and john harris, thanks to everyone for being o on "the stream" . if you work hard and you dedicate yourself in sport you'll play in college. if you play in college you have a good chance to go pro. do student athletes. >> first, thanks for having me. i think student-athletes hear it. they hear consistently that only a small fraction make it to the next level. but many in that room were only one of ten student-athletes to make it to play college. i think a lot of student-athletes, they always beat the odds, they don't want to hear it. they say i'll beat the odds and i'll become pro. >> you know, you played in the uc system presumably in two of the best basketball schools there. you've been in the pressure cooker, how well are universities doing communicating the reality to student-athletes that there is a very good chance that they're going to be in that 99% that has to rely on the college degree and not their collectability. >> thank you for having me. this is quite an honor, i've been looking forward to this. i would say that they're doing a hapha

senate democrats were so mad about what christie did to take john harris off the supreme court when he was up for renomination that they would not let anyone through. it's been a big political crisis in new jersey. senate democrats rejected every one of those christie nominees. one after the other. then when another of the justices on the supreme court, a republican came up for renomination just like john harris had, and the senate democrats signaled that they were going to give her a whale of a time at her renomination hearing, chris christie just flipped out. he had enough. he pulled that justice off the supreme court. rather than submit her to renomination before the senate democrats. look at the headline. look from the "star ledger." "supreme stunner. christie declines to nominate justice hoens for a lifetime tenure." she was a republican judge already on the bench. chris christie pulled her off the bench for only the second time ever in new jersey history, he did that to a judge. the reason he said he did it in her case is not because of any beef with her. quite the contrary. it's

john harris' mixed music for the show for 22 years. >> everybody knows what to do.t's very complicated and demanding, there isn't a lot of margin for error. >> reporter: three-time grammy host ll cool j says the artists make it look easy because of what's happening behind the scenes. >> they're unsung heroes that are like diving to give katy perry a cough drop, you know? like diving to -- elton john needs tea!! there's a lot going on back stage. >> reporter: ultimately, it's what you don't see at the grammys that makes the show pitch perfect. teri okita for cbs news, los angeles. >> and kpix 5 is your home for the grammy awards this weekend. you can watch the show on sunday night right here on kpix 5 followed by a special edition of the news at 11:00. >>> autopsy results are providing more insight into the accidental shooting death of a bart police sergeant. why experts say a ballistic vest failed to save his life. >> and a texas man now in a legal battle with a hospital to take his pregnant brain-dead wife off life support. why the hospital is refusing to do that.

john harris, good morning. we have a lot to look forward to. charlie crist. >> this is a race that will be looked at not just in florida, but nationally as a direction of where the country is headed as we look ahead to 2016. it's going to shine a light on the war republican the republican party. remember the democrat used to be an establishment republican and then left the party and was thrown out however you want to look at it. he is trying to come back against rick scott who is a formidable opponent because he has a ton of money, but vulnerable. approval ratings that have been low throughout his term. florida is going to be i think ground zero not just in 2016, but 2014. >> what's the public sentiment towards charlie crist. he was an independent by the way and a democrat. how are people feeling about him these days? >> a lot of people liked him personally and when he started to do this tap dance, it hurt his reputation nationally among politico elites and left him without home in florida. a big part of his challenge is to reintroduce himself

john, harry reid came out both barrels blazing this morning. if anybody was talking about a new attitude in congress, i didn't really see that. >> had one target that was the republicans in congress, must have said it five different times. he had his talking points ready. 2014 is not going to be a happy year. why? let's look at the senate, let's just look at elections in the senate. the republicans need to take six seats to take harry reid's job away from him. in seven of the seats that democrats are in danger they are in states where mitt romney won the election. we've seen over the last 20 years correlation between volters in a state vote for republican president they're likely toe vote for republican senator. democrats have a tough year with the elections so harry reid begins a tough election year starting with tough words about republicans. >> schieffer: does the roll out of obamacare make it tougher for these democrats? i asked harry reid the question, he didn't really answer it. are they going to be run as proud sponsors of obamacare or r

arthur schlesinger despised harry truman. john kenneth galbraith despised harry truman. they wanted him off the ticket in 1948. they hope to induce eisenhower to run even though they had no idea whatsoever what eisenhower represented that he was in truman. truman was too much of a normal guy. but what they liked about kennedy now think about it, kennedy's father joe kennedy had not been a very pleasant guy during world war ii. robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy so what was so appealing about this? willows appealing about this guy was he was not ordinary. he came out of the middle classes and represented something of elevating american tastes. the big change is the addition of public-sector unionism. liberalism as we once knew it as an electoral force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovernism and then reagan's, reagan and the republicans three electoral victories but liberalism reconstructs itself in the 1990s when labor reconstructs itself around public-sector unionism. that is why i say what happened in newark as an expression of this trend. andy stern the guy who

