and the state passed a regulation that says that if the practitioners go through the state and get licensed through them, they don't have to get permitted through the local agency. so right now, our practitioners in san francisco can either get licensed through us or they can go through the state. >> now, one additional is that if they have all of the practitioners licensed through the state, they don't need to get permitted at the establishment in san francisco. so that is a big factor for us. that is what the change is and so what we are trying to do now is just adopt what the state says, so we will put it there for what they are saying is that if you are at an establishment now and if all of your practitioners are licensed of the state you don't need a permit in san francisco. >> we are just adopting that. >> that is an easy one. >> sure. >> commissioner dwight? >> so you are just coming into compliance with the state. >> yes. >> the new state regulations? >> yes. >> and these things are actually pretty decent. >> there are no changes, they are either going to pay the state or pay the ci

of the state department". kori schake, you write the department of state employee roster has some the hundred foreign service officers coming 11,000 civil servants and 42,000 foreign nationals and in 2009 and those that took the written test competing for roughly 1,000 jobs. those selected have college degrees and the 11 years of prior work experience before coming to the foreign service. two-thirds of the people selected come in with postgraduate degrees degrees, 80 percent have lived overseas, foreign service officers are awarded tenure after four years, 95 percent of the serving officers receive tenure. almost all the diplomats are concentrated in only 30 countries more than 2,000 in iraq and afghanistan. what is wrong with state? [laughter] >> there are several things wrong with the state. although an institution that ought to be good at its job and could be, with careful managerial attention, the main problem is even by their own description they're not hiring people that have the skills they say they need

about six out of ten have a favorable view of the united states. there is a sense that u.s. the u.s. remains a superpower. there's even stronger public support for americans around the world. and while i can't dispute that some of the criticism of the united states are accurate in terms of the way it's acted around the world i think we can't discount the fact that publics around the world still generally not in every country have a very positive view of the united states well bruce any as you know when you say hold on when you say that when you say that it is. good point is that american foreign policy is an american culture is that mcdonald's is that disney i mean can you flesh it out a little bit and then it's a crime it's across that it's across the board i mean there is widespread appreciation for americans sense of protection of liberties for example the end. of the spying on america i mean but it's luck but it's it's all relative right i mean if you ask a question say just china or iran and or the united states how do you feel about they how how they protect liberties a

the solicitor general says united states is not the 51st state. to be sure, the federal government has interesting universe -- and informative no other has. there is a problem with him and moves. they can lose their benefits. the federal government can say, that is a make any sense, we are going of the same row. we do not want someone if they're going to be trans for the military from west point to resist the transfer because they going to lose benefits. it makes sense to have a uniform federal role for the federal government. the next revision of dictionary act defines child. these do appear in multiple rural statutes. the last point i would certainly make is in thinking about this, congress asked the justice apartment three times by the constitutionality of the statute. the first two times, they asked again, got the same answer. the solicitor general wants to say, it was one of careful reflection. generally it comes from the democratic process. it requires people to spruce way people. it is also persuasion. that is what the democratic ross is req

the most populated state in the country and ruled that any couple is legally married in their state,these united states is married before the eyes of the federal government. this is a watershed moment in the century's long struggle for equality in this country. it is a sweet sweet victory and it is important in this life to saver those. joining me now is dan savage, director at the stranger. american savage, insights, flights and faith, sex, love and politics. dan, where were you when you got the news it was early out in seattle. where were you, what was your reaction? >> i was sitting in my kitchen at my computer refreshing my twitter feed over and over again, while my husband of 18 years was upstairs in bed asleep. and our 15-year-old son d.j. was downstairs in bed asleep. and i cheered so loud i woke them both up. >> i interviewed you on my previous program the day before you were legally married in the state of washington after that state, through a ballot initiative had legalized marriage equality. what does this mean for you? in your every day life. what does it mean now for yo

he is a governor of one of the states in the united states. ublican party deal with that's who they are now? they deal with it awkwardly, because after the beards things and telling them to kiss him on his butt, but the republican presidential hopeful had already committed to do a fund-raiser for him. in that his case, he had a book detpoupbsing his own ideas about immigration reform which came out the exact same time when the party was embracing those ideas. he says he likes immigration reform because immigrants are so fertile. that's his new try. he is trying to bunch every other republican's dance card in the hope they will bunch his dance card back once the primaries start. he does have connections to maine. so he is doing this stuff, and he said he would do a thing for paul, and then the thing about bending people over and doing them without vaseline, and then he responded by trying to stop the biggest papers in the state from covering state government at all, and issuing a blanket no comment on all matters to three of the largest papers i

