commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. commander daniel lazard, chief of investigations. this is a time when we stop and offer special members of the police department. these are members who have distinguished themselves through their bravery and dangerous situations. it is important to note one of the criteria for the medal of honor this one failed to -- failure to take such action would lead to center. these are actions above and beyond call of duty. at this time, i would like to invite the chief of police, cheif gascon, to come up here and speak. >> thank you, everyone, for being here. this is a special moment in policing movie get to celebrate the incredible acts of bravery by the men and women in our department. before i say a few words about these incredible men and women sitting in the front, i want to thank their families. your support, day in and day out, or caring, companionship, your ability to talk to your loved ones as they are going through difficult times -- i was going to say men and women, but today we hav

the reason i focused on los angeles is because mahoney was involved in a massive effort to resolve the abuse cases there, and he got a loan of $200 million, a third of the settlement level from the allied irish bank, and as i kept looking and interviewing people, the allied irish bank turned up everywhere. the allied irish bank does tremendous business in the united states with various catholic diocese, bond issues, loans for building schools. why lend $200 million for something like that, for a settlement in a legal case? several of the attorneys i interviewed in this book say that it was their understanding that this was sort of a passthrough by which the vatican was assisting. i don't know that to be a fact. i quoted these men on the record, but it's one of the mysteries that sort of hangs like the mystery of where peter's pence goes, like the mystery of why in church, the leaders of the church, have become so lost in the foggy hubris of the succession, and so i thank you for your attention, and i'll be happy to take your questions. [applause] >> thanks, jason, that was great. peopl

it turns out that bank of america, that official is james mahoney who sits on the board of directors which sponsored the event. bank of america issued this statement today. "bank of america does not endorse presidential candidates, the refshs was about following up on the substance of the speech about job creation and economic growth." what bank of america did not mention is -- while he doesn't appear to be a registered lobbyist, he is a chairman of bank of america's new hampshire pac, an influence post focussed on dispensing political cash, not a policy post. surprise, surprise. if the line bank of america, we'll help you out was in a movie script, it would take place in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night. kind of like this. >> he got all of the money. >> what do you mean? >> we're just following the money. >> don't worry, we'll be following the money. and campaign donations as this race goes on, but here's what we do know, bank of america has already helped out rick perry. aside from donating more than $125,000 to perry's gubernatorial campaigns, the bank bailout han

mary mahoney matthew erica jeannie, as well as others we depend on. and amy, who is out of town busily recruiting seniors. i see our time is up. we thank you most sincerely for years. our panel another round of applause. thank you. [applause] by the way, someone said it is two to one conservatives, it is now three to two because we got two questions from the liberal side. thank you. [laughter] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the "wall street journal" reported yesterday that the obama administration will begin basing its aid to pakistan on whether the country meets a scorecard of u.s. objectives to combat al qaeda and its allies fear the country's former foreign secretary is in washington today. he will be speaking at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. we will have that live here on c-span. congress returns three weeks from today. when they do there 12-member joint committee on deficit reduction will begin meeting to determine additional $1.50 t

i would be remiss if i did not thank 60-plus staffers here today, mary mahoney, matthew conrad, lauralosser, jeannie trues los as well as others we depend on at 60-plus, randy randall, chris craig, kimberly and of course our newly installed president amy frederick who is out of town busily recruiting seniors to our banner. icr time is up at 60-plus. we thank you most sincerely for yours. give our panel another round of applause if you don't mind. [applause] thank you and by the way, have to add this with. while someone said it is 2-1 conservative, it is now 3-2 because we have two questions from the liberal side. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. >> the u.s. commission on civil rights recently examined the issue of eminent domain, laws that allow local governments to take private property with just compensation if the purposes on a public use. the event includes discussion about the impact of the extreme court 2005 decisioning k-kilo versus the city o