i think i had a baby on my boob and i was like, "f you, u.t.!" and i left. housewife now 'cause that's what i wanna do." (camilla) is that what you wanted to do? or was that just what you said because it made you feel better? (gwendolyn) what i wanted to do at that point was to create a stability that i did not have growing up, which is funny, because now i know that that's extremely common for women from dysfunctional homes to immediately try to create, like, the perfect nuclear family. i was happy doing it for a little while, and then i realized what everybody realized, like, in the '50s and the '60s, that it sucked. it's weird because i think a lot of housewives who are creative people find that that's a really good excuse to do art all day. so i had started writing on the web as a housewife. i had my blog. and then i started getting jobs. and then finally, someone else online published a book. that i was like, "that's it, damn it. "i'm giving myself a year to write a book and get it published." (mariana) your story just-- i'm gonna cry 'cause it's exactl

i am glad i picked him in 2000 and as i sit here in 2010 i am glad that i picked him in 2000. in my judgment he was a superb vice president. >> host: a couple of people who were not eager for you to run for president were to people very closely related. there is some connection with what you state was your biggest mistake in the 2000 campaign 51 it you are referring to my daughter's. you can understand. just graduating from boston high-school and the idea their father running and running and going to college with the secret service was not appealing. [laughter] michael was referring to the biggest political mistake of my life was not revealing to the people of texas i was arrested for drunk driving. i was up been named a and i went to a bar he taught me how to drink beer out of the mug with no hands. [laughter] that means you bite the edge of the mug. [laughter] and i had too much to drink and was pulled over by a policeman in kennebunk -- kennebunkport. i was called for jury duty in austin now it was a drunken driving charge i was dismissed as i was walking and of the courtro

these guys i disagree with, i watch once in awhile to see if i still disagree with them. as far as obama goes, i am telling you it mean something to me that the cat is as charismatic as that and has never treated -- never cheated on his old lady. in a 24-7 news cycle we live in, where everything is out in the open, you know if he had run around we would have found out about it. i like the way he is with his wife, his kids. he seems like a sweet man. he has acquitted the war on terror more than i thought i had. he has held true to the blueprint. i do not dig the spending. we are spending crazy amounts of money. i do not care who is in there. i would not agree with the spending that much. we have to stop spending for a little bit. tavis: we are talking presidents. president bush fifth book is out. have you had a chance to peruse it? that is source material, that guy. he has to be far better than clinton was for material. >> listen. bush, to me -- i did not get all of it, but i got that -- hear is the terror. the father keeps saying, don't make me come back. for years the ki

i am dedicating to harold bloom. i am not a poet. i want to be rich. i have had a great sex life. i am not a poet. georgia i do not like being called an act visit. i cannot be considered a vegetarian. i will give my ass up and like it. i would be inspired. i may value peace, but will not use a pen to unleash my anger. i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read anything writing. i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud amer

i remember when i was 7 and 8, i created a puppet theater.y world and i had a command station. at this command station, i could control the world. i could move the sun and moon and stars on and off the stage and characters and people and props and i had this conceived. well, i know what i'm gonna be, an inventor, and i really haven't swayed. i can remember when i was 5, that sort of transcendent feeling. i didn't have that vocabulary at 5, but if you put things together in just the right way, it can create magical effects that go beyond the stuff you put together and could solve problems and change people's lives. i kind of had that sense. so when did you, like when was your first, like how did you have this company? i think you have maybe ten or more that you-- something like that, yeah. well, when i was a sophomore in college i started a company that matched up high school students to colleges by computer. we rented a computer. we printed up a questionnaire with 300 questions, we collected 3 million items of information on 3,000 colleges, a

i did not agree with that idea because i think the commission plays a valuable role, and i felt i had a voice that could serve a strong purpose on that commission. i own a couple of clubs right now. i owned my first club when i was 21, off market street. i started throwing big parties, primarily hip-hop, when i was 18, that or of the underground friday. but that was a long time ago. i think i bring a perspective that crosses live music, dance music, and hip-hop, which i think is part of a unique perspective on this commission because we need to deal with all of those industries and they are all very different types of sectors of entertainment, with their own subsidies and nuances. i think the commission has done a lot of great work and i think it could be tightened up a little bit, but i definitely would not like to see it disappear. i could talk more about the police relationships and the roles of neighborhoods, police, and nightclubs, but i will leave it at that. i definitely have practiced and i firmly believe that all clubs play a role in our part of the neighborhood. a have to be