. >> called it the i guess i have to do everything by myself speech and john harris at politico saying it was intended -- the speech was intended to serve unmistakable notice that obama tends to be the dominant figure in american public life as long as he's in the job, he's not going to fade into irrelevancy and congress doesn't have the power to render him irrelevant. they've been trying via obstruction since day one or before day one. and we're inching toward lame duckness, and this guy's like, hey, i want to get something done and i'm going to do that. >> i think it's a recognition of the fact that the republicans in congress aren't going to work with him except when they have to. they have to raise the debt limit, they'll do that. other key areas, it's likely he's not going to get his way through congress. looking for these opportunities to act alone. we're seeing that with both events today. he went and talked about his desire for a minimum wage increase which he can't get from congress, but he can by executive action change the way that workers for federal contractors are paid. h

our republican strategist is here, john harris and republican consultant, margaret hoover.nd best looking. that's how it works on television. >> sorry guys. >> we talked about this earlier this morning. i saw the governor high on responsibility, arguably low on accountability to himself. he blamed everybody else. he fired someone else. he didn't say it's on me really. does it matter? >> did we watch the same press conference? >> i watched every second of it. >> he said the buck stops with me i'm responsible. this is my fault, i take responsibility for it. isn't that plausible -- you don't think it's plausible. >> it's unusual but certainly plausible. >> it's certainly plausible. as everybody has said he gave himself no wiggle room. if he knew we'll find out and then he'll have a very different future. >> while he left himself no wiggle room and some say he knows he has done nothing wrong and he'll be fine. it was said earlier it doesn't matter what he says from this point, that the information will be dripped out in excruciating detailed fashion over the next year and that

john harris is the editor-in-chief of politico and author of the historical book "the survivor, billhe white house." a cnn commentator at the blade. and brian. welcome to all of you. >> good morning. >> so, brian this, is a lengthy dense article and the cover is just so bizarre. it kind of takes away from the gravity of the content, doesn't it? >> that was a good one. well this cover leaked yesterday and the article came online today. i think that was good timing because people can react to the cover. now today they can read the article which makes some important points about the challenges that hillary clinton would face if she runs for president about all the people that are in her orbit. i think one of john's colleagues at politico made a good point yesterday. here's the "new york times" magazine. i used to work at the "times". they are trying to be social media friendly. trying to be buzzy. trying to be shareable and hey they succeed with this cover. >> did they, will? >> well, yeah. i guess. but how many women do you know want to be analogized 0 a pto a planet and being describe

google glasses will be available, and you combine these with this app, could i just look over at john or harryr over here and i could just pull it up and maybe on a little window? >> unbelievable. the technology we have. it's already present but isn't being marketed. it's unbelievable. invasion of privacy? not really. it's an issue that rubs us all the wrong way. what do you mean the, no privacy? that our addresses and pictures and everything we have posted is now in public -- >> now whatever information is out there all public. >> the same as to speak it. >> you can opt out of this. you can go to the web site of this company -- but this won't be the only one and you won't be able to opt out. the opt out is, don't have a social profile. that's how you can avoid this. >> exactly. but what about your friends? maybe you don't have social profile but they have friendses because they're sharing between them. >> ask they're tagging you. >> exactly. so never going to be you'll have complete privacy. >> they'd be able to pull up your twitter feed, instagram, pin interest board. >> any video, any pictu

