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 dizzgillespie, and n 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 coue being wi 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 going glol,

>> jim gill [kwr-eups/]ie, gillespie. phillipward. >> jim gillespie with yellow cab. i'm here to support the staff report and for about reason. there is a large unmet demand as all of you know for taxi cabs. even though yellow cab, luxor cab and desoto cab service 90% of all the calls that come in for taxi service, we also pick up 95% of the paratransit. there is another 30% of calls that come in that are never answered. and people finally hang up, because they can't get through. and it all gets back to this shortage of taxis and this demand. the gas and gate model we support for several reasons. obviously we have better control. so in turn provide better service and it will provide more jobs. we have to -- for every cab put on the streets, you have got to put at least four drivers into service to service that cab. so it's going to be a good opportunity for more people to work. while at the same time, providing this good service to the city. so again, we're very supportive of this. it's been a long time coming. a lot of studies that we know being done. there was a stu

you heard ed gillespie make the case today. now we have mitt romney acting like an amateur. >> the liberal media says that every four days. the polls disagree. i want to ask you keith. this is the issue. you and i have talked about this. the entitlement state versus the opportunity state. >> the opportunity state is the state that president obama is trying to encourage. mitt romney's father was on welfare. paul ryan was taking stimulus money and giving it to his constituents. mitt romney should understand. most of the people who don't pay income taxes are people who live in the south. >> there is no correlation between government benefits and income tax and voting. i want to go to jim. the issue is bigger than this. keith and i may disagree on some parts of this issue. but what romney has tried to say for a year or more is that he is trying to rebuild free enterprise. i think romney has to stay with that message. >> there are people on benefits. what we want to do is give them an opportunity to rise out of that and give them an

start with this, does ed g gillespie have a point?tracking poll gallop moved downward but we've seen other data suggesting obama's opening up his league. does ed have a point? >> he does when it comes to national polling there may have an a moment a week or two ago maybe obama had broken open the race and that doesn't seem to have happened nationally. swing state by swing state, math is intimidating for romney. >> you reported on what the reboot of the romney -- running out of re words, regot, reset, what the re is going to look like. it includes this bus tour in ohio, less fund-raising, more sort of on the ground events, more paul ryan and mitt romney joint appearances. is there a sense of this is what is needed? the optics of earlier in the week, when mitt romney's struggling to get by the 47% video, and he's in salt lake city and then dallas raising money were not great. is this a recognition, no matter what ed gillespie said the last two weeks have not been great for the romney campaign and something needs to change. >> there is n

we are with mark meckler uno run the citizens for self governance, hadley, and net gillespie. u.s.nspired? >> we know he is the good speech giver. john: better than romney? >> at the podium he is a plus. but he said we should drill for more natural gas. that is the most abundant resource. hopefully he will follow through. john: to develop a 100 year supply of natural gas price by thought he resisted that? >> he was then favorable energy production but favoring overseas. i am not hopeful. >> i like he mentioned that. and he is a eager to work with the bipartisan debt commission. we know that he knows there is $60 million in debt. that was not talk about earlier. in is acknowledged. i am curious of his plan. he has not done anything so far. john: he will tax the rich people. >> if you do the arithmetic it is not enough. >> i like he called out the g.o.p. to be paid with their plans. he could practice talking to a mirror. [laughter] but unlike media he attacked balmy for privilege if you need money for college ask your parents. and also paul ryan. this is petty differences. if they ca

you have jim gillespie from yellow cabs here, and i support what you're doing here -- tim gillespie fromllow cab -- jim gillespie from yellow cab. maybe it is time medallion holders put their medallion with their mouth is. director nolan: thank you. >> [reading names] our last speaker. director nolan: good. >> there just is so much to talk about. this amendment is a 30-page document. it is pretty much impossible for us to have gone through this 30- page document and come up with any solution. i think you should reject this plan right now and have some town hall meetings where malcolm heinicke and director reiskin show up at the town hall meetings and listened to what the drivers are saying and their concerns. all the other plans we have discussed have included half the medallions at least going to those drivers on the list to have changed their lives. we've had no other choice. for the last 32 years, there was no other option. they have made these career choices, and you are just throwing them under the bus. as far as being assets to the city, that originated from prop. k which says taxi

