i'm john thomas and let's get right to your top stories world political and economic heavyweights are meeting in hawaii for the annual asia pacific summit russian and u.s. presidents have just wrapped up their talks artie's. joins us live from honolulu with more and on this to see if thanks for joining us.

john thomas -- supervisor kim: if you do not mind wrapping up because your time is up.o finish your points. >> it is the history of dpw and five years. its legendary accomplishments can be noted all over the city. there is no need to delete the name from the history books. they could reorganize and have this integrated delivery of projects, but, you know, it does not have to be at the expense of deleting the history -- supervisor kim: may i ask a question? has local 21 taken an official position on this? >> not yet. supervisor kim: is there any other public comment for this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. we have a motion to forward with positive recommendation, and i believe we can do that without opposition. thank you for being here today. madam clerk, please call item 5. >> item 5, ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the san francisco sentencing commission, set forth the commission's purpose, powers, and duties, and establish membership criteria. supervisor kim: the sponsor of the ordinance has asked to continue the item for the t

smith, jonas max ferris along with john thomas, financial ceo tom belisis, scott martin from accent asset management and democratic media consultant steve murphy. welcome to everybody. tom, no deal, a b. s. deal for jobs? >> i agree. i mean, these cuts that take place in 18 months are a budget b. s. it's a budget crap. you have to make these cuts now and they have to stop messing around and put an end to the uncertainty on america's economic future and the job creators right now. they have to make the cuts. no one is going to be happy but it's their job and responsibility for the future of this country to make the tough decisions even if it's not the right ones. >> i don't know, jonas, you're smiling. that may be because you're in miami or maybe because you're disagreeing with tom. >> some cuts are better than no cuts. i actually like severe, serious cuts which is the penalty for no action and they kick in later as would the tax increases if there's no action and that's actually kind of good because the economy is not so great right now. and it can't handle either tax increases or major s

i'm john thomas and let's get right to your top stories world political and economic heavyweights are meeting in hawaii for the annual asia pacific summit russian and u.s. presidents have just wrapped up their talks artie's associate joins us live from honolulu with more and on this the sea of thanks for joining us so could you tell us more about what about that meeting and what issues were discussed there. well sean definitely a lot of issues touched upon one of the mean topics of discussion was of course missile defense united states plans it's important to say that the u.s. and russia or rather russia and nato agreed in november two thousand and ten to work jointly on a european missile defense project however so far there's been a stalemate because the united states has been refusing to provide russia with legal guarantees that any such plans would not be a threat to russia and this was discussed at today's meeting between the two presidents they did say after the meeting that there is still certain disagreements when it comes to missile defense plans but talks will continue on th

direct from our studios in central moscow this is our duty to you i'm john thomas glad to have you with us the cultural arm of the united nations has accepted of palestine as a fully fledged member it is the first time palestinians have achieved full status at a un body but you know sco will now have to pay for the decision with the loss of nearly a quarter of its funding artie's can explain its. there certainly was a lot of jubilation in paris cheers went up in the assembly hall where the final tally was announced but the vote comes at a price welcoming palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization means saying goodbye to as much as twenty two percent of the organization's budget washington as being the agency's biggest contributor so far and the state department has confirmed that they will stop sponsoring the organization on what grounds a u.s. law passed the nineteen ninety obliges washington to cut off funding to unesco if it is made palestine but nonetheless this u.n. body facing huge budget cuts voted one hundred seven four and fourteen nations

>> john adams. thomasd great concerns about slavery. >> he had slaves. >> of course he did. i get that. >> and george washington had slaves. >> john, i want you to come up to philadelphia. we have something called the president's house. the first residence of george washington when he was president when the capital was in philadelphia, and there are slave quarters in it. >> i know my history. i also know -- >> anyway, you're smarter than anybody running for president. >> i would vote for you. >> and you should have run for president. this crowd -- this is an upside down world over there. thank you once again for the defense of the ignorant. >>> only one who knows he has a chance to jump start his campaign. he knows he has to win in one place. that's huntsman in new hampshire. the trouble is he says he doesn't need those other 49 states. that's right çthere. that's next in the sideshow. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪ mama said there'd be days like this ♪ ♪ "there'll be days like this," mama

