ginsberg? >> mr. ginsberg, i have questions for you. >> yes, questions for mr. ginsberg. >> thank you, chair, hur. >> mr. ginsberg, what is the department's protocol on looking for back up files and back up data when responding to sunshine requests? and the reason that i ask, also, is it troubles me a bit that the request came in just weeks after the events in question. i think just a couple of weeks or a few weeks. so, what is the protocol for when you know that there were e-mails but they were deleted? >> very close with the city attorney's office on all record requests and when request was made to look at our back up data, i think that our custodian of records went did doing that in conjunction with the city attorney and i don't know that it is a routine practice that we routinely check back up data, i think that when we are asked to do so, we do. >> you waited until the task force called it to your attention and asked to you do it? >> i believe that that was the time frame. >> i am not quit

ginsberg mentioned something about 300 e-mails a day. but, some of those are just junk e-mails and there are going to be inquiries about what time the park opens or the swimming pool closes. and we know that this was an important issue, this was not trivial matter. the individuals involved in this correspondence and this lobbying back and forth are important individuals in this city. this is not the kind of correspondence that one deletes because it is of no value as a record. one deletes this information to conceal what it contains. mr. wooding said that there is a bigger issue here. the bigger issue is one of ethics. now, this matter can be reduced and narrowed down to a technical, legal point. that will make it much easier to dismiss this case as virtually every other sunshine case has been dismissed. but, this is an ethics commission. it would be nice if there were a professional emphasis here. even so there isn't. it would be good if once in a while the ethical dimension of the behaviors that you are hearing about would be considere

ginsberg whatever he gets off the hook he gets off the hook. but he was clearly comp lisit he either helped to plan it orchestrate it he may very well get 300 e-mails a day and only five from mark and i bet that he reads every one of them. so i think that when or what they were doing is they were working as a unit, ballard is the subordinate of ginsberg and acting at his request. it was pretty clear that this was done as a group effort. so, thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. gooding. >> wooding, i'm so sorry. >> ginsberg and wooding and i very much apologize for that. >> public comment on this matter? >> i am here on my own time. isn't it curious that mr. ginsberg is being disengenius with you and first he is saying in the testimony there were no documents and then he changes his mind and says that there is no essential records. then, when he reports to that he told miss gong that he did not have e-mails what he should have said to her was i have already deleted them because that may have said a lot. that little alarm bell, and the secretar

ginsberg got a pass, not these people. miss ballard has been found guilty of doing something, she has not been forth coming to this body or to any of us. she did not come in and say, gee, olive i have records and deleted them now what i do? she just pretended like they never existed. this is an indictment, you can't ignore it. thank you. >> good evening, my name is nan clark i have never been to an ethics commission meeting and i think that you have a really hard job ahead of you and i like to speak to that just briefly. earlier tonight, in the meeting and i don't know who said it, which side they were on or even whether it came from you, it has been a long evening, it was something to the effect that the reason we have the brown act and the sunshine ordinance the california public records act is because government activity must be as transparent as possible. and i think that you found tonight and both of the cases that you have heard that the goment transparency is not very transparent. and whether we talk about it in ter

ginsberg for some months now. but in addition to the information that you can now get about where our parks are, i think we need to take this one step further. we need to allow folks to do the online transactions that allow people to make reservations at the barbecue pit or at that picnic table. these are three of hundreds of ideas that i have heard over the last few years. my guess is you in your heads have the solutions to them today. and mayor lee and i are looking forward with this legislation with all of you to figuring out how to make our city government the best 21st century city government that we have in the entire world. so, thank you for being here, and it is my pleasure to introduce our mayor's budget director kate howard who in addition to helping to balance multi-billion dollar budgets every year, she will tell you about our plans around our chief data officer. thank you so much for being here. (applause) >> good morning, everyone. i'm kate howard. i'm the mayor's budget director. i'm here to just to

