so it is my pleasure to on their leader nancy pelosi today with the renaming of little drive to nancyosi drive in san francisco. [applause] and i know johnny said it earlier, i also think it is very fitting that nancy pelosi driver also runs past our national aids memorial grove. [applause] obviously, she has been a driving force in congress for aids funding. she has educated the summoning leaders across the country about this disaster is a disease and how we can help so many people recover from it. she has created the housing opportunities for people in aids, and of course her support for the right and right -- ryan wright care act. as mayor, of course, it is always my pleasure, because, you know, when you give somebody their own and drive, they're going to have to pay for parking somewhere. this will help her get past that. nancy pelosi drive day in san francisco. her own in day here. [applause] and if i may, on behalf of our recreation and park department, it's wonderful commissioners, but really on behalf of all of us here who have been lifelong friends, supporters, people that ha

here is nancy pelosi. >> here we go again, and i know it came up in the meeting at the white house. i wanted to get your take on speaker boehner drawing the line in the sand once again this week on the debt ceiling. should the american people be preparing for another showdown standoff on the debt ceiling? >> what i believe that the american people want us to work together to find a balanced approach, similar to what the president and he agreed to last year before he walked away from it. that is that you have -- we know we have to balance the budget. we have to establish our priorities and make the cuts accordingly and we have to have revenue on the table and we have to invest in growth because the creation of jobs is what will bring revenue to the treasury and continue our economic recovery which is important to the american people, so to toss this into the mix right now saying we have to have cuts that exceed even the lifting of the extent to which we lift the debt ceiling is really immature, irresponsible, let's get serious. >> speaker pelosi. >> yes. >> when you talk about balanc

did you tell, you tell nancy pelosi waterboarding was being used? >> yes, i did. >> okay. >> bill: calling her a liar. >> she is confused or not telling the truth. i think she is not telling the truth. >> bill: you are sitting there and you are looking her in the eye like you are looking me in the eye and you are telling her and the other people in the room that you did use waterboarding on abu would you have bade da and she comes out and says they didn't tell me, it's not about her confusion. that's a word that people remember waterboarding. >> correct. you know what? they don't have to take my word for it there is a cable tenth of september, 2002, where we spell out exactly the briefing that we gave nancy pelosi. >> is the word waterboarding used in that cable? >> it's used waterboarding and other techniques that were used on abu suebada he had been waterboarding tech uniques. the briefings took place when we got back to washington after her recess. >> cable what happened after the meeting saying you used waterboarding and your word and other peop

nancy pelosi responding saying in terms of what we know that the budget control act that was passed we know we must reduce the deficit. the former speaker of the house saying it is wrong that the characterization that you pose referring to the speaker i have no idea what the speaker said but is that what he is saying and he wants cuts more than lifting the debt sealing and the president said no. so the back and forth on all of this in terms of what the democrats and republicans are trying to do framing this clearly in an election year. the briefing taking place after the noon time luncheon at the white house with congressional leaders and the president. >>> today president obama over sandwiches from taylor gourmet, a shop that i'm sure many of you have sampled, met with senate majority leader, harry reid, john boehner and nancy pelosi. the president urged to strengthen the economic recovery including the five items on the president's to do list for congress like the tax cuts for small businesses that the president discussed with local entrepreneurs earlier today. the congress to do lis

did you tell, you tell nancy pelosi waterboarding was being used? i did. >> okay. >> bill: calling her a liar. >> she is confused or not telling the truth. i think she is not telling the truth. >> bill: you are sitting there and you are looking her in the eye like you are looking me in the eye and you are telling her and the other people in the room that you did use waterboarding on abu would you have bade da and she comes out and says they didn't tell me, it's not about her confusion. that's a word that people remember waterboarding. >> correct. you know what? they don't have to take my word for it there is a cable tenth of september, 2002, where we spell out exactly the briefing that we gave nancy pelosi. >> is the word waterboarding used in that cable? >> it's used waterboarding and other techniques that were used on abu suebada he had been waterboarding tech uniques. the briefings took place when we got back to washington after her recess. >> cable what happened after the meeting saying you used waterboarding and your word and other people with

