i think that the 9/11 commission did a great report, but that was in 2004 think that the people thathat will be the first to admit that they didn't have access to certain documents and officials admit the history changes. i think we are still trying to find that out. but i think that people like khalid sheikh mohammed fell through the cracks and some of the problems that were in place back then are still there now. >> what happens with ksm on may may 5, at guantÁnamo, and will you be involved in covering that? >> yes, i'm hoping to -- there are 60 slots for journalists. i think that there are 800 people that are applying and soq forth. but yes, i certainly plan to follow it whether i am there in guantÁnamo in spirit or not. >> and at fort meade? >> well, i've talked to some people recently that have said, you know, we need as much transparency for this file as we can. this is our nÜrnberg trial in:' our way to have a fitting end to the 9/11 era and really put into public record, you know, what happened. the government really has never done that where they have done a formal sort of d

but i still don't think that -- i don't think that that's -- that we've made that cultural shift in our school district yet. certainly not for everybody. i think it's hit or miss about how many people that run schools embrace the things we are doing and think of it as an asset to themselves and achieving their goals in the school rather than some other compliance thing they have to do and so i think if we could talk about that, not necessarily, not now, but that can be part of our next steps that we can encourage that maybe needs an update of some of the policies we've passed but that also needs an administrative response. i'd like to do that. and i want to thank you all again. i have not -- my enthusiasm for making this a priority has diminished in no way over the years even with all the things we have done. i not only pledge to do everything i can do as a school board member and in my statewide role, i'm happy to do. >> i have two brief comments. i'm just astounded that the district has realized a ceyings of $1 million with a point of sale system and want to congratulate student nutri

and that -- that data would tell us that. ok. algebra one and two. 263 out of the 300 students that were enrolled in algebra one and two received credits, 88% of the students. 204 of those students received an a, b or c. 59 received a d. and 29 received an f. in algebra one and two. in english language development courses, again, one of the reasons that we would do this is that we would give these students an opportunity in summer school to potentially take a course that would offer them room during the regular school year to take a course that is actually meeting the a-g requirement. 138 of them received credit. only 14 were d's. and three were f's. so 98% of the students. supervisor campos: speier olague. -- supervisor olague. supervisor olague: i was wondering what the economic breakdown is. whether they're children from families whose parents have college degrees or not. that sort of thing. trying to get a sense of that. >> ok. i can make a note of that and pull that. all right. any other questions before we move on? ok. so y

by the way, one note that i will make is that i don't think that the data that we have before us backs up the claims that have been made in terms of rank choice voting disenfranchising certain communities. that's why i think what commissioner avalos was saying is very true which is we have to be careful about how we use that term because the fact is that over-voting and mistakes happen in just about any system you use and they happen more in some communities than others, and so i think we have to be very careful when we make those kinds of claims and that's why, you know, i think that i always felt that having an in-depth analysis of the data is the best way to deal with these kinds of assertions because i don't think in my view, i don't think the data supports that, but i do think that the further analysis would be helpful. >> ok. is there anything -- i mean, i get the wanting to look at the legislation and anything that might be in there and double checking that and seeing if there's anything but is there anything else off the top of your heads at least right now that comes that you

that's 1808. that's early. that's before the jacksonian era. i think we have -- not realized how much society was changing, particularly in the north well before the jacksonian era. >> but there was one of the undertows you point out that's happening at the same time that the clod hoppers and the thompsons are winning, you made the point that as poor white men got the vote, free black men were losing the vote. >> well, that's one of the great ironies of democracy. as you began giving in new york and in pennsylvania, as the jeffersonian republicans, you have to understand this is the beginnings of the democratic party, they soon became democratic republicans, and pretty soon become just the democrats. even by the first decade, of the 19th century, they're referred to as the dems. well in new york, pennsylvania, as the suffrage has extended to propertyless white males, there's pressure to take it away from freed black men who tended -- it isn't just racism, but the politics of the thing. these blacks had tended to vote federalist, and then later

president obama is proof of that. i'm proof of that. look at any entrepreneur that started from strong challenges and how they have become successful. we have examples across the country in business and education. in sports. in politics. that is the highlight of this country. that's what we need to grasp onto. i want people to be proud of where we live. i am proud of where we live and so are my parents. party or no party, nobody can take that away from you. >> [inaudible question] >> a question for you, governor. if the affordable healthcare act survives in the supreme court, what impact will that have on your state's budget, the cities, the increased medicaid spending, that the law requires? >> our state along with every other state will be devastated. because what you will see in south carolina alone, our annual budget is $5 billion. the portal health care act will cost self-care when a 5 billion over 10 years. we cannot afford it. we will go bankrupt. the part about health care that we need to understand is i strongly believe the ind

