i think perfect example go ahead i think i think what i think was just going to point i think it may have made the relationship with china i think become so i don't i don't think there is really. any i think negative sides from the united i think it's the iranian government that again i said they can't afford having a relationship with iran and i just. go back to one of the points of your is major i think it's we're talking about some of the things that iran should give up i think one of the things that it's just the basic human rights that we're talking about i think we're talking about just if iran can really respect i think the aspiration of people i think if they can stop executing gays if they can stop stoning people for adultery if they can i mean. if they can just a low people to have freedom of so i mean we're talking about. women and get out of maybe of taran does that maybe we will stop the droning program would that be fair killing innocent people while iran would not use so many rights always use it we're not equal it's hypocritical. well i mean anyway human rights very n

>> i don't think there is much. i don't think there's much in terms of actions. i won't surprise folks are. i am concerned about the drags that can send you -- to continue to be imposed on the private sector but i think that some of the uncertainty that we had, regulatory uncertainty, has been eliminated with the reelection of president obama. is now not to question whether the affordable care act moving forward but we know it's moving forward. we know there's not going to be an effort to repeal but now we're just left with the uncertainty about how quickly are the states going to implement the exchanges, what is -- there is now no question that dodd-frank is not only the law but will stay in place released another couple of years. so at least that policy answered has been a limited us to is the question of how are all the regular agencies going to do that work is going to cause a drag. so i'm worried about policy drags. that shouldn't surprise anyone. >> we can come back to -- you were saying not possible to do enough infrastructure spending. but if you look acro

and i think that is a good switch because i think republicans -- i mean, you can argue that it will be much better to have a sequester that applied to everything that this sequester doesn't apply to which is to say titlement in taxes which instead we have a -- >> rose: when you saw this with eric cantor and others and rubio leading on immigration reform you saw eric cantor talking about the fact we recognize, we have been speaking to, where the american people are. beyond demographics, it's the language. we care about your needs etcetera etcetera rather than we want to cut out everything. >> connecting the dots. it turns out long term deficit are reduction is in the interest of today's middle class. but you have to connect some dots and simply saying lets cut the budget is not sufficient. >> rose: which makes me wonder whether we need better explanation because i trust the common sense of the american people. do we need more explanation which maybe is a role for the "new york times" and others and teaching people in the business school. somehow are we doing our jobs so that people are

i think we talked about the intensity. it's also the number that chase seems to be putting up everywhere. i mean, you see some that are on corners there at least three signs, maybe, at least two, maybe three. then they have their atm, and then there's something else in the window. i mean, really. so, i think that -- i don't know the best way to go ahead with commissioner moore's suggestion. i think it's becoming a problem in many neighborhoods in the city. so, it might have to be something put on the department's work program. the other comment i have is that since the plans, drawings we have which i assume what we're approving don't show any signs, does that mean we're not going to have any signs? >> cory can answer that. as you know, signs are not discretionary. it's not part of your approval. i will say that with respect to the number and size that you point out, it does require a change in legislation to limit the size and number. and i think you're probably right that we need to start thinking about making some code ch

i think -- the question is what, however. and i do think that the international powers are doing quite a lot in terms of humanitarian assistance. the united states, for instance, has provided something like $50 million in humanitarian assistance. has been supporting the various groups to unite and give them -- recognize them, frankly. and then also try to be helpful in finding some kind of a diplomatic solution to this. i think the real issue comes down to what kind of military action and not every place is amenable to having some kind of military action. >> rose: is syria? >> in syria i think that we have to keep examining trying to figure out what can be done. i think it's hard, charlie, i really do. >> rose: secretary of state clinton, who you worked with, panetta petraeus, all recommended we do something. and the president said no, and you say the president was right to say no and other people can ask this question: how many syrians have to die before the west does something? >> well, i think this has to constantly be reex

i think perfect example go ahead i think i think what i think was just going to pour i think it may have made a relationship with china i think they come to china so i don't i don't think there is really. any i think negative sides from the united i think it's the iranian government that again i said they can't afford having a relationship with iran and i just. go back just one of the points that your is major i think it's we're talking about some of the things that iran should give up i think one of the things that it's just the basic human rights that we're talking about i think we're talking about just if iran can really respect i think the aspiration of people i think if they can stop executing gays if they can stop stoning people for adultery if they can i mean. if they can just a low people to have freedom of so i mean we're talking about literally a monarchy of two men and get out of maybe into ran does that maybe we will stop the droning program would that be fair killing innocent people while iran will not disarm and right always use the iraqi were not because it's hypocritical.

