john smith, are you here? and then john smith would come and be told what the prosecutor was offering and people had called and not heard back. they didn't get any attention to the individual circumstances of their cases. instead, they were called before the judge and another attorney who even left about the case would stand there almost like a piece of cardboard and the people would plead guilty. now it was incredibly obvious in court that day that people had no idea what was happening to them. people started to cry in the middle of pleading guilty. wait, i'm pleading guilty. i didn't realize i had agreed to go to jail. it was really a mess mess . what i really learned later is that robert was a croobt defender and he had a -- contract defender and he had a full private practice representing people who paid him money and he had earned a sum of money from the county and had to represent as many people as the prosecutor was going to charge and during the two-year period, he had represented twice the number of p

my name is john smith. i am outside counsel for waste management. i have probably negotiated or developed 50 or more franchise agreements. i urge the commission to continue its steady -- study. the fee is paid under the contracts are multiple and different. what may be 10.9% is duplicated elsewhere in other fees that other jurisdictions pay in addition to the franchise fee. livermore has an impact fee, plus an in ministry fee that is ongoing. some of these are collected at the transfer stations. it is also to the benefit of the contract entities. others are collected at the landfill or are paid back or to the benefit of the contract in agency. i urge additional study be done if you want to do it apples to apples comparison. the one difference in all jurisdictions highlighted in san francisco is that each is done in with a contract with specific obligations. each has the final approval through the city or county. it is always the elected officials. in this case, it is only the city and county of san francisco where the officials do not have the same.

my name is john smith. i am outside counsel for waste management.ave probably negotiated or developed 50 or more franchise agreements. i urge the commission to continue its steady -- study. the fee is paid under the contracts are multiple and different. what may be 10.9% is duplicated elsewhere in other fees that other jurisdictions pay in addition to the franchise fee. livermore has an impact fee

and i rejoice, led by the sound of a black smith's hammer, i travel to charleston, south carolina, john shannon, black smith. a large european with red hair, comfortable. they were apprentices to all africans new and old, familiar yet fresh. i have sold another of your beautiful gape with the rice design, how did you learn to craft so well? a young man stepped into the light. i learned by reaching back with one hand and stretching forward with the other he said. people said you are a genius. my father dinka was the genius replied the apprentice. he taught me what 7 generations have learned, i am the 8th. i had bound [inaudible] who answers to moses shannon. both mean safe water. he seems more confident now, wiser. playful mostafa. i had so much to tell him, he could not see me. he could not see me or hear me in this strange land. he touched the spotting smiles. [inaudible] with birds, flowers and animals inspired. i turned to someone tell moses, shannon is going to free you one day. they can find joy, [inaudible] in my mind, i have always been free. free as the wind, thank you so much.

an autobiography is something that attempts to explain how john smith became john smith. a memoir is more of an attempt to record an era, the sepia-toned era of the 1950s for "colored people." c-span: and do you have another book you're ready to write? >> guest: well, the joking by my friends is that now i'm stuck in this cycle, so the sequence will be "colored people," then negro, then black and then african-american -- there'll be four volumes. and by that time, my daughters will be neo-nubian, so maybe i'll call the fifth volume that. but i don't think so. i would like to write a book about my father and with my father about his experiences in the segregated units at camp lee, virginia, in world war ii. i had some other chapters that didn't make it into the final form of this book, and while daddy's here, i'd like to record those stories. i also would like to write about the years between 1968 and 1975, basically my my higher education at yale and at cambridge, not so much a story about yale or cambridge but stories about the transformation of the negro middle class in

invited senate leader harry reid and speaker john boehner to come here to the white house later this evening for one more chance to try to forge a deal. harry. >> smith: chip reid at the white house, thanks. cbs news political analyst john dickerson is in our washington bureau tonight. john, who has the most to lose politically if the government does shut down, the republicans or the democrats? >> reporter: well, the polls show that people are ready to blame both congressional republicans and the president equally if there's a shutdown. and the problem for the president is that if there is a shutdown, he loses, as chip said, on the economy. the republicans in the house, they worry, of course, in the mid-90s, that they lost this argument, and the problem for republicans now is that this is the first big test of their leadership, what they're saying privately to their members is if we've come to washington and said we're the adults we have to show the minimum level of adulthood and keep things open. so for the white house tonight, they're trying to get those both sides together and see if they can get some kind of an agreement. >> smith: john dickerson

