to say the charter is not perfect and the people did not vote in a provision that was perfect is noty compelling to me. i want to know why we should take a restrictive view of public official that would absolves him or immunize him from being suspended from official misconduct prior to his swearing in. >> there is a very simple answer, the primacy of the will of the electorate. there is a provision in place, called the recall that can be used to remove a public official that the voters want to get rid of. that is a democratic way to do it. admittedly it can take time, because you have to wait six months until after the official is sworn in to start gathering officials. it can take close to a year to remove the public official, but that is the democratic way to do it. this is far too susceptible to politics. to g>> the voters knew all thatn theory. they understood there was a recall option available and said we need this. it is not a week or the supervisor or the state said you need to do something different and override the recall provision, why does this not harmonize with the voter

something you do not think you are or you are not. my wife and i and my kids used to watch some of the stuff on tv during my race and they would just laugh. they would look at the tv and laugh. i would say to them, i know you think it's funny - [laughter] very lot of people who do not know me from adam and probably believe it. >> that does mean to get to spend more time with your kids. >> the most interesting thing to me about the issue that sasha raises -- i found this out a different way. one of the things i did after the election, a democrat who is a friend of mine sent me karl rove's book. it's actually pretty breezy read. if you want to learn a lot about an interesting guy, it's worth it. when he was a teenager, one of the things he figured out there really sort of frame his whole life thinking about politics for the rest of his life was that there are a lot of people who are registered to vote who do not show up. if you just get your team to show up, you can win a lot of elections. i think this whole notion of behavior modificat

>> not really. if you're going to do a permit, dpw for for her you push it back. -- prefer you move it back. i would not be too concerned. good >> we can hear from the appellant. >> thank you from hearing from me today -- for hearing from me today. i have a few questions regarding everything that was brought up. no. the reviews already supposed to happen? i thought we did worth the reviews already supposed to happen? -- weren't the reviews already supposed to have been? according to the appropriateness, i am also questioning the legality of it. it has actually been a legal -- illegal, and the door handle is currently 5 feet tall, 5 feet high, so it is not a wheelchair accessible, and that would have to be changed. the gate is requested to be open from 8:00 until 5:00 p.m., but for the last three months i have been keeping records of when it has been closed, and i have just put a piece of paper on the light box so you can see all of the notices. i have sent an e-mail each time it has been a close, so

if not, why not? >> advice from mike russell. >> i said relax. just be one of yourselves. >> mitt romney has become the 2012 elections man of constant sorrow. ever since "mother jones" published a video in which he appears to write off half the country last may well talking to donors in florida. scott brown and republican george allen. >> you said nearly half the country see themselves as victims? >> no. i love very positively -- >> you disagree with governor romney? >> i have my own point of view. >> my guess would be george allen wished he did not have to answer questions like that. >> i think he did not answer questions like that. the reason that statement was so bad is because it was mitt romney is point of view. he sees nearly half the country as moochers who want a handout from government. he does not understand why they don't just borrow from their parents or take money from their trust funds. he does not agree that the poor and the sick should add slightly to the taxes of millionaires and billionaires so they can squander money on dialysi

how many say i do not now? -- not know? bits and pieces but my whole thing is, there is this issue about pre-existing conditions. when i lost my job, i was able to pay into -- our company had less than 50 employees. for three months, i was allowed to pay the cover price and health insurance privacy protection act allows you to go out and look for your own insurance and pay for it yourself but because i had a pre-existing condition, the policy that i was going to go into had a $3,000 deductible and it was $600 a month. because hippa allows you to have this pre-existing condition and get insurance, it did not see anything about having to pay $10,000. it is a gamble. i am trying to figure out if this new particular -- how that is going to affect people who do have pre-existing conditions, is there going to be a price difference? the internet says it is not. it will be a flat line price. i would like to see it in action. >> here is what fascinates me. you have done great, a marvelous job tonight. i think you so much but here is

it is not too late. true tax reform has the effect of lowering tax rates for everybody, but all these special interest groups, precious loopholes and deductions -- i am on the general public's side, i am against the interest groups in washington. if he proposes that, that is a true thing and that could work in the end. >> not to rob the obama people of credit for their advertising campaign, but let me remind you, these wounds have been self- inflicted. you want to get $10,000, rick perry? ann drives a couple of cadillacs. we're building a car elevator in our home. i like to fire people these were all voluntarily offered by mitt romney. >> and he has taken responsibility for that. >> the reason he does not lay out what you say is, among other things, there are studies that disputed, and people will say, you are going to take away mortgage tax deductions? suddenly everybody is up in arms. >> not necessarily true. you can say th anybody over a certain amount can only deduct up to 2% of income -- >> now you

