also, ed harrington for nominating me. also, a special thanks to my family. mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going t

mayor lee, office of workforce and economic development, and all the instructors and students who nominated me to speak on behalf of our program. i am truly thankful for all your support. my name is jason chan, a current city build academy student, my late 20's, a local resident of san francisco. for the past few years, i was down into my leg. economic crisis and a lack of work. i had lost my confidence and opportunity was simply not there. the situation made me feel that -- i only have myself to blame for the whole i am in. then i heard about the local hiring ordinance, the possibility of landing some stable work, and at the same time i learned about the city build program through my brother-in-law who is a former graduate of the program. this program looked like the ticket to get into a good union jobs. my family was already working in construction, thought to myself, heck, i can use this program as a way to redeem myself and to build a brighter future. city build has helped to build my self-confidence. instructors truly care for us. most importantly, they're honest about our personal growth

>> what my friends nominated me. there's a selection process after that. you can either select whether you are going to go forward or you can decide not to. they send you an e-mail. i was nominated through coca- cola. i thought it was spam. >> fortunately, you found out in the end. do they tell you what to do. do they give you lots of instructions about how to hold the torch? >> they send you lots of e-mail on where to meet. not too many on how to hold the torch. it's more of making sure you are in the right place at the right time. they send e-mail and texts. >> cornwall feels a long way away from london. are people interested in the games? >> yes, definitely. there's a lot of buzz going on at the moment, especially because it's starting with the torch relay. everybody's getting very excited. >> everybody's going crazy about it. we have the world's no. 1 man and woman in britain. if they win gold, it will go nuts this year. >> you are going to be up bright and early. the timetable is incredibly strong. you are under quite strict instructions. >> yes, defi

was previously in march of last year when supervisor elsbernd was closet -- was kind enough to nominate me. since then, i was actively following politics, going to fund raisers and events and recent elections. i've had the fortune of traveling extensively as a child. my father was a career diplomat, ambassador to the united nations, and i've lived in many countries, including sudan, turkey, bangladesh, and oman. i speak several languages and relate to people from all walks of life. i am myself multi-cultural operative and irish-american father and a turkish mother. i attended georgetown university and got my mba at johns hopkins. i was fortunate enough to work in the legal field. i think that will be an asset in helping to navigate the detailed material that i have seen on any task force cases. i moved to san francisco seven years ago and i have owned a house and the mission to the last three years. i'm here to stay and i would like to give back to this beautiful city that i now call home. professionally, i am an experienced recruiter, and a chart -- an hr professional. i worked in an indu

rex people nominated me in the local area. i won the bronze this year and i am third in europe. and for my volunteering in the community. >> what does it mean to you and your friends that the olympics are being held here? >> it is amazing. it's all what we hoped for. we all hoped to build in the future. it is amazing to see what we could be doing in the future. >> you must be a very broad principle if. >> she is a great inspiration to everybody in the academy. >> how have you been building up to the olympics? >> i think there's been a general buildup. a general buildup in the country. what we look forward to in the city of bristol is the link up to the relay, everybody holding hands from the south of the through scotland and london. there's a great deal of sport with olympic themes. >> there's a real sense of excitement in the city. >> everyone. i was just walking and people were waving and beeping at me. everyone is so excited about the olympics. >> i look for to seeing you both later. thanks very much. there's a unique partnership that's happening between kenya and the city of

mayor lee, office of workforce and economic development, and all the instructors and students who nominated me to speak on behalf of our program. i am truly thankful for all your support. my name is jason chan, a current city build academy student, my late 20's, a local resident of san francisco. for the past few years, i was down into my leg. economic crisis and a lack of work. i had lost my confidence and opportunity was simply not there. the situation made me feel that -- i only have myself to blame for the whole i am in. then i heard about the local hiring ordinance, the possibility of landing some stable work, and at the same time i learned about the city build program through my brother-in-law who is a former graduate of the program. this program looked like the ticket to get into a good union jobs. my family was already working in construction, thought to myself, heck, i can use this program as a way to redeem myself and to build a brighter future. city build has helped to build my self-confidence. instructors truly care for us. most importantly, they're honest about our personal growth

