the solicitor general took the lead for the president for the administration in defending the health care law before the supremeh courtthee had this to say in closing arguments yesterday. >> congress struggled with the issue of how to deal with this profound problem. 40 million people without health care, for many years. it made a judgment. thatt's a judgment is one is in conformity, i think, with lots of experts thought was the best confluence of options to handle this problem. maybe they were right. maybe they were not, but this is something about which the people of the united states can deliberate and if they think it needs to be changed, they can change it. i would suggest to the court, with profound respect for the court's obligation to ensure the federal government remains a government of enumerated powers, that this is not a case in any of its aspects that calls that into question. but this is a judgment of policy that the democratically accountable branches of this government made on best advice. host: the comments of donald verrilli in his closing arguments. all those argum

the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of house concurrent resolution 112 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: concurrent resolution establishing the budget for the united states government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022. the chair: general debate shall not exceed four hours with three hours confined to the congressional budget equally divided by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the budget and one hour on the subject of economic goals and policies equally divided and controlled by the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, and the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchey, or their designees. the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, each will control 90 minutes of debate on the congressional budget. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, t

the first is the issue of heighth are across the site. the residential portion would be constructed with into building situated on the southerly portion of the site with frontage along the embarcadero, as well as washington and drum up street. the westerly building on drums street in washington street reaching a height of 12 stories, stepping down to a height of eight stories near the intersection with jackson. the easterly building was primarily six stories, stepping down to five stories near the help of building. i should know all portions of the project are lower than the existing height limit of 84 feet. it continues to descend to the north of the side of the 45 foot club building with the northernmost portion remaining an open space. and this shows the top portion of the project. the transition and height scope of the project in a manner that a shorter to the bulkhead building along the embarcadero. it preserves the legibility of the progression of taller buildings with than the financial district to the southwest. increase height is

the house or in the committee of the whole. all points of order against such further amendments are waived. at the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment, the committee shall rise and report the bill as amended to the house with such further amendments as may have been adopted. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill as amended and any further amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one hour. mr. nugeant: for the purpose of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. during consideration of this resolution all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. nugent: mada

the first is the nomination by the president alone. the second is the senate's ascent or not to the nominee's appointment. and the third is the final appointment and commissioning by the president. each stage -- at each stage, the respective actor's prerogatives are carefully and clearly demarked and long been understood to be exclusive and my conclusion about the legal propriety of the president obama's purported intrasession recess appointments is straightforward and direct. the appointments were unconstitutional because there was no senate recess that is necessary for such actions. the president's unilateral determination that there was one did not make it so. the constitution vests in the senate the sole and unreviewable powers to confirm or not to

one of the ways in half the states in the country, 40% of all the voters cannot participate in the primaryand so, they have no say in who gets nominated and as a result, we get more and more extreme candidates on both ends of the spectrum. >> they would wear garments made of homespun cloth and the homespun cloth would be much more rough textured and be much less find than the type that they would import from great britain. by wearing this homespun cloth women were visibly and physically displaying their political sentiments. nuclear regulatory commission chairman gregory jaczko testified on the recently approved rules to improve safety of the nation's 104 operating reactors. this comes one year after japan's fukushima nuclear plant meltdown following you made it to nine earthquake. u.s. plants have as many as five years to comply with the new rules. this and environment committee held this two-hour hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [in

the beginning of the end. i think this relationship has endured a number of hardships and tough times. it's been bruised from time to time, but it hasn't been broken. and we've come through some very difficult times of late. the koran burning was a very difficult time, even before the tragedy of the shootings. but what we learned from that particular incident, as it unfolded, was that there were demonstrations across the country, and some of those were violent, but they were not widespread. and even when they were violent demonstrations, the afghan national security forces stood their ground to defend both afghan citizens and the international security assistance force in a very difficult situation. so it point to, i think, the emergence of a sophisticated afghan national security forces, one that will ultimately support the development of this government in afghanistan. there is corruption in this government. but president karzai has been clear-- he desires to end this culture of impunity, and that public sta

become the cadre, the leadership for the vc. you have different numbers from different books. they rarely agree, unfortunately. now they prepared for the new war in 1959 by infiltrating into the south tens of thousands of other south vietnamese who come north in 1954 to get training. again, all of these guys become the leadership for the insurge begins si in the south. they expand the plaf, people's liberation armed forces which is what we call the vc. they build this vc. the communists are very good at organizing things. they organize the vc as a three-tiered force. you have the main force vc units. these are guerrillas that have become stage 3. they're basically designed. they're conventional units designed to fight the south vietnamese army. you have regional forces, guerrilla's who work full time in assigned regions in the south and you have this local vc militia in the areas that they control can -- excuse me, that the communists control in south vietnam. hanoi makes sure he has tight control. in 1961 they establish somethi