but it did not sustain the charges. certainly not as written by the mayor. and i think this document should reflect that the commission did not sustain any of the six counts and, in fact, only found that two of the counts, 4 and 5, there were elements of those counts, parts of those counts that a majority of the commission agreed with, but certainly not all of those counts. >> let me start with that particular point and we'll address each of those in turn. on your last point you are complaining then about the statement on page 6, line 1 through 4. is that right? >> yes. did not say that the board should sustain the charges of official misconduct against sheriff ross 6ç0 on the seriousness of the incident that occurred december 31st, 2011, and the subsequent conviction as reflected in counts 4 and 5 of the amended charges of oehl misconduct. that is the part you are complaining about, right? >> yes, and specifically the first five words . >> well, on page 16 11 of the transcript, there is a motion that says, "is there a motion to sustain the charges as to the

that is what i am not seeing. >>guest: they do not believe in that. they believe in we electing obama they do not believe in journalism or reporting news. they believe in advertising. the problem is the advertising is what goes on in between the commercials. that's the problem we have. we have, when president obama sits down for a so-called news interview, it is "60 minutes," and they do not talk about what is going on in the news. >>neil: but when the romneys appeared on a show last week, it was taped the same day i interviewed ann romney, no distinction is made two that or the fact that any of their answers are useful for fodder how silly they founded but not so with the president. maybe that is because the president is cool, his wife is cool and beautiful. any observer would find that wrong, left or right. look, do not be lopsided, have at it with both. >>guest: we expect presidential candidates to do the lighter shows. what is amazing, they are not expecting obama to do a testify show. they do not expect obama to do a press conference right now. >

it is not about hating barack obama. it is not about not being sensitive to what he is up against. we get all that. it is about making demands, pushing him and holding of accountability for the best interests of black americans and all of them. host: tavis smiley, we uncovered your all-day seminars to of held around the country. when is the next one? guest: january 17 here in washington. it asto sta c-span will cover they have every year. we're still working out the details. we're looking for an all-star panel of americans. i think what we have to talk about is how we get the next president to call a white house conference on the eradication of poverty? bring in the poverty experts from the left and right so we can create a bipartisan plan to cut poverty in half in 10 years. it can be done. eradicated in 25 years. it can be done. we have to figure out the way. democrats reminded us every day of the fact that the president signed lilly ledbetter 12 was inaugurated. it was a beautiful thing to do we are asking the next president to make his first official act to be calling the white

i do not. look beyond the current administration but but to e eliminate a sum of bin laden when loathsome let the this stage president decided to kill osama bin laden. 24 hours later it condemned the u.s. for killing one of the greatest leaders. do know which? the leader of the hamas organization in gaza to say i condemn the u.s. but on the other end by sending the troops to keogh osama bin laden they've pressure israel to sit down and negotiate. but with whom? the same people who incite against the jews everyday? that is why if we have to get to a point* we cannot allow the palestinian state but to get from my hotel to hear cost israel from east to west it is not something we can allow. with the border with canada, mexico with the enemy state or entity the prime minister assure around decided to pullout from gaza. i was against it. and was very close to the prime minister. he was the godfather of my first son. i said you know, how much i love you and how much supported due to become prime mini

not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. >> as we say endlessly, mitt romney seems to be uncomfortable talking about himself in public. he will talk numbers all day long. talk about the salt lake city olympics, but he has a hard time getting people to look at the man inside the biography. in any other profession, that would be an attractive trait, but with modern politics, it is deemed a failure. what did ann romney tell you about her husband that you did not already know? >> we know all of this. they have told us all of this. the question is -- do you believe it? >> but what mark was saying -- very nice guy, kind guy, but did not hear any anecdotes. he said give me an example. >> some of the people from the church who testified about how he had helped them. that is the kind of thing you need, i guess, more of. >> but we did not see that in the 10:00 hour. >> no, we did not see that in the 10:00 hour. >> he is a private guy running for a public position. he does not want to tal

but i am not naive. by saying remember what israel said when the people were demonstrating in tahrir square saying we have to support mubarak. because there is a problem here that the majority of the people are not going to be happy with israel policy w the palestinians and the israeli government. they know that. so if you want to deal with democracies in the middle east, you better reassess israel policy towards the palestinians. and this has to be solved. i'm not saying it's the cause, i'm saying it's the critical discussion that we have in the middle east and what is happening in syria, what is happening in many countries around has to do with the palestinian. so my point is to say that israel -- and i said it many times, and it is one of the causes why, in fact, i was banned from this country by saying the united states of america should stop to support unilaterally israel because with israel is not -- because israel is not doing a good service to freedom, dignity and respect of people in the region.

