mr. ross?first off i'd like to thank tony perkins and fox 5 and everybody for giving me this opportunity to speak to you of this bowl day here in washington, d.c -- beautiful day here in washington, d.c.. maybe would have been high anniversary if i were to be married. i don't believe that robert griffin iii should be held back and i tell you why. because the offense has lacked productivelshanahan era four years. not weeks, not days, four years and this guy is the most dynamic playmaker they have ever had. let me be clear about this. he's the most dynamic playmaker we've ever seen in washington, d.c.. i say let him run. you saw what happened last sunday with the to touchdown runs -- two touchdown runs. without rg3, without designed runs by the shanahans for him this offense doesn't click. it's what makes this offense go. let rg3 be rg3. thank you for the time. >> mr. martin? >> thank you very much. let me be perfectly clear about a couple of different things my opponent just stated. we both agre

i have given 6 pieces in support of mr. ross murry coming back and i have sent 17 letters to the board of supervisors, i believe that this time around we will get a cost analysis from the chief as in terms of what they will cost including training, ammunition, over a period of time, per officer. and i think that this should be also introduced at any meeting that you do have on this subject. and i will do what i can to get those to you as fast as possible. i don't know if we are going to have it by the date of october 22nd, though. >> thank you for your time in that matter. >> any further public comment? >> come on forward. >> i have complete faith in your budget, you guys know exactly what you need. vy been affiliated with special weapons for over 35 years. so, i wish you the best on your budget and whatever you decide to have with your police force is already with me. i just want to state something to the president right now. i'm the one that gave you that private information and i want to take that very seriously sir, and than

as akfwc÷ citizen and business , i'm supporting mr. rossking you to please reinstate our s8f"-÷°ñ please. thank you >> hello. nichole -- and i was born and raised inzdm< san francisco andi also teach at stanford i ask you to look at the facts before you. mirkarimi plediif8w guilty. his conviction is beyond his own case. he's the top law enforcement ideally the sheriff would have said because i've -- the crime and i want my department to be seen as a department that will not only hold offenders accountable but ask offenders to hold themselves accountable and since my conviction is relevant to my duties and probation term within my own department that i will oversee, i will resign for the integrity of this city and send a message that any level of domestic violence will be taken seriously but he didn't do this. so i am asking you not to be scared of setting a precedent of removing a sheriff from office for misconduct related to the sheriff's role. we voted you because we thuft you to do a thorough job in other cases that might come before you

we will get you inevitably.svi2] so, please, i know mr. rossed a great deal from and this is not the way to do it. it's not the way to do it. has a lot of power for these be careful how you vote. >> president chiu: thank you. >> good evening. tab buckner.vá1[ç whether we like it in this chamber or not, whether each of you like it orwg>9 this is going to be considered one of the defining moments of your people will never forget this moment. what happened is)[6($ an unfore incident between a couple of people can happen between anyóon two people who care was taken advantage of politically, hasu blown up, and now what i ask you is to think about your own integrity. do you hav.[ the integrity to think about what your decision will be.ke[vj are you thinking more about the merits of what happened, or are you thinking about whom you owe÷ your political chips to, who is writing you a check. this is that moment that wehñ6he going to remember. and something that you will be thought -- remembered about fro. i realize we're not quite up to the next ordina

we are with you, mr. ross. we're going to support you. occupy south san francisco.com.y much. >> president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> good evening, everyone. my name is ernestin ernestine w. how can it be official misconduct when the man was not officially conducted into the city services. he was not sworn in, period. so therefore, you cannot stay it's officialut)a misconduct. violence. i was a direct victim of abuse and violence husband. i was holding my infant baby in my arms, and he shoved me. only because i woke him up for dinner. that's violence. how can you sit here and say a tug of the arm is violence. it's ridiculous. the man didn't beat her up. he didn't physically harm her,)y cutting her up, or have effectively bleeding, or whatever. so, you know, let's be reasonable and use some common sense here. grabbing an arm is not violence. how -- the mayor, willie brown, he was in office, officially at the time when he was an adulterer, a father of an illegitimate child, not a slap on the wrist. gavin newsom, drunk, violent, on drugs, and an adulterer with the chi

