. >> i think no one made a more impressive transmission midstream than bobby kennedy.e was jack kennedy's enforcer, his closer counselor, a tough guy behind the scenes. it was always bobby putting his finger in somebody's chest. obviously in 1968 because of war and civil rights movement and social consciousness that could you see develop on the fly almost he became the most interesting politician after this year. >> jon: when you are talking to people who were down there, as you speak to them, are their memories do they feel personal or almost a narrative created from the day, from all the experience they have experienced from that day? is it difficult to separate those things? >> i think for them it's very personal. they reserved a pat of their -- part of their memory bank and emotion from that day. john brew year who you saw there he did make its possible to get oswald early because he followed him to the movie theater. he changed his life. he got out of dallas, went in the navy for a while. it's just been recently tham it was the idea of john brewer that found oswal

there's no attempt to change the rules in midstream. there's no attempt to try on behalf of either political party to extend the voting period. >> reporter: they realize their votes are under such scrutiny because of the ever tightening attorney general race. >> it's pretty cool actually. to think i could potentially change the race. >> reporter: peggy fox, wusa9. >>> on this veterans day president obama traveled across the potomac to lay a wreath at the arlington national cemetery in honor of those who served this nation in uniform. the president also paid special tribute to the oldest known surviving world war ii veteran, richard overton. he there was and the man looked pretty good for 107 years old. >> he was there at pearl harbor when the battle ships were still smoldering. he there was at okinawa. he there was at iwo jima where he said i only got out of there by the grace of god. >> i think mr. overton has more hair than i do. earlier in the day mr. overton broke bread with the president and vice president at a veterans day breakfa

what kind of revenue sources and that is the conversation that is yet to come but yet we are in midstream at this point and i did mention, the active transportation program and i think that is all thatvy i have for today. >> thank you very much. >> colleagues do you have any questions? >> seeing no other questions, this is an information item, thank you so much. >> thank you. public comment on this item? >> item number three, see no public comment, public commented is closed it. >> call item four. >> recommend changing award from the university of maryland to the university system of maryland foundation of the three-year contract in the amount not-to-exceed $222,47 a5 to conduct the presidio parkway case study to compare conventional project delivery and public private partnerships and authorizing the executive director to negotiate contract and payment terms and non-material contract terms and conditions. >> i am robert macey, in 2013, the authority board approved the award of the contract to the team of university of maryland to the university of colorado to conduct the case study, whic

> last month we really continued to like the energy space the midstream part of the piperuns the mlp's. we put it through center coast capital which is a fund where the amlp which is the e t f. good to have you on the show, have a great day! >thank you. as a new month begins today-- it also marks the end of an added boost to food stamps. roughly 48 milion americans depend on food stamps to make ends meet. starting today.. the amount they recieve will decline as much as $36 dollars per month. it's happening because a temporary benefit boost given to low income americans in 2009 on the heels of the finanicial crisis. expires today. government spending on food stamps is one of the biggest sticking points on capitol hill as lawmakers debate the farm bill. despite sequester, despite a government shutdown, many government agencies are open for business and granting government contracts to small businesses. our cover story finds it's not all federal work, but it pays just the same. you're watching the government contract equivalent of 'speed dating.' small business representatives have ten mi

percent stake in the company for the first time incredible incredible i'm sorry interrupted you at midstream there you are going. ok this is so the punch line is if wal-mart instead took this seven point six billion dollars that they're basically spending unproductively now and used it instead to invest in their workforce they could give every worker a five dollar and eighty three cents an hour raise on top of what they were earning now in addition to that the company itself would benefit as those workers become more productive stick around longer and the and the wal-mart itself would have less costs in terms of employer employee turnover and training. it sounds to me i mean you look at. sam's club as big competitor. with lots or cosco on whether it is. you know their workers stay longer they have higher loyalty they have lower turnover they have lower you know the walton. family the wal-mart wouldn't have to pay all these you know millions of dollars to union busters i mean would you just be easier for them to do business in an ethical fashion. you know cosco for their investment in the wor

percent stake in the company for the first time incredible incredible i'm sorry interrupted you at midstream that you're going. ok so the punchline is if wal-mart instead took this seven point six billion dollars that they're basically spending unproductively now and used it instead to invest in their workforce they could give every worker a five dollar and eighty three cents an hour raise on top of what they were earning now in addition to that the company itself would benefit as those workers become more productive stick around longer and the and the wal-mart itself would have less costs in terms of the employer employee turnover and training. it sounds to me i mean you look at. sam's clubs big competitor. with lots or cosco operators. you know their workers stay longer they have higher loyal to they have lower turnover they have lower you know the walton. family the wal-mart wouldn't have to pay all these you know millions of dollars to union busters i mean would you just be easier for them to do business in an ethical fashion. you know cosco for their investment in the workforce actually

