vice president joe biden, at a luncheon held by secretary of state hillary clinton in xi's honor in washington on tuesday. the two vice presidents got into a debate over the human rights situation in china. biden criticized china's human rights policies while xi defended his government. >> we see our advocacy for human rights as a fundamental aspect of our foreign policy and we believe a key to the prosperity and stability of all societies. >> biden said he believes the situation in china is worsening. in response, xi stressed china has made tremendous progress over the past 30 years. >> translator: we will, in light of china's national conditions, continue to take concrete measures and craft effective policies to promote social fairness, justice, and harmony and push forward china's cause of human rights. >> xi said that when it comes to human rights, there is never a best scenario, only a better one with room for improvement. he added china has a huge population and the different regions of the country are in different stages of development. he also said that china's prepared to enter into c

this isn't a joe biden problem. joe biden is no one that avoids the spotlight. president people should know, it's probably joe biden. the problem isn't with him, it's the american people. if he wants to be more well known, put civics books in people's hands, you got to educate them more. >> i don't think joe biden needs to be well known than he is, a little goes a long way for the american people. he's known where he needs to be known. the white house sends him where he needs to go, sends him to pennsylvania, the white catholic areas they want to do better in. he's heavy in foreign policy, doesn't need to be any better known than he is today. >> thanks, guys. >>> class is back in session at an elementary school rocked by shocking allegations of sex abuse. a live report next. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in yo

vice president joe biden is accompanying him to most of his destinations. republican party leaders criticized the administration for being too soft on china. >>> chinese officials are in talks with counterparts in pakistan's air force. they want to sell the pakistanis a mainstay fighter jet. the deputy chief of the air staff said that china delivered one surveillance aircraft last month. manufacturers will deliver three more this year. pakistan bought the aircraft to boost its defense capabilities. air force commanders are considering a proposal to buy fighter jets from china. pakistan's military has been deepening ties with china. generals have bought more chinese defense equipment and weapons in recent years. america says that pakistan is seeking chinese support to upgrade the equipment as the country continues to have strained relations with the u.s. >>> the largest aviation fair in asia. they've put their most up to date models of fighter jets and civilian aircraft on display in singapore. a record 900 companies and organizations from more than 50 compa

, you know, in favor of getting the votes whether, you know, stops them from getting blue collar joe biden work se biden workers is another question. >> this broadens into what is going on here? there is the side that says this is a war on religion which it isn't. then there is the statement that there is a big war on contraception. in fact, we can't even find out how many people are employed by a catholic employer in the united states. we don't have an entity that seems to know the answer to that question which tells you it's a wicked small number. and so we're not talking about, you know, taking birth control availability through a health care plan away from anyone else except that. the numbers on that get -- let's look at the poll onz this. i have a big, big graphic worked follow up tore tonight over here. here's the poll that everyone talks about. americans generally in favor. this but at 55% which is not some overwhelming majority. it's a workable majority. catholics, the idea that an employer has to provide birth control within your health sppl is supported by more catholics than the

. >> chris, are we hearing in both harry reid and joe biden the first steps of some kind of retreat? or is that actually what makes sense to say at a time like this because there actually is a significant period of time before this rule goes into effect? >> i'm concerned in the words of margaret thatcher that they're going wabbly. i think this is an issue in which there is always, i think, a generational understanding of the part of democratic politician that's whenever a culture issue like this comes up, they're going to be on the losing side of it and they should be scared of it. i saline into it. you're on the right side of this. >> lean forward. >> lean forward. sorry. >> toward it. >> you're on the right side of this on substance. we can talk about what the eeoc talked about title seven of the civil rights act. but you're right on the politics. i think ultimate think is a political winner for the democrats. and i think what you -- what will guarantee political defeat is to take all the flack and negative attention from issuing the rule and then walk it back. because then who wil

the other reason is because joe biden keeps talking up how great you are. and just as i do what michelle tells me to do, i also do what joe biden tells me to go. n addition i just want to secretary of labor here, hilda solis, who's doing an outstanding job. but the main reason i keep on coming back is i think this institution is an example of what's best about america. some of you may have your eye on a four-year college, some of you may want to learn new skills that can lead to a new job like mike, or a job that pays more, or gives you more opportunity, but all of you are here because you believe in yourselves, you believe in your ability and your ability to the -- the truth is the skills and reastraining you here will be the best chance that you have to achieve the american promise. that you will earn enough to have a family, own a home and send your kids to college and put a little away for retirement. the defining issue of our time is how to keep this promise alive today, for everybody. because we have got a choice, we can settle for a country where a f

