>> deputy city attorney john givener. you -- because the parties have indicated that they are, they are willing to make the changes, you can make the amendment to the resolution today. you would have to hold another hearing because these are -- these amendments would require renoticing of this resolution. so, if the committee says you could adopt the amendment and then continue these matters to a future meeting. >> okay. colleagues, any questions or further comments? okay. mr. rifkin, thank you. thanks very much. at this time i'd like to open up to public comment if there are any members -- i'm sorry about that. before public comment, mr. rose. legislative analyst report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, i would point out on page 5 of our report that the, that the proposed feeder agreement wherein part is paying the sfmta, mr. chairman, that is a totaly voluntary agreement so that bart does not have to enter into the agreement the feeder agreement or where the sfmta is getting a payment. it's totally voluntar

>> john givener deputy city attorney. your current titles are fine from a legal perspective, the proposed title is fine from the legal perspective. the one thing i would say that you shouldn't amend any portion of the sunshine enforcement by enforcement regulations tonight because that is not on your agenda. >> mr. st. croix, can you respond to dr. kur's question about 6a? >> dr. kerr is absolutely correct the bar is now one commissioner member can calendar a complaint. i'm not sure why this copy went out, but it's typographical or an old copy, but it's one that has already been voted on and in effect. >> thank you. any other discussion from the commissioners on this agenda item? is there a motion to approve the changes to the regulations for investigations and enforcement proceedings? >> is moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? hearing none the motion passes. the next item on the agenda is discussion and possible action on reports submitted by lisa herrick formerly of the san jose city attorney's off

. >> deputy city attorney john givener again. adopt the amendment today and then continue so that the next time this item is agendized, the amendments will appear in the notice. you can adopt the amendments today and [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, we can do that. we can adopt those amendments first. >> i'll move the amendments. >> okay. first of all, can we rescind the previous vote. colleagues, we can do that without opposition. i'd like to make those amendments [speaker not understood] subject to the legislative analyst. we can do that without opposition. and from the underlying items number 8 and 9, we can continue them to the call of the chair. so moved. all right, thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 10? >> item number 10, hearing on the annual review and adoption of the board of supervisors draft budget for fy's 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. >> thank you. and we have ms. cavilo from our board of supervisors office. give us one second. >> good afternoon, chair farrell, members of the budget and

. >> this is attorney john givener.it's possible the board would continue the hearing on february 5th and finally make a decision on the 129tion or later. i would recommend [speaker not understood]. * 12th >> fair enough. strike the date from the further resolve clause we'll do it subject to the approval of the board of supervisors on the moscone expansion district. and i have a second to that. we can do that without opposition. and i'd like to make a motion to add a similar clause on items 6 and 7 authorizing and allocating the certificates of participation for this project. subject to the approval of the full board of supervisors, whatever date that may be, of the moscone expansion district. and can we do that without opposition? so moved. thank you very much, everyone involved with that. appreciate your time. mr. clerk, can you please call items -- woops. >> i actually had a comment. >> sorry, excuse me. supervisor avalos. >> i didn't realize we had just approved the actual underlying ordinances or resolution. >> we

. >> i'm very pleased that john will be given the chance subject to confirmation to continue the work of a lifetime on behalf of our country. >> let me thank you on behalf of the committee for all that you have done. there is no one in the senate that has spent more time than you have on issues of imporps to our country. >> one say historians will judge his senate years much the same way some recognize centsen sena ted kennedy's impact. >> but that didn't stop the republicans from trying to turn the hearing into episode two, into why did they conspire to hide the truth from the american people? >> the world is a dangerous police when america is not leading. we had a hearing yesterday about libra libya but we didn't talk about the conditions that led to the consulate. >> i think this is important and trying to get to the truth in the matter of benghazi do you agree with hillary clinton, that that is yesterday's news and let's move on. >> if you are trying to get some day light between me and secretary clinton that is not going to happen here today. >> john mccain could not reserve the

now at the same time as a republican that's the way i'm going to show them john lee and again i don't know you completely given up he isn't even sure what you want to do what you have here and what he was going to have to come up with that it is very clear that is what are going to block what do you want them to do isn't one closing guantanamo has always been a symbolic gesture by the president it's never been that serious it's something he wanted to do with symbolism to show that he's repairing the hearts that the united states has caused the world but the truth is i think he's overstated the how much the united states has hurt the earth and also you know the reality is he just can't close i mean we've got a retired marine corps general. joseph hoar they wrote you know good moves morally and financially expensive symbol of detainee abuse will remain open while in the future congress are all too willing to undermine our deals in the names of fighting terror terrorism i mean these are military leaders saying this no i think defense is right that it i mean let's be honest here you probably can't get it close but

