it is given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." do not pretend to undervalue the rewards of ambition. we have seen with our own eyes beyond the goal fields the honor. above all, we have learned that whether a man -- will look downward and dig, the one and only success is to bring to his work a mighty heart." warren rudman was handed a spade in korea and dug down. he was also the senator handed the ax and cord and found ice. always with honor and humor and always with a mighty heart. [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary. it is now a pleasure to balance the ticket geographically. [applause] >> i do not know what kind of plane i was on, but i tell you, it was dramatic. it is wonderful to see him from time to time. he called me in january 2010. he said, i have got a real deal for you. cochair the national commission on fiscal responsibility and reform. thanks a million, old pal. i will talk with you later. [laughter] great friends here. let me tell you a little bit about my pal. when he came into the senate, i had heard of him. my law

. >> if there was anything real to this plan b at the outset maybe. this is silly.doomed from the outset, you have to know this. neil: this is the strategy. >> a bad one. neil: no, no, the speaker was going to try to say, mr. president, i ave a tough enough time for these guys to agree on taxes on millionaires how do you think i would sell to $400,00400,000. you help me. >> there is a problem with that strategy, there is a small group of voters in house, democrats. neil: the ones who have not offered anything in return. >> that may be. neil: what? that is like saying yes there was an iceberg, but the captain hit it. >> speaker boehner could not afford to lose more than 55 votes, he lost more, that leaves a lot of republicans -- >> i could he goes. >> he should. neil: you should be worried about the replacement, he might be sharper to the right. >> it will be. >> kevin mccarty. neil: it entrenches no getting done stuff. >> i agree he goes, but he will make a deal before. this sounds almost silly, they are only a couple hundred billion dollars apart. neil: you think t

>> i should say at the outset i am not speaking for the author's and killed. they will probably be miffed if i get too excited speaking on behalf of and as an author today. these are my remarks and i should say before i turn to what it is to be an author i should speak about what it means to be someone who uses library as we are here at this great national and copyright library. when i was 14 years old my dad sat me down as an educator and he said you will likely spend your life either in a library or laboratory. decide. i was a very confused student at that time and four years later as a work study student, i found myself getting a bit 8:00 in the morning and showing law school library books at columbia law school with a lot of sleepyhead hung over -- i was thinking this is what my dad had in mind. i did choose libraries and spent pretty much my entire adult life at the british library, and right next door here at the boulder library where the board of governors -- i love libraries. it is a real honor to be at the library of congress. everybody on this panel

you know, i will say at the outset in gathering my thoughts here and my personal thoughts here, of what they represented. as we wait for this wonderful sound to pass by. they made it very quiet here. hope everyone is okay. >>> you know, mayor moscone and supervisor milk to me, as i was a law student in the bay area when the assassinations happened, and wanted to be part of a government that was going to be much more open. in fact, i had to sue the government in order to make it more open. and those years where struggle and just representing people who wanted to make the city much more equality bent was where i felt. and i feel today that if mayor moscone and harvey milk were here, they'd be pretty proud of what we've been able to accomplish in those years. seeing how mayor brown became mayor and my lucky charm of being now the first asian mayor of the city, understanding -- thank you. (applause) >> understanding now that we have the first african-american as president of the united states has now been reelected. [cheering and applauding] >> and this is in addition to all of the local re

over - glenn "big baby" davis will convert the other way 49-33 orl the warriors were flat from the outset after their big wednesdaythey shot just 37% 3rd quarter 4 aaron afflalo - puts the magic up 15 with this 3- pointer 5 jj reddick - with the nice pump fake and then drains the 20 footer to beat the 3rd quarter buzzer warriors finally lose a game final: 99-85 the loss snaps their 5 game win streak they are now 5-1 on their road trip which wraps up in atlanta tomorrow the 49ers landed in boston a couple of hours ago.ready for their big sunday night matchup detroit and portland art height and a double overtime. take a look. brooklyn to-beat the detroit pistons. 14-9. >> with tom brady and the patriots.who quite simply never lose at home in december.well almost never.20 straight wins in foxboro going all the way back to 2002. 49ers vs. patriots that's right.tom brady and the patriots have won 20 straight at home during the month of december - going all the way back to 2002 so no surprise that new england is a pretty heavy favorite at 5 2 points espn did a poll and two- thirds of the countr