i think the president -- i know the president feels the same way. >> joe biden reported to have gone to the president raising the red flag along with bill daley as politico reports. >>> as the white house looks for compromise, supporters say republicans are using it to score political points. >> it is time for the extreme right wing to stop playing political football with women's health. >> this latest ruling on women's access to reproductive health care, family planning, has been absolutely politicized in this what i call on-going war against women. >> it's astonishing to me that we are standing here defending the right of women to access contraception. it's just amazing. that there would be any question this is a settled e,clos. >> but there is a growing list of high profile democrats breaking ranks with the white house on this issue. several senators including john kerry, claire mccaskill and joe mansion want the administration to adjust the rule. >>> john boehner addressed the controversy during his address at cpac yesterday, suggested it strikes at the heart of the constitution.

going to be an international valentine day at the white house at the invitation of vice- president joe bidenent will visit after biden visited china last august. >>> a judge is expected to rule today on the motion to throw out the arrest of general her hudson's exbrother -- jennifer hudson's exbrother-in-law who is charged in the october 2008 death of hudson's mother, and her brother and hudson's nephew 7-year-old julian king. >>> tim cook will deliver the keynote address at a san francisco party as part of a conference for the area tech conference. the speech marks the first public appearance since steven job's death on october 5th. >>> mayor stephanie rawlings- blake will promote the clean community competition. the contft promotes environmentally -- contest promotes environmentally friendly cities. >>> maryland lieutenant governor will testify today before a senate committee supporting legislation it be legislation to allow -- legislation to allow veterans to be recognized. it will reportedly help get vets gain easier access to available service and resources. >>> news time 5:57. counting

the vice president met with vice president joe biden earlier this morning. will be accomplished today. >> that we're able to talk candidly about our differences and make progress. >> reporter: after meeting with president obama, they will go to the pentagon and then they will head to iowa where he lived briefly. his last stop, l.a. too a classroom -- to visit to a classroom and maybe a laker fame. >>> voters in san francisco could soon decide whether to eliminate the city's rank choice voting system. the officials will consider a proposal for the june ballot that takes away the rank choice voting system. critics of rank choice say it's just too coon fowsing. the -- too confusing. the board will consider a proposal, this one keeps rank choice in place but all city elections would be consolidated into the same year. today is valentine's day except for the people in uzbekistan. the bbc reports the country in central asia that used to be part of the soviet union has canceled the holiday. instead, people are asked to celebrate the birthday of a late member who was

vice president joe biden is accompanying him to most of his destinations. republican party leaders criticized the administration for being too soft on china. >>> pakistan's air force is in talks with china over a possible purchase of the country's mainstay fighter jets. the deputy chief of the staff said that china delivered one surveillance aircraft last month, and pakistan will receive three more this year. pakistan bought the aircraft to boost its defense capabilities. the official noted that the air force is considering a proposal to buy ten fighter jets from china, and pakistan's military has been deepening ties with china and buying more chinese defense equipment and weapons in recent years. america says that pakistan is seeking chinese support to upgrade the equipment as the country continues to have strained relations with the u.s. >>> asia's largest aviation fair is under way in singapore with the most up-to-date models of fighter jets and civilian aircraft on display. a record 900 companies and organizations from more than 50 countries are taking

joe biden is the guy four months ago said that the taliban isn't really our enemy per se.aking credit for the last two murders in afghanistan. >> and the taliban, there are radical factions and nonradical factions. let's ask karzai how long he'd stay in office if we weren't there. >> why are we fighting over this country, like dogs fighting over rotten meat. >> an interesting debate at home. before we get out of here, a clip from hillary clinton who i usually agree with, agree with her, but in 2003 not so much. >> i find it somewhat troubling that our politics would inflame such a dangerous situation in afghanistan. >> (inaudible) >> and so, we're fighting over there and we're going to continue fighting at home. that's what happened. >> and in the political and then you become a confirmed secretary of state and you're rational and reasonable. >> and most secretary of states do become more rational after they get into the office and the other thing i noticed is the republican candidates as usual are jumping on this incident and they know nothing about what's going on and th

