this is not an affordable [speaker not understood] measure. [speaker not understood] raising muni fares, making muni crowd and had less reliable, increasing congestion, making our streets less safe and hurting small businesses. as sfmta's own analysis shows. we urge you to uphold this exemption and let muni use the money to provide more and better service to more people. it is the right thing to do for the city. the environment [speaker not understood] right thing under the law. this is precisely what c-e-q-a was designed for. on the last note, i've spoken to my attorney and we specifically spoke about the free muni for youth issue. some [speaker not understood] support that. there are many other ways to provide affordable transportation and he described to me many other exemptions they could have been using, including negative declaration. so, we do not think that this issue would apply to those actions. thank you. >> colleagues, any questions to the appellants? all right. at this time why don't we hear from members of the public that support

not been addressed. i think you all realize there is a huge remaining deficit in long-term funding for muni, which has not been addressed just because 2015 happens to be a good budget year, you know. and substituting funds that are available this year does not solve a long-term issue. because of these long-term issues, i'll ask that you support the appeal. and i know that you're doing everything you can to support transit funding. i think that's something that needs to continue, but particularly in this year that we have moved away from the vehicle license fee. there are significant long-term impacts of removing this $12 million budget a year [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. cynthia cruz here with the league of pissed off voters. it was an april fools joke of a vote that the sfmta rolled back sunday meters. they prematurely voted to repeal sunday meters by the future bond money and not invoke the november 2014 ballot measure funds. it is re

you shall not work, you shall not eat.uld require work and encourage people to work for food stamps. thank you for taking my call. we are overrun with illegal mexicans and illegal russians. like the guy before me, the way very shiftyhey are when it comes to the law. english, andeak no like i said, they have a food stamp card. they work our jobs and do not get paid with a check. they get paid cash. on top of getting paid cash, -- i know this because a company hires all of these people and they keep out illegal -- illegal people and then they have americans and they're doing the jobs. , and i knowmigrants this because i was there and have seen this with my own eyes. host: what is the impact on your local economy? people work our jobs and kick the american people out because they work for low wages. get loans and start businesses, they get loans to buy land and build houses here and they talk about it. there are immigrants that .ome to this country legally to become a legal immigrant, you do not have to speaking bush. guest:

only not be depressed or [speaker not understood]. ucsf is conducting 12 senior choirs throughout the city in the next five years and this is to prove how helpful these choirs are for seniors. so, please, continue to support the arts. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, my name is david kim. i am a musician in the san francisco symphony. music has played an incredible, incredibly vital role in my life growing up since the age of 5, and i really, really strongly ask -- ask you to maintain and even increase funding for grants for the arts. we live -- we have such a really, a great diverse and rich community of musicians and artists that live in the city. i think we should maintain the quality and standards that we've spent a lot of years building. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning. i'm ron goldman. i'm the director of education with the san francisco symphony, and first of allied like to thank the board of supervisors for your support and interest in the arts

we have not. [speaking spanish] there is not much more to add than the men and women who went before me. 15 has the votes to pass. and we think we can get it done. >> how much and to what extent do you think the issue of s?accompanied minors has, ♪ >> very little effect. they have had for excuse after excuse. then the president would not enforce the law. this did not have any effect at all. as for any proposed center in new york, i would have to look at the details. >> if they cannot get immigration to the house and the president does something by a second order, doesn't that correlate with what owner said that this is another abuse of power? >> boehner has an antidote to what he fears -- put a know on the floor. it is like shooting his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. pass the bill and will happen. we have made it clear to republicans publicly and privately, if they do not bring a bill to the floor, the president has no choice on a humanitarian basis and o

not understood]. and also a lot of progress on social media and being more successful engaging our citizens, but also learning how we can use social media to be more ready in case of disaster. we also presented a fixed it fundamental program and quantified it so we're making progress in addressing the critical components. so, the total program requested for [speaker not understood]. you will see that on the, on the following slide we've prioritized dramatically to the absolute vital component network, secured. there are a number of components that are not currently funded, so, i will be asking for your help to see how we can make progress there. for example, with the ccsf connectivity, broadband wi-fi. as a benchmark, i [speaker not understood] how are the others doing? where should we be? and this is 2013 [speaker not understood] and we can also do that for '14, but it's very interesting to me that the secret is -- i'm not saying we should be at 9%. i'm saying the benchmark shows 9%. we are currently

we do not really know.does not look good, maybe, bolita not know what the character will be, and it could move in different directions. finally, if the three of you want to address this i will simply note that we look at 15 states, arab states in the middle east and north africa. if you look at another indicator , the freedom house writings, of the states that chased during this time, almost all of the ones that the chains have gone self and are becoming more of tartarian. the only two that have been proven are one that you call quite aptly virtually in essence not a state at all, libya crores i think calls profoundly into question how freedom must cross of of this country as a democracy and the second which is clearly on the road to democracy. there roger does not lead good. you were right about that, but is it fair to say allegis still early days? who knows how this will play out one of you mentioned that i think there has been more than just robo but of progress. the fact that they could agree on any kin

