san francisco gets a bit of a bum rap because we are a liberal city, but as far as support for veterans, there is no city that does a better job. this goes back to the feinstein administration, every mayor since then. everyone has done a wonderful job supporting the veterans. san francisco is the only city we know of in the country that pays for mental health care for veterans out of the city budget. we have been doing that for 25 years. we have housing on a treasure island that is a no cost police for veterans. -- lease for veterans. in the presidio, 102 units of supportive housing. the city provides rehab funding there. veterans with disabilities. more recently, the city made available a landmark building that has revived substantial rehab funding. in 2012, 75 senior hamas veteran will be able to live out their lives in dignity. i just cannot say enough about the job the city does of stepping up to the plate. it is not just about platitudes and waving banners, it is about getting the job done. we are great -- we are very grateful. >> randy martina's is the president of the city colleg

san francisco gets a bit of a bum rap because we are a liberal city, but as far as support for veterans, there is no city that does a better job. this goes back to the feinstein administration, every mayor since then. everyone has done a wonderful job supporting the veterans. san francisco is the only city we know of in the country that pays fen

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maldonado criticized san francisco's liberal city policy. >> then after that, if that didn't work, he would send them to san bernardino. >> we have very different point of views that relate to the rights of our diverse community. he opposed not once but four times, domestic partnerships. >> the two have another debate scheduled in los angeles, a week from today. >>> time now, 7:19. earlier this year, san francisco's crime lab scandal made headlines. now are there's a similar case across the bay. oakland's police chief anthony bats says his department is investigating allegations of miss conduct by a crime lab technician. the unidentified employee analyzes drug and evidence. but chief bats says he's found no evidence of wrongdoing and no crim cases are in jeopardy. >>> classes are expected to be back to normal at uc berkeley, following yesterday's national day of action. >> walk out! >> walk out! >> now, hundreds of students, professors, and workers, staged these protests at schools nationwide, in response to the drastic cutbacks, tuition increases and layoffs. at uc berkeley, one grou

all your viewers are saying dumb new york, typical stuff, big spending in a liberal city. it's coming. this is a federal mandate, all right? main street, u.s.a., is not going to be main street u.s.a. megyn: what is the argument? you can't -- there was something about how it's easy to read when it's upper and lower case. is that the logic behind this? >> it's a safety issue. >> oh, it's a safety issue. >> because it's the way you read this, the front, capital lower -- it's called clear view. who knew. megyn: so people running stop signs, it's like what is that, sto -- whoa! but now it's like oh, stop, i see t. upper and lower case, it makes sense to me now. >> 9 1/2% of this country is employed, double that is unemployed, we're heavily indebted, now spending 70 million in no, on this, probably hundreds across the country, everybody has to do it by 2018, so if your town hasn't done t. you got eight years left. megyn: who made this a federal mandate? >> transportation department, i assume. megyn: is this straight from the administration or how did this come about? >> congress

>>reporter: as san francisco da harris has had to play to the city liberal base but state width votersare much more moderate. 70% support the death penalty. democrat points out this race can't just center on one issue. attorney general office handles very few death penalty case. in that regard she describes herself as innovator creating nationally recognized program and high tech crime. >> to fight crime like identity theft and sophisticated financial fraud. 21st century criminal and predator are thriving in a 20th century system. >>reporter: in recent years the death penalty hasn't been much of an issue but with new death chamber at san quentin and inmate just days away from execution before the court stepped in this race is now getting a lot of attention. at uc davis, abc 7 news. >>> in the california governor race republican whitman today reported spending more than 140 million dollars on her campaig campaign. nearly 120 million of this was her own money. democrat brown ornd was expected to report spending 1 10.3 million with 22 million in cash still on hand. one month before the el

