sue hastert tried to tell you the plants and from a few cannot be approved, but we followed plan department guidelines that if approved tonight. it she said we need a variance to get approval, and that is not true. it is helpful to accomplish family sized housing. this is not a particularly narrow street. it is walkable. many have you -- many of you have done that already. it is financially possible that the building that joe butler suggested is not financially possible to be built. it is not code compliant or sellable. last, don't try to split the difference between the 25 foot building they are suggesting and are 36-foot tall building. we already responded to the height concerns by making a $200,000 investment in the new design to respond to the concerns on a number of levels, including design-related, to make the building conform to the neighborhood and the church does not stick out like a sore thumb. we have been very considerate to the neighborhood. president miguel: thank you. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: thank you. for many years we have gone over the fights over the

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fight over a new legislature but the man who has made karzai is backing to become the new speaker hastert controversy. has been accused of war crimes and numerous human rights violations the legitimacy of the parliament itself is under question as september's elections were carried out and allegations of rampant fraud in a country ripe with corruption and gripped by war the u.s. led campaign so far failed to make a breakthrough against the taliban are these military contributors says it's time for washington to change its strategy in afghanistan. the former u.s. ambassador to india robert blake will came out last year we have a very creative and innovative idea that is to partition afghanistan his proposition were some merrily dismissed all across the board by afghan pakistani and american analysts as totally on the rallies stick and harmful bowls to afghan and american interests in that area however this year robert will repair his proposition and publish in foreign affairs as plan b. for afghanistan and this time i believe it stands a good chance to be taken seriously because though it

another woman behind me said you've got to be at the hastert. so this grim looking character comes up and takes a picture. it's a picture of the school, the class picture from the book. puts it on the table and says do you know what that is? >> guest: i said yes, but the class picture. he says where am i in that picture? he says you don't know how grand we are coming back from america. now he says, you're a disgrace to ireland. you've besmirched affair name and you've destroyed your mother's good name and here's what i think of your book and he tore to pieces, paperback. that's the link that limerick. >> host: where you lived? >> guest: in the 1940s, lee 30s or 40s. >> host: what is up for someone who's never seen the book? was that they actually get? what is the timeframe? >> guest: it starts i suppose with my mother and the 1929 to 1949, the last 20 years. so i was born in 1930 in new york and to ireland in 1934. i looked again in 1949. so it's mainly the story of me and my family from our arrival in ireland to 1949. >> host: another book? >>

[question inaudible] >> after 9/11 speaker hastert was concerned with the security with the capitol that existed at that time. but, yes, there was that opportunity. i hope we build on this and build on it successfully. mostly we pray for those that lost their lives and pray for those who we want to pull through here. [question inaudible] >> there is a lot of misinformation out there, so we want to try not to feed into that. but thank you, very much. >> congresswoman gabrielle giffords is one of the representatives that spoke during the u.s. constitution reading on the house floor this past week. here are her remarks. yield to the the gentlelady from arizona, ms. giffords. ms. giffords: congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of "q&a." >> >> also on today's "washington journal" there was discussion of the shootings in tucson arizona. this is about 40 minutes. residet george

hastert shepherding them around. it is quite a long process. it is an hour to cycle through and be able to provide the reaction back home. >> you try to arrange as much as you -- as much as you can in advance with your local press. >> when you were in the speaker's office, was it your responsibility to coordinate all of that? >> with the press secretaries. we had a meeting in the afternoon. weeks before. there is a holding that goes on. the day of the speech, there is someone from the administration to say, here is what the president will say. so people can prepare their reaction in advance. you can react specifically to things. >> you can bring reporters into your office. >> we have been talking about the speech. i now have it. it uses the words job -- the word dropped 31 times, economy 7, education 10 times, and china 4. >> that is why president obama is trying to take a page at of the republican playbook. he is trying to move back to the center. it is all about jobs in the economy. president obama is now trying to more from being -- morph fr

hastert udall was the beginning of the thinking of urban wilderness which i know secretary salazar isery involved with and the great american actors are for going on. places like the chicago wilderness, houston wilderness. how do we bring young people in america, minorities, people that are not visiting parks and how do we get nature and their lives? there were two people in the 1960's, william douglas, an underrated environmental historian, to tell people that they need to save areas within urban centers and bring wilderness to their life, and storage udall -- and stewart udall his entire time at the department of the interior was aimed at having people used resources. not just in the west, but he wanted all of our cities to have acceptable wilderness. we have not caught up get with when secretary udall was envisioning, but we're getting near. i want to thank the obama administration and secretary saws are for continuing stewart udall's hope to have wilderness in our lifetime. thank you. [applause] >> ladies gentlemen, we will never hear reflections from the udall family beginning wi

and great american hero and senator arlen specter and joined by the former speaker of the house and hastertpplause] by the chief of staff of the u.s. army, general george casey. thank you and ambassador of the republic of korea, welcome to the united states. the korean war, my colleagues have said have often been called the forgotten wow, but we must remember the heroes who returned safely home and gave their last ounce of devotion. they deserve our respect and admiration as we honor our korean veterans. the story is of heroism and self less acts of patriotism. at the memorial day concert, this year we heard about the story of private first class charlie johnson who gave his life saving nine others. as one soldier later recounted, there weren't many men who made it off the hill. if charlie hadn't been there, i don't think any of us would have made it. a flight nurse, she volunteered for the air force and tended to the wounded and her story is a story of many women who served ho