ladies and gentlemen, mr. frank ware. [ringing bells] [applause] >> ah-ha! yes! oh, yeah. >> frank ware, ladies and gentlemen! got a little body english in there. frank ware. our fifth contestant is his second time to qualify for the finals. he is a grip. he's been with muni for nine years and spent seven years with the cable car division. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. trini whittaker. so trini -- >> like i told frank, the cable car has two people. who would you take as your second person? >> my son. my son loves the cable cars. >> oh, that's fantastic. work on the sentimal -- sentimental vote. very smart. very smart. ladies and gentlemen, mr. trini whitaker. [ringing bells] [applause] >> nice. trinny whitaker, ladies and gentlemen. our sixth contestant is qualifieding for the -- qualifying for the very first time today. he's a conductor. he's been with muni 15 years, with the cable car division nine years. please welcome joseph hsu. mr. hsu, how's it going? if you weren't driving a cable car, what would you be doing? >> watching tv? >> so you can play

ladies and gentlemen, mr. frank ware. [ringing bells] [applause] >> ah-ha! yes! in there. frank ware. our fifth contestant is his second time to qualify for the finals. he is a grip. he's been with muni for nine years and spent seven years with the cable car division. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. trini whittaker. so trini -- >> like i told frank, the cable car has two people. who would you take as your second person? >> my son. my son loves the cable cars. >> oh, that's fantastic. work on the sentimal -- sentimental vote. very smart. very smart. ladies and gentlemen, mr. trini whitaker. [ringing bells]

mr. frank ware. and before we announce the winner i'm going to drag this out even longer.oment to thank the kind people who made the 47th annual cable car bell ringing contest possible the the vice chair of the sfmt board of directors. and friends of the cable car music, union square association, trophy masters shanghai restaurant, ghirardelli chocolatesing, and the american automobile association and the $250 cash prize, deluxe sightseeing. let's bring up gilberto gad oy with the hand-crafted bell. and the winner is -- >> mr. leonard oates. congratulations. >> leonard oates. he retains the crown. [applause] that concludes the 47th annual cable car bell ringing contest. thank you, everybody, for coming. don't forget next year the 48th annual cable car ringing contest. stay tuned for details. there is really, only one boy... one girl... one tree... one forest... one deep, dancing ocean... one mountain calling... one handful of sand through our fingers... one endless sky overhead... and one simple way to care for it all. please visit earthshare.org and learn how the world's

. >> this question is for mr. frank. i am "the new york times" this morning there was an interesting story about the lack of success that the obama and administration had in convincing the public that there are good things about the health care bill. they referred to studies from ann arbor saying that people with his -- specific political opinions, confronted with facts contrary to the opinion, they may be reinforced into the wrong opinion. wrong opinions may be reinforced. you are talking about the amortization of the media, but on a political scale people want to read what they want to read. getting people to read something different is extremely challenging. how do you address that? how much responsibility the media -- responsible to its stockholders, to challenge the leadership to read something different? >> a really good question. i hate to fall back on the british model again, everyone loves british newspapers that because they are very lively and fun to read. they managed to figure out exactly where they are. the

run through what assistance was going on at that time and show that assistance was happening as mr. frank has already said through his office and compare that to the things that have been outreasoned in the s.a.v. and been called assistance in our case. here you is a memo to chairman frank which is in response to a request to draft a letter to treasury about one united bank it. refers to the g.s.e. issue, et cetera. one other thing i need to point out is that it says one united bank discussed problems in detail with [inaudible] last week and told me that we're going to be monitoring the situation closely. they also say that one united also met with rep lynch's office but told me that they did not discuss the bank's problems in-depth with that office. what i want to point out there is that congresswoman waters' name is not mentioned. here you have the draft letter again which both mr. [inaudible] and mr. lynch had as italy agreed to sign on to which is a request by hank paulsen to take a look at again the national bankers association on treasury to redeem g.s.e. stock. here you have anothe

mr. drake. >> frank drake. >> dr. drake, dr. drake used those words to describe it practically. >> i don't know if it was a rogue, but i would say -- >> it was dismissed. >> frank did the first search about 40 years ago. and at the time, it was very difficult technologically to look at a lot of frequencies or at a lot of stars. but, since that time the national academy of sciences in every one of its surveys of astronomy and astrophysics has endorsed seti. so if there were any concerns about it decades ago, we now have multiple peer reviews by both the astrofizzy sists and biologiologists that have endorsed it. >> are you talking about the committee on origin -- >> that's right. >> just so everybody understands this, this is not a pseudoscience, we're not talking about roswell, aliens, this is an entirely different subject. >> this is a sipe tick search. >> the seti institute in mount view california. the nexus of such efforts in the u.s. has accomplished in a spectacular wait founding of the science institute and the procuremen