rebuild that trust. and i say that -- i say that openly. i think the fop knowledges that. in fact, we are engaged in activities where we are attempting to help law enforcement agencies do just that through community work. so i think that's an important piece. you know, i think the professor talked about the fact that a lot of times in minority communities you have people in those communities that are a valuable resource to law enforcement. i agree with that. in the aspect of law enforcement and the profession of law enforcement, it's necessary to have people in communities where crime is occurring assist you with the an enforcement activities. and so i think the problem has become we seem to blame the enforcers for everything that goes wrong. the problem with that is the enforcers show up on the scene to deal with the information that they have available to them at the time. and our job, when we show up, is to stabilize the situation. >> but you don't quarrel, i hope you don't quarrel with chief davis' protectionism yeas that law enforcement community has extraordinary pow

ethnic group that doesn't feel like they fit well, things like that or then that they need that intervention, they are not quite into the diagnosis, but what they need is a strong program that teachers and their physicians and their faith leaders can all rally around and help change the environment and their behaviors. very good. when we come back i want to talk about other programs that are also going to be very helpful to communities in need. we will be right back. [music] when you have a drug or alcohol problem, your whole world stops making sense. you can get help for yourself or a loved one and make sense of life again. for information, treatment referral or most importantly help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] they decided that they wanted to have a talent show, that they would have an [inaudible] talent night and invite the whole community to show some of the positive things that kids are doing, some of the talents that they have, help the kids feel good about themselves, have a nice adult and kid, family, community get-

that on. that's a critical piece. the second is we have a somewhat perverse provision in the way that we can enforce that allows us to go after lenders only for regional or local violations based on their track records compared to other lenders in those areas. we can't actually disqualify an entire company nationally through our current standards and that's something that simply doesn't make any sense and is something that we'd like to have clarified. there are other smaller provisions but those are the two things. the other thing i would just add and i think this is particularly relevant for north carolina is that we have smaller lenders that today can't originate loans under their own name unless they have the full ability to issue jen ginny mae securities and other steps. we've heard concerns in the dakotas and other areas where we have smaller lend there's they want that ability. that's something we think makes perfect sense. and that would be included in the legislation as well. and so i

now i know that i've been ranting about this a lot lately that i know that it's painfully predictable because this is a scandal the mainstream media loves a scandal but really it's one thing to cover political campaigns like a horse race which they do but let's be honest no one is actually that excited by the john edwards trial there's no need to treat it like a countdown scenario and if you're really going to pretend to be all that excited about legal proceedings let me shine a light on something that i wish the cable networks gave a damn about today the center for constitutional rights file a petition requesting the army court of criminal appeals to order the judge in the court martial of bradley manning to grant more transparency in his case that would mean giving the public and the press access to the government's motion papers the court's own orders and the transcripts of proceedings none of which have yet been made public and the petition also challenges the fact that certain substantive legal matters have been argued and decided completely in secret and this is an appeal to a p

codify that and measure that. would the rule prescribe the kind of instruments permissible portfolio? >> as written now, it speaks to correlated with the risk. it is all in that word "reasonably." >> who decides that? what is reasonably correlated to that risk? the regulators? >> the first quarter, the institution does, the firm does, but then there is a compliance program and regulators would -- >> the point of the rule would be to say this is permitted and this is not. that is the purpose of the rule. >> although as written, i would consider it more principles based, that the firm has that policies and procedures to reasonably correlated to the>> again, the ultimate question in hedging is a question of who gets to decide. there is an inherent risk in hedging. that is why it is called a hedge. it is not a complete offset. there is always some residual judgment call. there are a lot of truths available if somebody wants to hedge a portfolio. mr. chairman, my concern goes to the heart of what dodd-frank is about, b

it was for that reason that i was confident that that mission would be accomplished. afghan national security forces have grown steadily. they are more capable of being able to engage in operations to provide security and to do the job they have to do if their country is going to be able to be strong and sovereign in the future. we have accomplished transitions. we have transitioned areas and afghanistan that represent 50% of the population. in may, we will do another series of provinces that will be transitioned. by the end of summer, 80% of the afghan population will be under afghanistan security and control. the strategic partnership agreement that president barack obama signed in kabul this week affirmed that this transition plan is on track. it sends a signal to our enemies and our partners that we will finish the job right in afghanistan. [applause] we have a commitment to afghanistan and to its people. if we keep our eye focused on this mission, as i know you well, we will defeat al-qaida and deny them the ability to rebuild. we will deny them the safe haven th

