caller: thank you to paul sullivan for taking some questions. i have just two. first of all, a lot of people seem to be thinking that it is a cause for americans if the country has oil. it seems to me that it might more likely be a correlation that oil provides people with money to buy weapons and whatnot that threaten their own people as well as other people. the other thing i would like to hear is your thoughts on how this is affecting the continuation of the middle east uprisings, with the attacks and libya are providing more momentum, whether it is having no effects, or even negative effects. guest: i will take the second one first and good morning. it seems that syria is catching fire now. it may be that some of the people in syria are looking toward the actions of nato and the united states and the uae as possibly thinking they could have a backup when things go south, either directly or indirectly. i do not know the validity of that. clearly, there is going to be a continuation of the violence, my guess. this is far from over. when it comes to yemen it is

and music from quinn sullivan.with cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, places, everybody! here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming to become my friend. and let me just say this, i want you all to know you're all my new best friends. but you'll never see me again. i'm going to miss him the most. he was laid off recently. this is crazy. the other night, you know, you may have heard charlie sheen showed up and kissed me right on the lips. and it was a big story because everything charlie sheen does is a big story. and none of us know where libya is, so -- [ laughter ] some people thought it was funny, some people thought it was weird. at least one people were so disturbed by this turn of events that he grabbed a gun and menaced his family. >> charlie sheen surprised the audience at "jimmy kimmel live" and even the host himself when he showed up at the talk show and planted a big kiss on kim

sullivan: u.s.ls are shifting their research facilities, shifting their manufacturing facilities, and shifting some regional headquarters into switzerland and into ireland. and those are massive numbers of jobs. >> stahl: he says ireland taxes corporations at just a third of the u.s. rate, so no wonder the outskirts of dublin look like silicon valley. these companies are all but obliged to go abroad. >> sullivan: well, if you're... have a 35% rate in the united states and, for example, a 12.5% rate in ireland, there's a incentive to move your factory to ireland. >> stahl: 600 american companies are in ireland and they employ 100,000 people. >> sullivan: that's right. >> stahl: those are jobs that aren't here. and they moved to ireland because of taxes. >> sullivan: mm-hmm. the u.s. treasury, in effect, is subsidizing investment in ireland. >> stahl: why isn't everybody in ireland, if it's that great? >> sullivan: almost everybody is in ireland. all the pharmaceutical companies, all the high-tech com

, brendan sullivan has gone 35 years and never had one client serve any time in jail which was pretty remarkable because by the time people came to him they were pretty far up the creek. not like he was defense gain to many roman catholic nuns. and after a while i began to wonder if it is true. was i just saying this or maybe i just repeated the story so many times i believed it. so what i try a two do is talk about why brendan sullivan had a passion and that he had and what is the pattern from when he first came to williams connolly after defending prisoners' at the stockade in san francisco win prosecutors routinely did not always be paid in the most correct manner possible. and i sort of us came to realize, i explained in the book why he is the way he is and what of the best examples that he had handled he was going through the documents the government had given him in this very high-profile case and one of them did not look right to him. they were yellowed and they looked okay. he held up to the light and had his investigators check out the water mark. there were able to prove the

first i have maria d'agostino and then andrew sullivan. >> good afternoon. my name is maria d'agostino. i am seeking reappointment to chair 2. i remain uniquely qualified to sit on the urban forestry council. i applied for seat 2 and qualified to sit for any of the available seats today. i worked in the private sector for a while. i started as a volunteer. then was brought on board part- time and then full time. as many nonprofit employees do, i went on to work for the bureau of urban forestry. i have been in my position since we applied for the council appointment. i am just recently back from the municipal forestry institute. it was a week-long the leadership intensive held at the arbor day lodge and met with colleagues from across the u.s. that work for nonprofit municipalities and state agencies. it was extremely invigorating and also relieve validating to touch on a couple of initiatives that i supported. since i have been elected chair by my peers in the last year, i have been extremely cognizant of our use of time, especially the department of the env

