i think when... you know, when the president and secretary gates and the other principals thought through this issue, we were very... they were very clear on... >> rose: "we" would be the right word. >> they were very clear eyed about assessing our interest in libya in the context of everything that's going on in the middle east where we have... you know, there are a number of countries where we have truly vital interests at stake. and i think the assessment was that there were other countries-- particularly as this became a nato operation-- that have a lot of capability to bring to bear that were willing to take a leadership role, that it was a good thing for the alliance to have a non-u.s. lead and a strong alliance operation, and this the u.s. was positioned to provide unique capabilities that would really make a difference. but it was great that others were willing and able to step up and take a lead. >> rose: but some believe now that the capabilities of the british government and the french gov

so i think so -- i just think that -- i think hopefully it will be helpful and inspiring and not just for people who are graduating college. i found i loved reading them. i think all of us need to re-evaluate our lives and take stock and kind of reassess our situations as we go along. i hate the word journey , but our journey. tavis: that is what it is. you see these names of persons. they are all accomplished americans and so many different areas of human endeavor. last night on this program, your friend, michael bloomberg. mayor bloomberg, like i know him, michael. and i asked him a question, about how does one of his stature, means, economic and otherwise, could be running a city that is going through such a difficult time and connect with everyday people? how do you develop empathy for everyday people who are struggling when you're a billionaire. he gave his answer. it was a good answer. he gave the answer. i raise that to ask whether or not the advice offered by these personalities is advice that can be adhered to, can be reveled in by everyday people who are not at this lefrl? >

you're thinking. have to hit that little-- phil, if you hit the blocky fade it's probably easy to do. under pressure, i think more guys lean towards their natural tendancies to be a fade. but to just turn it over under pressure consistently is sometimes tough. and phil feels that being a lefty, it's just a different degree-- he's feeling confident. i just spoke to him just outside the clubhouse. he's thinking with drivers. he's thinking of going with two drivers, in fact he had three in the bag. and i was joking with him, what club are we going to get rid of. he said i'm driving so good i'll probably go back to just the one driver. so, yeah, he's confident. >> rose: lefties have a good shot. let me end this, jim-- >> four of the last seven have been won by lefties. >> yeah. >> mike weir and the three by-- >> those were the stats of the europeans way back. >> rose: jim, you're also going to do at some point there a tribute to jack nuk las' great victory. tell us about it, why it was so monumental in th

this and poor poor people think this and poor people think that and we didn't think any of this stuff. so then he went to the college, a legendary place, legendary and i talk to college students these days about the city college and what i said roughly is true, i hope it is, that the faculty was impressive, there was a famous column i think was there but the lunchtime conversations are more impressive if the stat at telcos one and two and i think one was trotskyite and one was last and they were just alcoves and called alco one and two and associated with the people and they would sit with their fellow archaeological work and there were maybe one or two social were maybe one or two social democrats and when there were many marxist and much has been made of this afterwards i don't know that it was quite as big a deal as he had fond memories of it and thought he learned a lot and happened to argue with stalinist and other socialists and having a system of thought that me to be very serious about the world and make distinctions and have complicated arguments about why the soviet union an

what decisions you think need to be made quickly and what strategies you think have been useful. decision making, taking action in your field of work. we want to hear about what you need that this group could help you with, so you could be more effective in taking on and acting effectively on climate change. we're going to spend about 20 minutes on each area and as we begin each discussion area i'll ask a volunteer panelist to speak briefly and try to get comments from two or three of you on the floor and if we have time we'll go back to panelist. i'll ask people to stick to three minutes and the crew of eagle aye and microphone carriers i assume are available today i assume will find you and then when three minutes is up, they will leave you. tough love so we can hear from as many people as possible. we will break at forty five minutes after five so i can eat a muffin if there's one left and we'll talk about engineering and leave time for last thoughts. that won't be your last chance. i'm told the website is opened for several days so if you leave and have not had a chance to sp

gun owners' rights i think i think. he would have a problem with very commonsense laws very commonsense policy initiatives. like the ones you described so i think there's a serious come crime problem in america you have one of the highest murder rates in the industrialized world has many statistics on people who carry homes people whose hearts have guns in their houses women are much more likely to die from from being murdered with a forearm these that something has to be done so that's the you have an epidemic of gun crime in america and something has to be done and very mild policy initiatives parts boy democrats and liberals is one of the best and you know we're just we're more pretty much we're pretty much out and you know i just want to ask you one question because this is something that comes up you made the case that you know if only the criminals have guns and if someone has a gun in a children's library who is going to protect everybody from getting shot at but can you give one case they give evidence to that b