i don't know if i -- i don't know. it's an honor. the san francisco police department, police commission, has been a big part of my life for obvious reasons. as both the prosecutor and member of the police family. my rain role is to be part of the community, the main liason with the community, to work with this community, and work with this chief. again, it is a great honor. if i were your president, my goal would be unit to involve everyone in every decision. i will communicate with you. that's never been an issue with me. sometimes i communicate too much. it would be a great honor to serve on this commission and serve the city and county. san francisco is the greatest city in the world. just look at the city, its diversity and everything. i represent the city. i'm a native. i'm part of the fabric of the city, and again, i'll do whatever the city wants. president marshall: so we -- commissioner dejesus: i would move that angela chan be the vice president. president marshall: one at a time. the name of commissioner mazzucco has been

but i think i pushed because i felt like i needed to and that was where i went off the rails a littleoff. we had a black floor for the show and they changed it five minutes before the live show. it was the kind of crazy thing you don't see behind the scenes. but they're always changing things on us backstage. >> larry: do you worry about the judges? do you think about them when you're dancing? >> yeah, i catch a glimpse of their face and sometimes it's like, oh, great, got to get through this routine. and sometimes it's like, oh, we're doing good. i'm serious. >> we know, baby. >> larry: you're judge-aware, as they say? >> yeah, yeah, kind of. >> larry: mark, are you? >> yeah, you have to be. you have to take what they say and apply it to the dance each week. but for us, we're more challenging ourselves. we want to push through and get better and better every week. our scores have kept us consistently at the bottom. but we're having fun and having a good time. >> larry: we're going to gather everyone in front of our wall and we'll get each of their predictions on who's going to win. t

i didn't know it, because all i knew was what i knew. my father was a milkman, and we lived in a neighborhood that was dominated by mexican americans. but there was no prejudice. there were no lines that i was aware of, because it was during the second world war, when i was a child, and everybody's united by the war effort. so there was no prejudice, there was no anti-semitism, at least that i was aware of. there was no anti-minority-- whatever. and i thought very highly of my neighbors and my friends. many of them had sons and daughters off to-- fathers off to the war. and that's how we were united. when the war ended, i was shocked by what came afterwards. rather than the celebration of the victory-- certainly there was that, but what threw me was this wave of stuff i couldn't imagine: anti-, anti-. so i think that's where my early concerns or interests began, with, "well, why is this? "why are these people that i understood "and got along so well suddenly wary of me, "and what influence is causing that? "i know they're good people. wh

>> i love it. i think -- i want to be her.is good about a latin woman, so i want to be her. >> larry: you like him? >> i love him. >> larry: in a pathetic sort of way. >> i certainly feel sorry for him sometimes, but i am having a blast. >> larry: rico, you like manny? >> he's so much fun to play because he's totally different from who i am. >> larry: really? you're nothing like that? >> not at all. >> larry: you said one of these kids were shy. >> no one was shy last year. >> larry: you were shy? >> me? shy? >> you were with us. >> the pilot, yeah, probably. i think everybody was sort of shy. >> larry: you like luke? >> i love luke. i've always wanted to play a crazy character like luke, because just the things, he's like a kid -- >> larry: you mean all your life. >> always. years. >> he gets to do all kinds of fun stuff, child, crazy stuff, that i never do, like go on trampoline with a pogo stick which i've actually wanted to try, never done it. >> larry: you like alex? >> alex is hilarious. she's funny, she can make fun of

