mr. brooks, commissioner brooks, or president brooks, as he is now known, is the western region vice president of government affairs for cbs outdoor, a leading global media company and is responsible for government and public affairs from california to texas for that company. he is also a member of the california international relations foundation. he provides assistance to the california state senate in furthering economic, environment, educational and cultural exchanges with foreign governments and citizens. president brooks also served as director of administrative services for the city of san francisco where he was responsible for policy and planning for 14 city departments, managing over 300 employees, and a budget of $100 million. please join me in welcoming president brooks. . >> thank you, susan leyall, and good morning, welcome here. before i start i want to thank our general manager leyall who has done an extraordinary job here at the san francisco puc and also i want to recognize two people that just walked in, our vice president commissioner ann (inaudible) and commissioner dennis

. >> mrs. brooks. her son is dying in front of her.usband is doing cpr. >> they say does he have a heart beat or breath. no. it was taking 8.5 minutes. it's a lifetime. i don't know if you can imagine, a second is an hour, if you know what i mean. >> they are here now. >> have the people come in. >> oh my god. come on chris. come on chris. >> it had been more than 15 minutes since his heart stopped beating. >> when the medics got here, i was pacing. i didn't watch them do their work. >> we're going to start with the cpr. adam, my partner that evening shocked him. >> they hit him with the padd s paddles, he jumps. nothing is nothing. i don't know how to explain what nothing is. but it's not -- you know, then they did it, again. it was nothing. >> joan lost three family members in less than a year. she was frantic. >> you took my mother, my dad and you are not taking my son. i said don't let this happen. >> adam had to shock him, again. he flat lined. >> this is important. the paramedics didn't quit here. they gave chris another shot of

mr. brooks. next speaker please. >> sue hester. i have been before the planning commission since 1970. i do not always win with gwyneth. she is many times not a vote in my client's favor. however, i understand that the commission appointments are made by the mayor, and the mayor has a perspective. it is what i value in gwyneth,, her willingness to do the work. a planning commissioner is a two-day-a week job. minimum. you give up one of your weekend days preparing. they have the most massive documents in the city to review. any planning commissioner who comes on to the commission and who has an idea that you show up at 1:00 or 1:30 on a thursday and you go home for dinner is not going to be a good planning commissioner. it is a huge amount of work. if that work is not done by the commissioner, the public is short changed, and you are shortchanged, and you wind up getting all kinds of abuse. i believe that when it has the ability the thatgwy -- tha thin her. like i said, she absolutely does not always agree with me, but i support gwyneth. thank you very much. chairman campos: thank you v

sympathize with the russian mr brooks sentiments because the small number of votes from the far right attitude among many germans looks like a marked rise in the for the views a third said foreigners should be sent home. well you know one in six said jews have too much power. as he is conducted the study says far right attitude deep rooted in german society. the study shows that there is. education in some parts of society secondly people always especially in times of crisis such for scapegoats for their own political economic or social deprivation dissemination of all things together points us to the actually important thing which is democracy itself is nothing so fulfilling or which is always there or something we have in europe without doing something for it so we have to fight for democracy every time and every day and yet that's actually what this results show us there is a rise which is partly influenced by the economic crisis from two thousand and eight but on the other hand this rise from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten we did just study in two thousand and eigh

mr. brooks is talking about is the issue of austerity. you don't sell belt tightening, you don't knock your opponent. you need to tell america get behind us. it's going to be a bit painful. the reason americans aren't buying into it is because they don't trust congress. that's the whole epicenter of this electric. maybe we can put some people we trust in and maybe they're not going to fit the normal mold. that's a good thing and maybe if we trust them we'll pay higher taxes and not feel bad about it because the outcome will be a better country. >> to address the juan williams' issue, too, i want to get your thoughts on that. >> it may be an election issue if jim demint leads the issue and they're going to go after big bird and go after him like they went after the nra. belt tightening is the right thing, american people need to be told. we need the right politicians. in the real world when you talk about the real politicians and what they're putting out there, the protypical tea party candidate, marco rubio, his plan is to add $3.5 trilli

mr. qureshi, walking to brookings and the asia society. -- welcome to brookings and the asia society. [applause] >> good evening. thank you for your introduction. as you well know, ladies and gentlemen, i'm here for the third meeting of the strategic dialogue. we could not ask for better start. the meeting was very satisfying for me in my delegation. ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor and privilege to be at this prestigious institution. i am thankful for the brookings institute and the asia society for inviting me to speak here this evening on the issue that is of vital concern on both pakistan and the united states. on in delighted others are with us here today. pakistan in the united states have been crucial allies and partners for more than half a century. our relations were never as coast and with as much a stake as today. this lends added importance to the third phase of the strategic dialogue between pakistan and the analyses for which i am here in washington. this dialogue will define the future of our bilateral relationship. it will also have a direct bearing on the success