>> it does not mean they should not have tried. >> you do not have the government of the united states trying to appease a mob. >> we've got to take a break. >> of the mob was on it's way. [laughter] >> that's of the last word. >> what we will bring their killers to justice. >> the administration is sending mixed signals to those who attacked our embassy in egypt and those in the world. >> "the wall street journal" says the u.s. is perceived as a declining power. as the perception spreads, the world's bad actors are asserting themselves to fill a vacuum unless the trend is reversed. those moms in the middle east and a declining power. do you agree? >> they were responding to what they saw as an insult to the prophet mohammad. perhaps this happened in libya, on doingve were bent exactly what they did. there is some evidence that it was planned. we have to get all the facts right. this has been really confusing. we did not know if the ambassador was actually killed. then you hear that they actually got in the consulate. this is what happens. do not just shoot from the hip because you fee

and not to say, i am not working with you anymore because you let me down. that is really important as well, not to be rigid. collaborations are very important as well. if we are talking about bringing everybody to the table to develop solutions, youth should have the same importance as the district supervisor, as the police enforcement officer, as the executive director. through that, we build a real communities. i have respect for our brother over here and respect for my sister over there. you develop that accountability and integrity billet -- and integrity amongst one another. we are able to express ourselves and develop real solutions, especially in the time where the budgets are cut left and right. the only thing we have left is our human relationships. honestly, we know health and human services are the first things to get slashed. by developing those relationships with each other, i think we will go a long way. partnerships with local business, i know that that is really important. instead of shutting their kids or monitoring them as the balkan, why

if i had not for giving you, i would not be here today. i have to forgive you, but i want to know why. why do i want to know why? i want to get you killed, too. kurds people -- hurt people hurt people. apparently, you are hurting. you had to be hurting that night to shoot my son in the face. you knew him, you ate at my house, you spend time together. i want to know why you killed my son. i want to know why. i want to know why the community did not step up. everybody was present. i want to know why came to say who did it. i want answers. like all the 300 mothers that we represent in the healing circle, they ask the same question. i want to know why along with the over 30,000 unsolved homicides since the 1990's. over 30,000. over 30,000 unsolved. that is over 30,000 families that i represent. i want to know why. we are the healing circle and we believe in healing people. we go inside of san quentin, we go inside of the county jail, the juvenile justice system. all entities -- the whole family is incarcerated. we want to kill the whole family

that we could not exist. it was not going to have been. he understood 1/2 to have a huge and it could not be the slave country. i know you have your revisionist. i don't have time to pick that out of everything. wink and preserved the union. frederick douglass. i also have a picture of him since i was on the court. two decades ago. what courage it took for him as a freed slave to cite to the declaration of independence but the founding document he cited as exhibit a. he did not have to go to any of their ideology. how could you be inherently equal and have slaves? he answers to that. we fought a great war and he says it is up to us. we are the living. we have the opportunity to make it work. i hear that you disagree with someone that is not the case. i don't take masons motives were bad. you could say he was it the dow were banned always upset but he contributed. washington and did not want to go. maybe he wanted to make money. but he contributed. we should look at this more not like warring factions but people who was engaged but as linco

>> not us. >> rose: not us meaning what? >> meaning not us who are benefiting from the situation. you said who is benefiting from the situation. >> rose: i was just trying to make the point there were a lot of groups that are there and come in. everybody recognizes they've come in and it's a concern for many people. and you just expressed the same concern, did you not? >> yes, i did. >> rose: so i mean, do you believe that assad would stay in power and would fight a long drawn out civil war if it did not have the support of russia? >> look, first before answering this question, i really want, i sincerely want to understand what do you mean by support from russia. >> rose: you tell me. >> that we say we're not going to endorse a security council resolution, which is demanding a unilateral capitulation of the regime? yes. we cannot let this resolution pass because this is absolutely unrealistic, and this would only invite outsi intervention. >> rose: when is it when a regime is so committing war crimes and so morally offensive to any civil society that everything has to be done that

we do not control it. the president does not control it.if israel attacks iran, an oil dries up in the middle east for a while, the price of oil will skyrocket, even though it has nothing to do with obama or mr. romney. the same thing if in greece leaves the common market and leaves the euro zone, and there is a lot of chaos. that will affect the american stock market and investment and american imports, and none of those things are anything obama or romney can control by themselves. they can only work with more governments to figure out how to fix those things, but on both sides of the aisle, you see discussions of the economy that sounds like the old soviet union. romney has his five-year plan. tax breaks for the rich. obama has his. more subsidies and regulation, tax breaks for the middle class, more taxes for the rich, but both of them act as if you can act autonomously in the world, as if this can be done in the absence of an interdependent fiscal policy, and this is a blunt reality. it is not an ideology. it does not serve the democra

