mr. rodriguez, unfortunately, i'm convinced is not that person. he would not be the right person if he really had the support of his leadership. he just doesn't have the background. he's never managed something like a major of 18,000 employe employees. he does not know -- have any experience on the frontlines what they do every day and how they do it. but it's even worse, because, look, why didn't they choose somebody that's experienced in d.h.s.? why didn't they choose a police chief military officer, someone who knows how to lead and manage a big agency like this, somebody with independence and integrity? why? because they don't want somebody with independence and integrity committed to the enforcement of law. they've already decided they're not enforcing the law and they want somebody like this protege to go into that agency who's not going to enforce the law. it's a very serious statement that i made and i think that's fund menltfundamentally accurat. i just am buffaloed that that's the fact. mr. jonathan thurly, the constitutional lawyer who'

mr. rodriguez and we may have mr. kim join us or anyone from the mayor's office that can speak about the plan and the commitment from the mayor's office to fulfill the planning and joined by sfmta by a couple of gentlemen and we have under the puc barbara who is not planning to present she's spearheading the work in the public works and we have the president of the environment here and good afternoon mr. rodriguez representing the vice president of the environment and joined by my colleague to present this item to the board of supervisors. first, as supervisor avalos mentioned unfortunately, our acting director david those manned was scheduled to make the presentation but he said he wasn't feeling well, so you have both cal and i to present the material and as supervisor avalos mentioned we have representatives from the puc who can talk about the key aspects of what the city is doing to reduce the emissions here. i want to set the context of how the strategy fits in san francisco and our overall plan if i can have sfg

mr. rodriguez. when you were speaking about memories i was reminded to bed of your commencement address at the college a few years back and in that address you celebrate in a way the risk that writers take in their younger years, how they exude forms of brilliance that supersede whatever they come up with later in life. and i was curious about how you might see that concept within your own career, what do you maybe andy in the younger mr. rodriguez and what you happy that you left behind? >> i do envy that. i envy a certain kind of bravery or carelessness. but curiously as you get older because you get really older like me you get careless too. i just don't care. i was coming here and i was thinking oh how can i even talk about any of this and the fire would come down. i thought you know you are too old to worry about that. you are just too old. i'm able to go to places and do things with people now that even maybe when i was your age i wouldn't have done. the sisters of mercy the irish order of the

mr. rodriguez, thank you so much for coming on. >> how you doing?everybody knows you're the writer, director, producer, editor, choreographer-- >> sometimes cook. >> stephen: sometimes cook? all right. are you a good cook? all right? you've been making movies for over 20 years. elmariachi your first movie. $7,000 to make that movie? >> that's a lot when you're a college kid. >> stephen: i know. how did you get $7,000 as a college kid gisold my body to science. >> stephen: really. were you a blood donor? >> i was a lab rat. they took a bunch out of my arm, cut it out at the end and i got $2,000 in seven days. >> stephen: did the speed healer work? >> no. >> stephen: i was hoping you could be to be wolverine now. >> it never came out on the market so i don't think they perfected it. >> stephen: everybody know knows you from "from dusk till dawn," and "spy kids." you've now got your own cable tv new york called el ray. el ray. okay. i find it and you threatening. ( laughter ). >> i understand. >> stephen: because you're not-- i mean, you're a mexican a

mr. rodriguez reiterated what he had told us last year, which is that the cuban government is interested in meeting with officials from the united states at the highest levels of both governments, to discuss the release of alan gross with no preconditions. >> what do they want? i know that they're saying no preconditions. but do they want the release of one of the cuban prisoners here in the united states, the four remaining? >> the cubans want to sit down with the united states and reach a negotiated resolution. we have asked the president to engage, to have the administration participate in such a negotiation. and we believe that the administration should do whatever it takes to free alan, who was in cuba in the first place on u.s. government business. >> what is the response from the administration, from the state department, or the white house? >> we have not received any response. we are not aware of any response to the cubans' invitation, which has now been outstanding for nearly one year. and we deal with officials from -- i'm sorry. >> no, you go ahead. >> i was going to say that

torture program but defenders of the program are seeing this as another opportunity as you see mr rodriguez doing to rewrite history and say look this this this program was effective to counter terrorism even though it looks like there's no real evidence that that's the case is right and what is the status of the report right now well it's vote came out of committee to declassify which means it's going to go to the white house now it's going to be up to the white house to look at and it wasn't the whole report the report is over six thousand pages the torture report the committee only voted to declassify about four hundred pages of that's the executive summary in the findings those pages now go to the white house where they're going to have the final redaction decisions over it and what gets released and the cia's going to conduct their own report and it's expected that the white house is going to cede a lot of the redacting to the cia so basically we're going to have is the cia holding the black marker at this report that supposed to be exposing an american in brutal tactics by the cia the

