>>> i'm richard engel live in benghazi. whether or not this war is a good idea for the united states may depend on perspective. from where i am standing right now it seems like it was essential. it will be difficult for me or anyone here in the city to go down in the streets and tell the people of benghazi that they were not worth saving. but this doesn't mean it's necessarily in the united states' interest. and to discuss this is retired four star general barry mccaffery who always tells it like it is. a good friend. thank you for staying up, general mccaffery. will you address this question? was this a good idea? i know there's a lot of debate about the weeds here. how the nato role, u.s. role, but should the u.s. be involved militarily in libya? that is really the question i want your perspective on, sir. >> well, i think, richard, it's entirely appropriate to use u.s. military power for humanitarian purposes whether earthquakes or protecting people from benghazi. my only concern would be if you have fuzzy political thin

perle about this jackson bennett and richard perle said why are you talking about this amendment is null and void because since russia is now free market economy and here's an oil immigration restrictions congress doesn't have to vote because it's out now in obsolete when richard said it i thought he started crying or sensation here you know first didn't even realize what was going on here so. called everyone in the audience and so. do you agree that good richard said now changes the whole picture we don't have to go to congress and president obama can simply sign it and forget about it so then i wrote an article it was article most good times in a row daughter problem is that he's a magazine author and i was expecting russian government to do something about it but the russian government was director soon so they were slow and as no longer a middle of the usually have more than or freedom of action so i called my friend jim douglas who is. he was really expert on russia and he was working in the state department and also in the senate. and then i was jim's find me a law firm which

>> good morning, richard. the nuclear regulatory commission has a very rigorous and continuous inspection program at all the plants, and there are two inspectors that live at the plants at each of the sites so that they're constantly inspecting the plants. they do inspections continuously. other teams come in to inspect, and they have findings from those inspections. and also the plants file performance indicators, which measure the performance in many different areas of the plant. they rank plants in five categories. most plants are in the number one category. i think there are eight or nine currently in the number two category. and then the three plants we're discussing here are in the third category. there are none in the fourth and the fifth. so these plants have accumulated probably a number of small infractions or violations, and perhaps one or two that are very significant, but they all of these plants are considered safe by the nuclear regulatory commission and by the industry. so they're in the proces

richard s. i think a cut you off, and you were giving us a real perspective on the impact criminal history has on a person's life, and a one to give you back your time. >> i appreciate the legislation and the work that you do any work you are doing, but i think we have kind -- we do not realize how big a problem this has become. united states today, we are this global power. we are fighting wars that do not end. you all know this. and the war has come home. the war is in the streets. we have arrested millions of people for drugs. thank god i'm in california. show me some pot, you know? california is wonderful, but it is not that way in the rest of the country. they are still giving people felony convictions for possession of marijuana. you guys are really progressive. the rest of this country is not. the rest of this country is fighting a war that you cannot even protest. we are so far, even though barack is in the white house, isn't that great? the country is more right wing than you ever reali

. >>> our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, joins us now. richard, we're supposed to be months away from the beginning of a drawdown in afghanistan. you've spent a lot of time there. you know u.s. commanders. a lot of their success has been built on gaining the trust of local leaders in the communities. what does all this do to those efforts? >> reporter: well, it -- clearly, that trust hasn't been built upon and doesn't really even exist when one incident like this can create nationwide riots. the u.s. mission in afghanistan now is to use military force in order to build up the afghan government so that it can fight off the taliban. that mission, exposed by this incident right now, still appears very far away. >> richard, let me turn to what's going on in libya. you're in benghazi tonight. last night at this time we were reporting the end of u.s. combat operations there. i understand they have been extended. what can you tell us? >> reporter: this is a big development, i think. as of today, as of last night when we spoke and then during the

richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the cia has sent small teams here to work with the opposition and also provide intelligence. and on the ground we're seeing signs from the rebels themselves that they are finally determined to stop retreating and take on gadhafi's forces. the rebels today took on gadhafi's troops without western air support. the rebels fight with mortars and rockets. they lack experience. rebels load a rocket, it doesn't go off. after adjusting it, the rocket eventually fires, but way off target. moments later, gadhafi's troops

richards, my father's m. richards, my son's m. richards, and his son is m.richards. - how terrific. - so they're all m. richards. well, i've certainly enjoyed reading "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe," myself, and my children. but i'm just wondering whether it's safe to hand it over to the grandchildren to enjoy. right, right. well, let's have a look at it. it's got a dust wrapper. and we want to see whether it's the first edition. so as we turn over, back at the title, which there it is, first published, 1950. - so this is a first edition. - oh. now, let's have a look. cover not very good, i'm afraid. there's a little bit of damage there. there's some damage at the top. it's been in the sun somewhere. but overall it's quite a good good copy. now... whether the children can be let loose on it or the grandchildren, rather, can be let loose on it-- the modern first edition market is a very strange one. and it has been going completely bonkers recently. but c.s. lewis, tolkien, and people like that are all making a lot more money. so your "the lion, the wi

richard, thanks. >>> as we've just seen in richard's reporting, it's clear the rebels need help to hold off gadhafi's forces, but for the obama administration, the question here is how much more help to give them. white house correspondent savannah guthrie with us from the white house tonight with more on that front. savannah, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. there is a vigorous debate raging within the administration over whether to arm the opposition. that's one reason cia operatives are on the ground, to learn more about these rebels and where their allegiances lie. meanwhile, on capitol hill, the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs were grilled today by lawmakers. some hammered the administration for not simply taking out gadhafi. others said the u.s. had handed over command at the very moment the rebels needed help the most. and as for this issue of arming the opposition, u.s. officials say it's not as easy as it sounds. it's not a matter of just air dropping weapons in. you'd have to train them. you'd need some sort of staging area to train those rebe

-cio president and major voice for the progressive community richard trumka. tell it tell me about how you got into labor got into the labor movement i saw these two pieces of your bio that . juxtaposed are unusual you started working in the mines in sixty eight and you've got your water green seventy four. there i know there's are some there's a story of. the first thought probably pretty lucky i'm a third generation coal miner both my grandfathers my dad both his brothers all my uncles most of my cousins were coal miners so i came out of school and you know thought i might have a career in playing football and got hurt never got to realize that career so i went in the mine i went into my in our early and we became in within a year of my fellow miners elected. me as chairman of the safety committee we had a couple of safety disputes i ended up in washington d.c. type until the elected officials in washington d.c. about the dispute. they saw something in me that i cor probably did see myself and so the union actually picked me up and decided that they'd seven

>> richard engel in libya tonight.nk you. >>> and back here at home, the cost of filling the tank continues to climb. for many americans it's already over $4 a gallon. president obama knows that americans may take their anger out on him, especially when oil companies opened their books this week. here's nbc's mike viqueira. >> reporter: the first family left the white house on a bright morning in washington, attending easter church services across town. for the president it was a brief break before a tough week. as gas prices rise higher, so does consumer outrage. >> they have been going up very steadily and nobody seems quite to know why. >> it angers me to no end. angers me to no end. >> reporter: that anger is likely to grow this week. major oil companies will report latest earnings, with profits expected to be near record levels. led by exxonmobil, where analysts predict a 59% rise in net income, and chevron, expected to see a 29% rise. >> they probably will be reporting very high profits, not yet as high as 2007-2

richard?ou know, a few years ago i visited jalalabad, and i talked to some reservists that were there, and i was so impressed by these guys because they were sort of the best face of the u.s. in terms of, you know, they came from lots of different walks of life, they, you know, clearly were, you know, taken up this real great personal risk. but it struck me -- and they were very enterprising. they would talk to each other, e-mail back and forth to try to figure out different approaches to development in jalalabad. but it struck me they hadn't been trained for this role, that wasn't their original mission, and it was something of a disservice to be thrust into doing reconstruction development work without the proper background. so it's not surprising to me then that they would produce projects that aren't sustainable because they weren't trained to do that. and also i think we should say then that, also, a lot of our efforts to be impartial and provide aid based on need and not to be affiliated

