and if one, if one of those 580 guns that jackie spear helped get off the street and the sheriff helped get off the street, if one of those would have otherwise been used in a shooting or a murder, that buy back was more than 100 percent worth it. so we've got to work together, we've got it figured out and i know we can do it in a way that makes our community safe and protects the second amendment. so speaker pelosi, thank you very much for inviting me. (applause). >> she's very smart. leader pelosi and congresswoman spear are very smart because when we're in their districts they represent the san francisco area so they chose me to pick the people to ask. i'd first like to, the way it's going to work, i'm going to call on you if you have a question. there's some microphones out there and you can get up and ask your question, you can address it to whomever you want or i'll pick who should answer it. the first one is minda finkelstein. >> i was hoping you would call me first. first of all, thank you so much for being here and for inviting me to come today. i sincerely appreciate it. i wan

we're going to talk to congress woman jackie spear a little bit later from california.ising a lot of hell about this issue and -- and raising -- and -- raising the issue that -- that the pentagon doesn't seem to take this very seriously and is not doing a lot about it. the senator from new york has been active on the same issue, senator barbara boxer has for years too by way, and senator jillibrand convened a hearing yesterday looking into this very issue, and focusing on the fact that in the year 2010 alone there were 19,000 cases of sexual assault mainly, of course, men taking advantage of women in the military and she had this -- if you saw any video of it, this panel of lawyers from the pentagon all men, all in their dress uniforms sitting in front of her who insists that this -- everything was under control, under the discipline and order of the military. she finds that hard to believe. >> i don't know how you can say that having 19,000 sexual assaults and rapes a year is discipline and order. i do not understand how you can say that of those 19,000 cases to only h

month is being celebrated with a series of educational and inspirational events, congresswoman jacky spear of san francisco hosted forums that included our own kristen sze as a panelist. the series features women doctors doctors and airline pilots and journalists, telling their stories to help inspire young girls to go for their dreams. >>> just ahead, the streak across the sky stirring up a frenzy online. >> a warning for shoppers. check out the new i-pad before you leave the store. the unwanted surprise some buyers are getting. >>> a beautiful saturday. what is ahead for tomorrow? leigh glaser is up next with the forecast. >> mike: march madness in full swing. we have updates from the men and women, while tiger woods wants his number one ranking in the world >> ama: something new to worry about the next time you go to buy an ipad. are you really getting an ipad? several fake ipads have been sold to unsuspecting customers at legitimate stores. a massachusetts woman says the ipad was really a plastic cube shaped like an ipad. best buy has had similar fake ipad incidents. the stores are not

jackie spear founded knit 1989 so business women would spark new ideas. >> you say to women, girls don't ab frayed to fail. >> very an actual paper weight that reads what would do you if you knew you could not fail is in the truth is that fear sometimes paralyzes us. >> you're going to hear more from congress woman speier who also talk about the book lien in. i hope you'll june me here on abc p. >> qain harris spoke for the first time be being gay. he says professional sports as an unwritten code. >> love football. football provided me with experiences and opportunities i won't trade for anything else. but the cost was great in asking me to snot be able to be open about myself in this manner he was outed when charged with beating up his boyfriend last year. the trial starts next month. >> giants pitcher madison balmgartner showing gratitude for long overlooked workers he took the giants ballpark grounds crew out to lunch on the embarcadero today. the 22-year-old has an appreciation for hard work that is done around the ballpark. >> i do work on the farm myself. nobody sees. just becomes

. >> congresswoman jackie spear is praise thing new legislation. she's been a big critic of the military's handling of sex assault cases. the killer was accused of rape twice in the military, but he was discharged from the military instead of prison. if military law had been different, the shooter might still have been in prison. >>> today, the dow closed in positive territory, marking the longest winning streak in 16 years. the dow finished up for the ninth straight day. take a look at the numbers. the dow up just five points but enough to set a record. the nasdaq and s&p also lineup. retail stocks jumped on a report of increase in consumer spending. >>> police are looking for two people accused of beating a woman and stealing her purse. these are pictures of the two suspects. they got off at the race street station. the female suspect, described as hispanic in her 20s, punched and kicked the woman until she fell to the ground. the male suspect then ripped the purse from her hands. the robbery happened in february. >>> the san francisco symphony h

