>> i spent all my time on the pipeline -- i haven't spent all my time on the pipeline. i spent some time on the pipeline. i think i have gotten a chance to be exposed to more parts of american society than i had been when i was exclusively a professional investor, so i met a bunch of people i would never have met, and i spent time with them. this isn't where you just say hello, how are you, and have 15 seconds, so selfishly, i think it has been really fun, and it has been very good for me. >> his anti-keystone campaign hit a bump in the road recently. in late january the state department released an environmental review saying the keystone pipeline is unlikely to end oil production. >> it is going to happen anyway. >> is that a good thing? no. there's no way that is a good thing. >> it would allow the president to say, i will go ahead and approve the keystone pipeline, and what happens to you? >> i will still get up in the morning and eat breakfast. i will feel as if a huge mistake has been made. >> if it gets approved, is there still fight here at all? if i don't know.

of what afp has spent. in 2010, afp spent nearly $40 million total on the midterms. so far, they have already spent $27 million with 3 quarters of a year to go. their goal is very simple. to turn the senate red. >> kay hagan, she just doesn't get it. >> how senator landrieu, we deserve better than obamacare. >> call congressman peters and tell him obamacare isn't working. it's hurting michigan families. >> obamacare doesn't work. it just doesn't work. >> tell senator pryor to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> today, the senate is just six seats away from turning republican, and democrats are shouting a warning that incumbents and candidates are already getting absolutely hammered in their local markets. right now, there are six open seats meaning a senator's retiring. three of those senators are democrats in red states, and those are just the open seats. there's a handful of vulnerable democrats like mary landrieu of louisiana and kay hagan of north carolina. americans for pro

that so many money was spent on a project that seems to be based on some ill founded reasons and don't get me wrong i love i love the nature areas in san francisco. i love market street davidson which is where i live and golden gate park and i really, really appreciate all the work that's been done to create trails there and things like that and make the place liveable but i don't think that millions of and hundreds of thousands of dollars should be spent to cut down trees to establish plants that don't appear to be well, that don't appear to dramatically improve the quality of the landscape thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker >> i'm carolyn johnson. the president of san francisco effort alliance. we could find the money for 10 more park patrol officers if we cut an item in the budget that's extremely unpopularity the nature areas program the current budget allocations $1.530 million for that program and that has been spent and that's what he was talking about pr it costs over one million dollars over a year that could be better spent. the program a very controversial and not backe

>> i spent all my time on the pipeline -- i haven't spent all my time on the pipeline. i spent some time on the pipeline. i think i have gotten a chance to be exposed to more parts of american society than i had been when i was exclusively a professional investor, so i met a bunch of people i would never have met, and i spent time with them. this isn't where you just say hello, how are you, and have 15 seconds, so selfishly, i think it has been really fun, and it has been very good for me. >> his anti-keystone campaign hit a bump in the road recently. in late january the state department released an environmental review saying the keystone pipeline is unlikely to end oil production. >> it is going to happen anyway. >> is that a good thing? no. there's no way that is a good thing. >> it would allow the president to say, i will go ahead and approve the keystone pipeline, and what happens to you? >> i will still get up in the morning and eat breakfast. i will feel as if a huge mistake has been made. approved, is there still fight here at all? if i don't know. i have had pe

>> i haven't spent all my time on the pipeline. i spent some time on the pipeline. i think i've gotten a chance to be exposed to more parts of american people society than i had been when i was exclusively a professional investor, so i met a bunch of people who -- >> you may not have met those women? >> never have met. never have met. and i spent time with them. it isn't like where you just say hello, how are you, and have 15 seconds. so, you know, selfishly, i think that's been really fun and that it's been very good for me. >> steyer's anti-keystone campaign hit a bump in the road recently. in january the state department released a environmental review stating the keystone pipeline is unlikely to impact oil sand production. if the state report comes out and says look, it's going to happen anyway -- >> is that a good thing? no. there's no way. >> in your view it's not a good thing environmentally but some would say it would allow the president to say ok, then i will go ahead and approve the keystone pipeline. >> good. >> and then what happens to you? >> personally