i think it's really an opportunity to think about surplus land for the city, you know, i believe the advocacy around the land is where the conversation first started. i also wanted to mention that i had the pleasure of introducing director [inaudible] last week, and it's really i think a missed opportunity that we don't really talk about long-term vision as much as we could or director ran laid out sort of 6 directions that he thinks we need to go in the next three to five years and i think i would love to see it here at commission or somewhere more public, hosted by the public department or within the department, but really i think a public forum for us to talk about long-term vision for -- short and long-term vision for this department rather than being focused every week on our agenda. >> i'll have to agree with that. i don't know what the form is when we bring it into play, but i would love to see the notes if you had a packaged docket that went along with that, maybe the commissioners might have interest and that might spread the idea of bringing it before us and a larger body.

i might think i know, but i don't.e way to get to those ideas is through the language. paying attention. close attention to phrases and sentences, and if you do that in kind of an open state, not only will the ideas show up, but they'll be the highest form of your ideas. they won't be superficial but deep and sort of ambiguous. >> seems like one of the things you try to create for in those sentences is space for heart. that's another way of reaching across our divide. >> that's right. that's right. i long that longfellow quote which i'll probably mangle but "if we could look into the secret history of our enemies, we would find sufficient suffering and sorrow to disarm our hostility," and i think fiction is kind of almost like a mechanical way to work through your own shallowness. you start off with a kind of a couldn't condescending relationship to your character almost by deaf significance, and then the work with the sentences, you find that the bad sentences are equal to oversome that con desenccondesencion and work

i think the fact that we have folks that reached out and desire to see a change i think is positive. i will agree we're always going to be chasing after resources we need for folks who need it so i think that is something that we will have to continue to do and i think this will highlight the need that is part of that that we haven't seen in the past and i think that is something that could be a positive for the city so i understand your point of view. i think it's a good opportunity for us to focus on what could be done and what more to do and what we need with the vehicle component. >> i understand. any other questions? >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i wanted to take a minute and complement you and your team as well as you bevin and reaching out and finding four people. that is something to be acknowledged and i am really excited about that. >> quite a few more people expressed interest in it and wanted to learn about the possibility of having their vehicle stored. i'm just reporting on the folks i met with individually after we fliered who called me. people spoke with the outr

i don't think we need to get to whether it was willful or not. he just simply has not overcome the presumption of the violation of that section. >> is that right? >> that's right. >> i would agree with that. >> okay. >> is there a motion to find that mr. lazar has overcome his burden with respect to 67.21 b and 67.21 e but not with respect to 67.22 b. >> [inaudible] >> my understanding is that we don't have to address that. >> is that right. >> based on the statement there is simply no evidence in the violation. >> i think that's a different question. i think what commissioner was saying was -- maybe i misinterpreted it. i thought he said we don't have to reach 67.34. is that right? >> that's my understanding of section 2 is that we can find a violation but you don't need to find that it was willful but it maybe better to do it in the context of that e -- that there is insufficient showing by mr. lazar that he did not violate 67.22 b. but that we did not find that he violated 67.21 b or 67.21 e or that there was a pattern of practice of inadequate

i think it's hard work everyday what you're trying to accomplish. i want to say thank you to that and of course to the speakers. i appreciate that and even though we are divergent at this moment. colleagues we have heard the motion and heard public comment. do we have a motion to file? >> so moved. >> thank you very much. madam clerk are there any other items? >> well are no other items. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> commissioner hyde. >> here. >> commissioner perez? >> here. >> commissioner joseph. >> we have a quorum and >> and president newlin called to let us know that he would be absent. >> item number one is public comment. this is the time that the public can address us under the jurisdiction on items that are not on the agenda. is there a public comment? >> commissioners, mark, randy. i want to point out and remind everybody that on march, fourth, that the awards of san francisco, the nighttime entertainment awards will be held at the castro theater and the reason that i think that this is important, that if you start rewarding people fo