what is happening at the moment is that the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner has basically given his republican membership to choices, either to go ahead and vote on an amendment to the senate bill passed in those early hours, or to go for a straight what they call up and down vote which means members vote as they see fit. the feeling among democrats is that there are enough republicans and house to join with them to make sure it passes so that president obama can sign it into law. we are waiting to hear what kind of vote and if there will be a vote. they convened here this morning at about midday. that is now seven hours ago. i think what we are seeing as about seven hours of printing from republicans in the house. i am hearing that people are softening their stance again, giving up on the idea of amending the senate bill and going for a straight up or down vote. it remains to be seen whether it actually advances. >> the amount of political bickering is extraordinary. >> it is political bickering. we have had seven hours of that and the feeling is that it is dying down zero litt

now the house majority plays second fiddle to senate minority, and john boehner is given no credit.called cliff plan, that gets us over the cliff, then digs another cliff does not solve the problem, we need serious people to sit down and find ways to solve them. neil: maybe the three of us could broker a deal. thank you so very much. >> thank you. neil: lance the liar wants to spin there are tale, why don't you spin this. neil: better never than late lance armstrong go away. don't bother you make me want to throw up. i was one of the idiots who believed you and your denials

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now the house majority plays second fiddle to senate minority, and john boehner is given no credit.or, you as dire on the forecast? >> you need something like simpson-boes, a big plan, that so-called cliff plan, that gets us over the cliff, then digs another cliff does not solve the problem, we need serious people to sit down and find ways to solve them. neil: maybe the three of us could broker a deal. thank you so very much. >> thank you. neil: lance the liar wants to neil: lance the liar wants to spin officemax can help you drive supply costs... down... ...and down. just use your maxperks card and get a case of x-9 paper for only 1-cent after maxperks rewards. find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recommended gaviscon®. only gaviscon® forms a protective barrier that helps block stomach acid from splashing up- relieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®. neil: better never than late lance armstrong go away. dot bother you make me want to throw up. i was one of the idiots

as far as the new found religion, i've not given them props. johnccain before he was part of the d.r.e.a.m. act, he was part of it. timing is everything. now after they got their butt kicked they want go ahead and follow through what they started years and years ago. unfortunately the latino immigration is part of it. if you want to be an american, you're part of the game. >> listen to bobby are jindal. he's talking to his fellow republicans. >> we must not be part of the party who protects the well off so they can keep their toys. we've got stop being the stupid party. i'm serious. it's time for a new republican party that talks like adults. >> he's not the only one giving that sentiment. paul ryan gave a similar sentiment this morning on "meet the press." ana, is this what your party needs? tough love? >> yes. we need to not sugarcoat it, we need to learn the lessons of the last election. i think governor jindal is right. i think paul ryan is right. i was at the republican retreat ten days ago at the house members and i can tell you we heard a lot

. >> that would have given john boehner a lot of cover. he still could not marshal the support. now with two members of his leadership going against him, cantor and mccarthy, although paul ryan interestingly voted for it, what does that mean for the caucus tomorrow? >> it's interesting. some folks speculated perhaps john boehner might not get enough votes on the first ballot to become speaker. a lot of folks think he'll be reelected without any type of incident, but there's a coalition within the house republican conference that is ready to go against what they view to be the mainstream position, the compromising position in any capacity. what i think is going to be fascinating, andrea, look forward to the debt limit. if you're a rank and file guy and john boehner said, hey, i need you. you can go back and say, yeah, but eric cantor didn't vote what you needed him on, why do you need me? it's going to be interesting to see how it moves forward, and i think boehner needs to draw a hard line against president obama, because he needs to assert his leadership here in a big, powerful

and i'm very pleased that john will be given the chance, subject to confirmation, to continue the work of a lifetime on behalf of our country. thank you. >> thank you, madam secretary. senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm pleased to be here with senator warren and secretary clinton to introduce to speak, say a few words about my friend, senator kerry, to the committee. obviously, the nominee doesn't need to be introduced to the committee on which he has served for over a quarter of a century, and as its chairman for the last four years so i can dispense with the customary summary of the nominee's record of public service and qualifications for the office for which he has been nominated. they're well known to you and to all of our colleagues. but i would like to take a few moments to attest to the personal qualities that senator kerry would bring to the office of secretary of state, which i think are well suited to the position. he and i have been friends for quite a long time now. we have had our disagreements, which is unsurprising given our political differences. and is of