and when brendon sullivan came in to represent you, the room would crackle. it still crackles. and i walked into the ted stevens case trial this year, you know, there's an electricity in the room that you're present with some of the great lawyers. as a reporter i had been pretty lucky to be able to be in trials with people like melvin bellia and william kunsler and i was going to mention jim coleman who is now i think at duke university when he represented ted bundy in some of his death penalty appeals. when you're in the presence of these great lawyers, it's really a spectacular feeling. you know, some of you may have heard -- i don't know if some of you are watching boardwalk empire. anybody see the last episode where the -- arnold rothstein, the guy who fixed the 1919 world series is preparing his legal defense. and one of the characters in the program says, arnold, you should be a lawyer. and he replies without sort of missing a beat, he says, no, i'd rather continue to make my living honestly. so, you know, there's a lot of -- there's a lot of lawyers in this country that

caller: thank you to paul sullivan for taking some questions. i have just two. first of all, a lot of people seem to be thinking that it is a cause for americans if the country has oil. it seems to me that it might more likely be a correlation that oil provides people with money to buy weapons and whatnot that threaten their own people as well as other people. the other thing i would like to hear is your thoughts on how this is affecting the continuation of the middle east uprisings, with the attacks and libya are providing more momentum, whether it is having no effects, or even negative effects. guest: i will take the second one first and good morning. it seems that syria is catching fire now. it may be that some of the people in syria are looking toward the actions of nato and the united states and the uae as possibly thinking they could have a backup when things go south, either directly or indirectly. i do not know the validity of that. clearly, there is going to be a continuation of the violence, my guess. this is far from over. when it comes to yemen it is

what i tried to do is go back and talk a little bit about why brendan sullivan has this passion that he has and with the pattern is from when he first came to williams and connolly after being a defending prisoner at the stockade in san francisco and the cases when prosecutors sort of routinely -- the discover prosecutors didn't always be haven the most correct manner possible. and i sort of came to realize and i think i explained in the book why he is the way he is and why his cases turn out the way they do. and one of the best examples is the case of tax fraud case that she had handled where he was going through the documents the government had given him in this high-profile case. and one didn't look right. the others were yellow and this one looked okay. so he held up the paper to the light and had his investigators check out the water mark and they were able to prove the paper wasn't manufactured until after the document was supposedly tight and the prosecutor hadn't been able to find -- hadn't been able to find the original document so she had it retype and the was a sort of cla

. >> next we have andrew sullivan and then dan flanagan. >> thank you for your time. i have a brief presentation of myself. a point of clarification before i start. i am listed as interested in seeking four, six, and 7. i believe the qualification for four is working for a non- profit. >> you are applying for seats six and seven then? >> also two. i am a member of the american society of landscape architects. commissioner kim: you are certified by a professional tree management organizations? >> i was listed in seat 2. commissioner kim: we know you are an applicant for six and seven. >> i am a landscape architect and have been for it the last 16 years. i have been for 12 years in san francisco with various organizations. dealing locally, regionally, and across the country on designing construction projects. everything from small, private projects to large-scale public works. that straddle the line between private and public realms. my work as a landscape architect, i am not only concerned about the aesthetics and sustaining the beauty, but also looking at the work i d

thanks to a great roundtable, michael duffy, katty kay, norah o'donnell and andrew sullivan.

duffy with "time magazine," the bbc's katty kay, nbc's norah o'donnell and the "atlantic"'s" andrew sullivan. there was little president obama could do to help japan with the catastrophe of biblical proportions. he's been under pressure to go first on social security and also to lead the charge on libya. we'll take them one at a time. first libya, the u.n.'s action calmed the week's-long drum beat for a no-fly zone over libya. obama waited for europe and the arab league, aware that americans are reluctant to take on another fight in the arab world. and as a consequence to 2012, perhaps a political upside to backing the freedom fighters but on the downside, there's always a risk of getting blamed. the president said, i'm not going to be point man on libya. he said i'm going to stay back and get the pack ahead of me. >> he did. the problem looking irresolute has gone away for the moment. he got the u.n. security council which does not move like a s.w.a.t. team normally and he got the russians and chinese to abstain. he got the cease-fire out of qaddafi. but there's a downside. three-quarters o

