that there is something there >> i said to jesse helms -- you want to know what brought jesse helms to tears? i can tell you. i said there's 2,003 verses of scrip dhaur pertain to the world's poor, none of them about judgment. christ never speaks of judgment. in the old testament there is judgment but christ never speaks of judgment except once. it's how we deal with the poor. it's this thing of as much as you treated the least of these so you treated me, matthew. and he just -- he started -- the great cold warrior just melted because the scriptures are powerful and that's -- when christ began his mission he started to talk about, you know, the blind will see, i want to visit the sick, see people in prison and serve the poor. that's what it's about. and if it's not about that for me then i'm not in the room. >> rose: are the songs different today simply because the times are different or are they still -- there is somethat that is always there at the core? >> the problems of the world are the problems of the spirits. >> rose: songs come out of that have? >> a love songs can be the most

i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part

i was involved in campaigning against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i came out here i was not initially involved politically. i was involved in community work, helping to build the lgbt community, doing neighborhood work, and i eventually started doing campaigns and gradually got more involved in democratic party politics. ultimately, in 2004, i ran for the democratic county central committee and ended up chairing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and the politics. i knock on about $15,000 -- i knocked on about 15,000 doors and a huge amount of people. the best way to learn about the city and what people want and what people's concerns are. i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco, miniature spectrum, i am considered pretty middle of the road. one thing about me is i am very independent when it comes to the issues, and i do not vote on party

jesse helms was as conservative from north carolina, as conservative as most of these guys.ut there's a belief among ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul to a certain extent, though i don't know if i'd put him in that group, that the senate as an institution has basically failed. it's the jim demint argument. jim demint is the prejenetor of this. the way things have been done in the senate are by nature, therefore, wrong. that's why you hear ted cruz say, look, i don't trust how this is going to work. i think mccain and others say what's the alternative here? but it's a rejection of the institution, chris, i think more than it is anything about who's a conservative versus who's a moderate within the republican party. >> you know, michael, i don't know why they don't wear uniforms like the code pink people do or other political group. show up, we're here to screw things up. all we're here to do is heckle. they look like hecklers. i'm sorry. mccain is right. he knows how the government works in it wants to work. if it doesn't want to work, there's a lot of ways to screw it up. these

sometimes it was bill like when north carolina senator jesse helms suggested the president better havee. or when robert dornen a republican congressman from california said of bill clinton quote the thought makes me sick to have this s.o.b. except he didn't say s.o.b. of low character commanding this country. other times it was hilary who bothered the right more when william sapphire wrote in 1996 americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization our first lady is a congenital liar. there was a sort of backward working logic that prevailed on the right in the 1990s. the clintons have to be devious and corrupt. if we look hard enough we'll find the proof. we got travelgate, and kenneth starr and suing begs that the president and his wife were involved in drug-running and murder. bill clinton was impeached. you remember it all. there were a lot of reasons why this happened and, yes, bill clinton did bring some of it on himself. he brought plenty of it on himself. the root of that ain't clinton hysteria is simple. almost by definition a democratic administration is

to the right-wing pressure with newt gingrich and the contract of america you all remember and jesse helms who wanted to abolish the arms control and disarm the agency because they were opposed to arms control with the soviet union. clinton never should have bowed to this pressure. this was a professional group of people who were schooled on strategic systems nuclear systems and understood the soviet union and were responsible for the negotiation of arms control agreements under richard nixon and ronald reagan, the imf treaty. he also abolished the information service, the united states information agency which was a group of his foreign service officers who went abroad to explain the united states to foreign officers. when they are so much question in the international community and a great deal of misunderstanding about the united states and those values and roles overseas. the third step that clinton took the showed his inability to deal with the military, the very warning that eisenhower gave in 1961 was bowing to military pressure and walking way from very important international trea

decisionmaking and that was bowing to white ring pressure, newt gingrich, the contract with america, and jesse helm whose wanted to disarm the agency because they were opposed to arms control with of the yet union. clinton never should have bowed to this pressure. this is a professional group of people schooled on strategic systems, understood the soviet union and were responsible for the negotiation of major arms control agreements under richard niksch yap and ronald reagan, the inf treaty. but clinton bowed to the pressure, and abolished the united states information service, the ute information agency, which was a group of foreign service officers who went abroad to explain the united states to foreign audiences. this is an institution we need today when there's so much questioning about u.s. values and the u.s. role in the international community, and a great deal of misunderstanding about the united states and those valuesnd those roles overseas. the third step that clinton took that showed his enable to deal with the military, the very warning that eisenhower gave in 1961 -- was bowing to mil