there were the bullet trains running at the time that the no passenger soon as the train cut the seismic waves it stopped, but we were able to launch to the 100% level because we had to do the maintenance for the wave as well. now it is taking time. it is up to 73% yet because a lot of debris in the sea and the port is built so not 100% yet. now electricity coming in the metropolitan area, i'm sorry, it went down to 16%. we covered 83% in three days and in a week's time, 95. the tokyo area this was not only tokyo, but quite a big area from the site in those areas was down to 79% and went up to eight in a week's time. so these infrastructure recoveries are pretty quick quicker than a lot of people thought. there was huge damage as for the human rights and also jobs 81,000 people lost their life and -- jobs, i'm sorry. 51,000 acres were inundated, 28,000 ships were lost. so there was a lot of damage but we are trying to recover by getting a lot of budgets and in four years' time we will recover 95% of all of those lands that were inundated. but the serious issue here is still this nuclear

but the the facts? -- are those the facts? is that why you are cutting research money, 41% reduction in spending on r&d in coal? i am as. d. i cannot comprehend where this administration are with it. with all d respect, with all due respect, i think the doe and epa have become the worst nightmare for the working men and women in our coal fields across america. you are causing them to not know whether tomorrow they are going to have a job. i hope you go back to the requirements of the doe and look at the short term requirement. they look at taking care of the families for the safety of the american public. >> let me try to explain what i said. that was taken out of context. al, as it iswas col being used today in china and india and around the world, in terms of its pollutants, is a big worry of mind. that is why, even before i became secretary, i was committed to developing the technologies to bring the prices down so we can continue -- >> i hope you will be able to get back to mr. doyle and explain how we have a 41% reduction

the security aspect of the village level, linking the village to the district in the district of theprovince by province eventually to the government enriching programs working extremely well. >> thank you. >> i also had the opportunity as a result of my military duty to actually coach the detainee facility and participate in a court, so-called court to determine whether that detainee should be released. it was not the similar charger ports and other types of boards that seem to be in concert with everything i've been taught as a jag. i find it fascinating and i also sounded a little troubling, especially potentially troubling i should say because the strategic hardship agreement with the afghan government is absolutely important, something we need to get signed and implemented right away because it puts to bed the notion we're packing our bags and leaving. however, exposure to transfer the detainees to custody presents real concerns for me. i don't think they have the capacity at this point based on my personal observations to assume the security of these attention facilities. i tho

the majority will control the first half. the republicans the second half. following morning business, we'll resume consideration of the highway bill. there will be two roll caller votes in relation to demint and bingaman amendments at noon. the senate will then recess until 2:15 to allow for our weekly conference meetings. at 2:15 there could be as many as 20 roll call votes this aftermoon to complete action on this transportation bill. i'm told, mr. president, there are two bills at the desk due for second readings. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 3606, an act to increase american job creation, economic growth by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies. s. 2186, a bill to amend the americans with disabilities ablght of 1990 and so forth. mr. reid: i would object to further proceedings with regard to these two bills. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bills will be posted on the calendar. mr. reid: mr. president, today we resume consideration of the most important piece of jobs l

. >> during the course of the contact with the individual, there was a course where the individual pulled a gun on the officers, shots were fired, and the suspect was shot. >> you mentioned trouble in the block. what kind of trouble on the block? >> we're not sure what the call was for, but we know the officers were here investigating a complaint. >> reporter: what is going to happen new? is this a veteran officer involved in the shooting? >> two of our veteran officers involved in the shooting. >> reporter: and law enforcement sources tell fox 5 news that police did recover a weapon here at the scene. shawn? back to you. >> we know you're going to keep working the story. we'll come back to you if you get more information. thank you. >>> we're tracking a weather alert. the radar picking up rain. gary mcgrady is monitoring the latest from the weather center. gary? >> reporter: thank you, laura. right now, there is no active warnings or anything like that, and we'll go to our live doppler radar so you can see what is going on and really, to be perfectly honest with you, most of this activit