john sheahan: yeah, in 1968, we were on the ed sullivan show in new york, coast to coast television.but the thing was, we went over to do seven drunken nights because it had been a hit in england and we thought, "let's do the same thing in america." but when ed sullivan heard it he said, "this isn't a moral song, you can't sing that song on my show." we ended up doing muirsheen durkin or something like that. so much for our plans to break into america, you know. we were a bit disillusioned, i think, after that. we thought, "to hell with it, sure." we planned to walk around europe. laura savini: ♪ look at me, talking irish! i love it. david rubinsohn: beautiful. singing irish gorgeously. laura savini: i am singing irish. and what does that mean? of course, welcome home. and we do welcome you home right now to see the wonderful roots of irish music. how they played into the american song. hi, i'm laura savini. today, laura sweeny. david rubinsohn: hello, i'm the, i'm david rubinsohn, the fifth great grandson of thomas donnell. we're here at saint stephen's green, here in dublin. this i

and ed sullivan said mr. hilton if you can only tell the american people one thing what would you tell them. conrad said put the shower curtain inside the tub. [laughter] now there was a guy that knew what was important to him. and i'm here to talk to you for a minute about what's important to me. we have an enormous e lebron in 2012 and as some of you know, i'm thinking about being a conditioned candidate. i'm not deciding until the end of april but i have thought a lot about what we have to do. whether hayley or somebody else. we can look at the 2010 election and get a guide post for 2012. why did we win enormous victory in 2010? because the election was about policy. the election was about the great issues facing the american people. that's right. [applause] when elections are about issues and public policies good for republicans, because on most issues, most americans, agree with us. and as we saw in this election when independents voted for republican candidates for the congress by 60-40 margin it was ab

they say one time and sullivan had the most popular television show in the country -- ed sullivan had the most popular television show in the country. one night, he had conrad hilton on his show. he w the bill gates of the day. and sullivan turned to him as he walked out and say if you could only tell the american people one thing, what would it be? conrad hilton said, but the shower curtain iide the back up? th tub. [laughter] there is a man who knew what was important to him. wh is important to us is to have a new president january 20 of 2013. [applause] we cannot lose focus on that. that is why i say this election needs to be about policy. when president obama was elected, the american people thought they were going to focus laser light on the economy on growing the economy and job creation. the policies of this administration, in every case, has made it harder to create jobs and less likely to have economic growth. the president has been calling for the largest tax increase in american history. tax increases fall primarily on employers. he fought for it for the whole two years. hi

michael sullivan. is it moshe? moshe schwartz. let me provide an introduction.we are here for the entire first panel? okay. how did they do? i think they did pretty well. up on the second panel is john young, no stranger here. it's nice to see all of you again, but especially john. he served as the undersecretary defense for acquisition technology and logistics until april, 2009. now understand he's hanging his hat over the board of regents at the potomac institute for policy studies for think was the senior fellow, senior fellow and member of the board. during his career, mr. young has held numerous positions in the department of defense acquisition community including director of defense research and engineering in the office of secretary and assistant secretary of the navy for research and development and acquisition. mr. young, again, no stranger to capitol hill having served ten years as a staff member of the defense subcommittee of the senate appropriations committee. who were the chairs the worked for? >> [inaudible] >> i worked for senator stevens and sa

we have a motion to aflanagan for seat 4, sherwin for seat 5 and sullivan for seat 7. we have no objections. i'd like to thank all of the applicants that were here. mr. milne, thank you for all of your service to the committee. it is great to see this dedication to the city of san francisco. these are the hard decisions that our committee has to make. it is good to have some fresh new voices. thank you so much for your application and your time and service. we will move forward without objection. thank you. madam clerk will you call item 5? >> considering appointing one member for the chairman of the sweat free it advisory group. commissioner kim: is she here today? we do have your application and interest to sit on this task force. >> good afternoon. my name is eleanor morton. i am an accountant in the city of san francisco. i have represented employees, low-wage workers, and labor unions at a loss for more i am a law partner. -- law lot firm, where i am a law partner. as a passionate san francisco resident who is very concerned about the city and how it spends its do

