i am paul harding, a retired medallion holder. thank you, pilot program. i have no axe to grind. no tools for that kind of stuff. for one thing i am sure. the director has done a phenomenal, great job of bringing together the various acrimonious factors -- factions of our taxi industry. she works hard to make things fair and that is important. i thank you for your service to the city we all love. i am here to support the fare increase. i am conflicted about the various issues in item 12. i am not being paid for this endorsement. i thank you for your service. bravo. >> our next speakers. >> i am with a san francisco cab drivers association. i want to support the meter increase that has been proposed and i expect that you will accept that. i am against the 10 medallions that are being sold directly by the mta. i do not think the mta should be in the business of selling them outright. it is one thing to sell to other drivers. there is a rationale for that and giving an exit strategy but there is a conflict of interest when the mta start selling the medallions and getting revenue and

i am paul harding, a retired medallion holder. thank you, pilot program. i have no axe to grind. no tools for that kind of stuff. for one thing i am sure. the director has done a phenomenal, great job of bringing together the various acrimonious factors -- factions bringing together the various acrimonious factors -- factions

i am paul harding, a retired medallion holder. thank you, pilot program. i have no axe to grind. no tools for that kind of stuff. for one thing i am sure. the director has done a phenomenal, great job of bringing together the various acrimonious factors -- factions of our taxi industry. she works hard to make things fair and that is important. i thank you for your service to the city we all love. i am here to support the fare

the media is going out of their way to ignore discredit the constitution's champion ron paul governor perry is hard at work trying to repackage ron's position on the federal reserve and in his own poll cowboy swagger into the mix if this bridge. between now and the life. i don't know what you know if you kill me with we. we treat. the printing more money. to play politics. at this particular time in american history. is all right there are three in the. oh you don't politicize the fed rick don't you know the first rule of builder are you do not talk about the federal reserve so did he upset the rest of the establishment seems like you both rhinos and jackasses are taking reservation with the comment former bush me and karl rove jumped on the issue with this on fox you don't want to accuse the federal reserve chairman of being guilty of a crime punishable by death which is what treason is really because they're going to treason is pretty clear and any would be president so no it is the crime of trying one's country and basing the monopolized currency of the american taxpayer is not only most treason

morningstar's paul larson says it was hard to pinpoint a reason. >> one thing about the selling is that you can't necessarily point to any one particular piece of news that necessarily caused the crash. i think it's just a series of long-festering problems coming to the fore. >> tom: we've got full market coverage, including analysis from kathleen gaffney, who manages a $20 billion bond fund, and a look at the wreckage in stocks with equity strategist lincoln ellis in chicago. we begin with lincoln. any trigger for the selloff that you saw today in the stock market? >> i think paul's comment over at morningstar are right. really, the cumulative effect of a number of things, really weak consumption numbers early in the week followed by very lackluster labor numbers this morning and, of course, that's all with the backdrop of a very volatile and dangerous european equity market where they don't seem to be able to come up with some policy responses to stem the bleeding, so it's very much the aggregate effect weighing on the stock market. >> tom: you lived through the stock bubble and the f

morningstar's paul larson says it was hard to pinpoint a reason. >> one thing about the selling is that you can't necessarily point to any one particular piece of news that necessarily caused the crash. i think it's just a series of long-festering problems coming to the fore. >> tom: we've got full market coverage, including analysis from kathleen gaffney, who manages a $20 billion bond fund, and a look at the wreckage in stocks with equity strategist lincoln ellis in chicago. we begin with lincoln. any trigger for the selloff that you saw today in the stock market? >> i think paul's comment over at morningstar are right. really, the cumulative effect of a number of things, really weak consumption numbers early in the week followed by very lackluster labor numbers this morning and, of course, that's all with the backdrop of a very volatile and dangerous european equity market where they don't seem to be able to come up with some policy responses to stem the bleeding, so it's very much the aggregate effect weighing on the stock market. >> tom: you lived through the stock bubble and the f

an important part of the focus here paul we we put very hard research into this and they know that they can't rebut the facts when the facts are there there's a submit these these records to the government they've said these are their lobbyist on these issues they've put a public statement on their website that says we support the status quo and we are they literally say on their site we are against inherently safer technologies how can you be against something that is inherently safe or so and yet they have absolutely right on their website so they're not even denying their opposition to the policy that we support which is to close these exemptions we have thousands of facilities around the country that are even under the current v.h.s. regulations department of homeland security the policy that coke likes so probably many of their facilities are exempt from the policy but they say they support. should should people who are. well it's probably a larger question. to two how what are they doing right now i mean it will be moving forward that that you're pointing out one of the things tha

