mr. alexander and mr. grillo for coming before us. mr. alexander i know you served on the immigrant rights commission. i fortunately when you served on that and you're incredibly dedicated and knowledgable about immigrant communities. today my support stems from an applicant with specific experience in the arena that this seat is supposed to represent. thank you. we have a motion and we can do that without opposition. thank you. before i call the last three items, i did want to open up for public comment on items 7, 8, or 9. seeing no public comment for 7, 8, and 9, public comment is now closed. may i take a motion to convene into closed session? >> so moved. hold on. >> when i got up before -- before you go into closed session, i know that will be over with, then i can leave and go home and get back in bed. i have a concern about the item, it says legislation under the 30 day rule. >> chair kim: yes. so we do have legislation under the 30 day rule but that's not being heard today. that's under the 30 day hold for the public to view legisl

mr. alexander talks about, unconstitutional authority for the president to exterminate someone. >> your position on the war are drugs? >> i do not support legalizing marijuana or other drugs. you will not find that in hear. [laughter] because the founding fathers did not know about that. >> jefferson said his best time was out of the veranda smoking weed? [laughter] >> i don't think so. >> by a virginia. >> tempore on the veranda? [applause] john: now we hear from you. where back with libertarian candidate gary johnson, socialist candidate stuart alexander and constitutional party, virgil goode. this is where gary johnson. >> one of the unintended consequence is because the government guarantees student loans why tuition is so high. if they made a decision if they could afford it to your kids would go to college because it is so unaffordable and college would cut prices because there is no demand. >> you stated you would cut government spending but also the moratorium on immigration from mexico. how do justify the great expense that would go a chancre? a lot of labor from california are illegal

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mrs. alexander. she died year-and-a-half after i got to know her. by far the last survivor of that generation. her father, her grandfather, paul's son franklin lived to be 90 and she spent a lot of her growing up years in her grandparents's home. so she was able to hear these family stories from the 's mouths. her own father was a slave and her grandfather was a slave until age 20 himself. this is rare in 2008 when i met her and she had this likeness of paul jennings on her living-room wall. very rare to be able to debrief the slave descendant whose family stories do go back to slavery days. getting to know all of the descendantss but especially sylvia jennings alexander, very much informed my story and enriched my life. i interpret paul jennings's story as a deliberate, courageous and successful pursuit of that most american of promises, the right to rise. after jennings had worked for webster for several years he got himself a low level but steady job working for a government agency, the pension office which was under the department of the interio

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. some say the reason for a do-nothing senate -- or the cure for it is we need a cal change in rules. i say we need a change in behavior smed i would lik. i would like to offer a single example. we have a big borrowing problem. we're headed off a fiscal cliff. the minority leader has described that. the australian foreign minister has said that the united states of america is one budget deal away from restoring its global preeminence, so he would think we would have a bugged and then you would think we would deal with the appropriations bills, which are the basic work of the senate. i and others on both sides of the aisle came to the floor earlier this year to compliment the majority and minority leader for their decision to bring all 12 appropriations bills to the floor. the committee did its work. is 1 o11 of the 12 have been red to the floor. the house did its work. but the majority leader said we're not going to consider any appropriations bills. mr. president, being elected to the

a lot of historians consider him a remarkable military figure and compare him to alexander the great and julius caesar mr david mark him as one of those who have dedicated themselves to napoleonic history he's one of the most competent experts in this field and head of the international napoleonic society. who welcomes the show thank you. great pleasure to be here thank you very much for coming in without first of all do that you have dedicated your life you have dedicated yourself to to to. napoleon and to. looming more about this great personally certainly he is a great he was a great personality but what inspired you personally what inspired you most in the pelion bonaparte well the answer is probably different than you might anticipate it was actually my father when i was a very young lad would tell me stories about napoleon and then about caesar and alexander and some others and he had been a war correspondent he was a journalist like yourself and although he was in print and he brought back. postcards that showed liaison believe you know were napoleon's buried in the arctic tree op and stuff and he

years in the oval office for more on this we are now joined live by jesse alexander meyerson a contributor at the truth out website mr meyerson thank you very much for joining us. so you're there you're at the convention right now four years ago it was all about hope what is the mood now. well i suppose that it will be wow how many of two things the first thing we're going to. be. jobs in detroit and of course here is his success in capturing and killing osama bin laden and many other component will be criticizing the republicans partly around probably private equity where mitt romney made as i did some millions of dollars in fortune and of course on the war on women which is that the democrats sort of favor truth about what the republicans are up to now obama has. made a lot of promises and he's delivered on many of them like health care reform but on others like the promise to quote close guantanamo he's failed to deliver so looking back at this record how do you rate him. you know it's hard to say that the main thing about president obama when he was running the first time was that he tried to keep as you say thin

peter alexander is in san francisco traveling with mr.omney and joins us on the telephone on a saturday afternoon. good after noon to you. >> reporter: mitt romney is en route to san diego, has events in san diego and los angeles trying to raise money. the campaign isn't just trailing in the polls, also trailing in some campaign cash now. you were focusing on numbers with the taxes, one of the points made to me specifically yesterday when i asked if they were politically motivated putting these numbers out on a friday, they said we did it because they were simply done. the reality when you do it on a friday and give estimates of their last 20 years of tax returns, it's done on a day when fewer people will pay attention to it. in many ways their hope is after a bad series of weeks they can wash this away with other bad headlines and avoid bad had lines in the weeks ahead. >> you have spent more time with mitt romney than just about any our journalist at this point. talk to me a little bit about the mood of the campaign right now. what's go