i think it's hard work everyday what you're trying to accomplish. i want to say thank you to that and of course to the speakers. i appreciate that and even though we are divergent at this moment. colleagues we have heard the motion and heard public comment. do we have a motion to file? >> so moved. >> thank you very much. madam clerk are there any other items? >> well are no other items. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of p

go ahead i think i think what i think was just going to pour i think if they have made a relationship with china i think becomes china so i don't i don't think there is really. any i think negative sides from the united i think it's the iranian government that again i said they can't afford having a relationship with iran and i just. go back just one of the points of your is major i think it's we're talking about some of the things that iran should give up i think one of the things that it's just the basic human rights that we're talking about i think we're talking about just if iran can really respect i think the aspiration of people i think if they can stop executing gays if they can stop stoning people for adultery if they can i mean. if they can just a low people to have freedom of the i mean we're talking about a minority of humanity about of maybe of taran does that maybe we will stop the droning program would that be fair killing innocent people while iran will not disarm and right always use the iraqi were not because it's hypocritical. well i mean anyway human rights are not

>> well, i think there are -- i think not everybody who uses drug is a drug addict. and there's a segment of the population that recreationally uses narcotics and don't necessarily need treatment and they certainly don't need a felony conviction. that having been said, if you are an addict, it doesn't make any sense to turn you into a felon addict. we just heard that person before very eloquently talk about spending most of his life incarcerated. and he's made it. but the fact of the matter is, encumbrance of a felony conviction is so debilitating. countless of times you run into people who can't get housing, can't get education, can't get jobs, it's a trap. if we deal with addiction it makes no sense to turn an addict into a felon. [applause] >> chief, you've been committed to evidence-based practices in your administration of the adult probation department. to what extent does that inform your approach when you look at senator leno's measure and deciding whether or not to support it? >> my view is not only from evidence-based practices but also from spending almost

>> i don't think so. they're still doing everything they can to build the nuclear weapons and there was a piece in the "new york times" last week that said the sanctions haven't worked. >> rose: but leon panetta said they hadn't even made a decision to build nuclear weapons. the leon panetta had not made a decision yet. >> if you look at our track record in terms of our ability to predict when somebody was going to achieve nuclear capability we are nearly always wrong. nearly always late. we were late on the indians, we were late on pakistan, that's been our track record and in iraq, for example, in the summer of '90 i was briefed by the israelis on what they thought the iraqi nuclear program was and how far along they were and then we got in there after desert storm and found out the israelis were right and our guyss were wrong. that we were seriously off in terms of how close they were to getting a weapon. >> rose: the obama administration, if they were listening to you now-- as they will-- >> i doubt i

i don't think i'm going to succeed. i can't do it i said listen, i felt that way when i started team of rivals. i don't know whether you will fail or succeed but i can only promise you one thing, will you never regret any of the time that you spend with an la-- abraham lincoln. and i thought what a great thing to say. >> rose: so at the end of the, when you finished and made the movie w what did you think you knew about lincoln, did you not really know before? >> the thing that i think changed me and it was a great privilege and blessing to work on this during the obama years, i started during the bush years but by the time i figured out how to do the screenplay it was already '07. and by the time i got to the first draft we were a few month as which from the election. the o 8ee election. and i have been work og on lincoln all through the first term of office. the president obama had. and you know, i consider myself a person of the left. and i have left impatience with the pace of change and i am aware that people suffer

i think the point is well taken that the recommendation i made, i think we can introduce more rigor into the execution of the com drills next year. >> any other questions? panelists, thank you very much, i appreciate it. let's give them a big round of applause. (applause). >> something that took place yesterday was our medical exchange. rob is going to give you a summary of how that went and at the same time we're going to bring up some additional panelists who will give us their perspective. >> so we're going to do a little bit of a hot swap here to keep the show rolling. while we seat the panel i'm going to introduce them but focus on medical. this just started up last year formally, but i have to say it really started in 2010, the idea of how do we highlight the medical because for those who don't know my history, i'm an old paramedic so this kind of comes naturally to me. in 2010 we were aboard the macon island, one of the things i was fascinated with as were the attendees was the hospital space. there were a bunch of tours that took place there. last year the idea, it wasn't my idea