passed in 1973, the first line said that the purpose was to restore to the citizens of the district of columbia, restore. those words i think were chosen with great meaning and understanding of history. restore because it was clear that the people who live in this territory had every right of every other american citizen before the city was created, that those from maryland, virginia who gave the land saw to it that that right was preserved, and that only in the political maneuverings of the congress itself was that right at risk and that right has never been at risk except at the mercy of members of congress who did not adhere to the principles of full democracy for every citizen of the united states. . so the purpose of the home rule act was to restore, not create rights. no one creates rights for people born in this country. the rights are given with their citizenship. now, the district of columbia if one looks at the home rule act, as the trends of all of the legislation preceding the home rule act, was never given partial home rule. never given home rule except when members of con

the conservatives are the ones who have the heart of the party. we believe in the constitution and the rights of individual people. you would have to be in very gullible -- he would have to be very gullible. a previous caller said that obamacare was really great. petitionsgismund's -- here who say they will not live under this. physicians here who say they will not live under this. this is a government control issue and all of the republicans are saying we should very definitely -- this is a power pyramid. that is what it really is. it is to do with the political control of the american people and a lot of the brutal bureaucracies. especially, you know, the hiring of the 16,000 irs agents. they did not hire 16,000 health professionals. they hired the agents so they can take your door down and say, where is your health insurance? that is not a pleasing prospect. i do not know how much chance the traditional republicans in maine have to be heard these days, but mrs. snowe walked away and the race for the seed has some fascinating possibilities. host

on syria the that would be the end of the international law and the end of the charter of the united nations there are rules to be sovereignty of number of states this is not me i'm saying that this is that the provisions of the talking you have to respect the southern and you have to respect that they've totally unthinkable you don't have to interfere in the domestic affairs of member states you have to help yes you have to assist yes but don't take advantage of the suffering of the peoples in order to interfere in their domestic affairs for your own purposes usa for us and britain have never been keen interest in serving the interests of neither the syrian people nor the russian people nor the chinese people these powers insisted for six decades on ignoring the. question of the world if they were really serious about helping the syrian people they would have exerted pressure on the zionist to withdraw from the syrian border to the draw from the remaining people in south lebanon occupied by using that tool to give to the palestinians their. you know right of self-determination and h

i like the one on the right. we took the name of the company off. but let's look at the features of it that they're offering here. 1% low start rate. start rate. that is what you pay the first year. we don't tell but the next year. stated income. that means you till us what your income is, we write it down. that is all the checking we do. no documentation. well, that's evident. 100% finance. no down payments in other words. interest-only loans which means you pay the interest but don't pay any principle back. debt consolidation which is interesting. you could go to the mortgage company and say not only do i want to borrow money to buy the house and add in all my credit card debt and everything else i owe and put that into one big mortgage payment and pay that one a one% start rate. there are obviously some very problematic practices here. so now the mortgage companies and banks and savings and loans and variety of other different kinds of institutions made these mortgages but where did they go? how were they financed? some of them were kept on the b

the elite, the people who on the money, run it. open your eyes. host: thank you for the call. from our twitter page. the "q&a" program we did with robert kagan did air last week. mitt romney and rick santorum. >[video clip] >> when was america last great? >> america still is great. >> it is important to keep america great. .> we're convinced the economy, the economic structure made the economy great. it had to be a system of government. host: the "q&a" program and that video. is america in the decline? there is a debate behind the republican search for a winning candidate. these debaters put it in the form of a polite academic question. is america in decline? it is restricted so far to the small, but influential magazines read by the class. when a new magazine called for a symposium, the editors were surprised that they tap into the polls. the headline asking, bluntly, is america over? in the words of suzanne fields. this question getting a lot of attention on a number of different fronts. robert kagan was featured last week on this network. his review this morning in "the was

chp said the passengers left the car to stand on the right shoulder of the road. stood by his car, shortly after, the pickup truck struck the treat, went up in the air, hitting kevin and then hitting the tree. he died at the scene. >> it is so disturbing. >> reporter: some students learned of his death sent out by the school this afternoon. there was a meeting tonight to talk about kevin, a psychologist was on hand. >> kind of like a nerdy guy. >> reporter: this student says that kevin was the first person on campus to reach out defend him. he said that kevin celebrated his 19th birthday last month. >> he came to the dorm and gave me a piece of cake. and i really was touched because he remembered me. >> he was -- exceptional among the exceptional. >> reporter: kevin's friend told us he will remain in their hearts forever. one thing is the movie nights where they just enjoyed his company. reporting live, uc berkeley, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 action news. >>> the wind and rain are suspected of bringing down this 70-foot tree on dolores drive, it is not clear if the

