so first, governor leavitt, all yours. thank you. >> thank you very much and thanks to the center, max, and your colleagues are organizing this. there's a bit of a reunion atmosphere among many of us who haven't seen each other for a time. this was a very positive interpersonal expense for all of us and i'm pleased that so many are here. i would like to just re-emphasize a couple of things that max made reference to. first, i'd like to begin with an acknowledgment of the office. we did not transition, and hence this was a plan to transition. i think the true test of any plan is actual execution and, therefore, we ought to acknowledge the fact that many of the challenges that face and administration, this does not recount. but it does recount i think some extraordinarily good preparation, and it does also acknowledge the fact this was the first time, as max suggested, that the 2010 presidential transition act had been operated under andover we felt it was important that we document to the degree possible our experience. i a

as governor leavitt said, if you can have some soft conversations about what this is going to be like, to come to washington, to take on the role of government service, i think -- if we had been successful. some people are going to remove themselves. some campaign folks want campaign work. and what government service will going to be about, they could have perhaps counted on. i was the only thing that i would whack -- that i would -- theseple try to guide principles. as long as we stopped to the fundamental risible, it made life easier. this principle was -- anyone who was on a campaign with guaranteed a job on the transition if they wanted it. there were five or 6 -- >> the inauguration. >> there were 500 or 600 roles in the transition, probably an equal number of roles in the inauguration. over 1000 people we needed. some total people on the campaign was less than 1000. so there was plenty of work to do. anyone who was on the campaign that wished to have a role, we would find one for them in either the transition or the inauguration. printable number one. prince will number 2 -- no

governor leavitt, all euros. -- yours. thank you. >> thank you very much. thanks to the center and your colleagues for organizing this. there is a bit of a reunion atmosphere are those of us who have not seen each other for some time. this was a very positive interpersonal experience for us. i'm pleased that so many are here. i would like to reemphasize a couple of things that max made reference to. i would like to begin with an acknowledgment of the obvious. we did not transition. this was a plan to transition. the true test of any plan is actual execution. we ought to acknowledge the fact that many of the challenge we faced in this administration, this does not recount. this does recount some extraordinarily good preparation. it doesn't knowledge the fact -- acknowledge the fact that this is the first time that the 2010 presidential transition act had been operated under. therefore, we thought it was important that we document to the degree ossible, our experience. i would also like to acknowledge that this is not about what might have been. it is about w

of arthur leavitt. he was one of the greatest s.e.c. to give the little guy a break, to level the playing field, to make the market safe for the individual investors. leavitt favored regular retail investors over home gamers like you over the big institutions, particularly hedge fund, because he knew the big boys didn't need protection. they have all kinds of money. but under the reckless laissez faire anything goes bush s.e.c., that changed. i think the obama administration so far has lardly done anything to roll back the damage. the s.e.c. has proved all kinds of things to make it less safe for you. all the changes that have made the market faster, allow them to ping each other, the etfs of mass destruction allow them to evade the margin rules, bring etf selling power or buying power to bear. they repealed the uptick rule, which protected us from endless short selling. the s.e.c. either approved or enacted all of these things that made the market more dangerous and more difficult when things get bad and will do so again when we get th

that's coming up on the seven-day. 63 in san francisco. 72 in leavitt city. >> we're looking at a smooth drive for the south bay. in fact, no major incidents. we'll look at 101 here. 680, a light easy drive. you see the light flow. the yellow, coming down towards 60. it's not a concern. however, north 87, as you're passing by curtner and downtown san jose, reports of an early morning crash. all the activity is currently pushed off to the shoulder. crews are on scene, that's a little late considering the activity cleared at least 45 minutes ago. no additional distractions or no delays are on scene. meanwhile, smooth drive from 880 through fremont. as you head off the cast tour valley y, through the interchange, it's not blocking lanes but a quick slowdown there. and 880 shows you past the coliseum, the large view, you do have one lane, you lose the left lane north past 66. that will continue in spots up towards downtown where the southbound side will have crews as well. but no major issues because it's light traffic. back to you. >>> buckle up or pay up. today, law enforcement agencies th

instead saying that israel is justified in protecting itself from dance to weapons shipments to the leavitt on base group hezbollah most recently we did hear comments coming from the u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel saying that now the white house is considering to arm. the area with weapons this is a stance and a position that washington was reluctant to take instead saying that it would give financial support that would go to to their logistics but not weapons other communication equipment other ways in which the opposition and the rebels could fight against the syrian government but now we see the position at least coming from some members of the white house the position of the u.s. administration is changing but you know you're hearing a variety of different comments one comment one position coming from the secretary of defense and then with when the u.s. president speaks he's a little bit more cautious with his words but over the past few weeks we are hearing this is drumming of rhetoric coming from u.s. officials that are is beating what some would call a drum of potential milita

well that's it for part one but stay with us for more boxing in part two where dennis leavitt of took on getting my jones and produced one of the gutsiest performances ever seen in moscow thank go. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen god see a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria and protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incre

