congresswoman lynn woolsey and congressman peter king join me. >>> then the shifting campaign terrain with cnn's senior congressional correspondent, dana bash and michael shear of the "new york times." i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> to review the bidding, the president's last ten days include a bleak jobs report, off-message surrogates, a shellacking in the wisconsin recall, a $17 million fund-raising gap with mitt romney, and bipartisan outrage over security leaks. friday, the president held a news conference, pressing congress to pass his jobs bill, including more funding to states to ease layoffs of public workers. he noted 27 months of progress on jobs in the private sector. >> the private sector is doing fine. >> oops. >> it's an extraordinary miscalculation and misunderstanding. >> within hours, the president pressed reset. >> listen, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine. >> joining me from chicago, president obama's senior campaign adviser, david axelrod. david, thank you, as always, for being here. let's start out with a simple ye

continue eighth that is the district to see it is being vacated by requiring 10 term congresswoman lynn woolsey hoffman will face the night's second place finisher in november right now mill valley securities broker daniel walker on a republican is holding onto that spots were talking to a low voter turnout and they're not let people could this have some effect on the results we're seeing? >>> some spent extent usually in this is going to be one of those things that begin at the beginning of the show. usually in those situations where you get traditional voters more often than not to those people are older that time on their hands and they're fairly opinionated. a proposition 29 raises interesting questions about what their perspective a colonel the rotor might be. if you're a smoker you probably and went like that of your living in fixed-income debt and accounts like that but if you're someone is a risk for cancer love the idea of spending a little bit more money for cancer research adding that pow place and is definitely a risk barrages of mail that went out on the television advertising from

et cetera fell as it had by mile this scene is being vacated by retiring 10 term congresswoman lynn woolsey to the leader in the congressional progressive congress and in her district registered democrats outnumber republicans by more than two to one so hoffman plans to paint his campaign with a pretty broad strokes. giveaways and glad that i will go into the next round of this process with a pretty solid first-round results but we're all about representing the district has been my approach in the beginning and is going to continue it i think will get it done. hoffman of face tonight second place finisher in november right now mill valley security program is republican is holding on to that spots in checking local races san francisco voters overwhelmingly rejected proposition a which would have changed the way the city handles trash and recycling collection. in san mateo measure you would raise the hotel tax an unincorporated areas is too close to call it a dead heat right now. in san mateo county's measure t also any debt keeps it would add a 2 1/2% tax to car rentals. sales taxes going up

part because lynn woolsey wouldn't take our bill because she felt she was double crossed by greaton. mike thompson stated we need local support before we take a bill to congress and we can see with all the local -- >> don't bring members into this right now, and you can get that testimony later on because we'll say he said, she said and i said. >> well, i have paper. >> you can submit that, if you wish to do, for the record. >> no worries. let's just say we tried to go through congress. >> you tried to do it. >> okay. >> and so why did you decide to seek litigation rather than going through congress? >> well, we didn't only try to seek going through congress. we also tried the -- the ofa process, but according to 25 cfr-83g makes a california ranch reia act terminated tribes ineligible to go through the petition process. we've also asked for administration restoration like the island ban was, and -- and so, like i said, we also tried through congress in 2000 with a bill. i mean, we went through the courts because we felt it was the last option. in our area there is a tribe, and i bel

the seed is being vacated by congresswoman lynn woolsey. in her district registered democrats out registered republicans two to one. >>> walker presented did as a necessary to avoid full-scale layoffs. >>> this was months beneficial for me necessarily. but ultimately i care more about the next generation. >>> the nearest a sample of how emotions ran. it will mid to live in the woman to their lead down to give the woman was coined to give him a hug but that did not happen. she slapped him. >>> kate goh gear and is at s f o, and the tickets are a little pricey? >>> yes they are. he is back for a little bit of time hoping to raise a lot of money. he was just here a couple weeks ago. he made three stops in the peninsula including one big stock in redwood city. today he was supposedly bound for l.a. for another star- studded the bed so he decided he would make another detour here in california. it's going to be at the julia morgan ballroom. some big names such as willie mays, met mai ed the and jerry brown are said to be in attendance. if you wa

. >> lynn woolsey, also of california and former chair of the progressive caucus. >> thank you, thank you. today the supreme court affirmed the will of the american people. but, you know, the struggle is not over. you can hear that the republicans are going to try to dismantle, step by step for step everything that's in this legislation, and everything that the american people stand for. but instead, we now can strengthen this act. we can add health care for all. we can start working to make sure there's competition, to make sure that we have medicare for everybody. and when we do that, nobody will worry ever again about whether they have health care in the united states of america. thank you, supreme court. thank you, progressive caucus. thank you, progressive community. thank you, democrats. we all made this happen. thank you very much. >> so we have rush holt, peter welch, shelly pingree, sheila jackson lee and hanson clark. >> i'm rush holt, i represent the people of new jersey. the history of the united states has been a history of extending human rights to every person. and to p

this is being vacated in that, congresswoman lynn woolsey. democrats outnumber republicans the green light to allocate funds for the upkeep calls on the city to preserve murals aside city officials say would put restrictions on the city's parks budget in the measure also restricts private parties and said quite tower. sales-tax going up than three contra costa county cities boaters and hercules pittsburgh and san problem all give a thumbs-up to approve tax. check out a cbs sf dot com. did we to one man following an offer an officer involved shooting in south francisco after the devastation right now where police are searching for more evidence what happened patrick. >>> south san francisco police say officer was standing next to a man back here in the corner of westborough at 9:00 p.m. when the officers said he was threatened by the man and apparently pulled a gun the officer in the officer shot the man the suspect has life- threatening injuries into the officer believe the suspect was arms and felt he was in danger. the suspect that believe

