i want to thank our panelists so much. let's give them a hand. thank you. >> i want to leave you with a few thoughts. conversation six, i don't know if many of you know this, but is our final exhibition in our current space in main gallery in the veteran's building, that whole building is being retrofit for two years. when we reopen in 2015, we will have 4400 square feet. and we have 900 square feet right now. so it is going to be a remarkable new space. and we will be doing a lot of sort of institutional soul searching as to how we can serve the public and create an exhibition program in the large new facility that fills in gaps here in our cultural stratta and how we can serve a wide variety of artists and communities, and represent san francisco in a way that we do currently which is by showing regional artists alongside of artists from other places, developing a dialogue between the local, the national and the international. so we will carry that forward in the new facilities. in the meantime we will continue to program at city hall and at th

without further ado, our first panelist is dr. becky cohen vargas who is director of not in our schools san francisco. >> i am actually director of not in our schools which is part of not in our town. here in the bay area we have one because sometimes we think these things don't happen here, but they do. transgender student killed, gwen arejo, we have a short film. we are a move president and we are about youth taking a move to stop bullying but also intolerance with the statement not in our school, not in our town. . >> based on the idea that students can lead the way in creating a better school. >> people can do something right and you all have a chance to make a difference in a person's life. >> we're excited about the not in our school web site because it's a wonderful way for teachers and students to come together on issues of empowerment so they can learn from each other. >> if you say the word, that is so gay, is it necessary that you say something about it. >> it is a peer to peer story-sharing site. >> whenever you are ab

welcome our panelist. [ applause ] >> i'm going to start with catherine mccrack in, the organization on juvenile and criminal justice has done extensive reach on the bail system and pretrial detention. is the system currently working would you say and what reforms would you support? >> thank you for having m e here today. the center for criminal justice has released a report last year that did examine the bail industry particularly around the lobbying effort. i want to talk a little bit about the criticisms of the commercial bail industry that has been reoccurring over the years and these date back as far back as to the 1920s that the commercial bail doesn't just a minute, discriminate those who can't afford bail. counties are responsible for an increased number of level. we have to better utilize our jail space and those confined to jail are the ones is that need to be

welcome our panelist. [ applause ] >> i'm going to start with catherine mccrack in, the organization on juvenile and criminal justice has done extensive reach on the bail system and pretrial detention. is the system currently working would you say and what reforms would you support? >> thank you for having m e here today. the center for criminal justice has released a report last year that did examine the bail industry particularly

[applause] thank you to the panelists. we have time for about two questions. >> hi to the panel and thank you very much. really interesting. i am jack winestein and admitted have a vested interest where you might take this question. i think that what you have done collectively today and especially in this last panel is make a case for more professional development for educators as well as for opportunities for students to develop their moral philosophical voices, so the question i have for you given the current climate, economically and politically, can we afford to separate out this conversation from the larger political and economic conversation that confronts the whole state? and what's the role of this body, educators community leaders in making sure we fund the kind of interventions and developments that lead to division you have described so beautifully. >> can i get one person to answer that? >> real quick. i think the idea that we can help young people and dawlts learn and growth mind set and have to advocate for m

. >> the life span tr 1200 costs twit twis as much but most panelists preferred it. >> the stability is very sound. >> as for chris brown, he says switching to a tread mill december sk worth it. >> i feel better physically and psychologically. >> and you get to wear athletic shoes to work. and panelists say surfing the web was easier than using a mouse. >> michael. >> thank you. >> furl yesterday fema workers being asked to prepare for tropical storm karen. a hurricane watch is in effect. karen threatening to be the first named tropical storm to strike this year. mississippi governor declared a state of emergency. louisiana governor has done the same. fema says they should be ready to provide relief if needed. >> things here are calm. >> yes. thank goodness. >> yes that. is why we live here in the bay area. as we look at the picture just behind me, it's stunning out here, there this is a live look towards the bay. sunny skies. the breeze starting to kick up here on the roof. it's a wind direction that really is important here. we'll talk about that. clear skies right now check out th