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>> my wife, renee, nominated me. that was a big honor because a lot of what our spouses do sometimes kind of goes -- i won't say unappreciated but it's sometimes forgotten and so it was a big thrill for me to have her nominate me. >> so wonderful. and as we celebrate mother's day this weekend in your family, it's going to be a dual celebration. >> absolutely. she's getting flowers this weekend. >> all right. well, and all the mothers out there, we want to remember them as well. thanks so much. what a great honor, jeremy hilton, thanks for sharing your time with us. >> god bless you. >> thank you, guys. >> straight ahead, it turns out the 10 commandments, they just don't work. so a judge is saying one school should cut them down to six. the six commandments. is that a good idea? a representative from that school here to state his case coming up. >> he must have had a conference. looking for a unique idea for mother's day? why not give your mama a llama? except that's a pig. >> that is a pig. >> where's the llama? come

the 10 teachers being honored here tonight are standing behind me and were nominated by parents, students, peers, and community members to understand the value of an excellent teacher. the 10 teachers standing here have exceeded all standards. they have dedicated themselves to creating a classroom environment that fosters learning, diversity, and character development. these teachers are shaping this generation of youth into leaders who will create a better world. they have one of the most important jobs in america and this award is our symbol of our immense gratitude for all of their tireless work. in collaboration with the san francisco education fund, thank a teacher campaign, it is my privilege to present this month's -- this year's teacher of the month award winners. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. good evening, giants fans. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we are so proud to be standing here with our all-star lineup. some of the finest teachers in san francisco. can you give them a big, rousing round of applause? [applause] the educators you see here this evening touched thousan

the optics and the messaging to set the right tone coming out of the box the day you get the nomination to me is important. >> it's like a basketball team when they have the whole thing wrapped up and they rest the starters and think you don't have to be competitive. you can just like roll into the next round and save yourself for it. it rarely works out that way. you've got to the keep disciplined, keep doing the things right all the time. you don't get yourself into a silly situation like this. >> it's not just the mediaen at left that is looking at this saying hashtag fail. david frum on twitter, he didn't use hashtag fail but he did use other words we can't say. this was a big steaming plate of expletive spaghetti. mark mckinnon says associating with trump which is that romney is an out of touch rich guy without any real -- >> we're talking about the appearance with meg whitman who is the head of the ceo of hewlett-packard, they're laying off 25,000 employees. that gets his narrative going of the layoffs. >> likes to fire people. how hard would it have been to do a quick stop in texas, th

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and this idea about one female on the board is kind of a nominally to me.u're right. >> one female on the board, i mean, that would be the minimum. absolutely. i mean, we're major users of facebook are women. they will have to get females on the board. they have to get diversity on the board or it will detract from the standing i think of facebook. >> and my thanks to ursula burns, chairman and ceo at xerox. the fallout continues around the facebook deal and nasdaq's involvement. let's get to brian shactman, breaking news on an investor lawsuit. >> you might want to say, here we go, maria. goldberg versus nasdaq, omx group. from what we can gather the first lawsuit. phillip goldberg seeking class action status today in u.s. district court of manhattan. for all investors who lost money. the first civil suit. this is about the glitch of the open. 570 million shares were traded. we know a lot of shares were not confirmed for many hours, and the first lawsuit is now in motion. back to you. >> all right. brian, we'll keep watching that. of course we're also wait

enough to be able to conduct yourself and possibly pass through the course, and then my chief nominated meto be able to go when i got back from my first deployment. when you go as far as the aptitude test, honestly, i think that's something that they've all been trying to figure out, what kind of person does it take. honestly? i don't know. i'm not a very patient man, so patience, i don't think, is a requirement of being a sniper. it's professional -- it's just, it's your professional discipline of doing the right thing at the right time and knowing when you have to pay attention to detail and just take your time, slow down. maybe you have to, we called it reveg, to put the vegetation back on your gilley suit, or you're coming into a new environment, and it's not the same vegetation that you have on you, so you have to stop, take the time to take that old stuff off and put the new stuff on. it's kind of like integrity, doing the right thing at the right time. and then being able to concentrate on the weapon and shoot and actually be able to learn all the different things that are involved

then i say to you as delegates, i vow to you that if you honor me with the nomination to be your candidatefor vice president, i will never let you down. you will never be sorry. and in fact, i say to the people of the united states of america. no matter who you are, no matter where you are or what your political views are, if you trust and honor governor gary johnson and judge jim gray to be your vice president and president, you will never be sorry. we will make you proud. [applause] we will give back to our great country, prosperity, equal opportunity, and liberty. may it be so, and thank you. [applause] >> will the nominator and seconder for mr. lee wrights come to the microphone? >> hi, everybody, i'm john meyers. [applause] you know, when moses said to the pharaoh, he didn't say, oh, oh, this collar, this collar is a little tight. could you loosen it just a little bit? he didn't say to the pharaoh, oh, what you're whipping me with on your back, it hurts a little bit, maybe we could use plasti plastics. moses said to the pharaoh, set my people free. [cheers and applause] i got to ask y

