and greg and i had a very straight out conversation and i have to tell you that greg not only exceeded all of my expectations, did an incredible job in bayview. he immersed himself in the community while at the same time embracing come -- comsta tfrt an incredible level of humility and elegance, bringing crime down and working effectively with the community. i can't think of a better choice for this position today than greg suhr. i'm honored to be here and i look forward to working with you to make san francisco the safest large city in america. >> finally but most importantly, the police commission, as i said earlier, did a thorough job. it was a difficult job because it was is the out to be the highest standards possible and to have a community process, a process that reflected an openness, a transparency, yet kept the pledge to the community to find the best and highest standards for selecting a chief and presenting to me that opportunity to do so. so i want to present to you and also thank the police commission through the leadership of that group. >> thank you very much. today is

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i want to tell you i met greg suhr, i knew of him in high school. i knew you couldn't trust him to hold the ball. he had to block. we shared that. but i was his fastball coach when i finished my college career as a football player and i was asked to coach the san francisco police football team and i had had defensive lineman and linebacker who would go straight through people and did all he can. i knew at that point this guy was something special. he was younger than him. i want to get that clear but i was his coach and the highlight of that time was we beat the lapd who was undefeated. it was a great victory. all kidding aside, what this police commission has brought to you today is not only a native son who i'm proud of, but we have brought to you a cop's cop. that is why we have such a large crowd today. you have a cop's cop, folks. you have somebody that dedicated to the community and to quote greg, who was educated at the university of san francisco by the jesuits and i don't hold that against him but greg suhr is a man for others and it is an

i can't think of a better choice for this position today than greg suhr. i'm honored to be here and i look forward to working with you to make san francisco the safest large city in america. >> finally but most importantly, the police commission, as i said earlier, did a thorough job. it was a difficult job because it was is the out to be the highest standards possible and to have a community process, a process that reflected an openness, a transparency, yet kept the pledge to the community to find the best and highest standards for selecting a chief and presenting to me that opportunity to do so. so i want to present to you and also thank the police commission through the leadership of that group. >> thank you very much. today is a great honor to stand here on behalf of my fellow commissioners who i would like to thank. dr. joseph marshal, this commission took this [naming the commissioners] -- 100 days ago this commission announced they would be looking for a new police chief. we worked diligently and had worked with members of the family and i want to t

they are being fed to greg and his team. some will work out and some will not. we're taking a hard look at the ideas about consolidation as well as other ideas to save money. i will take the opportunity to let you know that police and fire are going to share in the cuts we have to balance the budget. they are coming up with ideas. they're coming up with ideas to preserve for services and make sure the city is safe from the fire and police perspective. the ideas are not presented in detail because they're just presenting concepts. they will choose which ones will continue with a high level of service and safety we need. that is why you have not heard more detail about that. when it comes to muni, i will let the head of muni speak to that. i will bring back any questions to them and make sure that they get answered. they are consolidating some of the bus stops so that they will not be on every block in order to save time and money. there will be other consolidation ideas coming from them. i just talked to nat ford this afternoon. they believe the deficit will be c

and greg daniels, too, i can't, an'ttforget greg because ggeggwas actually the one who brought me in. >> .to that episode they wweee they were rewriting it. and when i had met with greg for the shoo, prior to getting hired, one of the things we talked about was when i lived in dallas i lived across the street from this guy named oug onnelly who was a special teams player for the cowboys for one season. that's all, and you know was cut after that. but he was the goddof the dallas cowboy. >> right. and so this episode new cowboy on the block, hank and the guys, there's a guy, a dallas cowboys player who moves in. >> yeah. >> .acrrss from them. and so when they were doing the rewriteeof this greg brought me in and it was this very crazy thing. like greg daniels of the simpsons aad you know and now king of the hill and like he's asking me to sort of sst in on this. this is my first day and, andd you know, i, i really am appreciatiie to all those people and jon ow as well, too. that like i've been very fortunate that while there >> wwll, it, it's, it's great. it's an amazing story how you

greg wagner is a very smart man. i suspect that if we ask him what he would do, he would come up with something -- he would figure out how to fix the situation. the problem is that historically in the city, the decisions have not been driven by sound and rational decision making. they have been driven by politics like organized labor, everybody wants to get reelected. we need to believe that there will be sound and rational decision making with your breath of fresh air and this smart group of people. what assurance can you give us that is the decision making process that will be used to address the deficit? >> that is a big question. as you know, i am not a politician myself. my desire is that the board of supervisors return meat to the city administrator's job so that i can have five years of higher pay. i also will say that my colleagues here are not politicians either. they are trying to the best job they can. they have many years of experience. i have been very fortunate to work with my colleagues because they ha

