thank you for having a restaurant appreciation month to start with, and thank you supervisor for nominating us, and thanks to our staff mostly for -- the 45 staff out of 200 total who work at california street and they're the ones that do it everyday, and thanks to them that we're standing here. they're amazing so thanks to them and our customers -- the other thing is our customers are incredible at all of our restaurants and they trust us, and they allow us to do what we do and it's both communities that keep the places going so anyway thank you. >> thank you. >> [applause] >> our next presentation will be our district one colleague, supervisor mar. >> thank you president chiu. it's hard to follow the great restaurants from my colleagues and the ten districts but i think we saved the best for last for the richmond district . i am sure you willy agree. i will give you a quiz. you have to guess the restaurant. where is the place to go for the best sunset at the beach and see weddings and streakers might be striking through the back area with the lawn chairses. you can get rip tide red or pale a

. >> senate republican kelly ayotte, who has threatened to block a rice nomination, joins us ahead. and powerball fever sweeping the nation. the jackpot now jumps to $500 million. the second highest in lottery history. what would you do with your winning ticket. >> i would take my entire family on a cruise around the world. >> a sports car for me. >> aston martin. >> i'll pinch myself. >> i would pinch myself too. good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. thanks for joining us. you can bet this is not the way mitt romney had hoped to get to the white house. instead of measuring the drapes in the oval office he'll be the president's guest for lunch. their first meeting since that last debate. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cizilla, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and from "usa today" susan page. what do you think is on the menu? >> some people on twitter when i tweeted out suggest crow might be served. look, this is, i think, there's no press coverage. this is not closed press. there is no press coverage. a private meeting between the two o

nomination hearings. if senator mccain or graham or any of them want to use the nomination as a way to get to the bottom of benghazi, they can and they will, and there's nothing that stops them from doing it. it's quite possible hillary clinton could be secretary of state for a while as we go through a transition period. >> the senate hearings tomorrow are closed. what kind of info can we expect to get out of them? what will we know afterwards? >> that has less to do with what is said than what is leaked. >> one of the things -- >> i guess we just cross our fingers? >> no, one of the things they will leak is the united states senate, including senators graham and senator mccain, had the exact same intelligence information that susan rice had and that susan rice spoke to in those appearances. >> we already know that. we're hoping to get new information out of the hearings tomorrow. there's still unanswered questions. >> and we'll get our first look at david petraeus since all this exploded less than a week ago. >>> coming up next, mitt romney reflected on why he lost the analysis and his analysis anger some

nominated mitt. for pete's sake, he gave us romneycare. the inspiration for obamacare!l repeal and replace! >> with more romneycare! >> which he leaves that up to individual states! and i'm sure mississippi will step right up to the plate. [ laughter ] >> he's looking out for the middle class. >> he's promising a 20% tax cut for the top 1%. >> he's also promising to close their tax loop holes, so they'll still pay the same amount. >> then why cut their taxes? [ laughter ] >> i don't know. but i just don't see how a guy can change his beliefs overnight and still come off as creditable in a debate. >> oh, it's easy. here, let's switch sides. >> uhh...ok. [ laughter ] >> so now you're me. and i'll pretend to be you. i have postulated the theory mitt romney is a secret centrist pretending to be a conservative posing as a moderate. ipso facto, i yield the floor. -- i yield the remainder of my time. [ laughter ] now you do me. >> myah, see, myahh. i know that romney's embrace of moderation is merely a cover for actually being the ultra conservative he was in the primaries. my

. >> it was the same stump speech he used as he closed out the failed republican nomination four years ago. he actually used the change slogan. he had change printed up on his slogans because it was working for this guy barack obama. that is the romney pattern, right? if you at first don't succeed, just keep trying. >> or you plagiarize. >> on the republican side there are just too many polls that put them down. however, there are many republicans at this point especially those on the romney campaign who when they see tens of thousands of people screaming out romney's name start to have these images of them moving into the white house. that's natural. it happened with the kerry people in 2004. there are people who still have not recovered from that experience. because you really do think it's within reach only one point, two points means the difference between having a career or not. >> ana marie, i read your column. you say you are freaking out about a romney presidency. this is understandable since you probably lose control of your own body and your own health care. but also does the