we had asked 400 questions to leavitt. excuse me, 300 plus. we said that we wanted the answers to the questions. and so we said to the republicans, we're not going to come and mark them up until we have the answers to the questions. --ator korn and called senator korn and -- cornyn call .hat behavior this is what they said when we held up the leavitt hearing and markup for two weeks. they have held her up three for three weeks. they have asked three times the number of questions, and they are not here. it seems to me unbelievable that after what they said, when we wanted answers to questions and we held it up for two week's, now they have held it up for three weeks with nothing inside. they have gotten the answers to the questions. they don't like the answers because they are holding gina mccarthy hostage to their pro- pollutiveof -- pro- french philosophy. -- fringe philosophy. i want her to say, i give up re. if she did that, she would not represent president obama. in her position she has to enforce the clean air act great if my friends wan

the impasse that occurred on this committee much as it did with secretary leavitt's.a path forward has been agreed to to move this nomination to the next step and i think we really ought to be celebrating that rather than expressing any sort of negative feelings. we have tried to make it clear on our side of this dais that our requests have been for transparency that is needed for all decisions by the epa and its critical to the taxpayers to shoulder the burden for extensive regulations. a request is still with issues on openness and transparency only. and frankly, this shouldn't be a partisan issue as far as getting the information. i am sort of disappointed that the idea of a request for underlying research staff used to promulgate rules for cost-benefit analyses should he an issue at all. and so i'm glad that we have taken this step. i think we are on a path for further information to come forward and actually this milestone should be celebrated and i appreciate the chair and the ranking member working together to get us this far and hope to get further. >> senator

i want to complement governor leavitt and chris for putting this document together. when i was taft to be gay second of director, i met with jim and he goes into the closet and pulls up boxes of documents, which included some documents and headed that often me and i sifted to them. after senator kerry lost, he had kept a research system on for about a week afterward cap lumia. after our transition i did the same process, tried to updated for the 21st century and put it on a flash drive. i do not think we would ever put out a book, but i will recommend having read the book last night, i will recommend it to future transitions because this is a remarkable accomplishment that you have done here. from that perspective, having read the work that you have done, three major differences for us were our operation was significantly smaller. i think by election day we probably only had around 15 people on payroll and when you include these unpaid volunteers, we were probably maybe 75. in part that was the company -- that was the confidentiality concern. kerry had the office abo

bush nominated michael leavitt and steven johnson to run the epa, michael levitt had to wade through 22 written questions and levitt, 49. and lisa jackson set the all-time record, she had to answer 118 questions. that was the record. it's daunting, right, submitting written answers to 118 different written questions all from senators looking to find a word wrong somewhere, to try to scuttle your nomination. the last nominee, lisa jackson had too answer 118 questions. guess how many questions the republicans have submitted to the new nominee? 1,079 questions. then there's sub-questions within those questions. if you include the sub-questions, more than 600 of the questions to gina mccarthy have come from one senator from louisiana senator david vitter. this is the 123 page questionnaire exchange between senator vitter and the epa nominee. 123 pages of questions and answers. she has answered all of his more than 600 written questions. in response today, republican senators refused to even show up for the vote on her nomination because they say she has been unresponsive. they say she ha

they want to let the nonprofit group take over and call the amphitheatre leavitt pavilion san francisco at jerry garcia meadows. dead head have started an online position about this. you can find it on our website at ktvu.com. >>> time is 5:26. sal is back. he'll help you get where you need to go. >> dave, northbound 280 traffic does look good in san jose. we will start there. and the traffic -- pardon me. the traffic looks good getting up to highway 17. there are no major problems there. also if you are driving on southbound 680 the sunol grade here we are off to a good start heading down south. now back to steve. >>> there is a slight component of a westerly breeze for a few but really not that strong yet. keep an eye on things. 59 synura tell. a lot of 50s and 60nd. oakland 62. napa and santa rosa at 49. a little bit of a west breeze from sfo to oakland. there is no fog. coast is clear. 60s and 70s and 80s and low 90s. big changes on the weekend. dave. >>> 5:27. big win for the golden state warriors last night. who came up big and who the team will be playing next. >>> also the steps

bush nominated michael leavitt and stephen johnson, they had to weigh through 283 questions.isa jackson had 118 questions. that was the record. it is daunting submitting written answers to 118 different questions from senators looking to find a word wrong somewhere to stymie your nomination. guess how many questions the republicans submitted 1,079 questions. and then there's some questions within those questions. if you include sub questions more than 600 questions to gina mccarthy have come from one senator, louisiana senator vitter. this is the 123-page questionnaire exchange between senator vitter and the epa nominee. 123 pages of questions and answers. she has answered all of the more than 600 written questions. in response republican senators refused to show up for the vote on her nomination because they say she is unresponsive and say she has not answered enough questions. the eight boycotted the vote on her nomination to protest how unresponsive gina mccarthy was to the more than 1,000 questions they have asked her. more than 1,000 questions they have asked her which s

