michael cohen phoned me up the next day. can we cut $40 million out of this project?one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city hall who came to my office and said, we cannot abandon this. we can't walk away from this project. we have an opportunity to really take a lot of our values and principles, particularly raising the bar as we did as a city on our green building standards, mandating the most aggressive green building standards for private construction anywhere in the united states. and showcasing them in this new building. >> the city for the sfpuc, it was critical that the building stay as a lead building. the easiest thing to do to cut out millions of dollars, let's just go from lead platinum to lead gold. but that wasn't the objective. this needed to be the best example of energy conservation of any office building in the united states. >> we became involved in the san francisco public utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for

dot com and a columnist for the washington times community section also in washington we have michael cohen he is an associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and in philadelphia we crossed england in he is a political commentator and a writer or gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want john the reason if i go to you first in washington the reason i want to do this program is number one always make the american people and western publics remember what we did in afghanistan that's always a top priority for me and number two looking at the headlines democratic transition this is the first democratic transition in afghanistan and i'll give my opinion about that later but don't you think that that's the wrong focus here is that actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political elites don't like to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is kleptocratic corrupt have a state that has contr

cohen, thanks. >> thank you. >> michael?bout the government shutdown but, of course, in eight days the u.s. hits that debt ceiling. right now congress is undecided on whether or not to raise it. that worries a lot of people. there are some republican lawmakers questioning whether going past the deadline will really mean a government default. we'll discuss. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, store and essentially they just get sold something. we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. before you invest in a mattress, discover the bed clinically p

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commander- in-chief of centcom and michael hayden come a former cia director, now with the turnoff group. >> live from washington, d.c., former defense secretary william cohenmbassador john negroponte, first u.s. director of national intelligence as well as u.s. ambassador of iraq and the united nations and many more post i should add. nice to see you. tva sampling of recent coverage on syria. all the pundits interviewed currently have ties to defense and intelligence contractors, investment firms with a significant defense or intelligence focus or ties to consulting firms with a focus on defense, intelligence. general jack keane, for example, is on the board of general dynamics. general anthony zinni is on the board of be ae systems. joining us now from san francisco is kevin connor, director and cofounder of the public accountability initiative and co-author of the report called, "conflicts of interest in the syria debate." lay out what you found. outhe report really maps the extent to which the policy conversation on the airwaves around syria was really dominated by individuals with ties to the defense industry. and these ties, as you laid out there, rea

michael steinberg, another portfolio manager, his trial is coming up in november. we need to ask the sec about, they probably won't comment, this is their thing will they modify the lifetime ban. steve cohen i know people that know him, he is telling people that is what is killing him. he wants to come back and raise more money. melissa: seth, do you think there is any chance what serve he avoids the lifetime ban? seems like he is lucky he will stay out of jail? he will not avoid the lifetime ban. >> well i agree with charlie that is an uphill battle but i think it's a real possibility. melissa: really? >> sure, it is possible. the government, both sides have motivation to make a deal. the government is looking bringing in 1.2 or $1.4 billion and in these kinds of white-collar settlements there is duty of cooperation where they would get an understanding they would get people to roll over on mathew martoma. melissa: don't they have to say we threw this guy out of trading. we went after him. he was dirty. we took all the money from him and by the way he will not manage money again, don't they need that? >> they do. that is the irony, but don't be shocked if they close the deal. there could