[applause] >> please welcome margaret strand. [applause] >> thank you. wells fargo is very pleased to be here. wells fargo has a commitment to invest in the communities in which it has a presence. this is our headquarters city. wells fargo takes significant deposits in san francisco, and therefore, wishes to give back to the city. unlike rich, i always have to say that in my talks, but that is an important part of how we do our business. we are a financial institution. we could not invest in the city unless we had partners like tndc to work with. like everyone else, we are pleased there is a community organization that knows but they are doing. we feel comfortable with them. they are on solid ground financially, but they also know how to develop these particular types of rehabs which are actually very difficult to do. they have a very strong population that they manage and they do so with a great skill set. we are pleased to work with them. as mayor lee mentioned, these projects are of tremendous partnerships with many partners. this project would have n

thank you margaret. doctor tom wenz, he's is an expert if anger management and substance abuse treatment and has worked with with many youth throughout his career. he came to me through george anderson who runs an anger management firm. they have taken the science of conflict mediation and made it into an accessible discipline for trainers, people who are working with young people throughout the state and throughout the county. do you know that there's only, i think now one state that mandates anger management in the school and it was texas. and it's only been within the last year. doctor wenz is an advocate. he's also a vietnam veteran who saw many people suffer from substance abuse in the wake of that war and conflict and has a tremendous amount of experience. he as a doctorate. a master's degree in working with children and works in his own consulting business as well. doctor tomas wenz. >> angela chan as worked with san francisco and community based organization in the area of violence reduction and

my name is margaret wilson. i have been a resident of san francisco for eight years. my husband and i bought a house. we did it with my daughter and her husband, and we share an old victorian with my husband, daughter, son-in-law, and their three children. since we bought the house, we have had a lot of maintenance just to repair damage and stuff. but we have been also very conscientiously trying to do environmental upgrades. and we had been a solar city customer. we put solar on our house two years ago and were able to do so with almost no out-of-pocket expense. and we have seen, you know, basically not a reduction in our energy bill, but flat on our energy bill, and we know that is from solar. so when i received a flier from solar city that announced the energy audits, i talked to my daughter and we decided that we would go and do that right away. so we replied and a requested the energy audit. we had a team of solar city people come into our house and go through the whole house, through the heating, you know, the windows, the drafting, how we used heating and stuff

[applause] now, margaret, too, is on a mission. she faces a different but a related brand challenge. she has set a course to build and then where it needs it repair the brand of the republican party itself. while i will let margaret tell you why and how she believes this is possible, suffice it to say that she brings to the table ideas and through her name and through her reach the ability to attract many newcomers to the republican brand like few that have come before her. now, the second comparison before i introduce her i'd like to make between the mission of the reagan foundation and i shall call it the mission of margaret is to attract young people to our respective causes like never before. here at the reagan foundation we have an overwhelming interest in attracting young people, particularly those who were either not even alive when president reagan was president, or certainly old enough to vote for him to an understanding of who he was and why his ideas were important. without this knowledge there is little chance that they

margaret hoover. [applause] >> it is an incredible honor to be here today with the reagan foundation library and foundation ours is the herbert hoover presidential library association. thank you for that generous introduction. the subtitle of my book is how a generation of conservatives can save the republican party" some of you may wonder if this is alarmist so what would they need to be saved? republicans after all 2010 have historical election came to washington and in a short period of time have managed to change the course of the policies in washington. in the context of our recent success, some may wonder if my father says i may not be alarmist in my subtitle. this is not at all alarmist. there is a sense of urgency behind this that john touched on. my book is intended to be a warning because the republican party is at risk of losing an entire generation of americans come a democratic and others for the rest of their lives. 30 and under which i called the millennials others have called them gene

. >> i would like to ask, thank you very much, margaret, that was great. i would like to ask principle dierck about an experience at his school when i young person saw another person being victimized and actually a group of young adults were stealing school binders and he was afraid she was going to be victimized. how do you work collaboratively with schools, >> i have 2 stories to relate. the first one, took place at washington high school. we had adopted a hot line many years ago before they were in vogue. this young man call about criminals victimizing kids on the 38 bus line. every day these guys were getting on the same stop and steal shoesing and pack backs from kids and get off the next stop. no one did anything about it. he didn't do anything about it until the guy in the row in front of him got victimized. the police were able to put up a sting operation and that they were able to catch them. another instance. somebody jumped on the bus and beat this boy up and jumped off the bus and the other students at our school have all our students have been