that will do it? >> that gets us... that doesn't solve the long run budget issues. >> rose: why do they do that knowing that knowing that the political world has said before-- although it's suspect now-- that if you have 8% unemployment you cannot be reelected. >> well, that was bad... >> rose: analysis? >> well, by losing the midterms they lost the ability to pass any legislation. >> rose: right. >> but also then they reacted the wrong way by thinking the way to react to that was going to a cringe and adopting the republican position. but i think they've learned better than that now and... i'm optimistic that if obama's reelected that he will certainly push for stuff that will do more to reduce unemployment. that what i'm talking about can provide a template for our maximum goals. >> rose: you're convinced if obama is reelected he'll engage in more government spending to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment? that simple? where do you think that spend willing take place? >> i think it will take place largely...

you said about that is that that means that it's kind of the new deal when it comes to accounting and what these guys can get away with can you talk a little bit about that aspect. well there's a perception that it's a totally new business models particular because it's social gaming it's not just gaming like gambling or casino casino operations and it's not just social like facebook so social gaming is a little bit different and all of the various relationships and alliances like zynga has with facebook are a little bit new but it's really not so much different that way back when you had a.o.l. or any other advertising based media company attract users sell advertising against those accounting rules have been in place for a long long time they're pretty straightforward the key is that these companies give the perception that there's something new and they come up with all kinds of creative ways with the assistance of in this case in particular ernst and young to to explain what is inevitably happen most of them start off with with a lot of losses and they have to sort of. color that

and then just the simple idea that i have teenagers in my city that feel like that they're worth, thatdenied them in this nation that views them as unequal, and inferior. and that to me is so counter as to what we stand as as a nation. they are important and they have your place. but when it comes to the government of the united states, to discriminate in this manner should be unacceptable to everyone. >> that idea of a single class of citizenship being a universal goal. >> and the irony of this is based just on who you love, based on love. and that to me is unacceptable. >> love you, man. good to see you. >> you too. >> all right, mayor cory booker of newark, new jersey. and another old pal of mine is coming up. i'm really going to miss you. my new place isn't that far away. it's 15 miles away ! with this droid razr by motorola on verizon 4g lte, we can video chat on skype. you're gonna get lost ! this has gps. well, that makes me feel better. me too. i'll go get two from the back. the droid razr by motorola now only $99.99. hurry in, offer ends may 13th. verizon. an accident doesn't

i think that that is something that would be helpful. i think that any question that we have about the work of the task force having that kind of transparency would only be positive. i am certainly prepared to move an item along those lines forward. my hope is that i can have your support when it is introduced to the rest of my colleagues, because i think it would create more accountability. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: i would like to have the opportunity to serve bruce wolfe back into the tax -- back into the task force. his leadership has not yet been seen on the task force. he has been dedicated to it and sunshine for years and has been a sane voice in advancing sunshine in the city. i would hate to see his expertise voted out today. i think that it would be a mistake. i will be voting against the motion. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: let me start by saying that, like every person in this chamber, i am a strong supporter of our sunshine laws. it

so that's -- >> that's a big change. >> that's a big change.that's significant. >> it is significant. when i asked the ig that, it was because i was concerned that all he had been planning to do was a review of the investigation done by the directer. that is clearly not adequate, and in talking to other igs, they were telling me that this should be an independent investigation by the ig. not just a ratification or a review of what the director finds. >> why didn't he do that from the beginning? >> thank you, senates. >> you'd have to ask -- >> i don't know. it's a matter of priority and personnel. it's interesting to me even before we asked the question here, senator collins did, i asked him before the hearing whether he was going to interview any of the 13 agents involved in cartagena because they were clearly a big source of the story in the post this morning, and he said he was. and, in fact, he was interviewing two of them today. but, so, but it became today a very public commitment of an independent investigation. when you think about it,