i thought if i saw that person during the day, i would say bye. >> i think i would treat them differentlytter not to know? >> we have two daughters, my wife and i, and for the first daughter, i knew for six months we were having a girl and my wife didn't. i can keep a secret well. >> i don't want to know. i want to experience that moment live. i don't want to treat anybody differently. i don't want to be like hi. >> that's the way you treat me every week. >> larry: after talking to them tonight, the final four are a fun group. >> they are. they really are. >> the dances last week were exciting. so much energy. >> larry: you both do a great job. >> by the way, it's been great to come back. >> larry: when we come back, everybody will be here. stick around. >>> john walsh joins us. who gets to decide who your children eat? in san francisco they have been ordered to take toys out of happy meals. those stories and find out which senator has been caught playing politics in president bush's new memoir. it's at the top of the hour. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics i

i. minka think of two friends t battle cancer during the campaign and said there were fighting because they wanted to vote for us. so to the people of my beloved confidants, you opened your homes, hearts, and elizabeth and i love you for it. [applause] right now we want to wrap our arms around you. this race was not about us, it was about eva, and our kids. our grandkids in their future. i called rand paul of the moments ago to congratulate him and wish him well. he is now are senator a lot. he is our senator, and i think we should wish him well and wish him well as he tries to do right by our state. we should be helpful in that regard, ladies and gentleman. [applause] why just told him on the phone where if he finds issues where we can move the common law forward and better lives of the people that are hurting right now, and this democrats is that his disposal and i want him and his family to know that. [applause] i have to stop now and they might remarkable and family and my parents --

, and although i was rubbish at conducting, i mean, i didn't have any technical skill, i was -- i wasll over the place. >> rose: you really have not had that much classical training. >> not really. but. >> rose: per se. >> but i did have a gift for communicating what i wanted. in some shape, manner or form, either by describing what i needed or somehow by my sort of intensity, and when i saw that that could work, then i got the bug, i must say. because let's face it. there is nothing richer than being in front of 100 musicians and creating this world of sounds and color and expression and drama and theatre and add the singers and the world. it is a big responsibility. i see it as a responsibility, but one where, you know, the fact that you get to perform and at the moment, the live music thing is the most important thing about conducting, is that music live, and this is from somebody who has made a lot of recordings. >> rose: yes. >> there is nothing like the live experience. and the visceral excitement of being in a room with other people watching other people engage fully and this i

and i-- you know, i was-- i think i was 56 or 57. so i really couldn't play these guys making love to young girls. >> rose: so you went and looked in the mirror. >> i went in the mirror and said you're the father, michael, bloody hell. >> rose: the deficit debate continues and actor michael caine when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express additional funding provided by additional funding provided by these funders: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the debate over the debt has begun. in fact, there's been much debate about the proposal released last week by erskine bowles and alan simpson the co-chairman of the bipartisan deficit commission. they have been credited for starting a serious national convers

and so i did. and i didn't just find it interesting. i found it fascinating. i was so compelled to by talking with people about what it was late for them to be teachers, that i was hooked. there were two decisions to make fairly earthy on. what i just do a sampling of teachers, you know, good teachers, younger teachers, lousy teachers and have it be democratic in terms of availability of or focus on great teachers. i quickly decided to do the latter. i somehow felt that they are great teachers this country and in this world and i wanted to honor them and give them voice and also the book be away of exploring what is it that makes a good teacher. the other decision that i made soon after it started the book, which was somewhat accidental is it occurred to me that certainly there were great teachers and kindergarten through 12th grade and the university. no doubt there were also good teachers beyond. because in some ways, every aspect of society needs to be taught. it needs to be transferred to other people from generation to generation and not a lot of teaching

and i think, i think that's -- i still think we're right about that. i think people, particularly if i think the people on the right say government is the enemy and we don't need it are wrong, particularly in this economic time. and i think people on the left could say the only way to deliver services or solve problems is with a bigger state are not always right and are more often wrong than right. >> yeah. so, so the left criticized you because you weren't left enough, and the right criticized you because you won the elections. that's really -- [laughter] that's really unfamiliar, that. [laughter] you see, i think the reason -- i'll just finish on this point -- the reason why i think third way politics is right and the interesting thing about politics is i think the funny thing is that people are usually far ahead in analysis of the politicians. they don't say it like that, and they don't analyze it like that, but actually they were in a third way position a long time, in a sense, before politics was. and they were in that third way position for a ver