liberal. >> the sanctuary city thing getting hit hard on. a lot of the -- the -- the tax on cigarettes to clean the streets or the ban on plastic bags. all those things are things that i think convey a negative image of san francisco. >> we balance a budget without raising taxes, bond rate something reaffirmed. we have universal healthcare, preschool, top urban school district in california. >> reporter: when do we see a commercial proud of of?$. >> we want to run offensive and play a little defense but i'm running a campaign about tomorrow and that's public education, environment and job creation and we are talking about that for the rest of the state. >> reporter: while the mayor is doing that, his opponent in the race rival republican lieutenant governor maldonado is going up and down the straight with radio ads hammering newsom on the very fact that he is from san francisco and about sanctuary city and all those things that weren't in gavin's ad. >> and the radio costs much less, radio ads. >> reporter: you can expect to see more ads in

you're a liberal new york city democrat and i'm sort of -- >> character, but i'll live with it for now. >> i'm a regular american -- >> prague mattive conservative. >> pragmatic conservative from the south. we're going to have different ideas about things. >> sometimes. a lot of times we don't. >> anyway, what we want to do on this how is talk about the most important ideas, events, people of the day. tonight we have -- >> tonight we have some of the most interesting people. who are we starting with? >> dick armey, the former majority leader and also sort of figurehead of the tea party. >> we have a lot to thank him for. >> manifesto. >>> a brilliant historian, doris kearns goodwin. she got a pulitzer prize. a brilliant woman. fun to listen to. great record, but she roots for the boston red sox. i'll forgive her. >> some people may not know about here, she's the first female journalist to go into the boston red sox locker room. we're going to talk about the midterm elections, the thing in the news. >> it is critical. >> the most important issue for us. >> these elections matter. if the

city. >> probably as a liberal, the liberal aspect of it you don't see in texas. >> reporter: a complete stereotype but there's what diane is finding and for this person from texas it's a whole new world. >> well, y'all have buildings. we have one level houses. we have lots of barns. most everybody has cows, acreage, uhm, we just finished bailing hay at our ranch . >> different type of weed for sure. >> haven't seen too many rednecks here. we have lots of those in dot texas. >> reporter: are you a redneck? >> no. >> yesterday we rented a car, drove up to napa and spent the day there. >> reporter: to be fair, texans seem to be enjoying our hospitality. so much so they have decided to teach us the cotton eye joe during the 7th inning stretch. forward side forward back. the dance comes complete with an expletive we can't yell on channel 5, one of the little bits of culture texans might be able to teach us. all right. i feel guilty because they are so nice. the texans we spent time with today, so hospitable themselves. i'm going to rethink this thing about texas. i wish them a lot of luck --

and the stark contrast, the president in boston, a blue city, one of the most liberal blue cities inly in blue state california which is now a battle ground state and it looks like the president is still staying with the message he wanted to drive home the democrats and he may have finally grabbed one yesterday with what at the end. next hour, take a listen. >> this election is a choice and the stakes cannot be higher because if they win this election, a share of a republican committee already promised to pursue the exact same agenda as they did before they took office. that's what they said. i don't know if any of you have noticed, but if you want to go forward in your car, what do you do? you put it into d. you want to go backwards, you put it into r, don't let us go backwards now. >> that's a good one, a clever one, that drives it home. >> pun intended. he's been searching as you said. first it was john boehner, that fell flat and let's go after the chamber of commerce, where the money has come from and none has registered so far, you look at a new poll and it's doubtful when that

measure that requires workers to pay more for pensions and health care you can bet that other cities, even liberalrancisco that passed they want to stop it here. >> but why would a billion air get involved in pension reform? >> they happen to think it might be good government and they are not then ones former mayor willie brown and it is being pro prosed by the town's public defender, he says it makes financial sense not all politics some is philosophical and comes down the pennydollars. >> all right to be continued. also our show this morning super gathering for a super record up next comedian will farrell and a few costumed friends set a record and are promoting a movie ,,,,,, 3q while there are some home disasters you can't avoid, there is one you can. septic system breakdowns affect 1.2 million homes in the us each year. septic backups can cost about six thousand dollars in expense, and countless hours of repair. rid-x costs only six dollars, and the advanced natural bacteria generate powerful enzymes, which accelerate the waste digestion. use rid-x once a month, and help save yourself from di

from an and acceptability name of the -- ancient area of afghanistan and these flags would liberate the cities from a regime that controlled them. one young boy met, he was attending a local proam and he said he wanted to be a suicide bomber when he grew up. i said, well, what if there's peace in the area, and you can do what you would like? he said i want to be a holy worrier and i said there's definite peace, what's your third choice, and he said he wanted to be a muslim. that's the culture today and the ideology thrives in those areas. i saw close up the effort to counter what's going on there. there was drones hovering over us most days on captivity. one drone strike occurred just outside of our house when we were being held in and area and the taliban fear the drone strikes and they are generally accurate. they did kill civilians, but in each of the strikes in my captivity, there were foreign militants killed. the result is there's a sort of terrifying police state from the local people who live in the tribal areas and they round up who they believe are spies and hang them after the drone