margaret foster, sherida ireton, and sheriann ireton, against the department of building inspection, for 122 tiffany avenue, protesting the issuance to john britton of a permit to alter a building, and we will begin after this clears. it will take a moment to have folks settle out. commissioner fung: i guess i cannot throw these away. i will just put it -- >> ok, you will have seven minutes. >> president goh, vice president garcia, my name is mcfarlin. commissioner garcia: you can adjust that so you do not have to lean into it, so you will be more comfortable. >> i am more comfortable. thank you. i am representing the appellants, , foster, -- margaret foster, sherida ireton, and sheriann ireton. relief they are looking for from the board. the appellants filed this appeal for the very narrow issue of assuring that the permit holder, john britton, who is also the owner and the landlord of this, does not use this permit in order to eliminate the appellants' long-term laundry facilities at this. they recognize and have never disputed that the notice of violations issued by the department

i will let margaret tell you why and how she believes this is possible.suffice to say she brings to the table ideas and through her name and through reach the ability to attract many newcomers to the republican brand links you that have come before her. the second comparison i'd like to make between the mission of the reagan foundation and i shall call it the mission of marker is to attract young people to have respect this causes like never before. here is the reagan foundation we have an overwhelming interest in attract and people appeared particularly those either not even 11 president was old enough to vote on to an understanding of who he was and why his ideas are important. without the knowledge, there is little chance that they will strive to emulate him. we've taken special care to bring you into all that we've done from planning to organize in an evolving. markers similar task, when it rings forth in her book involves the single-minded focus of engaging youth, and from millennial generation 50 million strong into the welcome arms of the republica

margaret for help us out with those. >> mr. garcia? >> also, i need to add the wellness centers. >> around thing we need to build on is restored advocacy. we are pilots jane kimberly. she educated me. and then we are starting to get the principles together. people are starting to buy into it. it's a learning process. it's not just, punishing kids more. they are used to be punished. my momma hits harder than that. we need to have systems in place that view it a little differently. from the victim's point of view. and deal with it on an emotional level. people can relate to that. i think our biggest problem is the district doesn't have the capacity to address when all these groups come out it. it's not that we don't want to deal with it. we don't have a grant writer. we don't have the interfaces. tony smith. we have been working with creating those types of things. the city have been wonderful to build our capacity. if you are a principle, what do you do in a hundred different agencies come at you? you barely have the time at school. we

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[applause] margaret is also on a mission. she faces said different related brand challenge she has said the course and where it needs it to repair the brand hot of the republican party herself it i will leave heard to tell you how it is possible the brings to idea is through her name and reach, the ability to attract many newcomers like few that have come before her. between the mission of the reagan foundation and the mission of margaret is to attract young people to our respective causes. here we have been overwhelming interest to attract young people. particularly those who were not even alive when he was president or old enough to vote for him. to know why his ideas were important. without this knowledge there is little chance they will strive to emulate him. went from planning to organizing margaret has a similar task that brings forth the single focus of engaging youth, the millennial generation, a 50 million strong into the welcome arms of the republican party. without them, there is no future for the republican party

i am here with margaret hoover.er new book is called "american individualism, how a new generation can save the republican party and then blowup the world." i just added that part. and he is should sharp he is not allowed near balloon factory. it is america's future foundation chairman. that's interesting. and the flooding resulted in his first bath in months. it is my repulsive sidekick, bill schulz. and if comedic genius was an ikea shelf he would fall apart after you nailed him. and good to see you pinch. >> reporter john carminica says, quote, young stars with fresh mouths. i am unclear as to how one contracts vma. but i will keep those mouths fresh. and whatever lady gaga has, i'm sure vma is one of them. she is a cross trussing har -- cross dressing harlet that one. >> thank you. >> all right. >> if you think global warming isn't caused by man, you are a member klan. al gore is comparing and saying anti-alarmists are this generation's racists. he describes his early years when racism was rampant until people s

margaret is right. the condition of the super committee is that you have to oppose any tax increase/revenue increase, and that is going to lead to -- >> you have just had the most obvious public counter-argument to exactly what you are saying in the fact that the speaker of the house in public accepted a raise of almost $1 trillion. how can you argue that no republicans will raise revenues? it is ridiculous. >> who looks good, who looks back, who looks lost and you will that? >> -- lost an bewildered? >> to quote tom gallagher, even the winner of the mud wrestling contest comes out covered in mud. nobody is enhanced, nobody has grown in the eyes of the public. the public is basically turned against washington and against everybody in this city, probably including us except margaret. >> i believe i heard john boehner isaid he got 90% of what he wanted. >> i think there is no question that john boehner did not win a victory. he looked a little bit weak in the knees -- john boehner did win a victory. he lo