>> jim gill [kwr-eups/]ie, gillespie. phillipward. >> jim gillespie with yellow cab. i'm here to support the staff report and for about reason. there is a large unmet demand as all of you know for taxi cabs. even though yellow cab, luxor cab and desoto cab service 90% of all the calls that come in for taxi service, we also pick up 95% of the paratransit. there is another 30% of calls that come in that are never answered. and people finally hang up, because they can't get through. and it all gets back to this shortage of taxis and this demand. the gas and gate model we support for several reasons. obviously we have better control. so

charles rathbone, andfá jim gillespie. >> allow me to say thank you to your staff for incorporating initem many suggestions that we made during the taxi town hall meetings. those hours were long but there were well spent and much appreciated, particularly the chains that director reiskin just made. we have one other concern and that is with the scheduled fiennes. on the second page to the bottom, the fine is $670 -- $617 to accepting gifts from drivers. we believe this is too broadly worded. it makes a cab company liable for frusen transactions that may occur between individuals that we may not even be aware of and that we're not party to. to illustrate the problem, consider what happened at the luxor cab office. one of our long time drivers brought in a beautiful chocolate cake to celebrate one of our staff members' birthday. there was no solicitation of the cake, there was no quid pro quo and about a dozen people enjoyed pieces of the cake. under this section would be liable for over $600 in fines for not producing this person pose the greatest gesture. i would ask that that particul

we all have a certain tough love towards mitt romney, i had tough love towards ed gillespie. the fact that ed gillespie has come into that campaign as a very single guy saying good things are going to happen on taxes and economic growth. these other guys, stu stevens, he has no clue on how to sell the agenda. since that rogue mitt romney fundraising video was made public yesterday, the media has had a field day debating what romney really said and why he said it. but there's another chapter to this story. how did mother jones get this video which sat on the shelf for months. we're asking what did korn know and when did he know it. chief david korn, what did korn know and when did he know it? you've had this thing since may, and you waited until september, david, what happened. >> larry, you've got to go back to your guys who write your introduction, i have reported extensi extensi extensively, i didn't have this about two weeks ago. there's a great piece in the front page of the style section today. the fund raiser happened in mid-may at the home of mark laider. the source wh

chip, i'll play what ed gillespie said this morning on "today." when he tried to categorize this as not a bad week for governor romney but one for the president. >> by just about every estimate this was a bad week for his campaign. would you agree? >> well, i would actually argue the other side of that. i think it was a bad week for president obama. if you look at the polling data, president obama dropped six points in the gallup poll. there's a lot of different polls out there. the target states are tight and close. this is a close election. >> matt said how can you say this was a good week for governor romney? chip, you're the republican here, and we're all honest and this is on camera and not in private. the cameras are on you. you think this was a good week for your candidate, your nominee? >> ed a great operative and good man and he's doing his job, trying to spin it the best way he can. mitt romney did not have a great week last week. his point is clear. it's a close election and will deny to be. you try to have better weeks than bad weeks.

but ed gillespie is. >> what happened to stewart stevens and to some extend gillespie is that the romneyeople believed we win this race by telling people how lousy barack obama is. we don't have to be specific outline big details, economic policies, we simply need to say that barack obama hasn't fixed things, and that i, mitt romney have. that clearly -- or it appears that is not enough. the indications are in the polls that they are going to have to do something. so i think if there is something in the brain of stevens, mitt romney and ed gillestby tonight, it is that we need to roll out specific plans about the economy, that can convince people not simply that i say i can fix the economy, but so that that tiny sliver of movable voters, and it could only be 4 to 6 to 8% will move from obama or finally decide to go with romney, because they think he can fix things. at the moment they don't think he can. they are not sure obama can, but if romney can convince them he has an idea, has a set of specific plans that will make a difference in their life romney wins this thing. but i see very l