not vote. -- the poor do not vote. it is the wealthy and middle- class who vote. the largest party is the party of non-of voters. 52% of americans, 53% depending on the election. most of them do not vote. tavis: if the new poor are gonna former middle class, why not speak in that language? >> republicans are not really talking about last all. -- about class at all. democrats tend to talk about a middle class that continues to grow larger and larger so the poor can move into the middle class, and people are caught by not so much safety net so trampolines the allow them to move back into the middle class. we used to have that. we have a middle class that kept growing, and even when you fell out of the middle-class you could get back in it because the economy was doing so well for everyone, not just the rich. tavis: what do those trampolines look like? >> instead of having an unemployment insurance system full of holes, 40% of americans that are unemployed do not even get benefits because they are

it is not here. therefore, it is not official misconduct. that argument does not make any sense.t think anyone would argue that the charter meant to allow an official to do anything on the job, no matter how wrongful, that if it was not spelled out as a particular duty and a statute that you could not violate, that it would not work give rise to official misconduct. that does not make any sense. the california supreme court said in the cranston case dealing with the police officer who engaged in reckless driving while off-duty, it up held the determinate -- it up held the termination of that officer. it said, the public has the right to expect police officers to obey the law, whether on duty or off duty. when police officers violated law that they were hired to enforce, they do so at their own peril. that relationship existed there, and it is the same relationship here. this test is fully satisfied. it is conceivable that there are situations where it could be terrible conduct and it could be a much harder question. but this is not one of them. >> let me ask about cranston. crans

not a big deal? >>guest: i would do something like the grand bargain that the two parties almost do and i hope they can revisit that and do it in 2013. to do that, you have to have revenues and you have to have a last spending cuts, and you have to address entitlements and discretionary, and a bunch of things. >>neil: but they abandoned the debt commission. >>guest: not true. not true. >>neil: and republicans are no better. >>guest: i believe, in reality, the republicans were far worse. it did not do everything --. >>neil: but it was the president's commission. >>guest: it was his commission, the republicans voted in the house of representatives unanimously against it preventing it from being able to certify --. >>neil: but don't you think if the president was pushing it saying we will jump off the cliff at the same time, it could be different? >>guest: i don't think so. the president said, the president embraced $3 in cuts and $1 in revenue and the amount coming out of the simpson-bowles and it felt

they did not show up with rocket launchers, r p g and what not. that was not an accident.hat was preplanned. christine lost his life, an american citizen who came onto our soil. we need to have protection for those people who are risking their lives to represent those foreign countries. sorry, obama, but you are dropping the ball. you have got to get better than that. host: on the presidential campaign trail, here is a picture of paul ryan and mitt romney on their campaign bus. this is from dayton, ohio. "tripping in ohio, run the stars two day bus tour." one of these was published in the post. "obama and florida are giving obama an edge." host: deeper into this story, they write -- host: albuquerque, new mexico. democratic line. dale. caller: could not disagree with your last caller more. in libya there are people all the time that have are pg's, they have everything. right now, as far as foreign policy overseas with our military and marines, those of us in america does need to hang out and let the professionals do their jobs. i am sticking with barack obama as president

you are not alone. america does not read. they do not. if you look at the numbers, the latest numbers or even look at the report on stateofthemedia.org, you will see that well over 60% of americans will cite television as their primary source of news. also, more and more americans are spending more time in transit, so they are either in their cars or on public transportation, so they are listening. the role of radio cannot be discounted either. but again, there have been many ways to try to attract young readers. more recently, have you seen the vice guides to everything? it is a cross between ntt -- mtv's "jackass" and "60 minutes," targeted at an 18 to 25 demographic, which a lot of people in this industry are trying to reach. there are a lot of things out there in terms of investigative journalism that are trying to target younger people that are very creative, but just going back to your point about not reading or getting your news online, people are very lazy, you know? a lot of us do not even want to read, do not have time to read.