ilona sullivan. larry roberts. kathy asadda. all of the volunteers. michael freed man from sf govtv. our city library. our sponors. kecker and argu edez. i also want to give a special thanks from anderson and anderson counseling. if you have ever seen the movie anner management, george was the consultant on that movie. he is an expert in conflict mediation. i want to thank george as well. i am so very honored to introduce our key-note speaker this morning. doctor francisco revelez. and mta director annette ford all were people who were self made, are self made. doctor revelez was born in el paso. he labeled as a migrant worker. he also served as a division one principle with credentials in biology and chemistry. how did he get from biology and chemistry? today he is a senior faculty member at california university and he has dedicated his entire career to get out of survivor mode to empowerment mode. he believes that when young people are made to feel successful, they are better able to take a stand and feel empowered. he has expressed that in so many

as i look at brendan sullivan's career, i always used to say in my articles about him, brendan sullivan is gone 35 years and never had one client serve any time in jail which is pretty remarkable because by the time people came to him they were four up the creek. it was not like he was defending roman catholic nuns or that type of thing. after a while i began to wonder is that true? did i just repeat the story so many times i believe it? i tried to go back and talk about why brendan sullivan has a fashion that he has and the pattern from when he came to williams and connally after defending prisoners' in the stockade the san francisco and the first case when prosecutors routinely sought they did not be given the correct manner possible and i sort of came to realize and i think i explained in the book why he is the widely -- the way he is in his case is turnout the way that they do and the best example is a tax fraud case he had handled where he was going through the documents the government had given him in a high-profile case and one did not look great. the ithers were yellow and this

sullivan wanted to clarify. of turning uses a acceptable to the city. that language is written in the negative and it is very confusing. maybe if you can clarify what mr. bentsen was same -- benson was saying. >> i think there has been discussion about whether a taxpayer or someone else can make a reasonable determination. this is not just whether there is material change, this is change that is a detriment to the city overall for this board and what for final approval was. there is language that makes it clear who is to make that determination. frankly, whether or not a taxpayer disagrees is irrelevant in terms of a legal lawsuit. there is no basis for that. >> i will take exception because i don't think that that is an accurate description. the board delegates its authority to staff and to make changes that are in the best interest of the city that do not directly increase this to the city. what a taxpayer says or believes with respect to whether or not that elevation is relevant as it is relevant with any kind of potential taxpayer litigation, -- i a

maybe a couple of you all are old enough to remember and sullivan. maybe steve.ne sunday night, 12 million american households tune dying into ed sullivan, and he calls up conrad hilton, a man who had created a new business, a luxury hotel chain, a business icon, the bill gates of his day. ed sullivan looked at him and said, you can only tell the american people one thing, what would you tell them? conrad hilton at never hesitated. you said that the shower curtain inside the tub. [laughter] now there was a guy who knew what was important to him. and i am here to talk to you for a minute about what is important to me. we have an enormous election coming up in 2012, and as some of you know, i am thinking about being a candidate. i am is seriously considering that. i will not make a decision until the end of april. but i have thought about what we have to do, whether our candidate is haley barbour or whether our candidate is somebody else. we can look at the 2010 election and get a guidepost for 2012. why did we win an enormous victory in 2010? because the election

conviction of senator based on gross misconduct in the case, even the judge of that case, judge sullivan, said after repeated orders from the court to the prosecutors, he had never seen a case that has seen more of use in his career. attorney general holder was right in terms of acting swiftly, in terms of throwing out that condition. he also stated that the department of justice's office of professional responsibility would investigate the actions of the two officers, yet a year after that, we still have heard nothing out of office regarding their conduct. the department of justice has publicly talked about how they increased training in terms of discovery obligations, and they have issued memos in terms of what they are supposed to be doing, yet they have yet to do anything regarding the behavior of those prosecutors. contrast that to the case that occurred a couple years ago, that boasts -- that of the prosecutor in north carolina, where six months after the charges were brought against the lacrosse students, and they were charged with rape, the defense attorneys uncovered evidence in