address from senior advisor to the romney campaign ed gillespie. >>> before you leave the house this the first degree weather update. maria molina has a look at the latest temperatures. >> hi patti ann and heather. we are looking at traditionally temperatures early this morning across parts of the northern plains in the 40s in rapid city. 55 right now in new york city. in cleveland we are seeing a current temperature at 61 degrees. the reason we are seeing this disparity with temperatures warmer out to the south than towards the east and cooler toward the west we have a cold front pushing eastward and this system. right now we are expecting temperatures this afternoon 77 in new york city. widespread 80s across the southeast and 90s in texas and oklahoma. well above average. still on the warm side feeling like summer even though it is already officially fall. we have areas of showers already early this morning associated with a front across portions of new england. we had areas of sdwrdrizzle and heavier thunderstorms across parts of the plains and the midwest. some of these will prod

the fact that he had he had gillespie was on that call, they are never going to believe it but there is probably some power shifting in that campaign. now, any campaign that has a secession of messages, i'd rather have one a-minus message and keep searching for another message and another message. >> ed gillespie is a former rnc chair. now, nia-malika, here is a quote, romney's associates are baffled that such a successful corporate leader has created a team with so few lines of authority and accountability so not only does it seem as if the message is muddled, it seems like the lines of accountability and authority in how the campaign is being run is muddled. >> that's right. there are apparently many different power centers in this campaign and i think the problem for mitt romney is he is running as a ceo. he's running on his management skills and if you look at this article it appears that there are lots of management problems and i think that is going to end up being an issue for him because it really undermines the core message of his campaign. i think going forward they've obvi

here's ed gillespie of the romney campaign answering his question. >> it is not consistent with our polling, stephen. i'm struck by a couple of things. number one, there are three swing state polls out today, and in every single one of them, they have a democratic voter participation that is higher than the participation in the electorate in 2008. >> gillespie is complaining about something a lot of republicans have been complaining about as of late. they say democrats are being oversampled in all of these polls. by the way, the same fox news poll showed 42% identifying as democrats and 36 identifying as republicans. these republican talking point has gotten new life because of a website claiming to fix all these inaccurate polls that are out there. it changes every national poll to fit the party breakdown used by scot rasmussen of rasmussen reports. but scott rasmussen said, "you cannot compare partisan weighting from one polling firm to another. different firms ask about partisan affiliation in different ways." so even the republican pollster from the right debunks the idea that all these

the olympics and i was involved with a lot of things that she cared about at the olympics -- cindy gillespie[applause] after the olympics, she also joined the team and made sure that all of the promises that mitt made during the campaign that we follow through with. she oversaw all of that. so the bottom line is, having this women here, having year, having all the women in the audience come is to know that mitt put women in key leadership mitt put women in key leadership positions to help

today 50 days until the election ed gillespie tells us that he's going to be reinforcing more specificsthat will be the order of the day. but when asked for specifics, there's silence. mitt romney says to the electorate, vote for me and i'll tell you my plans after i've been elected. is that right? >> well, they're getting more specific about how specific they're going to be. no, really, they're specific about being specific about what they're going to get specific about. >> and they're very specific about that. >> that's kind of anyone's guess at this point. you know, i think one problem with the romney campaign, they keep hitting this reset button. you know that message you get on computers when you hit reset, all unsaved changes may be lost? i think maybe they're forgetting they hit the reset button, they don't remember they hit the reset button a week ago. for whatever reason they keep going this. while agree with a lot of media critics we get into into process stories, at some point it becomes a story that someone can't manage his own campaign, especially one running as a manager.

ed gillespie says they're going to talk about specifics what specifics?here aren't any specifics. >> and keep in mind, heather, you know better than anybody, president obama has owned the narrative around romney's policy in the way that the romney campaign -- they have no ownership over the policies they theoretically have put out there, which is to say the ryan budget. i guess the question is, whether they can pivot off this and make -- get policy out there in a way that's compelling to the american public. >> as a policy person i would be thrilled to have this conversation, right. this is the conversation that we need to have and i think it's going to be interesting to watch the debate in october where he's actually going to have to answer point for point. it is just tax cuts for millionaires, prelehman wall street rules and what on health care? repealing basically what is the massachusetts law, except no, actually i like it when young people get to stay on their parents plans, preexisting conditions. >> can have the coverage but can't have the mandate.

