i want to say thank you for nominating me. i don't think you will ever understand that the nomination means more than the actual award. if you only knew. i would like to briefly acknowledge a few heroes of my own on this day that marks the 50th year of the march on washington. wilhelm wundt -- one of the most profound speeches that we have heard. simply because i did not receive this award on my own. the first of my heroes are my parents. thank you for your support and love since the day i was born. it will allow me to find my purpose in this crazy thing we call life. i knew you would always be there to catch me. lose -- also to my baby brother, love you. to my family in general, i love you guys. when i got the call about this award, my grandfather came to my mind. i have been meeting a few people who know him and i'm learning more how much of a legend he was specifically from the bay view point community. to my grandfather, thank you, your impact has lived beyond your figure -- physical. now, to all of you who i love the same

pleasure to be here you look fabulous and this looks fabulous and i want to thank governor brown, for nominating meonfirming me as your poet laurit, and i would like to thank the arts council for doing the same and the university california river side and the department of transportation, and thank you so much. and i also wanted to introduce you to our youth poet of oakland, davis who is 70 years old and right there standing up. he is our new lauriet for oakland. >> thank you so much, my wife is right there, and who is my great inspiration and hadari who works so much for oakland and the arts. the bridge poem bay bridge inauguration poem, san francisco oakland bay bridge, september 2, 2013. for all bridge dreamers, bridge builders and bridge crossers. self-sustaining, and a light unto itself. the dark that lifts us and it sings us as we pass bay bridge, i see you now, your new design risen, above star waters, a new galaxy appears. a new trillion may we live in your safety and in your carriage, and in your heart. my all of your hours and all of your lights embrace us once again. and may we crawl acr

. >> and i'd like to thank jeffery for nominating me and i accept the award. thank you. that's all. [laughter] (applause) ♪ ♪ (applause) >> what a fantastic way to end this evening. a standing o. that's fantastic. (applause) >> and a woman who obviously practices actions speak louder than words we need here in city hall. without further a do, we conclude this year's nen awards. i want to acknowledge my partner michael pollack back there. (applause) >> not only does he make me look old and fat, but he's an incredibly talented young man. these amazing videos, we'll get all this up on the web for you to share with your friends in the years to come. look forward to future announcements. with that i'd like to conclude the fifth annual nen awards. we'll see you next year. and now we invite you to join us in north light park for a fantastic of food and wine for you to enjoy. thank you all very much. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> creator father and we ask thanks this day and ask for blessing for those that prepared this food and nourish our souls. we thank you for the opportunity to gather, to honor four native

the model for nominating me for this award >> sonya you're not quite off the hook. >> thank you everyone i really appreciate it (clapping.) >> well sonya you want to say a few more. >> no. >> i'm very glad it was you i think you and i started together and weaponry trying to figure out everything and you've done an amazing job and making sure we're all our everyday collections and needs were taken care of. >> thank you everyone. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, item 5 discussion and update the dbi staffing on market street. come on up. i want to kind of as our fellow commissioners and pretty sure everybody this has been an agenda that's been played out in the newspapers so i've had the privilege of sitting out in a couple of meetings. i know the staff is working hard. to bill if you could and can couple of a commissioners want to be brought up to speed >> i put in our packets a summary of the steps the meeting had a cross section of dbi senior staff that will deal with the building issues. this building has both residential and commercial office uses. the current own

the person that nominated me for this award is laverne roberts. maybe some of you knew her as laverne morrisy. she went home to her reservation. she is piute and went to her home. where is her home? >> [inaudible] >> in earring ton nevada. we went there once and she has a beautiful house and live there is and now she is even running for the council of her tribe. laverne was going to surprise me and be here this evening, but she had an outbreak of one of her illnesses. her foot started to bleed and now she has to be on crutches for a while, so she had to turn in her plane ticket and her taxi fare, but otherwise she would have been here tonight and many of us know laverne and we would like to say a prayer that she gets better soon and can come and see us. this is for laverne. yes. please let's clap our hands for laverne. [applause] >> thank you. laverne roberts was honored here in this space two years ago. thank you laverne. and i think i can say a lot more about being indian and how much i am proud to be indian. i did work in the school district fo

