steve, how do we use math to get from heart cells to pendulums? >> they're both oscillators.hey both move in cycles. you know, there's an electrical cycle in the heart cell where its voltage goes up and back down, and up and back down. so that's a rhythm, that's a cycle. and, of course, a pendulum is a cycle... >> right, back and forth. >> in that it swings back and forth, so they're really not that different. i mean, it happens one is an inanimate thing, one is living; that doesn't really matter to a mathematician at the abstract level. >> what we love in math is that there's a unity, that you can see the connection between pendulums and heart cells if you maybe have the same equation that can describe both, but just with different interpretations of what that -- >> just one abstract framework, and then you fill in the phenomenon for the variables. >> right. that's what we like to do. and in the case of pendulums, which we understand much better than heart cells, it gives us a way in to understanding these mysterious phenomena of life by thinking about mechanical things that

that way it is creating a very natural pendulum with a very static arm that is not moving.ri: i find them sort of unwieldy. >> they are little different. now, i used the belly putter fo a little while and found it would help me roll the ball well . interestingly, lead simpson who won the u.s. open with a belly putter stated help him with his distance control, but interestingly none of the guys that have been winning with his putter statistically cartop letters on to work. gerr that is what you said, which makes me shocked. >> we had the debate saying, let's look this up. the best one on toward, number1 numberr32, jim clark. gerri: two is the best? >> tiger woods right now. bu adams got wind from in the the hundreds down to the 60's so, you know, are they getting great advantage because they wo a major and are not moving of the ran and putting? we could have decided that it was the opposite. maybe it just shows that they'r gulls striking is great because they put it well for the majors but until we see a greater percentage, i guess, really tipping the statistics i am not sur

the pendulum as swung in the direction we have safety concerns and too much over time. i know that the supervisors understand the neat e need to bring the staffing up in the fire department. a few more things i'll point out. the one of the things we've duplicate is most recently is we have modified a policy where the department of human services. we've worked with the labors. we had a d o w policy as you know there's a cap for the cap for firefighters is 6 hundred and 33 hours. if someone is willing to work on overtime shift the exception is granted for that. also which comes up not very often is if the person is not been able to be on a working shift and they have to go to mooned training but that's not used often that were and if we were to go to wildland fires then we receive money from that >> so that being said we have higher earners. so people are put into the shift we're allowing those to work who want to at unsafe levels. one of the things we've done is put a cap into for 11 hundred hours to try to minimize it's not going to change the time but it will distribut

now all of a sudden three years later, the pendulum has swung completely around. and in its effort to promote height and density, the city is actively encouraging skyscrapers, glass buildings, common in cities like shanghai, et cetera. with little concern for air quality and shadowing. do you want to turn this city into another manhattan, shanghai or hong kong? thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >> greetings, president chiu, members of the board of supervisors, my name is paul sedway and i live at 765 market street. i have served on the boards of heritage, contemporary museum and spur. i also led what at one point was the largest urban planning consulting firm in the united states, including over 100 environmental impact reports. our firm always tried to prepare eirs that were helpful as an evaluation tool, focusing on two things, alternatives and cumulative effects. and i would like to use that experience to address quickly the eir we have today. first as to alternatives, the eir offered two con flicting reasons why the original design was supersedeed offered co

there was a time, the 1920s, for example, the pendulum clearly was too far in the other direction.d ourselves way on the side of regulation, way on the side of trying to squelch risk. and i think the result of this is important. the reason i say it's going to become a two-tier market, on the private side, things are actually working pretty well which is to say funds like ours that primarily represent frankly rich people, rich people's pensions, rich people's colleges and foreign country sovereign wealth funds generally are doing fine. and we're very active in growth investing precisely because these companies are not going public. on the public side, you're draining growth out of the market and returns. of course, the public market is where most ordinary americans' retirement savings is held in the form of mutual funds and pension funds. if we keep with this aroach, we're not going to have returns for people's retirement accounts which means that people aren't going to be able to retire. and i think that ultimately is going to be the big that comes out of that, and we're heading st