and that's where john reinvented the university. >> smith: why did the university need to be reinvented? what's wrong with the way that universities were running up until the time that john sperling came along with phoenix? >> john saw the constraints of most... most college professors. you know, anybody who's got any new ideas in college are quickly beaten down. the academy hasn't had a real change in how it worked for almost 500 years. >> smith: mark defusco arrived at the university of phoenix in the mid-'90s with a phd in education from usc, but he quickly embraced the phoenix model. >> phoenix, people go to school all year round. we started classes every five weeks. and instead of starting classes in september, in january, we started classes in january, february, march, sometimes two in april. if we had more students than we could handle, we'll build another site and handle some more. we built campuses by a freeway, because we figured that's where the people were. so, if you went by any major freeway in the southwest, you're going to find a university of phoenix campus. >> we put s

still be families out there that are goin to visi an empty grave or a grave with supposed to be john smith and it's mary jones. i think that needs to be corrected as best they can. and thether part is, the people that were in charge that caused all this, from my point of view and from what i've been able to read, have been given a slap on the wrist. and i don't want revenge. i want justice. i think that's the only fair thing that we, the people who have been inlved in this -- and it's not just me. there are many others that have been through similar situations -- expect from arlington, the army, and i guess from the congress. with that, i'll take any questions. >> thank you, colonel koch. we really appreciate you taking thtime to share your story with us. it's very heart wrenching to go to arlington and believe your wife was in one place and she was not. we appreciate your service to our nation. i want to begin by asking you how you felt after you first realed that through the years your wife wasn't located where she was supposed to be and what your feeling was there as far as the trust th

still be families out there that are going to visit an empty grave or a grave with supposed to be john smith and it's mary jones. i think that needs to be corrected as best they can. and the other part is, the people that were in charge that caused all this, from my point of view and from what i've been able to read, have been given a slap on the wrist. and i don't want revenge. i want justice. i think that's the only fair thing that we, the people who have been involved in this -- and it's not just me. there are many others that have been through similar situations -- expect from arlington, the army, and i guess from the congress. with that, i'll take any questions. >> thank you, colonel koch. we really appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us. it's very heart wrenching to go to arlington and believe your wife was in one place and she was not. we appreciate your service to our nation. i want to begin by asking you how you felt after you first realized that through the years your wife wasn't located where she was supposed to be and what your feeling was there as far as the

the guy who inspired reaganomics and crash their economy is just as important economics as adam smith the john maynard keynes the learned thomas jefferson's ideas didn't inspire the american revolution but instead religious thinkers like john calvin and st thomas aquinas did. jefferson wrote the declaration of independence is not important to enlightenment thinking but neo calvinists who argued that rich people are chosen by god to be our leaders are in fact to a large extent their stripping jefferson out of the textbooks altogether. i guess that makes sense considering that thomas jefferson was the most vocal about separation of church and state and about the importance of free public education or two things that these right wingers are trying to dismantle students will also learn the jefferson davis the guy who started the american civil war had legitimate concerns of it with abraham lincoln and it wasn't just about slavery i mean you can't make this stuff up and michele bachmann was spewing out her conspiracy theories about reeducation camps it turns out in a way kind of twisted way she was

me this rally will start around noon back in here under the arch way and around to the tommy smith and john carlos statue. seven of the nine bargaining units where public university students will be here for that rally in march. the reason they are standing at the statue was because they are two students -- they will be joining in taking part. they are protesting proposed budget cuts. jerry brown approved an 18% cut to the csu budgets. that would represent $500 million. they will march downtown to san jose downtown san jose and come back to san jose state university to make their point. reporting live in san jose kraig debro. >>> 6:36. a dramatic rescue in the north bay after a car plunged off the cliff. firefighters say the car plunged 70 feet trapping a mother, father, and young child in that car. rescue crews went down the hill to save the family. the highway patrol says it arrested the driver of the car for dui. it's not clear if that was the mother or father. >>> time now 6:36. let's get you to where you need to go. sal, can you help them out? >> that is right. we are trying to get you