well i think it's you don't look as a supporter at least a picture no no absolutely not i mean i think that if you read me terms you wear leather shoes or you got a lot. of the whole question of becomes sort of really. i think that compared with the industrial forms of food production. the idea of hunting is a much more civilized and. a much better way of overtraining food you know the animals running wild for. all but the last second or so of its life and then it up it's much better than being you know one of these factory farming food producing a lot of our food comes from and as a matter of fact one of the one of the arguments of those people who say no to for is that is that the high tech jackets. are the ones that are produced in china probably they're better they're warmer would you say this is true or this traditional clothing used whether people is better i think there's a. question for the people for warms. reindeer skin clothing which has hollow handles is infinitely warmer than anything that i would use or anything else because i've seen no question i mean i've sat on a sled

he's a real leader and i think hezbollah has evolved into a truly democratic party so i don't think he will want any boats rocked. but if syria were to fall you i think you're really asking me what what would happen well i don't think syria will fall to the extent that i can't see a scenario in which syrian security doesn't remain in control. and what the world doesn't know about syria is that. for many years under this present president's father. it actually cooperated with israel. it was actually a time and israeli puppet in the sixty seven war i told the full story of this in my book there was a secret understanding between syria and israel before the sixty seven war so syria plays its cards very very to survive in this region it's much too early to write off the regime there. and what about the regime in iran saying that the entire point of this entire goal the stores the west is to isolate iran and that by force the regime change do you agree with that no i do and the more the outside pressure comes on iran the more i think it is going to unite the people of iran you see there

>> i think both. because there was the diplomatic pressure which was slowly starving out the resources that he was using for his war machine. but it wasn't happening fast enough. and the people of the ivory coast were suffering in the meantime. something needed to be done to change the balance. in the end it was a military action that gave force to and drove things to a crisis point. >> suarez: did the popular opinion change during this time as well? was gbagbo losing popular support, not among the army, not among people with money but among the masses of the country? >> i think it was... they were still divided. i think his supporters... there's very little that's going to change their minds. they truly really think in gbagbo's rhetoric that he won the election. they don't look at practically how it was impossible for laurent gbagbo to claim that he won the election. up until now i think he is still going to have supporters who truly believe that he won the elections. now he's sort of adding the rhet

i think as we look at regulatory engagement i think what we need to do with regulators is bring to them solutions. i spend more on training in my staff in a month than most spend on regulators in a year. i have much better resources than they have. we're taking them solutions and their very open to those as long as it has a positive benefit and we have the proof. >> thank you. >> i've got the answer. >> thank goodness. >> - which is the words that nobody wants to hear? taxes and caps. we've seen this play out in our local general plan and it seems really clear to everybody involved in general updates there needs to be metrics and numbers like here's the baseline for water use per capita and here's the are for per capita waist line and we need to cap this and start reducing. those kinds of metrics and numbers, are evidence to everybody. - but we don't have the leadership now, to say here's what's necessary. the same is true for taxes. we need a carbon tax and fees on higher energy. we've got to start changing that behavior in order to start reducing emissions. those are the two sledge ha

and i think we'll get into this, i think, deeper in the discussion, but i think a lot of people are asking the question from a strategic level whether the costs actually are worth the benefits that it provides to u.s. national security interests. and i think that's sort of the deeper discussion. i know we'll talk about the tactics and the operations and different pieces. so, in essence, i think that we are still not out of the woods yet. i know we all look forward and commanders and people at the white house look for some sort of catch phrase. i think we're not certain in terms of where we are. there's an improved security situation in a certain part of the country, but the real question i'd like to focus on is the sustainability of this. are we doing things that will actually last in the long run, and then secondly, will those things accrue to the benefit of u.s. national security interests. and i think those two questions are still very much open questions. >> thanks, brian and john, for getting us going. you know, let me put one question out there that i think you'll both agree on, and

