transportation policy analyst for the reason foundation thank you so much. there's a battle brewing in the city by the bay over the right to let it all hang out literally a group of nudists have filed a federal lawsuit to stop the san francisco board of supervisors from passing an ordinance next week that would ban nudity in the city the supervisors are set to vote tuesday on a proposal by a supervisor scott wiener that would prohibit displays of genitals or box in the city's plazas or parks the ban would also apply to sidewalks streets and public transportation if passed fines would start at one hundred dollars for the people who break the law now last year the board passed a ban on nudity in restaurants and require nudist sitting on benches or other public seating to first put clothing on or some other material in between themselves in the seat we'll keep you posted on what happens in this legal skirmish and speaking of public nudity take a look at this piece of art it was supposed to go on display a few cents but u.s. customs officials had a problem with

participating in un general assembly debates but shaikh had done me is senior policy analyst and the reason foundation i think time as this move will not help to bring peace in the region and close the short run i don't doubt they will make big words. really is that what really been saying that this is an inflammatory for loop which essentially says that the fellas dinners are not going to live by the even on the minimal oslo accords and if that's the case then they feel no need to continue negotiating negotiations are beginning on c.h. and with the palestinians so i think for a while for sure this is not going to help the peace process but you know i think from the palestinian standpoint the freeze peace process was not going anywhere anyway and so the bones the organs or leave don't have all that much to lose perhaps right now in pushing that probably is the only standpoint obviously on one hand not to do anything about this move with about a bus it doesn't look good it makes them look weak on the other hand if they we couldn't of us any further as actually the foreign minister of israel has been ca

yes senior policy analyst at the reason foundation think tank says the bet is the only option for the palestinian authority is to strengthen positions. the short run i don't doubt that they will make things worse. it really is that we're ready been saying that this is an inflammatory for about fifteen moves which essentially says that the fed is daniels are not going to live by the and he meant they don't that has been in the fossil record and if that's the case then there is no need to continue negotiating negotiations are beginning considerations with the palestinians so i think for a while for sure this is not going to help the peace process but you know i think from the palestinian standpoint the freeze peace process was not going anywhere anyway and so the phones they are concerned they don't have all that much to lose perhaps right now in pushing this probably isn't any standpoint obviously on one hand not do anything about this move with about a bust it doesn't look good it makes them look weak on the other hand if they weaken of us any further as actually the foreign minister

and in new york we cross to anthony rideout so he is the director of economic research for the reason foundation all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and what if i go to you first in washington give us the magnitude of the fiscal cliff ok a lot is being talked about it what happens if we go over the cliff doesn't sound like something good to happen. there you know there or are three.

transportation policy analyst for the reason foundation thank you so much that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america say back here at eight pm eastern. leave. it to. the low for. a little little. little. little. luck and it can lead to. the i'm going to. implement the old hello and welcome across people of l. again gaza is under military assault what did the israelis hope to achieve this time around four years ago an invasion killed over a thousand palestinians and destroyed much of the strips infrastructure in the end hamas remained intact and gaza still under siege what can the israelis do now that they haven't done before. the education. of the soul. to the events unfolding in gaza i'm joined by harry fear in gaza he is a documentary filmmaker and activist in washington we have daniel polak he is co-director of government relations for the zionist organization of america and in new york we crossed to norman finkelstein he is a political analyst and author all right gentlemen crosstalk rolls in effect that means you can jum

and in new york we cross to anthony rideout so he is the director of economic research for the reason foundation all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and what if i go to you first in washington give us the magnitude of the fiscal cliff ok a lot is being talked about it what happens if we go over the cliff doesn't sound like something good to happen. there you know there are three or four things that can have been terms of tax cuts and spending cuts tax increases and spending cuts and the total amount if we were to do absolutely nothing would be about six hundred billion dollars in a fifteen trillion dollar economy so quite severe it would definitely go into recession would be a severe recession.