. >> bill: the democrat machine in this state is tremendous and liberals dominate the new york city areathat people would vote for a republican this year, juan. and paladino knows he is not going to get a fair shake from the media. on issues, he is simply not going to be heard. so i think he is a making a very, very -- very flam point gamble by saying, hey, i'm going to present myself as a guy who is going to be so intense and reflect the feelings of the folks that that's the only way i can win. >> you know what? i hope you are right. i hope in fact this is a political strategy. my fear is that this is the real carl paladino. >> bill: wait a minute. what you fearing, juan? if somebody did that to your 10-year-old daughter, staked her out with a camera. >> i gold nuts. >> bill: what are you fearing on that? >> bill, this is a guy with with a history of writing emails using the "n" word. pornographic emails. >> bill: zoo man. that's what do. did you ever hear that in college mary katharine the zoo man. that's what he is. >> juan is right. these are problems. >> bill: these are problems. >>

the democratic party made a mistake to have the most liberal politician from the most left-leaning citythe liberal california to be their speaker of the house. jacques writes that pelosi is the face of the enemy for the republicans in this cycle the same way that bush was the face of the enemy for the democrats in the last cycle. she an easy tart, and politicians love easy targets. and easier to do the guilt by association thing, than, you know, to actually discuss the real issues. steve in california, i'm a registered democrat, but pelosi is the problem. she hijacked the president's guidance and policy direction which resulted in the nationwide disdain for incumbents and gave the tea party legs. sherry in indiana, how could she make it worse? silly to blame pelosi for what the democrats as a group have done as a country. she did not do it alone, and she may have led the lambs to slaughter, but if they weren't sheep, they would not have followed. the dems ignored the constituents and time to pay the piper. mike says, does anybody notice the qualities that helps somebody become speaker m

liberation. unfurling a huge world homeless banner they marched down city streets to the vai can't leslie hotel at the corner of eddie and lar con and they entered it. they went room to room through the hotel hanging banners and taking over. homeless came through the door and settled into empty rooms with running water and electric -- electricity until police arrived. >> we had it open to the public. anybody who needed a place to sleep could get in. >> activists say there are 36,000 vai can't units in -- vacant units, and on any night 6,000 san franciscans have nowhere to stay. >> it is a disgrace to see three times as many empty housing in the city as people on the streets. something needs to be done. since today is world homeless day, we are acting in solidarity with 50 other countries across the world dozens of cities in the u.s. >> people walking by were elated to find the surprise housing. >> millions sit empty and we can put people in there. >> this is what needs to be from the ground up. that's a beautiful thing. hopeful leahy will walk back up here with me. >> but that never happened. poli

liberal party. >> vegas is trying hard to shed its image as sin city. the tea party wants to be of movement that does not focus on cultural issues. the gun store owner held a rally of gun owners and said the focus on economics is right. >> i am sure you remember this from a couple years ago. how do you think you have done? >> there was a set like this, and now the word is you hope you have some change left, because everybody is out of work. >> after 11 days, the competition's of the commonwealth games have come to a close in delhi. >> the color, the spectacle. this moves the most naked -- host nation ahead of england. it is nothing compared to the sheer scale of a challenge of bringing the commonwealth games to india for the first time. a few weeks ago there was a question if the games would even be able to take place at all. next up, it is class go, -- glasgow, and it is going to have a different field. 350 performers gave del he of feeling of what to expect in 2014. -- delhi a feeling of what to expect in 2014. does the minister believe this will be m