we're talking about the state, what the state does and what the state recognizes. people have a right to believe what they believe, but we are a country that professors not to discriminate, and this is a discrimination. and, again, i think the more people see in their own families, people coming out, saying people they love or profess to whom they love, they're much more receptive. i think that culturally it's still a challenge. but it's changing in favor of not being a nonissue before too long. >> i want to ask you about the voting rights. the president this week said that you wouldn't have to target particular states the way they were, quote/unquote, precleared in the past. but basically, that every state should be subject to rules with regard to voting so that everybody can vote and that there's no suppression. is that how you view it? is that the way to get started, do you think, to get legislation? >> well, what we want to do is to correct what the supreme court did. and to do so, we must do it in a bipartisan way, which it always has been, and to do so in a w

the assad regime whether it was a. a multicultural multi confessional state farm or soho than saudi arabia the great champion for democracy and freedom same with with libya. under gadhafi again whatever its flaws was a fairly tolerant it a fairly multicultural state again it was destroyed into and now into a kind of series of warring militias so. the united yes it professes democracy but in reality it destroys the very states that tend to. embody suppose that american values then than the need allies do and of course there's the the eight hundred pound which is israel ok bruce there's a late i just want fishes eight hundred pound gorilla. here i mean that you know as far as the end of the year in the middle east the arabs in the world think this is an absolutely outraged that the united states professes to be an honest broker and you know advocating peace in the middle east when it unreservedly supports israeli policy ok lott said there bruce go ahead. but i mean i do think we risk here putting this issue us in a situation where it's damned if you do and damned if it don't and other words there was implicit george's impli

for the state. and then they went around district by district and said here's what we did and here's why we did it. and the local teachers had a hard enough time accepting this. i mean, teachers don't like for people to come in and evaluate them any more than we like to be evaluated every day. so what the difference is we say states do it and the democrat ig bill says you must do it, you got to do it according to these prescriptions which are carried over from the waivers. and once you've done that you got to send it to washington and you've got to have it peer reviewed. we are going to find some smart professors somewhere and say we don't like what tennessee did or do. that happened to tennessee who had race at the top, spent 30 years of an evaluation system and they had to sent their system up here to get a waiver and it got sent back and say do it this way instead of that way. i don't know who up here or here in the peer review community, i don't think we need their extra judgment about that. then

from the deep south state. he was critical setting the reputation for the state as a modern, progressive southern state different from the rest of the south. on the other hand, senator helm was very important because he was not only important in terms of helping build the republican party in north carolina, helping switch a lot of conservative democrats to the republican party and help build the republican party, a pourful party in the state now, but he was a national figure in building the whole thing, came to be known as new right and get elected president. reagan's presidency was very much in doubt until helm's organization saved his political career in the 1976 # primary here in north carolina. many of the republicans and state legislature, the fact that jesse helms is the role model. helms was very much a critical figure. those are two figures that i think are very, very important for different reasons to the state's political history. robert reynold was popular senator elected during the great depression.

the state of texas. heather: a live look at the court room in sanford, florida where george zimmerman's murder trial is about to get underway. yesterday jurors heard testimony from a neighbor who described what she saw outside her home. >> did you also hear some kind of movement outside the back of your residence? >> yes. >> can you describe that to the jury, please? >> it sounded like running from left to right in the rear pathway. >> the defense not happy about that left to right description. heather: phil keating live at the justice center in sanford, florida. >> reporter: this jury of six people now is a panel of 9 people. the judge announcing this panel has been reduced by one person. juror b72, the young hispanic male known for his army of arm wrestling, he has been dismissed and the judge said it has nothing do at all with his case. matters outside of this courtroom. regardless we now have 9 people listening to the evidence that 6 jurors and 3 alternates. the judge ruling the previous 911 phone cal