the american people of gotten out of their chairs and change their priorities and if the pendulum getshed too far one way, by golly, they get up and shove it back where it belongs and they've done it. now, is it possible there's a tipping point where the pendulum gets shoved too far one way and you can't get it back? and i suppose it is a tipping point. have we reached the? i doubt it. i think that -- i've got enormous confidence in the american people, think of all the people who rushed into the world trade center in new york, windows attack. think of the people who rushed into the pentagon and started pulling people out were burned and dying and injured in fighting. the american people have a lot of fiber. i mean, this country's streets were not paved with gold with all the people came from other countries and built it into what it is. i've got a website, rumsfeld.com which i put a speech by adlai stevenson on their that was given to my senior class in college in 1954. and if you've got young people who are fainthearted, who are wondering, gee, about the world, read that speech by ad

no matter how far that negative pendulum swings, it's going to go to the positive every time. >>> we'reoming right in. >> a stolen dump truck rips through an ohio suburb and takes the police head on. >> going to ram another cruiser. >> march 7, 2010. a crisp winter saturday morning in stow, ohio. just outside akron. officer steve miller is on a call about a dump truck stolen the night before. miller surveys the scene and returns to the department to file a report. but as he pulls in, dispatch notifies him that the truck owner he just left has tracked down his missing truck. and he's following it. >> i'm just thinking who would steal a dump truck, still be driving it around in the city after they stole it during the night. >> within minutes, officer miller spots the dump truck as it approaches a stop sign. miller approaches behind and prepares to pull it over. but whoever is driving that truck has no intention of stopping. soon another officer is on the scene in an suv. a third officer, sergeant ron jones, speeds towards the scene while his fellow officers use their cruisers to box in th

thatm a little concerned the pendulum is swinging too far in one direction. as somebody who was the legal adviser of the national security council both before and after 9/11 who responded to all the 9/11 commission requests for what were you doing prior to 9/11 to make the country safe and why did you not do enough? i can tell you on behalf of someone who's been in the white house, these are difficult. all these things that hina has said are on one side of the spectrum. these drone strikes are causing damage around the world. on the other hand, if you are the president of the u.s. and his advisers sworn to make the country safe, you were cia director is giving you information that suggests there are threats against you that another 9/11 could happen and you do nothing, then you also have a problem. i'm sure this administration looked back and looks at the investigation done by the 9/11 commission the suggested that not enough had been done and is mindful of that. i only want to make the point that although all of us have raised concerns about drone strikes, i

you need to see the pendulum has now swung. the tea party in many ways has lost a lot of this mojo because of overreach. it is out of sync with the values of so many people. we could have seen that in the summer of 2009. one of tea party people stood up and said "government, take your hands off my medicare." you see how internalized those programs are. >> who does not want to watch a car wreck? >> it has done a lot of damage. >> this tweet says the obama administration is responsible for the tea party. >> it opened a backing tree that hot summer of 2009 -- it opened up a vacuum for it. that hot summer of 2009. the president could have mobilized. there were people mobilizing on their own. a pragmatic, progressive president would have understood the power of having people in those places to combat a message that was full of misinformation. remember teh death panels? part of that is on us to fight back and expose that. only after labor day did the president come forward and begin to speak again to the people and explain where they

you need to see the pendulum has now swung. the tea party in many ways has lost a lot of this mojo because of overreach. it is out of sync with the values of so many people. we could have seen that in the summer of 2009. one of tea party people stood up and said "government, take your hands off my medicare." you see how internalized those programs are. >> who does not want to watch a car wreck? >> it has done a lot of damage.