john harris, politico. great sweater.luck on the roads. >> i hope you guys shovel out. >> willie, breaking news from the tweet feed. the same ounce in new york city, $120. they are marking it up in colorado. >> i would expect new york would be high end just based on regional pricing. >> you got to think about quality, i'm told and availability. >> supply and demand. >> paying to get it. >> supply and demand. i don't get it. i don't get the legalization thing. seriously. it makes you dumb. pot just makes you dumb. i hung around a lot of guys that smokd a lot of dumb. >> thank you for saying that. >> never once did i say hey man that looks like something i want to do. never smoked it. everybody that ever did just looked dumb as hell. and i'm sitting there okay wait a second i'm challenged enough as it is, why do i want to get a hammer and hit myself in the head and make my eyes for success even longer. >> the battle is, look. here's why you don't do it. because you want to try to do well in life and it's an impediment to do

that i have, i mean colleagues such as phil roe from the republican party, my mentor from johns hopkins eddie harris, rand paul, all of these guys. i cannot tell you how disappointed i am in trying to seek some sense and sensibility to fixing this problem. i think no one wants to touch the insurance companies. no one wants to touch the legislative issues. no one wants to touch toward. no one wants to touch the other issues. i'm curious to know could you be my intermediary? >> washington needs a therapist. are you one? >> we have a paid therapist down here. >> a prayer partner with all eyes closed. so the problem with health care reform that we ended up getting is that it didn't bend the cost curve and it didn't handle a lot of the issues we were talking about. there was a task on tort reform because they couldn't get enough votes. big pharma got a cut out. the big hospitals got it cut out there was really no addressing it. i think one of the top issues is the fact that yes we spend more money per patient than any country in the world. we do. this is not an issue of money. this is an issue of having

john henline said, harris, it seems like the only people mad at snowden are the ones that got caught so huge, john. >> it is huge. and the fight we saw between senator paul and congressman king, and congressman king is thinking of running for the republican nomination for the president, he is from the establishment of the gop and rand paul from the libertarian and that is emblematic of what is going on over snowden inside of the conservative movement. half of the conservatives think he is a whistleblower and the other half think he is a criminal. >> and i've heard this before, this wasn't be a campaign issue that people run on or don't run on. but when you talk about demographics and trying to get people to goo your way -- to go your way, if this gets people to open their eyes, do republicans have an opportunity now? >> they do have an opportunity. the real question is how do you tie in the concern that pat spoke of, about edward snowden with young people, to the larger sense of weakness around the world to craft a positive view of the u.s. role and what the appropriate security stat

harris. >> you know, john, instead of uniting the people trusted to fix these things, i have heard you say ivided than ever. this is part of the problem, why people are so unhappy. >> yeah, harris, you could put that graph back up for a second. if you look to the left of it, it dips down. that little dip on the left, that's right after 9/11 when the country was united behind the government, which happened to be president george w. bush, republican house and senate. they had a chance to unite the country and do something together to make the country better. republican and democrat, they didn't do it. we have a steady climb through the whole bush years to 2008 when president obama, a change, the first black american to be elected president, out of the box, different. so it is spoken about unity and not dividing the country. he gets in. and there's hope in the country that he could unite us. look at that thing. it keeps going up. today, we're more divided and more ticked off against the government, and both parties than we have ever been. >> i would ask, really, did anybody think one man could

. >> look, there's no question that harry reid, just like john boehner, will not bring votes to the floor, bills to the floor unless they have the votes. did you hear what the republicans passed this week? >> the farm bill. >> no. yeah, they passed that, but also the abortion bill. is that a priority to the american people? why not pass job training and things that help grow the economy and get people back to work. >> let me stay on harry reid for a second. >> your favorite democrat. >> well, just because the point that i think you've just been making, harry reid announced he's going to block the president's request for fast track negotiating ability, and so not only do you have the democrats who are running for re-election running from the president, you have the senate majority leader saying you ain't going to get this. isn't that a further decay of the presidency? >> i think senator reid has been a stalwart champion of the president's agenda and also has been a very effective leader on behalf of the democrats. i would say the democrats can also look at a bunch of issue, immigration ref

does that make harry reid and john boehner the quarterbacks?ldn't obama with the quarterback of the democrats? my mother and my grandmother are very old fashioned. i think we both are clean freaks. i used to scrub the floor on my knees. [ daughter ] i've mastered the art of foot cleaning. oh, boy. oh, boy. oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. it gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wetjet. you guys should try this. it's so easy. oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washed this floor. if i didn't see it i wouldn't believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good to see you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah. [ screaming ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the bold, all-new nissan rogue with intuitive all-wheel drive. because winter needs a hero. ♪ >>> welcome back. the house republican retreat this week, and next webbing's senate democrats retreat are highlighting fault lines. for republicans, the issue is immigration. for de