the state almost blew up. the state secretary came down here and asked for us to help them. a new york plan for teacher evaluation rather than a -- from washington. simply the best practices, i have great respect for what the gates are doing. i talked to bill gates personally about the importance of teacher evaluation, but how do we know these are the best practices for teachers in mayor bell, tennessee? i -- maribel, tennessee? i know we came up with similar things, came up with a portfolio for teachers, principal evaluation. in our case we said if you're an eighth grade history teacher, we'll have two eighth grade teachers from a different school district to do an evaluation to get rid of local politics. why isn't that better? we found that was a good idea for us, but it might not be necessary everywhere. i am afraid that rather than propel the pioneering movements across the country on teacher evaluation that have been encouraged by the gates foundation, that have been encouraged by secretary duncan, by governors such as i, by a whole variety, by the board of professional

in the state of new hampshire, for instance, the total trade volume between the state of new hampshireand the country of mexico is $1.5 billion. computers and other electronic products amount for $680 million or 72% of new hampshire's total exports to mexico. 28,531 jobs in the state of new hampshire depend on trade with mexico. in the state of new york, the total volume of trade between the united states and -- between the country of mexico and the state of new york is $5.67 billion. new york exports $2.6 billion worth of goods to mexico. 381,238 jobs in new york rely on trade with mexico. mexico ranks among new york's 10 international markets with 384,000 travelers per year. jewelry is one of the largest exports from new york to mexico, with $500 million in value. in the state of pennsylvania, the total volume of trade between the state of pennsylvania and the country of mexico is $5.59 billion. 249,409 jobs in pennsylvania rely on trade with mexico. primary metal manufacturers are pennsylvania's top sector in exports to mexico. representing 5 $560 million and 2 is -- 21% of the stat

in my state that's not the case. but you are seeing that organizing in each and every one of these states. >> organizing and also just personal change. i mean, the thing that is interesting about gay people as a minority is that what happens is, nobody discovers they are different kind of minority later in life and starts to tell people who didn't previously know. when people come out as gay people, no matter where they live, no matter what kind of family they're in, no matter what kind of occupation they're in, they change the opinion, often, of every single person around them who didn't expect to encounter a gay person in their life and as more and more people come out, more and more people are changed personally on this issue. and the vocal minority who hates the idea of gay rights finds less and less of a receptive audience. and that happens and changes and moves forward every day, every time a gay person in this country comes out to somebody who previously thought they didn't know anybody who was gay. >> as barne

the solicitor general said the united states is not the 51st state but the federal government has interest in wrune formity that no other being has. if someone moves from new york to north carolina can lose their benefits this efederal government can say, that doesn't make sense, we're going to have the same rule, we don't want somebody if they're transferred in the military from west point to fort sill in oklahoma to resist the transfer because they're going to lose some benefits. it makes sense to have a uniform federal rule for the federal government. it's not so anomalous as the term marriage defined in the united states code. the very next part of the definition act defines child. these terms do appear in multiple federal statutes and it's a federal role to dephone those terms. the last point i would make is, in thinking about animus think about the fact that congress asked the justice department three times about the constitutionality of the statute. that's not what you do when you're motivated by animus. the first two times they heard it was constitutional and asked a third time and

policy, how the region and the united states reacted to react to the u.n. revolution, and finally, i propose also policy prescriptions, so shall we leave that and stop right here? [applause] >> we have a microphone here. state jr. -- your name and affiliation. >> i'm russell king, a federal employee, and i had a question -- i thought i heard that chavez's body is embalmed to lie in state permanently, and the only thing i know is in communism countries like vietnam, russia, china, places like that, and i think what they are doing is invalidating the expleases potion-chavez, and we have -- is this something that was has no prez didn't? >> well, if you look at the stories, and even in latin america, i mean, that was the case, you know, they talk about, you know, you know, that, you know, they became a place like the mekkah, and they believe what they are doing makes sense because it is very much that era, and the only difference and i believe the government is going to continue to go in the direction of chavez because he left behind a huge, huge structure, and

these all are countries that have extradition treaties with the united states but brazil another one of those countries that exercises their sovereignty exercises their autonomy to do you have legal control over the people in their borders a perfect example of something that happened recently in brazil is the case of clouds which is a woman that was a resident that allegedly killed or been killed and murdered her husband and fled to brazil she is she still hasn't been extradited back to the states innocent until proven guilty and that's that stands true in brazil as well so that's that's on our list and brazil's beautiful results that are really going on that really beautiful women or it is arnold schwarzenegger will tell you that but but france was your next one and the most famous case that i can think of is the hollywood director roman. lansky those had sexual relations with a thirteen year old fled there and he's been there ever since seven roman polanski rosemary's baby all the way is wife was sharon tate the manson family murders i mean lots going on with roman polanski but

