now, the mayor, i'm telling you this mayor has experienced everything from hrc where he was really focused on local businesses and went to purchasing about providing opportunities to local businesses and i worked closely with him because he was my boss at the department of public works and now the city administrator and now the mayor. it's a great honor to look at all the things we've been able to accomplish, the micro set aside program and job contracting and we look at ways to invest in local businesses, san francisco businesses because we feel with that will really help employee citizens of san francisco. with that i would like to introduce mayor ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, har land. happy holidays! it's good to be in the bayview in san francisco during the holidays. we have not been able to say that for a long time. but i want to thank har lynn and his staff and commissioner courtney and commissioner moran and puc staff commission and also department of public works, dbi is here tonight, the mta, the ports, treasure islands, they are involved with hundreds of millions of dollars

i'm going to speak candidly about him, i've worked with him over 3 years, i saw him serve on the hrc committee, i worked long hours with him, helping clients, working with employers, developing projects, working on proposals and he's got heart, loyalty, hope for the community. he's never lost that personable approach, people can come up to him like carry, he has a lot of support from the community, they trust him. he's very valuable to serving many of the folks from various districts in san francisco. it was an honor to work with him, i miss him as mission hiring hall but i work with him on a new project now and he's still helping people and you never forget the people that helped him get to where he's at and i know he's going to do big and her better things so please consider him, thanks. >> thank you, any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. mr. penn, you know, i just met him today and i feel really good about this nomination. he's got so much energy and, you know, his experience on all the different levels he brings in makes him a perfect candidate for

jonathan allen and amy parent will be given rare access to clinton insiders for a new book out titled "hrcformer rnc chairman ed gillespie is considering a run to the senate and considering challenging mark warner next year. republicans have yet to land a top recruit to run against the popular democrat. >>> president obama welcomed recipients of the 36th annual kennedy center honors for the white house. this year's recipients are carlos santana, herbie hancock and billy joel along with martina arroyo and shirley maclaine. >>> that's going to do it for your morning dish of scrambled politics. joining me from washington for our first look at politics is washington post reporter david nakamura. david, good morning. >> hi. >> let's start with joe biden and his trip to asia. i know you were a pool reporter on that so welcome home. >> thank you. good trip. >> what exactly was the vice president able to accomplish? >> well, i think there were two things that really were foremost for the obama administration. one there is a stirmish between china and japan over islands in the east china sea. a big

glad and hrc and these others immediately took acceptance to the other things.was working with them. that's his prospective. i agree. i would never say that. the fact is that's not where the outcry is. that shows the extraordinary bias -- >> let me say this -- piers, piers, piers. >> okay, ben, ben ferguson, show me one example of gay marriage in the bible. >> today i want to say this is my problem with this. there is the bible and right and wrong and it's scripture is going to defend people in all sins but what irks me the most is you piers, tweeted out an art kiln that said and i want to quote, he said gay people won't go to heaven and being gay can lead to bestiality. he never said gay people don't go to heaven and yet, this is what the liberal media is doing and you sent it out there and people read it and think wow, all christians think gay people don't go to heaven which is not true yet it's being send out all over the world and that's not what he said. >> talk about splitting hairs, he said start with this -- wait, wait, start with homosexual behavior and

8 passed and disallowed gays and lesbians to get married, my friend chad griffin, president of the hrcy wife michelle and said what can we do. at the time we didn't know. we came up with the idea of a federal strategy. gay rights groups were very much against us because they felt we were ahead of the curve and we should not be pursuing this, but we filed anyway. we filed a case that went to the supreme court. we won and were able to strike down prop 8. as that has happened, you've seen now over 29 federal lawsuits have been filed in america. there is a critical mass that's being hit. so you have to put yourself out there. eventually the right thing happens. it's like any kind of civil rights movement, the people at the forefront are going to take the hits. but ultimately the right thing prevails. i would suggest you just keep pushing forward. it's going to take a lot of courage from people in australia, russia, india. they are going to meet with tremendous resistance, we see it happening here in america. we will have marriage equality in america. once it happens in america that will st

hrc is ancient. it goes back to roman times in the united states during the civil war they were called socrates river camp followers who provided all carolyn was always done because the government did not have the money or the resources to. to do this it's become much more prevalent now. because of of of them. shrinking budgets on hand. a lot of what's known patch. talk about has opened up now. a window into how. going private i've seen this type of this type of operation can lead to massive problems for countries that have control over. the action is a book about a lot of this it came out in two thousand nine by james bamford called the shadow factory barriers it's not a great book money he has great details and and and in fact it tells you almost everything that we've learned from snow the next episode of the code names for some of these operations it's interesting that snowden really got into the eye he really well and bamford did up to a point but because they didn't have the documents any hadn't