the vote of the people shows the and its expectation of the population -- the emits expectation of the population. i am taking all measures denies a new era can commence for senegal. >> and afghanistan, a gunman wearing an afghan army uniform killed two of nato troops in southern afghanistan today. an official told the bbc the attacker was an afghan soldier. u.s. officials have paid out a total of $866,000 in compensation to the family members of the victims of the massacre in kandahar province. $46,000 was paid out for each of 16 people killed as well as for an unborn baby who died. six afghans wounded in the attack received $11,000 each. earlier today, the wife of the accused gunman, staff sergeant robert bales, appeared on nbc's "the today show." karilyn bales says she finds accusations that her husband killed 17 afghan villagers unbelievable. she said, "i just don't think he was involved." u.s. military has reportedly decided not to charge or discipline its officers who bombed the pakistani military outpost in november, killing 24 pakistani troops. the u.s. military reportedly blam

but the problem, is the at -- they resurface as a new company or the spouses are at the helm of the new company. >> thank you. to my immediate left is denied a state's attorney from los angeles. we just heard from rich and peggy shanks, she talks about a consumer losing $18,000. can you talk about what your office has prosecuted? and what kind of relief or conviction you could obtain? >> i'd mentioned some earlier. the advantages it is we try to devote to our resources to get the biggest impact. i be blunt that we will typically take cases the of all high dollar amount i hate to say the dwindling resources but fraud schemes anywhere between two or $5 million at a minimum. we have 200 federal criminal prosecutors to represent 80 million people. we have to pick and choose. we have sentencing guidelines to the court and oftentimes they are tied to the loss amount. we need to make sure we get a sentence to let the public know you will go to prison for a significant amount of time. so those that were defrauded 87,000 victims he went to present six years. others went 12 years for schemes in t

the ruins in the north of the country.e asked the international community and the humanitarian organizations to protect us from assad's criminal gangs. here is a shell that he sent to the children after attacking schools and buildings. government forces are also coming the neighborhood looking for rebels still resisting. rebel commanders say their fighters had left the city after running out of weapons and ammunition. the first convoy of vehicles from the international red cross and syria and red crescent has reached the city. the trucks are carrying supplies, including food and medicine. >> this is in terms of access to food, access to water, but mainly also and especially needs to be evacuated in terms of people are injured and people who are sick. this is why we should be there as soon as possible. >> the international community is still trying to agree on what should be done about the violence after russia vetoed two resolutions. moscow says resolution cannot be achieved by favoring one side. "if all you do is apply th

it says the hero and the hero on the cover is ben bernanke. peter in the greenroom just outside their you told me and i believe this was on the record, is now. [laughter] if it was my contractual obligation to do everything possible to wreck this economy what i would do is go back and follow every single thing that ben bernanke, the hero, the atlantic did in the last three years. explain that. >> first you mentioned you think the government needs to protect investors. investors need protection from the government and from people like ben bernanke. he is the greatest threat to american investors and has them artificially low which is robbing them of their return and is destroying the value of the currency and the dollar and the government is forcing americans to participate in the world's biggest ponzi scheme. so we need to be protected from government, not the other way around but the reason that i am criticizing ben bernanke is rather than learning from the mistakes of his predecessor alan greenspan, he is just repeating them on a bigger scal

the team initially wanted to fly to the top of the valley, the top of the village and then the helicopters would fly off but because of rejections and because of what they pilots will do they ended up having to settle for this mission which was to land in the valley and unload their trips -- troops which anyone who knows any basic infrastructure to fight a pill is never a good idea. if you can take the high ground, you want to. what the commanders had to pretty much reconcile with where they were going to place it. was a riskier to fly the helicopters to the top are riskier to put them on the ground and have the guys hopefully get up the hill before the bad guys they were there. that is where the book starts. they get up in the morning and they know that they have to do the mission. at spring in the mountains of afghanistan. the weather has -- once or twice and they'll have the sickening feeling that i don't know if this is a good idea and that feeling is one of the things that propelled this book and it propelled us because it's very rare that you get soldiers that have universal bad feel

the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 3606, an act to increase american job creation and economic growth by improving access to the public capitals markets for emerging growth companies. s. 2186, a bill to amend the americans with disabilities acts of 1990 and so forth. mr. reid: i now ask for a second reading but object to my own request on both these measures. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the resolutions will be read for the second time on the next legislative day. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, the senate adjourn until tuesday, march 13, at 10:00 a.m. that following the prayer and the pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time twor the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. following any leader remarks, the senate proceed to a period of morning business for an hour with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each with the time equally divide divide