and you moved to another state, the federal government would recognize that marriage. >> 30 states have banned gay marriage. you cleared that up. now, this state legislature is going to have to be involved in changing the law? >> well, you're -- i believe you're going to see state legislatures across the country deciding what they think are the best for their communities. if you read the supreme court decision -- >> what's going on during the interim between when they have their convention and change their law and the ruling of the high court? >> between now and that time, you begin to see more and more lawsuits. for example, the example that i just gave you, if i'm in a same- sex marriage and i move to where it's illegal, i think you're immediately going to see lawsuits because the states are going to say we don't recognize this and there's an argument -- >> doesn't the supreme court ruling overrule -- >> no. it does not. >> it does not? >> absolutely not. >> you're going to see people in states where gay marriage is not allowed flying to -- >

what's the purpose of privatizing education in the united states? because there are some things in the united states like courts, legislatures, public education, that really need to remain public. i mean, that's the heart of what alec seems to be doing is taking public education and legislation and privatizing them. >> lori roman: individual liberty, free enterprise, limited government -- whether you are a state legislator. >> bill moyers: the philosophy of privatization goes way back. it came to alec by way of conservative economist milton friedman. >> lori roman: every decision you have made on one of these issues has been influenced by dr. friedman's work, whether at that very moment you were realizing it or not. and it is my greatest honor to introduce you to dr. milton friedman. >> dr. milton friedman: the real problem is how do we get to a system in which parents control the education of their children? of course, the ideal way would be to abolish the public school system and eliminate all the taxes that pay for it. >> bill moyers: but alec was

and if you look at the state of the united states today i would put a big question mark into its longerm survivability in that spect. it might be fighting for its survival at this point and that would explain a lot of what's happening and ok that's a very interesting question but unfortunately we have to end it there thank you very much quiet time please join us again same place same time here. when the greats spade blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with gardens are laid out the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowds that are fighting against. tyson who stole the american dream. police be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of v.i.p.'s interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in troy arabic to find out more visit arabic don't go it's called. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. to build a. mission t

the state doesn't always vote democrat. republicans governor, people like that, pretty popular guys over the years. >> two good pieces of news tonight, bergeron is going to play for the bruins, number one. eddie markey is going to carry the vote tomorrow with 8% to 10% of the vote. he's been a workhorse in the u.s. house of representatives for years. he's not a show boat. he's a workhorse. he's filed legislation, provided leadership. every issue, every measure you can give a man over 37 years in the u.s. house of representatives. the key here is that you're going to have environmentalists, going to have women, you're going to have latinos supporting eddie markey tomorrow. latinos against a man who is a latino, supported, by the way, in this town, by the only latino newspaper supporting eddie markey. there's a reason for it. the other guy hasn't said or done anything. there's no girth there. >> he's got some points of view. he's for the rights of people to have semiautomatic rifles. he doesn't want a ban, doesn't want a ban o

there was a process in the state dissolution law that had the underlying agreements where respect to key focus areas are recognized by the state. there's a state process and a state look every 6 months there's a payment schedule where the state reviews the underlying projects and determines whether those can continue. 0 with those determinations we h have achieved it with mission bay and the urban renewal obligation. we want to get more in back to implementation mode. so for the last 10 months we really again focused on the due diligence reviews with every single kind of which money on our books. we went through a number of state audits with assistance from the controllers offices to look at what kind of money, what kind of cash we have and can we continue those obligations. so we completed that process in may and we're widely successful in retaining both for affordable housing obligations and community obligations and grant work. the city and county of san francisco was a key beneficiary to those due diligence reviews and we paid to the controllers office 11.5 million so those are o

and throughout the state really. and so, if the dog walker now does not have a license for the dog, we will issue a citation now. and an owner could come in and remedy it and it goes away but that is how it is done and that is only method of doing it and we can't track down the owners and the same will be the case and we have talked a lot in the out reach with the dog walkers about providing t

the french and indian wars as they are called in the united states. i mean, that war had a different name everywhere it was fought. it depended what part of it you were talking about. >> host: now, conrad black divided the book -- >> guest: it was the first world war in the sense that it was fought all over the world. >> host: conrad black divided his book in four sections, and the first one is about the as parent state in 1836. what happened in this period, conrad black, and what is the united states aspiring to? >> guest: well, in the early part of the period, they aspired, really, just to be rid of the french, but the leading columnist saw the potential for america in for the most part saw the potential as working in tandem and in partnership with the british, but the relationship gradually changed. franklin, as early as 1740 predicted that america would have a greater population than the british isles in a hundred years, and he was almost exactly right that did occur, i believe, in the early 1840s, and until relations broke down between the british