i raised that in a recent conversation with their chief security officer, joe sullivan. he said the thing about facebook is connecting real people with real people. if you do have people who are out there on facebook with fake identities, then you just ruin the whole thing about what facebook is about. >> facebook's business model in a sense. >> you need to trust in who you're talking to. that's what he was saying. there may be very good reasons and the police for example are one group of people that complain you took down my fake identity on facebook because they are reasons to be there to catch a pedophile or whatever. >> it doesn't have to be that black and white. facebook can preserve their polarcy if they want. in russia they asked to fax them the first page of his passport while he was in siberia in jail because they weren't sure that was him. even if you look at egypt, what happened there which helped to organize the protests, sometime in october or november, that group was the activator because facebook had to come up as a quick fix. >> the very facebook that hel

from ed sullivan to abby rogue. a tribute to the beetles. begins april 8 at the theater. shnsf.com. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, scottsdale..the bad news? he'll eason on the dis >>> good news, giants closer felted great after a bullpen session in scottsdale today. he will start with a strained oblique. the giants released jeff supoft. barry zito sporting his new mustache. got cocoa a nice curve ball. 6th inning, landing past, it will tie the gym at one. giants up, nate launches one to center just to the left of a 388 sign. his second of the spring and the giants take game two 4-1 is the final. we have a bizarre finish in regulation and it gave the warriors hope in oklahoma city. kevin durant had a game high 39. 13 seconds left. reggie williams hit from three. they are down from three points, watch what happened. >> you need a 3. corner 3, good. >> we go to overtime. final seconds, they are down by one. montae for the win. oh no. heartbreak hotel. 115-114 is the final. >> lebron james, number six. >> lebron refused to show up for his sprue duction. it was a bad night with all the page

sullivan: in 1630, boston was basically three mountains, there were very steep hills. waste would run down quickly and dump into the harbor. and the tide would carry most of it away. well, this worked well for a while. the problem was, as boston wanted to expand, it started filling in the mudflats. the water could come rushing down the hill, it would hit the flat area and slow down. at high tide, it couldn't get out at all. it got so bad that the city took over, 'cause the city has a responsibility to protect its citizens. boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was

lindsay's sister and mother are dropping the lohan name and changing it to dena's maiden name, sullivan. just call her roberta here. all we need. >> i think that's the only thing you do not call me around here, dana. >> we do have a little nickname, but i can't say it on tv. >> you can call me whatever you want, but don't call me collect. taking you to santa rosa, yes, i did say santa rosa and i'm not endorsing this. i should be condoning it. this guy, this is what he did yesterday in the creek. he got his surf board, boom, there he went. he did have himself tethered down. that was off west third street bridge in santa rosa. tonight this is the scene in san francisco. it is actually dry, but we have more rain coming. let's take a look at some of the stats so far. it has rained 20 days out of 25 in the month of march. tomorrow will be the 13th straight day and so far, we have seen over 18 inches of rain. nearly 16 inches to the south. approaching 10 inches as arinda with 9.5. tonight with impending rain showers, overnight lows in the 40s. 50 degrees in san francisco. 48 san jose. this ar

sullivan mentioned earlier, the development agreement arequires that are there be recontribute -- restrictive covenant. even after the replacement units are built and after the development is completely built out, those obligations will be recorded against the title and the city will be afforded the opportunity to enforce those as a third-party peffry. -- beneficiary. again, i'm previewing things they hope we will have an opportunity to discuss in length but be -- because i understand how sincere the concerns are of this board. we think these are the proper topic for discussion at the substantive hearing on the merits about the project approval itself and the development agreement itself. i do want to go to one other point having to do with the discussion about some of the alternatives to the project and i would respectfully submit to you i think there's been a con plating of the ceqa analysis and some of the concerns about displacement. the analysis, as mr. cooper said, the analysis in this e.i.r. as a very extensive range of alternatives. i would argue that it's far more extensive than you