john. that was the year grand daddy thomas died. left the family worse than broke. cle john stole a ham from the meat market. he was 17. lost his taste for it locked up 14 years. ham, cured and earth bred sliced with the fat hanging on. yellow sunshine on a white plate. the ham bone cuts crosswise. a dark eye all in the skillet making aggressive for grits. lost his taste for all things salt much the ocean he has not seen. woman and man. he don't ever want to see no more ham on his plate. hates pigs. hard for him. time off for good behavior. they didn't hold him to the last 6. he is a hog farmer. only eats beef and chicken and turkey. fish, turtle and rabbit. squirrel, possum and coon and seasons greens with smoked ox tails. can't raise white folks for slaughter. [applause] >> for those of you who have not heard this in person a big beautiful surprises, she speaks at tremendous authority of feeling. and very uniquely agile intelligence. >> we are the memory of that place without measure. that filled all space that never was and ever will be. that place existing as the

john henrehan. >>> airplane thomas is wanted for attacks on 17 women, six in virginia. the rest of the attacks happened in cities along the coast from here to connecticut. investigators say they have dna evident linking him to all of the attacks. the first happened in 1997. >>> thieves with an eye for fashion are stealing high-end glasses from virginia vision stores. we'll show you some photos of the suspects here. so far, 17 pairs were lifted from four stores. fairfax county investigators say when a thief strikes, another destract iss the employees and another takes the items. >>> and tonight, police in montgomery county are asking for the public's help asking for dozens of people caught on camera here. it happened saturday night at the 7-11 on tech road. can you see dozens of teenagers walking into the store and grabbing items and walking out. the officers say this group organized the robbery at a birthday party. the chief joins us now. thank you for joining us tonight. >> sure. >> and let me ask you what is the status of the investigation? have you called -- caught o

. >> my favorite is john adams and thomas jefferson. >> bill: the difference now is the internet and the cables and it's all over the place. >> the immediacy of it. goes back to the original mistake that the cain campaign made. they knew for 10 days or two weeks this was coming and failed to get ready. >> bill: i don't think they knew. >> well, but that's the point. they should have known. first thing to do is find out the facts. get an attorney. have them sit down with the attorney for the national restaurant association and say what happened? we have been talked to, the "new york times" talking to us, reporters are talking to us about two women who supposedly with the national restaurant association herman cain remember what happened. tell us what happened to the extent that you are allowed under the agreement. and they would have at least then been able to prepare a better response. the difficulty here is the changing responses. there is nothing -- this is just a smear by political opponents. i don't remember anything about it. now i remember something about it. it wasn't a settle

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. >> idaho state police lieutenant john ganski and detective andy thomas of the bannock county sheriff's office lead the investigation. >> there's the house. we have tape across this whole area here. and then we had one point of entry to the scene. >> there's a door going into the home through the garage into a basement. immediately in the basement is a master bedroom. and then there's a stairwell going upstairs. as soon as we start going up the stairway, one of the investigators noticed a very minute small droplets of blood on the stairs. and we started to mark those. the trail of blood obviously leads right to cassie's body. >> cassie is cassie jo stoddard. she was only 16 years old. >> cassie. hello, cassie. >> hi. >> i'm getting you on tape, okay? exactly. >> hi. >> over here is cassie's bedroom. >> cassie's mother anna has left her daughter's room just the way it was. she hasn't touched a thing. >> i just left things as she had them. >> this is her artwork. >> cassie's intelligent. she knew what she wanted out of life. she talked a lot about being a lawyer. she mentioned a few times

let's dig deeper on newt gingrich and a lot more with the political editor in chief, john harris. evan thomasthey describe the day they quit the gingrich campaign in their new digital book. part of the political playbook 2012 series. thanks for coming in. this is a whole new world for you, publishing books, digital books. it's not just putting stuff online. >> it's also part of a new world for publishing. the traditional model of publishing. more and more people are reading books on kindle, on their ipads and they want this kind of detail. much more in realtime. some o the events that mike and evan report on are just a couple of weeks old, but we're taking advantage of technology and of this tremendous hunger for more detail about behind the scenes detail about these campaigns. >> i've gone through the -- >> number 50, if you allow me to post. rising by the hour. >> it's going to be, after this interview, it will go up more quickly. let's look at some of the nuggets in there because some really great stuff. two great reporters. newt gingrich. the worst day when everyone quit in his campaign l

after all, john adams is president between church rushing 10 and thomas jefferson. harry truman between you and clint roosevelt and. all are accounted figures, and history at a new icon who humanized history. and he is also celebrated the human stories behind great event that the building of the panama canal, the brooklyn bridge and also a historic tragedies like the johnstown flood. david mccullough is our season chronicler. his latest book is the greater journey, americans in paris. the 19th century story of americans turning back across the atlantic to discover the science, the art and learning of the old world, even at a time when other americans were churning physically to this specifics to discover national resources, national beauty of challenges of the american frontier. america was opening up a new world physically in the west while in reaching itself culturally and intellectually in the great city of lights and the journey eastward across the sea. ladies and gentlemen, david mccullough came into my office two days after the first national book festival to

