so it is my pleasure to on their leader nancy pelosi today with the renaming of little drive to nancyi 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 have

coming up in 20 minutes, the nancy pelosi choked up a bit today. why she got emotional. and for more on california's elections go to www.ktvu.com and click on the election day tab. >>> today university of california at berkeley campus police review board released its report on how officers handled a protest in november. the report focuses on police use of batons against protesters. >>> the board includes members of the faculty, staff, students and police. this is the 36 page report and it is critical of the administration and the police use of force and response to the occupy protesters last fall. >> reporter: ktvu took video on november 9 of 2011 when they erected tents on campus. the board says all members were disturbed by the images and some actions did not apply with campus norms. the board underscored the need to have administrators present. >> no use of force is to take place under these principals without authorization by a designator of the response team. >> reporter: the police review board recommendations are not legally binding. some protesters hope this sign

mark levin is obviously no van of nancy pelosi. -- no fan of nancy pelosi.he have a point, michael, that the democrats risk looking like they don't care about the murder of a border patrol agent if they object too much to the seen as or object too much to what the republicans are doing? >> i think nancy pelosi takes it to a new level when she says it's about voter suppression. why would you go looking for more of a story. we have a federal government program that on purpose released assault rifles into mexico for drug dealers with no plan to track them. never told the government of mexico. one killed a border agent. so what's this really about? what do you mean what's it about? forget looking like they don't get it. this is shameful, this is embarrassing to try to make a purely hacked partisan argument about an idiotic program that killed an american citizen with our weapons. megyn: she seems to be saying the current effort, not necessarily the one that began 24 months ago. but the current effort is meant to distract mr. holder from his other duties, like hi

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what about the timing of this, and, of course, nancy pelosi says today she thinks it's because he did a good job going after the voter purge? >> this is about getting holder and embarrassing barack obama. not smooch about fast and furious, susan agreed and katherine pointed out they could have done other things to purr stew that. you had an instance where one atf agents testified at this hearing not long ago, a year ago. when you mention the issue of gun control as something that could be done to sort of stop this sort of cross-border issue, immediately congressman issa shut him down and told him that was not relevant testimony and refused to allow him to discuss that. how do you say you're concerned about stopping the problems if you're not willing to do something about it? of course it's political and skeptical. susan, you may agree with me. this may backfire against the republicans. >> it is political, and nancy pelosi's comments were highly political. this probably could have been decided several months ago, so you can't blame it all on issa for the timing of trying to plan it in

it got called up and nancy pelosi heard it.ou read it later. we are finding out people really don't know what we have. what they doe do know is they called it a taxç increase. >> they didn't call it a tax increase. they said that under the taxes power of -- >> got it. but i'm telling you what i know the voter heard, okay? >> yes, that's what your party is telling you. >> and we are going to do our job. >> you are good about staying on message. you must have good daddies. >> but i promise you, we listen to our mothers. mine is watching today right now and is 80-something years old. she looks like she's 60, but my wife and daughter who live in new york are watching too. i can assure you that we know when the decisions are made and we know there are going to be more women making this decision than men. >> that's part of the point, what leader pelosi was saying when he first words were saying, let me say how this is good for women. this is good for her particular passion, but it is also as you point out politically important. if w

. >>> plus democratic leader nancy pelosi reflects on her 25 years in congress which lies ahead in this election year. coming up next. >>> good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california" joining me tonight from the capital, dan walter, sacramento bee" political columnist. in studio, scott smith, "stockton record," city hall reporter. and carla marinucci, "san francisco chronicle," senior political writer. carla, so now it's over with. there were some surprises. what happened that people had not expected? >> that's right. well, something in politics happened. change actually came. it did what it was supposed to do, which was to change the system, shake up the incumbents, shake up the jigsaw puzzle a little bit. we actually saw that. we saw incumbents who got the message that they can no longer coast anymore. a few of them a little bit of a surprise. you talk about pete stark in the east bay coming in just really ahead of an almost unknown challenger, erik swallow. pete stark off 20 terms in southern california, that huge race, howard berman versus brad sherma

nancy pelosi got it done. the democrats got it done.y were able to deliver something that no other president has been able to do for generations, and

nancy pelosi got it done. the democrats got it done.able to deliver something that no other president has been able to do for generations, and for generations to come, we will see better health outcomes. we will see healthier americansç

committee voted no but the best reaction to wednesday's vote came from former speaker of the house nancy pelosi who slammed it as strictly political and reminded reporters that when democrats controlled the house they could have arrested karl rove for contempt of congress as the huffington post reported on wednesday pelosi said i could have arrested karl rove on any given day i'm not kidding there's a prison there in the air in the capital if we had spotted him in the capitol we could have arrested him so republicans hold attorney general in contempt over a bizarre conspiracy theory yet war criminals and operatives who leak names of cia agents for political retaliation get to walk. but here's the bigger picture nancy pelosi says she could have arrested karl rove any time and there's a long list of crimes that rove was implicated in from helping set up secret overseas prisons to torture to outing a cia agent to of two to lying to lead the united states into an unnecessary war to secretly illegally wiretapping american citizens but the speaker of the house palosi said she wasn't going to arrest r

