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

through the clinton white house, president clinton and i had been friendly as governors and he nominated me to be ambassador to mexico. during a couple of months, i spent a period of time in the white house with john podesta and rahm emanuel. he calls me up in 1999 and says looks like they are going to impeach my guy and hearings in the house. nearest we can tell, a couple of guys in the country that know a lot about impeachment of a president. the other is disqualified about political interest. you have to testify, which i was happy to do and did. >> tell us about that experience, just doing? >> well, i think i went in with a bunch of other former u.s. attorneys who were also republicans. a pretty impressive panel, and i had the additional background of knowing the law of impeachment, and i said sex is not an impeachable offense. it just isn't. it has to be something that touches and concerns the office or use of power. this is a nonstarter as a matter of constitutional law and they said well, what about perjury? you brought a lot of cases when you were a prosecutor in boston? yes, but as

i'm honored that president obama nominated me to lead this great agency. in the last two years, i focused on positioning the faa to deliver the next generation air transportation system. we recently established a new organization within the agency to focus on implementing major technology programs. this will improve the coordination among all of our initiatives helping them to usher to live operation. what we do over the next several years is going to determine the course of aviation in this country for decades to come. that's why it's critical that the faa work closely with congress, other government agencies, and all the components of the aviation industry and the communities they serve as we lay this foundation for the future. next jen is the told transformation of the way we handle air traffic. we're moving from radar to satellites, radios to data messages, and air waves to more direct routes. we need public/private collaboration to create this new way of doing business. next jen means enhanced safety, greater access to airport, a smaller impact on the

i'm grateful to president obama for nominating me to an additional term of service on the commission. if the senate acts favorably on my nomination, i would be privileged to continue this work. i congratulate dr. macfarlane on her nomination and extend my best wishes do her in this confirmation process. i am grateful for and humbled by the kind introduction of senator sessions. i was very privileged to serve senator sessions and other members of the senate armed services committee and learned much in those years of service. when i arrived at the nrc in march of 2008, i joined an agency already deeply active in the review of applications for the construction of new nuclear plants and new reactor designs, an agency continuing to adapt its security framework to post-9/11 realities, and a program regarded as among the most informed in the world. in approaching this work i have approached the facts and the history of issues and have endeavored to understand fully the effect of proposed regulatory changes. have i also looked to the fundamental guide post envisioned in the nrc's principles o

under the laws, i'm able to continue to serve until the president nominates somebody else, or nominates me, and the senate gets around to doing their actions on that. so, in essence, i'm here well into, you know, 2013, depending upon, of course, what happens in november and so forth. >> charlie: if the president is elected, would you like to continue serving? >> i think public service is a great honor. i think the job we're doing at this agency is really critical. it matters to the american public, trying to complete this reform to lower the risk of these very complex markets to the american public. >> charlie: part of your job now is to define the regulations that come out of dodd-frank. >> it is, but within the law. congress debated it, then they handed us and said cu cue please further define things, write rules in 60 different places. we're well over halfway through that. >> charlie: it's taken a long time, hasn't it? >> it has. 8 million people losing their jobs, two years after the laugh, we need to get this done. >> charlie: has the congress cut your budget? >> they haven't actually

it reminds me about 20 years i was in the same spot. i had been nominated by the first president bush to his cabinet. and senator metzenbaum from high looked at me and he said senator alexander -- or he said governor alexander, i've heard a number of disturbing things about your background, but i don't think i'll bring them up now. and senator kassebaum looked over and said well howard, i think you just did. i don't intend to do that to you because i haven't heard such things. but we welcome you and we welcome your family. and commissioner svinicki, we welcome you and thank you for a great job. i won't go into the management issue. senator carper did. i share his attitude and his concern and would expect you and your colleagues to address that let me begin with specific questions. dr. macfarlane, you served on the bipartisan commission on waste. do you agree that -- and i'm not going to ask you, either of you whether you're for or against yucca mountain. let's put that over here for a moment. i imagine you'll get a question about that. i'm not asking that.

presidential race fundamentally different from where it was april 11, the day romney nailed down the nomination? >> let me start, if i may. charlie and i have been doing these kinds of programs for the last few years. we agree that this was going to be a close race. other people were saying, obama is going to win by a big margin. as a democrat, i still think obama has a reasonable chance of winning. i have always thought this was going to be comparable to what happened in 2004 when you had an incumbent president who barely won the election. i have looked at all the material you have done on this and charlie generates more stuff than anybody else. >> there are more people who generate more stuff than anybody else. >> he showed the electoral votes almost exactly even among the states where you had solid d and leaning d and solid republicans and likely republicans. it is interesting. it looks to me, if everything breaks the way it looks right now, that is if wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania state democratic -- and that is yet to be resolved, the election is going to come down to three states. for romn

one of them nominated me for "the bachelor."solutely fallen in love with you. >> reporter: publicly humiliated, melissa had no idea women everywhere were rooting for her. >> as much as this society likes to buiuild people up and see th fall, they look the comeback story. >> reporter: the very next week, she was asked to be a contestant on "dancing with the stars." do you mind being just a reality star? >> if reality is the thing that i'm just going to be tied to forever, i'm okay with that because it's gotten me where i am. >> reporter: which is back in love with a guy who had her heart all along. ty. >> i woke up and said, i made a huge mistake. i can't live without this girl. and i'm going to marry her. >> reporter: happily married now, melissa and ty know it's their unique journey that brought them together. in 2011, they welcomed eva grace. should there be a season 80 of "the bachelor." >> absolutely not. eva grace, no, ma'am to "the bachelor." >> by the way, melissa was offered the chance to be the next bachelorette, but wa

as i mentioned in my remarks his delegate hunter in the nomination for ronald reagan was killed in an automobile accident and president ford asked me to come over to the president ford committee and be the delegate hunter in the contest for the nomination, which i did. and by the way, that was an extraordinarily interesting convention and primary contest because it was the last really contested convention of either major political party. 1976 in kansas city, and i think we only won the nomination by some 100 delegate votes out of 3,000 or so that were on the floor of the convention. a very narrow win for an incumbent president, but, of course, ronald reagan, governor reagan, had been running for president two or three times before. he was an extraordinarily tough competitor and challenger, and we felt fortunate to win the nomination, even though we won it narrowly. then we started -- after the -- after the nomination, president ford asked me to chair his general election campaign against jimmy carter because, as i said, rogers martin, who had been chairman, developed cancer. we started out 25, 30 points behind. on election day the