. >> it's great to be here, i'm very honored that the mayor has nominated me to be the treasure reer of the island authority, i've been involved in numerous specific projects in this city. i started out building affordable housing and with the first housing director of the chinatown development community over 36 years ago and i went on to do other things but i have maintained my relationship with that great neighborhood organizations for three decades and i am now the president of its board of directors, i was on the commission of the agency in the early 1980's and early 1990's and [inaudible] which i've been stuck for about three decades prior to my [inaudible] and a great advocate, strong advocate for family and children uses on that block. i was on the de young board of trustees and helped them with the building of the new de young museum in golden gate park, i helped the port of san francisco after more of a decade on the moratorium of building with the waterfront land use plan and as a director of real estate helped to formulate the strategy. so, i am good at helping projects th

>> i nominate chip to be council to the cochair. >> anyone else? excuse me, do you accept that nomination, chip? >> yes. >> is there anyone else that would like to nominate someone or yourself? >> i believe by procedure you would want to hear a second to that nomination. >> i second it. >> seeing there is no one else nominated, excuse me we have a public comment, please. >> members, i'm bob. i spent seven 1/2 years on the sunshine ordinance task force and i also was an officer off the city's ethics commission for 2 years. i'm looking at your agenda. there is nothing in here about approval of the minutes of the past meeting or the previous meeting. why i'm raising that is there is differences as to what was the decision made at the last regular full council meeting, was it tabled or was it tabled for that meeting. you don't have your own draft official record as to what the decision was. you have conflicting oral statements. i'm asking you to keep that in mind that you are proceeding without minutes and the lack of minutes also raises other questions of what

. >> it's great to be here, i'm very honored that the mayor has nominated me to be the treasure reer of the island authority, i've been involved in numerous specific projects in this city. i started out building affordable housing and with the first housing director of the chinatown development community over 36 years ago and i went on to do other things but i have maintained my relationship with that great neighborhood ni

i did not know president bush when he nominated me to the d.c. circuit. my good friend, ricky silverman, insisted that i think about it. [applause] larry silverman counseled me about it. at every turn -- and it will probably be boring to you all because my life is pretty boring, there were a series of good people who showed up. one of the things that became a priority, if you talk to people who come to new places and they do not have family, you can ask anyone in this room who does not have a structured family, you begin to assemble a family. that was the source of my difficulty with yale. yale had become the only family that i had. and then at a critical juncture, they abandoned me. that was the big problem. it was not when i was at yale. at every point, you build a family. the people i just mentioned to you became a sort of substitute family. think about it. my wife goes with me -- my wife and i are really close. [laughter] we spend a lot of time together. we go down to savannah, and she sees the family structure, and it is the pathology, in many ways, o

but i -- but in a little while, he talked to other members that worked there, and they kind of nominated me to go ask mr. shelly. our supervisor. and i did that. and he said, well, i'll have to check on that. he checked with his boss, mr. truly, and mr. truly had to check with mr. kason. >> bottom line, you were able to see it but you did not see oswald again. then when you find out that oswald is implicated in the murder of the president, you're dragged into it as maybe an accomplice, and your reputation is besmirched unfairly for years. the police wanted you to sign a confession statement. what did you do? >> well, when captain will fritz came into the room where i was being entire gifted, he had a confession type up, and he put it down in front of me and gave me a pen and said, seep this -- sign this, and i said i'm not going to sign that. that's reridiculous, and he got red-faced and drew his hand back. he was staning to my left. -- standing to my left and drew his hand back, and so i put my arm up like this to block, and he then reached over and got the paper, but before he did that, i