the presiding officer: the the presiding officer: the >> the u.s. ambassador to syria testified about political unrest and violence and area. he appeared before the senate foreign relations committee. here's a 20 minute portion of that hearing. >> the will come to order. thank you. i apologize for being late. i was on the floor and got a little bit delayed there. i want to go back there at some point in time. senator casey will chair the point of which i will have to do that. we appreciate everybody coming here to discuss the ongoing situation in syria. as we all know, cvs said from the heart of the middle east, straddling its at the neck and said terry and fault lines and all of the regions important powers have a direct interest in what happens in syria as to nonstate actors like hezbollah, hamas and others. al qaeda, to its affiliates in iraq appears to be trying to take advantage of the unrest, chaos if you want to call it that, which is no surprise. already, as many as 99 civilians have died and many tens of thousands more have been displaced f

the ranks of the nobility supplied the scribes a reflection of the importance of literacy to the maya. scribes were necessarily artists because of the pictorial quality of mayan hieroglhs. w scribes d a very important social function. they weren't just the storytellers. they were people who recorded tribute and deliveries of goods and the whole workings of societies. and for that reason, writing was integral to the functioning of a royal palace. (narrator) the noble households contained works of art, including incense burners-- incensarios-- often bearing portraits of deceased relatives and deities. maya kings styled themselves as gods, as their divine representatives on earth. the crucial importance of corn, the staff of life throughout mesoamerica, led to depictions of nobles and rulers as the mae god. eternally young and beautiful, the god of maize was a metaphor for life itself. portraits of the maize god and pakal share the same upswept hairdo that mimics the foliage and flowing corn silk of the maize plant. pakal and other rulers were buried with masks and jewelry made of green

is after world war ii, the end of the conquest of the depression and the prosperity that we saw, the economist and policy makers became too confident about their abilities to keep the economy on an even keel. there was some fine tuning -- the notion that the fed and other fiscal policy and other government policies to keep the economy on course. to not worry about bumps and wiggles in the economy. that turned out to be too optimistic. we learned that collectively during the 1970s when the efforts of policymakers resulted not in the lower unemployment rate, which was the original goal, but instead into a sharp increase in inflation. i think one of the themes here is that -- and this applies in any complex endeavor -- humility never hurts. there was a reaction to the increase in inflation in the 1970s. the key person in this. is chairman volker mac -- ♪ ♪. to deal with double-digit inflation, i should say first that president carter, whose reelection was under serious threat by performance of the u.s. economy, appointed paul to be the new chairman of the fed. and in part he did so beca

the concept of the for the state and the role of the press, especially in the public square and in theontext of politics and elections and democracy, it goes back long, long time. in fact, the whole notion of being able to identify the process before the state begins with edmund burke. in addressing his fellow members in parliament in 1787, the first time that the house of commons allowed reporters to come in and cover their debate, edmund burke noticed that there was the bishops, the nobility, and the comments, by which edmund burke was a member. he said there was a for the state "in the reporters' gallery yonder, more important by far than all of them." i think understood that, if we're to have an educated and informed populace, if we want to be able to really embrace those notions of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, we need to have a press that lives up to those obligations as a fourth estate. there are a lot of press codes and journalistic ethics codes, literally hundreds of them out there. but they do center on the importance of impartiality, of fairness, of accuracy,

on the road kill in which the state is the blue if you're on the road to restore to prosperity on the road to restore your freedom you need a state with a state solution along the road you've got to kill the state that's the only solution you've got to show the steady. short of it of course nothing's going to work there hasn't been a state in america since lyndon johnson it's been run by kleptocrat of bankers sense starting with nixon going off the gold standard closing the goldwyn doubt there is no state in america let's be clear you've got presidents and you've got banks there's the state is left the building i'd love to see an operating full functioning responsive all representational government but it doesn't exist and that's why the country is not worth that that's it's doesn't pay all right all right it's not true it's going it thanks so much for being on the kaiser report maybe it's good to speak with you thank you very much all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and i want to thank my guests trials going yet i

so, again, the same picture basically, the line, the vertical line in the middle of the graph splits the time period from pre-1986 and post- 1986. the graph shows inflation quarter by quarter as measured by the consumer price index. again, the tan bar shows one standard deviation average volatility of inflation in the pre-1986 period. you see the huge spikes in inflation in the 1970's. and then in the post-1986, you see much more stable, much lower volatility. so both growth and inflation were much more stable, and really quite remarkable extent and something economists commented on quite frequently. that was so-called great moderation. now, why was the economy so much more stable between the mid 1980's and the mid 2000's? well, there's lots of research on it, lots of issues, lots of papers. i think there's a good bit of evidence that monetary policy played a role in creating better stability, in particular volcker's contribution was even though his short term efforts to bring down inflation in the early 1980's led to a high recession, led to a lot of pain, there was a payoff and tha

