mr. paul was enough to give me access. i think the building department put them through the verification true microform and records. that created the building permit. mr. sweeney was dealing with it. when you look at it you do not know what it was. the owner, if you want to say gaming the system or whatever. even the permits to put the door in, he said it was a two unit building. why do you put a door in if you have a unit? the door on the left side of the property, what i thought was interesting was what i was there, the door on the left side, that is where the window was. if you look at the property next door, it has a door and window beside it and it is around the same time they put the door on the left side and bill a wall across were you would have come in on the main entrance which was the right side. you would have turned left and went up the stairs. now there is a wall there. i took some photographs today. i am sorry to link than this. i am agreeing with mr. paul. i went to show you where i was coming from. this is

mr. paul: mr. president -- mr. paul: mr.lexander -- the presiding officer: is there objection to the senator from vermont's request? mr. reid: regular order, mr. president. mr. sanders: i apologize to the senator from tennessee. the presiding officer: is there objection to the senator from vermont's request? mr. paul: yes. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the senator from vermont has the floor. mr. sanders: i do apologize to my friend from tennessee. i just to just continue and talk about what the manager's amendment is doing. so i went over a number of criteria by which it strengthens our ability to protect rural post offices and that's something i think many of us from rural america want to see happen. we understand how important rural post offices are to the heart and soul of small communities, the lieberman-collins bill took us a good way forward, this amendment goes further. now, i should say that while i think the manager's amendment is a step forward in almost every instance, i believe that through the amend

mr. paul has sort of interesting views u.s. sovereignty. they don't align very well believe it or not what the tea party and makes them different from his son, randy paul on that. so it's not going to be the darling of the tea party. we should expect anyone. mr. paul al-aqsa tea party support, but over time he's not going to be the candidate. they are looking for someone else who might be electable. >> host: so as far as you can tell, the tea parties hereto say? >> guest: they will show up in november and will be part of our political scene well beyond 2012. >> host: the book we talk about, elizabeth foley's book is "the tea party: three principles" available wherever you buy your books. thank you so much for wrapping up our coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. and for being with us this weekend. great to be in los angeles for two days every year. if you miss coverage, panels and authors are all available on the c-span video library. have a good rest of your day. >> up next, guy gugliotta recounts the social and political lan

mr. paul gillespie. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for being here, alleging the second- best thing we have done as the taxi commission. the first thing that we -- the first best thing that we did was hiring naomi kelly. i am glad she has a new position in san francisco. if any of you are here because we -- you are upset about what we did and you want to bend, i suggest calling willie brown. he appointed me to the taxi commission. i also want to thank mayor newsom for the work that he did. if you want to thank someone for bringing someone like myself or naomi, you will want to thank mayor brown on that, too. people that know me know that i could go on for hours about this. i could talk about the collaboration that happened between the taxicab companies, the city, manufacturers. this would not have happened without john james, who was the liaison between the manufacturers, taxi industry. there were plenty of others who also helped. i had real help from lots of people -- we would not be here without you

supervisor olague: i know mr. paul has worked on this for a long time. do you have additional feedback on the amendments that were suggested today? >> there has been good discussion among the colleagues. one of the way she steer new contruction is to steer them to doing the easy thing which is to buy old buildings. the 800 pound gorilla in the room is the academy of art university. they have used the existence of conditional use for a term called path to legalization. for those who are not familiar, it's a policy developed in years ago for a good reason. you would have a homeowner out in one of the neighborhoods and maybe didn't know you need a permit to put a tiny back on the back. the academy of art is not that example. they have violated law here in, you're out, dozens, under times. but they believe since they can legalize what they have done through conditional use, they are in no hurry. they delayed the master plan, they delay the impact report because some day they will get to legalize it. by not having that route, it makes it harder for bad actors

mr. paul, welcome to "face the nation."talk to you first a little bit about what the vice president said about afghanistan, because basically what he said is -- we're going to stay the course there. now, i know a lot of people in your party don't particularly agree with you on foreign poli y policy, but has afghanistan been worth our time and treasure? >> no. absolutely not. we went in there improperly. it was a waste. there's not going to be a happy ending. i think the republicans have dug a hole for themselves because they're trying to outmilitarize. the president says we should do more and 75% of american people have said, we have had enough. it's cost us too much money. it's time to come home, but this was obama's cherished position. he says, this is the good war, and now we have been there ten years. it's a sad state of affairs. i think when you see innocent people dying. when you see all of the collateral damage. you see 16 people getting murdered. that's a tragedy. but thousands of innocent people are dying, and they

mr. paul misener, the vice president of amazon.com. and i believe that you will speak about amazon's entry into the online streaming video business following on the heels of its efforts to digitize books and make them more widely available through its kindle service. i'm going on a limb here but i think you'll stress the need for an open internet which is kind of called network neutrality which is controversial around here but which i support and which my colleague to my left does not. in order for amazon to compete against incumbent video service providers. we welcome you. >> thank you very much, chairman rockefeller. >> did i get it about right? >> yes, sir. absolutely right. my mom will be proud. thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. exactly a quarter century ago, the fcc set out to establish rules for so-called advance television which was the very first significant update to consumer video quality since the introduction of color tv in the early 1950s. the commission established a private sector advisory to evaluate

you see governor romney come out, greet mrs. paul. so i can imagine ron paul working out some sort of deal with the romney campaign for whether he needs planks at the convention, whether he'll get -- certainly get speaking time at the convention. but ed is totally right. the romney campaign is very focused on keeping ron paul voters in the tent and the way they're going to do it, to directly answer your question, is ron paul. they are going to need him out there talking to -- talking about mitt romney. in an interview for our first book, "the right fights back," ron paul told me that he thought that other people he was running against -- and there were eight of them, i think -- that mitt romney was the most qualified. he said that from the beginning. guest: big picture point back to the crowd watching the battle, i think a big theme of the romney campaign will be freedom. they're looking, they're searching from some overarching vision. liberty and freedom is something that -- and the contrast they're going to try to draw is obama is al