and i think we can be proud. i think we can speak up. i fully believe that each of us should walk out of here today convinced that we can change this. i'm a believe. i'm a believer in what've seen in recent years with the leadership. ed lee is here, our city administrator. mohammed. we have never had stronger leadership in this arena that can do things. i don't think we have ever had more commitment on the part of people in this city who want to see our city government succeed and restore the faith of people. i'm intrigued. is anyone from the court system here? is anybody here from the san francisco superior court? i will tell you that i have visited with the prior presiding judge and appealed to having a graffiti judge. i know that we have a community justice center that paul henderson is very involved with. i'm on the advisory committee. i know some cases will hopefully come there. have you had any graffiti cases to date? >> no. >> ok. but i pledge to you to take my homework out of here. james mcbride is the new residing judge. i pledg

and i think you know you might critique the film for you know certain aspects but in general i think it's a great thing and it's going to do a lot for libertarian libertarian thought in general so i have not seen the film what do we think of the buzz are you excited about this i'm really excited about it i mean i remember when i first read the book just underlining passages and saying oh my gosh think someone's finally explained it you know things that i think i think it's the same way with the movie you know like ender's that it may not be up to par with the hollywood blockbusters we expect but it's not supposed to be it's about the message and seven people who don't make it through thirteen hundred sixty eight pages i think even the part that is supposed to be this the just the core of the book the captors ayn rand's vision of objectivism in john galt speech is forty pages right longest speech in a book i think yeah this paragraph at birth. you know it's i've got to admit that part of the book was it was a little on the slow side but even then it didn't it didn't really start the f

the ground think. i spent 11 years on my state commission. i spoke with consumers. i took part in evidentiary hearings. i would hear them on the stand. i read testimonies, testimonies and filings from companies. that gives you a very unique perspective that you cannot forget especially after 11 years of service. those types of experiences i bring to this post and it helps me in terms of decision-making, in terms of my processing and i think it is a benefit. >> guest: you have also talked about i think that you feel you have a role to play in defending some disadvantaged populations. talk about that a little bit. i mean do you feel that you do have a special -- that you are on the commission for a reason and you have a role to play? >> guest: i think so and it is so much holds two in terms of ownership. and that means a lot to me. i look at the percentages of women and minority owners in this space. on the radio site for women and minorities respectively, 3% ownership. in terms of on the radio side, it

>> i think of two things. i'm not one the things that we can raise revenue and that is going to solve out of our problems -- i'm not one who thinks that we can raise revenue, and that will solve all our problems. we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. our payroll and fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also p

i think it presents well. is that if we don't understand on what can foundation this is a rickety and why it is so fragile i don't think we will take service with the challenges in fixing at. >> host: can you tell me a little bit, there were a couple of interesting stories, very quickly, of many energy, the former chairman, about some of the things that ended up getting. >> guest: one thing about many is he our he made a lot of his riches. he saw this as almost doing a favor. he became chairman of the oil market i think he felt very much like, and explains in the book, his attitude was albie a couple of years, you're lucky to have me. he saw himself as an accomplished businessman, and he was. i think you see was i'm going to get what i can out of this, but i don't think it will be that much. there were times where he lined up extra paychecks are himself from what i can see but he also donated money he made. so i don't know if it's fair to focus on him as one of the -- many because he had a lot of what was goin

i think even on the well. we never got the live shows here to keep him safe get ready because of the freedom . charter here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. new web site with twenty four seven live streaming news tell us what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never saw on mainstream news. let me get the sense of. the political. parties are such. guys welcome to shell and sell on the obama show. we've heard our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to you tube to video response or to twitter for part of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show long responses. your voice be heard. the un has long been under attack by right wingers in this country and these days america's budget woes have become the perfect opportunity to bring that debate back into the spotlight u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice was on capitol hill today defe

on the issue, you could move around, and i think that should be the way that most people think, which is, "let's consider the facts of legislation before you actually consider it, irrespective of what spectrum it comes from." >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? supervisor chu: it is hard. i learned that my shoes were out pretty quickly -- wore out pretty quickly. i learned to be more practical about the types of shoes i war, of course, but overall, i learned how important it is to communicate with people about what it is you would like to do. in any campaign and any political idea that comes forward, there are misconceptions about candidates, about people, about issues. the most important thing you can do to break through that is to have direct conversations in people's living rooms and talk to them about the issues that you see are pressing and what you are working on and explain your values to people. at the end of the day, they can choose to support you or not support you, support your issue or not, but at the end of the day, at least you are not perpetuating mis