it was nancy pelosi who said it, the exspeaker of the house. or reverend al sharpton. >> bill: just for the record, herald probably -- geraldo, probably insane. a stretch. number two. >> bill: i like probably insane better. race card? issue isn't relevant. holder didn't do anything wrong. they are after him because is he black. insane? >> it is hard to avoid the optics, bill. you know. >> bill: what optics? >> the optics of the first black attorney general. >> bill: you are saying that's a valid arguement in this case. >> first black attorney general in the united states. i said optics being questioned by 22 white guys and one southern woman, 23 people. and. >> bill: you are buying into this. >> citing in for contempt of congress for the first time in history. >> bill: you buy into this. >> it is bad pr i think. >> bill: that's a dodge. is there any have validity. >> that's a different question. you didn't ask me that. >> bill: now is he being a little slimy lawyer here. >> not slimy, accurate. >> bill: is there any validity to the charge that

nancy pelosi got it done. the democrats got it done.on, they were able to deliver something that no other president has been able to do for generations, and for generations to come, we will see better health outcomes. we will see healthier americans, we will save lives, and i think that's the america i grew up in. that's "the ed show." we won, and we'll get more. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> i love you, ed, you're awesome. >> i love you too, rachel. >> thanks, man, i appreciate it. >>> thanks to you, again, for joining us on this hour on what is a historic news day for the richest country on the planet. the united states of america is the largest economy in the world, the richest country on the planet, and that sometimes makes it hard to believe that this has to happen here. >> what brings you here? >> oh, just can't afford to go to a regular doctor and they advertise this on tv, so i called in to get my blood pressure medication done, anti-anxiety medication, get it filled. >> how often do you go

the golden gate bridge and all that it stands for, please join me in welcoming democratic leader nancy pelosiank you so much, nancy. [applause] >> this has come as a great surprise to me, so i am a little bit embarrassed, but i think i am getting over it. i love that song, especially the second verse that martin sang. o beautiful for patriot streams that sees beyond the years. that is exactly what the people who envisioned this bridge did. they saw beyond the years, in many ways. certainly as a physical

it is a plan on the part of the republicans. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi's last commentsay linking the gop push to hold the attorney general in contempt to the justice department's work stopping some states from enacting strict voter i.d. laws. melissa harris perry joins me now to sound off on this. we've been talking about voter suppression, the voter i.d. legislation we have seen across the country on the state level. eric holder uses speeches to talk about what is being seen as voter suppression issues around the country. is it fair for nancy pelosi to link what the republicans are trying to do, this contempt vote on eric holder on fast and furious, is that link too far of a stretch? >> i don't think so. i think it's reasonable for someone in nancy pelosi's position, one of the senior leaders of the democratic party in the house of representatives, to make this kind of link, right? do i think that that is the entirety of the story? no. clearly part of the story is the attempt of congress to push back against the presidency. but eric holder is so erholder' aggressive at

the golden gate bridge and all that it stands for, please join me in welcoming democratic leader nancy pelosiank you so much, nancy. [applause] >> this has come as a great surprise to me, so i am a little bit embarrassed, but i think i am getting over it. i love that song, especially the second verse that martin sang. o beautiful for patriot streams that sees beyond the years. that is exactly what the people who envisioned this bridge did. they saw beyond the years, in many ways. certainly as a physical infrastructure, but all that it stands for. the nine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. that is san francisco. that reminds me of san francisco every time i hear it's song. never more beautifully then by martin scott. he is a member of the park service but we hear him down at a memorial sunday mornings. thank you so much for lifting us up with your beautiful voice and that wonderful song. i am rather overwhelmed. i want to thank janet for her leadership of the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district. didn't she managed to show appreciation to so many people so graci

i listened to nancy pelosi. listened to david axelrod and the white house today and they still cannot acknowledge what this is, it is a tax. largest tax increase in history. president wants to follow that up with a double whammy and that is not extending the bush tax cuts. how should congress deal with and how should the romney campaign deal with this if you were to give advice? >> first off, nancy pelosi is a dingbat and she is the perfect spokesperson for the whole agenda of the far left running the democrat party. i know a lot of democrats who are absolutely embarrassed and disgusted with what her and harry reid's leadership has provided the democrat party and they want to bail out of the democratic party because of specifically the things that she says, the things that she does. what it is that she represents. she is the perfect spokesperson for president obama's democratic party. what constitutional conservatives should do is point out exactly what you are pointing out is we are going to be hit with a doubl

nancy pelosi i think is thinking about nancy pelosi and how democrats and the messaging they want to spend. it's different than the white house. >> there's always been a distance between what the white house wants and what congressional democrats want. i think that's exacerbated in various battles, simply because that's democrats at their nature and there's also terrible communication between the white house, so when nancy pelosi said that, it was ironic in some respects, but she was -- or the president was much more progressive on this issue. but you're right. the republicans seem to be incredibly disciplined on this. you saw when they jumped on bill clinton's comments, when he looked like he created a distance between obama, but to your point, congress, you're right, it's almost a clown show, except they have these huge monumental issues that could totally submarine the entire country that they've had to deal with at the last minute. >> i do think the fracas this week over the ending of the bush tax cuts was significant to look at. not just another there goes bill clinton again gaf