nomination. if the republicans -- what used to be called the republican establishment was more on their toes it would have done a lot more to make sure he did not get -- it turns out, not long after he was nominated it turns that he had been arrested many times demonstrating at abortion clinics in the 1980's. not what you really want in terms of a candidate who will have broader appeal. same thing happened in 2010, in nevada. when sharon angle was nominated to run against harry reid. most people considered harry reid -- they nominated a person and he won by five points. in delaware, they nominated the wiccan. in a number of states. the thing is, they were establishment republicans as well as ambitious republicans who want to run for president who are afraid to take on the tea party. on the other hand there are republicans who are looking at -- they are losing power and thinking, we have got to do something different. but even among those people there is a fear that if they decide to do something different -- olympia snowe, who is wildly popular in maine, do you think if she had been nominated again s

we 6 not nominated people that click with us. i love george bush he is a good friend of mine. a guy from midland, texas didn't click with eastern pennsylvania. you can't win unless you hold your margins down in that area of the country. we just never had candidates that did. that mitt romney is doing that. one of the reasons he is going to southeastern pennsylvania this weekend is because he is actually doing a good job in holding down the vote in suburban philadelphia which has been going against us the last 15-20 years. i think he will do very well in the central part of the state. energy is big issue there. that is another thing that huge advantage for mitt romney in this race among democrats and northeastern part of the state. they will be voting for mitt romney because barack obama is going to take away their jobs if he gets this thing going to hydraulic fracking. >> neil: if mitt romney were to pick up pennsylvania, it would take some of the importance off of winning ohio and redo the math. >> two more electoral votes. >> neil: they say they are just smoking something be

. >> following his meeting, senator corker called on the president to reconsider nominating rice. >> all of us here hold the secretary of state to a very different standard than most cabinet members. there's a handful of people that the president surrounds himself with that all of us hold to a very different level and secretary of state no doubt is one of those. >> so let's put this through the spin. s.e.? >> yeah, i mean, my focus on susan rice is a little different. i know our last guest dana mill bank, maureen dowd made the leap susan rice is not qualified to be nominated. i'm more interested in getting the bottom of the benghazi situation and there are still too many questions. and the timeline i've been following since its inception was the negligence in securing the base before the attack, the incompetence surrounding the attack on that day and then the possible duplicity after the attack. and the duplicity angle is less important to methane the incomp hence angle. i don't want it to happen again. unfortunately, president obama puts susan rice in a position to be the gateway to a lot of

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libertarian leaning republican i'm not in the president is duly elected he won fair and square use the right to nominate he wants and the senate has the right to confirm or not confirm. but i think it's a mistake and i think we need to look at our you know at ourselves in the mirror as a country in a nonpartisan fashion and say you know what susan rice did inject herself into the benghazi situation by becoming the public face of it shouldn't have to she's her own free will to say i'm not going to say that they put out on their facebook page a.q.i.m. in the in the magreb the next day right after it or excuse me the same day that they were responsible taking credit for the attacks but it's not a part of this they mean to say they and thirty other groups you know what tom that's fine me see if me and you don't know right now why we see she's she's so sure it was the video and feel free to go on the national i mean it's a very common sense was it was simply conveying the information that was given to her by the cia and the state well she should check facebook first because anyone else could affect marshes w

the video, used the words spob takenuous. would you oppose her nomination for secoretary of state?ot ready to make a decision on it. political decisions based on benghazi that shouldn't have been political. i'm sort of annoyed and insulted we spent u.s. taxpayer money advertising in pakistan, apologizing for a video that had nothing to do with our government and may have nothing to do with this. i'm annoyed with the politics. it doesn't rise to wawhether or not i'll oppose to somebody. i'm annoyed and think that the person who made the decision to have an ambassador with no adequate security that person shouldn't we making a decision for any other ambassador and needs to be relieved of their duties. >> let's talk about the benghazi hearings. now that david petraeus will be testifying what do you want him to answer? part of the problem is it's turned out that the u.s. -- the americans in libya, most of them work for the cia, state department thought the yia was responsible for security. should it be someone at the cia that should be fired? >> i don't know enough of the details to te

us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant, those who are under served typically continue to be served that our communities are strengthened and our ties are bound and strong. so, in 2012, of this year, we are very lucky enough to have two very distinguished honorees for our distinguished service a word for the city and county of san francisco and the first person we will recognize tonight is vera noon tear if you can please u.s.a. plast she is the social director at the arab culture and community center and she helps hundreds of families in trans by providing social work service and is i know how important that work is and how difficult that work is and i can't thank you enough to ensure that all of our communities are cared for and ensure that all of our competency ask ins san francisco serve the arab and arab community know what to do when people walk through their doors so thank you so much vera. (applause).