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transportation policy analyst for the reason foundation. hey there are a first thing i want to talk about the recent news coming out of shelving these. body scanners i know it's about ninety ninety one of these body scanners that are worth about fourteen million dollars so what do you make of that is this a good or a bad sign. well first of all making thanks very much for having me on and in some it's hard to know what to make of it so they took the scanners out of some of the busiest airports and have basically shelved them for the time and are looking at putting them into smaller airports so it's good that they're getting them out of the bigger airports but it's unfortunate that they're really putting them anywhere in my opinion and what exactly is the reason behind moving these security scanners as if that they're too invasive or is there some other kind of problem with them so what has happened is they've gone ahead and gotten some new equipment in there are it is less invasive the screeners are actually less invasive in the bigger airp

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determines that flawed design and faulty construction, particularly with the building's foundation, are the main reasons for the collapse. across the globe, a much older and smaller building, a 122-year-old brick firehouse is being moved to a new location when something goes terribly wrong. the historic firehouse crumbles into a pile of rubble. august 21st, 2008, peekskill, new york, after months of planning, workers begin the slow and delicate operation of moving the firehouse. the firehouse, built in 1890, is home to the centennial hose company. it serves the peekskill community for 90 years before closing in 1980 because of recurring problems with flooding. >> every time we had heavy rains, it would flood out our firehouse. we used to be knee-deep. sometimes chest deep in water in the firestation. >> despite decades of neglect, firefighters cherish the centennial and the memories it holds. but to make room for a new bridge, it's scheduled to be demolished. instead, the city of peekskill decides to move it down the street and turn it into a museum. however, moving a 122-year-old building is no easy fe

by all these foundations and everybody working together. that's what works. there's a reasonando, florida has a hundred -- the university of central florida changes the curriculum every semester to put people into jobs that are opening. there's a reason san diego, california is the human genome capital of the world. same deal, public, private, foundations, people working together. ever since the tea party took over the republican party -- >> boo! >> ever since the tea party took over the republican party, they say it's my way or the highway, we're right all the time. they've beat the distinguished republican senator from indiana, richard luger, their most important foreign policy spokesperson because he was attacked by his opponent for cooperating with president obama on national security. they're nominee actually said, i couldn't make this up, that his happiest day was when he was imposing his opinion on someone else and he wanted the people to send him to washington, so that he could have more partisanship in washington, d.c. now if you want it, you can have it. the people

they're part of foundation of the reasonable european budget. finally, chancellor, you're a physicist. to remind us of that again today. as a physicist, you are used to experiments, but is it -- it's an experiment doesn't work shirley got to give up that experiment and try something else. when you see extremity and austerity policies, not saving money, i'm talking about extreme austerity. your to give up that experiment and move forward with growth, policy of growth, and investment and job creation. because those unemployment people, we have to do something for them. and there's used unemployment as well which is something we cannot sit back and accept. thank you. [applause] >> these are the. >> translator: -- [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: first of all, thank you for your intervention. you didn't read the it this afternoon but a few days ago, you said that the crisis could be over in five years, like in what was you said in the meeting. and i have to tell you i am by nature an optimist, but honestly i have to tell you, i have my dou

>> heritage disagreed with the bill because of the regulatory foundation. >> the reason that i ask isat most of the people on one of these earlier panels, i think it's safe to say it is not quite laughably permissive, but about as wide a version of the bill as it can be. when you think about the idea? it is too static. they say, okay, i'm in compliance, i may be good. but you are just as vulnerable as you were, because the bad guys know how to get around it. we need to have a bill that leverages the self-preservation instinct. not in laissez-faire, but enables people to do that information sharing, take the right steps without just a unique standard, and you're good to go. >> lets use pollution as the model. okay, almost everybody on some level recognizes pollution is a threat to the common good. to some degree or other, people have accommodated rules and regulations that i think arguably, i don't know if they are properly imbalance, but they have made our rivers cleaner and so on. is there any application of any consequence for the companies that don't do their part? or should it be