getting, she is not she is not orgasms, having sex and why does her husband not love her and for him,n amazing time to be a gay man. not an amazing time. not a warm and accepting environment to be gay. reallythe -- people are connecting to it or a lot of feeling for these characters, both sort of repressed for different reasons. if i heard you correctly that sounds to me like a lot of trust that you put in these two women or production team to sign onto something that had not been fully developed. y at this stage in your career. >> i know of masters and johnson and i knew of michelle's writing and i did not have -- i was not worried, i was worried that i would be allowed to with doing "mom" on cbs. they are run by the same mothership. they own everything these days. >> the thing i was most nervous about was the fact they told me up front i would have to do, there would be some nudity, some sex scenes involved and that was a little bit scary but they were -- michelle and sarah were lovely with me and said nothing will be done that you're not comfortable with. i just trusted them. i lov

it is not royalty.t is not inherited wealth that is propelling the number of people getting rich. >> two responses. the share of inherited wealth is rising. you can see trust funds, large pieces of inherited wealth. sometimes you do not see them as much as you should because it is harder to spot inherited wealth. self-made billionaires want to be seen. sometimes they don't. it is harder to spot them in rankings. i can tell you you can see a return of inherited wealth. number two, the following, whether it is inherited wealth, if you have an economy where the top of the wealth distribution, wherever they come from, rice three times faster than the size of the economy, you can see you have a problem. this means the concentration of wealth at the top is rising very fast. this will have to stop somewhere. >> will it create social tension? >> there is a law that says there is a tipping point where the world is going to fall apart. inequality is useful only up to a point. when it gets too extreme, then it is

not understood]. benchmark reporting, the city survey will be conducted this year where we service city residents regarding their perception of city services. we are working to promote different staff programs in various departments that enable real-time use of information to govern and drive department decision making and management. and then a host of other efforts. so, a very quick walk through the controller's office year ahead and i'd be happy to answer any questions from the committee. >> thank you, mr. controller, and for all of your continued work. colleagues, any questions for our controller? mr. rose, can we go to your report, please, your updated report? >> that is correct, mr. chairman, members of the committee. on our revised report, if you look at the last page prior to the detailed cuts which are on the very last page, our recommended reductions of the proposed budget total 250,2 27 in fiscal year 14-15. of that amount in recommended reductions or ongoing saving these reductions would s

not bad but does not roll off of tongue.redskins but i would rename harry reid, thin skinned but that was not the assignment. johnson, what about washington fore skins that would honor him in they are useless and easily disposable. do we really have to go there? how about washington reds, and in honor of washington bafoons how about washington clowns give harry reid a front row seat. and why not rename redskins, washington weanys. maybe. mike, they should be the weasels. and in to have a team that described washington d.c. environment, i suggestion alzheimer's all stars, and call them washington red liners or cover-ups. okay. john e-mails, those in washington d.c. want to change name of redskins they should perhaps change to the fantastic redskins -- phoenix redskins oral about kirky -- albuquerque redskins, i see you are changing the name. yohow about thin skinerss or tae irskins, it would be a good idea to change washington redskins to thugs. how about washington football team, how when the pale faces. then you would offen

not understood] program. oewd is working with sister departments in ocd and planning and dbi to implement the mayor's 7-point housing plan. in workforce we continue to implement our sector aloe ms. unction c, health care, technology, as well as our access points across the city. our workforce program we served more than 4,000 residents and placed more than 1500 in jobs. we continue to implement the mayor's invested mayor's initiative to support [speaker not understood] across the city. that includes our mini gram program which provided $850,000 in grants to [speaker not understood] in 23 different neighborhoods. that includes the japantown task force [speaker not understood] geary as well as the bayview opera house's [speaker not understood] event. this year we launched our a-d-a perm which provides des ~ desperately needed assistance to help them understand a-d-a issues. in 13-14 we completed [speaker not understood] projects for small businesses. with the support of supervisor mar we've launched healthy s.f

this is not just -- this is not about me or barack. things are different now.live in the white house. grandma lives upstairs that god create we have resources that we never could have imagined. the fight is not about us. it is about every mother and father out there who does not have the leverage to make those demands. we are fighting for them. we know how tough it is. we knew -- i understood the advantage that i have. if i were a teacher or buster ever or a shift worker. there is no room for that kind of negotiation. if you are an hourly worker but the needs are even greater because the balance is even more delicate for many working families. folks in an hourly wage. child care is beyond expensive. we had the luxury of looking at nannies. we could not afford to keep the one we had. we were not looking at the cost of childcare, taking a baby and packing him up and putting him in the car seat and dropping them off at a childcare center coming back. just that emotional tug on its own is powerful. it is not lost on either me or barack how tough it is which is why