they spent billions and billions, a number that was beyond any number i've ever heard -- >> most spent ever. >> oh, frankly ridiculous. but they spent all of this money and i think we should not be knocking them at this point. then we wonder why they don't like us and why they're eating our lunch in every country that we're dealing with against them. >> does it -- >> i really think we should say look, they're really out there doing their job. every time i turn on television, we're showing about a guy knocking down a door 'cause his door lock didn't work, and i will tell you something, if i'm putin, i'm not happy about it. and i know for a fact he's not happy about it. when i went to russia with the miss universe packagents, he contacted me and was so nice and i mean, the russian people were so fantastic to us, i can say this, they are doing -- they're outsmarting us at many terms. their leaders, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they're outsparting us. if you look at syria and other places, they're outsmarting us. i really think we should not be knocking th

you did--spent.see anything. >> how much do you think i've spent? >> 150,000. >> you didn't see all this being spent? >> oh, i saw some lights and stuff going up. that was about it. >> you saw some lights? >> i saw some-- >> how about the gpss that went in the vehicle? how about the inventory system? >> i saw some-- >> how about the camera system that went in? >> i saw some graffiti being painted on the garage. >> how about the new glass being done in the front of the-- >> well, a couple panes of glass is not worth $100,000. >> hank, are you [bleep] kidding me? >> no, i'm not [bleep] kidding. >> you're gonna try to tell me that i didn't put money in your business? >> i don't know what you did, 'cause you didn't show it to us. >> would you like to see it? >> well, it's too late now. >> why is it too late? >> we had a deal, and you didn't do it. and you said business was gonna go-- >> you're kidding me. >> 'cause sales didn't go up. >> in a matter of two days? >> you said-- >> that's 'cause you're neve

in in that country is being spent well, wisely and accountbly? >> they should. the news reports sometimes to the contrary. we do assessments. we identify weaknesses we don't spend any of the money in afghanistan until we have mechanisms in place to make sure we know where the money is going and what it's doing. with respect to the reports that come out, i'll note, they defy risks and that's a large part of what we do. if afghanistan was a perfectly safe to invest your money, we wouldn't need to be there. >> the special inspector general for the afghan region released the report that said none were places they could disperse money and be confident that it was spent confidently. >> the report we cited is our own. ministerial audits of their capabilities, and we identify the weaknesses that this report enumerated. but we also identified mitigating measures for every every one of these weaknesses. we maintain control over the funds from the beginning of the process until it actually gets to the person that receives the funds, and we have transparency

we spent over a billion dollars supposedly in counterterrorism security in the. west africa north africa and we've seen the mali was toppled the year ago we've seen the rise of boko we committed the absolute criminal stupidity of overthrowing president gadhafi so how is this new curia helping look at the central african republic it's being destroyed it doesn't almost it almost doesn't exist anymore look at nigeria look at south sudan look at mali and still fighting terrorism in northern mali with friends so all this money that is being spent could much better be spent building roads building energy power plants building water development projects and actually uplift the population around. used to do that we have a military only policy right now in africa could feed itself and could provide food for the rest of the world if we developed it but the western policy has actually been a genocidal policy that is to allow people to die from famine from war and from disease rather than developing these countries. and also look at some other stories from around the world i

i also about the money being spent on the money being made. i want to know how the plane's been full to capacity.