so i think it's a little, i don't know, i'm not -- i don't probably line up with the cynics who think they just want to see this fail so as to have a pr victory or something like that. i think they actually really want to get something through. >> let me ask about your foreign media. what is your experience at facebook taught you that you're trying to bring now in taking and buying "the new republic" and turn it into a digital age successfully which has been tough to do given the experience in "newsweek". >> it is. it's an enormous challenge. one thing i think facebook has done really well is to it rate, is to never be satisfied with the product at any moment given in time. a lot of times that enrages a lot of facebook users, but i think on the whole it's made for a better and better product that's adapted as technologies have adapted. i think our challenges -- we've had this enormous -- we can't just sort of put out a new website or a new magazine and say, okay, now it's just our responsibility to do good content. we have to do great content but continue to change and iterate. nothin

i think that's cool. what i'm most excited about is this really awesome new ad format we've been experimenting with. we think when ads are done right they can be informative and delightful. we are real excited about that. >> you say the pictures disappear from your servers. >> i have college age kids. you know there are a lot of people that send inappropriate pictures because that's a lot of the fun with this app. are you saying that those inappropriate pictures, obviously you can't monitor them, but they are gone other than if somebody takes a picture of that picture, they are disappeared? >> right. snapchat's not a great way to send inappropriate content because any photo that i send to you can be saved by someone with quick fingers taking a screen shot or taking a photo with a camera. it is not a great way to send inappropriate photos. >> it is all for sex texting. >> we don't see the photos. i think what's really exciting about snapchat, it is different from traditional social media. that's where i wa

very and they believe that i think i think i hear you talk about you just how you just have to look you just have to look you just have to look at what happened just three hours ago the tragedy in damascus that. a bombing and damascus now harvested fifty children fifty schoolchildren children and students more than three hundred are injured i think i think this is a big question and gentlemen we have a heated debate here until we have to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with us to. believe the police will. welcome to the front to the finish as world class athletes to sit down sochi brand new a list big venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep and deals hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building bluebook fueled by clean energy while research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams the race is on going to be our day here on. the contrary. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you are. other lo

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i think it's hard work everyday what you're trying to accomplish. i want to say thank you to that and of course to the speakers. i appreciate that and even though we are divergent at this moment. colleagues we have heard the motion and heard public comment. do we have a motion to file? >> so moved. >> thank you very much. madam clerk are there any other items? >> well are no other items. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast

i think the trade figures show what's happening. nd there's no doubt picking one of the countries you mentioned, china. i mean, china for the last 20 years has been double-digit growth. last year they had one of the worst years in recent memory. we'll see the final figures coming out. it didn't get below 7%. but when you move from double-digit down to seven something percent, and one of the major drivers of that was their largest export market is europe. and they didn't believe that europe was a, getting into the problem, and b., what take so long to get out of. and, of course, their second largest market is as. so the help of the world out of the great recession might tremendous tennis program. we are not going to see that again in china. so i basically think that you've got to have things worked on energy 20. because theology 20 summit, and i attended two of them, was london, when the world was going into the great depression, not the great recession. they took certain steps to ameliorate that and move ahead to stimulate growth. so

i think syrian to believe that i think i think i hear you talk about you just how you just have to look you just have to look you just have to look at what happened just three hours ago the tragedy in damascus that. a bombing and damascus now harvested fifty children fifty schoolchildren children and students more than three hundred are injured i think i think this is a big question and gentlemen we have a heated debate here until we have to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with us to. leave. well into the future to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi brand new olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep and deals hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building buba fueled by clean energy research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams the race is on going to see a day here on. the central coast. let me let me i want to know what all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having the debate we have our kn