i'm very pleased to have richard serra back at this table. welcome. >> thanks. >> rose: why is this the first time there has been this kind of survey of your drawings at a major museum? >> i've been drawing all my life and i've probably had drawing shows in europe and the united states and so people who follow the work closely know the drawings, but the larger public-- and i even think probably the largest art public-- doesn't know the history of my drawing. and i think it's largely to do with the san franciscan museum and the museum in houston, they decided to mount an exhibition and they asked if metro poll tan would participate and the metropolitan said yes they would like to do it first. so we're doing it here. >> rose: so it was an idea conceived by other museums? >> it was conceived by texas... >> rose: and san francisco joined in and the met said if you let us go first you can do it here. >> that's exactly right. >> rose: do you take special pride that at long last richard serra is at the met? >> i didn't expect to be at the met. >> ro

richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. that support mission remains very significant here. it means that u.s. aircraft will be refuelling other jets, collecting intelligence and if specifically requested by another nato partner, flying combat missions as well. the front line on the desert highway outside brega can change in seconds. gunfire by gadhafi's troops forces the rebels into a rapid retreat. but later the rebels return, launching surface-to-surface rockets. here on the front lines, the rebels and gadhafi's forces, separated by a few miles, have reached a stalemate. for the last several days, neither has advanced or retreated more than a couple hundred yards. the stalemate is frustrating to the rebels. the nato air strikes aren't as frequent as before. >> why slow, slow be no help for me any? why? >> reporter: so the rebels are getting creative about boosting their own firepower, even attaching soviet-era aircraft rocket launchers to pickups. "if it doesn't fire, we'll club gadhafi over the head with the rockets," a

shown richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of the thirty six year old on the half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth in ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night of every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five miles. by works with the juvenile court it looks after young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perot will mention take him to some town rooms so she had no. the need for brothers against guns can be seen on these walls but this poster is just one example the list of poor young african americans who've been killed in ghettos like bayview is almost endless. like. when it is in a great way. for them to. these kids are they are paid a o'hare's like animals and this herd is here is heard is here in this packet see if the facts here. this and it's like i got to go on but you know. i'm machines will have time for you. to pick some of the kids or just s

"time" magazine's mark halperin and richard wolffe join me now. we've got mark over at the white house. mark, i'll start with you over . olouooatheum rerts stig, ot eriso as w wcat reh an agreent to avoid a government shutdown because the bottom line is here we're working off the same number. that number is $33 billion. now house speaker john boehner said today ty weren't operating off that number. of course the current house number is $61 billion. it's a game of chicken. decrs epaving. but is it now all eyes on the republicans? >> well, i think they're caving less on the question of the amount, although they have caved somewhat on that.loy' d e sctiar n-den discretionary spending that democrats think will hurt the economy and hurt less fortunate americans. so they have lost the pr battle on the terrain and are now actual number. >> for the first time, richard veme stdn. 'rlieng t ppl o nt ut enng wcagr o eno. there no agemt on a set of numbers, and nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed to. i've said it and i'm going to se is the fa

richard is the gates of violence and drugs were his world without personal and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know these kids used to be right smack in the middle of. that i have a good child and i know life you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was they but we did what they wanted when i wanted more and that's out of. you know you know it's a. story of how slim and then you start all making a few dollars in the store of making more dollars and then you start over more and more you get greedy with it becomes like. something you need is like is like using a drug which is now using a verb because you would think it's a bit much. right here. so i'm i'm so wild world that. show i'm often visits the house where he was born now his mother lives here although. he was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do and behind my back and i didn't know where and how and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never want to hear to be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life yo

