freedom project, alamo pac, country's first pac, heartland values pac,. is it true that you do not have to -- you can contribute to these pacs not even know who they are contributing to? >> they know who they are contributing to. the congressman or that senator is going to be in a position to do something nice for them later. it is interesting, there was this investigation by the office of congressional ethics into the spending -- the orgy of spending surrounding a group called pma. >> this is related to john murtha? >> yes. he was the principal beneficiary, but not the only one, by far. they were looking at a bunch of people. they went to interview the heads of the corporations that were getting in remarks after making contributions to these lawmakers through pma. they would ask why they made that contribution. in every case, they said that they were not just giving this money away. they were getting something. my corporate board would look askance at my spending the pac money without the expectation that something good would come from it. corporations a

pac. there are not affiliated with a party. they are mostly ideological and promote themselves by talking about a threat of some kind to the way of life in america. they use start, very partisan -- a stark -- using start and a very partisan language. -- stark and very partisan language. how do they spend the money? a lot of the money is sticking to the people that are collecting it. what we found on the international republican level and the national democratic level and the lawmakers that form their own pacs, is that a lot of the money sticks to them. >> you did not mention unions. did you look get any list of those? are those also a case where members of the union are given money to pay back or they just take it out of the union dues? >> all of the contributions are voluntary. if you are running a corporation or a union, you cannot demand that your employee or your union member contribute so. it is all voluntary. you find that in certain corporations, we have found, through scandals, tha

it was probably the primary subject of the debate in process in g but also widely discussed at the pac redevelopment and planning commission. supervisor campos: and i also have a question that also relates to this in the sense that it goes to the larger question of what stages are acceptable for this process and -- president chiu: before we continue, i was hoping that we could hear a presentation from lawd sort of laying out what we have in front of us today and then i was going to ask the deputies to the attorney to advise us as to what we can do today and what we cannot. colleagues, if that makes sense, why don't we proceed in that fashion and i understand, i think supervisor daly would have to slightly amend his amendment so it comports with what we're able to do today. why don't we start first with the presentation mr. cohen as to the various legislation we have to state the big picture and then i will ask our deputies to the attorneys to tell us what we are allowed to do today. i know a number of colleagues have amendments that they want to move forward today. >> sure. for the for

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there's the pac 10 coaches. >> they recognized you and they are waving. right on cue. [ laughter ] >> all of the pac 10 coaches are there. >> how did you pull that off? >> they usually watch us, i'm sure. >>> and we say good morning to you on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. it's the middle of the week, wednesday, july 28th, i'm dave crome. >> and i'm pam cook. the investigation is now underway in two separate morning fires that both happened a few miles apart. tara moriarty has new information and joins us now with an update. tara? >> reporter: well, the investigators are telling us these two fire res not connected in any way. right now, we are at the one at 46th street. you can see a garden hose laying on the lawn here. this is where a neighbor was spraying the house until the firefighters arrived. the investigators say this fire is suspicious. just before 5:00, a fire broke out in san pablo. flames broke out in the garage. the neighbors say everyone got out of the house safely. no word yet on what caused the fire, but less than three miles away, just b

the next one is destined it's a classic structure in san francisco and the coke bottle at pac bell and pat you were involved with that and the responsible party? >> i am the responsible party for this thing, yes. i spent three months designe designing it's made out of hundred thousand pounds of alaskan cedar. and finally we're going to get a nam plague with our nan it and it can hold 100,000-gallons of coke and they were curious how much you could put in there and all made of alaskan cedar and fabricated in petaluma and one of the amazing things is every time one hits a home run the tv camera pans over and subliminally "home run coke" the best advertisement i have seen. >> and this is another building and two identical side by side. >> designed by the u.s. m marine corp. >> and this was base isolated in the year 2000 and that means they basically cut the building off underneath and put in these big separators with a rubber plate that allows the building to slide back and fourth so the building is intended to function after a earthquake and high level of functioning. >> it's a server bu