. >> john, isn't it time given the performance of people like eric cantor back in 2011 and mr.ccarthy and the group of young guns and what they did when speaker boehner was trying to negotiate a grand bargain with the president and they prevented him from reach an agreement and then they vote against the fiscal cliff. isn't it time for speaker boehner to confront these individuals himself? >> he did do that. he put some lesser known tea partiers in their place. he stripped them -- >> the last i heard eric cantor is still -- >> not eric cantor. the house is up for grabs. here is the good news. so for the last more than a decade, 15 years, the house of representatives on the republican side has been operating under something they call the hastert rule. that is named after former speaker denny hastert, and under the hastert rule, to bring a bill to the floor, the speaker needs to believe that he will get what's called a majority -- >> of the majority. >> -- of the majority. now, the fiscal cliff deal, they didn't have a majority of the majority. the hastert rule got shredded. >> w

john really a great person for the job, i think. >> in the reorganization director of national intelligence, the cia director seems to report to him technically given the very close relationship that we all know between john brennan and the president. does this really supplant and change that whole reorganized new structure, the bureaucracy that some have said didn't work anyway? >> right. as we all know or those of us that have lived in this know this relationship has always been a little bit touchy between the dni and the director of the cia first with leon panetta and then with david petraeus because of that relationship to the white house. i actually think this one will work pretty well. i think he will let john run the cia, and he will let john dive into some of these detailed intelligence questions. it can be a little bit hard when the director of the cia who reports has had relationships with the white house, but ultimately i think that relationship to the white house is so important to the president for having the cia i don't think there's any way around that, and i think both john and jim who know each other well have worked together a lot

but what amanda wrote was, "we were promised a cross between harold pinter "and john osborne; "what we were given was a cross between harold steptoe and sharon osbourne." i bet that went down well with the troops. she also had a good nose for dirt. she used to write an anonymous column called "gossip from the forest." this was her finest hour. "all is not well with one of oxford's dream couples. "we hear that the police were called to a domestic incident "involving two of our most eminent academics. "who, we wonder, will get custody of the spade?" the spade? as in archaeology? this is professor gregson and professor alderson? yeah. apparently amanda also said last night that she was working on something big. any idea what that might have been? no idea. but it would have been investigative journalism. also known as muckraking. five years ago your brother went to canada. yes. he says he was on the run. well, he's been on the run all his life. canada's a long way to run; he could have come here. he... he had some sort of breakdown. a nervous breakdown? are they still called that? or is it post-traum

he is the gift that keeps on giving, michael bloomberg is giving johns hopkins another $350 million, bloomberg has given more than a billion to the school since he garage waited in the mid 1960s. of the 350 million-dollar he designated $100 million to be earmarked for financial aid. >>> a hurricane sandy aid bill, the bill would send $50 million in relief bay to victims of the storm. the house is passed the legislation and president barack obama will sign it. the storm is being blamed for 140 deaths and billions of dollars in damage. time for a check of the forecast, back over to lynette. it's going to be critical today. we pay attention to what you see today. >>> the glaze of ice is going to be across the area, that's all you need is the glaze, icy conditions, hazardous, take it easy on the roadways, we can see what is going on, on the satellite and radar, snow in the blue ask pinks, talking about the wintery mix, as we look at freezing rain mixing in as well. plain rain down to the south, all this will turnover to rain as we head in to the afternoon time frame, this morning, is very important for your

over the last 40 years, bloomberg has given $1.1 billion to johns hopkins university. there you go. old pictures we dug up for you given to us by the college showed what the mayor looked like as a college student. this latest donation makes bloomberg the most generous liing donor to any education institution in the country according to "the new york times" and numbers provided by university officials. there he is back in college. >>> president obama talked about reducing the violence in football in an interview with the new republic. he also said, i'm a big football fan but have to tell you, if i had a son i'd have to think long and hard before i let him play football. the president will host nba champions, by the way, the miami heat this afternoon. he'll congratulate lebron james and team members on their 2012 season. since we're talking about parties, "snl" did a great spoof of the fun vice president joe biden is having after the inauguration. >> what are you going to do with nacho man joe biden comes for you? yeah! >> come on down to delaware. a place that knows how to party. as t