and do not necessarily want to change midstream here. of course, the reason the president wants this executive fix and not a legislative fix on capitol hill is that he realizes he has been losing support on capitol hill. not only has republicans been critics of this law from the beginning but he has some democrats, particularly in the senate, facing the voters in 2014 who ho have been calling for some kind of legislative changes to the law. that's why yesterday the president pushed back and insisted he is going to fix this on his own, number one, and republicans today fired back at the president's suggestion that somehow republicans were to blame for all of this. take a listen. we proximate result going to have to a fix the web site so everybody feels confident about that. we will obviously have to remarket and rebrand and that will be challenging in this political environment. >> that's wurcht silliest statements that i have heard so far about the law. it's nobody's fault on the republican side that the exchange web site isn't working.

and said that it's the senate changing its rules in midstream, and so republicans -- i think there isbly a little bit of calling your bluff going on here, that harry reid basically threw up his hands and said, enough of this. it's time to do it. as you point out, this is not what harry reid always believed. >> no. >> pretty recently. >> i want to bring dana back in. you asked him about this, 2008, he said as long as he was leader, he would never turn to that nuclear option, saying it would be a black chapter in the history of the senate. you said, what? things changed? is that what he said to you, dana? >> that's the gist, that would be the best way to paraphrase what he said, that certainly he never wanted to do it. he also took the heat and took the blame for things being pretty divisive when he was in the minority, saying that, you know, it was his fault in part that things are where they are, which i thought was interesting. and sort of a moment of candor that their understanding and saying both sides are to blame for where we are right now, even though democrats are saying over a

lots of people out there pick up midstream and actually turn this around, possibly. think the whole thing could be turned around. there is somebody who could come in and there show some competence and handle the different vendors and bring people together. she can't do it there is no question. >> pat roberts the senator from kansas knows sebelius because she used to be the governor of kansas and he doesn't like her at all, obviously. he threw her under 18 buses not just one. there is a whole line of buses going over here. but, what i don't understand and maybe you can explain it to me kirsten is that if you have three and a half years and a billion dollars with b to roll this out, to roll it out, three and a half years and a billion, you give me three and a half years and a billion, i will win the super bowl. all right? i will get a team together and we will win the super bowl. and they couldn't even get a web site up so you could call in and get information. and you are telling me that she should just still. >> but i'm not saying that she did a great job. >> i know

2005 said there should be -- that the rules are the rules and you shouldn't be changing them in midstreamat's different now >> well, let's take 2005. in 2005 a deal was reached by a group of seven republicans and seven democrats. the deal was that there would be no change in the rules if the democrats agreed to only filibuster for rare exceptional circumstances. those being terrible problems with character or experience. this deal was completely honored by the democrats. in fact, they didn't filibuster a single judge thereafter under the bush administration. but immediately upon the republicans becoming the minority party they broke the deal and the statistics i've given you just reflected that. they didn't break it just on judicial nominees. they did it on executive nominees as well. now, harry reid and the leadership have repeatedly tried to restore the social contract, restore the understanding of filibuster only on rare exception. but that hasn't been possible. >> ifill: let me ask senator johnson on the flip side of this which is that senator mcconnell, now the minority leader, also

was anything in the last year or so in y'all's reporting that showed obama's capacity to switch in midstreamu all see any kind of redemption strategy? >> what we saw in looking at his time from the show down over the budget in november of -- fall of '11 was warfare for the last year. his idea is to beat republicans in submission and feel like if he shows weakness, says he's made a mistake, his view of the current political dynamic is he'll be attacked. so he doesn't show weakness in public. he's not changed the terms of combat. >> it's clarifying it. the insurance companies should have been able to predict that. i concur that people were misled by the statements. chris matthews said, he needs to fix this. >> most importantly he has to fix it substantively. he'll never get it implemented if he doesn't raise the competency and impact of the program. not everybody will be a winner under obama care. >> he's in a bunker now. he overpromised. they discussed the possibility of being more nuanced. they pushed it aside because they knew if they didn't mislead the american people, if they said there w

then the midstream, all the pipelines, trucks trains, upgrades.ng coming online. the single biggest growth opportunity, investment opportunity for countries in the u.s. and around the world. >> so there's people that are actually involved in the production and transport of it. and then there's the manufacturers where the input of energy costs are going to be so much lower that it makes the entire area more competitive in terms of, you know, since labor isn't quite as important if your input is that low. it just spreads out. and these are all sort of collateral areas it could benefit too. >> yeah. absolutely, if you're in an energy intensive business. chemicals, steel, fertilizer, aluminum, this is great news for you. in fact, we're seeing, i think, there's something like $90 billion to $100 billion of new plants already online. and five or six years ago, who would've thought we'd be building chemical plants in the u.s. or even steel plants, but those things are happening now. if you supply to those things, it's good. but if you're in those busines