mr. dennis, did you have a comment on this agenda item? >>> is this hopa? >> no, this is about the -- the agenda item is the five-year plan from the mayor's office of housing. >>> hello, my name is keith dennis. i'm a long-time resident of san francisco. i say, god bless you, commissioner, and god bless the city and county of san francisco. now, i've talked about this since last year. i was a patient at laguna honda hospital. i was lucky enough to move out into the community of the fillmore, he okay. and the rest of the patients moved to the new hospital. and, so, that left the old hospital dormant. nobody is in there, okay. but now the nurses and whatever, they're starting to use them for offices. some offices are warranted, some offices aren't. i suggest that the old laguna honda hospital be made into an assisted living facility, okay. you're talking about it right now. you know it's needed, so, i think it's something that should be taken a strong look at. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> walter paulson. ♪ it's good to take a housing stand good luck

mr. dennis rodman. >> all right. hey, listen, this is a good man. he's real cool. you all got to stop this. i know because i'm above all a good judge of character. and this is one of the greatest men i've ever met. right up there with my main man glorious leader kim jong-un. [ speaking korean ] >> only in america. finally, a tennessee lawmaker became the latest republican politician to compare the president's health care law to nazi germany. by stacy campfield took it to an unfortunately new level. here's what he said on his website's blog this morning, quote, democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign-ups for obama care is like germans bragging about the number of mandatory sign-ups for train rides for jews in the '40s. if he thought he was being funny, his state's republican party chairman certainly did not. he denounced the comment as ignorant and repugnant and demanded that campfield apologized. good for him. but he doubled down, releasing this statement, kwet quote, i regret that some people missed the point of my post. it was not to offend. it was

mr. obama sent dennis mcdonagh up to capitol hill to reassure nervous democrats. the white house would address the problem dra mateccally and republicans want to know why he didn't know before the news reports emerged. >> i am disturbed by statements out of the white house that the president heard about this in the news. it is time for our president to come forward and take responsibility for this and do the right thing by the veterans and begin to show he cares about getting it straight. >> reporter: that sentiment is not confined to republicans. illinois congresswoman duckworth from illinois would like the president to address the issue personally. >> what about calls for the va secretary shinseki to resign? >> reporter: the white house wants shinseki to fix the problem and not resign. senator jeff flake of arizona agrees with them and said shinseki should fix the problem and if he's fired we'll focus on his replacement. liberal columnist eugene robinson wrote that shinseki's got to go. and new york democratic congressman said the problem predates the obama admi

mr. ford declined to answer questions from the globe and mail less than an hour after they asked the mayor for comment however here's the news. his lawyer, dennisannounced mr. ford is planning to take a break from the mayoral election. rob ford was all ready stripped of most of his mayoral powers in november after he made this admission to the toronto city council. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> another alleged crack smoking video not the only tape that ford is dealing with. the toronto sun, obtained audio of the mayor at a toronto bar this week making apparently sexually graphic remark as but a female politician. quote, the recording, covertly taped by a bar patron monday night. captures the mayor being unruly if he is ordering booze, complaining abut his wife and making lewd comments about contender karen stinz. let's get to it. by phone. investigative reporter at the globe and mail who viewed the new video tapes and author we should mention of course, of crazy town, the rob ford story. welcome, how are you to night? i am well, a busy day. let's start with the facts. we believe, you believe you k

mr. president? good day, sir. may name is dennis kelley i am the president of the united educators of san francisco and i used to see the three of you on the school board meetings. but rntion you united educators of san francisco is a member of the san francisco labor council and we are also proud members of the chamber of commerce and i am here to tell you there is a loophole and the reason that i know that there is a loep hole is that our friends in the golden gate association used to put out the notices in our neighborhood restaurants that said, that they unfortunately were going to charge me three or four percent on my lunch because of this legislation, they had to do it. but since they have been turning 75 percent profit on that tax, they no longer put out that notice. and so i assume that they figured out what the loophole is all about. and this is not about loop holes, this is about people's lives, we have teachers who do not apply for family coverage because they cannot afford it. that means that their children are not being