fire radio program bobby kennedy mike welcome back tom great great to have you with us palosi nancy pelosi former speaker pelosi said she could have arrested karl rove given what darrell i suggested in retrospect shouldn't she have arrested rove i think you hit it on the head we've given him so many passes course now understand at this point you had you had george bush that also gave rove a past by by entering his executive order which really protected cowrote ultimately bush would have come to his aid but you're right the democrats should have jumped in they should have done what they failed to do on the iran contra same thing same thing iran contra they had everybody dead to rights they had senior bush they had rumsfeld they had everybody but they didn't pull the trigger this is a great example you gave a great example of the problem here do you think mike the republican the democrats are have learned from this experience. not really i think it's i think it's just a part of the democratic party that is let's let's all sing kumbaya all let's all get around but they don't understand you ca

thank you. >> democratic leader nancy pelosi talking to reporters up on capitol hill and miss pelosi also wearing the same shoes she wore on the day the health care legislation passed as a personal talisman, i guess you'd call it. next up, in less than half an hour at 1:15 eastern time we're expecting the speaker of the house john of the house john boehner to answer questions from capitol hill. until then we'll continue taking your phone calls and reading your tweets. you can tweet us cspan and include the #aca to include your tweets on our screen in coverage. let's take a call from chris in missouri. an independent there. >> caller: i just watched the minority leader on the house and i wonder if she's been drinking too much today. i'm a 100% disabled veteran. i pay for my own health care through tricare. i was medically retired from the army and my costs have gone up. my wife and i completely agree. we have a daughter finishing school and we believe in keeping your kids -- she had a procedure done. talking us even more, i can't even get a break on property taxes which have increased

nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats call it a witch-hunt and a distraction, but now we see some republican elected officials actually say that the big grand conspiracy here is it's about gun control in america, which i find interesting. susan, democratic strategy -- republican strategist with us and also democratic strategist keith boykin and author and attorney karen cryer. i want to talk about this gun control issue first. the reason this is happening is because president obama wants to take away your firearms in america. the grand conspirasee. >> this is a tough case to make to the american public, frankly, and there's reasons the republicans should pursue it. bringing in firearms is a big mistake. they're already kind of muddying the waters. i don't understand why they're bringing it in, frankly. i don't want to defend it, but it makes no sense. keep to what tear doing. the attorney general has withheld information. this has been a long dance between both of them. they probably could have come to an agreement, but both sides tried to win the argument in the press and look good to their

damage the president, fire up the right wing base, and as democratic house leader nancy pelosi pointed out, take out eric holder. >> it is no accident, it is no coincident that the attorney general of the united states is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country, that issues that relate to the civil liberties of the american people are upheld. these very same people are holding him in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote. >> indeed republicans are jumping at the chance to get rid of eric holder. senator marco rubio from florida where voter suppression is running rampant. rubio was asked by reporters today if he thinks the attorney general should resign. he said, yes, i do. we've now reached the point of no return on this issue. but getting holder out of the way is only the first goal. the investigation is perfect for riling up the hard core conservative base. john mica explained the case it to the fox news faithful. >> this administration is a gun control administration. they tried to put the violence in mexic

it says it all, the picture of boner and nancy pelosi.ot giving the gavel back. >> i would have given anything to be a fly on the wall when this first came on and they had frantic phone calls when limbaugh and hannity. and then rush says it and they all say the same thing obama lied -- >> no, and no. >> and they played the clip over and over again, because the supreme court called this tax it doesn't mean the president lied. >> it's a fine. it's a fine. it's all it is. you don't have insurance you go for care, and you get a ticket for it. >> and the only reason the supreme court considered it a tax is because the irs has jurisdiction over collecting it. >> yeah. let me tell you the fun facts of why the individual mandate is not a massive tax hike on the middle class. you can tell it starts with rush and they all keep repeating it. it is the biggest tax increase ever in american history. an argument they made more than two years ago. so it not a massive tax hike on u.s., let alone -- actually in the world, rush said. it amounts to either $

no one told me inside nancy pelosi world that that's what was happening.t was what was happening from where i was sitting. after i said that in 2009, an endless stream of democratic members of congress streamed through msnbc for months, insisting there would be a public option, and most of them insisting that they would not support a bill that did not have a public option. >> senator chuck schumer of new york, he's a democrat and a strong advocate for the public option. he says it still has life. >> you're going to have competition. we are going to make sure that there are regulations and we are going to make sure that the american people aren't gouged. every single time we've tried to do something like competition, no, we can't withstand competition. we can't have that. enough of the phoniness. we are going to involve this problem because for years our republican friends have been unable to and one willing to. deal with it. >> and then, of course, the democrats did exactly what they said they were going to do. >> the bill is passed. do you remember how yo