i think that given the issues we found there, the magnitude of the case, and the magnitude of the errors that led me to dismiss the case, that there is a legitimate public interest in knowing as much as we can about what happened, why it happened, what steps the justice department has taken in connection with these findings of misconduct. glaxo is the justice department paying for his attorneys' fees in this matter to keep this from being made public? >> i don't know about him specifically. i know that as a result of the charges that were brought against him, i think the determination was made that there would be a conflict of interest for the justice department to defend them, which would be typically how we would do it, and they were allowed to get outside counsel and under the regulations, the justice department then pays for those legal representation, which has happened in a variety of circumstances. former attorney generals have had lawyers that have been reimbursed by but the government. i am hoping i will have to do that, but other attorneys general have very grex even now that t

guy at the head of the tsa selling the equipment.don't even know if he quit networks. it may be dangerous to our help but >> that is ron paul. michael grabell, yet in writing about the court connections. what about this, michael chertoff in the corporation's he is connected to? >> he now runs his chertoff group, which has a lot of people from homeland security to have gone into the private sector. one company they were advising in 2009, 2010 was rapiscan, the maker of these x-ray body scanners. rapiscan and the tsa say what was consulting on was international contracts and nothing domestic, nothing having to do with the scanners. i found some freedom of information request asking for emails. it turns out secretary chertoff did not use e-mail when he was at homeland security. i have other emails and there was no smoking gun that shows he had a role. we know he supported this within the agency. we don't know that is profiting directly from the scanners. what we do know is for a long, long time, there was a lot of opposition about the s

the plan was that the upper unit would get the roof deck and the lower unit would get the backyard. i did go and see the property, and when i went up there i was horrified that i could look out of the back -- can you see this? you can look from my bed, from those windows, directly into my bedroom. here is another picture, right from my bed. my concern is that with the plan where they are asking to have two doors in that penthouse -- the existing penthouse is basically a stair that comes up. once it is a condominium, what they will do is put a roof deck in the back. the current owners may say they are not going to do it. but i have a picture of a roof deck that was put on illegally across the street. the staircase goes down to both units. one person gets one side. the other person gets the east side. they have the no. views as well. i do believe in live and let live. in my neighborhood, when i bought my house, it was a 2000 square foot house. everyone has said we need open space. next door, to the east side, the planning commission granted a variance so that this building was extende

the concerns include the size of stairs built without a permit and the impact on the light in the light well as well as impact at the floor on of the sky view and privacy. the request jurors for pope -- oppose the use of the light well stairs. although they support the reduction of a staircase to the footprint of the original staircase, a request sound dampening mats be installed on the stairs and request the project sponsor rep provide a skylight and kitchen window box to compensate for loss of light or that the vertical addition be set back from the well so as to not block the light. the project was reviewed by the design team which determine the project does not detain or create any exceptional circumstances. the project maintains the situation and replaces the stairs constructed in a larger format with a new staircase and footprints similar to the stairs. and the related noise issues are not within the purview of the planning department. in terms of the four story addition, i would mention it is 5.5 p -- 5.5 feet higher and situated next to the request for his property. we recommend

the cac, 1% underneath the flat line. the ftse doing okay. the dax hovering on the flat line. one thing we are focusing on very heavily on in "world business today" is the rising price of fuel and with those rocketing fuel prices right around the world, the cost of crude is still under close scrutiny by many an investor these days. this commodity has been dropping throughout the course of this week as concerns over consumer demand rise. also we've had fears over supply subsiding. right now this is the price of n nymex crude. it's up to the tune of 46 cents on the barrel trading at $105.81. must point out, it's down from a peak of $108 just on monday's session. at the center of the american fuel price concern is the keystone xl pipeline. this is a proposal that would link canada's oil fields with u.s. refineries on the u.s. gulf coast of mexico. president obama has been blocking so far the full project in its entirety, but on thursday what he did do is he did fast track approval of a key section of this pipeline, namely between oklahoma and texas. that move was part of a tour t

