you may join the council general, and please, the honorable hydra mendoza, president of our board of, and of course, kyra rodriguez from our filipino channel. please take this problematic -- proclamation declaring this is a filipino-american history month in san francisco. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the highest ranking and only filipino-american elected official in the city and county of san francisco, president of the board of education and education adviser to mayor edwin lee, honorable hydra mendoza. [applause] thank you. it still saddens me when you saw the only in the first filipino ever elected in san francisco, but it is always such an honor to be here with my community, and i want to thank you all for this celebration. we really have so much to celebrate, and i wanted to make sure we acknowledge this month alone and some of the things we have been able to accomplish. as the council general mentioned, ab 199 finally acknowledges the work and the tremendous bravery of our soldiers in world war ii, who will be written into our history books. we're going t

and if i may, i would like to present the council general this message of hope and our cranes. [applause] >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. thank you, mayor ed lee. actually, this is my second time to take part in the city of hope celebration. i would really like to extend my thanks to reno world fund and the mayor and the people who are coming to join today's celebration. so many things come to mind when we approach the idea of hope. some of the first that strike me our hope during troubled times and hope for the future. and all time hoped-for our societies, for our children, and for the world. everyone of us might have hope that the time of the beginning of this year to see a better world to live in, more peaceful, more prosperous, more cheerful. but as he mentioned, we did have many, many large scale natural disasters this year, starting with the puree -- in penury and in march 11 in japan. here in the united states, we have many tornadoes and flooding and cyclones, wildfires. in bangkok, thailand, again, floodings. to the contrary, in east africa, drought and famine. so

i would like you to join with me the fantastic group of council generals here. can call up to join me -- the council generals from canada, china, japan, korea -- please join me. please come up. if i may, i would like each share of our apa volunteer committee to please come up and board president david chiu. and our new police chief, please come on up, chief greg suhr. please join us. [applause] >> just take a picture. together -- thank you very much everyone. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you, everyone. [applause] >> the mayor wants to know if he can keep his hat? [laughter] [unintelligible] thank you very very much. next, someone who represents another first in our city's history. three years ago, district 3 elected the first chinese- american to the board of supervisors, and immediately after he was sworn in, history was made again as he was sworn in as the board president. please welcome supervisor david to come here on behalf of the sentences go board of supervisors -- david chiu. >> aloha. it is an incredible honor to be here with you tonight. afte

these days are the best days of the chinese council general. ing all kinds of celebrations at the local asian and chinese communities. in all these parties, the topic of china-u.s. relations is the most talked-about topic. everybody was happy to see that last year progress has been made in china-u.s. relationship. we saw a frequent exchange of high-level visits. the president of china, mr. hu jintao, visited america. the and the vice president of this country, mr. biden, visited china in august. this was a very important visit. there is another next week. we saw last year a record growth of our people to people exchange. according to that temporary statistic, in the first nine months of last year, 1.0 7 million chinese tourists visited this country, the biggest increase of 27.7%. more than 2 million american people visited china, which means on average, every day, more than 9000 people are crossing the pacific. nowadays, about 160,000 chinese students are studying here. you have more than 20,000 american boys and girls studying in china. we saw

the leadership up here. so again, thank you very much council general. thank you tort dutch team for engaging ourselveses the next two days. i look forward to these recommendations and if i may i'd like to introduce a very, very fine council general who is excited to be here, that will lead the way and begin the discussion. council general, thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. it's indeed to -- exciting to be here as council general of san francisco in this beautiful city, especially on a day like today. it's really great. you've been in amsterdam. in 1969 i learned and have reason for you to come back to that beautiful city soon. i'd love to work with you on a relationship between amsterdam and san francisco because there's so much in common between the two cities. and a lot of things that san francisco can learn from san francisco and the other way around. and my hope for these two days is that we will have something out of it as well and i'm sure we will have something out of it as well. and you probably will not remember

the violence and negotiated peaceful transition and a responsible democratic process. despite russia and china twice vetoing security council action, the united nations general assembly and human rights council have repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned the carnage and the united nations has played an important role in supporting arab league efforts to end the crisis, including through the joint appointment of special envoy kofi annan. in libya, the united states led the united nations to prevent gadhafi from massacring his own people. to end illicit nuclear weapons programs, the united states pushed the security council to impose the toughest sanctions ever on iran and north korea. as the president has made clear, we will prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. and as long as iran fails to meet its international obligations, the pressure will build. the united nations played a critical role in supporting the creation of a newly independent south sudan. in cote d'ivoire, the u.n. stopped a strong man from stealing an election and ensures the democratically elected president took office, thus preventing a return to civil war. these are just a few examples of how u

