commissioner liu? commissioner liu: thank you, mr. selna, for something today. i definitely do understand that you need certainty in pursuing your job. i think what i am struggling with here is that in order to make a decision on a waiver, which we take seriously and don't want to grant lightly, is normally i feel like i would need to know what are the anticipated communications and i know that you've tried to address that as best you can, not knowing where you might land. so that is the difficulty i'm having, is that it's hard to know what would be undue influence or what your involvement may or may not be if we don't know what you anticipate your communications might be or the nature of those communications with the city during this next year and so that's what i'm having some difficulty with and i suppose, you know, related to that, we could ask you questions such as you say in your background that you have -- that you're pursuing or you're looking at real estate or land use type work, is that correct? or did i misread that? >> i didn't say that specifically.

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commissioner liu: i want to go back to subsection d. it does make reference about how there is a different guideline that directs how exhibits are playced on the library. can you educate us on what that process is and whether staff is involved? >> certainly pure good -- certainly. we have two main documents. one is the guidelines and the other is the exhibition policies. it basically speaks to the role of the library in tying in with our mission to provide access as broadly as possible to diverse audiences. the guidelines explain that the fifth paragraph talks about selection criteria for individuals engaged in a wide range of activities. this is evaluated on a set of criteria that is listed, and they are a evaluated by a staff as well as our committee to plan not exhibitions -- plan exhibitions and then devise proposals, and we typically die them in with the same topics, such as in february we just finished black history month. it is done by of staff group, and they review it to make sure we are capturing a wide audience, and it talks

let us -- let me return to the roll call and note that commissioners liu and chair hur have been excused for tonight. three members of the commission constitutes a quorum to proceed with business. let me start with public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission. >> yes, you probably reminded yourself recently a number of times but let me take this opportunity to remind you again, you have already found someone guilty of official misconduct by unanimous vote of this body. there was no contention that it was not related to the office involved. and, of course, it was willful misconduct in the chairing of a public meeting in an open session with the cameras on. if the mayor is content to stand behind his appointees after they've been found guilty of official misconduct, why should you go to the trouble of determining official misconduct on someone else? if someone remains in their position, guilty or not guilty, what's the point? not only did the mayor do nothing but this library commissioner was reaffirmed as the

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. >>> i'm richard liu, straight to pictures of a rally under way to express solidarity for trayvon martin unarmed black teen shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer. and the pentagon is disputing claims out of afghanistan that a roadsideom have no indication that an ep society ever occurred. back to "hardball." >> back to "hardball," it's been over three weeks since the shooting death of the unarmed florida teenager, trayvon martin by george zimmerman. a self-defense law in florida known as stand your ground, allows a person that perceived a threat to use deadly force without first trying to retreat from a confrontation. we'll talk about this right now. now benjamin crump, the family attorney, says evidence provided by a teenager girl on the phone with trayvon provides evidence, let's listen to that. >> he had no intention of getting back in his truck to do what the police told him to do. how do we know? this young lady connects the dots. she completely blows zimmerman absurd self-defense claim out of the water. >> so will the zimmerman defense work? let's go to jasmine rand, and we have a

." >> richard liu, thank you so much.rt of the virtual career fair, log on to monster/military.com. >>> going to take a check on the traffic now, let's say hello once again to danella sealock. >> still checking things out on the 14th street bridge. bridge work continues. taking a i way two of your right lace, and your travel speeds slow, northbound on 395, just 39 miles per hour. about 17 minutes to get from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. now, crossing over the american legion bridge, different story. nice and clear. traveling on the outer loop or the inner loop of the beltway, no issues to report at this time. and in d.c., thinking about heading to lunch? why not go to 7th and 8th street in chinatown. volume very light, not seeing any accidents in the area. barbara, back to you. >>> closing time for bars in the district could be pushed back an hour if mayor vincent gray gets his way. his 2013 budget says allowing bars to stay open an extra hour, 3:00 a.m. on week days and 4:00 a.m. on weekends will raise an extra