sean richard is some of the violence and drugs were once these were when i first seen a shooting and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is a free school and. you know say this kid has to be right smack in the middle of. bad or good shout and i don't live in la i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was a buddy give me what they wanted i wanted more and that's. you know you start off you know it's a. story of hustlin and then you start off making a few dollars in the store of making more dollars and then you start over or more you get greedy woody it becomes like something you need is like is like using a drug which you now use a verb because you would think that the money. well here. swell girl kept. show me open visits the house where he was going now his mother lives here alone. and. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do right her behind my back and i didn't know him her and i was very i was really hurt you know. because i never want to hear or be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life you

richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement.his is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind of brings me to the point i want to say. this morning, we were in the courtroom, and we have lawyers, public defenders talking about legal cases, talking about the roles they play. what i think has been lost here, and maybe even this gentleman kind of raised it, is what happens to these defendants? what happens when they go back into the court, into the lock up after they have pled guilty? about 95% of them plead guilty. you know that they are being forced to plead guilty. you all know it. it is like there is a gun to their head. i call it the terror of arithmetic. they are being threatened with 100 years, 50 years, 20 years -- you know what that does to them. they go back to their jail cells. those numbers bounce around in there had. after a week or a month or six months or a year, a year-and-a- half, they plead guilty. and you know as public defenders, one of your main jobs is to make them plead guilty. and i

richard? >> you know, our contractors of explained to me over several years now that contractors will subcontract subcontractors and from the gets a cut along the way so by the time you get to where the project is being carried out there is little of the original money left but i would imagine you are more expert about this than i am. what i fear for in washington is when these big stories hit the news that billions wasted in afghanistan it undercuts our ability to raise money and continue holding the interest of americans and the enterprise we are involved in and it really bothers me and that's why i try to get the press interesting and covering the positive stories but that's not really news. we try to go to the hill to get their, these ngos, and we try starting a few years ago to get more attention from the various oversight bodies looking at the comparative advantages of the different methods of doing reconstruction development in afghanistan and so we were supportive so senator lautenberg

they said she was abducted this morning by richard ashley who is a 57-year-old man. ashley was last seen driving a blue four door hyundai with a california license plead number 5hxf433. we will have much more information on this coming up on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. that is our report for now. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. good night.

this can't be valued. >> i want to be richard branson for a minute. what is next for sir richard?marine called virgin oceanic claiming to go down to explore the depths of the sea. some of the technology on that ship comes from here in the bay area. >> the flight attendants have a lot of experience. >> every interview is he always flying? >> he is on camera and gets a thing for the producer. three minutes i have three minutes? he walks away and we are listening on the mike and he comes back for the interview with flight attendants. >> part of hollywood. >> jeff ranieri. you follow richard branson. >> yes. they are working hard on the weather. yes. i keep them back there. the camera network, this looks good. right out here towards the golden gate bridge and this is actually tuesday's sunset. thought we would enjoy it for a little bit longer. earlier this week, we had the record setting temperatures, clouds starting to build and decreasing at temperatures for most of us that can't go to outer space like richard branson, we are stuck with the weather and as we head throughout tomorrow

richard s. -- dr. richards? how are we going to turn this around for california and the nation? >> i am actually giving this paper in two weeks in finland at a conference, but just some of our ideas that come out of the convict criminology group. the first is and the war on drugs. just and it. -- just end it. it started in 1960 with richard nixon. it has been going on 50 years. nobody has even kept count of how many people have been arrested -- 10 million, 20 million, 30 million? it sounds like something out of stalin's russia. turn in your neighbors, turn in your friends. if you turn in 10 people, you get less time in prison. that is what it is, you know? this war on drugs is something out of stalin's russia. and let's stop this war on sex offenders before this gets way out of hand. it is already way out of hand. [applause] i know we are concerned about sexual assault and rape and people assaulting women and children -- i know that. most of the people in prison as sex offenders are not those people. i call them romeo and juliet's. he is 19 and she is 16 or she is 19 and he is 1