the state has 90 days to move them from two prisons located in the san joaquin valley. online, you can find the c.d.c.'s list of 10 things you should know about valley fever, including symptoms of the disease and other important information. >> ifill: now, how a local battle in texas over abortion legislation erupted into a national debate. chaos erupted in the texas state senate last night, as abortion- rights backers thundered their opposition to tough, new restrictions. in the midst of the din, majority republicans insisted the bill, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, had passed. but official records showed that didn't happen until after a midnight deadline had come and gone. just after 3:00 a.m., lieutenant governor david dewhurst, who presided over the session, conceded defeat. >> regrettably, the constitutional time for the 83rd legislature had expired. senate bill 5 cannot be signed in the presence of the senate at this time and therefore cannot be enrolled. >> ifill: the bill would have required clinics to upgrade to surgical-level ce

having mistrust of any of the countries of the united states while i can we move off the united states i think you know i think you know the history starting with the hostages of starting with numerous failed to promote a condition is between the two and including the many areas of conflict within the middle east region which i've already mentioned i would also mention another which is that rightly or wrongly the united states has alliances with members of the gulf cooperation council countries which look across the persian gulf to run those countries are even more distrustful of iran. the ones we've been talking about like united states but as we discussed earlier trust a mistrust is something that is especially in the area centrally in the eye of the beholder you cannot control or in fact i don't think you can influence how much trust or mistrust any given party have has in relation to you but since you want to move on. you know that iran is to hold presidential elections pretty pretty soon and one of the top presidential contenders sayed djalili the country's top nuclear negotiator

the ads ran across the state of south carolina. you can see here the ad is paid for a by a group called numbers usa. they were founded by roy beck who is described as an expert on sprawl and global population. you can also find roy beck here on the site of something called the american renaissance urging people to run to their phones and call congress to stop immigration reform. he's using american renaissance to reach his audience, which makes sense because american renaissance is the place to explore opportunities for white advocates. it's a place where races are more different than previously thought and they do not mean that in a good way. the races are different. blacks and whites are different. when blacks are left entirely to their own devices, western civilization any kind of civilization disappears. white panic, everybody freak out. now that fox news has essentially called a truce on immigration reform, that kind of neonazi, white supremacist is where the rump opposition on this issue has hunkered down. last month another g

in the united states it is 7% and 40%. so 85% of private sector workers wages are negotiated without the representation and in the united states it is over 90%. we have completely distorted our system of power and the democracies cannot survive if you take that -- if you simply leave whole sections of the society without any kind of the waste or say in the terms and conditions of the work. so that is difficult to achieve and to see how we can turn these around but it seems to be essentials. we have created what wall street finance is have called plutocracies in the economies in which economic power and political power, because they go hand-in-hand have been concentrated in this tiny grooves, and often this is more powerful than our political leaders. the presidents and prime ministers are still to some degree dancing to the tune of wall street and the city despite their role in creating the crash and that is because of that concentration power. you cannot have those concentrations of power and have governments that are free

and if you look at the state of the united states today i would put a big question mark into its longerm survivability and in that spirit. it might be fighting for its survival at this point and that would explain a lot of what's happening and ok that's a very interesting question but unfortunately we have to end it there thank you very much quiet time please join us again a place time here. when the greats spade blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with gardens are laid out. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowds fighting against. the stall the american dream. the interview. live. live. live live live. live. let's speak. with. live. live. live. live. live. live live. live live. live. the week's top stories here on r.t. ecuador's president says the fated fugitive whistleblower edward snowden rests with russia but america's the shooter the former cia man to test its diplomatic relations with all countries involved in this global movement. nodes latest revelations point to a massive u.s. snooping operation t

snowden is not in the united states? he should feel that he should be afforded justice in the united states. but his situation is very similar to a situation that i face. and that my staff face where we have been sucked into a grand jury in alexandria, virginia. that's where the charges came from. al zan degree -- alexandria, virginia. what do we know about that district? it's six kilometers away from washington, d.c. the jury pool is made up of cia, pentagon, et cetera. in the legal community in the united states it's known as the rocket docket because of the lack of scrutiny of procedures out there. there's a 99% chance that -- a 99.97% chance that if you're a target of the grand jury you'll be indicted. and a 99% chance that if you're indicted by a grand jury, you'll be convicted. this is not a situation ignoring all the political rhetoric which has been terrible over the past two weeks, where mr. snowden can feel he would be afforded justice in the united states. >> is there any country that will grant mr. snowden asy