politician and she did spend $2 million of her own money to get todd akin -- the republican nomination. what usedo be called the republican establishment -- they would've done a lot of work to make sure that todd akin -- it turns out that long after he was nominated, it turns out he had been arrested many times demonstrating at abortion clinics in the 80s. it's not what you really want in terms of the candidate who is going to have broader appeal. the same thing happened in 2010 in nevada when sharon engel was nominated. gary reed was -- most people were considered harry reid roadkill. harry reid won by several points. in delaware, they nominated that. as well as ambitious republicans that want to run for president, those who are afraid to take on the tea party. on the other hand, there are republicans who are looking at losing power and thinking that we have to do something different. but even among those people, there is a fear that if they decide to do something different, olympia snowe, who was wildly popular in the state of maine. she was trying to adapt to this new reality that involves the

they had that gangs of 14 to work through the judicious nominations. megyn: it used of power. you need 60 votes to get a vote on legislation. you need the 60 votes to say we'll have the vote. so you do have some power if you are in the minority in the senate. but it used to be if you wanted to filibuster it was a true filibuster, they used to bring cots in and somebody would stand up there and read the phone book. then they passed some rules and said now you can just say filibuster and it's done. harry reid wants to get rid of the filibuster for a lot of matters. he wants to get rid of the right of the minority party to hold up legislative matters. >> that's as broad as it can be. what else is there? judicial nominations? unless they change the rule -- if they exercise the nuclear option what stops them from saying we'll apply that to jew dix nominees. there is a legal question. can you get this vote for this true change without having the 60 necessary, and of course a lot of people's views is you can't do that. this would be a dramatic change in the way our legislat

the high ground on not just benghazi but when the telegraph today what he would like to nominate susan rice. >> let usabout that. we are saying that she did sound disconnected. i know that you know her. >> i worked with her the 2008 campaign and everybody was disconnected because you could see that it the same briefings everybody else had and he was the point that the president made. for senator mccain, there was a personal involvement. and it is something also important to him but i think the gop would be ill served if they are going to be right out of the gate go after an african-american woman. for a secretary of state especially when connolly's of rice basically lied to congress about. >> , lisa -- in a letter to get to petraeus. he is going to testify about what happened in libya of. >> the distance between this petraeus matter and it is aimed at be on the ongoing investigation. it is his way of saying that if you want to do with this, do with this to not get dragged into this. >> there was some classified affirmation and the computer that was his mattress. pala brought well. what do not know tha

you just got nominated for an award. tell us about this the national entertainment journalism award? >> yeah. i'm freaked out about it. i'm up against the hollywood reporter and radar online, an interview i did with steven spielberg back in december. the awards on november 18th so i'm crossing my fingers. i don't know if i have any chance of winning those against those big named outlets. the award is actually for my interview that aired on wttg. >> we all remember that interview with steven spielberg. >> i'm making my movie for spielberg right now. he told me to make a movie and send it to him. we just finished. we shot it, we're editing it this weekend and should be done the next couple of weeks so we're sending it off to spielberg. >> this is such great news. good luck to you and thanks again for getting up so early to talk with us. >> any time and follow me on twitter. i'll have my review of flight tomorrow morning. i'm so sorry the screening was cancelled but i'll have the review tomorrow morning i promise. >> isn't that awe

nominations perhaps than not because they're for lifetime but these everyday appointments, budget bills routine bills this isn't about deliberation, the world's greatest deliberative body. it is about someone finding a tool and using it to gum things up and it is time to change the tool. >> eliot: fascinating counter point about the judicial nomination. i hadn't thought about it that way. congressman, i want to come back to you for the last question, unfortunately. you have this lawsuit pending which says the filibuster itself is inherently unconstitutional. quickly explain your reasoning on that. >> well, the senate has the right to set its own rules but the courts have pushed back time and again and said to the senate you have that right but your rules can't be unconstitutional. the filibuster was invented by aaron burr 20 years after the constitution. it was used more often to protect slavery and lynching laws and we believe that we can prove in a court of law that the founding fathers who were so smart they put six instances in the constitution for a supermajority vote. you can't impeach the president. you can't have a trade bill. you can't amend the constitution. without a supermajority. but if you read the f

us. let's look at their behavior. >> if these guys are trying to steer the nomination to massachusetts senatoronquerry, so that the seat opens up so they can get scott brown back in the senate, it seems like the technique they're using as of today is almost forcing the president's hand on ambassador rice. it's almost the kind of thing that makes him say, well, okay, that tips it, i'm definitely going with ambassador rice. >> that certainly was my read of his tone. i think the president is fully aware if those men want to have that fight attacking this woman, let's do it, let's go there. that is a good fight for him to have. it also outs them right on the block ne have no intention of working with this president of getting anything done. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> coming up, more on john mccain and lindsay graham, susan rice, condoleezza rice and sarah palin. they're all in the rewrite. and later, america's most famous juggler will teach david petraeus what he should have known about juggling. [ male announcer ] free windows 8 training from your son. can you help me with somet