when you have something like this, there is always the risk the pendulum will swing the other way and people who want to actually gather as much possible data and information will then have the upper hand and say, come on, we have to do away with all of these checks and balances. there is always that risk some people will try to sweep it away and be over draconian. what you don't want is a whole communities where everybody is fighting on each other. in a case of this particular , michael -- i get confused about the two names, because they are so similar -- the older of the two, he was quite well known by a number of people. he was preaching. to be honest, i think a lot of people literally thought he was all talk. rarely it was a bit more than that. and people now say i wish we had spoken to him, if we had any idea he was going to do that we would have tried >> to stop him. >>is it as simple as saying the security services have to take every individual case on its merits? there is not a benchmark beyond they could automatically do another phase of monitoring or surveillance, act the fo

i just don't see pendulum. i see a slow drift more than see it going back and forth. here's the big problem. when democrats create policy, its policy forever. when republicans come view a tax cut is a temperate tax cut that has to be at some point fixed. the problem is that you always have to be vigilant and always fight, and they never stop. they are programs have, continue to grow but as with hazard initial estimate on it, do you think obama to be any different? creating these state exchanges i think the price has already doubled since they started, the estimate. so the problem is that their programs are for ever and we, our programs are not forever. >> [inaudible] [applause] spent we would like to hear from you. tweeters your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> mr. moss, what happened in minneapolis in april 1999? >> i start the book with that meeting because it's so informative of the industry's attitude and strategies. 1999, the obesity epidemic was just beginning to emerge. and raised concern not only among consumer activists and nutritionists but among people insi

. >> the pendulum has to swing to the hot then to the chilly side and settle right in the middle. that's what we'll have coming up just in time. perfect timing for mother's day. all you moms out there you're welcome in advance from mother nature. it's going to be a beautiful weekend. we have to get there first. let's talk about your forecast for this evening. a lie look outside still have some low cloud cover over toward the oakland hills and we're sunny inland but temperatures lagging behind because of the onshore flow. santa rosa 66. oakland down to 59 in down san francisco. 50s all day long. kpix 5 hi-def doppler radar is dry. drizzle on the peninsula but no official rainfall in the bay area. overnight tonight upper 40s santa rosa napa, low 50s oakland. big story cloud cover returns for all of us. now, inland you will get the sunshine in the afternoon. but we just kind of have a mishmash of an onshore flow and lots of cloud cover left over from the low pressure system from a few days ago. bottom line, tomorrow we'll start off just like today. we are going to be cloudy throughou

we talk about vibrations, something may be bobbing up and down, or a pendulum swinging back and forth, or something that occurs and recurs. i could take my chalk on the board-- i can vibrate it up and down. i'm vibrating a little bit, too, okay? these are vibration, all right? now, how frequently i go to and fro has to do with frequency. we talk about frequency with the letter f. here's a low frequency. wanna see a high frequency? this is common-sense stuff. see that? ain't that neat? guess what a very high frequency is. how many say, "gee, i don't know what--" come on, you guys know. what's a very high frequency? [makes sounds] like that, yeah? okay. but when then a high frequency is propagated through space, watch. it traces out what we call a... sine curve. it's really a sine curve but a representation of a wave, okay? now, we gonna go through some definitions, gang. this frequency dragged out. the dotted line is my equilibrium point. i'm gonna vibrate above the equilibrium and below, and i go just as far above and just as far as below. i call this particular distance here, by the

gotten out of the chair to change their priorities is it possible there is a tipping point* where the pendulumed too far one way? i suppose there is. have we reached it? i doubt it. i have enormous confidence in the american people so think of all the people that rushed into the world trade center in new york when it was attacked, the people who rushed into the pentagon to pull people out who were burned and dying and injured and frightened. the american people will have a lot of fiber. i have a web site rumsfeld.com that i point* of speech by at applied -- adeline stevens on they're given to my class in 1954 and if you have young people who are wondering about the world read that speech he happened to be a democrat and governor of my home state i don't think he would have been a good president to be honest. he was a cerebral type. one of the campaign slogans was a heads of the world unite we have nothing to lose but our yolks. [laughter] but the speech to my senior class in 1954 was absolutely brilliant and if you read something like that you'll hear about those who do stand up and support pe

now there's a really compelling pendulum shift if you look in certain party circles where the science, itself, and the integrity of the intieps itself is questioned. in this chapter, i examine chronic lime disease and autism within the context of how social media and the internet altered the course of advocacy and what the examples illustrate in terms of the larger complexities of present day illness. now, as you can imagine, chronic lime and autism are complex topics, books and boxes have been written about each of them. i really did try to keep a narrow focus and look at how has the internet changed this, would we see this two decades ago without the tools? that was my purpose. i was not trying to retell the story or recast the story as it were. the following chapter, 8, looks at the movement, empoweredded, e quicked, and engaged, and as a model for working for change in collaboration within the medical system how individuals are informed to help consumerred and advocate for themselves to have access to the health information when this chapter 7 is about how groups and patient advoc