there's still a lot more to go, so, i mean, i agree with you, but i wish i had a good answer. >> i, i had an argument, discussion with a friend of mine recently, you know, basically is the united states a good country or not morally, good country or not, and he was sort of running through his list of, you know, bad things -- in his mind, bad things the united states has done. and, you know, i said to him, i said, look, the united states, i mean, it's no different from you. like, you have acted in your life with dignity and honor and generosity, and you've always probably been a son of a bitch and broken some hearts and lied to some people and maybe stolen some stuff when you were a kid, etc., etc. i said, the united states is a collection of people like you and like me, and there's no reason to expect it's going to be less flawed an all the individuals in it. and just because you broke her heart and, you know, cheated on your taxes and did this and that doesn't mean you're an evil person. it means you're a human being with all the flaws that come with that. and can the question is are

i take it seriously, as i am sure you do. as you point out, there is a provision that does not allow you to participate in any vote if you are a property owner within 500 feet. you must recused yourself. with the port commission, that has come up. i have obviously always done that. if questionable, i have erred on the side of conservative. i respect that. i believe it is an important role, as well as the gifts rule. as far as my personal relationship, there probably would be less than two handfuls of occasions, properties in which that would take place. supervisor campos:

i think that is very important, and i know you will continue that commitment, so i want to thank you for that. i do not know why anyone what to do this job for another five years, but if that is their choice, i would be happy to support it. with that, why don't we open it up to public comment? if there is any member of the public who would like to speak on this item, please come forward. >> supervisors, jim lazarus. i had the privilege of working with the board of supervisors back in 1995 on charter reform and crafted the position that end is being nominated to -- that ed has been re-nominated to. this is the type of person we anticipated when we created that position back in 1995. having the general administration of the city and competent professional management hand overlapping the mayor's administration's -- this is a great reappointment, and i know it is going to go forward unanimously. thank you for letting me speak. >> supervisors, first and foremost, let me say that mr. edwin lee and myself are very good friends, and i have known him for a long time. i have access to him, and

i eventually -- just for now, i stay in school. i passed my freshman year. i get good grades. currently i have a 3.33. i take honors classes. [applause] i take honors classes, and i made it to the police academy team, which is the best known players around the area of northern california. i also represent san francisco in that team, because i am the only guy from san francisco on it. i just think there should be -- like i said before, i think there should be more lsps around san francisco. even elementary schools have too many kids that seek help, but do not know where to find it. i just really want to get in everybody's mind that this is a very important job to keep in schools. thank you. [applause] >> i really want to thank both of you for coming to speak with us today. this is really about us restoring many things our public schools need besides construction, many of the things we had to cut when prop. 13 passed, which is counseling and a lot of our leadership. i think it is really important for the board to hear how this funding impact students, and it impact your ability

i do what i do and i does it with. i saw your mommas. got me one and i call them daddy instead of papas. you ain't with it, you in the past. since i guess you have nice things well you whack and because of that aspect i never ever slacked. not the female you used to date. i got a unique type situation. i'm so glad these birds they just bloop me. i speak fluently. she busy with all that blah, blah, blah. hear me out though. i'm going to leave you stern. [applause] >> in an urban high school in the science laboratory lab, two girls are discussing their project. >> you don't even know what you are doing the -- doing. you're dumb. >> you test too much. >> the day has come. the projects are to be returned. >> see, i told you? mine was the best. i told you, dummy. besides, let me see what you guys have. >> you know, i'm leaving. after school, alice and delores park thinking about human behavior. >> i don't know what people want to -- from me, for real. i have to say i think people just want me to be perfect. but you know what? i am capable of