reason to oppose it. once the united nations will lay the foundations for the idea we and israel have to encourage a seriousage in a serious process of negotiations. hillary clinton disagrees. >> we oppose palestinian efforts to upgrade their status at the u.n., outside of the framework of negotiations to achieve a two-state solution because, no matter what happens at the united nations, it will not produce the outcome that this government, this president, certainly i, strongly support. >> perhaps the most significant change that will come with the upgraded status palestine's ability to where charges of war crimes against israel to the international criminal court. joining the panel now to discuss these implications and more, former assistant of state, p.j. crowley and from normal, msnbc contributor rula jebreal. welcome to the program. i want to ask p.j., in terms of dynamics here, countries moving swiftly in the course of the last year to support palestinian statehood. how much does the conflict in gaza inform that? >> the conflict in gaza informs the desperation president abbas and the palestinian author

foundation. together, we'll collect a million reasons to believe. >>> back now at 7:42 with superstar justin bieberaccepted an award. a big award this weekend from the canadian prime minister. critics saying that he wasn't dressed properly. >> well, he wasn't. >> overalls, one little strap not done. george has weighed in. abc's linsey davis, though, has the story. ♪ i was your boyfriend >> reporter: how did the biebs go from every tween girl's fantasy boyfriend to this, denim overalls, neon sneakers? it's not just that he wore this getup. it's where he wore it, while getting a prestigious award from the prime minister of canada. critics now say the canadian pop star is, quote, a white trash prince, a far cry from the white house prince he appeared to be while suited up with president obama last year. the overalls have overwhelmed the web with comments like "disrespectful. "no class." "you want to be treated like a grown-up, dress like one." >> he's being intentionally provocative and wonders why he has detractors. >> reporter: bieber, once the model mama's boy, seems eager so shed the image. overni

foundation. i don't think we anticipated that. that is part of the reason the response has been a little bit slow. but we are doing everything we can. we are pushing all the buttons. i just think that it's a lot more mayhem than we have ever anticipated. gerri: congressman graham, thank you so much for coming on. i know you you are safe, natural family and i hope the family is safe too. i wish you the best in your efforts on staten island. we hope to hear from you again soon. >> thank you very much. gerri: for more on the cleanup and recovery efforts, i am joined by admiral dan abel. he is the first district commander of the coast guard. thank you for joining us tonight. it is a pleasure to have you on the telephone. i understand you were on a ship right now. so we may have difficulty communicating. i hope not. i know you have been doing a lot of looking at the region, long island sound, the courts, what do you think and what do you know? what can you tell us tonight about the region? >> well, taking a look at the coast, we are trying to do as much recovery

the work usually left to the foundation or core marketing efforts or core social responsibility efforts is moving closer to the center of the brand. there's a reason for that. there's a new exposure out there that was burned very bad badly -- new exposure out there that was burned very badly by taigt. more consumers are more distrustful than ever and want brands to be more socially responsible than ever and you see big brands nike with better world project. and nike and coca-cola, smarter planet, they do that because that's what's driving the marketplace today and that prese presents us, entrepreneurs to make money while make ing a contribution. >> you're seeing a lot of smaller brands like e-commerce company and war b park sneer explain that. >> they're an eye company where you buy one pair of eyeglasses and they donate another. you're seeing not just the coca-colas and starbucks but this extend to other brands as well. >> the reason for that, because we're all dealing with the same customer pool out there and gives you a way to talk about and we're all dealing with iphones now and gives you a shared thing to talk about. >> it's the way you inter

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biggest, vents of the year for the national kidney foundation is happening this weekend in washington. it's called the kidney ball and this is a good reason why there is a big push in our area to raise money for medical research. payson services, education, organ donation awareness. about 700,000 people in the d.c. region have some form of kidney disease. about 6,000 people are now on dialysis, and 1500 are waiting for a kidney transplant. and get ready to be inspired. pastor rusty norton is here, our guest. let me set this up, rusty. a couple of years ago, rusty gave the indication at the kidney ball and became inspired to be a living donor. i think we have a photo of -- photo of you giving the invocation. what did you hear at the kidney ball, rusty, that motivated you to become a living donor? >> what happened was when they asked me to do the invoication, i studied about kidneys. i figured i had a couple of them but didn't know about them. what struck me was 13 people a day will die waiting for a kidney, and and i didn't know anything about that. >> and giving the statistics, you know, those are people potentially in your congregation,