sitting on the bench right now belong to the federalist society clarence thomas samuel alito antonin scalia and chief justice john roberts. former attorney general under george w. bush john ashcroft was a member of the federalist society former white house independent counsel kenneth starr the guy who spearheaded the clinton and impeachment investigations was a federalist society member as was ted olson the guy who ran bush's legal team and argued before the supreme court to stop the recount in florida back in the two thousand election sealing and stealing that presidential election for george w. bush and republican senator orrin hatch who used to be the chairman of the senate judiciary committee now as the number two member on that committee and oversaw the confirmation of several federalist society judges and he himself is a member of the federalist society just think of it as a massive right wing network of judges lawyers politicians and business leaders who fund them who unsatisfied with just using their monies to subvert congress and the white house as spent the last two decades gaining control of the judici

john hinckley. and if he should eventually be free. pierre thomasabc news, washington. >>> and still ahead here, the made in america challenge. will you spend some of your christmas dollars to help create jobs across the country? wait until you see how people are answering the call. we'll do almost anything. out for drinks, eats. i have very well fitting dentures. i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. a lot of things going on in my life and the last thing i want to be thinking about is my dentures. [ charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. is my dentures. do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce your risk of stroke caused by a clot? you sho

. >> will you please discuss the relationship between thomas hart benton and john in california, ando maybe brigham young and utah and the mormons? >> fremont was a real, i believe son-in-law, fremont, so benton was a backer of fremont, agenda india states army in the mexican war and a bit of a loose cannon. and without benton he probably wouldn't, you know, history books at all because there were efforts to court-martial him. i don't pursue them much in his but because they don't ultimately affect the boundary of you asked about someone else. brigham young. brigham young was a mormon, and leader. he let the largest continued of mormons from illinois to utah in 1847-48. he envisioned the creation of a state which was, had it been created, huge. it would have filled -- pretty much everything from california. congress was not going to let a state like that be created. they weren't happy about the size of california over taxes, but texas and california created themselves. i don't have time to go into each one of those. they are in the books. i'll tell you an interesting thing about brig

john edwards story. and even clarence thomas' accusor was treated with much morey specht than bill clinton's accusor.paula jones when she was a state employee in arkansas, accused bill clinton who was the governor of summoning her to a motel room an and exposing himself in front of her. given bill clinto her. she was slimed, they said what do you expect from a sleazy woman with big hair. what has always bothered me, and i know these people intimately. what has always bothered me about them was their elitism. they are describing this accuse tpher the herman cain case as an ivy league graduate. how that is relevant is beyond me, but paula jones, she had big hair, she spoke with a southern accent, she wasn't terribly well educated, she just went to high school. that kind of elitism is disgusting and the permeates the mainstream media. megyn: do you think that the mainstream media or others in the media have been giving too much of a pass to these anonymous allegations. politico chose not to name the women involved in these two cases, which i found interesting. they are not sexual assault victims, at bes

thomas, nobody tackled him. touchdown. virginia tech wins tonight 37- 26 another step towards the acc championship. >>> the australian open, john off the course. the big story is becoming tiger woods, first round bogey-free 68 followed with a very strong 67 and the second round which just finished. this is the first time tiger has led a tournament on friday in a long time. tiger woods after two rounds, in the lead at the australian open. >>> nba owners and players have met the last two days. some are optimistic, others say the division over some issues are too deep. several weeks ago the players said they would not agree to anything less than 53% of the profits. now they're being offered a 50/50 split. >>> and the blast the athletic director has asked nebraska fans who were traveling to state college not to wear red for their own safety. penn state has added extra security for the game. >> such distressing sports stories. >>> coming up, army wives get some tlc on the eve of veterans day. >>> before veterans day some military wives and mothers are being pampered trip with a private shopping experience at charming charlie batik a

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thomas had sexually harassed her. and then another chance to see astronauts john glenn, neil armstrong, and buzz aldrin receive the congressional gold medal, the highest civilian award in the u.s. >> next, a look at the life and legacy of ronald reagan. the mpaa recently honored the life of the former president. we will hear remarks and out of a former white house chief of staff, who highlighted how reagan's pactiv to replace a life in his political career. this is a little more than an hour. >> welcome, all of you, and thank you for coming by the motion picture association of america to our screening room to participate in a daylong set of activities in which we recognize the contributions of rhatigan as the leader of our country, but also as someone -- of ronald reagan as the leader of our country, also a similar plan and iconic world in the film industry, including television. this being the 100 anniversary of the president's birth, how can we celebrate his contribution to our country, but also to this remarkable industry that has affected all of our lives in so many different ways. the idea is that we would gather together