is paul ryan going to be allowed to sit on the committee? >> you're pushing it hard. at's what everybody has been asking, not so much paul ryan but who's going to be pointing them. who you've got on the committee could very well determine an outcome. he seems like a logical choice, but who knows. for example, the majority o lead over the senate says he wants to put people on there that are going to be come promiesd. what if you get illogical people? it's so important. if you don't get a decision at the end of the day, you have triggers. it's fun to watch. that's going be with one of the big stories in washington over the month or two. >> perhaps sitting at the table means a feather in a cap. i asked him if he wanted to be on it. he said, brooke, i don't know if i want to do that again. we'll have to see, joe johns. >> it could be a job killer. >> who knows. >> you could make a whole bunch of bad decisions. >> hopefully not, joe johns. thank you so much for me live on the hill. joining me now senator roy blunt, republican of missouri. nice to have you on. i have you as

i have a hard time believing paul ryan getting. in the problem is if he gets in and nominee medicare is the only issue you will hear about. >> laura: that's for sure. a lot has changed since the state of the union. we will follow it dick thanks a lot as always. >> thank you. >> laura: directly ahead. karl rove takes a shot at perry. is the bush administration trying to undermine a perry candidacy? james rosen has the scoop. later, president obama promises to reveal his jobs plan. but not until after vacation up in martha's vineyard. are americans getting frustrated with the president on this type of issue? coming up. >> laura: in the impact segment tonight, as we just mentioned, governor rick perry under fire from president obama and his supporters but some people are speculating that there may be some tension between mr. perry and former president george w. bush. i know from the perspective from the former president that he has a cordial personal friendship two decades with the governor. i think that's true for the governor, too.

>> you know, it is really hard to say. ron paul is the godfather of the tea party movement. he is very much pushing the party to talk much more at the constitution, much more about -- if we listened to the receipt wick we are hearing in washington now -- >> it is coming from him. >> it is. it is this -- you know, government down to its bare bones. government down to the most bare responsibilities. that's come from ron paul in 2007. we are looking at that and has been saying this for four years. particularly since he ran the last time. >> let us not forget, ' --' 8. '88, he is consistent. >> kate, it is great to see you always. thank you, matt, so much. appreciate it. >>> texas governor rick perry riding in to steal thunder from the straw poll participants. earlier this afternoon. >> it is time to get america working again and that's why with the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of america, i declare to you today as a candidate for president of the united states. >> the question is can he steal the spotlight from the lady of the hour, michele bachman

frocks in the weeks preceding but why fox i mean i thought fox was this bastion of ultra hard right and i mean ron paul wants to end social security wants to end medicare he wants to end you know subsidize public education across the country and basically all the programs that the that the so-called hard right are gung ho for i mean yes i refer to libertarians as big as republicans want to smoke. get laid right i want to criminalize pot and run sex which is fine with me but you know you would think that setting those things aside pocket is a become i think the law is the anti worth i think it's the anti-war thing i think it's the his belief that we should not be as involved internationally as we are period that we should not be sending military aid to israel that is a big stickler for people on the right especially in the upper echelons of the right i mean they are very pro israel you look at bill kristol who is magazine was able announce that paul ryan mammie not be running for president i mean those people it still matters to them do you think we're really cares about i'm not sure rupert murdoch does

i have a hard time believing paul ryan getting. in the problem is if he gets in and nominee medicare is the only issue you will hear about. >> laura: that's for sure. a lot has changed since the state of the union. we will follow it dick thanks a lot as always. >> thank you. >> laura: directly ahead. karl rove takes a shot at perry. is the bush administration trying to undermine a perry candidacy? james rosen has the scoop. later, president obama promises to reveal his jobs plan. but not until after vacation up in martha's vineyard. are americans getting frustrated with the president on this type of issue? coming up. my doctor told me calcium is besabsorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. [ male announcer ] this is our beach. ♪ this is our pool. ♪ our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer

>> reporter: there's anger but long time residents like paul landry say it is hard to point blame.ndry has worked at his family's hardware store for 50 years and said everyone paid for promises the city couldn't keep. >> one mayor after another mayor, another mayor, another mayor. they just pushed aside and no one is accountable for what they have. >> state officials say central falls population 18,000, should serve as a cautionary tale. other cities in rhode island may be vulnerable. the small state has one of the most expensive retirement systems in the country. something the state treasurer is tasked to fix. >> nobody wants to make the tough choices. central falls proves that. these choices will be made for you. if you don't act quickly enough, the consequences will be devastating. so as hard as this is now for me, for the governor, for union leaders to come to the table to fix it, it is much easier to

paul. it is hard for me to understand that if you say the honest truth, you can not be aware anymore. >> thank you for the call. -- joins is on the democrats live from chicago. >> i have been enjoying this. i am happy itunes in and time to see ron paul coming up. one of the things i've noticed -- republicans have dodged, and is the issue of obesity. looking at the television, with exception of a handful of maybe 10 or 15 people, it seems that nobody at the fair needs to be concerned with deep-fried butter. i wonder if anyone will address that issue. it is important to our country. it is driven up -- it has driven up health-care costs. it is sort of a fat irony that it is happening in iowa. >> thank you for the call. the iowa state fair was the source of a novel that turned into a broadway musical. it is also the site for presidential candidates over the years, every four years stopping cow.o see the broadutter we will have live coverage, not rick santorum -- coming up with rick santorum, followed by coverage of ron paul. good afternoon. >> i have been listening to herman cain, but i would like

i have a hard time believing paul ryan getting. in the problem is if he gets in and nominee medicare is the only issue you will hear about. >> laura: that's for sure. a lot has changed since the state of the union. we will follow it dick thanks a lot as always. >> thank you. >> laura: directly ahead. karl rove takes a shot at perry. is the bush administration trying to undermine a perry candidacy? james rosen has the scoop. later, president obama promises to reveal his jobs plan. but not until after vacation up in martha's vineyard. are americans getting frustrated with the president on this type of issue? coming up. host: could switchino really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: do people use smartphones to do dumb things? man 1: send, that is the weekend. app grapgic: yeah dawg! man 2: allow me to crack...the bubbly! man 1: don't mind if i doozy. man 3: is a gentleman with a brostache invited over to this party? man 1: only if he's ready to rock! ♪ sfx: guitar and trumpet jam vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or

paul worth sent this report. >> though they can't expect more hard fighting yet, rebels are jubilant.housands of qaddafi groups are expected to make a last stand. the rebels plan to take it with a pointer movement from east and west. all around p. a sign of the advanced. translator: behind the fighters "%(áátj civilians. one man returns to find his home looted by the old regime's soldiers. >> unfortunately, they bleeded the house. where are my things, nothing. they took also the toys of my children. >> this, he says, is a small price to pay for freedom. he remember when's secret policemen took away a neighbor. they didn't see him 14 years. >> i was afraid any time same situation would happen with me. i would miss my family -- i will miss my children and they will take me. >> loyalist artillery halted the rebel advance. nato is helping with air strikes. the rebels say they are patient. >> he was dictator for 42 years. he kept promising change in six months and changing systems and manipulating the system. everyone saying give him a chance, he will do it better but he never did. >> what

hard here. i would point to ron paul, the man who is running ron paul's campaign managed the campaign of pat robertson in 1987, who won this straw poll not far from where we are sitting today. >> bret: people at home, dave, don't have a pull appreciation of a straw poll number one. and what it means here in iowa, number two. i mean for somebody sitting on the couch, maybe doesn't follow politics all the time, what do you say to them? >> there is, to put it in perspective, there are 3 million people in this state. only probably somewhere between 10 and 15,000 people will be here saturday and actually vote. so you can see how much attention the 10,000 to 15,000 people get. it's a huge deal. but you are talking about a microcosm of the population that will have a big say in who survives past saturday. >> bret: kathy, that is kind of what the caucuses are as well, a microcosm. it's not the whole state that comes out in the caucuses, but more than the straw poll. it's very organizationmly based. >> exactly. we consider this to be a dry run for the caucuses. the caucus test campaign ability to get people ou

hard sacrificed to a time award tonight it goes to congressman paul ryan it was constant republican is now charging it constituents to attend town hall meetings and yes you are be correctly it's now going to cost you fifteen bucks to get your question answered by congressman ryan and paul ryan isn't the only lawmaker to charge voters for these town hall meetings it's actually a growing trend lawmakers are now hiring a third party firms to organize the events in their districts from their home so the event planner then charges an entrance fee with the promise of getting your question answered i'm sorry but what a free democracy what's next they're going to charge you to vote and i think we all know why congress members are starting to charge these events they're hoping to keep angry voters out in recent years or we've seen video clips posted online really getting a wee bit testy with their lawmakers and congressman paul ryan is not a new theme of the outrage earlier this year after his plan to end medicare and replace it with a voucher system was voted on in congress i should say that a