paul gaultier's work. i know that have been friends for a very long time. it is my honor to introduce both suzy menkes, fashion editor of the international herald tribune, and mr. jean paul gaultier. [applause] >> the love seat. [laughter] i just want to know, can you hear me? please shout loudly if you cannot. [laughter] yes or no, you can hear? >> somebody said no. >> mic people, can i be heard? should i start? ok, good. so before i introduced one of the funniest, wittiest, most amusing and funkiest designers that i know, i would like to start with something a little bit more serious. you know, in fashion, the reason that people laughed seem obvious when you see the exhibition of all it's incredible glory and excitement. but at the same time, there were real reasons why designers laughed, and one of them, when it comes to jean paul gaultier, is probably what is talked about least. it is the technique, the skill, the handwork, the knowledge. sometimes it gets buried underneath the fantasies of the close. but if you look hard, particularly those of you are going to go to the exhibition afterwards, if you look on one side to see the incredible punk can-can clot

i think that ron paul has a personal relationship with the governor and mrs. romney. u know, during the debates you'll see anne romney come out and talk to congressman paul, you'll see mitt romney come out and talk to mrs. paul. so i can imagine ron paul making a deal with romney, whether he wants a convention appearance, maybe a couple planks, and i can see that being friendly. with the words that have been exchanged, with the money that's been spent, it's hard to see how a gingrich-romney conversation is going to be friendly. although one thing that evan thomas andy learned when we were researching this in real time behind the scenes book "inside the circus," was that there's more conversations among the candidates than we realize. the romney folks told me the one thing they realized in 2008 was that it was a mistake to be in too much of a bubble, so there are unofficial conversations all the time. so you never know. >> well, so you are the guy who knows all of this stuff. it's so great to have you on, because inside the war room, we love to peek behind the curtain.

mr. paul: i ask the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. paul: i rise today to introduce aid to egypt until they end the prosecution of our u.s. citizens. i offered this amendment earlier this spring when egypt was detaining our citizens, pro-democracy workers and was not letting them leave the country. since then they have let them leave the country but sort of in an insulting fashion in the sense that they have let them leave when we had to pay basically ransom. we had to pay about $5 million in ransom. $300,000 per person to let them leave egypt. so they came home and egypt could only get paid if the administration certified they were pro-democracy. within days secretary clinton released the said aid and said they were achieving their democratic goals. i wrote a letter to secretary clinton and asked her not to do this because the prosecution still goes on. the u.s. citizens had to pay $300,000 in bills but had to sign a statement saying they're coming back for the trial. everybody signed of said i doubt they're ever going back to egypt fo

i would let mr. paulich decide on their own what they -- >> why, you're the party leader, isn't it your role to step in and ask these campaigns to end, to help romney seal the deal and move forward? >> no, i don't think so. i think it's up to our -- it's up to our primary voters to help them and others make the decisions as to whether or not they want to stay in or not. it's a combination of momentum. it's a combination of delegates. it's money. i mean, it's all of those things. ultimately, winning and losing matter in these primary battles and that's why tuesday's important. so i actually think the opposite, jessica. i think in this country, i think people are tired of folks in washington telling them what they should do and what they shouldn't do and that's why we let this process play out. i think actually it's been going very well. you know, i think if you look at how the governor's doing, he's doing well. the party's getting pretty well uni unified. >> on that, cnn is reporting that rnc members and s

mr. paul flynn. >> can i ask you to consider -- >> be on c-span2 we will be the british house of commons now as they move on to other legislative business. you have been watching prime minister's question time aired live wednesdays at 7 a.m. eastern while parliament is in session. you can see this week's question time again sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. and for more information go to c-span.org, click on c-span series for prime minister's questions plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can watch recent video including programs dealing with other international issues. >> several live events to tell you about today. >> now, part of a hearing on legislation to increase accountability in overseas contracting. the proposal is based on recommendations from the commission on wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan. which found as much a $60 billion in waste and fraud. we will show you as much of this as we can until our live coverage

you see governor romney come out, greet mrs. paul. so i can imagine ron paul working out some sort of deal with the romney campaign for whether he needs planks at the convention, whether he'll get -- certainly get speaking time at the convention. but ed is totally right. the romney campaign is very focused on keeping ron paul voters in the tent and the way they're going to do it, to directly answer your question, is ron paul. they are going to need him out there talking to -- talking about mitt romney. in an interview for our first book, "the right fights back," ron paul told me that he thought that other people he was running against -- and there were eight of them, i think -- that mitt romney was the most qualified. he said that from the beginning. guest: big picture point back to the crowd watching the battle, i think a big theme of the romney campaign will be freedom. they're looking, they're searching from some overarching vision. liberty and freedom is something that -- and the contrast they're going to try to draw is obama is al

mr. paul said one you're saying is exactly right. but he added it is not unfortunate scorable and that is why it is not in our report. senator simpson agreed saying my assessment had quote gone to the core of the. we should focus our health care a attention on setting cost containment goals and achieving them through to deliver system reform. if we're smart about this probably can avoid the types of benefit cuts included in the plan before us today. this need not be a partisan issue. senator portman is both intuitive with knowledge and conviction and i look forward to working with all my colleagues on both sides of the table to address the substantial deficit reduction promised by wise health care system reform. i do reject the fiscal commission social security recommendations. while other parts of the recommendations aren't more power from the social security proposal would restore long-term solvency to it 80%-20% combination but as we know the congressional budget act prohibits making changes to social security in the budget resolu