yeah basically you know the carrot and stick because of course the stick is is joe biden as you rightly point out and the issue is of course copyright and patent infringement which the chinese don't really respect it's a lot for property at this point that's what the united states is export it's exploiting. patents and copyrights and if those patents and copyrights are being stolen by the chinese where by simply the chinese take the good ideas that are being developed and states and manufacture them without any kind of. the american brains behind these ideas patents copyrights what have you then of course the end state starts to loose and that's putting it sits wants to run and that's the kind of economy that i'm from we have and if the chinese continue to just rebar patent and copyright it's locked in the next it's going to suddenly cut off very little it's that china is going to make greater and greater inroads into american markets and frankly into american exports and so that's the problem that united states has they can't really part that allows the chinese but they have to bark a

mean to ten thousand dollars to come forward me has to start explaining his gaffes but meanwhile joe biden exists on the obama side the campaign trail so i don't think you know the gaffe quality is going to change anything kind of like joe biden said so i need to examine we all months of just pure unadulterated truth that should have been said to him guys truth or truth can be a get go this is the. well you know but as for super pacs i mean what i think what it tells you is and romney brought this up in a campaign debate recently he said look the way the campaign finance works we should be able to take that money into our campaigns as opposed these super pacs and what and and what these super pacs do is they create distance from the candidates so they can say stuff like oh i can't control my super pac i can't control what he does we need to have accountability in politics here we need to be able to say to the candidate guess what you made that you need to be accountable for as long as they are allowed to give money to these shadowy super pacs they will give money to these super pacs they w

president obama who's talking about this peaceful rise of china about our economic cooperation versus joe biden who was was acting a little tougher right that he was saying that china didn't become this economic power in the world through some vacuum that it's all thanks to an international system and there are rules that everyone must follow and if you want to be have a relationship the game has to be played fairly so as a kind of good cop bad cop that they're doing yeah basically you know the carrot and stick because first step is it's joe biden as you rightly point out and the issue is of course copyright and patent infringement which the chinese don't really respect it's a lot for property at this point that's what the united states is export it's exploiting. chapman said copyrights and if those patents and copyrights are being stolen by the chinese where by simply the chinese take the good ideas that are being developed in the states and manufacture them without doing anything to. the american brains behind us i just patents copyrights we have you then of course you know instant starts to

>> glenn campbell fights alzheimer's, featuring maria shriver with a message from vice president joe biden. >> shep: according to a study, people fear getting alzheimer's more than any other disease except cancer. government researchers say more than 5 million americans now have alzheimer's and 42 million adults care for someone with alzheimer's. awareness is a big key if we're to find a cure. when famous people step forward to talk about the disease, it raises awareness. >> mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories, the one i'm going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk into the oval office. i can pound the president's desk and say, mr. president, i don't like the way you're running our country. and a russian said, i can do that. the american says,

rick santorum took aim at joe biden. >> you only have one place to ogo, look what joe biden believes do the opposite. you will be right every time. >> several polls show rick santorum leading mitt romney by 5 points. rick santorum also campaigned in georgia today. rick santorum leading the republican pact by 6 points. coming up, the political fall out from rick santorum remarks. republican presidential hopeful mittmitt romney. they doubled their monthly fundraising in january. $6.6million for mitt romney. it ended with 16 million dollars on hand. one big donor was meg whitman. she gave $100,000. they must file their reports with the commission by midnight tonight. >>> ron paul is running far behind the other three but he still raised $4.5 million last month. peter thiel of san francisco donated 1.7 million to the ron paul campaign. here is a look at the reports for the other candidates. rick santorum raised $4.5 million. they raised $11 million for newt gingrich and president obama's campaign raised $12 million for his reelection. making a deal. the player the a's picked up. also the

corp. 2012] >> >>, president obama meets with the chinese vice president, then vice president of joe biden and secretary of state to larry clinton hosted a luncheon for the chinese vice president -- hillary clinton hosted a luncheon for the chinese vice president. both vice president joe biden and secretary of state clinton discussed how to build a partnership in trade and commerce. the leaders met with reporters before the meeting for about 50 minutes. >> i want to welcome vice president xi to the oval office and welcome him to the united states. this is obviously a great opportunity for us to build on the u.s.-china relationship, but also an opportunity to return the extraordinary hospitality that vice president xi showed vice president biden during his recent visit to china. as i indicated during my recent visit to apec and the east asia summit, the united states is a pacific nation. and we are very interested and very focused on continuing to strengthen our relationships to enhance our trade and our commerce, and make sure that we are a strong and effective partner with the asia pacifi