. >> you interviewed gillespie yesterday.emain calm, but did you ask about this perception that they're too cautious? >> oh, yeah, and that they have been too slow. let me zig back for a moment. notice that -- i didn't answer your question, did they hang susan rice out to dry. they did. this is the sort of non-answer avoidance that the obama folks are getting away with because romney hasn't come and put the pieces together. i think ed gillespie is exquisitely sensitive to the fact that they have not been quick enough, they have not been explaining themselves, they've not connected the dots. the question is do they have enough time to execute. >> i'm just looking at the date. >> seven weeks. >> just on the issue of susan rice, what i find entertaining about this is this is -- on one hand it is a serious issue, yet everyone's arguing about making -- scoring political points on this. what happened in libya is something that i think everyone should take heed from what mitt romney did and take it seriously and try and get the answ

i will say i was on a call with lots of other reporters with ed gillespie, one of the top ranking republicansthe romney campaign a little bit earlier, they, ed insisted kind of with a wink and nod he thought that this action on the -- behalf of the obama administration to china came in response to ads that mitt romney is running calling out president obama over china. so that, in fact, this is reactive. i would say regardless of why the president is doing what he's doing he's doing it in the state of ohio that we know is of absolutely critical importance to mitt romney and a state that we know as of today mitt romney is behind. >> mark halperin, little doubt that it is reactive, but it is one of privileges or powers of incumbency. >> it is. you know, one of the advantages the president an his team have, they've been sitting around for three and a half years, waiting for an opponent, knowing what their vulnerabilities and having gamd out the research, video, response ads when mitt romney put up an ad on china a few days ago the next day the obama campaign had a response ad on china up. they th

there's not a lot inside the gop that's welcoming black folks in a way that there might have been when gillespies interesting. i think black folks have got to remember that, one, all of us are not democrats and that these black folks are concerned about the economy, they're concerned about issues. some of them even voted for president obama. >> but there is this perception that if you do not vote for president obama, and you're black person, you're in some way a sellout. >> sure. >> a race traitor. >> a race traitor. you might as well be clarence thomas to them. >> if people, they look to 2008 and they see this grand campaign, you know, which was excellent run, then they see a presidency and then another grand campaign again. where they felt like he's a good campaigner and not a good president? >> i think it's a call to remembrance in some ways to say think about what we've been through together. i'm the same man that i was in 2008 and we have travelled this journey together. i think a lot of people are prone regardless of mistakes that have been made to stick with what they know. >> but i'll be

we are joy and by mark who founded the largest tea party group and nick gillespie from reason tv. they taught me about liberty. were you inspired? >> was that since the stood for could stay of later than i could i think he gave a good speech but i did not hear the specifics i would have liked to hurt. john: then why is it a good speech? >> he proved he was a good human being. he had a lot of fashion and vigor. the optics matter. he is lowering the bar. my behalf like to have heard that. john: he said nothing like that. >> i don't like the idea the implication of obama does a poor job so romney bryan and will fix the economy. and two per cent behind the wheel one-two here people exchanging voluntary with each other. john: he made fun of the obama line we will stop the rise of the ocean but i will fix your family? i assume he meant he would get out of the way? he implied government would solve it. >> that was the void of the speech he didn't say anything about government getting out of the way. the punchline. government is not the solution but government is the problem. the speech a