[speaker not understood] for 15-16. of that amount, 1,0 99,87 2 [speaker not understood]. these reductions to still allow an increase of 2.7 million, 5/10 of a percent [speaker not understood]. the chief does concur with our recommended reductions. >> thank you, supervisor mrrose. supervisor mar? >> i wanted to thank the chief for always giving us a good amount of information, especially on reducing overtime. the capital improvements and your sworn hiring plan and all the data. i just wanted to ask you just so i can quantify a little bit more, how much does it cost for each police academy class which i know we're committed to to help increase the force? do you have any sense of how much each academy class -- >> the training and uniforms and accompanying exact costs to the class, about $890,000. the last salary is class is salary and fringe. it depends what point in the year they're hired and that carries through the rest of the year. >> how long does each of the academy classes run? >> approximately 30 weeks. >> and it's a small proportion that's the equipment and uniforms

it's not a pick and choose. when you go in there, there's not a lot of animals you would ever expect to see in a shelter, types of animal you see there. and they don't turn nina way. so, we need to make sure we have the capacity. ~ turn anyone away the appreciate what the city administrator's office did. i hope at the board level we're going be able to make up the difference between what the mayor is proposing and what the city administer recommended. >> thank you. moving on to the positions, again, i think we went through all the added new positions. and then lastly, just major initiatives, again, thank you, supervisor wiener, [speaker not understood] my main focus has been improving public safety and health. and, so, we have through the budget process been given money for the medical examiner, not only in positions but in equipment to help the turn around times in that office, plus animal care and control in addition to the positions increased positions which we're very appreciative of, we have capital funding

sure their buildings should not be built a 6 story this is not that high i go to france and their buildings are higher. thank you. is there any further public comment >> park their cars over park for bridges and the inclusive it going for a long time those are almost beside the point of what's being discussed we invested a lot and strongly building in the eastern neighborhood it take about a decade and hundreds of public hearings to adopt it was adopted for a reason we had old industrial land that needed new purchasing and it was done and the city agreed to. i'm here to ask you stand for the integrity of the eastern neighborhood plan that project complies that meets the height and it's had concessions made to setbacks and the open space we think this is a good example of urban in fill that should be supported for the reasons that the folks before me have said we have a housing crisis we absolutely do. this is an example of where we build personnelable and it serves no purpose to wait any longer >> thank you is there any further public comment. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and

not. >> thank you. we now go to mr. turner. >>. >> mr. koskinen, you're touted as a man of integrity. i've even heard you say it about yourself on television. i'm going to ask you to use that integrity that help me understand a few things that have become confusing to me. you said you want to restore confidence to the agency. i have no question to question that. i have no basis to think that that isn't your goal. you have to understand that this decision of missing e-mails goes right to the heart of confident and to the issue of your ability to do that with your integrity. let's start first with some general concept of ethics back to your integrity. now, you agree as commissioner, that you can't both be the manager of the agency, the investigator of the agency, judge, jury, prosecutor of matters that are being undertaken under and by the agency? right? there's inherent conflict and bias in those positions you can't fill all of those, correct. >> i'm not sure i understand that question. i'm

why not? >> like the idea of hiring the guy who represented cable companies. >> like you are saying, there are inherent comic text positions throughout that story. so you want to highlight those -- juxtapositions throughout that story. so you want to highlight those. biggest story for you? we have the world cup. the first show, we did the indian election. there was nothing not interesting about the indian election to me. >> because it's the largest democracy in the world? >> the biggest democracy in the history of earth. nothing is never interesting. >> if you can't find something interesting in the largest democracy in the history of the world -- >> then you have your eyes closed. you are in the wrong place. that election was astonishing, and in a country that is riddled with class issues. you have it deeply controversial used to sell tea at a railway station. there was nothing that was not amazing about that election to me, and it was covered so spectacularly over there. that was when you re

and not only [speaker not understood] the homeless [speaker not understood] with water, but to use bleach and pine, very dangerous chemicals in the areas the homeless sleep. the warning label clearly states that the chemicals are not to be used in inhabited areas. [speaker not understood] end up in the hospital with stomach pains. one woman had a miscarriage. and people expect the homeless to get up in the morning after they slept in the sidewalks and looking for work and work. come on. budget community, gas budget, for housing, for homeless, for [speaker not understood] so they can qualify in spite the bylaws, and quality for housing and also for the homeless, of course, and from that community you don't have the paper to qualify for the projects. i also support the 3% increase for the people that work with nonprofits that are funded by the city. i support the breast cancer and i support the committee, support the [speaker not understood] for the people that represent in the city. >> thank you, ma'am. next speaker, please. >>> hello, good morning, supervisors. my name is [speaker not und