this is what this does exactly. >> dana: the reports were, eric, vice president joe biden did adviseinst this. and sometimes when you give advice it's not taken. >> eric: right. a quick timeline. january 20, obama administration finalizes the ruling that sterilization and contraception, morning after pill has to be supplied and offered by everyone with the exception of the catholic church, so catholic school and hospitals. so february 6, kathleen sebelius depends the decision yesterday in op-ed and you saw the campaign today. david axelrod walking back, trying to soften it saying we'll try to work with everyone. here is the question, though. 1200 healthcare waivers are outstanding right now. 4 million people. including the town of frisco, colorado, six states, hundreds of companies including cracker barrel, red lobster, wigly wigly, waffle house and ihop and 417 unions. you can't exempt the catholic church. >> dana: they are exempting for different reasons. not they're exempted from the conscience clause. >> eric: if you give 417 unions exemptions why can't notre dame university get

that is how much obama and first lady and joe biden were have estimated in one night.hey had high end fund-raisers and republicans are blasting president obama spending more time campaigning than governing. >> how are you greta. >> greta: i love this. i want to ask you about this. what is the story in florida. you obviously know this is going to be a problem. december 21 letter from you. >> copy of the secretary of state. >> greta: this is not a speaker letter, oh but. >> this is not a secret. >> greta: so you saw it coming? >> yes. and we're going to blow the listening for our rules but when state violates a rule of rnc and there are certain penalties that they can level. we have leveled every single penalty against florida. if there is a further complaint the rnc has a committee called the committee on contest. there are very few standing committees in rnc but there are committee on contest whose sole purpose is to hear complaints of delegates or delegates that have a problem. >> greta: but the winner take all. i don't see it as policy. they are stripped away of 50 d

bill: it is clear there was an internal struggle at the white house, bill daly, joe biden and folks on outside, john kerry. juan williams, quick analysis. we appreciate that. here is martha with more. martha: a lot of big stories today. this on the left-hand side of the screen is the conservative "center of the universe" right now. this is a live look at cpac, the conservative political action conference meeting. huge event every time this comes around. those who want to show off their skills to appeal to the conservative base take the opportunity. they're talking about the issue of religious freedom. big morning for rick santorum. he will step in front of the podium and address the crowd at 10:25 eastern. we'll take some of that. you will get it at foxnews.com, the whole thing. he is fresh off his big three-state win, rick santorum is. very energized by that no doubt. he is expected to be greeted very warmly by this crowd. okay. mike huckabee taking the screen there moments ago. we'll have mitt romney. he will have to follow rick santorum's big speech today with a big speech of his ow

meanwhile, let's talk a little about joe biden. house meeting to figure out what are we going to do with this contraceptive mandate where catholic institutions would have to pay for birth control and sterilization for their employees? well, apparently, joe biden, also the chief of staff, and leon panetta all said mr. president, this is a bad idea. on the other side, you had kathleen sabelius and david plouffe, they won. yesterday, joe biden was on a radio station out in ohio, i believe, and he said i am determined to see this get worked out. >> that's the first real comment that he's had on this whole thing. another person you got to factor into this is the former chief of staff bill daley because he resigned on january 9th or was told to leave, however you want to think about that situation and then this contraception decision came out on january 20th so if he was against it, is that one of the reasons he's not working at the white house anymore? could it be? >> i was shocked by joe biden coming out and saying we're going to work

. >> this afternoon, michelle obama and joe biden unveiled the results of a new study on military spouses. the report is aimed at boosting employment for spouses especially those with occupational licenses. they face higher unemployment because of frequent moves across state lines. >> still ahead tonight on abc seven news at 6:00, we know it is a big expense but we will see how high college tuition has gone in recent years. >> will tell you how the government is making sure you get less calls from telemarketers. >> a mitt romney look alike aiming a gun at rick santorum. the latest in surreal attack ads. does this one go too far? >> clear skies right now. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum, we can empower more people to innovate create jobs, and put momentum behind our economy. and a spectrum auction could raise as much as 30 billion dollars to help fund the payroll tax cut. it's simple. more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone. >> we continue with th

china xi jinping, who is in town meeting the president in the oval office and will sit down with joe biden. the visit matters because xi jinping will likely takeover ruling the chinese communist party this year and become the next president next year. activists gathered protest the visit today, rallying for freedom in tibet from chinese control. coming up on abc7 news at noon, apple frenzy. white bands may be lining up even earlier than they thought. -- why fans may be lining up. the home of a supreme court justice attacked. a unique celebration this valentine's day. the forecast looks a little bit better out there now. a chance of >> you are watching abc7 news at noon. on your side. >> is suspect remains at large in the armed robbery of supreme court justice stephen briar when there were with their friends on the caribbean island of nevis. a man wielding a machete stole $1,000. unfortunately -- fortunately, no one was hurt. good news for apple lovers. the ipad3 8 becoming too a store closer than you think. they are poised to announce this will be on the first week of march. another source