and i think, again, building from his experience i think this is the real moral that i take away from it. that is, it's the vigor of the democratic process and oversight. defense industries are going to organize themselves as best they can. they are going to retain military people. military people know their business. there is going to be an interlocking directorate. we are, quote, compelled to have one. the question is how vigorously are we overseeing it. >> do either of you agree with abraham cough sky's theory that the whole cold war was caused by forrestal lying about how the soviet union was getting ready to make war with the u.s., and do you believe that forrestal was murdered to shut him up when he was dying of cancer? >> for me that's pretty easy. my answer is, no. >> well, the question is did forrestal cause the cold war. the cold war was well underway before james forrestal became secretary of defense. my grandfather was acting as informal jcs chairman and, in fact, was detailed by truman to take him under his wing as forrestal sunk into a profound melancholy that led to his

i think. about glenn beck really does bring me to tears and i have so many questions will chuck's suddenly be considered out of style will chalkboards no longer be a hot commodity where can i go to define survivor kids for when the world ends over at least somebody please tell me if i'm still supposed to invest in gold believe me media critics comedians they're all going to suffer without their daily dose of back to make fun of but all joking aside as far as i'm concerned the sooner that his show is over the better thank the lord how little even though they'll still be spreading his bile on the radio at least i don't have to see this space on t.v. anymore he was back. now just as we saw barack obama officially launch a reelection campaign that lacked any inspiration or any excitement anything that would make a voter feel passionately about voting the state of wisconsin has showed us all of that on the local level and what was supposed to be a run of the mill easy reelection for a conservative

i think. either one of twelve. we never got the chance to the keep him safe get ready if you are looking for freedom. of speech on our been here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. new web site which twenty four seven live streaming news tells what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find mainstream. media so. maybe the political. posts are to talk to. hi guys welcome to shelley tell me i'm going to show we've heard our guests talk to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to you tube the video response for the twitter profile of the questions that we've posted on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show the long response is going to leave your voice the. right time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to a fox news host who has no qualms about using extreme measures to discipline children gretchen carlson and her morning show colleagues were discussing a story out

i do not think it is enough for us to simply say, no. i think we have to offer alternatives. i think one big alternative is something supervisor kim has already said we are looking at, which is how to deal with the vacancies that are impacting many areas of the city, which is one of the reasons this proposal has been put forward, and i will be asking today, also, at the -- for the budget analyst to provide assistance in relation to legislation that supervisor kim is already working on, on a possible vacancy tax, trying to get an understanding of what the threshold should be in terms of the size of the property, so as we go forward with the legislation and create the structure that there are no unintended consequences. i look forward to hearing directly from the budget analyst on that so we can get that information and of manthey work supervisor kim is already doing -- and augment the work supervisor kim is already doing. i think we need to approach this in a systemic way that raises the bar. i, again, want to thank supervisor chem, -- supervisor kim, supervisor to -- chiu and

i don't think so. i think he can go to make the ugly. i think he is articulate reasons and i will let him do that. but i don't think so. i think it's a given situation, different program altogether. >> mr. chairman, let me ask you about a state your very familiar with. wisconsin. what is your take away from the apparent result of which has republicans winning? >> guest: the particularly is either way, these democrats and unions are so charged up and get up in predicting enormous victories in wisconsin, whether the 7000 votes whether or not, i will tell you they fell flat. and we proved once again in wisconsin that we have had a political shift in wisconsin. we have shifted to the right. wisconsin is a red state, and now it looks like prosser is even outsi

i think they do. so i think this is a bipartisan, small d democratic, patriotic, right thing for us to do, and i salute the media access project for trying to elevate the attention of this matter at the federal communications commission, and i hope that my colleagues will follow up and will take a really serious look and do something about it. >> host: have you got any assurances from them that they might do something on it? >> guest: no. >> host: okay. one thing that you've talked a lot about over the years is media ownership, and that's one thing we all know the fcc's behind on, the ever-present annual review or semi-- >> guest: quadrennial. >> host: so you're behind for this year, and there's also supposed to be a future of media report coming out soon. what would you like to see the recommendations be in that report? >> guest: strong and hard hitting. i'd like to see it come out soon or the future of the media report will end up being the past of the media report. it's been pending for a while. we