>> reporter: there's anger but long-time residents like paul landry say it's hard to point blame. landry has worked at his family's hardware store for 50 years and says everyone paid for promises the city couldn't keep. >> one mayor after another mayor and another mayor and then they just pushed aside and no one's accountable for what they have. >> reporter: state officials say central falls, population 18,000, should serve as a cautionary tale. other cities in rhode island may also be vulnerable and this small state has one of the most expensive retirement systems in the country. something the state treasurer is tasked to fix. >> nobody wants to make the tough choices. central falls proves that. these choices will be made for you. if you don't act quickly enough, consequences will be devastating and, so, as hard as this is now for me, for the governor, for union leaders to come to the table to fix it, it is much easier to fix it now than when you're at the brink of bankruptcy. >> and, wolf, central falls official motto is the city with a bright future. but now lawyers for various

. >> paul farmer, partners in health, worked so hard to develop health care in places like haiti. he has an interesting medical school kind of organization and practicing medicine on the ground in places like haiti and rwanda. the effect of the earthquake in haiti and the work they have done, he said i want to write about it. i want to write about what is happening. is the response adequate? is the response from world leaders what it should be? is the aid being used in the best way it could be? he uses this as an opportunity to get haitian voices involved in this issue. he gets different people involved in haiti that he has known for many years to write about this too. paul is not only talking about the experience in haiti but give voice to people in haiti who in all the publicity have not necessarily been heard from. >> susan weinberg the girl the vote on the covers powerful. >> we were looking for something that would convey the mix of the motions when you think about haiti and the earthquake and the recovery. it is such a mixture of hope and maybe despair. grand plans but every

storm water managers say they are expensive but paul chambers tells us why thieves will have a hard time selling them. >> reporter: metal grates carry storm water through an under ground system to the bay. >> the last couple of weeks we've had 11 stolen and i know caltrans manages some grates as well they've had at least eight. >> reporter: to replace a missing grate will cause the district $300 a pop. they can weigh 40 to 150 pounds. i am a pretty strong guy myself but i can barely move this by myself. but once removed it leaves a hole and that's a concern. >> someone jogging, somebody with their dog may come and not see the hole in the ground and fall into it and hurt themselves. >> reporter: right now metal experts say they will pay between 200 and 350 pounds a pound for metal. >> we don't accept metal grates from anyone but the city. we don't buy less than 1,000 pounds. those people will be offered to drop it off only. >> reporter: the sanitation district is offering help from residents. if you see a missing grate, call so they can replace it as soon as possible. >>> fremont police a

tim pawlenty, ron paul of texas, and michele bachmann have all been working very hard in iowa.inly rick santorum and herman cain have been here, but the first three have invested the most resources here and have attracted the most media attention. it has been widely viewed that those three were going to be the top three vote getters here today without anyone really being comfortable knowing what the order would be. we still feel that way. today, michele bachmann is generating a lot of energy and excitement. i think the view was that today was a very important test for her, because she rocketed to the top of the polls very quickly after declaring her candidacy in june. one of the questions that has been hovering over her is whether her excitement would have staying power. this would allow her to say that she was able to quickly generate a lot of excitement in iowa and her campaign will go forward with that energy. in contrast, gov. pawlenty has struggled with the polling and fund-raising. today is a test for him to stay alive. there will be a lot of chatter and the results are c

if ron paul finishes first, again, always hard to gauge how he converts that level of enthusiasm to supportcount the straw poll, because ron paul's chance ever being nominated are lower than michele bachmann's. >> up next, we're going to talk to wisconsin governor scott walker about his state's recall elections this week. also, why he says his budget reform, working and gaining popularity. also a check on market futures with simon hobbs at the new york stock exchange and don't miss willie's week in review. first, your weekend forecast with bill karins. bill? >> running out of summer weekends here, like we going back to school, especially in the southern half of country. looking at a wet weekend in certain areas. take you through it. this is how we're looking this weekend. for a start off, wet weather in the midwest. it's going to be very stormy in the great lakes and down through areas like st. louis going throughout the day today. looking at beautiful weather, from the mid-atlantic through the great lakes today up into new england. just a gorgeous friday. no problems at all. we're already

well it's and that is an early in the first after good struggling so hard again front but do be a levelled after the break before paulshe spoke so this guy has however i mean he can maybe to all those part of the beautiful strike of the second half and it stays that way after was. in the days of the highlights in need so threshed are helped by have traits from alexander get a shock called his first two came within six minutes in the middle of the first seventy nine minutes and the need and a penalty kick following a fall in the box there. and the same and the triple then made no mistake from the spot where his third goal in front of the home crowd that typical states. but even that wasn't enough was a need shirokov and dani added one bill each to complete the five meal showdown meeting that petersburg club replaced is going mosco at the summit of the. more premier league action i was in the mood to feel inspired like knocks you on home soil kevin pour on the open for the last rise in the seventeenth minute following a low cross from my legs on the side me of and they give themselves double the scoring the opening hol