surgeons at johns hopkins have given the 26-year-old vet a double arm transplant.as only the 7th time such an operation has been performed here in the u.s. he has tweeted he can feel his new arms a little. more details will come today. >> kind of puts other problems in perspective when you see someone like that. >>> from an inspiring story to one that's not. atlanta police are on the atlanta for at least 15 people who followed a car into a foot locker and helped themselves to the hmerchandise. the car was abandoned, this is the second time in a week that a smash and grab heist was staged in that same area. >>> also from northern georgia, two men were arrested for stealing chicken wings. no small amount of wings either ranaldo jackson and dee wayne patterson are accused of stealing $65,000 worth of frozen tyson's chicken wings. that's about 26,000 pounds. the alleged heist took place on the same weekend at the nfl divisional playoffs, with warnings of an upcoming chicken wing shortage. >> my, my. >>> super bowl fans, we want to see your team spirit for the ravens an

john hopkins. $100 million is earmarked for financial aid for students in need. bloomberg has given more than $1 billion to the school since he graduated in the mid-1960s. >>> the hacked website of the u.s. sentencing commission is back up and running and the fbi is handling the case as a criminal investigation. the site was shut down for a couple hours yesterday. the hackers made it known it was pay back for the suicide of web activist aaron schwartz. he was facing federal computer fraud charges. >>> in egypt, at least 30 people were killed in clashes in. protesters were trying to storm a prison. they wanted to reach 21 people sentenced to death last week for their part in a deadly soccer riot last year. >>> moving to bangladesh a deadly factory fire killed seven, mostly women. a first floor exit was locked and there were no fire alarms. >>> two months ago, more than 100 people died in a similar clothing factory fire in beng ludash. >>> back in the u.s., gun control advocates are hoping a weekend protest in washington will bring some real changes. thousands of protesters marched on

. >> i'm very pleased that john will be given the chance, subject to confirmation, to continue the workati ativof a l. >> i would take office as secretary, proud that the senate is in my blood but equally proud that so, too, is foreign service. >> we don't often see that kind of emotion from john kerry, referring to his father, who was part of foreign service and took the family overseas when he was a young man. on tuesday will he they will vote on his confirmation, expected to move on with the confirmation easily. they want much more in those changes to filibuster rules. these are small steps but could have a very practical effect on what can and cannot get done in washington. savannah? >> everybody would be for getting things done in washington. thank you very much. >>> natalie morales has a check of the top news stories over at the news desk. good morning, natalie good morning, everyone. >>> pyongyang threatens to attack the south if they join in on a new round of sanctions. they are declaring it a declaration of war. >>> gut wrenching bug is being called the ferrari of stomach viruses

he's done a great job with what they've given him. john'ss. >> is the show as good with him? do you think? >> no. and not because of -- well, yeah, because of me. but what they did, piers is they got rid of -- they unloaded their anchor and they went adrift. i don't think you realize how important your anchor is until you don't have it. >> do you ever watch it? >> i watched it early on. i thought their first -- their pilot episode had one of the great television moments of all time with the ashes and the reveal of the guy behind the window. that was brilliant. the show should have ended there and said to be continued. but i don't know why a billionaire wourld want to buy a house with a kid and a guy and stay there. is he still living in my house? >> do you ever speak to him? >> i met him at the emmys. he was really cool. >> he's actually a cool guy. >> and john keeps winning emmy ps. angus, you know, had a little meltdown. >> let's watch a little angus meltdown. >> people see us and be like oh, i can be on a show like "two and a half men." y

. >> so what impact do you feel you can have on this congress given john boehner and the tea party couldn'tet anything done? >> politics in lining up votes and taking positions is all pressure. it's lobbying within our colleague, whipping them, so to speak. fortunately, minnesotaed people feel like the progressive caucus, that's why it's so big. our agend is all of the progressive issues, medicare and social security and make sure it's the most vulnerable people in this country are protected. we are also going to start. i am going to be involved in this. kind of a rural strategy because america, the rural areas of america have been forgotten. secretary vilsack said before committee, if you look at america, rural america has been in depression. many are fleeing the rural areas. there is nothing happening. nobody is investing in these communities. >> bill: the democratic party has forgotten? >> both parties have done it. those people are middle class, lower middle class. they are the democratic party: we haven't done a good job of listening and investing in them >> bill: you have work ahead o

in fact, speaker john boehner has just given him the job of drawing up a new budget that will completely ten years. and only through spending cuts and no new taxes whatsoever. to do this mr. ryan would have to cut every government operation by one-sixth or if he choose not

in fact, speaker john boehner has just given him the job of drawing up a new budget that will completely erase the federal deficit in just ten years. and only through spending cuts and no new taxes whatsoever. to do this mr. ryan would have to cut every government operation by one-sixth or if he choose not to touch entitlements or defense, he would have to cut every government operation by almost 40%. this country would be plunged into a recession. and that's the ryan budget. thanks so much for watching. chris matthews and "hardball" is next. >>> mad house. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this eruption of self-doubt and humiliation in the republican party. suddenly after months of denial, you hear the growling and the gnashing of teeth. it's if as if we're hearing the cries from hell. peggy noonan says the grand old party is doomed if it keeps knocking hillary and refusing to recognize that excuse me for disrupting your illusion, president obama is the president and republicans in the house that once could still see t

