here is leader pelosi's statement.the fight against hiv/aids and for those fighting against this terrible disease has been one of my top legislative priorities for the of 25 years. san francisco was hit early and hit hard by the devastation of hiv/aids, but san franciscans responded by developing a model of care that became the model for the ryan white care act. our city shows that, bourbons of hiv/aids work saves lives by keeping people healthy and productive. today, again, san francisco leads the way for compassionate, community-based care with the supplemental budget from mayor lee. ryan white funded initiatives are saving lives. declines in aids deaths are a direct result of the '30s and services that have been made more widely available through the ryan white act to large numbers of uninsured and underinsured people here that is why it was disappointing when the bush administration first proposed severe cuts, and that is why i have fought continued republican efforts to sustain these cuts. for several years, i wor

we have representative reynolds here on behalf of congresswoman pelosi. value his work with us on a local basis. and then all of our community partners who have been with us for many, many years. i want to thank them, too, for their invaluable service to us. thank you. scott -- [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. when supervisor campos and i went to merely to ask him to work with us on this -- went to mayor lee to ask him to work with on this, he was enthusiastic and rock-solid in his support. i had the honor of representing district 8, which includes the castro and surrounding neighborhoods, and my district has been the hardest hit by the hiv/aids pandemic. and it has the highest number of people living with hiv/aids. and i see, every single day, constituents of mine who absolutely depend on these services, whether it is access to housing, legal services, to health care, to mental health services. these are not optional services. these are not luxury services. these are basic bedrock services for a significant number of people living in this city. you kn

no woman had ever been speaker of the house before nancy pelosi.he midst of the current national firestorm and national republican political confusion on issues of women's health on the issues which she has been ex-claiming duh, she joins us tonight for the interview. >> thank you for being here, nice to have you. >> my pleasure to be here. >> let me start by asking you just about something right on today's news. virginia's governor bob mcdonnell has backed off from his previously stated intention to sign a bill in virginia that would mandate, hard to talk about a medically unnecessary vaginal ultrasound for any woman seeking an abortion in virginia. he said he would sign it now he's changing his mind on that. what is your take on what is going on right now with the politics of choice and abortion rights in the country? >> i think this is women's health issue, first and foremost. and what we saw in congress was five men at the table to talk about women's health one day last week i'm sure you saw it. >> yeah. >> but this is something that's personal

(cheers and applause) now nancy pelosi... (laughter). nancy pelosi is smearing me and my super pac just so she can push shadowy legislation called "the disclose act" which would force helpless super pacs like mine to reveal their top five donors in each ad. five? that's impossible! i mean, newt's pac only has one donor. take away sheldon adelson and the pro-gingrich "winning our future" pac is just a federally registered lemonade stand. but if pelosi really wants disclosure, she should get help from her anti-super pac buddy president obama. after all, in his 2010 state of the union address he tongue-lashed the supreme court over citizens united and doubled down before this year's super bowl. >> one of the worries we have, obviously, in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called super pacs, there's going to be a lot of money floating around and i guarantee you a bunch of that's going to be negative. but it's not going to be enough just to say "the other guy's a bum." >> stephen: he's right. it's not enough to say the o

i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2009, 2010, small businesses were hit particularly hard. small businesses are the center of her agenda. congress under her leadership gave 27 million small businesses tax cuts. two main pieces of legislation -- the small businesses jobs act in the information you have, will create a total of 500,000 jobs and create eight tax cuts. they are all described in the packet you have. also, unleashing up to $300 billion in credit for small businesses to access. there are another eight

and paul pelosi, who is here.se] my colleague and seatmate from the legislature, all of my votes were cast by advice seatmate, congress woman jackie spear. [applause] i will have to pay for that one much later on, but i have the microphone. and [laughter] mr. mayor, there are some of your mayor colleagues that are here, and i have been told -- i saw two of them last night. the president of the u.s. conference of mayors, the organization that you're very much a part of nationwide, the most powerful voice for local government in america, that is the president, mayor antonio of los angeles, california. [applause] and the mayor that are really have an affinity for and relationship with, because i look to great things as his future unfolds, the mayor of atlanta, georgia, christine reed. [applause] the mayor of oakland, calif., a former colleague of yours from the old school days when you live in oakland, before i convinced you to moves. . [laughter] mayor jean quam. [applause] from state offices in this state, the form