>> paper had this fascinating back story where there was a bit of debate among the panelists betweenrinting press and paper and which should rank higher on the list. the printing press obviously received the number one slot. but a few panelists were lobbying hard for paper, it wouldn't occur to anyone to print something if you didn't have anything to print it on. so having a ready supply of paper was really key to that. >> nicole, outside of the technologies that you've highlighted, you've also highlighted a number of inventors who will have the greatest impact of the country. co-founder of pay pal and tesla met motors, why did you think elan musk would have such an impact? >> we compiled take list of inventors by reaching out to people already well established in the technology industry and in science and in business. and he received the most number of nominations. i think the reason that is is because he not only has a depth of innovation, where he's really changed several industries but he has incredible breadth as well. his ambitions are enormous. he took on commercial space flig

we are going to throw some questions to these panelist and we'll have questions. just be nice and there is that mic. it's cord less. you can pull it out and move it around the crowd if you want to. yes. thanks again for coming. we'll take later. >> okay, panelist, recently for the second time senator mark, introduced last call at 4 a.m.. this would leave it to individual jurisdictions to determine whether or not they wanted to implement a 4 a.m. last call. the resolution did not make it through the committee. keeping in mind that other cities have late last calls and many foreign visitors are used to late hours. can you address the problem with last call as it relates to the problem with san francisco as it strives to compete with tourism. who would like to start? h? >> why don't you start. >> okay. having an international background and having lived in europe, i think it is paramount to the success if the future of san francisco's image that we attract a global community to come here and entertain themselves and we have a quality of nightlife here that should sup

you know, i heard your panelists talk about the markets and the growth and the decrease in gdp. our problem with growth, in spite of what jack lew is going to tell you, is there is no confidence in the country about the future. and until you have leadership that brings our nation together rather than advantages themselves by dividing this, we're not going to solve these problems. and we have to be truthful about what the real problem is. >> let me stick to obama care. senator schumer, how disappointed are you with the rollout of obama care? robert gibbs, who is the press secretary for president obama saying people should be fired for the rollout and the problems that have gone with it. how disappointed are you, and who should be accountable for it? >> first, i think the number one point about the rollout is that there is huge interest. 19 million individual visits to the website? that's huge. 500,000 people, close to 500,000 people already filing applications, even with the computer glitches? the number one worry before we started was, are people going to be interested? will peo

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we are going to spend 15 minutes with each panelist. they are going to summarize the case, we are going to have a little bit of discussion with that case, they will go to the next case, and then we are going to have time for questions. you guys will save your good questions and no lengthy monologues despite this one. i'm going to start with you mike. doma, areare, not there any trends you are going to be looking at? chief justice roberts, is he going to be put in the hot seat again? >> you're right, i don't think there is any blockbuster cases for political junkies. those of you out there watching, it is going to be a fascinating panel. [laughter] watching,se nerds this is going to be a fascinating -- [laughter] what i'm trying to convey is it is a very important -- it is -- theportant in my mind courts trend to look at the structural protections of the constitution, to look at the first three articles of the constitution, and talk about the kind of protections those gift american citizens, not so much in terms of what the bill of right

let's thank our panelists and shadow panelists. [applause] >> when did the u.s.slave trade start and how did it start? >> well, the u.s. was involved in the slave trade from the moment that we sort of began as a colony of britain, and one of the interesting things about u.s. history is that in the constitutional convention there was a compromise between the states that had slaves and the states that didn't, and the u.s. constitution said that the federal congress couldn't take any action against the slave trade until 1808. and the u.s., at the first moment it could in 1807, president jefferson, sent legislation up to congress that banned par tis nation -- participation in the slave trade by u.s. ships and u.s. persons, and come passed that. so in 1808 the u.s. prohibited the slave trade, which was a long time before, of course, slavery itself ended in the united states. but the issues were