. >> pendulum is swinging, though, isn't it, from years past. >> well, sure, the pendulum has swung dramaticallyend of 2007 till early spring of 2009 that the market went one way then two. but the direction was down, not up. and this doesn't mean that, you know, we're in for some kind of major pullback. but it does mean people tend to get a little complacent when you get these elongated moves in one direction or another. in this case, obviously the move has been up. >> so how's business with the dow at 15,000 or close to it right now? >> it's an interesting question because at seaport, i mean, we have a lot of retail clients and online trading product, but the phones simply aren't ringing. and they haven't been ringing. >> you mean for the trades. >> yeah, for the trades. there seems to be just little or no interest on the part of the public. i'm not sure why that is. perhaps the scars from 2008 or 2009 are still open and deep. or perhaps it's just a confidence issue that in spite of the fact that the averages are making new highs, that a lot of the headline news continues to be negative. >> a l

i think the position now is the pendulum in the conflict is now swinging firmly towards president assadm told the reason this is happening from the military experts that are watching this very closely is the impact iran's revolutionary guards have had since they came into syria at the end of last year. i reported last september that 150 iranian revolutionary guards had gone to syria to help train the assad forces. this is at a time when the assad forces, the assad forces were on the defensive. the defense minister was blown up in a suicide attack. as you said in your introduction, a lot of officials thought it was just a matter of time before assad fell but the whole tide of the war now since the iranians arrived is swinging back towards assad. literally thousands of syrian pro-assad volunteers have now been trained by the iranians and their presence on the battlefield in places like tusir where there has been a fierce battle the last couple weeks and also clearing the rebels out of the suburbs of damascus. this as i'm told the presence of the iranians who really helped to put some disc

you could say that clock usually is a pendulum swinging back and forth, right? or vibrations in a crystal lattice, okay? in this particular case, the clock is regularly spaced flashes of light and one can keep track of time by counting up the flashes of light. so far so good? let's see what happens if we apply this to space travel. here's the earth, our cradle, gang. that's our cradle, the cradle of humankind. what do we do with cradles, by the way, even if they're comfortable? - we outgrow. - we outgrow them, that's right. and we see that starting to happen now, don't we? the spaceship's going out. we're talking about space platforms, okay? anyway, this is our cradle right here and here comes our rocket ship, same one, streaming by. and we're gonna say at this point, boom. both times are 12:00 noon. 12:00 on the ship, 12:00 on the earth and the ship continues. now, what the ship is gonna do? it's gonna take a one-hour trip out and it's gonna turn around very quickly. so quickly that the time is negligible in comparison to the hour trip. so ship is going out, tu

now there's a really compelling pendulum shift if you look in certain patient circles where the science itself and the integrity of the science itself is being questioned. in this chapter i examine chronic lyme disease and how social media and the internet have altered the course of advocacy. and what these examples illustrate in terms of the languager complexities of present day illness. so as you can imagine, autism is a very complex topic. books and books have been written, so i really did try to keep a narrow focus in this chanter and look at how has the internet and social media changed this, and would we see the same trajectory two decades ago without these tools. and so that was really my purpose. i wasn't trying to retell or recast the story, as it were. so the following chapter, chapter eight, looks at the e-patient movement, and e-patients are empowered, equipped, involved and engaged in participatory medicine as an aspirational model for working for change and collaboration within the medical system. so really how individuals can be more informed health consumers and advocate