russia has spent around $50,000,000,000. that's almost 10 times what canada spent four years ago. so why the enormous difference? rob revenldz reports from vancouver. flames no longer leap from the cauldron. but the city has tangible reminders in the form of several sports stadiums. a new rail line to the city's airport, housing and community centers. vancouver's olympics caused about $62,000,000,000 u.s. dollars, a fraction of what russia is spending on sochi. vancouver olympics john if you arelong says his team scrutinized every penny that was spent. blood, sweat and tears, absolutely everything, you know, that we simply went into every single account. when the russian president pitched sochi in 2007, he promised to spend $12,000,000,000. cost has ballooned to $51,000,000,000. >> russian activists, opposition politicals and even a senior member of the international olympic committee, much of the enormous cost of the sochi games is due to corruption. project pocket the difference, running over with their anticipated to be so it's been far and away the most expensive olympics ever

they spent the last year beginning to develop a business plan. to be working over the next several months to begin the initial round of consultation with your governors offices. thenot going to start with governors directly. they're going to start with some of your key staff, including the state point of contact. they are beginning to step up and it is looking to be a promise. one of the concerns raised in this community, governor, you raise the issue about a representative of states, state former governor on the first net board. we have a gentleman's agreement with firstnet that that will happen when the first appointment comes up. happy to take any questions. [indiscernible] [laughter] we appreciate the hard work being done in these vital areas, and the best practices effort. the paper may be short and elegant, but your presentation was equally short and elegant. mead?estions for governor >> i want to thank you for being responsive to that. it's important to have the governors involved at an early stage and in a meaningful way. the states are s

newly employed workers spent more money, creating more jobs.1936, it appeared that the depression was ending. it was time for a balanced budget. central revenues are increasing. emergency expenditures are decreasing. a balanced budget is on the way. does that sound like bankruptcy to you? roosevelt won a landslide re-election, but the celebration was brief. he cut spending. in october 1937, the stock market took another dive. unemployment began to rise once again. suddenly it appeared that the past four years' progress would unravel. president roosevelt may have been an economic conservative, but he was a social liberal. he saw rising unemployment and responded by resuming government spending. this government intervention stimulated the economy the way keynes had urged since 1933. if franklin roosevelt was not a keynesian, by 1938 he'd surrounded himself with plenty who were. one of those economists was walter salant, a student of keynes turned new dealer. many people were in favor of spending and in quite a few countries. but they never had an

s&p 500 spent time in record high territory yesterday closing just a point a new all-time high. we'll see if we can do it today check ec the numbers. the day starts at 16, 207, up by 103 points. the nasdaq was up by almost 30 points on the day. one of the most expensive theme parks in america just got a little bit more expensive. a single day ticket to disney's magic kingdom will now cost you four more dollars. that brings the cost of admission to 99 bucks. one-day tickets to epcot, animal kingdom and hollywood studios have also increased by a couple of dollars. the timing is a bit unusual. just last summer disney upped their daily admission to $95. >>> nissan is recalling a popular pickup truck because of the potential fire risk. the automaker announced it is voluntarily recalling nearly 17,000 frontier trucks in north america. nissan officials say the problem is an electrical issue in the 2012 through 2014 model year trucks. dealers will inspect the wires and perform repairs free of charge. >>> taco bell getting into the breakfast business. beginning march 27, the fast food ch

[inaudible] he was a cartoonist spent a cartoonist. well, what i was hoping you might remember is that you usually learn in school that is also the first postmaster general. in the colonies. and that he was in charge of the post office. but, you know, what? he wasn't here. he wasn't in the colonies. he was in england and he was in england for years and years and years. and that left his wife deborah to run the postal service. she did a very good job of it. it was of course we were still under the british at that point. there was a british lord in charge of it. he at one point tried to fire one of than once workers and she captures and she wrote him and she said you can't are my people. and by the way, you are slowing down the postal system and just get out of the way. and so here is a picture of deborah franklyn telling off the lord who is in the palm of her hand. but she was a very astute businesswoman. and she ran all of what were hers and ben franklin's businesses. which were essentially printing shops which were like franchises. a