. >> reporter: and several panelists complained their feet kept hitting the motor casing.r gonomically it was easier to walk and work on the lifespan. >> reporter: this lifespan caused twice as much $1,500 but most panelists preferred it. >> the overall stability with this machine is very sound. >> reporter: as for chris brown, he says switching to a treadmill desk is word it. >> i feel better about myself both physically and psychologically. >> "consumer reports" said it takes some time to get used to walking while you work and panelists say surfing the web was easier than trying to write with a pen or using a computer mouse. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> hope there are showers nearby. >> oh, yeah. >>> the abc 7 morning news continuing at 6:30 with the day's top stories. >>> including developing news, a freeway road rage incident sent a woman to the hospital. ahead the highway patrol tells us what happened. >>> following breaking news. the number of dead continues to rise in the shipwreck off of sicily. hundreds of people were on board seeking asylum in europe. >

each panelist will speak from 12-50 minutes. we will then give them the chance to respond to each other or to clarify points. and then we will open the floor for your questions. unless the questions run out sooner we will adjourn probably at 4:00. jay, you have the floor. >> thank you, alex. when i was looking at this conference, the post bubble, post-bernanke world, i was thinking it's been five years since the gses reported to conservatorship and i would've forecast back then the title of this would've been housing finance in the post-gse world, and that just goes to show the accuracy of my forecasting ability which has marked by tiger at the chief economist. [laughter] -- marked my entire career as a chief economist. so what i want to talk about really was for topics generally and then skip around a little bit, the impact of the fed's buying of purchase program going forward, give you sort of a snapshot of what we're seeing in the current lending market, show you a new tool that we rolled out at the nba for looking at mortgag

. >> the point that a lot of the panelists have been making, the point that a lot of the panelists have been making is that we are dealing with huge numbers now. it is a new ball game, isn't it? everybody has a cell phone that can be tracked. the technology is, shouldn't there be some kind of a sitdown? >> mac in 1929, the secretary of state found out that the u.s. was doing code breaking against foreign countries, he issued his famous statement, gentlemen do not read other gentleman's mail and he shut it down. he also had a treaty in 1929 where everybody, including the europeans and the soviet union agreed never to use war against each other. that is a lovely idea, but it never worked. i don't look human nature for 30 years. supposedly, it is only number two or three in the world. >> do you agree that perhaps it is crocodile tears on the part of the europeans? most notably, the french that increase the budget for cyber snooping by a huge amount over the last couple of years? >> the french don't have the financial capacity that the french government has put on the nsa. not only is it fi

i recommend you ask these panelist on this side. also please vacate the rams we can set up for lunch. we appreciate your time and your attention. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> fisa are flying half staff today to honor tom foley who died today at the age of 84. serving 30 years of the house he lost his reelection bid of 9094 it's a policy released a statement saying he was a leader with authenticity in dedication and diplomacy who ever served as an example to make a difference and through public service. of his colleagues were privileged to know him as a friend. so many more their loss of this sad time. tom foley is dead today at the age of 84. >> looking back at the books that had the impact on the present what did you find? >> that is one of my inspiration's of the book's one of the famous stories in the 1860's of poverty in west virginia kennedy was supposed to of read that book but it was from dried mcdonald with "the new yorker" article that inspired kennedy to the chairman of the economic pfizer's that could be used t

we will jump right into it with our panelists. the first speaker is when the bill, the president of hammet health services and past president for the san diego chapter of the association of health underwriters. bill has been in the hall entrances and individuals business individual side of purchasing insurance since 2002. he started his insurance carrier as a regional sales manager for blue shield of california, offered aid the individual family services department in san diego promoting and educating insurance professionals about individual and family health plans as well as medical eligible plans. after leaving blue shield, bill started hammet health services and offers health and life insurance for individuals and small businesses and has a two and a half-year-old and eight month old so we are impressed that he is here and a week in -- a week. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> and our next speaker is the director of political strategies for mcc media. he's an expert in cable usage, peter media and the fragment of the media landscape

