i want to thank senator steinberg. and so, it is getting hot out here. of course, we know what he had to do. in the aftermath, we are laughing at the success because we were able to do it, but in this critical hours when we had to count the votes, we had to ask ourselves, did we have the leadership and told this? daryl, you have been there, thank you. speaker progress, i want to teach -- think each member of the senate and house for suggesting to the people of california that this is a time to make the right decision. it has been so many years. we have seen a lot of battles that did not come to a conclusion. this is the right conclusion. it is so right, when we made the decision, then the federal agencies came in and complemented it. that is why john mccarthy is here, deputy of transportation. it is the same thing we are doing in our city. we are coming together with our board of supervisors, malia cohen is here, mta board, we're coming together to make investment. you do not get the investment unless you get investor confidence. so with all the agencies

please join me in welcoming center and president pro tem steinberg. [applause] >> thank you, maria. thank you very much. i am actually one of those guys that grew up in san mateo county. if i had been of a voting age, i have -- would have voted yes on part. it is wonderful to be here. -- on bart. i want to think the governor for his inspiring words, for not giving up on california, for not giving up on vision in difficult times. i want to acknowledge my colleagues in the legislature for doing an incredible job in difficult circumstances, a couple of whom are represented today. the chair of the budget committee, mark leno. [applause] two members of the assembly are also here. kathleen, who was one of the inspiration behind this. norah campos, welcome. [applause] i see art pulaski here also representing organized labor. thank you for making this possible. [applause] very briefly, the people know that we can cut, and the people know that we can patch and mend, but the skeptics certainly wonder whether we have the will to build it. do we have the fortitude to see beyond the present mome

steinberg and welcome to you all. this is -- at this seminar, the title is getting the ungettable story. first, i'd like to thank the center for communications for their support. a few individual people in the audience especially harvey simpson who is here who is a very passionate about investigative reporting and has been a donor to the polk program. ralph angleman, my colleague. who shares more than half the burden of it. some judges are here, and i see sprinkled throughout the audience. we have our lifetime award winner, ronny duggar in the audience. the executive director of al jazeera english has flown over, john blair who is here somewhere and i'm forgetting some people, so, please, forgive me for that. now as most reporters can tell you some stories are just simply hard to get, and they may be hard to get because the very institution they're covering is premised on secrecy or they may be hard to get because, let's say, you're covering the crackdown of an authoritarian government and it wants to keep your footag

so david steinberg is with us. welcome. of all, do you believe the fact that the job's report might be a little better than initial expectations, john? >> i think they were toned down by last month. last month was a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. i think this will be better. >> i will say 110. >> i'm in an agreement. i think you will have a lot of movement in the markets. it's a holiday week. >> it worries me that everybody says it will be better than expected. its me that the markets will go the other way. >> i think 110,000 is mediocre. it's just -- i think people are still a little nervous about it. >> you have europe slowing, china slowing down, where is the strength coming for our jobs number here? >> you will have chronic disappointment in jobs numbers. there is monetary policy, and until they get going in the right direction, it will go month over month over month. >> those guys know how to work their way through it. >> that's something that's really overhanging the market right now, and everybody that we talk t

he is a democrat paul wellstone some that darrel steinberg knowledge right up to the boats. >>> and this is on the hardest votes that have ever worked on. in some i'm very very happy about the outcome because i think that's what we did today is going to be seen over many years and some many decades as a turning point in california a time when we've decided to say yes to hope yes to progress yes to the future. hope the trophosphere there is always uncertainty with a project the size and the vision of this. did we to did not have the votes to spare. what does this mean willoughby's that the state will floats a $2.6 billion bond ended 3.2 billion from the federal government in grants this goes to 130 mi. track for madera to bakersfield to 60 4/6 according to senator construction could begin in six months as well as adding tens of thousands of jobs we did a statement from senate republican leader bob happened then he says closing schools for three weeks was spending 8,000,000,130 mi. of track this defies logic and it is irresponsible sell a lot of republicans voted against this because this

i think part of this is being driven by senator feinstein being in contact with senator steinberg at the state level. there is definitely a whole lot of activity going on, according to the folks i have talked to. there is nothing really new for us to report at this level right now, other than that it may affect how we do to implement some of our enforcement going forward. >> i know in our hearing, and i do not think we closed it out, but have we ever sent a letter of support for what she is doing up there? >> we have not. there's nothing to prevent us from doing so. we could sit in the draft a letter and -- we could certainly draft a letter. >> that is something i would not mind looking into if we could. i believe we are all on the same page. i could say we have had hearings on it, and we support the measures they are trying to do at the state level. thank you. >> item 8c, update on primary tracking systems. >> the project still is going well and on schedule. we have been working with them on meetings where we have our documentation to be configured and see what they have done in ter

state senate president democrat steinberg struggled to get enough votes. >> i think what we did today is going to be seen over many years as a turning point in california. >> reporter: the senate vote covers only about one tenth of the $70 billion or so the project is eventually expected to cost. in 2008 california voters approved spending close to $10 billion on the first phase of high speed rail. an opinion poll then showed 52% support for the project. but support now has dropped to 39%, as californians have watched the state's budget problems deepen. >> i don't know if i want to spend extra tax money on right now, i'd be more interested in education. report while the animation shows bullet trains arriving in busy city centers, the first stage will be bit through largely agricultural land in california's central valley, which has led critics to call this the train to nowhere. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> mason: secretary of state hillary clinton will be in tokyo tomorrow to attend an international conference aimed at raising billions of dollars in aid for afghanistan