msnbc's richard liu is on the path forward. where are we going from here?th wins in mississippi and alabama for ric, marks got madder. missouri, puerto rico and illinois vote early this month. mitt romney needs a win in these air yeas. two southern state, texas and louisiana will challenge romney. let's talk illinois first. millions of dollars are planned for ads, ugly is on in illinois. local polls show a tight race right now as well, which is why some like politico call illinois the new ohio. it's not a romney lockup. the delegate math favors him. math is why puerto rico is important. newt gingrich in that territory, in an uncommon situation interviewed the territory's governor for a news network last year and gingrich supports a territory vote statehood and this could help him. the governor endorsed romney and santorum is on the ground. romney made need the likes of territory to solve his evangelical problem. romney did not win a primary when more than half the voters are evangelical, the red area on top. in romney's losses, both states had over 75% evan

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you have a fannie and freddie loan, there are alternatives to short-sell your home or do a deed in liuclosure. some are doing cash for keys, paying people to leave their homes or do a short refinance. >> but that leads us to the next question. the obama administration has five different mortgage relief initiatives and none of them have lived up to the stated expectations. some have been more successful than others. the fha short re-phiprogram -- re-fi program has not helped as many people. >> there is a lot of -- a lot, a lot of reasons why they haven't worked. to be simple, we can put them in two buckets. one is the problem itself. the problem itself has been evolving as we go. this began as a subprime crisis. when the fha or hope for homeowner programs, they would help the subprime borrowers. now we have a problem with negative equity and unemployment and the programs have been rolled out and we are behind the problem. we have never been in front of the problem. the other bucket is the players. we have government, banks, not-for-profits, all the groups who are trying as hard as they

montana, lehigh, and liu brooklyn.ng the field of 68 fill up. >> selection sunday is three days away. we want you to join, all of you out there, we want you to join our bracket contest because i'll be filling out a bracket, as will you, jeff, right? >> i will. >> you can compete against us and beat us. >> carol has so much knowledge. she's going to put me away. >> not in college basketball, i don't. baseball, football, yeah, but thank you, jeff. >> okay. >>> a cupcake craving in the middle of the night used to mean you had to wait until the next day, but not anymore. here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it may look like an atm, but when's the last time you saw someone this tickled at a cash machine. who needs cash when all you need is a credit card at the cupcake atm. each one comes in a box. >> i'm so excited. it smells good just standing here. >> reporter: that's because it's located at sprinkles cupcake bakery in beverly hills. sprinkles is so famous for its mouth watering cupcakes that they were paired with champ

. >>> we'll learn more about the high speed rail train set to zoom liu the bay area.the bullet train to los angeles. the chair of the high speed rail authority board is set to make a presentation. ooh you can voice your concern or your support at the mountain view center for the performing arts at 8:25 tonight. >>> 8:25. a lot of people might think they need add bullet train to get to work. it's bad out there sal? >> let's go out and take a look at the golden gate bridge, ooh you can see the slow traffic on 101 there. there is a crash near the mid- fan span, not a major injury crash but there they ever the less. what you can't see is the slow traffic coming in from the waldo grade southbound. you're watching the traffic after the crash which is light. if you're driving on the golden gate bridge give yourself extra time. also looking at 880 northbound, really does look terrible. 580 is not much better. driving over the lake shore area. this morning again, northbound 101 is improving slightly. we've had some slow traffic here in san jose. by the way, i also wanted to me

we have the college court liu. a lot of them come to me for haircuts. >> we come here all the time.differences of opinion. >> i put dell over nuchlt lv. >> they're more nba fan. my man, we big college basketball fans. so we haven't had a rowdy atmosphere yet. had this gets down to the final four, it probably get a little more crazy. >> i've been coaching basketball for about 30 years. i try to help kids get in school who can't afford it flew a basketball scholarship. they sacrifice a lot and don't receive none of the benefits that the universities receive from advancing in each round in ncaa. they should get some kind of compensation for it. >> i made a little bracket yesterday. i'm doing all right. >> president obama filled his own bracket on espn saying exactly who he pre predicts to win. i think he knows what is going on in basketball more than me. i think president obama is an all right dude for that one. at the end of the day, as long as he's still handling his business as the president, he found osama bin laden, bush couldn't do it. so as long as he's handling stuff like that,

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