>> i could not be there. i have responsibilities. >> i know, i know and i had to walk the dog too.but i'm just saying you have an excuse for everything. there are no excuses. there is a reason but whatever. you have to be proactive. >> sir, no offense. okay, i understand that people do it in different ways. some of us walk around for an hour really trying to get in the mood for this, researching it and listening to people. i don't know, do you people want to address that? i think the content of the issue is that this panel is set up theoretically, not spirit chile. and you have had a very powerful spiritual experience and the point is that is immediately nursing. this is not practical in that sense, so i can understand why that would be frustrating. maam? >> i would like to carry that further. [inaudible] i think, no i believe as an individual that i have the responsibility for my post-traumatic stress. a lot of that i'm not willing to talk about but i must feel that myself. when i go to family, they are like up. so i think it's individuals and as a community, we do need to bond as

i did know we were in deep trouble and that's why i made the decision i made and in my book i chronicle the history of the meltdown and then the decisions i took to prevent the economy from cratering. there's people that said, well, the economy -- we wouldn't have seen a depression. when you are the president, you don't have the luxury of talking about the theoretical. i was advised by people who i trust, i trusted hank paulson and ben bernanke we better do something so i did set aside by free market principles and made a very difficult decision. >> but never regretted it? >> no, i don't. i really don't. >> i want -- this is from your book and you were talking about the economy at this point and you said i felt like the captain of a sinking ship. this was one ugly way to end the presidency. >> yeah, yeah. >> you bring up hank paulson, ben ban nang and also larry l d lindsay as an economic adviser. i think of the white house, and they bring in the big brains and nobody saw it coming. >> right. >> you talk about i didn't see it coming. i didn't know i was -- you know, angry at what the ba

[ cheers and applause ] and i go, "i don't know. i don't know."th biz markie. >> jimmy: this is it. >> it would be a greater honor for me, if it's okay with you. >> hey, yo, jim. >> jimmy: give us a little something. give us a little something. do you mind? >> really? sure, geez. holy cats, my pleasure. [ cheers and applause ] okay, i think i know. all right, i think i know. okay, ready? ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ have you ever met a girl that you tried to date but a year to make love ♪ ♪ she wanted you to wait let me tell you a story of my situation i was talking to this girl ♪ ♪ from the u.s. nation the way that i met her was on tour at a concert she had long hair ♪ ♪ and a shot mini skirt i just got off stage dripping pouring with sweat i was walking ♪ ♪ through the crowd hey guess who i met i whispered in her ear come to the picture booth ♪ ♪ so i could ask you some questions to see if you're 100 proof i asked her her name ♪ ♪ she said blah, blah, blah she has nine ten pants and a very big bra i took a couple flicks ♪ ♪ and she was enthused i said how d

i guess i am baffled. commissioner sugaya: what seems to be at issue here is what does the staff analyze? if it includes an alternative, that is what people talked about. >> nobody is questioning whether we need to do additional work. the issue was what was the purpose of the continuance? commissioner sugaya: for the staff to do that additional work, not just the little things have to do with tr

i love your set and i -- i recognize your country is no longer a colony. i tip my hat. well done with the boston tea party. but these new tea parties, i'm not so sure of. >> larry: tell me about katy perry. first, what is she really like? >> very smart, determined, clever. shoots from the hip and from the heart. >> larry: are you an admirer of her talent? >> yeah, i saw her at the performance at the am a's, she's phenomenal. that's exciting about fame or showmen -- showwomen. when she's performing, she's like, oh, my word, she's phenomenal. a great voice, her dances, she's a great entertainer. aside from that, she's a laugh, a normal person, ease easy to hang out with. the most normal relationship i've ever had probably because there's just one of her. >> larry: how did you propose? >> midnight, new year's eve, in india. the blue moon hung in the sky. >> larry: you're giving me -- >> romance and comedy are serious things. like once in a blue moon. we ate together in a garland tent. floral garlands. >> larry: what were you doing there? >> i took her there to ask her to m

i know. i will just get in trouble. i want friends. i don't need enemies. i hate having opinions.