richard? >> we have sent teams to the e egyptian side of the border and parts of the government have been in touch with of the team's libya is an odd situation right now because there haven't been a lot of refugees following the border. the people that have come have been workers from third countries wingback and they did to help on that, that there is a puzzle why we are not seeing more refugees from libya. but we've also been contacted by the nato forces to make sure they don't inadvertently bomb us. >> let me switch to something else. several of you mentioned the attribution and you talked about the fact their needs to be or coordination with respect to afghanistan. let me ask you this though, several of you have talked about success in educational programs and agricultural programs, how do i and you know who's behind the success, is it you all, which organization is it, is it serp in spite of everything? how do you figure that out when you say i think there was a number of 2.5 million kids

richard engle is monitoring this situation from libya. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. despite threats of a u.n. investigation and growing international condemnation, this crackdown in syria by bashar assad's regime shows no signs of letting up. the syrian army has mobilized to crush the biggest internal threat to the syrian regime in decades. witnesses say troops and tanks have fanned out in damascus, re-enforcements have moved into dara, the center of the protests. these unverified images show armed men, apparently soldiers. syria remains closed off to most journalists. one syrian cameraman fled to neighboring jordan. the videos on his laptop show protesters tearing down images of the syrian president, and police beating demonstrators. via skype, we spoke to an human rights activist in syria. she describes desperation in dara, under siege. >> you can hear shooting, voices calling for help. no food, no water. they have targeted the water tanks. many dead bodies in the street, and the people cannot get them from t

epstein, randy burnett, john mcginnis, richard epstein, richard prisoner, richard epstein -- [laughter] they are outnumbered, and it depends on which study you look at. in some studies it's only 6-1 or 8-1 democrats to republicans and a mother must be exaggerated 23-1 at columbia. those figures may be exaggerated, and yet harvard according to people who did go for 30 years without hiring a single republican, the elena kagan i believe, and they maintained a committee over the lack of diversity while that wasn't hiring any republicans. john mcginnis of northwestern put it this way. even as the tory party are in sorry, the anglican church in great britain has been described as the tory party at the pulpit so the legal professoriate in the wall schools can be described as the democratic party. that has been changed and they mentioned it's been changed harvard, and indeed most schools that have any self-respect these days will have a libertarian or a conservative outspoken law professor. they make hesitate to have more than one for fear they will breed. [laughter] but they do tend to have o

take the case of richard veil. an inspector reviews his work on the los angeles project that used seismic anchors. metal rods that tie roofs and floors to walls and keep the building together in an earthquake. >> it was richard veil's job to ensure the anchors were installed properly. >> but in over two dozen projects they found the makeshift anchors. when they tested them, they failed. >> only the deputy inspector richard veil who was allowing these anchors to be put in. >> the district attorney's office charged him with filing false reports. in 1997 veil pleaded no contest to conspiracy to obstruct justice. >> but that wasn't the end of veil. they allowed him to obtain a state inspection license as recently as last year he oversaw major school construction projects. he couldn't explain it. >> i'm not sure -- i'm simply not sure of the details of this particular case. >> reporter: in fact he doesn't know about the background of many inspectors because they don't do criminal background checks. >> our program our pr

richard was going to be here, a great supporter. brian bonds, but kept the agency moving during the litigation. the robinson family. a community of champions that is extraordinary, for which this state, any state at any time, should be extraordinarily proud. but we also are joined by the critical group of scientific and medical leaders. the former chancellor, dr. michael bishop, who endorsed this initiative early, the current chancellor, who inspired me. the vice chancellor, who, in fact, pushed me into this deal early. a member of our governing board of the agency, and director arnold krickstein. but we must really emphasize that there is 7 million visionary california voters that went all the way down the bottom of the ballot, past all the elected officials, past all the other propositions. 7 million voters. to put that in perspective, the governor was just elected in 2010 with 5.4 million votes. so we have an incredible constituency that is our mandate to serve, and on the board with me here, those members who have stood, the vic