i think by 2020, 60% of the population will be seniors, and i think some people are now defining 60 and over, but i think generally, people looking at 65 and over. that is a huge population. i'm trying to look at issues of senior nutrition programs, alzheimer's research, but even housing policies that allow our buildings to become more senior- friendly. i guess we are calling it developing an aging-friendly city. we are also looking at how to support senior services and unique neighborhood by neighborhood programs called aging in place or village models that allow people who are older or seniors getting older to be able to support each other and to stay in their homes and communities longer so they can be contributed to the community as long as possible as opposed to institutionalizing them, which costs quite a bit more. so i'm looking with senior group's ideas of how to create more aging in place programs neighborhood by neighborhood as well, but i think those are the key issues. i am also, kind of as the father of a 10-year-old -- i have anxiety like other parents right now as we appl

i think it was unnecessary war i think the libyan movement started as a dissolute movement demanding the end of the oppression of the regime used heavy weapons against them and it seemed in order to stage the million the west decided wisely to get in by a lender limited what but answer not a lie we just heard some news that came down today at least forty civilians were killed by the airstrikes by the west in addition there's new information that we really don't know who these rebels are and that apparently the president already decided to give arms to how can this be justified to go in and give strangers who may or may not turn against the u.s. in the future to give them weapons and to come into a country where this is going on in several countries right sort of these are not rebels in the provisionals in the analogy. does not hold this libya is not being invaded by a foreign country and afghanistan run by the soviet union i think arming these opposition groups in order to talk with god is the big goal and it's a limited goal i think that so you think that there is no similarity ther

you know what i think i think we simply have this this fantasy that america is all about free speech and we are but we also control it and we control it and circumstances i mean oliver wendell holmes all the way back said that you cannot stand up in a crowded theater and shout fire why because the deficit result from that exercise of free speech was in fact harmful to society we've made a decision that janet jackson exposing her nipple is somehow harmful to society and i would argue were that me saying or anybody on a radio show or a television show saying a swear word is harmful to america harmful to the public safety and i think that we need to just get real we either do and fact now of course citizens united says that corporations even foreign corporations can spend. millions or billions of dollars to influence united states elections and they have every right to do that but you know we've got a weird idea about free speech and the a.c.l.u. god love them and i think it's fantastic to have protests and they stood up to protest but the nazis to protest in skokie in front of a whole

do you think that it's possible that that's. what you're describing is that that's the primary motivation here or well he would just just leave it at that is it possible that that's that this is really more a political calculus than than a military one. yeah i mean and i think you know what is sort of ironic is that the the voice of sanity in terms of senior officials within the administration that seems to be emerging here is the outgoing defense secretary robert gates who weeks ago said that he was against a no fly zone has been very un-p.c. asdic in his appearances before the house and the senate in defending this action and has said things like it's not in our national interest to engage in these operations in libya and one similarity tom that i would draw between the obama administration and the clinton administration when it went to war against yugoslavia in march of one thousand nine hundred nine conducting a seventy eight day bombing campaign is that both clinton and obama have talked about the relevance of the of intern

i think most people think that most of this change has been for the good. there are people who think that most of this change has not been for the good picture of a section in the book though where you're discussing the times coverage of gays and you criticize or seem to criticize a story, or a series of stories about gays options. i don't know, i don't think -- i'm asking this rhetorically, you don't have to answer -- i don't think you are on the side of saying that gay people are not equipped to be good parents or don't have the right to be parents. but it kind of seems like you're saying that in the book. well, that's a judgment that -- how should a newspaper, how should an objective news column handle that issue? should it give equal weight to both sides of that argument? i think that's a close call. i don't think it's absolutely clear that you should give equal weight to both sides of the argument. was at the time supposed to give equal weight to bull connor in 1964? well, i don't know. i'm not sure that's the role of the newspaper. the newspaper has a

i think that's true. i think that's true. maybe paul and i agree on there is a battle going on here between these two ways of thinking about the world. one more can you have n nent. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as ovenant. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as we that this force is irresistible sooner or later we're going to be am stu amsterdam over here. the question are we going to be -- what can they say that they can't save marriage >> how soon are the 40% much measures goer on agriculture gnawings particulars or in atheists >> when it comes to bedroom issues there is a very powerful impulse. but that impulse isn't winning in the republican party. it's getting 84% of adult americcn identify themselves at christian. 82% of americans believe jesus is god or the son of god. 79% of americans believe in the virgin birth of jesus. how can anyone think that americans's religious faith cannot shunted aside by a dutch flo philosophy pushed aside by persona

