now i would like to you meet chris kearney, he's of the bar association of san francisco and a litigation partner which represents lawyers and accountants. he also represented a friend of mine. i will always be grateful for your work. our justice summit has been made possible by the bar association in san francisco. please join me in welcoming chris to the stage. >> thank you, jeff and great to see so many people here today. as jeff said i'm a partner at van ness and happy to the the president of the bar association this year. it's great to be here on this particular day with a great group of panelist talking about a very important subject. we are also proud at the bar association to partner with jeff's office to represent indigent clients and very proud of that relationship and committed to it going forward. this summit focused on the an verseey e anniversary of the gideon case. a promise and excitement following the united states supreme court decision has been a road trip marked by stoplight and heavy traffic. it was gideon's mutual trumpet, the new book that talks about the harsh real

is evelyn -- i am with the manila county heritage foundation, which has a center at the corner of kearney in jackson called the international hotel, manilla town center. with me is -- >> -- i have been doing programming in chinatown the past 10 years. >> together we would like to ask you to maintain and increase the funding for the san francisco arts commission cultural equity grants. we've also been the recipients of the grant for the severn cisco art commission which allowed us to improve our space and install the wooden floor. we want to maintain the center as a legacy that preserves the legacy of the struggle of the international hotel anti-eviction movement. i invite you all, everyone here in the audience to our open house tomorrow from one p.m. to six p.m., if you can break away, we are going to have food and a live band that is going to play music from the 19 60s and 70s, get out your dancing shoes and come relax with us. i'm happy to tell you about it. the band is going to be an ensemble of people who started their group in the 1960s, they started out when they were 16 years old,

now i would like to you meet chris kearney, he's of the bar association of san francisco and a litigation partner which

we're on market street on kearney and third. we're at the fountain, which was a major landmark at the time of the 1906 earthquake. this is a landmark because this is where people posted notices and notes to connect with people they were looking for. families and people in their business. most of this area was -- >> pretty much burnt out. >> pretty well burned out. we have pat with us, a structural engineer who has done work to upgrade the buildings around this area. >> or researched their history. >> or researched their history. we will look mostly at buildings. we have a lot of other experts in the audience. i hope they will share with us. we have craig from the planning department. we have david bono witz, all kinds of folks here. feel free to chirp in. our plan is to take a couple-block tour and look at buildings, some of which survived the quake and some retrofitted. we will end up at 1230 at the mos connie center. we will look at them burning four model buildings. >> trying to burn. >> okay. where are we walking to. >> firs

he said jake kearney is a paid liar and those officials were instructed to go out and single out thoseou want to respond to that? >> first of all, i think his allegation is very unfortunate. and i have not seen one scintilla of evidence to say that the white house had anything to do with these employees targeting a certain group. and i think -- again, i said it to our chairman, our committee. it's important that we have credibility. it's important that our committee has credibility. so that when we month deuce a product, the public can feel confident, and we must be in search of the truth. we cannot put out allegations, and go chasing trying to find some facts that don't exist. hopefully, that rhetoric does none of us any good. we must get to the bottom of the irs situation. i wanted to get that done more than anybody else, as i said during the hearing, we have two things i want. i want truth and so we can establish trust. those kind of comments have no place in our dialogue here on capitol hill. >> listen to some of the emotional testimony today from tea party supporters and what they