we will talk to joel rosenberg about his latest thrler. >> welcome back. a christian pastor in iran is scheduled to be put to deatha october 24. usef carries a charge from iran and targeted from converting muslims to christ. ahmadijad believe that is a figure knn as mahdi will appear. and called the 12th imam and joel rosenberg's thriller, about his new book, "the twelfth imam." >> joel, this is a fascinating read. and why now? >> because it affts the policy now. the leaders of islam that this 12th imam is coming and once he comes either israel and the united states, judeo-christian society will have already been destroyed. or all the conditions for their destruction will be there. and the messiah will come and finish all the ifendal. and ahmadinejad said this summer that he visited with the 12th imam. he said this in july. and no one know what ise means by this. but he's said that he's had meetings with the 12th imam. who are they meeting with? a person? a spirit? a combination. or just making this up. if our intelligence agency was tracking that and expl

a grant to make this possible so thank you so much the rosenberg foundation and of course i want to thank all the volunteers who worked so hard to make this event happen today. now i'm very excited to introduce our keynote speaker. our keynote speaker is and was the first "lady lawyer" in california. it's true. because when she decided that she wanted to become a lawyer, there was one problem, the law in california didn't allow it. and so she had to change the law, which she did. she also wanted to go to law school right here at hastings college of law but they had a policy that said only men could go do that law school so she sued hastings college of the law and she changed that and she was the first woman to attend hastings law school. and when she got out of law school, there were no jobs. no jobs. because no one would hire women. so what did she do? she became a criminal defense attorney because that was the one place where it didn't matter and she fought harder than a man and that was good enough for her clients and she became one of the top criminal defense attorneys and she p

became very famous for having adopted, along with his wife, the two orphan sons of ethel and julius rosenberguntil the 1950s. he was a schoolteacher in the bronx who cared about social issues and cared about civil rights and saw a picture of a lynching in the paper one day, and he was one of these very creative guys who was just always writing poems and music and shows. and he just sat down and wrote a poem about this photograph that he saw, set it to music. it was performed in left-wing circles in new york city throughout the late 1930s, at rallies for the loyalists during the spanish civil war, you know, among sort of left-wing types at their bungalow colonies in the catskills or rural new jersey, wherever they went. it was sort of just a cult song in those circles, and somebody who was connected with the show at madison square garden, where the song was performed, was also running the entertainment at the new cafe society, which was the first integrated nightclub in america and happened to be where billie holiday was opening in early 1939. and a marriage of sorts was made, and somebody arr

the office of the public defender to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $47,000 from the rosenberg foundation, via institute for local governance, to develop a california reentry council network to assist in the development of statewide capacity to improve reentry policies and programs, and amending ordinance no. 191-10 to reflect addition of one class 1406 senior clerk, grant-funded position, and one temporary class 8173 legal assistant, office of the public defender. supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. young. this is an ordinance from supervisor mirkarimi. you noticed that right away. he is not here today. he has an amendment, which i would like to read into the record. i believe he is changing the portion of positions. on the actual amendment -- on line 8, he will be striking the line that begins with class 1406 senior clerk. that will be taken out. that will leave the line, one temporary class, 8173. on line 19, taking out of the section that says to hire reentry council assistance, and striking on the second page -- the line that says add 1406 senior clerk. that would leave seni

steven rosenberg has another look. >> the russian army has always been proud of its hardware.ut modern warfare is not just about firepower, it is about fooling the enemy. which is why the russians have developed this strategic weapon. not only is it easy to assemble and quick to deploy, you do not need any ammunition. just air. presenting the inflatable russian tank, proved that the russians have decided to blow up their own forces. they are also inflating rocket launchers as well. like this one. a cross between a ballistic missile and a bouncing castle. decoys are coded in special materials that trick systems into thinking they are real. in fact, they are so lifelike, they have even got their own side fooled. >> on one military exercise a russian air force general put our inflatable rocket launcher up as real, ordering us to launch the rocket. he refused to believe that it was a dummy because intelligence reports indicated that it was loaded and ready to fire. >> what a black tie and firepower, it makes up for in flexibility. the best thing, possibly, is the price tag, 100 ti