i think as we think about what we are going to provide with a couple of principles. one is that whatever we provide will provide to ever. we are a platform. if we were to build a way to make it easier for this industry to sell subscriptions, we'll put that technology out and let people use it. we have enough technology out there like warner bros. just went on inside, on their own, started selling movies that anyone can do that. people can sell content now if they want. the other principal we have is we don't, we are about making connections. if you use our technology to connect on facebook, the "washington post" on facebook or on washingtonpost.com, we let you form a direct relationship. and if we were ever to do anything, our model would be very clear that we are enabling you to provide that direct connection. [inaudible] >> we might take some of your money but we won't keep all of your customer data. no, i'm joking. it depends on what the model is. what word is they're using our public api and facebook credits to sell. we do take up a city. we do take 30% for credi

and here i think they're wrong. i do think we have to raise taxes on the top 1%. we have to have a big tax reform that raises revenue. and-- . >> lehrer: that's raising taxes too. >> yeah, but you got to raise revenue across more than just the rich. we have to raise it on the rich to some degree, but there's just, as i said, there's just not enough. so you have-- what you have to do is do what boils simpso simpson-- boyles simpson which is lower the base and loopholes i think it had the right plan. the president suggested maybe there is room for boyles simpson but we have to raise the rateses so he went against it. he is sort of two minds about that. >> lehrer: i was just going to change the subject. >> please. >> lehrer: speak of republicans, that is a segue line to you, mark, mitt romney looks like he is seriously going to run for president. and all the publicity is going to a guy name donald trump. what do you make of that? >> mitt romney is certainly in the republican tradition, like candidates that run before. ronald reaganran in 68y and 76y before he was a n

i think, i think one of the great failings of the administration, and yet i think maybe this adhd calledit, dashed adhd qualities. someone who at the time was a bad present got 40 years later looks a lot better pick something that harry truman did instead of the cold war was come together with producer isolationist republicans and make a very coherent case with the soviet union with a serious long-term global threat. and when you face 10 or 15 or 20 or strategic threats, you can't face it with one political party. you really have to have something of a bipartisan consensus. i think after 9/11, there was a moment when president bush could have done that with the democratic party. i think he wasn't inclined to but i think many of the democratic would probably were not inclined to either. but i think had he been able to do that and develop the sort of 20 or strategic foreign policy consensus that was needed, our role in the world would be much more secure. our enemies and allies would have a better sense of what to expect it and our own military, and state department would have a better sen

you think it's easy.u're trying to get money for a movie, people are enthusiastic, when it comes to actually putting the money up or having access to the money that you can spend -- that's not so easy. they talk a good game. they really believe it. when it comes down to it, it's another story. >> charlie: "no, i had second thoughts." . >> yes. >> charlie: what makes a movie good and a movie work? >> i think if any of us had the crystal ball or the formula for that there would be a lot of very successful -- a lot more success -- >> charlie: there is no formula? >> i don't think it's a formula. it's a business about instincts and i think it's about putting your best instincts forward and you believe in it 100%, you work on it, you do your best and hopefully by putting the right people together magic is created and it works. i know one producer once said, "if i said yes to all the movies i said no to and no toula the movies i said yes to i would have the same track record." >> charlie: what is it that you th

i think the day. that i want to make a way i think i did it was very quickly i think that is one of the biggest concerns that i have here i think about what it actually might mean if you see the intelligence community and specifically cia absolutely controlled from that perspective it's one of the problems we've had in the past you know that's sort of the philosophy you're going to take now it may cause serious problems down the road it will be as you mention yemen of course afghanistan pakistan somalia and the list goes on and on from there i think basically we have reported on a new strategy secretary gates said we're not going to send large land armies into you know a sure the middle east or africa and so the future of dealing with this threat will be drones and special forces and cia agents on the ground like you have and a pakistani so that means petraeus essentially probably will still be somehow controlling and leading whatever the speech or errand for yours might be john i want to thank you fo