not understood] these recommendation still result in ~ [speaker not understood] to the city's general fund in 14-15. we are also recommending a budget and finance committee reserve for the actual cost to release the warehouse space in 14-15. this recommendation is consistent with the recommendation made in the previously approved by the budget and finance committee in june 2013. our recommended reductionses to the proposed budget total $275,084 in 15-16. all of it is ongoing saving. this would allow an increase of [speaker not understood] in the 15-16 budget. these recommendations would result in [speaker not understood] savings to the city's general fund in 15-16. as i understand the department does concur with our recommended reductions shown on pages 70 and 71 of our report. >> okay, thank you very much, mr. rose. mr. arnst, confirm you're in agreement with those? >> yes. >> colleagues, any questions for our budget analyst or at this point for mr. arnst? okay, much appreciated it. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> i'm not sure the assessor-recorder came here so, you can come

that is not about us. it is not. it is about whoever feels the need to say that to make him or, unfortunately, herself, feel better. that is what i would say. thick skin is necessary but it is important not to deflect all criticism because some criticism can be really useful. think about -- criticism is a nice euphemism for a lot of things in this category -- [laughter] is the criticism serious and should be treated seriously but not personally, or is it not about you and it need to be slaughtered off -- sloughed off? [applause] >> switching gears a little bit, i know that you have been involved in doing a lot of work in the community locally and abroad in terms of empowering a very what does women' leadership in countries outside of the united states? >> i think women's leadership looks like the individual women who are leaders everywhere. i would not say that there is one kind of voyeuristic -- heurisitc that we can extrapolate from all women. i know that we can say without question that who sits at the proverbial

that is not our job.hat is their job. >> this is a hot topic for debate among the members of congress who appeared on the sunday morning talk shows. lindsey graham appeared on " state of the union" and had -- and had strong words about the situation. [video clip] >> the iraqi people do not want to be governed by isis. the shia do not want to be governed by iran. we are well on our way. the lack of a residual force, the stubborn presence we had with this stubborn president who thinks he knew better than everyone else who withdrew troops and expose this country to the inevitable needs to change his policies equity. if he does, we can change this. headed, delusional, detached president. but that is the last bad thing i will say. esther president, a lot of people want to help you because we are in it together. a lot of people could die from this if we get it wrong and it will be much greater than 4000. the economic chaos of the world will be far greater -- the money that we spent in saving a rack? this is ano

cancer is not curable. diabetes is not curable. cystic fibrosis is not curable.ious diseases are not curable and we don't know what causes them. we actually know a lot about autism. we know it is very complex. we know that it can be improved. we know that your life can be improved. but it is mostly service .elated, not surgeries doctors have very limited tools for autism. have of pediatricians that been sing autistic children for many years have developed protocols of the round. -- of their own. some of them are quite serious. a child comes into their practice and they could say, i have seen the presentation before -- the presentation meaning, the way the child looks acts or so forth. that is not necessarily the way the ama works. the reality is that that does go on. in many cases, that is how people depend on getting some connection to the medical establishment even though it is not part of the ama protocol standard. it is sort of like a gray market. i don't want to do anything to condemn it. i don't want to say we want everybody doing it. it does exist. a lot o

>> i was not. i retired from the army. >> so it has been widely reported in newspapers that a regional director in pittsburgh, i think, received a performance pay award of $62,000. you are aware of that. >> i am. >> i am just trying to do the calculations, and i will add, $62,000, the median income in the county that i represent is $76,000. i just want to state that for the record, but so if you -- if this employee receives $60,000 the bonus, and in your testimony you said the performance they cannot exceed 20% of the base salary for an ses employee, then if you do the math on that, the base salary is over $300,000. >> yes, congressman. that award was because of a presidential rank award. >> and it what is special about that? >> very few of those are given each year. >> so does it follow any of the rules we have been talking about? >> it is not an award given by the va. >> i see. so there -- i know that this hearing is about performance pay , but there is also a retention incentive pay. >> yes, con

and if things are not being invented here, then they are not being produced here, and if they are not produced here, that means the jobs are not being created here. over time, other countries catch up. so what do we have to do? number one, we got to make sure we are investing in basic science. sometimes people say i do not know what the federal government spends money on, they are all just wasting it. and of the things the government does is it invests in basic research that companies do not invest in. if it was not for the investment in basic research, then things like the internet, things like gps that everybody ses every day, things that result in cures for diseases that have touched probably every family that is represented here in some fashion, that stuff never happens. you do the basic research and then you move on to commercialize it, and that is often times when the private sector gets involved, but sometimes they are not able to fund basic research. number two, we got to make sure we are investing in working with companies who are doing, let's say, advanced manufacturing, the