i thought i was clear. i wasn't.drifted up and got really close and i kind of came off in the middle of the straight. so, there's a pause and all of a sudden, boom. and my day's over. like that. >> jimmy: that's no good. do you think he hit you on purpose? >> i believe there's a strong chance that hem might have done that on purpose. >> jimmy: why would he do something like that? >> you know, you got young drivers and they just get frustrated. >> jimmy: is he a teenager? >> i've got fenders now. i got fenders now. >> jimmy: to fend off the -- so, will you seek revenge? i mean, how does it, i don't know -- how does it work? >> what would you do, jimmy? what would jimmy do? >> jimmy: first of all, jimmy would never get in the car. >> you mean a race car, or just a car in general? do you have a driver here? >> jimmy: no, i don't. i drive my own car. >> what would jimmy do? >> jimmy: jimmy would stay home, sucking his thumb. but i would think that if it was -- i don't know if there's any way to translate it into my world

i take it seriously, as i am sure you do. as you point out, there is a provision that does not allow you to participate in any vote if you are a property owner within 500 feet. you must recused yourself. with the port commission, that has come up. i have obviously always done that. if questionable, i have erred on the side of conservative. i respect that. i believe it is an important role, as well as the gifts rule. as far as my personal relationship, there probably would be less than two handfuls of occasions, properties in which that would take place. supervisor campos: do you have any concern that a major project, plan that is currently before or might be before the commission, that you would be precluded from being involved in? one question is the fisherman morph' -- wharf's public home plan. the fear that you may not be able to participate in that? in that one, probably yes. -- >> in that one, probably yes. supervisor campos: one piece of legislation we have been grappling with the past few weeks -- actually the past sev

i said when i was in college when i was asked what i wanted to do i said go into public service and that's where i'm at. >> charlie: thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> charlie: a pleasure to have you.

and i do not know what i -- i do not know if i would still be practically alive if it was not for her. after meeting this wax -- after meeting miss wax, i wanted to drop out. she made me keep in school and keep my grades up. eventually, i was able to graduate and attend the sacred heart cathedral prep with people scholarship in a program that provides everything, and i do not have to pay anything, because the parents really cannot afford the school, which is something i also think her for because i do not know what high school i would be in or where i would be if it was not for her. the difference she made -- the lsps making school is a huge difference. i know my story, my theme, is big, but there are thousands of kids that have where stories than me that do not have anybody to talk to. and i know many of them. there is a group in the mission that is called young life. many of those kids seek for help in middle school. that is when i think it is most important to get it, because that is the key part of your life, because you do not know anybody. you need help from people to guide you,

it is that i want to and i want to serve. i love to participate in the civic discourse in san francisco and give back to my city and my community. i come from a long history of government and civic participation. getting back from the late 1980's when i worked for the late senator ted kennedy, i moved here as a young gay man to san francisco. i was truly honored that the mayor i worked for was here to speak on my behalf. i did not want to call him today because he is a busy man. i work for former supervisor terence hallinan, and was liaison to the board of supervisors for city planning. i have a lot of skills that i bring back from city planning, from public policy, and i am a successful real-estate manager in this economy, so i know how to work with buyers at some of the real estate and with small builders. i know what makes developments work or not work, and in working daily with my clients, i speak with them about their needs for housing, for location, access to schools, grocery stores, parks, basic services. i came to thi

i mean, i simply, you know, i didn't like the suffering that i saw. also speak of it as a pragmatic point of view. you know, if you're going to invade another country, you know, no matter how good your reasons may be, and let's say for argument's sake that the reasons were much better than they, in fact, were. let's say that they were, like, nazi germany invasion level every reasons. you still if you want that, that invasion and that occupation to be a success, if you want to have your way, you want the germans to quit being nazis, you know, you want the baathists to be out of power and stay out of power and don't want anything, anybody bad to come in and fill that power vacuum, then it is incumbent upon you just from a pact practical point of view to bring some goodies in your easter basket. sir. >> i was struck in your presentation that, obviously, the day after an election it's fun to think about our elected officials. but as i recalled in your book "parliament offer whos" when you goat to the end the parliament of whorew were us, and everything th

when i was 10, i wanted to quit. i said, mother, i want to question. she said, you're not old enough or good enough to make that decision. [laughter] you know, years later when i was playing, i was really glad that she didn't let me quit. [laughter] part of it was self-motivation, part of it was pairnltds -- parents pushing a little bit, saying you wanted to do this, and participant of it was is we -- part of it was we didn't want to di appoint -- disappoint our parents. we knew how much they put into it, and i just didn't want to disappoint them either. >> thank you for joining us, boapt of you. i grew up in the washington, d.c. area, born and raised there, a graduate of notre dame, go io riesh. >> there's a little work to do on the go irish. >> yeah, a lot of work. [laughter] my question is going to get political, but i'm actually very interested in what you think obama is doing really well, one of those -- there's a long list, but what you think he's doing well, but more importantly you think he should be doing a lot better. >> well, you know, look,