smith read john locke, read the second treatise, was fully conversant with the tradition that a lockean would have represented where we at certain principles of human nature and natural laws to reduce from that the proper scope of government. that just wasn't his approach. so they may well have agreed in a conclusion but it would've arrived at them in very different ways. >> i think one of the things that it's often forgotten with "the wealth of nations" is this year, the consequences of the sheer richness of that book. and it very much, it tends to encourage speculation about what might smith have thought about something, as well as what smith did think. now, i make that distinction because smith it seems to me is extremely careful both methodologically, as an executive in writing "the wealth of nations," to produce an analysis which explains why we have got in western europe basically, in french and british civilization to the stage with got at present. and his method doesn't allow him to form the principles of the more general than that. the humane underpinning of his thinking, the h

. >> smith: senator john warner had drafted legislation, along with senator joe lieberman, to mandatea 60% cut in greenhouse gases by mid-century. >> well, we have a prodigious task. >> smith: and while how the industry does that is unclear, the bill's authors are betting on it. is there a future for coal? >> there's got to be a future for coal in the us. it's too important to us. and again, i think once you create this law, this mandate, the coal industry and a lot of others are going to figure out how to use coal and not pollute the air. >> in the marshlands of central florida, there's not much activity for people. >> smith: to make the case for clean coal, the industry likes to point to a power plant outside tampa, florida, known as polk one. ge made a short film about it. >> with the help of ge's advanced cleaner coal technology, tampa electric is converting coal into a cleaner burning fuel. >> smith: we went down for a visit. mark hornick is the plant's manager. >> this is the top floor of the gasifier. we call it the burner deck. >> smith: the plant touts a process known in the

first point on black colleges, one of my proudest moments was receiving an honorary doctorate from john c. smithone of the historical black colleges. i think the black colleges have graduated thousands upon thousands of professionals and scholars. great scholars graduated from black colleges and i had an occasion to go to hampton, virginia, the hampton university down there, booker t. washington's college. i'm an admirer of booker t. washington. and i looked at his papers. and i had to -- i had the experience of walking around the campus and meeting the students. and i would send -- i regret that didn't go to hampton because it's a first rate school. they have an enlightened president who has brought millions of dollars into the school. they have first rate computers, cyberspace, you know, all that -- when you have a -- all the new technologies there. the coed can walk all night without fear of being harmed. and i think black colleges are like that. as i said, when i was a young person in my late teens, in buffalo, new york, the students came up in the black colleges knew more. they had black hi

smith is walking ahead of him. >> guest: but this is part of the research in this book that staggered me because what i found at the john kennedy library was the oral history of stephen smith, the brother-in-law of the kennedys, and i was reading it just to try to get some sense of where their heads were at in the campaign, and smith -- i'm reading this and steve smith says he believes himself in part, and i am quoting from the oral history in the bottom of the ambassador he might not have been shot. curiously enough for reasons i can't explain during the course of the campaign whenever i was with a senator i made it a point to place himself in front of him and sort of move clearing the way it helped expedite getting from one place to another. i've been part of that group i probably would have been walking in front of the senator so he would have had to come by me. robert kennedy, the head of a treaty. the security was trying to catch up. when i read the oral history, the hair on the back of my head kind of went. i didn't know what to make of robert kennedy's life and then i found that. you have a sense of your own i en

smith, is walking ahead of him. >> guest: but this is part of the research of this book that staggered me, because what i found out that the john kennedy library was the oral history of stephen smith, the brother-in-law of the kennedys. and i was reading it just to try to get some sense of where their heads were at about the campaign. and smith, i'm reading this and steve smith says that he blames himself in part. he says and i'm quoting from the oral history, if i didn't leave senator kennedy he might not have been shot. curiously enough for reasons i can't explain, during the course of the campaign whenever i was with the senator i needed it.to place myself in front of him and sort of move and clear the way. i think it helped expedite him getting from one place to another. i probably would have been walking in front of the senator so sirhan would have would have had to come by -- robert kennedy would have been ahead of everybody. the security was trying to catch up on sirhan shot and. when i read the oral history, the hairs on the back of my head kind of went whoa. i didn't know what to make up to say to robert kennedy's wife