. >> reporter: john wiseman says earlier awards this season have given some sag nominees momentum. >>performances were great in so many of these movies. anne hathaway in "les mis." daniel day lewis in "lincoln." >> reporter: but the night's prize of all cast in a motion picture is still a horse race. >> this is what i do. >> we have terrific movies nominated including "lincoln" "argo" and any one of those casts are deserving of victories. it it is what everyone is talking about right now. >> reporter: when they're not talking about tv dramas. >> the flavor of the month or the year right now is "homeland." it has been winning everything in sight. but not in the way "boardwalk empire" is. >> reporter: as for the comedy -- >> "girls" is not nominated at the sag. that takes away one potential rival from "modern family." >> reporter: seen as the frontrunner for its third straight win. nischelle turner, cnn, hollywood. >> and don't you dare miss our coverage live from the red carpet. the screen actor guild award tonight at 6:30 eastern right here on cnn. >>> actor burt reynolds is battling

the week of obama's inauguration. >> john: january '09 was the week that o'reilly and hannity were givencontract to be a pundit. now here we are in january of '13, obama's re-elected easily, celebrating sort of basking in the glow of his second inauguration. and the same week, sarah palin and fox break up after reportedly fox offered her next to nothing to stay and she decided to leave. 2010, it looked like beck and palin and fox with the tea party, they really were going to sort of change the face of american politics. >> john: they did. >> they did temporarily. >> john: they marginalized the whole brand. >> fast forward three years. beck is gone. obama wins easily and now palin's gone. the whole thing sort of imploded as it had to because it was so reckless and it was so sort of radically hateful. you know, beck with his conspiracies and palin about her nonstop sense of victimization and things like that. so it's worth noting this is soft the end of an era. fox itself, still very much lost to conspiracies. still very, very much loss in a sense of self-pity particularly with obama's ina

johns hopkins university. $100 million going to go to scholarships for students in need. $250 million will go to several different university programs. bloomberg had given johns hopkins university $1 billion since he graduated from there back in 1964. the new york mayor says he doesn't know of any other institution that can make a bigger difference in lives around the world through its groundbreaking research. >>> we're coming up on 6:37 sunday morning. some of you may be awake this early because someone next to you is snoring in bed. >> listen up, don't think it's just annoying. why snoring may be a sign of a serious health condition. >>> also ahead, the game stopper that forced them to turn off the lights at a basketball game this welcome back. next week immigration becomes the main focus of the obama administration. >> changing tactics but not necessarily where it stands on policies. meet the press moderator david gregory joins us to talk a little politics. good morning, david. we want to start with immigration. this seems like second term, president obama is wasting no time to push his message when it comes to reform. are you surprised how fast thes

. ♪ john: technology has made us richer, given us more choices, but what is next? thing. last year robot clled once and -- watson crushed him in competition in the quiz show. okay. a computer can win in jeopardy. economics professor jim miller says will will come next is much more interesting. >> computers are getting smarter and smarter and eventually there will be able to do everything we can. john: you don't know that. we have special skills. >> readjust machines, and we are machines, our brains run on me. we know it's possible to build machines much smarter than our brains. john: computer power keeps doubling. >> the amount of computer power keeps doubling. twenty doublings is about a million fold increase. we have a computer as fast as a human brain from and 20 years will be a million times faster and we'd all be obsolete. john: the first that maybe the computers will make their own computers. >> if we had computer smarter than people making computers there's water in them and as they get smarter and better making smarter things we can have an explosion and go

♪ john: technology has made us richer, given us more choices, but what is next?ce and -- watson crushed him in competition in the quiz show. okay. a computer can win in jeopardy. economics professor jim miller says will will come next is much more interesting. >> computers are getting smarter and smarter and eventually there will be able to do everything we can. john: you don't know that. we have special skills. >> readjust machines, and we are machines, our brains run on me. we know it's possible to build machines much smarter than our brains. john: computer power keeps doubling. >> the amount of computer power keeps doubling. twenty doublings is about a million fold increase. we have a computer as fast as a human brain frm and 20 years will be a million times faster and we'd all be obsolete. john: the first that maybe the computers will make their own computers. >> if we had computer smarter than people making computers there's water in them and as they get smarter and better making smarter things we can have an explosion and go from computers being a bit smart