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the victims. ''s council general addressed the gathering. japan, people shared memories of the tragedy and their struggles to heal as many signs of the devastation remain. here's a report from japan. >> they spent the last year trying to move forward. on this day, they pause to look back. the country observing a moment of silence the moment the quake struck. and a memorial service in tokyo, vowed to never forget. waves engulfed japan's northeast coach, killed nearly 20,000 people. today those coastal communities are empty fields. the mountains of debris pushed aside. >> this is the spot where the video was shot. you can recall the waves crashing over the wall, tossing the cars aside as the water flooded the city, and when you like around a year later, it's pretty remarkable to see how normal things look. the cleanup has been the easy part. at the elementary school where 74 students died, the grieving hasn't stopped. survivors remain in temporary units, their lives on hold until the rebuilding begins. near the fukushima nuclear plant the 12-m

the u.n. general assembly resolution. and just this morning, the u.n. human rights council in geneva overwhelmingly passed a strong resolution, which is the council's fourth, essentially describing the situation in syria as man made humanitarian disaster. and we all know the identity of the man responsible for that disaster. these are just some of the examples of regional and international resolve. but nevertheless, as both of you have described, we have also seen the assad regime has intensified its vicious attacks against the syrian people. the situation is, frankly, including indiscriminate artillery fire against entire neighborhoods. and today's reports from homs are truly alarming. large numbers of syrians are living every day under siege, deprived of basic necessities including food, clean water and medical supplies. women and children are wounded and dying for lack of treatment. innocent people are detained and tortured and their families left to fear the worst. yet despite the regime's brutality, the people of syria demonstrate enormous courage. their determination

four times by the the fbi because of his contacts with the hijackers was a guest of the office of the general council at the pentagon. these are top lawyers. he was invited to speak on middle east erin politics. he was part of their outreach to moderate muslims. in the book, i have one of the invitations that we obtained, which i think i believe is good for people to read this information themselves and be their own reporter in many respects. what you see on the invitation is that the menu included pork. i'm not really sure how the lunch went, but i know my husband was so incensed about this lunch because he said to me, katherine, there are people who will serve in the military for 20 years and they will never have the chance to have lunch in an executive dining room at the pentagon. there was a question that always bothered the 9/11 investigators. they always wondered why it was that shake muhammad would send two of his most important hijackers to the ghetto of san diego in early 2000. you see these two hijackers were extremely important to the plot. they were the advanced team. they were the beach

the japanese council general thanked the people of california for their generous help. >>> and tradinger they're getting in return. plus, the four joe the bay area honored four more of the sports legends this evening, in the hall of fame. former secretary of state rice was there to honor them. in addition to gene washington, the others included head tom flores, and current mayor of sacramento, kevin johnson, and finally, the late golfer, george archer, and in case you missed the live stream of tonight's event, it will air saturday and sunday at 6:00. >> mark is off tonight, joe is here, boy, what a trade with the warriors tonight. >> yeah, not enough going on tonight, monte ellis the subject of trade talks for four years, tonight it happened. word came they traded ellis to the milwaukee bucs, along with brown. still in a six year contract he signed in 2008, in exchange, the warriors get the big man they have been after for so long, andrew bogut, fractures his ankle in january, a number of his injuries that happened. and steven jackson, monte already missed by warrior fans tonight in sa

the japanese council general thanked the people of california for their generous help. >>> and tradingthe 7-footer they're getting in return. plus, the four famous athletes inducted into the sports hall of fame tonight joe the bay area honored four more of the sports legends this evening, in the hall of fame. former secretary of state rice was there to honor them. in addition to gene washington, the others included head tom flores, and current mayor of sacramento, kevin johnson, and finally, the late golfer, george archer, and in case you missed the live stream of tonight's event, it will air saturday and sunday at 6:00. >> mark is off tonight, joe is here, boy, what a trade with the warriors tonight. >> yeah, not enough going on tonight, monte ellis the subject of trade talks for four years, tonight it happened. word came they traded ellis to the milwaukee bucs, along with brown. still in a six year contract he signed in 2008, in exchange, the warriors get the big man they have been after for so long, andrew bogut, fractures his ankle in january, a number of his injuries that happened