know, it's not thinking? will there -- what's -- [inaudible] the turing test for an actual act of cognition? >> um, i don't know. i generally try to dodge these sorts of questions. [laughter] but i don't know that i can get away with that. i think, actually, that if we get to a point where for all intents and purposes machine versions of intelligence are operating the way that normal intelligence is, we're still left with the thing that makes us different from each other which is that we are a product of these individual experiences that we've had. you know? so part of what it means to be human is to be, a, human, to be the product of a very specific life experience that everything you know is rooted in something that happened to you and everything you don't know is rooted in things that did not happen to you. and, you know, we turn to something like wikipedia for information that's mutually verifiable, that everyone would agree that such and such actor was in this movie. but what you say to the person who yo

where do you think that's going to wind up? >> i still think it's in a lot of flux. we're seeing a lot of free content. i mean, that's the big change here. news right now is about who can be there fast? who can be there first? that's a big challenge because the blogs are moving so fast. >> but most of the ipad content is pretty. it's not just -- there's really nice writing. there's panoramic photos. cool looking stuff. >> yeah, like the flip board content is taking all that free conte content. >> is the ipad the future of computing? >> i don't think it's a very good output device. it's hard to create push content back out. >> apple late last week ran into the trouble of this news item that somehow they were collecting data about where you are. i saw, i think it was thursday morning on "today" show, cbs "morning news," and apple had no response. should apple have some sort of social media strategy in place? they have one spokesperson. >> they have one spokesperson, but they actually do have a social media strategist, one who's monitoring and managing these things. so

in the counted on i think the . the pentagon the president are far more stupid than they they lead to portray so i don't know what to say but if they were smart if they were to make a fundamental change that they would see that this event is emblematic of the problems that happen in twenty first century battle and that we need to fundamentally change what we do inside of afghanistan libya yemen and syria and that would be slow withdrawal and use our military efforts to aid crisis is like in japan and other efforts no longer do we need to see military interventions to fix political problems that military simply can't solve strong words i hope that the powers that be are listening thank you so much thank you. now in this country there are some wars that do make the headlines iraq afghanistan the kinetic military action humanitarian intervention war that is libya but then there are the others the quiet and declared wars that reached safely and yet the radar of the mainstream press and while the u.s. media was busy deba

i don't think it is fair to anybody. it could down the line require charter amendments, but there is nothing -- other cities in california do it in drastically different ways. i think we need to consider whether there might be other ways that deal with discipline that are more efficient. it is my view much how it works. if there are ways we can do it, and if charter amendments are a hassle and you -- if we can make a compelling case i think we ought to consider it. commissioner kingsley: commissioner slaughter you were out when we -- commissioner slaughter: i apologize. commissioner kingsley: no, i wanted to clarify and bring you up to date with this as well. i know you expressed an interest on day one with this. the chief has offered to arrange a meeting with members of the commission that are working on this with folks in los angeles to look at their system. because it works well for l.a. again, not in mind of transporting that system to san francisco, but just to take a look at how another city does it and does it eff

also we think very, very important. it was a top priority. we think it still is. anything that increases your ability to oversee these intelligence agencies and make them perform is a step for protecting the country. the you have any thoughts? >> two points. one going back to your earlier question. how to deal with islamist extremism. your comments are well taken. know your enemy is the first goal of finding anybody. i sometimes think we have a good bit of confusion on hit the enemy is. on the positive side of want to say that in the war of ideas i think we have made some progress. the progress is that al qaeda is having a hard time. they have identified themselves as of violent organization. i think we are making some progress there. it is important progress because they have not rallied the masses to their support. so that needs to be said, but your basic point is very much on target. the second point on the congress , boy, oh boy. i think things happen in the congress when the leaders don't. my perspective is a little more from the house, obviously, that from t

i think that's true. i think that's true. maybe paul and i agree on there is a battle going on here between these two ways of thinking about the world. one more can you have n nent. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as ovenant. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as we that this force is irresistible sooner or later we're going to be am stu amsterdam over here. the question are we going to be -- what can they say that they can't save marriage >> how soon are the 40% much measures goer on agriculture gnawings particulars or in atheists >> when it comes to bedroom issues there is a very powerful impulse. but that impulse isn't winning in the republican party. it's getting 84% of adult americcn identify themselves at christian. 82% of americans believe jesus is god or the son of god. 79% of americans believe in the virgin birth of jesus. how can anyone think that americans's religious faith cannot shunted aside by a dutch flo philosophy pushed aside by persona