uber does not.pricing mechanism and they can price based on supply and demand, there is a difference. required cost, do you the knowledge to have a license to pick people up, that is a three-year to four-year commitment. cabs are expensive because they have to be able to take wheelchairs. that is not a level playing field. if you want to deregulate, let everybody do what they wish. if you feel there is a public interest, the city does have to make a decision of how to protect that or allow that to function alongside a free, competitive market. >> competition heating up, it will be interesting to see how it shakes out. thank you very much, ron zeghibe cofounder and chairman of hailo. stay with "the pulse," looking at a startup factory. berlin's tech hub has opened. will this improve their reputation in europe? that is coming up on "the pulse." stay tuned. ♪ welcome back to "the pulse," google's eric schmidt on hr offensive in germany. he met with one of the harshest government critics and open a star

not for me.nd a few years ago he said yes. >> you were an agent for alice cooper and teddy pendergrass and then you leave and go to hawaii. you are a long way away. >> i realized that for me i was heading toward a crash. that it was just too much of everything and what's it all about. >> why have you not written a book about this? >> for the same reason i said no to mike for many years. fame is something i think is a very dangerous thing. it is something that is necessary if you are a creative artist but it is -- mike tells it better than i do. >> if you are a creative person in many ways, fame is the industrial disease of creativity. shep has been the hazmat suit for so many people for so many years. >> i did not want to flirt with it. >> i went to hawaii and bought a house. i continued my business. >> do you surf? >> i body surf. i kept them while i was in hawaii. alice i always kept. alice is a body part. we have been together for 45 years. >> he is a fascinating guy. >> he is interesting and

[laughter] not a joke. i was not being noble. it was the right thing to do, but beyond that, he could to it from home. he could be on the phone. he could let us know. and he had to be assured that it would not affect his advancement. that is all employers have to do sometimes, to let you know that these subtle choices -- you do not have to have some massive policy, particularly if they are smaller. no one -- and the other piece about what jill pointed out about trust -- you know, folks, we make such a mistake, sometimes, i'm not quite sure why, but guess what-- trust is usually returned. trust is usually returned. i have a policy. i just hired on three very high-profile people. the first thing i sat with them when i hired them, i said, look, here's the deal. if you ever have any problem at home, no matter what it is, you don't have to tell me what it is. sometimes it's embarrassing. my child has a drug problem. i'm taking him to counseling. a vast majority of parents face that. i'm having difficulty. my wife and i are having a pr

that's not quite accurate. when they make those quarterly payments to us, they basically send in the amount. they're not filing a tax return yet. they'll do that at the end of the tax year which means january/february of next year. >> i guess my question he was, you know, ~ one issue that came forward as we were crafting the gross receipts tax was how businesses were going to be able to report gross receipts and whether it would actually have an accuracy about that, were we able to collect that data. and you feel that, you know, that part of the question for businesses is actually being fulfilled with the relationship to the tax collector? >> yes. the information that businesses need to file their gross receipts tax is definitely a different piece of information than overhead used to pay the city's payroll business tax when it's based on payroll. however, the information that they'll need to fill out their gross receipts tax return and pay based on that is very similar to much of the information they already us

not bad people, not ill intentioned people. are people who really believe this, but facts can be stubborn things. i imagine some ceos or entrepreneurs will say, google grew to be google without worrying about diversity. a wall street bank through into a firm without having to worry about hiring women and diversifying. in my sense, -- >> see what happened to wall street? i just thought i would throw it out there. >> there are a lot of things that are partial solutions for wall street. more capital, greater look -- greater liquidity. i have worked in a number of companies with a number of different teams. backgrounds has not made faster decisions, but they have often made more. decisions. >> when you think about growing without diversity, then you go backwards. forhave these activities women and companies have to go actively develop that part of their company because they have not thought about it in the hiring process. blindr it is a recruiting, whatever it takes to make sure the process finds the best people. -- it is having hu