ain't that right, gang? do you see that? so that shows that water is a pretty poor conductor. remember we talked last time about the idea of the four-degree water at the bottom of the lake? and the summertime comes, why doesn't that whole lake all heat right up? it turns out that water will not conduct the energy, that sunlight down very far at all. water is not a good conductor of heat. it's a poor conductor. and you saw that here. i boiled the top, and that heat did not conduct downward to melt the ice. [makes sound] interesting, interesting, interesting this world we live in, yeah? hmm. it turns out that air is a good conductor or a poor conductor? poor. it turns out it's a poor conductor. and aren't you glad? because what if air were a very, very good conductor? how would you feel all the time? it begins with a c, ends with old. put it together, gang. cold. you would feel cold. let's suppose the air was as good conducting as like a piece of metal. do you ever stand on a night at home and lean up against a metal door? it's cold to the touch. but that metal door has the same

and the agencies that should have caught that failed to pass that on. >> a little known fact is that lot of the big u.s. attorney's offices -- it is the lawyers to actually do the investigating. even though you had a dislocation of resources after 9/11 for obvious reasons, and still do, -- it is easy for me to say on the eighth floor, probably. to some degree, everybody was diverted, and should have been, from the pursuit of white-collar crime. >> i would say that generally, the calculation is true, except as from the office of inspector general. hours were the best and brightest. >> if you look at something like the director of enforcement who is the chief in the southern district, but they have transformed the sec. you do have to be nimble. but one small example -- it was important to me that even in my own division that any case that was old, there had to be a pretty good excuse. otherwise -- in other words, you're not going to be able to hide behind this old case just to shake it like a beautiful face. -- vase. the lawyers in the integrity section probably never had more than thr

there is absolutely no evidence that that might happen, and i submit that that is really a stretch, given how vibrant the ferry building is. now, on behalf of the sponsor, we absolutely hope the porch and the other work out their issues and that they are so invited -- satisfied with the parking provided to them. we do know over the long haul after the project is built, there will be more parking available for commercial uses. we will be building it. president chiu: and i am jointly sharing your time on this. and legal issue and how it will be resolved? >> there has been discussion at staff level and preliminary discussions, but there certainly have been no conclusive discussions. as i mentioned before, the parking conditions in the area have changed. they have changed dramatically, and we had been reserving this issue until we knew when construction was going to be occurring. president chiu: thank you. >> the eir indicates there will be an adequate reservoir

part of that's based on the premise that we can generate those permits and things like that i think that's one of the things we want to make sure that the city knows that we're balancing we want to hire as quickly as possible but if we can't can we don't bring back some retirees just to clear some of the backlog and for all the mayor's office and everybody understand why we're doing that. thank you for coming here this morning thank you. ok of the good news of the good news pamela vun department building inspection so i first want to tell you about all the completed recruitments that we've had in the last month or so we have . filled one associate engineer and that was a transfer three senior clerics. one senior clerk typist which is the transfer. one cashier to which is we needed to get somebody in board to get knowledge of our system in order to be able to. migrate into the new cash management system so this individual is going to start in june and engineer who's helping with the databases because we've been as you know i keep coming up every month and telling you about the projec

that is not that relatively unknown that holds the title to. sudden the million mortgages and the ramifications of the lack of legal standing for mers has serious consequences for investors for. fannie mae and freddie mac. which announced back stopped by taxpayers the exposures that the banks exposed to in the mortgage backed securities that they issued and especially for investors as well because if there is a break in the chain of title because mers now has lacked legal standing in several states. that what they may end up with in the six the half or seven trillion dollars in mortgage backed securities that are out there is it just that perhaps these were pushed back securities may be on securitized or unsecured and dr pham a lot of implications here is basically opened the door to this a characterization to these trillions of dollars of mortgage backed securities that break that had. rick and the economy into the financial system so when we get back we're going to talk more about that we'll have more with dr lanty pham former principal analy

that that we can kind of step with that are we doing it at a rate that i would like are we doing it right there because what i want to get into is that i don't really think that we're stepping away from it you know obviously it's going to be a huge thing if we wrapped up a ten year long war in afghanistan we're not really stepping away from it and you might as well because you believe in it and i believe i get operations i want to talk about drone strikes though really quick into things that are being said about them so you have john brennan giving a speech today where he said that our drone strike program is why that it's just that it's ethical think a lot of people at the drone summit here this weekend have actually spoken to victims. would disagree then you have jose rodriguez who this was the guy that was responsible for actually destroying cia interrogation tapes despite the fact that a federal judge ruled that they had to be turned over now he has a book that's coming out and he was just on sixty minutes this last weekend still supporting and totally saying torture is good and