if you want to know more about my fabulous panelists, go to wendyshow.com. up next, everybody, it's time for "ask wendy." >>> welcome back, everyone. have a seat, studio audience. it's time for "ask wendy." how you doin'? >> hi, wendy. how are are you doing? >> wendy: i'm doingwell. >> my name is joan, i am 66 years old. i've been married for 25 years. >> wendy: good for you. >> thank you. and my husband still wants me to wear very sexy, tight spandex things like all the time. almost all the time. there are times when i feel it's inappropriate and it doesn't feel right to me so i'd like him to back off a little bit, to not always have an opinion. >> wendy: do you have children in the house or grandchildren? >> my children are grown and no grandchildren. my 92-year-old father lives with us. >> wendy: well, when do you think this is inappropriate? >> to the grocery, to church. >> wendy: you know, i think you can -- you know yur husband well enough, you've been married for over 20 years, i think you can have a nice conversation and maybe there can be some compr

i'm pleased to introduce our panelists.arol galante was confirmed as secretary for housing and commissioner of the fha at the u.s. department of housing an urban development in december of 2012. carol came to hud in march 2009 as deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing programs from bridge housing corporation, the largest, non-profit developer of mixed income and mixed use developments in california where she was president and ceo. her decades of work in affordable housing an development and managing fha's multifamily programs give her a unique perspective on the issues facing the mortgage markets. mike heid is president of wells fargo home mortgage and executive vice president and operating committee member of the wells fargo and company. mike is responsible for wells's overall business and strat-- strategic direction. having joined wells fargo in 1988 mike held a number of senior executives positions before moving to his current role as the president in 2011. mike is a 27-year veteran of the mortgage business a

. >> first met here for our panelists. [applause] >> that was an awful lot of acumen and insight provided in 45 minutes by our three panelists today. and a lot of food for thought. it confirmed my suspicion we have done everything there is to do and there's nothing left to talk about do in health policy. i am going to turn it over. i am going to turn it over to the audience and a second for some questions but i will start with one and start up front by saying it is probably tough, but ticket as tough or is easy as you would like and i will also acknowledge is shamelessly selfish because as i sat here listening to you i started thinking of my conference next year. in the three years i had the privilege of doing this conference and i think back to 200011 i think one of the first things you think about is the specter of the supreme court decision that was coming, 2012 we met a month before the presidential election, this year we convened in the midst of the government shutdown, debt ceiling debate and the start of open enroll

before the panelists, we will see a brief film clip from cbs. i want to thank cbs and the senior executive vice president two is here with us tonight. we have a couple of wonderful clips for you to set the scene. >> cbs white house correspondent dan rather. >> in breathtaking succession tonight, the following events occurred. the president of the united states demanded that the attorney general fire archibald cox supervising the bringing to justice of all persons involved in the watergate case. the attorney general, elliott richardson refused and resigned. the president ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. he refused. the president immediately fired him. solicitor general robert bork was named acting attorney general. he was ordered to fire cox. he did. the fbi, acting on orders, sealed off the prosecutor's ffice. >> here is dan rather. >> good evening. >> thank you very much for being here. we're going to start our panel. we have ground to cover and we have asked panelists to be succinct. we know how difficult

i asked my panelists about income inequality. america but around the world these days. how did we get so unequal and what responsibility to corporations have to fix the problem? listen in. >> this is now a kind of anniversary of the occupy movement. there's inequality and protests around inequality in many countries from brazil to turkey. >> america. >> right. so let me ask you, looking back with occupy wall street having its anniversary, what do you think it all means? >> i must have missed it. i don't know why this is such a big anniversary. i must send flowers. look, i think there was -- i think in the world today and partly as a result of rapid change in technology, there are -- there's a bit of a winner take all aspect in some of these aspec aspects. if someone makes a good product, they want a great product. there's no doubt that the flak world has had some adverse consequences in addition to the great consequences. all of these open markets are making the manufacturing of every tv in the world is going to take place in tai