>> i'm not saying it is not enough. i am saying that we need to get the smartest guys, that's general keene, general petraeus, general mat tuss, the people that won the war with the surge and get their advice and counsel. air strikes may be part of it. air strikes may not be part of it. i would rely on their judgment. i am not calling for air strikes. i am calling for the advice and council of the smartest people who won the war in iraq before the president of the united states lost it. >> do the iraqis want our help? >> they're begging for it. there is a "new york times" story where they begged the last week and the last few weeks for our help. they're begging for it. they want he have kind of assistance they can have provided to them. >> would you consider boots on the ground? >> of course not. >> no. >> definitely not? >> definitely not. > thank you. >> let me just say that we got briefed and it's very concerning and it's unfolding as we speak and it will continue to unfold. waiting to see all of the facts and how qu

und at this >> of course, not. >> definitely not? >> no, definitely not. okay. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> let me say we just got brief and it is concerning and unfolding as we speak and it to unfold and waiting to see the facts and how quick it will unfold and we have to make decisions quickly here. see what is going to be the recommendations of what we do. they made this decision in 2011 not signing the agreement and wanting us to stay they are a askinggn country and now for assistance and help and i'm concerned about how we are going and can we engage and should we engage? that is a very concerning issue we have right now. alarming how quickly things are changing over there minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour and day by day. >> should we authorize air strikes? >> might be the only way to get can hold offso we until they can regroup. are noting to a very good job. >> any reason as to why we haven't done it yet? a surprise to everybody. being a surprise and they are to have to make calculations and decisions of dot we to and how quickly we it if we do it. air

why is it not? it does not matter why. it is a fact. the american people have been exhausted with wars. if you want to talk about iraq and the opposition they have always had to our military engagement there, we have to go back to 2003. fall,k to 2002, in the when the bush and mr. -- administration misrepresented the facts to the american people , took us into a war on a false premise they knew not to be true , told the american people the world would pay for itself, it will be over soon, we would be greeted by rose petals, that we had to go in there because the smoking gun might be a nuclear plume. told thehat they american people. of course, it was not true and they knew that. i said at the time, intelligence does not support the threat. you could not find in any available. they had to show us every -- any sign of that threat. so we go down a path, diverting our attention from afghanistan, finish the job in 2002-2003, and instead, we take up another war, and here we are. war begets work. it is just not a good idea. what is next? that

no, it is not. the statute is not remotely limited to that. i direct the court to section c -- i'm sorry, section -- it's the definitions section of the statute. definition 4, physical obstruction, includes even making entry unreasonably difficult. it is not at all solely for violence. it's for physical obstruction even making it unreasonably difficult. counsel said that they brought 45 cases across the country. that's true. zero, zero in massachusetts. they shouldn't be able to restrict the peaceful speech. lastly, to the extent the court feels the need to recognize that there are some situations that are so extraordinary that we should put people in prison for peaceful conversations on public streets, that ought to be the exceptional case where the statute passes strict scrutiny and the state actually has tried the solutions that it claims don't work. that is not this case. the government does not claim its restriction to pass strict scrutiny. they didn't say it would be impossible. they said it would be hard. 49 other states do different th

they did not want to do it. it is not their training. it is not their practice.it is not the nature of their workforce. it is a high concentration. 22 people are making serious .ecisions it is a private sector operation and it is huge. not everybody is verizon and eight. there are a lot of small telephone companies that have to do the same ring. i do not give make sense. how do you compare the security pop -- possibilities of the system it does not yet exist, which i promise you is not welcome by those who would be asked to do it, to prevent -- to replace a system working well, which the public is naturally .uspicious about 39% rating , butublic never trust us if we're doing something for national security which is trustworthy, by trustworthy evil, who were trained, and they in ae their lives to this, particular place, why cash it out? >> thank you for the questions. the current system involves a host of safeguards, to close it starts, policy procedural safe guards him a training safeguards, and safeguards around eliminating the number of people allowed to ask if

is not education. you know what it is? marriage and family. marriage and family. if you were raised in a two-parent family you do better. if you live in a two-parent family, the husband and the wife and the family do better. yet where are we as republicans? i'm not talking about going out and fighting the battle of redefining marriage. i'm talking about the battle of reclaiming marriage as an institution that we should be romoting in america. [applause] we have lost the marriage debate in america for one reason. because during our watch marriage has been redefined. marriage is now by most people's cal bration simply a romantic relationship between two people that the government affirms. well, ladies and gentlemen, if that's all marriage is, then as far as i'm concerned anybody should be able to get married. but that's not what marriage is. at least that's not what it used to be. marriage used to be the union of a man and the woman for the purpose of coming together to have children to raise the next ge

is would you not agree that the problem with iraq is not religious, is not economics, that rather iserrorists? the united states, britain, and such asthe most -- israel, saudi arabia, and qatar have been financing and training that were sent to the balkans, to libya, to syria, and now, they are backing iraq. they had death squads back around 2005, and they, at the time, started recruiting their , andommandos and militias we are now reaping what we have saying,d everyone is get the hell out of iraq. ,e want to bomb more countries more that we do not like. >> pete, i think you a good candidate for the answer. >> well, i would add to that st -- a really wonderful piece who was an assistant during the surge, and he says, who do you want to bomb? and he has a menu of all of the various groups in iraq who were fighting, and there were plenty of those that you mentioned, and then there were plenty of shia militias, as well, and he listed all of their various crimes and various terrorist proclivities, as well. is filleds that iraq with people who want to do each other harm, and it is not jus

