mark matthews tells us how the cafornia watch site works. >> reporter: pick a statement by meg whitman on a particula issue. say the budget. then compare that statement with what jerry brown has said on the same issue and you've got a big part of what political reporting is all about. if you take every quote or promise statement made by both candidates and run them through a whole batch of search tools, now you got the basic idea behind politics verbatim. >> it's a way voters can use it as a voter guide. it sortsy issue, like abortion, the budget, welfare, environment. >> reporter: mash is editorial direor of california watch. he showed off the site which also sorts candidates' statents by geography. are they telling voters in ange county the same things that they are saying in san francisco? >> there will be a way for people to do a search and sort for inconsistencies with this site, definitely. >> he says his staff is scouring political coverage of the ndidates's speeche on their campaign sites. >> on top of that, what we're trying to do in our next implementation is make it easy for

and mark matthews is here with the story. >> this group put up the ad.president refuses to say who put up the $3 million to buy air time for the ad, the a.ad tacks jerry brown with the same misleading claims we've seen from mig whitman's campaign. and this add is independent of the republican rival, being put forward by small business action committee. headed by joel fox. >> our mission is to have a business friendly california. >> fox says it's purpose is educational. >> if this ad doesn't call for someone to be voted for or against or a vote at all. >> and because it doesn't specifically say don't vote for jerry brown or do vote for meg whitman it's not a campaign ad, it's considered an issue ad. and don'tors may remain anonymous. >> this is an example of something that doesn't use magic words but is functional equivalent of a campaign ad. >> the professor says the campaign disclose sure laws have not kept up with requirements. and this dan schner plans to titan those rules. >> this is pure and simple about organizations who know that if this this were

abc 7's mark matthews joins us with unusual turn of events in both case autos what is unusual about thisver go a public hearing these charges. charlie rangel whose numerous pledged violations have been well documented could settle for a reprimand. maxine waters less than that. both want a hearing and that is political problems for democrats. >> and los angeles congress woman maxine waters is accused of a conflict of interest. and treasury officials meeting with officials in one united bank during 2008 crisis. waters husband sad on the board ask was a large investor on the bank. and shortly after the meeting when there was a bailout from the feds, money the bank has yet to repie n a statement waters said very not violated house rules, and therefore, i will to the be forced to admit something that i did not do. waters is wall calling for a public hearing for a ethics subcommittee last week a similar committee took up charges against new york congressman charlie rangel. >> there is members we're neither accusers nor defenders of our colleague, mr. rangel. our job is to act impartially. >> n

>> certainly both -- matthew specifically and luke more subtly claimed that she is a virgin. mark says nothing. and john says nothing about it. and the reason that both matthew and luke introduced that particular aspect or they have a tradition that states that about mary is because they're reading the jewish bible in greek. >> the jewish bible in greek. what was the language that the -- that was translated, the original language? jesus spoke in aramaic, correct? >> probably. >> and that was first translated into hebrew? >> the jewish bible is, for the most part, in hebrew. there are a few parts in aramaic. >> then it was translated into greek for the common man. >> for the greek-speaking common jew in minus 200. >> ok. now, it's your contention, is it not, that when the translation occurred between hebrew and greek there was a mistake made. what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as

california crackup it's a book by joe matthews and mark hall.ci want to get right to what happened tohere did we fail. everybody had the best of intentions. >> we have a government that was written in the constitution in 1879 when there were so few people in california they would fit into day san jose. so we now lamented that constitution 500 times over the last hundred and 30 years we ended up with a system that is like a car designed by four different teams who don't talk to each other. it does work. >> do we need to send the car to the trash heap in my new one? >> is basically what we need to do we need an overhaul. with wheels for different sizes through most of the history we tried to fix that by putting a different size wheel on one side but it never runs completely right. expense tour right an operating system for the state that will fit a state of 30 million people it's the most of versed and complicated in the world. >> prop. 13 were does that fit? >> it's not the peace that everybody thinks it's the limit on how much for your house goes up. everybody likes that. other parts