. >>> lynn woolsey has picked someone to replace her. she has endorsed jared huffman. >>> san jose police announced the arrest of a suspect in an apparently unprovoked attack. investigators say kevin dixon beat a man unconscious. dixon is now facing felony battery charges. he's currently being he'll without bail and is expected back in court tomorrow. >>> the alameda county district attorney has declined to file charges against most of the protesters arrested last month at an occupy the farm demonstration in albany. charges will not be filed against seven of 10 protesters arrested for unlawful assembly and trespassing as uc berkeley's 10-acre track. in a separate action, eight protesters are being sued by uc regents in an effort to ban them from trespassing or farming on that site. >>> this was a pivotal day on the case of bryan stow. today for the first time a witness identified one of the men as stow's attacker. ktvu's christien kafton said that witness is the sister of one defendant and engaged to marry the other. >> marvin norwood is

. >>> lynn woolsey has picked someone to replace her. she has endorsed jared huffman. >>> san jose police announced the arrest of a suspect in an apparently unprovoked attack. investigators say kevin dixon beat a man unconscious. dixon is now facing felony battery charges. he's currently being he'll without bail and is expected back in court tomorrow. >>> the alameda county district attorney has declined to file charges against most of the protesters arrested last month at an occupy the farm demonstration in albany. charges will not be filed against seven of 10 protesters arrested for unlawful assembly and trespassing as uc berkeley's 10-acre track. in a separate action, eight protesters are being sued by uc regents in an effort to ban them from trespassing or farming on that site. >>> this was a pivotal day on the case of bryan stow. today for the first time a witness identified one of the men as stow's attacker. ktvu's christien kafton said that witness is the sister of one defendant and engaged to marry the other. >> marvin norwood is

primary vote to determine the successor to retiring democratic congressmember when -- congressmember lynn woolsey. the candidates include the progressive activist and author norman solomon, founder of the media watchdog fairness and accuracy in reporting as well as the public affairs group, institute for public accuracy. the top two vote getters in the 12-candidate race will square off in november for the chance to claim the seat. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show with the late polish resistance fighter robert kraig in his own words. last week, the white house apologized to poland over language used by president obama in honoring karski. obama referred to a polish death camp when awarding the presidential medal of freedom without noting poland was occupied by nazi germany. former polish foreign minister adam daniel rotfeld accepted the award in chris skype's name. white house press secretary jay carney later said obama misspoke. during world war ii, jan karski helped alert the world to the nazi holocaust. he visited the wa

house homeland security committee chairman peter king of new york and democratic congresswoman lynn woolseycalifornia. thank you both for getting up early this morning. i want to kind of set the stage for this discussion by showing our viewers a couple of statistics. since the second half of the bush administration into the observation, there have been a reported 302 drone strikes into northwest pakistan, about 2,800 people killed we are told. about 17% of them civilians. these are hard to keep track of, these are not exact numbers, but it's the best estimate. congresswoman, let me ask you, is anything about that troublesome to you? we are essentially launching these aerial vehicles and dropping or sending bombs into places, and it's fingerprintless. the u.s. does it from some place else. are you worried about this at all? >> well, i know i am. it's such a trend to dehumanize warfare, and it's machines and computers doing the job. you know what, candy? this is not video games. these are real people, and it's real death, and we are making real enemies around the world by continuing with our

one, partly because lynn woolsey wouldn't take our bill because she felt she was doublecrossed. mike thompson stay we need local support before we take a bill to congress. and we can say with all the local -- >> don't bring members into this right now. you can get that testimony later on. because we will say he said/she said, and i said. >> well, i have paper. >> you can submit that if you wish to do for the record. >> no worries. well, let's just say we tried to go through congress. >> you tried, thank you. >> and so why did you decide to seek litigation rather than going through congress the? >> well, we didn't only try to see going through congress, we also tried the ofa process but according to 25 cfr 80 3g, it makes california act committed tribe in eligible to go through the petition process. we have also asked for administration restoration, and so like i said, we also try to congress in 2000 with a bill. i mean, we went through of course we felt was the last option. in our area, there was a tribe in i believe no fault of theirs, it put a sour taste in congress for other

not tomorrow, but soon. >> host: as you saw, congresswoman lynn woolsey was on with republican peter king of new york. we will give you a little bit of what he said indicating his support for the use of domestic drones. >> i think drones are legitimate form of law enforcement. when you don't have an expectation of privacy if you're in the open, talk about crouch, talk about sidewalks, talking about people out of the open. there was the expectation of privacy. the drones are extra and effectiveness for us trying to spot things that could be happening in a crowd. certainly if a child has been kidnapped or lost but also along the border, that's too. also i would just as far as use of drones, we've not been attacked since september 11 and that's -- >> host: harley geithner, -- which can do more fall into between those two comments? >> guest: i fall on the pro-privacy camp, surrogate although i do agree with representative king that there are many positive uses of drones. he does actually describe the law as it exists today. however, i think that law is outdated i think it's an adequate b