the notification by the task force and says that the task force provides willful failure against ginsberg and sarah ballard. >> right, and just not, i believe that is the task force's long standing practice to forward complaints to you when the task force finds a willful violation, but, that question is not before the ethics commission under chapter two, the only question is whether there was a violation of the ordinance in this case. >> okay. >> what i was looking at was i think that we are all looking at the december 5, documents? where it speaks to willful failure and official misconduct against ginsberg and ballard and then a referal for failure to comply with the order for buell and gong. >> it would not change my view because i think that the... why is ballard included under willful failure? is there any... that just is how the complaint was... >> that is my understanding of how the task force operates. i have never attended a task force meeting and we refer may find willful violations if they refer them to you. but, i mean commissioner studley is right, they did refer this and did

ginsberg... >> following up on that. >> sure. >> you get this e-mail, this request from miss gong, what

ginsberg from the romney campaign to try to head up a commission like this? >> first of all, if you're going to have a commission like this, you have to have credible democrats and republicans. there was a question whether there would be a credible republican who would be interested in doing something like this. the fact that ben ginsberg, who is a well respected republican ♪ ♪ ♪ for those nights when it's more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children's motrin. . . . . . . . . >>> i don't believe in drinking water on television. i don't believe that a person should -- if you're on tv, i don't think you should be drinking out of a water bottle. i think -- honestly, i just think it's not appropriate. if a camera is on you, unless you are dying from a coughing fit or something, if you want to take a swig out of a bottle of water on tv, i just don't -- i don't know if it's just the way i'm raised or the way i was tau

marc ginsberg? that: isn't it ironic during the chuck hagel confirmation hearing, the word afghanistan hardly came up. there was courage and bravery in afghanistan, particularly in the situation when the state of u.s. policy is to withdraw. i have always believed that in terms of the military efforts on the ground, we have not achieved what we wanted to achieve. if we are going to have a mission, that mission should be to prevent what we always wanted to do, to prevent afghanistan from becoming a country in which it was a failed state, in which al qaeda and terrorist organizations could read boots and take control of the country. -- reboot and take control of the country. the administration policy is to do what we can to train the afghan national forces to develop a buffer zone between the law less provinces to the east of kabul and hope for the best. is that a recipe for security for afghanistan? no, but that is the reality we have right now and that is the decision of the president. i support him.

ginsberg from the romney campaign to try to head up a commission like this? >> first of all, if you're going to have a commission like this, you have to have credible democrats and republicans. there was a question whether there would be a credible republican who would be interested in doing something like this. the fact that ben ginsberg, who is a well respected republican lawyer is willing to sit down with bob bauer and sit down with this commission and try and hash things out is an achievement. but they've set the bar really low. if you look at the press release that the white house put out about this, all they're going to do is issue some guidelines for states and localities about best practices. it doesn't look like federal election reform, which i think is something we really need, is on the agenda. so it may just be that it's going to put out some ideas. then they're going to sit on the shelf, like the ideas of the carter/baker commission, the carter/ford commission, what the u.s. elections assistance has done, and it may get us nowhere. >> in terms of

ginsberg for some months now. but in addition to the information that you can now get about wherr

we have here today general manager phil ginsberg to start off and litia from park as well. >> thank you, for introducing this. thank you for calling this hearing, this partnership that we have with the controller's office is really critical and invaluable to help us fulfill our mission, what you have before us is the clinical data, it relates to every single one of our 22 parks throughout the city, and this program has been continuing since 2005 and since what we have is a body of data where we can start to study trends and start to understand the changes in data and really understanding this and our director of operations and park superintendent and their staff is here today and may speak a little bit to deserve a tremendous amount of credit to really use this information. we do, park evaluations quarterly, what we are talking about is the annual report for fiscal year 11-12, the managers are aware of their scores in all of their parks four times a year, where we see changes or dips, our park service managers are on it and we investigate why and we try to makeshift resources. as you kn

thank you, phil ginsberg and the hatchery for hosting us. i use open data. our company was founded three years ago using open data. we are one of the first sustainable companies to use open data and be sustainable innovation, meaning we can generate revenue and keep mobile applications for government going. we are really excited to be here today. this is our official launch of apple-liscious. i would like to thank our team, kevin, rick robbins, moment of all [speaker not understood] for my cto and co-founder. this was a very long, long journey with the city, but we had the help of leaders like phil, mayor lee, jay driving behind the scenes, the efforts for business to work with government. and i think we've accomplished that with this unique partnership moving forward. we're excited now there's cross-department collaboration with the san francisco arts, with the san francisco public art which has now been thanks to sean working late last night, putting the public arts into golden gate park. this is providing access. it's providing efficiency, and it's provid