. >>> jackie spears now calling for a federal investigation into why the army dropped rape charged against jeremy goulet. he's the man who gunned down do police officers. goulet should have been in jail, she says, opposed to being granted other than honorable discharge after allegedly raping two female officers. instead he left the army traveling to oregon and eventually ending up in santa cruz. today representative spear introduced the judiciary reform act which would strip commanders of their power to overturn the decisions of judges and juries. he shot and killed officers two week ago today. >>> and a judge entered a not guilty plea on behalf of james holmes. the man charged in the aurora, colorado, shooting spree. holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring dozens more in a colorado movie theater last year. holmes was silent during the hearing. the judge's actions leave the door open for him to change the plea to not reason by reason of insanity at a later date. >>> man kind has found the best evidence yet that life once existed on mars. nasa made the discovery after looking th

representative, jackie spears says he should have been in jail and not been granted an other than honorable discharge for allegedly raping two female officers. instead, he went out to hawaii, oregon and eventually santa cruz. later on today, representative spear planning to introduce the military judicial reform act which would strip commander's of their power to overturn decisions of judges and juries of court-martials. >>> new details in the case of disgraced south bay politician george shirakawa. the clerk noticed a possible forged signature on the city council campaign form. he has resigned and ordered to plead guilty to charges he used campaign funds to support his gambling addiction. he served two terms as a san jose city councilman an on the local school board before becoming a local supervisor. >> they will meet today to help determine who will fill his vacated seat. the vote to fill a june 4th election. >> the bright lights of hollywood could end up affecting your commute on the peninsula later on tonight. hbo in palo alto to film a pilot about the silicon valley. they say filming

representative jackie spears says he should have been in jail other than a dishonorable discharge. ultimately was able to travel to oregon and santa cruz. they plan to introduce the military judicial reform act which will strip commanders of power to overturn decisions of judges and juries of court martials. >>> a mother who used her young daughter to shoplift will serve 60 days for her sign. she was sentenced to 60 days in jail for one count of commercial burglary and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. she will also serve three years probation. her daughter is currently in the custody of her grandmother. >>> the family of a missing oakland woman is widening their search for her later today. 31-year-old erica maskaleris disappeared thursday morning. she was last seen in this surveillance video walking outside a taste of denmark bakery on telegraph avenue. her family wants the public to take a close look at that video hoping someone will remember seeing her. >>> we have new details this morning in the criminal case against south bay poll situation. the district attorney cou

sently in the congress of the united states and is a respected voice on the subject, congress woman jackie spears. >> thank you for your leadership and your powerful comments this afternoon and dr. marshal for hosting us to my great colleague and friend and sharer of the chairmanship of the task force who is walking a very delicate line but doing so very ably and effectively, to our great mayor of our great city, thank you and to our great police chief who i really enjoy the opportunity to work with. i am pleased to be here. i am honored to be here. i tell you that this is personal for me, it's also professional for me. i realized after new town that in many ways i had failed. i had failed to do my part. we all failed to do our part when there is yet another homicide that takes place. and it's no longer good enough to say, well, that's someone else's problem. it's really our collective problem. and i think the tragedy, the unspeakable tragedy that occurred in new town, has awakened in americans across this great country that we have not -- we have to do so much more; that we have allowed the laws

jackie spear talked about 100 shot magazine. nancy pelosi said that i call them assault magazines. i don't know what else to call them. 30 shots? it's an assault magazine, that's all that it can possibly be. and there's no law against it in most states. on december 14th, a day that will be burned into our memory forever, you can probably, when somebody says where were you when sandy hook tragedy happened, you probably know. i was duck hunting. i told you i'm a hunter. i was duck hunting in the yolo bypass, 3 shots in my shotgun. federal law limits me to 3 shots in my shotgun. yet they sell assault magazines, 100 rounds, 30 rounds. it's absolutely ridiculous. california has some of the toughest laws in the country. folks will tell you a member who said you got to watch out for the slippery slope, we hear it time and time again, pretty soon we're not going to have any guns. california has the toughest laws in the land, some of the toughest laws. no assault weapons, you can't have a 10 shot magazine -- only 10 shots in your magazine, you have to go through a licensed dealer to sell a

