you can always use 87 or 85 or hillsdale as your alternate routes.s a check of the traffic. >>> i want you to take a good look at this picture. each and every person in that picture gave a day off from work. from gary patrick hair salon. they gave up their day to give free haircuts to the children and women. a lot of people were smiling. and we had face painting, food, and a wonderful, wonderful benefit yesterday in pleasanton. hats off to you. community helping those in our community. just love it. >>> looking out to your community in the east bay past yerba buena island, barely a cloud in the sky. and this is from mount vaca. just stellar conditions. 45 in santa rosa to 53 degrees in oakland. the winds have been all over the place but under 10 miles per hour. offshore winds north, northeast at three. and east, southeast at seven. and in san jose, west, northwest at five at sfo with no delays. west at eight in fairfield. variable winds throughout the day. good to steve. he has a wind of four and clear skies. thanks for checking in. one of our faithf

worked for president reagan and she was the president-elector and most recently she has directed hillsdale college's free market forum for five years. her co-author and husband is burton folsom, jr., who holds a ph.d. from the university of pittsburgh. i actually visited pitt for the first time last fall and saw something i'd never heard of, which i'm surprised at. the cathedral of learning which is the second tallest university building in the world the tallest one you might guess as in moscow where they always thought building something bigger they were doing something better than capitalism but this is a 42-story university building and the first floors are built like a gothic cathedral. if you're in pittsburgh, spend some time in the cathedral of learning. but burt has taught in a double of colleges and now holds the charles klein chair of history and management at hillsdale college. he also serves as senior historian at the foundation of senior foundation where you can find some of his articles and he has pushed several books into the myth of the robber barons now it's in his sixth ed

and he is calling from hillsdale, michigan, on the all others lined. caller: i saw that you have a labor report on talking about with and i was tying it in the previous section on health care. , when talkinght health care, with a single-payer republicans why don't talk about single-payer when they are looking at the job tookt, because if you benefits out of the hiring equation, companies would be instead ofto hire having one person and working them 70 hours per week. they would have to plop people. so what is your thoughts on -- they would have two pops people. so what is your thoughts on single-payer? guest: i think that might be in terms ofecialty my knowledge, single-payer health care, just because it is a theoretical idea at this point. host: information in the latest jobs report, do you think that can be sustained? anything that might point to sustain momentum? west: i think the fact that have seen job growth average at about 185,000 just at the start months and have seen 79 of consecutive job growth, i do not think there is anything to indicate t

there isn't a university in the country except hillsdale and one other that get federal money. how do they get away with violating the constitution? aren't they subject to federal law? cut the money somehow, someway. you know? if they are getting federal money and there is all these federal programs then how can they get away with not following the constitution? >> well, you need to have -- first of all there is nothing in the law that specifically says you have to respect people's religious liberty. but they don't -- when you follow the money, you find out where the power really is. and i mean they could cut off the money. but that is where they have used -- your colleague letter. that was money. that takes you back it the point where the president appoints. let's get the appointments done so we can undo stuch and just remember there is another federal court in san francisco that just said the president can't cut out money for sanctuary cities either. let me show you if there is one back there. let's give our panelists a round of applause. [applause] >> i want to give you each

. >> there is not a university in the country except hillsdale and one other that get federal money and there's all kinds of federal programs. how they get away with violating the constitution? are they subject to federal law? cut the money, somehow someway. that would certainly focus them. but if they are subject, if they are getting federal money and there are all these federal programs then how can they get away with not following the constitution? >> well, you need to have, first of all there is nothing in the law that specifically says you have to respect people's religious liberty. they do not even count the budgets of school districts that are found guilty of race discrimination. i mean when you follow the money you find out where the power really is and they can cut off the money. but that is where they can use that letter in the context of that was money. and that, that takes you back to my initial point which is you know the president appoints, let's get the appointment done so that we can start to undo some of this. and use that money as the weapon was always intended to be b

hejoins me now from hillsdale in upstate new york. we should be straight about this.e the director of the fbi for any reason whatsoever. for donald trump and his supporters, this is the democrats looking for excuses as to why they lost the election. this man needs to be surrounded by adulation. he cannot abide what he ta kes to adulation. he cannot abide what he takes to be disloyalty. he thought james comey was disloyal, along with sally yates and others. general flynn. there will be others. he needed a commitment from james comey. apparently james comey needed a commitment from james comey. apparentlyjames comey was invited to the white house previously. donald trump wanted to say, let me show you how big my thing is. and can i count on you? comey said "not in the political sense." donald trump needs slaveish obedience. we don't know whether thatis obedience. we don't know whether that is true. people at the side of james comey said he denied absolutely that donald trump was not under investigation. yet a president is entitled, a leader, is entitled to expect loyalt