activity and is believed to have been behind an assassination attempt on his business partner and spent several years in prison for kidnapping well despite this record some rich co ran for parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now the leader of the protesters took over the granny in capital. well we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulent situation and ukraine throughout the day on air and online and our web site r t v dot com and via our tweeter feed. transit. you all best way to the heart of mosco and russia at least being gay is not criminalized there absolutely no punishment for being gay in russia the only thing that this law is spreading information family information on nontraditional sexual behavior what are you going to legislate against couples through swing you know who. you know trade partners or is it only a certain type of sex that you're legally able to you know it is so what is propaganda you know it's so unclear. flow i'll go back to watching that scene or national now where the african continent increasingly in the sights of the us hund

if you are supposed to get money for this when you got grants, you had to spent money on this.et they are spending money on why kids drink malt liquor. mayor giuliani, thanks so much. good to he sue. and straight ahead. big unions trying to invade factories in the south but people down south have something else in mind. can you bet it is sending chills up the spines of a few union heads. "on the record" takes you live to one plant in tennessee. and also, knockout game development. tonight, new video that has police on the hunt right this at attack or something else? coming up. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. workers at a car plant in the south kicking the union to the curb. telling

of the $80 billion spent each year about 1/3 is spent on new procurement projects and about 2/3 is spent on operation and maintenance of existing or obsolete systems. it takes so much more energy and personnel to go through obsolete systems than it does to quickly replace with software and hardware and personnel new information technology systems that will make our government more responsive and more effective. there's nothing more frustrating than trying to work with an operating system that is no longer supportive by the company that has the operating system. we heard people of working on d.o.s. operating systems, still looking at green screens, for goodness sakes. this has an imperative and we need to make sure it's prioritize. some industry experts have estimated as much as 70% of new i.t. acquisitions fail or require rebaselines. the technology's c.e.o. council, made up of some of the top industry experts, estimate that $20 billion of the $80 billion wes spent is wasted every year on mismanagement and duplicative i.t. programs. the g.a.o. has estimated the departments of treasury, a

by the government in that country is being spent well and wisely and accountably?ey should. the news reports sometimes to the contrary, it is very aggressive on the ground in policing how we spend taxpayer money. we don't spend any of the money in afghanistan until we have mechanisms in place to make sure we know where the money is going, and what it is doing? with respect to the reports that come out. i'll note they have never identified any fraud, waste, or abuse, they identify risks. and that's a large part of what we do as a business. if afghan was a place where it was perfectly safe to invest your money, we wouldn't need to be there. and that's where we hope to be in a decade or so. but right now, usaid will continue to safely administer u.s. tax dollars through programs in afghanistan. >> the special inspector general for the afghan region released a report that said that none of the current afghan ministries were places where you could disburse money and be confident that it was being used properly. >> yeah, usiad worked with these ministries to ensure their

i asked the irs how much money had been spent on the tax system.he response was i think there was a contract for approximately $3.5 point $5 million -- million dollars. they told us they would not do that. there has been documents recovered from the irs. they could have spent as much as $30 million. i cannot confirm that. are you aware of any further exploration or implementation by the irs of any data collection to to a real tax system -- real-time tech system? -- tax system? it seems to have been absolutely systematically wrong. would you pledge to adhere to that language and the current fy14 on the books -- what i am asking for is 100% transparency. >> i'm happy to commit that we will follow all of the instructions whether you give it to us personally or in the legislation. that is important to do. with regard to the real-time tech system, different systems have been called a real-time tax. what has been the focus is the idea of possibly populate a in,rn form, get information look at it, and you can make decisions, or the irs can file the return

in 2006 $1 million was spent by c-4 organizations. $1 million. 2010, $92 million spent. nd in 2012, $256 million spent by four organizations. the designation c-4 presently allows organizations to keep their donors secret. hidden as to which individuals contributed. and that is exactly -- that's the secrecy that the republicans are trying to preserve. why? why? because the three largest penders representing fully 51% of the total are a who's who list of republican political operatives. crossroads, it's indicated here, crossroads g.p.s., karl rove, $71 million. americans for prosperity, the coke brothers, $36 million. the american future fund, the coke brothers again, $25 million. the federal election committee had reported to it, according to the center for responsive politics. if you live in a targeted state and you turn on your television, you have probably seen these groups that work at distorting the affordable care act. that is why we are here today purely and simply. not because republicans want to stand up for the rights of social welfare organizations, and they of