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so again the pendulum swings the way of sebastian vettel and helps him in his quest for his fourth world title. >> don't take any risks. >> all right. that's enough. you don't need any more points for that. >> satisfaction. >> what that was, was setting a lap time of 1.18.4 right at the end of the race. final two turns, this is a day that nico rosberg and the rosberg family will remember forever. he mirrors what his father did 30 years ago, nico rosberg wins in his home city of monaco! unbelievable, the first mercedes silver arrow to win the monaco formula 1 grand prix! . and he has dominated the entire weekend. it was eventful but more importantly for rosberg it is memorable. >> yes. sutil with a brilliant top five result. >> and both force indias still with points again. they're having a fabulous year again. adrian sutil had a great race. for mercedes-benz nico rosberg, what a day. >> there is nikki lauder in the red cap. the triple world champion and two-time winner on the streets of monaco. he's the chairman of this team, of this organization. and that is reason to celebrate. wow. ni

. >> the swing is a pendulum that catapults fliers as high as 30 feet in the air.he team has never performed the swing in a show before and they are hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving a little bit early, and so i had been going straight up. >> on the night of the show, nicole is determined not to repeat the mistakes she's made in practice. she takes off and does a single back tuck, but she overcompensates. >> i went too far the other way. i waited too long and i pushed really hard, and it sent me more horizontal than vertical. >> the slight miscalculation makes a big difference in where nicole lands, and the mistake is compounded by something else that goes wrong that night. >> we would usually practice with an additional smaller crash pad on the end, but for some reason that day it wasn't there.

. >> the pendulum swung chilly for a week and a half.tarting tomorrow it will swing the other way. today was just right. the porridge was just right, not too hot, not too cold. hope you enjoyed it because tomorrow will be hot. san jose on a thursday evening almost to 80. gilroy hit 83. concord, nap, low 80s, san rafael 76. napa low 80s. redwood city currently 75. san francisco you're getting there, you're working your way close to 70. today's high 66. you may hit 80 coming up on saturday. here's a peek at the radar. there are a few false echoes offshore, trust me, with all that clear condition out there and the clear sky. there is nothing radar or rainfall-wise on kpix 5 hi-def doppler. overnight tonight very comfortable lows keep the windows open oakland 53, mountain view 53, san jose 53, napa, san rafael and livermore also in the low 50s. big changes. it was all about low pressure to our north for about a week and a half straight. now it's all about high pressure to our west. high pressure is sinking air. to get widespread cloud cover

market share, of course there was more resources but selling independents being in touch with the pendulum many more of you, sales forces were bigger and all that, what has been consistent entirely consistent is you have always been much more important to us than your market share would show. we have always realized the great value of independent booksellers discovering and making first novels happen, there books actually end up being huge bestsellers across all the market because of your ability to create word of mouth. you always punch above you're wait but as far as total resources devoted, we do make business decisions based on how big each piece of the market is. i would say we always, always keep you guys in mind. no doubt where our heart lies. you are always the greatest value you bring is in our mind and after that we make a bunch of decisions based on that. >> as macmillan's c e o you have a lot of responsibilities outside the united states, what happens here. the marketplace for mcmillan and books in europe, when i think of countries like germany and france, not the way they look

i know the pendulum always swings too far in one direction, but at some point, does some of this uncertaintyo the regulator is, of not knowing how the industry looks in five years, does that slow you down from doing things nah you otherwise would have done? >> i think it slow us down a little bit and i wish that people would start showing the success instead of talking about the g being a little empty, talk about how much progress has been made. the banks are very well capitalized. they're very strong today. and yet people are talking about breaking them up because they're too big to fail and they're putting the taxpayer at risk. when you talk in that kind of tone, which isn't correct, what you're doing is you're scaring everybody. and that's what's holding us back. people are afraid to lend. people that make commitments or even people that borrow. so i think we've got to get some fear out of the system and get people back to feeling more confident in the world around them. >> and do you see it? do you sense the fear when you talk to colleagues in business, when you talk to corporate heads,