smith, is walking ahead of him. >> guest: this is part of the research in this book that staggered me. because what i found about the john f. kennedy library was the oral history of stephen smith, the brother-in-law of the kennedys. i was reading that just to get some sense of where the head for about the campaign. and smith, i'm reading this and steve smith says that he blames himself in part. he says, i'm now going from the oral history, if i didn't see beginning senator ken in the ballroom, he might have been shot. curiously enough for reasons i can't explain, during the course of the campaign whenever i was with the senator, i made it a point to place myself in front of him and sort of move as if it's clear the way. i think it helped expedite in getting someone please join the. had had i been part of that group, i probably would've been walking in front of the center so transfixing would've had to come by me to do. bobby gene would've been ahead of everybody. when i read that oral history, the back of my, the hairs on the back of my head kind of went, whoa. i did not want to make up to say robert kennedy's wife. and

smith. >> guest: right. >> host: and he's walking ahead of him. >> guest: but this is part of the research in this book that staggered me because what i found up at the johnennedy library was the oral history of steven smith, the brother-in-law of the kennedys. and i didn't -- i was reading it just to try to get some sense of where their heads were at about the campaign. and smith -- i'm reading this and steve smith says that he believes himself in part. and i'm quoting from the oral history. if i was in that ballroom kennedy might not have been shot during the course whenever i was with the senator i made it a point to place myself in front of him and sort of move as if i were clearing the way i think it expedited him from getting one place to the other. had i been part of that group, it came down a little late, i probably would have been walking in front of the center so sir haan would have had to come by me to do it. bobby kennedy in the kitchen above everybody and security was trying to catch up with him when sir haan shot him. the back of my hairs went whoa. i didn't know what to make up to save rotten kennedy life and then i found that. >> host: as

then we have someone from alaska public radio down there sitting with kevin smith from john boehner'se. thank you for being with us. down there at the end it is our good friend aldo, director of the house radio tv gallery. thank you. i want to make a special mention. we want to thank mike and olga for all of their work in dealing with the media and our multiple personalities. more importantly, we need to a knowledge of their staff. we will start with olga's staff. her right hand -- sometimes are left -- and the from the radio and tv gallery. olga works with several other people. thank you house gallery. mike's staff we need to mention as well. we have a special shot out to ellen, the new deputy director of the senate radio and tv gallery. mike, a longtime staff member up there. thank you, mike, for all of your hard work this past year. if i could, i would like the current members of the board to rise and be acknowledged. if you just go ahead and rice. thank you for all of your work on behalf of the media and the congressional correspondents. [applause] wait, there is more. [laughter]

sitting with kevin smith from john boehner's office, kevin, thank you for being with us. and down there at the end is our good friend olga ramirez cornacki, director of the house radio tv gallery. thank you. and i want to make a special mention, we want to thank mike and ol ga for all their work in dealing with the media and our multiple personalities, we appreciate it. but more importantly, we need to acknowledge their two staffs. we're going to start with olga's staff down here, her right hand, sometimes her left, is that correct? yes, both hands, andy elias of e radio tv gallery, thank you. olga also works with helen de bar barge, among the house gallery. and mike's staff we need to mention as well. special shout out to een eckert, new deputy director of the senate tv gallery. mike lawrence, long time staff member up there. erin yademan, and arlen salazar. thank you, mike for all your hard work this past year as well. now, if i could, i'd like the current members of the rtca board to rise and be acknowledged. if you would just go ahead and rise. thank you for all your

that when john boehner and harry reid came out here to the microphones after meeting with the president, they came out together, so it appears that at least they're still on speaking terms. >> smith: chip, there's another meeting at the white house tonight and just over 24 hours to avert a government shutdown. can one more meeting make a difference? >> reporter: well, harry, i think it's clear that if there's going to be a deal it won't happen until both sides feel they absolutely have their backs up against a wall, and time is so short now that we may be at that point. when harry reid was here today he said he hopes they come out of tonight's meeting with something and he said if they don't, tomorrow could be a very bad day. harry? >> smith: chip reid at the white house tonight. thank you. bob schieffer, anchor of "face the nation," is our chief washington correspondent. tonight he joins us from the schieffer school of journalism at t.c.u., in his hometown of fort worth. if this government shuts down, what do you think the impact is going to be? >> you know, i think at first, harry, it's not going to make all that much difference because it will come on the weekend. they'll clos

