on theend, the vote legislation did not pass. that was a shock to a lot of environmentalists and even some others who had supported the effort because they thought it was a pretty market friendly bipartisan effort and that they were proposing. i was brought in a couple of years later by people who wanted a hard look at the politics of what happened and that is what i am here to talk about. so we can understand what it meant for the possibility of building any kind of political coalition to support what ultimately really is not an environmental set of regulations, it is really an effort to change the way that americans produce and use energy. central to our this is economy and to all of us , all of our way of life. i agreed. a couple of journalists were commissioned to do what is toc to interview people to get a sense of what happened. some very good journalistic accounts written at the time. is ative a sense of what they were trying to do. my job was to put in a longer historical perspective to try to see what kind of window this

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>> the tunneling began at fourth and harrison after passing under union square and columbus where theend at tunneling machines hillary surface at the old pagoda theater site in june. stockton street has been closed to vehicular traffic since january to accommodate a variety of subway-related work. it will re-open on friday to the holiday shopping season, closing again on january 2nd. that's a true holiday gift for this fed ex delivery man. >> it is extremely heavy this time of year. it would be a blessing to reopen. >> don't hold your breath for the subway reopening. that's not until january 2019. abc7 news. >>> the board of directors is set to vote on the contract of the two largest unions tomorrow. yes, we are here again. the vote comes two weeks after the discovery of a medical leave provision that bart insists wase roan yously included. the unions are calling on bart to honor the contract they signed. >> you probably noticed stores are starting to advertise their door buster deals. with so many sales it is challenging for a shopper to get to all of them. >> michael finney is here wit

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theend to think about what relationship between our domestic and foreign-policy is.if you look at turkey, this is the centerpiece of what is going on. we are not unique in this respect. >> one more question. this gentleman here. thank you for the panelists. kanereminded of citizen where he was asked about business conditions. how would you define the relationship between the president and his peers? on the low merkel -- we know how getpresident and mr. putin along. in had dr. rice here september. she is wrapping up a trip to afghanistan. power forgedsador their reputations. how is secretary kerry doing? >> we will have to have very short answers to those. well. >> that is an excellent answer. both ambassador rice and power are in difficult -- in a difficult situation, having libya andactive in outside of office. in office, both supporting the intervention in libya and to benly, i think wanting able to act in syria. part of what has happened in , at every turn, it looks awful. the action looks terrible and fraught with uncertainty. how are we going to do this and how

what theends on guidelines are. if the guidelines are what the mavs want here, which is to say words toray in these these deities but not in those words to those deities, that is government regular lating the theological content of prayers prescribing what is orthodox and religion.t in and that is contrary to our tradition of religious liberty. ask theministers community to bow their heads or join them in prayer, is that not proselytizing? is not. first of all, no one is required to do it. people are free not to do it. similar things happen from time to time in the legislature or in congress. and since people are free to or not as they choose, there's no constitutional problem with that. don't think that would make somebody uncomfortable if they're the only one not bowing their head? >> the supreme court has upheld that someone might object to a madecular practice or uncomfortable is not the fusional test -- constitutional test. thee talking about establishment clause and whether or not the government is establishin