let me introduce you to our panelists. we have a great group of folks to help you think through what is happening in social media and how it applies to what you are doing. they can come up and walk through some of their pages or they can talk from there. first, we have stephanie haberman. she is the social and digital producer at nbc news. i like her description -- breaking news junkie. she has a website where she has more information, so please welcome stephanie. [applause] we also have with us greg, a ceo of sawhorse media. he will tell you about that, and he says he is a member of twitter's first name club, and you can check him out. please welcome gregory. [applause] we also have with us today carla, who is the director of social media and engagement at dnainfo in new york and chicago, and she is the chair of the new york women's club, and she is a gal about uptown. she gets her e-mail address out because she wants to connect and engage them and you can see that. you can see how social all of these people are in real l

it's great to be here on this particular day with a great group of panelist talking about a very importantubject. we are also proud at the bar association to partner with jeff's office to represent indigent clients and very proud of that relationship and committed to it going forward. this summit focused on the an verseey e anniversary of the gideon case. a promise and excitement following the united states supreme court decision has been a road trip marked by stoplight and heavy traffic. it was gideon's mutual trumpet, the new book that talks about the harsh reality of the system where public defenders have to handle thousands of cases in a course of a year. that's a tough reality whether it's 500 or a thousand cases. something that jim had an eye to handle more business litigation could not imagine handling and handling well. that's why this anniversary and events like this are so important. they remind us why court funding and why funding of public defenders is so critical and invite vital. these days there is too much worry about funding the judicial system and not enough worry about t

i will introduce the panelists. we are fortunate to have the great discussions of how technology and longevity are going to affect our personal lives and relationships. we have sonia arrison a technology analyst and author of the national best-seller 100 plus how the coming age of one djibouti will affect everything from careers and relationships to family and faith. if you all want to come up i think i will sit in this one. she is based in san francisco where she was the director of the technologies to the department of the pacific research institute. she is a founder, economic adviser and a trustee at singularity university. she's focused on exponentially growing technologies and their impact on society. her work has appeared in "the wall street journal," the economist, msnbc and the today show and we are also fortunate to have chris, the recently retired director of humanities at the university of arkansas for medical sciences college of medicine. for more than a decade he was the woodrow wilson visiting fellow w

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i want to thank all of our panelist.ll see you in the breakout. >>> >> [ applause ] >>> >>> >>> >> >> welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. i want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. so first, the honorable edwin mayor of san francisco. san francisco (clapping) thank you. san francisco board of supervisors david chu and san francisco port executive director monique mirror (clapping) and our president and ceo paul guests the tall guy in the back. i'm sorry and sprifrp kim. there should say right there thank you >> so the building our standing in was built in 1938 as a transit shed and it's been used for many things for many defy types of folks. wire super proud to have our ribbon cutting. some of you have had a tour and you'll be able to see all the wonderful things. a little bit about some of the things we did if develop this space is it was very important that we use green building design standards. so in all of our construction of the project and so many of the things the light

we had a fourth panelist. we are bummed he could not be here. the chief actuary at the social security administration. steve is a shutdown casualty. i told him he could only do with the checks. being with us here was not essential. we called them and try to explain to the socket -- to the social security people that we were here to talk about raising the debt ceiling, but apparently, the hearing of older people is better than it used to be. they snuff this out. [laughter] we will try to cover for him as best we can. sit down and just a second. i'm going to throw it open to the group here. we've heard a lot of topics during the course of the day, and i will just mention a couple of things. i'm going to let you guys go, whatever interests you in this group. we have been talking about the general phenomenon of longer retirements and how to deal with that. there are the two scenarios people have been debating, the drooling on your shoes versus living long and prosper in. are there health policy changes that we should consider in regard to trying to

. >> with that i would like to thank all of our panelist. thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. while they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus constitutional rights has always been a tension that we've had in our criminal justice system. there is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from long-term alcoholism. and the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120-150 days in jail. my office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadn't failed to come to court because in most of these cases they had simply been served with citations. so the legal challenge