rosenberg says he became lost when he took the wrong turn. >>> a 400 foot long octo pus is in the bay area. >>> chief meteorologist will tell us how soon the warmth will be here and how warm it will get. >>> we are streaming live on th. >> renno has shifted from record heat to record rain fall. more than an inch of rain fell this morning at the reno tahoe airport breaking the old record of this day of just a quarter inch set 16 years ago. just last week, reno set new high temperature records. so did we in the bay area and the rain is on the way, right bill? >>> yeah there's a slight chance for the showers as they come out of the mountains and swing our way . you may get a drop or two in the neighborhood. it's not a big deal but it may be a nuisance tomorrow. let's go outside and you'll see what i'm tracking. the showers are coming out of reno and working their way out of the valley and back down. this is a little spinner setting in the valley, with that in mind, your forecast is for a slight chance of a sprinkle tonight, breezy at times, and maybe, just maybe a shower in your neighbor

an interview with steve rosenberg -- he said the best that could be achieved is to help afghanistan rebuild itself in what is a critical year. >> it was the soviet union kept vietnam. in the teniers the red army occupied afghanistan, around 15,000 soldiers were killed. at the end of the 1980's, soviet leader gorbachev ordered the troops to withdraw. today, he believes nato should learn from moscow's mistake. >> victory is impossible in afghanistan. the best you can hope for is to help the country get back on its feet and rebuild itself after the war. obama is right to pull the troops out. no matter how difficult it will be. >> how difficult was the process of withdrawing the troops from afghanistan? >> it was very difficult. once the decision had been taken to withdraw, the forces who were against a peaceful solution to the conflict attacked our troops. but we had thought through our withdrawal very carefully and were able to defend ourselves. >> just two years after soviet troops completed their withdrawal from afghanistan, the u.s.s.r. fell apart and gorbachev lost power. he had ended an

steve rosenberg has been taking a look of this unusual attempt to inflate a rush of's armed forces. >> the russian army has always been proud of its hardware. but modern warfare is not just about firepower. it is about fooling the enemy. which is why the russians have developed this a strategic weapon. not only is it easy to assemble and quick to deploy, and you don't need any ammunition. just air. presenting the inflatable russian tank. proved that the russians have decided to blow up their own armed forces. it is not only tanks. they are inflating rocket launchers, too, like this one, a cross between a ballistic missile and a fancy -- but the decoys are coated in a special material that tricks radar and thermal imaging systems into believing they are real. in fact, they are so lifelike that they even got their own side fooled. >> on one military exercise and russian air force general put our inflatable -- thought our inflatable rocket launchers was real and he ordered us to lower the rockets and he refused to believe it was a dummy because intelligence reports indicated it was loade

simon rosenberg is president of the think tanks and the former clinton campaign advisor and karen isnews on sunday morning. sigh among, you think the tea party will do it? help or hurt? >> it's for the establish republicans who got beaten in the election cycle by the tea party candidates. now that we are entering the fall, we will help create enthusiasm for republicans. the question is can the democrats respond? what we have seen in the last few weeks, it's definitive now that the republican wave crested and the race is tightening up across the country. we have a different dynamic the final few weeks. the tea party will make a net-positive contribution for republicans. >> eric: you think the wave is crested and we hear predictions that the republicans can take the house. >> they could. clearly the national poll numbers are better for the democrats today than they were three or four weeks ago. "washington post" had a column friday saying the house substantially improved for the democrats across the country. you have seen democrats in seven senate races with the better polling numbers

that was the rosenberg spy papers. we actually released the tapes of the israeli fighter aircraft during the 1967 attack on the u.s. surveillance ship liberty. when we released the tapes, both camps concluded that it supported their point of view. [laughter] that this was intentional and did not accidental. while i was director at the cia we released the family jewels which was a compendium of a sense of real and imagined over the past decade plus at the agency. i was delighted to be able to do that because one of the unspoken message is is that we keep things secret because they are secret. we don't keep things secret because they are embarrassing. many of these releases in the family jewels were indeed embarrassing. this is not just checkers, it is chesbably three- dimensionalhess in terms of relationships and openness and transparency and security. a day or two after i did the thing with the family jewels and released it in front of a society of historians, i talked at the release about cia social contract with the