i am laura thomas. i am a former patient of lyon- martin. i access services there about 20 years ago, when i first came to san francisco as a young woman looking for health care. i am also very proud to be a part of the amazing community response that has been the "save lyon-martin" experience. i abort in nonprofits in the city for a long time. -- i have worked in nonprofits in the city for a long time. i have never seen this kind of response in crisis. i am proud to be a resident of san francisco, which has an amazing investment in ensuring that everyone in san francisco has access to health care and culturally-competent health care. we take cultural competency to the next level in this city, teaching the rest of the world how to provide that care. i am proud of that. i understand this is a difficult time to be keeping a safety net together. i worry that the holes in our safety net are getting larger and larger. i fear that if we lose a clinic like lyon-martin that the holes will be so big we cannot repair are sifted that again. there are g

laura sweeny. david rubinsohn: hello, i'm the, i'm david rubinsohn, the fifth great grandson of thomas donnell.'re here at saint stephen's green, here in dublin. this is fabulous. 22 acres. this is just gorgeous. right in the heart, in the middle of dublin. which is just an incredible city, my first time here. it's amazing. laura savini: oh, it's so vibrant. and this is really the heart of ireland, where you hear so much music and we're going to be introducing you to that music as we go along. you know, in that first part of the show, you heard liam clancy say something, it was so touching. i don't have the words exactly but he said, you know "they took so much away from the irish, but they couldn't take away their song." and it is always been such a key part of the irish culture and something they've shared with the american culture in giving us so much of the music that we enjoy. so we're going to share that with you throughout this program. oh, boy, we've got everybody from the last 50 years of irish music. you've got them. from the dubliners, to the chieftains, to bono, to sinead, it's a gr

thomas, a republican. caller: c you hear me ok? i have a question for both laura and patricia. and the question is this -- i am a registered republican. i am a union member. i am also a government employee. my question is, why are the republican party constantly attacking the citizens of this country on our benefits, on our retirement benefits, and ways of cutting the budget and not addressing the 20 million illegal aliens in this country? it seems that if you address that problem, that would be the first big dent in solving our fiscalrisis in this country. host: first, patricia murphy. guest: the reason they are not tackling immigration head-on is that in some of the states there is a political downside to that. you'll see a significant lacof leadership in that in both parties. but the reason the republicans are coming in and trying to balance the budgets and also go after unions at the same time is that that is a traditional goal that they have had. democrats have been traditionally the big union allies. you are republican and a union member which is much less the case. theem

thomas, a republican. caller: can you hear me ok? i have a question for both laura and patricia. and the question is this -- i am a registered republican. i am a union member. i am also a government employee. my question is, why are the republican party constantly attacking the citizens of this country on our benefits, on our retirement benefits, and ways of cutting the budget and not addressing the 20 million illegal aliens in this country? it seems that if you address that problem, that would be the first big dent in solving our fiscal crisis in this country. host: first, patricia murphy. guest: the reason they are not tackling immigration head-on is that in some of the states there is a political downside to that. you'll see a significant lack of leadership in that in both parties. but the reason the republicans are coming in and trying to balance the budgets and also go after unions at the same time is that that is a traditional goal that they have had. democrats have been traditionally the big union allies. you are republican and a union member which is much less the case. t