let me reiterate my strong support of mr. johnson's nomination and my appreciation for his willingness to serve the people of this country in this new role. i want to call my colleagues, democrat and republican, to join me in confirming him as soon as possible. mr. johnson, if you are fortunate enough to be confirmed, i will look forward to working with you in the coming months and years to protect the homeland and its people. today,se that are here your wife and two children, your sister or two, others in your family, that i suspect you will announce when you make your comments -- i want to say to your immediate family and your parents, thank you for raising this man. thank you for instilling the values that we need in this leadership role in our country. to his immediate family, his wife, his children, thank you for sharing him with our country, once again, a very good man. dr. coburn? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have a rather lengthy opening statement and i apologize for that. i think it is necessary in this case. mr. johnson, welcome. we ha

and ranking member grassley for convening and senator lee for being here and the president for nominating me and i would like to introduce my family to you. right behind me is my wife, julia, and next to her my three children, my daughter, cecilia, my oldest son, leo, my youngest son, jeremiah, told me he had an awesome jim class, i appreciate his sacrifice. mallory he helps us with the kids but we hope not this afternoon and over here is my parents, that is my father, jerome, constitutional law for over half a century, much of it at george washington, just retired last year. my mother, attorney, in her own right. and then back this way, in-laws are enthusiastic. my father in law, robert, my mother in law nearly, my sister-in-law, her husband, james swapped, my brother in law, john. and one other guest i would like to say something about, justice stevens, who i had the honor of working for has come here today, he instilled in me as he instilled in all of his to be awkward to the edge federal judiciary. a particular honor to testify before you today with him present. >> might note the very fi

i did not know president bush when he nominated me. my good friend, ricky silverman, insisted that i think about it. [applause] larry silverman counseled me about it. at every turn, and it will probably be boring to you all because my life is pretty boring, there were a series of good people who showed up. one of the things that became a priority, if you talk to people who come to new places and they do not have family, you can ask anyone in this room who does not have a structured family, you begin to assemble a family. that was the source of my difficulty with yale. yale had become the only family that i had. at a critical juncture, they abandoned me. that was the big problem. at every point, you build a family. the people i just mentioned to you became a sort of substitute family. think about it. my wife goes with me -- my wife and i are really close. [laughter] we spend a lot of time together. we go down to savannah and she sees the family and it is the pathology, in many ways, of the social experiments of the 1960s. my grandparents

norton & company and they did know that they nominated me. i found out i had made a long list which is 10 for nonfiction and then i was pleasantly surprised when i made it to the next final fight. >> who called you? >> i actually got an e-mail, several e-mails. >> have you enjoyed the festivities this week in new york city? >> this has been a great thrill. i've never been involved with the national book awards and everybody has been wonderful. it's very exciting to be part of it. >> good luck tonight. >> thank you very much. >> i think this'll be the fourth finalist in the nonfiction category that we want to talk to. if you are watching booktv last weekend you saw jill lepore in philadelphia talking about jane franklin. jill lepore did you stumble on j. frankel? >> i was reading benjamin franklin's published papers which are bound in fortysomething flames and you can go to any library and pull them off the shelf one after the other. he is so fun to read. he is such good company. he is so sneaky and charming but every other letter he wrote was

i did not know president bush when he nominated me. , ricky silverman, insisted that i think about it[applause] larry silverman jostled me about it. -- counseled me about it. at every turn, and it will probably be boring to you all because my life is pretty boring , there were a series of good people who showed up. one of the things that became a priority, if you talk to people who come to new places and they do not have family, you can ask anyone in this room who does not have a structured family, you begin to assemble a family. that was the source of my difficulty with yale. yale had become the only family that i had. juncture, they abandoned me. that was the big problem. at every point, you build a family. the people i just mentioned to you became a sort of substitute family. think about it. my wife goes with me -- my wife and i are really close. [laughter] we spend a lot of time together. we go down to savannah and she sees the family and it is the pathology, in many ways, of the social experiments of the 1960s. -- mynger is gone grandparents are gone, that anchor is gone. i am so