that's what nancy pelosi said. >> in the clips that you played, sean, both nancy pelosi and president obama were talking about people who were pointing out the unfairness that has become apparent that we have a larger and larger class divide. >> sean: give me an example -- andrew breitbart offered $100,000 for evidence that the congressman that you were talking about to show any video evidence when there were a million cameras around. do you have any evidence to prove that? >> i don't have any evidence. what we were talking about is the kind of people drawing pictures of monkeys and insulting the president. nobody said, hey, that represents the heart of the tea party. >> sean: they were called nazis regularly without any evidence. we have to give michelle the last evidence. >> the quote from juan is, i don't have any evidence. okay? up on cleveland leaders are being charged with a bridge bomb blot. up on chicago is being investigated. up on leaders in l.a. and denver and oakland and san francisco and seattle and new york have been caught on tape advocating violence for the transformat

here on nancy pelosi drive. she has plenty of that. >> thank you. >> michael finney is looking once again into a story that he reported four years ago. a man convicted of bilking bay area homeowners is a wanted man, again. coming up. >> and some of the sensations of pop music make their debut. we'll have more coming up on abc 7 news. >> i'm spencer christian. there is a big cool down today. i'll show you what the week holds in the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> and what oscars can tell us >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> reality may have overtaken the hype of facebook's initial offering. the shares debutted at $38 friday finished at just more than $34 today meaning a thousand dollar investment is worth $895. so has it already worn off? >> if facebook's ipo is guilty of giving some an investment hangover, this is what they're feeling woozy. she bought a thousand shares on friday when the price was $40. >> i'm a little disappointed but hoping for the best. >> she's holding on for

representative mike honda and nancy pelosi also had representatives there. it was a really great event. the exhibit is open if you are ever traveling on bart and want to go to the san bruno station. it is up for the month of may, which is the pacific islander america -- whatever it is called -- heritage month. it will be up for the entire month of may in the station. the organizers are hoping that we will be able to get bart track a permanent memorial there. commissioner moore: i want to acknowledge commissioner sugaya for what he just shared with us. my understanding is that this exhibit was to be in the san francisco library. is that incorrect? commissioner sugaya: there is a

turned that one over to her. >> here is the deal about nancy pelosi drive in san francisco.r one, no right-hand turns. got to turn left on the street. >> that makes sense. >> bill: number two, one way. only one way no give and take to it number three, there is a lot of homeless people now arrived to live on the street because of the entitlements that come along. >> i will tell you what, billy. the first night i get up there i'm going to take spray paint and put an l on that so it says nancy pelosi drivel. >> bill: you will be arrested. >> i will serve time on the rock for that, baby. >> bill: that's right. alcatraz. paddling out there. 45 seconds thank god. d.c. comic world there is now going to be a gay character, gay super hero? >> that's fine, why not? reflect the times. there are gay people out there. they need a super hero. as long as he is not bi, okay? i need a super hero have a spine about it the bi thing i'm not buying. pick something and date it. if i had to pick, i would say it's either aqua man or why is he still single by. i would prefer wonder woman she wants t

speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi. >>> then -- the facebook ipo and the founder who renounced his citizenship. that, and owl of the week's politics, with our powerhouse roundtable. >>> hello, again. president obama and his fellow g8 leaders left camp david last night for a nato summit in chicago. more evidence this week that we don't any consensus on how to do that here in washington, where the parties are still far apart to handle jobs and our national debt. speaker boehner laid down the gauntlet on tuesday. >> my principal on cut and reforms greater and the president's team fired right back. >> the debt limit question has bubbled up. do you see -- >> do you believe it? >> can you believe it? >> i don't understand this. i don't understand it. >>> but first, my exclusive interviews from the capital. i began by asking the speaker, to explain why he wants another showdown on the debt limit. >> american people are still asking the question, where are the jobs? and dealing with our deficit and our debt would help create more economic growth in the united states. and