not bad news but you have ripley's believe it or not to the west. if your family, you will want not want a bunch of osbournpeope smoking at the end of this sidewalk. it is a hard one. i was trying to brainstorm to see how we could make it work and one of the things we talked about is having their staffing, which talked-about having science. encouraging people to go across the street if they are smoking in large numbers. they have agreed to that. i do not know of that -- if that is conditionable. we are -- to promote that with customers. that we do not have a big smoke cloud. >> it is a big parking lot. so that is perfect. >> is not enforceable but the smoking code says you have to go to the end of the curb. there is no way we can force them to do otherwise. sometimes being a good neighbor and encouraging patrons, there will be compliant. other than that, we're happy with the move. >> any questions for officer mathias? let's hear from the public. are there people from the public who would like to address this permit?

i'm not ross' lawyer. i was never ross' lawyer, but we would not have been convicted in a jury trial and instead, to try and save the shame of so much of really what his wife believed was a confidential video so i am saying that we have a decision to make as a society, if you want ># revenge it's never going to be pretty and nothing is going to get better. allowed somebody to continue to do the good work that they do, because by all accounts, you saw it. he has worked his whole life as a matter of service to this city. and so if you believe that this act of a low -level misdemeanors warrants a person losing their job, then people are going to lose their jobs. how does that make people any better? i know have i prattled on and not really said what i wanted to say. but i hate where we are ten months later and i hate it. >> i think we understand your sentiment. >> here is the bottom line. >> well, you have passed your time. there will be another public comment, perhaps you would like to make another one at th

i am not getting any of it back as a matter of fact. >> we are not getting it back. >> can you not blameitt romney for this when the entire democratic party rallied around sandra who was basically the emblem of entitlement. >> she had loose morals. you know who else had loose morals was the guy that held the fund razer. he is a philadelphia 76 owner who performs lewd sex acts at a rented villa every week. what kind of a christian would take money from such a he then. >> can we elaborate? he had an event at his house that mitt romney had no idea. there was a russian dancer who was topless on the pool. >> oh my god! >> that is a sex party. >> he is a libertine and he dampens the republican party and their family parties. >> this is a great democracy. the fact of what he is saying is he is using the argument of the right against the right. the right doesn't do that. >> i don't care. >> did you see keith olberman he could not rec cooing nieces that. recognize that. he was laughing, but no one said, what exactly what this sexy vent. he said there was a sexy vent -- sex event, ha, ha, ha. >> b

guest: i do not think so. i do not believe that any u.s.ax dollars are at least, intentionally, going to fund any affiliate of al qaeda or terrorists who wish to do us harm. you cannot say that no dollar through some of roundabout way does not get into the wrong hands, of course, but i do not think that is true. host: holyoke, massachusetts. gabrielle. ok, we have to move on. tony. new orleans. democratic caller. caller: i would like to first thank the congressmember for his service. i am a veteran myself. i was one of the first to deploy to afghanistan during the 2001. my question is specifically this. you said you disagreed with some of the things that president obama has done on the terrorist side. i wanted you to expand on that. he has had some tremendous successes in his four years, with the killing of osama bin laden, taking down other large al qaeda leaders. i wanted to know what, specifically, you disagreed with that he did on his watch? guest: thank you for your service. again, generally, i think there is the things that president

what does not work for him is time. he does not hold up over time. bain capital will be back in frt of us. his income tax returns will be back ifront of us. the question i is -- what is this inividual l really about at his court? how did he make his money? what does he do with this money? alall of these questions are still germane. >> no questionon a about that, b but he says he will put america back to work. how will he do that? >> he does not say tt -- well, he does say that. he says if we remove thehe restrictions from business and lower taxes, this will unleash prosperity and that wiwill filter down. all votes will -- all boats willl rise together onon this rising tide. democrats will say we have tried that but it does not work. one point about his personality -- what he lacks is a compelling story. john mccain had a compelling story. barack obama has a compelling story. mitt romney's story is of growing up in white privilege you know, going to prep school where he cut off another kid's hair, starting a business thatt became a successful business

no, not fair, not right.e to say to give rom no a pass, just pass same scrutiny to both. 14% of taxes he gives a lot to charity, is there any harm to study the guy -- gives a lot less to charity. i mean does it strike you as odd same media, that mitt romney, does not say a thing about president sandwiching in an appearance now on the view, same media is a they'd the tame venues are silly but goes after romney for nixing an appearance on snl, you can't have both way, treat both candidates the same, if romney sounds clueless, we're reportedly writing off half of voters in country. is not president doing the same scrutiny. did we not elect him to gittin side, is he saying his opponent is clueless because he is on the ououtside. romney is a dolit for attacking our middle east policy but not the president for not knowing the policy. we can't make it up. you better make sure you are ripping both or you prove you had no standard, actually you prove you have one standard electing the guy you like, not the guy you don