anybody who was not doing that was not legitimate. i do not like that. i liked to wear jeans. and at that time, i thought i was as black as everybody else. so there was that conflict within the community. its intuitive manitoba to a gipson extent because -- took advantage of it to a certain extent because he was not really one of us. he was kind of like there, but he was not on the front line. he came after the battle was over. as you needed somebody, for example, he needs a vice president of the business industrial coordinating council, which came out of the behringer fight, and he helped get some jobs. ok, so he was not in the vanguard, he was like in the second tier. that was his m.o. perhaps we needed somebody like that. he was not so controversial. when he got into city hall, he because whensedly he got into city hall, he did not want people like me in or baraka in any kind of leadership position. eventually he fired me because his people told him i could not be trusted, i was going to take his job. all i did was make him a good. aside from the millions of dollars i raise

>> absolutely not. >> are you here voluntarily and not a hostile witness? >> i'm not his to. i did receive a subpoena. >> would you have come had you not received a subpoena last night? >> well, the initial response that we gave pointed out that i didn't have a lot of relevant information because i had only been at the irs for six months after miss lerner's material was collected and it was before the discovery of the that she had e-mails that were not recoveriable connected to a computer failure. i think the initial reaction was that there would be many better witnesses to assist the committee. >> now, mr. ferriero, for a long period of time, the irs did not back up their records. and in fact, it was incumbent on each of the employees to print a copy of any e-mail that they thought was relevant for historical perspective which is alarming in and of itself. it's also pretty alarming that they are still using windows xp which was first used in 2001 and microsoft does not even support that anymore. so i think for every american who pays taxes, there's a great sense of insecurit

these are not the values of western society. these are not the values.i do not believe that america as a nation or the west as a culture would allow them to continue. >> that is whistleblower edward snowden testifying last week before the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe. when we come back, we go to berlin to speak with edward snowden's european attorney. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from bonn and berlin in germany. ♪ [music break] "first we take manhattan." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. from bonn,dcasting germany of the global media forum. we just arrived here last night from berlin where we spoke to wolfgang kaleck, edward snowden's european lawyer. he is the founder and general secretary for the european center for constitutional and human rights. we sat in his apartment and i began by asking him if russia will allow snowden to stay in russia when his temporary asylum expires there on july 31. >> hello, welc

not one. not one.ow, if you actually look at the last times we balanced our budget in the united states, it was four years. 1999, 2000, 2001. what was revenue as a percentage of gdp during that time? it was over 19%. over 19%. yes, as senator portman said, right now it is about 18% or do the last time we actually balanced our budget was 90%. and if you look at current congressional budget office projections, at the end of the current 10-year window, revenue as a percent of gdp will still be around 18%. not where it was the last time we balanced our budget for despite the fact that we will have tens of millions more americans on social security. so we will have tens of millions more americans on health and , theement plans, and yet current projection is that revenue as a percent of gdp will be lower than it was the last time we balanced our budget in that four-year period. that is not make sense. that is why we have called for a balanced approach moving forward. close, you know, with a little refection

the preschool could not me, the yoga class could not meet, other people could not do exercises.they were told they had to turn it down. the supreme court said that is right because you do not have the right to drown out everyone else's speech. if you understand that, you would understand north carolina. -- you would understand why billionaires cannot take over whole states like north carolina or montana. i encourage everyone to read the filings and montana. they describe a history of massive corporate corruption outside the state to take over their democracy. the ban on corporate spending was an attempt of the people of montana to govern themselves. this is about self-government. so that democracies for the people. >> i have further questions, but i want to keep the time limits. my time is up. i yield to senator grassley. >> before i ask my first question, i want to correct something that often shows up in the press. one of my colleagues has said the same thing today. citizens united said -- the comment was made that citizens united opened the door to millions of dollars in cont

i'm not saying they're all in that boat, not at all, but there are clearly people here not because they to be, but because in some ways they were brought. those situations due to be taking care of as well. host: if you live in a southern border state, we want to hear from you. our guest is eric olson was with woodrowld drew -- wil wilson center. is a graduate of trinity college and american university. chris, brooklyn, new york. caller: thank you for c-span. a couple of quick comments. first, we don't have an obligation to take care of the children of the world. their parents do. their parents are the ones trafficking them. something else, this is a highly organized effort for tens of thousands of people across the u.s. border. this is not some haphazard event. security put out a request back in january, anticipating this many people coming. also, talk about the traffickers. these parents have an obligation to their children. i, in new york, do not. guest: i certainly understand the frustration, and simply saying some of these children, not all of them, have been trafficked either throu