turned that one over to her. >> here is the deal about nancy pelosi drive in san francisco.t-hand turns. got to turn left on the street. >> that makes sense. >> bill: number two, one way. only one way no give and take to it number three, there is a lot of homeless people now arrived to live on the street because of the entitlements that come along. >> i will tell you what, billy. the first night i get up there i'm going to take spray paint and put an l on that so it says nancy pelosi drivel. >> bill: you will be arrested. >> i will serve time on the rock for that, baby. >> bill: that's right. alcatraz. paddling out there. 45 seconds thank god. d.c. comic world there is now going to be a gay character, gay super hero? >> that's fine, why not? reflect the times. there are gay people out there. they need a super hero. as long as he is not bi, okay? i need a super hero have a spine about it the bi thing i'm not buying. pick something and date it. if i had to pick, i would say it's either aqua man or why is he still single by. i would prefer wonder woman she wants to set up shot

. >>> also, major milestone for house minority leader nancy pelosi today. how san francisco is celebrating one of the nation's most powerful female politicians. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> developing news. it will be jail, not prison time for former rutgers university student convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to spy on his roommate who committed suicide soon a a new jersey judge sentenced 20-year-old dharun ravi to thirty days in jail. his roommate tyler clementi killed himself in september 2010, soon after ravi used a webcam to capture clementi and another man kissing in their dorm room. >> tyler and i have been very connected, so much so i felt like a piece of me died in september of 2010. >> mr. ravi did these criminal acts because he saw my son as not deserving basic human decency and respect. >> ravi insists he wasn't trying to intimidate his gay roommate and he didn't record the encounter and didn't out him. a jury disagreed, convicting him of all charges. he could face deportation to india. today the judge

. >> just ahead at 4:00 nancy pelosi drives. where in the bay area you'll be able to drive on that newly renamed roadway. >> and there are world leader as agree to ending the war in afghanistan. >>> congress woman nancy pell ease yoesy leaving her mark on folden gate park. >> the city renamed mid rel drive east nancy pelosi drive. that is the roadway expecting john f kend ken neddy drive to martin luther king junior drive. >> mark matthews is live at the park this afternoon. >> this morning it was middle drive. as of two hoursing acrow, it's now nancy pelosi drive. the mayor unveiling the sign with recreation and park commissioner telling pelosi now she'll probably be able to get past city parking restricks. it is in recognition of her 25 years in congress. i asked her what events stands above the rest. >> nothing compares to health care for all american as a right. and that is something we had social security in the 30s and medicare and medicaid in 60s and health care bill that was historic. made a difference in the lives of ame

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speaking at the california high speed rail conference, nancy pelosi urged lawmakers to appropriate the funding for the first leg of the project. some say that did not happen soon the state could lose out on $3.3 billion that the feds are supposed to kick in >> have is this for a day's work? president obama's latest. visit was only 16 hours long but when he took off from moffett field is reelection campaign had another $4 million. it came from a trio high dollar silicon valley fund-raisers >> a big rig crashed a car today killing a woman on 680 in san jose. chp says it appears the truck driver was speeding and loss control. a second person in the car was not hurt. the truck driver is in critical condition. a new concentrated laundry detergent paul rudd poisoning young children. how these brightly packaged pods are different than your normal detergent. >> the golden gate bridge birthday, our officials ready? we hope so >>,,,,,, >> they're throwing a big birthday party this weekend for the golden gate bridge. 75 years is really something to celebrate but there are some tricks that you nee

. >> host: how would you describe the relationship between speaker bonior and nancy pelosi? >> guest: they have a working relationship, but let's face it, things have been so divided right now that it's not as if -- i mean there were times during the shooting of gabriel giffords when they were in coordination, whenever there are other sort of housekeeping duties relating to the body itself, the two and their staff or in communication, and this is evident throughout the book, they are the only time that the republicans reach out to the democrats when suddenly a last minute they realize they don't have a vote and it's not boehner communicating to pelosi, its house majority whip rather plaintively to the house minority whip steny hoyer. >> what are the takeaways from people that read the book? >> guest: i set out to do a book that was experiential as much as anything else. i was on election night in the midterm so struck by the 87 freshmen who would be taking office is only a third of whom had no political experience whatsoever had never held elective office. so to chronicle mr