the mexican general council in san francisco tells ktvu there is a possibility -- >> we are waiting for official information. gradually it's coming. fortunately in general terms there are no victims at this point. >> telephone service was down in parts of mexico city for a time making it difficult for people here in the bay area to reach family members there. most of that phone service has since been restored >>> the polls closed just an hour ago in illinois but mitt romney is the apparent winner in that state's primary. right now with 19% of the precincts reporting, romney leads former pennsylvania senator rick santorum 55% to 28%. newt gingrich is third followed by ron paul. >>> a woman from san jose who cares for hundreds of exotic birds at her home is facing a show down tonight with city hall. only on 2, robert handa live in san jose with a look inside the hobby that city hall is calling a business. robert. >> reporter: well we are at the house and inside a room where many of the exotic birds are kept and where hundreds have lived for the past decade. now complaints have led that wo

general. and has served the department for ten years. she is also concurrently serving as the first chairperson of the council of inspector generals on integrity, efficiency, and in fact, in that role, you may be aware that this committee would like to -- pass on to that council greater authority including potentially subpoena authority. that remains one of our, our long-term goals if we can convince the senate of the importance of investing in inspector generals. ms. jennifer hatcher senior vice president of government and public affairs for the food marketing institute. prior to joining fmi, she served as chairperson for chairman spencer bachus as his chief of staff. lastly, ms. faulkner is inspector general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. prior to becoming inspktector general, law partner at philadelphia office of ballard, spall, llp. she had a lengthy career, not that lengthy, you are too young in public service as assistant u.s. attorney, deputy attorney general of pennsylvania, and philadelphia public defender. that is a lot to pack in a short time. if you would all rise pursuant to our committee rules, all witnesses are to be sworn

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the d.o.d.'s general council over the pentagon and so in this letter the group writes to express its concern about reports that journalists covering p.f.c. bradley manning's court martial have been unable to view documents filed in the proceeding john what documents you might ask according to josh gerstein over politico there are approximately forty one thousand documents totaling over four hundred thousand pages which were handed over to manning's defense team from prosecutors like almost everything else involving manning's court martial those documents aren't for the press to see at that level secrecy also extends to the court docket which is also under wraps the letter went on to request of the government implement reforms when it comes to court martial proceedings of poor his next trial date which is this coming thursday and the group argues quite reasonable . cases against members of the military should have the same level of transparency that we apply to cases of terrorism here in the united states basic stuff here but this coalition builds on the notion that there simply is too much secrecy

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war our united states constitution says nothing about the authorization for war by the security council or by the general assembly or by the arab league and the president just sneered at the constitution secondly what was the purpose humanitarian war it's almost a contradiction in terms like an oxymoron but moreover we now have a country that's totally shattered it is benghazi or the the the east is already seceding if you will from the transitional national council the amnesty international reported numerous instances of torture wrongdoing towards prisoners who were but the detained we still don't have an accounting for what happened to cut off yourself whether it was just assassinated and what is it our business to go into libya and try to tell them you know how they operate their country if any country came to the united states and said hey we think your government is wrong we want to revamp it for you because you're not treating all your minorities properly we tell them oh really we're starting over our people and that's an example of our you know how are you telling your period is this some kind of

just leaving it to what the security council can do with sanctions to increase the pressure on iran but using other elements of the u.n. system so that the united nations general assembly last fall passed a resolution condemning iran's human rights abuses by the largest margin in history. similarly, as i've mentioned earlier, we used the human rights council to put together a special rahporteur for the first time in the human rights council's history on any country that was against iran. we were able to get the general assemble to condemn the plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador by the iranians. so in every venue at every turn we're trying to ratchet up the pressure on iran with success. >> and i appreciate that. let me jump over to a question i asked earlier and we ran out of time. that was referring to security council resolution 1701 with hezbollah. and rearming there. and what is being done to help stop hezbollah's rearming. or can you brief the committee on the latest regarding that security resolution 1701? >> yes. 1701 is of course a resolution that established a renewed mandate for uniphil on the border of southern lebanon with israel. its mandate

general john and we'll take a break. >>> tomorrow, michael green, former member of the security council talks about south korea general security. gretchen morgenson looks at freddie may and freddie mac to discuss after the expiration of washington journal on c-stan. >> follow c-span throughout the week. explore the literary and literary culture. >> you had calls going up and down the mississippi delta and the next morning between 600 and #,000 men, white men pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american c-span 3, bruce lindsay on integration and north little rock high school. they seem to because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us. >> these stories and others in little rock. this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >> ronald reagan was living this hotel after delivering a speech. he's this close. he's 15 feet from the president. he shoots, six shots. the first one hits the press secretary brady in the head and falls down. the second one tissued around to check on the president's progress. he yells, i'm hit. the path of the president is clear, wide open. hinckley has a clear view. >