i think it went to one end of the pendulum. now, it went to the exact opposite. it's got to come somewhere in the middle. it's tough. and especially for small business owners, who really don't show a lot of money. it's almost impossible. but if you look at that financing piece, if the financing was just a little bit easier, you would really see prices increase. and that would help people get their equity back a lot quicker and then they would be able to move up and move out. >> all right, we will leave it there. dottie, we'll be watching. thank you so much for your insights, we appreciate it. dottie herman, thank you so much. >>> julia just got off the cfo at facebook. >> he said he's pleased with the company's progress. he sees that this earnings report is a strong start for the year. i asked him about the fact that eps was 12 cents as opposed to the 13 cents that wall street had expected and he said that we're, quote, investing for growth as we said we would, ramping up our investments in products that could improve long-term engagement and also in the infrastr

abandoned for 15 years when democrats decided not to fight it i think there's a little more room for the pendulumo swing toward modest gun control. >> and reality, unfortunately, will intrude again on this debate. it happens -- >> this is reality. we're trying to kill people with ricin-laced letters. >> happens again and again and some people thought newtown was actually a tipping point. it turns out those people were wrong. but it doesn't mean that there might not be another one. >> it could be an inflection point. i don't mean to get very graphic. graphic as in graphs. anyway, coming up, george w. bush continues his re-entry to our mountain biking with wounded warriors at his 1500-acre crawford ranch. there's perhaps no better way to catch the former president in his element except perhaps than when he's clearing brush as when he is on his bike. the "huffington post" went along. [ female announcer ] the best thing about this bar it's not a candy bar. 130 calories 7 grams of protein the new fiber one caramel nut protein bar. whoa! hey, we got a weather alert for this location... golf-ball sized

so, in the pendulum back and forth we now have fast track.so i am way up here up the tree, except it ran out in 2007. with all of these rather seismic shift elections that we have had another are a lot of members of congress or not around to see how it was abused by democrats or republicans. therefore, the big question is, well this congress did bamboozled with the usual arguments and doing another delegation of the old authority or will it get replaced, much overdue given up until now, well, 40 years of fast track matadi years overdue for change. dressed in a description by president kennedy, 1961, what he thought needed to happen with trade authority, which was when the old delegation mechanism this does not meet the needs of the current era, it must not simply be renewed but replaced. and that is from kennedy and where the bookends by laying down actually what a replacement could look like. again, it may sound like a want fest. this is got to me, the difference is when your kids having say food or as having to import food that does not mee

i think you've seen on the commercial side the pendulum has swung back more toward the middle, fasterresidential side. i think now you're starting to see the residential side starting to catch one that with easing credit standards. >> given that credit has swung more toward the middle but you do have rising rates, at what point do you say rates are so high at this point that it will cause a slowdown of some sort? >> listen, i'm a believer in the forward curve, and if you take a look where the forward curve, you're saying it's going up another 25 basis points in six months, another 50 basis points in 12 months. still the historic 10-year average is 6 1/2%. so i think still in the 2% to 3% range you're still fine on real estate because if you can borrow at 4 1/2% and 5% and you can't make real estate work you've got a problem. >> do you get concerned at all about the idea that from a secular standpoint we may have seen the all-time peak in terms of the need for commercial real estate and more and more people will be working at home or moving around or renting space as they need it? is t

maybe the pendulum is starting to swik maybe a little past fair value but nothing close to that. >> are we too bullish? are people too bullish? >> one of the things people like to talk about is where deflation actually helps people. so the commodity tail -- look at the airline industry. you've had a lot of industries that have gone through very painful evolutions on the back of consolidation that have been necessary. overcapacity. they've gotten their game together. they've learned how to actually be efficient in their game and now they actually have the benefit of commodity prices that are at their back. this isn't just the airline industry. you can make the argument across the transports. you can make this argument in other parts of the industrial sphere. companies have had to get better through the crisis. they've gotten lean and mean. and now you have a backdrop where maybe things are macro working in their favor. >> but when you say maybe we're too bullish, guys have not covered all their positions just yet. volume has been light. so not everyone is in the water right now. everyone