. >> time for power pinch where we give them 60 seconds to make their pitch and our panelists decidee company has what it takes to become the next big thing. >> hi. i'm mandy drury, on today's pitch we have two founders that want to take the junk out of junk food and they think they've got a pretty sweet solution literally. nik nicky and adam are cofunders of kanzy company unreal. nicky started the company when he was 13. he teamed up with chef adam who has worked all over the world including the free style restaurant and this is their power pitch. >> i started when i was 13. after a fight with my dad about halloween candy. i didn't understand why candy and my favorite foods had to be bad for me why they contained loads of sugar. i wanted to know if i took the junk out if it tasted better. i teamed up with adam and we founded unreal a company with a mission of unjunking junk food. we started with candy, moved the junk and added ingredients, reduced the sugar, added nutrition and made it taste better. >> people have come to accept to have great tasting candy you need junk. we've given

before the panelists, we will see a brief film clip from cbs. thank cbs and the senior executive vice president two is here with us tonight. we have a couple of wonderful clips for you to set the scene. >> cbs white house correspondent dan rather. >> in breathtaking succession tonight, the following events occurred. the president of the united states demanded that the attorney general fire archibald cox supervising the bringing to justice of all persons involved in the watergate case. richardson refused and resigned. the president ordered the assistant attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. he refused. the president immediately fired him. robert bork was named acting attorney general. he was ordered to fire cox. he did. the fbi, acting on orders, sealed off the prosecutor's office. rather.re is dan >> good evening. you very much for being here. we have ground to cover and we have asked panelists to be succinct. we know how difficult that might be. we will stop with bob woodward. recognizing that some members of the audience were not ev

. >> i want to thank all panelists for participating. and thank you all for attending.[applause] i think our public defender will make some closing remarks. >> in closing i want to thank all of you for attending this year's justice summit. as you heard we have many challeng challenges in areas to improve upon. we look for your support. we will continue through this year, and for more information about the gideon case or activities in your area, visit gideonslegacy.org. and we be posting

. >> i want to thank all panelists for participating. and thank you all for attending.[applause] i think our public defender will make some closing remarks. >> in closing i want to thank all of you for attending this year's justice summit. as you heard we have many challeng challenges in areas to improve upon. we look for your support. we will continue through this year, and for more information about the gideon case or activities in your area, visit gideonslegacy.org. and we be posting more information on our website. and ask the public defender through this year. and i want to invite you a special event on may 9, sister helen rajeem will be here, and she's well known and played in deadman walking. that's may 9. i want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. and all of you for attending. thank you and have a good evening.

>> reporter: the panelists included pbs newshour regular mark shields, kim daniels, a spokeswoman for the catholic bishops, alexia kelley, representing catholic philanthropists, and columnist david brooks of the new york times and the newshour. >> what it looks like is less about abortion, less about gay marriage, and more about a counterculture, a comprehensive counterculture. that francis just looks like a christian. and so with francis it looks more like to confront the forces of the world he has adopted the powers of christ. >> he's really talking about love in action and living that out, and what i find so striking about the symbols and the actions that pope francis is witnessing through is how often they really mirror jesus christ. so it's the crowds, letting the crowds come to him, right, and they can touch him and they are coming right up to him, or it's particularly the children and the handicapped we see pope francis reaching out to and kissing and touching. it's just a wonderful example of mirroring the gospel, and in this day of so much chatter the only way we can break th

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we welcome our panelists who were con seened under -- convened under very tight circumstances. we rarely come together this quickly, and i'm indebted to diane moyer, scott lilly, nan aaron, don saunders, ron kingle, a.j. kramer, judge ferguson and the president of the american bar, mr. -- [inaudible] in addition to be the president of the american bar association, he is also a member of the council on foreign relations and the american law institute, has served as the chair of the lawyers' committee for international human rights, was a fellow in the united states department scholar/diplomat program and is a jurist doctor graduate from the university of chicago law school. welcome, gentlemen, and welcome, mr. president, and we invite you to begin our discussion here today. >> thank you very much. my name is jim, i'm a partner in the sullivan and worcester law firm office in new york city and president of the american bar association, a voluntary bar association of more than 400,000 members around the country. thank you for inviting the aba to participate in this forum to discus

