. >> reinhardt, director of san francisco open government. --ray hart, director of san francisco open government. i want to acknowledge that the agenda is good. all the members on which the matter of public -- all the matters on which members of the public may wish to comment on are arranged in front of the closed session and there will be no reason to deny their free- speech rights and their ability under the sunshine ordinance to participate in the session. i would like to comment on something that occurred last week. during one of my comments, i paused. after a couple seconds, the presiding officer said, "we are not going to comment." i know that, because it says under police commission rules of order that during public comment commissioners are not to enter into debate with the speakers. however, i would remind you of the week prior, where i had some comments on the occ director's report. it was the statistical reports through [unintelligible] following my comments, the officer said, "we do not usually respond to this, but i want to do ex

. >> reinhardt, director of san francisco open government -- ray hart, director of san francisco open government. this is on the chief's comments and on commissioners dejesus and kingsley. there is an expression -- none of us is as smart as all of us. getting members of the bay area community, one of the most creative places in the world, involved in the police department offers immense amounts of resources to the officers that otherwise would not have. it gets people in a position where they can participate in government and the actions of the police department, and obviously will foster to some degree of understanding of the community as a difficult job that officers have out on the street, and the constant questions that are raised. at some point, we will also address some of those questions so that people understand those questions are raised and get some sort of an answer. nebraska after the department makes on those lines which gets people involved and harnesses -- and the effort to the department makes on those lines which its people involved and harnesses their efforts should

in the future, holding the house of representatives, picture speaker reinhardt -- john maynard -- boehner, is going to have to say this is how republicans are voting in the house. in the past two years, they have just voted against everything obama did. many republicans will have to assert a little more responsibility. tavis: do you think our political system is broken? >> it is worse than it has been in my lifetime, and that is a long time. i think the only way it can be corrected is for the american people to see very vividly that it needs repair. and if things go from now to worse in the future, the american people in every congressional district in the land might demand that reforms take place in the political system. tavis: it is a beautiful thing to sit and listen to your reflections now. the thing i was most impressed with with regard to the white house diary is when and where you found the time to jot down these elections -- these reflections why you were in the white house. >> eight or nine times every day, i had a little tape recorder on me. i would pick it up and dictate what i