we wondered what the stance was of joe biden.n feel about this? is he with the president on it or does he stand with the catholic church? and the white house said, we'll get back to you, which is kind of a nonanswer because this thing happened on january 20. they've a couple of weeks to figure out what joe biden thinks. >> gretchen: moving on to another political story which was a big thing in las vegas yesterday. donald trump made the announcement of who he would endorse on the republican side and he chose -- drum roll. mitt romney. even though the rumors had come out during the day before and leading up to the time that he was going to support newt gingrich. but he says he loves romney's stance on china. here is a further explanation. >> i called him a couple of times last night on a number that i have and there was no response on that number. so i wanted to call him. i did call him. i like him. i respect him. and he's a terrific guy. >> steve: so that is donald trump explaining why, before he made the announcement with mitt, h

[n tough battle, a bit of a battle of the sexes pitting the female advisers against people like joe biden and bill daley, you were have much against this. >> one of the interesting scenes from the story was when dolen came to the white house with the bishops and this vision of him in the black robe sitting with obama, and obama feeling awkward in the meeting. i want to open it up to the panel a bit. it seem like the white house under estimated the response that this decision would get from the religious, and catholic community and from the right. >> maybe glenn can speak to this, how could they not see the, obviously the bishops were lined up to tee off on this, if they were requiring religious groups to fund contraception that they do not believe in. why not come up with it initially. the catholic church does not have to violate their conscious, how do they not figure that out for the start? >> where were you during the health care debate? this is the same fight that they were having in congress. it the exact same people involved. the bishops play a huge role during the health care debat

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i would like to echo the vice president, joe biden, and say good luck to the giants, who will be playing baseball this coming season, as the war is under construction. -- waharf is under construction. [laughter] i have authorization to execute this joint venture for the design of the wharf or construction support services not to exceed $215,000, which is subject to civil service commission approval, raising the contract amount to $1,916,000. it will be a new, 58,000 sq. ft. open space between peers 32 andp -- iers -- piers 32 n 38. the essential design of the project was initiated by staff, with community and regulatory stakeholders and advisory committee. in 2008, staff requested authorization for consulting on a complete conceptual design, final design, and if appropriate, support during bidding construction. staff has done requests for proposals. after a competitive selection process, recommending a joint venture for the design engineering contract, which was authorized by the commission on december 9. -- december 9, 2008. the initial amount was not to exceed $1,539,000 with contingen

late today vice president joe biden said the white house was trying hard to address concerns raised by the catholic church. in other words, the white house knows it has a problem on its hands. >>> but here's how off the charts crazy this debate has gotten. republicans once accused candidate obama of being the acolyte of a christian minister, jeremiah wright. later he was accused of being a secret muslim. now republicans charge obama with attempting to destroy all religion. rick santorum said last night we're headed for the french revolution and the guillotine. you might say republicans are losing their heads on this issue. >>> how fringy have the republicans become? how wild has their party become? mr. guillotine himself may be the biggest threat to mitt romney. "the wall street journal" said today they don't trust him because he gives them so little reason to. >>> now president obama's first three years in office. >>> and finally, let me finish tonight with dual explosions. one against romney and the other against the birth control ruling, even among democrats themselves. we start wit

xi jinping also held talks with joe biden. he is on a five day visit to the united states. he was in two days in washington before heading to iowa and los angeles. >> now, the race for the presidential nomination. a pair of two poll's brings good news for rick santorum. a statistical dead heat has mitt romney in the lead by two percentage points. newt gingrich and ron paul trailing far behind. eight q research center poll shows that the other way. the margin of error included is a statistical tie. >> some disturbing statistics about voter registration in the country. a new survey finds 24 million motor registration records are inaccurate, out of date, or duplicate. that amounts to one in eight registrants. they found nearly 3 million people are registered in two or more states and nearly two million registered voters are dead. >> still to come, see how your trip to the mall paid off for retailers after the holiday spirit >> prices at the pump going way up again. we will see how much it is costing you to drive each month. >> cloudy skies and some passing showers. we will che