mr. obama is mad add hell about va hospital scandal, we learned that from his chief of staff, dennis mcdonough. this badg administration now seo be following a scandal playbook, step one, say you learned about it through news reports, press secretary jay carney today. >> that i think were reported first by your network out of phoenix, i believe. we learned about them through the reports. i will double check. that is when we learned about them. that is when secretary shinseki learned about them. lou: here is the president last may talking about the irs targeting of conservative groups. >> i can assure you that i certainly did not know anything about the ig report before it had been leaked through press. lou: step two, say you are angry, yesterday white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough said that the president is quote, mader than hell, not just mad. mr. obama spoke out about the irs scandal last may, said quote, americans have a righ rio be angry, and i'm angry about it. step three, in the scandal playbook, fire someone. ideally someone who is planning to leave their job anyway. last week v

mr. clerk if you can call item 3 >> the transfer of the type of 48 for the licenses from 1016 california street in district 6 to dennis for signage doing business as the gentleman. >> if we can hear from the gentleman. >> morning and thank you, supervisors supervisor campos and supervisor mar for allowing me to plead my space. >> can you identify user. >> i'm dennis leary. >> we would like to transform a vacant vacancy on the street to a social environment professionally run and maintained. the space used to be overwhelming that was the stabilizes for the san francisco fire department and later a blacksmith shop and recently a bar then seized by the transbay development corporation and slated for demolition and we've now are attempting to bring it back to life. we would to make it remedy finest of an earlier bar we would like to recall an earlier but maybe a more affordable time in san francisco's history like the late 80s when south of district they were fun and assessable to all and i'm sure you're aware of the particular area in san francisco is the site of rapid and social architecture change. i think by 2017 that

mr. ceo, why does failure rate a $55 million payday? great comments, martha. dennisn writes, he is writing about the new trend of potential employees taking online tests before being granted an interview. he says i think potential employees should not have to take a test in order to get be a jo. filling out application is a test, to make sure potential employee can read and write. interview is another test whether the potential employee can withstand the pressure. good comments. we love hearing from you. send me an. mail. go to gerriwillis.com. >>> we have more, more, more to come. the growing scandal how the government is treating our heroes. government spending on their own shares are they holding back the economy? our financial panel debatessings next. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than

first up dennis gartman is on the show today and the man behind these celebrated gartman letter is joining us live via satellite from virginia beach now mr garment has been publishing his daily financial newsletter since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven before i was born not to like and today he's sitting there with me to talk about the u.s. macro economy the bad and global markets also it looks like these c.l.o. is the new. part of this trend the securities making something like leaders an easy we look into why coming right up and into these big deal edward harrison and i are discussing portugal bailing from the bailout one of the moment let's get to it. of the c.d.o. or collateralized debt obligation you know that nifty little financial instrument that got us into some serious hot water ahead of the financial crisis well it's cousin the c l o o or collateralized loon obligation is picking up where the c d left off it's now all the rage with hedge funds and private equity firms that's right banks are again doling out money to investors in order to finance the purchase of these complex debt securities so what is the c.l.o. and why

mr. rowe -- dr. rowe, tennessee. >> i'd like to introduce someone before i start. timothy dennis, 19 years of aim, is here with us today. this is foster youth shadow day on the -- and, tim, if you would stand up. he spent six years in foster care in tennessee and he is here as many of his other friends are, with the hill today. so let's give him a round of applause. [applause] so, travis, i remember your testimony very well, and i remember you being here and it was powerful then, it's powerful now, and thank you for coming back and i'm your neighbor just south of you in east tennessee, so i'm just -- where in kentucky are you from? >> i'm from a small town in knot county, kentucky. we border virginia. the closest city is hazard, kentucky. >> so i know exactly where you live then. first of all i appreciate your testimony, and one of the things you brought up is extremely important. five years ago, last year we had the va and dod come in and they just burned a billion dollars, a billion -- we're worried about three million? we burned a billion dollars trying to make the dod and the

mrs. obama at the 11dication ceremony for the 9/ memorial in new york city. >> on the next "washington journal," bloomberg news reporter ian katz talks about the legacy of treasury secretary gethner. hen a discussion with dennishen moore. djerjian on ed card a discussion of syria and chemical weapons. "washington journal," live at :00 a.m. >> can you recall who encouraged you to just think about government? father. my mother and i put it in a book called 17 traditions, how they raised people. it was conversation around the dinner table. there was no looking at tv or listening to radio or looking like this. we talked. and they challenged us in a nice way and asked us questions and needled us and joked with us. and the bottom line was, freedom requires civic responsibility. you can't just say that doesn't mean they are free. and that is it. you have to engage in democracy. if you don't use your rights you will lose your rights. discusses immelman his recent travels where public spaces have become the site of mass protests and activists movements. this is an hour and 20 minutes.