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so it gives me -- i am very honored, and it gives me great pleasure to second the nomination and to introduce jim .rsagray [cheers and applause] >> my name is judge jim gray, and i am seeking your nomination to be the libertarian candidate for vice president of the united states along with governor gary johnson as president. [applause] i truly thank my friends. there have been a few times in the history of our great land in which there has been a need so strong for third parties to rise up and to become leaders and elected people to office state legislatures, congress, and the white house. i believe deeply that this is one of those times, and i believe deeply that the people of the united states of america are going to agree. in these times, in which prosperity is slipping from our grasp, the need to reestablish the libertarian principles that made us great in the first place is the enormous. we are the libertarian party. we are not a philosophical debate society. we are a political party. the purpose of the political party is to ensure good and qualified candidates to support those candidate

nomination. anybody care to tell me how many delegates that is? >> 1140? >> it is 1,144. >> that's right. >> what do i win? >> you win another guest appearance on "red eye." >> anthony, i am going to read you a quote and you tell us who said this. >> tonight after millions of dollars spent and after years of support against one of the weakest fields in history, mitt romney has finally secured enough delegates to become the republican's presidential nominee. who do you think said that? >> and -- >> the answer is no. >> mike, i know. >> you said that like the second part of your answer would be yes. >> who is it? >> washer man schulz. >> the fact of the matter is -- the fact of the matter is you know who could have written that anybody else that was written. >> that is actually a degree of venom in the quotes that i don't think would be replicated against anybody. >> you don't need gingrich's block. >> she is a lovely woman and i won't have you talk badly. >> i don't think anybody at the table would stull -- would stump. >> by the way [inaudible] for those w

stein is a front-runner for the green party nomination for president. she's joining me live from grand rapids, michigan. good to see you, dr. stein. >> great to see you. thanks for having me on, fredricka. >> you weighed out a lot of the country's problems in your speech we just heard. you said you can solve the unemployment rate with what you call a new green deal. what's the key part of your plan to get americans back to work? >> exactly. a green new deal is an emergency program to put 25 million people to work, to end unemployment, jump-start the green economy for the 21st century, and put an end to climate change, as well as making wars for oil obsolete, all in one feld swoop. like the great depression, we had the new deal that substantially got us out of that great depression. we can do it now for less than the cost of the first stimulus package. we could actually put an end to unemployment at the same time that we jump-start the economy that we really need for the future. and the green new deal would basically put local communities in charge of deciding what jobs

phone with representative johnson, i got a call from the associated press reporter, asking me why my nomination had been pulled. so, obviously, you're dismayed and outraged at the prospect of a major governmental institution not having enough decorum to allow a fairly simple process to move forward. so it was strictly the -- really, i got more information from the reporter, because she had already interviewed folks in the lieutenant governor's office and the governor's office and from her investigation, it seemed to have come from the 11th hour and by the lieutenant governor and not by our governor. >> as, obviously, you were appointed to this post by the previous governor of mississippi, by governor haley barbour, himself a republican, somebody who is not in favor of abortion rights, as a politician. this was your -- your association with this clinic in mississippi was not an issue for haley barbour, but it became an issue all of a sudden for the current administration in this state. as a born and bred mississippian, as someone as an ob/gyn and as someone who has seen these politics firsthand,

nomination? >> oh my god, unbelievable. ♪ [ music ] president bush invited me to the white house three times. >>ust to be there? >> just to be there. >> are you republican if. >> no indeed. i was wondering why he invited me. ♪ [ music ] >> i still got the desire. still got my fire. still getting hired. i haven't been fired, so why would one retire? ♪ [ music ] how do you want them to remember chuck brown? >> just like they see me. because right now, i'm enjoying every minute of being on the stage. let me shake your hand. you can remember a nice humble guy, trying to kick it, you know what i mean?

joining me today, the man who forever changed the vice presidential nominating process, msnbc politicalmagazine john heilemann, former rnc chair, the notorious michael steele, the always delightful msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director concern finny and hugo lindgren. the nicknames are so long it's hard to open the show what would you do if you had just clinched the republican nomination for president? perhaps share the stage at a fund raiser with donald trump and newt gingrich? for the romney campaign, check. then make nothing public appearances and insaed the next day jet to a 95 room chateau that sits on an estate. check and check. ideally that will would be hosted by the ceo of a major corporation th

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me easy assignments. the individuals who are here today who are nominated, i know all three of them personally. as many of you know, i recently returned from washington, d.c., to work for the obama administration and the department of education, and we know that education for all of us in this audience and the communities we represent is the key for us. these three individuals have spent their entire personal and professional lives dedicated to ensuring those youth do not end up in the system. and if we had more of the three people we have here, jeff would not have a job. he does a great job with what he does, but marlene it is a woman i met many years ago when i was working at the city college of san francisco, and she was a staunch advocate for immigrants who did not have any voice, and she gave them a voice. and she continues to do that today. when i was elected to the school board, should continue to advocate for immigrant rights, esl classes, and i tip my cat. rejected my cap. she was a teacher, principal, deputy superintendent, and the first asian-american superintendent and san francisco