. >> thank you, mr. ross. mr.martin. >> thank you very much, mr. perkins.rfectly clear about a couple of different things that my opponent has just state. we both agree that they are a better team with rg iii on the field. >> i just said that. >> thank you for interrupting me. the more he runs, the more he is at risk for getting hurt. without him on the field, the redskins have no shot. we've seen him pass the ball. only way to stimulate the economy, the washington redskins economy, is to keep him on the field. the only way to stimulate his particular economy is to keep him on the field. he can't do that when he is not there. all quarterbacks get hit. but the option plays where he has to run and decide where they get to take the free shots on him, they are not appropriate, they are not fiscally responsible. they're irresponsible. >> you think you're going over your time. >> i did have more time until you interrupted me. >> mr. rorks you have time to respond. >> i would like to ask where my opponent is from. are you from the washington, d.c. area? >> i don't

. >> thank you, mr. ross. mr.martin? >> thank you very much, mr. perkins. let me be perfectly clear about a couple of different things that my opponent has just stated. we both agree the redskins are a better team with rg3 out there on the field. >> i just said that. >> we both agree. thank you for interrupting me and taking away some of my time. rg3 is the franchise and that the more he runs, the more he is at risk for getting hurt. without him on the field, the redskins have no shot. we've seen him pass the ball. the only way to stimulate the economy is to keep him on the field. only way to stimulate his economy is keep him on the field. all quarterbacks get hit. they get hit in the back field. they get hit when they're running. these option plays where he has to run and keep the ball and decide where they get to take the free shots on him, they're not appropriate. they're not fiscally responsible. >> i think you're going over your time. >> i did have more time until you just took two seconds from me to interrupt me again. >> thank you for that. mr.ross,

mr. mirkarimi from office. ross mirkarimi'svp.r÷+ior did not relate to his duties.f domestic violence. please reinstate ross mirkarimi to theóxn@ office of sheriff. if the voters want to fire our sheriff, there exists a democratic process by which he can be removed. thank youg >> president chiu: next speaker> my name is -- and i live in san franciscoash in the bernal heights area. i share many of the other c i think this is the time we really -- i encourage ll the supervisors to take the high road. i think there'uvi enough. this is enough. and there is a choice#3h0s here. you know what it is. and do0<2 it[ç . >> good evening, supervisors. my name ismdp)x valerie, and i'm sure you're very very tired, and i thank you for your patience. know that this is purely political. if it wasn't political then 911 would have been called that night if it rose to that level. and how can so many diverse behind ross, because there's some truth to that, there's validity to what we're saying bywkc supporting ross. and i would like to also say that i know it's an electionñróqk year.

mr. wagner i've been representing sheriff ross mirkarimi during these proargs. strongly believe that we don't need to draw from other jurisdictions as the mayor has, in order to arrive at a definition of official misconduct, that works in san francisco, and that is workable. and that has been tested. and the reason that we have come back time and again to the case involving commissioner mazzola is because, in that case, we saw board of supervisors sitting in judgment here, that undoubtedly thought they had made the correct decision, only to discover years later, after mr. mazzola was out of office, that they had decided incorrectly. now the reason that the court of appeal in mazzola was able to determine that official misconduct was not some vague, unconstitutional abstract notion is because there was a body of law that had been developed over the#r#pñ years. and every case that

mr. phony, delivering some kind of canned zinger, that's exactly the wrong strategy and i suspect this is just misdirection by the romney campaign. >> i love that ross just called mitt romney mr. phony. i'm done. thank you, ross. >> he just zinged you. very interesting. i will leave you to squabble over the "new york times" newsroom floor. thank you very much indeed. >>> tomorrow night, i sit down with arnold schwarzenegger. you watched the "60 minutes" interview but are left with unanswered questions. so was i so i asked them. arnold schwarzenegger tells all. a pretty moving interview. >>> coming up, a woman who says there are misconceptions about mormons. i will talk to one of the most famous mormons in the world, marie osmond. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future, now