reasons, i believe. you know, i spent 12 years at the robert johnson foundation. it started when a major study came out that was published showing how poorly we care for people at the end of life. and so we launched a major initiative, and we started to help hospitals and physicians and nurses establish palliative care programs and house bills, which is a good thing. people can get the care that they want. so while that has taken off and we have a specialty, the question remains how come divided care costs keep going up and out. on the other side of the equation, our families who are deeply, deeply troubled about what many of them, not all, but many are deeply troubled. that will rely on physicians, future generations. i would love to hear your thoughts on what we can do to make sure people get the care that they need. public expectations. we think there's a cure for everything. if you turn on television dramas he think we can work miracles. we sent the public a steady diet . there is a cure for everything. every test known to mankind can and should be done. we cr

we must assure our fellow citizens their constitutional rights, the very foundation of what makes us americans. for this reason, i am proud to be a cosponsor of senator feinstein's amendment, and i strongly urge its adoption. thank you, mr. president. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: thank you. i just want to spend a few minutes noting why i am against the expansion of the public safety officers benefits improvement act. and it's a great example for where we find ourselves in our country. if you read the constitution and look at the enumerated powers, we have a federal program to benefit what is really the responsibility of states. nobody's going to say that this isn't a beneficial program to those poor families that might need this. and the chairman of the judiciary committee has done a wonderful job in terms of offsetting this so that there's no additional cost. and for that, i congratulate him. but this is a great example of why we're -- have $88 trillion in unfunded liability, $16 trillion in debt, because we're doing a function that is truly the respo

diplomas to kids who can't read them and so it seems reasonable there should be some things and to your point about democracy there has to be a common foundation of knowledge. even if we trusted e -- every school that the full rigor, you produce that in a society and as you say in the book, one generation grows up not knowing who kurt cobain and another doesn't know -- literally speaking that changes government. each of you has critiques of the standardization of education. talk about it going from michael first. >> tests are good. standards are good, you can follow any rule out the window. what we have done by doubling down on standardized testing, ratcheting up the competition every ten years since the nation of risk doesn't seem to have brought much more than the same dismal rates of the literacy will we have achieved resegregation and i don't know what else could come out of it. >> it would be fine to have a cacophonous democracy if we truly had a democritus -- cacophonous democracy without oligarchy and if we had a cacophony where we really had multiple voices and nobody had dominant voice so i open my book with this anecdotal of kurt cob

they are part and foundation of the reasonable european project. finally chancellor, you remind his of that again today. you are a physicist and use experiments but if an experiment does not work surely you have to give up this experiment and try something else. when you see an extremity and austerity policy, it's not saving money. i'm talking about extreme austerity, you have to give up those experiments and move forward with growth, plenty of growth and investment and job creation because those unemployment people, we have to do something for them. there is youth unemployment as well which is something we cannot sit back and accept. thank you. [applause] >> the liberal democrats group. 's the mrs. merkel chancellor, first of all thank you for your intervention. you did not repeat it this afternoon, but a few days ago you said that the crisis could be over in five years. i think that was what you said in the meeting with the city and i have to tell you by nature i'm an optimist. i have to tell you i have my doubts about it. and why? because all th

. >> the former israeli prime minister said, quote, it lays the foundation for a two-state solution. is there a reasonn. recognition that they will not go back to the negotiating table with israel? >> well, that's what president abbas said he'll do after the vote. the palestinians think this would give them leverage in peace talks. if you listen to prime minister benjamin netanyahu he doesn't buy it. he issued a statement that said israel is prepared to live in peace with the palestinian state but for peace to endure israel's security must be protected, the palestinians must recognize the jewish state and they must be prepared to end the conflict with israel once and for all. none of these vital interests of peace appear in the resolution that will be put before the general assembly today. that's why israel cannot accept it. the only way to achieve peace is through agreements reached by the parties directly through valid negotiations between themselves and not through u.n. resolutions that completely ignore israel's vital interests and national interests. because this is so one-sided it doesn't advanc