president nominated me. there are some issues involving a car that i had used that i did not realize was a taxable source of income. in never occurred to me it was shared with a friend. i found out and i paid the taxes. it became a far more obligated political controversy then i thought was deserved. i decided i would remove myself from consideration. and an dear friend enormously successful journalist and pioneer in native american journalism. i am flattered and honored by his comments. it needs our country and our congress and the american people to be working together to come up with a better understanding of the implications for health going forward. i think the one thing most people agree with is that we know we have a cost problem. when i was born, health was 4% of gdp. if a monkey to have great grandchildren, it will be 32% of gdp -- if i am lucky to have great-grandchildren, it will be 32% of gdp. we can do better than this. this is our first installment in doing just that. we are not anywhere close t

invaluable to you as you take on the task that lies ahead in closing, let me reiterate my strong support of mr. johnson's nomination and my appreciation for his willingness to serve the people of this country in this new role. i want to call on my colleagues both democrat and republican to join me in voting to confirm him as soon as possible. mr. johnson, if you are fortunate enough to be confirmed, i look forward to working with you in the coming months and years to better protect our homeland and its people. and i would you say to your family was gathered here today, your wife and her two children, sister or two, others in your family, but i suspect you'll probably acknowledge when you make your comment, just want to say especially to your immediate family, and to your parents, tell your parents especially thank you for raising this man, thank you for instilling the values we need in the leadership. and to his immediate family, wife and children, thank you for sharing with our country once again a very good man. dr. coburn. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. i have a rather lengthy opening statement and i apologiz

i am honored by the trust and confidence that president obama has placed in me by nominating me to be secretary of homeland security. i appreciate the letters of support address to this committee from the law enforcement organizations, retired senior military officers, former officials of both the bush and obama administrations. i respectfully submit that i'm ready, willing and able to lead the department of homeland security. i've experience in law enforcement or as a federal prosecutor in you new york i wod with law enforcement officers of the secret service, what was thethen called the immigration d naturalization service, the fbi, the dea and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. i have experience as a key member of the management team, a large and complex government agency. for 27 months i was part of the senior management team of the department of the air force. for four years i was part of the senior management team of the department of defense. during that time i sat at the right hand, learned from and supported t to outstanding americans in secretary of def

republican minority is refusing to let the president have any nominations -- let me finish.to my point. the filibuster is used by both parties. both parties are hypocrites on it. but the point here is that republicans have taken it to a new level. half of all filibusters in the history of the senate have happened under this republican senate. that's an important point. those numbers are high. >> some of it is absolute baloneyy because some of the filibusters were for one day -- >> use of the filibuster. >> every democratic senator in a marginal race next year just walked the plank except mark warner. every one of them just gave -- >> hold on one second. i want frank to respond. this is the speaker of the house, john boehner. he went to his computer today to sign up for the affordable care act because he's got to get health insurance. there he is. he sends out a note, he says earlier this afternoon i sat down to try and enroll in the d.c. exchange under the president's health care law, like many americans, my experience was pretty frustrating. after putting in my personal inf

president nominated me. e are some issues involving a car that i had used that i did not realize was a taxable source of income. in never occurred to me it was shared with a friend. i found out and i paid the taxes. it became a far more obligated political controversy then i thought was deserved. i decided i would remove myself from consideration. and an dear friend enormously successful journalist and pioneer in native american journalism. i am flattered and honored by his comments. it needs our country and our congress and the american people to be working together to come up with a better understanding of the implications for health going forward. i think the one thing most people agree with is that we know we have a cost problem. when i was born, health was 4% of gdp. if a monkey to have great grandchildren, it will be 32% of gdp -- if i am lucky to have great-grandchildren, it will be 32% of gdp. we can do better than this. this is our first installment in doing just that. we are not anywhere close to be

me. nomination of janet yellen next federal reserve chair. the committee will vote 10:00 a.m. eastern. david: you know the market will be influenced one way or the earth. "money" with melissa francis is next. melissa: shocking questions about numbers many have been suspicious of for years. a scathing report claims numbers that have direct impact on your money every day may have been manipulated an investigation is underway and we have the latest developments. even when they say it's not, it is always about money. melissa: new details right now on a stunning report in the "new york post." the paper reporting that data used to create that all-important jobs number we hear about every month was faked. now there is congressional investigation. doug ma kel way has new developments after speaking to one of the sources cited in the post piece. doug, what were you able to confirm? >> we were finally able to reach the source cited by name in the "new york post" story. his name is julius buckman. a retired census worker. we spoke to him this afternoon. he said the "new york post" story is inaccu