mr. phony, delivering some kind of canned zinger, that's exactly the wrong strategy and i suspect this is just misdirection by the romney campaign. >> i love that rosst romney mr. phony. i'm done. thank you, ross. >> he just zinged you. very interesting. i will leave you to squabble over the "new york times" newsroom floor. thank you very much indeed. >>> tomorrow night, i sit down with arnold schwarzenegger. you watched the "60 minutes" interview but are left with unanswered questions. so was i so i asked them. arnold schwarzenegger tells all. a pretty moving interview. >>> coming up, a woman who says there are misconceptions about mormons. i will talk to one of the most famous mormons in the world, marie osmond. >>> marie osmond is part of one of the most famous mormon families in america after the romney family, of course. what would it mean to her to see a mormon in the white house? she joins me now. it's a great question. here's "time" magazine. >> i have not seen that. >> the mormon identity. i know you don't get political about either party, but it's fascinating to me that finally, mitt romney's talking about being a mormon without any kind o

mr. phony, delivering some kind of canned zinger, that's exactly the wrong strategy and i suspect this is just misdirection by the romney campaign. >> i love that rossust called mitt romney mr. phony. i'm done. thank you, ross. >> he just zinged you. very interesting. i will leave you to squabble over the "new york times" newsroom floor. thank you very much indeed. >>> tomorrow night, i sit down with arnold schwarzenegger. you watched the "60 minutes" interview but are left with unanswered questions. so was i so i asked them. arnold schwarzenegger tells all. a pretty moving interview. >>> coming up, a woman who says there are misconceptions about mormons. i will talk to one of the most famous mormons in the world, marie osmond. up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sar

. >> i think i just heard mrs. ross they should go with all covert action.f so, that has very serious ramifications as the intelligence community does. this is serious business and sometimes it's quiet support for a friend. i will leave that one there. but let me help you with the difference between iran and the embassy in lebanon. iran, we were held by foreign government. in lebanon, he had wanted terrorist action where the government opposed it. we went to lebanon to give peace a chance, to stop the bombing of civilians in beirut, to remove 13,000 terrorist from lebanon, and we did. we saw the formation of a government of reconciliation and for somebody to suggest as our opponents have that these men died in shame, they better not tell parents of those young marines. they gave peace a chance and our allies were with us, the british, french and italians. >> congresswoman ferraro? >> let me just say that i always resent vice-president bush and your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy. [applause] i have been a member of congres

mr. ross was one of the speakers at wednesday's bipartisan policy center panel on iran's nuclear program. a discussion stem from the new release report titled "the price of inaction: energy and economic effects of a nuclear iran." other speakers include former u.s. senator virginia charles robb and the paper's authors. this is about an hour. >> good morning. thank you for coming. welcome to the rollout of "the price of inaction: energy and economic effects of a nuclear iran." let me begin with an apology, if i may. i have a board meeting in virginia this morning at which some very important systems will be made, and i'm also an infectious laugh and more than passing interest, and i'm not going to be able to remain for the entire presentation but i wanted to come in this morning to help kick off this rollout of our most recent paper. i'm here today as a member of the bipartisan policy center board, and i have co-chaired the iran project for almost five years now, with chuck wald. there is an ov

mr. mayor. i know you -- you've second -- >> my name is -- i was outside yesterday to support our president. and today, i am here inside the city hall to support ross, let me ask all of you, include our deputy attorney, when mr. chris daly, he was here, he prove to me and prove to the city that the former mayor gavin newsom -- and alcohol and he have relationship, this is criminal almost. what you talk about criminal, you did, or he did. -- to have discrimination -- ross mirkarimi, and -- to have -- that our president or our mayor wanted to have in our city hall. no puppet. we need people have courage like me to say let ross mirkarimi go to his office

we are going to move now to another question from ross and this one goes to mr. sadler. >> i want to talk about the bush tax cuts. you said everything should be on the table including letting the bush tax cuts expire in them improving -- including letting the bush tax cuts expire for the middle-class. is that a good idea? cruz: i am not sure i explained it as well as i could celeb me try again. our national debt of $16 trillion. the national debt is the responsibility is of all of us as americans and i absolutely hate the debate we are having in this country today because we are writing tax policy based on which political party and which which constituency were in. the national debt was created whenever -- it's an obligation of all of us in the tax policy is between one american versus another. it's the responsibility of all of us. we have to cut spending and we have to balance our budget. even if we do that we may eliminate the deficit in some period of time the future. not while we.while we are stilln afghanistan. we have to pay down the national debt and it re

