my team members here are jim kennedy and keith kennedy. commissioner mirkarimi: i'm going to ask you to speak directly into the microphone. thank you. >> sorry. just to refresh

my team members here are jim kennedy and keith kennedy. commissioner mirkarimi: i'm going to ask you to speak directly into the microphone. thank you. >> sorry. just to refresh your memory is about the three functional areas that you chartered in the audit, these are the three. they are important for a couple of reasons. one, we want to focus very much on the questions and issues that you presented to us. we have also had some differences with mta in terms of setting up meetings and perhaps trying to limit the scope of the meetings and the coverage we can do with any individual to a preselected items on this list. we do not consider these three areas -- they are interlinked. they're not stand alone. that is an artificial kind of separation. one of the first tasks that we had was to focus the audit on particular areas of interest. that cost us to make these items in scope. when we had our entrancts conference, we wanted to make sure we had but central subway project included. one of the other themes that we heard in the meeting is getting v

. >> jim, kennedy jinx consultant. i think from california stance point the low angle thing here is to make sure that the rules being written and regulations as to how we're going to establish eligibility criteria and ranking for infrastructure some 37 billion dollars and bonds being proposed is a real opportunity to make sure these considers are included. considers like that were they included in water bond, state water project we might have an outcome for this. >> thank you. one more. water assignment campaign. [inaudible] one part of this is politics. maybe we're a little too gentle, maybe you think of rational ideas of things happening. the 4 point 5 billion dollars for reservoirs and conservation and that's politics. so - the same applies to public engage meant. it's messy. we can't possibly expect to not have to deal with the rudeness and everything else. >> i think that's certainly true, although i'm not sure participants are incapable of dealing with that. they don't look like they would be steam rollered over

my team members here are jim kennedy and keith kennedy. commissioner mirkarimi: i'm going to ask you to speak directly into the microphone. thank you. >> sorry. just to refresh your memory is about the three functional areas that you chartered in the audit, these are the three. they are important for a couple of reasons. one, we want to focus very much on the questions and issues that you presented to us. we have also had some differences with mta in terms of setting up meetings and perhaps trying to limit the scope of the meetings and the coverage we can do with any individual to a preselected items on this list. we do not consider these three areas

kennedy. anyway, jim's father, mr. earl was a young child. when his father was murdered and his mother brought him up to plains and raised him with the help with some other relatives. that's probably very significant because jimmy's father, mr. earl, grew up with no father of his own and he was determined that his children would not grow up fatherless and the rest of that story -- it gets even more comp indicating because everyone knows ms. lillian. after all when he was president and ms. lillan was the mother he was frequently interviewed. she was interesting. sort of the darling of the public, though, some people took issue with that, i think. and so everybody thought that ms. lillian was a real nurturing parent of her son, her oldest son, jimmy. it turns out it's not true. that actually was the father was the nurturing parent. he ran the family business. he was frequently home. and he also pretty much managed the education, the religious training, the work schedules of his children, especially his oldest son, jimmy, whom he nicknamed hot s

it was during this president kennedy's space program and jim loveell went on apollo. and his campaign were indicative of what politics used to be and what they were to become. he accepted only small donations and limited expenditures for his campaign while relying on volunteers to go through neighborhoods and perform tasks which served as the lifeblood. then and today for any strong congressional campaign. in 1969 reresigned to accept a place in president nixon's administration as the head of the office of economic opportunity. not knowing much of the mission, he turned to his chief of staff who had an intern friend who had written a college paper on the office of economic opportunity. that intern came to brief congressman rumsfeld and walked out with a job. the intern's name was richard cheney. president nixon appointed rumsfeld as the director of the cost of living council, a position he held until 1973 when he became the united states ambassador to nato. when president ford took office in 1974, he recalled rumsfeld to washington to coordinate a transition team. his

jim. i think that it would have been a catastrophe and a tragedy for democrats if in fact the same year they had lost edward kennedy's seat and robert byrd's seat in west virginia. they did lose edward kennedy's seat earlier this year when scott brown pulled the upset in massachusetts. >> lehrer: blumenthal went in in connecticut, coons in delaware and manchin in west virginia. did they overcome a tide or were they just better candidates or were the candidates against them flawed candidates? >> i don't think there's any question that in the case of the republican establishment, their choices, the candidates they backed in the primary who would have been stronger against both blumenthal and coons in delaware, blumenthal in connecticut, they backed rob simmons the former moderate republican congressman with distinguished military record of his own in connecticut. he was overwhelmed and outspent by linda mcmahon of the world wrestling enterprise. and in delaware, i don't think there's anybody who questions that mike castle in this year, the nine-term republican congressman, former governor, two terms, enormously popular

jim douglas. >> this week marked the 47th anniversary of the assassination of president kennedy. this weekend, i will talk with two former secret service men whose job was to protect the president. we will discuss this sunday night on q&a. >> now, the ethics of war. this discussion features speakers from france, england, israel, and the u.s. from cleveland, this is just over two hours. >> ladies and gentlemen. welcome. we are delighted to have you here for this 2010 international ethics in war summit. i am the director of the illinois center. i have the privilege of being moderator of the first panel. we have brought a collection of very distinguished scholars here for you to listen to and to engage with. they will be having a conversation up here for a while, and then you will notice in the center aisle, there is a microphone. at this point, i will open the floor to questions from the audience. at that point, please make your way to the podium and form a small line behind it. we will take your questions there. we will be distributing microphones to be used. i would like to intro

kennedy presidency from video from nbc and incredible text. you can get here on the ipad, incredible work of history. >> that's what you lesh learned today. >> i learned from jimt inevitable. we can fix this. >> barnacle. >> i learned that with -- one of the secret service agents at dallas -- just referring that there are moments in american history that just never fade and this is one of them. >> that is. pat buchanan. >> lisa murkowski and barbara bush are the beginning of a stop palin movement in the republican party. >> wow. okay. thank you. >>> also, tonight is the lupus foundations 40th anniversary event. joe and i will be hosting the gala at the lincoln center tonight. we're honored to be the hosts. that does it for us today.