weapons and take them out of syria and make them a threat worldwide has been apparent right from the outsett we've spent two years not focusing on the chemical weapons, the possibility of biological weapons, the airannan involvement -- iranian involvement in a nuclear program in syria. now in a very desperate situation we finally turned our attention to it, and in a circumstance that makes it very hard to stop the first use. >> greta: so the question is what would you do now because we are where we are. >> i think the american priority has to be in making sure that the chemical weapons don't get out of syria and become a threat worldwide. this is very dangerous stuff. the president's already lost credibility by first telling assad it would be a red line to move the stock piles out of his arsenal. now it's a red line to use them. i'm just not sure that we're prepared to do what would be necessary to stop the first use, but what we can do and where our greatest risk is is making sure that the chemical weapons don't lealeavesyria in terrorist hand. >> greta: how do we do that? >> at this point

lou: we had -- we repoed at the outset, so many politicians, elected officials, primarily congressmen, but senators as well, with and literally within the hour, sending out statements from their dstrict at home offices decrying guns and insisting upon gun control without knowing anything about it without a decent interval between e senseless deaths, these tragic deaths, and this to -- tragedy. >> don't confuse responsible gun ownership with this type of heinous crime. they are not one in the same, but we certainly want to make sure if people legally own guns, and especially if they had somebody who is ill in the home, make sure it's lockedded away. lou: absolutely. >> make sure there's no access to the guns because it's, you know, someone who's not well has acss to a gun, they can use it. >> as dr. ludwig is saying, we have reports that ths young man had -- was mentally disturbed, had mental illness of some form, we do not know what, his brother describing him and others being reported as, the man displaying obsessive-compulsive behavior. i have to tell you as a layman is, i can't tel

from the outset, sonne didn't see autism as a handicap but also as a gift. his opinion, kids like lars have the potential to do great things. >> a train driver but he is against it. he think i should be something else. >> i think you could be a good train driver, but i also think you could be good at inventing new trains that does not pollute so much. >> highly-gifted, lars will most probably do well in whichever career he chooses. he's an inspiration to his father. >> without lars i will never have gotten the idea, to start this concept. so it's a family thing. >> thorkil sonne has set himself an ambitious goal: to help create one million jobs for young people with autism worldwide. >> now we would like to ask you for your comments on how globalisation is affecting us all. you can give us your take online by filling in our global 3000 questionnaire. and today we hear from a massai in tanzania. >> my name is tumaini zakaria matinda. i am 33 years old. i am living in arusha, tansania. my profession is tour guide. i just driving and i arrange some safaris for

as i mentioned at the outset, and i thought it worth mentioning, there is much poetry in this book. ome poems, some jewish, some non-jewish including our own. more generally want to say there is much collection in the book as a whole and the people and the events she describes and i have a number of personal favorites which i think ought to exemplify the poetry in the book but we will perhaps talk about that as we go along. so, you can now tell me what i got wrong about the book. either in answer to my questions or answer two questions that i should ask. but let me start in the following way. in a way the first question, the most natural question to ask about this book and especially such a personal book is why did you go to israel and in the first place and why did you stay? but i'm not going to ask you that. i'm not going to let you answer that yet because i think it would be good to come back to that after we have talked about a few things. so i think the first thing to focus on and one part of the substance of the book is, we say after, for whatever reason experiencing it, one th

we would like to say at the outset that we are not asking to reduce the habitable space, just to reconfigure it so it is respectful to everyone. as you can see in this aerial -- can you turn this? as you can see, the aerials in the front page, the garden is seen here in partial shadow from the two-story addition -- two-story building on which the third floor addition is going to be made. and as already pointed out, these key lots, the [speaker not understood] western side have been the lot at [speaker not understood] 28th street has been carve you had out to make it a lot originally. the basis of the d-r request includes concerns about the lack of equitable side setbacks, the loss of privacy, and open space drastically affected. as stated in the planning department's website, the definition of exceptional extraordinary circumstances "may arise due to a regular lot configuration, the commonplace application of adopted design standards to a project that's not balanced the right to develop the property with impacts on nearby properties or occupants." we believe this understanding of exceptional