quickly run through what assistance was going on at that time and show the assistance was happening as mr. frank had said to his office and compare them to the things that happen allied. -- that have been outlined happs when united bank discuss the problems in detail last week and told me that they are going to be monitoring the situation closely. they said that they did not discuss the problems with that office. i want to point out that congressman waters name was not mentioned. here you have the draft letter. this is where they agreed to sign onto this with a request of the national bankers association proposal. here, you have another correspondents between staff on the full committee and is between staff and the full committee having conversations about fdic. this indicated that fdic does not have the authority to implement nba propose will. there is conversation going on about how to solve this problem. that conversation was going on between staffers on the full committee. the slide. further confirmation, they were still asking about reasonable plans on how to raise capital, which is in the

dodd and mr. frank did not do anything different than what they have done for decades. they will do what they get paid for. money talks. the world still revolves around sex and money. it has done it for eons. it will not change now. i appreciate your interest. you are young enough to make some changes. until you understand that changes have to be in the process and not just saying that they screwed up. up? do you change the scripew- thank you very much. i will listen to your answer. guest: thank you for your comment. i agree with you. we were trying very hard to point out how bipartisan an effort to water down this bill is it really was in the end. we were trying as much as possible to highlight the subterranean cooperation between the democrats and republicans that went on in this bill. a great example is what happened with the amendment that turned into the volcker rule. they had tremendous difficulty in getting the amendment voted on. they could not get senator dodd to agreed to vote on it. in the end, they have to resort to a trick. they attached their amendment to

quickly run through what assistance was going on at that time and show the assistance was happening as mr. frank had said to his office and compare them to the things that happen allied. -- happens i'll line. -- allen. when united bank discuss the problems in detail last week and told me that they are going to be monitoring the situation closely. what united also met with -- but told me they did not discuss the bank's problems with that office. congresswoman waters name is not mentioned. you have the draft letter, again, which they had possibly agreed to sign onto. the national bankers association proposal on the treasury. slide. you have any other correspondence between staff on the full committee and it is between staff having conversation about the conversation with fdic. fdic does not have the authority to implement the nba proposal. there is conversation going on about how to solve this problem. that conversation was going on with staffers on the full committee. further, even if they are willing to be flexible, and how we will raise capital which is difficult for minority banks. slide. more

frank sinatra. i said, how you doing, mr. sinatra? no, no, no. call me frank. and then when we get to know each other, you can call me francis. but right now you call me frank. >> larry: that's the way he was. >> so i started talking to him and he said he wanted to have a meeting. i said great. let's have it right now. i said terrific. come on over. he said no, no, no, you come over here. i said, where are you? palm springs. i said, i'm in los angeles. he said, yeah. you go out to santa monica airport. my plane is waiting. it'll bring you down to palm springs. come over to the house and we'll talk. >> larry: that's the way he was. >> we sat down, had a drink, he told me what he wanted to do. he said, do you think you can pull this off? i said, absolutely. >> larry: what did he want to do? >> he wanted to do a concert to start someplace important. i started it at carnegie hall. that was the first place we played. then i took him on a tour in arenas. he wanted to do what elvis did. he was very smart, frank, as you remember. he said to me after we finished talking

quickly run through what assistance was going on at that time and show that it was happening as mr. frank had already said through his office and compare that to things that have already been outlined. here you have a memo to chairman frank that is a response to a draft letter about united bank and refers to the issue. one other thing i need to point out is that 1 united bank discussed the details last week. they told me that they're going to be monitoring the situation closely. they also said that they met and told me that they did not discuss the problems in depth with that office. congressman waters name is not mentioned. here you have the letter that they passively agreed to sign on to, to take a look at the bank proposal to redeem gse stock. here you have another correspondence between staff on the full committee and having conversations about the ftse -- fdic. they do not have the authority to implement in be a proposals. -- mba proposals. there is conversation going on about how to solve this problem. the conversation is going on between staffers in the full committee. further conv

mr. smith goes to washington." 1939, frank capra. he lived until he was 89 or a 90 years old. these movie folks like the name of jefferson. he rises to introduce his bill. set aside a portion of willow creek in his home state to be used for a boys' camp. why did the boys out of america -- i do not know are aware of this -- know if you are aware of this -- not let -- why did the boy scouts of america and not let their names be used? >> there is a sense that you are going to be misrepresented. so they became -- they are not the boy scouts. >> boys rangers. >> they are the heroes of the movie. the are the ones to, ultimately, rise to senator smith's defense. it is similar for the military at times, which is an uneasy about what hollywood will do when they make a presentation, especially if they do not have control over that depiction. >> could senator pain is played by ko'd rains -- claude raynes. >> what did you get me out of bed for? mind telling me what is going on? >> i've got the principal actor in our play. don quixote smith. over here, a guerrilla in man's clothing. >> the