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[laughter] neil: not was not you? what do you make of it?ics has reached that point in new york state's that they can say just about whatever they want. neil: but they have stature the you say what he tries to do including dow around washington with the degree of special status. >> i doubt constitutionally he can do it. >> it is pretty sad. here there is absolutely no respect for those families or people who came over here from someplace else to work very hard seven years on the green card and pay their taxes all that time and now you invite every tom dick and harry from someplace else? >> he is acknowledged new york was a century city and that they are blamed to the nimby anti-minority anti-everything. >> the hispanics that came here thou hard way what kind of respect to do they have for the elected official? the decision to right. neil: hispanic support 70%. >> you were dealing with uninformed people unfortunately that is what they're building for a long time and we are losing the battle. neil: and that is a valid point we're not just givi

i do not believe they are going to be imposed. maybe not a bad thing. i would rather inflict pain on putin, make him pay a price without us having to pay a price. that sets me up with the assumption -- that is the reality situation. run that you establish goals. the number one short term goal, obvious, is ukraine must gain control over the east. anybody disagree with that? ok. we need to help them, right? so we can talk about sanctions but they will not get imposed, but we can help them secure the east. so we need to do those things. when wewo, we certainly are on the ground heard about the incredible effect of the propaganda coming from russia. we need to counter that aggressively. we can do that, can't we? short-terme the two goals. medium term, having what was so hopeful about the protest in maidan, a coming together of the ukrainian people saying they are sick of the corruption. we need to do everything in terms of our actions. we have to tie aid or help to make sure that anticorruption laws are passed. we should do that. that is the medium term bec

not a smidgeon of corruption. >> not a smidgeon. and so we have a video of lois lerner saying that everybody is presses suring the irs prior to the 2010 elections, and let me play this for you and you tell us why this is important to the audience. >> and so in the flow of overturning 100-year-old precedent of drastically changing corporations could give -- because they don't like it -- -- so everybody is screaming at us and saying, look at how much these people are spending. >> congressman, the key is everybody is up in arms because they don't like it and then goes on they want the irs to fix the problem. what do you think happened and how do we get to bottom of this considering that this e reminds me of watergate 18:30 gap in the tape here. >> and it is not just lois lerner, but the chief of the staff and the irs commissioner, and a host of other people, and those two are conveniently also missing. the white house will say, well, we gave them tens of thousands of documents, but those are not the ones that we necessarily asked for.

at others, he did not. the great example of this, of reagan's ambivalence, would be that he goes out and give speeches in 1981 and 1982. when he gives these hawkish speeches, he would very often write personal letters saying we need to sit down to find a way out of the cold war and to ratchet down the rhetoric of the cold war. soviet leaders did not understand how to respond to this. given his ambivalence and given the type of manager he was, reagan had difficulty firing people. that is one thing. he had difficulty telling his subordinates and his advisers exactly what he wanted them to do. this sets up in the first two years a sense of confusion in terms of who is running the show. ed meese is the de facto national security advisor in 1981. i say that because richard allen, the actual national security adviser, it did not have direct access to the president. alexander haig, who is the secretary of state, expected to be the vicar of foreign policy, he quickly learns he is often shut out and is unable to cul

he is choosing not to.is the presidency he wants, gay rights, global warming, golf, and the presidency he has backed the middle east, back to iraq for what am i doing in the ukraine, why is the economy shrinking and he is battling between the two. every once in a while he is forced to go to the presidency he is forced to have. he will go to golfing and global warming which is where we find him today. >> so many people fought and died for iraq, that will hurt him. i do think iraq could come back and bite him in a real way. >> he said in 2009 it was peaceful iraq, 2011 said that is one of president obama's greatest achievements. >> we are going to shift over to the midterm, beauty and braun creating quite buzz for one politician. stuart mills, who some are calling the brad pitt of the g.o.p., is getting more attention for his looks than his platform. he says he is more than just a nice head of hair. telling politico this is me, i am comfortable with it. it is a very serious campaign, let other people kind of

the hotel did not exist anymore. they could not get records there. the one thing we had going -- she had going for her in terms of being able to verify is she did talk to a number of people at the time it happened. particularly her roommate at the hotel. they had gone to a nursing home convention. her roommate came back afterwards and saw that she had a swollen lip and was clearly upset. there was one person who saw juanita right after the fact. there were a couple, three other people who she told the story contemporaneously. >> how did the clinton spokespeople deal with the media and you during this. ? were they denying these relationships? >> they did not respond on the juanita broderick story. for the longest time they would not respond at all. finally, he we got the story you saw me read the statement from the president's lawyer. i can't say that nothing has come up since that story was reported, that in any way undercuts what one either broderick said. >> has there been anybody undercut that came forward that you know of in those times? the wome