rodriguez, danny ferguson. and we know something about mr. ferguson. we have heard from his fiancee.e with affiliate wtsp, and she described him as a person who loved sports. he loved football, loved basketball, also loved serving his country. and in the moments when this happened, two days ago, when lopez came on post, and fired his weapon, killing three people, injuring 16, we understand that ferguson was trying to protect his fellow soldiers. i want you to listen to what she had to say. >> he held that door shut. there's no locks. those doors, they're like -- seemed like they would be bulletproof, but apparently not. and if he was not being the one against that door holding it, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else. >> reporter: he was the one trying to keep the door shut. a door that wouldn't lock. but ended up losing his life that day. and wolf, it's also important to point out, again, there was 16 people who were injured. three were in critical condition. but today we have learned those three have been upgraded to fair condition. so, you know,

you had yesterday on the show, jose rodriguez, somebody who oversaw that program. you know, and frankly, mrss briefed on the program. she forgot she was briefed on the program. later to admit it. and i have to say that when i heard those comments yesterday, i was reminded of something that margaret thatcher once said about one of her political opponents. mrs. pelosi's problems is her sign doesn't reach her brain. we have those doing everything in favor of protecting the nation after 9-11. now seem to be really not interested in looking at the facts, but really just looking for a way, frankly, to cast blame and say things that aren't true about those brave men and women. >> they haven't met any al-qaeda operatives and the guys they stared in the eyes went to the justice department and pitched what he'd like to do and got the okay from everybody before he went ahead and did it. meanwhile, senator king,ç he calls himself independent, he caucuses with the democrats. he had this to say about vice president cheney. he was very upset that former vice president cheney was pleased that they did wate

mrs. hart and that is a t-shirt that actually says monkey business. michael pineda, not only did you make michael hart look like a deft cheater but alex rodriguez, he allegedlyto great ends to cover up his use of performance enhancing drugs. not you, mike pineda. you are too good for that. too good of a bad cheater. michael pineda, we take our hats off to you. >> no. >> especially because we know you would never think you would never think to hide your pine tar there. >> i need time to recover. >> all yours? now, i get to follow up. no pine tar abuse here. academic out something bananas. two skydivers jumped off the world's tallest building in dubai. they get a record for base jumping from a building 2700 feet, people. that's a half mile straight down. they practiced. where did they do that? jumping off a swiss mountain. >> i like the way they hold hands, so polite as you're plummeting. >> jumping off a building in dubai. i guess that will wrap it up for us. >> we're back at 8:00. "360." don't miss that. >> you need a nap. >> we will talk to some family members on flight 370. >> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to a special edition of a legal

mr. vickers outlined in his remarks. as you heard from admirals' mccraven and rodriguez and austin in their appearances before the full committeeyour earlier this year the need for more timely and accurate intelligence continues to exponentially grow. persistence crisis in the middle east and recent developments in crimea, central africa and asia pacific region underscore the constant drum beat for more fighters and policymakers for chris specialize understanding and insight into countless threatened military capabilities around world. you and i have a responsibility to our planned women to make smart decisions in these austere times to take risks where we must and maintain those investments, well into the future. dia made significant changes, to meet increasing aberrational needs, to threaten military advantage. during testimony this morning dilate critical authorities in our request, intelligence correction operations, all source analysis, investments in our work force for professional development and career broadening experiences and how we have reshaped much of our business practices and process. within intelligence correct

to the families of sergeant first class ferguson as well as sergeant carlos rodriguez and sergeant timothy owens. with that, mr speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> this is from "washington journal," about 35 minutes. >> w. >> in this segment, we take a look at how your money is at work in a different government program. this week, we will talk about a tax exemption for mortgage debt forgiveness that may be revised by congress. we are joined by nick timiraos. guest: the issue here is that if the lender forgives a debt that you owe them, that is treated by the irs as income. when we saw007, more foreclosures and banks were being encouraged to offer relief to homeowners, it turned out that if the banks offered you relief, if they forgave some of your mortgage principal, that would be treated as income. that help you are getting from your bank, you would have to pay taxes on. congress passed a series of measures that said you would not have to do that, but you would not

mr. rodriguez, who is now over at homeland security, too, they were installed not to be good, smart law enforcement officers but to effectuate the president's agenda. you want to know the truth, that's the truth. they were put in there to carry out the agenda, not to carry out law enforcement, and the homeland security morale is the lowest of any major entity in the united states government. they've actually sued supervisors because they're being blocked from enforcing the law as they've taken an oath to. so, mr. president, i see my colleagues here and i will yield the floor and just conclude by saying i hope we'll -- colleagues will look at this. these facts are not disputed. this is not acceptable. it cannot be that the united states government would carry on its business in this way. it's dangerous not only on immigration law but any other law that might come up in the future. presidents cannot, attorneys general cannot, homeland security people cannot fail to enforce plain law without creating serious damage to the great american constitutional legal system that has protected us and produced ou

mr. sessions: today the judiciary committee of which i am a member voted out the nomination of leon rodriguez to be director of the u.s. citizenship and immigration services, uscis. this agency has