that was the question after the u.s. supreme court wrapped up three days of hearings this afternoon. today the justices considered what happens to the broader law, if they strike down the requirement to buy insurance. they also looked at the expansion of medicaid. once again tonight, "newshour" health correspondent betty ann bowser begins our coverage. >> reporter: the morning arguments focused on whether parts of the law could survive without the mandate, the so- called severability issue. justice ruth bader ginsburg questioned attorney paul clement about the logic of revoking the entire law. clement represents 26 states opposed to it. >> i mean, it's a question of whether we say everything you do is no good, now start from scratch, or to say, yes, there are many things in here that have nothing to do frankly with the affordable healthcare and there are some that we think it's better to let congress to decide whether it wants them in or out. so why should we say it's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what

insurance mandate, can the rest of the law survive? good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: betty ann bowser wraps up today's developments and marcia coyle and susan dentzer examine what happened in court, including a challenge to expanding the medicaid program. >> ifill: plus, judy woodruff asks two members of congress what's at stake once the court act illinois publan peter roskam and arizona democrat raul grijalva. >> brown: then, margaret warner reports on the prospect of an israeli attack on iran's nuclear sites: what might happen and the potential consequences. >> the only thing that's completely supper is that iran does respond. there's no way iran doesn't respond. it will respond against israel primarily. >> ifill: we look at pope benedict's call for greater religious freedom in cuba, and at his meeting with fidel castro, as he winds up a three- day visit. >> brown: and hari sreenivasan has the story of the two billion dollar deal to sell the los angles dodgerso a group led by f

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the yen shading higher against both the euro and the dollar. we till have end of year rep repatriation flows. it really depends on what happens with the chinese market. moving away from the highs on tuesday. aussie still under pressure. we keep our eyes on what's going on with the natural gas and oil market. fall in natural gas has been a ben if i recall for the u.s. economy during the winter months. brent back down. we did see a reaction in the biggest weekly build since july 2010 yesterday help to go take oil prices lower. nymex below 106 as you can see. staying with the oil story, total has rejected suggestions take there is the risk of an explosion on its gas platform in the north sea. a flame has been burning as a safety measure to prevent get gas pressure from building up. but experts suggest a change in weather conditions could cause the flame to ignite gas laeking from the platform. the company's assured that operations it will slow down. fitch is talking a range of 4le billion. so a lot of scenario planning. merd, no one really knows.

is the of the public statements about this, that come and the other but when you talk about the facts and talk about physics as opposed to politics, i think this is actually a place where with time and effort we are going to be about to cooperate. and half a dozen others here. go back and read which he said were supposed to do. we checked out a lot of boxes. as result of that, what is left on the table or the hurt harder issues by definition. in our attitude towards that as we are going to continue to work along the principles that i outlined, without accepting linkage come without printer values at the door as we go in and without accepting trade-offs with the relationship with russia and the relationship with other countries we have vital interests and paired >> okay, question in the back. >> i'll just speak loudly. welcome back. i'd like to ask you a lot of here it is looking to be an increasing trend of unrest inside russia and if you can speak to them and tell us, to see that movement is current and continuing towards the presidential election in the last week will bring to bear

what is the distance between the yeard -- the yards? >> she is the property to the north. commissioner borden: i think we have a compliance. >> her lot is the same size as the subject. commissioner borden: great. looking at this, it is actually a very reasonable project. it is regrettable that there was a mistake on the application and it did not truly reflect the tendency at the time. the basis for the motion -- for the recommendation actually has not to do with that. the basis for recommendation is related to the net gain of dwelling units. there is a line about no displacement of tense. i think they have explained the situation. if they were in violation, the rent board would be the ones to deal with that. we do not have jurisdiction over that period that is not something the planning commission could take up. that would not be a reason for us to continue it. from the planning process, the fact that we are in a net gain of a unit is a benefit to the city's overall housing. you could argue if there were any displacements that one canceled out the other. i think it is gre

we are the land of the free and the home of the brave.ant you to say. -- it is linda diesel funny when we leave. they think occupy will be here -- it will be so sunny when we leave. they will think i to tie would have them here. we are going to say it loud enough that they can hear ross and it will echo in the supreme court building -- here are us in the supreme court building. we are the land of the free. the home of the brave. do not ever for get it. thank you. down bless you. -- and die unless you. [applause] -- god bless you. [applause] >> thank you, gina loudon. how many of you have seen the mike huckabee and eds on television -- repeal it not? we have the gentleman who is behind those of advertisements and the founder of restore america's voice foundation. [applause] >> thank you. before i talk about obama-care for just a moment, i want to talk about you. you are out here in the rain. you know what, somebody else talked about people like you. it dates from 1776. it is the only thing i have written because i do not want to get his wo