he's definitely not up to the job and hasn't been right from the outset what he has is an ideology which is about dismantling an important welfare state and making sure that those that are on high incomes are protected. i'm sure this is not the kind of statement the public was waiting for what is what does this really mean in terms of real terms for people the. well that's exactly what people are going to be looking for how is this going to hit families in their wallets in their pockets you know people all across britain are going to watch this today businesses families they will today exactly what's going to be happening now and there was a bit of concern when you look at what he was saying in the old since they were certainly when it came to welfare now the government is looking to save three point seven billion on the welfare bill with us because the benefit payments are going to rise by just one percent and that's less than inflation is that's effectively going to mean that in real terms millions of families all across the u.k. all going to have real time cuts to their welfare and no

these guys came and not beholden by any means to leadership and made it clear from the outset that they were not just going to be told to fall into line. the real problem for modeled this republican leadership, but to prove to be the case if the democrats regain power is that the enforcement tools of yesteryear are indeed of yesteryear, since it earmarks have now been banned, since the blogosphere you can turn somebody into an instant martyr by stripping them of their committee assignments. it's very, very hard to use a stake in addition to a kerry. there's a .. of my book i referred to after the debt ceiling fiasco of the summer of 2011 when they came back in yet another conjuring resolution used to fund the government and the obama administration had passed a budget was coming up. the republican leadership believed they couldn't use the vote in fact there are members voted against it. the appropriations committee, which designed these continuous solutions and all other spending bills with serious. they insisted on meeting with the leadership. were the ones being punished. for doing ev

i suppose that is something that any journalist could have told me from the outset. or me it was something of a learning experience. in this case i have told the story that we call disparate sons. we talk about a secret band of radicals to let the colonies were. i always worry with the subtitles tacked on. after you read the subtitle come you don't need read the book. [laughter] is this is a story of the radicals who took us in to the revolution. i have said from the beginning the shot heard round the world was heard. my book was finished. because i discovered that i had run across an article in "the new york times" at the current housing bubble bursting, it was in the first time that such a thing had happened. i began to tug on the dread of that sweep of history. before you knew it, before i knew it, this book had begun. bringing you into what it is about, in the wake of the recent presidential campaign, the question of the day seems to be what now. the fiscal cliff looms, modern day tea partiers out their control of fiscal policies will be pried away from their cold

at the outset i'd like to indicate this proposal is narrowly conceived in that while i have offered alternative technical [speaker not understood] if you like that would substantially offset the investments and revenue needs of what is now being proposed, from the beginning the project is, i believe, in violation of the california environmental quality act regarding mitigations required for increasing cost of housing and businesses in chinatown, gentrification, if you will. that is not being addressed from the very beginning. it continues to beck on your recall. if you would look at it, increased revenues would alleviate funding for muni such as [speaker not understood] free rides. we suggest you look at this more seriously before you go further doing, if i might, some costs. thank you for your attention. >> thank you. >>> and if you like, [speaker not understood]. >> next speaker, please. >> michael barrett, richard hanlon, james bosworth. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon. thank you for having us at this meeting today, the mta board. mr. nolan and all board, i'm michael barrett. i'm a mem

you know, i will say at the outset in gathering my thoughts here and my personal thoughts here, of what they represented. as we wait for this wonderful sound to pass by. they made it very quiet here. hope everyone is okay. >>> you know, mayor moscone and supervisor milk to me, as i was a law student in the bay area when the assassinations happened, and wanted to be

he's definitely not up to the job and hasn't been right from the outset what he has is an ideology which is about dismantling an important welfare state and making sure that those that are on high incomes are protected. you know sarah we hear how hard people are still struggling in the u.k. else when euro but what does this statement actually mean in real terms of all the people. well you know all across britain right now people are going to be watching this in their homes businesses they're going to be have been watching what the chancellor saying very very closely in trying to figure out now as we came away with a different facts and figures exactly what that means is than in real terms now in that respect when you listen to the autumn statement a very concerning part of that speech that george osborne delivered was when he spoke about welfare really we saw the conservative attack on welfare continuing i listened to the language in the rhetoric that was used there he talked about fairness but then he said fairness also needs to be about the person who leaves home in the morning and loo

from the very outset, his colleagues knew this was a special man. danny knew immediately what every one of us who ever served in either of these great houses longed for. the uncompromising respect and admiration of every one of our colleagues. no one, no one in the 40 years i served with danny ever, ever, ever, ever, ever once doubted he would do what he said, never once doubted his words, never once wondered whether or not he'd keep whatever commitment he made. that, that, that is the most valuable capital any man or woman who ever served in this place can ever possess, and he had it from the outset. no one, as i said, who is alive that danny inouye stated something to me that he did not do. that's why he was so successful. no one ever doubted danny's motives. we all spend too much time in these chambers doubting their motive. you can doubt their judgment, but you can't doubt their motives. no one ever doubted his motives. the love the people of hawaii had for him extended across the pacific, across the continent into these halls for danny. people n