you all the next two men on the ice and eventually nickname alexander the great finally to courts in destroying the visitors the fans i mean mrsbuland him out a broken leg old man exceeds the ball for while denise crocker have seemed to final score seven two to deny must be a disaster see on the guy scoring and on the team get three points he helped a lot even though he didn't score today you could see that he can create many chances in. as for means we're focused on him so that opens a space for everybody else the washington capitals camp to give his home court do normal muscular boost as the wedding blues ripped up the fifth winner of the season and is the end to defend be going up to a top and then it's as dunam as a boon and who the n.h.l. lockout and sooner rather than later consumed him or. now finally one might cyclist in brazil has gone to extreme measures to avoid losing a race dos or a. nine by his nickname colunga lost a valuable seconds when slipping on the wet track now rather than attempting to rejoin the race and fight his way through the order decided that was too much like hard work so he elected instead to go

mr. purnell uses the money he gets to come the great university. so one of our ivy league schools is a beneficiary of telegraphs financing. >> host: worded alexanderell go after a 19? >> guest: he had a fascinating career. he had no interest in business whatsoever. he also becomes the poster child. they trot him out when bell engineers figure out how to send transcontinental voicesignal, which is an incredibly amazing achievement. they trot out loud. that is because -- it's a different fellow in the early telephone, with nothing to do with ibm put them any chance of the line. and if that says about publicists are saying, american public, if you want an adventure, they will give you one. go watch the two ends of the line. but they have absolutely nothing to do with the transcontinental telephone. they'll could have had a very fine group of engineers and they could have lifted up the national heroes. they didn't want to do that. they didn't want to emphasize. they want to focus on the team. so what value between 1879 when he becomes a rich man and his agreement between western union and bell in 1915, he becomes an internet venture and gets involved

alexander on this. thank you very much. donald trump is joining us now by phone. mr. trump, good to talk to you. >> hello, matt. >> this idea, was it yours, the rnc? 's who came up with it? >> it was the rnc. they approached me about doing it. they very much wanted to do it. they had a great crew sent over, very professional, top hollywood people, and i think they did a very good job. >> yeah. why didn't they find a way to squeeze it in later in the week? i mean, there was a condensed schedule. monday night was a wash. were you surprised they didn't find a way to put this in tuesday or wednesday night? >> i actually was. came out very well. you showed little excerpts, came out really well, and a lot of people wanted it, but, you know, the problem they have is they are not being tough enough. they are not getting -- i can't say down and dirty, but that's exactly what president obama is doing with them, and they have got to fight fire with fire. the republicans have to get tougher or they are going to lose this campaign >> i watched the whole thing, donald, and one thin

alexander on this. thank you very much. donald trump is joining us now by phone. mr. trump, good to talk to you. >> hello, matt. >> this idea, was it yours, the rnc? 's who came up with it? >> it was the rnc. they approached me about doing it. they very much wanted to do it. they had a great crew sent over, very professional, top hollywood people, and i think they did a very good job. >> yeah. why didn't they find a way to squeeze it in later in the week? i mean, there was a condensed schedule. monday night was a wash. were you surprised they didn't find a way to put this in tuesday or wednesday night? >> i actually was. came out very well. you showed little excerpts, came out really well, and a lot of people wanted it, but, you know, the problem they have is they are not being tough enough. they are not getting -- i can't say down and dirty, but that's exactly what president obama is doing with them, and they have got to fight fire with fire. the republicans have to get tougher or they are going to lose this campaign >> i watched the whole thing, donald, and one thin

mr. romney starts a three-day bus tour of ohio. taking center stage, more questions from last night's document dump. the release of his 2011 income tax return. nbc's peter alexander is in san francisco traveling with governor romney, peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the romney campaign insists that by putting these tax returns out on a friday what's often referred to as a friday document dump this was not politically motivated even though it was done when fewer eyeballs would see it. they say it was done in the words of one adviser because the documents why ready. nonetheless we're getting our first look at the 2011 tax returns. opponents of the rom is in are still trying to pounce on the details of this. the numbers show they paid roughly $2 million in federal taxes, mitt and ann romney did in 2011 on total income of nearly $14 million for a total tax rate of roughly 14.1%, compare that to about 13.9% that the romneys paid in 2010 to give you a sense the average middle class family pays roughly 13%. average middle class family making between roughly 50 and $75,000 a year. the romney campaign all week has tried to reset, to go after the pres

alexander hamilton in 1804. in his recent book, "the heartbreak of aaron burr," mr. brann this presents a different side of aaron burr for letters of his burr and his daughter. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you for having me back. i'm delighted to speak here. i always like to speak in washington, where the audiences are well informed and engaged. having just finished teaching this semester for the year at the university of texas, i'm always delighted to speak to an audience of people who don't have to be here. there will be no test. [laughter] i say this sincerely. i'm flattered you took your time and evening to come and listen to me. i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject, but i know perfectly well that if they didn't have tests, if they didn't have papers, if they weren't all accountable most of the seats would be empty. you didn't have to be here but you did come, and i find that to be very flattering. i could i suppose give you a test at the end. [laughter] the title of my top which i forgot until jamie mentioned that

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. some say the reason for a do-nothing senate -- or the cure for it is we need a cal change in rules. i say we need a change in behavior smed i would lik. i would like to offer a single example. we have a big borrowing problem. we're headed off a fiscal cliff. the minority leader has described that. the australian foreign minister has said that the united states of america is one budget deal away from restoring its global preeminence, so he would think we would have a bugged and then you would think we would deal with the appropriations bills, which are the basic work of the senate. i and others on both sides of the aisle came to the floor earlier this year to compliment the majority and minority leader for their decision to bring all 12 appropriations bills to the floor. the committee did its work. is 1 o11 of the 12 have been red to the floor. the house did its work. but the majority leader said we're not going to consider any appropriations bills. mr. president, being elected to the