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. >> hello, my name is jeff brown and an english and a u.s. citizen. thanks much for your time.nk you for your ears and your time. i am here basically to give you my opinion on the america's cup. president chiu: excuse me, sir. we will have public comment on the public -- from the public on the america's cup at 3:00. >> thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is david, and i moved to san francisco from oregon when i was in my 30's, and now i am in my sixties. i have been in lower nob hill for about 25 years now, and i am what would be considered a political junkie and talk politics every day, mostly but not entirely with the other day man, and i have to say that honestly, i have never known any public official in the city to be held in such contempt as melinda hague. melinda hague has totally disregarded the wishes of the vast majority of san franciscans regarding our medical cannabis dispensaries. i guess democracy is a concept that melinda hague has a problem with. someone should tell her that she is not in kansas anymore. this war that

jeff? >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at education as a national security issue with former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and former new york city schools chancellor joel klein. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

a lot of it today. >> a lot of it, jeff, yes. >> brown: let's start with decision number one. involves new standards for criminal plea bargains. it's interesting because we learned so many cases today are decided... or are resolved in pleas. >> absolutely, jeff. the court... the sixth amendment in the constitution guarantees a right to a lawyer at every critical phase of the criminal justice process. and not just any lawyer, an effective lawyer. justice kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion today, said that that right extends to the plea bargaining process and he noted that 97% of federal criminal convictions stem from pleas and 94% of state conviction stem from pleas. >> brown: they were looking at two cases, and just to summarize them, one in which a lawyer didn't tell his client that a plea bargain had been offered and another one in which the lawyer told the client but gave bad advice. >> absolutely. and justice kennedy said that a lawyer has an obligation to tell the client and if he gives him bad advice the client, the defendant, can make a claim of ineffective assista

all right figure great jeff brown people were shocked shocked that goldman sachs refers to his clients as the muppets despite all the wealth destruction of the past decade but population still believes that wall street is there to help them make money of course in your book you explain why that's not the case but why what about this great smith letter do you think it's a much ado about nothing or is it going to have legs as they say in the show business you know i was i was actually pretty critical of of his of his op ed and people are somewhat confused about what the difference is between me and him because i've just written this kind of how lall wall street book so major difference is that greg is delusional he seems to think that over the last five years something has changed so i think i think greg is kind of full of himself in thinking that everything was fine for twelve years and then all of a sudden something changed it's always been this way if you do the research in the history of wall street and main street will. lation chips which is what my book covers there's never been an

now, back to jeff. >> brown: a major city in california that once blossomed at the height of the boom is now on the verge of bankruptcy. it's joining others around the country being forced to make serious cuts just to stay afloat. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: the police department in stockton, california, is getting a new chief, the fifth one in the last eight years. they retired, often early, with generous pensions-- one reason, but certainly not the only one, the city is in dire financial shape. stockton, 100 miles east of san francisco in the agricultural central valley, is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. if that happens, this city of 300,000 would be the nation's largest bankrupt city. increasingly, cities across the nation are in crisis, because of pensions, health care costs, and overspending, all aggravated by the recession. to help prevent bankruptcy, stockton officials have been slashing the budget. the police have taken the biggest hits-- through cuts and retirements, the force is down 27% since 2008. and that has had a big impact, accor

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jeff. >> brown: and we turn to a pledge to improve working conditions at one of apple's major suppliers in china. as apple surged toward its status as the world's most valuable company, the cas fo it to account for how its wildly popular ipads and iphones are made have grown. last month, the california-based firm announced it had asked the fair labor association, a monitoring group, to investigate foxconn, apple's main contract manufacturer in china. foxconn works for dozens of other firms, too. altogether, it produces some 40% of the world's electronics, with a workforce of 1.2 million. in a report about foxconn released yesterday, the f.l.a. cited exceive overtime, exceeding 60 hours a week, and problems with overtime compensation, several health and safety risks, and "crucial communication gaps that have led to a widespread sense of unsafe working conditions among its workers." the findings shed light on allegations of unfair labor practices that had triggered protests at apple stores. >> apple has changed the way we listen to music, how we see movies, how we use our computers. they hav

jeff. >> brown: and we return to today's supreme court argument and its central debate: is a mandate constitutional? for that we're joined by two legal scholars who were in the court today. walter dellinger served as solicitor general in the clinton administration. he filed a brief before the court on behalf of democrats in congress. randy barnett has helped shape the argument against the mandate and filed amicus briefs in the lower courts. he's a professor at the georgetown university law center. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> brown: since you were both there, what jumped out at you. >> unlike yesterday where it looked like the court was pretty unanimous on the question of whether the anti-injunction act was going to bother phlegm hearing the merits of the case, today it looked like the court was very equally divided. i think you had four justs who were training most of their fire for example, on the government's side and not as much fire on our side. we had four justices training most of their fire on our side and not all that much on the government side and that just looked like a dwri

jeff. >> brown: and we turn to a big change for one of the tech industry's giants in the debate over online privacy. in recent weeks, google has been alerting its more than one billion users around the world that, beginning today, the company is consolidating some 60 privacy policies of its anfferent services into oneac sed molo cly coordinating those services into one large dataselo. here's part of how the company pexins it:p >> instead of over 60 polics for google products and onatures, we're introducing just e with fewer words, simpler explanations and lessegal goop to wade through. does that mean when you use google-- from gmail and search and youtube and calendar, you can count on one pnolicy that explain ours privacy commitment to you. >> brown: google says the move will also allow it to better serve customers by pulling together personalized information across a variety of different sites. but not everyone agrees. 32 state attorneys general recently wrote a letter to google c.e.o. larry page calling the new policy an invasion of privacy. and some regulatory agencies in the european u

jeff. >> brown: and we come back to the health care reform issue with a focus on the political implications. judy woodruff is in charge. >> woodruff: for congressional perspective we are joined from capitol hill by two members of the house. representative raul grijalva, a democrat from arizona and representative peter roskam, the g.o.p. deputy whip. he's from illinois and was in the courtroom today. congressmen, thank you both for joining us. i want to just start by asking you both-- i want to try to take your temperature. representative grijalva, how are you and your allies feeling after three days of these arguments before the court? are you feeling as if the law is going to be upheld, and it's going to go your way? >> yeah, i think the sense of optimism is always difficult to gauge. but i think we have history on our side. every time there has been a point in this nation's history, whether it was the issue of civil rights, issue of education and access, the supreme court has stepped in to close that divisiveness and to extend the common good and welfare to the american people. this is th