is not the panacea, it is not. no matter how many children get vouchers that's not 100% of the children. you will still have public schools that are there to service the majority of children and every child, every child deserves to have a quality education here in this country. frankly as long as we tie our funding of schools to the property values in neighborhoods we will always have a cast system as it relates to how we educate our children in this country. and beyond that, in terms of the specific statistics were around standardized testing the real information that we really need to have people think about is what sort of children do we want to produce. do we want to have children that just can memorize facts, which is important, i'm not saying that it's not important. but a generation of critical thinkers, do we want to create the children that are going to develop the next ipad, for example. we need to figure out a way in which we encourage creative thinking, ways to encourage children to be able to think out

i'm not on the rules committee. i was not even at that meeting. one incumbent made it to the full board, bruce wolfe, and six supervisors, not one, six voted to appoint someone in his stead. while i'm flattered that some members of the public appear to believe that i have the power to act or to in any way pressure the board of supervisors to do anything i do not have that power. just to be very clear about the issues of the sunshine -- the previous sunshine ordinance task force composition, some of my colleagues have mentioned the brazen violation of the city charter when that task force decided to exempt itself from the charter's quorum requirement. you have to have a majority of all members vote for something to pass it, not just those present. this board has to act with six supervisors, his even if we have only six members present. the sunshine ordinance task force, because of attendance issues, exempted itself from that charter requirement. the task force, according to the reports prepared by the board's legislative and budget analyst determin

if not, why would we even discuss it? is it to make weight because the rest of the allegations are not sufficient? in my view whether or not the share of made a truthful or untruthful statement regarding the guns really does not have more -- does that have relevance. the point is to get it out of the hands of the person who is accused and into law enforcement hands. that is the point. that is what was done here. wwhether it went to the sherif's department and then the police department ismdo really immater. who knows why the lawyer objected to the transfer. i do not. >> staying to the facts a little bit, i have been troubled by the question as to whether or not in determining whether or not the mayor acted reasonably in exercising his discretion he could take into account the events or acts that occurred between the time of december 31 and march 19 date when he acted. one of the troubling things is miss lopez's assertion of the attorney/client privilege. based on her testimony, it was absolutely clear to me and clear to t

if we do not help out.ank you for everything you have done. i know you're tired and it has been a long day. god bless all of you. fáchairman nolan: next speaker. >> i would like to speak about a couple of things i have forgot about during my last times talking. since you people have taken over the cab industry, it has gotten worse and worse and worse. i am making $100 less a night than they used to make three or four years ago. that is because of the situation's going on. everybody is paying everybody off. i do not care about the company. brokers who are charging immense amounts of money to lease out medallions and nothing is done. you do not care. you could care less. also with the limos and the town cars and the pink cards, those people are ruining our business. taking all the rides and in front of the police. i was sitting on broadway and a limousine pulled up and ask somebody if it wanted a ride. it would not get in my cab. they got in the goddamn town car. that does not matter. you have done nothing ab

that is not courage and that is not fair.d to a single notion. the two men seeking to lead this country over the next four years have fundamentally different divisions and have completely different value sets. governor romney believes that the global economy and it doesn't matter much where american companies invest or where they create jobs. as a matter of fact, in his budget proposal and his tax proposal, he cause for a new territorial tax. the experts have looked at it and they acknowledge it will create 800,000 new jobs, all of them overseas. all of them. and what i found fascinating, the most fascinating thing i found last week was when governor romney said that as president, he would take a job is to work. it is going to have to be a foreign trip. [laughter] [applause] it will. president obama knows that creating jobs in america, keeping jobs in america, bringing jobs back to america is what his job is all about. that is what presidents do, or at least supposed to do. the governor believes it's ok to raise taxes by $2,0

i have not met with him and i don't know whether he is or he is not.ting. that's what he says now. what did he say before? let let's take a look. this was during the primary season in january. mitt romney, i'm so proud to earn kris's support. chris has become a true leader of securing our boards and stopping the flow of illegal immigration into this country. we need more conservative leaders like kri willing to stand up for the rule of law. you look at this. forget the immigration issue the birther issue any issue. whatwhat a liar is this guy. i love kris, i love kris, and then i never heard of kris. this guy is almost like a serial liar, an adulter who has told so many lies he can't keep up. i was in atlantic city, i was with bob or steve and we were watching football or basketball, one of those things. i just can't remember. whatever you need me to say, i'll want to say it. you're going to vote for this guy? come on. i'm not done yet. when the campaign was asked about it, this looks ridiculous. they had another answer. they'll have to backpedal becau