delays and that's expected to get worse as the day goes on and that's not good news for san mateo jackie spears headed back to california later this afternoon. she is one of the several lawmakers that canceled conferences today. we have one to 10 inches coming and the rain is now just starting to turn into snow and 10 inches will be paralyzing for this area. we will take a look at the airports and roads when i see you next. jacqueline fell ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> well, president barack obama is working quietly to lessen the hit of the sequester and spending cuts. it will give government agencies flexibility on where they want to make the cuts. they have to reduce from $85 billion and a half will come from defense and the other half will come from domestic programs. >>> day three of conclave meetings are on way in vatican city. cardinals from around the world are meeting to discuss the state of the catholic church and to get to know each other before they pick the next pope. they are in no rush to pick the next pope. >>> when given a gift at her latest engagement kate middleton took a

let's talk about jackie spear because she introduced the military judicial reform act. >> the fact that one person can overturn a punishment determined by a judge or a jury flies in the face of justice. >> michael: so this is big stuff. this is what we were talking about last week. you did a petition on this, and now you see action on it. does this go far enough? >> it doesn't. but it's a good first start. what she was talking about in part was the fact that two santa cruz police officers were murdered by a former army rapist who's rapes were never prosecuted. he got out and as it turns out he is able to walk the streets and not only that walk the streets with a gun and shoot two police officers and kill them. and the army is complicit in those cop killings by letting him walk the street. so it's not just for the women who are raped, but because of the future victims outside of the military like those two police officers dead in santa cruise at the hands of a military rapist. >> and those are big words. the army is complicit, and it sounds like washington is hearing those words. let's m

. >>> councilwoman jackie spears wants a capitol hill hearing on why the military dropped rape charges against jeremy peter goulet and said goulet faced the possibility of a life sentence if he was court- martialed. the charges whether dropped after he accepted a less than honorable discharge. >>> in two hours, house republicans in washington, d.c. will lay out their plan for a new budget the republicans released some details. what did they say? >> reporter: paul ryan is leading house republicans on this spending plan, but democrats are expected to put up a fight. that's because in part republicans are taking aim at obama care, they believe billions would be saved by repealing the law. ryan says reforming aid programs would save billions more. the g.o.p. plan promises to balance the budget in ten years without raising taxes. but they say they are on board with tax reform, closing loopholes and consolidating rates. senate democrats will unveil their budget this week. they plan on raising taxes. the automatic cuts that became law on march 1 are now hitting the military. the demand issued

say he planned the mass shooting for months and built up an arsenal of weapons >>> congresswoman jackie spear is calling for a federal investigation into the army's dropped rape charges against santa cruz cop killer, jeremy goulet. she says goulet should have been in jail and not been granted an other than honorable discharge for allegedly raping two female officers. instead, he went on to oregon and eventually santa cruz. now, later today representative spear plans to introduce the military judicial reform act which would strip commander's of their power to overturn decisions of judges and juries of court-martial. >>> the family of a missing oakland woman is widening its search. 31-year-old erika macarelas has been missing since march 7th, last spotted at a bakery on telegraph avenue. family and friends have been canvassing bus stops and mcartur bart station. they will reveal more at a press conference this morning. >>> court hearings set in several high-profile bay area cases >>> starting in sonoma county, two men will be arraigned in connection with the killing of three men in a forestvill

jacky spear will hold a hearing about rape charges being dropped against a man accused of killing two cruz police officers, saying the killings could have been prevented. last week at the memorial service, for the two santa cruz police officers, former defense secretary leon panetta acknowledged military sex offenders are not always prosecuted. panetta said in the case of goulet the military "looked the other way." and i said when that happened, at some point somebody pays a price. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel said a case of sexual assault in the air force will be reviewed at the top levels of the pentagon. he just returned from visiting afghanistan and wrote a letter to barbara boxer, boxer asked him to look into a case where an air force general dismissed charges against a lieutenana colonel convicted of sexual assault but in his letter hagel said he doesn't have the authority to reverse the general's ruling. >>> 6:15. 90 minutes from now house republicans in washington will lay out a budget. automatic cuts have forced military to scale back. >> reporter: the marines posted a v

representative, jackie spear, says he should not have been able to do what he did. he should have been in jail and not granted and other than honorable discharge for allegedly raping two female officers. senator spear planning to introduce the judicial reform act that would strip commander's of the power to overturn judges and juries' in court-martials. >>> new details in the case against disgraced south bay politician, george shirakawa. the mercury news reported that they noticed a possible forged signature on a city council campaign form. the former supervisor has already resigned and agreed to plead guilty to charges he used campaign funds to support his gambling addiction. he served two terms as a san jose city councilman on a local school board before becoming a supervisor. >>> the santa clara county board of supervisors will meet today to determine who will fill his vacated seat. they will set a june 4th special election to fill that seat. >>> maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks. contra costa county's oldest police dog is retiring this month. the german