and i think we are. we do as a general matter publish all of our proposed rules when we initiate in noticed proposed rulemaking. we do allow ample time for comments in reply comments and when necessary we grant extensions so the parties can participate. we get all of the commissioners ample time to review and discuss the draft orders within the agency. we've radically improved the opportunity to the public comment by both small and large by holding dozens of public workshops on important rulemakings and using a host of media tools to reach the public and allow them to interact. these include most recently the complete revamping of the web site which is now on the trajectory from the one of the worst in the government to be the absolute best. we increase the transparency of the interaction by revamping our rules in order to provide a greater disclosure of the meetings that occurred at the agency. we've also taken a real concrete steps to start lowering the burdens are imposed. take data collections which

where do you think we are? >> i think we're scratching the surface of big discoveries. ( laughter ) >> i think it's somewhere in between. at the brain level, i think in the last five years, we've figured out that there's a coordination problem of the different parts of the brain not hooking up in as synchronized of a fashion. the question, for me, is why is that happening? >> reporter: the autism puzzle is proving to be immensely complex. but i asked what hunches they have on where the answer will be found? >> clearly, 30 years ago, we didn't know any genes that conferred risk of autism. now, we know that there's at least 20 or more. that seem to be associated with autism. the... the interesting, though, is that any particular gene that you might find that is related to autism, is only related to about 1% to 2% of the cases of autism. so there-- i think what's clear now is that there's not gonna be a single autism gene. but there are many, many. >> well, i think many people feel that autism is a problem in comm

do you think because my contract said i. don't already knew shows for three years so too did killed the prize winning journalist peter arnett after giving this interview on iraqi t.v. america is reappraising the better. to lead the. lead. and rewrite. the first line just. because of the iraqi resistance when i think d.c. was still up and coming its highest rated show was hosted by this man phil donahue an outspoken critic of the war and you know i think you know we're all our buddies right just want to charitable him for this is we were when he was doing that he was our us so we had absolutely no more sending our sons and daughters to war to fix that was nato it doesn't seem fair to me that show was cancelled a few weeks before the war started phil donahue was an anti-war voice on m.s.n. b.c. one of the cable news channels and a memo that was leaked as the donahue show was cancelled is very explicit and said we don't want this to be a face of n.b.c. as you. and the states goes into war looks like to stay on board you need to

do you think that that will be necessary? do you think that will happen? >> i think it's necessary that we provide them with things like training and air force. they have to be able to defend their own air space. the technical and logistic, particularly intelligence capabilities that we have to offer. i think it's very, very important that we not leave iraq completely. and i have very little confidence that the state department can do the job all by itself. >> how long do you see some substantial troop presence in iraq? >> i think it could go on for a period of time, but the key is that we not inflict any more casualties, that americans who are stationed there operate in an environment of security. i think we could achieve that. as you know, we have troops stationed all over the world. the american people aren't badly, deeply concerned about that. they are concerned when americans continue to suffer casualties. >> and before you go, senator, a political note. when you were running for president, you were endorsed very strongly by one donald trump, who is n

i think the media wanted well. we never got the book says the confucius a few get ready you can hear the freedom. hey guys welcome michel ancel on the ellen show with part of our guest stop to sound the topics now i want to hear from audience just going to video responses or to twitter or follow the question that we've host on you tube every monday and on thursday the show your responses please play more of what they have. it's time for tonight's tool time award and we have a repeat winner for you this evening the hate mail and crazy bryan fischer he's a conservative radio host for the social conservative group the american family association is not a fan of gay rights he's against abortion and he has a lot of problems when it comes to immigration and on his radio show this week he took the issue of muslims coming to the u.s. last month he bravely declared that muslims have no first amendment rights now he believes that the u.s. should out right restrict immigration from muslim countries so we allow unrestricted mu

i think first of all, i think the level of pay. i think the level of how they are regarded. i remember president obama i think in the in the state of the union address started talking about teaching should be something that we make as something as appealing as being an entertainer or whatever. i don't remember his exact example but i think part of it is the appeal. when we talk to a lot of people around the country, you did not hear like you used to years ago teachers being considered at the level of someone's ambition that we should so in order to diversify, think you have got to appeal more to the diversity of the population of what teaching can mean to them. that is one. second, think the impediments of getting there. you talk about student loans. the president talked about how he was paying student loans, he and his wife almost until they became a best-selling book. so i mean how do you tell people even if you think that teaching is a noble profession and something to look up to that you will be paying for getting education to be a teacher until you are 45 or 50 or so. >