i mean, it's not as black and white. >> it's not likely you have an x-ray that shows you whether or not you have a major depression, but we do have well set out diagnostic criteria for these conditions and people either meet them or they don't. it's not just that these are set by the american psychiatrists. these diagnostics are criteria around the world. we do have diagnostic criteria and people either do or do not have certain real problems. >> one of the strong characters in your narrative here is molly small, and molly small says "i don't think there's anything wrong with something something on flights, if you have a plane for me, there's no reason for me to sit there and freak out the whole time when you could take a clonapin and pass out and not deal with it, because what are you going to do about it anyway? all this face your fear baloney, that's so very '80's, and i don't really believe in it, so this is more than recreational uses. this is to relieve, in this illustration, she is relieving fear of flying. >> ariel is talking about both things in her article.>> she is talking ab

people of california are not served well when we do not have a robust media. the fact is that oftentimes, you have reporters who are not as experienced, may not have as many sources, and as a result, they end up being rather superficial in some of their ridings, and that is not a good thing. it is extremely important to have a robust media to hold all of us accountable. part of the solution is what you hear here, which is a catalyst of individuals in new media, different types of media, and i think that is extremely important. i would say, however, that one of the things that is extremely important is that all of these alternative media outlets begin to establish a code of ethical conduct, a code of professional conduct. because what happens is that if you are simply giving your opinion, and that is not based on a lot of other confirmation of that observation, you are not doing anybody any service whatsoever. i think people tend to look at different news media has really trying to portray the truth. as what is the objective information that is out there. to th

i'm not the only one. i cannot judge people by their intentions. >> rose: so what should the world do? hat shouldhe world do? >> ( translated ): not many countries in the world have a nuclear weapon and there are treaties, many treaties that prevent the owning-- owning w.m.d. and owning nuclear weapons, spreading nuclear weapons and there are treaties special to the middle east and everybody signed it and respect it in the middle east except for israel. >> rose: israel is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty. if iran had a nuclear capacity, the argument goes that a number of other countries in the region-- saudi arabia and others-- would immediately want to acquire nuclear weapons. do you believe this kind of proliferation would be a consequence? f iran gets nuclear weapons? >> ( translated ): i'm with the rights of people to use nuclear power for peaceful matters and i will do my best strongly so that egypt can have the capability to use nuclear power for peaceful means. however, nuclear weapon

they are not. this is a lesbian officer that knows our community and works very well. i have never had a better relationship with asset pd, because of her. >> i promise you that if you make that request, it will be honored. is there anyone here from park in iraq? -- park and irrec bella >> they were invited. -- rec ? what they were invited. >> i went to a neighborhood meeting about hardly strictly bluegrass. the open of the meeting was that she had not get -- not got rid of all the issues in the park, but that she was trying. so. i wanted to put that out there. [applause] >> i just also wanted to say that they have a lot of buildings open to all ages. when i was a kid growing up in new york, and we used to -- there is a statement, saving my ass. [laughter] if there is a question i hope you do not look at it as a challenge. i think it is a feeling. there are quite a few events in the park. it is really about managing them and making sure that your outreach is good. i would like to work together, whe

they are not getting to it. they are not being funded.ongress is not giving them adequate money to go in there and reregulate the market. gerri: let me ask you about this. i think these two things are connected. the new york stock exchange is being fined for giving some of these traders more information ahead of other investors. it raises the question, do that exchanges, the old-fashioned exchanges, don't they -- they are paying for volume. they are desperate for volume. they are losing volume. you said yourself you had 84% of the market. not anymore, my friend. isn't that the problem in a nutshell. >> the ceo of new york said that. he felt that it was an oversight technologically. notice at the very end it said, without admitting nor denying, but they took a $5 million penalty. the reality is, we have to step back, the same way you regulate markets for the benefit of public users and look at, for instance, how you segregate customer funds. another reason that investor is running out of the market today. look at mf global. the cardinal ru

i am not saying there has not been some. we have seen folks like congressman hunter and stephen king being very vocal. but we have not seen the backlash by and large. even though governor romney in the primaries indicated that he would veto the "dream act or did not support it, he has not said one way or another whether he would repeal this deferred action. in many respects, i think we have seen in the broad polling among latino voters and the broader electorate in support of the "dream act," so the deferred action has been seen favorably not just among latinos but among the broad consensus of american voters. host: before we go to phone calls, janna, what about cuban voters, mexican-american voters? -- janet? is there a difference in their voting patterns? guest: as hispanics or latinos, and we use both terms interchangeably, i think it is clear that we are not a monolithic group and that there are differences between the mexican americans, puerto rican, cuban-americans, central americans, and others. but there are, and bou