gillespie. next speaker, please. phil ward, john loewsar, kevin carroll. >> good afternoon, mr. ward. >> good afternoon, my name is philip ward. i'm an attorney for yellow cab and luxor cab and have been involved as an attorney and advisory since 1989. in the report that supports this particular item, staff reached the conclusion based on various data that there was a significant unmet demand for taxi cab services in san francisco that cannot be met by the current size of the fleet. with my letter of august the 31st to the board and the director of transportation, we submitted additional data, current data from yellow cab and from luxor cab that independently updates supplements and coner firms the conclusions reached by staff in the report that supports this item. if anything, there is a huge unmet underestimated the size of the demand and if anything, the current data through june of this year demonstrates that that demand is literally huge and there are more taxi cabs needed in san francisco than even staff has identified in its report. our data shows that telephone orders ar

we are here with mark meckler, ed hadley, and nick gillespie. putting forward gary johnson rarely of vote for obama like hannity say? >> i think of bofa gary johnson was a legitimate boat to let people live their lives. will not elect obama. if mitt romney loses this election it is because the republican stink and have not learned my bell. >> she has a different position. >> it is a two horse race. either mitt romney will be the united states president or obama will get four more years. we have the opportunity to affect the outcome. when we vote we are because we only have one vote to give. libertarians should evaluate which to options are more liberty friendly. [applause] >> obamacare has been sold as the answer to all health care issues. then why are so many unions and the president's political allies given exemptions and waivers? john: unions got that right away. >> obamacare has a lot of flaws. it was supported by health insurance companies because they were promised millions of customers. it is big government health care. john: the politici

and nick gillespie from reason tv. mark? three whence fired? >> not inspired.e is a good speech giver. john: he is better than romney. >> he is excellent. john: some people love it and crying in the audience. >> there was some substance. he said we should drill for more natural gas. that is the most abundant resources i am glad he brought that up and hopefully will follow through. john: a 100 years apply? i thought he resisted that? >> generally he has been unfavorable with domestic production by promoting its overseas. >> i am not hopeful. >> i like he mentioned the debt to two paydown and is eager to work with a bipartisan debt commission so we know that he knows it is there. we did not hear that talked about earlier. so now he acknowledges that. so far we have not seen him do anything in that direction. and. >> but that is not enough. >> i'd like he called how the g.o.p. with their plans for the next four years. he could do that talking to a mirror. [laughter] i like the etfs he attacked the romney for his privilege where he said if you need money for colleg

. >> jennifer: ed gillespie has apparently been moved out.nt you to listen to a new tv campaign the romney campaign put out today. >> romney: my plan is to help the middle class. crack down on cheaters like china and open up new markets. next balance the budget cut the deficit, stop spending more than we come in. >> jennifer: so karl did the president outflanking the romney campaign today? >> i think so. i mean that's the power of the presidency at work though. he can do things like mitt romney takes bland promises in campaign commercials. again, this is mitt romney and it's very easy for the president and his supporters to point out that mitt romney has had no problems working with the chinese when it comes to out sourcing to china. so it is problematic for him as well. especially in the industrial midwest where the quick -- >> i >> jennifer: you guys thank you so much. >> thank you, governor. >> jennifer: after the break no easy answers in the chicago teacher's strike. but there could be some solutions from the new haven [ shouting ] ♪ >> j

romney senior advisor ed gillespie here next >> steve: back to approximately ticks, all eyes on ohiompaigning in the buckeye state as well. what is the swing state's strategy on the romney side? let's talk to senior advisor, ed gillespie who joins us from d.c good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> steve: if you look at the main stream media, the big headline is according to their polling, mitt romney is, what, five, 8 points behind barak obama right now. is that the same kind of polling you guys are finding with your internal? >> it is not consistent with our polling. i'm struck by a couple of things. one, three swing state polls out today and in every single one of them, they have a democratic voter participation that is higher than the participation in the electorate in 2008. i don't know anyone on the ground in any of these swing states who believes that there will be a higher democratic percentage of the electorate in 2012 than in 2008. yet, in every single one of these surveys, there is a higher percentage, which explains how it is that the governor, gove