so, in the pendulum of back and forth we now have fast track way up here up the tree. except it ran out in 2007. with all of these rather seismic shift elections we have had there are a lot of members of congress who are not around to see how it was abused by democrats or republicans. therefore the big question is, will this congress get bamboozled with the usual arguments into doing another delegation of the old authority or will it get replaced. much overdue, given, up until now, well, oh years of fast track, 20 years overdue for change. interesting description by president kennedy in 1961 of what he thought needed to happen with trade authority, which was when the old delegation mechanism does not meet the needs of the current era it must not be renewed but replaced. and that wisdom from kennedy is where the book ends, by laying out actually what a replacement could look like. now, again, this may sound like a wonk. this is the difference between your kids having safe food or having to import food that doesn't meet u.s. standards, the difference between being able t

. >> i am concerned that the pendulum is swinging too far in one direction.they responded to all of the 9/11 commission's requests for what were you doing prior to 9/11 to make the country safe and why did you not do enough? i can tell you on behalf of some of -- as someone who has been in the white house, all these things that has been said on one side of the spectrum. these are causing us great damage around the world. on the other hand if you were the president and his advisers, sworn to make the country safe, the cia director gives information that suggests there are threats against you that another 9/11 could happen. i'm sure this administration looks back and looks at the investigation done by the 9/11 commission that suggested that not enough had been done and is mindful of that. i only want to make the point that although all of us have raised concerns about drone strikes, i do not want the pendulum to swing so far as to suggest that these are not incredibly difficult decisions if you're the president and his >> the george w. bush presidential library

analysts say there's little doubt now the pendulum is swinging in favor of assad. why?cs evolve and decisions about the battlefield evil with them. set ofe the inevitable mistakes that lead to a sought 's downfall. because survival is the main focus, you have a shift away from this idea that asad can hold onto the entire country, essentially fighting a counterinsurgency style combat operation. securityto control zones. they have retrenched from the east and the northeast of the country. there is still some focus on aleppo, but the real focus is eraa, homs,border, dar all the way up to the mediterranean coastline. the idea is between a kind of positive view of things, although we have two more pragmatic. the positive view is a sought is is able to hold these zones am a to clear opposition forces -- the positive view is a sought is able to hold the zones and clear opposition forces. , and tedious, difficult forces are too task. it gives a sought a strong negotiating position -- it gives assad a strong negotiating position. , and theyhese gains agree with the overall asses

public up to the right, not the left, and it is not the pendulum will swing, liberal power will come again. it is decaying, stagnating context like we are beginning to experience. now, talk to young people are feeling yourself. people really begin to say something is going on. this was not the way it was supposed to be. this is the richest country in the history of the world, and people begin to say to my there is a new path toward or is going to get worse. remember, i look at it as a historian. the possibility, i think the argument of this book is we enter an era where the real possibility, not the abstract possibility -- this drive people crazy. the real possibility of systematically laying the foundations for a possible transformation are with us. it is our responsibility to look at that and say, hey, maybe we could actually do this if we got serious. i'm talking to the person in your chair, you know. it is with the intention that we were actually to get serious, we might be able to get ourselves to a place where we thought we might be even able to act as historically as the civil

i am a little bit concerned the pendulum is swinging too far in one direction.as someone who was actually the legal adviser for the national security council before and after 9/11, who responded to all of the 9/11 commission request for what were you doing prior to 9/11 to make the country safe and why did you not do enough? i can tell you on behalf of someone who has been in the white house, these are difficult. of these things are on one side of the spectrum. you arether hand, if the president of the united states and advisers warned to make the country safe, your cia director is giving information that suggests there are threats against you that another 9/11 could happen and you knew alsong -- do nothing, you have a problem. i am sure the administration looks back and looks at the commission after the 9/11 commission suggestion that not enough had been done and is mindful of that. although all of us have raised concerns about drone strikes, i do not want the pendulum to swing so far as to suggest these are not incredibly difficult decisions as the president o