host: marc ginsberg is joining us from new york. he was the u.s.bassador to morocco and former senior adviser to president jimmy carter. the other headline we are following is from reuters. the vice president delivering remarks saying there is a possibility of direct talks with iran. republican senator john mccain telling reuters he would have no objection to direct talks, but questioned how much these with cheese -- would achieve its fundamental questions about the iranian nuclear program are unresolved. [video clip] >> our policy is not containment. it is to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. we have also made clear that the iranian leaders need not sentence their people to economic isolation. there is still time and space for diplomacy, backed by pressure, to succeed. the ball is in the government of iran's courts. host: if we were able to begin negotiations with iran and its intentions for to ease between the u.s. in iran, which became a huge problem to present jimmy carter in 1979 with the hostage situation, if we make progress, how

wendy ginsberg, >> today, on c-span, newsmakers with the representative. >> this week on news makers, we are joined by hal rogers, chairman of the appropriations committee. thank you for doing this. to reporters to help us with this conversation, and the tailor the associated press, congressional reporter, and roxanne from bloomberg news, congressional reporter. >> mr. chairman, as everybody in washington is very concerned about this phenomenon called a sequester, these automatic bid into automatic indiscriminate cuts across the board, 8% to the pentagon, you have been looking at the kind of impact this will have. what you expect? how much damage you think it would do four different operations? >> needless to say, being an appropriate, but think it is an idiotic way to do business. these are indiscriminate cuts. they are not thought through. they're just automatic across- the-board, without any consideration of good, bad or evil or whatever. so i think the cuts are devastating. i am sad to see take place. but i don't see any effort being made realistically to stop it. >> do you think

ginsberg as well. but held on to the or did not give the response in a timely fashion when she had them on june 6th. so, the

francisco, but we want to also encourage, examples we're going to be announcing yoyo working with phil ginsberg to provide data where are small parks or where the events are happening. what is the cost? how to get there in the hours that they're operating? a smart phone application for all of our events in recreation and park department, that to me is going to be invaluable to visitors and to our neighborhoods. bronwin who is working with us on data information from neighborhoods in our city, growth trends, that kind of data certainly is going to help a department like city planning who is trying to kind of figure out where the new neighborhoods in our city, what do we do from a planning and zoning effort, prioritizing. is it small businesses now in pier 70 area or do with we go high-rises downtown? what kind of people trends and business trends and constituent trends are happening in our neighborhoods * ? that data is there to be shared with our city planning. so we can plan for the future and make sure when we're not planning to limit the kind of growth that we want to encourage. >>> and then

. -- ginsberg. host: good morning and welcome on this president's day, 2013. president obama's plan to tackle to its immigration laws has drawn anger from republicans with marco rubio calling the proposal dead on arrival. the debate is sure to pick up again when congress returns from its presidents' day holiday. president obama took the weekend to play golf at an exclusive resort in florida. we will take a break from the normal daily debates and spend a first 45 minutes getting your take on your favorite president. for all others. you can contact us on twitter or facebook or e-mail us. here's our facebook page this morning with a poll on your favorite president. you can put in your 2 cents on our facebook page. on facebook -- post your comments. give us who you like and why, on our facebook page. also, send us a tweet. here's a gallup poll that was taken in 2011. that was the gallup poll taken in 2011. in 2012, also -- we're getting your take this morning on this president's day. who is your favorite and why? the phone numbers -- all others, 202-585-3882. we w

ben ginsberg was romney's and george w. bush's lawyer on these issues.think this commission is on the level? is that going to help when you have one of the biggest republican obstructionists on the commission? >> the problem is the president does not have the authority to make the fixes that we really need on his own. he needs congress. and the other problem is that our elections really are subjected to partisan maneuvering and manipulation by those who want to win. you know, in some ways you have to have some bipartisan convening and people coming together around some principles about what our democracy should look like. it's a step in the right direction. is it going to fix the problem? no. but what it means is that the president has to use his bully pullpulpit to make sure that we make it easier for people to participate. at the end of the day our constitution says that we are all equal, and vote something that one important moment in which we all walk into a voting both, it doesn't matter if you're rich boor, black white latino we all have the same s

