michael willis. >> thank you supervisors to the committee and subcommittee. my name is michael willis. i'm pleased to be the architect for the project. i founded my firm here in san francisco for 25 years. most of that i have been involved with the design of water and infrastructure projects and including relationships that go back to the very first major water plant with ch and black and veech back '25 years. most of that i have been involved with the design of water and infrastructure projects and including relationships that go back to the very first major water plant with ch and black and veech back in 91. i'm glad to pursue this project because it's also a return to the bay view hunters point area where i have been involved in many projects going back well over 10 years including the bay view hunters point master plan and the multi-senior center. for planning and design and including work at the southeast plant 20 years ago. this is a return for me and i really appreciate your focus on local firms, local hire and as an urban designer and architect to rea

make that work. >> absolutely. >> michael: is the bay bridge forever going to be called the bay bridge? because i heard they are going to rename the western span, the williewn bridge. >> i heard the as well. and i opposed it. why would i want a bridge? [ laughter ] >> michael: that's true. but one day, you know, i got a bridge to sell ya, you can always have that. mayor willie brown thanks so much for your time. coming up an early gift to the president at the capitol. and we'll tell you how the democrats are planning to take their gloves off and get tough. man, i hope that is true. they thinking? ç] (vo) current tv is the place for compelling true stories. (kaj) jack, how old are you? >> nine. (adam) this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. way inside. (christoff) we're patrolling the area looking for guns, drugs, bodies ... (adam) we're going to places where few others are going. [lady] you have to get out now. >> lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. >> this crop to me is my livelihood. >> i'm being violated by the health care system. (christoff) we go a

also has a new cd coming out in which he shares the microphone with the likes of willie nelson, frank sinatra and michael jackson. the clip you are about to see is from a few years ago. >> ? if not himself then he has not to say the thing he truly feels ? but i did it my way ? ? [applause] tavis: it is hard to think of a song with a lyric better than that. i was listening to aretha franklin and her cover of this. she sold it up. her version is amazing. you suggested that i listen to another one. >> we are old friends. listen to the brook benton record. nina simone and gypsy king's. tavis: give me a sense of how that lyric came to be. >> the back story to that is when i started in vegas as a kid and i got to know some not sure at a very young age. he always said, when are you going to write me a song? he hated pop music. what i was doing, because i worked there and the mob controlled everything, they were decent with me. the years go by and i was down in miami, he was doing a movie and he called me up and said, kid, we are going to dinner. you go to dinner. we go to dinner and he is with my producer and h

willie geist, brian shactman, steve ratner still with us along with joe and me. michaelashington and joining us also from washington, moderator of "meet the press," gregory. >> good morning. >> we'll get to our top story. want to go to detroit. we are actually going to detroit next month. going to do the show live there and look at these issues. city officials have officially filed for bankruptcy protection. known as the birth place of the american auto industry and the iconic motown records the city has racked up at least $18 billion in debt. listing more than 100,000 creditors. it now becomes the largest city in u.s. history to file for chapter 9. it is a stunning but not entirely surprising turn of events. detroit's population soared during the rise of the auto industry in the 20th century, peaking at around 1.8 million back in 1950. now the population has fallen to just over 700,000 people. a 26% plunge in the past decade. the unemployment rate over 18%. and the city never really recovered from the housing crisis. for now the future of detroit remains far from certai

michael. sampras's coach willie brown got involved in 1977 and the other strike. lot of it depends on what the timing of this is. essentially, push negotiations until about labor day and if they had reached an agreement by dan, that would have been an even greater economic then what may be occurring right now. right now it is going through a fourth of july holiday so some calculations going on just in terms of how accused consider the dates. i think there are going to be questions and as this drags on, more pressure is going to come upon officials to look to say what you doing and can you do something about this. you will see increasing pressure and on the mayor's. >>mark: could you make the argument that a non strike clause should be issued. >> that does bring up an interesting situation where you are seeing lately there's a very anti public employee mood out there. tight budgets and everything like that. if this drags on for more than a couple of weeks, he was are seeing people exploring an idea of a state law that talks about these kinds of issues. i would hope

michael steele was chairman of the rnc and is msnbc political analyst and mayor willie brown of san francisco joins me. mayor brown, thank you for joining us. let's look at the nra. it's out there already attacking the attorney general eric holder for what he said tuesday at the naacp convention. the attorney general took issue with stand your ground laws, that he said often result in violence. let's listen. >> separate and apart from the case that's drawn the nation's attention, it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense. >> these laws try to fix something that was never broken. there has always been a legal defense for using deadly force and -- and the "if" is important qush if no safe retreat is available, but we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat outside their home if they can do so safely. we must stand our ground, to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence that they prevent. >>>