smiths song. we did -- >> jimmy: which one? >> we did "ask." >> jimmy: oh, cool. >> we did a couple randy newman songs. we did sort of a controversial johnhow tunes. >> jimmy: how fun is that? >> we did whatever we wanted. it was really -- we did some tom waits. >> jimmy: how fun was that? >> it was really fun. it was really, really fun. >> jimmy: how long did you do it for? >> two shows, one night. >> jimmy: can i find it anywhere on youtube? is it youtubable? >> no, you can't -- i hope not. [ light laughter ] geez, i hope not. but lincoln center like, owns, you know they record the night and then they own -- >> jimmy: can you give us a taste of a tune tonight? >> i can't believe you've done this. >> jimmy: please? [ cheers and applause ] >> no! no! ♪ >> jimmy: do "me and julio down by the school yard." do that one. give this to billy. ♪ give this to billy. >> billy: oh yeah, that's ready. i'll help you, martha. perfect. ♪ mama looked down and spit on the ground ev'ry time my name gets mentioned ♪ >> jimmy: billy, whenever you're ready. ♪ the papa say "oy, if i get that boy ♪ i'm gonna stick him in the house of detention" ♪ >> jimmy: hi

john alston. a debate over judgment day is playing out on bay area billboards. first signs were posted by evangelicals followed by a sarcastic response by a group of atheists. nick smith reports. >> these messages were not sent from up above but rather from a nonprofit evangelical group. according to the group's interpretation of the bible, may 21st will be the day of rapture, when its believers say they will be taken up to heaven. >> we are commanded by god in e ezekiel 33 to blow the trumpets. >> american atheists wasted no time posting billboards of their own. large enough to read from i-80 heading east declaring, you know it's nonsense. i spoke with the president of the american atheists, david silverman by phone. >> we wanted to put right in their face. they are talking nonsense. this is how religion hurts people. this is one of the many ways religion hurts people. our hope is people who are not being suckered in by this rapture will learn from the people who are. >> michael garcia says family radio reaches listeners from arnold the globe in several languages. their countdown, clear and only 28 days remain. >> there have been thousands of rapture predictions over

john z. that's an inside joke. brad butler. jonathan. spencer pepper. alex stoddard. i also want to thank from our personal office smith anderson, laurie, joyce meier, mike, kevin, martin, andy, my chief of staff, alison style, our interns, brad, jane, david, greg, and john. i want to thank all the hardworking staff for making this possible. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent that we be permitted to file reports accompanying 1214, 1215, and 1216 at any time through april 15, 2011. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. pursuant to section 5580 and 5581 of the revised statutes, 20 u.s.c. 2223 and the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair announces the speaker appointment of the members of the house to the board of regents of the smithsonian institution. the clerk: mr. becerra of california. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 2303 and house order 2202, the chair announces the appointment of the following members of the

john alston. a debate over judgment day is playing out on bay area billboards. first signs were posted by evangelicals followed by a sarcastic response by a group of atheists. nick smith reports. >> these messages were not sent from up above but rather from a nonprofit evangelical group. called family radio based in oak land. according to the group's interpretation of the bible, may 21st will be the day of rapture, when its believers say they will be taken up to heaven. >> we are commanded by god in ezekiel 33 to blow the trumpets. and that's exactly what's taking place right now. >> american atheists wasted no time posting billboards of their own. in text large enough to read from i-80 heading east declaring, you know it's nonsense. i spoke with the president of the american atheists, david silverman by phone. >> we wanted to put right in their face. they are talking nonsense. this is how religion hurts people. this is one of the many ways religion hurts people. our hope is people who are not being suckered in by this rapture will learn from the people who are. >> michael garcia says family radio reaches listeners from around the globe in several languages. their cou