." >> picturing harry reid and john boehner behind closed doors, dancing is just wrong. >> you don'tealth care debate you had a guy come on tv who was a speed reader. >> he can read at 10,000 times the normal rate. he should have been done with this thing. he is not. but he came through it saying, wait a minute. there are a lot of assumptions here that don't add up. he was the first to say it. >> what story got you the biggest reaction? >> the 2008 financial melt down. that tested our mettle as an organization. we rose to the occasion. we were going after rescues and bailouts that didn't make sense. it proved to people that we were neither red nor blue. just green. following green. >> do you remember the day you were in a business suit on a treadmill? >> yes. >> what was going on there? >> my normal workout. my point then with the workout was to show built into the budget deals, they are all >>> that would be like going to a gym and telling a trainer i don't want to push myself too much in the beginning. can you give me lighter weights? i can work up to something maybe in ten years i

. >> picture harry reid and john boehner dancing behind closed door is the just wrong. >> you don't wantalth care debate, you had a guy come on t. >> you don't want to go there. >> during the health care debate, you had a guy come on t. >> you don't want to go there. >> during the health care debate, you had a guy come on t. >> you don't want to go there. >> during the health care debate, you had a guy come on tv who was a speed reader. >> she have been done with this thing, and he is now. but he came through it he saying wait a minute, there are a lot of assumptions here that don't add up. and he was the first -- >> what story has gotten you the biggest reaction? >> the the whole 2008 financial m meltdown. but we rose to the occasion because we were going after rescues and bailouts that didn't seem to make sense. i think it proves to people that we were neither red nor blue, just green, following green. ♪ >> dourp the day you were in a business suit on a treadmill? >> yes. it was my normal workout. but my point then with the workout was to show built in to the budget deals, they're all

harry reid. and he didn't win by playing nice. >> jeff: john dickerson in our washington bureau, thank you. >> well, to the middle east appear to be unraveling. in iraq the government is losing significant ground to al qaeda militants. today fighting in anbar province killed 22 iraqi soldiers and 12 civilians. this as syria's civil war is spilling into lebanon. here's allen pizzey. >> reporter: ongoing chaos in the middle east is creating what horrors and fanatics love, a power vacuum. al qaeda affiliated gunmen have taken over the streets of fallujah, a resurgence that the civil war that the u.s. invasion of iraq sparked off. in what now looks like a wasted effort, more than 100 u.s. marines lost their lives in fallujah in 2004 in a fight to drive the militants out and hand control to the shiites who now run iraq. today the u.s. has no leverage other than backing the iraqi government. secretary of state john kerry mired in the increasingly problematic israeli-palestinian peace deal offered the iraqis moral support. >> we're not contemplating putting boots on the ground. in their fight but we're go

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he's not waiting for john boehner or harry reid or anybody else to act.oing to use my pen and i'm determined to get things done to help the american people, who sent him to washington to get things done. >> margaret, that's a good point, though. because if he doesn't get anything done, then his opposition will say oh look, that president got nothing done. but then if he tries to get it done by using executive order, then he's accused -- >> both sides decry when executive order is issued. the republicans always say oh, executive order. he's going around the congress, it's unconstitutional. the democrats said that about george w. bush. we both know it's a tool the presidents have, they use executive orders to their power. i'm not decrying that. what we haven't seen from president obama is a successful strategy to work with congress at all. you know, his own press secretary called last year the lost year. this is a year he came out the high water mark of his influence, re-elected president, doubled down wanting to go for guns and couldn't get gun control, wh

john boehner. senate majority leader harry reid was quick to say no deal. >> we have never offset emergency spendingthis foolishness, we have people that are desperate. >> reporter: the obama administration is gearing up for an all out campaign for the benefits impacting the long term unemployed as part of the president's pledge to fight income in equality. >> we as a country have never, never over the last half century have we ever cut off emergency unemployment benefits when long term employment has been this high. >> reporter: this week the president will host unemployed americans at the white house. democrats already eyeing the upcoming mid-term elections see an attractive contrast with republicans. >> they are going to show themselves so far out of the mainstream. >> reporter: the president and democrats have their own worries namely obamacare. just how the program's newly insured like their coverage in the coming weeks. >> it's something which i think the american people are rejecting in large numbers. i think it's going to hurt the president and hurt the country and a lot of families. >> repo