host: joining us now is bre katz with the brookings institution director of the metropolitan policy program. mrut the u.s. recovery. calling it sluggish and growth of 2% didn't dent unemployment. you write about those running for governor. does one story on the front page of the time relate to those governors who are running for office currently? guest: absolutely. this has been a recession, jobless recovery. lost 8.4 million jocks, regained only 10%. this are 37 governor res and job creation is job number one. they are talking not just about how to create jobs in the near term, they are also talking about how to retool the economy for the long haul. because they understand the economy that got us into the recession is not the economy we want to return to. so, increasingly what they are talking about is let's move toward more export oriented economy, talk about taking this energy transformation and capitalizing on it. let's compete again globally. china, brazil, india. the rising nations. so, governors who are more pragmat pragmatic, very practical, are focusing on jobs. host: you call these ty

host: joining us now is bruce katz with the brookings institution director of the metropolitan policy program. mr. katz, the front page of the financial times this morning talks about the u.s. recovery. calling it sluggish and growth of 2% didn't dent unemployment. you write about those running for governor. does one story on the front page of the time relate to those governors who are running for office currently? guest: absolutely. this has been a recession, jobless recovery. lost 8.4 million jocks, regained only 10%. this are 37 governor races and job creation is job number one. they are talking not just about how to create jobs in the near term, they are also talking about how to retool the economy for the long haul. because they understand the economy that got us into the recession is not the economy we want to return to. so, increasingly what they are talking about is let's move toward more export oriented economy, talk about taking this energy transformation and capitalizing on it. let's compete again globally. china, brazil, india. the rising nations. so, governors who are more pragmat pr

brookings institution. this portion is about >> thank y. mr.ter, thank you for hosting this along with the asia society this evening. two great institutions, one of which i was privileged to be chairman of for six years, and the other zero of which i have been privileged to be abused by for 30 years. [laughter] i am glad to be on the podium with my friend, mahmood qureshi. we will talk about the issues of the southeast asia today. i especially want to set run all-out to people. -- single out two people. one ambassador who represents pakistan with such grace and skill. and our new ambassador to pakistan with us today, has not yet set foot in country -- in the country but is deeply immersed in the details of everything that is involved in our relationship, who has stayed behind at our request, not going out to pakistan until the end of this week in -- so that he can participate in the strategic dialogue. cameron and i just came back from brussels. today we launched the third high-level meeting between the two countries in the last seven months. a

brooks moon for the introduction of god bless america. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise and remove your caps. performing "god bless america "for us tonight, please welcome san francisco's favorite bandleader, the maestro, mr. dick bryce. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> joe: a beautiful night in san francisco as we move into the bottom of the seventh. it will be the heart of the lineup for the giants. the fourth pitcher of the night for philadelphia is antonio bastardo. >> tim: a talented young left-hander who turned 25 years old on september 21st. he's got good stuff. >> joe: aubrey huff, the lefty, first up. he has two hits, a big rbi single in the fifth made it a 1-run game that came with two outs and chased the starter blanton. strike 1. the phillies tried to get blanton through five. it didn't happen. the one-run game when he left. durbin gave up two. he's on the hook for the loss if the phillies don't rally. one ball, one strike. here's the 1-1. 2-1. the 2-1. huff tried to launch into that ball and he got under it. >> tim: you are right. he just missed that pitch. >> joe: he was shooting for mccovey cove and it fell short into the glove of jayson werth. chefry and fans have teamed up to give fans a chan

mr. chairman. my time is up. i would ask for the chairman to put in the record several studies particularly those done by the manufacturing alliance, the brookings association, and the heritage foundation. i have short summaries if we could put those in. >> without objection. i want to commend you and senator gregg for coming up with a very thoughtful tax reform proposal. i want to say just quickly if i could, it is very clear we're going to have to cut spending as a share of the economy. we're going to look at tax cuts currently in the code which kind of jumps out at you. what we need is tax reform. the tax code is now 7500 pages long. it was never designed with competitiveness in mind. the world has changed. if we do not write a new tax code that relates to the reality we confront today that we are in a fully competitive global environment and we write a tax code with that in mind, i think we are making a profound mistake just to double down on the current tax code is a huge mistake. senator, thank you for your courtesy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself with the remarks of senator white. there is no question they are just

william gale is now a fellow at the brookings institution and was a keynote speaker at an economic conference hosted by a financial analysis firm. in his 45-minute speak, mrgale talks about the national debt and the obama administration's economic policy. >> fiscal policy a little bit. we talked about it this morning. i did. nigel did. huge, huge questions and uncertainties hanging over us going forward. timing, expense. detail and our next speaker is somebody who has spent a lot of time on this issue, written a lot of very, very interesting pieces so we're delighted to have william gale of brookings institution on the policy center to help us try to sort some of this stuff out. without any further destruction, the bios in your book, we're delighted to have bill gale here. thank you. >> all right. thank you very much. we're there. ok. good. look to my right. look to my left. ok. thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. you just heard what i thought was a fabulous discussion of financial regulatory issues. and what i want to do is move from the sublime to the ridiculous and talk about the federal budget outlook. the -- it is hard to emphasize how messed up