. >> they lost their seats that yes, the very people who keep nominating moderates call us purises justthe news conference, coordinateor of the tea party patriots she said conservatives had wanted a candidate like reagan an what they got was a weak member of the party and the fault was on them. fight, fight fight. george somebody said the to-word answer was that america died. the words tea party are dead. no doubt about that. you never heard a single utterance of tea party from mitt romney or paul ryan. that's right. you need to hug that tea party closer. >> i guess the tea party is with thing angst. >> what? >> stephanie: let's dive in the right-wing world. phil o'reillybill o'reilly. this is the deal. >> when you bunch it all up together, it was an entightment vote this year. american families earning less than $3,000 a year broke big for the president. 62%. so it's clear that left wing ideology did not win the day for barack obama. big spending. >> gotcha. we still won es. there's that. >> stephanie: dennis miller. >> do i ever think it will go back in my lifetime to the other way? n

>> at these prices right now we're looking nominal prices, right now, for brent, we'll use that as theorld proxy, 105 to $115 a barrel does seem to work at these leve to this point. so, we're there, we're there at this juncture. melissa: couldn't saudi arabia though just really open up the tap and flood us out of the market? they kind of, they produce what the is demand for but that doesn't mean they can't open up the tap and drive the price lower in order to sort of drive their fracking out of business? >> well, there is indeed a concern with that but keep in mind high prices are not in opec's or saudi arabia's best interests. high prices being, prices that t the market simply can not afford. prices for instance we saw at the beginning of this year, $130 a barrel. messa: they could drive it lower. they could drive it lower. they could open up the tap to increase supply, drive price lower and drive the fracking guys out of business. >> indeed but that standpoint y don't want to make the price, you don't want to drive out the supplies. these are supplies here in the united states that t

nomination. >> reporter: in addition to social using with kelley, both general allen and petraeus wrote letters of support foreher sister in a custody battle. even though petraeus has resigned, lawmakers returning to washington want to hear what he has to say about the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. >> i think it is absolutely imperative that general petraeus come and testify. >> reporter: some congressional leaders have also called for a joint house-senate probe into the petraeus scandal. and those leaders feel they should have known about the investigations much earlier. now today senator john mccain did come out in support of petraeus and general allen saying we need to wait for due process and wait for the investigations to be complete before passing any judgment. live in washington, danielle nottingham, allen, back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> after a long weekend, washington is back to work on the problem of pulling america back from the edge of that fiscal cliff. the new year will bring automatic tax hikes and drastic spending cuts unless congress can cut a dea

nominated by the president. senator collins was the more critical of the two. she took the ambassador to task for using intelligence talking points in the aftermath of the attack in benghazi. >> i still have many questions that remain unanswered. i continue to be troubled by the fact that the u.n. ambassador decided to play what was essentially a political role at the height of the contentious presidential election campaign by agreeing to go on the sunday shows to present the administration's position. >> senator corker declined to give deep details of the meeting but instead delivered a hit directed at the whole of washington. >> the whole issue of benghazi has been to me a tawdry affair. everything about it. i have found no heroes here in washington. >> and for the second day in a row press secretary carny defended the president's ambassador to the u.n. >> my view on this is the same as it was yesterday which is that the focus on and in some cases the obsessive focus on ambassador rice's appearance on a series of sunday shows several months ago is misplaced and misguided. >> and joining me now from t

they may use rice' nomination hearing to explore the libya situation, bring out more about it. but i just get the sense the last few days but maybe some gop senators are thinking. we're gonna go to the mattresses. >> i know that rice is young. she's 48. she has a good relationship with the president. other than this benghazi situation, is she qualified for this post? >> that's a decision for senators to make. but there are a lot of stories around that maybe her techniques in terms of person awe person dealing have -- person-to-person dealings have rubbed some people raw in this town. there's very famous stories told last week about rice going toe to toe with some people that maybe bruised some egos. it's the friendships and those you steam roll along the way to move up the ladder that will cause you trouble later on. we'll have to see how this plays out. we'll see if she's even the choice to replace hillary clinton. >> if some of the senators come forward to talk about this, we'll bring that to you. thank you, jamie dur pre, from washington, d.c. you can find a link to his blog