speaker john boehner and house democratic leader nancy pelosi. >>> then -- the facebook ipo and the founder who renounced his citizenship. that, and all of the week's politics, with our powerhouse roundtable. with george will, donna b are razile, matthew dowd, laura ingraham and gavin newsome. >>> hello, again. president obama and his fellow g8 leaders left camp david last night for a nato summit in chicago. after agreeing to do all they can to get our economies growing stronger with good jobs. more evidence this week that we don't have any consensus on how to do that here in washington, where the parties are still far apart on how to handle jobs and our national debt. speaker boehner laid down the gauntlet on tuesday. >> when the time comes, i will again insist, my principal on cut and reforms greater. >> and the president's team fired right back. >> the debt limit question has bubbled up. do you see -- >> do you believe it? >> can you believe it? >> i don't understand this. i don't understand it. >> we'll dig into this debate and owl of the week's political news in the roundtable. >>> but

. >>> also, major milestone for house minority leader nancy pelosi today. how san francisco is celebrating one of the nation's most powerful >>> developing news. it will be jail, not prison time for former rutgers university student convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to spy on his roommate who committed suicide soon a a new jersey judge sentenced 20-year-old dharun ravi to thirty days in jail. his roommate tyler clementi killed himself in september 2010, soon after ravi used a webcam to capture clementi and another man kissing in their dorm room. >> tyler and i have been very connected, so much so i felt like a piece of me died in september of 2010. >> mr. ravi did these criminal acts because he saw my son as not deserving basic human decency and respect. >> ravi insists he wasn't trying to intimidate his gay roommate and he didn't record the encounter and didn't out him. a jury disagreed, convicting him of all charges. he could face deportation to india. today the judge announced he will not recommend that. >>> president obama and fellow nato lead

kennedy will find nancy pelosi drive. j st. was renamed by mayor ed lee yesterday in honor of democratic leader nancy pelosi 25 years of public service. a 10 year-old boy brought in a huge stingray in texas while fishing with his father from a kayak. >> his tale is cut off. someone got him before us. meet people. >> his excitement was tempered with sadness when you realize the stingray was injured with a missing tail. they did give him a kiss before setting him free and this is the same boy who previously caught several sharks. he is a great fisherman. >> he has a good heart to. >> some nail biting winds for bay area baseball fans >> the giants and the brewers went to extra innings last night. the eventual game-winning home run and the giants win 4-3. robert coles making his first appearance in oakland as an angel last night. coco crisp who is back in action, he scores and the a's take a lead. the a's win 2-1. >> a new era in space travel. >> a historic liftoff at cape canaveral coming up >> a brazen casino robbery on the las v

bush and nancy pelosi promised if you elect those democrats we're going to drain the swamp.tead she built a hot tub. whether republicans do something it's horrible and awful. we've got congressional investigation but when democrats do it it's not no big deal. >> what about the illegal war in iraq. it was illegal. >> sean: excuse me, he got congressional authorization. >> when people go to polls they are going to vote according to the economy. we have seen what has happened under the obama administration. all he care about is getting reelected. they are going to vote for the candidate that has experience in business and that is mitt romney. >> a lot of people are going to say they are better off four years ago, wait a second. if you look what happened this summer before obama was elected, it was the worst situation this country has seen since the great depression. >> sean: jimmy carter, 21% interest rates. i say reagan inherited a bad economy. >> i want to get back to the clip of jimmy kimmel. you mentioned solyndra and secret service. it's pretty bad secret service agents hi

. >> nancy pelosi chimed in her approval for the potential move. house minority leader says that she loves going to the games and thinks it will be great if the team moves closer to her home. >> today was the deadline to register to vote for this year's election. if you have not held in that registration your out of luck. meanwhile the severance is a political party is already talking trash but it is over an issue that they actually agree on. grace lee explains. >> i am right in the middle of it. san fransisco, this is your trash, and the reason i am standing here in the middle of it is because of proposition 8. if you think this does not affected and 11 san fransisco and you are probably wrong. this could affect every business and every resident use as garbage services. >> it is the voters' decision. who should control waste management? currently they hold a monopoly that has essentially been in place since 1932. and have wide support in the community from the severance the democrats and the gop as well as the chamber of commerce and building owne