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we assess the causes and the impact of the up and down swings here and abroad. >> woodruff: then, we examine the men and one woman named to the congressional super committee tasked with solving the debt crisis. >> warner: we update the riots in britain, as the police and the courts go after the looters and the prime minister vows to stop the mayhem. >> this is not about poverty, it is about culture-- a culture that glorifies violence, shows disrespect to authority, and says everything about rights but nothing about responsibility. >> woodruff: from iowa, david chalian previews tonight's face- off among republican presidential hopefuls, as texas governor rick perry announces plans to join the field. >> warner: and betty ann bowser profiles the man in charge of medicare and medicaid and his vision for reforming health care. >> i don't want to withhold a single piece of care from anybody that needs it. i don't want to cut costs by harming a hair on anybody's he

well, how big of a hit has the president take snen i want to welcome strategist margaret hooper, and salon.com is steve kornanke, and steve, tonight, the president's critics are piling on. do you agree he is the biggest loser? >> well, i agree it is the triumph for the tea party and a triumph to tr most conservative element. when you look at sort of how this debate set up in the first place, it was a president who said, absolutely fundamentally my bottom line is that this country cannot default on august 2nd, and that is his position all along and no one has doubted that. but the position of the republicans is that we hope that the country doesn't default on august 2nd, but at love t t lot members are okay if it does, and if you don't want to it to happen, this is the list of items you have to sign off on to avoid it. >> and if you listen to any of the democratic guests coming on the night, they are not map hap with the president and saying this is what he has to do if he wants to win in 2012 and what could he have done better? >> well, there were realistically, since this is set up,

of course margaret, we want to see those lights on. my specific question is to the new superintendent, i am a representative of the new high school going to bay view, bay view school of social justice. my specific concern is the attendance on back page from the main topic. there's no professional development and it's not monitored by the district. now connect as a capacity of 4 hundred student s and only attendance of 202. thank you. >> you know, one of the problems with that system, i mentioned that people want to have access to go anywhere they k. they bus themselves out. that's really what happened here. when we review this type of system. we're breaking up neighborhoods without the intention of wanting to do that. the intention was good. we wanted to give everybody access to any school. but we now. it's time. years later to revisit that, wait a minute, what are we doing with this system? we are open to that discussion. as you will see in our new strategic plan. our plan is based upon one thing facing america. recently, a couple of

as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a nephew, sean patrick mcflynn. i always question myself because my writing about the irish is really my writing about myself coming to the united states and coming into

. >> brown: then, margaret warner looks at the opening day of the trial of hosni mubarak, as the former egyptian president was wheeled into court on a hospital bed in a cage. >> egyptians were riveted by the fact that they were now seeing the ousted president on trial but also, i think it was a little bit shocking for some. >> woodruff: ray suarez talks to frank morris of harvest public media about the heat wave and extreme drought gripping the farming industry in the midwest. >> what they say they need is a rain with a name, a big tropical storm to come soak the area, but what they really need is rain after rain after rain. >> brown: hari sreenivasan explores the latest push to go digital and watch movies and television programs online. >> woodruff: and to put the fight over the debt ceiling in perspective, we close by asking yale historian beverly gage and harvard's david king if washington has ever acted like this before. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses?

. >> ifill: then margaret warner examines the deadly helicopter crash that claimed the lives of 30 u.s. forces in afghanistan over the weekend. >> woodruff: plus, we have two education stories. special correspondent john tulenko reports on the cheating scandal that rocked atlanta's schools. >> the pressure to boost scores by any means necessary is so great that teachers think they have to get those scores up by hook or by crook. >> ifill: and the president issues a new executive order to circumvent congress and revamp the "no child left behind" law. >> where there's a high bar, the folks who are doing the right thick for children, we want to give them a lot more flexibility, frankly get out of the way and let them hit that higher bar. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the economy. >> create jobs, keep people healthy, and improve schools. >> ...and our communities. >> in angola chevron helps train engine