foreign backing of the rebels as the main obstacle to peace in syria as we've been hearing from jeff steinberg from the executive intelligence review. unfortunately qatar saudi arabia turkey continue to provide financing. significant weapons to the opposition u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton continues to insist there's a non-negotiable demand that assad steps down and of course these are all violations of the very document that was signed in geneva just two weeks ago president assad proposed to kofi annan on the name of one of his government ministers who he said could be his personal representative negotiating with the opposition a transition government i think that's an important concession and step forward it's the xterra law position based in london paris and in iraq. who are the big impediment and they're being encouraged by saudi arabia qatar friends britain and elements within the obama administration. so in the arab world but mainly off the american radar extra troops have been deployed to the eastern saudi province and made here's a fresh protests by the majority share populati

just steinberg from the executive intelligence review believe it's the foreign backing of the rebels that's the main obstacle to peace in syria. thank fortunately qatar saudi arabia turkey continue to provide financing and significant weapons to the opposition u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton continues to insist as a non-negotiable demand that assad steps down and of course these are all violations of the very document that was signed in geneva just two weeks ago president assad proposed to kofi annan on the name of one of his government ministers who he said could be his personal representative negotiating with the opposition a transition government i think that's an important concession and step forward the head of the internal opposition reform opposition movement michel kilo was in moscow and he met with foreign minister lavrov and he said to live are all that his group would be willing to negotiate begrudgingly with president assad representatives it's the xterra law position based in london paris and in. who are the big impediment and they're being encouraged by saudi ar

rebels blowing up tanks and helicopters let's talk about this hopefully with political analyst jeff steinberg executive intelligence review magazine there jeff you're live on our see good to see you tonight just about so can be dark where you other now kofi annan said yesterday a six point plan was not succeeding in ending the violence in syria so at this stage what can do you think save the u.n. speech. well of course there was a meeting in geneva several weeks ago where a number of countries the five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus qatar kuwait and other representatives of the arab league all agreed to take a more vigorous final stand and getting the cease fire and moving towards some kind of government transition and quite frankly there really is no viable alternative to the non-playing alternately working with the cooperation of all of those countries that were signatories unfortunately qatar saudi arabia turkey continue to provide financing and significant weapons to the opposition u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton continues to insist as a non-negotiable demand

steinberg? >> i have issue with sort of his strategy going into gettysburg because the point of his campaign was obviously he wanted to win a big battle in the north as a moral victory and reduce the will, but wasn't the military objective to get to harrisburg? because there was a rail hub there. gettysburg happened to be where the army ended up meeting. >> he doesn't intend to fight in gettysburg but somewhere in the north. >> if he's going after a transportation hub like harrisburg or an industrial center, so what? you make it, and even if he wants to take over a rail hub or factories, so what? >> his goal is really to bring -- to force the federal army to a battle and to defeat it decisively. and that by itself should crush the northern public opinion. all right. that's the -- it's not completely -- let me throw this out. what happens in new york city around that time? >> the draft. >> the draft riots. the north is deeply, deeply divided in some respects about the war. so imagine draft riots

we bring in strategy talk right now with david cudlan, david steinberg, and keith wertz. how important is new stimulus from the federal reserve right now? >> the market has been waiting for this announcement for a couple months now. the gdp being released -- i think the market is preparing the fed is preparing the markets for action on the horizon. >> why do that? why come out and say if growth doesn't pick up we'll be there soon. >> i think they wanting to take action. it's ironic, if you think about the last 20 years, it's been rare. it's been taboo for the fed to take action. things seem to be difference. i think the fed really wants to take action and not being criticized. they're getting the market psychological for action. >> let's get to steve leisman, he has more details on what fed is saying here, saying if brout doesn't pick up, they're going to be there. >> there's not a whole lot of new information in it when i think about what's been said on air for the last several weeks and when i read this report. but what the story says, and let's be careful, it says the

. >> reporter: senate president darrell steinberg gave high-fives at the vote. the winning argument was jobs. >> initial operating system first construction will create 100,000 jobs of employment during the next years. >> but republicans bash the bullet train as a run away boon doi doi doggal. >> its could jeopardize the governor's tax hike initiative. >> it's a $40 billion revenue risk if we lose the governor's tax measure on election day in november. >>. >> reporter: so now the bullet train has the green light to begin construction of a 100-mile stretch from madera to bakersfield. >>> the 59-foot structure planned at union square may violate the city charter it turns out. provisions of the charter prohibit structures with nonrecreational purposes unless the council approves it. despite any looming litigation, the city attorney's office is giving the green light to move ahead with the proposal. >>> san francisco's district attorney says new surveillance video is shedding more light accused of killing their daughter's pump. surveillance camera captured video of

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my name is david steinberg and i am president of long island university. days of the 63rd george polk award. it is extraordinary that this award has gained in strength and stature over the last decade. pursuing the story and murdered because of it. then of course there was a complicated second half of an investigation launched into who killed george polk, leading to some of america's most distinguished journalists participating at the very beginning of the cold war. we are proud and privileged to keep his memory alive and celebrate him. this evening's activity -- i think we started, we were discussing whether it was 21 or 20 years ago. i think it is 21. it is certainly in that universe. what we suddenly realized was that at a lunch which will take place tomorrow where everyone is allowed a minute or so to speak. some obey, some not. there is a sense of rush. so we decided we would create a seminar for students, members of the working press and others interested in the topic. to invite several of the award winners to have a chance to talk about what they di