we spent so much time together that everyone hates me now. good thing i'll say to johnny is if you spend a lot of time with him, you can't help but like him. hopefully we communicate that in the book. they do talk about that. >> i'm sorry. i've got to go to jeremy. [inaudible] >> how did you get code johnnie walker? >> johnnie walker or codename. >> johnnie walker. [inaudible] >> there's more to the story than that as usual. the other thing is to get one story from johnny and younis qasim story 25 times before you get the details. and then you find the seals with them get bored. but they originally were calling you walker i think. i think somebody sell you the cities not walker. he's johnnie walker. johnny being johnny at that point didn't understand the joke. >> i get it now. >> you get it now? >> do we have other questions? >> i realize that a lot of your missions are still classified. can you explain what the mix was? was an interrogation, community relations, what were you doing? >> so i did all the missions. [inaudible] >> almost all of

they spent six months applying 600 sheets of gold leaf to the bronze statues. the chief priest of the temple says the gold represents buddha and hopes it will bring good fortune to the temple. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. ñwc >> hello. you're watching live from paris. here is your headline. beenkrainian president has set to unveil a new government this tuesday. he has delayed the move. the head of the french army and central african republic claims his troops have made a difference. the comments come as the french parliament decides later on extending the mission. a shameless montage. the turkish prime minister circulatg

last year they spent -- excuse me, spent $60 million. last year they spent $62.5 million.ecting a record breaker this year. adding to the financial strain and really the logistical pressure is a salt shortage that has been reported across the northeast. some 17 states are reporting problems finding salt and getting it where it needs. just a few, minnesota, west virginia, maine, rhode island still doing okay at this point in time. some municipalities are struggling to find salt. new york governor cuomo put out a statement this week talking about the snow problem and said new york state will be giving snow to those towns in the long island area to help them shore up the snalt they need. >> it's not just the northeast as molly was reporting. old man winter putting a big chill in the economy nationwide. to sandra smith. >> neil, while some 47,000 flights have been canceled so far this year and that's -- this is only the first week in february, more cancellations today after 39,000 canceled flights in january. that was the most ever for any month since october 2012 and ta was w

we have spent time as i was talking to the chairman yerblings spent time in jacksonville with a wonderful task force jointly between the i.r.s., criminal investigation, and state and law enforcement in jacksonville in florida have become much more aggressive at pursuing this. we have had -- last year had 1,500 investigations up from 300. the two years before. we have a substantially increased sophisticated filter system that identifies suspicious returns as they are filed electronically. last year we actually saw a plateauing in the number of returns that came through that we were able to tax or we think between we had 1,000 indictments recommended last year up from 165 two years earlier. we think we are getting some of the people off the street. we are i think getting the message out that this is not a free game. it's not a free good that you can't simply steal a social security number and get a refund without being prosecuted for that. but it is a significant problem. we had in the budget proposed $100 million of i.t. work that was not included in the budget but we are figuring in some

spent with me in a year. back, especially with my two older boys, that there were times when i should have actually spent less time with them when i was home, when i was out of congress, when i shouldn't have smothered as much. and it's a thing that i'm trying to learn with kate and jack too. mike, you have seven kids. >> seven? >> yes. >> look at you! >> it is bizarre how much time and effort we spend with our children, almost smothering them, compared to what our fathers and mothers did with us who we dearly love. >> you can't even compare time spent with our parents spending with us. one of the things that concerns me with time spent with kids in this culture, in this era right now, is i don't want my children and they are older now obviously to think that they would have to spend as much time with their kids down the road as i've spent with them. the other thing that interests me, the point about mothers and daughters, this is anecdotal and not proven. it's just my observation. why do you think that oppos