the consumer is worried, investors leavitt but consumers are worried. >> it is a good thing not onlytomers. you have to be a large airline today to be successful. have to have a big airline to generate those miles and get people who have places to burn as miles of the big network makes you competitive. time was with american 25 years and think it is a good thing. cheryl: you are fascinating to talk to let you have a book coming out called on innovation and you know how to run a business pretty well. looks like a good read. terry jones, thanks for being on the show. dennis: if you're sick of waiting for the annoying passenger taking too long to stuff a big suitcase into the overhead bin american airlines has a deal for you. you better travel white. in an attempt to speed up on-time performance american airlines will give boarding priority to people just carrying a personal items that fits under the seat like a purse or a backpack letting them on the 4 other passengers. american tested this procedure at seven airport earlier this year as began applying it to all flights yesterday. the

as governor leavitt said, if you can have some soft conversations about what this is going to be like, to come to washington, to take on the role of government service, i think that would have streamlined -- if we had been successful. some people are going to remove themselves. some campaign folks want campaign work. and what government service will going to be about, they could have perhaps counted on. i was the only thing that i would -- >> people try to guide these principles. as long as we stopped to the fundamental risible, it made life easier. this principle was -- anyone who was on a campaign with guaranteed a job on the transition if they wanted it. there were 500 or 600 -- >> the inauguration. >> there were 500 or 600 roles in the transition, probably an equal number of roles in the inauguration. over 1000 people we needed. some total people on the campaign was less than 1000. so there was plenty of work to do. anyone who was on the campaign that wished to have a role, we would find one for them in either the transition or the inauguration. principle number one. principle num

ike leavitt said that he could not look today because of scheduling conflicts.budget. news channel 8 will have an in- depth report in a few minutes. let's find out what is happening on the road with amanda meadows. >> thank you. we have got major delays. unfortunately, the morning commute is in full swing. we are seeing some delays. this is along the bw parkway. 197,u are using that near that is going to be southbound, seeing big delays there. left lane is closed. get to the right if you need to get around it. that is on the outside of the beltway. -- we also crash have a crash along the 66. excuse me, not a crash, just heavy volume. metro has delays on the red line. please consider using the green line instead. that is delays of up to 30 minutes. let's get a check on whether with jacqui. >> thank you. lots of sunshine this morning. a nice break after the start of the week that we had. 50 degrees is our temperature. you might want a light jacket to start your day. you certainly will not need at this afternoon. our satellite picture shows you some cloudiness thro

so this is what they said when we held up the leavitt hearing and markup for two weeks. they've already held her up for three weeks. they've asked three times the number of questions and they're not here. so you know, it seems to me unbelievable that after what they said when we wanted answer to questions from and we held it up for two weeks, now they have held out for three weeks with no, nothing insight. because the bottom line is they've gotten the answers to the questions, folks. they don't like the answers, because they're holding gina mccarthy hostage to their pro-polluting philosophy. that's what this is about. they want her to say, okay, i give up, i will change the cost benefit ratio so it helps the polluters. a, issued a that she wouldn't represent president obama. this is his big, and b., she is come in her position has to enforce the clean air act. if my friends want to change the clean air act, try it. every time you tried it we had beaten you. so this is their way to try and to harangue the administration. harassing and haranguing. this nominee. i happen to

to -- to -- to do really what we did a number of years ago, about seven or eight years ago, mike leavitt, former governor of utah, was nominated to be head of help expep there was some delay -- e.p.a. and there was some delay in his nomination. we had a markup, a business meeting scheduled to consider his nomination. the democrats boycotted that meeting and we had to wait for a couple of weeks and had another meeting and democrats showed up, we reported him out with democratic support and later we voted for his nomination. big bipartisan vote. i think over 70, 80 votes in favor of his nomination. my hope is that's what we'll do with jean mccarthy. she deserves a vote and i think from my spur speculative, she deserves -- perspective, she deserves a positive, affirmative vote. but anyway, we've got ernie moniz coming our way in 20 or 30 minutes. i hope my colleagues will join me and others in giving him a big vote and sending him to work for our country one more time. with that, i yield the floor. mr. graham: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham

so why don't have a few leavitt i do know that we should at least say something is wrong and then dealth it and then not turn it into some political fodder but turn it into some way to help people. >> you have been open about talking but to this day you still have a 15-cent cigar sticker on your diploma from wall school. why did you put that sticker there? what was your experience add that time? >> let me say that i probably should have been more respectful of my years at yale that i have some disappointments. the sticker had probably less to do with my experience of them what i thought it would mean then how people would perceive it that when you graduate or of a certain level and of course i think we should be realistic that they were discounted and we know why they were discounted and it's hard to be upset my grandmother used to say some doors closed by god opens other doors. how could i come plame? yale is with all the things that have been said i know what my experiences were. they were mixed and i have a deeper appreciation for that and i travel should have expressed that earlier