let me first of all thank the comingul panelists for together. i just want to give you some parting thoughts. [applause] chamber of commerce never got involved. they do not. they did on immigration. you can read the editorial from the wall street journal. they look like they're plagiarizing one another. created by the union cesar chavez reached an agreement. there is a lot to celebrate because of your tenacity and your support and the diligence of the community. this is not happen in a vacuum. agree, there exists a has never happened before. i'm going to tell you something. when democrats were in a majority in 2007, we did not have a vote on comprehensive reform. democrats not 218 comprehend that -- for conference of immigration reform. we do not do it in two thousand eight. we did not do it in 2009 or 2010. many of you begged and implored us to do it. do you know it exists today? the majority. 200 and eight democrats. that is not the way. is not a successful road. when you look at this situation, you can look at everything and put it in some kin

some of the panelists were mentioning the government and the militias. what has brought us to this step. what has brought us to that point? >> should paris and london be staying out of it? or should they be trying to sort it out? >> stepped up a to help disarm. >> the first time in the government each revolutionary as a payment. it was not part of any government, why did they not take that chance. why are these to cope with the dire situations spiraling every month. >> is it possible to make up lost time? >> steps could have been taken there is nothing i can do without a budget. therein lies the problem. >> we have a comment on twitter. >> it is the sense that it is not necessarily the bust, but i suggest that we keep it going as is. if i may add to that, we have parameters and things on the ground. we have resources and we need to think of a strategy with the national community. not weakening the legitimacy of the state, but support. however, the international community, they are asking for support. can you do it? whatever the strategy can do will be ab

well i think i think i think you are far panelist mr shakespeare i don't know if that was to be a comedy or a farce but i don't think that that characterizes the united states' role in the world i do think the united states has been a force for good i think that it has played a part in expanding freedom globally that's not to say that the united states always gets its way that's not to say the united states should should bully other countries but when joining together with other nations to advance its principles i think that the united states is an exceptional country and i think that any anybody would feel that their own country sense of pride and i certainly feel that now recently with the obama administration i think obama of minutes i think president obama himself questions american exceptionalism but he does not question obama exceptionalism so when he drew a red line in syria that was a different game and i think that's how we got into the situation we're in today ok mark american exceptionalism is it a good thing or a bad thing for the world because it certainly exists well it cer

i will be asking questions tonight along with our panelists. a minuteidate will get to respond to these questions. we will give them a 15-second bell to let them know they are time.to run out of some of those questions have come from you, the viewers, and we really appreciate your help. your work is not quite done. we want to encourage you all to live tweet about tonight's debate using the #njsen. we will be busy up here. we will not be tweeting, gentlemen. encourage you to tweet about the debate. thead a coin toss, and first question will be going to lonegan. lawn again -- we are now in the ninth day of the government shutdown with no agreement in sight. i would like you to give a great to the members of congress he would like to be joining. far, them on their work so and then without going negative, i want you to try to stay positive and not talk about what the opposing party has done wrong, but give us a concrete example of what you would do to try to break this impasse. thank rowan university, the audience, john and david, as well as my opp

but, tony, you have any comments or questions for our two esteemed panelists, particularly ruslyn who has been saying so many nice things about you. you should reciprocate. >> we also have a really big investigation going in oakland. i'm not sure -- tony is right. be nice. >> thank you, yeah, good morning, everybody. thank you very much. so we are pretty deep in an investigation about the disproportionate suspension of african american males and the reason we have been able to engage so deeply is because of the understanding that unless we take a really deep healing approach, unless we look at the root issue, bullying will persist. so we said you need to have a universal goal that you can eliminate bullying but it's really about creating a caring school community. what i would ask, this question of definition, can you, though, ask for communities to come forward with what it would look like to be, what's the vision for youth in our cities across the country, to be more articulate about the kinds of conditions we should have in our cities and the kinds of role that the elected official