to take him out of command and i want him to support all of the legislation that representative jackie spearst will keep us safe right now. that's what we need. not ten years from now, now. >> jennifer, thank you for joining me. >> you're welcome, sir. >> absolutely. >>> president obama is going to be making his first trip to the middle east since his election campaign and the president aboards air force one where he goes to israel and then on to ramallah and then finally on to jordan for stops in amman and petra. the president said this ahead of the trip. >> the president wants to speak to the people of israel, the people of palestinian and the people of the region and not lay down a peace proposal but express his vision for what the possibilities of the future are. >> joining me now on the set is amon. i want to remind everybody, and spending time in the conflict in '08 as well and there's no doubt that it's very difficult to have a breakthrough without u.s. leadership. the u.s. -- and this is something that the u.s. has said, and there's no major breakthrough when and what's the plan going

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well, they are picking it up and running wit, and there are so many people like representative jackie spearo many other people working diligently to move this forward. they -- i'm hopeful that they will, that more people will come along, that more public citizens will say, we need to stop this and do something. more of the communities will get together and say, this is a problem, we need to get on board and the ruth moore act and the stop act and all of those things, we need support for those particular actions. >> and you are part of that support. former army specialist bridget mccoy, and thank you for the time and coming for wart ward t us your story today. >> thank you. >>> and right now, the benefits for military personnel and spouses is on the hill right now. they have held 400 fairs across the country, and more than 14,000 jobs have been filled, and this has helped over 100,000 veterans and their spouses find work. hing. we just bought our first house, we're on a budget. we're not ready for spring. well let's get you ready. very nice. you see these various colors. we got workshops eve

well, california congressman jackie spear has long said that making border patrol uniforms in mexicoeconomic reasons, like the jobs should be here in california, but for national security reasons, saying quote, uniforms have a greater potential are being stolen in mexico where it is more difficult to provide oversight of factories and cargo. clearly warning that cartel members dressed as border patrol agents would be somewhat problematic. the company itself during their annual report also has some concerns about making the uniforms in foreign countries, saying, again, political or military conflicts heighten terrorism and all concerns that can lead to shipping delays, et cetera. by the way, this company also makes major league baseball uniforms, megyn. those madee in the good ole us of a. >> megyn: thanks, trace. >> trace: sure. >> megyn: not one, but two landmark cases made before the u.s. supreme court this week, they're not just about same-sex marriage, they're about state's rights and power and who gets the right to decide about marriage in this country. and the latest on how the

joined by california democrat, congresswoman jackie spears. is one of the lawmakers spearheading, pardon the pun this legislation. good to have you with us congresswoman. welcome. >> thank you. martha: let me get this straight. federal employees own a combine 3.5 billion in back taxes? what are the rest of us doing, silly us, paying our taxes, right? >> well, here's the real issue though. with the federal employees they can have their wages garnished up to 15%. in the regular civilian force, it can only be garnished up to 10%. and actually the default rate or the, lack of payment among federal employees is less than the general population. the bigger problem are the federal contractors who are receiving $5 billion in tax dollars in federal contracts even though they owe income tax and aren't paying it. we have no way of garnishing their wages. so this particular bill and i'm joined with congressman chaffetz who is a republican on the committee and together we have introduced this bill that focuses in on the federal contractors who, right now t

go all the way, jacki schechner will be caught up in a magical frenzy and we'll be married on wednesday. >> we'll do anything for ratings. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: be like brittany spearsesending the sale. he put a photo on facebook showing how easy it is to get a firearm. the background check took just minutes, but he had to wait because the store got it from a gun owner. he store owner says he didn't like the reason he was buying the gun to make a political point. he wrote he planned to turn the ar-15 over to the tucson police. he was going to keep the handgun. the wall street journal is live blogging events as the supreme court hears arguments on same-sex marriage. officials give out yellow yards for three minutes in a time. the process allows about 70 to 80 people to filter through every half hour. and virginia governor bob mcdonal has just signed a law requiring voter id. the new law does if a registered vote for does haven't photo id he or she can get one for free and the governor has signed an executive order asking to education the public before the 2014 season. and it is expected that tim johnson is going to retire. we're back after the break. ♪ this show is a