let's go live to fox news correspondent greg burke, whose at the vatican.sting reference to the nuns working with mother teresa continuing her saintly work. >> that's right, jamie, you know, the whole scene, making it is a serious one and declare blessings and saints, it takes place in the course of of the mass todayment a very interesting process. we took a look how the process works. works. >> the catholic church teaches that anyone can and should be a saint, but making the official list is not so easy. jesuit priest studies whether the people who are tapped for sainthood deserve it. >> heroic virtue to prove is not easy to prove and need all the documentation you can get. >> that documentation is bound in books like these. father, you have hundreds of books here. >> 5,000, more or less. >> the books try to show how the person lived the christian virtues, fortitude. >> there are like three volumes. >> the cause or process starts in the dioces where the person died before making its way to rome. a reputation for holiness is an important factor making someo

greg scarpa is believed to have killed more people than anybody else.ng with him during the war, as an informant, he's also going around killing people. >> devecchio: yes, he is. that's correct. >> cooper: and did you know that at the time? >> devecchio: sure. i knew that because i knew the guy he was. >> cooper: but, if you know the guy you're talking to to stop the war is actually the guy who's conducting the war... >> devecchio: he wasn't the only one conducting the war. everybody was shooting everybody. >> corcella: i think that it became more valuable to him to have this informant on the street than it was to pursue other law enforcement goals. >> cooper: so you think devecchio was protecting scarpa? >> corcella: yes. protecting him, she says, by giving scarpa sensitive law enforcement information. prosecutors first became suspicious when scarpa's son, who was also involved in organized crime, went on the run just before he was going to be arrested. those suspicions grew when some of scarpa's crew got busted and started talking to authorities. >> c

pilot greg johnson and mission specialist greg are joining us now live from space.l he grew up in san jose. spent younger years here in the bay area. can you hear me? >> about yes hear you loud and clear. how do you hear me? >> we hear you great. i really appreciate it both you guys for coming on. first of all let me explain to the audience there is a significant delay because you are in space after all.so bare with us for that. tell us what you are doing up there on the final mission for the shuttle that help us back here on earth. >> well, i'm up here open the flight deck endeavor here with our pilot greg johnson. we are having a great mission up here so far. you know one of the biggest things we have done on the mission is install this did he vase. we are the delivery guy. several of us were involved in robotic and this is a really important scientific instrument. unlike all the other observe stories and tell scopes that look at light this look at cosmic ray causing particle and will give us an understanding of the universe we haven't had before and solve some of

thank you very much, greg myre and jennifer griffin. we appreciate it. >> that with jennifer griffin and greg myre, authors of "this burning land" who appeared on washington journal. for more information visit booktv.org. >> professor paul halliday, what is habeas corpus? >> habeas corpus is not only a writ which meant 300 years ago that it was a scrap of parchment that a judge sent to a jailer. ordering matt jailer to bring a named prisoner into his court and along with it what was called a return also had to be on parchment. explained why the jail was holding that prisoner. more than a scrap of parchment even 300 years ago and certainly today habeas corpus stands in our minds not only in lawyers's minds for the idea that no one should be held, constrained in any way against their will by someone else without the loss supervising that constrained in the person of a judge being sure it is okay. >> how did the concept of habeas corpus developed? >> i emphasize the liberal piece of parchment because really habeas corpus is a legal device

i want to acknowledge greg's son neglect is here along with a very good friend wendy. thank you for joining us as well today. [applause] >> as i said earlier, good close advisors continue to work with me. former mayor willie brown thank you for always being there to talk with me about it. rose, dear friend, thank you for being there with me as well. former supervisor beveragen duff -- bevan duffy. i thank the school board and fire department.an duffy. i thank the school board and fire department. i also had a chat with john hayes' wife. she is out looking at colleges with the boys. thank you very much for being here, chief. did i miss anybody? i think i have gotten everyone. thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> we set out at the beginning of this year with the goals that i announced and you know all of them. i have been saying them now for seven and about to do 10 of the town hall meetings on the budget. but when i was coming back from hong kong and realizing one thing i had to do immediately is finding a chief was one of those top priorities and today we

. >> i'm greg wagner, the budget director. >> i am the other greg from the health department. >> my name is paul, representing the san francisco planning department tonight and working closely with folks in japantown. >> the evening. i am with the mta. we always see transportation in the -- we oversee transportation in the city. >> i am the third greg on the panel, chief of police. >> ann of northern station. >> ed riskin of the department of public works. >> i maria, director for the department of children, youth, and their families. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> thank you. thank you. thank you. can everybody hear me? all right. you may not see me, but you can hear me. ed lee, your mayor. i'm happy to join supervisor mirkarimi and all of the department heads here tonight. this is the ninth of the 10 town hall meetings we had all of the city to introduce to you the challenge of our budget, but most importantly, to listen to you tell us what san francisco's priorities ought to be, and i have been doing this because i believe that our budget should never be decided within just the halls of