i think that given the issues we found there, the magnitude of the case, and the magnitude of the errors that led me to dismiss the case, that there is a legitimate public interest in knowing as much as we can about what happened, why it happened, what steps the justice department has taken in connection with these findings of misconduct. glaxo is the justice department paying for his attorneys' fees in this matter to keep this from being made public? >> i don't know about him specifically. i know that as a result of the charges that were brought against him, i think the determination was made that there would be a conflict of interest for the justice department to defend them, which would be typically how we would do it, and they were allowed to get outside counsel and under the regulations, the justice department then pays for those legal representation, which has happened in a variety of circumstances. former attorney generals have had lawyers that have been reimbursed by but the government. i am hoping i will have to do that, but other attorneys general have very grex even now that t

the u.n. arab employs attempts to bring about peace talks in syria clashed with calls for military action from some opposition groups. a test of will russia's opposition hopes to regain its momentum in a rally in central moscow but internal fractures and draining public interest leave many on the sidelines also. the g.d.p. with my return to around the run is the war in iran it should be iran. could the us be about to embark on a new war as a constant raft of enemies leads to a pole jink defense budget. and also reporting this hour a physics change of fire on the israeli palestinian border moves into its second day the dozens of rockets fired in civilians hurt on both sides before as the killing of a gaza resistance leader our top stories this hour. international news in coming live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he'd like to make what he called any on his staff it solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart the stat

in the east and the race in ohio is over. mitt romney an apparent winner after a close race that has taken all night. that is the race that we will be tracking throughout the night. romney winning a slim victory over rick santorum in ohio. in tennessee, rick santorum is the projected winner of the tennessee republican primary, and rick santorum also the projected winner oklahoma, and also the projected winner the north dakota caucuses. in the idaho caucuses, mitt romney won a decisive victory. in massachusetts, mitt romney is the winner. nbc news has allocated all of that state's delegates to romney, the former governor. newt gingrich is the projected winner in his home state of georgia and the two man race by the way, romney is the projected winner over ron paul, and newt gingrich and rick santorum did not make it on to the ballot. and timely in the green mountain state, mitt romney is the projected winner. and howard fineman, i love to get this from you, because you are a bottom line guy, and reporting all night. in additio

the big worry the u.s. has now is the erosion of trust because so much of this administration's strategy moving forward with small groups of soldiers working closely with afghan troops, so much of that puts u.s. forces at risk and without that trust it's very easy for the taliban and others to exploit that insecurity and take advantage of this situation which they have proved time and again in the past they are extremely adept at doing. >> with regard to the short term it's very important culturally, in my judgment for the senior officer to go and show sympathy and empathy for the people. to visit with them. i have been an ambassador and these types of incidented happened then, too, where civilians were killed but it was always very effective to sit down and express one's or rein person and i believe this needs to happen and second i think what lara said about the dilemma with regard to what happens is the faster we can move protecting the officer's rights to deal with this in a fair manner as quickly as po

the scope -- the following is being struck from the permit -- the roof deck is being struck, the exterior stair to the roof deck is being struck, all work on the skylight and water hero -- and water heater is also being struck. with the finding of the blocking lot number is correct. >> and for the benefit of the department of building inspection, we will withdraw the revised permit so it alleviates confusion. i want to point out that the roof deck will look as it is shown on the original plans. it will stay the same as what has been shown. president garcia: did you want to counterbalance remarks made and put some praise on dbi? [laughter] >> i do not go on the record contradicting pat buscovich whenever i can avoid it. i have nothing but praise for dbi. >> on the motion to grant the permit with all the changes being struck -- commissioner fung: aye. president garcia: aye. commissioner hurtado: aye. >> the permit is upheld with all those conditions and that finding. thank you. >> we can move on to item eight, appealed number 12-005. the property is at 2754 through 2756 beckers street, prot

the fdic has under the dodd-frank act which is the, the responsibility for the resolution of systematically important financial institutions. that is really one of the key new authorities provided under the dodd-frank legislation and i believe is, is a crucial, if we're to deal with the issue, issues of systemic risk and too big to fail and under the legislation the fdic really has the correspondsability for carrying out that very, very, challenging responsibility. but if i may, let me start, for a minute, on the, on the condition of the banking industry. 2011 represented the second full year of proven performance by the banking system. the latest data as i indicated, we released it earlier this week and our quarterly banking profile indicate that banks have continued to make gradual but steady progress in recovering from the financial market turmoil and severe recession. that unfolded from 2007 through 2009. during the past two years the banking industry has undergone a difficult process of balance sheet strengthening, capital has been increased, asset quality has improved and banks have b