that's something that was a calling. that was something that felt like it was chosen for me.lessing and curse, i, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. and so, whether i'm standing in the streets of chicago or the occupy wall street or in madison, wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the front lines of social justice struggles and to put wind in sails of those struggles. and people who are fighting on a -- on a daily basis, at a grassroots level, for the things that i believe in. >> it's sort of like people going to church. they may not know each other very well, but when they sing the same songs -- >> yeah. >> -- same hymn, something hap -- you can sense something happening to them? >> there's a unique component of music that is different from, you know, the written pamphlet or a speech. there's something, when you get the right combination of rhythm, melody and the right lyrical couplet, that feels like truth in the reptilian brain. there's something hardwired in our d.n.a. and when you get a large group o

as soon as we found that we recognize that that was exactly the same region of the genome that when lost leads to this other condition called william syndrome. the dichbs between the two in terms of the social reciprocity, the interest, there is just extraordinarily interesting. remember what we are looking at is one spot, 26 genes out of 21,000 in the genome where if you have too much of them, are you at risk for ought im, if you have too little. >> nice to meet you, boss. >> nice to meet you. >> hi. >> hello, how are you. >> i haven't seen you. >> thank you. >> wow. >> what is your favorite color and what's your favorite tv show. >> kids o love to ask questions. but not as much as these kids. >> my favorite color is blue. >> i have met barney the dinosaur. >> yay. >> where do you live? >> i live in new york city. >> do you have any -- >> i do. >> i have two daughters and a son. >> wow. >> and kids love to make friends but not like these kids. >> what nationality are you. >> i'm italian. >> how are you, buddy? >> so 39 seconds of, you can see this intense interest in social interaction.

that means that i will have to pay more out of pocket.i will for my insurance or for my health care or both. but those are separate issues from what our focus -- >> we could have a long discussion about health care reform. let's not. i think your point, larry, if health costs keep growing. maybe the environment for value-added tax changes. let's go to here and now to simple if i back to it. one is tax expenditures. the other is the taxation of capital. the corporate tax and what should happen to capital gains taxes. there's a question of reduction. >> let me say one more thing. the value-added tax. >> i don't think it's contentious. it doesn't make any sense to have a value-added tax that raises less than 2 or 3%. it doesn't make any sense 2 or 3% of gdp. we won't do it until and unless there's a political consensus for needing that much revenue and there isn't any political consensus for raising that much revenue now. that's why i'm saying the value-added tax isn't an important part. >> the revenue right now, but let's go to the current

are you satisfied that the steps that been taken meet that test? >> absolutely. i will make sure that we do a complete review and make sure this never happens again. >> what further need to be done and what is the propofol for the congress? >> i owe it to the secretary and to congress for me to do an independent review and be transparent and to come back with the recommendations to report to you what else can be done. i'm still in the process of doing my review, so i don't have any findings yet. >> mr. sullivan, would you respond to those questions please? >> yes. i go back to the overwhelming men and women of this organization doing an outstanding job every single day. my goal right now is to make sure that they know that we have confidence in them and that we believe in them and that we know this is not indicative of their character. what i would ask is that we continue to get your support. i appreciate the complimentary things that you said about our men and women today. we have a very challenging year that we are in the middle of right now. as i mentioned, we

is that a fair statement? >> that is fair that summer looking at that. we're also looking in relation to the arctic about what the future challenges up there if that opens up. similar to the air force, we are operating and certifying alternative fuels for our ships and aircraft so when they become economically viable and we're ready to use them. the focus on efficiency in an ops tempo, the fuel bills alone are affecting us. >> from the army, one of the highest incidence of fatalities and injuries is protecting the fuel sources coming into afghanistan, for example. the more efficient they become, less of that fuel you had haul. you probably will save lives. am i wrong about that? >> this is becoming more efficient and that is all about saving lives. three tours in iraq and one effect -- in afghanistan and i can tell you that every time i could -- if i could do something to not put a soldier on the road, what ever is, i want to do because it saves lives. it is also about maintaining our soldiers, a soldier load and decreasing the burden on them and increas

that's what they're saying. that's not -- >> of course they would say that. and that's a reality. that's the politics of today. and so for us, you know, whether or not we endorse barack obama or whomever is pretty much irrelevant. i don't -- yes, it's true. we're an activist organization. we have a phenomenal amount of power. we have a disproportionate amount of power relative to where we are. because it's not just our members. we have, you know, we have millions of nurses who relate to us organizationally. >> it is. it's a tough union. >> oh, god. >> you, in fact -- i watched with incredulous eyes when you actually took on schwarzenegger, a very popular republican celebrity governor. >> i know. >> and you helped bring him down. >> we did. we did. actually, you know, his waterloo was when he said in front of a women's conference, "i kick nurse's butts." >> pay no attention to those voices over there, by the way. those are the special interests, if you know what i mean. he special interests just don't like me in sacramento because i'm always kicking their butt. that's why they don'