i'm nominating alison and nick. and pardon me >> i also have 2. i have one to the b cc gabriel rodriguez appointed to the b cc and then an appointment to the beef committee. >> you have a question. >> i'm delighted for the appointments but i want to check with the general council because i've appoint jessica's dad and i think she would be a wonderful addition. >> i don't believe there's an issue when two family members are equally serving our district. >> thank you for reaching the shadow of a potential conflict. so we'll resume item l thank you for your patience. you read us the recommendation there are no speakers signed up for the appointments. any board members wish to speak >> yes. one the criteria was a standard so i asked if anyone was a parent and her kids a are uc graduates and her grandchildren are in that program. thank you. any other questions >> i'm pleased to see patrick with city build on this committee and i usually cut might have off. i'm glad your building this advisory board. so thank you >> any other comments. seeing none. all

me. nomination of janet yellen next federal reserve chair. the committee will vote 10:00 a.m. eastern. influenced one way or the earth. "money" with melissa francis is next. melissa: shocking questions about numbers many have been suspicious of for years. a scathing report claims numbers that have direct impact on your money every day may have been manipulated an investigation is underway and we have the latest developments. even when they say it's not, it is always about money. melissa: new details right now on a stunning report in the "new york post." the paper reporting that data used to create that all-important jobs number we hear about every month was faked. now there is congressional investigation. doug ma kel way has new

in the morning, when johnsons much talk that would be offered the vice presidential nomination, john connolly told me he was positive he would never accept it. i had talked to sam rayburn who said that linden johnson would never accept -- lyndon johnson would never accept the vice presidency, would never give up the senate majority leader. i bet john, lee then that the viceould accept president nomination. at 2:00, john connolly made that point that it was positive that he would not accept. this is the way that history is made. had lyndon johnson not accepted, he of course would not be president of united states today. no one could ever have believed or dreamed that a president so young would not conclude his term of office and that death would interrupt. there is little else to report here in washington, just the general reactions. a bulletin has just come in from dallas. a sniper armed with a high- powered rifle murdered president kennedy today. kennedy posta,r lyndon johnson has taken the oath of office as the 37th president of the united states. it is president lyndon johnson , 55 years old, the

and they argue that that is sort of the way it works, that if a president is nominated by the -- excuse me, elected by the majority of the country and is in the white house, that is one of the big benefits, big perks of being in the white house, certainly it's happened in both democratic and republican administrations, that they have particularly when talking about the judicial bench they've been able to stack the bench with people who fit and form their own ideology. if you look on the floor of the senate right now, already senate democrats are pushing through the first procedural vote on a judicial nominee, patricia millet for the d.c. circuit under the new rule, so it will only need 51 votes to overcome a filibuster hurdle, and then go on to be approved which even republicans are telling us, based on the new rules, will likely happen before the end of the day. >> in 2008, harry reid swore -- he said -- he said, as a leader of the united states senate, he said he would never turn to's called the nuclear option, insisting, and i'm quoting him, it would be a black chapter in the history of

nomination, after a home state senator put her nomination on hold and it became clear she would not be confirmed. welcome to inside story. >> thank you for having me. >>ly stipulate that most people watching this will never be nominated for a federal anything, so tell people what that is like? when you enter the process, do you give away a lot? your personal life, your personal details is it a sacrifice to say yes when the president calls in. >> absolutely. it was a four year process. of being vetted not only by the white house, the justice departments, i had taught five different law scoots. i was lucky enough to teach and visit at yale, and i had 11 fbi agents scouring the country. i sent up 4,000 pages of documents in my writings both writings that i had worked on when i had been a staffner the senate. it's pass nateing to me because i had worked in government as a young lawyer, and had security clearances since i was 30 years old, but this would all have tock redone. >> you open up your life, was your fitness for office ever a question that was hashed out by members of the senate? >> no. offense subject to something called the blue slip. and t