actor harry belafonte will be the keynote speaker. they will also honor john lewis -- reverend al-shabaab an reverend out sharpton. taped a video message to the fraternity. >> i wish i could give them better weather for their gala. i think it is going to be rather wet on saturday, pretty rainy. >> at least the temperature is going up. >> yes, indeed, saturday, nearly 60 degrees. that will be certainly very welcome. this afternoon, temperatures are still chilly, but it looks so beautiful. i cannot get enough of this camera. this from our weatherbug camera does -- that is on top of our studio. it really just looks so beautiful with all of that ice, but it does take a wild for those water services to freeze. it is up 37 degrees now at reagan national. we do have a few high, thin clouds and a low brees but still at reagan national, it brings our windchill down to 32 degrees. 32, frederick and hagerstown. 36, manassas. 35, lexington park. and temperatures will climb a few degrees, some spots finally getting that 40 degree mark what will certainly be welcome. our av

democrat harry reid is worth over $4 million. speaker of the house republican john boehner has about half a million less than that. still, they all get salaries a regular member of congress gets $174,000 a year from the taxpayers or about four times as much as an average american earns in the same period of time, and how do they invest all their wealth? center for responsive politics found that some of the top stock picks include general electric, wells fargo and microsoft just to name a few. as a general principle they like investing in real estate, in big oil, in securities, in big banks. in fact, investing in many of the businesses that they're so often called on to investigate and regulate for the rest of us. wolf. >> tom foreman, thanks. that's it for me. thanks for watching. "earn burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> next, breaking news. poison water. >> do not drink it. do not cook with it. do not wash clothes in it. do not take a bath in it. >> hundreds of thousands of americans warned not to drink their water. the situation getting more dire by the hou

. >> i'm sure harry reid meant no offense to you or your colleagues, but you saw the numbers in johnoehner's house, not a lot of bills get passed. record-breaking lows last year. what will happen? >> well, i think the real critical factor in the house, ari, is going to be whether or not we come up with a way to come up with that $6 billion. whether it's through eliminating tax loopholes or finding revenue somewhere else. i think if we're able to do that, we'll get plenty of republican votes for a bill. i don't think speaker boehner will have any problem bringing it to the floor. >> you're talking about offsets, something the republicans have gotten really good at getting everyone to constantly feel they need an offset for relatively small numbers. what about going after carried interest, which is what makes hedge fund managers pay so much less in taxes than the secretaries? >> yeah, well, i think you'd find massive support among democrats and virtually no support among republicans. even eliminating the oil subsidy, that's $4 billion a year and that's something the oil companies say t

harris. top headlines. >> let us begin with john kerry. middle east to take another shot at getting the israelis and middle east to work out a agreement. in russia, two suicide bombings have the president calling for more security before next month's winter olympics. more than 30 people killed last week in the attacks. russia has deployed more than 30,000 around the site. the northeast getting ready for a snowstorm. airlines have canceled almost 1000 flights. keep snow is expected to falling in chicago and the midwest. those are your top headlines. best snow gear? canada goose? >> a big puffy down jacket. patagonia jacket. it is great. >> are you going to break out are aontclair >> strong guy. you do not need that. >> none of us need any of this. one week without break below zero. no canceling classes. just let the lumber jacket on. >> bill harris with us from paypal. seriously, the storm, take care. a lot of cancellations. all of you worldwide, check your air pain -- airplane flights. probably some challenges. some snow up top as well. ha

harry reid and president obama. >> jon: i don't remember it that way. there is just one thing about that. >> senator johny shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of the country. >> we shut the government down. >> we will do what we have to do, shutdown the government if we have. >> tom: the government has to shut down. >> i say shut it down. >> jon: looks like we got ourselves one of those he said, actual videotape recordlings of the events fete said disagreements. i guess we'll never know the truth. you can learn more about what happened at ted's reimagining of cruz your own adventure from the northern states is and the confi did. that's where the prom nebt representatives representatives are at what about the civil servants at the state department. >> it's a privilege to introduce george tsunis the nominee for the ambassador to norway. he is a perfect candidate for ambassador. >> jon: good for him. i sure people laughed at him when he majored in norwegian political science and minored in fjords. who is laughing now? >> have you been to norway? >> no. >> jon: been to