beijing i'm joined by international affairs commentator and manager of stop nato rick ross awful good to see there mrrudd's off the walls twelve was welcome by taliban statement claiming that nato forces are fleeing afghanistan in humiliation and disgrace do you agree. am defeat i think would probably be a better term this is as you remark you know the beginning of the two overseer of u.s. and nato involvement u.s. involvement circulate a little bit later in afghanistan which makes it the longest war in the history of the united states it's also the longest war in the history of afghanistan. and that precious little has been accomplished on the boss of sons of course for the western military intervention in our the patient in afghanistan. most or you know arguably the only accomplishment dubious as it is as i don't be in production of sky rocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan but in terms of achieving any of the objectives that. the west claimed they they were going to accomplish in afghanistan it's been a signal failure of the tragedy for the go down be. now i mean we've seen

2011, during the time he was incumbent supervisor and sherifflect ross mirkarimi committed acts of abuse against his wife elaina lopez," and mr. mirkarimi grand miss lopez with such force he bruised hers arm aadd in that following sentence, "in that regard the commission did not find credible the version of the incident as iss lopez an the hearing before the commission. rather the commission found that the evidence contained in miss lopez' video was more credible." i think that that is helpful not only to the board, but based upon the public comments that whave received, which accepted the version and the testimony that was heard at the commission by the commission from the sheriff and miss lopez. there are many who have argued it was such a minor incident, that it shouldn't be misconduct. and yet, i think, as commissioner studley remarked on the 16th, that was a very powerful video and was more credible and more believable than the very sanitized version that we received at the hearing. >> mr. hemblig? >> i got most of that, i think in that regard, the commission did not find credible the version of incident the sheriff miss

ross argued the palestinian case. at one point i said to him, "mr.rime minister, "you are the one who believes in the concept of separation. "well, look at east jerusalem, "where you have arab neighborhoods "that are exclusively arab neighborhoods, "where israelis don't live in them, "israelis don't go to them. "what is the logic of keeping them under your sovereignty if you accept the concept of separation?" and the israelis found that to be a pretty compelling argument. narrator: so the negotiators drew maps that would split the city along ethnic lines. the bigger problem came with the oldest part of the city, a zone whose importance was all out of proportion to its size. ross: the old city is one square kilometer. within one square kilometer there are at least 57 holy sites-- holy to three separate faiths. the area is so small that if you spring a leak in one quarter, you have to turn off water in the adjacent quarter. so concepts of sovereignty as they apply to the old city are a little bit more complicated. narrator: at the core are the haram al

mr. president and board of supervisors. i'm in here, there are so many people inside here and outside, they're all supporting ross, from different've never seen that. myself, i have never seen that. and he did a lot for this city and that's why people elected him as the sheriff. and people elected him, not any other thing. and this is democracy. i love this city because in here, people don't look at each other with prejudice. and they don't label each other. they don't play political games. they don't look at each other with that. so show us that you are the true representative of these people san franciscans and reinstate ross. >> president chiu: next speaker. >> president chiu, and supervisors. i'd like that wave. that was very, very original. i'm terry anders of anders and anders foundation. and i'm here speaking in support of ross. i was sitting around these tables when ross created the reentry council. i was sitting around these tables when ross spoke up for labor. i was sitting around these tables when ross spoke up for the individuals in these marginalized neighborhoods. i'm part ofvmm;Ñ bayview, i'm pf the fillmore becau

mr. president, members of the board of supervisors. my name is davidfbtl] waggoner,i along with co-counsel shepherd kopp aregd6t representing sherif rossafternoon. also with us is paula kiny representing elanea lopez. thank you for this opportunity to tell you exactly why the mayor's discretionary decision to suspend the sheriff was without basis in the law and why you must ultimately reinstate the sheriff. ross mirkarimi campaigned on the power of redemption. he's been a key proponent of restorative justice in this city. but there is no question that on december 31st, 2011, ross mirkarimi made a serious and terrible mistake. and how did he deal with that mistake? he immediately apologized to his wife. he entered into counseling. he apologized to the people of san francisco. he pled guilty to a criminal offense. all of that underscores the responsibility that rossq]j terrible mistake that he made on new year's eve last year. and as a result of that mistake, several months from his wife and son. he was suspended without pay, with no means to provide for hi family. his entire life's work was destroyed almost in an instant. he's beenwácf