the last time kate haggan ran for the senate six years ago she spent about $8 million in total. a group opposing her already spent $7 million. the amount of money we're talking about is huge. let me stop and look at the republicans for a minute. they're having a really interesting debate on what their position ought to be. started the year thinking obamacare. all we have to do is say obamacare. but there's a debate in the party, maybe that's not quite enough. for example, you look at the polls, most people don't like obamacare but they don't want to repeal it, they want to fix its -- it. now republicans are saying we're going to present an alternative to obamacare. there's already one in the senate. the house leadership says they're working on one in the house. that's a problem because they keep dividing over it. the economy, david winston will tell you when they won in 2010 they won because of obamacare. actually, they won because of the economy. people didn't think obama was doing enough to get jobs back so they're trying to come up with a message on economy and finally, they'

>> guest: i was born in oak park, illinois, but i spent most of my time if dallas.my parents are from oklahoma, but moved to dallas in 1960. i was educated there, went to several different colleges and, ultimately, built my business career working out of dallas. >> host: when did you get interested in art and history? >> guest: i've always been interested in history, but i really didn't know much about art. my parents were able to take us on some trips and exposed us to going to museums just as tourists, and i was always interested in seeing these things. i didn't understand anything about them other than i thought one was pretty or one wasn't. spent some time walking through churches, but as i started traveling more as a adult and then once with i became married, i had more interest in these things. again, not really understanding what i was looking at. but for me, i wasn't interested in trying to understand it through reading books. i learn best outside a class room. very tactile. so when i was in florence, a lot of american universities there. i hired an american

. >> you have spent $100 million, which the most you've ever spent in any renovation. why so much?we felt the $100 million was necessary to bring the regency back to a place that befits the neighborhood but also the vision that we have for this hotel. the $100 million mark also not only includes the rooms and the corridors and the restaurant and a new fitness center and the salon and the new lobby, but we replaced every window. the windows were 50 years old and i guess -- the guests are going to appreciate that. we're looking to raise our rates 20% to 25% which is not a small amount but yet we think the product and service will warrant the rate increase. we totally took this area and made it guest-friendly. >> the renovation costs ballooned from an initial estimate of just $35 million to the $100 million. but tisch says it's all part of his plan to grow the brand and boost the image of all 21 of his loews hotels. how long will it take before you're able to make the money back from the money you put into this? >> it's hard to look at a real r.o.i. in terms of every dollar, every pen

but we've spent a lot of time therapists demonstrated to our merchandising industry is actively growing and diverse first degree. so about a year ago we were brained stomping with the planning department staff and members of the board of supervisors at the around how can we make new p dr space easier to find in the city interest the planning staff is going to 0 go through the details but the sprifrts has spent a lot of time about the affordability crisis we're going on going through additional terms of housing and supervisor cowen thinks about it in terms of housing and preserving real blue-collar jobs. the p dr provides job opportunity with a people of a variety of educational skill sets to provide livelihoods in san francisco so anything we can do to help preserve the workforce in the eastern workforce and in the city. we've been meeting with a lot of stakeholders and the advisory council and we're open to meet and serve feedback this is why it's an informational item. there's a lot of consensus around objectives but the key components that we believe in this legislation that are incr

[laughter] spent actually, there's more to destroy the net. as usual, the other thing i should say is that when you get one star from johnny, you have to ask in the same story like 25 times before you get all the details, and then you find the seals were with him, you get more. he's a very modest fellow. but the originally were calling you walk or i think, and i think, i think somebody sorry with the drink had said no, he's not walker, he's johnny walker. johnny, of course, been johnny didn't understand, at that point didn't really understand the joke, and then got it. >> i got it now spent you got it no? >> i got it now. >> i realize a lot of your missions, johnny, are still probably classified, but can you explain like what the mix was? was a partly derogation? was a parlay community relations? what were you doing? >> so what kind of missions did you go on? >> so i did all the mission, and my job is i will do everything to make mission successful. they need me to help him questioning. they need me to call security. they need -- they need me