thomas and scalia's conflicts of interest? senator, is your hypocrisy meter broken? and why is john boehner crying again? it's his birthday. he should be happy. we'll have our special birthday wishes. >> happy birthday. >> politics nation starts right now. welcome. i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, the birth of a new progressive movement in america. marking the two-month anniversary of the middle class movement, protesters across the nation today took to the streets to march for families. in new york city at this hour thousands of protesters are in downtown manhattan enroute to the brooklyn bridge. we've already seen massive marches from zuccotti park to the new york stock exchange as thousands gathered near wall street. for the most part the march was peaceful but more than 170 people were arrested for blocking streets and clogging traffic. at least seven have been injured in clashes. it's not just in new york. in los angeles hundreds marched to the financial district chanting "banks got bailed out we got sold out." in portland organized labor and activists rallied on the water front and shut down the steel bridge. in dall

thomas find frazier for a 14- yard touchdown. highway kids beat the yellowjackets 37 -- hokies beat the yellowjackets 37-26. >>> mike shanahan and the redskins preparing for the miami dolphins sunday. johnis still looking for his first win as starting quarterback in the nfl, 0-7, 0- 9 overall and 0-3 this season. while the offense has struggled since the quarterback change, the defense still has to do what they can do only maybe do it better. >> nothing is smooth sailing for 60 minutes in the nfl. it doesn't work that way. so when bad happens, turn it into good. so if something happens bad, there's a turnover, stop them. make them kick the field goal. stop them. get the ball back and that's the only thing you can control. >>> carson palmer making a second start for the ravens visiting the chargers tonight. oakland upset in the 3rd. palmer hooks up with of for 26 yards for the score, second td catch of the game. the ravens lead 24-7 team. >>> the nba players and owners have broken off talks. derek fisher says no progress has been made. brian is back right after this.

after all, john adams is president between church rushing 10 and thomas jefferson. harry truman between you and clint roosevelt and. all are accounted figures, and history at a new icon who humanized history. and he is also celebrated the human stories behind great event that the building of the panama canal, the brooklyn bridge and also a historic tragedies like the johnstown flood. david mccullough is our season chronicler. his latest book is the greater journey, americans in paris. the 19th century story of americans turning back across the atlantic to discover the science, the art and learning of the old world, even at a time when other americans were churning physically to this specifics to discover national resources, national beauty of challenges of the american frontier. america was opening up a new world physically in the west while in reaching itself culturally and intellectually in the great city of lights and the journey eastward across the sea. ladies and gentlemen, david mccullough came into my office two days after the first national book festival to

thomas jefferson, for one, was dismayed by this news, and he wrote to john adams, i am sorry that thenvention began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of it members. in jefferson's estimation, nothing can justify this example but the ignorance of the value of public discussion. nonetheless, on september 17, 1787, the new constitution was approved, but only by 39 of the 55 delegates. so we can argue about whether that was a good thing or bad thing or not ad nauseam, right? but the two years, more than 200 years after the fact a very prominent political scientist from yale, robert dowel, he asked some very unsettling questions. have we americans ever had an opportunity to express our considered will on our constitutional system? how many of you have had a chance to officially formally express your considered will? just raise your hands. [laughter] oh, come on, don't be shy. how many? oh, come on. not one? nobody's asked -- okay. question number two, how many have ever participated in a referendum that asked them whether they wanted to contin

johns hopkins children center. the ties of course designed by the youngsters at the center. good morning, everybody. how you doing? what is your name? >> thomas> how old are you? >> 9. >> give me the name of your tie. [ inaudible ] >> what is it alled? called? is that reindeer? [ inaudible ] >> this is madison, we like madison, hi. >> hi. >> we met last year. >> yes. >> how old are you? >> nine. >> nine. >> yeah, yeah. >> good to see you again. [ inaudible ] >> -- i am too. >> tell me about your tie. >> it is angels. very good, good to see you again. >> good to see you too. >> this is hannah right. >> yeah. >> how are you doing. >> good. >> good tell me about your tie. >> my tie has a snowman on -- >> -- you -- >> -- yeah -- >> -- a sec, what is your tie, what is your name? >> my name is hanna and my -- >> -- i -- >> -- yes -- >> -- parkfield -- >> -- i -- >> -- on -- >> -- your tie on, congratulations, very good. and what tie did you design, sir? >> i -- i just show up and take advantage of this. what is this, 16 years together, right? >> 16 years, this is dr. george dover, the great man from the johns hopkins children's center. >> every yea