that chaos that you are creating, that's yearning that you create by moving jobs around, it temporarily increases unemployment. more than that, you have all these regulations. we have never had so many regulations or regulatory bills passed in such a short. of time. whether it be housing or credit markets and financial market regulations, or health care regulations or epa regulations. that, too, creates winners and losers. moving around resources and jobs and the economy. that creates unemployment temporarily. there are two ways that you can reduce unemployment. one of the good ways is to get people jobs. the other way that you end up reducing unemployment is people giving up looking for work. if you just look at the period of time from when the recovery started until now, we have had about 2 million new jobs increased unction being created. at the same time coming of about 7 million people stopped looking for work. the number of people in the labor force has decreased. that is unthinkable. during a recession that you have people give up and stop looking for work. not during recovery th

anyway that they can do that, they will do it. what ever hits the headline that they will be what it is. it will be manipulated around and i am the tough guy and the only other characterization is who loves israel the most. [laughter] and hugh is spending more money on his real than the other guy could -- and who is spending more money on israel than the other guy. what is important -- i want to pick up on something that he said -- you have this duality of who wants to be an isolationist and doesn't care who thinks it's a good idea to be cutting state department budget? a lot of people do not consider themselves to be isolationists. really? you cannot project american power in a peaceful way from this place forward? that is destroying seed corn. we have a policy situation right now where people have gone ahead of themselves and cannot really justified in the coat -- in the political system with their doing. but i do not think that any of these things you mentioned -- unless someone secretes something in their underwear again or in

other than the one example that you could probably say was good that he did which he runs from and that's his health care reform law that is making sure that people in massachusetts actually have health insurance and can take care of themselves. >> mitt romney suggested this week that if he were president he would have unemployment down to 6% or better by the end of his first term. would president obama do better if he was reelected and got another four years in office? >> president obama is going to remain like we have singularly focused on creating jobs and getting this economy turned around on reaching across the aisle and inviting our republican colleagues to sit down to try to work together towards that goal. and not be so singularly focused on one job, the one that is in the white house. so that's what we're focused on. we've gone from where we were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month at the beginning of this term. i mean arguably he inherited the largest set of problems of any president since fdr and now after three years he has brought us to where we've created jobs for 26 straight mont

that was obvious. i was very much a part of that. so i can't remember exactly when -- i remember being interviewed in my office. i could probably find out a date for you, if i may be in one of those large number of books that you have on your desk there, but i can remember being told early on that i would have to go through what they call the dv process. >> yes. it might have been said that that was owing to the circumstances in which you immediately found yourself, namely close to documents relating to northern ireland? >> no, i think it was just assumed that i would have to be because of the -- in the transition, the their had been these discussions with robin butler who was at the time the cabinet secretary. jonathan powers but going to be chief of staff. i was going to be press secretary. i think it was assumed we would be involved in all the kind of sensitive policy areas that tony blair was going to be taking charge of. so, for example, we were very quickly we were president of the european union. there were lots of nato issues

that happened that long ago.o high school. what did he do in kindergarten? did he hog the red crayon? it's a bad instance. i'm not going to dismiss this as unimportant, it was important. but to take something from high school and extrapolate that to something that can be applied to the presidential election. >> is there anyone here who doesn't remember high school? >> one thing about gay marriage. >> that's something i did remember, and that's for sure. that's more substantive. >> the political impact of the gay marriage debate in the fall. this is not 2004 when the white house used it. >> it's a very different time. we've moved -- i don't know there's another issue generally that's moved this fast in such a short period of time in the last 24 months. this has moved 10%. it's a much safer time than in 2004. >> except for the ballot box. >> but that's always the case when you subject the rights of a minority to the whims of a majority every single time the minority loses. i mentioned loving versus state of virgini

so reaching out, finding that mentor and that friend and then utilizing the services that are out there and asking a lot of questions is really key. >> okay. anything else to sharp with that? >> one point is that all of you in this room have been successful. you know. you're the winners, but we want to make sure all throughout this country that entrepreneurs have access and opportunity. that's why this combination of loan guarantees, micro-loans and mentorship counseling and assistance is so critical. because, as you know, in the early days you don't know what you don't know. sometimes we have found -- i don't know if al is here with our small business development centers, but when you walk in, we have small business development centers that in the depths of the credit crunch we're able to take 70% of the people who were unable to get a loan, sit down with them and we think their business plans and cash needs and to do their presentations and get them bankable. that was in north carolina. once again, use all the cs. >> thank you. kathy, i'm wondering from your perspective, and two, folk