. >> when i hear senator barbara boxer for former speaker nancy pelosi can't relate to those women. there are so many of these conservative and independent women out there that really want to know the alternative and hear from these republican women. this is a positive sign that being involved having voice to be able to talk about the economic messages that affect american women every day. we're the ones that are looking at our budgets, trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay for things or for our families as well as the victims of this economy of obama's economy have been the women. >> this is case of showing -- not been able to do it i any other way put the women first, you can't do that. if you want to come forward you can'tay, look, i'm for the same thing my husband is for. you've got to have something december tinktive about you. democratic women have the same issues with taking care of their own pocket books, that's not a distinction, that's a distinction without a difference. that's the problem. >> is it really for like small business women who a lot of whom ar

guest: our focus should be on electing a 25 plus democrats that we need to make sure that nancy pelosi will be speaker and we can make sure that we have an opportunity to continue to support barack obama in his efforts to fight for the middle- class and working families and get this economy turned around. of. host: you can try to control a campaign and the message, but what worries you the most in the next six months? what is the biggest uncertainty as chair of the democratic party that concerns you the most? guest: as an american, what continues to concern me the most is that we need to work together, to focus on getting this economy to continue to move forward, and to make the progress we have made under president obama and to create jobs and make sure all americans have an opportunity to be successful. that is what keeps me up at night as a policymaker and as the head of the national party. i really would love as a mom, frankly, to see, to go back to work next tuesday in washington and see a bunch of my republican colleagues decide that they should put aside the polarization, the di

here, for example, is "huffington post" nancy pelosi john boehner trade barbs over prospect of another fight. above that, boehner warns of debt ceiling battle. over on this side, this is reuters, debt limit hike need not be a crisis. geithner. "washington post" obama warns republicans about debt ceiling fight and ezra klein, will the 2013 debt ceiling be moot. on the phone with us is ben while, staff writer for congressional quarterly. what message you want to send to washington about the debt ceiling. ben, good morning. why are we talking about it right now? when are the estimates when the ceiling will be hit? >> thanks for having me. the debt ceiling is not likely to be reached until the end of the year and possibly not until early next year. but as everyone starts to gear up for the election for this debate over the so-called fiscal cliff when the bush tax cuts expire, when the budget sequestration goes into effect, everyone's trying to gain a little bit of edge here. >> and what are the politics of this for speaker boehner? >> so speaker boehner as we recall last year, he said i wo

nancy pelosi is saying, god bless these people.n, they protested me because i sued the epa for holding florida to higher water standards than any other state in the country -- and i won. >> sean: wait a minute. you are a republican and you don't want dirty air and dirty water. the president says that the republicans want dirty air and dirty water. >> sean: there must be something -- [overlapping dialogue] >> not in florida. >> sean: all right. what about all the hyperbole, you have the lunatic movement. now it's coming from the top levels of the government in this election, where the war on women, war on the elderly, war on kids with autism and down's syndrome. is this going to work? >> i think that they're overplaying their hand. in fact, i think this president and this administration, because they got what they thought was a mandate of some type, that they have decided, we are moving straight into socialism and nobody can do anything about it. in fact, we are going to make them love it. >> sean: we won. remember, the president sa

you think that if democrats don't retake the house this year should the members of leadership nancy pelosi, all of them into their 70's do you think that they should step aside for sort of new guard, a younger generation of leaders to step up? >> i think the only focus of those leaders and all of us as democratic members of congress should be on electing those 25 and 25 plus democrats tot congress that we need to elect in order to make sure that nancy pelosi can be speaker and that we can make sure that we have an opportunity to continue to support barack obama in his efforts to fight for the middle class and working families and get this economy turned around. >> let me conclude with this because you can try to control the campaign and message and agenda but what worries you the most in the next six months? what is the biggest uncertainty that may keep you up at night that concerns you the most? >> well, as an american, what continues to concern me the most is that we need to work together to focus on getting this economy to continue to move forward to continue to make the progress that w