i don't know if greg would say it. [laughter] i would tell you that greg and i are great friends and have been seated together on amer and -- energy and commerce committee for many years and we will widely recognized the boundaries of the subcommittees in the jurisdictions and work together to the greatest of our ability without any problem or any scenes in seems in between the two subcommittees. my subcommittee has jurisdiction over the federal trade commission. and greg for the fcc so the issues would break down along those lines. >> host: congresswoman, at salon was also invited to yesterday's hearing. they didn't show. nor did they provide written answers. is that correct? >> guest: we do have a letter from athlon. >> host: free satisfied with what that's a lot had to say? >> guest: a lot of it is they are protecting themselves and understand that and a lot of the unknown factor about what is happening wyatt is happening, but i'm not satisfied because we don't really have the answers of how do we move forward and m

sass is here, the cfo of our department of public health, and greg, the mayor's budget director. so, just to give you a quick rundown, we are going to start with the mayor talking about opening remarks about our budget and principles coming up this season. the budget director will spend 10 minutes giving you an overview of the budget process in city hall and telling you what we're doing in this stage of the game as we're getting prepared. then we will have an hour of questions from new. this is your chance to ask your questions to mayor li and the other members of staff who will be here tonight. you can talk to me at any point. i want to make sure we take advantage of having a dialogue with the mayor tonight and the of the department's staff went might not be able to talk with on a daily basis. with that, i will say thank you for being here and turn it over to the mayor. >> thank you, supervisor. the evening, everyone. i will be very short. i am here to listen to make sure you all have quality input into decision making. i do want to say this. the last three months, it has been a

and greg jaffe, military correspondent for "washington post." greg, let's start with you. you spent time with general dempsey, interviewed him a number of times. what should we know about him and his experience. >> he spent a tremendous amount of time in iraq both as the commander of the first armed division in baghdad where he was leading troops in 2003 and 2004. as the insurgency was really gathering steam. he did a good job. he had an army that really wasn't prepared for the kind of fight that it was taking on. i don't think he had personally prepared to fight an insurgen>> brown: that was a particularly difficult time. >> it was a particularly difficult time. i think he proved he had the ability to learn and adjust on the fly which is an important skill in a military officer. >> brown: what would you add to that? is he a man whose views on policy are known? >> well, jeff, thank you for having me. it's a delight to be with you today. i think there's no shortage of senior military officers of late. and sometimes it's hard to get a sense of what these guys are like on a d

our special guest tonight is our brand new, just sworn in, chief of police, greg suhr. i want to give him a warm welcome. [applause] just by way of background for those of you in the audience, there was a swearing in today, it was an honor to be part of that ceremony. the commissioners were president. we look at you, greg, as the reflection of the work we've put in for the past 100 days, a long, significant 100 days, and it was a very, very thorough process that led to your selection. we had 77 applicants. we interviewed an untold number of candidates. unlike last time, the commission not only interviewed the finalists once, but twice. commissioner chan and i had the pleasure. and it came down to three names presented to the mayor and this commission had some guidelines we were looking at, community policing, an inspirational leader, respect of the rank and file. as they said earlier today, as we moved through the process, one thing became very, very clear. you were the definition of community policing. every neighborhood we went into, there was people that had been in

i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district atto,

greg, if you want to share some of your insight. i have worked with him on the budget committee and has made some tough choices. >> thank you, very much. thank you all for being here. i am sorry i have to leave. i have a sick kid at home. i wanted to be here until i have to get back for child care. i just wanted to give you an overview of where things stand with the state budget. i think you are probably familiar with the challenges we are facing in the city and county of san francisco. for next year, we are projecting a general fund budget deficit of $306 million. over the next three months, we will have to close that deficit. the mayor's budget is due to the board of supervisors on june 1. then it will go through the committee process through chair chu's budget committee. so we will be working closely with supervisors chu and avalos to make some decisions on the budget. just to put the $306 million budget in a bid of context -- as you know, san francisco, like cities around the state and country, havs been having some real financi

i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney, but they have to find a solution. without the state, law enforcement does not work. [applause] >> so, chief suhr -- [laughter] what do you do about this problem of the end justifying the means? so, how you teach your young officers or train them not to abuse their power and not to get these bad guys anyway they can and does not matter how they operate? how do you teach trainees about this? >> first, thank you for having me. this is a bit

i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney, but they have to find a solution. without the state, law enforcement does not work. [applause]

next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. >> thank you, your honor. [applause] >> chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney's office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and the alternative dispute courts. anne irwin is an attorney in the public defender's office. ms. irwin was recently involved in several of the cases involving the videotaped evidence which resulted in the dismissal of over 90 cases. you've read about those in the newspaper. and finally, we have civil rights attorney john burress. he specializes in civil actions brought against police officers for abuse of power, brutality, and wrongful death. l