city. >> probably as a liberal, the liberal aspect of it you don't see in texas. >> reporter: a complete stereotype but that's what diane is finding. and for jackie hawkins from dot, texas, it's a whole new world. >> well, y'all have buildings. we have one level houses. we have lots of barns. most everybody has cows, acreage, uhm, we just finished we just finishing bal ing hay at our ranch. >> different type of weed for sure. >> haven't seen too many rednecks here. we have lots of those in dot texas. it's a lot of fun and we like to come to the big city. >> reporter: are you a redneck? >> no. >> yesterday we rented a car, drove up to napa and spent the day there. >> reporter: to be fair, texans seem to be enjoying our hospitality. so much so they have decided to teach us the cotton eyed joe, a dance they apparently doing in the stands during the 7th inning stretch. forward, side, forward, back. the dance comes complete with an expletive we can't yell on channel 5, one of the little bits of culture texans might be able to teach us. you know, this time we spent with the texans today, they

it's an interesting question, why, you know, a liberal who lives in new york city is an elitist but a ceo of a company in texas who lives on a 10,000-acre ranch isn't. you know, a lot of it comes down to politics. >> i think it comes down to the cowboy hat. if you put on a cowboy hat, you're not an elitist. you could be a hollywood actor, ronald reagan, you could be a millionaire son of a president, george w. bush, and you're still not an elitist, right? obama want s onc s to put on a hat. maybe it will work for him. there is this real issue. we had david k. johnson on the show. he told me a story. he said in the beginning of the bush administration, and he talked to somebody inside the administration, and asked them, hey, what do you think is a medium income of the country? he said she answered quarter of a million dollars. and he's like, are you kidding me? the real answer, of course, at the time was about $28,000. >> about a tenth of that. >> right. >> that's an elitist, right? that'ser real. people exist, people who think that way. >> look at palin. she does play this card. sarah

that an army of black flags that would emerge from the afghanistan area in this army would liberate the holy cities of mecca and medina in saudi arabia from an apostate regime that control them. one young boy and that was attending a local madrasah of and i asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said he wanted to be a suicide bomber. i said what if there is peace in this area and you could do what every like? he said he wanted to be a holy warrior. i said let's say there is definitely peace in this area. what is your third choice? he said want to be a muslim. that is the culture and the ideology that is driving in the tribal areas. i saw close of the impact of the u.s. effort to counter what is going on there. there were drones hovering over us on most of the days of my captivity. one strike occurred just outside our house when we were being held in an area of south waziristan. they fear the drone strike and they are generally accurate. they did kill civilians, but in each of the strikes that occurred in my captivity, that there were militants killed, often foreign militants killed.

addiction he told us that from a medical point of view the members of city narcotics use inefficient methods. you're the most liberal. i think the tragedy for this foundation and it's rehabilitation centers is the absence of effective laws which determine the roles of everyone involved what should be the relation between an addict in society it's not clear i don't think the foundation used any medical methods at all they just held all those antics and didn't let them go their idea was that an addict should go through suffering and that this pain would prevent them from using drugs in the future but it doesn't work alex forget about the pain all they remember is the minutes of bliss and all they want is to come back to this condition from a medical point of view it's not a fish and to hold them the method should be complex the practice they use doesn't correspond to any known methods so i'm against the way they did it but at the same time i cannot say anything against their leader igor i think his motives were clear . next to no armageddon on the streets of new york was the prospect promised by u.s. media in the run

then again, ideas that were liberal or even communist a few years ago are, now. using our city reserves to create a new credit market to get out of this recession. one state of the union has that right now, north dakota. they have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. how radical of an idea is it if it actually works? that is the kind of thinking i would bring to the board. that is why i have supported progressive supervisors. >> i suppose i would be on the side of the progressives as well. that said, i believe thi have te ability to create a consensus. i've demonstrated that. not only in the endorsements i've received, as well as endorsements from the firefighters. on two different sides of the spectrum sometimes, or most of the time. what that the show is that i have the ability to create consensus. most of my stances are probably more progressive than more moderate stance is. >> ms. morris. >> i coin myself as the kitchen table politician that came to the election. a person who saw something wrong, and something that needed someone like me. it was whoever had a good i