i walk out of this building, and i see -- well, i was just going to say, what would it be like if the fox theater were still there? is there are incredible areas of the city where we have not treated the historic resources well. and i think that's important to consider. thank you. president miguel: commissioner martinez? commissioner martinez: i also want to address something that mrs. jackson said, which upon reflection i realize maybe there's a misunderstanding about the historic district. every historic district is different. and every historic district has a different set of rules about what you can and can't do. and that set of rules is put together when you're establishing the district. and so the formulation of the rules is part of the public process that happens when you decide to do the districts. so the public will have full input on what the rules really are. and if the rules in the district say whatever your fence is, it's fine, nobody will bother you about the chain linked fence. some districts he -- districts -- the cottage row, the people changed the fentions and the pe

and say i miss it, i don't. i have a radio show, a partner at a law firm, have a television show, i write a commentary every week and if you want the commentary it's free. give me your e-mail at the end of this meeting and you will a movie reviewer. i do movie reviews and to get that as well. so good evening and think you for coming. [applause] >> i want to emphasize self as sam did in his introduction some of the enormous difficulties may mayor koch faced when he took office in 1978. the capital budget of the city have almost been entirely shut off, it could actually pull the figure, it was 380 -- $350 million, which sounds like a lot of money but that was all of the money that there was for fixing the entire repairing anything in the whole city that year. and if you think of how much it costs to fix things in your house and multiply that out by 8 million, you realize that is a tiny fraction of what the city needed to keep its infrastructure in good shape and even though we have billions now it's still not enou

i said i wish you had.ur reaction. >> i said if i had been, if i had gone when beau was there, i couldn't have left him there. you know, i don't think any mother who goes to a war zone could ever leave a child in a war zone. >> larry: couple other things, you said america's community colleges are its best kept secret. in what way? >> well, i think community colleges offer so much and especially in this economy, you know, people come to them for job training, they're a fraction of the cost of four-year colleges and -- >> larry: you never hear about them much. >> yeah, well i hope that's changed. >> larry: you're changing -- >> i hope that's changed. because this administration so supports community colleges and education and that's one of the joys of working in this administration. and -- >> she's even spoken at the u.n. about, have everybody try to set up harvards of the world in these developing countries. >> third world. >> you've got to set up these community colleges quickly, biggest bang for the buck,

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know who i work i know i thrive. at it for five flake and exactly we cry from refuse my parents for me and might simply and i will not be fighting with israel commits its crimes against the palestinians . norman finkelstein is a professor of political science he's been at the center of numerous heated academic and political disputes he can. who has ever managed to stifle you look at you there's a plethora of books the rise and fall of palestine the holocaust industry reflections on the exploitation of jewish suffering beyond. the base hasn't been able. to look time has a way in some dusty room unable to speak. today a debate and a new book called the case for israel it's by alan dershowitz who is one of the nation's foremost appellate lawyers felix frankfurter professor of law at harvard law school and why don't we start with you laying out the thesis of your latest book the case for israel well i want to write a progressive liberal case for the two state solution which i think that most israelis favor and have favor

i guess the only questions -- i had questions i think i just want to put on the record. my concern was on allowing the conversion of other uses by conditional use authorizations, and i know that we are prohibiting the conversion of single room occupancy hotels, but i was concerned because in the past i think that speculators will always find an out. in the past, with little work loss, where we now have -- or senior housing -- you always see speculators of use the system. -- c. speculators abuse the system. i want a little more understanding of the other uses. when we talked earlier, i mentioned i was concerned because of the industrial uses. the live-work had a serious impact on entertainment issues, and even industrial uses. i just wanted some assurances that this type of thing would that happen here with this. i was just wondering if you could address the industrial uses. would it be offices that would be converted? what are we looking at when we talk about conversion? >> thank you. to your first point about abusing the system, and that a developer could come and say t