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and formal approvals from a host of city departments in the project document themselves, including pac, cac, redevelopment agency, dph, and rec and park. this has been far and away the most thorough public review process ever undertaken in san francisco. and for any individual who is sincerely interested in for dissipating in a debate about what is the best way to revitalize these long abandoned lands, we have provided every forum conceivable conceivable for that debate. xi, a little bit behind. if i could get the slides of on the screen. so before i turn it over to david thompson, who was the project architect, to walk through the land plan -- david tom, who was the lead project architect, this is all stuff we have covered before. we have presented not only with you, but at many, many public hearings these basic facts, but it is always important to come back to them because it is so central to what we're talking about. the first is that the cleanup of the shipyard is governed by federal law, namely the comprehensive environmental radiation compensation and liability act. the responsib

the club cover along the coast pushed off shore to the fog will the corporate pac can by tomorrow morning was the dense fog will another cool afternoon preconditions especially around the bay as we head towards in the week we will see slight warming. all the details on that and your extended forecast coming up a bit. >> this is a the kron 4 news room second airfield mother charged in connection with the fire deaths of four children at home. they pleaded not guilty this weekend. a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for august 6th. a three refer children died in the blaze investigators blame the april 28th fire on candles left burning on top of the tv set in the family's residence. the family was using candles because electrical power to the home had been shut off. live in the newsroom kron 4 news. >> to live look at the james link businesses usual very slow traffic it's a crime rate now at the bottom of your screen heading to 101 southbound in bumper-to-bumper the top of your screen headed into san francisco. s on my homework -- or at least that's what my mom thinks. with high speed in

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and in times of heart, from pacs of terrorism, your words of comfort and your steadfast calm have brought reassurance. we are focused on making the world a better place. we are focused on spending for justice and peace, on relieving suffering and helping the poor lift themselves out of poverty. many times we come up short. and do not live up to our commitments or meet the expectations that are laid upon us. through your sense of duty and tireless public service, you have demonstrated to those of us at the united nations that we must not waver from our purpose, that we must remain steadfast in our will and determination because the poor, the disadvantaged, and the week do not have the luxury of our failure. this is our ideal and we must live up to it. i thank you. >> his excellency ban ki moon. >> we are honored by your presence, your majesty. in a changing world, you are an anchor for our age. york reagan says the decades from the challenges of the cold war to the threat of global warming. , from the television to treetops, through the years, you have traveled the world and that its peopl

through their general treasury fund for the law allowed them to pay for those advertisements through a pac but the constitutional challenge was brought by a nonprofit advocacy corp. that produced the movie called "hillary the movie" which was a fairly critical movie of the hillary clinton. they were going to broadcast it around for election. the election. the fcc said yes and they brought that case to the supreme court and the court in this 5-4 decision written by justice kennedy held the provision unconstitutional as applied to corporations. they sustained the disclosure requirements and a disclaimer requirements. one significant thing is how the case got to be decided by the court and what was significant is the case was set for 3 argument at the end of last term. e court tn proceed to overrule a couple of recent decisions. the decision in mcconell a few years back. there was an austin decision that upheld -- that was upheld by the court in a similar way. justice kennedy had been an advocate in these kind of cases and the austin case. he had four other justices to agree with him in this

this looks like a pac-man chart here with a hungry pac man. and the red represents the earmark dollars. 5 % go to just 13% of this body. agriculture, 76%. h.u.d., 42% and milcon-v.a., 51%, more than half of the earmark doll ars are going to 13% of the members of this body. that is not right. we shouldn't be doing this. yet year after year we do it. no matter what kind of reforms we enact, we have the spoil system alive and well. and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. any member seek time in opposition to this amendment? mr. edwards: madam chair, i would like to claim in time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. edwards: madam chair, i respect the gentleman. he takes principal position on congressesally-sponsored projects, but i strongly oppose this amendment. the flake amendment, despite its intentions or regardless of its intentions would cut $163 million out of important military construction projects, the national guard and reserves, which are playing a key role in our war in iraq and