nancy pelosi and john boehner arguing over the debt ceiling scheduled tax hikes. yet to move on either one of those. nancy pelosi taking it to the sunday circuit talk show to slam boehner's approach. >> last year the threat of not lifting the debt ceiling caused our credit rating to be lowered. it is not a sensible mature place for us to go. we all know we have to reduce the debt. we have to do it in a balanced way if way. we don't want to go over the edge. >> boehner calling on congress to deal with all of this before the election. >> looking at the largest tax increase. we are looking at big cuts to department of defense and increase in the debt limit. why do we want to lead to rush this through at the end of the year after the election? >> on a separate note they are feeling pretty optimistic going into november that in regards a congressional seat. >> they both have to see don't they? >> donald trump making a tough call. who will be the next celebrity apprentice. ar sin yo ha-- arsenio hall or aiken? >> the winner of celebrity apprentice and 1 million given to

." >> narrator: on capitol hill, the democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi knew nothing about bernanke and paulson's plan for a wall street bailout. >> i called him to say, "mr. secretary, can you be to my office tomorrow morning at 9:00 sohat you can brief the house democratic leadership?" and he said, "madam speaker, tomorrow morning will be too late." >> narrator: paulson told the speaker that he and bernanke needed to come to capitol hill that afternoon. >> on thursday, late afternoon, they go to nancy pelosi's office. and there's a meeting of the senior legislators from both parties in both house and senate. >> it was obviously a big meeting. i had no idea i was going to hear what i heard. >> the secretary of the treasury paulson and the chairman of the fed camin and kind of dropped a bomb on the meeting. >> they said they needed the authority to use $700 billion to unstop the credit markets. >> sitting in that room with hank paulson saying to us, in very measured tones, no hyperbole, no excessive adjectives, that unless you act, the financial system of this country and t

. >> nancy pelosi says that women will be crucial in this november's election. she spoke to hundreds of people at the commonwealth club event at the fairmount hotel in san fransisco today. it was meant to commemorate her 25th anniversary in congress but the bay area representative spoke about issues such as health care, tax cuts, and women's vote. >> they have given us more differentiation then we would ever have the discipline to make ourselves. so that has made a big change in terms of women understanding what is at stake for them in this election. >> nancy pelosi says that she is confident the president will win reelection and that democrats will retake the house. governor jerry brown ordering an audit of california's specialty license plate programs. this after an associated press found there was little oversight of the money raised through that program. the money raised from the specialty memorial license plates? it was supposed to fund a scholarship for families of 9/11 victim's but instead 40 percent went to anti-terrorist training programs and $3 million

both kind of endorsed this movement, nancy pelosi at one point saying god bless 'em, remember, at the park they had to set up a separate rape tent because of the violent incidence of rape police officers after the different occupy movements attack asked violence, and broken windows, and you have seen all sorts of bizarre behavior, so it was an edge. >> i thought it seemed that in some ways it was lick you were being his dad, this a way, want dog shake some sense in him like a plea of, stop doing this nonsense and try to get your life together. >>sean: funny you say that i wasn't thinking that at the time but a lot of people, dana, perceived it that way, and this kind of came do me through a mutual friend of ours, we were talking about what happened and they said, can don't you invite him on the radio program and try and help him. because if i had a 29-year-old son, and they were not working and they had this entitlement mentality, in other words, sort of like just a little to the left of bob and they thought everyone should be preside by the government, help him get a taste of the rea

. >> democratic leader nancy pelosi urged california lawmakers not abandon high speed rail because oftough economic times, he made the comment to california high speed rail conference and note that had great projects like golden gate bridge were built during the great depression. california could lose over $3 billion unless it commits $2.7 billion in state bonds. saying lawmakers need to look beyond the state's immediate needs. >> we know that building the infrastructure really builds a new life for our community. and every way. >> and california lawmakers are negotiating with the federal government trying to extend that bond deadline until august. owe however, transportation secretary ray lahood threatening to give the seed money to other states. >> and there is welcome news for memorial day travelers. the current averages for regular unlead ntd bay area according to the triple a are 4.39s ndz san francisco, 4.31s ndz oakland. prices are down from a week ago. here is abc 7 news reporter karen travers. >> summer kicks off this weekend and americans are hitting the road for fun in the