article v, the state convention process, it bypasses obama, harry reid, john boehner, the bureaucracy, and somebody might say how is it? if they don't comply with the constitution today, obama is an example, what makes you think they will comply with these amendments? that is the brilliance of the process. whether they comply or not the states will decide what the states comply with. if these systems stage overturned a federal statute and obama wants to implement a federal statute he is violating the constitution and the state's needs not comply. if you are going to have a president or a congress that is so lawless that they blatantly violate something of that sort, no reason the states have to adhere to what the president or the congress for doing. we are making the constitutional argument and the others are not. hopefully my hope is more people will talk about this process and in order to learn about it be compelled to support it. >> host: from "ameritopia: the unmaking of america," you quote whitaker chambers talking about the new deal that fdr. it was not a revolution of violence.

john core non went to harry reid and said we have 17 senators not in town nou from the vortex and travelelay until this morning 10:30 a.m. that's when it's expected to happen. our cnn vote counters say democrats may be one vote shy of this. if it fails, what you'll see happen at 11:40 a.m. at the white house, the president will make another pitch to pass it. the democrats see a winning issue for them heading into the midterm campaigns. so expect the president to come out swinging if this vote fails in the senate in a couple of hours from now. >> all right jim, thanks so much for that. let's at other headlines. beginning with developments in iraq. joe biden calling the prime minister to voice support for the al qaeda-linked militants, the white house saying it's speeding up deliveries to iraq to help the effort. >>> we have learned the prosecutors are trying to reach a plea deal with the indian diplomat who's arrest led to outcry overseas. the lawyer has asked for an extension before prosecutors receive the indictment. the reports she was strip searched on charges she fraudulently obtaine

harry reid worth over $4 million. speaker of the house republican john boehner has about a half million less than that. all get salaries for a regular member of congress that's $174,000 taxpayer dollars every year or four times as much as an average american would make in the same period of time. how do they invest their wealth. center for response found the top stock picks for members of congress include general electric, wells fargo and microsoft to name a few. as a general principle they like to invest in real estate and big oil and credit card companies and big banks and securities. indeed, in many of the businesses they are often called upon to investigate and regulate for the rest of us. fredricka. >> thanks so much, tom foreman. >>> the biggest game of the year also comes with the biggest price tag. how much people are paying to get to the super bowl. next. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement, standard with our auto policies. so call liberty mutual at... today. and if you switch, you could save up to

john dimaio. a case called harris versus shown secretariy. let's look what it says.an be construed as a formal claim must be resolved in the veterans favor. >> what does that mean? >> under the law, the benefit of the doubt must be given to the veteran claimant. under the law, it is decidedly and by case law and statute pro claimant. meaning that as soon as the veteran puts that piece of paper in and says, i am disabled, the benefits if they are accorded, run from that day. not from this scheme by which brain damaged veterans have to go to a computer to insure that it runs from the date of submission. >> that's what you brought to us yesterday was the fact that the administration has decided that the way they've done it for many, many years was sometimes it will be informal, but somebody who is looking for benefits, just goes up to the c.o. and says, can i get some benefits? and it started then. now they got to fill out a big form. >> in terms of the benefit, 685,000 people, veterans are waiting for disability benefits to be accorded. 60% of them are more than 60 day