mr. smith goes to washington." 1939, frank capra, lived till he was 93 or 94 years old. here is jefferson smith. these movie folks like the name jefferson. you see it several times. he rises to introduce his bill to set aside a portion of willet creek in his home state to be used for a boys' camp. why did the boy scouts of america not let their names be used in this movie? >> i'm not sure of all the reasons at the time. people are shy about being presented in the hollywood version. there is a sense that you are going to be misrepresented. so they became -- they are not the boy scouts. >> boy rangers. >> the boy rangers are the heroes of the movie. they are the ones who, ultimately, rise to senator smith's defense. it is similar for the military at times, which is uneasy about what hollywood will do when they make a presentation, especially if they do not have control over that depiction. >> senator paine is played by claude rains. he was born in britain but became an american citizen. >> excuse me. >> what did you get me out of bed for? >> the show is about to commence.

match ban and should stay on choose day for his part in the revolts frank robbery will be out for at least three games while journey to mrs just one new manager along blank had already suspended the entire squad prior to a friendly with norway last. november but it seems to me that the players are sincerely sorry for what happened i understand that they were affected by these events though i can't speak for them but i think everyone has to realise there was a slip in standards but now we should also be able to move forward. from the pos world cup to one of the future events where russian prime minister vladimir putin has made some big aren't to faith there will be no need for visitors entering russia to have a visa in twenty a day if the country secures the bid for that year's tournament fifa delegation head harald main nicholls who in fact is currently inspecting football stadiums across russia stating the promise will be considered visa free entry was a large when moscow hosted the champions league final in may two thousand and eight with their tickets passport control instead russia will be up against england spain and

frank vargo. go ahead. caller: good morning, mr. vargo. i say that philosophy matters. i hear you advocate that the u.s. should do one thing or another and i hear in -- the premise to a lot of the callers i hear chatters of socialism, maxxism, keynesian, etc., etc. explain to me what philosophy, if any, guides your organization political and economic policy decisions or what you're advocating for, what's it based on? guest: we advocate that the markets should work. we advocate that there has to be economic freedom. you talk about philosophy, you know, if you look at world history and all of the civilizations that have risen and fallen, political freedom goes hand in hand with economic freedom. so the open market, free market, i think is the best philosophical device that was ever invented. thank you, adam smith. host: frank vargo, national association of manufacturers, thank you for being here. guest: thank you so host: next off, we'll kick off our energy series on "washington journal." we'll turn our attention to the construction of homes and businesses and the differe

frank atlantic city, new jersey. you are on the "washington journal." caller: mr.tz made a good comment about the war in vietnam. i am a combat veteran. the iraqi war was a tobacco to begin with. going over there. it caused us problems -- the toqi war was a tobdebacle begin with. no matter what obama does, in the end, i think iraq will revert back to its problem-type situation in the middle east. the 50,000 troops stayed behind. it reminds me of germany. we're going to be there forever now. god knows how much it is going to cost. i do not think we will get anything accomplished in the middle east and putting troops on the ground when we could be using intelligence to do our job for us. guest: thank you for your service. the intelligence is a key. the caller is correct in that one substitute you can use for a large number of troops -- we games supporte a game to ♪ from the troops. the original invasion of iraq was because of faulty intelligence. but we're hopeful things can get better. the wikileak suggest there is uncertainty about that whole region in general. hos

frank atlantic city, new jersey. you are on the "washington journal." caller: mr. weitz made a good comment about the war in vietnam. i am a combat veteran. the iraqi war was a tobacco to begin with. going over there. it caused us problems -- the toqi war was a tobdebacle begin with. no matter what obama does, in the end, i think iraq will revert back to its problem-type situation in the middle east. the 50,000 troops stayed behind. it reminds me of germany. we're going to be there forever now. god knows how much it is going to cost. i do not think we will get anything accomplished in the middle east and putting troops on the ground when we could be using intelligence to do our job for us. guest: thank you for your service. the intelligence is a key. the caller is correct in that one substitute you can use for a large number of troops -- we games supporte a game to ♪ from the troops. the original invasion of iraq was because of faulty intelligence. but we're hopeful things can get better. the wikileak suggest there is uncertainty about that whole region in general.