the controversial stroke allows players to rap the putter against their body and create a pendulum likethe pga tour, 15% of professional golfers use strokes, has not settled adopt that ban. those are your headlines. back to dagen mcdowell and connell mcshane. dagen: actually not of dad golfer. dagen: thank you for that. connell: no, no, no, i probably should get one of those. a lot of people use them. let's go back to d.c. because in the hot seat for the first time the guy who was in charge when the irs is targeting some conservative groups. dagen: one set in front of congress nothing happened here. peter barnes in washington d.c. with more. peter: doug shoen has not had much to say. the real confrontation came between senator orrin hatch, top republican and steven miller who was the acting irs commissioner who took over after eshelman left, hatch and other senators sent letters to the irs asking about targeting of conservative groups and the tax exemption process and the letters they got back signed by miller was pretty standard that they didn't let on that this was under way or that t

and everyone in washington needs to remember that the pendulum always swings.f the power on capitol hill right now, there could come a time when everything reverses, and, you know, they may want to think about that as they decide whether or not the irs has been abusing its power here. >> right. and we're talking about an agency with so much immense power, and, you know, many americans fear the idea of an audit, so i think we have to know. and i think it's in the administration's interests to know especially if there's no untoward behavior there that what went on and how to correct it. so i think that it should be an interest of the administration if they have nothing to hide. jon: good point. jamie weinstein from the daily caller, thank you. uma: we're going to shift gears and take you to court. karen kelly on trial for fatally shooting her boyfriend, but the defense claims he pulled the trigger. how they bolstered their theory without kelly ever taking the stand. our legal panel will be weighing in as this trial winds down. have aooood night. here youou go. yo

you've got more than a half dozen congressional committees here but, you know, the pendulum tends to swing. republicans believe that the public will be on their side but they're going to have to make a decision here, which is do they allow this to affect what they do on the second-term agenda? do they just go, use these issues, smaller government, for big win in the mid-term elections which is after all what they're going after, or do they work with the president at the white house? on something like immigration reform, they also believe that is in their self-interest. do they in effect compartmentalize one issue from another? we don't know the answer to that. >> now there is a justice department investigation potentially a criminal investigation into the irs issue, it starts relatively tame but you don't know where those investigations wind up. >> that's right. don't forget, wolf, it was republicans who said to this white house, you know what? there are too many leaks out of the white house and you guys better look into those leaks so the justice department looked into those leaks.

feels like maybe the pendulum went too far. obviously from your introduction, pension promises were way too lofty and way too lavish. some of the other things, taxes were too high. it made it an uncompetitive city. population went from 1.8 million in 1950 to where it is now. and, really deaf stating. martha: it is devastating. and it, you know, there is, they're at a tippingpoint. they're going to be able to tighten their belts and figure out a way to rebuild the city or it will be like one of those, once great cities that you visit in other parts of the world where it is sort of overgrown and it's gone. >> yeah. you're absolutely right. it could be a modern ruin if you will. martha: yeah. >> to american industrialism. you know, the thing is, it is already done. it's, believe it, there is no idea of saving the city per se. right now what they need to be working on is how to rebuild the city. how to bring it out of the rubble and that will be a tough call because it is going to need to sort of austerity kind of thing, that at le

. >> what we know is prosecutions were vastly up after the scandal and the pendulum swung the other waye more prosecutions. and we know that we're going to keep this issue on the front burner. and i am the only three time patriot. >> i have no idea what that mean. >> i now now that we are taking this serious. this is a systemic problem. prosecutions. it's good to good to get the predators out. i urge congress and senate to really investigate, look at the statistics and realize that they need outside accountability. this is a week that drove it home to me. me thanks to patricia ireland. the servicewomen's action network. msnbc contributor goldie taylor and jessica with the group protect our defenders. thank you for joining us today for "up." we'll talk to the irs in bangladesh. and coming up next is melissa harris-perry. the business of politics is overshadowed by the personal. what could it be about president barack obama that makes republicans in washington obsessed with him as an individual opposed to his policies. and melissa harris-perry is coming up next. we'll see you here tomorro