>>> stephen colbert is at the center of nancy pelosi's argument against super panks. -- super pacs. a spot attacks couhim with a wi >>> here at 30 rock, in the republican race for president, mitt romney says he's not threatened by rick santorum's rise this week but judging by the new level of attacks, santorum has the attention of the front runner. >> well, i think you've seen rick santorum get his opportunity now to be one of the leading contenders, he hasn't been as visible in the sweepstakes but is now, and that means that he will be under the microscope like all the rest of us have been, obviously some of the things on his record are troubling the fact he voted five times to raise the debt ceiling without getting compensating reductions in federal spending is a problem. the fact while he was in washington government spending grew by 80%. i think spending in washington is out of control, i wouldn't raise the debt ceiling without getting compensating reductions in spending. >> santorum defiending his work in congress, defending, some of the ear marks helped expand medical programs

david campos and supervisor christina olague, as well as dan bernall speaking on behalf of the leader pelosi. >> thank you very much, supervisor wiener. let me echo what he said about leader policy, who will always be speaker pelosi, but we have been very lucky in san francisco that we have had representatives -- representation in washington d.c. -- washington, d.c., that has advocated for the agency community, and has made san francisco an example for the rest of the country in how to treat that community. as scott indicated, we, in san francisco, have a lot to be brought up, and we should not go backwards. i want to thank mayor lee for the fact that when supervisor wiener and i went to him, there was no question, no hesitation. i think those of us or members of this lgbt community, we're very grateful to you and want you to know that we appreciate

literally, the pelosis, nancy pelosi and her husband, were given access to 5,000 shares of stock in visa, the credit card company. they were able to buy those at $44 a share. the next day when they went public, they immediately sold at $66 a share, and then within a matter of weeks it was over $90 a share. so literally in a matter of days there was a net gain of $100,000 in their visa ipo stock. now, was there a quid pro quo? i don't know. what's curious though is pelosi received access to those shares which are enormously difficult for anybody to get at the same time they received access to those, visa had two pieces of legislation that they were profoundly concerned about on capitol hill. the important thing to remember with visa is visa is not a credit card issuer, they are a credit card company. they make their money from that 3% that the restaurants or the grocery store that you use the card at, it's called a merchant swipe fee, and it's about 3%. that's how visa makes their money. they don't make their money on interest rates or anything else. well, these two pieces of legislation

nancy pelosi spoke out. chuck schumer. michael bloomberg. debbie wasserman schultz. i feel like saying her name again. debbie wasserman schultz. they have already endorsed this movement. this is something i find fascinating. st. louis, my city, a great city. i'm partisan. >> my city, too, dana. >> right. we had a parade. a veterans day parade and in the same year, we had a parade for the returning iraqi veterans from iraq and afghanistan. now what's fascinating about this is that there were individuals who wanted to have a parade in new york city for the iraq and afghanistan war vete n veterans and new york said no. what did new york do for months on end? they allowed the occupy wall streeters to parade without a permit and camp in zuccotti park without a permit and defecate on cop cars. let me forget. the raping and drug selling. all of that crime associated with it. they will let these people do that, but we cannot have a parade for our veterans? they already endorsed this movement. remind them of this. when you go back home, if you talk tur elected official, say d

that's kristine pelosi and author of campaign boot camp.erwhelming evidence of climate changes come with a wrinkle attached. we'll get into that right after the break. right here on "the war room." stay with us. in a delicious 5-calorie stick of gum. ♪ ♪ polar ice. from extra. >> sometimes a good scandal can get in the way of a legitimate news story that may lie underneath. that's what been happening in the story about the conservative think tank called the heartland institute and it's earths to cast doubt on the science of climate change. last week an requiremental think tank published a series of blogged about confidential internal documents from the heart institute. they obtained those documents from an anonymous source there was a public plan to start a curriculum that would portray the human impact on climate change as a major scientific controversy. while they did not deny the plans, they claimed that the documents were stolen and one was a fake. the documents were obtained by peter glick and he admitted that he lied about his identit

plus, my guest is house minority leader nancy pelosi. but if she's here, who's getting nothing done in congress? ( laughter ) nevada has approved driverless cars, proving there's nothing they won't gamble on. this is the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! ( cheers ) >> stephen: nation, if you're wondering why i'm speaking the pope talk, it's because today is ash wednesday, the beginning of lent, wherein goodicals like myself make a personal sacrifice for 40 days to become closer to god. last year, i gave up something truly important to me as a catholic-- being catholic. ( laughter ) it was tough. it was tough. but i did get some great bar mitzvah gifts. ( laughter ) ( applause ) now, folks, i gotta tell you, you can ask these people-- i still haven't decided what to give up this year. ( laughter ) i thought about going with the classic-- you know, chocolate, but that's impossibl