then in 1988, you had roger ailes' fingerprints all over the willie horton attack on michael dukakis.e an 11 page document that shows fox news, its long history of race-baiting which included attacks on civil rights activist shirley sherrod, making up scandal about the new black panthers and purchasing a birtherism. they don't know, i guess, that this isn't 1968 or 1988 anymore. and as much as we're outraged by this, i think the people who should be outrage ready republicans who have to run for office and the folks over at the republican national committee who are trying to rebrand, to rebuild their relationships. >> or at least they're saying that. >> they're saying that. >> let me ask this point, david. >> sure. >> to joy, because i want you to weigh in on this as well. they've also now discovered black on black crime. all of the sudden, they are now talking about violence in chicago. this has been going on a long time. it's been covered on the show. hadiya pendleton, the 15-year-old young black that was killed by blacks, mother first appearance on this show, they discovered it this

michael: and the pardon good for america? >> no, when george w. bush mentioned it at the funeral, but the story of willisd and michigan didn't let him play because georgia tech today we won't take the field if that black guy is on the field, gerald ford said he wouldn't play if willis didn't play. so the personal part is a lot more appealing than the political part. >> michael: that's a great story. well done. david shuster, ben mankiewicz thanks for coming into "the war room." really appreciate it. unfortunately many americans are just now realizing the impact of these crazy republican state laws. that's not the case in north carolina where moral mondays are quickly becoming a tar heel tradition. that's next in "the war room." documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> did anyone tell the pilgrims they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she g

willie edwards james cheney michael donald michael griffin james bird jr.ean, with the exception of a couple of people maybe they may have stepped up and said, this is wrong. this is what is going on, the conditioningcondition that my people happen to be in, and then they end up dead. the person that kills them either ends up not being charged or walking away. the biggest thing about this, he wasn't charged for 44 days. there had to be protests just for him to get charged. >> stephanie: you know the evidence and all that been better had they treated this more seriously from the beginning, you're right on a lot of counts. let's go to milli in florida. how are you doing millie. >> caller: i'm from florida, of course and it's not the sunshine state any more. it's the shameful state it really is. as a woman of color, while i was watching the trial, and my friends found out that the jurors were white women okay, we were actually extremely worried. this is what i want to get out-- >> stephanie: i think a lot of people hope that the mother card would trump race in

michael cannon, let me ask you this. this is a little bit different question. what gives the administration the right to willy-nilly change laws which were passed by the congress and signed by the president? we have now seen several examples of that. what gives them the right to do that, michael cannon? >> they don't have the right to do that. the laws that president obama is implementing would not have passed congress and did not pass congress and as bad as throwing the anti-fraud measures and employer mandate out the window is, what they're doing with those subsidies, they're not supposed to be available and ron knows they're not supposed to be available. 2/3 of the states have rejected a health care exchange. the law made the medicaid subsidies condition on state cooperation but president obama is trying to spend $800 billion in those states without any congressional authorization whatsoever. getting rid of the anti-fraud measure pales in comparison to that. >> somebody who was conservative would say in 2/3 of the conservative states -- >> i'm not a conservative, ron. >> we should not be providing subsidie

willis, abc news, stanford, florida. >> for more on the case and the outrage it provoked i spoke with dr. eric dyson, a professor at georgetown university who joined us from new york. michael, the attorney general now called for an honest discussion about the issues raised by this case. where in your view does that conversation go? >> well, first of all, i want to congratulate the attorney general for that courageous move. the conversation has to be about the stand your ground laws which have had a disproportionate and disparity racial effect and had an effect on african-american women and women and people of color tend to be the victims and perceived as the predators and as a result of that, they are murdered at an exceedingly high rate. we have to talk about your stand your ground laws, number one. number two, we have to be aware of the perception. george zimmerman was armed that night pursuing an unarmed young man. there's nothing within logic or reason to suggest that because of his skin color alone he presented a threat to george zimmerman except we have racial profiling and subconscious and unconscious racial beliefs and stereotypes that prevail so we have to argue t

willis, abc news, stanford, florida. >> for more on the case and the outrage it provoked i spoke with dr. eric dyson, a professor at georgetown university who joined us from new york. michaeltorney general now called for an honest discussion about the issues raised by this case. where in your view does that conversation go? >> well, first of all, i want to congratulate the attorney general for that courageous move. the conversation has to be about the stand your ground laws which have had a disproportionate and disparity racial effect and had an effect on african-american women and women and people of color tend to be the victims and perceived as the predators and as a result of that, they are murdered at an exceedingly high rate. we have to talk about your stand your ground laws, number one. number two, we have to be aware of the perception. george zimmerman was armed that night pursuing an unarmed young man. there's nothing within logic or reason to suggest that because of his skin color alone he presented a threat to george zimmerman except we have racial profiling and subconscious and unconscious racial beliefs and stereotypes that prevail so we have to argue them. >>

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