. >> if she wins the republican nomination -- >> let me make a comment about and this king -- about angus king. >> they have an ankle on everything perry >> i have a daughter in maine. his aunt was mayor of ... andrea. --of alexandria. there is an angle. i did not dismiss his automatically democrat. i think he wants to be independent. he is going to represent people who are frustrated. >> main elected an independent governor who is very unpopular. i am not sure an independent aligning himself with the republican party makes a lot of sense. >> i learned something interesting. angus king's first political involvement was as a driver. >> the current governor of maryland, you know how he got his start? he was a driver for gary hart. >> being a driver is an interesting thing. [laughter] >> it was one of my first two jobs. that and elevator operator. [laughter] i do not think otis was a run. >> to you have any idea? there were not that many elevator companies. anyway, that is a job that has its ups and downs. [laughter] >> the messages of race is one of the most intriguing races. when we talk a

the 10 teachers being honored here tonight are standing behind me and were nominated by parents, studentsommunity 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 thousands of lives ev

. >> it's a real honor for mitt to nominate me as his hero and to run that torch into salt lake city.culminated a lot of just amazing, incredible stories of people showing great heroism and overcoming great odds. but, you know, we all have to have that fire within and keep that light burning. because i've had my extinguished almost to nothing in my life, and i've recognized that how i got through that and how that light got turned up and made brighter in my life was, um, number one, my husband and my children and being, you know, showing the love and the care for me g the other one -- and the other one was, oddly enough, is feeling some kind of accomplishment and some kind of joy in life. and so for me i found joy in horses. >> reporter: you know, she talks about the horses being healing for her. and i've been experiencing that with a lot of patients where their animals bring out a lot of positive emotions, very they were piewtic, and she talked about how she uses that strength to help others and share compassion with others where it's a team experience. and i want you to hear again i

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. their tireless work. in collaboration with the

. >> this is a me nominal success in my judgment. 800,000 activists from nothing from five years ago. and we're being effective in so many different ways. >> cenk: that's david koch talking at an america for prosperity meeting and about thug avalanche of money and fake grassroots nominations. if they want to leave have at it, hoss. >> that would be beneficial for the countries. i had love to see them leave. the supreme court upholding the cities united, the primary reason is the koch brothers. >> i still would like to lose donald trump. >> cenk: come on, we asked you to give us your answers. here is your list. mitt romney, jamie die dimon. all the banksters. sheldon adelson. miley cyrus, karl rove, michelle malkin and all of fox and their friends. >> michelle malkin is an interesting one. i would have taken her but i didn't think she was rich enough to actually leave the country and save on taxes but i would love to see her go. >> cenk: i hear you on that, brother. we have to leave it right there. when we come back mitt romney's chief of staff. who is it going to be? well, you might b

have condemned the democrats for the way they handled the bourque presidential, excuse me, supreme court nomination, blocking miguel estrada, statements by people like alan west or cynthia mckinny. steve wrote earlier when we singled out alan west who said you will recall that between 79 and 81 democrats in the house are members of the communist party, and he wrote, well, what about cynthia mckinny? i don't remember the democrats condemning her. so i just went back and looked -- [ alarm ] -- we have this faulty timer. and i got a whole bunch of newspaper and other clip willings, democratic leader condemns mckinny, democrats get distance from mckinny, so there are differences here on that front, but more significantly, is so much of this is a matter of degree and not kind but also some of the unprecedented things that i've mentioned. we want to look at blocking nominations, i can show you chart after chart of the number of nominations blocked compared to what we had in the reagan years and the swiftness with which executive and judicial appointments went through. if we want to talk about cooperating

he says reagan was too rht wing, and to quote your favorite columnist, who happens to be me -- cldn't be nominated today? the party has just nominated a guy who is 1515 miles to the left of ronald reagan. how do you explain that? every republican nominee since reagan has been more liberal. >> we had a special election this week in arizona, and aa district that republicans have carried at the presidential level consistently since its creation. the democrat running as an national democrat vanquished the republican, who was an a iraq veteran, who came out for the ryan budget, the privatization of medicare, and that was a loser, folks. take that as an example where wee are going in the ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting people's lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more and more for cable -- and enjoyin

that reagan was too right wing, and to quote your favorite columnist, who happens to be me -- couldn't be nominated today? the party just nominated a man who was 15 miles to the left of ronald reagan. how do you explain that? every republican nominee since reagan has been more liberal than him. >> we had a special election this week in arizona, in a district that republicans have carried at the presidential level consistently since its creation. democrat, running as a national democrat, vanquished the republican, who was an iraq veteran, who came out for the ryan budget, the privatization of medicare, and that was a loser, folks. take that as an example of where we are going in the debate in 2012. >> colby, this week the federal reserve reported what most of us know already, that our net worth is shrinking. median net net worth declined to $77,300 in 2012. a lot of that is housing. median on equity dropped 42.3%. >> this is pre-barack obama. that is an argument we are going to hear over and over again, who is responsible for it. i would like to not shifted gears but to stay on the subject of 2012,