of new jersey and the united states senate. so i intend to execute all the appropriate documents to effectuate his appointment effective this monday, june 10 and i want to thank jeff and his family for their willingness to once again step in and serve the public in the state of new jersey. and so it is my honor to introduce for remarks and i will come back for questions. it's my honor to introduce for remarks he jerseys new as united states senator, senator jeff chiesa. >> good afternoon everybody. this is an incredible honor for my family and i. the governor has given me some extraordinary chances to serve in public life. none of them that i expected. this probably the least of all, but it has -- to have this chance to continue to serve in public life is a wonderful opportunity. i will use my best judgment and the skill that i have to conduct myself in a way that will make, hope will make everybody new jersey proud and to do everything i can to advance the interests of the people that live here as i have tried to do and all the

we should have 12 states plus the district of columbia. y more states follow through and how quickly. lo 37 states banning gay marriage right now. the voting rights act, of controversy because the president and attorney general but saying they were sappoiointed and upset. attorneys general across the country cheering and particularly those affected by section four and five of the voting rights act. a good decision? >> well, i'm not going to policies saying it is a good decision. the issue here, as justice roberts wrote inis decision was that this is from 1975. the issue i had is we have made strides, but it has been under the voting rights act. once it is gone, when section four and five, are we going to go back? stay where we are now, move forward? and that is an issue that we have not released as dupont. lou: i talk about the issue the attorneys general of alabama and south carolina. sout carolina winning its voter identification lawsuit against the justice department. those states have that incredible statistical support for their proced

by state battles that could expand it to more than the current 13 states, and the district of columbiajubila jubilant lgbt couples are sift r sifting through the myriad of bep fits they your honored when the justices struck down part of the federal defense of marriage act known as doma. the part of doma that still stands allows states to fee fuse to acknowledge marriages of gay couples from other states. barack obama has directed the attorney general and cabinet to quote, insure this decision including imimplications for federal benefits and obligations is implemented swiftly and smooft smoothly. gay rights supporters say they're work is not done until same sex couples can marry in every state. >> this is our lives. this piece of paper is fantastic, and i'm deeply deeply indebted to the supreme court for finally giving us equality. but every single day, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of gay people can't put partners on health ininsurance. they can't legal inherit their partner's estates. >> it's a major way and a step forward in the right direction and something that we'll kee

for the state. countries in maybe it would have been more helpful for the authorities if somebody had told him that if there would have been someone to criticize there. i don't think that we are being excessive in raising wages in raising pensions increasing social welfare payments. of course there is a certain irrational in what mr godin and i was like him tell us in we do need. it is always helpful. we need an intelligent opposition there there's about national interest another load to give. this is she's a presenter of the world's a pause newly created. show she used to be a walk respondent to. ask you a question in. this response in terms of principles that i like to talk about iran. presidential election. prefers not to interfere with the domestic politics bartered law it will try to present my question in a philosophical way in a gentle way i think iran is a clear example of how you can bring your mutual relation to a disastrous state. simply by. inconsistent. america and american. the focus. o

placed them with the state. there still is one function, however, that in san francisco the court continues to manage for the city, and that has not transferred, and that is the obligation of indigent defense. it's an $8.4 million budget each year and it essentially provides defense representation to i understand joint defendants whom the public defender cannot represent due to ethical interest. and as the public defender cited a few moments ago it is a right guaranteed by the sixth amendment of the united states constitution as well as section 98 7 of the california penal code. the budget analyst recommends an ongoing reduction of $400,000 to this budget and the court believes that it is sustainable. so, we are in agreement with mr. rose and i'm happy to answer any questions that you have. >> colleagues, questions? okay, mr. rose, we'll hear your report. >> mr. chairman, members. committee, on page 75 of our reports as the department just stated, our recommended reduction is totaled 400,000 in 13-14 which are on