. >> john alex, dawain, zach marks, edward and i apologize if i'm my pronouncing your name. next speaker, please. >> hello everyone, i'm crystal harris and i'm a california resident. i've worked for a company, a bicycle company in san francisco for many year and i like to share a story that happened outside of san francisco but i truly believe in san francisco as being an [inaudible] type city. if you do have zero fatalities, you will spread a social movement. my story is that. i was involved in a collision where i was hit broad side in a bike lane in a crosswalk. i had stopped at the stop sign and the driver didn't stop at his stop sign. i sustained a severe brain injury and a cone fractured skull and a fractured vertebrae. and i still have seizures. i feel i was doing three important things in my life when i was hit. i was getting my master degree in mental health counseling and i was also learning to teach yoga as well as many other things, working four hours a week as a university counselor. all of those things stop when you're hit by a car and i have faith in the city of san francisco and definitely, definitely having zero fatal

harry reid. not the left-wing democrats. >> it's not even john boehner. either side. >> dan rostenkowski -- in other words there, was such a thing as a moderate democrat who was willing to do business. where are they today? >> they're afraid. >> way to the left it seems. >> daily kos attacked today the 15 democratic senators who've signed on to a new iran sanctions bill which is absolutely necessary. what richard's really referral to is occurring on the left, not on the right. and in fact when the new mayor of new york drives off the highway, goes 15 miles out of his way to run over the right wing which doesn't exist in this city as far as i can tell, that is indicative of -- we got the -- why the president insists on that rhetoric, why richard brings it up, the tea party are just ordinary americans oppressed by a sense that the government is imposing on them -- >> this is a great point follow-up. diblassio and obama, what's the linkage? what's it mean for democratic party politics today, diblassio and obama? >> it means former secretary of state clinton

. >> john alex, dawain, zach marks, edward and i apologize if i'm my pronouncing your name. next speaker, please. >> hello everyone, i'm crystal harris and i'm a california resident. i've worked for a company, a bicycle company in san francisco for many year and i like to share a story that happened outside of san francisco but i truly believe in san francisco as being an [inaudible] type city. if you do have zero fatalities, you will spread a social movement. my story is that. i was involved in a collision where i was hit broad side in a bike lane in a crosswalk.

john from atlanta. caller: how are you doing? they should call the pinocchio awards. nancy and harry sing a song. it may be -- i think the mentor could do the carlos sr. and jr. performance and that should be transparent. thank you. guest: umm -- jokey and sarcastic, i guess. i think he was referring to the nancy pelosi and harry reid. if they all got on stage together, something i would watch. caller: hi. yes. i do not care -- the woman called and said barack obama is half white. maybe she needs to go down to the senate floor and let them know that. they fight this man on anything he has to do. for all the good he has done, does he get credit for any of those things? no. but for any new thing, social security, some moment in cincinnati, barack obama. they are going to fault him and are not going to work with him unless he signs his executive order. those congressmen that are collecting funds on that, they should not be allowed to. is serving in the congress. they want to cut from food stands and that is a crying shame. and i feel for our president. any time a white man takes the oval office, i t

john: they cannot win the spinet they are the minority. a strong voice for call senator manchin but look that they tend to die on harry reid dusk or this is the lowe's powerful man on the planet has targeted their industry about coal pruction in this term is far more targeted and we're seeing a real loss of the market to put people lot of work. john: also the sierra ub said outdated ambac word dirty technology. >> thais what the anti- coal actists say. your previous guest talks about the importance of renewablenergy but for every gigawatt to you in the fossil fuel to backt up because when the open-ended does not flow you need reliable electricity. john: he is so obvious as talk to somebody who gets dirty. what has happened where you live? to the pple of losing jobs , the cars, homes, west virginia is taking a beating john: maybe it is good because of black lung diseases and people like you come to harm. >> the technology has come a long way ahead is think good side of our industry. >> con theater listings and i knew this kentucky, of west virginia, iay twice as much. >> it is the cheapest of fossil fuel we can produce it cheap isn't safe

but you know what, harris, the job of the defense secretary is to make policy, lead the country, and do what is right, reasonable, and responsible. there's an element of griping here, johnutely right. this does degrade in a certain sense, our party system, our political system, but ultimately, we have to take away something positive, which is you can be bipartisan, you can put the country first, and right now, what's going on doesn't do either. >> james on twitter says gates released the book to save soldiers from a commander in chief who does not care about the military. i served 20 years. again, i speak to the morale of those who have served the country and whether or not they want to know, and this information is really about them in some instances. >> i always think you have to weigh these people in office have to weigh between what their obligations and responsibilities, as doug said, and what their obligations are. sometimes whether when it's gone too far, to leave on principle. no one leaves government because no one leaves politics on principle. everybody is in this game. the country believes it, they're in it to feather their own nest. gates wants to write a bo

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