we have a reality where most people are not abiding by the law and not aware of the law and not paying the tax, so we need to do something about that. for me, this was the first time i ever knew that. so i know buildings were violating the law. i don't think they were trying to. there is a larger issue that we also touched on about the larger buildings. i'm not saying you want to touch that in this legislation but, you know, one of the things i suggested is looking at maybe zip codes. maybe the immediate and adjacent zip code because that would prevent people from coming from other part s of the city. particularly if you open up the five spaces or more. i think there is a real issue around -- you know, if you want to unbundle parking. i have gone to in the past open house where is they want you to pay x amount because parking is included and don't want you to pay less. if you are able to rent spaces that prevents landlords from trying to pressure people into paying higher rents for spaces they don't need but i think we need to look how we create compliance on a larger scale. when peopl

i am not saying that it might not be, i am just not sure that i am in a position to say that that happenedreas no. 4 i can. >> i don't think in light of what has been provided, it cannot be essential. >> not to say that it doesn't exist or is very real. it can be more useful for us to apply on what we know. in to the extent that it happened within the context, that is beyond my ability. >> perhaps it is also count five instead of count one? count five captures the discussion we had about conduct that falls below the standard of decency required. >> except for the reference to paragraph 19-31. >> correct. >> are we saying that account for is the basis for the five? the wrongful behavior consisting of the crime and the facts related adjust to that are what we determined falls below the standard? >> yes, thank you. >> this discussiona2d has suggd that something in writing is going to be helpful. is there something else? a big the question is what form that should take. i think something as simple as here are the facts that we found, the counts of official misconduct, here is the law will app

is he faring well or not. >> he's not. republicans need four pick-offs, democratic pick-offs to get that to magical 51 number to get control of the senate. they had a long list that they were confident they were going to pick up. a lot of those are turning blue, nebraska is not one of them. bob kerry was the best they could get in nebraska to try to replace the retiring ben nelson. but he's double digits behind. that's a deep red state. i think that one still republican in washington and throughout the country they're still confident they have that one. >> eliot: perhaps one of the few island of genuine comfort. that's too bad. bob kerry at one point intensely popular nebraska kid veteran of vietnam who lost a leg in the war, a navy seal am i correct he was a seal? >> um, i don't remember. >> eliot: heroism. then came to new york and was saint bid it that new york stuff and nebraska does not embrace him the same way that they used to. that's sad on a personal level because he was a hero and a great senator at one point. >>

not overnight.- couple that with a responsible government and do energy exploration and energy development within this country, you start to have this combination where you get confidence, growth, revenue. i think that is the combination that the country is looking for. >> speaking of energy, i -- you mentioned energy a number of times. i want to talk about the romney plan and one aspect of it that is striking. that is giving leasing controls for possible fuel crel development on the federal lands within their borders. is that something you think republicans in the house will be comfortable? republicans in the senate? or the representative from california, would that give you concern? >> i don't have the answer necessarily for that, but the way i would look at it and think about it, in my district we do not produce fossil fuels, but we are rich in other things. i think in california, and we have been friends a long, long time, transmission. recite these new green -- you know -- all sorts of views. w

if not, then not. and the district descriptions, even if it's not the formal meets and bounds, even if it's just the document that -- this document. >> yes. >> and the statistic and whatever statistic, we agree. i think all of those things are appropriate for appendsies, not the body of the report but should be referenced in the body of the report. that's at least one, two, three, four, possibly five appendsies. >> thank you. >> can i make an additional comment. >> you may. >> in terms of the recognized neighborhoods which we have as part four, i think that goes wherever we decide to put the map statistics is where the preservation of the deviating from 1% to 5% should also reside. if part five is actually final map statistics, recognized neighborhoods preserved, then that should be that section as opposed to. >> so i guess the point of distinction, his description is different than preserved? >> right. >> his description is what -- >> i think it's similar to what member pilpel is saying, the final sec

i will not go into details. i prepared remarks but i feel like they're a lot of people who want to speak. i ask that you oppose this. i believe that this is, she raises great points but i believe fully that we need to get our park back on track. again, i have been a neighbor, but i have been engaged from the beginning of the bond process from soliciting people to support the clean and safe bond. i will speak to the fact that i have worked closely both with mary hopson and with lizzie hersch. they have taken into account every aspect, they have tried to work toward a resolution that would allow everybody in the neighborhood to enjoy this finished product. my personal opinion, which i can give here, is i never saw ms. gallagher at any meeting. i find that this objection at this time is a tactic and in fact is delaying a process that should be completed within a year's time. any time that it takes beyond what the planned scope of the renovation was firstly needs to -- it needs to complete within a timely manner and