in case you're wondering, the pac-10 has 12 team, the big 12, ten, and the big ten, 12. when it comes to upsetses, it all goes back to rankings which by and large still determine how competitive the team you select will be. 100,000 rabid fans may not be screaming in your living room whil while you play, but for a controlled environment, this is a sur fire way to experience the glory of college football in the heart of the summer. on the game console, i'm lawrence scott. >>> now let the domino effect begin. today the cowboys became the first team to sign their first round pick after inking dez bryant to a contract purportedly report $11.8 million over five years. $8.5 million guaranteed. with the deal done, the 24th overall draft pick will be able to report to cowboys camp on time when it begins saturday in san antonio. saturday already. the cowboys are the first to get things under way with their workouts beginning this weekend. the rest of the nfl won't be far behind including the bay area's own. the raiders open training camp on wednesday while the 9ers must report by

pac del does well, 50% of vendors got some sort of a bad grade. lack of hot water in one of them. here are the rest of them. compare this to denver's mile high stadium, home of the broncos where flies were found in bottles at three stadium bars. these are closed bottles, like wine or liquor that they serve -- >> doesn't that come from the bottler though? >> who knows. giants stadium, new york, not here, had undercooked hamburgers. there were two standouts. all canadian stadiums scored very well. zero defect. home of the toronto maple leaves, for instance, no violations. and wrigley field in chicago, zero defects, clean bill of health. >> good. >> health inspectors in chicago don't inspect during game day. they go to wrigley field and all the other venues when there are no fans, no workers, and no food. >> that's not fair. >> this is chicago. >> home of rod blagojevich. >> mayor daly is still there. in chicago, they figured out how to tweak it a little. >> no kidding. >> thanks a lot, scott. >>> we have another reason for you to be bay area proud this morning. long time play by pla

we're watching the nasdaq trading about even as the pac-10 opens the nasdaq this morning. dow industrials are down slightly. the fed releases its beige book, which is a measure of all manufacturing in the united states. that comes up in just a bit. one stock interesting, brent, sprint nextel is actually adding subscribers to its network for the first time in three years. people ran screaming away from that service for years. this could be a sign that at&t is beginning to soften some of its subscribership. >> thanks a lot for the update there. >>> meantime, we are following a developing story out of pakistan. authorities now say all 152 people on board of a jet that crashed near islamabad are dead. it was coming in for a landing from karachi when it crashed. a thick blanket of cloud and smoke could be seen landing from the heavily wooded crash site. the cause of the crash is not yet clear. however, it was rainy and cloudy at the time, so bad weather could have been a factor. >>> senators cancelled a much-publicized senate hearing on whether bp influenced the release of the

which applies only to corporations and unions when they make independent expenditures, not to their pacs. but the cporations and unions when they make independent expenditures within a certain period of an election. >> right. >> the statute does not distinguish betwe movies and anything else. >> well, as you can see, i'm finding a certain amount of fault with that that's why the citizens united case, i think is a correct decision. the court has been criticized including just yesterday in this hearing for not deciding the citizens united case on narrower statutory grounds. but according to some media counts such as the national journal, it was your office's admission that the statute had much broader constitutional implications that prompted the court to ask for a second argument in this case, that's where you come in. you reargued the case last september and i believe that it was justice ginsberg who asked if you believe if they may ban certain books at certain times. >> you said the statute in question covered book but there might be some legal argument to actually apply it to books. i