my view is that that will be different. and broadly speaking when you think of the positions taken on countries like taiwan and the relationship with china. it's likely to be quite different. . . than anybody else about what the composition of a romney foreign- policy would be but i would go back to my agreement with bruce. i do not think it will be all that different. let me give you a couple of reasons for that. among other things, i do not think that a and a republican administration will have a huge choice of going back to, call it whatever you want, isolation or the phrase in your paper is a machoism. going to go between the two of them. that means falling back contours' of what has been de obama policy which has something in common with george w. bush. remember that president romney's challenge, he had to go far to the right to get to the nomination and now he is moving to the center. the exception, there are signals out there and that it would be a foreign policy that would have a lot of continuity with the present o

that is one thing that skewed the results. when i get to processing that, i look at it in both ways. the assessor reporters race is usually done an even number years, but there was a special election to fill a vacancy of an appointed incumbent. that was done in an eye on your election, so those numbers are also skewed a little bit. -- that was actually done in an odd year election, so those numbers are also skewed a little bit. you kind of gett column what is going on at the city wide level. one thing i want to note, the next row over, if you compare open seats to open seats, there is nothing to compare, because there is only been one of open seat election, and that was the mayor's choice election, under the rank choice voting system. there was no way to really do with their comparison. so you cannot compare those, but i did compare rank choice voting, incumbent verses incumbent. rank choice voting is a better differential. those who are shutting out to vote and get their vote counted have a higher percentage of that amount. s

something we've already signed and that was a tactic that i do believe that it was overdone and frankly the other thing it talks about here is you know i have a hard time not laughing every time i read this afghan commits to strengthen government accountability and transparency and oversight are you kidding me i mean what in the heck do you think you might as well made agreements with penguins in antarctica they would have been more able to live up to this and how many cars that's how insane this is all right i want to get into a few a few other details we got you and i spoke about this nitrate agreement to you which does leave a lot of loopholes for u.s. troops and you as you yourself are skeptical what is there going to be to follow these new rules and really going back anyway but i want to play a clip of something that the president said last night regarding bases in afghanistan. we will not build permanent bases in this country nor will we be patrolling in cities in moments that would be the job of the afghan people. and that's not exactly what we've been hearing and so i don't know

can you take all that stuff that's associated with it off of that word cult? i think that's what he's trying to say. >> that's a wonderful connection to our discussion i believe when cynthia jones was here, people say, "well, why a witch?" why would you want to use that term. you may be quite right. if you don't - if we - do we have to just jettison terms like cult because there is no way that you can get out of it being pejorative. i, in my thinking i mean i have come around to a place where understanding cult as innovative in my own mind it becomes more of a positive kind of word but i fully realize, if we took a poll and said who wants to belong to a church and who wants to belong to a cult? people are going to come up and have a negative feeling about it. i just don't know if gordon who is certainly a world expert is beginning to move away from this particular typology. i wasn't quick enough to zoom in there with the question which i will ask him at some other point stick in the study guide i guess. but okay gordon and what is the next typology i mean when

the only way to win that election is get that black vote, the black vote that moved up north to the electorally powerful -- electoral college powerful states so that was part of it. the other part of what truman was dealing with was he had the sense of justice, and he saw the injustice. but he's also tied into the missouri resistance. when you talk about the complexity of these presidents as they're trying to balance away all of these things, you get what he's dealing with. so you get on one part movement where his justice department is filing amicus curiae briefs with the supreme court in the shelly v. kramer case that dealt with restrictive covenants that limited where african-americans could buy a home, so to get the federal government to weigh-in on the side. this was phenomenal. so you you get that kind of movement. you get the president's commission on civil rights which emerged out of these series of lynchings in 1946 where truman is just like enough already. we've got to do something. so you do get movement. you don't get it as far as it needs to go. and i think -- >> that w