a quarter of a mile of hillsdale hillside gave way. most of it dropped 200 feet into the ocean, engineers are just starting to assess the damage. they expect the repairs will take months if not longer. >> it should be easier if the roadway is still there, not easy but not as complicated as if the roadway is missing, which we think might be the case. >> this closure comes on top of another closure fot north of big sur that's make access to the local communities difficult for residents and tourists. you might recall a major slide damaged the fwlij january. they were set to open in september. you can get to pfeiffer big sur state park which has just partially reopened. >>> the drought's over but some east bay water customers may still have to pay more for their water. new proposal would hike briesz 18% over the next two years. that would be a 9.25% increase this july then another 9% increase next july. here's abc 7 news reporter laura an knowny. reporter: rains did their part, and the reservoirs are brimming. but that doesn't mean east ba

westbound is blocked, and we talked about using hillsdale until they can clear the scene.l is headed out there. we learned from vta there will be no impact to the vta line. unrelated to that, i want to show youúh the transit grid. the vta is not running line 900 because of staffing issues. that line will not be in service to almaden. top of the screen, b.a.r.t. moves with 50 trains and they're on time. >> great stuff. >> you mentioned, mike, it is monday. >> yay. >> exactly. yay. >> it's not my fault. >> no one is blaming you. all we're saying is this is probably the best day of week to look forward to the weekend. >> already. and kari hall joins us now. pretty nice forecast. >> a nice weekend. we're coming off that, you're probably starting to make plans for this weekend coming up. let's start out in the south bay in san jose. it will be in the low 70s. it's going to be a gorgeous weekend. and you can go ahead and make some plans to get out there and enjoy it. in the east bay, it will be in the upper 60s on saturday and sunday. in the peninsula, low 70s there. we start ou

i do believe that universities are going to become very dull boring places in places like hillsdale college are going to get all of the vibrant intellects because -- left and right or some of the smaller liberal arts colleges that embrace genuine intellectual diversity. they will prosper in the years ahead, not middleberry will pay a price and i would not send my kid to berkeley.se i just wouldn't.rk if you can't have a conversation why go there smart. >> host: joe in new york city. >> caller: good afternoon, gentlemen. welcome to usc. i'm a proud alumnus of the annenberg school. i'd like to ask your re recollections of ambassador annenberg and also do you think annenberg would support donald trump #. >> guest: i had one greatsador s conversation with ambassador in a burglar i asked him for $10 million for the nixon library i was 33 at the time he said no, young man i'm not going to. i'll give you a building is worth 7 million. h he was helping us raise money for the nixon library. he was a wonderful gentleman and i don't propose to know what other people would think. he was a loyal republi

hillsdale avenue is an alternate.uth bay continue to slowly but surely. back to you. >> thank you very much. 757. happening now, jurors will resume deliberations in the antolin garcia torres murder trial today. he's accused in the death of sierra lamar five years ago. we also plan to cut into our regular broadcasting for special updates whenever there is word of a verdict. san francisco this morning, the recipient of an unexpected cash infusion to help battle homelessness. mayor lee tweeting about a $100 million donation. another update in half an hour. >>> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, showdown on the hill. russian meddling in the election takes center stage today, as former attorney general sally yates gets set to testify before congress. what does she know about former national security adviser michael flynn and his ties to moscow? we're live at the white house. >>> plus, a new leash on life. >> it's like that unconditional love that, you know, you hear about in the bible. and i think dogs give that to you. >> w

there isn't a university in the country, except hillsdale and one other, that get federal money and there'sall kinds of federal programs. how did he get away with violating the constitution? are they not subject to federal law? and kept the money some way soma cut the money. that would certainly focus them. if they are subject, if they're getting federal money and there's all these federal programs, then how can they get away with not following the constitution? >> well, you need to have, first of all there's nothing in the law that specifically suggest respect peoples religious liberty. but they don't even cut the budget of school districts that are found guilty of race discrimination. when you follow the money, you find out where the power really is. and they could cut off, but that's what it used that dear colleague letter in the context of rape. that was money. so that take you back to my initial point, which is the president appoints. let's get the appointments are done so that we can start to undo some of this stuff and use that money as a weapon that was always intended to be. but ju