in fact, if you look at some of love -- we got information from steven hill who has been doing great work around these issues for many years and has articulated and outlined the many problems that come with the top two primary systems. one of which is the turnout. you just saw an example in this past primary election in san francisco where you have among the lowest turnout we have had in quite some time, 30%. it is an issue that became more problematic for certain neighborhoods that were disproportionately impacted by that. i think the goal should be to have a system that maximizes boater involvement and voter turnout, and i think sad ring choice of voting has been able to do that. i also think there are practical questions that arise in terms of the ability of the election department with limited resources to implement some of the things that are being proposed, and i think instead of talking about how we get rid of the system, that we should focus on how we make the system better, and i'd think focusing on that will give us better outcome, because i do think what is being proposed

. >> steven hill. first of all, i want to clarify the record. cite your numbers, but you leave me no choice. you continue to get out erroneous numbers. you said poll after poll shows voters are confused. the only credible poll that we have that was done by a credible organization is san francisco state university showed 87 percent of sanford says go voters understand crank troy's boating. the other ones have been paid for by the chamber of commerce, and that is unknown opponent to bring tourists boating, so i think the polls are not credible. you also put out a figure that sit in the last election there was one% over votes. the over boat rate was 0.41%. sometime in the memory you have more than doubled the number of votes that occurred in the mayoral election. you said there were up to 3% thrown away in the 2010 race. i want to show you the figure right here. this is the over boats that happened in the june 5 primary, which we just had, compared to the mayoral election in 2011. the big cars over here are the june primary-- big bars over here are

hills investment banker doing his best dennis the menace impersonation. take a look at this. some of the damage there. he's 58-year-old michael steven peret. lice nabbed him in beverly hills in a traffic stop. an officer noticed a sling shot right about the time a radio call went out about the windows. he has been released from jail. so far no charges have been filed. >> 5:14. she's not going to disney world, an ohio father has come under fire for putting the brakes on his daughter's dream trip to the happiest place on earth. william may refused to sign off on the vacation that his 4-year-old daughter received from the make-a-wish foundation. mckenna who has battled leukemia underwent her last cancer treatment. the 4-year-old's mother supports the trip but her father feels that children who are cured shouldn't receive donations from the foundation. mckenna's mom has placed donation jars around bowling green and nearby towns to help pay her daughter to still make the trip to disney world. >> maybe the dad needs to get to disneyland and get happy. >> it's sad. every kid needs to go. >> we have a strange verdict in the continuing battle betwee

steven strasburg. he'll be on the hill tonight. strasburg struggled in that last outing against the braves.une 30th. he only lasted three innings and then had to leave with heat exhaustion. the nats and their ace are looking to rebound now and expand their lead over atlanta. those two teams are meeting for the ninth time this season. ryan zimerman says that's a plus. >> i think, you know, i think we like playing the teams in our division a little bit more because of the familiarity, you know what to expect and you have experience against a lot of their players. >> i think to a man, they all pretty much know who they are and what they are capable of doing. like to do battle. it's the same emotion over there on atlanta side, except they need to prove themselves that they can beat us and get back on top. >> you know how they had a bounty down there in new orleans or whatever it was on football players who did big hits. we need to put some money together to give ryan zimmerman some cash if he would just smile one time. just pay him to smile. don't you think? any way desmond returns to the start

. >> mark hill is an associate professor at clemson university and steven moore an editorial writer at the wall street journal. thanks for joining us. doesn't it scream for compromise. >> it absolutely screams for compromise. there is no way you will get anything through unless you also compromise on the other end and have some kind of spending reduction. not in the major stuff, not in the most crucial stuff, but we have to make cuts and take losses >> do you think the republicans, steven moore, will be able to agree to something, anything that will allow them to keep their pledges not to raise taxes? that's going to be the political problem for republicans. >> christine, by the way, it is very appropriate you're addredr in red for this discussion. i think the republicans when i talk to them and interviewed the ways and means committee chairman that writes the tax laws in the house and says, look, we're willing to raise revenues, we just want to do it in a way that fixes the tax system in a broad based way and one just slight correction on what you saw earlier, christine, all of of the

hill. >> steven is looking at her of the "washington times." thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> most of the house we expect they will work on taxes and extension of bush-era tax cuts but while republicans are digging into this not as they had into the five weeks august break? >> this is part of what president obama's called on congress to take care of these tax cuts and give certainty to the economy and to businesses and taxpayers, and so the senate actually acted right before it left for, right before last week, and now the house is under pressure to basically follow suit and do what it is going to do but they are likely to actually reject the senate version, which was written by democrats, and instead has a version that was written by republicans that looks like a lot like a version for democrats rejected last week or so we're likely to a stalemate, and others speakers legislation proposal to overhaul a tax that. how does this bill figure into the tax debate this week what is this a total throw it out and start it all over, or how e

defense appropriations bill and defense industry executives like lockheed martin's ceo bob stevens are urging capitol hille up with a plan to avoid $500 million in automatic defense cuts. according to a report by the aerospace industry's association those cuts could result in the loss of up to 2 million jobs. joining us now, democratic representative from mas chet congressman barney frank and republican representative from south carolina congressman mick mulvaney. they are offering a bipartisan solution with an amendment to the defense appropriations bill. good morning, thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> last segment tom and i were talking about taking care of long-term debt, challenges of medicare, medicaid, social security provide, but defense spending. the united states spends more on national defense than, what, the next 16, 17 countries behind it. and yet, you try to cut defense and we hear -- sounds like it's 1964 all over again. >> right. when you talk about those countries behind us, china obviously is potentially hostile power, most of the next highest spending countries are friends of ou

. >> mark hill is an associate professor at clemson university and steven moore an editorial writer atoining us. doesn't it scream for compromise. >> it absolutely screams for compromise. there is no way you will get anything tgh

steven was the last? he's the last colored wahl, is he not? >> right. so he -- the last of o.s.b. wahl's line. so he stays in the howard hill neighborhood for a long time, and then the children decide that they want to sell the house. you know, you have the parents that died. the thinner all own it together. they decide to sell the house. they sell the house. it's razed, and a segregated school is built on the site. and with that money with his share steven wahl moves to a different neighborhood near catholic university. and he decides he's not going to change his name and he continues to work at the government printing office where everyone knows he's african-american. he's going to become white by keeping his mouth shut, and it works for a little while. >> this is an interesting thing because i was telling daniel those of us who are black, especially of my age born in the years after world war ii, all of us know a friend or a relative who has move fbd across the color line to become white, and it was lost to us.d fbd across the color line to become white, and it was lost to us.fbs the color line to become white, and it wa

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steven. >> you only had to do it for a couple of weeks. i've been enduring that for 45, 46 years now. >> we're going to come to alec's nuptials but an aide on capitol hill, tell me about that time in your life. >> it was interesting, in the late '70s and first reagan time was when i entered college and i was a political science major with an emphasis on the israeli conflict and i interned for a bit for the congressman for tom downey who served nine terms in the house and then i went on to do a lot of political work, campaign work for tom and for others, dukakis and al gore. >> were you tempted to continue down that path and maybe not come into entertainment? >> well, initially when i was 15 i thought i was going to go to law school and have a career in politics, most likely behind the scenes as a staffer but then my brother for some reason decided he wanted in with show business. i never knew anybody that had a show business career and my brother went up on a soap opera and a couple years later on broadway and then in "hunt for red october." i thought, if that knuckle head can do it, anybody can. he's been nominated and won the golden globes, the tony a