as the republican party. love of country and love of god, jobs and a safe and secure environment. the thing that i would like to get out to the latino community, three of my grand kids are laugh hat teen no and my late brother in law is quarter latino. i do identify with the culture. the message is this, up until now it is timid we tried to bring them into the house for the state. >> but we are reaching out to them. there are things i would like to see happen like what do we have next. >> i think that's a great idea. let me end it with you this segment trying to compress it with everything going on here. do you think mitt romney is successfully portraying rick santorum as a liberal? >> i think you said it yourself in the last segment. rick santorum is doing a pretty good job at that. when you have a debate a big bill like no child left behind it was against the principles you believed in it but you voted for it anyway. that is business a

i've been talking today with a group of people led by ed gillespie who are talking about a grassroots movement across the country to deal with this issue because it's a powerful issue. again, i repeat it's a among a group of voters whose direction absolutely turns the election one way or the other. it's going to hurt the president among latinos and hurt him amongst catholics and evangelicals and biblical protestants. you have people come out who said, i'm not particularly religious, but i agree with you. you had joe lieberman, a jew, say this is trampling on religious freedom. this is right of church people that abide by the moral precepts of that religion. if you establish the government to discard a deeply held belief with respect to life at the heart of the catholic church, then the government can take away everything connected with religion. >> greta: suppose he says tomorrow, i thought about this, i think it was wrong. or i want to make sure that we don't step on religious rights of people. we're going to away with this aspect of the rule. s if that happens, does it change the po

democratic associated super-pacs raised, it was a fraction of what crossroads, gps, what karl rove and ed gillespie has raised. rush limbaugh is right. they want to win the election. people talk about chicago-style politics. if there's one defining characteristic of barack obama and anybody else who runs for national offices, they want to win. so they were serious about not unilaterally disarming. the only thing about rush limbaugh is he said the opponents didn't say they opposed super-pacs. mitt romney doesn't like super-pacs either. that's not the system we have, and barack obama has decided in the general election he's going to maximize his ability to compete with mitt romney or whoever the republican nominee is. >> jane, this reminds me -- >> i -- >> go ahead, jane. >> no. i was going to say i think john's total light. they were just alarmed at the numbers when they saw them in the latest fec filings. you get to 7 or 8 to 1 is the ratio for conservative group fund-raising in the super-pacs against what the liberals have in their kitties. they looked at those numbers and thought they better put