with that's where politics can actually happen at the local level and it's that kind of experience that people need to not be afraid of and be so afraid of that they that they think they can just kind of run to the internet and do an end run around local democracy in or out of the presidential. well the same time they'll have part of their thing is getting the money out of politics and flat keeper to try to do everything on the internet that have to campaign the old fashioned way if all this is true and you know in general i'm in favor of trying to do things on the cheap if it works but as he'd buddy roemer at the candidate who's been running on this get the money out of politics thing you know he's obviously well intentioned he's a funny guy's got a winning personality but here's the problem money is always going to go to politics as long as politics is is seriousness of centralized power why is the money going there because that's where the powers you can get the money out of politics and to get our essential eyes and as long as that's the pitch that it seems to you to take up the mos

that. like the gentleman said, finished afghanistan fell and the hospital for a while having surgery kind of putting helmke devotee back together again if you will. they didn't tell me out there they did a pretty good job of being me up. it took a long time to recuperate getting a well enough to our to redeploy. one of the biggest things that was weighing on my mind is the fact that an active duty fraud man to go to war its just the way it is and the fact i had to come off the line for so long, there was really bothering me, and it's one of those things if there's any country boys in here talking, you can get your butt kicked, patch up and go in for more. that's kind of where i was standing and i got beat up pretty bad. i lost my teammates and that is another thing the was weighing heavily on me. alladi use the term in the book and i talked about it a couple of times today as revenge, the reason to go back. there's a few things in the military that we don't deal with and recall that the thr

that has to be clarified. and another issue is that i have a grandson that attend berkeley. he is in a dorm now, but he is moving out and that seems to be the norm. incoming freshmen have to stay in student housing, but when they get older, by choice they move on. the shortage is about 40,000 to 50,000 units shortage. what does that mean? they should be allowed to compete with all of the others. are they trying to provide 40,000 in student housing? that sounds a little ridiculous to me. the most important thing to me that residential housing should be prohibited from converting to certain housing. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. our firm represents the university of san francisco. i am here with the -- with usf to support supervisor wiener's amendment. these exceptions are not only reasonable, they are fair. when usf build housing for faculty, staff, and students, as it did with loyola village, it should be able to use that housing to serve any portion of the university community in the future. as to the third limited exception, as mentioned by supervisor wiener

is another reason that the description the description that you pointed out makes sense in the way that we drafted it. commissioner antonini: i know there is a floor to the which -- if national health is different than what is being promoted now, there is still a floor that they will have to negotiate or have to provide it the equivalent of the 10,000 new medicare or medical recipients. >> we would have to discuss what happened if they made it so that they were unable. >> it is true that they have implemented health reform in the absence -- commissioner antonini: i have another statement or question, the development agreement. of course, this is a minimum of 20 years. no other hospitals, public or private, they have some sort of commitment of operation that is mandatory. i think this is sort of an extraordinary thing. and we have provisions for that if it were to happen. the other thing is the master plan for health, and the question that some people have brought up is the delay that we can't really afford with the seismic question, and it could be a few years before we have the plan ci

that's what. and so ike would sometimes be cute -- too cute by half which was one reason why people looked at what he said publicly. sometimes they don't know where he's coming from because he'd be very politically cute about it. >> it is the first time that the troops were called in in this way. >> this was the first time -- first time that the federal troops were sent in to particularly a former confederate state since reconstruction after the civil war so this is not small potatoes. it's a big deal. but more important -- more important than the judicial appointments that lasted after little rock. >> all right. we've got some questions from the audience. these are good ones. i'm dr. carol anderson. i once heard you say when you visited simmons college when you spoke of president truman and the conflict underscored when the naacp leaders such as a. philip randolph wanted to go to the u.n. and file human rights violations against the u.s. and mrs. roosevelt, and mrs. roosevelt force them not to, a

♪ that's why god made ♪ that's why god made ♪ the radio ♪ that's why god made ♪ that's why god made radio ♪ that's why god made ♪. >> i just remember now it was jazz palmeri who said the mozart of pop, the arson wells of rock was george gershwin of his generation. >> i will buy that but the other -- >> you buy because of the composition. >> right. >> one time we were here in the '90s and remember you had to get in the car with you. and we were driven to gersh win's house. remember that, we just -- >> i remember. >> you remember that. >> yeah but you can really identify with him. >> oh pie god, he's my hero. >> brian did a gershwin project. >> what was that? >> what was gershwin's project. >> i loved you porgy, summertime. all the great ones. >> when did you guys meet, you were cousins. >> oh, well, we met kind of when brian was born. >> i remember that. >> i'm the oldest of six kids. -- mashied el emily wilson, the sister of murray wilson. murray wilson was brian dennis, karlts's dad so we've known each other all our lives. in fact my first memories of brian singing was sitting on g