nomination. >> she asked to meet with us and i'll ask her about her role in benghazi.he more i know, the more upset i am that the consulate was even open on september 11th. >> i'm joined by msnbc contributor and by buzz feed contributor and former obama campaign aid blake zeff. blake, let me start with you, i think the key thing we just heard was that she asked for this meeting. what do you imagine is going on right now behind those closed doors? >> well, i actually spent some time in capitol hill working for chuck schumer many moons ago, and in that time president george w. bush was the president, and it wasn't all that unusual for presidential appointees to seek a meeting with outspoken democrats, potential critics -- >> these were more than potential critics, these are people who have been pretty tough on her already. >> for sure. and so susan rice is smartly bringing the active cia director with her to answer those questions. i'd be surprised if it's not civil or collegial as these things tended to be in my experience. if it isn't, that would be an exception worth

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ambassador today after republicans threaten to block her possible nomination for secretary of state. rand paul joins us. tonight, we have late breaking developments in the petraeus scandal. first, we are just learning the name of the fbi agent who helped start the investigation that eventually led to the resignation of the nation's top spy. the name of the agent is frederick w. humphries ii. he's 47 years old. he was the investigator who first learned of a complaint from jill kelley that she received harassing e-mails. the government has taken away for now, the top security clearance of paula broadwell, the former mistress of david petraeus. this is after investigators found substantial classified information on her computer and the glaering question tonight is did broadwell's relationship with david petraeus give her access to these classified documents? "outfront" tonight, cnn national security contributor, fran townsend. she's also a member of the cia external add voizry committee and knowed a lot about what it means to have top clearance. the name of the fbi agent, frederick humphries, who was by t

carolina representative jeff duncan wrote a letter to the president opposing rice's potential nomination and joins usrg right now. congressman, does senator mccain's stance change your stance, the fact that he will listen when it comes to her telling her side of the story? >> no. i think susan rice is tainted. she rolled out on five sunday talk shows with a message of the administration that this was a response to a violent -- violent response to a video and nothing was further from the truth. we know it was an act of terror. >> brian: we also know some other congressmen, many supported you in saying she should not be nominated. >> they are. we have about 100 signatures on the letter we sent to president obama saying there are other choices out there and susan rice is probably not the best choice. >> brian: i also saw that peter king was asked the same question on "meet the press." he says just because she looked at the unclassified documents and if they were coming from the white house, it's incumbent on her to go beyond those talking points and do her own research before going on five talk shows. d

nominated. >> you put more blame on the president or miss rice? >> the president is ultimately responsible. >> cnn's dan lothian first reported this morning's meeting with rice and mccain. he joins us now from the white house. dan, rice has not been nominated, not yet. how important are these meetings today? >> it's very important. republicans have been very concerned about the narrative that she put out there shortly after those benghazi attacks. they have a lot of questions and don't feel that this white house and this administration has been very transparent in the process. they have been very critical of her. as you heard the senator pount out there, it was ambassador rice who asked for these meetings. she will be accompanied by acting cia director mike morel. what's interesting is that we've seen some of the harshest criticism has been sort of toned down as we heard there from senator john mccain. from threatening to block her nomination as possible secretary of state to a willingness to hear her out, senator john mccain seems to be dialing back his public opposition to ambassador susan rice. >> i think she deserves the ability and the opportunity to discipline herself and her

us don't feel that we are thrown to the wolves. and also not intimidated for volunteering or nominate themselves. the process of mentoring mic event that situation from happening. >> chair: may interpret that as a from the amendment? >> yes that is a friendly amendment. >> chair: don't let me put words in your mouth. basically we are saying co-chairs conservative maximum of two consecutive terms provided they have completed a six-month term leading a council committee. >> what i want to see is to encourage people- because right now, it seems like we have gone time without a councilmember chairing a subcommittee. to ensure that those roles are filled, people get confident taking steps getting to the top rather than starting at the top. i want a system where we are collecting on a regular basis committee chairs and members. so i'm not sure how i want to amend this. or this should be a separate motion completely. i am trying to address their concerns by saying that there are things we can do to prevent that from happening. i don't think i want to amend the motion as it stands. i want to see the moti