i think that through the years, you know, when i first came on board, i don't think anyone would disagree i was more of a reluctant candidate than anything, but i've really grown, as supervisor wiener had mentioned to really love the job because of what it really means and the responsibility you have to improve the daily live of every san franciscan that we have here. so, it really is a tremendous honor, it's a tremendous privilege to be able to do that. it is very unique to be able to do that. so, so quickly has time passed by. it's been five years now, over five years now. and i find myself feeling very, very sad to leave. so, though i know there is a large opportunity at the assessor's office and i look forward to working on the issues there, it is really i think as many people said, very bitter sweet. yesterday i was wearing all black. i was in mourning, not only because i'll be leaving working with all of you and all our different issues that we've touched upon, but also because i'm going to be leaving my incredible staff. so, the mourning is very appropriate in that case. i think wi

i think that is false. nother generation the it was people weren't identifying because it was bad and now the association is i can't identify because i'm not that good. >> unless are you rush limb baurx of course, which is-- no, but that's very smart. i never thought of that way. that's right. i think they do come to think that it's some kind of specialty. and actually, you're either f you are a female human being you have a choice. are you a feminist or masochist. i mean are you really, either are you a full human being and equal or you are not. regardless of what you're able to do about it. >> right. >> great to see you. >> thank you. >> gloria steinem, amy richards, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

i think that those are really i think, really great to see. so i am not too worried. >> am i wrong to say that to come back in 6 months to revisit this? that is correct? >> it makes or tends to put it in a permit condition. >> yeah. >> it cannot be a permit condition and i think that it should be on the applicant to schedule that six months. it should not be on the staff to remind them. so you just mark your calendars and do it on your own. miss king could we have a vote? >> on the motion of the second missioner lee? >> aye. >> commissioner tan >> aye. >> perez. >> aye. >> tan. >> aye. >> akers. >> aye. >> joseph. >> aye. >> good luck. >> next item on the ago ahead and answer da. hearing and possible action regarding conditioning existing permits under the jurisdiction

i think you will understand and i think he will make the decisions at the end of the day. >> or i could turn joe biden loose on him. because he came to the senate when joe was there as a senior member, and joe took them under his wing and he listens to joe, as he would a colleague, a senior colleague, and joe, you will notice, has always pulled out of the hat, he is the rabbit and had to do something. and that's the role joe will have. but joe has a remarkable ability to communicate with him. >> what are you referring to? >> joe has his ear, and canseco menino, if you're going to do something, do this and clean up the room, get rid of the political guys and say let's do some policy now. let's do something for america. the political guys hopefully have all gone home now, and they were there for a purpose, and at work. get him reelected and we will work out the details later. well, they're gone. and so maybe, maybe, just maybe they will sit down and you policy for the best interests of the country without the howling, shrieking, the wail of the coyotes using emotion, fear, guilt and racis

and so i think the governor is in a tough position. about what's really fair and where he stood last time or does he stand with his party so that they can win? and so i think he's in a difficult position. we know that they're lining up in every state. missouri, arkansas, we see that these voter i.d. laws are still in play because this wasn't just about 2012. this is a long-term plan to make sure that it's harder for americans to participate in our democracy. >> i want to go back to jim about fair play here in a nonpartisan sense. when you talk to voters, it seems to me they understand the rules get changed in baseball. you don't have enough home runs so you widen the strike zone -- narrow the strike zone. they do that in baseball, but it's always jiggered for a purpose. people say why are you doing that? why are you changing the strike zone? we want the game to be more exciting. in this case you want the republicans to win. it just seems like that. >> it is. the difference is, you know, we're talking about baseball versus the failure of

and so i think what is important though, and more and more i think the politicians are raising this, policymakers also in brussels, the bureaucracy, you cannot just wipe it out with a story -- posterity did you got to plans for growth. that was just a message i took to portugal when i was there. in june last year. because if you don't show that there is growth potential, and i should say portugal has increased substantially, but you need to have a plan for growth. now, devaluation alone won't give you that because you got to be competitive. you've got to have deregulation. those are even more important than a devaluation. because devaluation only lasts so long, why should make the major changes and deregulation, this is the real i think going to be challenge for prime minister abe because we've had 14 agreed simas programs since the late 1990s in japan, and none of them have really done the job. so you have to bundle this up any packet, and put them through. so that's the best way i can answer you. and i think that where the europeans a follow dunk and this goes back to the question i