with nancy pelosi. we get it. every single time that we've come to washington, d.c., with a problem, nancy is working with us to find a solution. every single time we've said it's time for the congress to act on the issue of jobs and economic development, she has been there right along our side. please help me in welcoming my friend, our friend, a woman who was with us in baltimore whose dad was a mayor of baltimore, tommy d. alessandro, a grit leader for america, nancy pelosi, the democratic leader of the house. >> good afternoon. thank you very much, mayor villaraigosa, for your generous introduction, for your service to the city of los angeles, for your great leadership as president of the u.s. conference of mayors. you know, when i come here, when we were in baltimore last year, i said it was like coming home. i know -- i hope that the great mayor of baltimore is here. i don't know -- stephanie? stephanie rollings blake. good to see you again. we're very proud of our mayors of the city i'm from. tom cochran kn

thank you to nancy pelosi and for you panelists for providing this informative seminars. for our young company, we are a distribution company. i just heard you mention that you do not loan for the sale of alcohol. is that separate from distribution of wine? >> s.p.a. -- sba makes loans to winery's, stores that sell wine. i am not exactly sure what role you play in distribution. the federal government ought -- got out of prohibiting alcohol and long time ago. we are not in the business of regulating all bohol, beverage distribution or sale. we make loans to businesses who sell alcoholic beverages, restaurants, stores. so is not an sp a prohibition. it is regulated on a local level. we have made loans to a lot of businesses that have some degree of an alcoholic beverages, one distribution. >> terrific. following up to that, can you give any advice on particular resources that would speak perhaps to any tax benefits, subsidies in place for both domestic distribution of wine, as well as exports? >> why don't we take it off line. i think what is the case, there is a lot of com

here's what happened earlier in the day from democratic leader nancy pelosi. >> [ inaudible question ]. catholic church in washington, d.c. should the catholic church in washington, d.c. be required to pay for these morning-after pills and birth control? do you find that morally objectionable? >> you're talking about birth control, you're talking about women's health. i firmly remove, i want to remove all doubt in anyone's mind where i am on this subject. this is an issue about women's health. and i believe that will women's health should be covered in all of the insurance plans that are there. right now, as we gather here in another part of the capitol, there is a hearing, five men are testifying on women's health. my colleague, carolyn maloney of new york who is on the committee looked down at this panel from which a woman who was the democratic witness was excluded and said where are the women? and that's a good question for the whole debate. where are the women? where are the women on that panel? imagine they're having a panel on women's health and they don't have any women on th

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guest: the ads with respect to nancy pelosi is what loss of the 2010 elections. i do not think it was said. i think it was the republican super pacs who lied about democrat saying a cut of a medicare when we know that their votes lengthen to the solvency of medicare. the difference in 2012 is that we get to tell the truth about them in 2012. they put their voting cards in and voted yes to ending medicare. if it is a vote that we will not allow them to escape from h. we strengthened the solvency of medicare. the big difference between that on the medicare advantage planned. and a vote that the congressional budget office says will cost seniors an additional $6,000 and ends the guaranteed medicare benefit. big difference between the two. we will make sure the american people understand that difference. they do already, which is why we are doing so well in the generics. quote we are ahead with independent voters and seniors are coming back to was based on the rise in budget that bans medicare. not just and medicare but tax breaks to oil companies. host: are you expe

and ironically today nancy pelosi said she ought to thank chairman issa for not allowing sandra fluke to testify at that earlier hearing because it created a political moment and shined a light on these issues. so in some ways what was last week's sort of perceived injustice and an angering moment became today a real moment for women's issues and democratic point of view on this to have its day in the sun. luke? >> some fiery rhetoric going on on capitol hill. thanks so much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, georgetown college student sandra fluke will join us live to talk about her testimony today. >>> maryland congressman steny hoyer joins me now live in new york. and congressman, good to see you, thanks so much for being on the show. >> good to be with you, luke. thanks very much. >> number one, this hearing, it wasn't an official capitol hill hearing per se. what are the politics behind this? are you guys having a hearing like this today in order to try to stretch the issue out during a recess week. you've had republicans on a defensive last week when issa wouldn't allow the panel