. >> reporter: i-robot's first big creation was the pac-bot a 40-pound remote-controlled vehicle. it even searched for the dead in the rubble of the world trade center. in battlefields on iraq and afghanistan thousands of pack- bots do the army's dirtyiest and most dangerous jobs like looking for and destroying i.e.d.s. and the next generation of bots is is on the march. >> a check point in iraq you can do a peek-under mode and drive under the vehicle and see if there's i.e.d.s or bombs mounted on that. >> reporter: you're seeing everything in.... >> in real-time. i'm looking exactly at what it is looking at. >> reporter: this army staff sergeant believes advanced warning from a robot sentry could have prevented an attack in iraq in 2003 that nearly killed him. >> when i was getting ready that grenade came over the wall and landed between my leg. i tried to maneuver away from it, the blast. as soon as i made the corner around the bradley it actually injured me. >> reporter: had you had something like this, do you think that would have been prevent snd. >> 100%. i have no doubt in

first and foremost, and this may be the most pac, but it is the deepest answer -- pat, but it is the deepest answer, but a good day is when there is no attack. no innocent person gets killed by a terrorist plot. that is a good day. that is why we are there. you are going to have a lot of bad days, too. there are bad days that culminate in an attack, and there are days where you just do not know what is going on. you are trying to figure out the intelligence. you know something is going on, but you do not know what. where is the next attack coming from? anwar al-awlaki in yemen or al- qaeda senior leadership. the good days are those where you feel like you have suddenly made a leap forward, either within the bureaucracy or something on the intelligence front. a couple of examples. after 12/25, which was a really tough day for me and obviously for the american people, and for our organization, because we felt like we had failed. we had failed. we really look to deep -- looked deep about what we could do to reduce the likelihood of it happening in the future. we created these teams that

he has been waging the war but as the bennet campaign points out, romanoff took money from pacs and hasrated one of his own. it is not really moved the needle. host: the endorsement for these two candidates have also been an issue. president obama has endorsed bennet and former president clinton endorsed romanoff. what is the impact? guest: the obama administration has been behind senator bennet early on, and some or much of his fund-raising success can be attributed to that. i think everyone here in colorado was surprised by bill clinton's endorsement of andrew romanoff, and i think it was a testament to the work he had done in the democratic party, to his support of hillary clinton's presidential campaign. but it does far has only been an e-mail letter of support. at the time the people around bill clinton said that is all it would be, it would not translate into appearances or fund- raising. while it was a good two-story -- two-day story for the campaign, it has not turned out much more. host: mr. bennet said he was able to raise a lot more money than not only mr. romanoff but also t

good on the 688 by the 24 interchange 724, the chechen how some harsh words for banks after receiving pac spear bailiffs. he made a list of banks that made payout plan is determined are inappropriate in access. the list includes wall street tycoons like j.p. morgan chasten citibank. he cannot force the banks to pay the bill ... but he wants to promise that it will not overpaid executives in future. take-it-or-leave-it is the words for the u.s. set as they force a bill that throws out many of the provisions of the house to add on for domestic spending. that bill is now limited to funding in the war of this can and ended up there for the vietnam, what is not in the bill is billions of dollars of funding for teacher layoffs and increased security along the mexico border >> 75 right now it recorder from the police department. a man whose like an i phone was caught just nine minutes after the theft. it turned out the phone has been tracking his every move and the phone was being used to test a new real time gps tracking application. the woman was an intern for mountain view software and she ha

through their general treasury fund for the law allowed them to pay for those advertisements through a pac but the constitutional challenge was brought by a nonprofit advocacy corp. that produced the movie called "hillary the movie" which was a fairly critical movie of the hillary clinton. they were going to broadcast it around for election. the election. the fcc said yes and they brought that case to the supreme court and the court in this 5-4 decision written by justice kennedy held the provision unconstitutional as applied to corporations. they sustained the disure requirements and a disclaimer requirements. one significant thing is how the case got to be decided by the court and what was significant is the case was set for 3 argument at the end of last term. the court then proceeded to overrule a couple of recent decisions. the decision in mcconell a few years back. there was an austin decision that upheld -- that was upheld by the court in a similar way. justice kennedy had been an advocate in these kind of cases and the austin case. he had four other justices to agree with him in thi