i think we're working through this issue and i appreciate your time. we have heard at least a couple of times from mr. menat shaw and we have not heard from mr. st. croix and as i suggested earlier and under the regulations that were adopted two months ago and took effect, if this matter were coming brand new know we would have had a report and recommendation from the staff and a chance for the complainant and respendent to speak. we have heard from the complainant and we have not heard from the respondent and it would help me to hear from mr. so st. croix the rationale for disclosure. so i would encourage you to ask him that. >> other questions from the commissioners? commissioner studley, you wanted to wait until there was public comment. is there anything else that you want to share is in ? >> no, i agree with you and commissioner liu. i don't find this to be willful. since the understanding -- that this was part of the investigative file and the degree to which it could have well been made with good faith and that we have teased apart this particul

i think karl rove is right. i will get into therapy right away. >> we actually called rove's office and said is there ever a time when you would come on this broadcast and they went no. so, my self-image i don't know whether that has anything to do with it, that's really unusual. biggest audience traditional americans in the history of cable news right here. and then you have got a guy right across the river would send a big caravan for him if he wanted. he could even do it in trenton on a little bird. you know but he doesn't want to do this. now, i only mention that. >> i see i have made a mistake. i have sent you off in a tirade here. >> i wanted to make a point between the difference between rubio and christie. you hit on it. do you want to tell me what the difference is before i do? go ahead. you hit on it. >> well, look, rubio is a great communicator. >> bill: no, no. a specific thing. one specific thing that's different between the two men. >> he will with if i were -- if i were chris christie, i wouldn't w

i think that's the issue that should be addressed. i will say that there are all kinds of reasons why the u.s. should care, from their involvement for eight years, and if it's not dealt with it will come back and bite the u.s. so i would like the panel to talk about, make the case to the u.s. why should be involved because i don't think that has been made enough. >> i know, forgive me if there are others, i don't recognize -- there is one malian in the room, and i think -- wait for the microphone, please. >> i would like to thank this incredible panel. thrilled to hear the things you talk about today. i'm elected mayor in mali. now, i'm a u.s. educated, but i've returned back home. the question i would like to ask is directed to ricardo, even though it is based on peter's introduction, that mali was a failed state, that the issue in mali was a leadership issue, not an ethnic or religious issues. but primarily a leadership issue. and i thank you for truly addressing that. now, you talk about leadership in mali. why should we organize el

i think all of this is great. i wanted to sort of step back a little bit and have sort of a larger conversation. looking at the various programs that are out there i don't know what the total amount of bond money that that we're talking about is, but i imagine it's hundreds of millions -- >> it's over $2 billion. >> it's over $2 billion, right, so the question i have is you have this nine person body providing oversight for over $2 billion of bond expenditures, and i think all the things that you're doing make a great deal of sense, and i think it's wonderful for instance to see the focus on community, making sure that benchmarks are being met. i think all of that is great. i am wondering if you guys had a discussion about where your activities -- how they compare to what happens in other jurisdictions? you know other things for instance that other jurisdictions maybe doing that maybe we're not doing, or maybe is it the kind of thing that we're actually doing more than most jurisdictions do? i am just trying to hav

it covers i think what has been over arching theme which is online bullying. if the panelists could come up we will get started. why don't we get started and i know everybody needs to go but again it's an important top and i can flowed through many of the conversations today and harassment and bullying online and i will introduce the moderator and she is anne collier and executive director of family news and a journal iftd and youth advocate and the coauthor of a parent's guide to facebook and myspace unraveled and social networking. she served on president obama technology working group and delivered its group to congress and youth safety on the internet and you can read her plug. how's that for a plug? >> thank you very much. our parents guide is free and can be distributed at schools or parent nights or whatever, so we're happy to make them available to you at connect safety .org so a little bit more of the big picture. this is amazing panel of people who have resources and campaigns that can support and reinforce your fine work. so i am glad you stayedand w