what congress did in 2006 was it looked at the current states that were under the provisions of section looked at voting discrimination in those states to determine whether they should still be covered and what it found to its surprise, i should say was that there was an overwhelming evidence of voting discrimination continuing in those covered jurisdictions. as a result, congress reauthorized the formula to cover those jurisdictions and maintain the bailout and bail-in provisions that allow some states to come in and jurisdictions to come in and jurisdictions to go out. >> suarez: now the action moves to congress, mr. blum. can they design a successor to the struck-down part of the law that will do the things you want and also provide the protections? >> well, i was on another panel earlier today with congressman bobby scott of virginia and he was quite clear about this. -the-thinks there is mow men numb congress across the aisle to do a do-over if you will. congress can systematically look at voting conditions for minorities from coast to coast, from maine to california, florida to wa

in the western united states. the council that he leads represents persons of all faiths and primarily victims of discrimination in employment and al and i have had the opportunity to work together. among other things, cases involving religious freedom. alan also directs the council's legislative program, monitoring legislation for its impact on both institutional and image in religious freedom and often testifying before legislative committees. he hosts a radio program entitled "freedom's ring," this is -- which is nationally and internationally syndicated. he regularly publishes religious periodicals and the like and is in demand on speaking on matters of religious freedom and discrimination. he is a graduate of the university of north carolina law school and a good friend of religious freedom and a good friend. next to him is jennifer kraska, the vice president of the national association of state conference catholic directors. in 2008 jennifer became the first executive director of the colorado catholic confere

at the state portion says that states cannot have to honor the choices of other states. someone at california, a newly married couple, moved to another state that does not recognize same-sex marriage. or will there merritt to be recognized in those other places or will those things have to be worked out. -just this is a big big day. but we have a long way to go before we have 100% e quality. --mar riage. it was quite clear that was not going to happen. judge walker's opinion and the northern district of california. that was the logic. the only possible outcome was going to be same-sex marriage across the country. it was quite clear that there was not five votes for that. without the logic of its old line anywhere else. i think this is the best that anyone could have hoped for to get rid >>darya: must be " said there is no legal standing we send it back to the original decision. >> it was the easiest way to get to five votes. five is the most important. can you get five votes for majority and that is what they got today on the standing on the issue >>james: is this the en

dedicated to the soviet system and soviet system is collapse and got away and that's they you hate the states because we were there may not actually be a lot on the other still in the united of course there are those of the russian lots of i listen i was about to say and then there are people in the united states who should know better educated people but for their whole lives fighting the soviet union what is interesting really about your visit is that you really came here with an objective of facilitating and sansa find the counter terrorism cooperation between the two. nations and i. mistrust a distrust that i think you're alluding to in your previous answer. is very prevalent among people who are working in the law enforcement and secure have a reference is. what can be done about that while on both sides of the of the coin we've got to make sure that people who are. you know as i say they are reserved for about the. elimination of communism year or in the in the american side they think everybody here is still a communist i'm still wanting to create the dictatorship of the proletariat or

we did it in the state of hawaii and the surrounding operating area. it brought forth 22 nations, roughly 25,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines. but one of the things that we did embedded in this rim pac exercise was a five-day humanitarian assistance disaster relief. we used it as an accreditation not only for some of our adaptive force packages, but more importantly to the state of hawaii to allow them to get an accreditation that they needed for 13 of their hospitals where we set up on ford island, those familiar with the oahu island geography, we utilized ford island and we had a scenario where there was an earthquake with a resultant tsunami and mass casualties along with the destruction that goes with it to the road infrastructure and communication. and, so, we were able to parlay, if you will, this opportunity to leverage off our international partners. we had seven nations that out of the 22 that actually participated in the hadr, and there were probably also 19 of the 22 that at least observed. but there were 7 of us that actually particip

and one of the proposals before the state is to redefine what ... and how it would play against the mayor ed lee committee for san francisco. and so you can't cover everything but you can begin a process of recognizing where the public has some sense that the playing field is not level and that there is an inside game at city hall. >> thank you. >> katherine. >> i just want to clarify that the $614,000 amount includes contributions to ballot measure committee and that there is no limit right now for the amount that it goes to. that you can donate. >> i just want to make sure. >> thank you. >> and any additional discussion on this point? >> are we in agreement as commissioners that we should prohibt the political contributions from registered lobbyists at this time? >> i guess that i would give you an answer, i might. one of the, i would say the over arching problems in my mind is that i do think that the more public disclosure that we can get of what money is being spent to influence political decisions in the city and better off we are. and i don't