that was supposed to eliminate a lot of the problems with the lobbyists and the pac money coming in forhe elections. how is that many supposed to be used? i do not know. i think it is kind of ridiculous that everyone is paying $3 for the election and the money is already wasted. the thing i am concerned about though is we have three branches of government. all three nations -- all three branches of this great nation are supposed to be working for the american citizen who is giving their all. the thing about it, the only thing we have is the christian faith. host: let's move on to denver, colorado. guest: i will just ignore -- i think the same amendment i was talking about that gives us the right to free speech and the right to petition the government also makes whenever my religion is completely irrelevant to the conversation. host: we will leave it there. steven brill is a catcher. writer for "time" magazine. -- steven brill as a contributing writer. thank you for being on the program, sir. guest: think you for having me. host: we will be opening of the funds to give you an opportunity

most of the cities of the mail -- of the middle east in the poorer countries to have a problem with pacs "of stray dogs and so on. they can be a great menace to public health and can attack children's in packs. they have gone out of control in the last few years because there have been no attempt to call or control them. now i think they're going about it in a brutal way, but nonetheless it was necessary because of public health reasons and because of the serious risk that the post to small children. host: when you return to iraq in an official capacity? guest: i was there one month ago but more of a personal than political capacity. my political career is subject to weather inappropriate government is formed and led by people who are dedicated to the development and progress of the country. if that happens and there is an opportunity to serve, i certainly would serve. by and large, at the present moment i am more involved in the academic and scholarly affairs, writing, and so on. host: please ask mr. allawi about mr. chalibi. what is the latest? guest: he was elected to parliament as a

first, on the macro and pacs, i encourage the committee to frame the questions correctly. the economy is now growing and has been. it is growing painfully slowly. many people looking for jobs and of this. we are no longer in a position where we had a falling economy. we should think about this as a situation where we need a roofless attention to improve those policies. what is on the table? the recognition that if you are going to get economic growth, governments are in a worse position. that raised by process of elimination, somewhere else or you can make a difference. this is not a hearing about the corporate taxes. the ability to extend fully and permanently eliminate uncertainty are an important aspect of business tax policy. we teamed with the decision to economics to do some as simulations. we looked at not extending it to those to make more than two dozen dollars. not only is the -- it has better short-run economic impact. it is clear that you get faster gdp growth, more employment, households save and work on their balance sheets -- these are the elements of transi

through their general treasury fund for the law allowed them to pay for those advertisements through a pact the constitutional challenge was brought by a nonprofit advocacy corp. that produced the movie called "hillary the movie" which was a fairly critical movie of the hillary clinton. they were going to broadcast it around for election. the election. the fcc said yes and they brought that case to the supreme court and the court in this 5-4 decision written by justice kennedy held the provision unconstitutial as applied to corporations. they sustained the disclosure requirements and a disclaimer requirements. one significant thing is how the case got to be decided by the court and what was significant is the case was set for 3 argument at the end of last term. the court then proceeded to overrule a couple of recent decisions. the decision in mcconell a few years back. there was an austin decision that upheld -- that was upheld by the court in a similar way. justice kennedy had been an advocate in these kind of cases and the austin case. he had four other justices to agree with him in this

we saw the huge influx of pac donations and the gravity of the nation's and the coffers filling up with a campaign committees. we have seen the institutional as asian of campaign professionals, fund-raisers, communication experts. we have seen consultants of every variety. it is a huge industry now and it was not 20 years ago. but we have seen the mccain- feingold bipartisan campaign reform. and did have some republican support. among those members in the northeast were members prone to pressure from the new york times. because of the campaign finance reform, the 527's, the swift boats, the moveon.org's and the influence of neighboring. i think we have moved to a more candidate centric type of election process. here is where the strength of the party comes in. now a candidate can become a candidate without the party. the party does not really have to condemn the candidacy of for the man or woman to get on the ballot. this feeds into probably the most important change. the event of the 24-7 news cycle. 20 years ago there were three networks -- abc, nbc, or cbs. since then we have cable,