. >> [inaudible] >> as i indicated, as i indicated at the outset, this is the beginning of a serious conversation. we won't be taking questions today, but andrew and -- [inaudible] our public affairs officer is here. we will be willing to talk to anybody beginning on monday. a text of the speech by wayne and asa hutchinson's remarks are available at nra.org. i want to thank all of you for being with us, and i look forward to talking to you and answering any of your questions next week. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> if you worked for him, you'd get a her mercurial, sometimes generous, sometimes overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss who he didn't know how to apologize which men of his class, you know, they're not going to apologize to a young private secretary, a typist. and he had a way of sort of turning the tables, and his version of an apology would be to say, well, actually i'm a very kind man, and you're doing a very good job today. but the issue was never settled. you know, he always had to get the last word in. one night going through whitehall, the germa

lou: we had -- we reported at the outset, so many politicians, elected officials, primarily congressmen, but senators as well, with and literally within the hour, sending out statements from their district at home offices decrying guns and insisting upon gun control without knowing anything about it without a decent interval between the senseless deaths, these tragic deaths, and this to -- tragedy. >> don't onfuse responsible gun ownership with this type of heinous crime. they are not one in the same, but we certainly want to make sure if people legally own guns, and especially if they had somebody who is ill in the home, make sure it's lockedded away. lou: abolutely. >> make sure there's no access to the guns because it's, you know, someone who's not well has access to a gun, they can use it. >> as dr. ludwig is saying, we have reports that this young man had -- was mentally disturbed, had mental illness of some form, we do not know what, his brother describing him and others being reported as, the man displaying obsessive-compulsive behavior. i have to tell you as a layman is, i can't

it is about lifecy, and mental health canceling and getting the people the help they need at the outset also turning the spot light on mental health screening and on cultural issues. senator lieberman and republican congressman from utah both suggesting today that the mass media including violent video games negatively influence impressionable teen boys and some call today for tougher regulations including a ban on assault weapons. >>bret: thank you, steve. now, bringing back our panel, senior writer for the weekly standard, steven stephen hayessd charles krauthammer. we talk about this earlier, steve, and some called for gun control, today, and you heard some talking about mental illness and how big a problem that is and being looked at. policy-wise, beyond this speech tonight, because ed is saying that, really, that is not the focus. where does this go? >> we will have a big debate about gun control. we have seen that taking place. people like bloomberg has had this for a cause a good many years. i do hope we also have a sustained debate about civil commitment and how we deal with men

. >> but we conclude the hearing with the same observation i made at the outset, which is to thank you for the work that you on a very challenging issue in which we balance the interests we have in the continuing to be the nation of refuge for those who we can include while at the same time appreciating the need to fulfil our first responsibility, to protect the citizens of the u.s. against further harm. you are on the tip of the spear. i don't vote for the diligent work you're doing and the improvements that continue to be put in in enhancing our ability to do so. i want to conclude the hearing by asking the panelists, if there should be for their questioning from your panel here today or others that were unable to participate, they may have written questions. we will keep the record open for 10 days in the event that there will be for the questions. i ask that you be responsive. i am a very grateful for your participation today. without objection, the committee stands adjourned. >> coming up on the c-span, progress towards arnold palmer a congressional gold metal, followed by retirin

ey were like two from the outset of this tragedy. these terrorist attacks are still being lied about whether directly or a mission, as far as i am personally concerned. ambassador, i want to interject something to you. if i may. there is a phrase of the week on this broadcast. thing the state department on tuesday dismissed john bolton's assertion that secretary of state hillary clinton have faked an injury and illness about the libyan terrorist attack. here's what ambassador bolton said. every foreign service officer in every foreign minister in the world knows the phrase when you don't want to go to a meeting or conference or an event, you have a diplomatic illness. this is a diplomatic illness. thank you both for being iljudith miller among our gifts. >> suddenly fiscal cliff is looking steeper and closer. noted economist arthur lapert joins us to tell us how this game >> is very sad, but this legislation is what is said. the legislation has the piration of the tax cuts after 10 years. if nothing is done, all tax rates go up. what