of opinion and policy options between go to war, mad dog them right now, hit them hard, and the difference between ron paulnobody i know says it doesn't matter that iran has a nuclear weapon. it matters, it damn well matters, it affects immigration in israel, affects our options in oil production over there and oil delivery and everything else. >> i think this is where he may lose support. this is something a wise spectrum of americans, democratic or republicans, are concerned about. >> let's take a look. majority of americans say we shouldn't be fighting in afghanistan right now. 55% say the united states should get out. that's strong. even among republicans, 1/3 say the war in afghanistan is a bad idea, but it's more than 1/3, 39%, getting to be almost 50/50. i'd say within the year that's even money. >> money is actually the issue to some extent, we're spending $10 billion a month in afghanistan at the time you have such a rocky stock market and debt crisis, the affect of afghanistan becomes an issue as well. this is something that will pop up more and more over the next year. >> as an expert of that pa

scared of something and so i think that out of all of ron paul's policies that's probably one of the ones that people might have a little bit of a hard time grasping because they're not used to that idea that iran is not a threat because they've always been told that it is so i mean it's a good question hard to get a pulse about right now i want to get the pulse of you spoke to a lot of his supporters and a lot of analysts believe that ron paul would win the straw poll and we'll win the straw poll he has in the past he's got a very dedicated base that if people see him as the republican candidate this time around or do they just see him at the we lost or we will have to we have or christie and i want to go to him as president or fate see him as their best chance for a longer term change. that's a really good question too for his supporters i mean a lot of these supporters are fresh out of college extremely idealistic and a lot of them do believe the wrong call paul can win and will win so you know whether or not the polls show that i will say this and i think it's important to look at other things other than the polls too as far as r

hard cover of "fed up! " has reentered the best sellers list. of course, we're leaving out several books, one by ron paulrevolution and manifesto, we should probably see if those books have gotten a bump up as well. rick: we'll check it out and let you know. the president hitting the campaign trail in a sleek set of wheels. check out this monster bus, shiny and black-armored, packed with top secret technology. the price tag for the president's wheels, more than a million dollars. definitely no comparison, though, to the hulking limousine the president usually rides around in. that's dubbed "the beast." jenna: that's when it got caught there. little problem. in the meantime, the candidates on the stump are trying to draw in voters or create a little excitement. james rosen gets to coffer it from d.c. >> reporter: i'm just glad you're not describing me as the beast. in a season of heated rhetoric, one republican presidential candidate is now raising eyebrows with provocative comments of his own. texas governor rick perry, the newest entrant into the gop primary field, had generally received high marks for

paul speak. >> eric, that's interesting, i think last week it was said that it's counterconstitutional. the idea that you fight hard for what you believe in but at a certain point when you realize it's not going to happen you have to be willing to compromise. a lot of folks think compromise is a dirty word? >> i think it depends on what you're compromising on. it can be practicality and a lot of other issues but if you compromise your principles, why bother? jesse helms said, if you think freedom is right and tyranny is whong, why are people that support freedom barttering it away? a lot of people believe that. rand paul is one of those. he believes we're going to a bad place in the country economically and he wants to draw a line in the sand and say no further and you and i can disagree with him but he says we're going to a bad place. >> how does the tea party come out of all of this? >> enormous winners. i have to say, i'm scratching my head in amazement they don't seem to think they won. but senator paul seems to kind of think they did. in the last eight months since they won the november election in the house o

half the lines illuminated from hard core gop folks who bought in entirely to what ron paul was saying. i don't know that's the kind of message that helps you in the fall. >> i don't know if it's a message that helps us in the fall. who knows what that message is going to be. there is validity what ron paul is saying. there was a time, maybe question get back to some of that, where local communities helped themselves. people came together and they provided for their own welfare after devastations like this. now, again, times have changed. the scale is much larger. the costs are much greater. you still need that help, if you can get, from sources that may include the federal government. may include state government, but i think -- i see it much more holistically than relying solely on one or the other and i understand where ron paul is coming from, from a libertarian standpoint, today requires some different than the early 1900s. >> governor rendell, does he have a point, fema-like programs encourage people to build in areas of the country where, frankly, they shouldn't be doing so? >>