i don't think so it will be very foolish will freeze well to make such attacks i have beat because after all strategically what's happening inside syria is helping israel syria was and still is and then we'll freeze frame. and was a serious threat to israel and at the moment it almost doesn't exist nobody's asking israel to withdraw from the golan heights so in a way. this tragedy is quite a confortable situation for is we're in a march and how do you take a strike ok i mean in people in syria are being killed ok i mean that's one result . oh absolutely people in syria are being killed and that is exactly the problem certainly israel is taking advantage of a weaker syria now but the bottom line is that striking weapons that may have been destined for hezbollah which could immediately turn around and use them against syrians so whether israel continues these foreigners into syria or not is almost irrelevant to the people of syria because they're being attacked by their own government ok josh if i go back to it is everyone for getting the syrians now it looks like it's jockeying for positi

mean i think the i mean there certainly is a an industry lobby i mean i think many americans might be surprised to know that there is a actual unmanned aerial systems caucus yessiree on capitol hill. i also think americans would be somewhat surprised if you look at in the fall of two thousand and twelve the organizations that have applied to the federal aviation administration to license and use drones include not surprising entities like hosts of police departments around the country but also things like community colleges indian gaming casino and the ohio department of transportation at the same time you have states like washington and texas that are considering legislation restricting their use and charlottesville virginia hasn't acted statute that already does so i believe the first in the country ok ray why don't what do you think there is a little discussion in the unit ok media go ahead jump in this is crosstalk go ahead let's go ahead. and i just wanted to say that one of the reasons is a little discussion is there's a little known and the list that chris started to p

i do think that his focus is wrong. i don't think the focus should be on anything other than the economy and especially jobs. we have 24 million people who are either unemployed or underemployed or left the workforce. that's terrible for america and that's where the focus should be. >> i once wrote a column with the title "focus hocus-pocus." i always hear this about focus. what do you want him to do? what he should be doing is passing legislation, right? but no legislation can pass. if he proposed anything that made any sense at all, we'd get nowhere in the house. it wouldn't be brought to the floor. it's one thing to say he should be focusing on the economy, but does that mean he should be wandering around the white house muttering i'm focussed on the economy? there's a tradeoff between what should be done and what he can get done. >> let me ask mort because the question is to you. arianna said jobs but she was specific. she said big infrastructure projects. would you be in favor about that? you just grumbled about the

>> that i think it just... i don't retain sent documents i don't know, i don't think that they are retained anywhere beyond that. >> do you know how long your sent e-mails are retained? >> i don't believe that it is. >> correct. >> so it sends and it is gone. >> so you can't go to your sent files to see oh, when did i send this e-mail to this person? >> correct. >> okay. and i saw that you... >> any other questions for miss ballard? >> questions from the commissioners about a respondent or a complainant? >> i have a question for mr. buell. >> thank you. >> i realize that i just wasn't clear when you said that you looked for responsive documents when you got that request, but didn't find it, but you also said that you don't ordinary delete them? >> i don't ordinary delete, but i delete a lot of them. i thought that i had kept track of it but the more that i think about this particularly with the help of mr. wooding that there was only one that i had e-mails with the common wealth club, the rest of it became telep

i think that the idea that there's a filing deadline and when we came up. they have tremendous amount of pressure on them now. i mean, as you know better than i. and it's to get this, to get that. and it's, it creates, i think, an environment that is very conducive to the creation of news, the invention of news that there is none, so therefore we will invent it. >> in that environment, since you bring that up, do you think that twitter and the need to have something to say and something provocative to say or something snarky to say every 20 seconds has hurt campaign coverage? do you think it hurt the romney campaign? >> i think we used it to our advantage in many cases. you take this hillary rosen little flap. >> she criticized ann romney for career choices. we were able to use twitter to our advantage. >> you don't tweet yourself, although i know you follow twitter closely. >> i don't tweet. however, i've been a somewhat obsessive follower of twitter. had a twitter account, you know, since the very beginning of -- since the service went up. i think it's fas