the president to be assistant attorney general. he was confirmed by the senate in october, 1993. 24 this was not a recess appointment, apparently, and was also head of the office of legal council. walter was then the acting solicitor general from 1996 to 1997 term of the u.s. supreme court. he's published articles for journals, including the yale law review and his written for the new york times, washington times, news week, and the london times. walter, the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, peter. and thanks to the american enterprise institute for putting together such a thor reexplication of this issue. it is really extraordinary that such a simple clause could provoke such complexity of argumentation. and i'll come to that simple clause in a moment. let me echo what peter has said that this is -- this does not break out on partisan lines. there are -- i am comforted that there those who have served in leadership of the office of legal counsel during the presidency, president reagan, president george h.w. bush and president george bush who believes that thew appointments are constitutionally valid. the

fox 5's paul wagner joins us live from the newsroom. >> the attorney general told the city council'sry committee, his office has been unable to process. a statute with the necessary proof can send people to jail for an extended period of time. >> a provision in the district's drunk driving laws prohibit judges to send people to jail who score high on breathalyzer tests. .20 or above. without the scores, prosecutors are handicapped, a result that forced the attorney general's office to stop charging suspected drunk drivs

, i continued that and had a bankers advisory council on the kind of financial issues that we touched on in the attorney general's office. so i said i'm going to do the same as director of this bureau. we're going to have both the community banks advisory council and a credit union advisory council. we just met earlier this week to work out how we're going to select members for that and frequency of meetings and the like. they're going to have very direct input to me. the other thing is that, excuse me, we are required by the law in a number of our rule makings to special panels that give small providers and small banks the opportunity to give us very direct input about rule proposals and how that would affect their operations and whether there should be adjustments made and the like. that is something we're going to consider with each of our proposals. we have issued one final rule thus far on remit tense transfers, the international transfers of money that many people engage in. and we have issued a supplemental proposal to consider whether there should be a threshold of institutions that don't do these transac

just leaving it to what the security council can do with sanctions to increase the pressure on iran but using other elements of the u.n. system so that the united states general assembly last fall passed a resolution condemning iran's human rights abuses by the largest margin in history. similarly we've used the human rights council to put in place a special rapporteur. we believe able to get the general assembly to condemn the plot to assassinate the ambassador so in every turn we're trying to ratchet up the pressure on iran with success. >> let me jump over to a question i asked earlier and we ran out of time and that was security council resolution 1701 with hezbollah and the rearming there. what has been done to help stop hezbollah's rearming or can you brief the committee regarding the latest on security resolution 1701. >> 1701 is the resolution that established a renewed mandate for unifil on the border of southern lebanon with israel. its mandate is to prevent the flow of personnel and weapons into a zone adjoining the israeli border. it has been relatively effective in doing that. it is a mandate under chapter 6 of the u.n. charter rather than chapte

policy studies at the heritage foundation and in london we go to doubt he is the current deputy secretary general of the muslim council of britain all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard i'd like to go to you first you know i do and i this is a very broad brush program looking at a lot of events of the last year about a year ago the west was very concerned with the possibility of islamic democracies and they were very worried about it all the way from tunisia to let's say iraq i mean is that those fears been allayed now. that's a really good question i mean you probably can see common trend since there's been no i mean right out several decades ago you often see these waves of social mobilization in the market as asian so what started off in tunisia started spreading to other parts of the arab world and the common trends are people are more open about protesting express dissatisfaction using social networks but i think think the key variable has been their regime response when their genius responded very ineffective lee as in tunisia there was power. when there

so they have now dismissed her from the hearing no knowing that she will not be answering questions. you still have the general councilf the global holding as well as the north american chief financial officer to answer questions about the final week and life of mf global. so edith o'brien as expected pleaded the fifth. >> we were expecting her to plead the fifth but to dismiss her, how are we going to get the answers in terms of who knew what? >> we'll find out if the cfos and general counsel know. >> we'll keep watching that. >> all right. heading towards the close, we come back as the dow is down 77 points, down 128 a moment ago. >> brian shactman has been tossing and turning all night in anticipation of seeking out today's under the radar stocks. what do you have for us. >> he have a small cap company and it's down big time. we will find out who it is. we'll be right back. i'm freaking out man. why? i thought jill was your soul mate. no, no it's her dad. the general's your soul mate? dude what? no, no, no. he's, he's on my back about providing for his little girl. hey don't worry. e-trade's got a totally new inves