the article is about justice ginsberg. tuesdayt obama's speech -- best from the washington post this morning. the next call on whether or not raised the minimum wage as proposed by the president on tuesday night, tina in nashville, tennessee. caller: hello. i think it's good. i wish it was a little higher. have done a lot of scenarios, working on a minimum wage. what i see is the family of 4 better earnings two times the minimum wage between the two, they get rebates right now back f from now paramountor tax credits. so they get their money backed what they paid in. plus $1,700 for a family of four. it seems to me that is being paid by taxpayers and not businesses. i think the businesses should be paying those people and not the taxpayers. if people cannot afford what the businesses after a charg -- past due and charged to pay the people what they need to pay them, then they need to figure out their business model and maybe pay their ceo's a few million less. host: there is this picture of president leaving asheville, nort

also signing their names, mary cheney, nicolle wallace, ben ginsberg, and michael powell, colin powell's's chairman -- was of the bush administration fcc back then. and in the biggest turnaround, meg whitman, who supported proposition 8 barring gay marriage when she ran for governor of california. now supports gay marriage. joining me is jimmy lasalvia, president of go proud, and msnbc contributor ron reagan. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. jimmy, you have been involved in this fight and i think on the republican side. when did the turn begin? when did you start meeting people who at least said privately we got to change on this from what the platform has been saying? >> well, i think this issue has been moving faster than any issue we've seen ever in my lifetime, and it's been the last few years. i think that certainly -- i think before then we started a lot of movement. i think especially now that we've had the 2012 elections where four states passed the marriage issues and it's just the new political reality, and people are thinking about the issue differently. everybody has got

. >> is morning, mark ginsberg discusses the situation in syria. and how president obama's policy team might face them. team might face them.

commission the republican co-chair is a guy by the name of ben ginsburg well and it's yeah but it's ben ginsberg a guy who's been fighting against voters a guy who worked with the swift boat veterans back in two thousand and four even while he was working with bush cheney is incredibly partisan i don't know what to expect out of this commission i don't expect much but i would be more worried about the supreme court coming up they're looking at the voting rights act in another week and this could really cut the knees out from voting rights across the entire country that's what we have to really keep our eyes on this year i'm afraid ok and we will do that will do that as well on your blog and brad blog dot com brad friedman thanks again for joining us thank you tom. coming out last week more than three thousand vacation goers were treated to the cruise from hell and i've heard of a cruise ship lost all power and quickly became a giant floating petri dish but lost it all in mainstream media coverage of the cruise to nowhere is the story of carnival some lawyers who are living their own kind of nigh

general sales manager chris and they ginsberg says an 98% of the carter also from the west coast.cars. stay away from cars coming from the east coast. often sold at a much higher cost than they are worth. you will see wholesalers buying cars that are going to be turned over from the insurance companies from the sandy storm. there are other disasters that, and heard cars again. we've been through before with things like a teen train up. states have loopholes allow people to buy these vehicles and watched the titles. that means the car can be resold without anything being written on the title. injured flooding is an example some limited happen with a car within that has been through a hurricane. always do a background check by getting a car fax. in san francisco phillipe djegal kron 4 news treated a fee from santa cruz was forgetful and now he is in a jail. he left a behind a camera with pictures of himself on the camera. he was arrested because officers recognized him from the pictures on the camera and water question about it then he confessed to the burglary. in russia a small ar

host: wendy ginsberg? guest: that is what a lot of members of congress are saying. it is a job. it has an eight-year time limit. does that mean you do not get to work for 30 years of a pension when another employee with? these are excellent debates that go on in congress. these are ideas that it bounced back and forth. are they getting paid too much for eight years of service? are they not getting paid for a really hard job they work for eight years? host: wendy ginsberg, thank you for your time this morning. >> in his state of the union address, president obama proposed raising the minimum wage. on the next "washington journal," a look at how that would affect our economy. for more, jennifer erickson and chris edwards will take a look at the present's proposals for job creation. and jefferson keel will talk about social and cultural issues among native americans. "washington journal" is live every day on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, a look