charles schulz -- charlotte schulz. thank you. wonderful to have you. dan is here from nancy pelosi's office. we appreciate that. i think that does it for the vip's -- oh, who did i? kimberly from the port commission. all right, with that, there are two supervisors who played a key role in making this happen. while we got an 11-0 vote, and i know everybody gas when they hear that the board of supervisors voted 11-0, it was through the extraordinary efforts of many supervisors, but two played a key role. i'm going to introduce the first right now, and that is the president of the board of supervisors, david chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you. first, and like to thank everyone for wearing orange today. i feel sorry for los angeles. i feel honored to be part of this world-class sporting event, not just because of what it will do for our local economy, for jobs, and for the sport of sailing, but what it will do for transportation. we know that we are trying to build a 21st century here in san francisco, and while we are the city that invented the cable

the chief of protocol, charlotte schulz. we are honored and delighted to have with us today mrs. gina mosconi and mrs. kathleen alioto. giants managing general partner and ceo bill neukom and his wife sally. the giants' president and chief operating officer larry fehr and his wife pam. giant's senior vice president and general manager brian sabian and his wife amanda. the wife of our skipper, mrs. kim bocce. former giants managing general partner, peter mcgowan. clubhouse manager mike murphy is here with his wife carol. also with us today, the giants' training and medical staff, the clubhouse staff, the front office staff of giants executives, and the players' families are here as well. i would like to introduce the of the giant broadcast team. tito puentes. dave flemming. mike cruco and dwayne kriker. hall of fame broadcaster jon miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and count

. >> last time i was here, miss schulz gave me a stanford cat.o prove that our warrant. thank you, everyone. mayor lee: thank you. i guess if there's questions. all right. >> former mayor gavin newsom often talked about modeling some of his programs after new york. [inaudible] if he could give us your impression of the homeless problem in the city as you have walked around and driven around. >> i did not know the specifics of how many people here need shelter, but we set a very aggressive goal of reducing the shelter population in new york, which we did not meet because what happened was the economy went south, and that put an awful lot more people in need of shelter. we worked very hard to help reach -- to outreach. we think we have a very small number of people on the streets that sleep on the streets. that is our first concern. we have fixed hours shelter system so that nobody sleeps on a bench. we get everybody to a place and make sure that the kids do get assigned to a school, and we worked very hard on programs to get people out the other e

next to him and never once in awhile break it would go off on our rhetorical flight of fancy, and schulz will slightly places hand on reagan's hand, and reagan would stop speaking. but he talked a lot about the great things they were able to do together. it was inspiring. he was a really interesting guy. i met a lot of fascinating people, but in terms of foreign leaders, that was really interesting moment. >> this is a truly pedestrian question. what is the high-tech benefits of traveling with the president? do you get to sneak into friends bank accounts? how good is the phone reception? >> well, on the subject, i think i owe you a few thousand dollars, i was a little short. [laughter] we did not sneak into people's bank accounts, but obviously air force one as air force one. the ability to reach anybody in the world. if you pick up the phone and you want to talk to someone, they will find that person. that is a benefit. [laughter] but, you know, when you are in the white house, any information you want you can get fairly quickly. we are among friends. i look around the room, and i see p

debbie wasserman schulze says it is wrong to ask seniors to pay more for medicare while rich americansetting large tax breaks. the florida democrat added that voters understand the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes will be needed to bring down the nation's debt and that democrats in her words are ready for compromise. earlier this month, president obama nominated the congress woman to head the democratic national committee. turning to the situation in libya, hillary clinton says the united states is committed to supporting nato's mission. she called on u.s. partners in europe and elsewhere to boost pressure on muammar gaddafi to step down from power. secretary clinton is in berlin for two days of nato meetings. >> this weekend on c-span2, in the embattled -- politically correct tried to socialism we define how it is at work in the u.s. today. he is interviewed. carla peterson reduce the lives of african-americans living in new york city. you can find the complete schedule at booktv.org. >> follow cspan on twitter. it is the fastest way to the schedule updates and news links. j

wasserman schulz's recognized. >> this will prevent harm from cuts -- harmful cuts. they want to find cures for cancer, strokes, heart disease come and other ailments. the republican budget has a devastating cuts that would decimate support. this inviable research saves millions of american lives. it is no coincidence that our country has been at the forefront of improved health outcomes for chronic diseases. our nation has prioritized stable funding for decades. so many breakthroughs for cancer or other common diseases would not have happened without this support. this is at the core of white fatality from cancer and other diseases have declined. republicans want to derail the conference -- the real the funding to the nih. we agree we need to make the needed cuts, but reckless and shameful custom medical research is absolutely the wrong approach. democrats have pledged to measure all by the yardstick of creating jobs and keeping down the deficit. unfortunately, by blasting the funding for disease research at the nih, the republicans plan fails on all accounts. the r

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wasserman schulz to your new appointment. [unintelligible] [laughter] there is probably not a vigorous supporter of nih here than i am. i look at the 27 institutions and the research they are doing. i say it is the best kept secret in washington, d.c. they need to let the american people know what they do. they do incredible work. i do not want to cut any spending in any program i like. one thing is driving this budget resolution more than anything else that we have to address. a $1.60 trillion deficit. $14 trillion in debt. if we do not have the courage to stand up and address this with tough cuts and cuts to some programs that i like, there is going to be no funds for nih in future years or any other biomedical research. that is just the reality. we have to stand up and make tough decisions. there are no cuts in this budget to nih. there are no cuts in this budget to nih. this is not the appropriations committee. once they get their allocation after we have done the budget resolution, labor health and human services will ma